The local old people were timid.

The translator was a young man, and he also had a look of fear.

"Do you know this?" Meng Shaoyuan didn't say much and handed a piece of paper to the old man.

Master Meng's painting skills are terrible.

I could barely make out that this was the pattern on the brooch found at Makoto Takasago's place.

The old man stared at it for a long time: "Sir, did you draw the wrong drawing?"

"Wrong drawing? That's right."

Meng Shaoyuan took it and looked at it for a while, and finally felt that he had drawn it correctly.

"Sir, can I borrow your pen?" the old man said carefully.

Taking the pen, the old man drew another pattern on the back of the paper: "Sir, do you think this is it?"

When Meng Shaoyuan took a look, hey, it seemed that the painting looked more like him.

What they drew looks like a snake with four legs, which is very similar to the snake in the Chinese idiom "adding feet to a painted snake".

Painted it yourself?

No matter how you look at it, it looks like an earthworm.

Master Meng was a little embarrassed: "What is this?"

"This is called 'Gek'." The old man quickly explained: "In ancient times in the Philippines, it was said that it could control all the animals and plants living in the soil in the jungle."

Meng Shaoyuan has no interest in ancient Philippine legends: "If this pattern appears on some kind of jewelry, does it mean something?"

"Yes." The old man said, "This represents the Aratero family."

Meng Shaoyuan immediately asked: "Tell me about this Alatro family?"

"Yes, sir." The old man was obviously very familiar with these: "There are many families in the Philippines, such as the Aquino family in Tanlu, the Marquez family in Northern Ilocura, the three dominant families in Pampanga, Camarines Sur and Negros Occidental.
Chapter completed!