Chapter 8: The Dragon Palace (Part II)

"Are you feeling better now?" The girl asked me suddenly and indifferently.

She suddenly spoke to me, which made me a little uncomfortable, and quickly replied. "It's much better, girl, you and I have no grievances, why did you bring me to such a strange place."

I don't know what I said wrong, the girl just now had a really cold expression on her face, but now it turned into rain in the blink of an eye, her brows furrowed, and she became angry again. This makes me wonder why every time I say that you and I have no grievances, she is so angry. Whether she's a good person or a vicious youkai is also hard to discern.

"Come here, tie him up and take him to the Dragon Pavilion." The girl said to the two guards in a commanding tone, her eyebrows erected and the corners of her mouth drooping.

When the two fish demon guards heard this, they both hesitated a little and didn't make a move. "Miss, this is not very good, the boss has given an order a long time ago, and all idlers and others are not allowed to enter the Dragon Pavilion."

The girl was already a little angry, and this time the two fish demons questioned her, and she vented all her anger on the two of them. "Do you listen to me, or do you listen to him?"

The two fish demons were terrified. "I ...... We don't dare to disobey the boss, it's a headless thing. You brothers and sisters are easy to talk to, but we errand boys don't dare. ”

"I tell you, take him over immediately, or I will correct you now." As she spoke, the girl stretched out her fist and intimidated the two fish demons.

The two fish demons looked at each other, thought for a moment, and could only nod in agreement.

There was a fish demon whispering in my ear. "You said that you, a mortal, did something bad, and you actually offended our eldest lady."

Then a fish demon took out a cloth bag from his waist, he shook it gently, and a water snake slowly came out of it, and this water snake swam to my hand, wrapped it tightly around my hands, and then bit me my thumb.

"I'm sorry, mortal, you have to come with us." The fish demon said to me with a blank face, as if he was very dissatisfied with the errand.

I was pushed forward a little bit by the two fish demons, and the girl left us first.

Her pace was fast, and I was relieved to see the girl walking away little by little, so I tentatively chatted with the two fish demons to see if I could find a chance to slip away.

"Two brothers, what is the place of the Dragon Pavilion in your eldest lady's mouth just now?"

The two fish demons were silent, ignoring me.

I then continued. "Two big brothers, we are all fallen people at the end of the world, there is no need to be enemies, I was also arrested by your eldest lady because of a misunderstanding, and you were forced to escort me in desperation, we are all poor people."

I had the idea that if I wanted to communicate with strangers, I had to find common ground first. It worked, and one of the fish demons spoke up immediately. "It's really unlucky to take such an errand at night."

Another fish demon should also shout. "I think we are more than lucky, even if we don't lose our heads, this month's salary will be ruined."

"Mortal, you are more unlucky than us, we pity you and tell you, this Dragon Pavilion is the home of our current boss Ao Long, he has been busy with official duties recently, and he has not left the house for a long time, and has not left there. He ordered that no one should come within ten steps of the Dragon Pavilion, and that those who violated the order were guilty of unforgivable crimes. The eldest lady wants to take you there, she really wants to make you lose your life. ”

After listening to the fish demon's narration, I still couldn't understand what kind of place the Dragon Pavilion was, it sounded like a high-level residence for them.

"What the hell are you doing here?" I tried to ask in depth again.

"Mortal, you don't even know what you do in the Dragon Palace?" A fish demon said with a slight mockery. "The Dragon Palace is the highest authority in the management of the rivers and lakes in this world."

"You're such a wretched worm that you don't even know where you die."

These two fish demons laughed at me one by one, and I was very bored, so I stopped talking to them. We walked through alley after alley, door after door, and finally came to what they called the Dragon Pavilion.

This dragon pavilion is really luxurious, is a three-storey heavy building pavilion, compared to the surrounding buildings are much higher, as the saying goes, "immortals are good buildings", it seems that this is true, the style of this dragon pavilion is very similar to the Ming ware I once saw in a museum, three layers, four columns, cornices, bucket arches, helmet top. All kinds of decorations on land, it is not bad at all. Although it is made of stone, the surface has been sprayed with heavy paint, and these colors can be said to achieve the effect of being fake, and the heavy stones are packed very light, no different from wood. The bright colors contrast with the bare buildings around it, and the Dragon Pavilion is like a pearl of the night being held by the stars.

The fish demon put me on the pedestal, and I was able to walk in and see that this dragon pavilion was more exquisite than the distant view, each of the four vermilion pillars was coiled with a golden dragon, this golden dragon was not like those palaces and temples on the land were just simple carvings, these golden dragons were actually climbing and twisting back and forth along the pillars, they made sounds again and again, and seemed to be talking to each other. I looked up at the heavy roof, and there was a fish-headed and bird-tailed kissing beast on each of the four corners of the three-story roof, and from top to bottom the kissing beast was getting bigger and bigger, and I realized that I was looking at them, and one of the kissing beasts suddenly turned its head and whistled at me.

The window of the Dragon Pavilion was now covered with thick ice flowers, and I could vaguely hear a man inside complaining through the window.

"Yuluo, how many times have I told you, don't bother me, I'm very annoyed now."

The man's voice was loud, and just this voice made people feel a strong sense of masculinity.

"Brother, I'll bring you someone you must want to meet." I could hear that this was the girl's voice, compared to the voice when she had just spoken to me, she was obviously much more restrained now, and she was a little gentle, restoring her original Jiangnan woman's taste.

"I don't want to see anyone!"

The two fish demons trembled outside when they heard it, and they gently knocked on the door of the Dragon Pavilion with trembling fingers, making a clattering sound, as light as a feather.

"Bring him in."

The door of the Dragon Pavilion was gently pushed open by the two fish demons, I looked inside, and found that it was really like a dream, the four walls were full of exquisite murals, these paintings had all kinds of fish swimming, the Dragon Pavilion was filled with light blue water, these waters were magically preserved in the room with the heavy door as the outside world, and the boundary between water and air was as obvious as a wall, as if it had been cut by a knife.

A man was sitting on top of a turtle shell and looked at me in amazement. I also looked closely at the man, who was dressed in a turquoise robe, which did not look heavy, with a huge open chest and hard muscles on display. His long hair was neatly draped behind his head, his expression could really be described as majestic and heroic, with thick eyebrows, sharp eyes, and a upright face, I have seen countless people who claim to be manly, but when I saw this person today, I found that those were all weak and soft men before.

When the man saw me, he was obviously taken aback and quickly stood up from the turtle shell.

"Brother Xian?"

When the man said this, I couldn't help but wonder if my ears had failed after soaking in the water for too long, how could I possibly have met such a heroic figure.

The man paused for a moment, then turned to the girl standing beside him in a slightly reproachful tone. "Yuluo, why did you tie up the horse, it's just nonsense, let him loose."