In the backyard of Zhushun Tiandao Temple, only two guards at the entrance are guarded, and the rest of the place belongs to the birds and beasts of all colors.

The rooster with black and green tail feathers regained its spirits, standing on the top of the chicken nest with its head held high and looking around; two three-flowered cats chased and played among the pillars, the older one ran and stopped, deliberately releasing water; the most eye-catching were the three adult green peacocks under the grape trellis, although the tail was not spread, it was dragged behind it like a swaying neon dress, elegant and luxurious.

When Zhuang Zuo was in the cliff, he heard that this old gentleman was raising turtles, fish, and sunflower cockatoos in the dormitory, and came to the Tiandao Temple in Zhushun City, but made room for him.

In the Tiandao Temple, the front hall, the front yard, and the front hall are the public offices, and the back yard and the wing room are the residences of the guards and the guards.

The Tiandao Temple in Zhushun City is small, so from the south front hall to the north back cover, from the east wing to the west wing is all. The guardian of Zhushun Tiandao Temple lived in the east wing alone, and the long back cover room and the west wing room on the other side were reserved for the guardian soldiers.

"If the national teacher doesn't dislike it, I'll ask the boys to vacate the West Wing......"

In the courtyard, as soon as the guard officer stretched out his arms, the sunflower cockatoo took off and landed on the bamboo and rattan bird stand on the side.

"Don't dislike it! Don't dislike it!" As soon as the parrot landed on its feet, it learned to speak, as if it understood human language—I don't know if it didn't dislike the bird's frame, or if it told the national teacher not to dislike the west wing.

Zhuang Zuo scratched his face and said, "I understand the kindness, but I am in a hurry to go back to the Nine Inch Cliff and finish the strange things in her town for this girl, so I have to leave." ”

"Then ......" The escort officer thought that he couldn't talk to the great master who had studied the six sects all night, and his tone suddenly lost a lot, "What strange things happened to this little girl's town?"

Zhuang Zuo thought for a moment, then leaned in and asked, "Have you heard that the Yin Soldier borrowed the way?"

The escort officer looked stunned, but did not speak.

So Zhuang Zuo then asked: "I often hear the people of Yidi boast about how many Central Plains iron hooves they have hindered by their jaw and heavenly dangers, what is there in this...... Black cavalry, white gauze girl?"

"White Veil Girl!" the parrot said noisily.

The escort officer bit his shriveled lip, turned his head to think about something, and suddenly turned back with a flash of inspiration, facing the national teacher, and said, "You wait here, I'll come when I go." ”

"Come when you go!" parroted her words. The old guard turned and went to the east wing.

......

The old guard said that he would wait a while, but Zhuang Zuo and Chen Dibing's feet were numb, and he hadn't come out of the east wing yet.

Zhuang Zuo only heard the sound of turning over boxes and cabinets in the east wing, and from time to time there were two coughs choking on dust.

"Your Majesty, you might as well go and sit over there. ”

At this time, one of the guards guarding the door approached and respectfully proposed.

"Sit, sit!" replied the cockatoo for the national teacher.

"Go!" the guard slapped it in the air, and then smiled bitterly to apologize to the national teacher, and the smile seemed to say: This parrot has not been annoying for a day or two.

Zhuang Zuo shook his head with a smile, signaling that it was okay, and then led Chen Dibing to sit down on the stone bench in the garden.

He stood in place for so long, and his legs were numb, not that he didn't see the stone tables and stone benches in the garden, but he was afraid that there were cats and birds, and the grass and trees were deep, and there were not many mosquitoes and strong smells. However, when I sat down, I was greeted by the quiet fragrance of flowers, and the smell of livestock could not be smelled at all.

Looking at the guards who returned to the door with their backs, he cut the sleeves of the national teacher, stretched his neck to his ear, and asked softly: "Are these soldiers in fancy clothes wearing parrots on their heads?"

For a long time, Cutting Ice has recognized the prototype of the bird's head hood worn by the state religion as a mighty eagle, but today when I saw the old man's crested cockatoo with a sunflower crown, I felt that the beak in front of the hood was not as big as an eagle, and I felt that a feather on the top of the hood did not look like an eagle-

The big, hooked beak and the tall, straight crest, Cutting Ice looked at the guards at the door, and then at the cockatoo on the pergola, and it really felt exactly the same.

"You don't have to be sneaky, it's a parrot. ”

Zhuang Zuo dodged his head to the other side, and the whispering words of Cutting Bing made his ears itch.

"Don't coax me," Cutting Bing leaned over, frowned, and asked, "How can anyone wear a parrot when he is a soldier?"

Cutting Bing has seen and heard a lot of drama scripts in the town, the eagle helmet of Xuan Chen Wangshi, the tiger helmet of Wu Sui's direct command, and the flying fish helmet of the Imperial Imperial Forest Army, none of which is not a mighty beast Rui Beast, how can this little parrot who speaks as a scholar be worthy of the guardian soldiers of the state religion.

Zhuang Zuo was not in a hurry to answer, but stood up with a light smile, walked to the cockarot's pergola, stretched out his fingers and scratched its chin.

"Heaven is obscure," he began. These are the four words that people love to hang on their lips in the state religion.

"Heavenly Dao! Heavenly Dao!" said the cockarot.

"The twenty-seven patriarchs of the mountains and rivers do not dare to pretend to be the way of heaven, and I walk the world with one group, and dare to call myself the spokesperson of the way of heaven. ”

"Don't pretend to be self-assured!" The parrot would also pick and choose its own words, as if it were answering.

Zhuang Zuo stroked its neck lovingly, and continued: "Not only the parrot supported by the state religion, but also the winged golden parrot crown of my great teacher, and the golden branch stacked parrot seat of the Cunya Taoist altar...... The people of heaven take the parrot as their symbol, which is both awe and clarity—"

We only learn to speak, we are not heaven, and we do not lie. ”

"It's not heaven, don't lie!" the parrot shouted as if it were a slogan.

Zhuang Zuo tapped his beak with satisfaction, and the parrot was not too cold, and shrank its head into its neck to avoid it.

Cutting Bing looked at this person singing and harmonizing, as if he understood, but he didn't seem to understand...... In any case, compared to the lion tiger eagle, this parrot loses momentum.

Cutting Bing looked at the two state religious guards guarding the door, and couldn't help but laugh at the thought of them learning to speak like this cockatoos.

At this time, the old protector stepped out of his east wing, holding a yellowed ancient book in his hand, and trotted over with great interest, about to send the ancient book to the eyes of the national teacher.

Zhuang Zuo leaned back a little in astonishment to dodge, took the ancient book from the hand of the escort officer, and spread it out in his hand-

“...... The First Emperor burned books once, and the historical books before that were all broken. It is said that the old should be new, but the first emperor burned the books of his previous dynasty, but he did not ask the civil officials of the court to leave the books of this dynasty. This period was not continued until after Emperor Gao ascended the throne, and what happened in that period was not passed on to the world. ”

The escort officer didn't wait for the national teacher to look at it, so he talked to himself-

"But the Yidi in the east did not return to obedience until the time of Emperor Jing, so the scrolls of Yidi escaped the catastrophe of the First Emperor, and there are still a few ...... handed down."

“...... Yidi is Yidi after all, and if you don't know how to write and ink, you don't talk about it, even if it is handed down a little, it is mostly absurd words of gods and ghosts and bullshit that praises virtue. We talk about the twenty-seven patriarchs cutting mountains and rivers every day, among which there are also people who have a section of the women's defense of the mountain and the water, but the legend of the land is much richer, not only the women's body of the people's defense family, but also that she gave the grace of the fish to the woodcutter, and set up the protection of "the sword and the horse are not the jaws......"

The guardian official is verbose and long-winded, Zhuang Zuo has long heard of the legend of Yidi, "swords and horses are not enough" He has heard a lot of Yan people boast, how can he talk about this old saying.

"What kind of absurd words are gods, ghosts, and monsters! The mountain and water were originally transformed into heavenly maidens to protect the people of the eastern corner. Who knew that Chen Jiebing couldn't hold back when she heard this, and argued in her small voice.

Xieting Town celebrates the Fish Festival every year, and sends the Heavenly Maiden every year, and of course the ice cutting does not allow outsiders to degrade the traditions of the clansmen like this.

It has been a thousand years since the naturalization of Yidi, and even before the surrender, Yidi is not more wild than his summer land. It's just that the people of the Central Plains have always believed in themselves in the world, and this kind of slander has been passed down for thousands of years.

"Little friend, don't mind, the old man is speechless. However, the old guardian was reasonable, remembering that the national teacher said that this girl was from the county town of Yinyin, and immediately knew that he had said rude words, so he hurriedly apologized to her.

Immediately after that, he turned around and continued to say to the national teacher: "This volume in your hand is the Yandi Song Collection compiled by the Yuefu Order of the Enji Dynasty, with a total of three hundred and twenty-one songs, which is much more complete than the Yandi itself. ”

The escort officer deliberately changed his words to say "Yan" - after naturalization, under the influence of the Central Plains, the Yi people, who were originally called "Yi", also felt that the word Yi was not good.

Zhuang Zuo also sensed that the supporter intended to make up for the rude just now, so he reached out and rubbed Bingbing's head to persuade her not to mind.

Cutting Bing didn't speak anymore, but raised his eyes to look at the old man who was guarding the officer, and there was a little more stubbornness in his eyes.

The old protector smiled kindly, nodded, and continued: "On the land east of the jaw, the first is the east corner, then the ancient thistle, and finally the ancient Yan, of which the ancient Yan is the most powerful era in the east corner, and among the three hundred and twenty-one folk songs, two hundred and fifty-seven capitals are about the ...... of the ancient Yan country."

“...... And among the two hundred and fifty-seven poems about the Gu Yan Kingdom, one hundred and seventy-three are about the penultimate king of the Gu Yan Kingdom - in the ballad, he is called 'Cang King', 'Dragon Calamity', and 'Heavenly Eagle General Star', but his real name is not passed on ......"

"Dragon Calamity?" Zhuang Zuo was only interested in this title.

"Gu Yan returned to obedience when Emperor Jing, this penultimate monarch ......" the protector did not say a word.

“...... It was from the time of the First Emperor. Zhuang Zuo grabbed the words and said.

He curled a strand of sideburns with his index finger, and said after a little thought: "The First Emperor is the ancestral dragon, is this 'dragon disaster' ......?"

"That's right," the protector affirmed, "this Yan King is the Ancestral Dragon's scourge. ”

"King Yan!" cried the cockatoel.

The guard's face sank, and he pinched the bird's beak, and as soon as he let go, it ceased to be noisy.

"In the songbook, it is recorded that the king of Cang repelled the army of the first emperor, and the one who retreated was the black-shirted Xuanjia army, and the silver hairpin emperor, and it was in the ......middle of the mountain."