Chapter 209 Lotus Princess

Dou Xu, Jiaozhou, also known as Xiaohui, took a nap at home this day. Suddenly, he saw a man in brown standing in front of the bed, looking around and stopped talking. Dou Xu asked, "What's the matter?" The man in brown said, "Your husband, please come to the banquet." Dou Xu asked, "Who is the prime minister?" He replied, "It's nearby."

Dou Xu followed him out of the door, turned the corner of the wall, and came to a place where the buildings were stacked, and the houses were continuous and tortuous. He only felt that thousands of households were very different from the world. Seeing the eunuchs of honor, they shuttled back and forth and greeted the people in brown one after another, "Is Mr. Dou here?" The man in brown said, "Here we go."

Oer, a senior official came out and greeted Dou Xu. He came to the hall with good manners. Dou Xu asked, "I have never known each other for a long time, and I am not related to each other. I am flattered by your host's banquet. It's just that there is still a trace of doubt in my heart. Can you relieve it for me?" The official said, "The prince's ancestors are of noble conduct and a big family. The king of my family has admired him for a long time and is looking forward to meeting with him."

Dou Xu asked, "Who is the king?" He replied, "I will know myself later."

Not long after, the two maids of honor came forward, led Dou Xu to the banquet, and passed through the heavy doors to the big hall. A king in the hall saw Dou Xu coming and got up to welcome him. The guest master ordered the etiquette and sat down. During the banquet, the wine and dishes were sumptuous. Dou Xu occasionally looked up and saw a pair of plaques hanging on the hall with the words "Guifu" written on it. Seeing this, Dou Xu was embarrassed and speechless.

The king laughed and said, "My son and I are neighbors, and it can be said that the fate is not shallow. It's pure kindness to invite you to come this time. It's enough to drink freely. There's no doubt. Dou Xunuo agreed.

After several rounds of drinking, the song sounded in the hall, and the voice was very thin. The king looked left and right and said, "I just remembered a pair of upper couplet 'talented man Deng Guifu'. Who can make the lower couplet?" The ministers thought hard, and Dou Xu said, "There is a couplet, 'The gentleman loves the lotus'." The king was overjoyed and said with a smile, "What a coincidence. The lotus is the name of the little girl. Isn't it fate that the couplet is so neat? Left and right, go and ask the princess to come out and meet the talented man.

It's not good, the ring is ding-dong, the fragrance is blowing, and the princess style comes out. She is sixteen or seventeen years old and has an unparalleled appearance. The king ordered the princess to salute Dou Xu and said, "This is the little girl lotus." Princess Lotus saluted and then left.

Dou Xu witnessed the beauty, shaking his mind and sitting and thinking. The king raised his glass to persuade him to drink, but Dou Xu turned a deaf ear. The king seemed to be aware of it and said, "The little girl and the young man are indeed talented and beautiful, but they are not the same kind. What can they do?" Dou Xu was sad and stupid. He turned a deaf ear to what the master said. The minister next to him reminded him kindly, "The king bowed to you. The prince didn't see it. Why didn't you hear it when he was talking to you now?"

Dou Xu was confused and felt ashamed. He left the table and said, "I drank too much and behaved rudely. Please forgive me. The king is busy with business, so I will leave first. The king said, "It's rare to meet the prince. Why did he leave in a hurry? Aiqing has no intention of staying, so she can't force it. If you are interested in the future, you are welcome to come again at any time. The man in brown ordered him to "send Mr. Dou back."

On the way, the man in brown said, "I just listened to the king's words. It seemed that he intended to marry the princess to the prince. Why didn't he say a word?" When Dou Xu heard the words, he regretted Mo Die. In a blink of an eye, I came home and woke up, but it was Nanke's dream. The sun was setting outside the window, Dou Xu meditated, and the scene in the dream was vivid. At night, the candle rested, hoping to enter the dream again, but the road to Handan is far away and untillable, only sighing.

This night, Dou Xu slept with his friends. Hu Er, a man in brown, visited and said, "On the order of the king, please come to the meeting." Dou Xu was overjoyed and followed him to the palace. At first glance, he saw the king and knelt down to worship. The king reached out and helped him up and said, "Since the separation, I was very uneasy to learn that the prince missed the little girl. If you don't dislike it, how about giving the lotus to the prince as his wife? Dou Xu was overjoyed and thanked repeatedly.

The king ordered his ministers and bachelors to accompany Dou Xu to drink. The banquet was about to disperse, and a maid of honor played: "The princess has finished dressing up." In a few times, I saw dozens of maids coming out surrounded by princesses. The princess wore a red scarf and walked lightly. She came to the red carpet and saluted Dou Xu. Orlicheng, everyone sent the newcomer into the bridal chamber.

The room is as warm as spring and fragrant. Dou Xu said, "The beauty is right in front of you, which makes people happy and forget. It's just that I'm a little worried that today's experience will be a dream again. The princess covered her mouth and smiled and said, "The concubine is obviously in front of her. How can it be a dream?"

When he got up early the next day, Dou Xu made up his eyebrows for the princess, measured the princess's waist with a belt, and measured her feet with his fingers. The princess smiled and said, "Is Lang Jun crazy?" Dou Xu said, "I have been mistaken by the dream many times, so I measured the size of the princess and kept it in my heart one by one. Even if it's a dream, it's good to leave some thoughts. While joking, a maid of honor galloped in and said, "The goblin broke into the palace gate, and the king hid in the side hall to take refuge. The disaster is not far away."

Dou Xu was shocked and hurried to the side hall. The king and minister met him. The king took Dou Xu's palm and cried, "I didn't give up. I wanted to make a relative with you. Who would have thought that the disaster would fall from the sky and the country would not be the country? What should I do? Dou Xu asked, "What's going on?"

The king picked up a note from the desk and said, "You can read it yourself." Dou Xu opened the chapter and saw it written on it: "Weichen Hanxiang Hall University scholar Black Wing has a book. Recently, it has been strange and powerful. Please move the capital early and preserve the foundation. According to the Huangmen official, since the sixth day of May, a thousand-foot python has emerged for no reason, lingering outside the palace, devouring more than 13,600 residents inside and outside; where the python passed, the palace has become ruins. Wei Chen looked at it desperately and saw that the python was as big as a mountain, and his eyes were as big as a river and sea. When you raise your head, the palace will be swallowed. If you stretch your waist, the platform will be destroyed. It is really a murder that has never been seen in the ages, and it is a disaster that will never be encountered for generations. The temple of Shejizong is in danger. I beg the emperor to lead his family and move as soon as possible.

After reading the chapter, Dou Xu's face was like dead ashes, and another eunuch came to report: "The demon has arrived." I could only hear the mourning in the pavilion, and it was miserable. The king hurriedly didn't know how to deal with it. He just cried and begged Dou Xu: "Please take care of the little girl." Dou Xu returned with resentment and returned to his residence. The princess was crying with her left and right. Seeing Dou Xu coming back, she grabbed the corner of his clothes and said, "Don't you care if the guild left me?"

Dou Xu said with a serious look, "No. It's just that I've been poor since I was a child. There are only three or four huts under the house. I want to ask the princess to take refuge at home. What do you think? The princess said with tears, "The situation is critical. How dare you be picky? Let's go." The two came out hand in hand. Not long after, the house was far away. The princess praised, "This is a luxury house, much better than our country. It's just that the cheap concubine follows the prince and has no worries about her life. What should my parents do? Please build another house, and the whole country will come.

Dou Xu thought to himself, "There are no more than tens of thousands of family in the palace. Where can I live?" With a face of embarrassment, the princess cried loudly and said, "Your father can't be anxious. What's the use of you?" Dou Xu was kind and comforted. The princess didn't listen. She just lay on the bed and cried. No matter how she persuaded her, she didn't listen.

Dou Xu was helpless and worried. Suddenly, he suddenly woke up and had a dream. But the crying in my ears is still there, sobbing, and it will never stop. Listening attentively, the cry is not a human voice, but three or two wild bees, hovering on the pillow, buzzing.

Dou Xu shouted in shrill: "Strange things, strange things." His friend woke him up and asked him what was going on. Dou Xu briefly described the dream, and his friend was very surprised. The two got up in their clothes and saw the wild bee stop between their clothes. They were reluctant to wipe it with their hands and did not leave.

A friend pondered for a while and said, "It's better to build a beehive for now." Dou Xu nodded and invited the craftsman to quickly build a nest. The beehive had just been built, and the swarms of bees gathered and flew in from outside the wall. There was an endless stream, a large area of dark paint, with a lot of buckets, no less than tens of thousands.

Dou Xu searched for the origin of wild bees according to the map, and gradually found the neighboring vegetable garden.

An old neighbor has a beehive in the vegetable garden. For more than 30 years, the bees have been breeding and working. Someone told the old man about Dou Xu's construction of the beehive. The old man went to the vegetable garden to check and saw a silence in the hive. When he opened it, there was a big snake in the hive, which was more than ten feet long. The old man caught the snake and stoned it to death. Suddenly, he thought, "The thousand-foot python in Dou Shusheng's dream must be the thing in front of him."

Wild bees moved into Dou Xu's home, flourished, and the race became more prosperous. Since then, nothing strange has happened.