Chapter 50 Traveling Notes

As we loaded all our things into the truck, A-Gong and A-Mu’s chicks were running all over the place, jumping around and being very naughty. I finally got to see how active Tibetan chickens were. They even climbed onto our shoulders and heads. Poker-Face grabbed them one by one and put them back into the …

Chapter 49 Traveling Notes

Fatty immediately lit the fork of the clothesline pole, looking just like a general.(1) The monkeys were startled by the flames, but instead of running away immediately, they began circling around Fatty. One of the monkeys snuck up behind Fatty and scratched him. Fatty didn't react fast enough to dodge and immediately turned around, but …

Chapter 48 Traveling Notes

We easily divided the work up. Fatty wanted to enjoy the fun of close combat with the monkeys, so he was in charge of the vanguard. His main job was to attract the firepower to the yard, so he needed a suit of armor. We were all experienced when it came to fighting monkeys and …

Chapter 47 Traveling Notes

We went to the beach as planned. The monkeys were no longer visible, but I didn’t take that to mean that they were gone for good. There was nowhere for them to take cover on the beach since there were few trees, so they probably decided not to follow us so aggressively. But we also …

Chapter 46 Traveling Notes

This situation was actually very interesting. According to the feng shui books, if someone’s belly button looked like a copper coin, then that meant that their ancestors were buried in this place. This kind of thing was called a Rolling Copper Coin Array.(1) But if the monkeys’ belly buttons looked like copper coins, then that …

Chapter 45 Traveling Notes

Speaking of monkeys getting revenge, I had also experienced this kind of thing before. In fact, monkeys were a kind of animal that could display all kinds of human qualities. If one attacked you and your counterattack didn’t make it aware of the danger and the gap between your levels, it would circle around you …

Chapter 44 Traveling Notes

This name really surprised me. I knew that there were many local gods in the South China Sea, with about one temple in almost every village. And after we passed through Wenchang, many of the gods in the local temples couldn’t even be found on the list of deities, nor could we figure out what …

Chapter 43 Traveling Notes

There wasn’t much to say about the scenery along the way, because this was more of a return journey to our final destination, Rain Village. The calmness of the return journey enabled me to gradually empty my mind and think about nothing. The shapes of the clouds in Hainan were always changing. Fatty made an …

Chapter 42 Traveling Notes

When A-Mu and A-Gong’s first clutch of four chicks finally hatched, they were all very cute.(1) I felt very refreshed and happy when I woke up in the morning and saw A-Mu walking around in a circle with a group of chicks that were still quivering. Based on how things were usually done in the …

Chapter 41 Traveling Notes

The next day, the river snails still smelled earthy, but it was slightly better than before. I need to point out that I used the local spring water here in Guangxi, which had a delicate fragrance. It was only a few days after I came here that I began smelling this fragrance. There was no …