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Li Yan, who was playing a killing game with his women, suddenly had a report from his maid: "I heard that the military plane asked to see me." ”

Wen Huanzhang is a very measured person, and when he said that he would rest for three days, he still came to ask for a meeting, which must be something important.

Li Yan asked a girl to do it for herself, and then went out to see Wen Huanzhang.

As soon as they met, Wen Huanzhang said with excitement on his face: "Metropolitan Governor, the Japanese have presented you with two divine beast unicorns!" ”

"Divine Beast Qilin?" Li Yan's face was stunned!

Wen Huanzhang said: "Yes, Dadu Governor, I have already seen it, it is indeed the divine beast unicorn, the living divine beast unicorn, the emperor is virtuous, then there must be auspicious, then the unicorn is out, congratulations to the metropolitan governor, congratulations to the metropolitan governor, the heavenly beast unicorn is in the metropolitan governor, the metropolitan governor is the destiny of heaven!" ”

Wen Huanzhang, who has always been calm, can say such sensual words, which shows that he must have been stimulated a lot, "Is there really a unicorn?" ”

With this incomparably question, Li Yan and Wen Huanzhang came to see these two divine beast unicorns.

After seeing it, Li Yan suddenly saw 10,000 grass and mud horses galloping by!

These two so-called sacred beast unicorns, more than five meters high, are covered with brown-yellow reticulated markings of different sizes and shapes, the forehead of the head is wide, the snout is pointed, the ears are large and erect, there is a pair of short horns on the top of the head, the neck is particularly long, the back of the neck has a row of manes, the body is short, the limbs are tall and strong, the forelimbs are slightly longer than the hind limbs, the hooves are broad, the tail is short, and the tail end is black tufted hair.

It's a giraffe!

Wen Huanzhang said: "How is it, Dadu Governor, this is a divine beast qilin?" ”

Li Yan suppressed his anger and said, "You go and call me the people who offer these two things." ”

As soon as he heard Li Yan's name for these two "Divine Beast Qilin", Wen Huanzhang's heart tightened, and he said secretly: "They are not Divine Beast Qilin?" ”

With this guess, Wen Huanzhang hurriedly went to call the devotees waiting outside the door in!

There are four people who offer it, two of them are short samurai, at first glance they are typical Japanese samurai, the other one is actually a black man, and the last person, although he is also dressed as a Japanese samurai, obviously has no samurai temperament, he should not be a samurai, but he always keeps his head down, so that Li Yan can't make further judgments.

As soon as the four of them saw Li Yan, they knelt on the ground, hmm...... It's more accurate to say that you are prostrate on the ground.

Li Yan asked, "Which of you can speak Chinese?" ”

One of the samurai replied, "The villain will speak." ”

Li Yan asked, "Where are you from?" ”

There are many families in Japan, the most famous is the Fujiwara family, his family is a relative to serve as a regent, in the name of the regent or Guan Bai for a long time to control the government, called the regency politics, for a long time, are the Fujiwara family monopoly, two queens stand side by side, four daughters and three concubines, the East Palace Concubine, the young emperor lives in his home, regent, Guan Bai, Taizheng Minister, the position of the left and right ministers for the Fujiwara family monopoly, the formation of a special system of regency politics.

Samurai said, "We are the Sakabe family. ”

"Sakabe's house?"

Li Yan really doesn't know about this family, in other words, Li Yan actually knows a Fujiwara family, because this family is so famous.

Li Yan pointed to the two giraffes behind him with his thumb and said: "You are so big dogs, you dare to take two ordinary giraffes on the African savannah and lie to me that they are the divine beast unicorn, do you think my knife is unfavorable?" ”

As soon as Li Yan said this, the warrior who answered was shocked, and then hurriedly muttered something to the old warrior on the side!

When the old samurai heard this, he stood up violently!

Seeing this, Li Yan's guards said, "Huh! They all drew their knives, and Ma Ling, Wang Dingliu, Ruan Xiaoqi, and Hu Sanniang even protected Li Yan behind them!

Li Yan pushed Ma Ling away from the four people, and just looked at these four people quietly - Li Yan didn't believe that these four people dared to assassinate him in front of hundreds of guards!

Seeing that Li Yan didn't mean to blame him, the old warrior immediately roared at the black man.

Pity!

The old samurai played the harp to the ox completely, and the black people simply did not understand what he said.

At this moment, the man who had never shown his face suddenly spoke an extremely strange language.

Li Yan was very surprised!

It wasn't because this person said such weird things that Li Yan was surprised, Li Yan was surprised because she turned out to be a woman.

As soon as the woman finished speaking, the black man was suddenly shocked, and immediately defended himself again and again.

After listening for only a short while, the woman said in a more pure Chinese dialect than the previous samurai: "I'm very sorry, because we are ignorant and have offered a fake unicorn beast to you!" ”

The woman's voice is very good, and it makes people feel extremely happy after listening to it.

Li Yan pointed to the black man and asked, "What did he just say?" ”

The woman replied, "He said that there are many of these giraffes on the grasslands, but we Orientals do call them unicorns." ”

In fact, this black man really wasn't lying.

Until later generations, both Japanese and Koreans called giraffes unicorns.

And the Chinese are not much better.

According to the history of the Ming Dynasty, in the tenth year of Yongle, a small country called Banggara (now Bangladesh) sent people to offer the legendary Chinese mythical beast Qilin in order to express its respect for Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty.

For a time, the government and the opposition were in an uproar!

Because no one has ever seen this kind of ancient divine beast, on the day of the beast sacrifice, the whole Beijing city is very lively, and the people and officials are vying to watch.

Zhu Di was also looking at it, and his neck was sore.

After waiting for a long time, the envoy of Punggara finally led the Qilin into the city of Beijing.

When the big guy saw this divine beast unicorn, he was very excited, it was like a dream.

Zhu Di was even more happy, and immediately ordered the talented son Shen Du to write a "Ode to Ruiying Qilin" to record this fortunate event.

Not only that, Zhu Di also ordered the court painter to paint this grand occasion, and this painting is called "Ruiying Qilin Picture".

Later, a painting was handed down, so that later generations had the privilege of seeing the appearance of the divine beast unicorn.

However, when people open the picture scroll, it turns out that the so-called unicorn is actually a giraffe!

The giraffe is born in distant Africa, and no one has ever seen it in China, and it does have many similarities with the legendary unicorn, so it is actually normal to be regarded as a mythical beast.

After figuring out the ins and outs of the future, Li Yan said sincerely: "It is not easy for you to get these two giraffes from distant Africa here. ”

The woman said: "It wasn't that we got them, but a few Song people got them from Pengjialuo and wanted to send them to Liao, and then we ......"

This must be a very long and tortuous story, but Li Yan was not interested in it, so Li Yan interrupted the woman who wanted to continue, and said, "Stop, you still say it directly, you will sacrifice these two giraffes to me, what do you want?" Although these two giraffes are worthless to Li Yan, they are still very valuable in this era, and it can even be said that their value is not inferior to that of the real unicorns.

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