Chapter 24 Sacrifice to the Dragon King, Looming in All Directions

The whole city of Luoyang is roughly divided into two parts: Guocheng and Miyagi, of which Miyagi is in the northwest corner of Luoyang City, leaning on the north wall of Kuocheng. The palace city of Luoyang City is composed of four partitioned cities to form the palace city group, from south to north is Luocheng and the east and west of the city and the Jiacheng, Xuanwu City, Yaoyi City and Yuanbi City. Among them, Luocheng is the palace of the Tang Dynasty, and the east and west sides of Luocheng are separated from each other, the east is the east palace where the prince lives, and the west is the place where the emperor and concubines live. There are four largest streets in the Guocheng of Luoyang City, which divides the Guocheng of Luoyang City into four urban districts, and these four major streets are Qinglong Street, Zhuque Street, Baihu Street and Xuanwu Street, among which Qinglong Street can directly lead to the city gate of Luoyang City Palace City Yingtianmen.

But today there is a strange thing, in Luoyang City, one of the four major streets of the Suzaku Street, there is a gong, drums, sacrifices of ceremonial carriages and horses slowly moving forward on the street, and the road of Suzaku Street is full of people, the people are scrambling to meet the road, blocking the way.

"Hey, Lao Zhao, look, it's a beauty!

"That's not it, I listened to my cousin's daughter-in-law's uncle's uncle's third uncle's brother's brother, this beauty is the official prostitute of Yanzilou who has been elected as the Oiran of Luoyang City, how can she not be beautiful. ”

"The Oiran of Luoyang City, then how could she be chosen to be the sacrifice of the Dragon King! It is said that this is to be held in the Dragon King Temple for three years, and it is a pity that this flower-like beauty will waste three years of time in vain. If it comes out again, maybe it will be tomorrow's yellow flower, and no one cares. ”

"Whatever, who knows how the court did it. However, if it weren't for that, we would have been able to see such a stunning beauty so much! Swallow Tower is one of the most famous green buildings under the Imperial Court Teaching Department, and only some high-ranking officials and nobles can enter it, how can ordinary people like me have such an opportunity!"

"Mmmm, Lao Zhao is right!"

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On this crowded Suzaku Street, there are crowds of people, people are boiling, people come and go, people are rubbing shoulders, lively and extraordinary, everyone is boiling to discuss the pair of honor guards in front of them, and for a while everyone has different opinions, saying everything.

And at this time, Zhou Yan, who had already entered Luoyang City, was also in this crowd and could not retreat, even if he was a cultivator in the God Realm, he was helpless in the face of such a thing. However, Zhou Yan still had some gains, and in the conversation with the people around him, he had almost figured out what the situation was in front of him.

It turned out that some time ago, the Buyeo State suddenly invaded the territory, and the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Tang Xuanzong Li Longji, on the one hand, in order to meet his warlike needs, on the other hand, in order to consolidate the power of the Tang Dynasty and deter the countries of the Quartet, he sent 100,000 naval troops of the Tang Dynasty to the Fuyu State in the East China Sea to suppress them.

After this information reached Luoyang City, there was an uproar among the court and the people, the navy was attacked, and it was rumored among the people that the Dragon King of the East China Sea was angry and destroyed the ship, after all, five hundred years ago, there was a matter of Wei Zhengmeng, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, who killed the Dragon King of the Jing River, and it was rumored to be a good story for a while. In this world, the aura of heaven and earth is strong, and everyone can practice martial arts, so the general life span of the people is between 100 years old, and even the life span of a martial artist who has reached the innate realm can be extended for another 50 to 100 years, even if the capital of the Tang Dynasty was Chang'an City at that time, but most of the people in Luoyang City still know more clearly about the things of five hundred years ago.

And this time the attack on the water army, the people think that the Dragon King of the East China Sea is taking revenge for the death of the Dragon King of Jinghe, since the Tang Dynasty Taizong Emperor Li Shimin has also fought several times in the five hundred years since the establishment of the dynasty, why did the Dragon King of the East China Sea choose this time to retaliate against the Tang Dynasty, which makes the people have to speculate wildly. Unexpectedly, some people rumored that it was because of the Tang Dynasty's extravagance, perverse behavior, and no longer in line with the image of the Son of Heaven, that the Dragon King of the East China Sea would choose to retaliate at this time, and would not be harmed by the curse of God, and this time was just a warning and beginning of the Dragon King of the East China Sea.

And this rumor made the people of the capital even more uneasy, because of the previous Tang Xuanzong ordered the construction of the imperial power symbol Tongtian Futu, which cost countless people, and made the people of the capital miserable and complaining, and now they are even more afraid, in their opinion, maybe the Tang royal family has the means to the sky and the magic power, and they are not afraid of the retaliation of the Dragon Clan in the East China Sea, but you must know that the city gate is on fire, the pond fish are affected, and the gods fight, Mortals suffer, they are just ordinary people, and there are no means of self-preservation. Therefore, they paid a lot of money to sacrifice to the dragon king, hoping that the dragon king would calm his anger. The people of the capital only care about cherishing their own lives, regardless of the life or death of others, in order to calm the anger of the Dragon King, someone actually came up with a way to let the girl sacrifice, and now the honor guard presented in front of Zhou Yan is the team selected by the court to go to the Dragon King Temple to sacrifice.

Hmph, this is really a group of foolish nonsense, as far as Zhou Yan knows from the memory of Sun Wukong in his previous life, since the battle of the gods in ancient times, the gods of the heavenly court have returned to their positions and performed their duties, and the legal system of the Three Realms has been perfected since then. That is, none of the seven sages of the demon clan five hundred years ago were the existence of wanton slaughtering mortals, in the eyes of the immortals, Buddhas and demons of the immortal level, the mortal level cultivators were also mortals, for example, the current Zhou Yan is a mortal in the Three Realms, although he is a mortal with a relatively powerful strength, but he is still a mortal.

Just like in the last years of Yin Shang in ancient times, the behavior of flooding Chentang Pass under the anger of the Dragon King of the East China Sea is impossible to appear now, otherwise, the Dragon King of the East China Sea is a dead end, and he has to go to the dragon cutting platform of the heavenly court.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yan also felt worthless for the woman who was about to be sent to the Dragon King Temple, he looked up, and saw that this woman was wearing a veil, holding a pipa, wrapped in red silk, and only a few silk gauze fabrics on her body to cover up several key points of herself, and her clothes were more bold and open than the previous life's dressing style, and there was a hazy and mysterious beauty all over her body.

She stood on the high platform of the convoy and danced at the same time, her dancing skills fluttering like beautiful butterflies, writhing like graceful wicker, and the beauty was intoxicating. The people around watched her graceful dancing in fascination, almost forgetting to breathe. The woman's eyes were so beautiful that everyone present was heartbeating, and they all thought that she was looking at herself.

Really, if the clouds are light, the beautiful woman is slow, and the waist and limbs are like weak willows.

Her dancing skills seem to have immersed Zhou Yan too, and between a smile and a frown, she is smiling at the spring peach, the clouds are piled with green buns, her lips are full of cherry blossoms, and her teeth are fragrant.

And just when Zhou Yan was admiring the beautiful woman's moving dance, on the other side of Suzaku Street, there was a pair of horsemen from the Dali Temple of the imperial court who were also stopped by the crowd, as if they were going to do something.

"You go and inform Lord Yang, just say that the emperor is very angry this time, and he wants to go to the dock of the military department to thoroughly investigate the destruction of the ship, and there can be no more mistakes. The current emperor is moody, but not as before, we have to be careful with our heads, maybe we will move somewhere at any time, not on your neck", a red-eyed and blue-haired Western Regions Hu man in this team of Dali Temple horsemen, but a person wearing a purple three-grade official uniform said solemnly to a guard beside him.

"Yes, sir. ”

"Also, you now go to the Navy Division to call five iron-hulled clippers and two hundred sailors, set off before dark, and go to the site of the warship accident again to investigate. ”

"Yes, my lord, I'll go now", after receiving the order, the guards of Dali Temple, flicked the reins, rode a horse and separated from the team of Dali Temple horsemen, and went straight to the Water Division.

In a long alley on Suzaku Street, there is a group of mysterious people wearing white robes, felt hats, and sharp weapons, staring at the honor guards and horses worshipping the Dragon King Temple, and secretly discussing something.

"That place is unguarded after this fasting baptism, and the guards are very weak, and it should be easy to catch this woman, but if the commander wants to go, we must let her come unscathed, so we must be careful in exercising it. The stakes are high this time, and we can't afford to take them lightly," one of the burly men whispered to the crowd around him.

"Leader Yang Li, what should we do now?", a subordinate asked.

"Now we can't make any extraneous branches, let's let them go today, when this honor guard just went to the Dragon King Temple, the guards there were still very strict, and the commander said that we would wait until tomorrow night when the dark wind was high, and we would go to the Dragon King Temple to rob the woman, and then it would be captured. ”

"Yes, Chief, do as the Leader commands," the white-robed men around them replied in unison.

"Go"

As soon as the words fell, I heard a few sounds of "whoosh", "whoosh", and "whoosh", and the white-robed people who were originally gathered in a group suddenly disappeared one by one, seeing that their skills were all martial arts masters in the innate realm.

"Okay, Xiaoqian, Xiaozhuo, don't be angry, I know I'm wrong, I shouldn't stare at people and don't even roll my eyes, just forgive me this time......"

In the No. 3 room on the second floor of an inn called "Youjian Inn" next to Zhuque Street in Luoyang City, Zhou Yan was racking his brains and trying his best to please Xiao Qian and Xiao Zhuo sisters.

Because, at that time, Zhou Yan watched the dance skills of the beautiful Manli on Suzaku Street too much, which caused the dissatisfaction of Xiao Qian and Xiao Zhuo, which means that the two aunts and grandmothers were angry and jealous. Although the two of them had been hiding in the picture scroll when they were in Luoyang City, they could still sense Zhou Yan's every move. When the two of them saw Zhou Yan at that time, it was as if they were fascinated by that woman, and they really lost their temper, which immediately brought Zhou Yan back to his senses.

Zhou Yan also remembered that he was not alone here, so he quickly found an inn, released the two of them in the room, and constantly flattered, and apologized, fun, and laughed, and immediately incarnated into the three aspiring "compensation" young men in the new era of the Tang Dynasty.

"Hmph, husband, don't say it again, I'm not angry, I know that our sister is old and decrepit, and she can't compare to her as a young and beautiful young girl, it's normal for you to like to stare at others, just go to her, don't pay attention to our two lonely women who depend on each other anymore", Nie Xiaoqian waved her head, stared at the eaves, and didn't look back at Zhou Yan, who pretended to be pitiful.

When Zhou Yan heard this, his heart felt as if he was being whistled by 10,000 grass and mud horses. You, old and decrepit, you are a lonely woman? You just have to make up a decent reason! You look like you are old and decrepit, lonely, and you are clearly a young girl in her twenties, uh, no, you can't be regarded as a young girl anymore, that is also a charming young woman with all kinds of charms, no matter how you are 108,000 miles away from the four words of old age and decay!

Also, you're sure you're not angry, so how do you trim your nails more than a foot long, and you're still gesturing at me, isn't that trying to dig me to death?

"Husband, it's not me and Sister Xiaoqian who are talking about you, you are too unconscious. You already have me and Sister Xiaoqian by your side to accompany you, aren't you still satisfied?", Xiao Zhuo, who was standing next to Xiao Qian, still had a pure smile, although he was talking angrily, he still had a smile on his face.

"Yes, yes, yes, it's all my fault, and all the mistakes are my fault", Zhou Yan nodded while constantly admitting his mistakes. If a manly man must be able to bend and stretch, he must obey their words at this time, otherwise, he may not only be indifferent if he is offended.