Westward Journey into Dragon

Chapter 599
It is said that the Dragon King of Jinghe knew that he had violated the rules of heaven, and after Yuan Shoucheng pointed out the "way of life" (the quotation marks were added because he died in the end), he did not return to the water mansion; he stood in the air.Around midnight, he put away his cloud head and fog horns, and came to the gate of the imperial palace to cast a spell to give Li Shimin a dream.

At this time, King Tang was in a dream, and Bald Meng went out of the palace gate, stepping into the shade of the moon and flowers. Just as the Dragon King of Jinghe was about to ask for advice, his eyes blurred, and he lost his trace.

"Jinghe Dragon King, it's useless to beg the Tang King, and you'll have to go to the dragon-cutting stage to get stabbed in the end! Why don't I show you the way?" Figure of resistance.

Jinghe Dragon King was slightly startled, and quickly knelt down and said, "Xiaolong pays homage to the Emperor!"

"Get up!" Chen Xian waved his hand lightly, and Jinghe Dragon King stood up involuntarily.

"Thank you, Emperor!" The Dragon King of Jinghe bowed and said, he did not dare to stand up straight after thanking him, and kept bowing, very humble.

"It's useless to beg Li Shimin, I'll show you a way out, run away!" Chen Xian said flatly.

"Escape? This is not acceptable. If I escape, my wife and children will be implicated. I will not escape! Besides, the Jade Emperor is the most respected in the Three Realms. Where can I escape?" Jinghe Dragon King shook his head repeatedly.

"He is a loving dragon. He doesn't only care about running for his own life when disaster strikes, but he doesn't waste my life. As for whether he can seize his life, it depends on his own good fortune!" Chen Xian praised in his heart, and said lightly: " If you are afraid of hurting your wife and children, then take them and run away together, as for where to go, Xiniu Hezhou, my territory, I guarantee that the Jade Emperor will not be able to take you!"

"Xiniu Hezhou, you are the Jade Dragon Demon Emperor!" Jinghe Dragon King said in surprise, his heart skipped a beat.

"It's the emperor!" Chen Xian smiled with his hands behind his back.

"Thank you Your Majesty for your kindness, Xiaolong still can't escape!" Jinghe Dragon King shook his head and sighed.

"Why?" Chen Xian asked in surprise, the Jinghe Dragon King insisted on going to die even though the ants were stealing their lives.

"One person does things and one person is responsible. How can I drag my family and me to suffer because of my fault. My wife is the princess of Xihai, and she was wronged to marry me. How can I harm her again? I only hope that the king of Tang can save me. Talk to Wei Zheng, extrajudicial grace, save his life, and we will meet again in the future!" Jinghe Dragon King said sadly.

"That's how you go!" Chen Xian said, and he disappeared.

The Dragon King of Jinghe waited for a while, and then straightened up after no more sound, looked around, saw Li Shimin's Menghun was looking around in front of the palace gate, hurriedly got dressed and knelt down, crying, "Your Majesty, help me! help me!"

Li Shimin is still in a dream, his consciousness is muddled, and his words are a little confused: "Who are you? I will save you."

The Dragon King of Jinghe kowtowed and said, "Your Majesty is the real dragon, and my minister is the Yelong. Because I violated the rules of heaven, Cao Guan Wei Zheng, a virtuous minister of your majesty, deserves to be beheaded. Therefore, I come to pray, and hope that your majesty will save me!"

Li Shimin said in his heart that Wei Zheng is one of my subordinates, and it is enough for me to issue an amnesty order, so he said, "Since Wei Zheng is beheaded, I can save you. You can go ahead without worry."

The Dragon King of Jinghe was overjoyed when he heard the words, and after thanking him, he drove away on a cloud, while Li Shimin's dream soul also went back to the bedroom and continued to wander in his dream.

But he said that Li Shimin was the emperor who returned to his heart, with unparalleled luck and strong spirit. After waking up from the dream, the Dragon King of Jinghe was always in his heart asking for help.At that time, it was five drums and three o'clock. He drove up to court and gathered two groups of civil and military officials.

The emperor sits high in the golden palace, with civil and military officials lined up on both sides. Today is the grand court meeting. Officials above the fifth rank in Beijing come to see the emperor. There was a loud noise, and the glazed tiles on the Jinluan Hall trembled three times.

The congratulatory greetings of all the officials were over, and after the civil and military divisions had settled down, the king of Tang raised his phoenix eyes and looked at them one by one from the beginning. He saw Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui (the history has been closed, but Journey to the West is alive), Xu Shiji, etc. in front of the civil official station. Inside are Ma Sanbao, Duan Zhixian, Yin Kaishan, Cheng Yaojin, Liu Hongji, Hu Jingde, Qin Shubao, etc., all of whom are dignified and dignified, but Prime Minister Wei Zheng is not seen.

Li Shimin was slightly suspicious. Originally, he was a little happy that the guy who often contradicted his majesty in the temple was not here, but he was a little irritable when he thought of the entrustment of the Dragon King of Jinghe. A strange dream: I dreamed of a person who greeted me face to face, claiming to be the Dragon King of Jinghe River, who violated the rules of heaven, and that person was executed by Cao Guan Wei Zheng. I begged my widow to save him, and I have promised. Today, Wei Zheng is the only one seen in front of the class, why? "

Xu Shiji replied: "This dream is fulfilled. As soon as Wei Zheng comes to court, Your Majesty should not let him go out. After this day, the dragon in the dream can be saved."

The king of the Tang Dynasty was overjoyed, but he couldn't wait for Wei Zheng to come to the court for a long time, so he had to deliver an order to announce Wei Zheng as the driver to meet him in the pilgrimage.

It is said that in this world of gods and demons, this Wei Zheng is not an ordinary person, but a monk with profound morality. He was in the mansion last night, watching the heavenly phenomena at night, and burning incense. , holding the Jade Emperor's golden decree, telling him that at three o'clock today, his ghost came out of his body and dreamed of beheading the old dragon of Jinghe River.After he thanked the heaven, he fasted and bathed, tried the sword of wisdom in the mansion, Yun Yuanshen, and prepared to go out of the body to kill the dragon, so he didn't go to court.

Wei Zheng saw that the driving officer came to announce the decree, and he did not dare to disobey the emperor's order, so he hurriedly dressed and tied up, entered the court with the decree, and kowtowed before the emperor to plead guilty.

As long as you take a leave of absence, it's okay not to go to the court, and you can resign. Li Shimin is not a faint king, and said with a smile: "You are not guilty."

At that time, all the ministers had not yet retired from the court. When Wei Zheng came here, Li Shimin ordered the curtain to disperse, leaving Wei Zheng alone, proclaiming the golden throne, and calling him into the palace.Near the end of the day and the beginning of noon, he ordered the palace man to take the big chess and said, "I will play a game with Xianqing."

All the concubines took the chessboard and set up the imperial case. Wei Zheng thanked him and played chess with the king of Tang. Lao Li tried every means to keep Wei Zheng.

The monarch and his ministers are playing chess, each side refuses to give in. At [-]:[-] p.m., when the endgame is not yet over, Wei Zheng suddenly steps on the side of the desk, snoring and dozing off. He didn't call, but praised with a smile: "Xianqing really worked hard to help the country, and I was tired of building a country, so I didn't sleep.

But it is said that Wei Zhengyuan spirit left the palace curtain of the imperial palace, traveled all the way through the clouds and fog, and went straight to Qingming. In midair, there was a dragon-slaying platform arranged by the heavenly soldiers. He drew his sword and slashed.

Wei Zheng cheered up, stepped forward and shouted: "You have violated the rules of heaven, and you deserve to die. I am ordered by heaven to kill the rest of your life."

The Dragon King of Jinghe mourned, crouched his claws and retracted his scales, willing to die. Wei Zheng shook his spirit, raised his clothes and stepped forward as if raising a sword. Qi, shot back by electricity, returned to the flesh in an instant, and opened his eyes.

Wei Zheng woke up, and quickly prostrated himself in the tunnel, saying, "I deserve death! I deserve death! But I'm just dizzy and don't know what to do. I hope Your Majesty will pardon me for being arrogant!"

Li Shimin is an enlightened king, and he deliberately made Wei Zheng fall asleep. He said with a smile, "What is your fault for being slow? Get up now, brush off the broken chess pieces, and make a new one with Qing."

Wei Zheng thanked him for his kindness, but he only had the ball in his hand, and he could only hear yelling outside the door.It turned out that Qin Shubao, Xu Maogong and others rushed in front of the Daojun before they were called, threw a bloody faucet in front of Li Shimin, and said: "Your Majesty, I have seen shallow seas and dry rivers before, but such strange things have never happened." smell."

Li Shimin and Wei Zheng stood up and asked, "Where did this thing come from?"

The two said: "Qianbu Langnan, cross the street, this dragon's head fell from the clouds, I dare not not play it."

When he heard that it was a dragon head, Li Shimin was a little puzzled, and asked Wei Zheng in surprise, "What do you mean?"

Wei Zheng turned around and kowtowed, "It was the minister who cut it in a dream."

Hearing this, Li Shimin was shocked and said: "When Xianqing was asleep, he never saw him move and fight, and he didn't have a sword. How could he kill this dragon?"

Wei Zheng told about his slaying the dragon, of course he only said it was in a dream, he never mentioned the matter of Yuanshen traveling to slay the dragon.

After listening to Wei Zheng's story, Li Shimin's heart was mixed with sorrow and joy. Those who are happy: praise Wei Zheng's good minister, and there is such a hero in the court, so worry about the instability of the country? be punished.He had no choice but to force himself, and ordered Shubao to hang the dragon's head on Shicao to inform Chang'an Lishu.On the other hand, Wei Zheng was rewarded, and all the officials dispersed.

When the dragon's head fell, Chen Xian was in the palace, and he didn't have any special feelings. The road was chosen by the Dragon King of Jinghe River, and the ending was up to him.

"Below is the ghost dragon of the Jinghe River. Because the Dragon King of the Jinghe River is also a dragon, and he has made great contributions to the country by flying clouds and raining, so he is not afraid of the emperor's dragon spirit, scares him, and scares the unjust dead ghosts who have been recruited to the palace. Visit the underworld, and when you come back, you will open the waterway ceremony, and then it's time for Tang Seng to play!" The light in Chen Xian's eyes flashed, and he began to think about how to get rid of Tang Seng.

(End of this chapter)