I, the younger brother of King Zhou, lead the Taoist ancestors to do business

In order to prevent the dishes from being washed away by the water, Ao Bing drove away the water in his palace in advance.

After setting up the plate, he was about to go to call Ao Guang, and Ao Guang arrived in time.

Ao Bing was about to introduce these dishes to his father, but Ao Guang waved his hand, went straight to the stone bench and sat down.

Ao Bing:?

"Father...", he called.

Ao Guang ignored it, he beckoned to the palace and said: "Go, bring a pair of chopsticks."

Seeing Ao Guang eat these dishes, it was a big deal for Ao Bing.He thought Ao Guang was ignorant, so he hurriedly reminded Ao Guang before Ao Guang picked up the food.

"Father, these dishes are made of jellyfish and..."

Ao Guang interrupted him, "You know more? Is this king blind or something? Could it be that this king has lived in the sea for so many years and still can't recognize what these things are?"

Ao Bing:?

"Father, didn't you say before that even if these dishes are ready and placed in front of you, you wouldn't move your chopsticks?"

Ao Guang raised his head and frowned and said to Ao Bing: "Bing'er, what did your father tell you before? Don't talk on the sidelines during the meal, not to mention that you are the third prince of the East China Sea Dragon Palace. How can you turn right and wrong and make something out of nothing? This When did the Huaben King say that?!"

Ao Bing:? ? ?

Ao Bing: ...

Ao Guang frowned at first, but when he bit down the vegetable clip, his brows visibly relaxed.

He tasted the dishes one by one. The Dragon King of the East China Sea, who was originally a man of etiquette, was more casual when eating the dishes at this moment, and the chopsticks were clamping faster and faster.

The more he eats, the happier he feels.

Prime Minister Gui swallowed his saliva all the time, how could Ao Guang not hear it?

If it was his own son, he would naturally not give points for these meals.But after all, Prime Minister Gui is an old minister who has been with him for many years, no matter what he does, he has to give the other party a try.

After Ao Guang had eaten nearly half of the food, he "suddenly remembered", and hurriedly asked Prime Minister Gui to bring a pair of chopsticks.

After taking a bite of the dish, Prime Minister Gui's eyes lit up, and he pointed to the table dish and said in surprise: "Your Majesty, I have lived for so many years but have never tasted such delicious dishes."

Ao Guang didn't need Prime Minister Gui to tell him that he could taste it himself. He nodded in approval, and Yilong Yigui turned his eyes to this pot of crucian carp and kelp soup at the same time.

The crucian carp kelp soup has the only fish on the table.They are used to seeing living things, even if they eat fish, they swallow it in one gulp, but they have never seen crucian carp in such a form.

One dragon and one turtle lamented at the same time, but they were unconsciously attracted by the umami of the soup.

The palace people had already brought two spoons, Ao Guang and Prime Minister Gui each took a spoonful.

"Hey, it's really cruel." Ao Guang drank the soup after finishing speaking.

"Yes." Prime Minister Turtle sighed.

When the soup smeared on the tongue and filled the mouth with a fresh fragrance, Yilong and Gui fell silent.

At the same time, the two scooped up a big spoon for themselves and poured it into a bowl, and began to drink it with gusto. It seemed that the lament just now had never happened.

After eating and drinking, they raised their heads.For some reason, the surrounding creatures seemed to have changed in their eyes.

hiss……

Shrimp Soldier and Crab General trembled in the face of the familiar eyes.

Prime Minister Turtle stroked his beard and nodded slightly.He can't completely blame the Third Highness, it's understandable if he thinks about it.

Ao Guang has never been so satisfied like today. After eating, he touched his stomach and said to Ao Bing: "Bing'er, you are not young anymore, you shouldn't live in the palace all day, you should go out often. Let's Although they belong to the aquarium, it is really normal to make human friends.

In my opinion, the little doll named "Zisheng" you mentioned earlier is not bad, if you have nothing to do, play with others more.

Don't worry about people giving you gifts, and don't despise other people's little dolls if they give you some food.After all, human beings are not as rich as the Dragon Palace, and the father is not a narrow-minded person who is mercenary. I think the baby has a good heart. If you dislike it, the father will not dislike it.If you have nothing to do, you can bring those meals to the father, and the father will help you return the gift. "

Ao Bing: ...

Father, can your intention be more obvious?

Besides, how can I dislike Zisheng's food, I can't get enough of it myself.

At this moment, a crab will suddenly report.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, two more child corpses floated in the sea, which should have been thrown by priests from nearby villages. When we found out, the children had already lost their life."

Ao Guang was silent after listening, and then threw the chopsticks on the table.

"Throwing dolls again? So many shrimp soldiers and crabs will not be enough. What do we need so many dolls? If it is a good offering, we only need to put a few sticks of incense in the temple and get some offerings on land. Children have spirits, even If you let me swallow it, how can I swallow it?"

Prime Minister Gui smacked his lips, "Swallow the spiritual thing and prick the throat and stomach, besides, this child is not tasty, not as good as ordinary fish and shrimp."

Ao Bing only knows one human friend, Zisheng, and he is not familiar with other humans.If it weren't for the fact that humans would use incense to sacrifice, even the human race would not be as important as ordinary fish and shrimp in his eyes.

He was silent and didn't take it to heart.Just thinking of what human beings want, he turned his head to face Ao Guang.

"How many rains, how much water, and how much time will fall every year, the heavens have already been divided. Even if human beings offer sacrifices to precious objects, we can't change the fate for them, otherwise it will be the day we die."

Ao Guang stroked his beard, "What Bing'er said is right. However, human beings have sacrificed to me for many years, and I have not treated them badly. I drive away the spirits that stop the rain for them, and protect them within my rules. It’s a balance between the two.”

Sacrificing children is a matter for human beings, and Dragon Palace doesn't want to care about it.After a while, they put the matter behind them.

Ao Guang ate all the dishes, but Ao Bing didn't eat a single bite.He was unwilling, so he flew out of the Dragon Palace, ready to find Zisheng again.

-

At this time, Chaoge's street market.

A couple with haggard faces, dull eyes, and ragged clothes were wandering through the crowd in a daze.

The woman didn't know how many times she fell in the mud, and the tears mixed with the mud made her cheeks and hair very messy.

Her voice was hoarse, almost silent, and the thin and rough voice seemed to be torn out of her throat.

"Dog... Where did the dog go... Mother is here!"

The man supported the woman, his face was even paler, his body seemed to be dehydrated, and he was very weak.His clothes were already dirty, holes were worn out at the knees, and the skin had been scratched inside.

Passers-by muttered beside him.

"What happened to these two?"

"Didn't you hear it? The child is lost."

"Hiss...why don't you take good care of the child? Hey, if it's sold as a slave, at least there's still a way to survive. If it's used as a gift to the Dragon King, I'm afraid I'm really dead."

"Well, nine times out of ten the child won't be found. But what are they doing here?"

"I heard that they know that their abilities are weak, and there are many nobles in Chaoge. They come to beg the nobles and ask the nobles to help them find them."

"Ah? What are you thinking? Are they dreaming? Why would your lord control us to death..." Before the man finished speaking, he quickly covered his mouth.

The person next to him glanced at him and sighed, "Hey, why bother with us? Our lives are worthless. I haven't heard of any nobleman who will help us."

The man smiled wryly as he spoke, "Forget it, don't read it, my family has no food this month, and I don't know how to live in the future."

"Do you know? It's on Xiqi's side. I heard that Xibo Houji is very kind to the people in his territory. If something really happened, if you ask him, the old man, there will be a chance of life."

"I've heard that too, but it's a pity that there is only one Xibohou. People from all over the place are flocking to Xiqi, and Xiqi can't live anymore. Now that the inspections are strict everywhere, we are not allowed to go out. I am afraid we can only stay here. There's nowhere else to escape."

The eyes of the couple were ashen, like firewood being extinguished, and the last bit of heat dissipated.

The woman looked around blankly, and suddenly burst into tears.

The man sat on the ground all of a sudden, his eyes glazed over, and his energy was almost invisible.

Who doesn't have children?

Seeing this scene, people turned their heads one after another, full of unbearable.

People sigh, they would help if they could, but they can't even care about themselves.

"Why are you crying?" The crowd dispersed, and a six or seven-year-old child who looked like a fairy boy and was well-dressed walked up to the couple from the crowd.

Beside him was a young man, dressed in blue, who also had an extraordinary temperament.

The woman was at a loss at first, but after she realized it, she hurriedly crawled over.

"Master! Master, save my dog. He is our life. Without him, we can't live!"

The woman seemed to have caught a life-saving straw, she burst into tears, her eyes were sincere.She didn't know where the strength came from when she was almost unable to make a sound, and she cried a lot.

"Just wait, let me take a look." Zisheng could feel the woman's anxiety, so he didn't delay, and counted quickly with his palms.

The people didn't know that he knew how to do divination, but they were very surprised to see that he agreed.

Is there any nobleman who is so easy to talk to?

But there are nobles... who will care about their life and death?

A gleam of hope lit up the man's originally empty and cloudy eyes.He was at a loss and stumbled close to Zisheng, weeping with joy.

"Thank you son! Thank you son!"

Ao Bing was a little surprised to find that Zisheng knew how to do divination.But after all, he is well-informed and has seen many mortals use fairy arts.What surprised him was that after playing with Zisheng for so long, he didn't know that Zisheng could do divination until now.

After Zi Sheng calculated, he immediately understood the reason.He turned his head to look at Ao Bing, and then turned his head to face the couple.

"I calculated...he is going to be sacrificed to the river god."

The couple went limp for a moment.Others were still wondering how Zisheng knew, but the couple's faces were ashen and lifeless.

Although Zisheng could understand the feelings of the couple, he didn't understand why they were so defeated.

Zi Sheng frowned, "You two don't need to be so worried. Although the dog is going to be sacrificed to the river god, it's not like he's dead right now. I calculate that his disaster will be tomorrow. If he catches up, the dog will still be saved."

He was talking, but Ao Bing grabbed his wrist, and Ao Bing looked at him disapprovingly.

"Zisheng don't want to say that. This child's life is almost at the end of his life. He is destined to sink in the sea. How can you disobey the fate? If you disobey the fate, there will be a catastrophe, or you will have to pay for it. For a stranger Mortal, is Zi Sheng worth doing this?"

Zisheng got stuck, not because Ao Bing hit him, but because at this moment he realized the ideological gap between the two people of different eras.

Ao Bing is different from him in thinking, but he is not qualified to stand at the forefront of the times and accuse Ao Bing of being backward in thinking.

He looked at the looming blue pattern on Ao Bing's forehead, and Ao Bing's real body appeared in his mind, and he told a story for Ao Bing in a detour.

"Destiny...Brother Ao, I also remembered a story. But the protagonist of this story is a dragon. I don't know if Brother Ao will not agree with him because he is separated from our race?"

dragon?

Ao Bing's ears twitched, curiosity flashed in his eyes, and the matter of human life had been put aside by him.

"Zisheng said bluntly, I have heard relatives tell stories about dragons since I was a child. If Zisheng tells it, I think I can empathize with it."

Zisheng thought for a while, and then told Ao Bing the story of Nezha making trouble in the sea.Because of his incomplete memory, many details have been forgotten.

"Once upon a time, there was a woman who was pregnant for three years and gave birth to a strange boy. He was born with immortal skills, and an immortal gave him two treasures, so he was quite arrogant.

Later, he took a bath in the sea, and his magic weapon disturbed the whole Dragon Palace.

Prince Long sent his subordinates to watch, but the subordinates were beaten to death by the strange boy after they went out.

Prince Long went out again, but was beaten to death by the strange boy again, and his dragon tendons were pulled away. "

Ao Bing was already dazed after hearing this. The name Long Taizi gave him a sense of identity so much that he became angry, "What happened next? How could Dragon Palace let this strange boy go?"

"Of course the Dragon Palace will not let the strange boy go, and also punished the strange boy. It's just that someone told the Dragon King later that your son is destined to be beaten to death by the strange boy."

Ao Bing: ...

Ao Bing was so angry that he could hardly breathe, "Destiny? Fuck its destiny! How could it be like this, how could it treat Prince Long like this!"

He was just an outsider, so he was so angry with the story.If Prince Long knew about this before his death, he would probably faint from anger.

Heaven is ruthless, destiny is irrational!