At dusk, Xiang Ye held a box and entered Xie Lin's mansion, Xie Lin was still the same as before, standing quietly in the backyard alone, with his eyes closed.

In Xiang Ye's memory, Xie Lin usually stood alone in the backyard with his eyes closed and did routine business, not knowing what he was thinking.

The wind in the backyard is strong, probably because there were too many trees planted when the emperor gave him the mansion. He draws flowers very well, and she was amazed on the first day he taught her, but he never writes outside of class, and he doesn't like flowers in the yard.

Xiang Ye thought he had grown up, but he still couldn't bear to see him standing alone in the courtyard. If emotions are a beast stored in the heart, then at this time, it bares its teeth violently, but the neck leaf can only be pressed.

Xiang Ye stopped two feet behind him and asked him, "Master, I got a box in the Burrowy Building, and there is a piece of 'jade' in it." As soon as I picked it up, the 'jade' suddenly broke in half, and a 'wooden bird' turned out of the middle. The shopkeeper said, "This 'wooden bird' is mine." You know, what's going on? ”

Xie Lin opened his eyes and said to her, "Everything has its own fate, treat it well." ”

Xiang Ye knew that if he continued to ask, there would be no result, but the emotional beast didn't hold it down, so he said: "How to raise a wooden bird, can you serve it?" ”

Seeing that Xie Lin didn't speak, she spoke again: "I don't think the shopkeeper is like a bad guy, and the paintings are quite interesting, but it's not appropriate to give me things for no reason." I just said that the wooden bird was mine, but there was no follow-up, and I don't like such twists and turns. ”

Schelling smiled and said to her, "You don't know you, you don't know people." He has no ill intentions, give him something you love as a thank you. ”

Xiang Ye said goodbye to Xie Lin, this time, she didn't stop as usual, she stood outside the courtyard, looking at the layers of trees in the courtyard, and Xie Lin who was completely blocked by the trees.

On the second day after "Jian Yunzhen" apprenticed, "Master" gave him a wooden bird.

"For a hundred years, the Spirit Kingdom has been alone in the East China Sea, but it is the most mysterious and holy island in the world. There are many people living on the land, and there are many problems; There are fewer people living at sea and fewer problems.

At the beginning, the land of Lingguo was discovered by a caravan, and after the caravan recorded the landforms, clouds and rain, and returned to the 'Jian Kingdom' to report. When the gazetteer was submitted, it coincided with the rebellion of the 'King Wen', and after the palace change, it disappeared, and all the people who returned to their hometowns in the caravan disappeared one by one.

After King Wen ascended the throne, the original 'King Wu', that is, King Li recorded in the history of the country, was buried in the fire of the palace, and his queen also died of martyrdom. The queen is a woman from the rivers and lakes who disregards the etiquette of the law and goes against the will of the people in the world, and has a lot to do with the rivers and lakes.

Before King Li accepted the queen, he worked hard and devoted himself to the people, but after marrying this woman, he indulged in lust, favored the traitorous ministers, and built a large number of buildings, and even braved the disapproval of the world, 'the first order to make the woman a general, and let the woman be a teacher'. Three years before his death, he cut three cities in a row to the 'single country' to ask for surrender in exchange for peace.

After his death, the three prime ministers who were loyal to him were all killed, and a major faction in the rivers and lakes fell apart and disappeared.

"A Brief History of the Kingdom" is full of King Li's brutality and cowardice, and the only place where he has to be merciful is his appointment of female generals and female teachers.

When the death of King Li expired for ten years, Shan Guo waved his army south, tigers and leopards wanted to swallow horses, and never thought that the 'female general' would be good at recruiting strange and good martial arts, although the fight was slightly inferior, but the dispatch of grain and grass, the management of the military camp, flexible and strict, and he knew the situation of the enemy country well, and prepared for war early. After three years of war, he took three cities in a row, and won the hearts of the people and the world. Her descendants have been generations of generals, and her family has flourished to this day.

'Female teacher' stands in the government and the opposition, although she has a wide range of romances, she can make a good fortune, she has a good means, and she has been promoting the change of law all her life.

Back and forth, you move me to learn, on this land, the difference between women and men is much weakened.

At the beginning, it was rumored in the world that King Li occupied the island and built a spiritual country. The two dynasties of the north and the south even attacked the islands separately and conspiredly. But the sea is changing, the climate is the most difficult to control, and the spirit country has wonderful people holding each other, before the war, the whole country disappeared on the sea. Many people have written books and spoken in order to find a solution. The trees are spring, and the folk say that the spirit country is really built for the reincarnation of the three loyal ministers who died in the line of duty, which is true or false, waiting to be debated.

Hundreds of years have passed, and every time someone who has been able to enter the spiritual kingdom has been reluctant to come out again, although he has been banished in the end. There are also occasional people who claim to have been born from the spirit kingdom, whose words and deeds are strange, and their understanding is transcendent. From time to time, there are also people who harm the government and the opposition, and I don't know if it is a borrowed name or a real genus.

Therefore, a hundred years ago, the monarchs of the three kingdoms met and made a covenant to be observed for generations. After the change of each dynasty, Jian Guo and Shan Guo each sent one person to the Ling Kingdom to quietly study the way of civil and martial arts. Every hundred years, the spirit kingdom will only send one person as a representative to serve as a teacher of one country. The rest of the people who are spiritually citizens can be judged according to law. ”

--- "Miscellaneous Interviews in the Spirit Kingdom"

Jian Yunzhen remembered "Lingguo Miscellaneous Interviews". Over the past hundred years, there have been many legends about the founding of the Spirit Kingdom, but there has not been a convincing conclusion. Although he and Shan Ji were sent to study in the Spirit Kingdom, the content of the teaching did not include national history and witchcraft, and his master was strong in martial arts, but his temperament was cold.

He looked at the wooden bird in his hand over and over again, still determined to ask.

He walked into the "Master's" mansion.

This is not so much a mansion as a low house with a small yard.

"She" has bad eyes and is obsessed with martial arts. There are three rooms in the house from left to right, one for refining weapons and arranging formations, one for living, and one for storing poetry and books. There is a small chapel in front of the living place for dinner and banquet guests. In the courtyard in front of the house stood a large tree on the left and right, and unlike the other trees, this one was made of iron, and it was cold from the trunk to the leaves. The tree was tall, and though there were only two of them, the leaves grew to one side and covered a corner of the roof, which sharply protected the bricks and tiles, and covered the sky and the earth and darkened the courtyard.

Here, there is a strangeness, only the middle room can distinguish day and night, but the left and right are long sleeps, and the lights must be lit when entering the house. It's as if only the middle is living a normal life, but the left and right are in their own way, and if they want to spy on the difference, they must be angry. It's like "she", although her surname is Mi, there are thousands of names in a country, no one knows what her real name is, and she doesn't care about it herself. The difference between her and others may be between the left and right rooms, and the similarity between her and others may be that they both follow a day and night routine, eating and sleeping.

Jian Yunzhen is the "emperor's grandson", and he has seen countless Qionglou Yuyu since he was a child, and he was inevitably surprised when he was brought here for the first time. As a well-respected "court person" on the top of Wudian Mountain, her residence is too simple.

He stood in the middle of the courtroom, waiting for her to receive him.

The door of the main house opened, and she sat down in the hall and asked, "What is it?" ”

Jian Yunzhen replied: "In the morning, 'Danji' gave me a wooden bird, saying that it was a gift from you. I felt stupid and did not realize the usefulness of it, so I came to inquire. ”

Her expression remained the same, because she was a woman, her voice was soft, but her sentence was toneless and ruthless: "It's not a gift from me, it's natural." ”

Jian Yunyun's voice was steady: "How to start the relationship?" ”

She replied, "Wait." ”

Jian Yunzhen returned to the residence specially arranged for him and "Shan Ji", the two of them were the people of this generation who were sent to study in the Spirit Kingdom.

Shan Ji is a year older than him, and the two usually call each other brothers, and when Shan Ji saw him come back, he asked, "How is it?" ”

Jian Yunzhen said: "It's weird. ”

Shan Ji lowered his eyes and smiled, nodded, and left the house to practice martial arts.

Jian Yunqi doesn't want to explain, some people are destined to be enemies by birth, although they have the affection of friends, but if they really want to be friends, in some things, it is best to maintain the attitude of "don't say, don't ask, don't exceed the rules".

He took out the "wooden bird" and thought carefully about it by the light of the moon shining through the window.

The feathers of the woodbird are finely beaten, the texture is striped, the wood color is deep and light, very smart, but the other parts are simple and ordinary, dumb-eyed, fat, short-beaked, long-tailed, and ordinary birds.

Jian Yunzhen got this bird from the "age of seven", and waited until the "age of sixteen" to see its extraordinary.

Xiang Ye's "wooden bird" has been placed on the dresser since he got it back, and he didn't pay much attention to it. She thinks of the bird only as an artifact, and although it may harbor some secret, the secret should not be in itself, but in the craftsman who made it, the owner who bought it, or the meaning it was given. But in any case, at least for now, none of this matters.

She didn't have a mother since she was a child, and she was stupid and reckless when she was a child. If there is a piece of bread, I would like to tell the whole world about her happiness and share it with everyone. But they don't ask if others want it and if they should give it. The bread is very small, but there are many hungry wolves that bite them, and the wolves have flesh and blood, but they do not know the etiquette, and the people observe the etiquette, but they do not learn to pick the wolf's fur to protect themselves. The cake is very thin, sprinkled with chopped green onions, it can't wrap sausages, can't wrap eggs, can't roll coriander, smear a little sauce, and worry about breaking the skin. People's desires are mixed, but at that time, she was not sober enough.

After walking through the mess, her heart calmed down.

She is determined to "live for the piano" all her life, and loves to listen to the piano and play the piano every day. When no one is there at night, the wind is its most faithful bosom friend, the clouds come and scatter freely, is her best friend, and the moon is the best makeup girl, often on her, on the window in the courtyard of the house, on the ground, making a big fuss, and washing people's hearts every time.

When the song is finished, the piano is closed.

One night, it was so hot that it was hard to sleep.

Xiang Ye lit a small oil lamp and got up and sat down in front of the mirror. Looking at the low yellow mirror surface and the leaves of the outer trees, I feel that time is urging the old melons and fruits to destroy the picture.

She glanced at the wooden bird on the dressing table, picked it up, pointed her index finger at its itchy and gruffy head, and said to it, "Are you hot, little eyes?" With such a short mouth, I have never eaten a large mouthful of meat. ”

Jian Yunzhen was just about to fall asleep, but he heard someone talking.

They practice in the mountains, freezing in winter and cool in summer, plus Shan Ji knows that his martial arts attainments are insufficient, not peerless and arrogant, and he will return to his hometown next month.

He got up, got dressed, took his sword, and went out to look at it. Worried that the master came prepared, he didn't let him hear the breath.

After some searching, nothing was found. When he returned to the house, he still heard the voice of a stiff, low voice, and it should have been only one person. He followed the sound and found the cabinet, and when he opened it, he found the dusty wooden bird talking, shaking the ashes on his body.

He put the wooden bird to his ear and listened to it: "I hate summer the most, mosquitoes love to come out, and birds love to chirp." The tulle skirt is difficult to wear, and the ice does not dare to use it much. It's just hot in the courtyard during the day, and it's often stuffy at night, and the piano is not easy to play. ”

Jian Yunzhen was stunned for a while before standing up, wiping the wood bird's ashes with a towel hanging on the basin, holding it again, and lying back on the bed.

It turns out that this is the magic of the wooden bird.

He didn't say a word, but quietly listened to the bird speak in a difficult and low voice, raising his eyebrows and smiling from time to time.

That summer night was much longer than the other years.