Chapter 31 cold dragon

 Wu Cheng'en, the greatest novelist in the 16th century, once mentioned a creature named Lenglong in his works.This is a story about a monk named Xuanzang who went to study in North India on foot in the middle of the seventh century AD. The team of foreign students led by the monk encountered trouble when passing through a city called Che Chiguo.Three warlocks challenged them.One of the magicians, surnamed Yang, asked Xuanzang to bathe in scalding hot oil like himself.But one of Xuanzang's senior assistants carefully noticed that the oil being heated was cold while the warlock was taking a bath.He quickly found out the truth of the matter.It turned out that the warlock owned an animal named Cold Dragon.He put the cold dragon in an oil pan and kept it at a comfortable temperature.Xuanzang managed to capture the cold dragon.The temperature of the oil rose suddenly, and the warlock died.

Later, a literature researcher XXX pointed out that the cold dragon mentioned by Wu Chengen had detailed clues to follow in the cultural genealogy of the empire.In a notebook "..." in the late Tang Dynasty, it was mentioned that some areas of the Tang Empire raised cold dragons and presented them to the emperor as a special product. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Empire was famous for being kind to his brothers. Shen Wang Li Zhan was such a member of the royal family who was included in brotherly love.This King Shen suffered from a serious illness since he was a child.The fat on his abdomen was like a cloth bag, always hanging limply between his feet.Emperor Xuanzong sent the most famous imperial doctor in the imperial court, Ji Zhou, who was good at treating "dragon's disease" to treat King Shen, but it didn't work.In order to avoid the inconvenient movement caused by this evil disease, King Shen always wrapped his fat with wide, undyed silk fabrics and tied them firmly on his lower abdomen.In the cold winter, this device brought Shen Wang extra warmth, but in summer, Shen Wang was troubled by this heavy restraint.The obese King Shen sometimes even felt that these silk fabrics suffocated his trachea, making it difficult for him to breathe.

Emperor Xuanzong then bestowed upon him two cold dragons that had just arrived from a southern province.This snake is very close to humans.They are cold.Holding a cold dragon is like holding ice.King Shen wrapped them around his own fat, and he no longer felt the slightest stuffiness and pain. Duan Chengshi claimed that he had seen these two cold dragons with strange functions in King Shen's court.They are described in detail in his writings.The shape of the cold dragon is very similar to that of a normal snake.They are more than a foot long and are all white.On the back of the head, there are reddish fleshy horns, but they are not as majestic as real dragon horns.Like real dragons, cold dragons also have four legs, but instead of scales, they are covered in cold slime.After careful observation, Duan Chengshi came to the conclusion that the strangest thing about this animal is that it uses its stomach to cry.When they are in love with each other, they will cry to each other, making a cry from their stomachs, and then spray them out through their mouths.As a result, their cry is a bit like a hiccup.Sorrow is the most important reason for the cold dragon to emit cold air.When one of the two cold dragons died, Duan Chengshi saw the mourning of the other dragon, causing the flame of the candle to condense into a solid.

People in the Western Regions do not understand the magical production in southern China, and always confuse cold dragon with asbestos.They believe that in the south of China, cold dragons will also spin silk and cocoon.The southern version of the famous "Huohuanbu" is obtained by spinning the silk of Lenglong into cloth. 