Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2190 Flower War (ninety-eight)

  There are many people who are born precocious. Some people call them geniuses and envy their "talents", and some people give them mysticism.

   "Please sit down." The little imam who was sitting on the ground said to Nick.

  Nick imitated the Bedouin and sat so stiffly on the ground.

   "You translate..."

   "Did you bring a gift?" The little imam interrupted Nick with a smile.

   "No." Nick said blankly.

   "Then I won't tell you everything I translated." Imam smiled mysteriously.

  Nick looked impatient.

   "If you're not going to tell me, please return my book to me."

"Let's start with the myth of the birth of the Yin Yin people. According to legend, there was a tree that suddenly grew teeth and learned to walk. It perched on the edge of a river that was sandwiched between the two banks and was as tight as a bowstring. , and then fell madly in love with his own shadow, just like the boy in Greek mythology with the same name as Narcissus," said the imam.

  Nick's eyes widened in surprise.

"Like you, I thought the shadow was the semi-black under our feet at first." The imam pointed to the elongated shadow in the setting sun and said, "They call what we call 'shadow' black honeydew, while mirrors call it black honeydew. The appearance of the reflection in it is called the hazy and waking consciousness, which can be related to the dream state in some way."

   "What?" Nick asked in confusion.

"Mandrills are not good at sports, or they will become bloated and slow to move at a certain stage, they will eat a kind of yin baby called 'shadow bait', and then regain their agility and weight loss, which means that mandrills It eats black shadows," the imam explained.

  Nick looked down at his own shadow, because the floor was clean and there was his own reflection in the half-black shadow, and he looked at Imam again.

"The mandrill ate the 'shadow bait' and spit him out, and the black curse on the shadow bait disappeared, which seemed to be good for both parties, but the mandrill attracted by the bait became the prey of the yin people, and it ran into densely populated towns."

   "Why?" Nick asked.

"You want to ask why they become natural enemies?" The imam said with a smile, "What is your first reaction when you eat food in your mouth? It is to swallow it, not spit it out, so the mission of Patriarch Huanyin is to lead the clan to catch the food. To catch mandrills, in mythology, the man Yin Yin gave birth to a child with his shadow in the water, and was seduced by a glowing monster, hoping to see the true face of the shadow, and he was punished for this, the shadow in the water Like a gradually extinguished flame, it disappeared in front of him, so the world has 'darkness', we can understand that this is some kind of curse of the Yin people, that is, 'shadow backlash', only mandrill can help them Released, although there is a risk of being swallowed by the mandrill."

   "Unbelievable," Nick said in disbelief.

"Half-black is sweet, full-black is malicious. We think there is only one shadow, but in fact there are thousands of them, but when you pay attention to it, they overlap into one, and the more half-black shadows, the more The closer it is to total darkness, in order to lure mandrills to appear, hunters will paint themselves black with charcoal, and their own skin is yellow. They intermarry with other ethnic groups and form families. According to the current information, they at least Intermarriage with Han, Hani, Saxons, Persians and Slavs, some of these ethnic groups are very afraid of their own shadows, they will not be understood, and this is also the characteristic of Yin Yin people, who are always isolated situation, but this brings them an unexpected benefit. They can be in concentration when they are alone, and they can listen to their own thoughts in peace. But just to express that they are not understood. A thousand people have a thousand kinds of loneliness that cannot be resolved. The race of the Yin Yin is close to extinction, but their mixed-race children will still be discovered by the mandrill. The great Jurchen created Jin was destroyed by the Mongols in the thirteenth century. The smoke from the burning of the corpse attracted the Yin Yin people and appeared out of thin air among the survivors of the Jurchen in the Xiaoju Mountain Forest. , the demise of Luyin and the revival of the Jurchen will happen at the same time, so they took in the exiled Luyin people, shared food and land with them, and fed them with the harvest of fishing and hunting, until one day, the neighbors of the Jurchen heard them There was a 'devil's hiccup' sound from the gathering place."

   "They let the mandrill eat the Huyin people?" Nick asked.

   "I don't think that's what you should worry about right now." Imam looked at Nick and said, "Who else has this information besides me?"

  Nick came to his senses.

   "You know that the rulers of the Qing Dynasty are now Jurchens, although they call themselves Houjin, now they call themselves Manchu."

   So Nick hurried back to Guandi Temple.

   Juren had already returned by this time. He had read the note and knew where Nick had gone. He was not panicking. He was wearing a decent summer dress he bought in Guangzhou with 2.5 silver dollars, and he looked at ease.

  Nick immediately told Juren what he had heard from the imam, and Juren jumped up in a good mood.

   "You..." He pointed at Nick with trembling fingers, so angry that he couldn't speak.

   "How reliable are your friends!" Nick asked calmly. "As long as they don't talk about it, no one will know."

   "There is no wall that is impermeable to the wind in this world!" Raised people around the room like a trapped beast, and after a while asked, "Do you know which page those contents are written on?"

  Nick was stunned again.

   "I see who is holding those documents." He said with a beard and a stare.

  Nick hurriedly found a copy of the book again. Fortunately, he made an extra copy and found the number of pages in it.

   He looked at the page and took out an account book.

   "It's Ji Xiaolan's grandson, Ji Shuxin." He sighed deeply.

   "Are we going to BJ?" Nick asked.

   "Who and you are us!" He raised someone and slapped the table and cursed, "Why do you always receive those strange things!"

  Nick remembered the unidentified note he received in Guangzhou. Juren once suspected that he had committed "Shen Sha Lone Star", and Nick also began to wonder if he was "prompted by a ghost".

   Then he asked someone to pick up a pen and write a letter, but Nick wanted to say goodbye to the admiral, and went to BJ in person to find the "grandson" named Ji Shuxin and ask for the information back.

   As for whether Imam would leak the secret, he could only believe that Imam would keep it secret.

   He didn't care that it was already night, and it was not etiquette to go to the back garden. When he reached the door, he saw Cao Xi leaving the Governor's Palace in a sedan chair.

   He didn't care, because Cao Xi might have gone out to socialize, and then he saw the Governor lying on a reclining chair in the study.

  Wanning was sitting on the stool beside him reading for him, and she stopped reading when Nick came.

  Nick was thinking about how to speak when the Governor sat up and asked Nick how the Europeans spent their time.

  Nick went back to what he was about to say, telling him that he would play dominoes.

  The domino is "Pai Gow". Captain Yao and his sailors used this kind of gambling equipment on the ship. An Italian missionary put it upright, and then pushed it gently, and the dominoes would fall one by one.

Nick will arrange some small tricks, which will make the dominoes fall more dramatic. At the same time, he also thought of letting Captain Yao's sailors go to BJ instead of him. The premise is that this person is reliable and strict. It is best not to. Literacy.

   He accompanied the Governor to play this game with mixed feelings. The Governor was also very worried, and only Wan Ning was very happy.

  Perhaps with this game, her married life will be less boring.

   (end of this chapter)