Pick up the Dragon

Peng Yu woke up from the cold.

In his sleep, he first wrapped the blanket tightly around his body, but unfortunately it didn't help. After resisting for a while, he couldn't hold on anymore, so he got up tremblingly and closed the window.

As a result, when I closed the window, I saw the white snow scene outside the window.

He was suddenly dumbfounded, and said in his heart: Am I in a dream?

Suddenly there was a cold wind kissing his face, which made him stagger, and goose bumps appeared on his neck.Only then did he realize belatedly that he was not dreaming, and couldn't help shouting, "Why is it snowing?"

Qian Yue also woke up, the two looked at each other in the corridor, and ran downstairs in a hurry.

No one downstairs.

Peng Yu's first reaction was that the two dragons left him and ran away, but after thinking about it, they should not be so dishonest, not to mention that Li Yi promised him to go to Lizhou, the majestic dragon king will never go back on his word.

He walked to the door, looked at the hoarfrost spread all over the floor outside the inn, and stretched out his hand to catch a few cool snowflakes in the wind.

It was really snowing.

Peng Yu had never seen June Feixue at such a young age. He couldn't believe it for a while, and asked to himself, "Isn't it summer now? Did I lose my memory or did I sleep for half a year?"

Qian Yue showed an indescribable expression: "Master, I'm afraid I slept with you for half a year."

However, the two soon woke up from the nightmare of "sleeping for half a year", because they found that the plants in the city were still green, and a layer of white snow was tremblingly hanging on the leaves, as if they were dying.

At this moment, the sound of Xun came from the wind.

The sound of the xun was not close, let the wind blow, even intermittently.Peng Yu raised his head and turned his eyes to the distance, and saw a dragon lying on the city wall. The dragon's head rested on the city gate, and the dragon's body circled half of the city.That dragon was so dusty that it almost wanted to squeeze the misty sky and the dusty city wall into one. Only one dragon horn was so black that it seemed to be splashed with ink.

Peng Yu looked at it for a long time, and found that the dragon did have only one horn, and the other was missing for no reason.

There was also a white shadow leaning against the dragon, and the sound of the xun seemed to come from there.Peng Yu was trembling against the door, it was really hard to maintain his "grace", he was about to close the inn door and hide in the room to keep warm, when the white shadow disappeared, and in the blink of an eye, he was already standing in front of him.

The sound of the xun also stopped.

Li Yi stretched out his hand and patted his shoulder, and Peng Yu felt a warm current spread from his shoulder to his whole body, and the cold disappeared almost instantly.Seeing that the Dragon King didn't have a talisman in his hand, he asked, "Have you recovered your mana?"

"Ah."

Peng Yu let out a "huh", and before he asked what was going on with the snow, the other party first pointed out to him the idea of ​​"frozen to death".So Peng Yu's tongue got stuck and he couldn't find a word.

Suddenly, a black shadow flew in crookedly from outside, hanging on Peng Yu's shoulder: "Dong Dongdong...the snake was frozen to death, here it is...here you!"

Teng Snake threw its almost frozen tail to Li Yi, and the whole snake carefully wrapped it around Peng Yu's shoulder, and then slowly warmed up with his body temperature.

The thing it threw out was a snake slough, which was so tough that it would not break no matter how much it was torn. It was one of the materials used to make the Universe Mirror.The Teng Snake shed its skin once in 2000. I don’t know who used the last snake shed. Anyway, the Dragon King got it this time.

Li Yi squinted his eyes in satisfaction, feeling that this little thing is quite sensible, and patted it on the head like a reward: "Thank you."

Teng Snake turned his head away uncomfortably.

"Hey, then shall we set off for Lizhou now?" Peng Yu accepted the words, hooking his chin with his fingers, "Would you like to go with us?"

Teng She took his tail and rolled away his hand: "No, you can just put me here. Anyway, the big formation has been broken, and Chen Zhou counts me as half of my nest. I can live a few more days if I stay here."

Peng Yu couldn't answer for a moment, but he forgot that the snake was about to die.

"That's not necessarily true," Li Yi said suddenly, "I know there is a way to prolong your life."

"any solution?"

"Conclude the contract."

When Teng Snake heard the word "contract", the snake's body froze for no reason, and muttered: "Forget it, forget it, I..."

Forming a contract means that all kinds of monsters, beasts, ghosts sign some kind of contract with humans or immortals to achieve mutual benefit.

Therefore, many monsters have found immortals to "hug their thighs" through forming bonds, but unfortunately immortals are not so easy to fool - if you want to be blessed, it's no problem, but you have to do my best for me from now on, whether it's warming the bed or pouring the chamber pot, All have to work hard.

Forming a bond is not one-on-one, as long as the bond owner is strong enough, it doesn't matter how many demons and goblins you find to be your younger brother.So many immortals use divine beasts as mounts, it's all a contract.

There are two types of contracts, voluntary and involuntary.A voluntary contract would do little harm to both parties, but an involuntary one would be a forcible occupation, just like a hooligan who robs a woman from a good family, or a mountain king who forcibly kidnaps the wife of the village.

Currently, there are two types of contracts that are commonly used in the Three Realms—"obedience contract" and "equality contract".Those goblins and divine animal mounts who serve as cows and horses for immortals basically signed obedience contracts, and equality contracts... It is said that no one has used them for 3000 years.

Because the contract of obedience is too unreasonable, it is simply a domineering contract, and people have given it a more vivid and down-to-earth name-the contract of sale.

In short, the Dragon King sneered at these things, and whoever dared to sign the "deed of sale" on his head, he would snap off the other party's teeth one by one and stuff them into his nostrils.

Li Wei just casually said about making a contract with Teng Snake, how could it be so easy to sign a contract with a divine beast?Although the divine beast is a "beast", there is still a word "God". Can a less powerful beast be allowed to sell itself voluntarily?joke.

Two "ignorant" mortals showed full curiosity about this matter, and Qianyue leaned over and said, "Fate is shared? Then if I sign a contract with it, wouldn't I live as long as the sky?"

Li Yi gave her a strange look, and patted her on the shoulder: "You think too much, this 'divine beast' has only ten days left in its lifespan, and I'm afraid I have to borrow it from you."

Qian Yue let out a "huh" and didn't say anything more.

Teng Snake quickly wagged its tail: "I won't harm anyone anymore, you don't need to worry about me, just put that snake slough... away."

Li Yi deliberately didn't hear what it said.

Teng Snake reluctantly bid farewell to everyone, and stayed alone in the inn to keep warm.A few people walked to the gate of the city, and Jiu Yuan had turned back into a human form and was waiting there.Before leaving, the Dragon King raised his hand without changing his face, and a thunderbolt destroyed the water prison that almost wiped out his dragon face, and removed the golden plaque with the words "Justice and Integrity" in the lobby of the government office.

Everyone didn't know why, but they saw him walking to the city gate with the plaque in one hand, breaking off a door panel from some room, swiping his dragon claws to grab a few horizontal and vertical strokes from "Justice and Integrity", and going to the city gate. With a wedge on the board, the word "Chenzhou" was crookedly spelled out.

Then he hung "Chenzhou" back on the gate of the city, and threw the short-lived "Fair and Incorruptible" on the only way into the city, and clapped his hands: "Let's go."

Peng Yu threw a wonderful expression of "Is your dragon king so talented" to Jiuyuan.

Chenzhou is less than five miles away from Lizhou, and the few people are not in a hurry. They went back to Chenjia Village first, and gave them the only package of medicinal materials left, and told them that the insects had been eliminated. Burn it, and live with peace of mind in the future.

Peng Yu gave them some money and said that if they were seriously ill, they would go to Lizhou for medical treatment.

The little girl who cried and begged them is still alive and well, her complexion is obviously better, but she is shivering from the cold.It's a pity that the girl is still there, but the parents never wake up again.

Li Wei found a little sympathy from somewhere, and offered to help her burn her parents who hadn't been buried yet. After all, the cold can only last for two hours at most, and it is enough to freeze the insects to death, but it is impossible to completely repel Xia Tian.When the heat comes back, the corpse is still prone to corruption.

He asked Peng Yu for two glass bottles, packed the two pinches of ashes separately, tied them together with strings and handed them to the child: "Put it away, just keep it in your memory."

The girl took it in tears, and the glass bottles made a crisp sound when they collided, like two parents whispering to their daughter.

Li Yi sighed softly, and a small cloud of white mist scattered in the cold wind.He turned his back and waved to everyone: "Let's go."

A group of four got into the carriage, the horses ran tremblingly to keep warm, and arrived in Lizhou almost in the blink of an eye.

Before entering the city gate, Peng Yu saw the caravan parked outside the city, and the huge "Peng" business name on the carriage was extremely eye-catching.

He stepped forward and asked, this is the "Ding Mao" caravan, the leader is a fat man surnamed Jin, who looks like "harmony makes money".

Fatty Jin greeted several people enthusiastically, regardless of whether they were human or not.He clearly didn't say any blessings in his words, but it made people feel inexplicably that he would be able to "prosper wealth" and "promote treasures from all directions" in the next moment.

The gate of Lizhou City, which has been closed for a long time, is now wide open. Several "medicine distribution points" have been set up in the city, and the cauldron is boiling the medicine. .

Fatty Jin and the others pulled a cartload of medicinal materials and distributed them to several distribution points in an orderly manner. When they saw beggars in ragged clothes, they also sent a few copper coins and pointed to the simple and honest proprietress of the steamed stuffed bun stall by the roadside to let them eat nearby. Have a mouthful of warm buns.

Anyone who came to the medicine distribution point to ask for medicine, no matter men, women or children, should spontaneously nod and bow their heads and say "thank you" several times.

For a while, this "plague city" that people were afraid to avoid turned into a "Wencheng" where people help each other and warm.

Standing aside with his hands behind his back, Peng Yu watched his caravan bustling around with a smile on his lips.Although the people in Lizhou didn't know who he was, a warm current flowed through his heart for no reason, like the steam rising from a medicine pot, resisting the sudden frost.

He didn't know that Li Yi was standing behind him looking at him, a strange light flowed from the amber dragon's eyes, and his gaze was fixed on him, as if he was unwilling to move away.

He told Peng Yu that even if he sent medicine, he couldn't save many people, but he did that, and he didn't even know when he sent the letter to the caravan.

If you can't save everyone, then save some, and if you can survive one is one.

He used the Fuxi formation without telling Peng Yu, and Peng Yu sent medicine to the surrounding towns without telling him—they coincided with the same original intention.

The [-]-year-old Dragon King is so rare that he felt a little bit of embarrassment. The compassion he had finally developed was submerged in the brilliance of this mortal.

This mortal is not a noble mortal - a dandy who only cares about eating, drinking and having fun, and doesn't know the suffering of the people.

Suddenly, he felt that his life was full of setbacks.

Looking at the back of his Dragon King who was "severely hit", Jiuyuan endured and endured, and finally endured an untimely comfort.He was really afraid of being flattered on a horse's leg - at most he would be kicked if he was flattered on a horse's leg, but if he was flattered on a dragon's leg, then...

At this moment, the conversation between the old and the young next to him suddenly fell into his ears.

The old man moved a small stool and sat near the medicine distribution point. His face had more wrinkles than the annual rings of an old tree, and every line was filled with "sad faces".He looked at the gray sky, sighed, and said, "Alas... the pest plague has just passed, and the frost has fallen again... These days are so bitter..."

A young man in his twenties came out from behind the steamed stuffed bun stand, and he had a good mother-child relationship with the honest proprietress.He had just steamed a drawer of steaming steamed buns, and handed two of them to the old man on oiled paper, without asking for money: "Mr. Cui, don't complain, as far as I am concerned, God is helping us, you Look at the snow, the insects are dead, and the people in our city will live."

Old man Cui took the bun with fingers like dry wood, and took a bite out of it with a sigh: "Young man, what do you know? Do you know that when it snows, all the crops will freeze to death. What will we eat in autumn and winter?" ?” Pointing to his steamed stuffed bun stall again, “The food is gone, what do you use to make steamed stuffed buns?”

The young man smiled and was not annoyed: "Master, I don't understand, I know that we have survived this bug disease now. Let's talk about the future things later!—Come on, your steamed stuffed bun ! Just steamed, fresh and hot!"

He was enthusiastically recruiting guests again, old man Cui seemed to think that this person was too old to carve, he slowly tore off the thin-skinned bun with big stuffing, shook his head and stopped talking.

Seeing the suddenly gloomy face of his own Dragon King, Jiu Yuan quickly stopped in front of him, and said in a low voice, "King, don't be as knowledgeable as them. Ordinary people are short-sighted, so there is no need to be angry with them."

short-sighted?I'm afraid it's because the eyes are too long, right?Is it because you have a "long enough" life that you can cast a long enough gaze?

Li Yi didn't say a word, but his eyes were gloomy, and his back molars were almost clenching.

Jiu Yuan hurriedly pushed him away.If the Dragon King gets angry, there are not enough people in this city to wave his sleeves.

It seems that Wang has not lost his temper so obviously for a long time. He used to hold back his anger in his heart and maintained a "personal manner" at all times, but this time he was directly happy and angry.

Peng Yu looked at the two dragons passing by inexplicably, and whoever had no eyesight offended the two elders again, the haze on the Dragon King's face was thicker than the clouds in the sky.

Wasn't he quite happy when he left Chenzhou?He also knocked down the plaque of others.

Young Master Peng was taken aback by the Dragon King's turn of the face faster than turning the pages of a book, and he thought that he was not happy because he delivered medicine to Lizhou privately without his consent?But these medicinal materials are all spent on their Peng family's money, so it doesn't bother the Dragon King, does it?

He racked his poor brains and couldn't figure out how he had offended him. He thought that since the Dragon King was so unhappy staying in Lizhou, he should leave as soon as he finished his work.Immediately he took out the jade hairpin and tapped it: "Hey, Liu, where does your cousin live?"

Liu Zhongqing ignored him - he was blocked by the Dragon King, and he hasn't been released from the small black room yet.

Peng Yu had no choice but to find out by himself. Fortunately, the family was quite famous in Lizhou. The male owner, Liu Huaizhi—Liu Zhongqing's cousin—is a teacher, in his forties, and has a wife who has been married for 20 years. .

Because of the pest epidemic in Lizhou during this period, the school was temporarily closed, and the couple went to help the neighbors when they had nothing to do. When Peng Yu found them, the two were helping to distribute soup at a medicine distribution point.

After briefly explaining the purpose of his visit, and also pointing out Liu Zhongqing's heinous crimes, Liu Huaizhi was so startled that he almost knocked over the medicine bowl.He invited several people back to his home, and asked in disbelief: "Everybody knows, he really...?"

Peng Yu took a sip of the tea and felt that the taste was really boring, so he put it down calmly: "It's absolutely true, if you don't believe me, ask him yourself."

Li Yi and the others also followed, and the Dragon King only took the taste of tea with his nose, and he had already concluded that it was not something the dragon drank.He unsealed Liu Zhongqing's seal, but this guy didn't come out, he just said through the hairpin: "Masters please tell my cousin that it's not good for me to see him now, for fear of scaring him."

Peng Yu rolled his eyes, deliberately took the meaning out of context, and added some embellishments by the way: "He said that he knew that he had committed a serious crime, and he was ashamed to see you."

Li Yi reckoned that the sudden jam was because he wanted to say the more complicated word "evil", but unfortunately he didn't know it.

Liu Zhongqing: "..."