Night fell, and the cold curtain fell. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Although it is the spring of the recovery of all things, the night as cool as well water is enough to make people feel a little cold.

Xie Yixiang was strolling alone on the old streets at the moment.

In this small town called "Red Dragon Town", she has lived for more than a month, but until now, there is still no gain.

This so-called "Chilong Town" is located in Jiangxi, between Jiujiang and Nanchang. To the east is the famous Jingdezhen, and to the west, it relies on the Poyang Lake, which is known as "a water in summer and autumn, and boundless barren beaches in winter and spring". And Xie Yixiang came here from Yueyang City, naturally to recover the stolen military salary - 20 million taels of silver for the imperial court.

It's a pity that she inquired around every day, from the official mansion in the town to the farmers in the countryside, but she never found a single ingot of stolen military salaries from the imperial court, and even the sentence "Poyang Lake, Lao Ye Temple, Chaos Beast, Yin Soldier Dance" that Jiang Wangcai and Zhuang Haoming had mentioned on Longyue Island did not have any clues. She asked almost all the people in the town, and they all said that they had never heard of any "Old Master Temple", let alone "Chaos Beast, Yin Soldier Dance".

And what Xie Yixiang has heard the most these days is a legend that has been passed down from generation to generation by the people in the town.

Legend has it that in the area of Poyang Lake, in ancient times, also known as "Peng Ze", there was an evil dragon who had cultivated from Yun Mengze to attack and occupy this place, so as to turn this large area of Peng Ze into a vast sea, so that he could naturally become the dragon king in this sea. Who knew that this evil dragon had just transformed into today's Poyang Lake from this Ze land, and was about to connect the entire Pengze land and Yunmengze land, but a red dragon flew into the sky from Poyang Lake, interrupting the evil dragon's spell, and then fought fiercely with this evil dragon in mid-air.

So the fierce battle between the two dragons lasted for three days and three nights, and it was really a starry and moonless, and the mountains and rivers were discolored. The people in the vicinity were still a little scared at first, but then they gradually gained courage and gathered in groups on the shores of Poyang Lake, beating drums to help the red dragon that prevented the evil dragon from conjuring into the vast ocean. The red dragon's fighting spirit was strong, and he became more and more courageous, and on the night of the third day, he finally broke the path that the evil dragon had practiced for thousands of years at the cost of blinding his own eyes. When the evil dragon saw that something was wrong, although he was angry, he could only flee back to Yunmengze in disgrace, and never dared to come to make waves again.

The people gathered nearby saw the victory of the red dragon and finally drove away the evil dragon, so as to protect their homes from flooding, and they were overjoyed, even if they held a banquet on the shore of Poyang Lake to celebrate the achievement, and made a lot of noise. When the people in the vicinity heard the news, they also rushed here, firstly to celebrate, and secondly, to see how the legendary "dragon" came to life.

So this lively banquet lasted for more than half a month, and the whole Poyang Lake was day and night. And although the red dragon drove away the evil dragon, in addition to the price of blindness, the body was also seriously injured, and it could have been recuperated for a few years, but it was disturbed by the endless celebrations of these people day and night, how could it be quiet and sleeping? So it didn't take long for the red dragon to die of serious injuries, and was tossed to death in Poyang Lake by the noise, and in the end there was only a corpse left on the surface, which was dozens of zhang long, and it was so turned over that white belly, floating on this Poyang Lake until it rotted and stinked, and did not sink into the water.

By the time the people in the vicinity knew about the catastrophe, it was already too late. Since then, there have been droughts and floods every year, alternating with each other, so that not a single grain of grain has been harvested in this area along the shores of Poyang Lake, resulting in famine and misery. The people knew that it was the soul of the red dragon who had come back for revenge, so they searched for the master, and finally invited a man who had attained the Tao and begged him to resolve the disaster. Unexpectedly, the Taoist priest arrived at the shore of Poyang Lake, and after a little calculation, he scolded everyone on the spot, and then turned around and left, not wanting to pay attention to the matter here.

After questioning, I learned that according to what the Taoist priest said, there was no such thing as a "dragon" in the world, and all dragons were cultivated by snakes and Jiao, among which "the snake walked on land and Jiao played in the water", and the so-called red dragon in Poyang Lake was naturally a red dragon that had been cultivated for a long time. Now that this big Jiao has cultivated the dragon form, it has been at least tens of thousands of years of Taoism, plus it has helped the people of Pengze to protect their homes and drive away the evil dragon of Yunmengze. Who knew that at this last moment, it was disturbed by these ignorant people, and finally died unjustly in Dongting Lake, so how could it swallow this breath?

Then the Taoist priest said that fortunately, this red dragon cultivated immortals with the idea of seeking goodness, and now although the soul is not gone, making waves in Poyang Lake, it has not hurt people's lives after all. Therefore, as long as the people abandon their homes and find another place to live, there will be no disaster.

How do you know that the people do not relent, insisting that their ancestors have settled here, and they will not leave this place no matter what, and even want to die to death, and they will die on the shore of Poyang Lake, and they must ask the Taoist priest to resolve the soul of this red dragon. The Taoist priest couldn't shirk it, and after weighing it left and right, after all, he couldn't bear to give up these thousands of lives, and finally agreed to help.

However, although the Taoist priest agreed, he did not dare to take it lightly. He pondered for many days, knowing that this red dragon's resentment was extremely deep, and it was definitely not something he could dissuade, so he had no choice but to be ruthless. At that moment, he lit a pillar of incense, let his soul out of his body, and asked the soul of the red dragon to meet, and at the same time set up a table of delicacies from the mountains and seas with a spell to pay tribute to the soul of the red dragon.

So the soul of a man and a dragon met and talked on Poyang Lake, and the Taoist priest persuaded the red dragon to let go of the thousands of people on the lakeside, but the red dragon naturally refused to agree, but he did not doubt it, while arguing with the Taoist priest, while eating the delicacies of the mountains and seas placed by the Taoist priest. There is a dish of "braised shark fin" in that dish, the red dragon eats vigorously, just sucks the shark fin on the plate into the stomach in one go, who knows that one of the shark fins actually grows amazingly, the red dragon inhales hundreds of zhang long into his abdomen in one breath, but most of the shark fin is still left on the plate.

Seeing that the red dragon was in the middle of the plan, the Taoist priest hurriedly recited the spell without waiting for the red dragon to react, and the long shark fin suddenly turned into a bucket-thick iron chain, locking all the red dragon's internal organs. As soon as the Taoist priest succeeded, he simply did not do two things, and successively displayed more advanced forbidden books, and practiced for seven days and seven nights in a row, and finally completely locked the soul of the red dragon and broke into the depths of Poyang Lake. At the same time, with the help of the power of the water of this lake Poyang Lake, the soul of the red dragon was sealed at the bottom of the lake.

After doing this deed, after a short period of recovery, the Taoist priest hurriedly searched for the location and taught the people to build the "Red Dragon Town" on the east bank of Poyang Lake, so as to cooperate with the water of Poyang Lake to suppress the unjust soul of Red Dragon. And the so-called word "town" is not the "town" of a town in the traditional sense, but the "town" of repression. So on the surface, this Red Dragon Town is to commemorate the heroic soul of the red dragon, but in fact, it is to firmly suppress the soul of the red dragon at the bottom of Poyang Lake, and ask it to never be reborn. As a result, on the day of the completion of this Red Dragon Town, it was also the time when this Taoist priest sat down.

According to the Taoist priest, his act of sealing the Red Dragon's unjust soul this time is clearly against the heavens, and he will definitely be condemned by the heavens. Sure enough, just after the Taoist priest sat down, in just a few moments, a sudden drought thunder fell from the sky, directly slashing the corpse of the Taoist priest, knocking him into ashes and destroying his body and spirit.