Born of Worry

In the seventh year of Dayin calendar 230, on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, the annual holiday ends and the government resumes.

This morning, the lazy dragon Mowen, with the belief of carrying forward "laziness", still turned into a prototype and lay down on Li Xian's shoulders to sleep back into the cage.Li Xian was so angry that he thought that you woke me up early, and ended up sleeping here, but no one else could see him.

So Li Xian changed his posture and sat, lifted his shoulders, shook the palm-length black dragon, and slipped down his lap along the dragon robe.

Mo Wen was sleeping soundly, but was awakened instantly by him. He raised the faucet dizzily, saw the narrow smile on Li Xian's lips, didn't make a sound, stretched out his claws and slowly crawled back onto his shoulders.

Li Xian turned his gaze back and continued to listen to the ministers' report on the affairs during the annual vacation, but he didn't expect a sudden pain in his earlobe because he was bitten by a dragon.

"..."

"There was relatively less rain and snow in the Huaishui area last winter than in previous years, and the drought may continue. Weichen thinks..."

Mo Wen bit Li Xian's ear and didn't let him go. Seeing that he didn't respond, he stretched out his tongue and licked it gently.

"……His Majesty?"

"Uh...you go on."

"My minister... is asking His Majesty if you want to go to Lianghuai to pray for rain on February [-] this year."

"Yes, yes." Li Xian hurriedly pushed Mo Wen away, and pressed him back on his shoulder.

Seeing his abnormal expression, Ji Yuncheng carefully asked: "Your Majesty, are you... not feeling well?"

"Ah? No, no." Li Xian coughed dryly. "February [-]nd is a good time to pray for rain. You can take a few people there and see what the local people need, and report to me when you come back."

"Yes."

"Military Department."

Zhou Yue stepped out, "The minister is here."

"Master Zhou, is there a mistake in the ordnance order?"

"Return to Your Majesty, no."

"Do you want to supplement your military status?"

"Return to Your Majesty, not yet."

"Okay. The Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple."

Zhang Li and Zhang Shen came out, "The minister is here."

"Have all the officials involved in Zhao Cho's case been investigated?"

"Return to Your Majesty, the investigation has been completed."

"How much is dismissed and demoted for re-use?"

"Four of the 290 people were dismissed, and 150 and nine were demoted. Among the 150 and nine people, 36 people resigned voluntarily. The rest who are willing to continue to be officials, accounting for less than 450% of the total [-] three people, have been handed over to the Ministry of officials for selection. .”

Li Xian nodded, "Are there any other major incidents these days?"

"Return to Your Majesty, not yet."

"Understood, you step back, official department."

"The minister is here."

"I won't ask questions about those people Mr. Zhang just mentioned. You can decide whether to stay or not. Oh, and the spring test will start at the beginning of next month. Aiqing will have to work hard then."

Li Ling saw his younger brother smiling like a little fox, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he bowed, "I would like to help His Majesty."

"Department of Rites."

"The minister is here."

"Master Tao, have you finished the questions for the Spring Exam?"

Since Tao Wenting was scolded as "pedantic" last time, he still has psychological shadows, and said cautiously: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, it has already been published and reviewed."

Li Xian nodded, "You've worked hard too, step back. Ministry of Households, is there something important going on?"

"Return to Your Majesty, no."

Li Xian finished counting civil servants, and began to count military officers: "General Lin."

Lin Ruxuan cupped his fists: "The minister is here."

"Is the Lin family army returning?"

"Return to Your Majesty, the inventory was completed yesterday, and no one is missing, and they have all returned to the army."

"Okay. General Feng, recently... have there been any changes in the Imperial Army? Has there been any bullying in the imperial city?"

"Return to Your Majesty," Feng Lang said, "Recently, the guards of the forbidden army have been a little lax, and the ministers have severely punished them; in recent days, some people reported that they were harassed by some hooligans and hooligans, and they have now been arrested; It has also subsided."

Li Xian said "hmm", thinking that your emperor was almost beaten, if you don't punish him, you will not be a general anymore.But he continued to click on other military officers, and when he finished, he looked at Lin Xingzhi: "Does Shang Shuling have anything else to say?"

Lin Xingzhi stroked his beard and said, "Is it a big deal...it's nothing, but the old minister would like to thank His Majesty for repairing the old minister's house, and also thank His Royal Highness King Jing for specially paying New Year's greetings to the old minister."

Li Ling hurriedly said: "Where is it, Master Lin is serious, and the younger generation should."

Li Xian rolled his eyes silently in his heart, and said to this old fox, when he can't thank you, he has to thank him now, and it's fine if you thank me, let others know that I, the emperor, is sympathetic to his courtiers, why are you thanking King Jing? ?He is your grandson-in-law, can he not give you New Year's greetings?Is this clearly a united front with him?Although...it is true that he wanted this effect from the beginning, but why is it still weird when he said this?

Mo Wen rubbed his head against his neck again, Li Xian ignored him, and said, "Old Lin, you don't need to thank me, but I failed to take care of you before, I hope you don't take offense."

"Your Majesty is a king, and a subject is a subject. Even if your Majesty does not love you, you will definitely devote yourself to your Majesty."

Li Xian smiled, "Dear dears, do you have anything else to say to me?...It's okay, let's retreat."

After the morning court, Li Xian pulled the black dragon off his shoulder and held it in his hand, glaring at him: "Mo Wen!"

Mo Wen didn't feel guilty at all, he raised his dragon eyes and stared at him. At this moment, Li Xian heard someone calling him, so he hurriedly stuffed the black dragon into his sleeve, turned his head, saw that it was Lin Ruxuan, and said, "General Lin What are you looking for?"

"Your Majesty, do you want me to participate in the martial arts exam this spring?"

"What? King Jian asked you to be the chief examiner?"

"It's the deputy examiner."

"Oh..." Li Xian knew that his elder brother would drag Lin Ruxuan into the water, and he had expected it, but he pretended to be thinking seriously, and said, "Anyway...you have nothing to do except training soldiers. Since he If you are invited, you should accept it, and I will feel more at ease when you are here."

"Yes."

"hiss……"

Li Xian suddenly felt a pain in his wrist, and he couldn't help taking a breath. Lin Ruxuan saw him and asked, "Your Majesty, are you... really not feeling sick? You just went to court, how do you feel..."

"Ah, I'm fine, I'm really fine. General Lin has nothing else to do, so I'll leave first, and come find me if there's anything else."

"...Your Majesty, go slowly."

Li Xian quickly walked back to the bedroom, rolled up his sleeves, but saw the black dragon was ringing around his wrist, the dragon's mouth was still tightly biting his flesh, he couldn't help but angrily said: "Mo Wen! Why are you so crazy today!"

Mo Wen let go, Li Xian clearly saw a clear bite mark on his wrist, and just about to attack, he saw the black dragon fly away quickly, and stood in front of him in human form.

The tiny little dragon that was originally slap-length turned into a man half a head taller than him in an instant. Li Xian couldn't accept it, so he turned his head away from him. He lost the confidence he had just wanted to scold him. I took the wrong medicine.

Mo Wen pulled his wrist and gently rubbed the red mark on his wrist. Li Xian turned his head and said, "I said you have something wrong? You bit me, and if it hurts, I still rub it for me. Are you Is it too free?"

Mo Wen looked innocent, Li Xian withdrew his hand and heard him say, "Xiao Xian."

"what?"

"Do you...do you prefer me to be a human, or do you like me to be a dragon?"

"...??" Li Xian looked at him with crazy eyes, "Did you really take the wrong medicine?"

"I'm asking you seriously."

"Oh. Let's put it this way, do you think if you were me, would you prefer to sleep with your husband or with your pet?"

"……you win."

Li Xian took off his dragon robe, pulled a random piece of clothing on and put it on, and when he turned his head and saw that a big man like Mo Wen had disappeared, he couldn't help being stunned for a moment, but saw a pocket black dragon hovering in the air, then flew twice, landed to his shoulders.

"..."

Li Xian asked in his heart, can't you understand what I said? I've made it clear enough, how come you turned into a dragon... But he heard Xiaolong yawn lightly, and couldn't help asking: "Mo Wen, what are you doing today?" That's great, what's wrong?"

Mo Wen shook his head, and after a while he said: "Chun sleepy, autumn exhausted, summer dozing off..."

Li Xian sneered: "Are you sleepy? I haven't said sleepy yet, how dare you say sleepy?"

Mo Wen let out a "hmm" and said, "Becoming a human also consumes mana, so it's better to become a dragon..."

You are comfortable, but I am uncomfortable?

Li Xian went to the imperial study and saw a stack of memorials piled up on his case table. The eunuch standing next to him took two steps forward and said, "Your Majesty, this is today's memorial, and it's all here."

"Well, I see, you step back."

"Yes."

He sat down in front of the case and studied some ink. He felt that the dragon on his shoulder was in the way, so he gently picked him up and put him on a stack of books, only to find that he was not awake.From the corner of the eye, he saw the epiphyllum on the corner of the table, and suddenly he thought again, and put the black dragon in the flower pot as a prank, Mo Wen was moved by him, struggled twice, clawed at the soil, but he still didn't wake up.

Li Xian held back his laughter and didn't touch him anymore. He opened a memorial and found that it was delivered by Li Kuang. He couldn't help being surprised and said, "Yo, elder brother is actually able to hand over notebooks?"

He seldom saw Li Kuang's handwriting, and it turned out that he wrote it well, but... it was written in cursive, which was not ordinary cursive.Fortunately, he has learned some fonts, so it doesn't take too much effort to look at them.

The content of the memorial is what Lin Ruxuan said today, and Li Xian said to himself: "There is still half a month left in the spring exam...why are you in such a hurry to hand in the papers? Afraid that I will appoint someone else as an assistant examiner? Together these two people... this year The results of..."

He shook his head, dipped in the ink with a brush, and approved the word "Zhun".Opening the next copy, he said with a smile, "Second brother's? What happened today?"

Li Ling analyzed the officials involved in Zhao Tiao's case in detail, listed all the officials who could continue to be employed, and explained the reasons one by one, so that the memorial was as long as ten pages.Li Xian got a headache from reading it, so he turned to the last page and wrote the word "Xiao".

Next is the notebook written by Wang Chengyu, the minister of the Ministry of Water, which is a speculation on the direction of drought and flood. Li Xian read it patiently, frowned, and still approved "Xiao".

There were also memorials for the other five volumes, and there were still a few scattered ones, and of course Lin Lao Gudong was the last one.He yawned and finished the approval, and wanted to go back to the bedroom to catch up on sleep, but just as he stepped out the door, he remembered something, turned back and hugged the flowerpot together with the dragon inside before leaving.

Li Ye came over in the afternoon, and Li Xian slept so hard that he didn't know what year it was, and he didn't realize that he actually took the dragon out of the flower pot and played with it.This spring sleepiness... is really powerful.

Mo Wen was bullied by Li Ye again, feeling very upset, he walked away from Crouching Phoenix Palace, returned to Yulong Palace, and forcibly pulled the little emperor up to practice archery.Li Xian was full of resentment, but Mo Wen became more energetic at night, and he tossed him for a long time before letting him go.Li Xian was exhausted, thinking in his heart, spring is here, isn't this dragon... in heat?

As if to confirm his guess, Mo Wen remained in this state for the next few days...

So it's February [-]nd...

Ji Yuncheng had already taken Wang Chengyu and a group of people to Lianghuai to pray for rain, but Li Xian thought in his heart, who invented this February [-] praying for rain, the dragons are clearly busy in heat, they really have the ability to give you rain ? ... It's not that he is talking nonsense, if you don't believe me, take a look at Mo Wen.

Mo Wen changed his original form and lay on the roof of the Crouching Phoenix Palace to bask in the sun. Why is it the Crouching Phoenix Palace, because Li Xian is here.Why Li Xian is here, because he is avoiding him.Why is he avoiding him, because...

You know.

In fact, he didn't want to be like this either. Who told him that he didn't practice much in the past 1000 years, he didn't break the valley, he didn't give up his desires, so he was probably destined not to be able to ascend to immortality in this life, so he was destined to be a divine beast.Divine Beast Divine Beast, although it has brought a "god", it is still a "beast" after all. This animal nature has come up... He seems to be unable to restrain himself.

His cultivation level is considered unfathomable in the human world, but in the dragon world... it is probably not in the middle and lower reaches.Of course, he would not say such words, he wanted to maintain his dignity as a dragon.

Li Xian played chess with Li Ye in Crouching Phoenix Palace, both of them were not very good at chess, they just played blindly, if Li Ling saw it, he would give them both a bloody scolding.

Li Ye landed a white stone, and waited for his younger brother to land a black stone, but he didn't see him for a long time. He raised his head and saw that his brows were frowning and his expression was not very good, so he asked, "What's wrong?"

"Third brother... I, I have a stomachache."

"Stomach pain? Have you eaten something bad? Do you want to call the imperial doctor?"

"No...no need. I seem to..."

"Don't tell me...you didn't clean up what?"

Li Xian had a fever on his face, he hesitated and said: "Okay, it seems to be..."

Li Ye was silent for a few seconds, and said, "Would you like... let me help you?"

"Uh... no, no, no need, I'll just go by myself..."

"Oh……"

Li Xian got up and left, Li Ye waited for him, then lowered his head and poured a cup of tea to drink, but when he looked up again, he saw a man in black standing in front of him, and all the tea was sprayed out of his mouth.

"Mo asked?! When did you come in!"

Mo Wen ignored him, sat down and made a black spot for Li Xian, saying: "It's your turn."

"Go to hell!" Li Ye threw the chess piece between his fingers back into the chess box, "Who wants to play chess with you!"

"Are you so unconfident in your chess skills?"

"I said Mo Wen." He patted his cheek exaggeratedly, "Can you always show some face? You have lived for more than 1000 years, and I have only lived for 22 years. It is your... one-fiftieth Have you? I'll play chess with you? Oh, unless I'm out of my mind."

"..."

"Also, I said that you have lived for more than 1000 years. Can you be considerate of our little Xian? With his small body, can he withstand such a toss from you?"

Mo Wen was speechless for a long while before saying, "I'll pay attention next time."

"Attention, attention, what a fart." Li Ye put the teacup in front of him, "Drink tea."

After drinking the cup of tea, Li Xian also came back. When he saw Mo Wen, he immediately yelled, "How dare I come in here!"

"Little Xian..."

"Third brother, take care of him!"

"Alas," Li Ye kowtowed the melon seeds and shrugged, "I can't control it."

"Xiao Xian..." Mo Wen wanted to hold his hand, but Li Xian took a few steps back to avoid him. He immediately felt very uncomfortable, and said with some guilt, "I... won't touch you today, okay?"

"Not allowed to touch tomorrow."

"...Okay, I won't touch it tomorrow."

"Not even the day after tomorrow!"

"I listen to you."

Li Xian looked at him and said, "Why do I feel that the credibility is not high?"

Mo Wen sighed, "Really, if you don't believe me, I'll leave now."

"Where?"

"Let's go find the mother dragon to vent my desire." Li Ye said something sarcastic, and continued to knock melon seeds.

"Really?"

"...Well, really."

"..."

"I'm leaving."

"Hey! You wait!"

Li Xian called him but didn't stop, so he could only stare at Li Ye: "What nonsense are you talking about!"

"Why am I talking nonsense? Look, he admitted it."

"Really..." Li Xian muttered something, but Li Ye didn't hear him clearly, so he turned around and walked towards the door, and couldn't help but stop him: "Hey! Come back! Where are you going?"

"He's gone, why should I stay with you? I'm going back!"

"...Hey!" Li Ye took a sip of tea, "This ungrateful little bastard..."

Mo Wen really left after he said he would leave. Li Xian searched all over the palace, and even asked people to climb to the top of the main hall, but he couldn't find him, so he gave up resentfully.

On February [-]nd, the dragon raises its head... You stupid dragon, should you raise your head or not?

It was already late at night when Mo Wen came back, he sneaked back to Yulong Palace, and found that Li Xian had already fallen asleep, stood by the bed and looked at his sleeping face for a while, still couldn't help but kissed his temple, but Unexpectedly, Li Xian woke up and subconsciously grabbed his cuff.

"... Did it wake you up?"

"No." Li Xian was a little confused, looked at him for two seconds before saying, "I'm not asleep...you're back."

"Ah."

"where did you go?"

"...to find the mother dragon."

"Really?"

"real."

"..."

Mo Wen smiled, sat down beside the bed, and said, "Do you think I am the same as those beasts?"

Li Xian put his arms behind his head, looked at him, seemed to think about it seriously, and said, "It's different."

"Then do you think I'm going to find the mother dragon?"

"Well……"

Mo Wen stretched out his hand and lightly touched his cheek, "I went back to Dragon Valley and went to find my sister. Is it... a female dragon?"

"Do you have a sister?"

"Yes. It's just that... unlike humans, dragons have very little awareness of kinship. She and I... are just brothers and sisters in name, and we don't actually have any relationship."

"Then why did you go to her?"

"I'm going to get something. I left it with her when I left Dragon Valley, and now I'm going to get it back."

"what?"

"This... I won't tell you."

Li Xian turned over and sat up, "Hey, you're lying, didn't we agree not to lie to each other? It's only been a few days..."

"I...but..." Mo Wen was at a loss for words, "I told you everything, isn't there no surprise at all?"

"What surprise do you want to surprise me with?"

"Next year will be your crowning ceremony."

Li Xian felt baffled, "What crowning ceremony? I was crowned at the age of 16."

"That's different. Next year is when you'll really be an adult."

"so?"

"I'll tell you when the time comes, okay?"

Li Xian curled his lips, "You've been working on it for a year... Isn't it just a birthday present? What are you talking about whether you're an adult or not... It's so mysterious, I still won't say it."

"..."

"Okay, I won't ask, you can tell me when the time comes."

"Okay..." Mo Wen rubbed his head, "It's late, go to sleep."