smuggler

Chapter 23 The Snake Plague
After being reminded by my aunt, I suddenly thought of the scene in the yard earlier.

Chu Yuan said that those snakes became like this because of the snake control skill, that is to say, someone was playing tricks behind their backs.

Could it be Zhang Xianren?

But why would he do this?
To be honest, I know too little about Zhang Xianren, I only know that this person is sometimes not very serious, if it is really him who is behind the scenes to control the snakes.

Then he must have no good intentions to ask me to leave the village at this time.

"Yaoyao, you must remember what I just said." Seeing me stunned, my aunt reminded me again.

I held her hand and nodded half-understood to reassure her that I had a measure in mind.

"Go out, you can't stay in the room all the time." I stood up and forced a bitter smile to my aunt.

When I walked out of the room, my aunt kept telling me in a low voice not to believe Daoist Zhang's words.

As soon as I went out, Zhang Xianren reached out and grabbed my wrist, "Those snakes will only leave after leaving the village."

At this time, I really saw a tattoo on the tiger's mouth on his right hand, which was a bit like a snake pattern, very obvious.

"What is this tattoo on your hand?" I asked pretending to be interested in the pattern on his hand.

Zhang Xianren was stunned, and replied: "You don't have to worry about it so much."

I withdrew my hand directly and refused flatly: "I won't leave with you."

"I think you are an old birthday star who hanged himself, and you are tired of living!" Zhang Xian stomped his feet angrily.

Seeing his appearance, I became more suspicious of him. He wanted to force me to leave, but at this moment my aunt came out and stopped me between him and me.

At this time, suddenly the dogs in the village began to bark one after another, and the barking became more and more fierce, rising and falling with each other.

Zhang Xianren turned his head and took a look, and said something bad.

"I'm afraid the snake-repelling talisman won't be able to deal with those vicious snakes!"

Knowing that it would be useless to continue talking here, Zhang Xianren turned around and walked out. When he left the door, his footsteps suddenly stopped.

He turned his head and narrowed his eyes, glanced at my aunt beside me, and said to me in a deep voice: "This person's heart is separated from the belly, whether it is good or bad, you must feel it with your heart."

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Xianren turned around and walked towards the courtyard gate, and quickly disappeared into the night.

The aunt glanced at the dark courtyard door, walked over and said beside him, "He is just trying to confuse people, don't believe his nonsense."

I don't know when, in the dark night, it started to rain, and the air was filled with a bit of coldness.

After returning to the room, I asked Chu Yuan if he felt anything when he went to Zhang Xianren's house.

Chu Yuan said: "There is indeed an evil spirit emitting evil thoughts in the back room."

My heart skipped a beat, but then Chu Yuan said again: "He doesn't practice Taoism, it should be something like witchcraft. Although this kind of magic is illegal, there is a sense of grandeur in him." .”

This night, I was wheezing and restless, always feeling that something bad would happen, but as expected, I managed to stay up until dawn.

There was a knock on the door early in the morning.

When I got up to go out, I saw the village head leading several cadres and the elders of the village. A group of people had serious faces, and one of the cadres was holding a bloody dog ​​in his hand.

The voice of the village chief trembled a little, "The beasts in the village are almost dead!"

I took a closer look, and saw two blood holes under the dog's belly, which were bitten by something, and the wound was black around, obviously poisonous.

"It was bitten to death by a snake."

The village chief said tremblingly: "In the middle of the night, we only heard dogs barking, barking non-stop. When we got up and looked, all the chickens and ducks in the yard were dead, and some people's dogs were bitten. died."

An old man squeezed up, "We saw with our own eyes that a big snake killed an animal and then slipped away. This is the curse of the snake fairy, and it really came true!"

"Yeah, who can guarantee whether the snake will come to bite people to death next time? This is the warning from the Snake Immortal."

I took a deep breath, looked at the village chief and said, "Uncle Shen, if you have anything to say, just say it."

If there is nothing to do, a few veteran cadres in the village will not come to my house for no reason this early in the morning.

The village chief lit a grass cigarette and took a deep breath: "You have seen what happened in your family. What happened after your grandpa and grandma died, the village also saw it with their own eyes. There are so many snakes, and you know it well in your heart." .”

I looked at the village chief in surprise, and he narrowed his eyes: "I didn't mean this alone. Our village discussed it. I asked your second uncle at dawn this morning."

"We know more or less what Bai Jianshan did back then. Bai Yao, our village...I'm afraid we won't be able to keep your family members anymore. You should move away quickly."

No one spoke anymore, silently acquiescing, this is the purpose of their visit.

When I was born, I breathed a sigh of relief, and everyone in the village knew what my grandfather did, and the villagers were not fools.I know more or less.

In addition to the death of grandma, and what happened in the village during this period, it is all on my head.

The village chief was silent for a moment, then sighed: "This is all unavoidable, so don't blame us."

I was about to speak when suddenly there was a crackling sound outside the house, and the sound of firecrackers was deafening, and a figure jumped in from the door.

"Village chief, something is wrong."

The village chief's face was full of anxiety. Seeing me here, his expression became a little weird.

He frowned and said, "What's wrong?"

"The Liu family in the provincial capital is coming to repair the ruined temple!"

The village chief's face darkened, and he said to him: "The temple repairs were all done together years ago, why did the Liu family come at this time?"

The Liu family contributed money and efforts to help repair the dilapidated temple, which was a good thing in the first place.

The Liu family is powerful and powerful, no matter what the reason is, now that the people have come, the village chief and several other cadres will go to receive them.

The village head stubbed out the cigarette butt, stood up and patted the dirt, glanced at me, turned around and left the courtyard without saying anything.

There is no entertainment in the village, and they like to watch the excitement. Seeing that Liu's family is in a ruined temple, every family will go to join in the fun as soon as the firecrackers are set off.

I followed suit.

There are many snakes of different colors lying on the village road, and the villagers are already surrounded in front of the ruined temple in the back mountain.

Just glanced through the crowd, and saw the old lady of the Liu family dressed elegantly, with soft eyebrows, and a snake-headed hairpin stuck in her coiled silver-white hair.

His face looked very kind.

However, after I took a closer look, my heart felt as if it had been pricked by a needle, and the snake bracelet on my wrist trembled strangely.

"What's wrong with you?" My face turned pale instantly, and I felt a strange coldness coming from my body.

The snake bracelet slowly returned to calm, and Chu Yuan's indifferent voice came from his ear: "It's nothing."

(End of this chapter)