Chapter 36: The Yellow Dragon

There was silence inside and outside the hall for a while, and the ministers were heard shouting loudly from a distance: "By the order of the king, the Shang clan will come to see you." ”

Xiahou stared intently at the end of the steps, and watched as a strong man respectfully clasped his hands in front of his chest and walked up slowly under the guidance of a minister. This big man has slightly yellow skin, but his body is only a fist shorter than Xiahou, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a ball of righteousness on his face, how pleasing to the eye. Especially here in Xiahou, he looked at this man with almost admiration, Yao Shunyu soup, is a term that Chinese know, but who else can see the real person with his own eyes?

Shang Tang's surname is his surname, his name is shoe, and Tang is his self-name, also known as Wu Tang and Cheng Tang. This is not historical and archaeological data, so he is called Shang Tang, which everyone in the world is familiar with.

This Shang Tang had something in his heart, and walked up with a frown, but he felt that someone in the crowd around him was looking at him intently, almost madly, and couldn't help but be surprised in his heart. When he turned his head to look, he was staring at himself like a majestic man, looking at his description and dress, but he was a member of the southern wilderness clan, but he didn't know where he came from. But seeing that there was no malice in the big man's eyes, Shang Tang immediately just nodded at him, revealing a generous smile.

Xiahou also smiled, raised the bronze jue and poured wine into his mouth, but only poured out three or five drops of residual pulp, and couldn't help but be stunned. Looking at the wine lord who was pinched flat by himself, Xia Hou shook his head, threw the copper cake under the case, grabbed the wine urn, and drank the good wine in a big gulp, while watching Shang Tang stride into the hall and kneel in front of King Xia's seat.

"The subordinate Shang clan Shang Tang has seen the king. ”

King Xia laughed for a long time, then squinted his eyes and looked Shang Tang up and down for a while, and said with a pleasant face: "That's it, it's hard work from afar." Lookouts. ”

A green jade case floated around Xing Tian'e and other important ministers, and several ministers served wine and meat delicacies, and Shang Tang knelt down behind the case.

King Xia raised the wine lord, glanced at everyone present from left to right, and rumbled: "Come, everyone toasts a cup of soup." But I wonder what happened to you this time?"

Shang Tang drank the wine very calmly, stood up, and saluted: "The king, there is something to be the king's master." ”

King Xia was in a good mood, very good, just now Xia Hou helped him teach the sea people a hard lesson, and showed a big face. Therefore, he said very generously: "Be the master, okay, this king is the master for you, what is the matter, you say." Hehe, isn't it because you want to marry a foreign woman and be scolded by your father?"

The important ministers in the main hall laughed. Shang Tang's face was not moving, and after bowing deeply again, he said lightly: "King, this time it is about the people of Dongyi." In recent months, the Dongyi people have invaded the territory of our Shang clan on a large scale, and have seized several of our fertile pastures. The father of the vassal asked the king to be the master of my Shang clan. The Yi people are powerful, and our Shang clan can't resist it. ”

Xiang Liuxi's eyes flickered, Xing Tian'er didn't care about drinking, but in the end, it was Shen Gongli, the head of the Shen family, who jumped up: "King, the Dongyi people are bullying my Great Xia subject country so much, it is really hateful, and I have to teach them a lesson." ”

Xing Tian'e raised his head and shouted: "I'm going to fight with the Hairen, and now I'm going to war with the Dongyi people, how to deal with the army's grain and grass?"

Xiang Liu Hui said quietly: "If the army of Great Xia goes to deal with the Dongyi people, it will naturally ask the royal court to divide the military salary, grain and grass. However, the closest to the Shang clan is the clan land of the Shen family, right?"

King Xia blinked his eyes, pondered for a while, and said vaguely: "The war with the Hairen is imminent, and the southern Jiuli and the northern Huli will also leave a large army to keep an eye on and deal with the Dongyi people, but there is no need to raise troops to fight with great fanfare." Xiahou saw from King Xia's face that he seemed to be reluctant to give this military salary and grain and grass to fight the Dongyi people, so he was obviously stingy.

Shang Tang sat down again, steadily put the wine jue on the case, and said in a deep voice: "At the junction of the clan and the Dongyi people, within the territory of the clan, a new jade mine has been obtained, and the quality is excellent. The subordinate father said, which Wu family raised troops to repel Dongyi for my Shang clan, this jade mine will be presented with both hands!"

King Xia, Xiang Liuxi, Xing Tian'e, Shen Gongli, and even Feng Feng shot a fine light in their eyes at the same time, and asked in unison, "How are the reserves?"

Shang Tang bowed and said: "The monthly output of high-grade raw jade is more than 1,000 square meters. ”

Before the four could speak publicly, the King of Xia had already shouted loudly: "Wonderful, the Shang clan is my Great Xia subject country, and the Dongyi people boldly invaded, but they don't take my Great Xia in their eyes? ”

Xing Tian'e spread his hands, his face full of helplessness. The king is too quick to act.

Shen Gongli was unwilling to let the benefits slip away in vain. I heard him shouting loudly: "Great King, the land of the minister's clan is close to the Shang clan, if the ninth prince sends troops, it will take a long time, it is better to let the minister's clan raise troops nearby to fight it." ”

King Xia didn't follow, and shook his head again and again: "What Cheng Gong said is wrong, the royal court army has not been out of battle for a long time, and it will be overwhelmed in the future." Especially since the Shang clan is a subject country of my Great Xia, if my Great Xia royal court does not react, but your Shen Gong family sends troops to conscript, wouldn't it make the Dongyi people laugh?"

Shen Gongli's face was full of unhappiness, and King Xia seemed to feel that eating alone was a bit too much, so he blinked his eyes, pondered for a moment, and reluctantly said, "That's it, what Cheng Gong said is also reasonable." The army of the royal court was dispatched from Anyi, and the march took a long time, but it was too late. Auxiliary Prime Minister Cheng Four Princes, each with an army, first wiped out the Dongyi people in the Shang clan's territory, and when the royal army arrived, they would join forces again, and it would not hurt to teach the Dongyi people a lesson. ”

The four old men of Xing Tian'e immediately smiled, this is easy to say, when the army arrives at the jade mine, they will dig it first, and then hand it over to Chaotianhou, won't this hurt the peace.

Xiahou only felt funny, how could this monarch and minister of Great Xia send troops to fight, just like the underworld sharing the spoils. Looking at Shang Tang who was sitting there motionless and expressionless, the flash of light in his eyes was disdainful?

Shang Tang stood up again, flattering King Xia and the four princes of Fubi, thanking them for their kindness to the country. Subsequently, Shang Tang changed the topic and sighed: "King, this time my Shang clan was wantonly invaded by the Dongyi people, but it suffered from the lack of weapons. Therefore, the father of the subordinate confessed to the vassal, and if the king was willing, the clan was willing to ask for a batch of good armor and weapons with a lot of money. In addition, in order to show our clan's respect for the king, this time I accompanied the collection of hundreds of virgins from various clans, please accept the king's smile. ”

A burst of red light flashed on King Xia's face, and he said excitedly: "Those hundred virgins, you just hand them over to the head of the Black Underworld." Hmm, do you want ordnance? There are all kinds of minerals in your Shang clan's territory, and there are many craftsmen, so you still want to buy ordnance from Anyi?"

Shang Tang bowed his head: "Great King, how can the craftsmen in the vassal clan be compared with the master sorcerers of Anyi?"

King Xia blinked his eyes and looked at Shen Gongli. Shen Gongli immediately stood up and said loudly: "King, recently, in the arsenal, there happened to be a batch of high-quality armor and weapons ready to be replaced for the soldiers and horses of the Royal Court Secret Division. If the Shang clan is really anxious, they can also discuss it and give it to them for the time being. It's just that this ordnance is time-consuming and laborious to build. ”

Shang Tang said in a harmonious voice: "The Dongyi people deceive people too much, and our clan is willing to increase the price by 20% to get that batch of ordnance, so as to teach the Dongyi people a lesson." ”

Hearing that Shang Tang took the initiative to raise the price, King Xia was overjoyed, and said with a smile: "So good, so good." I wonder how many sets of armor and weapons the Shang clan needs?"

Shang Tang said a very lively word: "This, it depends on whether the red gold brought this time is enough." If it is enough, the more the merrier. The vassals will also ask the king to give us a batch of the shields that have been replaced by the army of the royal court. ”

To deal with the Dongyi people who are good at shooting, the shield is indeed the best thing. King Xia nodded: "Okay, Cheng Gong is responsible for this matter, those shields, even if they are gifted." But those armor weapons, in terms of price, can't be missing a big buck. Although my Daxia is strong, this family is also a big money accumulation. ”

Shang Tang fell to the ground and thanked him again and again.

Xia Hou sat in his seat, only feeling uncomfortable, and his body twisted desperately. Shang Tang gave him the feeling that it was like a deep pool, unfathomable, which made him feel cold in his heart for a while. An instinct constantly reminded Xia Hou not to go against this person. This feeling was very bad, which made the back of Xiahou's neck chill, and even the surging mood that he had just seen Shang Tang immediately calmed down.

Looking back at Bai, this bad Pixiu had already fallen to the ground with white eyes, and what was spewing out of his mouth was a thick smell of wine, and it seemed that he was drunk again. Inside and outside the hall, the monarchs and ministers of Great Xia were thundering with joy, raising their wines high and tasting the wine. More dancing girls poured out from behind the hall, singing and dancing in the main hall, and the sound of jade chimes floated out far away.

After a few more sips of wine, seeing that Xiang Liurou and a group of their flashy children had rushed to the main hall to watch those dancing girls, Xiahou couldn't help but feel tired in his heart, patted Xingtian Dafeng on the shoulder, and asked in a low voice: "In this palace, can people watch it at will?"

Xingtian Gale was also a little drunk, glanced back at Xia Hou, and waved his hand: "It's okay to go for a walk." As long as you can enter the gate of the palace, the ninety-nine halls of the front palace and many gardens can be played at will. The harem is the king's living place and cannot be entered, but there is a witch in the witch hall to guard it, and he is not afraid of going to the wrong place. You're going to see the fresh, feel free to go. ”

After a pause, Xingtian Gale took out a palm-sized piece of red gold token on his body and carved a black horse with a blazing black pattern and stuffed it to Xia Hou: "Walk casually, it's okay." As long as you don't tear down the pillars of the palace, no one will care what you do in the palace. Shaking his head, Xingtian Gale turned around again, forcibly pulled a familiar friend beside him, and poured wine into his mouth.

Xia Hou nodded and stuffed Bai under the case, saving him from being stepped on. Seeing that there were a group of drunken people all around, it was really not interesting, so he took the token of the Xingtian Gale at the moment, got off the ninth-level platform of the main hall, and walked towards a green garden on the left. He originally wanted to go to the place where the Kyushu Ding was located to see if he could really absorb more Yuan Power through the Kyushu Ding, but thinking about it, since the Kyushu Ding was an artifact of the Great Xia Town, naturally some people were secretly staring, and it was too abrupt for him to run alone to touch the Kyushu Ding, so he could only suppress this moving thought.

The letter and the horse walked with the reins, and Xiahou's heart was in turmoil. Do you join the war of the Black Gang Army against the Sea People and slaughter the soldiers and civilians of the Sea People?

He had no incentive to do so. Because he didn't have any sense of identity with this Great Xia. Although all indications have proved that this should be the missing link in history. However, he could not explain why there was no moon in the sky, but there was an extra large star between Mars and Jupiter. Especially the ground under this foot is really ridiculously large.

Everything is like a dream, and Xiahou doesn't want to fight hard and kill people for an almost illusory country. He was a warrior, not a butcher to slaughter for the will of a king.

The body passed through a prohibition, and the objects in front of him changed, and it had become a huge garden. In the distance, several small peaks rise from the ground, and trees are forest in the distance. In the middle of the garden, there is a small lake with a radius of more than ten miles, the water is sparkling, and it is the most beautiful season of water color in early autumn. Xiahou secretly admired the magical spell prohibition in the Great Xia Palace, from the outside, the palace of Great Xia was just an ordinary large courtyard, but he didn't know how many layers of space were compressed inside, and the layers of lakes and mountains, palace pavilions, were simply immortal mansions.

Standing in the woods, looking at the lake for a long time, the cool breeze blew, the water on the lake rippled, countless leaves flew up from the colorful leaf forest on the shore, and sprinkled into the lake one after another.

The cool breeze blew on his body, Xia Hou's body trembled a few times, he looked around, hid behind an extremely tall tree, untied his belt, and was dripping with joy. While washing the water column over a few weeds with small purple flowers at the root of the tree, Xia Hou hummed happily: "Wonderful, the cool breeze is cool, the scenery is pleasant, but this open-air public toilet is excellent." I don't know how many people in this palace dare to urinate here besides me?"

A light cough suddenly came from behind him, Xia Hou was so frightened that he shivered, quickly tied up his trouser belt, and looked back in embarrassment.

A dozen feet behind, a young man with a large wooden barrel in his hand was standing. Just look at his broad shoulders, powerful force, red face, a pair of ring-eyed eyes with faint light, and his spirit is extremely sufficient. Xia Hou looked at it, and couldn't help but be startled in his heart, this young man was clearly full of pulses, and there was naturally a clear air flow in his body, and his internal strength was not weak. But looking at the green cloth shorts on his body, you can know that his status in the palace is very low.

Xiahou smiled dryly: "This brother, haha, this autumn is refreshing." ”

The young man laughed a few times, squinted his eyes and smiled, "This adult is so interested." In this Dragon Garden, it is the first time that someone has been here to relieve themselves. He glanced at the water trail of his subordinates intentionally or unintentionally, and his face was full of strange smiles that made Xia Hou blush.

Giggling, the young man didn't pay much attention to Xia Hou, carried the half-human-high, two-foot diameter wooden barrel, and walked towards the lake step by step. Xia Hou hurriedly caught up a few steps, snatched the barrel, and laughed dryly: "That's it, I'll carry a little for you." Alas, this one who eats and drinks Lazar is a human being. I was in a hurry for a while, but I didn't know where the clean room in the palace was, so I could only solve it anywhere. "Xiahou is so embarrassed, this kind of thing was caught, how can you be embarrassed?

The young man shrugged his shoulders and led Xiahou to a meadow by the lake with both hands. As he walked, he smiled and said, "It's the first time you've entered the palace?" But it's no wonder that many people get lost here every year. There are prohibitions everywhere, and the places are frighteningly large, and many places have been unoccupied for many years. This matter is in a hurry, I'm also a big man, this kind of thing is seen by me, but it's nothing. If you are seen by the king's woman, you will be in big trouble. ”

Xiahou secretly scolded nonsense in his heart, this is a small solution in the palace, if he is seen by King Xia's concubine, he can only escape from Anyi with Bai immediately, and he may not be able to escape.

He smiled and said, "Didn't I meet you, brother? I am a Chihu Tyrannosaurus rex, and now I eat white rice under the Xingtian Gale of the Xingtian family. Brother, what are you doing carrying a large bucket of meat and fresh fruit to the lake?"

The young man glanced at Xia Hou in surprise, nodded and said, "Oh, you are the brute who won a big game in the school field last month, and you are very brilliant? I am a dragon slave in the palace, I have no name, and the supervisors all call me Huang Yi, so you can call me that. He pointed to the big wooden barrel and smiled, "What are you doing with the barrel? ”

Xiahou stayed for a long time, heed the dragon, the dragon slave, and did anyone really raise a dragon?

Before he came back to his senses, the two had already walked to the small piece of grass, Huang Yi squatted down, stretched out his hand on the surface of the lake, and slapped it a few times, the sound of snapping water was crisp and pleasant, and it was heard far away. Circles of water rippled out, it seemed to be an illusion, Xia Hou saw that in the middle of the lake in the distance, there was a very dense water wave surging in his direction, and there was a very strange, crisp, loud and childish cry in his ears.

Huang Yi turned back to Xia Hou and smiled: "This is the last dragon in the Great Xia Palace, a yellow dragon." Legend has it that when Grandpa Grandpa had just established Great Xia, there were tens of thousands of dragons in the palace. But now, there is only one such one, the one that has just hatched for a short time. The other dragons flew away, and I don't know where they went. ”

Two golden antlers pierced the water, followed by two long silver carp whiskers. Immediately after, a pair of big, lively, gurgling eyes emerged from the water. The big eyes were close to the surface of the water, and they looked at Huang Yi and Xia Hou for a long time, and suddenly a big mouth opened, and silver water arrows flew towards the two.

Huang Yi lay on the grass with an extremely decisive body, and scolded in his mouth: "Little guy, no matter how naughty you are, you won't have meat to eat today." ”

Xiahou didn't have time to dodge, and was hit by the extremely fast water arrow. This water arrow doesn't have much strength, it's just a little cold, with a little fishy, but even more with a strange fragrance. The only thing that annoyed Xia Hou was that his clothes were soaked, and his long hair was wet, dripping water straight down.

A real dragon, the legendary dragon in China, with a golden body and a body length of no more than six feet as thick as a sea bowl, shook its head and tail out of the water, quickly climbed onto the grass, shook its body desperately, threw all the water droplets on its body, and plunged headlong into the big wooden barrel in Xiahou's hand.

Xia Hou was so frightened that he fell to the ground with a real limp, and saw that the little dragon was coiled on the wooden barrel, and his head was stuck into the barrel, making a clattering chewing sound. A kind of fear in nature made Xia Hou have the urge to bow to this little yellow dragon. Fortunately, after all, he was tenacious and determined, and after a moment of panic, he quickly settled down. Moreover, Xia Hou was very bold, stretched out his hand, and gently stroked the real, living dragon in front of him.

The little dragon felt a pair of unfamiliar hands roaming the scales on his back, and immediately turned around and screamed crisply at Xiahou twice, and suddenly another silver water arrow spewed out, with a mouth full of fruit crumbs, and hit Xiahou in the face heavily.

Xia Hou smiled helplessly, let go of the little dragon, washed his face with the lake water nearby, wiped his soaked hair with his clothes, sat on the grass with his bare upper body, and kicked Huang Yi's feet: "Huang Yi, let me ask you, how did this dragon come from?"

Huang Yi, who was lying on the ground, turned over, holding a grass stalk in his mouth, glanced at Xia Hou lazily, looked up at the white clouds in the sky and said, "Ah? Anyway, when I was born, there were still a dozen dragons in the palace, and now there is only one. Stretched out his hand and touched the yellow dragon's head a few times, the yellow dragon made a very comfortable cooing sound, and Huang Yi said lightly: "Eh, if this little guy grows up and has to fly away, there will be no dragon in the palace." When the time comes, the people of my family will not have to stay in the palace. ”

Xiahou was stunned: "The people of your family are specially responsible for raising dragons?"

Huang Yi jumped up excitedly and said with a smile: "Isn't it? When my family had the largest population, there were thousands of people, who specially fed those dragons and wiped their scales. But there are fewer and fewer dragons, and there are fewer and fewer people in my family. Now I'm the only one in my generation. Huang Yi means that my dragon is a yellow dragon, and I am a child at home. ”

Xiahou looked at the yellow dragon who was swallowing those pieces of meat and fresh fruits in a big gulp, and said enviously: "It's really good that you raise dragons." ”

Huang Yi raised his eyebrows and shook his head again and again: "Okay? Although the dragon is a divine beast, the dragon slave is also a slave in the final analysis. I hope that this little creature will fly away as soon as possible, and I will leave the palace. After all, we are dragon slaves, and there are no dragons for us to serve, so I can choose to leave the palace. At that time, the world will be at my disposal. ”

He looked at the white clouds in the sky with great fascination, and said in a low voice: "When the time comes, I will go to the sea, go to the eastern ocean, and find out where the legendary dragons live are." There is also the passage cut off by the gods, and the passage between the human world and does not really exist. It's better than nesting in the palace and rubbing this guy's scales for the rest of his life, right?"

The Huang Long seemed to understand Huang Yi's words, raised his head angrily, shouted twice, and shot at Huang Yi with another water arrow. Huang Yi avoided the water arrows with great dexterity, and while chasing and playing with the yellow dragon who climbed down from the barrel, he said loudly: "However, our dragon slaves are only civilians and can't learn witchcraft. I'm going to go to those who have great mana, to learn the spells that we civilians can use. You're from the south, so you should know a lot about the outside world, right?"

Xia Hou smiled bitterly in his heart, his understanding of this world was not much more than Huang Yi.

Looking at the dexterous little yellow dragon running on the grass, Xia Hou's heart moved slightly, and he suddenly smiled: "I know a Qi Refiner, when the time comes, how about I let him teach you the mantra of a Qi Refiner?" Your talent is very good, you will definitely be able to learn it." ”

Huang made a move with one hand, and the yellow dragon was coiled on him, and a dragon head hung on Huang Yi's shoulder, desperately throwing a wink at Xiahou. Huang Yi walked over excitedly and laughed: "Are you serious? It's the Qi Refiner who fought against you last month, right?" Okay, you can say it, I must let him teach me Qi refining." ”

Pursed his lips and smiled at Xiahou strangely, Huang Yi squinted his eyes and said happily: "You let them teach me to refine qi, and I won't tell you about what you explained in the palace." Otherwise, I dare to guarantee that as long as I move my mouth, tomorrow all the people in Anyi will know that you are a tiger tyrannosaurus in the king's court. Hehe, those young ladies of the family in Anyi will definitely be interested in you. ”

Xiahou was very annoyed, and he couldn't wait to get up and strangle this dragon slave who looked dignified but actually had a bad stomach. But as soon as he saw the little yellow dragon staring at him with big watery eyes, Xia Hou didn't say anything, just nodded heavily: "After a while, come to Xingtian's house to find me." Glancing at Huang Yi, Xia Hou shouted a little angrily: "Bring this little guy here, remember, it's for his sake that I will help you." ”

Huang Yi grabbed the neck of the yellow dragon very simply, and stretched out his hand to Xia Hou: "If you want it, you take it!"

Xia Hou hurriedly withdrew his hand: "That's it, I won't serve him." ”

He stared at Huang Yi with a pair of big eyes and asked, "You don't talk nonsense, right? ”

Huang Yi smiled and let Huang Long wrap himself around him, and said solemnly: "Naturally, I won't talk nonsense, as long as you introduce me to the door of that qi refiner." ”

Xiahou looked at Huang for half a day again, and then promised: "Okay." Hey, Huanglong, hell!" he turned and left.

That Huang Yi was smiling, took out a thin brush from his body, and brushed the scales on his body with great care.

The yellow dragon squinted his eyes and looked at Xiahou who was striding away wet, and suddenly opened his mouth again, and laughed loudly.