Chapter 183: Moonlit Fairy! Wu Laogou Stares in Awe! Stepping onto Miao Territory!

Zhang Lin began telling the tale of Wu Laogou's past in the Miao frontier, and instantly pulled everyone's attention back from the archaeological team.

Hearing "Miao frontier," Yin Nanfeng felt it clashed entirely with the Laojiu Sect's bearing.

It seemed the people of the Laojiu Sect rarely had any dealings with the minorities.

Especially since the Miao frontier region had a peculiar environment and a relatively complicated mix of people.

Generally, those who went from the Central Plains had very little contact with the minorities.

Not only was there a language barrier in those years, making communication difficult.

The main reason was that the minorities back then were quite exclusionary, keeping a high guard against the Han people from outside.

Someone like Wu Laogou, who could have a love story with a Miao girl, was truly rare!

As Wu Laogou's old flame, hearing Zhang Lin speak of the passionate Miao girls, Old Lady Huo's face had already gone icy beyond words.

She muttered, "What a shameless old dog — if it's not a gentle Jiangnan beauty, then it's a passionate Miao girl!"

"I say Wu Laogou should have died a romantic, passionate death in this life."

Hearing the old lady roast Gouwuye, Chang San quietly raised an eyebrow, not daring to speak.

The old lady's affair with Gouwuye, because of the storyteller downstairs, had become something known to everyone.

Although the audience felt that men and women of the jianghu need not stand on ceremony, Old Lady Huo was still very uncomfortable that so many people now knew about this past relationship.

Especially since she believed she was Wu Laogou's first love, and that only after her did he marry the current Mrs. Wu.

She never expected a Miao girl to suddenly pop up here!

Old Lady Huo felt her eyelids twitching — purely from anger!

After all these years, the mere mention of Wu Laogou could still make her emotions stir.

One couldn't tell whether it was Huo Huo Xiangu's lingering affection, or that the two were simply fated but never meant to be.

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"I said earlier that Gouwuye's incident happened on a tributary of the Lancangjiang."

"That year, he was still very young, and had just ended a relationship with Huo Huo Xiangu, so his mood was a bit gloomy."

"So he slipped away from his family and went traveling to Yunnan alone."

"Gouwuye also knew Yunnan was full of mountains, and he was hoping to find a few big tombs on this trip."

"As it turned out, the first half of the journey was indeed very leisurely and pleasant, and Gouwuye's mood was extremely relaxed."

"By the Lancangjiang, there was a Weijiang River flowing into it."

"The water of that river was completely different from the Lancangjiang's!"

"The Lancangjiang rushed swiftly, but that Weijiang River was as still as a mirror, as clear as crystal!"

"Gouwuye, flush with cash, used two gold leaves to buy from a Miao man a bamboo house he had built by the river."

"The roof of that bamboo house was entirely made of banana leaves, and when the rain fell on it, it made a wonderful sound!"

"No one knew what method the Miao man had used, but venomous snakes and poisonous insects couldn't crawl into the house."

Hearing this, many in the audience had already begun to yearn for Yunnan.

Such a beautiful pure land, keeping company with heaven and earth, living in a bamboo house roofed with banana leaves — just thinking about it sounded wonderful!

The audience were also sighing at how well Gouwuye knew how to enjoy himself.

To cure a low EQ, one had to go to a place with mountains and clear waters — only then could the heart feel at ease!

"Originally, Gouwuye had planned to stay in such a lovely place for two months, but one thing disrupted his plans."

"One evening, Gouwuye was drifting in a small boat on the river, lying on his back watching the stars."

"Watching the stars in a place like this, the stars in the sky seemed as if they were right before his eyes."

"While Gouwuye was lost in the sight, he suddenly heard a burst of laughter coming from upstream on the river."

"That laughter, in the silent dark night, was very eye-catching."

"Gouwuye, very curious, paddled his boat upstream against the current to find the source of the laughter."

"He rowed for about half an hour, and suddenly saw many torches on the river, and all those torches were coming from a very strange-looking boat!"

"It wasn't really one boat, but a dozen or so dugout canoes lashed together bow to stern."

"There were many people playing on the boats. Gouwuye paddled with one hand, making his boat spin in circles on the water, while holding a spyglass in the other to peer into the distance."

"He discovered that there were both men and women on the boats, and their dress was very peculiar, quite different from the Miao people he had seen along his journey!"

"Some of you here may not know much about the Miao people."

"But the Miao of Xia's four provinces — Dian, Qian, Xiang, and Gui — if you really start dividing them into different tribes, there are no fewer than several hundred. 'Miao' is merely a general term."

"Gouwuye naturally knew all this, so out of curiosity he kept looking forward, wanting to see clearly how these Miao people differed."

"But just as he was staring in a trance, a splash sounded beside his little boat, and then he felt the boat tilt to one side, with water splashing onto him."

"Gouwuye was startled at once and hurriedly lowered his spyglass, but the moment he looked down, he was completely stunned."

"He saw a girl gripping the gunwale with both hands, looking up at him."

"The girl's face and hair were covered in water droplets, and under the moonlight, those droplets slid down her face one by one, like pearls!"

"At that moment, Gouwuye's heart pounded violently — he swore he had never in his life seen such a beautiful girl!"