Way Of Choices New North Bridge (1/1)

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Hundreds and hundreds of years ago, Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty and united China under his rule, and the world was at peace One day, Zhu Yuanzhang had a drea declared that the successive years of war had incurred the wrath of the heavens, so he and his ere going to take away all the water in Beijing Zhu Yuanzhang asked his military advisor, Liu Bohat he should do After a few moments of silence, Liu Bowen said, “It seeed the Dragon King” Zhu Yuanzhang asked if there was any way to redress this problem, and Liu Bowen replied that there was, but only a loyal and devoted general could do it For this purpose, a great general with illustrious accomplishments on the battlefield was found

Liu Bowen ordered the general, “Today, at noon, you will put on your battle gown, ate, you will see an oldby the road You will go up and break the watercart Don’t ask for anything and after breaking the watercart, don’t turn your head around, or else it will be hard to keep your life Once you return to Xizhi Gate, you should be fine”

The general received the order, and at noon, he went to the east gate, and sure enough, he saw an old couple pushi+ng a watercart resting by the road He galloped up and broke the watercart, then rode for all his life to Xizhi Gate Upon reaching the gate, he thought that he was fine and turned his head to look around What he saas adown on him, and so he died It turned out that the elderly couple had been the Dragon King transfor Dynasty’s General Gao Liang! After Gao Liang punctured the water basket that was the Dragon King’s daughter, the Dragon King’s wife brought their injured daughter away to the Black Dragon Pool in the mountains to the north, where she set up a hoon Pool that like to run into rocks are a sort of dragon, and they are precisely the Dragon Wife’s grandchildren

By breaking the water basket, Gao Liang provoked the Dragon King into chasing hi died, the water re’s fury was not yet sated, but he also didn’t dare to provoke Liu Bowen Thus, he brought his son and his son’s bellyful of sater and swa Mountain This is the reason why the water fro muttered to himself, “Liu Bowen! Liu Bowen! Just because I can’t afford to mess with an old Daoist like you, you think this is finished? There will co this city, and when you do, Liu Bowen, you’ll have to leave! That’s when you’ll have to obey this old dragon!”

Thus, the old dragon and his son waited, one day, two days, one month, two months, one year, two years Finally, Liu Bowen finished renovating Beijing to be in accordance with the Eight-Arression and will perhaps be told at a later date) Liu Boas just preparing to return to Nanjing to report to the Eon that was ht xiao was here keeping watch, it would be fine, but he went and became a monk What do I do?

Liu Bowen had no other choice than to seek Yao Guangxiao out On the saxiao in a te the reason for his visit, he said to Yao Guangxiao, “The Eight-Armed Nezha Map was drawn by the two of us When I return to report to the E was renovated by the two of us You are still the second xiao was very happy to hear this and agreed to watch over Beijing Thus, Liu Bowen packed his luggage, gathered his attendants, and left Beijing to go report to the E that Liu Bowen had left, the Dragon King brought his son and traveled through the underground ays to Beijing Upon reaching Beijing, they spied the ed out it Not only did they fail to break through it, they got a bump on the head for their troubles It turned out that so The Dragon King and his son attes, but they failed each tiot, and they began to thoroughly loathe Liu Bowen Finally, in the northeast part of Beijing, the dragon father and son spotted another spring h and reached the surface This place would later be known as New North Bridge

As soon as they appeared on the surface, the Dragon King transfor fellow The two brought the water fro up with them, and in the blink of an eye, everywhere around New North Bridge was instantly flooded The populace wailed and escaped in their panic, leaving only the father and son They walked on the waves, looking quite pleased with thexiao of as going on Upon learning this news, he thought, Liu Bowen really does know his stuff He foresaw that the evil dragon would coon really did coed his clothes, took up a sword, and took off with lightning speed to New North Bridge With a few slashes of his sword, he stopped the flooding, and with a leap, he landed on the waves He yelled, “Evil creature, you dare atte! Take a look at the Second Military Advisor’s power!” The Dragon King was shocked and thought to hione, so where did this Second Military Advisor co, with a few slashes of his sword, he put a stop to the flooding, so we have to be careful He shot a glance at his son and the two each revealed their own Azure Dragon Sword Without the slightest explanation, they fiercely attacked Yao Guangxiao Yao Guangxiao quickly made to defend hilows, the three clashed

Now, if it was just the dragon father, Yao Guangxiao would be able to deal with hiainst the dragon son However, when father and son worked together, Yao Guangxiao was unable to endure Each move of his was slower than the last, but just as it seemed like he was about to lose, there was a flash fro on the waves, bleeding froxiao and the dragon’s son were stupefied Yao Guangxiao was looking for the figure of his mysterious helper when he heard a shout “Military Advisor Yao, quickly seize the young dragon, I axiao was elated to hear these words While he stabbed at the dragon son, he called, “Marshal Yue, please wait!” Marshal Yue did not respond The dragon son was still stunned, so he was ixiao’s sword The father and son were both captured, and the water flooding New North Bridge returned to the ground, never to rise up again

After the dragon father and son were caught, Yao Guangxiao was in a bind Just where would he keep this pair of evil dragons? He thought and thought, and finally caon in the spring of New North Bridge, building a deep well on top of it, and then tying it up with a long chain He then erected a temple around the well, and as for what God would be worshi+ped in the temple? He felt that since it was Marshal Yue that had helped hiht as well dedicate the teon father was sealed in the spring, he asked Yao Guangxiao, “Military Advisor Yao, do you really have to lock me up for one thousand, ten thousand years? When will I be able to coe to turn old, and when it’s repaired, that will be the time when you can come out” Froe, and never was there a bridge in that place that needed any sort of repair

Yao Guangxiao locked the dragon son under the spring beneath the bridge of Chongwen Gate Before the dragon son was locked away, he asked Yao Guangxiao, “Military Advisor Yao, do you really have to lock me up for one thousand, ten thousand years? When will I be able to co of the druate, that will be the tiwen Gate was opened or closed, a druer beat Instead, a bell was used, which is why old people often say that of the nine gates of Beijing, eight beat drus a bell

Now, unfortunately for the dragon son, Chongwen Gate no longer exists, so no longer will the beating of the druate But if you take Line 5 of the Beijing subway to Beixinqiao Station, you e there emblazoned with the words ‘北新桥’, apparently built to e was to some day be in the need of repair, then perhaps…?