The reality is always more cruel than the ideal, although Shao Dong asked Wang Bo to go around behind them, but until the time of Old Man Jiang's house, Wang Bo did not make any progress, and he reluctantly went back to meet Shao Dong and others.

What made Shao Dong most helpless was that even if he arrived at the door of Old Man Jiang's house and Wang Bo came back, he could still feel that a pair of eyes were staring at him all the time, making him uncomfortable, but Wang Bo, the former scout, did not pull this person out in person.

There are only two reasons.

First, the other party is more familiar with every road and every wall crack in Xihe Village than Wang Bo.

Second, this is just an illusion of Shao Dong.

In addition to these two reasons, Shao Dong really can't find the third reason.

However, Shao Dong has a good thing, that is, when he can't find the answer, he won't be too entangled, and it also avoids the embarrassment of him falling into a dead end and not being able to get out.

Putting these aside, Shao Dong and his entourage went directly into Old Man Jiang's house.

It can't be compared with Mr. Zhang's house, Mr. Jiang's house is also an ordinary peasant household, and when the group came in, Mr. Jiang was holding a big cigarette stick and smacking it.

"Old man, it's better to smoke less cigarettes in your body. Seeing this scene, Lao Zhao, who was familiar with the house, couldn't help muttering.

When he said this, he was actually just concerned about Old Man Jiang's body.

In this regard, Old Man Jiang first waved his hand and beckoned everyone to sit down, and then said casually: "I said what are you worried about all day, when you reach my age, aren't you just waiting to die? Die early and die late, sooner or later, since you are going to die, it is better to let me die comfortably." ”

I have to say that this old man Jiang is an old man who sees it very openly, and in this regard, Lao Zhao can only shake his head helplessly, obviously, he has heard this argument of old man Jiang before.

"Are you here to ask me about the old Xu family?" Seeing Lao Zhao shaking his head and shutting up, Old Man Jiang took the lead in asking.

Shao Dong and the others nodded, not in a hurry to say anything.

But Old Man Jiang didn't raise his eyelids, and then smacked the big cigarette pouch violently, and said coldly: "No need to ask, I know that Lao Xu's death is not an accident." ”

His cold words directly shocked Shao Dong and several people, and several of them stood up almost at the same time.

"What a fuss, trying to scare me to death, an old man. Regarding the performance of Shao Dong and others, Mr. Jiang was very disdainful.

Although he lacked a bit of politeness in what he said, firstly, he was so old, and secondly, this old man might really know something, so everyone didn't care about it at the moment, but asked in surprise: "How do you know?"

Old Man Jiang didn't hide it, he first smoked a bag of cigarettes, and the whole person seemed to have returned to decades ago, and after a long time, he said: "Actually, I knew when Old Man Xu died. ”

After the old man Jiang finished speaking, Shao Dong and the others finally understood what it meant to be silent and endless, this old man who seemed to have seen through life and death actually knew everything, and he knew better than the son of the person concerned.

When Xu Laohan's father had just passed away, he knew about it, and you can imagine how long this secret had been hidden in his heart.

At that moment, Shao Dong asked suspiciously, "How do you know?"

"Do you know how Old Man Xu died?" Old Man Jiang asked without answering.

To this question, Shao Dong replied without thinking: "Didn't you say that you were bitten to death by a poisonous snake?"

"A viper is a viper, that's fine. Old Man Jiang's thoughts suddenly pulled to the era when Xu Laohan's father was bitten to death by a poisonous snake a few decades ago.

Hearing Old Man Jiang ask, Shao Dong asked curiously, "What's the matter, there is something wrong with this poisonous snake?"

"Is there a problem?" Old Man Jiang said with a smile: "It's not just a problem, do you know that the poisonous snake that bit Old Man Xu to death is called Mangshan Soldering Iron Head! It can be said to be the most poisonous snake in the world." ”

Mangshan soldering iron head?

The name sounded familiar, but Shao Dong and the others still didn't realize what was wrong with it.

And Old Man Jiang didn't care whether they knew it or not, and said to himself: "You know, this kind of poisonous snake can be sold for more than one million on the black market in the world!"

"Are you talking about the soldering iron head known as the panda among snakes?" Shao Dong suddenly remembered.

Speaking of which, this snake named Mangshan Soldering Iron Head is still very famous among snakes, firstly, because of its high black market price and the same preciousness as pandas, and secondly, because of its endangered quantity.

"That's it. Old man Jiang said: "Actually, whether it is a panda among snakes, or whether it can sell for more than a million yuan, these are not worth my doubts, but after so many years, where does this snake only appear, you should know, in other words, in our place, there is no soil for this kind of soldering iron head to grow at all!"

After speaking, Old Man Jiang also said: "For so many years, I have often gone up the mountain, just to see if we really have this kind of soldering iron head here, but unfortunately, after so many years, let alone Mangshan soldering iron head, we can't even find an ordinary snake here." ”

In fact, Mr. Jiang is also a person with pursuits, and the reason why he has insisted on going up the mountain for so many years is to verify whether Xu Laohan's father's death was an accident or something else.

Second, and the most important reason, if he can find the Mangshan soldering iron head near this Xihe Village, to put it bluntly, it will definitely cause a sensation throughout the country and even the world, and at that time, he will definitely make outstanding contributions to this Xihe Village.

In this Xihe Village, except for the current Xu Laohan, it is estimated that everyone does not want to die by themselves, and the death knell on the mountain will ring for themselves, even if it is so much, it will make people feel supreme glory.

Even if it was Xu Laohan, before today, he felt that if Xu Ping died in the future, he would definitely be qualified to ring the death knell......

Of course, what he thinks has nothing to do with Shao Dong and others, what Shao Dong is thinking about now is the death of Xu Laohan's father.

After thinking for a while, Shao Dong asked: "How do you know that the poisonous snake that bit Xu Laohan's father was the soldering iron head? I heard Xu Laohan say that it was his father who came back by himself at that time, and no one had ever seen the snake that bit him. ”

"Fart, he knows a fart, at that time he said that his father was bitten by a snake when he was working in the mountains, that is impossible at all, if he was really bitten by the Mangshan Iron Head Snake while working in the mountains, he would not be able to come back at all. Old Man Jiang was very disdainful of this, he didn't believe that Xu Laohan's father was bitten by a snake on the mountain.

And in fact, this is indeed the case, if it is really according to what Old Man Jiang said, it is the Mangshan Iron Head Snake that bites Xu Laohan's father, it is really impossible to walk back.

But Shao Dong was not curious about this question, and immediately asked, "How do you conclude that the snake that bit Xu Laohan's father is the head of the Mangshan soldering iron?"

"I found the doctor from the county back then. The old man said: " Actually, that's not a doctor, he is a friend of mine, he likes to study snakes on weekdays, when he heard about the snake of Mangshan soldering iron head, he went to another province to study for a few years, the year of Old Man Xu's death, he happened to come back to me to drink, and when I went to Old Man Xu's house, he also followed, he saw at a glance that Old Man Xu's symptoms were snake venom, and, at that time, according to the wound, he had already concluded that it was Mangshan Soldering Iron Head Snake, but he was very curious, because at that time, this snake only appeared in a place called Mangshan in other provinces, so he didn't say anything at the moment, just vaguely said that it was a poisonous snake。

Later, when he returned to my house, he asked me, "Is there a Mangshan soldering snake in our village?" I was stunned at that time, and I didn't know what a Mangshan soldering snake was, so I told him directly, I have never seen a snake in our village.

Then he said directly, Xu Laohan may have been killed, and immediately told me about the Mangshan Iron Head Snake. ”

After Old Man Jiang's words were finished, Shao Dong and the others also pondered for a moment.

Mangshan soldering iron head, the reason why this snake is called this name, is because the location where it was found is in Mangshan, and Mangshan is separated from Xihe Village, and there are several provinces in between.

If there are a lot of snakes in this place, it would be easy to say, but the problem is that there are not many snakes in Xihe Village, even in H County, because the climate here is really not suitable for the growth of snakes.

So, how did a snake thousands of miles away come to Xihe Village to kill people?

Moreover, as Mr. Jiang said, his friend could go to the place where the incident occurred for several years in order to study a snake, which shows that he is still very insightful in the species of snakes, and the possibility of seeing away is not high.

Then, if it is said that the poisonous snake that bit Xu Laohan's father to death was the Mangshan soldering iron head.

And according to the current situation, when this snake bit Xu Laohan's father, it must have been near Xu Laohan's house, otherwise Xu Laohan would not have been able to return home at all.

Then the question arises, since this snake is near Xu Laohan's house, why hasn't anyone seen it? You know, snakes are very lazy animals, and they can't move their nests easily.

Moreover, the day after Xu Laohan's father died, so many people came to their house, and none of them saw a snake, and no second person was bitten by a snake, all of which can only explain one problem.

The serpent was taken away!

Otherwise, it will never disappear so cleanly.

And, even if no one noticed it at the time, you know, snakes are really the type of animal that is not good at moving their nests, and they missed the first year, the second year, the third year, and the fourth year?

It's near Xu Laohan's house, he has lived in his own house for decades, and he hasn't seen even that once?

This is obviously unrealistic.