Chapter 2 Chapter 1 Twelve Heavenly Officials

Throughout the year, I like autumn best.The weather is sunny, the sky is blue and the clouds are white, the temperature is about 20 degrees Celsius, which makes the human body feel most comfortable, and the relative humidity of the air hovers around 70%. Taking a deep breath makes people feel that living in On Earth, it's really not too bad.The scorching sun that was daunting two or three weeks ago will now be warm and welcoming. Whenever this kind of "cool weather is good for autumn", I will take a day to drive a boat, sail out to sea, and spend a leisurely day on the sea. Half a day off" means.

What I mean by sailing out to sea is real sailing. How can I let the sound of machines disturb me when I go out to sea to avoid the hustle and bustle?So I only use sailboats.It would be best if Bai Su could participate, because Bai Su is an expert at sailing, and she has the sixth inspiration for wind direction and speed, and can bring a sailing boat with good performance to its fullest. But if she was busy with other things, I would naturally have to go to sea alone, and of course the fun would be greatly reduced. This year is very happy, both of them are free, and the weather is continuous.It's even more refreshing. Bai Su and I went out to sea early in the morning and watched the sunrise on the sea. When people and the boat, and even the entire sea, were bathed in the golden light of the rising sun, I felt that I was with everyone. Naturally, it has become one, and naturally, there was a long howling sound.

The day is easy, and at dusk, we return to the voyage. The wind is neither too fast nor too slow. The sailboat is moving very fast on the sea. It is sailing past a seafood pier. On the pier, there are several large seafood supply stations. Naturally, there are also many food Restaurant, usually, we will eat at one of the acquaintances, and then, in the dark, we will leave by boat. When we were approaching the pier, Bai Su and I were half lying on the deck at the bow of the ship. Bai Su was using a rather special binoculars—this binoculars do not need to be held by hand, but are worn on people like glasses. Of course, after wearing it, it looks a bit weird, even a bit like an alien monster, but it is very practical, because you don't need to hold it with your hands, just like you usually look at things, you can pull out the distant scenery. close.

This pair of binoculars is a masterpiece of the Gobi Desert. Regardless of its small size, its performance is quite good, and it can even automatically zoom.At this time, I saw Bai Su pressed a button to shorten the focal length in order to see the situation on the shore clearly. I was thinking: on this pier, what attracted Bai Su's attention? At this moment, Bai Su suddenly asked: "Do you remember Wen Baoyu's solemn announcement yesterday?" I was annoyed: "Of course I remember, yesterday he came to announce in a serious manner, saying that in the next three days, he has something important to do, no matter what it is, don't bother him, this kid, what does he think of himself as important?" character?"

Bai Su smiled: "Guess what he's going to do these three days?" I crossed my hands and put them behind my head: "Who is patient to guess." Bai Su took off the telescope and handed it to me: "Look." It turned out that Wen Baoyu was on the pier!What he was doing at the pier, I would also like to know.So he took the binoculars, searched for a while, and saw this kid Wen Baoyu. After seeing it, I couldn't help being stunned for a moment, and lost my voice: "What is this kid doing?" Bai Su said: "Whatever you see him doing, that's what he's doing."

Bai Su's answer sounded a little headless, but of course it was because my question was very unreasonable. I naturally know what Wen Baoyu is doing, but I just don't know why he wants to do it. I saw Wen Baoyu holding a triangular flag in his hand, standing in front of a stall selling fish catches, holding a huge lobster in one hand, talking to the people around him. The dozen or so people around him looked strange, were not tall, had dark complexion, and high browbones. They seemed to be of the same race, and they all obviously followed Wen Baoyu's command. What is he doing?

On the pier, like him, hold a flag, gather some people around, listen to his speech, there are a few more - this pier is a must-see for tourists from other places, and those holding the flag in their hands are tour groups guide. Wen Baoyu solemnly announced that there will be a major event within three days. So it was for being a tour guide? This is really unbelievable, I put down the binoculars, and Bai Su exchanged a glance, Bai Su also showed a puzzled expression.I thought for a while: "It seems that he is leading a team to choose seafood, and will eat at one of the restaurants on the pier. Let's go ashore to find him."

Bai Su probably remembered Wen Baoyu's shocked expression when he saw us, so she laughed: "Okay." I was in charge of bringing the boat to the shore, and Bai Su kept watching Wen Baoyu with the binoculars until he saw him leading a group of people into a restaurant. Bai Su kept telling me what she saw, and also added her own opinions.She said: "That group of people is very strange. They may be from the same place, a clan, or a family. They must be used to life on the mountain—people who are used to living in the mountain have a very strange walking posture, which is different from those on flat ground. People living in different places are easy to tell apart.”

Bai Su's observation ability is very strong, she said again: "Xiao Bao and that team have a problem with language communication, he keeps pointing fingers, those people don't seem to understand very well." I shook my head: "This kid has so many weird things." When Bai Su heard it, she looked sideways at me, smiled and said nothing, I knew she was talking about my strange things. Bai Su continued: "Regardless of men and women, they have small knives... or similar weapons around their waists." I have also seen that group of people, regardless of whether they are male or female, they all wear similar clothes and have coats. Bai Su can actually see that they have weapons around their waists, which makes me a little suspicious.I let out a cry to express my doubts, and Bai Su immediately explained: "They keep pressing their hands to the right waist. Generally speaking, if it is not a weapon, it will not cause people to have such inertial movements. This proves that They are used to carrying weapons."

I asked, "Then who are they? Police? Soldiers?" Bai Su did not answer my question, but continued to express her opinion: "The clothes they are wearing now are not their original clothes. They are not used to the clothes they are wearing now. I would not think that this group of tourists came from the city. , they're curious about everything—well, they're in that restaurant, and we'll find him as soon as we're ashore." As I brought the boat to shore, I asked, "Madam Holmes, what conclusion do you have?" Bai Su laughed: "Not yet, but there will be soon."

She started to help me reef the sail, and suddenly asked me: "How much do you know about Miao language?" Although Bai Su's question sounds simple, it really shocked me.Miao language, naturally refers to the language of the Miao people.The Miao people live in the deep mountains and wild mountains, and there is no friendship between the tribes, and there are very few contacts, so as time goes by, the language has become its own style. Moreover, "Miao people" is just a general term. All mountain tribes living in China's Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and extending to northern Thailand, northern Myanmar, and northern Indochina Peninsula have extremely complicated ethnic groups, not only completely different languages, but also living habits and religious beliefs. There are also different ones.There are so many languages, I’m afraid there are hundreds of them, no matter how skilled I am, how many can I understand? Therefore, Bai Su's question made me speechless for a moment, not knowing how to answer it!Moreover, I don't even know what it means for Bai Su to come out of nowhere and ask me such a question? At that moment, I must have shown a rare embarrassment, so Bai Su laughed: "There must be communication between the various tribes of the Miao people. They should have another language besides their own language." a common intelligible language.” I nodded my head: "Yes, there are three kinds of Hmong languages, which can be understood in general, but it also depends on where the Miao people are. If a naked person from a deep mountain ditch suddenly appeared, he wouldn't understand either." Understood-" Speaking of this package, I suddenly remembered Bai Su's intention. At this time, I was about to jump to the shore, but because I suddenly understood Bai Su's meaning, my body shook, and I almost failed to jump the distance of two meters and fell into the sea. As soon as I stood still on the pier, Bai Su also jumped over lightly, and I immediately asked: "You mean, the group of people brought by Xiaobao are Miao people?" Bai Su was very natural, nodded without being surprised at all, and added: "And I believe that this team of Miao people has something to do with Lansi, the little lover of the Miao family that he misses day and night." I clapped my hands together: "That's right! Lansi must have entrusted him to take care of the Miao people, so he would treat it as a top priority, take chicken feathers as arrows, and ignore everything else." Bai Su smiled and nodded, this situation is very easy to understand - the instructions from the little lover are naturally more important than anything else! I took another breath, because at this moment, I remembered the introduction of Miao girl Lansi by the great head-down master Chai Wang: "She is a Miao from Lanjiadong, and her cave has a lot of research on Gu art." .” Could it be that the team of Miao people who followed Wen Baoyu around now belonged to Lanjiadong? Thinking about it, it's really funny and unharmonious—a Miao tribe who has a lot of research on voodoo left the deep mountains and came to this first-level modern city for sightseeing. All kinds of strange things can happen in this world! I lowered my voice: "Then what should we do? Shall we break his good business again?" Bai Su thought about it very seriously, and then shook his head: "No need, among those people, there may be Lansi's close relatives. Our appearance will make Xiaobao panic and make a fool of himself." I couldn't help laughing in astonishment: "Do you think those Miao people traveled thousands of miles to come on a blind date? They came to pick a son-in-law?" Bai Su actually nodded his head: "Even if he missed, it's not far away!" I stuck out my tongue involuntarily. To be the son-in-law of the Miao family in Lanjiadong, I don't know what qualifications are required, but in any case, if we show up, it will definitely not help the matter, so Wen Baoyu will go alone Deal with it. So, we changed our minds, instead of going to Wen Baoyu, we went to another restaurant, where we enjoyed eating seafood, and there were endless topics to talk about.The first thing I put forward is: "The Miao people who have been living in the mountains may have never tasted seafood." Bai Su smiled: "They dare to eat such a strange-looking lobster, they are considered courageous." After dinner, the pleasant day continued, and we boarded the sailboat again, and it was estimated that we could go home before midnight.Evening voyages are more pleasant, with cool breeze blowing, half lying on the deck, watching the sky full of stars, it feels detached. On the way home, I was thinking, what kind of opportunity should I find to ask Wen Baoyu about his dealings with the Miao people.However, unexpectedly, when Bai Su and I went home happily, we saw Wen Baoyu as soon as we opened the door. Wen Baoyu was naturally waiting for us, according to his usual behavior, he should have jumped up when he saw us coming back, but at this moment, he was sitting in a trance, holding a glass of strong wine in his hand, probably already After drinking more than one cup, Bai Su and I came in, but he didn't seem to notice! As soon as I saw him like this, I wanted to yell at him loudly, and Bai Su immediately knew what I wanted to do, so she pressed my mouth with a backhand. Only then did Wen Baoyu raise his head , found us, his body shook, and a lot of wine in the glass was spilled. Judging from this situation, it makes sense for Bai Su to prevent me from drinking loudly. Wen Baoyu is in a trance. If I suddenly drink loudly, it may cause huge shock and damage to him. I gently pushed Bai Su's hand away, and asked in a soft voice as much as possible: "What's the matter?" When I asked this question, I was naturally very impatient with his various tricks. Wen Baoyu raised his head with a mournful face (he was not pretending, he was really distressed in his heart), and when he said a word, it was No matter how I guess, I can't guess. What he said was: "I spent a lot of time learning Hmong, who knew they said 'Bunu'." After hearing this sentence, Bai Su and I were taken aback for a while before we could feel better about it.For a moment, I couldn't help being angry and amused at the same time. First of all, I gave Bai Su a thumbs up, because she saw Wen Baoyu with some people through the telescope. A conjecture was made that those people were Miao people. This speculation, after hearing what Wen Baoyu said, has been proven correct. Wen Baoyu was secretly learning Hmong, he didn't specifically mention it, but I knew it, because several times, he seemed to have discussed some Hmong issues with me unintentionally. I naturally also know that the purpose of Wen Baoyu's learning Miao language is to facilitate communication with the Miao girl Lansi, and facilitate communication with Lansi's tribe. However, as I mentioned earlier, the Miao language is very complex. Linguistically, this language belongs to the Miao-Yao family of the Sino-Tibetan language family. In China alone, there are three dialects in western Hunan, eastern Guizhou, and Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan. , under these three major dialects, there are many unique languages ​​spoken by only a single tribe. However, the Miao and Yao languages ​​belong to the same ethnic group. They are similar but not the same. It is difficult for experts or themselves to distinguish them. There are also several languages ​​​​of the Yao people.Those who call themselves "Bunu" are also called "Jinmen" in the Yao language popular in Hainan Island, and "Mian" in Myanmar and Thailand. Wen Baoyu thought that he could talk to Miao people after learning the Miao language, so he was very wrong. If I hadn't seen him really heartbroken, I would not have been able to help laughing. At that time, I reached out and patted him on the head: "No big problem, it seems that you get along well with them, are they used to lobster?" Wen Baoyu was absent-minded, and replied: "They don't even believe that lobsters are edible──" When he said this, he suddenly jumped up and pointed at me: "How do you know...we have eaten lobster?" I replied leisurely: "I saw it." Wen Baoyu's eyes were wide open, he looked straight at me, and shook his head, because the shaking of his head was too large, so the words he said were intermittent and not very coherent, he said: "Even if you saw it, there is no There is no way to know who they are." Bai Su and I looked at each other again, pointing at Bai Su: "This is not my skill, it is all guessed by her." Bai Su smiled again and said, "It's from Lanjiadong." Wen Baoyu stayed for a while longer, then nodded, and grunted again: "I knew Wesley wouldn't have such a great ability." I snorted, pretending not to hear, and asked him: "Don't you go with those Miao people, be careful what they say about you." Wen Baoyu is waiting for me here, I have already guessed that there must be a reason, and most likely he has encountered a problem, it may be in language, I know "Bunu", I can help him, but if he doesn't ask me , and I don't have to do it myself. Wen Baoyu smiled wryly: "It doesn't matter if you speak ill of me, anyway, I can't understand what they say." I smiled slightly: "That's right, 'Bunu' is a very special language with a lot of function words, and adjectives are placed after modifiers." Wen Baoyu blinked quickly, and suddenly complained: "It's all Lansi's fault, I didn't explain what they said, so now I don't know what they want me to do, and Lansi said in the letter that they want What I do is of great importance and must be done.” I heard him hesitating, so I made things difficult for him on purpose: "How important is the relationship?" Wen Baoyu blushed, hesitated, and made some inexplicable voices, believing that no one in the world would understand what he wanted to express, and even Bai Su became impatient: "Xiaobao, if you need help from others, then We must tell everyone the ins and outs of the matter.” After hearing this, Wen Baoyu let out a long sigh, his expression was still very shy, but he took out a letter.Unfolding, as soon as I saw the crooked Chinese characters and the written words on the letter, I couldn't help laughing. Wen Baoyu was extremely frustrated by my laughter, and he looked a bit old-fashioned and angry. I also felt that I had teased him enough, so I stopped laughing and gave the letter to Bai Su. Bai Su couldn't help laughing when he saw it. Naturally, she Smile more politely than me. The handwriting on the letter is poor, and the writing is naive, but it reveals the true feelings.I believe it is the result of Lansi's efforts to learn Chinese characters after getting to know Wen Baoyu.Of the two of them, one worked hard to learn Chinese characters and Chinese, and the other worked hard to learn Miao language. This incident itself is quite touching and should not be laughed at. So I said, "I'm sorry, but she called you 'Brother Bao', which made people laugh." Wen Baoyu didn't make any distinctions, but there was a sweet look on his brows. I will not reproduce the original text of this letter, because there are many typos, and love letters between children are inevitably very nasty.What the letter said was that I missed them very much, because I was not full of teachers, so I couldn't meet each other, and "washed my face with water" every day (naturally it was a mistake of "washing my face with tears") and so on.And there are twelve elders in Lanjiadong, who are of very high seniority (this point is emphasized in the letter). If they want to travel abroad, they will come to see him specially. If they want him to do something, they must do it. Affect the future between him and her.In the letter, he reminded again that the twelve people who came here are of high seniority and must not be offended! After reading such a letter, Wen Baoyu naturally wanted to entertain those Miao people with all his heart, but he couldn't even speak a word. It seemed that the first day's hospitality had exhausted him. I returned the letter to him, and he whispered, "Please don't make fun of me with this letter under any circumstances." I agreed to his request very seriously, and asked him: "Did those elders ask you?" Wen Baoyu smiled wryly: "I have mentioned it, but I don't know what they are talking about at all. I just know from their expressions and actions that they are asking me, but I don't know the content of the request." I pursed my lips and kept silent, Wen Baoyu bowed his hands to me: "Please help me translate." I smiled: "Didn't it mean that Wesley didn't have that much skill?" Wen Baoyu is very eloquent: "It's not so small." I took a breath: "Okay, please bring the leader, and I will translate their request." Wen Baoyu frowned: "It's extremely strange. These twelve people, eight men and four women, all acted in exactly the same way. They even only lived in one hotel room, so I got a presidential suite for them. , there must be twelve people coming together." At this time, I vaguely remembered something, which was related to the actions of the twelve people-like when, I heard people talking about such a situation, and it was a very special situation.But because I didn't pay much attention when I listened to it, I couldn't remember it for a while. I waved my hand: "Twelve come together. I don't know if they are young or ripe? If they are young, it will be troublesome." Wen Baoyuren said: "I don't think it's raw seedlings. They eat food, cut it with a knife at their waist, and eat it with a fork. It seems to be similar to Westerners, very civilized." I reached out and patted him on the shoulder, one of Wen Baoyu's problems was solved, he seemed to be in a very relaxed mood, and he jumped away.After he left, I suddenly burst into laughter: "The third young lady of the Wen family is in trouble. She had seen this Miao girl before, and she was so frightened that she almost had a stroke." Bai Su frowned: "I think Xiaobao will try his best to hide it from his mother and not let him know." I let out a long sigh: "I'm afraid he will have to hide it for the rest of his mother's life. Fortunately, this lady's control over Xiaobao has gradually loosened a lot." Bai Su walked back and forth for a few steps, then suddenly asked me: "Twelve people, acting in unison, what does it remind you of?" I slapped my leg vigorously: "When I heard it just now, I also had an association, but I couldn't think of the specific facts. It seems to be a symbol of supreme power, and it is among some tribes—" Having said that, I stopped suddenly and called out almost at the same time as Bai Su: "Twelve Heavenly Officials!" After calling out, the two of us looked at each other with very puzzled expressions, and shook our heads together again. The "Twelve Heavenly Officials" that Bai Su and I thought of at the same time is the core organization of a very secret Jianghu gang. This gang, or martial arts sect, is so mysterious that it doesn't even have an official name.