Dragon, in many legends of Chinese civilization, dragon is a kind of strange animal that is good at change, can prosper clouds and rain, and benefit all things, and is the head of the four spirits of dragon, phoenix, unicorn and turtle.

Those with wings are called Ying Dragons, those with horns are called Dragons, and those without horns are called Dragons. The small one is called Jiao, and the big one is called the dragon.

There is also a legend that the dragon can be visible and hidden, can be small and huge, and can be short and long. The spring equinox ascends to the sky, the autumn equinox dives into the abyss, calling for wind and rain, omnipotent.

And in those many myths and legends, the dragon is still the master of the underwater world, and in the infinite deep sea lives the dragon king, the dragon mother, the dragon son and the dragon girl. In that ordinary folk, the dragon is a symbol of auspiciousness, and the ancient emperors are all true dragons.

It is now the 10th day of the 3th month of the 34th month of the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty. Today, the wind and the sun are beautiful, and the imperial garden in the Forbidden City is full of flowers and flowers. In the Qianqiu Pavilion, a middle-aged man in a luxurious brocade robe stood at the red lacquer railing at the edge of the pavilion, and his right hand was picking a piece of peony petals from his left hand from time to time, and threw them into the flower lawn outside the pavilion. Soon, a pink peony flower was picked and all that was left was a bare green calyx.

"Come on, go pick a pink peony flower for me."

The middle-aged man was a little annoyed and threw the bare green flower stem in his hand into the flower grass outside the pavilion.

"Your Majesty, the pink peony you wanted." A young guard, holding a large pink peony flower in both hands, was kneeling outside the Qianqiu Pavilion with his head bowed.

"Oh? Present it. ”

The young guard hurriedly got up, bowed his head, and entered the pavilion.

The middle-aged man turned sideways slightly, took the peony flower that the guard bowed to with both hands with his right hand, and then used his left hand to pick the peony petals in his right hand one by one and threw them into the flowers and grass outside the pavilion.

"You're just waiting on the sidelines."

The middle-aged man looked at the flowers and grass outside the pavilion, threw the peony petals in his hand, and said without knowing his head.

"Wow." The young guard fell to one knee, then got up and bowed back to the entrance to the right edge of the pavilion, and stood with his head bowed slightly.

The middle-aged man picked and threw the petals casually, and at the same time he had words in his mouth.

"One piece, two pieces, three or four pieces, five pieces, six pieces, seven or eight pieces. Nine slices, ten slices, eleven slices, ten twenty ...... No, no, is this still poetry? The middle-aged man stood there and looked at the peony flower with only a green stem and calyx left in his hand, and was a little stunned for a while.

"Come on, go and fetch me another pink peony flower and bring it to me."

The middle-aged man looked at the flowers and green grass outside the pavilion, raised his hand helplessly, and waved it back.

"Wow." A young guard at the entrance of the pavilion hurriedly and respectfully answered the gazebo.

The middle-aged man in the Qianqiu Pavilion is none other than Emperor Qianlong, the master of the current Qing Dynasty.

Today's next dynasty, Emperor Qianlong in the imperial study to review some of the folds, feel a little tired, so he walked out of the imperial study, inadvertently came to this imperial garden, looking at the front of a good spring garden, for a while can not help the poetry of the great hair, just pick a favorite pink peony flower on weekdays, into this Qianqiu Pavilion, ready to improvise a poem. But this was stuck in the last sentence, and I couldn't think about it, and I couldn't help but be very irritable.

"Why haven't you come yet? Does it take so long to pick a peony flower? ”

Emperor Qianlong stood in the Qianqiu Pavilion, looking at the purple and red outside the pavilion in front of him, and slapped the red lacquer guardrail in front of him with both hands.

"The emperor, the emperor, here, the peony flower is here." The young guard who had just gone to pick peony flowers happened to walk outside the pavilion, and when he heard the emperor's impatient questioning, he hurriedly ran into the pavilion lightly, and bent down to the side behind Emperor Qianlong.

Emperor Qianlong did not look back and stretched out his right hand. Seeing this, the young guard hurriedly put the peony flower he was holding in both hands lightly.

"Wait and go."

Emperor Qianlong's deep voice was full of unhappiness.

"Chirp, chirp."

The young guard bowed back again and again, not daring to make any sound, and quietly retreated back to his place.

"You! Wait a minute! I asked you to pick a pink peony flower, and you were good enough to pick a pink one for me. Are you trying to deceive the king? ”

Emperor Qianlong took the peony flower handed over by the young guard in the imperial garden, and was about to pick the petals as he did just now, but at a glance, what is this pink peony with red in pink, this is not the kind of pink he wants, but the peony flower with white in the powder. This dog slave doesn't even know his own preferences, he can't do such a little thing, how could he be arranged in this big inner deep palace. It seems that I have to call the head of the internal affairs office to reprimand him well.

Emperor Qianlong was originally stuck because of the last sentence of this poem, which was both irritable and unhappy, and he was even more annoyed at this moment. I threw the pink peony flower out of the pavilion with all my might, and the two sounds of "poof, boom" splashed around, and for a while, the pink peony petals were scattered and scattered. A spring breeze blew, and the flowers swayed, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

"Look up." Emperor Qianlong turned around with a cold face, and shouted in a low voice to the young guard who was kneeling on the ground and shivering.

"Chirp, chirp." The young guard's voice trembled and he slowly raised his head.

"Oh? This looks pretty good. Alright, I'm going to test you now. Through it, there is an excuse from sin, and there is also a reward; If I am not satisfied, then you will be punished for the crime of deceit. Hum! ”

"Please, please ask the emperor to come out, come out, give a question."

The young guard's body trembled even more now, but he still knelt on the ground tremblingly and replied cautiously.

"Well, well, it seems that there is still a bit of guts. Listen up; One piece, two pieces, three or four pieces, five pieces, six pieces, seven or eight pieces, nine pieces, ten pieces, eleven pieces...... It's up to you to pick up the next sentence. Can't connect? You won't be able to catch this master's head. Hahaha......"

Emperor Qianlong laughed loudly, and this depressed mood was finally better. Everyone in the world says it's good to be an emperor, but how many people can understand the taste of the cold in the high place? So a lot of the time, I have to have some fun on my own in private. Since he ascended the throne, more than 30 years have passed, and many positions in the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty have changed several times, but at a glance, they are still more sanctimonious than the other, which is really boring.

"I, I, I, one piece, two pieces, three or four pieces, five pieces, six pieces, seven or eight pieces. Nine Tablets ...... Yes! Ah, the emperor, the emperor, I have it, no, it's a slave, a slave has it. ”

The young guard, like a man who was about to drown in the water, suddenly grabbed a life-saving straw, and despite the sweat on his head, he took a few steps forward, raised his head and shouted loudly.

"Oh? There you have it. Then let's talk about it. ”

Emperor Qianlong couldn't help but be a little surprised in his heart, he had been thinking about this for almost an hour and a half, but he couldn't think of it. And the small young guard in front of him, guarding this imperial garden, thought of it so quickly?

"The emperor, the emperor, the minions, the minions, the minions, the flies into the flowers, and they don't see it."

The young guard knelt tremblingly and finished speaking, then he kowtowed to the ground again and did not look up again.

"Flying into the flowers and not seeing? One piece, two pieces, three or four pieces...... Eleven pieces, flying into the flowers, are gone. Flying into the flowers, they are gone. Well, see, piece, piece, see. Well, very good, very wonderful; Good, good, wonderful. I really can't imagine that a little guard actually ...... Well! Alright, well, get up. In the future, just take care of the errands. ”

Emperor Qianlong was very happy, so he thought that he should go back to the imperial study as soon as possible and write down this poem that he had made with great difficulty. Immediately start and walk outside this Qianqiu Pavilion.

The young guard who was kneeling on the ground hurriedly knelt on the spot and turned around, kowtowing to the Qianlong Emperor who was walking towards the outside of the Qianqiu Pavilion.

"Slaves send the emperor, send the emperor."

Emperor Qianlong walked out of this Qianqiu Pavilion, looked up at the high clouds that day, and stretched a big lazy waist while walking.

"You slave still has some talent, what's your name?" Emperor Qianlong paused for a moment and asked without looking back.

"Slave Niu Kulu and Shen, Zhenghongqi people."

"Oh? Niu Kulu's? Positive red flag? And Shen? Well, I see. In the future, let's use some heart to be an errand, but don't insult the prestige of the ancestors of the Niu Kulu clan. ”

"Tsk. The minions obeyed. ”

Niu Kulu and Shen knelt up straight in the Qianqiu Pavilion, clasped his hands into fists in front of his chest, bowed his head and kowtowed, and replied loudly.