The Record of Swordsmen in the Late Sui and Early Tang Dynasties

Chapter 139 Chapter 130
The next morning, Duan Wuji and Tie Niu got up early, and they checked their weapons.

Duan Wuji hung his own bow and arrow on his waist, and Duan Wuji said to Tieniu: "Brother Tieniu, I only use a sword and a bow and arrow for this operation. I won't hold this big stick. This thing is very heavy." , it’s inconvenient to hold him.”

Tie Niu smiled and said: "You don't need it, anyway, I like to use this big stick, this thing is so fast! This thing is heavy, but it is very powerful when you use it. "

The two walked out of the house, and Ma Ying came over.

"You two little heroes, come over and eat something, how can you work if you don't have the strength?"

The two of them followed Ma Ying into the house to eat something, and then they waited for the others in the yard.

There was not much time, and all the people selected to participate in this snake slaughter were all there. There were more than 20 people in total.

Wang Wuji glanced at everyone and said: "Let's go, let's set off now, you people listen to my brother, he protects you people's safety, you have to follow orders and prohibit them, if there is any danger, then you will be punished." Oh no."

Everyone nodded.

Everyone took their tools and went straight to Xishan.When they got to the bottom of the mountain, Duan Wuji said to everyone: "Hide here first, and after I lure the snake out, you have to quickly bury the knife. You need Marley to do this, the snake The speed is said to be very fast, I can't hold it for a long time.

Brother Tieniu, this time you are alone responsible for protecting the safety of these people, and checking whether their work is done properly. Your work is not light! "

Tie Niu listened and nodded.

"Brother, don't worry about me here, I can't make any mistakes, brother, but you have to pay attention to safety!"

Duan Wuji carried the sword on his back.

"Brother Tieniu, don't worry, I'm fine. You guys rest here first, and wait for me to lure him out."

After finishing speaking, Duan Wuji made a streamline and rushed straight towards the snake cave. While rushing towards the snake cave carefully, Duan Wuji carefully guarded for fear of any danger. Suddenly, Duan Wuji stopped moving forward.

Duan Wuji stood at this position and watched carefully, he saw a cave in front of him, the entrance of this cave was very huge, as high as a person, and about five or six feet wide.

Duan Wuji lifted his nose and smelled it, and a stench pierced his nose.I saw that the weeds at the entrance of the cave were messy and messy.

After watching for a long time, Duan Wuji walked forward more than ten steps cautiously, then stood at the entrance of the cave and shouted loudly: "Smelly long bug, are you at home, I want to borrow your snake skin, If you're at home, come out and let's discuss it.

Don't just hide in the nest, come out and move around. "

Duan Wuji's voice was very loud, and the sound could be heard far away. At this moment, the weeds at the entrance of the cave were suddenly blown by a gust of wind, and then, a huge snake's head was exposed.

Duan Wuji was startled when he saw it, and saw that the snake's head was too big, the whole snake's head was three circles larger than the lid of a large cooking pot, and its two eyes were as bright as two bright lamps. He rushed towards Duan Wuji.

Duan Wuji broke out in cold sweat from fright, turned around and ran away in fright, for fear of being overtaken by this snake and turning into snake dung.

Duan Wuji always felt that there was a bad wind behind him, so Duan Wuji desperately followed the curved snake path and escaped.

The giant snake was chasing desperately from behind, and the person left the vicinity of the snake hole as soon as the snake came. It is about two feet high, the huge mouth of the snake is not smaller than the mouth of the snake cave, and the branched snake letter is at least three feet long.

This giant snake was chasing him vigorously with its heavy body, Duan Wuji was startled, and said to himself: This snake is so big, if it catches up with it, it will definitely die.

Duan Wuji ran forward desperately with all his strength on his feet. After this chase and escape, he ran out for more than ten miles in an instant. Duan Wuji reckoned that he ran far enough. Suddenly pulled out the carved bow.

Duan Wuji pulled out a carved feather arrow, drew the bow and set the arrow, and then quietly pulled the bow away, and then a rhino looked at the moon, facing the Shekou was a carved feather arrow.

This arrow is shooting right into the mouth of the snake, who is Duan Wuji, that is a sharpshooter with a hundred shots and one hundred hits, this arrow is really not light, the snake paused for a while in pain, Duan Wuji went desperately before fleeing.

Sure enough, the arrow just aroused the snake's ferocity, and the basilisk roared and chased Duan Wuji desperately.

Duan Wuji drew out another arrow, set the bowstring, and another Rhinoceros Mochizuki shot at the snake's mouth again. This arrow was more accurate and ruthless than the last arrow, and the arrow just hit the giant snake. of the upper throat.

The giant snake roared in pain, swung its tail and lashed towards Duan Wuji.

Duan Wuji was startled, a swallow flew obliquely to avoid the snake's tail's twitch, and the giant snake swept a three-bend thick willow tree nearby.

With a loud click, the willow tree was cut off in the middle, and the top half of the tree was pulled out eight or nine feet away.

Duan Wuji was startled when he saw it, and said to himself: If he was caught by this giant snake just now, he would have broken bones and tendons!It was dangerous enough just now, but thanks to my skill, I avoided it.

Duan Wuji stuffed the bow into the bow bag, and then quickly drew out the sword. Duan Wuji decided to fight this giant snake in this place.

However, this snake has a very high spiritual intelligence. It chased Duan Wuji so far just now but failed to catch up. In addition, it suffered two arrow wounds in its throat.

This guy turned around abruptly, crawled back with his huge body, and ignored Duan Wuji behind him.

This snake came like lightning and went away like wind, it crawled a long way in the blink of an eye, Duan Wuji is not in a hurry now, he followed behind leisurely and slowly.

When he came to the foot of the mountain, Duan Wuji knew that the iron bull and the others had already buried the knife after counting the time.

It took half an hour to go back and forth, can the knife be buried well?

Duan Wuji whistled, then waved the sword in his hand and swayed around. The people hiding nearby are watching here, people have already seen it.

When people saw Duan Wuji following the giant snake back, they knew that the giant snake had been injured.

When Tieniu saw it, he said to everyone: "Everyone, everyone will follow behind me for a while, stay too close, so as not to be hurt by this guy's dying."

Everyone nodded.

Tieniu rushed towards Duan Wuji with a big stick, and when he came to Duan Wuji's side, Tieniu whispered: "Brother, you are really powerful! A snake of this size has never hurt you. It's amazing." I admire it!"

Duan Wuji laughed and said: "No matter how big it is, it's still a long worm, what's so great about it?
Brother Tieniu, let's stay away from it, let's watch how it burrows into the snake's hole and dies.

Hey, Brother Tieniu, are the knives buried yet? "

"Buried it, buried it early. Let's go, let's not get too far away from it, otherwise we can't see clearly, how can we miss such a good scene?"

Duan Wuji wiped the sweat off his face and said: "Brother Tieniu, come closer, but not too close, just now the snake swept me with its tail, and swept away such a thick willow tree at once. If it is swept on the body, it will not be smashed!"

Tie Niu shrank his neck in fright.

"Really? Is it so powerful? Well, let's watch it from behind, anyway, it won't survive for a while."

I saw the snake quickly burrowing towards the snake hole, just halfway through, the snake stopped moving, and Tie Niu smiled at Duan Wuji when he saw it.

"Brother, this snake must have blown the lamp and pulled out the wax. In order to send it away faster, let me send it one more way."

After finishing speaking, Tie Niu rushed over and hit the snake's tail exposed outside with a ruthless stick.

The blow with this stick was too strong, and there was only a bang, and the big stick was bounced off, and the snake jumped forward for more than a foot, and then slammed its tail at the iron. The cow lashed out.

Tie Niu was so frightened that a dry land plucked onion jumped more than a foot high, only to escape the twitch of the snake's tail, which made Tie Niu sweat profusely from fright.

As soon as Tie Niu's toes touched the ground, the snake's tail swiped again. Tie Niu had no choice but to jump up again, only to avoid the snake's tail whipping again.

Duan Wuji saw him and shouted loudly: "Brother Tieniu, why don't you hurry back, why are you still standing there?"

Tieniu listened to his footing hard, and a swallow flew obliquely and retreated abruptly.

Duan Wuji saw it and said with a smile: "This snake is different from other animals. It's dead but not stiff. It's too early for the body to die completely. Why should we bother with it now?"

Duan Wuji looked behind him, and saw young people from these three villages standing behind him.

Duan Wuji said loudly to these people: "Everyone, don't go forward, this snake is quite dangerous now.

You still haven't returned to the village to ask someone to go?Call all the people from the three villages, and let's work together to pull the snake out.

Hey, bring a few big thick ropes when you come, let's use the ropes to pull it out. "

These people dispersed as soon as they heard the hula, and ran to their villages one after another. In a short time, the three villages became lively, with the sound of chickens crowing and dogs barking everywhere.

After a while, people in the three villages all ran out excitedly.There is a white-haired old man and an old woman in their 70s on the top, and there are four or five-year-old children on the bottom. The eldest girl leads her younger brother and younger sister, and the elder sister-in-law holds a nursing child in her arms.

Thousands and hundreds of people came out of these three villages at once.

Everyone heard that the snake was dead, and they all ran over to watch the fun.

Two hundred or so young and middle-aged men tied four ropes to the snake's tail, and everyone pulled out the dead snake with concerted efforts. The people watching the excitement surrounded the snake three layers inside and outside three layers.

Duan Wuji saw it and said loudly: "Everyone, use your strength to pull this dead snake to the edge of the village, so that the villagers can take a good look at it. People of this size may not see it once or twice in a lifetime." of."

After hearing this, everyone immediately pulled the dead snake to the west of Majiazhuang, less than twenty feet away from the village.

More and more people watched the dead snake, not only the villagers of these three villages, but the villagers who were ten or twenty miles away from here also rushed over with their children. There are people everywhere, and the whole scene is extremely lively.

Duan Wuji and Tieniu watched for a while, Duan Wuji pulled Tieniu with his hand.

"Brother Tieniu, what's so good about this smelly snake? Let's go, let's go back."

The two quietly went back to their residence, and saw that Taoist leader Yin was talking to the patriarch of the Ma family, when they saw Duan Wuji and Tie Niu walking in, they hurriedly greeted them with smiles.

The patriarch of the Ma family took Duan Wuji and Tieniu's hands and said: "You two little heroes, you are really not simple! This giant snake has been entrenched around our village for many years, eating people and eating many people. I didn't expect you to get rid of him so quickly. This is really a blessing for the people in our village!

Just now, my nephew Ma Erli proposed to build a Taoist temple on the west side of the village, so that my nephew's fallen leaves can return to their roots, and secondly, it can commemorate this event.

The two of us were worrying about the name of this Taoist temple just now!You came just in time, what is the name of this Taoist temple? "

Duan Wuji laughed and said: "What name did you two give this Taoist temple? Can you tell me so that I can hear it?"

The old horse head laughed and said, "I plan to call this temple the Snake Slaughter Temple, and Erli plans to call this temple the Snake Killing Temple.

Two little friends, what do you think is the name of this Taoist temple? "

Duan Wuji thought for a while and said: "You two, go outside the village and have a look. The names of these giant snakes, which are more than ten feet long, are called Snake Slaughter Temple or Snake Killing Temple, but the name is too vulgar.

I think it's called Fulongguan, what do you think of the name? "

The old horse head clapped and laughed.

"Okay, okay, okay! This name is still domineering, why do we both have to make up our minds with this snake character! Erli, how good is this name?"

The Taoist priest also applauded when he heard it.

"Okay, okay! This name is great, the name of this Taoist temple should be Fulong Temple."

The old horse head said with a wry smile: "It takes a lot of money to build a Taoist temple. I'm afraid it's not enough to rely on donations from people in these three villages. Is this difficult?"

Duan Wuji laughed loudly after hearing this: "Old man, what's so difficult about this? Why don't you take advantage of a golden mountain?"

"Gold Mountain? What Jin Mountain? Why can't I see it?"

Duan Wuji laughed and said: "Old man, such a giant snake, is its gallbladder so small? This snake gall is probably three circles larger than our ordinary washbasin? Isn't it worth buying such good medicinal materials?

Besides, such a long giant snake, isn't it worth selling the snake meat?As for this snake skin?Don't think about it, I want this snake skin. "

The old horse head clapped and laughed.

"Okay, okay! Good idea, let's do it like this. Erli, hurry up and ask Ma Ying and the others to go, let's go, let's go there now.

You two little heroes, go there too, old man, I will also open my eyes today, and I will also look at that giant snake. "

Tie Niu saw Duan Wuji and said, "Brother, what do you want this snake skin for? What's the use of that thing?"

Duan Wuji laughed and said: "What's the use? Use it to make armor! This thing is absolutely strong, how can we waste such a good thing!"

Tieniu smiled after hearing this: "Brother, you are still thinking carefully. This thing is really hard to find. We have to buy this snake skin. If they don't give it to us, I will not do it! Come on, let's go and have a look."

The two came to the outside of the village again, and saw that there were three layers of people surrounded by the giant snake. It was a sea of ​​people.

Duan Wuji took a rough look, and there were at least 6000 to [-] of these people.Everyone is pointing around the giant snake.

I saw that the old horse head was discussing something with the patriarchs of the other two villages, and the discussion was completed in a short time.

Several people came to Duan Wuji and Tieniu and said: "You two little heroes, we have already discussed this matter, and we decided to sell this giant snake to pay part of the donation. If it is not enough, our three villages People here donate some more.

Two little heroes, I think you two should preside over this matter. "

Duan Wuji smiled.

"Okay, respect is worse than obedience. How much do you plan to sell this snake meat for a catty?"

The old horse head laughed and said: "I plan to buy fifty copper coins a catty, which is slightly more expensive than the price of pork. They plan to sell thirty copper coins a catty, which is slightly cheaper than the price of pork. Little hero, what do you say?" How many copper coins per catty should I buy here?"

Duan Wuji thought for a while and said: "If I say buy two hundred copper wires per catty, this thing can't be bought with money, how many of you can see it?"

Several people listened and nodded.

"Well, the more money you can sell, the better, so we don't have to donate again."

Duan Wuji said with a smile: "Okay, then you can just look at me and see how I will reward you for this charity."

After finishing speaking, Duan Wuji and Tie Niu walked towards the crowd.

(End of this chapter)