dragon pen

Holding a book in his hand to record disasters and misfortunes in the world and to manage the sufferings of the mortal world, Fei actually disappeared more than half a year ago.

Just like when Zhu Jiuyin disappeared back then, the land gods in the lower realm almost turned the world upside down and couldn't shake out even a single hair - this is a big deal, different from Zhu Jiuyin who lives only to destroy My dandy, Jiafei is a divine beast with important responsibilities. If it is lost and it is lost in an unclear way, the heavens will investigate it, and everyone will suffer...

And Tai Lianqing bears the brunt of the blame, because the last time Fei appeared was in the capital, during the Spring Festival, Tai Lianqing clearly saw this adult lying on the eaves watching human lion dances and firing cannons.

Fei disappeared after that.

Losing a divine beast on one's own territory, the crime is so small that the merits of guarding one side of the land for several years in the past will be wiped out. ——Just thinking about Tai Lianqing made her future look bleak.

"No, Fei has been missing for so long, doesn't heaven know about it?" Zhang Ziyao thought for a while and added, "Since it's so important."

"The beast changes position every 500 years, and it will always disappear for a year or so before the new change, not to mention that there are not always disasters in the mortal world..." Tai Lianqing replied with a bitter face, his thick tail drooping When he got down, Zhang Ziyao felt that the only thing missing was a fluffy drooping ear, which would be perfect.

"Then how do you know that Feishou didn't go to change the guard this time?" Zhu Jiuyin in the painting said lazily, shaking Erlang's legs, "By the way, who did you just say was a playboy? I didn't hear clearly. You say it again?"

Tai Lianqing shook his tail, lowered his eyebrows and hehehe apologized to the old man in the picture scroll, pretending that he didn't hear the words behind him.At the same time, the umbrella he held in his hand spun around, and the golden particles like fireflies drifted away from the edge of the umbrella with the rotation of the umbrella, and gathered around Tai Lianqing to form a crooked silhouette of a child. Tai Lianqing sighed Using his hands to compare the height to his waist, he said: "Because the last time the little god saw that lord meow, the lord clearly looked like he just took office meow..."

"So it's not that I changed jobs," Zhu Jiuyin showed a gloating expression, "Don't be so sad, be optimistic, maybe he is dead?"

Zhang Ziyao: "..."

Zhu Jiuyin's "optimistic guess" successfully made Tai Lianqing shudder, paused, and then continued to tell with a sigh——

After the lord disappeared, all the land was counting on it, but he was in a bad mood and looking for a place to hide from the world to practice, but at this moment it suddenly made another movement-a sudden dragon rain, like an overturned footbath buckled in the ground On Tailianqing's land in the capital, at first Tailianqing was overjoyed and wondered if Fei had come back, but before he could breathe a sigh of relief, the rain stopped for no reason.

The weirdest thing is that no matter when it rains or when it stops, Fei, who should have greeted the disaster-affected land before the rain, never appears from the beginning to the end.

"The little god thinks meow, the Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival in a few days will be the last chance for the little god to meet the lively Lord Fei, meow, if the lord doesn't show up at that time..."

Tai Lianqing sighed deeply.

Zhang Ziyao looked at him sympathetically, then stepped forward and licked his tail: "... Be optimistic."

Tai Lianqing took a step back, and bowed respectfully to Zhu Jiuyin again, and then lightly closed the umbrella, only to hear a "pop", and the land god who was standing there just now disappeared without a trace up.

The room became quiet, Zhang Ziyao looked around and then lowered his head to look at the palm of his hand that brushed the cat's tail——

Zhang Ziyao: "..."

Zhu Jiu asked coolly, "Is it easy to touch?"

Zhang Ziyao: "...you saw it again."

Zhu Jiuyin: "You never take your eyes off that hairy tail."

Zhang Ziyao: "It's easy to touch."

Zhu Jiuyin hummed: "It's a pity that this gentleman only smells like fish, I'm really sorry."

Zhang Ziyao: "Don't feel inferior."

Accompanied by a certain dragon's disdainful sneer, the scroll snapped shut from bottom to top, and once again expressed his dissatisfaction with "thank you behind closed doors"——

It seems that Zhu Jiuyin's tail was recovered together with his bad temper... Well, Zhang Ziyao rubbed his chin, this is exactly the same as the narrow-eyed and bad-tempered version of Zhu Jiuyin and Mao in the folk book. .

……

After Tai Lianqing left, Zhang Ziyao made up his mind to stay in the capital for a few days to wait and see, intending to confirm that there would be no bad follow-up to the matter of Long Yuyu before leaving.

He found a free time to write a letter to his grandfather, in which he explained everything about the family to Bian eloquently, at the end of the letter he also mentioned Zhu Jiuyin's tail, and wrote in the last sentence——

[I heard that the power of this ancient god can go to the world, and it is easy to bring people back to life.When my grandson did something wrong, he should bear the consequences. No matter it is true or not, he had to give it a go. He hoped that one day he could bring his mother back from Huangquan Road and kowtow to her personally to confess his guilt. 】

Zhang Ziyao wrote the letter, folded it carefully and sealed it.

At the same time, a pointed tail stretched out from the scroll behind him, hooked it up and knocked on the table: "Did you mention the beast thing?"

Zhang Ziyao shook his head, in the letter to his grandfather, only the matter of stalking beasts was not mentioned because of the uncertainty.

"My grandfather knows more than I do, but he is an ordinary person after all. How can he know things that you can't find out?" Zhang Ziyao lowered his eyes and knocked on the envelope. Gui, I didn’t inquire about anything about beasts, instead I ended up with the name of a lunatic and down-and-out painter——Now there are rumors that I am a liar painter who was kicked out by Lord Rui. Let me go back home and continue eating and drinking..."

A certain dragon in the painting laughed sincerely and cheerfully, as if Zhang Ziyao had told him an earth-shattering joke just now... When he had had enough of laughing, he rolled over his belly and scratched with his long claws. Scratching his scales, he lazily said: "Aren't you just a liar who cheats on food and drink? If the diva hadn't voluntarily died in love with that fat jiu, I'm afraid you wouldn't be able to draw a good one even if you broke the dragon brush. Here is a painting for a job—I want you to tell me, it’s a good thing you’re self-aware and move out as soon as possible, if you’ve been staying in the palace, sooner or later that woman will see through your worthless nature and lose interest in you—”

Zhang Ziyao raised his eyelids and glanced at the dragon in the painting. Seeing that his face was full of gloating, there was no accident, as if he had already known all kinds of rumors about Zhang Ziyao in the market, and muttered depressingly, "There is nothing you don't know", and cleaned up on his own He opened the table, put the sealed letter away carefully, and turned to go out.

"Where are you going?" Zhu Jiuyin asked.

"Send a letter." Zhang Ziyao waved his hand, "Stay calm, keep your tails away, and don't run around."

"I can run around, I promise to go to the world, as far as I can get away from you." Zhu Jiuyin snorted, with thoughts in his mouth, and the tail hanging outside the scroll was obedient She slipped away and shrank back, then called again after a pause, "Little idiot?"

"how?"

"Where do you go after posting the letter?"

"Go and inquire again, and see what other phenomena have appeared in these days other than the rain that suddenly stopped..."

"I have heard a little about this."

"Huh?" Zhang Ziyao was stunned, "Why didn't you tell me sooner if you had news? It's interesting to see me running around every day and wasting my time—"

"I heard that a few months ago, the Liji Roast Duck Restaurant in the South Hutong at the end of the street was about to close down due to lack of business, but for some reason, the business suddenly boomed in the past few days, and the customers came like a cloud—"

"..."

"It turned out to be a new sauce."

"..."

"Little idiot, I want to eat sliced ​​duck."

Zhang Ziyao lost his temper: "What else do you do besides eating?"

"And do all the bad things you can think of and you can't think of."

"Why don't you reach bliss early?"

"It's not too late to eat Li Ji's new flavor of sliced ​​skin duck."

"..."

"Go early and come back early, flake-skinned duck."

A corner of the dragon's tail protruded, the air hooked it, and the edge of the scroll was hooked upwards, and the scroll closed again with a "snap"——Since it has a tail, this dragon has really been able to bear it. From being able to flick his tail to now being able to slap mosquitoes with his tail to close the picture scroll and harass Zhang Ziyao to do business, Zhang Ziyao suspects that one day he will be able to use his tail to make himself a cup of hot tea.

At this time, seeing the tranquility in the house restored, the young man breathed a sigh of relief, closed the door carefully, and left the wing... When he met several residents in the corridor, they all looked at him with hesitant eyes and thought they were hiding it. Very well, Zhang Ziyao didn't expose it, Quan Dang was so dull that he didn't see anything, he just walked straight through with his head held high.

After leaving the inn, Zhang Ziyao hesitated for a while, but in the end he decided to buy the skinned duck of a certain loach to plug his broken mouth first.

Hope a roast duck can plug his big mouth.

There are not many requirements, and it is good to change to a quiet hour.

Li Ji Roast Duck Restaurant is at the end of the street where Zhang Ziyao's inn is located. Although it is at the end of the street, because the road leads to the main entrance of the imperial city, it happens to be the busiest and busiest place on weekdays.The shops around the roast duck shop are densely packed, and the street is also full of small vendors selling small food and snacks... Zhang Ziyao followed the crowd all the way to the end of the street, only to find that the original Li Ji shop was surrounded by people in twos and threes. The place was full of flames, and the plaque of "Li Ji Roast Duck Shop" fell to the ground and was already burnt black!

It's on fire!

Zhang Ziyao was stunned for a moment, and from a distance, he heard a man crying and wailing about his shop. The neighbors around him rushed to put out the fire with pots and pans, but because the fire was too big, the effect was minimal——

"Old Li, don't you fucking cry here!" A man dressed as a businessman reached out and grabbed the middle-aged man who was rolling on the ground, "This fire is so big! The smoke is coming over my shop! Don't you Blame me for disregarding decades of neighbors' feelings and ugly words, if the fire in your shop burns a piece of silk and an inch of gold thread to me, I will also ask you to pay according to the bill!"

It turned out to be the owner of the silk and satin shop next to the roast duck shop.

"Yes, yes! Get up and put out the fire!"

"Is there anyone to inform the Yamen? Hey, why is there such a thing at the foot of the imperial city? If the fire is not extinguished, if the wind blows again in a while, wouldn't it be setting fire to the city?!"

"Could it be that some people are jealous that Brother Li's business has improved these days, and set fire on purpose? How can ordinary running water burn like this? The fire became more and more fierce—"

Everyone was chattering, but the owner of the roast duck restaurant had been crying for a long time, with tears and snot all over his face. Zhang Ziyao sighed and thought that Zhu Jiuyin could really change his name to "Plague God". The boss got up from the ground...

At the same time, there was only a loud bang, and the entire beam of the roast duck shop fell, sparks splashed everywhere, and the silk boss who had just persuaded the owner surnamed Li let out a scream when everyone dispersed in a hurry!

It turned out that the flying sparks touched several pieces of silk and satin, and immediately burst into flames half a person's height!

... This place where shops are gathered is no worse than the deep mountains and old forests that are on fire. Just dig a isolation zone, and the buildings can't be moved there. The house itself is made of wood, and it can be said that there are combustibles everywhere!

The fire spread rapidly, and in a short while the whole street turned into a fire dragon, the sound of crackling wood burning and the sound of something being ignited and collapsing could be heard endlessly!

The people on the street were a little dumbfounded. They couldn't understand why the city was on fire after a few days when Jinshan was flooded with water. The cries on the street soon spread, and the officers and soldiers dispatched to lead the crowd to put out the fire. negligible...

"My house!"

"Let go of me, let me go! My belongings are still inside! My belongings!"

"Who saw my wife? Too bad she's still taking a nap, right?!"

The sound of crying father and mother quickly replaced the usual sound of hawking. Those who were looking for someone were looking for someone, those who were struggling to grab something jumped up and down, and there were many people who wanted to speculate and take advantage of it, and there was a mess around——

Looking at the fire, Zhang Ziyao couldn't control it, he was worried that it would reach the inn on the street, and the smoke would choke Lai Pilong, he was hesitating whether to go back to the inn to pack up the scroll and bring it out... At this time, suddenly there was a dull thunder in the sky, Zhang Ziyao was so frightened that he subconsciously raised his hands to cover his ears, raised his head in a daze, and happened to see a dark cloud covering the sun, and in an instant, bean-heavy raindrops fell on the tip of his nose.

pat-

The slightly cold rain dissipated the heat from the oncoming heat wave on the face.

"It's raining! It's raining!"

"God has eyes, there is salvation now!"

"It's so dangerous, so dangerous, it almost caused a catastrophe... Could it be the blessing of that empress, to keep the world pain-free and disaster-free?"

"Don't talk about it, thanks to the fact that you have read the books of sages, this kind of nonsense will inevitably make people laugh out loud."

People were discussing in a hurry, and the young man who was following the crowd to hide under the eaves suddenly stopped running. He raised his wet face and looked dully at the person who was discussing beside him earlier. The two young men who ran away—

The world is free from disasters?

……how is this possible.

Zhang Ziyao hesitated for a while, then simply changed his pace to catch up with that person, followed him and stopped in front of a dyeing workshop, patted the water droplets on his body, turned his head, and showed a harmless face to the person beside him. Smile: "The heavy rain came just in time."

"That's right, otherwise the fire may have gone to... If you go there, it will be the residence of an ordinary family." The man quickly spoke up. Judging by his appearance, he looked like a scholar——Zhang Ziyao had read it before. For books, he knows the sour temper of scholars best.

"Yeah," Zhang Ziyao rolled his eyes and said, "It's all thanks to that empress—"

"Tch, what! You believe it too?" The scholar really showed a shocked expression, "If there is really a queen in the world who can bless the world and ensure the world is safe from disasters, then I'm afraid it can only be the queen mother who descended to earth." ?”

"Don't you believe it? I do." Zhang Ziyao's smile remained unchanged.

The scholar paused for a moment and turned his head. He looked Zhang Ziyao up and down, with a trace of disdain in his eyes: "See, you have some ink in your stomach. How can you be as ignorant as my colleague? I have heard about Huang Guoshi and Tianmi Pavilion for a long time. The heavenly officials have colluded, and now Lu Xingchen claims that as long as he supports Concubine Deshu as the empress, the world will be safe from disasters, it is really a joke!"

"Record the stars?"

"You don't even know about the Heavenly Officials of the Tianmi Pavilion? Let me tell you, this kind of superstitious gods will only use absurd reasons to control the government departments. They should have been banned and dismissed long ago! It's better now, just take care of the matter after standing up!" The scholar looked at him. He went up very angry, and shook his sleeves, "It's nonsense that there is no disaster in the world! The rain stops and the rain is a natural change of the world. What does it have to do with that feudal superstition? Is it true that there is a dragon king in the world to make it rain?"

"cough."

The scholar was filled with righteous indignation, so he naturally didn't notice the embarrassment on Zhang Ziyao's face, but he said to himself: "But the daughter of the Huang family was indeed supported and helped by a coincidence all the way, otherwise, let alone a later position, just based on her appearance, where would the opportunity come from?" Becoming a princess?!"

"..."

What's the matter, the world's disaster-free lady doesn't look good?Scholars still value appearance so much, don't they?

Zhang Ziyao rubbed his chin, always feeling as if he had caught some serious clue.

At this time, the fire was gradually extinguished in the rainstorm not far away.

The crowd talked a lot, and keywords such as "Huang's family", "daughter" and "Princess Deshu" kept jumping into his ears.

Zhang Ziyao was thinking about asking someone to ask what was going on with the so-called "Niangniang" and "Tianmi Pavilion", when he saw a few children laughing and jumping onto the street, holding hands and singing a song in circles. Nursery rhymes with strange tones—

"The ugly concubine, the ugly concubine, has a flat nose and thick eyebrows, broad shoulders and legs, and a rough appearance;

The ugly concubine, the ugly concubine, was born rich, had a good pregnancy, and became an imperial concubine;

The ugly concubine, the ugly concubine, ascended to a high position, virtuous and virtuous, the sun, the moon and the stars are shining;

The ugly concubine, the ugly concubine, wants to sit on the phoenix seat. The weather is smooth and there is no disaster or tragedy! "