When I woke up again, it was dark. My head hurt so much that I shook my head, covered my temples with my hands, and slowly got up. I struggled to remember what had happened. I only remember looking for the big golden tooth on Yangshan Mountain before, and then I ran into a faceless man-eating beast with long claws, and then what happened later, I really can't remember. I wanted to get up and grab the fence next to me with my arm, not wanting to hit a hard object in my head. The pain made me instinctively shrink, but I didn't expect to follow under my buttocks, and my whole body suddenly lost my center of gravity and fell. At this time, a bright light shot in, I covered my eyes and reacted for a while, only to see a figure smiling at me outside, and then said: "Old Hu, if you don't wake up again, we can be ready to bury it on the spot-

At first, I thought it was a fat man. After thinking about it, the voice is not the right number, and it seems that this small body can't be the bear boy. At this moment, there was another violent shaking beneath me. The guy twisted his feet and fell in, almost crushing Lao Tzu to death. I looked at the face in front of me and scolded: "Four eyes, you are idle! What kind of place is this? -

Barrister Qin lifted my trouser leg with a smile, pointed to the bandaged wound and asked, "Forgot about it?" You fainted in pain at the time, in Yangshan? - I nodded: "And later?" What is this place? -

Qin Siyan stretched out his hand and pulled it, and the black cloth curtain hanging in front of us hung down suddenly. The green mountain terraces suddenly came into view. Then I realized that we were in a simple carriage, led by two tall horses, on the mountain road. I was wondering how I had run to the outskirts when a big tiger cat jumped off his horse and into the carriage. I recognized this as Lin Kui's tiger calf, and said in my heart that he was there. Sure enough, there was a burst of horses' hooves from far and near, and Dr. Lin's face quickly poked in through the car window. He smiled and arched the hand holding the reins: "Master Hu has been asleep for two days. Tell my little brother to miss it-

My head was a mess with these two, but fortunately, the four eyes were more interesting, and he pointed out the car and said, "We have entered Yunnan." You've been asleep for almost a week, and you've been half awake and half dizzy, and you're going to find Shirley and them. I was originally going to wait for you to heal before you go on the road, but the investigation in Nanjing is getting tighter and tighter, and if you don't leave, I'm afraid that you will be trapped inside. I discussed with Dr. Lin, and it happened that there was a batch of medical supplies in the shop, which was to be sent to Yunnan to support the construction of poor areas, so we happened to take a hitchhike and mix it up. The carriage that was just changed this morning is still half a day's way away from Jiangcheng-

Unexpectedly, so much had happened during my coma, so I hurriedly asked him about the whereabouts of Ah Song and the Great Golden Tooth. These two unlucky ones, the big gold tooth was crushed by the boulder and broke his ribs, if he sought medical attention in time, his life should not be in danger, but Ah Song, the guy in the grass hall, disappeared from us alive, I am afraid that ...... Siyan tightened the corners of his mouth, glanced at Lin Kui and stopped talking. Doctor Lin smiled at me and said, "Each person's life is different, and Master Hu can't worry about him." The store has already sent someone to look for it, and if it's really gone, I can only blame him for his cheap life.

That can't be said, if it weren't for the fact that Brother Asong was not here to help us find someone, how could they have encountered such trouble. If something happens to him, this responsibility is naturally mine-I hate it in my life the most in my life when someone preaches that kind of noble and lowly fate, seeing Lin Kui actually commenting on Ah Song like this, my heart suddenly felt bad. originally planned to educate him well and correct his pedantic feudal family concept, but he was pulled by the four eyes. He persuaded me that we are not familiar with each other, and we haven't even touched the shadow of the fat man, and if we stand up to the people of the Lin family, it will not do us any good.

I know that what he said is reasonable, after all, it was the Lin family who broke the people themselves, maybe Lin Kui just held a grudge in his heart and deliberately blocked me with this. I took a deep breath and decided to change the subject, casually asking where we are now. Dr. Lin replied: "I unloaded a batch of goods in Kunming yesterday, and now I am ready to go to Jiangcheng." Further down is the Miao District, and when you reach the vicinity of Fuxian Lake, it is inconvenient for the Han people to enter. Jiangcheng is the last mixed settlement before entering the seedlings, and I can only send it so far-

Four Eyes took over the conversation: "When we were in Kunming, we inquired about Shirley Yang's whereabouts. She used her five-crane purse to leave messages in major pharmacies, saying that the fat man couldn't wait for us, and the two had already set off to Jiangcheng to visit the old-timer. This is a message from two days ago, the master who drove the car said that we can get to Jiangcheng before dark, and it won't be long before we can meet them-

I recalled the master of Gu in Xue Erye's mouth, and I only knew that this person was from the Miao family, and it seemed that he was left out of Miao Village because of a headless unsolved case that offended the local magnates. This person is a virtual elder Xue Erye and their generation, because he was born with a pair of white and beadless blindness, so people on the road call him - white-eyed Weng. Xue Erye has been away from China for some years, and he asked people to inquire in many ways, and learned that the white-eyed Weng is still in the world, and he is currently living near Fuxian Lake. That's why I asked a few of us to visit on our own, although we may not be able to find out the identity of the mysterious old man, but with the knowledge of the white-eyed Weng in Gu things, it will definitely provide us with more clues. Although he encountered many difficulties in Nanjing, he could not be depressed anymore since he had entered Yunnan. I breathed a sigh of relief for myself. Seeing that I was depressed, Siyan comforted: "What happened in the past two days is not all bad, at least the big gold tooth is safe now, and we also have evidence of buying and selling jade, and I have asked my colleagues in China to draft this matter." When everything is arranged, let's go back and overturn the case. At the moment, we can't be in a hurry, we have to walk step by step, and we have to eat one bite at a time. You and I both know that there's an inside story behind the matter, unless the fox doesn't eat chickens, sooner or later it will show its tail-

I didn't expect that after returning to China, Four Eyes' language level would make such a high leap, and I even learned metaphors. I was amused all at once. I said that after sleeping for so long, my body was rusty, and I had to hurry up and practice, get up and drink the master who was driving the car, and turn over and get on the horse. Lin Kui on the side hurriedly told me to be careful, saying that the next carriage was full of high-grade medicinal materials. I said that we cut into the queue back then, and drove horses and grass to the production team every day, which belonged to skilled workers. Looking at the vast world around me and breathing in the fresh air of the mountains, I suddenly felt so strong that I shook my bones that I hadn't moved for nearly a week, and with a wave of my horsewhip, I jumped out at once. It didn't take much time to hear Lin Kui's eager shout, and the mountain wind sounded in my ears: "Master Hu, you ran away, there is a cliff over there!" -

There are many hills and valleys in the territory of Dianchi Lake, even today with the reform and opening up, there are still many places in the local area that cannot be reached by human footprints. Not to mention the distance, take Jiangcheng, the destination of our trip, as an example, cars and buses and other means of transportation can not enter no matter what. The folk customs here still maintain the natural style of a hundred years ago, and the goods all rely on the caravans along the border, which are transported by horses and mules, and are transported from the outside on a mountain road of 100 miles. If you are afraid of the steep mountain road and frequent baskets, there is another way, that is, to take the waterway, starting from Chengjiang, and you can enter the waters of Jiangcheng after Fuxian Lake. However, I heard the master who drove the car say that taking the waterway will delay time, and secondly, there are many appalling folk legends near Fuxian Lake. So most of the time, for the sake of insurance, traders from all over the world prefer to hire caravans - horse legs - to transport goods. As for a large shop like the Lin family with its own horse team, it's a different matter.

Along the way, the three of us discussed a rough plan of action. Lin Kui said that the Jiangcheng area was mixed with fish and dragons, and there were many vendors in the past, and it was not difficult to find people in this place, especially outsiders with obvious characteristics like Fat Man and Shirley Yang, but what we were talking about - white-eyed Weng - he had never heard of it. It stands to reason that this person is not small, if he is really in Jiangcheng, then his name must have risen to the sky. Looking at it this way, this person is probably not a permanent resident of Jiangcheng-

The most terrible thing is that he lives in the Miao District, Lin Kui explained, - and after Jiangcheng to the east, is the Fuxian Lake area, which is the territory of the Miao people, and it is difficult for outsiders to go deep into it. If the old man you are looking for lives there...... I can't get into-

I said, "Why is there a place in the world where Dr. Lin can't go?" Isn't your cottage often going to the seedling area to transport medicine? ――

If you want to enter the Fuxian Lake area, you can only hire a professional horse gang to lead the way. They mingle here all year round, and there are Miao and Han people in the horse gang, as well as horse runners of other ethnic minorities. The residents are relatively wary of them, and the scarce daily necessities are all transported by them, so in the multi-ethnic Fuxian Lake area, the major horse gangs are the real uncrowned kings. Even our Lin family, if we want to exchange white medicine from the Miao people, we have to trade it through the Guò Ma Gang, so that they can take a cut of it-

As soon as I heard that it was so troublesome, I asked Lin Kui if he had a familiar horse gang. He said that there is, but people run business outside all the year round, and Jiangcheng is just a small stronghold, and whether it can be met depends on luck. Qin Siyan always likes to pave the road ahead before leaving, and when he heard that the situation might be different from what he imagined, he began to mumble again, asking this and that like an old mother. I said that these eight characters haven't been skimmed yet, barrister, what are you worried about, maybe Shirley Yang and they have already found someone, and now Zhengjiang City is missing one, waiting for us to go over and rub a plate! We may not need to go deep into Fuxian Lake at all. Unexpectedly, he swore and said: "After following you for so long, I have already figured it out." As long as you have anything to do with Lao Hu, things are not simple, only trouble-

I wanted to refute his baseless reactionary arguments, but when I think about it, it seems that all the way down to what he said. I couldn't help but feel depressed, hoping that this trip to Jiangcheng could be done in one step and no more mistakes.

That night, we entered Jiangcheng Water Village, a place in Yunnan with many mountains and rivers, and the scenery is first-class. Although Jiangcheng is nominally a city, it is actually a water village with a permanent population of less than 10,000. This place is low-lying, surrounded by water, the waterway bridge yard in the village is far more than the dry road several times, especially the central waterway eighteen bays are famous, also known as - to Ma Wan. When our carriage arrived, we had to stay at the post house outside the city, and all the goods were transported by boat. In the local parlance, it is called - no mules and horses, flying in the water. It means that there is no future for taking the land route in the Jiangcheng Walled City, as long as you enter the water, you can even go to the sky. It's an exaggeration, but if you see the thriving waterways of the area, you can see that there is nothing out of nothing.

The local squire heard that the eldest young master of the Lin family's thatched cottage personally delivered the goods, and had already prepared an incense boat to meet at the entrance of the Eighteen Bays. We followed Lin Kui behind and were hugged by a large group of people and held the oily dragon head incense boat, and we were really startled. Dr. Lin still has a lot of status in the minds of ethnic minorities, and I and Four-Eyes chew the root of our tongue behind people's backs every day.

This dragon head incense boat is nearly ten meters long, divided into two floors, three large cabins, it is said that it is a magic weapon that can only be sacrificed when greeting VIPs in the village. Although it was evening, the river was brightly lit, and the dense water merchant ships almost filled the river. I stood at the bow of the boat and saw the sparse passage along the shore, but there were only twenty or so small shops, which were pitifully shabby compared to the thriving water gatherings. It can be seen that the water culture of Jiangcheng is by no means in vain.