That girl, maybe she should change her name now, the rain has fallen, she hugged me tighter and tighter, and the love was so deep that I couldn't extricate myself for a long time.

Ao Long seemed to see that I was a little unaccustomed, so he opened his mouth to help me out.

"The rain falls, since Brother Xian has come, there are still many opportunities for you to get together, can you leave first, I have something important to discuss with Brother Xian." Ao Long's voice suddenly became a little low, and his expression became serious.

Yuluo was still a little reluctant, silent for a moment, and still left very obediently, but couldn't help but look back step by step.

"Brother Xian, Yuluo has lacked discipline since he was a child, and his temper is arrogant, you don't have to be too entangled, after all, it was the fate of your previous life, if you don't feel it in this life, you don't have to force it. Either way, you're my brother. "When Ao Long saw the rain falling out of the Dragon Pavilion, he said to me with a smile." You people, you are tormented for love, why do you suffer, you look at me, alone, free and happy. ”

Ao Long was even more heroic than I thought, and I smiled and nodded, and whether it was right or wrong, that free and easy momentum alone was enough to make people deeply infected.

Ao Longgui is the lord of the Dragon Palace, and many complicated affairs of natural rivers, lakes and seas need to be decided by him, but how can I, an ordinary tea shop owner, make suggestions?

Hearing the footsteps of the rain falling away from each other, Ao Long spoke again. "Brother Xian, I haven't told Yuluo about this matter yet, she shouldn't be a woman who should work for these things, but this matter is too tricky, I've broken my heart for it, it just so happened that Brother Xian came to the Dragon Palace, I want to tell Brother Xian about this matter."

"Brother Ao, the younger brother is doing nothing, if he can really help anything, he will definitely do it."

"Brother Xian is really good at talking, come with me, let's go to the third floor for a talk." Ao Long got up and pulled me towards the third floor of his Dragon Pavilion.

This Dragon Pavilion is a three-story pavilion, the first floor seems to be Ao Long's office to deal with affairs, the second floor is his living room, so what will the third floor be? The architecture of the Dragon Palace is exquisite, and I was intrigued.

As soon as I walked up the stairs and turned, the third floor of the Dragon Pavilion was unmistakably visible in front of me, and a deep fragrance of leaves slowly came. This! What kind of pavilion is this, this is simply another world.

On the third floor of the Dragon Pavilion is a small garden surrounded by trees, interspersed with a few peculiar flowers, and in the center of the small garden there is a small pond in which koi fish swim happily. Around the pond, the gravel is stacked in an orderly manner, outlining the sleek riverbank, and beyond is a small rockery, about three meters high, on which a few monkeys are scurrying back and forth, and a narrow mossy path is reserved on the rockery, and a pavilion can be seen along the path to the top of the rockery, around which several cranes are comfortably pecking at their feathers.

Although it is only a room, it condenses the delicacy of this colorful world, it is very similar to the outside world, but it is isolated from everything outside. Building mountains, stacking stones, and managing water, this is not the artistic conception of the Chinese Literati Garden, the Literati Garden is the epitome of a kind of escapism, it seems that Ao Long must have a knot that is difficult to untie, so he will lock himself in such a room all the year round. The tricks of mortals who think they are wonderful are far less sophisticated than those in this Dragon Pavilion, and the small garden on three floors has completely reached the point of being fake, and when you are in it, you will feel that you have slowly become smaller, and these beautiful scenery are infinitely magnified.

"Brother Xian, these three floors are actually a place I specially use to think, the environment here is quiet and deep, naturally no one will disturb me." Ao Long pointed to a stone bench on the pavilion and motioned for me to sit down.

"Things that need to be thought about in such an environment must be things that cannot be told to others." I guessed.

"yes. Brother Xian is really knowledgeable, and I can guess the direction before I say it. Ao Long sat down across from me, his eyes filled with unease. I'm going to tell you about this slowly. ”

"How is Daoist Zuo lately?"

I didn't expect Ao Long to mention Zuo Dao Chang before, and he was a little panicked. "He opened an incense shop next to my house and told fortunes to people every day."

"Haha," Ao Long laughed. "It's really his style. Back then, the three of us talked about the past and the present after getting drunk, laughing and scolding the heavens, and angrily hating the underworld. It's so free-spirited! It's just that those jolly days are gone. ”

Speaking of this, Ao Long was inexplicably a little sentimental.

"Brother Xian, during the time you were reincarnated, a lot of things happened in the Dragon Palace." Ao Long sighed unconsciously. "And all these things happen because of me."

"Do you know why my name is Ao Long, with a water character in my name, and my sister is called Ao Yuluo?" Ao Long looked up and asked me.

"Are you looking forward to the rain?" I say.

"That's right, do you know that the rivers, lakes and seas of this world, if there is no rain to irrigate, will soon dry up. Therefore, although our Dragon Palace manages these waters, if there is no rain, then our work cannot be carried out at all, so the rain can be said to be our lifeline, and my father takes the rain very seriously, so he will give our brothers and sisters such a name. ”

I didn't expect it to be like this, and this magnificent dragon palace also has a time to pray.

"And who will take care of this rain?" I couldn't help but ask.

"All the water in this world, including the ocean, the lake, the clouds, the rain and snow, is actually the heavenly river from the heavenly court. The stillness and flow of the Heavenly River are controlled by the water god Gonggong, and it can be said that if the Gonggong strikes, then this world will soon become a miserable desert, and even the Heavenly Court will become a ruin. "Ao Taki explained to me in as much detail as possible, because I had read a lot of mythological stories, so I knew a little about the legendary water god Gonggong, and knew that he was the god in charge of the flow of water.

"Then the responsibility of this water god is too great!" I exclaimed.

"Yes, but the greater the responsibility, the more labor. Such heavy labor would make even the water god miserable, and later the water god co-workers began to disperse their power. He himself still takes care of the Tianhe, but allows the other two gods to have some power to control the water, one is our Dragon Palace, and we are responsible for managing the rivers and lakes. The other is Xuan Ming, who can make rain and ice and snow. ”

It is recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" that Gonggong and Xuan Ming have both participated in the battle of Zhuolu, and they are both powerful and profound people, so I nodded. "That sounds fair, and the division of labor is manageable."

Ao Long couldn't help but laugh bitterly twice.

"Brother Xian, you don't know, one manages the water on the earth and the other manages the water in the sky, which sounds very fair, but in fact there are big loopholes in it."

"How so?" I thought to myself that there is far less rain and snow than the water in the rivers, and if it is unfair, it should be more biased towards the Dragon Palace.

"Brother Xian, the water in the earth is actually nominally under our control, but it only controls the flow of rivers and the rise and fall of the tides, but we cannot resist its evaporation. Every now and then, this water evaporates into droplets and flows back into the sky. But Xuan Ming is different, he has complete power to control the rain, if he doesn't open the sluice, then there will never be rain and snow in this world, and over time, the rivers, lakes and seas will be in vain. Aolong's tone was full of grief and indignation, and he suddenly stood up and looked up at the moon outside the attic window. The cold moonlight poured in through the thin window paper, rendering the whole small garden a little bleak.

"There is some truth to this." Xuan Ming's work directly affects the Dragon Palace, but the Dragon Palace is helpless against Xuan Ming, which is really not fair.

Ao Long looked at the moonlight and fell into deep thought, and his sudden stop made me feel an inexplicable desolation.

"Brother Xian, I told me that this actually has nothing to do with the current tricky thing that makes me troublesome, I just want to tell you that even Heavenly Court can't do everything fair and just, and many things don't seem to be abnormal on the surface, it's just because everyone is not willing to think deeply, in fact, if you think about it a little, you will find out how big an undercurrent there is."

I have to agree that what Ao Long said is right, the world is also full of such encounters, but who would have thought that the heavenly court that is high up and worshiped by people will be like this.

"Many years ago, there was a great drought in the Central Plains, and the Qiantang River next to the Dragon Palace was almost turned into a Gobi desert. Ao Long slowly sat back down, still facing me.

"I've heard of it." I remembered the story at the end of Tuesday in the building, where he did mention that there had been a major drought before.

"That's because Xuan Ming hasn't given a drop of rain for several years in a row. Brother Xian, think about it, if it doesn't rain for a few years, it's strange that the rivers don't dry up. But it doesn't matter, the most troublesome thing is that you mortals need to cultivate, plants need to be watered, all of this needs water, and without water, you are the first to suffer. "Ao Long said slowly and clearly, I had to be convinced." Brother Xian, don't think that you are mortals, you don't have any mana, the preciousness of life can be put aside, you are the foundation of this world, and your work is the fundamental force that can exist for a long time in the Dragon Palace, and even the Heavenly Court and Earth, so you must not be presumptuous! ”

The importance of water naturally does not need to be said by Ao Long, I can also clearly understand that this is the source of all life and the blood of this world, not to mention that there is no water for a short day for several consecutive years, and it will also bring immeasurable damage.

"Father is a gentle person, he doesn't dare to go to heaven to confront Xuan Ming, because although the two have the same level, Xuan Ming lives in heaven all the year round, and we only live in the corner of the West Lake, and my father doesn't dare to offend Xuan Ming. He could only tear down the east wall to make up the west wall, transfer the water of the Yangtze River to the Qiantang River, and transfer the water of the Yellow Sea to the Yangtze River, so that it was just drinking water to quench his thirst, and it did not help at all, but the drought became more and more serious, and at first it was only the area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and then the entire Central Plains was placed in this disaster. ”

"How's that okay?" Hearing Ao Long's description, I was a little desperate as a bystander. "Could it be that Heavenly Court is not aware of this kind of thing."

Ao Long shook his head with hatred, his hand clenched tightly, and he could see that he was constantly exerting force, and the green tendons on the back of his hand flare. "Brother Xian, first of all, one day in heaven and one year on earth. There has been no rain in the world for a few years, but it is just a few days of dereliction of duty in the sky, and no one will blame it if it is not detected. And you think of Heavenly Court too noblely, if you really go to Heavenly Court, you will know what it means to be truly singing and dancing. ”

"Brother Xian, you come with me." After saying that, Ao Long took me down the rockery, step by step, the road at the moment felt unusually muddy and rugged for some reason, and the small rockery seemed to be piled up with sadness.

He led me to the edge of the pond, the clear water of which was still beautiful, reflecting the grass and trees on both sides, emitting a pale green shimmer, it was like a clean white paper, and the carp dancing on it was the thick and colorful strokes.

But at the moment, who has the leisure to appreciate this?

"Brother Xian, then I will do one thing, one thing that I still don't know is right or wrong." Ao Long's voice trembled a little as he spoke, he was such a masculine person, he should have no fear of this world, but I could hear that he was afraid.

"I sneaked into the heavenly court alone, I wanted to find Xuan Ming and reason with him, but it happened that Xuan Ming was not there that day, and the fairies of his family said that he had traveled to the mortal world. I was furious at that time, so many people in the mortal world were suffering, people's livelihood was withering, and a large area of wheat fields turned into dry grass, and he was still in the mood to play! ”

Ao Long's words touched me, as the lord of the first palace, he didn't have any condescending tone in such a long conversation, and he never said that the lack of rain for many years would cause losses to the Dragon Palace, he has always been talking about mortals, and what he has always thought about in his heart is all sentient beings.

Ao Long suddenly stopped, blowing in the scattered cold air, and the lonely figure was stretched for a long time in the moonlight, and turned his head to me. "Brother Xian, with what you know about me, what do you think I will do?"