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Ao Ruo stood up, solemnly gave a big gift to Cun Xin and said: "Third Princess, I was the only one who lied to you before, no, Ao Ruo apologized to you. Now I just ask you to be magnanimous and help me, Ao Ruo I will be your slave and servant in this life, even though there are difficulties and dangers, I will definitely die." After saying that, he knelt down on the ground, bowed down and bowed again.

Cun Xin was shocked, she stood up hurriedly to help Aoruo, but Aoruo refused to get up.Cun Xin had no choice but to kneel down and sit down, thinking for a while before saying: "Ao Ruo, you and I are brothers of the same clan, if I can help you, naturally I won't stand idly by. It's just that casting a dragon body for a mortal is a major event against the heavens. Although Xin Tian Tiao is generous, he cannot just sit back and watch you change the fate of ordinary people. Besides, as the Dragon King, you continue to live for a man regardless of the punishment of heaven, if this gets out..."

Ao Ruo raised his head, wiped his tears with his sleeve, choked with sobs and said, "You are not me, so you don't know the pain in my heart." He tried hard to hold back the tears, "A year ago my father Wang Xian went, and after a court meeting, I heard the god of Minshan mention It turns out that in recent years, some mountain people came from far away to worship the Lingshu Well, praying for good weather.” Ao Ruo thought back to the last time he inspected the well, but there was no abnormality at all, and he couldn't help being surprised, thinking that maybe it was his own negligence.So that night, I went back to the small village and found Wang Mama and Cheng Jiao. I only said that I was visiting relatives again, passing by here, and I came here to thank them.Cheng Jiao was very surprised to see him wearing a Futou, Ao Ruo hurriedly explained the situation, only concealing that he was the Dragon King of Minjiang River, the three of them laughed and ignored it.

In the evening, Mama Wang stayed for dinner, and Ao Ruo didn't refuse. When the meal was over, Ao Ruo asked about the sacrifice to the well. , but to seek auspiciousness, and to store water in the well to cure diseases during the hot summer.In the summer of the previous year, the village chief had some wind and cold, so he postponed the well sacrifice. Unexpectedly, there was a strong wind that day, black clouds rose from the well, and there were hailstones as big as sparrow eggs, which damaged many crops.Now the whole village was shocked, they hurriedly prepared white chickens and black dogs, and invited Taoist priests from Guankou City to come to sacrifice in person. It took three to five days to give up.Last summer, I didn't dare to be negligent, and I acted like this again, and nothing happened.

Ao Ruo said: "I don't know well, this must be some evil animal in the Minjiang River, sneaked into this well along the waterway, and absorbed the spiritual energy of Minshan Mountain. If you don't make trouble, you can ignore him, but now you are a little dissatisfied. For disasters in the city, I, as the Dragon King, protect one side, how can I sit idly by?"

"I stayed at Chengjiao's house that night, and because we were both men, we fell asleep." Ao Ruo took a quick look at her and saw that she was listening attentively. After a while, he said, "I got up secretly at night and came to Ling Rinse the well, transform into a dragon body and go down to investigate, but still can't find any trace of that evil animal. After traveling five miles back along the waterway, I found a cave at the bottom of Minshan Mountain."

The opening of this cave is only about three feet wide, and it is opened under the cliff. The huge rock stands on its side as high as a hundred feet, with no head above and no end below.Looking from the entrance, the cave was pitch black, and there were clanging sounds from time to time, as if someone was knocking on weapons.Ao Ruo's dragon body grew too big to hold it, so she turned into a human body again, stepping on the water and swimming in quietly along the entrance of the cave.Aoruo carefully looked at the universe inside the cave, but it turns out that there are holes in the cave, rings are intertwined, and the sections are connected, half of which is water, and the other half is actually air. Such as the sound of bells and drums, the sound of this weapon is obtained in this way.Ao Ruo secretly laughed at herself as a soldier, just about to turn around, when the sole of her foot stepped on something, wet and slippery, sticky and boneless, it looked like a huge loach.Before he could look at it, the thing had jumped out of the water, and a jet of black mist sprayed out from his pocket, covering Ao Ruo immediately.That Ao Ruo's eyes were in severe pain, and she couldn't see anything. In desperation, she hugged the monster's body tightly.The monster turned and couldn't get away, so it dragged Ao Ruo to swim out to the entrance of the cave.

As soon as he got out of the cave and entered the river, the black mist was washed away a lot, Ao Ruo's eyes could see a little, and he immediately shook off the monster and swam towards the way he came.Ao Ruo was originally a Dragon God, usually he was very unhappy in the water to cut through the wind and waves, but today his eyes were injured, and he could barely see the waterway with the faint light, and there was that monster chasing after him, he couldn't help being terrified.After finally swimming into the well, the monster was still pressing hard behind him. Anxious, Ao Ruo supported the well wall with both arms, jumped out of the well mouth, and fell on the sand beside the well.Regardless of the pain in his body, he got up and ran, but was bumped into someone's arms.The man grabbed him and said, "Brother Ao, what's wrong with you? Why did you fall into the well again?" When Ao Ruo saw it, it was Cheng Jiao.

It turned out that Chengjiao woke up at night and did not see Aoruo, so he came to look for him with a lamp, but he ran into Aoruo who jumped out of the well and fled.Seeing that Ao Ruo was soaked and embarrassed, Na Chengjiao covered his eyes with one hand, as if he had been seriously injured, when he was about to ask, he saw black mist rising from the well, forming a cloud in a flash, and countless hailstones fell from the cloud, hitting the two of them heavily body.Cheng Jiao didn't care about that much, he squatted down and carried Ao Ruo on his back and ran wildly.Stumbling and running for tens of feet, the black cloud couldn't keep up with the two of them, and it moved away from the wellhead, gradually dissipating, the cloud gathered and the rain stopped, revealing a bright moon.

Cheng Jiao put Ao Ruo down, his feet went limp, the two of them fell to the ground, unable to get up for a long time.Cheng Jiao was lying on the muddy grass, soaked all over his body, he couldn't tell whether it was rain or sweat, he turned his head and saw Ao Ruo who was sitting cross-legged on his own, Ao Ruo was also looking at him, their faces It was all mud, and it was washed away by the rain one by one, and they couldn't help looking at each other and laughing loudly.

"Brother Wang..." Ao Ruo, who was calmed by the laughter, was about to speak, Cheng Jiao raised his hand to stop him, and said with a smile: "Brother Ao, you don't need to explain, I know you are not an ordinary person. Don't worry, I won't tell my mother, and I won't tell anyone." Ao Ruo felt relieved, on the one hand, she admired Cheng Jiao for not leaving him in times of crisis, and on the other hand, she sighed that he was so exquisitely connected with her own mind, that she couldn't find anything to say for a while. can be said.After a short rest, Cheng Jiao got up, helped Aoruo back home, and said to his mother that the two of them were enjoying the moon by the well in the middle of the night, but they were suddenly hit by heavy rain and hail, so they returned in embarrassment, and Wang's mother didn't argue.

Ao Ruo lived in Wang's house for a few more days, and his eye disease gradually recovered. Because he was worried about the affairs of the Dragon Palace, he wanted to report the matter of Ling Shujing to Xihai.Cheng Jiao didn't stay too much, he only came to sit in his free time, but Mother Wang reluctantly gave a lot of advice, which made Ao Ruo very emotional.Ao Ruo went back to the Minjiang River without delay, and immediately sent someone to report to Prince Xihai Moang, saying that there was something strange about the drought in the Minjiang River, and asked His Royal Highness to send competent people to check it out.

This chapter is over, Ao Ruo is anxious and just paces in the Dragon Palace.Suddenly, I caught a glimpse of a pair of bronze censers in the corner of the hall with gold carved flowers. Also live up to Haoyue Qingfeng.Thinking of this, Ao Ruo immediately took the pair of incense burners and drove straight to Minshan Mountain.

Cheng Jiao was reading a book by the window when suddenly a gust of wind blew by, and he saw Ao Ruo standing in front of him with a smile on his face.Cheng Jiao was overjoyed, he threw away his book and stood up, took a few steps forward, then stopped with restraint, clasped his fists in the air and said: "Brother Ao, don't come here without any harm!" He took out the pair of Suanni incense burners and said with a smile, "What do you think this is?"

Cheng Jiao took the censer, put it on the desk and looked at it carefully, then raised his head and said, "Brother Ao has a heart. I just mentioned that, so you can give it to me." Ao Ruo approached and said with a smile: "This Is it good for the 狻猊 incense burner, is it worthy of your poem?" Cheng Jiao's originally stretched eyebrows frowned again, and sighed: "The dragon has nine sons, and the eighth son is named Suan Ni. Like a lion, it likes to smoke and is easy to sit on. People often use it to decorate incense burners, and a pair is the best." He picked up an incense burner in one hand, and put down the male 狻猊, only holding the female 狻猊 to look carefully, and then looked at it. Glancing at Ao Ruo, he put this one lightly on the desk, walked to the desk, moistened the ink with a pen, and wrote a few sentences quickly.When Ao Ruo looked at it, it was a poem:

The sky is beautiful and it is raining, and the teacher on the Suan Ni seat speaks.Bitter but happy, happy but bitter, from Lu to gold suddenly like dirt.

After finishing writing, he picked up the paper, dried the ink, and handed it to Ao Ruo.For some reason, Ao Ruo felt dejected, raised her head and wanted to say something, but stopped.

From the moon to the middle of the sky, slanting light came in from the open window lattice, and the room was bright, like a milky white gauze draped over the shoulders of the two of them, and they looked at each other speechlessly for a while.After an unknown amount of time, Cheng Jiao smiled sadly and said, "Brother Ao, don't come here again." Ao Ruo suddenly raised her head, looking at Cheng Jiao with surprised eyes.Seeing the young man with his back facing him, his thin back looked very lonely in the moonlight, Ao Ruo couldn't feel tears in his eyes, and choked up, "Brother Wang, I..."

Cheng Jiao waved his hand, turned around and said, "When I first saw you, I knew Brother Ao was not ordinary. You appeared from the well, and your surname is Ao, I... more or less know it." He With a long sigh, he said again: "I am an ordinary person, there is a world of difference between you and me, and it was irrelevant. Now God has favored you, allowing you and me to meet each other, which is already a rare odd number." .”

He held up the pair of censers, handed them to Ao Ruo with great care, and said, "This gift is a precious gift. Unfortunately, I am not blessed to accept it, so you can take it back. If you meet again by fate in the future, please give me a bow and a smile." Turning his back, he waved his hand resolutely, and said no more.

Ao Ruo's face was full of sadness, and she almost shed tears while holding the censer in her hand, but she also said that she had nothing to say.Suppressing a sigh, he turned and left.When passing by Lingshu Well, I couldn't bear it any longer, so I cried loudly on the platform of the well. Before leaving, I threw the censer in my sleeve and turned it into two stone lions. The cub under it turns into a hydrangea like the male lion.

After passing through Minshan for several times, Ao Ruo resisted not to leave the cloud, until Qingming this year, when he happened to catch a glimpse of Mama Wang crying beside the mountain road on the cloud, he was terrified, fell to the ground in a hurry, and went forward to greet Mama Wang .When Wang Mama saw Ao Ruo, she was surprised and said: "Jiao'er told me, you moved your family to Chang'an, why did you come back?"

Ao Ruo was stunned for a moment, and had to excuse himself to go back to his hometown to pay respects to his ancestors. Mother Wang also said, "That's right, I just went to pay respects to Jiao'er's father at the ancestral grave." Unable to hear this sound, he wiped away his tears and said: "You haven't come for a long time, so you don't know, Jiao'er...Jiao'er, he, his life is not long!"

Ao Ruoru was killed by lightning, and when she stood there, she heard Wang's mother say that since Cheng Jiao left Ao Ruo last autumn, she fell ill and was bedridden intermittently until this spring. God worships Buddha, but it is like a glass of water splashed on the beach, and nothing is good.Before and after Qingming, people can no longer be recognized.Ao Ruo felt flustered, so she calmed down and said, "Mom, don't worry, my family has practiced medicine for generations, and when I check Cheng Jiao's pulse and prescribe a prescription, he will surely recover."

Ao Ruo immediately went home with Wang Mama, and he was stunned as soon as he entered the door.That Chengjiao has now become as thin as a bone, his face is waxy and he sleeps on the bed at dusk, how can he be as suave and unrestrained as he was reciting poems under the moon last year and writing inscriptions by the window last year?Ao Ruo rushed forward, supported Cheng Jiao's slender wrist, and rested her three fingers on the Cunkou.For a moment, Xu Ao Ruo took a breath of cold air, until he was dripping with sweat—Chengjiao's pulse, like a shrimp swimming on the skin, at first it was motionless, and Shaoqing went away suddenly, and then came back suddenly after a long time, it was the image of a dead pulse !