After the global recovery, I traveled through

Swaying in the summer breeze.

However, the beauty of the lotus girl is not as charming and seductive as the bei girl. She has the fairy spirit of the breeze and bright moon, and looks like the moon surrounded by stars.

"Aren't you going to transform and dance?" Lin Xingtao, who was admiring the beautiful dance, asked the ten lotuses that were motionless above his head.

The ten lotuses grumbled: "I'm not very good at it yet, so I won't go and embarrass myself."

At this time, a lotus suddenly smiled and looked into the distance: "I heard that everyone in the world loves peonies. Even when the human empress ordered all flowers to bloom in the capital, she had to issue a special order to peonies! Everyone said that the empress was afraid that peonies would disobey the order!"

"Now the human emperor does not respect the gods, but still loves peonies!"

All the lotuses shouted: "How much does the lotus lack peonies?!"

When Lin Xingtao heard this, he remembered the story he told Qingqing about Wu Zetian demoting the peony to Luoyang.

He also remembered that Qingqing set off fireworks when she was not yet the empress, causing all flowers to bloom.

[The princess has an order! The spring rain has arrived, and the flowers are about to bloom! ]

So she had given a special order to the peony.

Lin Xingtao chuckled and swam out from under the lotus.

"That's right," he said.

The starlight was a little bit apart, shining on his body.

In the purple mist, a black-haired boy could be vaguely seen.

The boy was barefoot, holding a lotus, and his skin was white and glowing.

He thought for a moment and said softly, "I once heard a song praising the lotus from the human race."

The lotus girls looked at him sideways.

So, she sang, "There are many lovely flowers of plants and trees on land and in water."

"People love peonies very much, but I only love the lotus that grows out of the mud without being stained, and washes in the clear water without being coquettish."

The lotus girl stopped dancing and was surprised to see the leisurely smile on the boy's face.

"It is straight inside and outside, without vines or branches, and its fragrance is even clearer as it spreads far, and it stands tall and clean!"

The lotus girl was happy and covered her face, stepped on the waves beside the boy, and danced to the song.

"How can it be compared to a peony——"

"You can admire it from a distance, but you can't play with it!"

Laughing, the lotus girl was close to the boy, sometimes smiling and touching him with her fingertips, sometimes crossing the lake for ten miles, her colorful clothes dragging on the waves.

Wearing red makeup, turning over the green canopy, the shadows of the flowers darkened the South Bank.

Her face was slightly frowned, she walked lightly on the water, and the surface of the water was clear!

The starlight gradually faded, Lin Xingtao laughed loudly, and turned into a black carp again, passing through layers of petals and jumping into the lake.

Lin Xingtao smiled and said to Shi Lian who was in a daze: "Then don't do things you don't like! I will naturally find a way to go to the Dragon Palace by myself!"

He turned to the lotus girls and asked: "Will the dance just now catch the eye of the Dragon King?"

The lotus girls all sighed with joy: "It will definitely please the Dragon King."

A lotus petal was stained with a thin crimson, and whispered: "The first emperor of the human race is already outstanding, but in the eyes of us monsters, he is not as good as A Luo's singing and laughing just now."

In the distance, there was a burst of applause.

It seemed that someone was standing on the shore, watching the whole process with many attendants behind him.

The visitor also sighed and said: "This heavenly music and dance, how many times can people hear and see it, don't you think?"

The attendant answered yes.

"The black carp, come here and let me see!"

The lotus girl looked in the direction of the voice and exclaimed that the water king came in person.

——

"Chu Kaiyuan Guangji":

The fifteenth year of Kaiyuan, summer. The emperor stood beside the Taiye Lake, looking at the flowers in the lake, and asked with a smile: "My dear, how about your poem about lotus?" The general replied: "The lotus leaves are endless and green, and the lotus flowers are red in the sun." The emperor's smile faded, and he angrily scolded: "Is this written by you, Chen Ke Le?" The general replied: "Of course it is not written by me, Chen Ke Le." After a while, the emperor calmed down. The general said: "It is not written by the First Emperor either." The emperor left with a wave of his sleeves.

In the tenth year of Tianyou, a historian said: "General Chen did not write but borrowed other people's poems, which is not surprising. His son's name Wenxuan may be due to this. But who wrote this poem is unknown. General Chen said that my teacher once said that this poem was written by a man named Yang. There is also a poem about plum blossoms, "When the mountain flowers are in full bloom, she laughs in the bushes", but I don't know who wrote it."

The author has something to say: Lin Xingtao: Almost sang I am like a fish in your lotus pond~

The poem is adapted from "Zhu Yingtai Near Lotus" and "Love Lotus".

Classical Chinese translation:

Empress Lin Qingqing admired the lotus and asked Chen Kele: "Can you write a poem about lotus?" At that time, General Chen replied: "The lotus leaves are endless and green, and the lotus flowers are red in the sun." The empress angrily rebuked: "Could this be written by you, Chen Kele!" The general replied: "Of course it was not written by me, Chen Kele." After a while, the empress calmed down. Chen Kelecai said, "But it was not written by the First Emperor." Qingqing was angry and left.

The historian said, "General Chen is not a civil servant. He cannot be blamed for answering the emperor with someone else's poem. His son was later named Wenxuan, which may be the reason why he could not write poetry. It is hard to find out who wrote this poem. Only General Chen said that his teacher said that it was written by a man named Yang. And no one knows who wrote the poem about plum blossoms that has been handed down."

Chapter 146 The Merits of Shinto (IV)

In the Falling Star Lake, the lotus girls are sweating and turning into lotus flowers.

Many white lotus petals are stained with a layer of crimson, and they are still singing "coming out of the mud without being stained", obviously they like these sentences very much.

When Lin Xingtao heard the words praising himself, he always felt that something was wrong.

Did he "outshine" himself? What's going on with this strange dissatisfaction and relief?

The other monsters peeking nearby were also intoxicated by the graceful dance and clear singing, so when a man's voice came from the shore, they were all startled.

Following the sound, they heard someone shouting "Water Lord".

The so-called Water Lord is naturally the god of the Black River, who was personally appointed by the Dragon King.

Everyone was surprised, because it would be a few days before the guards from the Dragon Palace would come to pick out the dancers, but they didn't expect that they would come now. Besides, it’s just to pick out dancers, so why bother with Sui-kun coming in person?

The lotus leaves hung slightly from the top of the head, which was a sign of respect from the lotus flowers. After Lin Xingtao heard Suicune calling him, he flicked his fish tail and swam towards the shore.

At the same time, Shui Jun announced from afar: "I am Zhu Hu, the god of the Black River, and all the monsters of Luo Xing Lake listen to my orders!"

A shining divine edict appeared behind Zhu Hu, making his figure appear taller and blurry.

Powerful demonic energy and divine power enveloped the entire Luoxing Lake, covering a wider area than the previous star power. Excited by the power, the unconscious small fish and shrimps swam away one after another.

Grass carp, eels, crabs and other countless aquatic monsters emerge from the bottom of the water.

Beyond the cover of lotus leaves, there is a reflection of scales on the lake surface.

For a short period of time, the entire Luoxing Lake was so quiet that only the slight sound of waves made by Lin Xingtao walking through the water could be heard.

Another voice sounded, from the guard commander beside Suicune:

"The Dragon King has a decree to go to each branch of the Luo River to select monsters to serve in the palace. He will prepare a big banquet before autumn!"

"Heihe wants to pick thirty patrolling guards, ten good dancing palace maids, and an old clerical demon!"

"If you want to be a bodyguard, come forward!"

Suddenly, dozens of fish and shrimps swarmed up.

The leader of the guards raised the harpoon in his hand, and with a single strike, he harpooned several fish and shrimps into the distance.

"If anyone overestimates their own abilities, don't blame Sui-kun and us for being ruthless!"

The remaining fish and shrimp were hit by the demonic power of the harpoon, but they were not harpooned elsewhere. Instead, they rolled on the spot and gave birth to human hands and feet in an instant.

Lin Xingtao swam to three steps in front of Shuijun at this moment.

Suicune's eyes immediately focused on his fish, as if trying to distinguish something.

Because Lin Xingtao couldn't see clearly the water king under the command of the gods, he simply looked back at the humanoid monster that swam ashore from the water and thought about the transformation.

He was thinking that the demon clan's transformation turned out to be a small thing that a guard could do with help?

From what he had seen before, it would take hundreds of years of practice for a demon to transform into another form.

However, he soon learned that this transformation was very crude and could not be considered a real transformation.

After the enlightened monsters came ashore, he discovered that they were no more than half human-like, with many monster characteristics remaining in various parts of their bodies.

Either the gills, or the webs between the fingers, or simply the whole head is a fish head, and only the scales are beautiful, which saves the equipment cost of being a guard. In short, each one has a strange shape, completely incomparable to the temporary transformation cast by the previous star power.

The transformation under star power is the perfect transformation.

Lin Xingtao searched but could not find a mermaid whose lower body was a fish tail.

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The commander was a little confused and a little angry, and scolded: "How come the monsters in Luo Xing Lake don't obey the orders and dare to disrespect Lord Shui and Lord Dragon?"

The old turtle sighed softly and came out from under the lotus leaf to confess his crime.

Lin Xingtao found it very interesting.

The demon clan clearly looks down on humans, but they want to transform into human forms, and they also have human aesthetics, so if they don't look good, they don't want them.

I really don't know what the reason is.

The old turtle slowly said: "Please don't be angry, Commander. We all the demons in Luojiang know that although the Dragon Lord no longer protects the human race but the demon race, he still likes to appear in human form. Many of us demon races are also willing to transform themselves into human beings for this reason." In human form, who wouldn’t want to look better? Dragon Lord must also like good-looking people!”

"Besides." Old Turtle shrank and stretched his limbs, turning into a hunchbacked old man. "I have been practicing for three hundred years to transform myself into a human form, but I have found that the more complete the human form is, the easier it is to practice. In the past hundred years, although the way of heaven has There are few benefits in cultivation due to the great change, but many demon kings are also taking human form, so there must be other benefits in human form. "

After hearing the word "demon king", Shuijun, who stared at Lin Xingtao, let out a loud groan.

And when the old turtle finished speaking, the monsters in Luo Xing Lake looked at each other. It seemed that this was the first time they heard that there was such a reason for turning into a human form.

The old man transformed into an old turtle bowed down in the water.

The atmosphere relaxed.

Finally, Suicune laughed.

While laughing, he started clapping again. The loud applause made the water waves tremble slightly.

"That's right! I also like and favor people and monsters who like to watch more!" Shuijun took two steps out of the area covered by the divine order, and was only a step and an arm's length away from Lin Xingtao. "In that case, let me personally do it for you. Please enlighten the dancers and singers just now!”

Only then did Lin Xingtao see Shuijun's figure clearly. Because he was too short, he had to lean back as hard as he could to see everything.

The moment he saw Qing Shuijun, Lin Xingtao was a little startled.

Suicune was tall and majestic, clapped his hands and laughed, his eyes blazing, and there were many guards behind him.

This scene is very similar to Zhang Kuangji leading his army across the river and landing on the south side of Luoshui City.

Moreover, Suicune led his guards to the shore quietly.

——More like it.

Lin Xingtao swung his fish tail twice, and when his eyes moved to Shuijun's face, he suddenly came back to his senses.

I'm sorry Zhang Kuangji, you are much more handsome and he doesn't deserve it.

This Suicune's appearance was inconsistent with what he said he liked to be good-looking. He had a domineering face that was not angry or assertive. It was somewhat heroic, but handsome was a bit shameless. There were two clumps of hair on his face that were tied by the straps of his crown, which made his pale yellow eyes widen unconsciously.

From his facial features, it was hard to tell what kind of monster it was.

But it was definitely not a plant.

When he walked, his large muscles bulged and squirmed under his clothes, like some kind of reptile in the distance, mobilizing all the flesh on its body and staring at its prey.

It was a bit funny that he was wearing a long robe and a wide belt. He was obviously dressed like a scholar with a deep knowledge of poetry and books, but he made it feel like his strength was exploding and his body was tied up.

Lin Xingtao had a serious expression and was not smiling at all.

And Suicune was more than two meters tall. He had seen enough of Lin Xingtao's fish body before, and now he didn't bend down, maybe because he was too short or for other reasons, he smacked his lips and threw away the wide belt around his waist.

One end of the belt went into the water, twisted into a strand, and gathered into a concave shape in the middle.

"Black Carp, go in! I'll transform you into a human form!"

But Lin Xingtao didn't move.

Shui Jun frowned and said sternly: "What! The monsters from Luoxing Lake really don't respect me?"

He raised his foot and stomped heavily on the ground.

Suddenly, the water waves shook, and the lotus in the distance