My Whole Family Are Protagonists novel Chapter 57

Chapter 57 Four-Hundred-And-Thirty-Five-Year-Old Crow?

Ye Xinghui looked up at the tree.

In addition to those shiny things hanging on the tree, he could see nine crows, one white and eight black!

The size of these black crows was two sizes larger than all the crows Ye Xinghui had seen before. As for the white crow, it was two sizes larger than the other eight crows.

Obviously, the food of these nine crows was much better than those of the smaller, thin crows.

Ye Xinghui noticed the white crow standing at the top at first glance.

This white crow had a pink beak and blood-red eyes, and its feathers were pure white without any blemish.

As the saying goes, “All crows in the world are generally black.”

But this crow was so white, it really caught the eye.

Ye Xinghui suspected that this large white crow should be the leader of this group of crows.

Thinking of this, Ye Xinghui looked at Sheng Zuo next to him and asked, “Sheng Zuo, that white crow must be the leader, right?”

Hearing this, Sheng Zuo nodded and said, “Boss, you guessed it right. He is the leader of us crows, King White!”

Ye Xinghui nodded and then looked at the big tree in front of him again.

…

With the nine crows on the tree and those reflective items, Ye Xinghui had the feeling that the big tree in front of him was the legendary hibiscus tree.

From an excerpt of The Classic of Mountains and Seas.

There is a hibiscus on the Tang Valley, where I bathe for ten days. It is in the north of Heijia. Living in the water, there is a big tree. For nine days, it lives on the lower branch and for one day, it lives on the upper branch.

The “nine days” here refers to the three-legged Golden Crow, so the hibiscus tree was the residence of the Golden Crow.

In Chinese mythology, the Golden Crow was the divine bird that drives the sun.

It rises from the Fusang tree in the east every morning for ten days, pulled by the sunbird or the three-legged Golden Crow, and flies westward, finally landing on the “Ruomu Sacred Tree” in the west.

Therefore, when Owl said before that crows were unlucky in China, he was actually wrong. The ancestor of crows was a divine bird, the Three-Legged Golden Crow.

The reason why many people said that crows were unlucky was mainly because crows eat carrion. Whenever a war happened, there would be groups of crows pecking at corpses. Because this happens too often, it ends up spreading rumors that crows bring war or death.

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When Ye Xinghui looked at King White, King White noticed Ye Xinghui and Owl.

This gathering place for crows was considered a landscape in the park. Many people who come to the park come here to take pictures.

As long as they bring enough food, these crows could even fly near humans like pigeons and take photos with them.

Therefore, King White and the other crows didn’t really care when the humans came here.

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“Hey! King White, can we have a talk?” Ye Xinghui shouted to King White on the tree.

King White was a little confused when he heard Ye Xinghui call out his name!

“Human? Are you calling me?” King White looked at Ye Xinghui and asked.

At the same time, the other crows also looked at Ye Xinghui.

“That’s right.” Ye Xinghui responded.

Seeing that the human in front of him was really talking to him, King White also showed an interested expression and then flew down from the tree.

King White came to the treetop only about two meters away from Ye Xinghui and asked, “You can communicate with us, are you a demon?”

Ye Xinghui breathed a long sigh of relief. Fortunately, the guy in front of him didn’t say that he was a human-crow monster, or some other weird title.

“I’m not a demon, I’m a human!”