Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Servant Country

We stood in the treetops, staring at the flock of Suzaku Firebirds, only to see them fly in a large circle nearby and stop on the surface of the river. Many big fish on the surface of the water leap out, quite lively, the firebird unceremoniously catches the fish, catches it and flies to the stone surface to stay, catches the fish with its claws, and eats it with pecking.

Jiang Ming said that those big fish are like Ran relict fish. The fat man said that it was also recorded in the Book of Mountains and Seas? Jiang Ming said yes, this fish has a hard shell, and the hard shell and bones are rich in phosphorus, which burns when it encounters oxygen. Maybe the Suzaku Firebird eats fish, which is to make fuel for combustion.

"The mountain of Yingluo, the water flows out of the Yan, and the north flow is poured into the Ze of the tombstone. It is the fish of many relics, the fish body is six legs, its eyes are like horse ears, and the food makes people not squint, and can resist the evil. In other words, eating its meat will not have nightmares, and it can ward off evil spirits.

"But it doesn't have a lighter, how can it be lit without a lighter after eating phosphorus?" The fat man said with a grin. Jiang Ming glanced at him, turned back to me and said, "Nurse, 10mg anesthetic is pushed intravenously, and immediately, the patient is sick again." "How did I become a nurse again?

The fat man said, Jiang Ming, why do you speak without art at all? Jiang Ming glanced at the fat man and said "Are you art?" I look like brain-dead. I interjected and said, okay, okay, isn't the fat man amused by seeing everyone so bored?

I said, Jiang Ming, didn't you also make a set of jokes before, wholesale without money? Watching the fat man amuse you and steal your limelight? You seem to be bored lately.

Jiang Mingcai smiled and said, Fatty, what do you think of that collector girl? The fat man glared and said, I won't put yaks on the snow mountain line for three years if I kill me, so don't mention this. Hahaha. The three of us, only the fat man has no girlfriend, Jiang Ming and Lan Yue can't tell the truth, and they don't know what's going on.

I asked Jiang Ming, what's the matter with you and Blue Moon? Is the relationship confirmed? Jiang Ming sighed and said, women are like eggs, the surface is very hard, and it is very pure when peeled off, but the heart is very yellow. I was surprised and said what kind of theory is this?

What about the fat man said about men? Jiang Ming said that men are like mangoes, the surface is very yellow, and the inside is even more yellow after peeling off. Hahaha. I laughed with the fat man. I said Jiang Ming, you are a Taoist priest, look at your green robe and Taoist costume, you don't look like a person who can say this.

Jiang Ming said that we Taoist priests are also human beings, and we can also get married. Wearing this dress is just to subdue demons and eliminate demons, so that more people can get married. Jiang Ming hasn't told us a joke for a long time, and he's been suffocated recently.

I said okay, I'm asking how you and Blue Moon are doing, don't divert the topic. Jiang Ming sighed and said that the two major hobbies of men are to pull the women of the Liang family into the water and persuade the women of the wind and dust to be good. That's it? So do you pull Lanyue into the water, or persuade her to be good? He said what else? Do you think you can really break the blue moon?

Well, whatever you want.

"During this time, for Zhang Shan, thank you so much." I looked at them and said. Jiang Ming said that Zhang Shan is fine, this time you can get the soul and help her repair it, and you can smile a little.

The fat man said, that is, you have caused Jiang Ming not to tell us a joke for a long time, this day and night, I have a face and no jokes to moisturize, and I have wrinkles.

I looked down and thought about it, indeed, since Zhang Shan's illness, the two of them haven't been much amused, probably because they are afraid of stimulating me. I stretched out my hand and said good brother, for life. Then they also reached out and clasped each other tightly.

Seeing that the firebird had eaten enough and flew away again, we followed from a distance. Coming to a canyon, the firebirds are flying to the stones to sort their feathers. We watched from afar, to learn about the habits of the firebirds, and then when they were alone, we could catch one and knock out the soul. Otherwise, these dozen or so firebirds must not scorch us?

At this time, a group of large cranes flew nearby, competing for territory with the Vermilion Flaminbird, although the number of firebirds is small, but the size is large. The two sides were on the verge of breaking out and were fighting each other. The big crane kept breathing fire, but Suzaku was not afraid of fire.

Jiang Ming said that these cranes should also be strange beasts of the Classic of Mountains and Seas. This seems to be the Bi Fang. He said that the original text is "the mountain of Zhangguo, there are birds, its shape is like a crane, one foot, red and green and white beak, the name is Bifang, its song is also called, and there is a false fire in its city when you see it." ”

"In other words, this crane-like bird has only one leg and can breathe fire." After Jiang Ming finished speaking, the fat man smiled and said that the lighter is coming? Sure enough, the two sides of the scuffle, Bi Fang was defeated, and the Vermilion Bird Firebird caught Bi Fang and ate a big meal.

The fat man said, I understand, this Vermilion Bird Firebird is to eat the fuel Ran remnant fish in the river, and then come to this canyon to eat Bi Fang, so that the fuel in its body will burn through the five or six meters long tail, creating light for this underground space, so that animals and plants can photosynthesize.

We all nodded, thinking that what the fat man said made sense. After eating Bifang's Suzaku, he sorted out his feathers and flew away again. We're still following. At this time, when you come to the end of the Grand Canyon, you can see many houses, all of which are stone houses with stone tiles on them.

If there is a house, there will be people, and even if there is no one, it means that it was once inhabited. It seems that this underground world is not devoid of civilizations, but it is just that it does not communicate with the outside world. The firebird flew over, and by the light we found that there were real people.

I saw more than a hundred indigenous savages below, laying down their javelins and kneeling down to the firebirds. The firebird swept over a tall pile of firewood in the middle of the square, and its tail caught fire with its tail. And the native savages cheered, and arose to pick up the firewood, and went into the houses.

It is estimated that this is borrowing the fire of the firebird, and the wild man also knows that the food cannot be eaten raw. But they did not know how to make fire, and they had no thunder and lightning, so they had to rely on the gift of the firebird.

The savages who had not yet entered were nervous when they saw us following us, and they stared at us with their javelins, while the savages on the periphery also drew their bows and pointed their bows and arrows at us.

I asked Jiang Ming what to do? We'll be hedgehogs with this shot. If you can't hide in the air, you can only wait for death.

Jiang Ming said it was okay and was ready to land. Then, with a wave of his hand and a few more incantations, the bird charm emitted a very strong yellow light, enveloping us all. He commanded the bird talisman to land slowly in the square, and there was a loud wind breaking sound around him, and a large number of arrows and javelins flew around. The fat man and I were nervous and ready to defend ourselves, Jiang Ming said that it was okay not to be nervous.

Then the arrows and javelins all shot at the periphery of the yellow light and fell to the ground one after another, startling me and the fat man into a cold sweat. I don't know if Jiang Ming is powerful, or this bird talisman is powerful, we were relieved when we saw that those arrows and guns couldn't get close.

For the wildlings, this is also beyond their understanding, obviously shooting three intruders, but the arrows and javelins are useless to them. So the savages were also stunned, and they didn't dare to shoot arrows anymore, and they all looked at us in surprise.

Then more wild men came out of the stone houses, and there was a lot of noise around us, and hundreds of people watched around us, constantly communicating in a language we did not understand. Jiang Ming accepted his bird talisman and looked at the group of savages quietly.

I said Jiang Ming, you ask, do you understand Mandarin? Jiang Ming glanced back at me and said what do you think? What do I think? I don't think the wild man can speak Mandarin. Not to mention Cantonese or Hakka.

However, I heard that Cantonese and Hakka are the oldest languages. Why don't you give it a try? I heard that Cantonese vernacular originated from the ancient Yayan of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and is a tonal language of the Sino-Tibetan Chinese family, which was brought to South Vietnam during the Qin Dynasty and is one of the oldest surviving languages.

The history of Hakka is much shorter, it is a language introduced from the Central Plains to Liangguang during the Southern Song Dynasty, and this savage should not understand. Jiang Ming and the fat man looked at me, I said that the fat man and I both know Hakka, but you are the most proficient in Cantonese dialect, come, show us your vernacular.

These ugly-looking savages, still black, probably unbathed, had long and knotted hair, and their cheekbones and eyebrow bones were a little taller than those of modern humans. The lips of the mouth are thick and the mouth is large. Wrap your private parts with palm leaves.

"Ahem!" Jiang Ming cleared his throat and said Who are you? He speaks Cantonese. Hearing Jiang Ming speak, the bunch of savages in front of him were even more confused, and at this time, a woman came out of the savage pile, which should be an old woman with gray hair.

The old woman communicated with Jiang Ming in a slow tone, and Jiang Ming also spoke slowly in Cantonese, as if they could understand each other. After a while, the old woman turned back to her people, and the wild men cheered.

This time it was our turn to be confused, I asked Jiang Ming, what are you talking about? How can we not understand?

Jiang Ming turned around and said that they were the descendants of the servants. Have you heard of hanging coffins? I said I've heard of it, but the CCTV Science and Exploration Program doesn't have it, or the coffin is placed on the cliff, which seems to be called a cliff burial.

He said that they were the descendants of the Southwest Marquis State at that time, and they were the servants who originally lived in the Jinsha River area, and at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, because they escaped the war, they strayed into the cave, walked all the way here, and then multiplied here.

Originally, it was an agrarian society, but after coming here, it was not suitable for farming, so it was mainly hunting here. Now they are a maternal society. Their language is somewhat similar to Old Cantonese, so they can barely communicate.

This country of the Servants, also known as the Kingdom of the Servants, once lived at the junction of Yunnan, Sichuan and Guizhou, leaving a large number of hanging coffins. But now there are no servants to be found.,Either sinicization.,Or annexed or transformed into other nationalities.。

Only these hundreds of people are authentic servants. When they fled the war, dozens of people entered a cave, followed the cave to the underground world of Tibet, and then could not find a way back, and lived here until now.

This also shocked us, it turns out that the underground world is really inhabited, or it comes from the ground. But over the centuries, due to intermarriage, many of their physical features have deteriorated. So let's also mistake them for savages.

The fat man said that if we go out and spread the news, will this be a new tourist destination? Jiang Ming said don't, don't disturb their lives, and it's very dangerous underground, the place we see is just the tip of the iceberg, if a large number of surface people come in, there are many unknown creatures here.

After a while, the old woman came again, she was the patriarch and sorcerer of the servant tribe, and she prayed for healing and sacrifices.