Overnight, when Mo Yan awoke, the fifteen birds that drank from the Spirit Spring Water had been trained by Xue tuanzi into true message-carrying birds.
Eager to try, Mo Yan immediately wrote a letter to his father, cautioning Lord Father to beware of Chief Minister of the Imperial Temple Zhao Fengnian and briefly explained the reasons therein. After the letter was written, it was sent off by an all-black myna.
The myna was very clever; after it was told the detailed address just once, and certain it understood and would find the way, Mo Yan released it.
Mo Qingze returned home in the evening and, at the steps in front of the House of the First Scholar, he saw the myna that delivered the message. Initially thinking the little fellow was merely resting its feet, he was surprised when it suddenly flew onto his shoulder and stretched out a yellow claw in front of him.
