"Chu Sai and Xiang are connected, and Jingmen and nine sects are connected;

The river flows beyond the sky and the earth, and the scenery of the mountains is mixed."

Xiangyang was known as the number one city in China in later generations. Song Qingshu was also very curious before he came here in person, it was just a third-tier small town, how could he dare to call himself the number one city in China?

When he was on the scene, he realized that this was not nonsense. A twenty-meter-high city wall was not unusual, but a nearly hundred-meter-wide moat was a bit scary. At that time, the moats of Dadu and Chang'an were only ten meters.

Come on.

Xiangyang is a battleground for military strategists, and it is said that the whole world has its back.

Thousands of years ago, the martial sage Guan Yu was granted the title of Governor of Xiangyang to control Jingzhou. He flooded seven armies and shocked China. He was unparalleled for a while. But it was also here that he accidentally lost Jingzhou, defeated Maicheng, and was ambushed and killed.

A hundred years ago, the hero Guo Jing relied on the danger of Xiangyang to confront the invincible Yuan army for six years. In the end, if Song general Lu Wenhuan had not surrendered, I am afraid that the Yuan army would have been unable to break the city.

Xiangyang City witnessed their scenery, and it was also dyed with a layer of tragedy.

This is an ancient city with the color of sunset. The special geographical location makes Xiangyang a distribution center for boats from the south and horses from the north. When Song Qingshu got off the boat and landed, he saw many traders on horseback in the market towns on the north bank.

Still wearing the make-up of a middle-aged man, he observed outside the city gate for a while and found that the "customs and customs" of Xiangyang and Junzhou were similar. I think this must have been the case under the rule of the Yuan Dynasty!

Fortunately, when he went back that night, in addition to taking away two invitations, Song Qingshu also took away official tickets and silver coins. He chose a wealthy man's door, gave the doorman "drink money", and entered the city smoothly.

Song Qingshu took the most remote small north gate for safety. Once entering the city gate, Song Qingshu felt like an enlarged version of Junzhou, but the city structure was almost the same. After passing through the Wengcheng, there was a busy city inside.

Han people were not allowed to ride horses in the city, so Song Qingshu stayed at an inn and went to a money bank to exchange money. It turned out that the ancients had already used codes. The official tickets used the heavenly stems and earthly branches as symbols, and each bank had a fixed code.

Method. After the money bank receives the banknote, it will check the code on the banknote and decrypt it. Whatever can be decoded is the real one.

These official tickets were given by Song Yuanqiao, and Song Qingshu had not had time to use them before. After exchanging silver coins, Song Qingshu bought his clothes, disguised himself as a wealthy businessman, and chose a restaurant that looked relatively high-end.

"Waiter, wait a minute, I have something to ask you." The waiter was about to leave after serving the dishes when he was stopped by Song Qingshu.

"What are your orders, sir?" the waiter said with a flattering smile on his face.

"To tell you the truth, I am actually a wealthy businessman from the east, and I collect strange things. I don't know if there are any rare animals nearby, but I would like to see them..." Song Qingshu hoarsely said.

The voice asked.

The waiter looked like he was thinking, scratching his head and ears, staring straight at Song Qingshu's waist.

"It seems there is, but I can't remember it clearly..." the waiter hesitated.

Song Qingshu understood what he meant, took out a silver nugget from his arms and placed it on the table.

The waiter's eyes shone brightly and he immediately said: "If you want to inquire about the news, you are looking for the right person. Who in Xiangyang city doesn't know the nickname 'Bao Wecha'?

Know a thing or two!”

After hearing the waiter's nonsense, Song Qingshu became a little impatient and said, "Just say it."

"Hello!"

The ancients said that money can make the world go round, so don’t deceive me!

The waiter readily explained the unusual places near Xiangyang City, including some legendary places of fox ghosts.

"Are there any big snakes in any of the places you mentioned?" Song Qingshu thought of the plot in the book. There should be many big snakes in that place, right?

"Oh, sir, why are you looking for such a fierce thing?" The waiter stopped talking and rolled his eyes.

Song Qingshu secretly said that he was greedy, and took out a small grain of silver, and then cured the waiter's amnesia.

"There is a village in Hutou Mountain in the southern suburbs. The people there have been catching snakes for generations. You can go and ask them."

After the waiter finished speaking, he reached for the silver, but Song Qingshu held him down.

Song Qingshu smiled slightly, took the big piece of silver back, pointed at the small piece and said, "This is tea money, and the rest is considered reward money."

The waiter's face darkened and he wanted to curse loudly, but he swallowed it back before the words came out. He cursed Song Qingshu secretly in his heart and could only retreat angrily.

"You are so unkind..."

Song Qingshu listened to his whispers and thought to himself: "Yinzi, Yinzi, I have kept you in my pocket for so many days. I want to let you out for a breather today, but it will be misunderstood!"

The merchant is really shameless! The waiter felt even more angry when he heard his singing.

After inquiring about the news, Song Qingshu hired two bodyguards from the escort bureau and led him to a small village at the foot of Hutou Mountain. The villagers in the village did not speak Mandarin, so the two bodyguards also temporarily acted as translators, and Song Qingshu took care of them all day. , naturally people have to make full use of it.

After some difficult communication, Song Qingshu understood that Hutoushan was not a small area and it was impossible to find a big snake.

He remembered that Yang Guo encountered the big bird and the big snake fighting in the book by accident. Without the protagonist's luck, he probably wouldn't have broken his leg.

What should we do? Song Qingshu thought for a while and suddenly came up with an idea - catching snakes!

"Actually, I'm a drug dealer from out of town. I came here to buy some snake gallbladders. I wonder if you have any specialties here?" the bodyguard translated truthfully according to Song Qingshu's words.

These villagers have been catching snakes for a living for generations. When they heard that the businessman in front of them wanted to buy snake gallbladders, they smiled and said, "That's great, that's great! We are worried that the snakes we caught recently are not easy to sell... ..There are many snakes in Hutou Mountain, dozens of species, famous or not... The most special one is the golden-horned snake, which is only found in Hutou Mountain. It’s just this kind The snake has rough skin, thick flesh, bad taste, and is highly poisonous, so we don’t even try to catch it.”

Song Qingshu was overjoyed when he heard the bodyguard translate it. This golden-horned snake was most likely what he was looking for.

"How big is this snake and what are its characteristics? Can you tell me?"

The villager couldn't explain clearly with gestures, so he simply took Song Qingshu to his house to see the "specimen". Watching him take out the five-meter-long thing from the medicine jar, Song Qingshu stayed far away, really afraid that it was not there yet. Deadly bite.

I don’t know how long the snake has been dead, but it still looks fresh. The most special thing is that there are two small protrusions on the triangular snake head. This is why it is called the golden-horned snake.

"I killed this snake five years ago. It has been soaked in a medicine jar. I didn't expect it to be dead yet..."

Song Qingshu nodded, and after confirming that the snake would not "come back to life", he stepped forward to observe it at close range. He touched it with his hand and found that the snake's skin was as hard as armor.

Suddenly, a faint golden thread surged over the snake's body, and disappeared in an instant.

Song Qingshu blinked his eyes and saw that none of the three people around him looked strange, so he suspected that he had seen it wrong.

"But this snake is extraordinary." Song Qingshu thought to himself, then turned to the villagers and said:

"This snake is good. I plan to buy it on a large scale. I will charge as much as I want. As for the price, it is 1.5 times the normal market price."

Song Qingshu also asked the bodyguards before coming here and found that the snakes sold by these snake farmers were really cheap. After all, apart from their guts, snakes only have snake meat that can be used for anything.

"Ah!" The farmer was shocked and then overjoyed. He immediately agreed to Song Qingshu and ran to the village to inform others.

When the villagers heard the news, they thought Song Qingshu was tricking people, until Song Qingshu placed a small box of white money on the table, and they immediately went home, picked up their gear, and headed up the mountain.

"Perhaps we can lure out the big snake in a few days!" Song Qingshu looked at the groups of villagers heading up the mountain and felt confident.

Why do you need to find the golden snake by yourself? If you have enough money, you can have someone help you find it! It’s best if you encounter a big snake. If you can’t meet it, then capture all the snakes and their grandchildren. Song Qingshu doesn’t believe that the big snake can still do it.
Chapter completed!