Ming Dynasty: The Crocodile King of Han Prince Zhu Gaoxu's Family

Chapter 37 Wei Jizhong and Xiao Xizi's Thrilling Journey 7
The next night, Wei Jizhong and Xiao Xizi once again came to Longhou Beach under the moonlight.

This time, they did not come empty-handed either. Both of them carried backpacks that were overflowing with things.

The heavy backpacks weighed down their shoulders, making it difficult for them to stand up straight. However, they were still filled with joy, and took firm steps as if they were pilgrims, stepping into the mudflat again.

The two men came to the place where they said goodbye to the Alligator King yesterday and unloaded the heavy backpack. There was a "bang" sound, indicating that the items in the backpack were not light.

After taking off the backpack, the two men were not idle either. They stuck the torches in their hands into the soft sand, opened the backpack, and began to unload the things in the backpack. They also took out a mat and arranged them in order.

A whole chicken that has been slaughtered
A whole duck that has been killed
Kill the whole dog

Kill the whole sheep

Whole package of large and small fruits

...and so on. The supplies filled up the entire mat.

After placing everything, the two of them knelt respectfully behind the mat.

"Lord Dragon King, your humble servant Wei Jizhong and the Crown Prince's eunuch Xiao Xizi are here to welcome you home!" Wei Jizhong showed the wooden ruyi that was still tied to his arm, knelt on the ground, buried his head and said loudly.

Xiao Xizi was also kneeling on the ground, holding the prince's seal in his hand, quietly waiting for the arrival of the Alligator Dragon King.

The sound of waves hitting the rocks, "swish, splash, bang, bang...", is particularly clear in the silent night.

After a while, the two still did not wait for the arrival of the Crocodile King, and they couldn't help but wonder, where did the Dragon King go?

"Uncle, is the Dragon King not at home? Is he patrolling the sea?" Xiao Xizi knelt on the ground and did not dare to stand up. However, he turned his head and looked at Wei Jizhong beside him with some confusion and asked.

Wei Jizhong glared at him angrily, thinking: If you don't know, how should I know? We left together yesterday and came together today. How can I know if you don't know?!

However, Wei Jizhong was cautious and did not speak. He just knelt respectfully, waiting for the arrival of the Alligator Dragon King.

"Please welcome the Dragon King to come!" Wei Jizhong knelt on the ground and shouted loudly towards the sea again, but his voice was buried in the howling wind and waves.

Not here yet? Xiao Xizi couldn't kneel any longer and twisted her body. Inadvertently, the seal in her hand fell to the ground.

With a crisp "pop" sound, the silver seal of the prince in Xiao Xizi's hand fell to the ground.

At the moment the seal fell, a vague black shadow appeared on the sea not far away and came across the sea.

The heavy footsteps of "thump thump thump" came in waves like thunder, and were getting closer and closer.

"Roar" A dragon roar was heard in the distance before Xiao Xizi reached out to pick up the seal in his hand.

Suddenly, a black figure broke out of the water and came straight in front of the two of them at a high speed. A deafening roar was heard, and then the huge crocodile's huge head looked back and forth between the two of them.

Suddenly, he saw that Xiao Xizi didn't have the seal in his hand, so he roared at Xiao Xizi again. The deafening dragon roar exploded in Xiao Xizi's ears, and immediately made him dazed, and he fell straight to the ground, falling right on the seal.

The big crocodile still stared at Xiao Xizi, because it knew that anything without the seal was food!

Xiao Xizi quickly came to his senses and felt something poking at him from under him. He instantly woke up, reached out and grabbed the seal, and held it high before getting up.

"Dragon King, please forgive me, Dragon King, please forgive me..." Xiao Xizi shouted, almost scared to death. Only then did he realize that the prince had not lied to him, and that without the seal, people would really die!
The big crocodile turned its huge, ferocious head aside when it saw the seal in Xiao Xizi's hand. Only then did Wei Jizhong recover from his shock. He couldn't help but glance at the wooden Ruyi tied to his arm and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

After a while, when Xiao Xizi recovered, the two of them remembered to bring meat for the Alligator King.

"Lord Dragon King, I have brought some food today to present to you. Please enjoy it, Lord Dragon King!" Wei Jizhong saw the pile of food on the mat and hurriedly and respectfully invited Lord Dragon King to enjoy it.

The big crocodile understood what they said. When it first arrived, it also saw the food on display, but each piece of food was too small and not worth eating, so it just lay on the ground with its bloody mouth wide open to rest (crocodiles will open their mouths wide when they rest).

Wei Jizhong and Xiao Xizi looked at each other, unable to figure out what was going on with the Dragon King in front of them.

"Uncle, does the Dragon King want us to feed him?" Xiao Xizi looked at the Alligator King with his bloody mouth wide open, looked at Wei Jizhong in confusion, and asked hesitantly.

After hearing what Xiao Xizi said, Wei Jizhong looked at the crocodile king with his mouth wide open, and nodded involuntarily, thinking that Xiao Xizi was right.

"Come, let's feed the Dragon King." Wei Jizhong was also a man of action. He came to the mat, holding a chicken in one hand and a duck in the other, and slowly walked in front of the Alligator King, looking at his mouth full of sharp teeth.

Wei Jizhong gritted his teeth and put the chicken and duck in his hand into the crocodile dragon king's mouth at the same time. He didn't dare to throw it. Seeing that the crocodile dragon king didn't bite him, he couldn't help but swallow his saliva and took a few steps back.

As he stepped back, he heard a "pop" sound and saw the Alligator King close his mouth. Without even chewing, he tilted his neck back and swallowed the whole chicken and duck.

Then the Alligator King flipped his eyelids and opened his mouth wide again without moving.

"I'll do it." Xiao Xizi was delighted to see that Wei Jizhong was fine, so he came over with a whole sheep, ready to feed it to the Alligator King. However, he walked a little awkwardly.

When he came to the Crocodile King and was about to put the sheep in his arms into the Crocodile King's mouth, the Crocodile King turned his head to the side and refused to accept his feeding.

"What's going on?" Xiao Xizi turned his head and looked at Wei Jizhong with some confusion, his face full of question marks.

"Let me try again." Wei Jizhong was also confused. He came over holding a dog and came in front of the Alligator King. Looking at the Alligator King who still had his mouth wide open, he carefully put the whole dog into the Alligator King's mouth and then stepped back.

After Wei Jizhong stepped back, the Alligator King closed his mouth again with a snap and swallowed the food without chewing.

No problem, why can't you? Wei Jizhong looked at Xiao Xizi with some confusion. I'm feeding well, why can't you? What's your problem?

Wei Jizhong stepped forward and came in front of Xiao Xizi, looking at Xiao Xizi. Suddenly he smelled something.

"You peed your pants again?" Wei Jizhong looked at Xiao Xizi strangely and asked?
After hearing what Wei Jizhong said, Xiao Xizi's face flushed red with embarrassment. He wanted to dig a hole in the ground with his toes! He was really scared to the point of peeing his pants again by the roar of the Crocodile King just now!
"It may be because of this that the Dragon King doesn't eat what you feed him. Why don't you try it for me?" Wei Jizhong said, taking the sheep from Xiao Xizi's hands, turning around and feeding it to the Crocodile King again. The process was still very smooth.

Wei Jizhong turned his head helplessly and glanced at Xiao Xizi, his face full of expression saying: See, it’s because you wet your pants that the Dragon King won’t eat the food you feed him.

There was no other way, so Wei Jizhong worked hard to feed all the tributes on the mat to the Crocodile King. Xiao Xizi, who was standing beside him, was full of envy and shame.

"Lord Dragon King, we will set out today to go back and reunite with the Crown Prince, but you will have to follow our boat on the way." After the feeding was completed, Wei Jizhong knelt on the ground devoutly again and said to the Alligator Dragon King.

Then the Alligator King didn't hesitate to glance at them, and walked towards the sea with his big, thick legs and swinging his thick tail.

Wei Jizhong and the other man threw some unimportant items directly into the sea to eliminate any traces, and then headed towards the large ship they had rented.

On the pitch-black sea, a large ship was sailing along the coastline towards Yingtian Prefecture. Behind the ship, a dark shadow was following closely in the deep sea...

　Sun Ruowei's early life
　　Sun's birth date is unknown. She was born in a grassroots official family. Her father, Sun Zhong, was the chief clerk of Yongcheng County. The mother of Ming Renzong Chengxiaozhao Empress Zhang, the Lady of Pengcheng, was born in Yongcheng County. Seeing that the young Sun was very beautiful, she often mentioned that Sun Zhong's family had a good daughter when she entered the palace. As a result, Sun was able to enter the harem. When she entered the palace, Sun was only a dozen years old. Ming Chengzu Zhu Di asked Zhang, who was the Crown Princess at the time, to raise and take care of her. When the emperor's grandson Zhu Zhanji got married, he issued an edict to make Jining Hu his concubine and Sun his concubine. In the 1424nd year of Yongle (), Sun gave birth to a daughter, Princess Changde.
　　
　
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