The night wind pierced through the forest, and it was cold on his face. When he woke up, he realized what a risky move it was to ask the woman about the black dragon earlier, and he couldn't help feeling a little scared. At this moment, Xuanyuan Po's angry voice faintly came from Qiulin's side. The supper that should belong to Chen Changsheng was secretly eaten by Tang Sanshiliu. He shook his head with a smile, stopped thinking about those questions, and walked towards the Orthodox Academy.
The ice letter left by the woman on the stone table was Chen Changsheng's only clue to find the black dragon. This seemed to be a kind of test - the black dragon was a giant dragon of profound frost, which itself was related to ice and snow.
The problem is, ice is a very common thing. Especially at the end of autumn and winter, where the major rivers and canals in Kyoto lean against the stone walls, you can occasionally see ice balls. In places further north, there may be rock-sized ice cubes on the river. Even in midsummer, those princes There is also an ice cellar in the mansion of the nobleman, which stores a lot of ice.
For practitioners who are practicing cold skills, ice is something that can be seen everywhere. Just prepare a water basin and put your hand in it. After a while, a basin full of ice will appear. Places like Li Palace are even more There is a special formation that keeps making ice for the enjoyment of the Pope and those senior priests.
Chen Changsheng discovered some problems, because ice is... too common in Kyoto.
When he was in Xining Town, in the deep winter, he often went to the mountain stream with his senior brother to pick up ice cubes to play. After arriving in Kyoto, the opportunities to touch ice were relatively less. Now that I think about it, the most impressive intimate contact with ice was, When Luoluo and Luoluo walked out of the National Education College to go shopping, the two of them bought popsicles to eat.
He remembered very clearly that it was midsummer, and there were a lot of people on the street. Whether it was a young lady or a pawn, almost everyone held a popsicle in their hand, and other things recorded in Xining Town or Dao Zang Summer in the city is rarely seen.
Both practitioners and formations can easily make ice cubes, but it is absolutely impossible to turn ice cubes into such cheap things. Even if all practitioners lower their identities and activate all formations with all their strength, it is impossible to provide What so many people in Kyoto need all summer long.
He walked out of the Orthodox Academy, went to the grocery store by the well at the entrance of Baihua Lane, asked where they got their popsicles in summer, and followed this clue until they found a dessert shop in Xinchaofang , Then found an ice cellar that was strictly managed by the imperial court.
According to his investigation, in summer, all the dessert shops in Kyoto buy ice from this ice cellar.
This ice cellar is located in Xishi Hutong. The gate of the courtyard looks very small. How can it be seen that such a large amount of ice can be stored in the ice cellar under the courtyard.
Chen Changsheng asked Tang Thirty-Six to walk around, and found that there was no formation hidden in the ice cellar in Xishi Hutong. At the same time, he also went around to inquire, and confirmed that this ice cellar was indeed a natural cold cellar. An underground cold vein, so it can continuously provide ice.
Trying his best to drive Tang Sanshiliu back to the Orthodox Academy, Chen Changsheng found a simple food shop in the Xishi alley and sat down, took a pen and paper, and began to do serious drawing calculations.
Of course he didn't believe the so-called underground cold pulse. According to the knowledge in the water classics and the relevant regulations of the imperial court, as well as the general location of the ice cellar that Tang Sanshiliu inquired about, he spent half an hour roughly calculating where the bottom of the ice cellar is and whether there is an underground river there. , and most importantly... where is the source of the chill.
Walking out of Xishi Hutong, he walked forward according to the lines on the paper.
After an unknown amount of time, he found that the noise beside him had disappeared, and he looked up in astonishment, only to see a tall city wall appearing in front of him, actually in front of the imperial palace!
Sure enough, he arrived in front of the palace.
Looking at the faintly visible cornices in the palace wall, distinguishing those buildings, and using the location of the Orthodox Academy as a reference, he probably found the location of Weiyang Palace, and then closed his eyes. He started to walk in his mind, like the night of the Ivy Banquet, walked to the abandoned garden, entered the cold pool, started to run, ran all the way, and finally pushed open the door.
He opened his eyes, turned to a road in the left rear, stepped on the ground covered with golden fallen leaves, and arrived at his destination.
The golden autumn in front of Miyagi, like the green vines in Li Palace, is a famous scenic spot in Kyoto. Now is the best and last time to see the scenery. Although the weather is a bit cold, there are still many tourists.
Carefully avoiding a child with muddy hands, he politely asked an old man to go first, bypassing some trees and coming to a well.
He knew that this place was called Beixinqiao, but it was the first time he knew that there was a well here.
He leaned over and took a look into the well, and found that it was bottomless, but there was no trace of tide, so it should be an abandoned well.
He looked up at the high autumn sky, and looked at the people having fun not far away, his emotions were very shocking and quite complicated.
That black dragon was actually imprisoned underground here? The entrance is actually in broad daylight
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Beixinqiao is not a bridge, but a place name.
Why is it called Beixin Bridge even though there is no bridge here
There is a famous legend in Kyoto about this matter.
According to legend, many years ago, the coalition forces of the human race and the monster race fought bloody battles with the demon race on the land of the Central Plains. A powerful evil dragon took advantage of the fire to loot and came to the capital to make trouble, mutilate the living, and killed innocent people indiscriminately. At this time, no one expected that Wang Zhice sneaked back to the capital from the front line, and led the gods who stayed in the capital to jointly defeat the evil dragon.
The evil dragon is also a dragon clan, and it is the most advanced fetish in the world. It is very difficult to kill it completely, and it is said that this evil dragon has the blood of the Dragon King flowing on its body. Even a legendary figure like Wang Zhice is worried about killing this evil dragon. Will the evil dragon anger the dragon clan who has been hidden for a long time, and worried that the evil dragon will try its best to bring too much disaster to Kyoto before it dies, so it decides to leave a way for the other party to survive—Wang Zhice asked the evil dragon to accept human captivity, Thinking of atonement, and then promised the evil dragon that he would build a new bridge on the ground where it was imprisoned, and as long as the bridge became old or was submerged by Luoshui, he would be released.
The lifespan of the dragon clan is unimaginably long. The evil dragon thought to himself that it would take decades at most and a hundred years at most for a new bridge to become old. Moreover, with its understanding of the water system in Kyoto and its innate ability, it is certain that Luoshui will be replaced every once in a while. There was a big tide in sixty years, and he was seriously injured at the time and was already on the verge of death, so he agreed to this condition.
The evil dragon surrendered, and the Great Zhou court set up extremely powerful restrictions outside the palace, imprisoning it underground, but... did not build bridges on the ground at all.
Luoshui passed around the imperial city without flowing through it at all. The so-called bridge was just a fake bridge.
Wang Zhice also did one more thing. He changed the name of the place here to Beixinqiao.
This bridge will never be submerged by Luoshui.
This bridge is always new.
That evil dragon will never come out again.
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Chen Changsheng sat under the tree, his eyes fell on the scroll, but he couldn't read it at all.
Behind the tree, a father is telling the legend to his children.
The father praised Wang Shenxian as his best strategy, and the children clapped their hands happily. A child asked, so the dragon is now in the ground under our feet? The rest of the children were a little scared when they heard this. The adults laughed and said that a story is a story, is it still true
Chen Changsheng had also heard of this legend, but he never thought that the legend might be true.
He looked at the abandoned well not far away, and his emotions became more and more complicated.
Those who have heard the legend of Beixinqiao will hate the tyranny of the evil dragon and praise Wang Zhice's wisdom, but he feels that the evil dragon is so pitiful.
Of course, since the legend may be true, the dragon may have killed many innocent people, so it was designed by Wang Zhice. Tiaolong's current miserable state, especially looking at the beautiful autumn scenery on the ground, and thinking about the cold caves underground, can't help but feel a little sympathetic.
During the daytime, there are still many people in Beixinqiao. In the distance, there are imperial guards patrolling under the palace wall. Every once in a while, flying chariots descend on the palace wall. Occasionally, you can still see the flame in the distance. It should be Xue Xingchuan His mount, Huo Yunlin, knew that there was no way to go down to the ground now, and he had to wait for a while.
He lowered his head and continued to read.
The fallen leaves left the branches and landed on his shoulders, the yellow color was like golden leaves.
I don't know how long it took, the sound around him became silent, the twilight faded, and the night fell. He raised his head to make sure that no one was paying attention, and walked to the abandoned well.
He knew that there should be no pause or hesitation, otherwise it would definitely attract someone's attention.
So he jumped down directly, and the golden fallen leaf floated up and then fell, landing on the edge of the abandoned well.
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The abandoned well has no bottom at all, and naturally there is no silt, as if it is going straight into the void. There is no light here, only darkness, and Chen Changsheng descended faster and faster in the dark void. When he jumped into the well, he held his head in both hands, and the chopstick bones that his master and senior brothers had boiled since childhood with medicine soup sticks ensured that the previous collision with the well wall did not cause any harm to him.
After coming to this darkness through the bottom of the well, the wind howled past his face, and he was not worried that he would fall to his death directly, because he knew that the black dragon must have sensed his arrival. And I don't know why, the closer he was to the black dragon, the closer he seemed to be to the emotions of the Ivy Banquet night, and he no longer feared many things, even death.
His person was still in mid-air, so he heard the long and long breath, and then heard the slight interruption of the breathing.
In the darkness, two faint divine fires appeared, which were its eyes.
The black dragon woke up.
A dense air cushion that looked like a real object appeared under Chen Changsheng's body, helping him to land on the ground easily.
A huge figure like a mountain moved slowly in front of him terrifyingly, and the air in the huge underground space made an unpleasant tearing sound due to being squeezed.
An unimaginable chill instantly enveloped his whole body, and countless frosts appeared on his eyelashes, which might fall down at any time.
"It's me." He took out the night pearl and illuminated his face.
As he took out the night pearls, thousands of night pearls on the dome of the dark underground space lit up at the same time.
The black dragon reappeared in front of his eyes again. The body of the dragon was undulating like a mountain, with no end in sight. The head of the dragon was like a palace, and the scales of the dragon were like mirrors. The moving dragon whiskers are like real, frozen lightning.
This was the second time Chen Changsheng saw the true face of the black dragon, and he was still shocked, and it took him a long time to wake up.
He put away the Ye Mingzhu and bowed to the black dragon, thinking about the age of the black dragon, he naturally performed the gift of a junior, and said: "Master Long, I came to see you."
Seeing that Chen Changsheng really came, the burning divine fire in the black dragon's eyes was constantly jumping, as if dancing, and looked very happy. After hearing this title, the two divine fires froze instantly, turning into ice and snow.
That terrifying dragon power appeared in the underground space again.
Chen Changsheng felt very uncomfortable, so he quickly raised his right hand and said, "I see!"
Long Wei slightly weakened, Black Dragon looked at him indifferently, waiting for him to meet again.
Chen Changsheng figured it out. It must be that the word uncle seemed too commonplace. Moreover, according to the lifespan of the dragon, even if this black dragon had been imprisoned for hundreds of years, he might still be a teenager, at most a youth, and like Like those women in Xining Town, they don't like being called aunt, they only like being called sister-in-law...
He paid homage to Heilong again, and said affectionately, "Brother Long, long time no see."
With a muffled bang, the black dragon unleashed a terrifying dragon power, and Chen Changsheng fell directly to the ground heavily, splashing countless ice shards.
The black dragon slowly flew above him, its whiskers fluttering in the air, like tentacles protruding from the abyss, obviously, it was out of anger.
Chen Changsheng lay on the ground, raised his right hand with difficulty, and said, "Senior, senior, don't get angry!"
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The title of senior may not be completely appropriate, but Heilong reluctantly accepted it. When Chen Changsheng sat in the remnant snow on the ground, thinking about the previous scene, his lingering fear could not be dispelled. He thought that if he blurted out the word Zhizhi at that time, Will it be instantly blown into ice shards by the terrifying dragon's breath
According to the promise that night, when Chen Changsheng came to see the black dragon, he was supposed to talk to it, but at this moment, one person and one dragon were sitting together speechless, and the atmosphere in the room was a bit depressing and awkward. The black dragon could understand human language, and Chen Changsheng would Some pronunciations of dragon language, but not dragon language, how can the two sides communicate
Suddenly, Chen Changsheng remembered that he jumped into the abandoned well of Beixinqiao before, pointed to the faintly visible little black dot on the dome, and asked, "Has it always been like this? After all these years, some people must have fallen into the bottom of the well by mistake. Those people are all dead." ? Or was it saved by you? If you saved them, where did those people go?"
This is indeed the issue he is most concerned about now. Although after hearing the legend, he has some sympathy for the black dragon, and is very grateful to the other party for allowing him to leave alive last time, but if... those who fell into the underground space, in the end, all After becoming its food, he definitely couldn't continue to sit in front of it.
He wasn't afraid of being eaten by this black dragon, but he couldn't accept talking to a man-eating black dragon.
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