Bird Country

"Xiao Zhang, I see that you are young and unmarried, right?" The one-eyed old man asked about Zhang Xiucai's family trivia as concerned as an old generation.

"Hey, hey, not yet, don't I still have a brother here. Zhang Xiucai smirked badly, thinking about whether Old Man Bi also has granddaughters and nieces and the like, and has not yet found a good family, and wants to match a marriage here.

"You're so happy!" sighed the one-eyed old man. "Young people should take advantage of their youth to take a look at the heart, so that a hot kang head in Gentle Township can shackle the pace of yearning for freedom. Old Man Bi said with a lot of emotion.

Zhang Xiucai had no choice but to nod, and a beautiful marriage was shattered in his mind again. Hey! It's really a full man, I don't know how hungry a man is!

The four of them are here waiting for the group of military advisors to come over, so that they can march together to the sick state. The four of them have nothing to do, they just talk about the mountains together. Well, they're well fed now. I didn't expect the pure roasted wild bird to be so delicious, without adding any seasonings, and even the salt that blends all the flavors is not put in, it is so delicious. Even Zhang Xiucai, who is reserved to the point of hypocrisy, is burping.

"The sparrows here are indeed better than the snow dancing birds in the snowfield~~" The one-eyed old man couldn't help but admire, there are such delicious ingredients in this boundless grassland. The roasted bat he ate last night alone had already made his index finger move, but he didn't expect that the sparrow, which just thought it had grown an extra leg, tasted better than the snow dancing bird, which is known as the most beautiful bird in the world.

When Zhang Xiucai heard the name of the snow dancing bird, he couldn't help but look at the one-eyed old man in surprise. "What! You've actually eaten a snow dancing bird that only the emperor can taste!"

"Hahaha, it's nothing, it's just that I happened to pass by and saw a flying snow dancing bird, and I couldn't save it anymore, so I took it back to drink and eat. The one-eyed old man said very easily, as if such a trivial matter was not enough to be humanized to the outside world, and a trivial matter was not worth mentioning. But while he was talking, Zhang Xiucai couldn't stop swallowing saliva in his stomach to extinguish the ** in his stomach.

"It's snowy and cold, and it only snows twice a year, and it's half a year at a time. And the wind kept blowing south, never stopping the direction. Moreover, this bird is known as the 'Bird Country' and is the rarest bird in Shacheng, so much so that some people say that eating a piece of its meat can live with the sky, and they will live to ninety-five when they see him dance. It is a symbol of the longevity of our Sand City.

Its feathers are white, and even its beak and toes are milky white. Only the eyes are sky blue, and it is said that this is to better find the sky. After all, the wind and snow fields are white between heaven and earth in Shacheng, which is known as the 'forbidden area of white death', and even snow kites, which also live in the Great Snow Forest, cannot survive there. So much so that snow dancing birds are rarely caught, not because they are difficult to catch, but because no one is willing to risk their lives to catch them. Even though our emperor clamored for the 'Light Cloud and Snow Dance' every day, every time he used a pigeon or a snow kite instead. ”

"Hahaha, I didn't expect Xiao Zhang to be so knowledgeable!" The one-eyed old man nodded incessantly when he heard this, and said fearfully in the future. "But this is just a false statement by later generations. The one-eyed old man's words completely denied everything Xiucai had talked about before.

"What do you mean by that?"

"Haha, that's a long story. Do you know why Sand City is called the 'Bird Country'?" the old man asked suddenly. I don't know if this question is necessarily related to the question he raised earlier, or if the old man deliberately diverted the topic.

"It is because our ancestors, the Feather Tribe, worship the eyes of birds, just like fighting cocks or ducks and geese, they will not be afraid to face opponents stronger than themselves, even if they are broken, they will break their opponents. Later, the Fowl Feather tribe relied on this fearless spirit of morale to unify another tribe and form the current Sand City. Later, the emperor, courtiers, commoners, warriors, warriors and other classes were named after the related birds. For example, black is the most noble color, and the emperor is called the Crow Emperor; the chests of officials of different grades are suddenly replaced by bird and bird patterns such as cranes, peacocks, cuckoos, owls, and brocade chickens; and lowly commoners like us can only boast of ordinary sparrows. For the warriors, they are called birds' eyes, because it represents loyalty to the country, and for the country to be fearless of the enemy's sharp spears!" Motherland!

"Hahaha, the good boy didn't forget his ancestors. I'll tell you another story, believe it or not. That is the West Niuhe Zhou Wuwu is dark, the continent that has just experienced the baptism of fire has only three colors, one is black, that is the color of the thunder fire scorched the mountains and forests and the land, there is still billowing green smoke on it, there are small sparks in the depths of the trees in the happy jump, I am glad that I did not have three days and three nights of heavy rain to extinguish, the majestic rain will render the black ashes on every inch of the West Niuhe Continent, and finally concentrated in one place, this is the most famous scorched earth pool in Huwan; a color of dry yellow, this is because when the witch god protected the human beings, the trees that were preserved easily, although they are still aliveBut they have been smoked for so long that the outer layer of leaves and trunks on the surface has died, and they can still be vigorous in the next year, when only a small part of the forest is green, but these trees that are still growing are only dispensable compared to those that have dried up, and the last color is white, which is the color of snow.

It was because of the cold protection of the snow that no vegetation had grown on that land, and it was spared the catastrophe of the fire. The strong winds that had been blowing southward did not carry the smoke and filthy ashes of the sparkling prairie to the northernmost snowfield of Xiniuhezhou. The few million people who remained began to return to their tribes to collect the carcasses of various animals that had been scorched by the fire, but fortunately the fires took place during the summer months, when everything was at its most luxuriant. Within a few days, new grasses and mushrooms began to grow on the ground. However, animals are particularly scarce, and the five gods, in order to operate in this vast continent repeatedly, warned them to prohibit the killing of animals for a few years, and everyone said that the five gods regarded them as objects of awe, and no one dared to disobey their words. So that period of time was the most harmonious stage of animals and people in Xiniu Hezhou.

But for people living at the northern end of Xiniu Hezhou, the biggest problem is the problem of more men and fewer women, the ratio of men and women is seriously imbalanced, and only one out of ten men can marry a wife. It turned out that when the fire struck, everyone fled for their lives, so that the strong and physical men had a chance to live, and most of the frail women were not engulfed by the fire. So much so that later, when a woman had ten husbands, the status of women was very noble, with the right to distribute food, the right to declare war, and the right to mate...... The old man in the five gods has always been prejudiced against women, and he can't see women flying like this. Why are men tired and tired outside, fighting with nature outside, or even dying, women really don't dare to sit back and enjoy anything. So one day he was half asleep, and there were old eye droppings piled up in the corners of his eyes, and he came to the north end of Xiniu Hezhou, and asked the man who had not yet married to prepare a raw bird egg or poultry egg to meet him tomorrow.

The next day a great number of men came, all with eggs in their hands, and asked them to drop a drop of blood on the eggs, and they did so. After watching them one by one, he rose into the air and floated in the air with a whoosh, only to see him fixing his eyes and closing his eyes, with a seal in his hand, and his lips kept squirming, as if he was muttering something. The last sound I heard! Suddenly opened his eyes, and two golden lights swept towards the men holding the eggs, and the eggs in the hands of those men kept shaking and shaking and shaking, only to hear a click, the egg shell cracked, and there was a little baby girl sleeping in it. ”

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