Chapter 38: The Birdcage (Part II)
"It's ridiculous to think about it now." Ah Wan said lightly. "Twenty years ago, I came to this island with a dozen of my men on the orders of the Dragon King to ask for an alliance."
"Dragon King? Ally? I looked straight at her.
Ah Wan nodded slightly. "That's right, in fact, we Fishmen are a branch of the Dragon Palace, which is the central organization that manages all living beings in the rivers and lakes, and the Dragon King is the master of the Dragon Palace. At that time, the Dragon Palace and the Heavenly Court were at odds, there was personal hatred and ethnic hatred, and the Dragon King had been plotting to lead troops to fight the Heavenly Court, but he had no choice but to have a relatively meager army, so he wanted to ask for the support of the Birdman Clan. ”
After saying this, Yu Ge and I could only stare at her stupidly. "We don't know the Dragon Palace, and we don't know what Heavenly Court is."
"Well, you young people really don't know anything." Ah Wan reluctantly picked up the wine glass and took a sip lightly. "Let me put it simply, I came to your island to seek a strategic alliance."
"Excuse me, senior? Why is the Dragon Palace and the Heavenly Court at odds? Yu Ge asked puzzled.
"Hmph...... Do you think there will be peaceful coexistence between the two authorities? It's hard to put into words. ”
"Then why did the people who came to our Bird Island come to us? Are we too small? Yu Ge asked reluctantly.
"You little girl asked really detailed questions, but you really know so little about the world, I don't know how to explain it to you." Ah Wan frowned and pondered for a moment before speaking slowly. "I don't know if you've read the history books or know that there's the Battle of Zhuolu."
"Naturally, I have heard of the decisive battle between the Yellow Emperor and Chi You." I nodded heartily. "This is the earliest history of mankind."
"Then do you know that Ying Long, Nulu, and Bi Fang all went to the soup for Xuanyuan, but in the end, they failed to ascend to heaven." Awan said. "The reason for this is that the power of these gods is too strong, which is not conducive to Xuanyuan's rule in the Heavenly Court. So they were dissatisfied with Xuanyuan. ”
"I've never heard of this." The record in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is that Ying Long and other gods were contaminated with evil qi during the decisive battle with Chi You, so they were unable to ascend to heaven, and no one would have thought that it was actually the Yellow Emperor's will.
The fact that these mythical characters are all real is indeed very surprising to me.
"Ying Long is the ancestor of the Dragon Clan, that is to say, the ancestor of the Dragon Palace, and Bi Fang is the ancestor of the Birdman Clan, and he is connected to the same disease, so the Dragon King will be the first to send me to discuss an alliance with the Birdman."
Although Awan's words sounded very ignorant, the logic of this matter was still clear at a glance, that is, I had a relationship before, and I just came to ask for help this time.
"At that time, Bird Island was not drifting all the time like it is now, it was very close to the shore and could be reached by a few boat rides."
"Then Miss Awan, how did you negotiate in the end?"
Ah Wan smiled helplessly. "You see that the world is still running normally, and you know that there is naturally no progress, because Bi Fang is simply a willful person to the extreme, she does everything according to her mood, and she is not interested in this kind of war at all, I tried hard to persuade her, but there was no result at all."
"I always thought that Senior Bi Fang would have a very hot temper, but I didn't expect her to be such a person......" Yu Ge muttered to himself.
I looked out through the gap in the bamboo leaves, and now the outside of the birdcage was already bright red, and before I knew it, it was dusk again.
It's just that the soldiers on patrol have not diminished in the slightest.
It was a little closer to the time when Awan was executed, but it was not felt on her face at all.
"Hey......" Ah Wan suddenly sighed. In fact, if you leave Bird Island at this time, there will be no follow-up. ”
"You stayed on Bird Island?" Yuge and I both pricked up our ears.
"We were greedy for the beautiful scenery of Bird Island, so we stayed here for a few more days, and Bi Fang also let the people welcome us very warmly." Ah Wan said thoughtfully. "She slowly discovered the physical qualities of my male and female exchanges..... And then it came to me...... Interest. ”
"Interest? What do you mean? ”
"You young people don't understand that it is desire, the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the spirit. It is the curiosity of a youkai about the body of another youkai. ”
Yu Ge and I looked at her dumbfounded. "You ......"
"She's so beautiful and the noblest deity, how dare I refuse?" Ah Wan said meaninglessly. "Sometimes it's me, sometimes it's Ah Wan, she likes them all, and she has a different feeling every time."
"......" Yu Ge seemed to have all the beliefs in his heart collapsed for a moment, and looked at Ah Wan blankly, muttering in his mouth. How can seniors be ..... like this?"
"She took me to almost every corner of the island, by the lake, in the woods, her skin was as hot as magma, her red lips were as amorous as fire. Her breath was about to incinerate me, and I almost lost my soul during that time. ”
Hearing this, Yu Ge silently turned around and stopped looking at us.
"That's the origin of your two glasses of wine cheating innocence and lustful red lips, right?" I interrupted her.
"Hehe, those two glasses of wine really didn't invite you in vain." Ah Wan laughed charmingly. "I did get my inspiration from here."
I unconsciously touched a glass of bamboo leaf wine she had blended, and couldn't help but take a big sip, and I didn't care about what was poisonous or not.
"However, this matter was soon discovered by some birdmen, led by your mother, and they all resented me, especially your mother, who was a very conservative youkai and was very disdainful of our behavior." Ah Wan said and her expression gradually lost her previous joy. "I guess this should have been the beginning of those things later, because by this time they already had a hatred for me."
"Senior, please tell me about the assassination of Bi Fang's senior." As soon as Yu Ge heard about his mother, he was still a little resistant.
"Hey...... I don't know why everyone thinks that I assassinated Bi Fang, not only Bird Island, but even some people in the Dragon Palace are so suspicious of me, don't you want to think that Bi Fang's Taoism is higher than mine. Ah Wan suddenly became aggrieved. But it's really weird....."
"Senior, please."
"That night I made a very good drink from the island's fruits, for my men and the birdmen. Since we were going to leave for the return tomorrow, we wanted to have one last drink on Bird Island. Ah Wan looked at the slightly rippling blue waves in the cup, and her voice gradually deepened. Then I didn't expect to drink too much, and I was dizzy from drinking. ”
The pale green drink flowed down her red lips, with a strange and magnificent color, as if to foretell that something incredible was to come.