Chapter 7: The Gate of the Divine Beast

“...... Lizhou was the son of King Rewen and the younger brother of King Liwu, and he was revered as Reiko by later generations. Lizi is the first son of Huanglong Confucianism! 'Zi' is an honorary title in the ancient culture of Huanglong, representing a person who has achieved outstanding achievements in a certain field! Mr. Beni, you can see it as a Bell Prize winner. Reiko was a prince of the Dali Dynasty, who assisted the young king in governing the country, and when the king came of age, he returned power to the king, and became a moral model and spiritual idol of the ancient Huanglong. ”

In the luxurious villa of the new chairman of AC Cailan, Beni Jr., a young woman with a bloodless face and sickly pale skin is sitting at a blackboard and teaching Beni Jr. a lesson in Huanglong Confucian culture.

"Erudite Miss Lilith, that King Rewen has been in prison for more than ten years, eating meatloaf made from the corpse of his eldest son, and has been plotting to overthrow the rule of the tyrant king, how can such a politician be revered as a saint by the Huanglong people? In my opinion, the Tyrant King is certainly not a good thing, but this Reven King is even less of a thing than the Tyrant King! Little Beni asked, "Could it be that the ancient Huanglong thought that it was a very honorable thing to go to prison, eat his son, and plot rebellion?" ”

"The ancient Huanglong admired those who were good at forbearance, thousands of years after the death of King Liwen, the Moon King, one of the five tyrants of winter and summer, was cheap enough to eat the feces of the enemy! The lowly king slept every day on the wood used to burn the fire, and when he got up, he had to lick the bitter bear bile, and tortured himself madly, until he occupied the enemy's country and killed the enemy, and then began to live a normal kingly life. The ancient Huanglong admired his spirit of hardship and forbearance, and also created the idiom of 'lying on salary and tasting courage' to reflect the difficulty of starting a business. Lilith gasped slightly, answering little Beni's question, "Dear Mr. Beni, you must understand that there are great cultural differences between the East and the West, and in addition, some of the views of ancient and modern people are fundamentally different. There are a series of differences in times, regions, technology, civilizations, and so on. For example, Mr. Beni, you can't expect primitive people to understand what law is and what human rights are, and primitive people can't talk to you about football, sports, singers, movie stars, and so on. If you want to understand the Huanglong ancients, you must first understand the environment in which the Huanglong ancients lived, including politics, economy, law, culture, science and technology, and even traffic conditions, sanitary conditions, etc., and then assume that you grew up in that environment, there is no electricity, no cars, and even no books, only mountains of bamboo slips, and the most important thing is that there is no knowledge and insight beyond that era. It is unfair and unscientific to use modern standards to measure an ancient person. Huanglong has a very famous proverb to describe this situation, that is, 'Afterwards Pig Brother Liang', Zhu Ge Liang is the most famous wisdom of Huanglong folk, although the real history of him can not call the wind and rain, like a god. ”

"Miss Lilith, I don't have time to study the ancient history and culture of the Yellow Dragon, but I need to learn things related to Confucianism in the shortest possible time, at least have a basic understanding." Little Beni made his own request, "Please teach me as fast as you can." I'll pay well! ”

"I see. Our course is dedicated to the Confucian princes. In today's lesson, we will explain Reiko and Renzi. Lilith nodded, "Lizi's greatest contribution to Confucianism is to formulate extremely detailed rituals, these rituals are measured by modern standards, there are many places that are inexplicable, absurd, and even contrary to human rights, but in the semi-primitive and semi-slave society at that time, it is of great progressive significance, he represents an epoch-making advanced ruling order, making the Huanglong ancients from the barbaric and chaotic slave society to the civilized order of the feudal society, its historical significance is equivalent to the ancient Lima Empire's " Imperial Code. The etiquette law formulated by Lizi made the Dali Dynasty from chaos to stability, and also brought 800 years of life to the Dali Dynasty, marking the beginning of the Huanglong feudal dynasty. Huanglong's feudal society was similar to the aristocracy of the Baizhou Middle Ages, but it was more cohesive and dominant than the aristocracy. If we want to explain the feudal system of the ancient Yellow Dragon in detail, it will take at least several days of lessons, so we will omit him. Mr. Beni, you can roughly understand it as an aristocracy in which the king has great power. ”

"Akin to a monarchy dictatorship?" Little Beni Road.

"Even if it's it!" Lilith nodded weakly and pulled out a small medicine bottle from her jacket pocket. Little Beni hurriedly handed over a glass of water himself. After Lilith took the medicine, after a few minutes, she suddenly perked up, and then continued to explain the lesson: "The following course is to explain the great thinker, educator, and literary scholar Renzi in the winter and summer era of the decline of the Dali Dynasty. Renzi is one of the most famous and representative outstanding figures among the Confucian sons, and he is also a saint recognized by the ancient Huanglong people. Benevolence means to love others......"

Lilith talked for half an hour in one breath, and finally finished explaining Renzi's life and deeds. "Do you have any questions, Mr. Beni?" Lilith asked, taking a sip of water.

"I still think it's incredible! This benevolent son lost his father as a young man, lost his wife in middle age, and lost his son in old age, taught 3,000 students, and only 72 of them became talents, and the best of them were all short-lived ghosts, and they had been in politics, but the time in the opposition far exceeded the time they were in power, and no matter how you look at it, he was an extremely unlucky and extremely failed guy. How can such a person be worshipped by the Huanglong ancients? Little Beni wondered.

"Although Renzi's life was bumpy, his broad and selfless love thought brought a little spark of hope to that war-torn and cruel era, a light that pierced the darkness, and the ancient Huanglong ancients could get the baptism of the soul and the salvation of the soul in the fraternity of Renzi." Lilith smiled wryly, "In fact, few of those famous idealists in history have ever had a good ending, but their ideals have been passed down and inspired generations of people. The same is true of the ancient Confucian sons of Huanglong, except for the prince Lizi, the others did not get a good ending. ”

"There is another place that I find difficult to understand. Why was the thunderbee shot dead by the hunter, and the Renzi had to break his pen, stop his creation, and then die in grief and despair? Benich Jr. said.

"Thunderbee is a kind of mythical beast in the ancient myths and legends of Huanglong, it has a very special significance, represents a spirit of selfless dedication, and is regarded as an auspicious holy beast that represents the peaceful and prosperous harmonious society. And this auspicious holy beast was actually killed, which means that the spirit of selfless dedication will gradually be lost, the era of war full of contradictions and strife will continue forever, and the real peaceful and prosperous harmonious society will never appear again. That's why Renzi wept for three days and then died in grief and despair. ”

"Divine beasts? How could a divine beast be killed by a hunter's bow and arrow? Doesn't it put lightning and breathe fireballs? ”

"The Thunder Bee is an extremely special divine beast, it feeds on heavenly thunder, and it does not have outstanding force and powerful magical powers. In order to understand this question, I have to first introduce the mythological system of the Yellow Dragon. In the mythological system of the Yellow Dragon, anything, including humans, animals, plants, and even corpses, stones, gems, and jade, can become gods by virtue of their own hard work, but before they become gods, these demigods will be bombarded by heavenly thunder. The power of this kind of thunder is extremely terrifying, most of the demigods will be bombarded by the thunder, and only a few demigods can withstand the past, and the demigods who bear the past will become real gods. In the mythology of the Yellow Dragon, this kind of heavenly thunder bombardment is called a heavenly tribulation, and surviving the heavenly tribulation and becoming a god is something that every demigod who has achieved success in cultivation is both afraid and looking forward to. Because the catastrophe is too dangerous and the mortality rate is too high, all of them are very frightened, and once they survive the catastrophe and become gods, they will be able to live forever and have great magical powers. And the thunder bee is a very peculiar divine beast, although they do not have strong force, but they have an incomparable extraordinary courage, they feed on the thunder, and exist specifically to challenge the heavenly calamity. If a demigod can meet the Thunder Bee when he is crossing the Tribulation, it will be a very lucky thing, because the Thunder Bee will help the demigod fight against the dangerous Tribulation for free. If the thunder bee succeeds in eating the thunder, then the demigod can become a god unscathed; If the Thunder Bee is killed by the thunder, then the demigods will also have the chance of success because of the Thunder Bee to attract firepower and share the danger. All the Thunder Bees that are 'selfless and exclusively beneficial to others' are the divine beasts that all Yellow Dragon demigods and cultivators love. In addition, after eating the heavenly thunder, the thunder bee will also spit out a kind of thunder honey, after taking this thunder honey, it can greatly improve the resistance to the heavenly thunder, but it is a good thing that all cultivators, demigods and even gods love very much. The mythical beast Thunderbee is a kind of spiritual representative of selfless dedication without asking for anything in return, and it was shot by someone, and the meaning and consequences it represents are extremely serious. It is equivalent to a mortal killing the Son of God, and it is a real killing, the kind that cannot be resurrected. ”

"Interesting Yellow Dragon Myth! Will you be struck by lightning when you become a god? Sure enough, high risk brings high reward! Little Beni commented. Suddenly, Bennie's cell phone rang, and Bennie said sorry, then walked out of the room to answer the phone. Not long after, little Beni walked in with a happy expression.

"Erudite Miss Lilith, can you let me thoroughly grasp the Confucian culture of Huanglong in three days! I can pay three times as much. Excited little Beni asked.

Lilith frowned suddenly, when the unreasonable demands of the client God overrode the professional, that kind of depression was enough to make people vomit blood. If it was someone else, Lilith would definitely say no without hesitation, but the generous little Beni is not something she can refuse at will, to be precise, the check written by little Beni is difficult for her to refuse. As a terminally ill patient whose life is about to come to an end, Lilith also wants to use her own skills to earn a lot of money in the last days of her life, leaving it to her good sister Helen, who has been dragged down by herself for three years.

"Dear Mr. Beni, the Huanglong language has always been recognized as the most difficult language to learn, and the Confucian culture of Huanglong is even more profound and difficult to master. Even if they were professional Confucian scholars in ancient Huanglong, there were many people who studied for decades or even a lifetime, and still did not dare to say that they had learned it. Huanglong has an idiom 'Hao Shou Poor Sutra', which is what this situation refers to. When I was a child, I went to the Ryukyus as an exchange student, and later, because of my interest, I studied and studied the ancient culture of Huanglong for more than ten years, but even so, I was not able to fully grasp the Confucian culture of Huanglong. Lilith sighed, "Dear Mr. Beni, even the greatest educator of the Yellow Dragon, the Confucian sage Renzi, could not have taught his most gifted disciple to master the Confucian culture of the Yellow Dragon thoroughly in three days. ”

"Oh my God! All right! Is there any way to learn quickly? It is said that Ye Buqun, a Huanglong man from Nice, once learned several foreign languages in one year! It took him only three years to write a Confucian scripture. Little Beni thought for a while, and asked more rationally, "I don't ask for a thorough grasp of that Confucian culture, in short, within three days, I can learn as much as I can!" But you have to teach me the most efficient way to study. ”

"Three days? That's it! Lilith pondered for a long time before she smiled bitterly, "Fortunately, this is the Internet era of information explosion, not the ancient Huanglong who used oxcarts to pull bamboo slips. Mr. Beni, you can try using the 'Internet three-point search method'. That is, you can list the key points, difficulties, and basic points of Confucianism that you don't understand and can't understand, and then use translation software to translate them into Huanglong, and use Huanglong's search engine to search, you can find a large number of relevant content, and then use translation software to translate those contents back. Let's do a demonstration first! ”

Lilith asks Benny Jr. for an online notebook, and then asks Benny Jr. to come up with a word that interests him the most in the lesson he has learned today. Little Beni thought for a moment and said, "Divine Beast Thunder Bee." ”

Lilith opened a search page for Huanglongwen called Qiandu, typed in the four Huanglong characters of "Divine Beast Thunder Bee", and then clicked search. Soon, countless pieces of relevant content appeared on the page. Lilith clicked on the top one, but it was a Huanglongwen blog, the webpage was very beautiful, with pictures and text and music, but when Lilith read its content in detail, her expression suddenly froze.

Little Beni's head also came up, looked at the illustrated blog page, and said curiously: "Hey, how can there be a crab." Is that a horse or a sheep? Octopuses and butterflies. What's that, there's a bug on the flower? What exactly does that say? ”

Lilith sighed in her heart: "No wonder the Confucian sage Renzi advocated 'learning and learning from time to time' and 'learning from the past'. In the past three years, I have been trapped by illness, and I have no heart to study, so I am so unfamiliar with Huanglong culture! I had never heard of these mythical beasts before, and it seemed that my grasp of the vast and profound Yellow Dragon culture was far from enough! ”

Lilith said in a deep voice: "It is said that since the great and noble Divine Beast King Thunder Bee was killed by someone with a secret arrow, the position of the Divine Beast King has been vacant. In recent years, the river crab has stolen the throne of the Divine Beast King by virtue of its deep official background......"

"The crab in the river can also become a mythical beast? He also stole the position of the Divine Beast King, which is incredible! Even seafood can become a god, but what about seafood? Why is the Beastmaster a river crab and not a lobster? Little Beni was dumbfounded and surprised.

"The river crab walks sideways, and walking horizontally in the Huanglong culture represents a special meaning. There is an idiom called 'rampant and domineering', which is to describe those who are extremely arrogant, ignore the law, and unscrupulous bandits or powerful figures. Come to think of it, this is the reason why the river crab can become the new Divine Beast King of Huanglong. The mythical ranking of the Yellow Dragon is not determined by force, for example, in the zodiac, the rat is ranked first, while the ox is second, and the tiger is third. Lilith explained.

"Why can't it be a sea crab, but a river crab? Aren't sea crabs also walking sideways? And the sea is much bigger than the river. Little Beni asked again.

This river crab probably refers to the crab in the Yellow River, which has a special status in the Yellow Dragon, known as the mother river, and is said to be the earliest ancestral birthplace of the Yellow Dragon. In the myth of the Yellow Dragon, there is a legend that the turtle of the Yellow River carries an artifact on its back, not a turtle. Lilith said.

"What is the official background? Why should the official support a guy who walks sideways as the king of mythical beasts? Could it be that the rabid dog who is unscrupulous in Huanglong is more popular than the well-behaved and obedient lackey? Little Beni asked.

"Officially, it probably refers to Heavenly Court. In the mythology of the Yellow Dragon, the king of the gods is called the 'Jade Emperor', and the gods are called 'Queen Mother', and these two gods are inexplicable and unreasonable. The Jade Emperor actually poisoned his own sister, and the Queen Mother forcibly broke up her daughter and son-in-law, even though they already had children. With such an arrogant and domineering God King, it is not surprising that Heavenly Court would support River Crab as the Divine Beast King. Lilith said.

"I see! Can the other divine beasts be convinced? Beni Jr. said.

"This is said that since the river crab relied on the official support to steal the position of the Divine Beast King, many divine beasts are not convinced, and among them, the four major divine beasts have openly rebelled and want to overthrow the dominance of the Divine Beast King River Crab. They are grass and mud horses living in the Maragobi, cruising in the waters of the French wolf and the crook******...... Hey, weird! Hasn't Huanglong culture always been very xenophobic? How could a foreign squid become a divine beast of the Yellow Dragon? Lilith couldn't help but muttered to herself.

"It is said that over the years, Huanglong has been engaged in reform and opening up, and has been very fanatical in introducing everything from the West, including capital, technology, systems, culture, customs, etc., and it is not surprising to introduce a foreign beast!" Little Beni Road.

"Really? Even if it's it! The other two sacred beasts are the Yamei butterfly and the ******, which fly between Huangzhou and Xinzhou all year round. Lilith said.

"What are the characteristics of these four divine beasts?" Little Beni asked.

"It says that grass and mud horses live tenaciously on the Maragobis. It seems that the living environment of this place called Malagobi must be very harsh, and the tenacious vitality may be the reason why the grass mud horse can become the four divine beasts of the Yellow Dragon. And why ****** can become one of the four divine beasts, I can't understand why maybe this squid has some incredible and strange ability. As an insect, the butterfly can cross the ocean, and this extraordinary perseverance and courage is probably the reason for its success. As for ****** being able to become one of the Four Great Divine Beasts, I'm not surprised. Since ancient times, Huanglong has been famous for porcelain and silk, which is made from silk spit by silkworms. Generally speaking, silkworms eat the leaves of a tree called 'mulberry', and this ******, as the name suggests, is a silkworm that eats chrysanthemums, and the silk spit out by this silkworm must be more precious. It is worth mentioning that the chrysanthemum in the Huanglong culture represents the meaning of the gentleman, and the gentleman is equivalent to the saint. Deeply influenced by the Yellow Dragon culture, the Inuhichi Empire even loved chrysanthemums and even compared them with its national flower, the cherry blossom, as a symbol of the Inuhichi Empire. Lilith said.

"Huanglong's new Divine Beast King River Crab! Wise and knowledgeable Miss Lilith, if I keep a river crab as a pet, is it easier to gain the favor of the Huanglong people? Little Beni asked Lilith with a cautious expression.

"I'm afraid not necessarily! From this point of view, it seems that this new Divine Beast King River Crab is not very popular. Lilith thought for a moment, then finally replied.

"That's it! Alas! Little Beni sighed, a little disappointed, "Then Miss Lilith, let's continue." This time, let's search for 'river crabs'! ”

Lilith immediately typed in the word "river crab" and clicked search. This time, the first piece of content that appeared on the top was "Strange Shu millet eats the pink little white tiger (anti-river crab, Huangzhou HD no horse, there is a picture, not a top is not a person)", after opening it, it was in a forum called "******** House".

"What did it say?" Little Beni asked.

"A thing called the Strange Shu Millet should be a mutated carnivorous plant from the southwest region of Huanglong! Ate an underage white tiger. The white tiger has a special meaning in the myth of the Yellow Dragon, and the white tiger in the west, the cyan dragon in the east, the scarlet bird in the south, and the black tortoise and snake in the north are called the four divine beasts......"

"Wait, it's five, how did it become four?" Benich Jr. said.

"The black turtle and the snake are entangled and counted as a divine beast, named 'Xuanwu'." Lilith said.

"Oh my God! The turtle and the snake, is this a love that crosses races? Who is male and who is female? Or are they doing base or lily? Little Beni's mind kept jumping.

"Mr. Beni, please don't dwell on these unimportant trivialities and get on with our lesson! Although this mutated carnivorous plant 'Strange Shu Millet' can eat the underage little beast White Tiger, it is still very afraid of the Divine Beast King River Crab, so there is a parenthesis at the end, which focuses on 'Beware of the Divine Beast King River Crab', and 'Huangzhou HD No Horse' probably means that the person who posted this post is a proud person from Huangzhou, and he does not raise horses. Although it is marked with 'there is a picture',But you have to reply to see it.,This 'not a top is not a person' is probably the person who posted the post and hopes that everyone will actively reply to him! Let's sign up, get back to him, and see what the picture is! Lilith explained to little Beni as she quickly registered an account and replied.

When the picture was revealed, Miss Lilith, a terminally ill and extremely weak Huanglong cultural expert, turned flushed, spurted out a mouthful of blood, and then fainted on the spot.