"Speaking of..."
After devoting himself to work, the scholar also remembered some things that he had forgotten.
When he was about to leave, the people from Qintianjian once came to him and told him that there might be evil dragons in Lishui, and gave him a stack of talisman papers, which are said to be used to prevent evil dragons from destroying the construction site.
Originally, he studied sage books hard since he was a child, disrespecting ghosts and gods and respecting heaven and earth, so naturally he didn't believe in the existence of such things as dragons.
Unexpectedly, after returning to Jiang Jin for a few days, all the worldviews he had built up over the past ten years were overturned by the land god Lolita.
If the land god exists, will the dragon also exist
The scholar frowned when he thought of the dragon's ability to hang the sky in mythology.
So he was a little impatient, and called his staff, and asked him to get the talisman papers he had left in the mansion, and planned to stick them on the construction site just in case.
However, it turned out that he was a little slower. Not long after the staff left, a strong wind began to blow on the calm river. What was even more unreasonable was that the clouds in the sky turned towards this side even though there was a strong wind. Gathered.
"The wind follows the tiger and the cloud follows the dragon..."
The scholar standing on the attic by the river muttered to himself.
At the same time, the clouds in the sky also suddenly pressed down. The poem says "black clouds overwhelm the city and want to destroy it". Although the clouds are not black clouds at this time, their momentum is not lost at all, as if they are about to overwhelm him in the attic. Pressed into minced meat!
The scholar put his hands behind his back, facing the pressing clouds motionlessly.
The next moment, the cloud hit him, but it was like passing through the fog, without any feeling.
It's just that the surroundings are so white that you can't see anything.
A moment later, a voice came from in front of him.
"Why don't you hide?"
The scholar looked forward, in what should have been an empty place, a handsome young man about his age but with a face like a crown jade was standing in the air, looking at him with piercing eyes.
"My life is open and aboveboard, I have never done anything wrong, why do I hide?"
If it were him who came two days ago, he would probably have been scared to death, but now he is ashamed, not even afraid of death, is it possible that he is still afraid of a dragon? So he replied neither humble nor overbearing.
"You are so courageous. Are you really not afraid that the Lishui River God will punish you?" The handsome young man... well, I guess you all know that this guy is the Lishui Dragon King, and the Dragon King asked in admiration. .
"I am a courtier of the Great Song Sage. I obey His Majesty and represent the imperial court. I am helping the common people. Regardless of that point, it has nothing to do with the so-called gods."
The scholar shook his head and said.
"How dare you, I'll see if you still dare to say that in the future!"
Lishui Dragon King laughed twice, transformed himself into a huge dragon, its size is so huge, it is faintly visible in the clouds and mist, and even the scholar can't get a glimpse of its whole picture. It can swallow the entire riverside attic in one gulp!
Facing the huge monster far beyond imagination, the scholar found that his heart was never at peace.
This gave him the illusion that "maybe it's better for him to be eaten here", at least he doesn't have to continue to feel uncomfortable.
"Tch," the Lishui Dragon King, who found that he failed to frighten the other party, could only change back to human form—although immortals are not incapable of killing mortals, Ao Li himself is not the type of bloodthirsty, and Zhuo Under the cumulative infection of Xiangzhu, it is no longer harmful to human life. Occasionally, when someone falls into the water, he will order the aquarium to push the human back to the shore (this has added a lot of legends about water monkeys to Jiang Jin); secondly, this guy His identity is also too sensitive. If I eat him in one bite, it will give people a feeling of murder. This will make the proud and arrogant Lord Dragon King very unhappy, so from the beginning, Ao Li did not intend to kill this guy. , just to make him look ugly: "It seems that this king underestimated your courage!"
"It seems that I also overestimated your courage."
The scholar didn't know why he wanted to offend the other party, but a feeling of gnawing in his throat made him blurt out the words without thinking.
Obviously his words ignited the Dragon King's anger, and made the Dragon King who had just come here to pretend to be aggressive really angry.
"A mere mortal dares to say such a thing, and I don't know who gave you the guts!" He sneered, "Okay, I will give you a day to get all the peasants on the construction site to evacuate, otherwise tomorrow you will be killed!" When this king floods the construction site, don't say that this king is reckless!"
"..."
The scholar stared at the Dragon King silently.
"By the way, don't think that the talismans in your mansion can keep them safe. Maybe the talismans made by your human magicians will be useful to some small gods, but they will definitely not be useful to this king. If you don't believe me, You can gamble with those tens of thousands of peasants who are serving corvee!"
The Dragon King continued.
This made the scholar's face change a little, but it was not the look of panic or panic that the Dragon King wanted to see, but it was closer to some kind of "determined" expression (of course not -_- such a face ).
It seemed that his goal could not be achieved, so the Dragon King snorted coldly, rolled up the clouds and disappeared like that.
After that, it took another half an hour before the scholar's staff rushed to the attic with a cloth bag full of talismans.
"Sir, do you want to post these things?" He asked the scholar curiously.
"No need, prepare the horse for me." The scholar shook his head.
"Where are you going?"
"Earth Temple."
…
Leaving the staff who lamented because his master had entered and exited the Earth Temple many times, and seemed to have a tendency to "not ask the common people, ask ghosts and gods", the scholar walked into the Earth Temple again, which he thought he would never come back to in his life.
Then he rang the bell again, which he almost threw away because he was afraid of seeing things and thinking about others.
Not long after, the land god loli appeared in front of him, because it seemed to show him her identity, and there was no need for a taboo relationship. This time, the land god loli no longer came in through the back door of the earth temple, but like a mushroom grow out of the ground.
This surprised the scholar a little.
"What's the matter?" Land God Loli stared at the scholar suspiciously: "Could it be regret?"
"I want to ask, if you said before, if you fulfill a wish for me, do you still count?"
The scholar asked straight to the point.
"What people are talking about is the realization of wishes within their ability. After all, even if we are the land god, we are not omnipotent." Lori, the land god, explained: "There was a guy named Kong Qiu who also got the land god. Promise, but the wish he made was world peace, and he cried very sadly after being told that it could not be realized."
"..."
Don't cry, Master Confucius, your tall image in my heart is about to collapse, okay? (Note)
Even though there was no such thing as complaining in ancient times, the scholar felt that there seemed to be such words in his heart that were ready to come out.
So he tried his best to suppress his desire to complain, and said seriously: "Don't worry, I still have some sense of propriety, but before I do that, I want to ask, which one is more powerful, the river god or the land god?"