Empress Wu Yingying was lamenting that the Heavenly Dao was mysterious and incomprehensible. According to that explanation, why did Heavenly Dao punish the Great Yue Kingdom?

The dragon is a kind of supernatural animal in Chinese legends that is good at change, can generate clouds and rain, and benefit all things. Usually accept the instructions of the dragon king to enjoy the clouds and rain, have the ability to hide and show, the spring breeze ascends to the sky, and the autumn wind dives into the abyss. But now these dragons, the dead are dead, the wounded are wounded, and there are still a few small dragons under the West Lake, and they have not yet grown up.

What can I do? Do you have to go down to the sea and ask the dragon king?

Demon insect Longwa saw the drought in the field, and the seedlings were about to die, he used his function to swallow clouds and fog in the suburbs, tossing for a long time, only a light rain fell, he didn't understand why his skills had weakened so much, Liu Wenjiao said to him, how can you go against the will of heaven when the disaster comes.

On this day, the imperial concubine Liu Wenjiao took the palace guard captain Mao Ping, the head of the Peony Palace Laifu, and Liu Qing to the suburbs together, and saw that the drought was serious, the fields were cracked, the crops were not harvested, and the people had to go to dozens of miles away to fetch water to eat.

They came to the temple of the North Night, met the abbot, and talked about the drought and about asking for rain.

An old monk said that the Zenith Pillar peak here, below which the West Lake is located, is located exactly in the palm of my left hand, and more than a thousand years ago, it was the monks in this temple who witnessed the existence of the 'treasure' in the lake and wrote down this scripture.

The thousand-year-old temple, the thousand-year-old scriptures, recorded a sighting thousands of years ago, they were witnessing the real dragon, is there really a real dragon in the West Lake, and this dragon is the "water monster" witnessed by many people later? This year the truth was finally revealed, and it was indeed a group of real dragons.

Some people think that it is a water monster, but others think that there is a dragon palace underneath, and every year the dragon king builds a palace, and there are yellow and white dragons pulling wood from the mountain to transport it. Each tree has about 100 branches, and there is a night fork to guard. The wood stands upright in the water, and a red light is hung on it as a signal. Another monk said

It turns out that the east side of this West Lake is unfathomable, and legend has it that the Dragon King lives in it. Some people have been mining from the side, and many huge wooden pillars have been dug deep underground, but I have not heard of any ancient buildings in the history of this place. So it was rumored that the dragon felling wood was to repair the Dragon Palace.

These legends, although they are rural legends, are also credible. I believe that this thing does happen, and it just so happens that my hair has seen it firsthand. The monk told them about the fact that he had planted a fruit grove by the lake, where he made a shack in the summer to watch the orchard, and when he got up at night, it was convenient for him to be by the fence. At that time, it was really raining for days, and the upper reaches of the river were released, and the lake was steep and wide.

He saw through the fence that there were many red dots floating down the lake. When I got closer, I found that there were wooden pieces of wood floating upright in the water one after another, with red lights hanging on them, and what was even more surprising was that the wood was similar in size. He sensed in his heart that this was not human. He was so frightened that he didn't dare to move or make a sound until all the wood floated through.

This has been passed down since ancient times, and people call it "dragon logging"

Once upon a time there was also a fairy-like figure who used to row on the lake, and no one had ever seen him eat and drink. There is nothing he doesn't know about things like water tribes, and how deep and far the mountains and rivers are.

In the previous dynasty, the county order in the suburbs built a large number of buildings, repaired the city and dug ditches, and when it was dug to the north of the city, it rained, and as soon as it stopped, the sky was clear. Someone asked the fairy-like old man what was going on. The old man said, "There's a dragon's lair down there." Dig on it noisy and concussive, so how can the dragon be at peace? And it ran out of its burrow, and when the dragon came out, it would rain. “

Liu Wenjiao asked the monks, "Can you still find this old man now?" If we find this old man, let's also go to that place to dig and let him have the effect of raining, won't this solve the drought? “

An old monk instructed them: "Prepare glutinous rice wine, prepare a roast leg of lamb, and wait for him at that small intersection in the morning." “

Liu Wenjiao said goodbye, returned to the palace to prepare these two kinds of food, and in the morning, called the chief of the Peony Palace, Laifu, and took two eunuchs to the ferry, and saw an old man, squatting on the splint of his boat. Through his special ability, Rifle sensed that it should be this old man.

Laifu asked the eunuch to bring wine and roast leg of lamb to the old man, and the old man did not shirk, and after he had eaten and drunk enough, he drew a sketch for them, indicating the specific location.

After the imperial concubine Liu Wenjiao saw it, she asked the captain of the palace guard to dig with a group of people, and they kept digging down, thinking that if they dug the dragon's den, it would rain more than then the drought would be lifted, and after digging a few zhang deep, they really dug a very deep hole, and there were some square trees dozens of feet long in the hole, which were stacked together and accumulated dozens of layers.

But it didn't rain, and the cave was quiet, so Mao Ping took two soldiers and went down to the cave to take a look, and saw that there was a black hole underneath, and the fog was rushing people, so he couldn't go in.

They brought up all the wood, and saw that it was all wrapped around the dragon's saliva, a fishy smell, and the wood was carved so smoothly and squarely that it was beyond the reach of human beings.

But it was quiet in the cave, and it didn't rain. Liu Wenjiao took a group of people, and they came to find the abbot and the old monk again.

"It didn't rain, and there was no movement in the cave, which means that the dragon was not in the dragon*." An old monk said.

"So the dragon is not in the dragon*, is it the dragon that was killed by the Golden Retriever Roar in the previous paragraph?" Liu Wenjiao asked, but none of them could answer this question. And then

The abbot said to the imperial concubine: "It is still necessary to hold a ceremony to pray for rain, and to organize the students in the school and the palace maids in your palace to collectively chant the scriptures." ”

From morning to dusk, the students and palace maids have been chanting, and the abbot himself takes a small boat to the edge of the West Lake to chant a mantra and ask the dragon king for rain. After three days of reading, the abbot was exhausted by the sun.

On the fourth day, an old monk in his 100s said: "Tomorrow I will go and beg my old friends, who met fifty or sixty years ago, and now more than half a century later, I vaguely feel that they are still here." “

This old monk made a sacrifice at the entrance of the temple, and after a while, Liu Wenjiao saw three old men through his divine sense, his eyebrows and beards were all white, and his appearance was different, the old monk invited them to sit down, and the boy served them refreshments.

After drinking a cup of tea, the old monk said to them: "Fifty or sixty years ago, I knew that you were dragons, and you felt that I had a little kindness to you, and I never wanted you to reciprocate, but now that there is a drought in the country of Da Viet and a famine in the country, can you use rain to save the people of Da Viet country?" “

One of the more dignified old men said: "We have been serving the dragon for thousands of years, and we have entrusted you with great blessings, but there is nothing to repay you, and it is not difficult for us to make waves and clouds and send some rain, but you must know that God's ban on rain is absolutely very strict, and without God's will, if it rains without permission and angers the heavens, you will be killed." “

When the old monk heard them say this, if it rained privately, he would be guilty of killing their heads, and he couldn't bear to embarrass them anymore.

On the fifth day, the abbot asked for rain and cursed the rain if he couldn't do it. So he wrote the names of the five dragon kings, put them in his shoes and stepped on them, chanting a spell, trying to force the five dragon kings to rain. The old abbot didn't eat or drink, and read all night. Until noon on the sixth day, there was no cloud in the sky, and the sun was so hot that all the roasters fainted.

General Zhou Guoyu, the commander in chief of the army, has always disbelieved in this. However, as the commander of the army, he heard that the imperial concubine had been leading people to pray for rain there for 5 consecutive days, which made him very tired physically and mentally, and Emperor Guangyue also stayed there for more than an hour every day for the past two days. ，

Therefore, he could not help but pretend, he took a few army generals, and came towards the West Lake, and he stood there very pious and begged for rain, but one of the generals could not bear it.

When he arrived at the temple, he neither poured incense nor prayed, but went straight to the dragon throne, stretched out his hand and grabbed the dragon king's beard, and then slapped the dragon king a few times.

While fanning and scolding, he scolded sharply: "× your mother, God is equipped with your function of raining, but you don't rain seriously, and you want people to sacrifice you for their labor and money, which makes the people of Dayue so miserable!" I now order you that it must rain heavily within three days, and if you don't obey my orders, you will first pick up the Dragon King Temple, and then bombard your old cave with cannons!" “

This general was beaten and scolded, and after being beaten and scolded, he was like a man who had nothing to do. When the people around saw it, they were shocked into a cold sweat, and they were too frightened to make a sound.

Another official stepped forward and said, "O Dragon King! It's just that you don't understand people's feelings, the people here worship you every year to send you pigs and sheep, you can't ignore the suffering of the people, I make you a wish, if it rains in three days, and then build a magnificent dragon temple for you."

The next day, the sky was still clear and cloudless, the sun was scorching the earth, and the dragon king had no intention of raining. Seeing this, General Zhou Guoyu was even more annoyed, and then the general transferred the cannons to the edge of the West Lake, with a total of 20 cannons, and bombarded the lake with live ammunition. The cannon bombarded all over the place, and finally it was dense like raindrops, his original intention was to demonstrate to the dragon king, to vent the anger in his heart, everyone didn't expect that his crooked idea had a miraculous effect!

After a while, suddenly the sky was clear and cloudy, and then thunder and lightning flashed, and a downpour of rain came from the sky, and the land that had been dry for a long time was moistened.

But at this time, they saw the abbot fainting on the ground, and everyone hurriedly helped him up, but saw that his legs were swollen and he couldn't walk, and he was carried back to the temple. Later, the whole body, hands, and face were edema, and the water and rice did not enter, and doctors from all over the country voluntarily came to the door to treat them to no avail, and later Liu Jiejiao sent the old Chinese medicine doctor to the Tai Hospital, and got fresh herbs for him to boil and treat, and he was cured after seven days.