dragon pen

Holding a teacup, the young man stepped to the side of the scroll and leaned against it. The tightly closed scroll couldn't stop him from laughing——

"Jiujiu, back then you crazily ridiculed Wu Gang as a rough guy who only cut down trees to please women. Now I can't understand one thing at all--a thousand years before Wu Gang, there was a man named 'Zhu Jiuyin' 'The person who cut down trees first to please women...then the question is, as this person named 'Zhu Jiuyin', the patriarch of the tree-cutting world, what kind of mentality and status do you use to laugh outrightly? What about Wu Gang's?"

The picture scroll was opened again with a "snap".

The force is so strong that it will tear the drawing paper first.

Zhang Ziyao was taken aback and quickly shut his mouth, only to see that in the picture scroll, the man still sitting on the branch had an ugly expression on his face: "You have so many questions to ask, and this gentleman also has a question to ask you—why do you want to ask me a question in this book?" In front of you, you are like a submachine gun biubiubiu talking non-stop, with sharp teeth, but in front of that rascal prince, you are as quiet as a virgin, quiet and well-behaved?"

"Why?"

"Yes, why?"

Zhang Ziyao smiled and said in a natural tone: "What kind of problem is this? Of course it's because I'm familiar with Jiujiu!"

"..."

Zhu Jiuyin was stunned.

For a long while he couldn't make a sound, just sat there stiffly, staring blankly at the young man standing outside the picture scroll—seeing him smiling like a fool, Zhu Jiuyin only felt that there was something weird In an instant, it surged into his heart like a sea wave, and then rushed to his heart and scattered all over his body. The feeling was indescribably comfortable, even...

Even he himself wanted to giggle along.

It's over, Zhu Jiuyin thought expressionlessly, could it be that after staying with fools for a long time, I have become a fool who can be happy and cute casually?

"Don't laugh at me," Zhu Jiuyin said coldly with a stiff face, "What are you laughing at? It's not easy to get close, whoever knows you well will be unlucky for eight lifetimes."

Zhang Ziyao didn't change his smile, and asked again: "So why did you laugh at Wu Gang for cutting down trees?"

Zhu Jiuyin: "Because I am happy, what's the matter?"

Zhang Ziyao: "Okay, okay, you're happy, it's nothing to worry about."

The two inside and outside the painting stare at each other silently, and the background sound is Tai Lianqing, who keeps making "meow" sounds - I can see that at this moment, the land father has turned back into the big fluffy cat. The cat's two fat paws covered its eyes and its tail swung. The golden cat's eyes peeked out from the gaps in the nails and looked in the direction of one person and one painting. Pao Attack became weak now.

Zhu Jiu's dark face almost fell to her knees: "Tai Lianqing, what is your expression?"

"No, meow," the fat cat twisted its buttocks, "it's nice to be young, meow, when the little god was a mortal, meow, there was also a little daughter-in-law who often quarreled with the little god, meow, the little wife buried the little god every day I hate this, hate that, make me anxious, and know how to act like a baby to please the little god meow! Now I don’t know where to be a fairy daughter, I really miss her meow!"

Zhang Ziyao stopped laughing, and turned to look disgusted: "Who is his little wife?"

Zhu Jiuyin glanced at him, but said nothing.

Zhang Ziyao: "?"

Zhu Jiuyin: "Shh, I'm afraid I'll spit it out as soon as I speak."

Zhang Ziyao: "..."

Zhu Jiuyin changed her sitting position, ignored Zhang Ziyao, and looked directly past the young man at Tai Lianqing behind him: "The child's time has passed, those palace people should return to the palace. Tai Lianqing, the one who was locked in the box Feishou, are you going to save it or not? If you don’t save it, get out as soon as possible, don’t delay me in my beauty sleep...Anyway, I don’t have to save it as long as I see it. Back then, I kept Feishou in the flat peach tree as a pet Even for hundreds of years, I haven't seen any major troubles in the mortal world, and now I can simply let him stay in it safely, in exchange for hundreds of years of no disaster and pain in the mortal world, maybe it's a merit—"

"What?" Changing Tai Lianqing's dull face this time, the fat cat stared at the big god in the picture scroll with wide eyes, "Huh? But, but meow... Grandpa meow, you didn't intend to save Master Fei from the beginning meow ?”

Zhu Jiuyin paused for arranging his sleeves, raised his head and glanced at Tai Lianqing inexplicably: "Why do I want this?"

Tai Lianqing stammered and said: "But you have been making a lot of trouble? You used the Mingcha Qiuhao brush to call the little god, and you performed a big show with the little god on the flower boat. If it wasn't for saving Fei, it was for Meow?"

Zhu Jiuyin looked at the black-haired boy standing at his feet with strange eyes: "Isn't it because there is an extra child in the family who likes to ask questions and worry about things?"

Tai Lianqing went to see Zhang Ziyao.

Zhang Ziyao asked, "Who?"

Zhu Jiuyin asked back: "Who? Could it be my lord?"

Zhang Ziyao said: "I didn't ask questions, and I didn't like to worry about it—Jiujiu, when you locked the beast in the flat peach tree, it was one thing for the beast to be stubborn and refused to write on the Tianhe Book, but this It was different once, and the disaster that was written on countless times was crossed out again, I am still a little worried that such differences in details will eventually lead to differences in solutions..."

"What's the difference?" Zhu Jiuyin exhaled from his nostrils, "Aren't you just worrying about it?"

"No," Zhang Ziyao said, "I think it's better to rescue Feishou. Let's not talk about whether it is necessary. Feishou didn't do anything wrong, so why should it be locked in a small wooden box and suffer? The torment of that Empress Deshu? On the contrary, that empress won the favor and position because of doing such an outrageous thing, and enjoyed endless glory and wealth in her life..."

"What's the matter?" Zhu Jiuyin asked strangely.

"The bad guys should be punished," Zhang Ziyao resumed his expressionless face, and frowned slightly as if recalling some extremely unpleasant memories, "Pampering for a while will only make the greed in the bad guys' hearts grow endlessly, and when the time comes , the bad guys get worse and do unforgivable things.”

Looking at Zhang Ziyao, Zhu Jiuyin always felt that she seemed to understand what he was talking about, so he didn't talk to him.

Zhang Ziyao paused for a moment, his expression relaxed—the gentleness between his brows and eyes returned to before, and he stretched out his hand to draw the height of his waist: "According to the father-in-law, he is still a child? Who would be so cruel as to use Zhu Chai to prick a child? Yu Li, it shouldn’t be.”

"Probably because he was unlucky? The predecessor was imprisoned by me for hundreds of years, but the younger generation didn't remember much and—"

"You're quite proud of it, aren't you?"

"..."

Zhu Jiuyin fell silent again, and stared at Zhang Ziyao for the umpteenth time again.

After a while, he showed an impatient expression, changed his sitting position and said "tsk": "Help, save! The Zhang family loves dogs and rats to meddle in their own business. It's not the first day I realize this. That's it... The ugly words are in the front, don't blame me for not reminding you: Feishou is a disaster god, in addition to being ugly and irritable, no one can guarantee that it will not have any negative emotions towards ordinary people after it is rescued. Then make some big moves, when the time comes, the earth will shake and the mountains will shake, you don’t want to—”

Before Zhu Jiuyin could finish his sentence, the table that had been placed in the center of the room suddenly shook, and the cup that Zhang Ziyao had placed on the edge of the table fell to the ground with a "slap".

"?" Everyone in the room was slightly taken aback, looking at each other.

The next second, the whole house shook——

"Earthquake meow! Earthquake meow! Why is there an earthquake meow! Such a big earthquake meow!"

The frightened fat cat hugged its head with its paws and stood upright on its two legs, scurrying around the house—amidst the yelling of the land lord, the real earthquake came, and Zhang Ziyao staggered and nearly fell down. Standing still, he caught a glimpse of a crack in the wall not far away, so he struggled to stand up without thinking too much. The first thing he did was to take down the painting hanging on the wall and protect it in his arms...

After a series of actions, the vibration still didn't stop!

While Zhu Jiuyin muttered "Why didn't that woman get a piercing, hurry up", Zhang Ziyao had already been thrown several times in a row, and the beam of the room let out a disturbing moan. ——

"Not good! The house is going to collapse?!"

At this time, Zhang Ziyao crawled to the window, looked down, whether he was tall or short, he might break a bone if he jumped, he was hesitating when he heard the deep voice of the man in the picture scroll in his arms Calling the name of the God of Fortune, the fat cat that was running away with its head in its arms just a second ago let out a "meow", and rushed towards Zhang Ziyao in three steps at a time!

"what!"

Zhang Ziyao only felt a pain in his waist, and then he flew out of the window!

Zhang Ziyao's eyes widened in horror, but soon, he suddenly felt a short fat hand stop his waist, and there was a muffled sound of the umbrella being opened beside his ear, and he fell down. Their speed slowed down, and they were stopped by the land lord who had turned into a human being, supported by a small umbrella, and they fell to the ground slowly and spinning.

The moment Zhang Ziyao landed, behind him, the inn finally collapsed.

At this time, the time has just passed, and many people have already entered the time of sound sleep.So on the street, collapsed houses are everywhere, but there are very few people standing on the street—without exception, most of them are wearing lining, apparently just woke up from a dream...

At this moment, they stared blankly at the collapsed home that was fine a moment ago... Panic, bewilderment and fear were the only emotions that enveloped them.

Zhang Ziyao raised his head and looked in the direction of the imperial city. The imperial city, which had been turned off and immersed in the night, was lit up with orange light one by one——

earthquake.

And this time the capital shook completely, and didn't stop halfway.

"..."

Not to mention Zhang Ziyao, even Zhu Jiuyin was a little confused this time: According to past experience, once various disasters start, they must stop before causing any large-scale damage. Why didn't they stop this time?

"Could it be that the beast is used to being stabbed, and now a dead pig is not afraid of boiling water?"

Zhu Jiuyin made unrestricted guesses, and Tai Lianqing showed a sincere and apprehensive expression: In the whole world, except for this uncle, who else would dare to compare Fei with a dead pig?

"Be optimistic. What if the beast came out by itself?" Zhang Ziyao stretched his neck and looked around, as if he could really see the beast jumping out to greet him.

"It's possible," Zhu Jiuyin snorted, "The first thing I do when I come out is to shock you, which seems to be Fei's style."

"..." Zhang Ziyao was stunned, thought for a while and said, "Then don't come out."

"Who was it that was clamoring to save him just now?"

"I can save him from that wicked woman, and then——" Zhang Ziyao thought for a while, "...put, keep him in a box?"

"laugh."

"What's the matter, at least I won't prick him with a needle!"

Amidst Zhang Ziyao's retort, the dragon on the scroll rolled his eyes as his answer.

At this moment, someone behind Zhang Ziyao shouted——

"Hey! That painter! You are talking to yourself! Are you crazy? Why don't you hurry up and help save people?!"

It took Zhang Ziyao a while to realize that he was calling himself, so he hurriedly turned around and ran towards the crowd that was starting to gather not far away——

Then it was a sleepless night.

Amidst the cries of children and the cries of adults for help, the overnight rescue began.

All those who escaped began to move bricks and tiles from the building closest to them. Although Zhang Ziyao had thin arms and legs, he also joined the rescue team-he first ran to lift the beams with others, but when a group of them succeeded When he lifted up the beams in the inn, he was almost tired and fell down. As a result, when he pulled up his energy and ran to help another resident, when he tried to remove the obstacle in front of him, he was a little dazed. The beam creaked and then rumbled down!

Zhang Ziyao said "ah" and almost thought that he was going to confess on the spot, but he closed his eyes and waited for a long time, but the beam was not pressed down. He opened one eye and saw that there was a place less than one meter above his head. The huge emerald dragon tail firmly supports the housing beams.

Zhang Ziyao: "..."

Zhu Jiuyin: "Do you understand the difference between gods and humans? Even if I only have one tail, I can save your dog's life."

"Yes, yes, you are the best."

Zhang Ziyao patted his chest for the rest of his life, not stingy with praise.

Zhu Jiuyin snorted coldly, flicked his tail forcefully, and the beam flew out sideways, firmly stuffing it in the place where the house was about to collapse - just to prop up a space for the house that was about to collapse into a piece of ruins.

Zhang Ziyao was dumbfounded and wanted to applaud Zhu Jiuyin, but right now he didn't dare to waste any more time, so he could only rush to the back room to rescue the people trapped inside - it turned out that there were no young and middle-aged people in this family, only an old lady was left. A child, the old lady was slightly injured, but it was not serious.

"Hei Wa, Hei Wa, are you alright?" The old lady went out on the street, ignoring her injury, the first thing she did was to lower her head to care for the grandson in her arms.

Zhang Ziyao blinked, this Mid-Autumn Festival, under such weird circumstances, he really missed his family members, his mother, his grandfather, and that silly girl Chunfeng.

"Grandma, don't worry, let me show you?"

Zhang Ziyao came to the child and knelt down to check his injuries—at this time, the child was probably frightened, staring and huddled in his grandmother's arms without saying a word... The old lady didn't bother to urge him to speak, but just She quickly thanked Zhang Ziyao, and when she saw Zhang Ziyao waved her hands to indicate that it was okay, she sighed: "This Mid-Autumn Festival, how can you say that there will be an earthquake?... Sure enough, there must be a definite number of disasters in the world, and what should come will always come. What a disaster-free lady is all a lie! Forcibly changing luck and angering the Emperor of Heaven to blame him, can't this be the end of it!"

Zhang Ziyao was checking whether the child's scalp was injured. When he heard the old man's words, he suddenly raised his head and asked, "Grandma, what do you mean by that?"

"Young man, from your accent, you probably came from another province, right? That's why you don't know. About three months ago, before the disaster-free empress Huang Shuzhen was carried into the palace, every household said that Huang Guoshi's daughter was not born well. This This time I'm afraid I'll be branded—"

"Then she is the imperial concubine now..."

"Isn't it? Later, for some reason, there was a saying in the neighborhood: The daughter of the national teacher was born to be the queen's life. From the moment she married into the royal family, she became the master of heaven and earth." The disaster-free messenger who came to the mortal world can bless the world without disaster."

"...Do you believe it when you say it?"

"At first, people didn't believe it." The old lady said, "But then, something happened, and we had to believe it: On the day when Lady Wu Calamity was carried into the palace, the entire capital was shaken, it was so shocking, boss Yes... But, a strange thing happened, when the sedan chair that carried the Empress Wu Calamity had just passed the first gate of the imperial city, the earthquake that was shaking the boss just a moment ago stopped all of a sudden!"

"..."

"Before the earthquake caused any damage, the earthquake was stopped." The old lady said, "It's better to believe it or not. The emperor left her name tag and made her a concubine. We ordinary people, we all Call her Empress Wu Calamity."

The old man sighed again as he spoke, and began to mutter about "deceitful deceitful" again...

Zhang Ziyao was speechless, but he just figured out that there was an earthquake that was successfully prevented before the flood. As for the relationship between this earthquake and the last one, he was a little confused and couldn't figure it out... What's more, for the old man The wife firmly insisted that this earthquake was just a complete shock to the one that was not finished last time. Not only did Zhu Jiuyin hanging around his waist not move, even Tai Lianqing who was standing behind him was holding an umbrella and staring at the gold. Maotong looked confused.

——For things that even the gods don't know, it's even more difficult for mortals to make random guesses.

Zhang Ziyao felt relieved, and took the grandparents and grandchildren to the temporary shed of the inn to settle down. He took a sip of tea to rest and watched the streets become more and more lively. The rescued young adults also began to join the rescue. There are more and more people on--

The bright moon was hanging in the sky, it was supposed to be the dead of night, but there were people coming and going on the street, not surprising.

Zhang Ziyao rested for a while, and heard someone beside him yelling to organize people to go back to the half-collapsed house to get some necessary supplies such as quilts, clothes, food, etc., because depending on the situation, the clothes will be brightened by the court, and the daylily will be cold by then. But at this time the earthquake has just ended, and no one knows if there will be any aftershocks, and the collapse of those half-collapsed houses will definitely kill people; what's more, those houses seem to be full of traps now.Whoever accidentally bumps into him may end up being crushed to pieces... In summary, there are very few people who are willing to respond to him.

Zhang Ziyao craned his neck to look for a while, finally sighed, and stood up.

Amidst Tai Lianqing's sighs, it was rare for Zhu Jiuyin not to laugh at him.It's a reminder: "You really are a little idiot, wouldn't you just add to the chaos if you are so clumsy? Don't you know how to make use of your strengths and avoid your weaknesses?"

Zhang Ziyao didn't quite understand what Zhu Jiuyin was talking about at the beginning. Tai Lianqing saw his bewildered face, and finally couldn't stand it anymore. He flicked his thick tail and looked disgusted: "Aren't you a dreamer? Meow? Dreamer Do everything personally, meow?"

"No, what my family cleans the ancestral hall is the blue bird that my grandfather drew every morning—oh!" Zhang Ziyao patted his forehead suddenly, "Ohhhhh!"

"This idiot." Zhu Jiuyin muttered, "How can you be so stupid?"

Zhang Ziyao patted the picture scroll on his waist, he didn't know whether he was thanking for the reminder or warning Lai Pilong to shut up, anyway, he ran to the little brother who was still shouting and told him to wait a while, and then he was surprised by everyone Under his gaze, he wanted a bowl of tea and found a relatively complete empty wall to stand firm.

More people who settled in the temporary shed were attracted and looked over curiously——

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the young man took down the gilt carving pen from his waist, dipped the nib of the pen in the bowl, and waved it lightly, the water droplets sprinkled on the wall. The strange thing is that the water droplets were not caught by the wall. Absorbed, but hung on the wall as if solidified!

"Wow!"

"What kind of acrobatics is this!"

"Ah, look at the pen in that kid's hand, I said why it looks so familiar, that is, that is—"

People were talking about it, and at this time, the boy standing in front of the wall quickly drew a monkey with complete limbs and crooked melons and dates on the wall——

This monkey is very ugly.

But people didn't even have time to complain about its ugliness, and then something even more amazing happened!

When the young boy finished drawing the monkey tail with his pen and left the wall, people could only hear him muttering something like "like a dream and like an illusion". Finally, when he slapped the wall and said "open", the ugly black monkey seemed to be endowed instantly. Come alive, move, move, jump off the wall!

The little monkey squeaked.Raising his arms high, he jumped up and down around Zhang Ziyao——

"Huh!"

"God!"

"This is, this is a descendant of Dianlongbi, a descendant of the Zhang family!"

"Isn't it good? Aren't the descendants of the Zhang family all painters? Look at the monkeys drawn by children, and my toddler son can draw better than him..."

"Hey, you're just bragging, can the monkey your son drew jump off the rock and squeaky?"

The crowd exploded, talking about the identity of the boy, but Zhang Ziyao himself seemed to have never heard of it. Monkeys that looked like crooked melons and jujubes were released from the wall by him, and his body shook slightly while he was painting. Yin's picture scroll was also hanging on his waist, and Tai Lianqing was standing on tiptoe with a small umbrella behind Zhang Ziyao's buttocks, shaking his head, every time a monkey jumped out of the wall, he would make excited meows Voice--

People continued to give out amazed praise.

Seeing this, the crying child stopped crying, and suddenly laughed, clapping his hands and shouting, "Monkey! Monkey! Cluck, little monkey!"

In the eyes of everyone, those stick-toothed monkeys lined up and strolled into the ruins of a house. Those monkeys moved nimbly and nimbly, shuttled through the ruins... After a while, the monkeys walked out in a line again——

The big monkey holds a padded jacket on its head;

Two monkeys hold up a quilt with their paws;

The three monkeys hold a bowl of rice in their hands;

The fourth monkey was gurgling in his hand, but he turned a rattle out of nowhere; the fifth monkey had a red bellyband on his head...

"Which little daughter-in-law's bellyband!"

"Oh, this ugly black monkey is quite lecherous!"

"Hey, my lady's bellyband—"

The crowd burst into laughter, and the previous gloomy atmosphere improved a little bit... Zhang Ziyao stood in the crowd scratching his head and giggling. After a while, he heard the sound of a carriage in the distance——

After a while, a gorgeous carriage approached and stopped in the lively crowd... The crowd's laughter subsided a little, and they all went to see which official was coming. Zhang Ziyao also stretched his neck to see, only to see the carriage creak , stopped right in front of him.

The curtain was picked up from the inside, and Prince Rui, who was dressed in a white coat, jumped out of the carriage, reached out and grabbed the young man in front of the carriage, with a trace of anxiety on his face: "Zi Yao? The earthquake just now , are you all right? Are you injured?"