It is late spring, and the tender green in the south of the Yangtze River gradually turns to cyan.
A line of white cranes fluttered out of the clump, straight towards the sky without twisting or turning, and the breeze blew slowly and freshly.
Su Bei opened the door, gently held his waist, straightened his somewhat messy clothes, and walked out the door.
"Don't look for me tonight, I'm not here."
Ji Nanjue glared at Su Bei angrily and started to put a bellyband on her body.
There were countless traces under the jade-like skin. From the corner of his eye, he glanced at Su Bei who was rubbing his waist. He thought of something and picked up the 'Zhiyang Lotus Root' floating on the bed.
', and threw it towards Su Bei fiercely.
"Take your stuff..."
There was shame and anger on his cheeks, thinking of being hit by this thing just now...
Dazed and confused, he inexplicably agreed under his coaxing and coaxing.
"Next time, don't even think about it!"
Su Bei hurriedly took it in a panic. If the sun fell on the ground, there would be a big hole burned out.
Cold sweat broke out from behind, and he carefully wiped the (...) on it, and looked at Nan Ji with a wry smile and some complaints:
"Ji Bao'er, what if this breaks?"
"The Lotus of the Sun is just a piece of lotus root..."
When Ji Nanjue heard this, she became angry instantly. She didn't care about wearing it halfway, but just hung the bellyband on Xue's neck. The bellyband was not tied with a ribbon, with her hands on her waist, her phoenix eyes widened:
"Are you still reasonable?"
"Isn't one stick enough?"
"..."
After the words fell, Su Bei coughed loudly, choked on his saliva, smiled at her, and then closed the door.
boom--
Su Bei breathed in the air and felt that he had never felt so refreshed.
"Duobao Pavilion..."
A few days ago, Duobao Pavilion sent someone to bring him the North Sea coral ginseng, and he also invited himself to Duobao Pavilion for a chat.
As the saying goes, eating people is short of hand, and taking advantage of others is short of mouth. For all reasons, I should go to the little lolita.
Disciples in the Holy Land were coming and going, and Elder Su, who looked serious in his white shirt and green crown, all stopped to say hello:
"I've met the Nineteenth Elder!"
"Hello, Elder Su!"
"Did Elder Su stay up late to practice? Why are the circles under his eyes so dark?"
"She must be staying up late to practice. I seemed to vaguely hear something while patrolling last night. I was going to Zhiyang or something..."
"..."
Su Bei smiled gently at them, and then flew in the direction of Duobao Pavilion in the clouds and mist.
The flow of people in Wucheng has become much thinner. Now there is no more hustle and bustle on the streets. They quickly arrived in front of the door. When the deacon watching the door saw Su Bei, he welcomed Su Bei in with a smile on his face.
.
After passing through the familiar water corridor, the deacon closed the door.
The catkins were flying a little, but in the red setting sun, it was red snow.
Willows and halls cast long shadows, as beautiful as an oil painting. The entire courtyard was empty. There was a table placed above the familiar entrance, with a dazzling array of food on it.
In the middle is a glass cup, which contains an unknown number of large crabs. They are yellow, thick, plump and attractive.
The little loli playing with the flower basin was missing, and all I could smell was the strong scent of crab.
"Pavilion Master Ao?"
There was silence.
Su Bei looked around with a puzzled look on his face. After exiting the entrance, there was a pool with not a single person in sight.
Where did that little lolita with the silver dragon horns go?
"Master Ao Pavilion? Ao Yue? Yueyue?"
"..."
Su Bei called several times into the room.
No one responded. He frowned slightly, turned around, and looked curiously at the scene of bubbles rising to the surface of the water.
Guluulu——
Then a large shadow gradually spread above the water, and then——
"Wow!"
A huge silver dragon head emerged from the water, opened its terrifyingly bloody mouth, and breathed out a trace of dragon power.
A pair of silver dragon horns reflected the light, the slender dragon beards were still rippling with sparkling luster, and the fangs reflected fiery red under the sunset. However, there was no stench, but an indescribable fragrance.
The pair of dark golden holes shone with a dark and deep luster, like a huge water ball reflecting the shadow of Su Bei in it.
"Roar--"
A dragon roared.
Su Bei felt his heart skip a beat, and subconsciously took a step back.
"Aww."
Immediately afterwards, the huge dragon's mouth opened, and with lightning speed, Su Bei's entire head was contained in it.
Su Bei's eyes went dark for an instant, and then he seemed to feel his whole body gradually rising into the air and being gently shaken, but he did not notice the dragon's hostility.
Su Bei had a look of helplessness on his face, then he reached out with his big hand and subconsciously touched the pair of dragon horns.
"Loose your mouth..."
It's smooth and feels good in the hand.
next moment!
The big dragon head spit out Su Bei and instantly transformed into a human form and appeared on the shore.
Ao Yue looked anxious, protecting her pair of silver dragon horns with her two little claws, and backed away.
"Plop——"
He missed the mark and fell down.
Guluuluulu——
Bubbly.
Ao Yue crawled out of the pool, her arms and legs were red, and her whole body looked like a dumpling.
Her cultivation has not reached the point where she can maintain her human form anytime and anywhere, and even just maintaining her current appearance is extremely difficult.
Su Bei looked at her funny, squatted down, looked into her eyes, and tried to pinch her chin:
"Why don't you continue to scare people? Your true colors have been revealed?"
"What do you want me to do?"
"You also gave the millet a piece of coral ginseng? Tell me! Is there some conspiracy?"
"..."
Ao Yue's chest heaved violently, she gritted her silver teeth and looked at the man in front of her who was coaxing her like a little girl, unmoved by his teasing words.
Raising her hand, she wanted to give Su Bei a shudder on the head. Su Bei smiled slightly and held her wrist.
"Let go! Otherwise I'll eat you!"
"..."
Ao Yue puffed up her cheeks, stared with her big round eyes, and threatened the man in front of her.
Su Bei obediently let go of his hand.
Ao Yue snorted coldly and shook the water droplets on her long hair. The crystals scattered in all directions, seemingly on purpose, and splashed all over Su Bei.
"Elder Su, sit down!"
Su Bei followed her to the big round table and sat down.
"I don't know if these are in line with Elder Su's taste, but I just asked my servants to prepare such a table of food and wine."
"Well, look, there are crabs, big crabs, small crabs..."
"..."
Looking at the old-fashioned Ao Yue in front of him, Su Bei sighed.
——I still like lolita.
After all, there are three good things...it's easy to push down and so on...but it's obvious that the light in front of me has a lolita face and is a bit irritable on the inside.
"No, Su really likes these crabs."
"I wonder what the reason why Master Ao called Su here this time?"
"..."
Su Bei picked up a crab casually, with a hint of interest on the surface, and then said with a look of deep understanding:
"The crabs from Jiangnan are unique. Speaking of which, eating crabs is very particular. Some people even developed eight pieces of crabs for this purpose in order to avoid eating crabs. They should be used in an orderly manner, chew slowly, and tap lightly.
Slow peel..."
"I think Pavilion Master Ao is from the Dragon Clan, so he should be..."
Having said this, Su Bei raised his head, ready to appreciate how professional dragons eat crabs.
then--
He saw Ao Yue's big mouth open so wide that he swallowed a crab in one bite, chewing the crab shell with a squeaking sound, because the crab's overly large cheeks were raised high on both sides.
She swallowed the innermost thing whole, licked the corners of her mouth, picked up one again, and said with a puzzled look on her face:
"Bah, bah, bah, elder Su, bah, bah, bah, what should the Dragon Clan be?"
Su Bei: "......"
Swallowing the unspoken words "I know this well", I silently picked up the crabs.
Seeing that Su Bei didn't say anything, Ao Yue sat on a chair, shaking her legs that couldn't reach the ground. After hesitating for a while, she finally said:
"Did Elder Su ever know about a natural disaster hundreds of years ago?"
"..."
"Act of God?"
Su Bei stopped picking crabs and looked at her with confusion.
Seeing Su Bei's expression, Ao Yue was silent for a moment, stopped shaking her legs, and said softly:
"Three hundred and seventy years ago, the Cangjiang River flooded..."
"That natural disaster that caused the dykes to burst."
"..."
Hearing this sentence, Su Bei immediately remembered that there was indeed an extremely tragic flood in Cangjiang hundreds of years ago.
There is no human habitation for thousands of miles, and the people in the states along the Cangjiang River are living in dire straits.
and--
Shan Wulan and Shan Wuque were the victims of the flood, weren't they?
Although he didn't know what happened at that time, Su Bei knew that he and the old man brought the two junior sisters back together...
"Nature knows."
Su Bei didn't understand why Ao Yue had to mention this.
Ao Yue picked up a bowl of water and rinsed her mouth, then looked at Su Bei seriously, took a deep breath, and said:
"Elder Su, our Dragon Clan belongs to water, and we are more capable of wind and rain. Therefore, there are many kinds of temples among the people to protect the people from good weather."
"Can Elder Su keep what Ao Yue says next secret?"
"Can Ao Yue trust Elder Su?"
"..."
Su Bei's eyes narrowed, but he was not in a hurry to agree to Ao Yue. He leaned back on the chair, tapped his fingers on the table, and said thoughtfully:
"Pavilion Master Ao, is this what Su must hear?"
"..."
Su Bei admitted that he was indeed a bit lustful, but he was not without any brains.
The Dragon Clan in Beihai can no longer say that they are trying to show their kindness, but that they are deliberately getting closer to themselves, so they must have played an important role in it.
But without understanding what all this was, it was impossible for Su Bei to be tied into the car just like that.
Ao Yue was stunned for a moment, then she took out a bottle of wine from somewhere, poured herself a glass, and asked:
"Would you like to drink?"
Su Bei shook his head.
Ao Yue did not force herself, she held up the wine glass with her two little hands and drank it all in one gulp. Two intoxicating blushes instantly appeared on her face, and she let out a wine burp:
"In the vast sea of people, we meet by chance. It is no small fate that we can meet again after being strangers."
"Elder Su, don't call me Ao Yue, Pavilion Master Ao, and I won't call you Elder Su. Just call me Ao Yue, and I'll call you Su Bei."
"..."
Su Bei raised his eyebrows. Is this the beginning of a relationship?
Ao Yue put down the wine glass in her hand. She seemed a little drunk and looked more and more like a dumpling.
It seemed that alcohol was emboldening her. She looked at Su Bei and suddenly said:
"Su Bei, what do you think of me!?"
"ah?"
Su Bei was a little confused and felt that his brain circuit had not caught up.
Is this progress a bit too fast?
Ao Yue didn't care about Su Bei's weird look. She played with the wine glass that was bigger than her hand and said to herself:
"Ah what? Good is good, bad is bad..."
Su Bei smiled bitterly, then looked at her carefully and said:
"From a human perspective, well, Pavilion Master Ao is perfect in every aspect."
"What does it mean to look at it from a human perspective? I am a dignified princess of the Dragon Tribe of the North Sea!"
"Well, from a dragon's perspective...it's pretty perfect."
"Have you ever seen a dragon besides me?"
"..."
"Su Bei, actually you don't have to be so cautious. I'm not hostile to you...and you've taken advantage of me..."
Ao Yue sighed, and her voice became smaller and smaller at the end, almost whispering:
"I'm not asking you if you want to listen. A man should behave like a man. According to what grandpa said, every master of the Qingping Sword is undoubtedly not a true man who stands upright..."
"..."
Ao Yue sat up straight, maybe because of drinking, or maybe because her drinking ability was really bad, a dragon's tail gradually emerged from behind, and under the gradually darkening sky, it flickered dimly.
luster.
Finally, Ao Yue spoke softly:
"Three hundred and seventy years ago, the dykes broke out and the Cangjiang River flowed backwards."
After a pause, he took a deep breath, his eyes full of complex colors:
"It was planned by my dragon clan..."
"..."
After the words fell, Su Bei was stunned for a moment, his eyes full of shock.
The Dragon Clan planned the Cangjiang River's countercurrent?
The Cangjiang River flooded thousands of miles and burst its banks?
Putting aside how they planned it, don’t the Dragon Clan know the cause and effect?
How many karmic sins have been involved in these thousands of miles of dike breakage?
How much belief in the dragon clan has been destroyed by mortals?
If the cause and effect is entangled in the future, there will be no recovery...
——The corner of his mouth showed a hint of lingering bitterness.
Su Bei knew that in Xilihu Tuzhong, he had boarded her pirate ship.
Ao Yue did not look at Su Bei's changing expressions, but looked at the wine glass in front of her:
"You must be wondering why our Dragon Clan does this, right?"
"This has blocked the incense power of the Dragon Clan for thousands of years..."
"But... all this is out of necessity."
"..."
The moon gradually climbed up, quiet and shining like frost and snow on the catkins.
Ao Yue picked up the wine glass in her hand and took a big sip. Her dark golden eyes looked at Su Bei with a hint of redness.
Holding the wine glass, he spoke softly:
"Thousands of years ago, the catastrophe of all races was fought by the whole world against Huang Xiu."
"Not only the 21 states, Beihai is also facing the cholera epidemic."
"During that catastrophe of all races, the Tianxia Sword Sect dispatched eight hundred sword immortals. Later, the great swordsman of the Sword Sect was named Shangguan Farewell?"
"In order to prevent Huang Xiu from crossing the Beihai and coming to the twenty-one states again, he and the ascended immortal used a sword to penetrate the connection between the Beihai and the Cangjiang River, Longchi!"
"This sword immobilized the twenty-one states, but it also blocked the blood power of our Dragon Clan. The Dragon Clan needs the blood power of the Ancestral Dragon to maintain its own bloodline concentration, and the Dragon Pool is necessary for the Dragon Clan to transform from the mortal world.
Experienced, if you want to enter the dragon pond and gain the power of the ancestral dragon's bloodline, you must be a member of our dragon clan."
"However, no one has been able to pull out that sword for thousands of years. We, the Dragon Clan, have been searching for it for thousands of years, but to no avail."
"Later, Prime Minister Turtle came up with a way..."
"..."
Hearing this, Su Bei's breathing became rapid and his eyes looked deeply at the dragon girl in front of him.
Some people may know such secrets, but they will never be made public.
Su Bei picked up the teacup, took a sip of the tea beside him, lowered his eyes, and said softly:
"So the Dragon Clan wants to take advantage of the Cangjiang River and use the power of the river to defeat that sword?"
"Then why didn't it succeed?"
"..."
He knew that if that thing was done, the Loli in front of him would have no need to say this to him.
She even had a rough guess in her mind that she wanted to let herself draw the sword?
Pull out the sword stuck in Longchi?
——There is still a sword in Xuanxuan Tian that he has not yet drawn. Is this another one?
And...how could she be sure that she could pull out the sword?
Ao Yue was silent for a while, then filled her glass with wine again and drank it in one gulp.
He pursed his lips and raised his eyes to look at Su Bei. Under his long eyelashes, his eyes were already flushed, and tears turned into pearls and fell on the table.
Tick tick tick——
Su Bei was stunned.
Looked at Ao Yue silently.
He could feel that the woman in front of him was not the kind of character who was used to lying and being scheming. In other words, he simply trusted this race.
--dragon.
He has always been inexplicably moved by this race in his heart.
Ao Yue bit her lower lip, not knowing whether it was due to the alcohol or the deep emotion, her voice was choked with sobs.
It's raining.
With her tears, the whole world was wetted.
Dragon belongs to water and affects heaven and earth.
Finally Ao Yue spoke softly:
"It's my father."
"He was the one who stopped this."
"How can an ordinary person stop the Cangjiang River from flowing against its current?"
"Father, he couldn't bear to see the Cangjiang River flooding the world like this. He blocked the Cangjiang River with the body of a dragon, and channeled the tributaries of the Cangjiang River with the body of a dragon. In the end, the water of the Cangjiang River that should have been carrying endless resentment collided with him alone."
"The water of the Cangjiang River was blocked and the states along the Cangjiang River were protected. However, he himself was also in this collision. The dragon's body dissipated and his soul was extinguished..."
"..."
Su Bei remained silent.
In fact, he didn't know how to judge this matter, because the Cangjiang River's countercurrent was caused by the Dragon Clan from beginning to end, but it was undeniable that Ao Yue's father must be great.
"Su Bei, actually speaking of this, I think you should know what I want, what my dragon clan wants..."
"Since you can be recognized by Qingping Sword, you are naturally qualified to enter Longchi and pull out that sword."
"..."
Su Bei's face changed, and he leaned on the chair and looked at Ao Yue, whose eyes were stained with countless tears.
Tears were flowing down her cheeks, mixed with the rain all over the sky, and fell to the ground and turned into pearls.
She pursed her lips and looked serious.
In the rain, her gentle silhouette was cut out of her wet hair, and was coated with a silvery white glossy edge by the rising mist.
Ripples, drizzle, girl, and tears are like a sad scene that can only be found in oil paintings.
Su Bei let out a long sigh, there was something wrong with him.
Eat soft food rather than hard food.
He reached out his hand, gently stroked Ao Yue's cheek, wiped her unshed tears, and said softly:
"If you want to enter the Dragon Pool, don't you have to be a member of the Dragon Clan?"
"How can I help you..."
"..."
The pair of dragon horns were shining in the rain.
Ao Yue stared blankly at the man in front of her, feeling his gentle movements, and seemed to vaguely see her father's figure in him.
It was the same gentleness and the same intoxicating feeling.
Then she shook her head gently, bit her lip, stared at Su Bei with her dark golden eyes, and said: