Everyone in Kaifeng Mansion listened to Dong Xiao tell a story that happened almost a hundred years ago.

When his great-grandfather was still young, he had a very bizarre experience, and that special experience directly led to the tragedy of the dragon and phoenix destroying the city that has continued to occur in the past hundred years.

Dong Xiao's great-grandfather was Dong Qi, and he was born in a very poor village on the northwest border. The village is called Dong Village, and the people in the village have almost no other source except hunting and reselling some timber, and the harvest is dry all year round, and the life is very hard.

When Dong Qi was in his twenties, he ganged up with several other young people in the village who were about the same age. At first, they just stole graves and dug up graves, found the ancestral graves of some large families, and dug up a few gold, silver and jade artifacts to accompany the burial to supplement the village.

But gradually, as everyone became more and more experienced, and they spent more and more time on the rivers and lakes, they began to yearn for some large tombs.

In the village next to Dong Qi, there is a Chen Village, which is quite close to Dong Village, and life is as poor as it gets. The two villages are in trouble because of land disputes and some disputes, and they hate each other for a long time.

There was a young man about the same age as Dong Qi in Chen Village, named Chen Mao, who also formed a team with a dozen people in the village and began to rob tombs.

Although Dong Qi is greedy for money, his human nature is not too bad, he only steals the tombs of the dead and does not harm the living. But Chen Mao is more ferocious, not only robbing tombs, but also killing people and goods.

After a few years, Chen Mao's men and horses were obviously stronger than Dong Qi's men, and they had more money.

That year, when Dong Qi was about thirty years old, he met an old man from the Western Regions.

The old man told him a legend that in the desert around the Western Regions, there was an ancient castle sunk in the ground. The castle was originally called Dragon and Phoenix City, and the city lord was a man and a woman, one was a fire dragon and the other was a fire phoenix. The origin of these two people is unknown, it is said that they are the reincarnation of the fire demon, and they have a lot of wealth, and after the death of the two people, they left behind empty cities and full of treasures.

Dong Qi then began to investigate in many ways, and after making preparations for a whole year, he took his people and ran to the Western Desert to find this ancient city.

And the traitor arranged by Chen Mao in Dong Village told Chen Mao the news.

So Chen Mao took people and secretly followed Dong Qi.

Dong Qi wasted all his strength, and really found the ancient city, and after entering the castle, he found that there were many mechanisms, but there were indeed many treasures. Dong Qi walked around the castle and found that the situation seemed to be not good, there were many strange murals in the ancient city, most of them were pictures of phoenixes and dragons breathing fire and burning people, and the castle was full of strange fire dragons and fire phoenix totems.

So Dong Qi told his subordinates to take less things and leave quickly.

But immediately after them, Chen Mao's men arrived.

Chen Mao had a large number of people, and when they saw that the ancient city was a treasure trove at all, they were so excited that they almost pried away the gold bricks on the ground.

Dong Qi and Chen Mao met in the ancient city.

Chen Mao wanted to monopolize the secret of the castle and this ancient city, so he ordered his subordinates to kill Dong Qi and kill them.

As a result, a fierce battle broke out between the two sides in the ancient city.

Later, Dong Qi noticed that something seemed to be wrong with Chen Mao's people, and as they took more and more gold and silver treasures, Chen Mao's men became red-eyed, greedy, and ferocious.

Dong Qi asked his subordinates to throw away the things in their hands, the things in this ancient castle are not clean, whether there is medicine or resentment, in short, the more people take it, the more abnormal it is.

Sure enough, the people on Chen Mao's side began to lose their minds and kill each other.

Dong Qi took advantage of the opportunity to escape with his subordinates, and in the process of leaving the city, I don't know who accidentally touched the mechanism, and those dragon and phoenix totems actually began to breathe fire......

At this moment, the entire castle burst into flames.

Originally, the castle was made of gold, and the surface of the gold was covered with a layer of sediment, which I don't know if it was mixed with medicine, and it was extremely flammable and inextinguishable.

Dong Qi and his subordinates didn't take the treasure and ran fast, but Chen Mao and the others took too many things, ran slowly, and many people were burned to death.

Dong Qi and his subordinates found that the entire castle began to be buried by mud and sand, and at the moment when the most rearly came out, Dong Qi's leg was grabbed by Chen Mao.

At this time, Chen Mao was burned all over his body, and his appearance was hideous, like a living ghost, he was in a state of being possessed at this time, grabbed Dong Qi and said that he wanted him to be buried with him.

Dong Qi put down the jack at the gate of the city, and locked Chen Mao and his subordinates who were about to die with them like Chen Mao and his living ghosts in the ancient city that was burned to purgatory.

Finally, the castle was buried in yellow sand and was never found again.

Dong Qi and the others escaped and saved their lives.

Although the castle has sunk, some gold bricks remain on the sand dunes, and the gold shines brightly after the dust on the surface has been burned away.

Dong Qi and others picked up the gold bricks and returned to their hometown, because they didn't want to do anything like robbing tombs anymore because they didn't die, they divided the gold bricks, and took their families to go their separate ways, and they all created a good family business.

It's just that Dong Qi and the others were seriously ill and died early at a very young age, and the legends of the fire dragon and the fire phoenix, their descendants have heard about their ancestors.

Although Dong Qi and others no longer robbed tombs, they were still very interested in the ancient city of Dragon and Phoenix, and after years of investigation by all parties, everyone knew the secret of this ancient city.

It turns out that the city lord of this dragon and phoenix ancient city is really called the fire dragon and the fire phoenix, but they are two demons.

This fire dragon and fire phoenix are over 100 years old, and they have been amassing wealth all their lives, extorting villages and ancient countries in the Western Regions.

Legend has it that as long as the fire phoenix appears in a certain village, it means that the village is being targeted, and the villagers must hand over all their wealth to them, otherwise disaster will befall them. If the fire phoenix does not get enough benefits, then the fire dragon will come to the village, and as soon as the fire dragon appears, it will definitely rain down from the sky and spew out heavenly fire that cannot be extinguished with water to burn the entire village and all the people in the village.

Back then, this couple was rampant in the Western Regions, and no one could clean them up. This incident seems to have become a nightmare for Dong Qi and others, and they feel that they are really lucky to escape from the grave of such a pair of old demons to save their lives.

—The corners of the mouths of the people in the Fengfu twitched-tsk, fortunately, yesterday's jade pendant was a dragon, in case it was a pig, wouldn't it be troublesome? The Golden Pig is coming?

"You think, the mourning family just saw the golden dragon last night, and this baby can't wait to be born today!" The Queen Mother smiled with a wrinkle on her face, "Isn't it the real dragon who came to the world!" ”

The people in Kaifeng Mansion are also embarrassed to tell the truth to the Queen Mother, so let her old man continue to be beautiful.

Bao Zheng patted Pang Ji with a look of regret - why do you say this baby is a girl? If it is a son, then it is estimated that he will be a prince immediately!

The corners of Pang Ji's mouth twitched, and he looked at the little fourth son, what does that mean-or you want the jade pendant back? Wait until next time you give birth?

Just as I was thinking about it, I heard a baby's cry in the room.

Yin Hou raised his eyebrows, "Well, yes, the voice is loud." ”

Everyone nodded.

After a while, the midwife came out with a baby in her arms, and the Queen Mother took it, Zhao Zhen leaned over to see, a healthy girl!

Zhao Zhen was overjoyed, and hugged the princess into the house to see Concubine Pang, Concubine Pang was in good condition, except for being a little tired, everything was normal.

The Queen Mother made a decree and the whole country celebrated for three days, this princess is a golden dragon, no worse than a prince! Good sign.

Everyone congratulated Master Pang, not to mention, this girl's luck is not bad, she was born with a "golden dragon" auspicious omen, and it is estimated that she will be blessed in the future.

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Leaving the palace, Bao Zheng and the eighth prince immediately went to prepare for the celebration, and the date for the envoys and officials from various countries to enter the Kaifeng Mansion is estimated to be advanced, and there are a lot of things to be busy with.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang followed up to investigate the case of the fire dragon and the fire phoenix.

Out of the palace, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang walked to Dongjiazhuang in the west of the imperial city, and halfway through, they met Lin Yehuo and Zou Liang, who were talking while walking.

Xiao Liang, who followed behind the two, first asked about the situation of the little fourth son.

Zhan Zhao told him that the fourth son was left in the palace by the Queen Mother, and he would return to Kaifeng with Zhao Pu Gongsun in the evening.

Xiao Liang looked a little disappointed, "Jin'er won't come back until the evening." ”

Zhan Zhao poked Xiao Liang and pointed to Zou Liang and Lin Yehuo who were pinching while walking, "What are they doing?" ”

"Lin turkey sneaked out, mysterious and mysterious, and was caught by Zou Liang." Xiao Liang spread his hands, "So I also followed, and the turkey said that he was going to Dongjiazhuang, saying that you might have missed something." ”

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang glanced at each other - what was missing? Lin Yehuo really knows what to say.