The best feng shui master

Chapter 653 Brother and Sister
The cockscomb snake is elusive, and it is extremely difficult to find, that is, these snake catchers have been trained to have an extremely sensitive sense of smell since childhood, and coupled with the special traces of discrimination and crawling emitted by the cockscomb snake, this can be traced all the way.

However, even if this is the case, it is extremely difficult to catch a cockscomb snake that walks like wind and electricity. Even if everything goes well, it will take ten and a half months to do it.Most of the time, it is often done in vain, tracking for dozens of days, but the cunning beast jumped into the mountain stream, hid in the crack of the cliff and escaped.

But once it is caught and handled properly, the cockscomb snake will bring great rewards.

The cockscomb snake can be said to be a treasure, and the snake skin, snake eye, snake gall and snake venom can be used as medicine, which can treat many difficult and miscellaneous diseases that the medical field is helpless.

The secret medicine is made and sold to those who know the goods. Before the Republic of China, the price was a pair of medicine and a large yellow croaker, that is, a large gold bar weighing twelve taels.

Therefore, although the snake catcher is hardworking and dangerous, as long as he can catch one snake within a year, his work will be worthwhile this year. If he catches two snakes, then he will earn enough food and clothing for the next year.

Of course, this big yellow croaker is not just their own, but part of it needs to be handed over to the clan to feed the old, weak, sick and disabled who cannot enter the mountain.

And as the strength increases, the amount turned in will increase, but overall, the remaining will also increase.

Brothers and sisters like Snake Eyes and Snake Heart have to catch a dozen or twenty every year no matter what.

However, all things have spirits, the butcher kills too many pigs and dogs, and the animals will stay away when they see them, not to mention the snake catcher who has been covered in blood since childhood, and the cockscomb snake and other snake species.

As they get older and kill more and more snakes, their murderous aura will naturally become stronger. In the eyes of these spirit beasts, as soon as they appear, they are like lighthouses in the dark night. It is unusually eye-catching, so they are all seen from a distance, run away when they can, and run away when they can. Only those unlucky ones who can't escape or fall into a trap will be made into medicine by skin cramps and dedicated to the greatness of self-sacrifice and others. in business.

And the snake eyes and snake heart have been troubled by this problem for a long time.

When they stepped into the transformation environment, their physical fitness was greatly enhanced, and they ran in the barren mountains as if they were walking on flat ground, and their speed could even catch up with the supernatural snakes that evolved for hundreds of millions of years to survive the fittest and form such a body.

They also enjoyed the dividends brought about by the improvement of their realm for a period of time, and the number of captured cockscomb snakes and other snakes of different species increased several times.

But the good times didn't last long, and it only lasted for a few months. After [-] or [-] articles were caught, the problems that plagued their entire ethnic group also appeared on them.

The prey has been greatly reduced, and even returned empty-handed for many days, and can only eat the previous money.

If it wasn't for the fact that the number of prey caught by other people didn't change much, if it wasn't for the precepts and deeds of the elders in the family, they really thought that they had caught all the highly valuable exotic snakes.

Fortunately, the snake catchers are also a big family that has been passed down for hundreds of years. In response to this situation, they have also come up with many countermeasures. The formation that hides the breath is waiting on the only way for these alien species.

Chen Yi didn't find the trace of the snake heart before, because she has been hiding in the formation, her breath and body are hidden, if it is an ordinary stone in the mountain, like a withered tree stump, it is extremely difficult to distinguish.

After Snake Heart and Snake Eye walked for several miles, Snake Heart saw that her brother seemed to be out of his mind, looking back at the direction of the road from time to time, and couldn't help laughing: "Brother, still can't let go of that He family girl? Hehe, the woman outside the mountain There are so many, there are people who are more beautiful than her, as long as you use some tricks, won't they be at your mercy?"

Snake Yan shook his head and said: "No, I'm not thinking about the girl from the He family, I'm thinking about where they are going. We've caught fewer and fewer snakes recently, and Lord Snake is already dissatisfied. If things go on like this, I'm afraid that Lord Snake will take the anger out on both of us."

Snake Heart's complexion darkened, and he said helplessly: "Then what can we do, Mr. Snake only needs cockscomb snake and checkerboard snake, and the others are nothing, and these two kinds of snakes are so time-consuming and labor-intensive to catch, we can't do whatever we want." Made it."

Snake Eye stopped, and took out a small colorful snake that was as thick as an index finger and [-] centimeters long from his collar. He played with it in his hand, hesitated a little, and said, "Maybe, we can go to that place to try our luck."

"Which place?" Snake Heart asked.

"Caiyun Gorge!"

"Caiyun Gorge?"

Snake Heart was taken aback for a moment, then his complexion changed drastically, he stared at Snake's eyes, and said: "You are crazy, you must be crazy, there are not only countless cockscomb chessboards in Caiyun Gorge, but also countless other poisonous insects and poisonous things, ordinary people go It’s a dead end, let alone snake catchers like us?”

Caiyun Gorge is a canyon deep in Shennongjia. Because it is surrounded by mountains, the middle is low, and there are several huge holes that are said to be straight to the center of the earth. There are bursts of heat coming out of it, so the climate there is hot and humid all year round, and the vegetation is exuberant. Even after winter, there are still green grass and old trees sprouting, which is completely different from the bare scene outside.

And there are often seven-color fog floating in the sky above the canyon, and the clouds are steaming and misty, just like a fairyland, so it is named Caiyun Gorge.

Legend has it that the ancient Shennong once tasted herbs and identified medicines here, and stayed here for several months, so he was contaminated with the breath of immortals, and only then did he have colorful clouds and thick fog like a heavenly palace.

But Shexin and the others knew that these colorful clouds and thick fog were not the aura of immortals at all, but the poisonous gas produced by the inhalation and breathing of countless poisonous substances condensed together, forming this beautiful and deadly "auspicious cloud".

And because the snake catchers kill too many poisonous substances, they are like the deadly enemy of those poisonous snakes. A cockscomb snake or chessboard snake may not be able to bear them, but if there are dozens or hundreds of them together, I am afraid that the snake king will come. I also want to hate this place, and pay back the blood debt of decades of hunting.

For their snake catchers, Caiyun Gorge is no less than Yama's Ghost Palace, and those who enter will die!

Snake Eye is not crazy, he is well aware of the danger there, but he still said so, and he is going to do so, but before going to Caiyun Gorge, he has to convince his sister.

He smiled, a warm smile rarely appeared on his ugly face, and said: "I'm not crazy, but we can really try our luck. The mountain-moving Taoist asked us a lot, and I feel that their destination is the Caiyun Gorge , Xiling Lishi also came, presumably with the same purpose, they must have the means to restrain those poisonous insects, as long as we follow them and pick up some poisonous insects and poisons, it will be enough for us to work hard for ten years. Don't you always want to get out In this forest, do you want to live in a big city? With those venomous snakes, even if the snake king is unreasonable, it is impossible to keep you and me here."

The snake heart's big eyes turned around. This is her dream since she was a child. It's not that she has to go to a big city, but she wants to leave this damned place, get rid of the ghost days of dealing with poisonous snakes all day, anywhere It's all right, it's just that she was born in the wrong birth, became one of the snake catchers, and accidentally became the snake heart, one of the five most important brachii of the snake king, and that's why she has remained in this inaccessible area in the jungle.

Looking at her sister's expression, Snake Eye knew that she was moved. Although her sister was always eccentric and often played tricks on people, but he was Snake Heart's elder brother and knew more about Snake Heart than herself. With a look, an expression, he could guess what was going on in She Xin's mind.

"If we can come back from there, we can move out, like those Xiling Lishi, go overseas, buy a few houses and a few pieces of land, and live the rest of our lives in peace. If we can't get out, what do you think? , How can it be worse than the current life? It is nothing more than death! But if this continues, our end may be worse than death!"

Snake's withered yellow eyes stared at Snake's heart motionlessly. He was not good at talking all the time, but he was able to analyze the pros and cons thoroughly. It seems that these words have been in his heart for a long time.

Just as Snake Eye expected, Snake's heart was moved, and the heart that hadn't been felt for a long time was beating, as if someone was holding a heavy hammer and beating a radical rock music in her chest.

Just now, she hated He Qingqing and his party not because of any enmity, but because of jealousy and unwillingness.Of course, the jealousy and unwillingness here have nothing to do with the little man she has been watching secretly from the corner of her eyes, but because Snake Heart is jealous that she can choose her own life, and her family and teachers will not stop her from choosing her own life.

Snake Heart's thoughts are turning rapidly, one side is to live wonderfully, but the price is the possibility of death; the other side is to be temporarily safe, but the consequence is that life is worse than death!

How to choose, there seems to be no hesitation.

But Snake Heart still hesitated!
"If I go overseas, what will you do? I remember you once said that you like forests. These flowers and trees are much better than people. They never deceive, let alone intrigue. You are familiar with every inch of land here. Every tree and every stone is your friend, if you are in the world of reinforced concrete, can you adapt to it?"

She raised her head and looked up at her brother's ugly face. She couldn't bear it, and felt sorry for him.

He was also a handsome man back then, tall, thin, clean, with his hair always covered in front of his eyes, many girls around him regarded him as the first choice to marry in the future.

However, until that time when they went into the mountain together, because of her small mistake, the little chessboard snake she just caught flew out and bit him on the face. The face swelled rapidly.

After she frantically used the secret antidote to save his life, one side of his face became like this permanently.

I don't know if it's because of his disfigurement, from a handsome boy to a Yasha ghost who can stop a child's night hooves, and he can't accept this gap, or because of the power of the world, and the great change in attitude before and after, making him feel sad, anyway, from then on After that, Snake Eye seldom interacted with outsiders. If not necessary, he was either in the mountains or in his own house.

Snake Eyes smiled, with the corners of his mouth a little crooked, and said, "You are Snake Heart, the smartest snake catcher, why don't you even have this bit of wisdom. There are forests overseas, and there are poisonous snakes overseas. I won't live with you." In the steel forest, but I can still build a hut in the forest and live freely."

"really?"

Suddenly, a brilliant light burst out from Snake Heart's eyes, full of hope for the future.

"real!"

Snake Eyes nodded heavily, and the dead face on his face seemed to be about to germinate under the sunlight shining through the branches, which was extraordinarily warm and amiable.

(End of this chapter)