Destiny Only Han

Chapter 479 Liu Ying: Crocodile, from Southern Xinjiang!
"The skin of the flood dragon? Believe it or not!"

"The empress must be joking, thinking that the dragon is a god, how could it be killed by people, and what can be made out of its skin and bones?"

"Could it be tuó skin? But the texture doesn't look like it?"

"What is it?"

"Madam Wuyanghou, don't you know? The scorpion is an insect in the water, it looks like a lizard, grows big, and many war drums used in the army are made of scorpion skin..."

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In the midst of doubts and discussions, Lu Zhi raised his eyes and looked into the distance, looked at Liu Ying who was casually perfunctory the little Lolita in the distance, and quietly gave a thumbs up in his heart.

The reaction of this group of people was as expected by Liu Ying.

"Be safe and don't be impatient, what is a dragon, you will know when you look at it next time."

After Lu Zhi finished speaking, he clapped his palms lightly, signaling to the servant standing outside the gazebo to bring over a specimen that he had brought this time.

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Shaking the cherry blossom tree, the little loli, who was trying to bury Liu Ying among the falling flowers, stopped suddenly, and asked with her finger far away: "Brother, do you know what is that mysterious thing that mother brought?"

Liu Ying looked forward following her gestures, and saw that it was a long, thin wooden box covered with bright yellow silk cloth carried by four palace servants.

"I know, but I won't tell you...unless you ask me!"

Little Loli was furious, but immediately put on a flattering smile, squatting beside Liu Ying, carefully pinching away the cherry blossom petals that fell on him, her voice became more and more clamped.

"My dear brother, I beg you... If you don't tell me, my sister will strangle you to death!"

Hehe, a man can't be subdued due to his might... Liu Ying was about to reprimand him sternly, but when she felt Little Lolita's chubby hands stuck on her neck, she quickly gave up her previous thoughts:

"I said, I said...that's a specimen brought back from Nanchang City."

Little Loli scratched her head, her face full of doubts: "Huh? A specimen? Why haven't I seen it before?"

"Of course you haven't seen it!" Liu Ying's eyes were full of contempt: "This is the one that my mother puts in the warehouse next to the Jiaofang Hall...it is the one outside the door where you, Qi Ji and dogs are not allowed to enter." !"

"Brother, you don't need to be so careful." Little Lolita muttered a few words in a low voice, poking her index fingers together to resolve her embarrassing emotions.

Liu Ying stood up and patted the dust on her body: "Go, have a look."

He is underage now, although it is indecent to hang out with women, but no one will criticize him.

On the contrary, at this moment when the high-ranking ladies of the empire gather, he goes to hang out among them, and anyone who dares to say anything will be attacked by this group of Yingyingyanyan, aunts and aunts...

After all, as the second generation of the emperor, he sits at the top of Shangxian Hall, and in the ranking list of the most suitable son-in-law in Chang'an City, he belongs to the person who ranks second and no one dares to rank first!

When Liu Ying walked into the gazebo with unrecognizable steps, she happened to see that the bright yellow silk cloth covering the bright yellow specimen was lifted off, revealing a giant crocodile that was more than two feet long from head to tail. Murderous, as if choosing someone to devour.

In an instant, there were bursts of exclamations around the gazebo, especially after seeing Liu Ying walk in, those young girls who were dressed in gentle and fresh clothes, or enthusiastic and unrestrained, who came only for him, looked even more exaggerated , if it wasn't for the handmaiden behind her holding her arm tightly, she would definitely rush into Liu Ying's arms, trembling for comfort.

"Wow!"

Little Loli poked her head out from behind Liu Ying, her eyes lit up, staring closely at the teeth in the crocodile's mouth.

It's so white, so bright, so sharp, I really want to pull one out and take it home and hang it on the bedside... Little Lolita is ready to move, planning in her mind how to bypass the guards of the Jiaofang Palace, secretly, no, go in a fair way take!
A son stealing his father is not considered a thief, so naturally a daughter stealing her mother is not considered a thief either!

Well, she can ask Lu Zhi to ask for it, as long as she hugs Lu Zhi and acts coquettishly, she will surely succeed, but what she wants is not as fragrant as she has worked so hard to steal!

In the corner, a girl with roses on her head and bright eyes like a deer walked out, looked around at the stuffed crocodile and said, "Isn't this just a crocodile? It's just that it grows a little bigger and looks a little scary. ..."

This girl from Chencang, named Bai Xuan, Bai Qi's Bai, to be precise, Ying's surname is Bai, and she is very close to Bai Qi, the famous general of Qin State in the past.

Well, the ancestor of Bai Qi was Gongzi Bai, the son of Duke Wu of Qin, who was named after his surname, so the surname of Ying was Bai, not the one of Gongsun Sheng, the grandson of King Chu Ping.

After all, Gongzi Bai's fiefdom is in Chencang District, Baoji City, and Bai Qi's birthplace is Mei County, Baoji City. The possibility of Bai Qi being a Duke of Qin is many times more likely than that of a Duke of Chu.

Liu Ying didn't bother to talk to her at first, but considering that she was already engaged to Liu Fei under Lu Zhi's help, and she was her future sister-in-law, so she explained softly:
"This is a jiao. You can call it a crocodile, but you can't call it a scorpion. These are two unrelated species."

Bai Xuan glanced back at Liu Ying, pulled the little girl who was close to her and said:
"Why can't it be called a 鼍? This is a 鼍. It existed in the Lanchi Palace in the previous dynasty. I saw it with my own eyes on the day it was released! It's only about half the size of this one. Maybe it hasn't grown up yet, but later It disappeared inexplicably, I think it will be destroyed like Xianyang City... Anyway, it is gone!"

What a crime... Liu Ying shook her head invisibly, feeling a little sad in her heart.

The crocodile mentioned at this time refers to the alligator, but unlike the elephant rhinoceros, the alligator has never lived in the Yellow River Basin in the north.

Without him, cold, the kind of cold that would freeze to death.

Therefore, there is a high probability that the Chinese alligators in the Lanchi Palace were not caught and eaten by the allied forces of the princes, but were frozen to death in the winter when the water surface was frozen...

Well, through the Sr isotope analysis of the remains of alligators unearthed in the north, later generations found that almost all the alligators in the north came from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and were presented as handicrafts or food to feudal dynasties such as Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin and Han.

Liu Ying took two steps forward and knocked off the little chubby hand of the little girl who was trying to break off a crocodile tooth under Bai Xuan's cover. She pointed to the sharp teeth in the mouth of the stuffed crocodile and said:
"If you want to judge the difference between a crocodile and a crocodile, the best way is to look at the teeth."

"The 鼍 eats shells, snails, small fish and shrimps, so the tops of the teeth are flat, and they don't have the ability and ability to bite and roll. A child can easily defeat it with a shovel in hand... the size you see, It’s actually what it looks like when it’s grown up.”

"And the crocodile... look at this mouth, let alone an ordinary person, even a fierce tiger is no match for it! So it is not an exaggeration to call it a dragon."

"This two-foot-long crocodile is actually not the limit of a crocodile, it's just a medium-sized crocodile. The Han army outside Nanchang City once hunted a giant crocodile king with a body length of more than three feet... "

"It is said that the crocodile king roared like thunder. When the deer walked by the stream, the crocodile king roared. The deer immediately fell into the water and died, and the crocodile swallowed it. There was still glue on the crocodile's tail. When the tail was swept away, people by the water would die." Get stuck, fall into the water..." (note 1)

Well, the specimen in front of Liu Ying is a crocodile. There are very few records of conflicts between crocodiles and tigers in later generations, but all those that have left video records are all crocodiles who won in the end...

For example, in Jin Dynasty Zuosi's "Fu of Wu Du", it is also recorded that the crocodile is more than two feet long, has four legs, looks like a scorpion, and has a beak three feet long with very sharp teeth.

In Han Yu's "Crocodile Offering Essay", the crocodile mentioned also refers to this kind of crocodile, but the crocodile was not driven away by the article written by Han Yu, but was more affected by the temperature.

Around 820 A.D., the temperature in South China was always below the average level. Especially in 819 when Han Yu was demoted, the temperature almost reached the lowest point in history. In order to reproduce the population, the crocodile had to continue from Chaozhou. Migrate to warmer south.

Therefore, eight months after Han Yu was relegated, he returned to the temple by virtue of this political achievement...

Of course, Han Yu didn't just win by lying down, but also made some efforts.

According to "Mengxi Bi Tan", the way the local natives kill crocodiles is to stuff things like iron hooks into the bodies of livestock and throw them into the river for the crocodiles to eat. After the iron hooks are swallowed by the crocodiles, the intestines Wear belly rotten and die.

Han Yu's article is probably to appease the people with sacrificial texts first, and then use this method to kill crocodiles, and if the effect is not good, then think of other tricks.

Well, Li Deyu, who was relegated to Chaozhou later, was a non-chief. When he took office, the temperature just picked up, and the crocodile, who had gone on vacation to escape the cold, returned home...

The crocodiles captured by Liu Ying also used Han Yu's method, but he was more radical, not only using the method of fishing nets and tow hooks, but also placing the bed crossbow on the flat-bottomed sand boat, transforming it into a similar In the style of a whaling ship, take the initiative to attack.

After all, the crocodiles near Nanchang City belong to the top of the food chain, and they are so stupid that they don't have the slightest idea of ​​guarding against humans.

Therefore, crocodile leather bags have sufficient raw materials.

When Liu Ying was making up the jokes, under the threat of Lu Zhi's eyes, the little loli gave up the idea of ​​breaking off a crocodile tooth as a collection, and took the initiative to hold a piece of tender under the neck of the "King Crocodile" in her hand. Bags made of leather to walk around.

Although no one in the surrounding circle of ladies said much, their expressions all showed a message.

Planting grass successfully!

In another corner, Xu Negatively memorized the legend about the Crocodile King composed by Liu Ying, and wanted to improve it and use it in his boring book, and at the same time accurately grasped a few key words.

Nanchang City.

The crocodile skin comes from Nanchang City, that is to say, the Nanchang City development bonds are about to appreciate in value... Xu negative made a note of this silently, and when he is going back, he will have people go around the black market to see if anyone is short of money and sells them at a low price. transferable.

Note 1: The legend of King Crocodile comes from "Hai Cuo Tu" written by Nie Huang in Qing Dynasty.

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