Not far away, there was a fisherman squatting on the bridge, wearing a bamboo hat and raincoat, like a silhouette in the thick fog.

Suddenly there were bursts of roaring sounds in the distance, breaking the tranquility just now. Listening to the distant thunder on the horizon, it was not very loud, but it filled the ears, shook the earth, and shocked the mulberry tree to almost sprout. At first glance, I thought it was

It was a gap where the water and the sky met, emitting white light; look again, it turned out that the tide was pouring in!

The tides came together, like a silver-white shining dam, stretching from one bank to the other bank on the other side of the thick fog. Wu Sheng looked at the sea tide coming from far and near. The tide was moving, and it seemed that he was also moving.

Moving.

The tide is approaching, and it gradually divides into three layers, with distinct layers of waves in the muddy water. The westward flowing tide collides with the eastward flowing river water, and the tide fiercely steps on the river water and roars forward, stirring up a wave of anger.

The white waves that were still high on the embankment rolled back again and hit the stone wall of the embankment. They intertwined with the tide on the lower layer to form a grid, like a sky net emerging from the mud at the bottom of the river.

Layers of waves, layers of nets, intersecting and overlapping, smash the river into powder, regardless of the river water and the waves.

When the tide passes, the Qiantang River rises to a height of ten feet.

The fisherman was still at the end of the bridge when the waves stirred up, but he went back before he got close.

The roar of the tide buzzed in my ears, and the magpies flapped their wings and flew away.

Spectacular, this is not even the Qiantang spring tide in August. It is already so spectacular.

Looking eastward along the river, the trumpet-like shape becomes wider as you go eastward. As far as the seashore, you can see the endless sea and sky.

Wu Sheng stood by the river and watched for a long time, then turned around and went to Haining City.

He had seen Jiang Chao, and after seeing the actual landscape, he also realized that the place where the Qiantang River enters the sea is wider than he imagined, stretching more than a thousand feet. It is not easy to find the "Dragon Subduing Stake" in such a place.

, he wanted to go to the city to inquire and see if he could

I walked around the city of Haining and heard some rumors. It is said that hundreds of years ago, an evil dragon entered the sea from near Haining, setting off huge waves, overflowing the dams, flooding two towns and four villages, causing countless deaths and injuries, and there were gods coming from

Passing through the sky, a ray of fire came down and killed the dragon in the river. From then on, no evil dragon dared to cause trouble here again.

The location where the firelight fell was probably at the big bend of the Qiantang River.

It was Ye Wusheng who left the city again and came to the river. The mouth of the Qiantang River was in the shape of a trumpet, but there was a piece of land inserted into the river. The river here turned first to the southeast and then to the northwest, turning into a large bay.

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"Go down and have a look."

No matter how you look at it from above, it's not as practical as going underwater.

Wu Sheng went down to the river. The water was so muddy and muddy that the area within his sight was only a few steps away.

The river is covered in mud, and walking in it feels like there are many hands pushing you.

Because there was a lot of mud and sand, Wu Sheng couldn't see clearly and had to fumble around in the water. After a while, he had to emerge from the water to see where he was.

It was not until night that Wu Sheng came out from the bottom of the river and stood in the river, looking at the eastward flowing water.

Wrong location?

He thought for a while, then went ashore, and unexpectedly found a man on the embankment wearing a bamboo hat and raincoat, holding a fishing rod, sitting there fishing.

Still that person?

Wu Sheng looked up at the sky. The sky was filled with clouds and mist, blocking the moonlight. Then he looked down at the man sitting on the embankment fishing. Then he walked towards the opposite embankment. After a while, he reached the shore and then submerged.

In the forest.

The fisherman sitting on the embankment looked up at Wu Sheng's leaving figure. Under his bamboo hat, a pair of slightly sparse eyebrows wrinkled.

The fishing line jumped a few times and he held the fishing rod for a while. At the end of the fishing line, there was a herring more than a foot long. He unhooked the fish and threw the fish back into the river.

Wu Sheng came to a nearby hill and quietly looked at the river below.

'Go to Lin'an City tomorrow and inquire about the news?'

He didn't have many silver notes left in his hand, but he still had a handful of golden beans, which should be very valuable.

Just as he was thinking about it, he saw a water line suddenly appear on the river below. Along the direction of the river, the water was diverted to both sides of the river. He quickly stood up and looked around, only to see a line of water under the turbid river surface.

There was a faint dark shadow going down the river.

Walking to a certain place in the river, suddenly a white line appeared in the river. It was a white wave, rising out of the river, from one bank of the river to the other bank. Looking from a distance, it seemed that the river had been cut open.

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The black shadow under the river water stirred and stirred up waves, revealing its blue-black fins and tail, but it was a big fish.

It rolled in the water, setting off waves, causing the river to churn and become even more turbid. However, it could not cross the water line no matter what. After a while, there was no movement in the river, and the white line in the river disappeared.

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"There's something in the river, maybe it's the Dragon Subduing Stake!"

Seeing this, Wu Sheng hurriedly descended from the mountain, came to the river, and fell into the place where the black fish was writhing just now.

The water in the river was very turbid and full of mud and sand. Wu Sheng came to the river and searched carefully. There were also a few fish swimming by.

Found it!

He found a black line across the river a few steps in front of him, and hurried forward.

This is?

The chain, a chain as thick as an arm, lay across the river.

Wu Sheng reached out to hold the chain and found that there was a charm cast on it.

Chain?

He walked along the iron chain towards the embankment. Near the embankment, he found a huge black object standing in the mud, like a giant rock in the river. Wu Sheng approached cautiously, and when he took a closer look, he found that it was made of iron.

Things are cold to the touch.

This is Iron Bull?

Near the river embankment, at the end of the iron chain are four iron oxen. I don’t know who cast them. They are sunk here. The four iron oxen are lifelike, and most of their bodies are sunk in the mud. The iron chain is made from four iron oxen.

Around Tieniu's neck one after another.

He followed the chain to the other side, where there were the same four iron oxen, an iron chain, and eight iron oxen.

Iron locks across the river, iron cattle Zhenjiang.

Wu Sheng walked back and forth in the river three times, but still found no trace of the "Dragon Subduing Stake". He couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, then he came out from the bottom of the river and came to the surface of the river.

Looking around, above the river, only a hundred steps away from him, there was a small boat, going down the river, with a man wearing a cloak and a raincoat.

"The guy fishing from the shore?"

Because he was wearing a cloak, he couldn't see the man's face clearly.

Wu Sheng stepped a little further, and the figure flashed, and he quickly reached the embankment. He looked back at the boat, slowly floating down the river.

"You can't go out to see the scenery if you don't sleep at night, right?" Wu Sheng thought to himself as he looked at the figure driving the boat away.

He stayed quietly by the river, looking at the river all night until dawn, and found nothing unusual.

He then returned to Lin'an City.

Lin'an City is very large and prosperous.

He spent a day finding an inn called "Bafanglou" and determined that this should be the place where information was sold.

This inn is built in a place where people come and go, and there are many people coming in and out, but no one pays attention, and some people go in but don't come out.

Wu Sheng entered the inn, explained his purpose, and was led by the waiter to a small courtyard behind the inn.

It is still a separate room, with walls on three sides. There are several landscape paintings hanging on the walls, which are very artistic. There are doors and windows on the front. When Wu Sheng came in, he noticed that this inn was in a dark place. People who had been there by themselves before

The two places are more densely packed, which is enough to show the importance of this place.

The person who received him was a middle-aged man in his forties, his face was slightly yellow, he was sickly, and he seemed to be in bad spirits.

"What news does this guest officer want to know?" He spoke feebly.

"Where is the Dragon Subduing Stake?" Wu Sheng went straight to the point.

After hearing this, the man looked at Wu Sheng carefully and then stretched out a finger.

"Ten thousand taels."

"So expensive?" Wu Sheng was shocked when he heard that it was much more expensive than he expected.

"How much can you know about a thousand taels?"

"Four words." The man held out four fingers.

"Say." Wu Sheng took out a thousand taels of silver notes.

"Looking for the dragon in the river."
Chapter completed!