Chapter 364: Feast
The two of them went out of Xicheng, and as soon as they reached the shore, the horse they were riding neighed and jumped into the water, and Ma Ji was so frightened that he shouted in fright. [Read the whole text.] But I saw that the sea water parted in the middle, and the water on both sides stood like walls. After a while, I saw a palace, with tortoiseshell beams and tiles made of fish scales, and the walls were as bright as crystal, dazzling and dazzling, and could illuminate human figures. Ma Ji dismounted, and the prince invited him in, and looked up to see the dragon king sitting in the palace. The prince said: "The minister visited the sea market, met this Chinese wise man, and brought him to see the king. Ma Ji stepped forward and bowed. The Dragon King said: "Since Mr. is a scholar with literary talents, he will definitely be able to defeat Qu Yuan and Song Yu." I want to take your heart out of writing an essay about the sea market, and I hope you don't skimp on your good words. Ma Ji kowtowed. The dragon king gave him a crystal inkstone, a dragon whisker pen, paper as smooth as snow, and ink as fragrant as orchid. Ma Ji immediately wrote an article of more than 1,000 words and presented it to the Dragon King. The dragon king praised and said, "Sir is really talented, adding glory to the water country!" and then summoned the dragon clan and held a feast in Caixia Palace. After a few rounds of drinking, the dragon king raised his glass to Ma Ji and said, "The widow has a beloved daughter, and she has not yet promised to be married, so she is willing to give her to Mr., what does Mr. mean?" Ma Ji hurriedly left the table and stood up, ashamedly expressed his gratitude, and agreed again and again. The dragon king said to the left and right. After a while, several palace maids helped a girl out, wearing rings and playing drums in unison. After worshipping heaven and earth, Ma Ji peeked at it, and the girl was really a fairy. The dragon maiden left after worshipping heaven and earth. After a while, the banquet was dispersed, and the two maids carried the palace lamp and led Ma Ji into the side palace. The dragon girl is waiting with heavy makeup. The bed made of coral is decorated with all kinds of jewelry, the tassels outside the tent are decorated with large pearls, and the bedding on the bed is fragrant and soft. As soon as the morning dawned, many young and beautiful maids came to wait. After Ma Ji got up, he went up to bow and thank you. The Dragon King named him the Captain of the Horse, and sent the "Haishi Fu" he wrote to the Dragon Palace of the Four Seas. The dragon kings of the four seas all sent commissioners to congratulate them, and they vied for invitations to invite the horses to the banquet. Ma Ji was dressed in splendid clothes, sat in the car pulled by Qinglong, hugged each other, and went out to the banquet. Dozens of samurai on horseback wore carved bows and carried white sticks, and they were majestic. The kite on horseback, the jade on the car, in three days, traveled all over the seas. Since then, the name of "Dragon Media" has spread all over the world.
There is a jade tree in the Dragon Palace, which is more than one person thick, and the trunk is crystal clear, like white glass, and there is a pale yellow heart in the middle. It is a little thinner than an arm, the leaves are like jasper, and the thickness of a copper coin, and the shade is fine and thick. Ma Ji often sang poems and songs with the dragon girl under the tree. The flowers on the tree are shaped like quercus flowers, and the petals fall to the ground with a clang. Pick it up and look at it, it looks like it is carved from red agate, bright and lovely. There is often a strange bird that flies and cries, with golden green feathers and a tail longer than its body, and its cry is like a mournful music played by a jade flute, which makes people sad. As soon as Ma Ji heard the bird's call, he missed his hometown and said to the dragon girl, "I have been wandering away from my parents for three years, and whenever I think of them, I cry sadly. Can you come back to your hometown with me?" said the dragon maiden, "The fairyland is isolated from the world and cannot follow you. I can't bear to take away your father-son love with the love of husband and wife. Let me think of a solution. When Ma Ji heard this, he couldn't help but shed tears again. The dragon maiden also sighed and said, "This is really not the best of both worlds!"
The next day, Ma Ji came back from outside, and the Dragon King said, "I heard that the horse misses his hometown, so I pack up tomorrow morning and send you on the road, is it okay?" Ma Ji hurriedly thanked him and said: "I am a courtier who lives alone, and I have been overly favored and pampered, and I am grateful for the picture and retribution, and keep it in my heart." Allow me to go home and visit my parents for a while, and then come back to be reunited. "In the evening, the dragon girl set aside a drink and said goodbye. Ma Ji made an appointment with her to meet in the future, and the dragon girl said, "Our love affair has come to an end. "Ma Ji is very sad. The dragon girl said: "Go home to support your parents, it can be seen that you have filial piety." In the future, I will definitely stick to chastity for you, and you will not marry another for me, and the two places will be of the same heart, that is, a happy husband and wife. Why do you have to stay together sooner or later than you can grow old together? If you break your oath, it will not be auspicious to remarry. If you are concerned that there is no one to preside over the housework, you can take a handmaid as a concubine. There is one more thing I want to tell you, after getting married, I seem to be pregnant, please name the child. Ma Ji said: "If it is a woman, it will be called Longgong, and if it is a man, it will be called Fuhai." The dragon girl asked for something as a proof, and Ma Ji took out a pair of red jade lotus flowers that she got in the Rakshasa Kingdom and gave it to her. The dragon lady said, "Three years later, on the eighth day of April, you will row to the South Island, and then return your sons and daughters." The dragon girl made a pocket out of fish skin, filled it with jewelry, and gave it to Ma Ji and said, "You treasure it well, and you won't be able to eat it all in your life." As soon as the day dawned, the Dragon King set up a banquet to bid farewell and gave Ma Ji many gifts. Ma Jibai said goodbye to the Dragon Palace, and the Dragon Maiden took him to the beach in an Aries cart. Ma Ji got ashore and dismounted, and the dragon girl said "cherish", turned the car and went back. After a while, they were far away, and the sea water merged together again, and they could no longer be seen. Ma Ji walked back.
Ever since Ma Ji was swept away by the sea, people thought he was dead. As soon as he arrived home, everyone in the family was shocked. Fortunately, both parents are still alive, and only the wife has remarried. Only then did Ma Ji understand the words of the dragon girl's "righteousness", and he had already known that his wife had remarried. 's father wanted to marry another wife for Ma Ji, but Ma Ji didn't agree, and only accepted a maidservant as a concubine. He kept in mind the three-year period that the dragon maiden had advised. When the day came, I came to the island by boat, and saw two children sitting on the water, slapping the water and laughing, not moving or sinking. Ma Ji came up to him and pulled his hand, and one child laughed and grabbed Ma Ji's arm and jumped into his arms, while the other cried loudly, as if blaming Ma Ji for not pulling himself, Ma Ji pulled him up too. Look closely, a man and a woman, all very handsome. The flower hat on the head is decorated with a piece of jade, which is the red jade lotus. There was a bag on his back, and when he opened it, there was a letter inside, which read: "My in-laws must be all healthy! Three years have passed in the blink of an eye, and the red dust has isolated us forever. Thinking about it for a long time, we can only see each other in a dream, and I hope earnestly that my neck is sore. In the face of the vast sea, there is hatred
What can be done? Chang'e, who wants to go to the moon again, is still guarding the Moon Palace alone, and the Weaver Girl who throws a shuttle is also melancholy on the side of the Tianhe. Who am I, how can I be with my lover forever? Every time I think of this, I burst into tears and laughs. Two months after we were apart, we had a son. Now he is babbling in his arms, can understand laughter, touch dates and catch pears, and can live without a mother. Now give them back to you. The red jade lotus flower you gave is decorated on the children's hats as a proof. When you hold the child in your lap, it's like I'm by your side. It is comforting to know that you have fulfilled your past vows. I will not have two hearts in this life, and I will not marry anyone else until I die. There is no longer blue cream in the dressing box, and the mirror is dressed, and the fat powder is no longer smeared. You are like a wanderer who has been away for a long time, I am the wife of the wanderer, although we are far away, we are still a loving husband and wife. It's just that although the in-laws have hugged their grandson, they have never seen their daughter-in-law, which is reasonable, and it is also a defect. When my mother-in-law is buried a year later, I will definitely visit the grave in person to fulfill my daughter-in-law's filial piety. From now on, the 'Dragon Palace' will be safe, and there will be a time to meet, and the 'Fuhai' will live a long life and may still be able to come and go. I hope you cherish it a lot, and you can't say enough to say it. Ma Ji read the letter repeatedly, and tears flowed endlessly. The two children put their arms around his neck and said, "Go home." Ma Ji was even more grieved, and touched them and said, "My son knows where home is?" The child cried even more, and Yi Yi cried out to go home. Ma Ji looked at the vast sea, boundless, unable to see the shadow of the dragon maiden, the waves were churning, and there was no way to the dragon palace. I had to turn the bow of the boat with the child in my arms and go back full of melancholy.
Ma Ji knew that his mother's life was short, so he prepared all the clothes and coffins, and planted more than a hundred pine trees on the cemetery. A year later, my mother died. As soon as the hearse arrived at the cemetery, a woman wearing filial piety clothes approached the tomb and cried. As the crowd looked at her in amazement, there was a sudden thunderstorm, followed by a torrential rain, and in the blink of an eye the woman was gone. Most of the newly planted pine trees had withered, but now they were all alive again. When Fuhai grew a little older, he often missed his mother, and suddenly threw himself into the sea and only returned a few days later. Ryugu couldn't go because it was a girl, so she often closed the door and cried alone. One day, in broad daylight, suddenly dark clouds covered the sky, and the dragon girl walked into the room and persuaded her daughter, "Why are you crying when you can grow up and become a family?" When Ma Ji heard that the dragon girl was coming, he hurriedly ran in, held his hand and cried. In an instant, a thunderclap broke through the roof, and the dragon girl was gone.
Tian Qilang
Wu Chengxiu is a native of Liaoyang County, Liaoning. He likes to make friends with well-known people. One night, I dreamed that a man told him, "Your friends are all over the world, and they are all **." There is only one person who can share the weal and woe with you, so why don't you get acquainted?" Wu Chengxiu asked, "Who is he?" The man said, "Isn't it Tian Qilang?" Wu Chengxiu woke up and felt very strange. The next morning, when he saw his friends, he asked who Tian Qilang was. Some of my friends knew that Tanchiro was a hunter in the East Village. Wu Chengxiu went to Tian's house and knocked on the door with a horsewhip. A few moments later, a man came out, in his twenties, with a tiger's waist, wearing a beanie covered in oil, and black calf-nosed pants with many white patches. He arched his eyebrows and asked where the guests were from. Wu Chengxiu said his name, and pretended that he was uncomfortable on the road, so he wanted to borrow a house to rest for a while. He asked who Tian Shichiro was, and Shichiro replied, "I am." So he led Wu Chengxiu into the house.
Wu Chengxiu saw that there were several dilapidated houses in the courtyard, and the walls were supported by wooden forks. When I entered a hut, I saw some tiger skins and wolf skins hanging from the pillars, and there were no benches and chairs to sit on. Shichiro lays out tiger skins on the ground in place of seats. Wu Chengxiu talked to him, listened to his words very simple, and liked him very much. Immediately give him some silver to live by. Shichiro didn't accept it, and Wu Chengxiu insisted on giving it to him. Shichiro took the money and told his mother. After a while, he took it back and returned it to Wu Chengxiu, and resolutely refused to accept it. Wu Chengxiu forced it many times, but he still didn't accept it. At this time, Tian's mother came in an old manner, and said very sternly: "The old man only has this one son, and I don't want him to serve the distinguished guests!" Wu Chengxiu retreated in shame.
On the way home, Wu Chengxiu thought about it repeatedly and didn't understand the meaning. The servant who happened to be with him heard what Tian Mu said in the back of the house, so he told him. At first, Shichiro took the silver to tell his mother, and Tian's mother said, "I saw Childe just now, and his face has a bad texture, and he will definitely suffer a strange disaster." Don't you hear: Those who are known to others should share their worries, and those who are favored by others should be anxious and difficult. The rich repay others with their wealth, and the poor repay others with righteousness. It's unlucky to get a generous gift from others for no reason, I'm afraid it's to make you repay with death. When Wu Chengxiu heard these words, he deeply admired Tianmu's virtuous ability, but he also admired Qilang more and more.