Chapter 521: Specimen of the Strange Dragon
"How I feel like I've fallen into a big garden." Seeing the prosperity of Lin'an Mansion, Wang Linlin couldn't help but sigh.
"There are so many flowers and trees in the city that it looks like a garden." Zhu Guojin smiled and nodded, "The two girls like natural scenery, so it's better to fly to West Lake to have a look." ”
Xiao Tiantian urged the water balloon to fly over the West Lake, at this time the West Lake has been dredged and renovated since the Tang and Song dynasties, and its prosperity has reached the extreme. The so-called "Ten Views of West Lake" such as the spring dawn of the Su Causeway, the wind and lotus in the Quyuan, the autumn moon on the Pinghu Lake, the remnant snow on the broken bridge, the orioles in the willow waves, the fish viewing in the flower port, the sunset of Leifeng, the clouds inserting in the twin peaks, the evening bell in Nanping, and the moon in the three pools, can be seen now.
In order to satisfy their own luxurious enjoyment, the emperors and queens of the Song Dynasty successively built imperial gardens such as Jujing, Zhenzhu, Nanping, Jifang, Yanxiang, and Jade Pot, which are all over the West Lake and its surroundings. Zhu Guojin told Wang Linlin and Xiao Tiantian, "Since Liufei (the emperor's car) is stationed, it has become more and more beautiful on the lake, and the houses are connected, and the city is not reduced. There is a poem as evidence: 'Thirty miles of one color building, I don't know where to find a lonely mountain', in order to describe its prosperity, it can be described as extreme. ”
In order to see closer, Xiao Tiantian unconsciously lowered the height, and at this time, the people on the ground saw them in the water balloon, and they were all amazed, and some people simply bowed down to them.
"Tiantian, you're flying too low, let's show up now." Wang Linlin reminded Xiao Tiantian, "Let's go to Zhu Gongzi's mansion first, and then come here to play when we come back." ”
Xiao Tiantian saw more and more people bowing down, and knew that these people regarded them as immortals, and immediately rose into the sky, but Zhu Guojin seemed to enjoy the feeling of being an immortal, and he didn't come back to his senses until the people below became like ants.
"Drop it down and you'll be over there." Zhu Guojin gave Xiao Tiantian directions.
Xiao Tiantian flew in the direction pointed by Zhu Guojin, and soon, a grand and beautiful garden-style building appeared in front of him.
"Please also ask Miss Xiao to turn to this side of the street and lower the fairy car in front of the main gate." Zhu Guojin said, "As soon as you enter the main entrance, the two girls can see the leather carpet. ”
Xiao Tiantian answered, and soon landed on that street, after she landed, she collected the water balloon and restored its original appearance, Wang Linlin and Zhu Guojin put down the lotus, and Wang Linlin also instantly turned the two huge lotus flowers into seeds and put them into her sleeves.
Although Zhu Guojin's mansion is very magnificent in the sky, it is better than the Feiyun Pavilion in Xiangyang, but when you look at it on the street, it is just a white courtyard wall and a gate, which is very ordinary. Xiao Tiantian understood that Zhu Guojin didn't want to be public, and he couldn't help but admire it very much.
Among the "rich second generation" she has seen, there is no one who does not love to show off her wealth and is arrogant.
Zhu Guojin stepped forward first, patted the huge bronze knocker, and the door opened immediately, and the porter couldn't help but be surprised when he saw that Zhu Guojin was back.
"Childe, didn't you go to Xiangyang?"
"Come back temporarily. Go and get everyone ready, there are distinguished guests. ”
"Yes."
"Two girls, please." Zhu Guojin said, leading Xiao Tiantian and Wang Linlin into the gate.
Just as Zhu Guojin said, as soon as they entered the door, the two of them immediately saw the huge python skin carpet.
"It's really that big!" Wang Linlin squatted down and lightly touched the slap-like scales with her fingers, as if she couldn't believe it was true.
"It's a thin scale, and there's a bigger one over there, really like a small table." Xiao Tiantian ran a few steps forward, came to the shadow wall, and pointed to the ground, where the scales were indeed the size of a tabletop.
Zhu Guojin looked at the two innocent girls running around and watching from a distance, and couldn't help but be moved.
At this moment, he almost forgot their fairy status.
After visiting the Jiaofu carpet, Zhu Guojin invited them to his collection room to view his rare collections.
Zhu Guojin's collection is very rich, he placed the collection of the "Strange Treasure Hall" decorated with countless red sandalwood furniture, a large number of domestic and foreign treasures, including brocade, felt carpet, Shang and Zhou bronzes, ceramics, lacquerware, ivory carving, agate, crystal, amber, wood carving, jade, gemstones, calligraphy and painting, clocks, swords and weapons, classics and manuscripts of the past dynasties, etc., and even a large number of West Asian, Central Asian and European art treasures and decorations, which surprised Xiao Tiantian and Wang Linlin.
Zhu Guojin seemed to know that the two girls liked to see monsters like giant sea dragons, so he led them to a hall.
It was a huge hall, empty, but dimly lit, with a ghostly loneliness scattered around the corner. In the center of the light green jade ground, a huge monster stood.
As soon as they saw it, Xiao Tiantian and Wang Linlin all changed their faces and glanced at each other quickly.
It was a gigantic Western-style bat dragon, perched mighty on top of a rock. Its yellow-brown eyes were bigger than Wang Linlin's head, and it was staring at her expressionlessly. The bloody mouth opened violently, and although the long howl did not come out, it already echoed in everyone's mind. Its front paws were bound on the rocks, its hind feet curled nervously, its wings tucked into a fusiform against its ribs, and it seemed to pounce on everyone in the hall at any moment.
They had fought it and its owner to the death, and they never thought they would see it here again.
Xiao Tiantian tried to look away from its body, and after making sure that it was dead and had been made into a specimen, she exhaled a long breath and patted her chest with her hand.
"Where did Zhu Gongzi get this monster?" Xiao Tiantian asked.
"Oh, this monster was found by a rich merchant in the country of the far west on an island in the sea, but it was dead at the time, but the body was not corrupted, I learned that my Song Dynasty officials liked to be curious about rare and foreign objects, so they used a large ship to transport it out, and sent it to Lin'an to pay tribute, in order to get a reward, but unexpectedly after the official family saw it, he was afraid of its horror, and some old ministers said that this strange dragon had appeared in the sky over Bianjing in the past, and was destroyed by the thunder, but it was a fierce beast, and it could not be kept, so the official family returned it to the Western merchants, and the Western merchants could not deal with it, so they abandoned it in the wilderness, and it happened that one of my disciples saw itI thought I would like it, so I highly recommended it to my housekeeper and smuggled it back, and I went out to run errands, and when I came back to see it, I was quite surprised and put it here. Zhu Guojin noticed the change in the expressions on Xiao Tiantian and Wang Linlin's faces, and seemed to guess something, "Miss Xiao is a fairy in the heavenly realm, and she takes it as her mission to kill demons and protect the country and the people, have you seen it before?" ”