After the event in the Dai village came to an end, Yin Xinyue took me to visit Xishuangbanna, the autonomous prefecture where her clan lived. 

We also went to see the Lancang River, the Ancient Tea Horse Road, the Big Buddha Temple and all of the other famous attractions. We then drove home, exhausted from the day we had.

Then, I got a call from the man that was wearing the Kumamon t-shirt.

I was really excited as I hadn’t seen or heard from him in ages and I had been missing him recently.

However, when I started talking to him, he sounded feeble, like he was hurt. 

“Are you alright?” I asked him promptly. 

The man coughed for quite a long time before he could manage to reply. He eventually asked me where I was. I told him I had just finished my tour around the attractions and that I was now on my way h...