dragon pen

The sudden torrential rain in the capital has been raining for a whole day and night without any intention of stopping.

At first people didn't take it seriously, they just thought it was a bit strange to have such heavy rain in this season.As a result, when I got up the next morning, I found that the rain had not decreased, but had a tendency to fall more and more. On weekdays, the stalls and hawkers who set up stalls beside the street were not able to sell their stalls. The street was deserted and deserted. They all shrank into the depths of the alley and refused to come out.

After noon, the moat outside the city flooded the cordon. Many officers and soldiers wore rain hats and worked in groups to drain the flood. However, because the heavy rain continued, the work efficiency became negligible.

In the afternoon, when the sun was about to set, there was a rumor from somewhere that a wizard who knew the way said that the rain was rained by a dragon, and that God was going to accept a group of people, and the rain was about to fall. For three days and three nights, when the time comes, the city will be flooded, and it will become a flood that is rare in a hundred years.

There is no impenetrable wall in the world, and people's gossip is the fastest uploaded in the world, so by the time of dinner, the saying "the dragon rained and flooded the city" had already spread to the ears of today's emperor, and the emperor naturally would not take this funny I put the talk in my eyes and just laughed it off.

In the middle of the night, the news that the defense line outside the city was in danger came to the palace overnight, which disturbed the sleeping emperor. The emperor woke up from the gentleness of the country, got up in the midst of the coquettish humming of the concubine, and opened the window—there was a burst of cold and damp The water vapor from the sky rushed towards his face, and the sound of the heavy rain woke up most of his drowsiness. At this time, outside the emperor's bedroom, for some reason, the whole city was kneeling all over the ground!

The leader recorded the stars for the Tianguan Tianguan. At this time, the heavy rain soaked his white robe and white beard, but this old minister was willing to suffer from the cold and bone-chilling pain. Seeing the emperor opened the window, he knelt down deeply chanted—

"Dragon rain from the sky, God's will is hard to disobey! Please think twice, the emperor, and make the empress Deshu the queen, so that the world can be peaceful, and when the emperor is in power, I will protect my country from disasters and epidemics, and the world will be prosperous and prosperous!"

"Please think twice, Your Majesty!"

"The emperor please stand up!"

"This rain can't stop, Your Majesty! Most of the crops outside the city are flooded, if this rain doesn't stop—"

The loyal minister shouted.

The shouts were so loud that it almost overwhelmed the sound of the heavy rain washing over the eaves.

……

In the Palace of Peace.

In the quiet backyard of the deep palace, it was supposed to be the time for the harem to sleep peacefully. Suddenly, a thunderbolt in the sky awakened the woman who was sleeping in the peaceful palace.

She woke up in a light sleep and opened her eyes, which were still a little dazed.Turning over and sitting up, rubbing the tingling temples, the woman got out of bed and came to the bronze mirror lit by long candlelight - at a glance, her slender eyes were reflected in the bronze mirror, slightly couch and thick The bridge of the nose, and the slightly mean lips... Take a closer look, there are freckles and bruises that cannot be concealed under the eyes.

The woman frowned slightly, and reached out to buckle the bronze mirror.

"Karen? Karen!"

She called the maidservant by name.

"Miss."

A servant girl opened the curtain and entered.

"Why, the heavy rain outside hasn't stopped yet?" the woman asked.

The servant girl laughed before answering: "Your Majesty, you don't know, it's better that the heavy rain doesn't stop - I heard that it was because of this heavy rain that Lord Lu and other adults knelt together outside the emperor's bedroom and asked for immediate help. Concubine Deshu, you are the empress, and you can keep the world safe and sound."

Hearing the servant girl's words, the woman was taken aback for a moment, and there was a faint light of joy and expectation in those unbeautiful eyes. She paused for a while, and the eyeballs rolled around in the eye sockets, and then said slowly: "Go and get my box, be careful."

The maid didn't even ask "which box", as if she had already guessed what the master was referring to, she answered, and then turned around to take it - after a while, she had already taken the thing back.The light in the palace, lit only by a single candle, was dim, and one could vaguely see the old and worn-out box she was holding carefully in her hand. It is really strange that there is such a simple and old wooden box in the palace.

However, since it appeared, the woman's enthusiastic eyes have never left the box for a moment, as if an ordinary woman saw some rare and precious treasure, silk and satin are nothing more than that.

When the maid came to her, she seemed to be a little impatient to snatch the box over——

Heavy wooden box.

When it fell into the woman's hands, it trembled slightly as if it had sensed something.

Across the ancient wooden box, the temperature came from the inside of the wooden box, as if something was dormant in it, breathing quietly.

The woman's slender fingers slid across the wooden box——

"My lord, please protect me from food and clothing."

"My lord, please keep me in the second place."

"My lord, please protect me... the world will be safe from disaster."