As she ran, she turned around occasionally, only to see that the branches and leaves had shone through the wisps of light, the light mist was filled, and the colorful forest had turned into a dense and gloomy valley, and she couldn't help but be surprised. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Info She hesitated for a moment, then remembered the toy and ran after it quickly.

After chasing in vain for about an hour, the girl was surprised and delighted to see that the trees in front of her were scattered and dodged, revealing white clouds. A stretch of clear blue water and a steep shore of yellow sand. She staggered up the steep bank from exhaustion. This is the mouth of the stream; The stream was not wide, and the water was shallow, but the green blue stream shone brightly, and the rocks that flowed past the shore disappeared into the oncoming waves. The girl looked down from the steep bank, which was not too high, and saw a man sitting with his back to her on a smooth boulder by the brook, who was holding the boat that had slipped away from her in both hands, as if he had caught a beautiful butterfly, and looked it curiously up and down, left and right. When the girl saw that the toys were fine, she put some snacks in them. She climbed down the steep bank and walked over to the stranger, and looked at him carefully, waiting for him to lift his head. But the stranger looked at the unexpected gift that the forest had given him, and never looked up, and the girl had examined him from head to toe.

Clusters of gray hair and long braids were exposed under his hat, and his tunic tied in blue trousers and the firecrackles on his shoulders made him look like a hunter; White cloth clothes and red belts. The shiny golden smoke pot, bamboo cane, and rucksack with a small silver lock all indicate that he was a Han Chinese from the city. If the dense layers of beard, the tall, the strong beard, and the nose, lips, and eyes hidden behind them were all called faces, then it can be said that the face is blurred, but his deep-set eyes are so bright.

"It's time for me." The girl stretched out her hand, gestured, and said to the Han old man in her own language, "You have been playing for a while." How did you catch it? ”

The other man looked up and threw the boat on the ground with a miss—the girl's crisp voice came too suddenly. The old man stroked his beard with a bruised hand and looked at her for a moment with a smile. The little girl's skinny legs were tanned, and the flower cloth skirt that had been washed many times was just up to the knees. Her black hair, wrapped in a flowered turban, had fallen to her shoulders. Every subtle movement and expression of the girl was as light and pure as a swallow in flight. Slightly wary and confused, her sheared eyes looked older than her face; She had a slightly round, but very soft oval face, with a glamorous flush peculiar to fair-skinned human beings in the sun. The half-opened and half-closed little mouth smiled so cutely.

The old man looked at the girl, then at the boat, and said with a smile in the local language of the Gaoshan tribe: "Is this your thing?" ”

"Yes, I followed it from one end of the creek to this end; Did it stop here on its own? The girl was not surprised that the old man understood her language.

Her people and the Han people often do business, and there are more and more Han people who understand the Gaoshan language.

"Right at my feet. It went all the way to this point, and then it capsized and came to rest between the heel of my left foot and the tip of the staff. He paused and said, "What's your name?" Little girl? ”

"Aya." As she spoke, the girl hid the toy that the old man had given her in a basket.

"Aya, nice name," the old man looked at the girl intently, with a loving smile in his eyes, "Actually, I shouldn't have asked your name. …… The stream suddenly swept the boat up, and immediately after you, it came out...... Older people, but you can't help but be so scared......"

"I'm sorry, uncle." The girl said apologetically.

"Uncle, what are you doing here?"

"Pick medicine." The old man smiled and patted the bamboo basket beside him.

"Oh." The girl looked around, and then she realized that she had run a little far, and she was about to say goodbye to the old man, but the old man stopped her.

"Look, kid!" The old man pointed to the distance with his bamboo cane, and walked quickly towards the river.

Aaya's eyes widened in surprise.

The fog had not yet lifted, and the silhouette of a huge ship was revealed, slowly turning towards the mouth of the river. Its coiled sails came alive, sometimes hanging there like a pendant, sometimes spreading out like many shields with great folds, and sticking softly to the masts. Voices and footsteps rang out on the boat. The breeze on the shore blew slowly, lazily blowing the canopy. The warm sunlight finally took effect, the wind strengthened, the mist dissipated, and the sun shone on the red dragon flag on the mast crossbar, turning into a beautiful red cloud. The shadows of the sails moved softly on the white masts and ropes, the great chimneys smoked, and everything on board, except for the joyful colors of the bunting, was light blue.

Aya watched from the mountain, wiping her eyes for a long time until she was convinced that she was right. The steamer was hidden behind the bend, and she was still looking there.

She jumped to her feet, her heart beating sharply and violently, and at this moment the "Weiyuan" was rounding a small bay at an angle to the coast on its port side; Under the fire-like light of the red dragon flag, it was like a dream.

Swept up by the irresistible storm of this event, Aya somehow jumped up and ran straight to the sea. When she reached the first junction, she had little strength to run again, her legs trembled, her breathing was intermittent, and she was afraid of losing her perseverance, so she paused to calm down. From time to time, there are some rocks or trees blocking the dragon flag along the way; Fearing that the red flag would disappear like a phantom, she hurried past the annoying barriers, pausing to catch her breath when she saw the ship again.

She saw that on the small building (flybridge) on the steamer, there were tanned people standing one after another. Among these people stood a young man dressed in splendid clothes, who seemed to be very familiar to him, and had known him since childhood. He was standing there, holding a long tube, looking out to the shore with a faint smile on his face that warmed her. But Aya was somehow scared, and turned back and stepped back.

From the excitement, because of the fluttering clouds, of the rolling of the waves, of the distant sky and the glitter of the water, she could no longer tell what was moving: whether it was her, or the ship, or the sun and the sea—everything seemed to float, and she felt inexplicably flustered.

She felt as if the young man on the steamer was looking at her, and the hunter's instinct caused her to bend down and hide in the woods.

"What did you see?" Wu Dating, who patrolled Taiwan according to the rank of inspector, saw Lin Yizhe raise his binoculars and asked on the side.

"It looks like someone ...... over there just now," Lin Yizhe carefully searched the lush dense forest on the shore with a telescope. He had just seen a pretty figure looking this way, but when he lifted the binoculars, the figure disappeared.

"This area is indeed a haunt of the people." Yang Zaiyuan, the chief soldier of Taiwan Town, said, "Fanmin occasionally hunts here, but because of the steep terrain and many miasma beasts, there are not many people coming." ”

"I have a deep understanding of Taiwan's miasma." Lin Yizhe looked at the faint mist shrouded in the forest, and couldn't help but sigh.

There are many miasma in southern China, which occurs in late spring and converges in late autumn. The miasma in various places occurs after the Qingming Festival, and the miasma is collected after the frost festival, and the miasma from the south and west of Nanjiao (southern Vietnam) is endless, especially in winter and spring.

The miasma in traditional Chinese medicine is actually the poisonous gas generated by the decay of animals and plants in the tropical primeval forest, the main reason is that there is no one to effectively dispose of the dead carcasses of animals, and the tropical temperature is too high, which creates favorable conditions for the production of miasma. "Miasma" is not necessarily "qi". Miasma in traditional Chinese medicine, the toxic gas that can cause human disease in the damp heat and evaporation in the mountain forest, mostly refers to the poisonous gas generated by the decay of animals and plants in the tropical primeval forest. Ancient Chinese doctors believed that "this disease was born in Lingnan and had the gas of mountain miasma", and "the southern Lan is not damp and infrequent, and people are affected by its evil and cause disease, because of the name miasma". However, whether it is "miasma", "strange qi" or "bad qi", it cannot be seen or touched. One can only indirectly state their existence. Because these so-called "qi" cannot be directly verified by doctors, that is, the real pathogens cannot be clearly seen, and it is impossible to completely control and prevent them, as well as to discover targeted treatment drugs. It was a terrible disease at the time.

Chen Wan arranged for Caiyue to follow Lin Yizhe into Taiwan this time, in fact, protection is just a pretext (if you really want to use women to protect, then why do you eat the Fubiao Guard), the purpose is to ask Caiyue to take care of Lin Yizhe's diet and daily life, but Lin Yizhe didn't expect that Caiyue, who has always been strong, fell ill as soon as he arrived in Taiwan with him. The doctor told Lin Yizhe that she had a "miasma", and although Lin Yizhe asked the best doctor to treat her, her condition did not improve in the past two days.

"The little lady probably doesn't often take boats, and she hasn't been out to sea, she has experienced wind and waves, some seasickness, and she has been infected with a little miasma, so she is sick." Wu Dating knew that Lin Yizhe was worried about Caiyue, who was sick, so he comforted him and said, "I will raise it for a few days, take some decoction, and it will be fine." ”

"When she's better, I'll send her back." Lin Yizhe temporarily put aside his worries about Caiyue and focused his attention on the matter of Fufan's inspection in front of him.

"If someone lands here, I'm afraid it won't be easy to find, right?" Lin Yizhe looked at it for a while, put down the binoculars, and asked.

"It's shallow and there are so many reefs that ships can't land." Yang Jae-won replied, "Unless you get on the boat, you don't want to." ”