The sun slowly shines through the soft and dense rain, shining into the most prosperous street market in Beijing, Tianhe City.

The middle-aged man stopped to watch, and the attendants hurriedly rode up and unfurled the yellow umbrella cover.

Only then did the pedestrians who were trading, loitering, and passing by in Tianhe City know in horror that it was the king's plainclothes light cavalry that was returning to Beijing.

The rain began to gradually start to get heavier again.

Wang Shangyixin looked left and right on the horse: the heavy rain hit the pink signboard of the Qianyue Rouge Shop on the opposite street, making the pink characters seem to be heavily colored, and it was even more beautiful than the hunting wine flag in the neighborhood fish and sheep house.

The raindrops have wet the bluestone pavements that can be seen everywhere in the Tianhe Market, and the lively streets on weekdays seem particularly deserted on this drizzly morning, not to mention that pedestrians are scrambling to dodge the light cavalry of Yixin.

Yi Xin was very interested, and actually got off the horse and came to the Tian's sister-in-law's cooking cake stall at the door of the car and horse shop in Tianhe City. I don't know what Yi Xin said to the fat sister-in-law, but after a while, he rode on his horse with a big hot cake with the fragrance of wheat, and munched on it with satisfaction.

An attendant came up from behind, and went hand in hand with Yixin's horse's head: "Report - report - enlighten the king." ”

"Xiangyang, what's wrong with you? Why don't you praise Lone for the harvest of this morning's hunting as soon as you come up? Tell me, there are more than a dozen civet cats, right? There must be more than 20 geese, right? Alas, if the queen hadn't stopped him, Lone would have really been able to shoot a lot of forest deer......

Yi Xin was still unsatisfied with the mention of hunting, but he could see that Xiangyang seemed to have something serious to tell: "So, Xiangyang, what are you in such a hurry to report?"

"Report to the king, the queen is waiting to give birth, and there has been no movement for a long time, and you have been worried about it, your majesty. The queen was guarded by Imperial Physician Jiang and other important ministers in the splendid palace, it has been a few months, this morning, the sun is auspicious, just a carrier pigeon arrived, the happy event that the whole country is looking forward to is coming. The little one brought good news to the king: 'The queen has a tidal breath, there are signs of childbirth, and the fetus has a wish to be born.' 'It seems that the time is coming.' ”

"Ah, haha--I have no shortage of descendants of kings in the Great Zhou Dynasty!" Wang Shangyi Xin looked up to the sky and laughed.

Wang Shangyi Xin, who was eight feet tall, immediately dismounted, and made a big salute to the Tushi Shenshi in the direction of Jiankou Peak outside the city, and said: "The sky has eyes, please help me with the strength of Da Zhou, and hope that the heirs will prosper, and the people will be safe and prosperous." ”

"Didn't the king go back to the palace, why did he turn the horse's head?" asked Xiangyang.

"Hahaha, I thought about the motion, I want to go to Zhiduguan to meet the Taoist. ”

......

Today is the twenty-ninth year of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the nineteenth day of February in the Zhou calendar, the whole country is praying for the queen to give birth, and the incense in the clouds of the capital is particularly prosperous these days.

Believers from all over the world come to the clouds, specially for the worship of Zhiduguan, which is located in the southeast of the city.

In the view, in a simple hut in the depths of the courtyard, there is a bed, a case, a book, and a bowl...... Suddenly, a little Taoist priest hurriedly ran in and reported: "Master, the king has arrived!"

Master Qinglu, who was dressed in cloth and flax, raised his head, closed the book in his hand, bathed his hands with incense, and then, unhurriedly, walked out of the hut to meet the king.

The concept of knowledge is made of stone.

According to the words of the people of the capital, its appearance is like a large bowl stacked on top of each other, and the layers of circular towers are superimposed together according to the size, from low to high, pointing directly to the clouds, just like the cornerstone of the earth, opening its arms to the heavenly road.

The concept of knowledge stems from the persistent thought of the founding ancestors of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

In order to be able to invite the supreme Taoist from Kunlun Mountain, the ancestor deliberately opened the trillion-year-old cornerstone of Tianzhu Mountain, knocked down the cornerstone known as white marble piece by piece, and then pulled to the capital by thousands of miles of cattle and horses through laborers, and it took several decades to complete the construction one after another.

This "bowl upon bowl" shaped stone tower can be exquisite. It is said that it was built according to the commandments sent by the Supreme Daoist from Kunlun Mountain, and the superposition of each layer of stone bowls required a grain of rice, a handful of millet, and a bundle of gastrodia underneath. No one knows exactly what the purpose of this practice is, but the entrenched tradition has survived.

Shizu ordered the use of white marble to pave the Chengyuan Square of Zhiduguan.

As soon as I entered the view, I saw that on the square, the blue sky and white clouds were reflected in the white marble ground, which was really the sky above the head, and the clouds on the feet, such as entering the fairyland.

Every year on the Shangyuan Festival, the longevity lanterns of the people of the capital are released here. Standing on the white marble square, people seem to be living in the present world, but they can see that the immortal lantern is flying towards the past and the future...... It was a magical experience.

It is said that the Supreme Daoist did not come to the capital after all, but sent his own car, the Immortal Crane, and a scroll called the "Theory of Knowing and Guarding" to guard the Benguan.

So far, under the support of successive Taoist masters, Zhiduguan has become the most reliable hall of faith for believers.

The head of Qingyu Road welcomed the king into the gate from the street at the entrance of the city.

At this time, the heavy rain was dripping, the light rain was dripping, and the entire white marble square turned into a magical large plate and a small plate of jade beads.

Yi Xin took a deep breath of the rain air, and was overjoyed.

He waved lightly to the Daoist and said, "The Daoist must know my intentions for coming here!"

The Taoist chief replied: "Your Majesty, judging from today's dojo, there are many variables. ”

Yi Xin heard it quietly, and had no intention of moving.

"Only in this mountain, the clouds are deep and I don't know where. The Taoist chief swiped a few times on Yi Xin's hand and said, "Poor Dao captured a ray of spiritual light from the white marble today, so I can only give these two words to the king here." ”

Yi Xin looked at the words in his hand and froze in place.

"Heaven and earth are wide, and I wish it to be eternal...... Let the king go back to the palace and rest. The Taoist chief bowed deeply, and then gently turned to leave.

Xiangyang waited outside the view, and when he saw Yi Xin walking out slowly, he hurriedly lifted the canopy above the king's head.

Yi Xin's expression was slightly calm. Seeing this, Xiangyang hurriedly cut off the topic, but he was thinking in his heart, I don't know what Master Qinglu has dismantled for the king, so that my king has more of these things.

......

In Zixiao Palace, a loud voice spread far away: "The king is here-", "The king is here-", "The king is here-", "The king is here-......

Far away, the sound penetrated the layers of palaces and pavilions of Qiankun Palace, Jingtai Palace, Longlin Palace, and Wanshou Garden, and transmitted to the Splendid Palace behind the Imperial Garden.

In the splendid palace, when the imperial doctors heard the eunuch's announcement, they retreated one after another, lined up in a line, bowed their heads, and waited for the holy driver.

At this time, it was a group of people who passed through the square in front of the palace of Longlin Palace and walked hurriedly.

Yi Xin couldn't wait to take off his travel uniform, still stepping on the auspicious cloud pattern snow leopard leather boots, carrying the ribbon that was in the way, trotting all the way, passing through the square of Longlin Palace, taking the way of the flank of the main hall, and wanted to run to the Splendid Palace to visit the queen.

"Your Majesty, wait a minute—" An elderly woman with green hairpins and cloudy sideburns and light thrush makeup stood outside the corner door of the main hall of the Dragon Scale Palace, accompanied by a group of maids.

It seems that she and the maid accompanying her have been waiting for a long time.

Her voice was not loud, but her expression was majestic: "Yi Xin Wu'er!"

The king was shocked, but he didn't expect to see his mother here, so he kowtowed and said, "Yixin knocks to see the queen mother." After Shu'er returned to Beijing, she didn't go to see her mother first, but was anxious to see the soon-to-be-born prince. ”

"My son is flat, and there is no need to be polite. ”

"Then the boy is gone. ”

"Wait—"

"Queen Mother, what's going on?!"

"My son is the king of the Great Zhou Dynasty of a generation of Tianjiao, and I want to ask you for my mother, for the sake of national fortune, can the king be patient and self-controlled?"

The child has always obeyed his mother's orders, and he wants to teach the child. ”

The Queen Mother looked serious, and solemnly "sticked" the wrinkles into two wrinkled chrysanthemums on the outside of her eyes.

She said: "When a mother gives birth to a child, the blood light will rush to the foundation of the Great Zhou." Therefore, the king must meet the prince after his birth, so as to be auspicious and blessed. ”

"It's-"

Yi Xin's face was embarrassed, and he stopped to think about it.

After a moment of silence, he bit his lip, relentless, and said, "Well, the queen mother, the child can do it." Come, Xiangyang, follow the lonely road, don't go to the Splendid Palace for the time being, and go back to the Qiankun Palace to rest first. ”

"No. ”

On the Qiankun Palace, Yi Xin dropped the scroll in his hand and kept pacing back and forth, although he could not be present at the scene of the tense delivery of the Splendid Palace at this time, but the anxiety of looking forward to the birth of the child had already made him have no time to do other things.

I recalled the two words that Qing Yu Dao Chang drew on his palm this morning: "There is light." Yi Xin still couldn't figure it out.

In the middle of the desk, Yi Xin fell asleep and actually entered a "foreign land......

In the dream, Yi Xin himself is like a transparent piece of paper, not noticed by the others around him, he is also light, like flying flotsam, unconsciously, all of a sudden into the realm of no one.

He didn't know that this place of fugue was the place where 80,000 zhang of the earth went—the underworld of the Gengming Continent.

However, there was no panic under the bridge.

On the broken bridge, a painted skin man with a white face greeted guests with an umbrella expressionlessly, and the ghost fires on the roadside disappeared one after another, and the wine flag was displayed.

The group of ghosts were pushing, shoving, and noisily lining up, but when they really drank a bowl of Meng Po soup, the spirits suddenly became dumb.

One by one, they looked straight ahead, walked forward involuntarily, and suddenly one of them was caught off guard, and they were swept into a huge divine mill in front of them, and disappeared at once......

Seeing this scene, Yi Xin was surprised and wanted to scream, but before he could make a sound, he was enveloped in a puff of smoke and drifted away......

Yi Xin's spirit wandered in the netherworld for a long time, being carried back and forth by the yin wind, and in the blink of an eye, he came to an unknowable realm.

......

At this time, the judge's mansion was brightly lit, and the judge moved his fat ass expressionlessly, and then sat down peacefully and began to routinely, shoot the case, and ascend to the court.

"Bull head and horse noodles are available?"

"The little ones are in. ”

"Big, little one. ”

"Bull's head and horse face," the judge habitually stroked his scarce beard and said: "Recently, the mainland has been stable and prosperous, so the heirs have multiplied and prospered, resulting in the government being busy in judging cases, handling cases, and dealing with complaints. ”

"Your Excellency, you are right. It's just the two of me......"

"The two of you have asked for a vacation, the official has seen it, and I think you are diligent and conscientious on weekdays, sharing worries and solving problems for the official, it is time to have a good day to rest and rest...... However, if you look at this mortal world in the upper realm, a group of emergency mothers are shouting and screaming, which makes the house uneasy day and night.

"In the opinion of this official, it is better for us to give away what should be sent and cut off what should be cut off in this lawsuit, so that they can have a smooth birth and repay the cause and effect. When this batch of cumbersome cases is completed, the official guarantees that not only will you be allowed to leave, but also the reward of the beauties of the good land, and the two of you will pick it first. ”

"It's-"

"Don't scratch your ears and cheeks, that's the monkey's trick. At present, this case in the hands of this official has to be entrusted to his most trusted subordinates. It is said that this official is the most ...... Bull head and horse noodles, the two of them can be?"

"The little ones are in. ”

"The little ones are in. ”

"This case is a bit difficult, because the king of the Great Zhou is in a hurry to give birth. I don't know what the origin of this queen is, her physique is extraordinary, and the bloodline of the king is not in harmony, and as a result, the fetus that is pregnant stays in the body for a long time, and the two bloodlines are pinched in the fetal body, and no one can have the upper hand. Although the fetus throbbed in the mother's body, it could not be born.

This official sent the two of you to the upper realm, no matter what means you use, you must also invite the fetus out of the mother's body as soon as possible. Save the entire Great Zhou land to burn incense and worship the Buddha, babbling and praying for the birth of the prince, this day of smoke and recitation, so that the official can not sleep and eat. ”

"Hehe, hahahaha-"

The judge was taken aback and said, "Who is bold enough to come to this place of ghosts?!"

"I am the king of the Great Zhou. ”

"Yin Feng doesn't know each other! This judgment is serious, how can you be allowed to be disturbed by a mortal! Come on, spare him for his first offense, and slap me back to Gengming Continent. ”

"Yes, the little ones will do it. ”

Without waiting for Yi Xin to react, the soul was already as light as paper, and it was slapped by the strong wind, and it was easily beaten back to the Qiankun Palace.

Yi Xin woke up, not feeling a sore back, and the situation in the dream just now was completely forgotten.