When it got dark, I walked into the courtyard of Aso's house, and I smelled the smell of food, saying that it was a courtyard, but in fact it was a farm, or an ancient castle. I saw an old woman busy serving food to a long table on the patio. The long tables and chairs are in European style, and the long tables are covered with white printed tablecloths. The gate of this courtyard is inlaid in the Roman columns, majestic and solemn, but this patio is completely Chinese, but the corridor around the patio is European, but the carvings on the eaves of the European-style corridor are completely Chinese, in such an environment, people feel that this time is staggered, is messy, but it is unified and harmonious. Just like Ah Yue's dress, exposing her arms and thighs, if that short dress and short skirt are worn on Ye Hena or Song Zhiqiu, it will definitely feel a little prodigal, but if you wear it on Ah Yue, you will feel how suitable it is. How much silver did it cost to complete such a glorious village back then? Aso shouted at us to sit down, facing a table of dishes and said to us: "Home cooking, home cooking, not respectful, you are casual, the county leaders were going to come, but they were afraid that you would be restrained, so we would not be polite as if we were our own family, and we would make trouble as much as we liked." Ah Yue is sitting on my right, Ah Suo is sitting on my left, Ah Yue's side is Ye Hena and Song Zhiqiu, and next to Ah Suo are Xia Tingquan and Du Runjian. Mingyue climbed up the patio, and the moonlight poured down from the sky like water, and there was no need for lights at all, and the lanterns in the corridors around the patio lit up.

Asso said, "My great artists, move your chopsticks."

We are all waiting for Aso's opening remarks, which is our Chinese eating etiquette. Ah Suo obviously understood, and said: "Okay, well, it seems that I have to say two sentences, we Yiche people are straightforward, and the Chinese language is not good, just two sentences, the first sentence, eat, the second sentence, continue to eat, come, toast first." After drinking a glass of wine, a piece of chicken enters the mouth, spicy, violent, and refreshing. Aso said: "I don't know your taste, this is how we Yiche people eat, Hani and Han people also taste like this, almost." The taste of the north is light, we have long been accustomed to the taste of the north, and when we encounter this taste, it is like a small bridge and flowing water meeting a golden iron horse, which is completely two different styles. Stimulates and whets the appetite.

Yehena asked, pointing to the dishes on the table, "What kind of fish is this?"

Aso said: "Boiled red river fish. This fish is very strange, and most fish swim downstream, but this fish swims upstream. Fresh and tender, there are peppercorns, fragrant knotweed, thin ginger, and pickled vegetables, everyone tastes a little."

Song Zhiqiu asked Asuo, "How can this insect eat it?"

Asso said, "Yes, it's bugs. It is a bee pupae, fried bee pupa, which has the effect of beautifying and nourishing the skin. ”

Song Zhiqiu said: "How to eat this worm, I dare not eat it."

Asso said, "You try one first, taste how it tastes, and then make a decision."

Song Zhiqiu closed his eyes and ate a bee chrysalis, opened his eyes and said, "How can there be such a delicious insect in the world."

Asso said, "Since you already dare to eat insects, why don't you try this again?"

Song Zhiqiu looked at it and saw that it was still an insect. Song Zhiqiu said: "I know about this worm, but I really dare not eat it, this is a grasshopper, right?"

Asso said, "Not exactly. It's just a bit like a grasshopper, but it's actually a praying mantis, and we call it a Pegasus, a fried praying mantis. "A long time ago, we were poor in Honghe County, and we didn't have enough food to eat, so we ate everything we could to satisfy our hunger.

Yehena pointed to a pot of fish in clear soup on the table and said, "How can this fish smell like olives?"

"This dish is called olive fish in consommé," Aso said.

"There are also the smell of plantains, the smell of bamboo, the smell of glutinous rice, the smell of Pu'er tea, the smell of rosin, the smell of coriander, the smell of lotus root, the smell of ham, the smell of eel, the smell of roses, and the smell of some flavors that are born from another flavor, and there are also flavors that I can't tell." When I went to France, I went to a French state dinner with my mother, but I think today I had the best taste in the world. ”

Asso humbly said, "As long as you like it, I'm afraid that you won't be used to the taste of our little place, and it's all some wild vegetables." Afraid of snubbing a few of our men, Aso took his glass and said, "Do you know what we drink?"

I thought to myself, the table was full of strange things, and the devil would have guessed it. Xia Tingquan and Du Runjian also shook their heads with me.

"This wine is made from red rice from our region, but the color of this wine is not inferior to Western-style red wine, and you know that this wine has mulberries in it, which is the black fruit of the mulberry tree," said Aso. This is not unusual, what is strange is that Qingzhu Biao, a rare snake, is put in the wine. After drinking it, the hair was black and shiny, smooth as silk. ”

When I heard that there was a snake in the wine, I felt a little uneasy. Ye Hena and Song Zhiqiu said, "Then let's drink a little too."

Asso then filled a cup for Ye Hena and Song Zhiqiu.

Ah Yue sat next to me, eating very little food and talking much, of course, we couldn't understand her speech. But he took good care of me, always picking vegetables into the plate in front of me, or occasionally turning around and talking to Aso. At this time, the bright moon seemed to be on our table, we were facing not only a table of delicious food, but also a table of moonlight, and a peerless beauty next to me, I remembered this night many years later, and every time it was incomparably warm. For readers, the moonlight is always full of mood.

Asso said, "Otherwise, let's guess the liquor order, whoever loses will drink."

I objected at first, saying, "No, no, no, I don't have a lot of alcohol, and I get drunk when I drink it." Today I just think Aso is so gracious, I can't say it without drinking a little. I'm afraid I won't stop the wine order. In addition, if you look at me today, it is not appropriate to drink more. I don't know what Ah Yue said to Ah Suo, Ah Suo said to me: "Ah Yue told you not to be afraid, if you lose, she can help you drink on your behalf."

I said, "No, no, how can this be?"

At this time, Yehena said angrily: "What's wrong, the little ladies have helped you drink, and you are still acting there, are you still a man after all."

I said to Yehena: "Classmate, you can't be so unkind, you see, I've become like this, and you still want to force me, isn't it a bit too much?" If you really want to drink it, I can accompany you. ”

Ye Hena looked at Xia Tingquan and Du Runjian, and said arrogantly: "If you are accompanied, you will be accompanied, you have allies, and I also have friends and neighbors."

At the beginning of the wine order, for two people who could not speak Chinese well, we tried to avoid the wine order related to the text, and came to the simplest "drumming and passing flowers", which was the simplest game. When the wine commander turns his back to everyone, and when the wine commander shouts to stop, whoever drinks is the one who drinks. The wine commander started with Asso, followed by me, and then Xia Tingquan again, and went in circles. It had only been three times, and the flowers had miraculously fallen into Yehna's arms all three times, and Yehena said in despair, "How can this be." Gambling is the easiest means to arouse a person's desire and competitiveness, and the more he loses, the more addicted he becomes, and Yehena, who has drunk three glasses, is like a gambler who does not want to die, shouting, "Come again." Next, the war underwent a miraculous change, and in the blink of an eye, the three flowers fell into Song Zhiqiu's arms, and after three glasses of wine, Song Zhiqiu also became unrelenting, and as soon as the woman went crazy, the wind and clouds on the wine table became fascinated. Next, it was Asso's turn, Asso drank three glasses, and after a lap, everyone drank more or less, and the magic of wine mobilized everyone's interest and emotions. Aso said to me on a drunken day: "In the city of Zosa, our family has a lot of houses, and when my grandfather was repairing this house, the designer invited two, one is a Chinese designer and the other is a French designer. From the beginning of the repair of the house, the two began to quarrel non-stop, until the house was repaired, the Chinese designer wanted to build the house into China, and the French designer wanted to build the house into France. Both men made an effort to try to convince each other, but neither of them ever compromised with each other. So in this house of our family, there is a combination of Chinese and French, you can see, the door is French, but the doors and windows are Chinese. When the house was built, there was no cement in China, my grandfather bought French cement in Vietnam, and the wood came from Myanmar and Laos. There are so many stories about this house, which used to be the base of activity of the underground party of the Communist Party of China in southern Yunnan. During the Cultural Revolution, it was revealed that my grandfather was a man of both black and white, with a complicated identity, a spy, a spy, and a counter-revolutionary. Later, the Yunnan Underground Party of the Communist Party of China proved that although my grandfather did not officially join the party, it was completely for the safety of my grandfather and the safety of the organization during the special period. Although the state advocates making the people rich, our Yiche people in the mountains are still poor, and my father has decided to donate this house to make a school. Burmese people were colonized to learn English, we Yiche people are Chinese, in addition to our own language, we should also speak Chinese well. ”

I took my glass and said to Asso, "Your family has a great heart, and I will toast you."

"My father didn't think so, he said he was just doing what he thought he was supposed to do," Aso said. My father said that the more wealth a person accumulates, the more responsibility he bears, just like the Red River around us, the further it goes, the more ditches it needs to be moistened. This time, my sister came back from Myanmar and was arranged by my father to send 100 beds of cotton wool to the village of the Yiche people. My sister also had a task this time, which was to take some pictures of the mountain road from Wasa to Yiche Village, and my father decided to donate money to build a road. Running schools, building roads, so that Yiche people are no longer poor, my father said that he will do these three things in his life. My father asked me to take over his business, but the leader above did my father's job and said that the matter of taking over the business should be slowed down, and the national culture is also wealth, and once this wealth is gone, it will be gone. Although I am attached to the Federation of Literary and Art Circles, my actual job is the deputy director of the Prefecture Ethnic Culture Rescue Committee, specifically responsible for the collection, sorting, protection, and inheritance of ethnic culture. My two most recent projects are the collation of the Hani epic "Genesis" and the compilation of the folk songs of the Yiche people, as well as the recording of the Hani multi-part singing. Aso and I toasted a glass of wine and said, "The wine has dried up a lot today, and I can't recognize what I say." Anyway, in a word, the leaders in the state attach great importance to your visit this time, and the National Conservatory of Music stands tall, is central, and is the highest level in our country. ”

I could see that this poor and rich land was full of anticipation for our arrival. And I don't know what we can do for this land, or what we will find on this land. If we say that owning a bicycle, a sewing machine, a watch, and a washing machine and earning 10,000 yuan in a family are rich, we are poor compared to the dollar cars and villas in Western countries. But if you understand it from a spiritual level, it's hard to define, because I don't see their inferior complexion because of material deprivation through their faces on this land, really not. Perhaps on the one hand, there is material poverty, and on the other hand, there is spiritual paradise. Our definition of poverty is based on the understanding of material numbers, but the people of the land live for the sake of life, drink wine when they have wine, eat meat when they have meat, love the woman they like, watch the flowers bloom in the spring, listen to the rain fall in the rainy season, give birth and die, sing when they want to sing, cry when they are sad, who cares that their sheep are one less than other families and their own pigs are one less than others? Life with the flow is emotional, and the definition of poor and not poor is rational.

The moonlight filled the patio like a flower, and except for Ah Suo, Ah Yue, and me, everyone else threw themselves on the table and got drunk and slept.

Asso said to me, "I'm going to pee."

Ah Suo went for a long time and didn't come back, there was some cool breeze at night, Ah Yue sat next to me and didn't speak, and I couldn't understand what he said. Sitting in the patio watching the moon in the sky, listening to the raindrops dripping from the eaves, drinking a cup of new tea, sleeping when you want, thinking about things at will if you don't want to sleep, and there is your beloved woman next to you, to say happiness, for a Chinese, this is happiness.

Ah Yue looked at me and finally said something I could understand, in English, and she said, "Thank you for today." The moonlight is so nice tonight. Have you ever seen the moon with a girl? ”

I replied to Ah Yue in English and said, "I didn't have it before, but from now on, I have."

I am confident that my Chinese-style English is still good, but I still feel awkward, a Chinese and a girl from their own country speak another language, while a Chinese girl does not speak her native language, not to say that it is absurd is a joke, at least a little funny and complicated. It doesn't seem like a big deal, but sometimes it's a thing, my brother worked at the National Academy of Sciences and later immigrated to the United States, and my two nieces were born in China, but once we met, my two nieces were fluent in American English and didn't speak Chinese. I asked my brother, have they all forgotten the Han people? My brother replied to me, how is it possible, they just don't want to say it, they identify with the United States, their sense of belonging is the United States, they think they are Americans and not Chinese, so why should they speak Chinese? At that time, I felt that the vest was cold, this is amazing, I was willing to be a traitor at such a young age, and I didn't sell my country to seek glory when I grew up? But from the niece's point of view, there is indeed nothing wrong with the niece. It's just that my position is different. People are indeed Americans, and since they are Americans, of course they should speak the language of their own country. I asked Ah Yue in English and said, "Are you willing to learn from the Han people?"

Ah Yue didn't think about it, and said to me, "Why don't you want to? We Yiche people are Chinese. Chinese don't speak their own Chinese, so what kind of Chinese are they? ”

Leaving Ah Yue and returning to the room, the room was full of moonlight, it was destined to be a sleepless night, I took out the biography of my grandfather and read it in the moonlight.

In "Secret Front", my grandfather Huang Kexing said: "Our password is a code that no one in the world can break, even if our intelligence officers are caught by the enemy, because the intelligence officers do not know the regularity of our password system." Our cryptographic system began with the study of the methods and techniques of the Soviet "KGB". Later, we worked out our own cryptosystem. Cryptography is actually a kind of encryption method, and we in China have the world's earliest semiotics, the earliest encryption system, and the earliest cryptography, which is China's "Book of Changes".

The Book of Changes is composed of three parts: one is the Fuxi gossip, which is the beginning, and there was no writing at that time, so the gossip. The second is that King Wen of Zhou and his son inherited the eight trigrams of Fuxi, and the eight eight overlapped sixty-four hexagrams, and the father and son of King Wen of Zhou believed that the 64 hexagrams had included all things in the universe, and each hexagram had a hexagram. Later, Confucius made a biography, also known as "Yi Chuan" and "Ten Wings", and the development of "I Ching" produced "Lianshan Yi" during the Xia Dynasty, "Guizang Yi" during the Shang Dynasty, and "Zhou Yi" during the Zhou Dynasty. The Book of Changes is the earliest book of the Book of Changes in China, created by Fu Xi. Due to time reasons, "Lianshan Yi" and "Returning to Tibet" have been lost, and only "Zhou Yi" remains.

"Sanyi" refers to "Lianshan", "Guizang" and "Zhou Yi", the three different dynasties of Zhan Zheng. It is said that "Lianshan" is the book of the Xia Dynasty, "Guizang" is the book of the Yin Shang, and "Zhou Yi" is the book of the Zhou Dynasty. And now the "Zhou Yi" itself is not a Taoist book, Taoism is from the peasant rebel army organization Wudou Midao, in order to secretly spread the pretense of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period Lao Tzu as the originator, with Zhou Yi and other ancient books as classics, and "Zhou Yi" and Lao Tzu are thousands of years apart. Zheng Xuan's work "Yi Lun" in the Eastern Han Dynasty believes that "Yi is one and contains three meanings: simple and simple; Change two also; It's not easy to be three. This sentence sums up the three meanings of Yi: "simple", "changeable" and "constant". That is to say, the existence of things in the universe is (1) natural, showing two properties: easy and simple; (2) Always in flux; (3) Maintain a kind of constancy. As the "Book of Songs" says, "the sun will be the moon" or "like the moon is constant, like the sun rises", the movement of the sun and the moon shows an unhuman nature, which is simple; Its position and shape change from time to time, which is change; However, it is always "not easy" for the east to go out and the west to fall.

Legend has it that "Lianshan Yi" was created by Shennong, who is the Yan Emperor. Shennong's eight trigrams were one for every two hexagrams, and for the first time they were interpreted into sixty-four hexagrams. Because Emperor Yan is also called Lianshan, it is taken as "the cloud of the mountain, endless", and because it was popular in the Xia Dynasty, it is called "Xia Dao Lianlian".

"Returning to Tibet" was created by Xuanyuan, Xuanyuan is the Yellow Emperor, also known as Guizang. The sixty-four hexagrams performed by the Yellow Emperor take the "Kun hexagram" as the first hexagram, because Kun symbolizes the land, is the carrier and destination of all things, so it is called "Returning to Tibet". And because it was popular in the Yin Shang period, it was called "Yin Dao kissing" (Kun is the mother).

"Zhou Yi" is the 64 hexagrams performed by King Wen of Zhou when he was imprisoned, headed by "Qiangua", indicating that the heaven and earth are beginning to open, and all things are born, and the end of the Ji hexagram is the last hexagram, indicating that the end of one thing is the beginning of another thing, and the cycle repeats, and the week does not stop, so it is called "Zhou Yi". And because the hexagram is the sky, the heaven respects the earth, so it is called "Zhou Dao respects".

Each of the 64 hexagrams may have four states of yin and yang in each position, so there are a total of 4,096 different hexagrams in the entire Yi hexagram system.

That is to say, 4096 symbols can be deduced from the simple yin and yang symbols, which means that even if the enemy deciphers half of the code, it is still worthless, because only the yin and yang correspondence can read the complete content. ”

In my eyes, my grandfather Huang Buxing was originally an unreadable password. His life was meant to be a secret. He exists in this world, but in fact he does not exist at all. In addition to being a Huang Buxing, he has many names, and he has many identities. In a game-like life, he may not even know who he really is.