Lin Kui invited the old and young of the Chamber of Commerce who greeted us out early, and occupied this treasure ship alone, saying that he would accompany the distinguished guests to visit the scenery here. As a result, Four-Eyes and I were suddenly looked at sideways by everyone, and we tried to guess our identities. I said that you are a doctor, how can you deceive the feelings of the masses. Lin Kui said: "The mountain breeze is simple, the people of Jiangcheng are famous for their hospitality, you don't see the Fenjiu at the stern, which is enough to pour people's lives." If we don't scare them, how can we get out so easily-I noticed that the tail cabin was full of wine jars, and I quickly thanked Lin Kui. Four Eyes had never seen such a lively water market, and it seemed that he had forgotten the purpose of his trip, and only cared about bargaining with the vendors of other boats, and bought a bunch of handicrafts that he didn't need-

It's the peak season of the evening market, and our boat is too eye-catching to drive if you want to, so let's have dinner first. I'll rent a dinghy and dock later, and I'll take you to the stilts to inquire about Shirley Yang and them-

The stilted building of Shuizhai is equivalent to our teahouse, gathering guests from all over the world, and it is the place where the most news circulates in Jiangcheng. It is no exaggeration to say that as long as you dare to walk around the inside, the next day, even the newspaper sellers in the city will know how many acres of land you have in your hometown. So it is the most convenient choice to go upstairs on stilts to inquire about the news. We ate the bacon roasted by Grandma on the water, and boiled a pot of Fenjiu in the small stove on the boat, and waited until the moon was on the top, and the stilted building was lit up with a big red lantern for business, and then we found a small awning boat to go ashore.

I don't know if it was a shadow left in the South China Sea, but I kept fidgeting when I was on the boat, and I didn't feel a sense of security until I stepped on the shore. The road in Jiangcheng Water Village is narrower than the river, and most of the stilted buildings along the shore are half-standing in the water. The water vacated downstairs can be used to rest the boat or open a shop. Even in the southern region, which is known as a water town, it is rare to see such a scene. Lin Kui said that the road we are taking now is the South Street of Jiangcheng. Go further on, and turn around a stone staircase to East Street. South Street is a businessman, and East Street is inhabited, but most families are still used to living on the water. And the stilted building with the big red lanterns with bronzing tassels that we are about to enter is the largest liquor store in the area. There is no signboard in the liquor store, but as long as the three words "stilted building" are mentioned locally, it must refer to this place.

I looked at the pedestrians along the way, most of them were dressed in black clothes and blue pants, and some of them were carrying mountain delicacies and wild products on their shoulders. There are also Han people who are like us, everyone is in a foreign land, even if they don't know each other from afar, they can't help but have a sense of intimacy, and they all smile from afar. Lin Kui pulled us and said: "Don't be amorous there, there are many cheaters here, in this place of Jiangcheng, there are not hundreds, but dozens of Han people who die every year-I was shocked and asked him how could he be like this." Lin Kui said: "Where there are people, there are contradictions. The emperor is far away here, and if there is one less person, who will care. Murder and robbery, or just to vent anger. Trick into the dark, wipe your neck, and throw it into the water, God knows. You tourists are the easiest targets to target. Later, when you go up to the stilted building, don't look around-

Qin Siyan was dumbfounded when he heard this, probably he didn't expect that in such a pleasant place, there would be such a murderous and oversold business, and it would be regarded as an ordinary thing. He then followed me and said no more. I looked up at the big red lantern in front of the stilted building, and for some reason, I was nervous. Lin Dashao laughed, and took the two of us to step on the bamboo ladder with ease, listening to the creaking sound under my feet, and looking at the constantly crowded heads in the building, I suddenly had a premonition that this journey might be more difficult than I imagined.

This is the number one stilted building in Jiangcheng in Lin Kui's mouth, and you can't see it from a distance, but if you really enter its gate, you will understand what it means to be the number one. As soon as I entered the door, I was almost fainted by the crowd of people in the building, good guys, the 100-square-meter shop was full of red lacquer tables, and each table was full of guests. In the mountains, it is not as polite as those in the city, everyone is drunk one by one, and many people have already been naked, holding a coarse porcelain bowl in their hands, and there is no difference between pouring wine and pouring white water.

For a moment, my eyes were full of people, and I didn't know where to look. Four Eyes asked: "With so many people, won't the building collapse?" -Before Lin Kui could answer, a strong man who walked past us said, "Why won't it collapse, it has collapsed twice this year alone." Hahaha, they all fell into the water, I don't know how lively it is - after saying that, I ran away with the wine jar. I saw that there were a lot of drunken maniacs here, and I couldn't help but be skeptical about finding out the news. After Qin Siyan experienced the fight in the Peruvian bar, he was very taboo about this kind of scene, and kept lingering at the door of the bamboo building. I looked inside and out of the crowd and didn't seem to find any useful information. Lin Kui slapped the two of us: "What's the use of being stupid, you have to look at the problem in depth-After speaking, he led us into the crowd."

As soon as I entered the wall, I heard the voices of people inside, and from time to time there were cheers, and if I looked closely, it was a thin old man in a long shirt and a green shirt, who was sitting on the big red table and talking about small paragraphs. He wore a straw hat on his head, he couldn't see his face clearly, he shook his head and talked so lively, and the onlookers applauded him from time to time. I listened for a long time and couldn't understand what was being said, only that what he was talking about was definitely not Mandarin. Lin Kui was not surprised, and explained that this old man was from Miao Village, and he often walked around several nearby villages, and lived by telling stories and preaching. He spoke the local dialect and spoke about the monster fox that happened near the seedling land, so it was not surprising that we didn't understand it. Although I didn't understand which legend the old man was telling, but seeing that the listeners were all in love, it seemed that the story must be twelve points wonderful, and I thought that since the old man had traveled from south to north all the year round, he must have seen and heard quite extensively, so I said to Lin Kui, can I ask him to ask some things on his behalf.

Lin Kui asked me if I wanted to find out the whereabouts of the white-eyed man. I shook my head: "It's about the man-eating beasts on Yangshan." To be honest, I've seen a lot of strange monsters, but Yangshan really has too many doubts when he walks down this trip. Not to mention anything else, just a cake face, only a big mouth, and no eyes and nose, it is a rare miracle in the world. I heard that this old man was talking about ghosts, so I wanted to ask for advice and see if there was a solution-

Lin Kui invited the waiter in the store to whisper, and then said to me: "Old man Guo's joke is the signature here, and now it is in a hot place, and it can't be stopped." Let's go upstairs in the private room and wait, he'll come up later-

I knew that this was to save Lin Dashao's face, so I hurriedly thanked him, called four eyes, and followed Lin Kui to the second floor. Different from the bustle downstairs, the private room on the second floor seems to be much more deserted, and Xiao Zhao, the waiter who leads the way, said: "The merchants who come and go are not all rough people in the mountains. Our private rooms here are all elegant residences looking at the water and the moon. You see, the meal hasn't arrived yet, and most of it has already been packed out - Xiao Zhao took us into one of the private rooms and poured tea quite attentively. I asked him if he had been here lately with a big, thick-skinned fat man and a beautiful girl. He recalled and said, "Ouch, there are people coming and going here every day, and there are more than a hundred and ten, so I really can't remember the two you said." Why don't you go into more detail and I'll ask somebody? -

I told him the names of the two again, and Xiao Zhao patted his chest: "With a name, it's easy to do anything." The three of you sit here for a while, and I'll come as I go-

As soon as he left, he looked around and said, "Why are there still child laborers here, the little waiter just now looks like he is not yet fifteen years old-

Lin Kui took a sip of fragrant tea: "Work-study, his aunt went early, Abba went into the mountains to collect medicine last year, broke his legs, and now he is lying at home, a waste." There are also two younger sisters to raise at home. In Jiangcheng, most children have learned two words, and after learning addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, they have to come out to help their parents set up stalls to make money, nothing unusual-

Four Eyes couldn't understand this, Lin Kui waved his hand: "Jiangcheng is pretty good here, and the Miao Village a little farther away is not populated all year round, and the aborigines there don't even know big characters." So what, it's not like a lifetime has passed. I heard that there is still a local master of Tusi who is in charge, and the people live a hard life before liberation. I'm still the same sentence, each has a destiny, and it's useless to say more-

As soon as Barrister Qin heard this, he came up again with reluctance, grabbed Lin Kui and said that he should study the academic issues well. The two of them usually look like Sven's deadly masters, but as long as they fight over the question of who is right and who is wrong, it is like taking rat medicine, and they have to quarrel so much that they can't persuade them. I had no choice but to push open the door of the private room and go out to breathe.

I crouched in the corner at the end of the aisle, wondering how to find the fat man's whereabouts. When I went ashore, I inquired, Jiangcheng is different from Kunming, here is a multi-ethnic mixed water village, except for the government set up the township office, other public facilities basically retain the local residents self-reliance and self-sufficiency of the business form. In other words, the medicine shop here will not take the brand of the five cranes in their eyes at all. So how can Shirley Yang and them get through guò and leave me a message? In case there is no news from Xiao Zhao's side, what should he do next, just thinking about a headache, the bamboo building under his feet suddenly began to shake rhythmically, and soon, Xiao Zhao's voice came along with the footsteps of climbing the building. I said in my heart that this kid can, the work of a cigarette has actually brought people? Hurriedly extinguished the cigarette butt and prepared to stand up from the corner. But before I could lift my feet, I heard a rather familiar voice coming-

This transaction all depends on you, today I Yang Erlao is the east, come and come ......-

I was shocked, this voice was thick and high, with a thick Hokkien accent. Plus - Yang Erlao - three words, I sneaked a glance through the bamboo gap. Sure enough, it was the head of the Cao Gang who was tall and strong, wearing a mink hat, Yang Erpi. This old thing has never appeared on the land of Nanjing since the tiger eye beads were collected, but I didn't expect to meet me today in Jiangcheng, Yunnan, which is thousands of miles away. I don't have a good impression of this person, and I don't feel the need to go up to say hello. I took another look, and the guests behind him, a man and a woman, were all dressed as Miao family. The man's face is murderous, and he is estimated to be in his forties; The woman is a little younger, with an ordinary appearance, and she won't attract attention if she falls into a crowd. These two Hengzhu don't seem to have any business dealings with Yang Erpi, why is this old guy so respectful to these two Miao family children when he has no one in his eyes on weekdays. Although I was a little curious, I thought about it, I had enough troubles, why bother to provoke him again, more things are better than less things, I just didn't see it.

Taking advantage of their pleasantries, I slipped into my private room, and Siyan and Lin Kui seemed to have finished their research, occupying a corner each, and no one answered anyone. I had no choice but to play a round and tell them that Xiao Zhao had returned. Maybe there will be the whereabouts of Fat Man and Shirley Yang in a while.

As he was talking, the door of the private room was pushed open from the outside, Xiao Zhao poked his head in with a smile, I beckoned to him, and Xiao Zhao immediately ran in: "Found it, found it." I'll just say, there's nothing in Jiangcheng that I can't inquire about. Hey-

Xiao Zhao said that two days ago, a woman with a foreign name came to the stilted building with a big fat man, and wanted to find someone to lead the way and enter Miao Village, and the price was very large. However, in the Jiangcheng territory, in addition to the local Miao people, there are only horses and gangs who can enter the Miao area. They were going to the unfortunate place of Fuxian Lake, so no one wanted to lead the way. As soon as I heard him say this, I knew that things were really as Lin Kui had speculated, and the white-eyed Weng was not in Jiangcheng, but I didn't know what Shirley Yang was anxious about, why didn't she stay in Jiangcheng and wait for me to come to meet. Xiao Zhao continued: "But later, they finally found a Miao hunter who was willing to lead the way. This was told by Sister Lihua, who sells wine at the front desk, and I can't be wrong. She also said that the hunter was a regular guest, and his village was ten miles outside Fuxian Lake, called Yuemiao Village, which was three days away from Jiangcheng-

I hugged Xiao Zhao fiercely, took out a ticket and stuffed it to him: "This news is too important, you can see if you can find another guide to show us the way, and go to Yuemiao Village-

Xiao Zhao exclaimed: "Leave now?" -He glanced at the three of us, shook his head, and said, "There are many wolves in the mountains at this time of year. There are few of you, and it's too dangerous to walk at night. A good guide will not joke with the lives of guests for money-

Lin Kui agreed with him: "You haven't seen the beasts here, you don't know how powerful they are. Many experienced hunters have perished in the mountains outside. I think we'd better have a good night's rest today, and tomorrow, I'll ask the guys in the store to contact you to see if there are any big horses in the village who want to leave, and give you a ride-