Prison Dragon

At that time, I was bewildered by his appearance on the one hand, and shocked by his gaze on the other. The emotion was too deep, and just touching his gaze, I began to be out of breath.

He looked at me deeply, and with just one glance, I fell into a cold abyss, with the wind of death whistling behind me.

His hand was getting harder and harder, almost digging his nails into my skull.The scalp was broken, and the blood flowing through the roots of the hair brought a little warmth, which was in stark contrast to his cold hands.

He looked at me, but his eyes were empty.I saw a dark-haired child reflected in his eyes.The child suddenly turned into a general in golden armor, and then into a young man in black robes, flashing swords and swords for a while, and drizzle for a while.

Finally, all the clouds and smoke in his eyes dissipated.

Everything disappeared, only me in front of my eyes remained.

He let go of his hand and stroked my head soothingly, and a long and wistful sigh came from the air.

I trembled and wept.

He reached out to wipe away the tears for me, his fingertips were hot.

He held my face in his hands and sighed, "I was...just, just take it as another gamble. I will believe it for the last time."

I couldn't understand what he said. The person who was clearly going to kill me just now let me go inexplicably?

Blood flowed down my temples and into my neck, staining my collar red.

He raised his hand to wipe away my blood.

I was afraid that he would torture me in other ways, so I could only cry subconsciously.

Weeping until the sky was dark, tears streaming down my face.

He didn't say anything, just kept wiping my tears.His hands are very strong, and I felt my face was scratched several times by him, and I dared not speak.

No matter how much tears flowed, my eyes quickly became dry and sore, and I finally stopped crying.

In that melodious yet pathetic voice he said something, which for many years I thought was absurd.

He said that his name is Ao Chen, and he is the dragon god.

He also said, do you want to be an emperor?

Do you want to be emperor?

I watched Ao Chen get out of the well in the courtyard of Qingyu Xiaozhu.Under the moonlight, a puff of white smoke curled around his black figure.

I laughed and said, "Why did you jump out of the well?"

He seemed to be in a good mood, and came over with a smile and patted my head, "Isn't it just to see you? You can't tell others that you can see me, so I had no choice but to come here in the middle of the night."

I was as happy as eating a hundred bunches of candied haws, and asked, "Aren't you a dragon? You can fly over, float over, and appear out of thin air like the book says..."

My voice became lower and lower, because I saw his eyes gradually lose their brilliance as I described.

he can not.

why can't he?

"I'm sorry." I shook his hand gently.

He had just come up from the well, and his hands were still cold from the bottom. My hands were so small that I could only hold his fingertips.

He squeezed my hand, "Come in, I'll teach you how to read."

I didn't dare to work hard when I was studying in the study room, and I had to force myself to sleep and desert if I wanted to attend classes, so I couldn't make a good impression on my father and Taifu.

I happen to be a person who wants to read.

Not for sages, not for ideals.

I simply think that reading and literacy is a very happy thing.

It was the only sustenance in Goulan that allowed me to detach from my body and forget about the secular world.

Amid the screams of pain or joy, I only have one pure world, and that is the book.

In the book, I leave the world, the dirty body and dirty desires, the world of pain, and enjoy the purest spiritual joy forever.

Those who turn people into things are also those who destroy the principles of heaven and make people want to be poor.So there is a heart of rebellion and deceit, and there are things like adultery and chaos.People have selfish desires, so they are in danger.Dao Xin Tian Li, so subtle.To eliminate selfish desires is the law of heaven.

The human heart is only dangerous, the Dao heart is only subtle, and the essence is only one, allowing you to stick to it.

Thousands of words from the sages are just to teach people to preserve the principles of nature and eliminate human desires.

The Imperial Palace is a cemetery of desire much larger than Goulan.

Only reading can make me feel that there is still a trace of freshness in the palace.

I had to pretend to be a fool in the study, and I voluntarily lost the opportunity to study and study.

Who knew that after returning from the temple that day, Ao Chen never asked me if I wanted to be emperor.

He seemed to divert his attention, or he discovered a fun game and started teaching me to read.

He is well-read and memorized, he knows the ancient and modern times, and knows the secrets of the sky and the earth. He is definitely a good teacher that cannot be found in the world.

He never let me read sage books, he always told me about fox fairies and ghosts, unofficial histories of previous dynasties, and taught me to recognize two characters by the way.

For a teacher, he was a bit too playful.

I sometimes rebel against his teachings, saying I don't want to hear stories.

He would knock a thump on my head and scold me: "How old are you, what book do you want to read? You can't read any books, just listen to the stories!"

Shouldn't ten-year-olds read the Four Books and Five Classics?

He looked down on those classics handed down from generation to generation, and always said: "None of the words of the sages are useful. You princes and grandchildren read the books of sages every day. When brothers fought against each other and fought, none of them delayed major events. The emperor is lustful and tyrannical. Which one becomes a sage and gentleman because of reading? Since reading sage books and not reading sage books are the same, why do you have to memorize scriptures in pain? Anyway, you can’t be a sage, just skip the process of reading and be yourself Isn’t it good? Isn’t it good to release your nature?”

Although I don't read much, I still pass the history of this dynasty. I counted on my fingers and found that there seems to be no emperor in this dynasty who is a good person.

Emperor Gaozu launched a military campaign, Emperor Wen was suspicious, Emperor Hui launched a literary prison, and Emperor Wu punished him harshly.My ancestors, there are good men/sexuals, good women/sexuals, good/eunuchs/supervisors, longevity, double training/cultivation, and cultivation/wine/pool/meat/forest Yes, there are those who like to have sex in full view, some who like to self/mutilate, some who like to catch fox fairies and monsters, and some who like to fight crickets, horses and dogs...

In short, looking through the 800-year history of our dynasty, no emperor has the hobbies and personalities of normal people.

The palace seemed to be shrouded in a strange curse, and everyone who stepped into it turned into monsters.

I don't want to have such a day, I have to leave the palace.

From this point of view, I have been tossed and ravaged by so many emperors and have not been wiped out. It is really my destiny...

Is there any necessary connection between being able to read sage books and being a good person?

There are so many scholars in the world, but there are still so few sages from ancient times to the present?

Books can only tell you how to be a man and a gentleman. If a person who reads can't do it, will the book still stand up, curse and beat others?

Easier said than done.

I think Ao Chen's point of view is a bit wrong. If I continue to learn from him, my life will take a detour sooner or later.

Although there is a risk of taking a detour, I have no choice of a second learning path in the palace, so I have to follow Ao Chen and try to find a straight line on the detour.

I waited for him in the yard every day. Although the well water was cold, it did not freeze.

There will be glittering ice crystals on his body, and the snowflakes will not melt on his clothes.

This winter, with heavy snow in the south and flood in the north, the entire dynasty was restless.The emperor seldom came to the harem, and the mother's hope of being favored fell through.

I'm a little happy, but I can only talk to Ao Chen.

Mother is finally free from dirty desires.

Ao Chen sighed and nodded my forehead, "You child, sometimes you are extremely smart, and sometimes you are ridiculously stupid. In the harem, not only the mother is more expensive according to the child, but the child also depends on the mother's status. The mother's status is high, and the children are naturally So a rising tide lifts all boats.”

"It's none of my business, I don't want to be a prince."

Ao Chen shook his head, "But your mother wants to be a queen."

I know, "What she can't do, some things are destined not to belong to me."

Ao Chen was lying on a small wooden table, writing on the black table with his finger dipped in water.

This is the best desk I found in Qingyu Xiaozhu. We moved it to the place near the window in the room, put two futons beside it, and sat under the window to study.

There was a red plum tree outside the window, which was crooked and crooked. The branches were particularly ugly, and it smelled sick.But Ao Chen likes it very much. Every time he comes here, he will stand by the tree for a while, catch insects and trim it for it.

I just looked at him boredly.

He likes plum blossoms very much. In order to see plum blossoms in winter, he has to open the window to attend classes.The icy north wind blew in with ice and snow, which made me shiver.

Qingyu Xiaozhu is not favored, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs rarely distributes things over, and I don't even have a few decent winter clothes...

The worst thing was that he didn't allow me to light the stove, saying that he felt uncomfortable after lighting the stove.

I'm going to freeze to death!He also looked at me trembling and laughed.

Every time he wrote with water, he would freeze to ice on the table, and then wiped it off with his clothes.

—with my clothes, of course.

The Dragon God should be very old, why not respect the old? !

With the cold wind blowing from the plum tree outside the window, my winter passed like this.

Qi's winter is not so peaceful.

The ice flood in the north caused millions of people to be displaced, and the snowstorm in the south froze many people to death, triggering rebellions in the three barbarian states.

The emperor was devastated by this.

The emperor's harem is basically an extension of the power of the previous dynasty. Whether it is disaster relief or counter-insurgency, there are many errands. In order to compete for these errands, the entire imperial capital is secretly competing.

I think it's a bit ridiculous, and I feel that the people are pitiful.

When I was on the Qinhuai River, I often saw the smell of wine and meat from Zhumen, and the scene of frozen bones on the road.

Those beggars and refugees who took shelter from the wind and snow under the eaves of the rich also had their own families and hometowns, and they might die on the street one day, never to return.

Millions of people seem to be just a number, but in the real world it is the complete disappearance of thousands of families.

The people will not be recorded in the history books.

The only way they can be passed down through the ages is through the continuation of the family.

As long as future generations live, they still exist in the blood and memory of future generations.

Millions of people died together, but there was not even a single person who remembered himself.

Everyone has become a number in the history books, lying emotionlessly in the pile of old papers, and no one will remember them anymore.

Who cares about his face and story during his lifetime?

Ao Chen would sometimes talk to me about current affairs, but those times were very rare, and he didn't seem to want me to take too much notice of the affairs of the empire.

He's really a very conflicted dragon.

He wants me to be an emperor but doesn't teach me the art of being an emperor, and doesn't let me care about current affairs. He tells me little stories every day.

It's a very strange dragon. The dragon chair is not something you can sit on casually, it requires too much cunning and scheming.

He hasn't told me about becoming emperor for a long time, and I was afraid that if I asked too much, he would bring up the old story again, so I didn't dare to ask.

I asked him what he thought of the natural and man-made disasters this winter, and he only said lightly: "In front of the heaven and the earth, people are nothing but small ants. If there is no power and power in the world, they are also ants. If you have supreme power, you can naturally Treat others like ants."

I am more and more sure that his point of view is very distorted, and I will definitely take a detour if I continue to learn from him, but I don't seem to have a better choice.