Chapter 32: The Red Chamber in the Ice
The wharf of the world, the gathering place of the place where things come out, the coins of Suzhou and Hangzhou, the grain of Huaiyin, the salt of Weiyang, the goods of Linqing Jining, the car and mule of Xuzhou, the city god of Beijing, the antiques of the lamp market, the rice of Wuxi, the book of Jianyang, the porcelain of Fuliang, the fish of Ningtai, the fan of Xiangshan, the Ji of Guangling, the lacquerware of Wenzhou, and the overseas also.
When Song Xing took a boat south and came to Zhangzhou Yuegang, he saw a prosperous scene as described in "Guangzhi Interpretation".
In the end of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the prohibition and opening of maritime trade has been throughout the rule of the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years.
Later generations, there have been many repetitions, has been oscillating between the forbidden sea and the opening of sea trade, until the father of Shenzong, the Longqing Dynasty, allowed private merchants to do business overseas, which can be regarded as the official opening of the maritime trade checkpoint.
In the reign of Emperor Shenzong, with the strength of the country and the huge profits brought by maritime trade, the trade between Nanming and overseas reached its peak.
Tea, rice salt, silk, porcelain, and hundreds of commodities from the Central Plains are traded in the port of the Moonport, and precious metals, spices, animal skins and other local products from Fuso and Nanyang are also transported to the inland of the Central Plains through here.
In addition, Nanming also collected a large number of taxes through trade, making Yuegang the most prosperous port in the country.
Song Xing, who walked off the sailboat with a long sword on his back, was hidden in the turbulent flow of people, and did not attract too much attention, the prosperity of Yuegang has created a huge flow of people every day, and there will be no too strict inspection, and he paid the entry tax into the city, and it was very simple to enter the city.
Entering the city, Song Xing found that it was more lively and prosperous than the wharf, and the Han people, Fusang people, and Oriental people wearing costumes of various ethnic groups in the crowd shuttled through the flow of people, or selling or purchasing, but they were all in a hurry, and all beings were in a hurry.
According to the transcript submitted by the Blue Snake Divine Monarch, Song Xing went all the way down the Min River to this small city that was born dependent on Yuegang.
A hundred years of vicissitudes, things are people, Song Xing inquired many times in the city, but there was no news of the embroidered jade valley, which made him wonder if he had come to the wrong place.
Song Xing simply took advantage of the night, climbed over the wall and entered the county office, and found the county chronicle that recorded the customs and customs in the county office, and finally had a new clue.
"The thirty-sixth year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty is the age of the year, when the earth dragon turns over, the land of Sanzhou is exhausted, the water moves out of the ground, the city and the house collapse, and the two thousand seven hundred and ninety-two people are killed.
Song Xing turned out the book on the geography of mountains and rivers in the county annals, combined with the records of the county annals, and finally locked the site of the original county seat that was destroyed in the earthquake decades ago.
According to the description of the living records, Song Xing visited a radius of 50 li, and finally found a valley that was quite consistent with the records in the records three days later.
The mountain road is rugged, the road is dangerous, if it weren't for Song Xing's superior martial arts, and his physical cultivation would be even more of a Dan holy fetus, coupled with deliberate searching, it would be really difficult for ordinary people to find the valley in this group of mountains and basins.
Entering the valley, the forest is dense and overgrown, and a waterfall cascades down from the top of the hill and runs through the entire valley, leaving the whole valley with a hint of coolness.
Song Xing strode forward, the terrain in the valley became more and more precipitous, and from time to time there would be one or two cliffs, which was daunting, but Song Xing was more and more sure that he had found the right place.
With the force under his feet, Song Xing walked briskly, like walking on the ground, easily climbed over dangerous places, and finally stopped in a gap in a mountain cliff, and after carefully looking at the meeting, he did not hesitate to drill in.
After advancing for about 100 meters, my eyes lit up, and I came to another valley.
This is the real Embroidered Jade Valley, the hidden valley in the valley, is the real place where the Flower Shifting Palace is located.
The climate in the valley is pleasant, the four seasons are like spring, the mountains and lakes are dotted, there are many buildings around the lake, you can imagine the scene of the people of the Shifting Flower Palace practicing martial arts and swords.
And now, there is only a dilapidated ruin left here, and the Shifting Flower Palace is still there, but there is no one who moved the Flower Palace.
What he saw in front of him made Song Xing a little strange, he thought that the Shifting Flower Palace had been living in seclusion here for a hundred years, and had never walked in the rivers and lakes, but who expected to see such a broken scene when he came here.
No one has taken care of it for many years, and the ruins of the collapsed houses are also full of vines, Song Xing walked in it, not to mention people, not even snakes, insects, rats and ants did not see half of them, as if there was some kind of terrifying existence ahead, even after a hundred years, it still shocked this valley.
The more he walked inside, Song Xing began to feel a chill, not the kind of cold that was cool in the late autumn night, but a kind of cold air that penetrated into the bone marrow, as if he was in the ice.
Obviously, it was still a hot summer outside, and in front of the Flower Shifting Palace, every step you took, you could feel the sharp drop in temperature.
Song Xing took a step forward, and the sound of mercury flowing came from his body, and the qi and blood boiled, generating a huge amount of heat, counteracting the cold that wanted to invade the bone marrow.
After advancing another hundred meters, Song Xing finally saw the doorman of the Shifting Flower Palace,
To be precise, an ice corpse frozen in layers of ice.
Dozens of young-looking, gorgeously dressed flower girls, with frightened faces, facing Song Xing, as if they wanted to escape from the cage behind them, but they were too late, and they were directly frozen by the terrifying cold snap and killed all their lives.
The chill is so bone-chilling, even after a hundred years, these ice corpses are still vivid, retaining the longing and struggle for life in the last moments of life.
Such a strange way of death made Song Xing instantly raise his vigilance, and he didn't see his movements, the immortal sword had already appeared in his right hand, and the Dan energy in his body was running, accompanied by a special breathing rhythm, slowly releasing the power in the 'Jin Dan' to the limbs of the body.
After reaching Dan Jin, his control of his body and strength has reached the level of the rumored golden cicada's induction, and any part of his body, if he is damaged, he can sense it as soon as possible and make a counterattack with it.
In his induction, there was a cold aura in the air that was enough to freeze ordinary people, and he wanted to burrow into his body at all times, if he was allowed to enter his body, even with Song Xing's control over the physical body, he would be hurt to varying degrees.
And this is still the outermost cold.
Song Xing's face became a little more solemn, and he vigorously carried his qi and blood to make himself like a burning Buddha in his consciousness, forcing all the cold qi out of his body, stepping through the ice corpse, and walking towards the source of the cold qi.
The cold snap of all originated from a huge red mansion in the towering building in front of Song Xing.
Antique, red jade for the top, mahogany for the wall, glazed tile heavy eaves roof, carved dragon carved phoenix, vermilion lacquer door reveals three points of solemnity, on the Hongtai, the center position has a single moon lone star shape plaque, the upper Tiangang purple xia pattern, the lower flame pattern, in the middle is the three inscriptions of the Flower Shifting Palace.
A heavy chill came out from behind the door, because this huge red mansion was frozen in a huge block of ice as a whole.
The huge red mansion with a radius of 100 zhang, the scene frozen in it shocked Song Xing.
It was hard for him to imagine how great it was to make this scene appear in front of his eyes.