Chapter 3 The Dragon in the Cup
The next day at Chen time, Feng Bo blew the wind, and Yun Tong spread the clouds.
It’s time to thunder.
It rains at noon.
The Dragon King of Jinghe River stood high in the sky with his eyebrows focused and concentrated until the rain stopped, without any distraction.
A total of three feet, three inches and forty-eight points of rain fell.
The Dragon King of Jinghe confirmed that there was nothing wrong, dispersed the Thunder God and the Lightning Girl, transformed into a scholar in white, and landed in Chang'an City with gifts.
Inside the Chongwen Pavilion, the wooden windows are half-open, and the breeze is blowing.
"If it's not upright, the sun will go to the dark side."
The doctor who told the time sang loudly.
"A total of three feet, three inches and forty-eight points of rain fell."
Dr. Ji Yu recited aloud.
Li Fu leaned on his chin and looked out the window at the clear dusk, but his thoughts were drifting away again.
He thought to himself, "That brainless Dragon King of Jinghe is just a listener, and his life is probably not in danger."
"But I don't know why I'm still a little flustered. I'm afraid if it weren't for those difficult masters in Lingshan, I wouldn't give up so easily."
Li Fook's mouth is a little dry. He always has the habit of preparing a glass of water to moisten his throat.
As soon as he pushed open the lid of the cup, he heard, "Your Highness, help! Your Highness, help!"
"Come again?" Li Fu looked around and there was no one around. Li Ming, his younger brother, went to the toilet by himself, and the teaching bachelor didn't know what he was doing.
The other brothers are studying faster, and they are not studying in the same book as him before, so naturally they are not in this room.
He pushed open the lid of the cup and saw a little dragon in the cup that couldn't help but bow.
Li Fu lost interest in drinking water and asked, "Why did the Dragon King come to me if he doesn't resolve the misunderstanding with Yuan Shoucheng?"
The little dragon in the cup quickly explained, "The little dragon is not the dragon king. The Jinghe Dragon King is the father of the little dragon. My father, he is going to die!"
"Death? Didn't I tell him to give in?" Li Fu asked, "Just now Dr. Ji Yu said that the total amount of rain falling was three feet, three inches and forty-eight points, which is exactly the same as the Jade Emperor's edict."
"I...my father..." Xiaolong choked in the cup, unable to speak.
Li Fu wanted to persuade him to drink water slowly, but he was just soaking in the water.
Xiaolong's mood gradually stabilized in the cup, and he said, "Your Highness, my father has not made any difference in this rain."
"He listened to your instructions and went to bow to Yuan Shoucheng to admit his mistake. But he didn't expect that Yuan Shoucheng actually said that the Jade Emperor had been investigating for three hundred years!"
"He said that two hundred and ninety-eight years ago, my father accidentally felt the wind and cold when it was raining. He sneezed too much and missed the points. According to the law, he should be chopped off on the dragon platform with a knife."
"My father straightened his clothes and bowed down, knelt down to admit his mistake, but Yuan Shoucheng still refused to let me go."
"He said that at three o'clock tomorrow afternoon, my father should go to Cao Guan Wei Zheng's place to be beheaded."
"If you still want to live, you must go to the current emperor of the Tang Dynasty immediately. Then Wei Zheng is the prime minister under the emperor's command. If you ask for his favor, you will be fine."
"But my father feels that something is wrong. If there is really a chance of survival, why do we have to fight to the death like this?"
"Father, he feels that his life is short, and he is afraid of coming in person to expose His Highness to unknown causes and consequences. Gu Xiaolong came to pray for His Highness' life,"
"My father has worked hard for hundreds of years. Although he is sometimes reckless and stupid, he still works hard without merit. I beg your highness to find a way for my father to survive."
After listening to this, Li Fu felt anxious and kept tapping his fingers on the desk.
The carved red sandalwood table was almost scratched by his fingertips.
If we just talk about the life and death of the Jinghe Dragon King, it has nothing to do with him.
But the gods and Buddhas in the sky wanted to blame his father Li Shimin for killing the dragon, drag his father into trouble, and make the billions of people of the Tang Dynasty pay the bill, which made him extremely irritable.
Incense, lamps and oil utensils are the people’s fat and the people’s anointing.
The monks in the temple also need support from everyone.
The Buddha's light on the stage illuminates thousands of sentient beings, while the bones below the stage stand like buildings.
If the large-scale publicity activity of going to the West to worship Buddha and seek scriptures goes on as usual, it will not be a blessing in the world, but actually the beginning of a disaster.
Li Fu was very angry. He was angry that he was just a mortal prince, and he was angry that he had no magical powers and no shortage of magic power.
He was angry at his own powerlessness.
If only I could rise up like a golden monkey and break this rotten old world and create a new one.
Li Fu hammered the table hard, and the little dragons in the tea bowl were tumbling up and down with the water in the tea bowl.
Li Fu rubbed his temples with one hand and picked up the pen with the other. He told himself to calm down and figure out what all parties wanted before he could break the situation.
Li Fu wrote:
"What does the Buddha want?"
Li Fu replied:
"What Buddha wanted was to expand his power. Buddha not only wanted the faith of hundreds of millions of people in the Tang Dynasty, but also wanted to use the influence of the Tang Dynasty to make foreign countries also believe in the West."
Li Fu wrote:
"What does the Jade Emperor want?"
Li Fu replied:
"What the Jade Emperor wants is stable power. The Jade Emperor wants to introduce Buddha, a force outside the heavenly system, to suppress all the princes within the heavenly system. He wants to make the disobedient obedient, and he wants to make the disobedient and disobedient obedient.
Listen to the announcement."
Li Fu wrote:
"What does the emperor want?"
Li Fu replied:
"My father wants civility and martial arts. What my father wants is for the whole country to be prosperous. What my father wants is for the people of the world to live and work in peace and contentment."
"But, does my father want to live forever?"
Li Fu paused in his thinking.
This plan of gods and Buddhas all over the sky, led by the Jinghe Dragon King, will ultimately trigger my father's great fear of life and death.
What about martial arts and martial arts?
What about prosperity?
So what if we can live and work in peace and contentment?
What about the Human Emperor?
If you are a human, you will die.
But the dead can be enthroned as immortals and gods and enter the heavenly palace, or they can be reborn in bliss and enter the Western Heaven.
Of course, you can also fall into the eighteenth level of hell and suffer the torture of death day and night.
According to the description in "Journey to the West", the intimidation of the gods and Buddhas was successful.
Their purpose is to intimidate their father, and the life and death of the Dragon King of Jinghe are just a means.
Li Fu's thinking became clear.
In this case, the key to breaking the situation is not to save the Dragon King of Jinghe, but to help his father overcome the great fear of life and death.
Li Fu put down his pen and his thoughts became clear.
Although the little dragon in the cup on the table was anxious, he never peeked outside.
Li Fu is not a cold-blooded person. Even if he has realized that the key is not the life or death of the Dragon King of Jinghe River, since he has actively contaminated the cause and effect, he must do his best.
He said to the little dragon in the water, "Your father is not destined to die. Yuan Shoucheng is not interested in drinking. Your father can't give him what he wants, but my father can."
Li Fu picked up the ink-stained paper on the table and said, "Go back and tell your father to follow Yuan Shoucheng's instructions to enter the Tang Emperor's dream. However, you must tell your father to tell everything exactly as it is."
If you don't miss every word, then you have a chance of survival."
The little dragon in the cup quickly bowed and thanked him, "If my father can survive, even if the little dragon works as a cow or a horse, with a grass ring in his mouth, he will never forget your highness's kindness in this life. I cannot thank you enough for your kindness."
"Go, go." Li Fu picked up the water cup and walked outside the door, pouring the water into the stream formed by the rainwater.
He turned back and used tinder to light the paper on which he had just written.
The younger brother Li Ming who came back from the service shouted, "Brother, brother, you can't play with fire, play with fire and pee on the kang!"
Chapter completed!