how to kill a dragon

Chapter 35

The wound was small but fatal. The man shook, stopped his loud snoring, and stopped breathing.

Ao Shun's flesh would be severed under such a magical weapon as the red scale dagger, let alone a mortal.

The woman hadn't come back yet, and Wang Xiaotai didn't close the door.

Looking at the high blue sky and white clouds, she breathed calmly, went to the neighbor's house and knocked on the door.

After the family came out she stepped aside to let them clearly see the man's throat had been slit, and walked away from the place as the neighbors screamed for someone to come and grab her.

When I went to the clothes, I learned the name and the name.

She returned to her hometown, the place where everything started, Jinghe, Anding.

This place is quite different from what Wang Xiaotai remembers.

In the Jinghe River in Wang Xiaotai's memory, corpses stretched for [-] miles, big rats ruled the road, desolate, blood soaked the land, and heavy rains from the sky washed away all sins.

But in just three years, this place is already full of vitality and everything is competing for development.

By the time we arrived in Anding County, the sun had already set, and the sapphire blue sky was vast, with countless flickering sky lanterns flying towards the end of the sky.

The continuous lights flickered on both sides of the street, the mixed scent of various snacks floated in the air, and the crowds and laughter kept coming and going.

It turned out that this place happened to be a lantern festival.

Wang Xiaotai didn't know why this was a lantern festival to celebrate, she just felt that it was rare for her to feel very happy watching such lively fireworks in the world.

Wang Xiaotai's shoes were full of mud, and her clothes were dusty. She walked alone in the brightly lit street, with an unconscious smile on her face, looking at the things sold in the market with great interest.

Rough but fun gadgets peddled by peddlers

She walks around the street like a child, likes everything she sees, and wants to buy everything she sees.

Wang Xiaotai buys straw rabbits from an old man who sells small animals on a low straw stool, buys candied gourds from a man in plain clothes holding a straw shelf, watches runny-nosed children fighting crickets on the street corner, and even buys rings to put on the ground by herself. small gift.

It is not a pity that none of the twenty ferrules are caught.

This is not the first time she has participated in the Lantern Festival. In the past, her father and mother took her with her. This is the first time she went to the Lantern Festival by herself, but she was not lonely, and she felt a kind of joy from the bottom of her heart.

Over the years, she has long been used to walking alone.

Not long after, Wang Xiaotai held a bunch of gadgets in her hands, and she felt a sense of relaxation and comfort that she hadn't felt for a long time.

There was a smile on Wang Xiaotai's face that crept from the bottom of her heart, she looked at the three thousand bright lights in front of her with a smile, and looked at the prosperity of this world and the well-being of all people.

All kinds of people coming and going around were wearing masks, Wang Xiaotai thought that in order to match the atmosphere, she had to wear a mask, so she walked to a mask booth with a lot of food and playthings in her hand.

Smiling, looking up at the various masks sold here.

The peddler who bought the mask seemed like a good-money customer. Those who looked at the big and small bags would definitely buy an expensive mask, right?
Immediately introduced enthusiastically, "Girl, look at the mask? The mask here is definitely the most complete in Quan'an. Take a look at this..."

"What's this?"

For some reason, the little girl turned pale and asked a question, pointing to a mask.

The peddler looked at it and slapped his thigh, "Why don't you have a good eye!"

The peddler took off the mask, put it on his face, and said, "This is the most popular red dragon mask now!"

"Girl, you're from out of town. If you think about it, you've also heard that a few years ago, a huge scarlet dragon ravaged the Jing River and killed many people!"

"Now the government has moved us foreigners here, saying that as long as we come here, we will give us tax cuts. This place was originally a rich place, much better than our hometown! How can we not be unhappy!"

"You have also seen how lively and stable it is now."

"We are also afraid that the red dragon will make trouble, so we built a temple here, and we usually give it some offerings so that it will not make trouble. It is called the Red Dragon Temple."

"Here, it's over there. Just walk along this road and take a look. It's also strange. After the Dragon King Temple is built, our place will be in good weather!"

"This red dragon can eat people. It looks fierce. It is the best-selling style today. It is very popular. If you buy this mask, girl..."

With a bang, the thing in Wang Xiaotai's hand fell to the ground.

She froze on the ground as if someone had slapped her loudly and loudly, and her mind was buzzing.

She couldn't hear what the peddler said anymore, she paid the money in a daze, and didn't want anything on the ground. Holding the hot red dragon mask, she floated in the direction the peddler pointed like a ghost.

The Dragon King Temple stands on the edge of the whole town, with the mountain on the left, facing the spring, and facing south from the north, it is a carefully selected geomantic treasure.

But Wang Xiaotai recognized this place at a glance, this is the altar where they worshiped the gods before!

This is the place where Dandan was tied up, this is the place where so many human sacrifices were sacrificed to heaven!
How could such a place become a sacrificial temple for Qiantang!

It stands to reason that on such a lively night, there shouldn't be any talented people in such corners and corners, but the street market is full of feasting and feasting lights, and the river usually stretches all the way to the front of the Dragon King Temple.

It can be seen that people decorate the Dragon King Temple with the greatest enthusiasm. All kinds of lanterns are piled up in front of the Dragon King Temple to form a mountain of lights.

Needless to mention the brilliant lights, what is even more shocking is the giant dragon picture painted in front of the Dragon King Temple.

Before Wang Xiaotai got close, it was as if she had once again returned to the nightmare of being powerless and being slaughtered by others. The lifelike Qiantang was revived on this wall, and swam towards her with her head held high.

Qian Tang opened his teeth and claws, and opened his mouth wide at Wang Xiaotai, as if he wanted to eat her in his mouth.

Wang Xiaotai's complexion was pale, and she couldn't help taking a few steps back. The red dragon mask she had been holding tightly in her hand fell to the ground, and was trampled into pieces by the crowd coming and going behind.

Nobody cares.

She looked at the resplendent and brand-new Dragon King Temple in front of her, and saw the portraits of Qiantang angrily flaring up and down on the wall. She took a step forward and drifted into this brightly lit hall like a ghost following the boys and girls coming and going. Dragon King Temple.

The scene in the Dragon King Temple is even more shocking. The bright lights are sprinkled on the exquisite murals, which cover the entire wall.

On the left is a picture of praying for rain, which is bright in color, large in size and sparse in layout. It is the main picture in the hall.

In the painting, the red Qiantang dragon sits cross-legged in the center, surrounded by colorful auspicious clouds, and on both sides are gorgeously dressed civil and military officials, court ladies and ghost soldiers standing respectfully. Smiling thin teenage girl.

The ghost-faced priest in white clothes knelt under it holding a prayer for rain, praying for the rain of nourishing seedlings from the Dragon King of Qiantang.

On the right is a picture of the Dragon King walking in the rain, painted in the middle of the east wall, corresponding to the picture of praying for rain on the west wall, forming the two main paintings in the hall.

The picture of raining rain depicts the return of the Dragon King in the rain, and the heavy rain falls in the world. The people look up to accept the gift of the Dragon King with gratitude, and all of them are happy and satisfied. Wreathed.

There are also temple blessings in the Dragon King Temple, and they say some auspicious words to the people who come to worship.

There is a reopening day, and no one is young.

You don't need to grow rich and honor, Anle is a god.

Blessed by the Dragon King.

Some people come here to pray for the blessing of the dragon and bless them with good health.

Some people come here to pray to the dragon to bless their marriage for a long time and live forever.

Someone came here to make a wish, as long as Shenlong fulfills his wish, he will definitely create a golden body for Shenlong next year.

If he saw this Dragon King Temple in other places, saw these murals, saw the endless stream of pilgrims, and saw the flourishing incense, Wang Xiaotai might feel that he would stop and appreciate this rare painting skill.

Maybe she will chat with those who look happy and miserable as before, and explore their stories and desires.

But now Wang Xiaotai looked at these things and felt that a knife had been stabbed hard into her chest.

This kind of pain is different from the previous sleepless night, and the pain when Ao Shun inserted the whole chopstick into his right leg.

This kind of pain is more like being stabbed in the heart with the most hated force, but that person pulled out the knife, smiling and cutting new wounds on the wound over and over again.

Blood dripping and scars everywhere.

Wang Xiaotai just felt powerless, and her whole body was on the verge of collapse.

At this moment, like the red dragon mask on the ground, she was trampled into countless pieces.

　Alas, when I was writing this, I thought of someone enshrining the spirit tablets of the Japanese invaders in the temple.Really speechless, very angry, Yingling is here, how embarrassing

　　
　
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