Xiangyang City is located on the south bank of the upper reaches of the Han River, surrounded by water on three sides and backed by mountains on one side, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Since it is now at the junction of the Song and Jin, it is an important place for the Song Dynasty to defend the Jin State. Zhao Tiancheng and Zhuge Guanlan led the horse and slowly approached this thousand-year-old city.

The masonry walls are full of traces of knives and axes. The city walls, which were originally made of blue bricks, had turned black by this time. I don't know how many people's blood has been left on it forever.

Seeing Zhao Tiancheng caressing the city wall in a trance, Zhuge Guanlan on the side reminded him in a low voice, "Childe?"

Zhao Tiancheng, who came back to his senses, agreed, "Let's go! Go into the city and find an inn, we may have to stay here for a while." ”

The roads in Xiangyang City are very wide, and they are all paved with bluestone slabs, which is mainly the mobilization of the army. But even such a wide street was crowded with people at this time, and the road was lined with vendors.

Zhao Tiancheng found that there were many people dressed up in Jinguo here. Although the Jin and Song dynasties were at war all year round, people-to-people exchanges were very frequent. It was even more difficult for the two of them to lead the horses, so they had to enter an inn closest to the city gate.

The two handed over the horse to Xiao Er, walked up to the seat near the window on the second floor, ordered some signature wine and food, gossiped, and looked at the scenery outside the window It was very preferred.

The two of them chatted, and Zhao Tiancheng found that Zhuge Guanlan's knowledge was very profound, and he was also very sensitive to today's form judgment. It should be a buried talent, and if there is no Zhao Tiancheng, this person will be a robber for the rest of his life.

Just when the two of them were talking about the country's major affairs with great interest, five or six Jin Guoren walked in at the door on the first floor. His hair was combed into fine braids, and he was dressed in a thick leather coat. He still has a scimitar on his waist, and he has been shouting noisily from the moment he enters the door. I didn't care about the rest of the customers in the store at all.

Xiao Er hurriedly greeted after a few people came in, wanting to let a few people lower their voices, but they didn't expect to be pushed away by a golden man, this Jin Sheng's tall and burly, looking at the walking style should be out of the army, the little two were pushed, and his footsteps were unsteady "Bang!" and hit the table next to him. The golden man didn't even plan to let go, so he pulled out the scimitar and stuck it on the table next to Xiao Er's ear, and at the same time said a lot of words to Xiao Er.

The surrounding guests all looked at the group of golden people who came in with some anger, but those people glanced around fiercely, and the rest of the guests knew that these people were not easy to mess with, so they hurriedly lowered their heads.

This suddenly fueled the arrogance of the Jin people, because the matter of the Song State paying tribute to the Jin State made the Jin people look down on the Song people and think that they were superior, and at this time, these Jin people were even more arrogant and said a few words loudly. At the same time, he pushed the little two away, and several people walked down the wooden staircase towards the second floor.

Zhuge Guanlan and Zhao Tiancheng were talking happily, but they were interrupted by the group of golden people, Zhao Tiancheng only frowned at that time, although he was a little unhappy in his heart, but now Zhao Tiancheng didn't want to care about these idle things that had nothing to do with him. But when the golden man finally finished speaking loudly, Zhuge Guanlan on the side was a little angry and whispered for Zhao Tiancheng, mocking them for being cowardly and like women.

Originally, I didn't want to meddle in things, but since these people were so abusive, Zhao Tiancheng couldn't bear it. Seeing that these people were going upstairs, Zhao Tiancheng picked up a bowl of wine and said, "Come! ”

Zhuge Guanlan was stunned for a moment, he originally wanted Zhao Tiancheng to teach these people a lesson, but he didn't expect Zhao Tiancheng to have no reaction to the insult at all, but smiled and wanted to have a drink. Although he was a little unwilling, Zhuge Guanlan still raised the wine bowl and said, "Dry!"

When Zhao Tiancheng saw Zhuge Guanlan raise the wine bowl to drink, he smiled slightly and came to Zhuge Guanlan's side with a twist, lifted his hands, and then collided, Zhuge Guanlan's body directly lost its center of gravity, and threw himself on the fence on the second floor, and the bowl of wine in his hand was all spilled on the bodies of the golden people who were going upstairs.

The group of people were proudly going upstairs after the demonstration, how would they have thought that a catastrophe would fall from the sky, a large bowl of wine was spilled on their heads, and a few people looked up again to see Zhuge Guanlan standing on the railing on the second floor, all angry and screaming. He didn't shake his head there and walked away, and ran up to the second floor with very fast steps.

Zhuge Guanlan is still a little confused, why didn't he drink just now? Why did he throw himself out. After the golden men went upstairs, they pointed at Zhuge Guanlan and shouted a few words loudly, and then one of them rushed up with a fist.

Although Zhuge Guanlan used to be a scholar and later learned martial arts, his body was still relatively thin, and those people thought that Zhuge Guanlan was easy to bully.

The Jin people, who were the first to strike, deliberately reserved some strength when they saw Zhuge Guanlan's physique, after all, they would not have a good time if they openly killed people in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty. Zhuge Guanlan's body was short, and then his steps were wrong, and he turned around and approached the man's arms, and the fan in his hand was a little under the ribs, and the golden man only felt numb under his ribs, and suddenly his blood was out of control, and his steps were vain. And Zhuge Guanlan happened to flip his back at this time, and the golden man was directly lifted from the second floor to the first floor, "Click!" smashed a table downstairs in half.

The people who were eating in the inn hurriedly ran out shouting. In ancient times, few people watched the battles of the people in the rivers and lakes, and the sword without eyes may have suffered a disaster.

The four golden men under him knew that this person was not easy to mess with when they saw that their companions were easily defeated, but the habit they had developed over the years had always looked down on the Song people, and they didn't care about whether they killed or not, so they all pulled out their scimitars and rushed forward.

Zhuge Guanlan moved a little under his feet, his figure moved sideways for a while, and the bright steel knife slashed in front of him, and then the fan in his hand turned, and the end of the fan was gently touched by the hand of the man, as if there was much strength, and the scimitar in the man's hand was directly taken off.

Zhuge Guanlan turned his back to the man, grabbed his left shoulder with his right hand, and pushed his left leg up, throwing the man out, and at the same time smashing it on the body of the person next to him.

Zhao Tiancheng on the side looked at Zhuge Guanlan's movements, elegant, smart, and handsome. Every dodge, every rush attack is like showing your chic side to the greatest extent, even if some moves are very redundant in the battle, but in order to make the action look good, it has to be made. Despite this, Zhao Tiancheng found that this martial art also has its own uniqueness, it should be similar to Ling Bo Weibu, they are all moving between square inches, but this martial arts also integrates the wrestling skills of some ethnic minorities, and also integrates the techniques of hitting holes.

Zhao Tiancheng estimated that this martial arts might have been created by a certain silver thief, and it was obviously more handsome than practical, and it was used to hook up with a good martial arts for a woman.

It may be that Zhuge Guanlan's internal strength is not strong, although he can knock down a few people every time, but because of his weak strength, those people are not injured at all.

Seeing those people standing up again, Zhao Tiancheng picked up five chopsticks and shot out with a "whoosh", each chopstick just stuck on a person's calf. Suddenly there was a wail, and the four people all fell to the ground with their legs in their arms, and Zhao Tiancheng kicked all the people downstairs with one kick, and then threw out a piece of silver and threw it firmly on the counter. "The shopkeeper is now compensating, and he is arranging two upper rooms. ”

At this time, the shopkeeper of the inn was lying on the back door looking at the few people fighting with distressed faces, and the shopkeeper didn't think about compensation at all, and he could only consider himself unlucky for this kind of thing. Unexpectedly, in the end, he was accompanied by a piece of silver, which can not only make up for the loss, but also earn a lot. At that moment, he hurriedly urged Xiao Er on the side to hurry up and prepare the room and bath water for Zhao Tiancheng and the two of them.

Zhao Tiancheng only knew that the sword mound where Dugu sought defeat was within a few dozen miles of the periphery of this Xiangyang City. But the area is full of mountains, and finding that valley is no easy task.

The only clue now is that he remembered that there should have been a small village not far from the sword mound at that time, and it was destroyed by Li Mochou. But just with these things, it is really not easy for two people to find the sword mound.

In order to be able to find the sword mound faster, Zhao Tiancheng had to let Zhuge Guanlan take a lot of gold and silver the next day, and openly recruit people in the center of Xiangyang City, as long as anyone can find a gathering place of a poisonous snake with a golden body and a very strange shape on the top of his head, he can get five hundred taels of gold.

Five hundred taels of gold, even in the wealthy Song Dynasty, was a very large amount of money, enough for a person to live comfortably for a lifetime. This incident suddenly spread throughout Xiangyang City, and the next day, Xiangyang City was full of people who left the city. The city, which was once crowded with pedestrians, turned out to be few pedestrians.

Although poisonous snakes are somewhat dangerous, just finding poisonous snakes does not require arrest, so regardless of whether these people can catch snakes or not, many people have put down their business to find snakes.

During this period of time, the merchants from other places were very strange, because there were too many people out of the city, and these merchants from the south thought that the Jin Kingdom had called again, and these people had come out to flee. The guards among the merchants stopped one person and wanted to inquire, but they didn't expect that no one stopped, and all of them hurriedly wanted to run in the suburbs.

After entering Xiangyang City, the merchant found a place to settle and learned what happened in Xiangyang City from Xiao'er. It was five hundred taels of gold, and the merchant stopped selling the goods, so he threw the goods into the inn, and ran out with the guards and the people below.

Zhuge Guanlan looked at the empty streets and said with some emotion: "The hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit." Five hundred taels of yellow actually made the entire Xiangyang City fall into madness, and in the next few days, I heard that even the city guard has sent a lot of people out of the city to find the strange snake that Gongzi said. ”

"This is the magic of money, but if you don't have the strength, even if you have money, you can't enjoy it. Zhao Tiancheng's eyes were a little cold. It turned out that during this period of time, many people knew that the person who provided the gold lived in this inn, and it was only two people, so they all had bad intentions. But these people have already become the souls of Zhao Tiancheng's sword.

When the two of them sighed on the second floor, the junior downstairs ran up shouting "Good news, good news!" and stood aside and said with some gasp: "Father-in-law, someone has already discovered the strange snake." "Stop every few words.

Zhao Tiancheng felt funny in his heart, threw a piece of silver, and said, "Lead people up." ”

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