"Monsters?" asked Yu Rongdu, puzzled.

Yao Gu beckoned the horse army who followed him to obey Laba's arrangement, and at the same time led two fine horses, one for each person, walking on the streets of Luoyang, while explaining to Yu Rongdu, " Yes, it's strange to say, this monster has not appeared before, but it has only appeared in the last few months, that is, in the vast mountainous area west of Tongguan and east of Chang'an City, there are often bursts of thunder recently, immortal master, you know, this winter thunder is not a good thing, but what, this thunder is even more strange is that it is still moving, sometimes there will be pedestrians and hunters and woodcutters and other mountains and forests to see the monster. It's not terrible, but it doesn't hurt people, it's just that it's a little troublesome. ”

Yu Rongdu continued to ask with some curiosity, "I don't know if anyone sees what that monster looks like?"

Yao Gu wants to talk about being rough and rude, you can see how he looks and you know that he will not be the kind of scheming master, and no matter how high the military generals of the Song Dynasty are, most of them just follow the military orders above, as long as they are brave and decisive, there is no unsuccessful one, and there is no need to use more brains, naturally it will not be so delicate.

But to say that Yao Gu has a set but also has a set, just as Yu Rongdu asks now, many people will follow the crowd to answer what it looks like, but Yao Gu didn't, Yao Gu just smiled and said, "The clouds and mountains are covered in fog, it's hard to say, and many people don't say it all the time, but, according to most people's descriptions, a certain family is inclined to monsters like big snakes." ”

Yu Rongdu was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect it to be such an answer, and said repeatedly, "Big snake?"

Yao Gu said with some confidence, "Most people say that the body is long, with scale armor and fangs, but there are also people who have two claws in the front section, and what tail is a fish fin, etc., but after all, there are few people, and it is impossible to count, but according to most people, the possibility of the snake demon is relatively large, maybe it is to cross some calamity." ”

Yao Gu's words made Yu Rongdu smack his tongue for a while, maybe the Song Dynasty is not a refreshing new dynasty, it can't catch up with the Qin, Han, Sui and Tang dynasties, and it can't catch up with the Ming and Qing dynasties, but this attitude towards affairs is appreciated by him. It's also thanks to Song Huizong's worship of Taoism and suppression of Buddha, this kind of thinking has been deepened to such a point, that is, ordinary people can have a kind of guess about such strange things.

If it was something else, Yu Rongdu still didn't have the heart to take a look and see it, but as soon as he heard about the snake demon, Yu Rongdu's heart moved. After all, he has only seen demon snakes that can become demon clans, such as Li Rusong, a soldering iron-headed demon snake, and Yu Luyu, a beautiful snake with green vines, and he is a little curious about this kind of snake demon that has been endowed with spirituality because of some kind of opportunity.

There is an essential difference between a demon snake and a snake demon. Just as those who are bent on being demons, they naturally pursue the animism of all things in the world as demons, and insist on calling themselves demon snakes.

However, some animals are successful in cultivation because of coincidence or others forcibly opening their spiritual wisdom, and they don't want to be demons, so they practice Taoist authentic exercises, hoping that one day they can abandon their own demon body and cultivate in the body of a human being.

One focuses on oneself and believes in oneself, while the other is used as a springboard to believe that human beings are the spirits of all things, and there are demons who are considered by orthodox human monks to be unorthodox.

Yu Rongdu didn't return to Laba's wide carriage this time, and chatted with Yao Gu while walking on a horse, as for what to talk about, it was varied, such as Yao Gu's story about the Western Army's battle with the Western Xia Army, about the contempt of the Northern Song Dynasty literati for military attachés, about some things about the Yao family, the seed family and the folding family, and some passes and battlements along the way, etc.

This is a somewhat majestic scenery, especially in Luoyang to the west after the eventful mountains, the official road is naturally flat, but the distance on both sides is a piece of high mountains, this is an important site that has lasted for two thousand years, from the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty, it is step by step, King Ping moved eastward, the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, the great unification of Qin Shi Huang, to the Han Dynasty, the disputes of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the killing of the Wuhu, and finally it came down to the inclusiveness of the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

After the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Guanzhong's status plummeted, and there was no longer the momentum of the previous Dingding Central Plains, and some were just broken after the vicissitudes of life. The Northern Song Dynasty was established, and the capital was Bianliang, Tokyo, and then there was no dynasty in the successive dynasties to set the capital of Guanzhong, which also became the reason for the decline of Guanzhong for thousands of years.

It's just that at this time, Guanzhong is still a strategic place, and the important thing is that Guanzhong is the most important place for the entire Northern Song Dynasty Western Army to fight against the Western Xia, and it is also an important force that strategically threatens the northern Liao Dynasty.

Looking at the Xiongguan in front, the word Tongguan looks a little desolate when the sunset sets, along the way, Yu Rongdu also realized that this is the other side of the economic superpower that was boasted as worthy of the United States in later generations, looking at the future generations there is no such pass, hurriedly patted the horse forward, Yao Gu was also willing to accompany Yu Rongdu to Tongguan, looking at the direction of Chang'an in the west, Yao Gu pointed to the far away, faintly some low mountains and said, "There is Chang'an." ”

Yu Rongdu looked at Chang'an City in the distance, the sun was setting, there was a bit of vicissitudes that seemed to be ancient, his eyes were a little confused for a while, and in a trance, he whispered softly, "The peaks and mountains are like gathering, the waves are like anger, and the mountains and rivers are like Tongguan Road." Looking at the western capital, he hesitated. Sad, the Qin and Han dynasties, the palace and thousands of rooms have been made of soil. Prosperity, the people suffer, death, the people suffer!"

Yao Gu originally heard that Yu Rongdu had made a few poems that shocked the entire Great Song Dynasty, but he didn't take it seriously, and the people who could make excellent poems in this era were all literati, and who would be a Taoist priest? Even after reading it, he felt that this poem seemed to have much more flavor than those written by so-called geniuses.

Yu Rongdu was still immersed in the trance of the intertwining of the emotions of the ancient scene and the psychology of modern people, bursts of thunder came, only to see a huge cloud flying, with bursts of thunder, from time to time you can also see a section of the cultivated body exposed, and the skin full of scales.

Yao Gu subconsciously pulled Yu Rongdu, stood in front of him, stretched out his hand and pulled out his long sword, and said in a deep voice, "It's this monster, I didn't expect that we were lucky enough to encounter it in a Tongguan." After a while, if he doesn't leave, I will step forward and entangle, and the immortal master will withdraw first!"

Yu Rongdu's eyes squinted at the things that appeared and disappeared from time to time, and suddenly felt a little moved, and said softly, "I'm afraid that the old people are coming!"