Prison Dragon

Snowing.

I raised my hand, and the snowflakes fell gently on my palm like goose feathers and slowly melted into water, and then evaporated by the body temperature.

I don't feel cold yet, and I may be frozen in a while.

People from the Ministry of Internal Affairs would definitely not think of sending charcoal to mother. It's so cold at night, and I don't know if mother can fall asleep.

Concubine Xian, can you let me go earlier?

It seems impossible.

I looked at the second brother who came out of the Zhongcui Palace, and I probably had a point about what happened to me next.

"Second Brother." I kowtowed and lowered my head and body.

Without saying a word, the fat little brother Erhuang kicked me in the chest and knocked me to the ground.

There was a sharp pain in my chest, and it was pitch black before my eyes. Before I could catch my breath, I heard his shrill voice yelling: "I can't even salute, the son of a singing girl knows the rules."

He read "prostitute" long and heavy.

I fiddled with my frozen hands and feet and tried my best to kneel down, "Your brother is rude and ignorant, please teach me more."

The second emperor brother Yang Ti had a powerful eunuch under his command, and everyone in the palace called him Gao Lishi.Gao Lishi came forward, and I only saw his black soap boots getting bigger and bigger, like a mountain, and then he put his hand on the back of my neck, and suddenly knocked my head to the bluestone floor.

There was a humming sound in the head, and the eyes were foggy.

"You have to kowtow like this, understand?" Gao Lishi's voice was rough, and there was a bit of a woman's taste in the pretentious ending.

A dead eunuch, he has lost his job for a long time, and he can't even speak properly.

"Understood." I kowtowed in response.

I don't know how many times I knocked, I almost smashed my head to the ground with all my strength.

In the palace, pain and dignity are the privileges of the upper class. For an ant like me who can be crushed to death by nobles casually, pain and dignity are luxuries.

Survival is more important than anything else.

As long as I live, I can give and give up anything.

I have to wait until the day I become king at the age of 15, and I will leave the palace with my mother.

The second brother seemed to be laughing, but I couldn't hear him clearly. Beifeng distorted his laughter, like a cry. After I kowtowed for a while, he let me go.

My head seemed to be bleeding. I touched my forehead and found a lumpy scab of blood.Mother looked at me and didn't say anything, she just took out food for me to eat, wiped my body clean, and let me go to the bedroom to sleep.

I know she must be crying behind my back.

Isn't this kind of life normal?

When we were in the south of the Yangtze River, my mother was the sister and son by the Qinhuai River, and she had to rely on the skin and meat business to support the two of us.We all feel that such a life is very painful. She often thinks of a nobleman she received many years ago, saying that I am the child of the nobleman, and the nobleman will come back to pick us up to live a good life.

The nobleman has indeed come to pick us up, but the days of being bullied in the cold palace, is it happier than before?

This kind of thing in life is painful everywhere.

I rolled over and met a pair of black eyes.Those eyes are as quiet as an abyss, as if carrying a thousand years of desire that has never seen the light of day.

"Been beaten?" He lay on the inside of the bed with his right elbow resting on his side.

The lights had been turned off, and with the moonlight and snow light that sneaked through the window paper, he could barely see his handsome outline and bright eyes.

"It wasn't beaten." I huddled under the quilt and replied in a low voice.

"That's what you made yourself?" He sneered, "You are really useless, a fool like the second prince can step on your head."

I didn't speak, just lowered my eyes.

"Don't consider my suggestion? If you become the emperor, you won't be bullied again."

"I don't think about it." I shook my head, "Why on earth do you want me to be the emperor?"

"You are the Dragon God, and you are already extremely noble. There is no need to condescend to waste time on me. No matter whether I have the desire to win the throne, I can't be the emperor. The four emperor brothers all have powerful support, and each has its own strength. Director, I am just a child from Fireworks and Willow Lane, and even now some people doubt that I am a dragon, how can I fight for that position?"

"Since you know that I am the Dragon God," he sat up and looked down at me, "you should know who I can choose to be the emperor. Don't you mortals all say that the emperor is a real dragon? With me, a real dragon, escorting you, what are you afraid of? ?”

"You should give up this idea, Yang You just wants to be an idle prince, why don't you go to the four imperial brothers."

Although I am not smart, I firmly remember one point, and it is this point that has allowed me to live from this man-eating palace to the present——

Don't try to possess what you don't deserve, because what you don't deserve is what you don't deserve.

"Forget it," he sighed, "You have only been in the palace for two months, and you still don't understand the rules in the palace. Maybe one day you will come to me when you understand. In this palace, you eat me or I eat you." You, you want to be a rabbit eating grass, but you don’t know that there are bloodthirsty beasts here.”

He dissipated into a puff of smoke.

I have always thought that gods are both divine and clear, until I met this dragon god who called himself Ao Chen, and I didn't know that gods are also blind.

Otherwise, why does he always want me to be emperor?

The first time I saw Ao Chen was in an unknown pool in the palace.

There are rock gardens everywhere in the palace, and there is no place that is not carved with beams and painted buildings, magnificent and meticulously crafted.If you stop at will, you can see the beautiful and poetic landscape, and even the name reveals the majesty and heritage of Tianjia.

Kunlun Lake, Suzhou Street...all of them are extravagant things that I have never heard of, let alone imagined.

At that time, I was just a child who had just come out of a brothel, with a rough and vulgar look that was incompatible with the imperial palace. I was reluctant to use the gold and silver chopsticks I used to eat, and I was afraid to use the jade bowls on the table. pick up.

For this reason, the palace people often joke behind my back that I am a country boy who has never seen the world.

I don't like this kind of life. The imperial palace is a cage built with carved railings and jade, and my mother and I are locked here.

There is only one master here—the unique and supreme emperor, my father.

We are all his pets, and we will have better status and treatment only if we please him.

The master's mind is limited, so for his limited favor, all the pets in the palace will fight to the death.

In Jiangnan, I was called a wild child without a father.When I arrived at the palace and returned to my father's side, although I became a prince, I became a dog.

Gain the master's favor by begging for mercy.

I hate myself like this. Being a noble dog is better than being a boatman by the Qinhuai River.

Maybe I was the only one locked up. My mother was willing to be a canary in a cage, fed and dressed well, and there were countless servants echoing back and forth, following the nobleman, the canary seemed to have a lot of love. high status.

The girls and sisters on the Qinhuai River, whether they are gorgeous singers or elegant courtesans of concubines and fairies, all they have learned, used, and thought about is just to find a suitable and stable cage.

I have no position to blame the mother.

Whether it is the first half of her life she spent in sensuality, or the second half of her life in the palace walls.

Even for her, for us, I can beg the emperor for mercy with a forced face and a smile.

Although I feel that there is nothing in me that the emperor likes.

Maybe have a skin?I always hear him praise me for being good-looking, but there are too many good-looking people in the palace, even the few brothers are also good-looking.

I'm just too ordinary.

Even if I practice the ability to please people in private, and the emperor doesn't come to my mother at all, who will I show if I practice it?

What gave me a headache was that my mother had just entered the palace, and the emperor didn't come over once, so she discussed with me excitedly, asking me to fight for the crown prince.

I'm only ten years old, so small, but that doesn't mean I'm stupid.

The emperor has no queen and no prince, but there are four princes in front of me.

I have heard a lot of gossip from the servants in private. The mothers of the four princes are all famous families of courtiers in the previous dynasty.

Where did I get the backing and courage to compete with them for the crown prince?

It's too late to hide.

I talked to my mother several times, but she couldn't listen to it, her mind was full of superiority and taking over the heir.

I don't bother to say any more, I usually fool her casually, pretending to be a coward to the outside world, hoping not to attract the attention of others.

Mother may be thinking that the nobleman will come to pick me up one day, no matter how difficult life is, she must go to school.So although I grew up in a brothel, I read a lot of poetry and books.

My husband always criticizes me because of my identity, but after contacting me, without exception, he praises my talent and intelligence, not a thing in the pool.

My mother was even happier, probably thinking that I could become a noble person like my father in the future.

After listening to a lot of praise, I always have a feeling of arrogance, thinking that I am the best person in the world, and after more than ten years, I will not be able to say my name on the gold list.

When I first found out that my father was the emperor, I felt unspeakable excitement in my heart, but I also took it for granted that a smart child like me would naturally not have an idiot father.

I thought that the future I imagined was right at hand, and I didn't even need to go to the examination room to seek fame. My blood relationship made me a bit higher than everyone in the world.

On the night of entering the palace, the servant girl who had been following us from Jiangnan was poisoned to death.

Mother was holding a bowl of bird's nest at that time, and seeing the servant girl swallowing her saliva was very pitiful, so she gave her a few bites out of a small bowl.

She ate it before me, and died of poison immediately after eating it.

It has not yet been found out who poisoned it and how it was poisoned.

From then on, I knew that my father is the emperor under one person and above ten thousand people, but it doesn't mean that I am also. Compared with him, everyone in this palace is worthless.

Shi Shucheng does not deceive me, as an ordinary prince, the chance of ascending to a high position is very slim, compared to fighting for power, the most important thing is to save one's life.

The gods who are fighting for their inheritance, what mortals like me have to do is to avoid suffering.

I pretended to be a straw bag, but I am not a straw bag. I usually pretend to be very depressed, and I miss the free days by the river.

At that time, you could still fly kites, fight crickets, go down the river to catch fish, and if you were short of money, you would secretly bring a few books of pornography to the tribute courtyard and sell them to supervisors.

Fortunately, my mother and I are little people in the palace, and no one usually pays attention to it.If I'm careful, I can sneak to a place where there are few people and play by myself.

Walking around that day, I probably reached the north side of the palace. I climbed over a hill and found a large open lake under the shade of trees.

This lake is nearly half larger than the Kunlun Lake in the Imperial Garden. I am very puzzled, why has such a large lake never been mentioned in the palace?

Soon I discovered the strangeness of this lake.The entire lake is surrounded by hills with pine trees planted on the hills, and the dark green and lush pine forest makes a sound like a raging sea in the wind.

got windy.

But the lake has no ripples.

Not at all.

The water surface is as calm as a mirror, and my face is clearly printed on the water surface, like a newly polished bronze mirror.

Even if I am not afraid of tigers as a newborn calf, I also know that this is unreasonable.Although the lake water is clear, it turns slightly black under the sun.

I approached slowly and cautiously, the sparkling light was a bit dazzling, but I could still see clearly that the water was not black.

On the contrary, the water is very clear, and it is because the water is so clear that the things in the water can be reflected.

There was a long black object hovering in the water. At first I thought it was a big snake, because it was winter and snakes were hibernating, so I dared to look a few more times.

I tried to find the head in the circling lump, but the water was too deep for me to see clearly, I could barely make out the outline of its body. After a rough estimate, the snake might be several miles long.

Such a big snake probably lived for a long time, maybe it has become a spirit?

Isn't the imperial palace the most important place in the world? It is said that the emperor is blessed by destiny, and no evil spirits can get close. How can there be monsters in the imperial palace?