Snake Tangled Three Dreams

Chapter 29
Not long after, the fog cleared, and the night was as silent as water.

The long snakes all over the courtyard rustled back to the treetops and eaves, and the courtyard became quiet again.

It took all my strength to stop my dad, a big and thick man, from the door, and when I pulled it down, my forehead and back were covered with sweat.

Exhausted, I stood up straight and was about to let go when my dad suddenly threw his backhand hard and shouted angrily, "Bai Tingyue! You know those things are not good, yet you still watch them put the Take your sister and Xiao Li away! What kind of heart do you have, huh? Tell me!"

I didn't expect my dad to get angry suddenly, and I was completely unprepared for his swing. I lost my balance and swayed, and suddenly I fell heavily on the ground, causing my elbows and knees to hurt.

"Hiss." I gasped, half of my arm was numb, I was lying on the ground without moving, and I couldn't get up for a long time.

My dad froze for a moment, realized what he had done, squatted down in a panic, stretched out his hand to grab my arm, so as to help me up, "Tingyue, Dad didn't mean it...""

Tired and tired of his impotent rage, I turned my wrist to free him from his outstretched hand, bit my lip, frowned, and sat up slowly with my elbows in my hands.

"Blame me for stopping you, right?" I looked up at him, and pointed my chin towards the door, "Then you can chase them out now, and fight those things in the back mountain to save your daughter and son-in-law."

Seeing him clenching his fist but not moving, I looked directly at him and said coldly: "Go, I will definitely not stop you this time. Anyway, the Bai family is already like this, I hope this result can be as you wish. "

My dad frowned tightly and met my eyes, the grief in his eyes suddenly broke out of his eyes and rushed out.

"Mengyue, Mengyue...I failed to protect your mother, and now I can't even protect you. I'm useless, I'm useless as a father..." He sat down on the ground with his hands in his hands. Clutching his forehead and rubbing it back and forth, a strong man with five big and three thick, rarely cried in front of people.

I am also very anxious that Mengyue was taken away, but how many people in the village are now in a desperate situation, and how many people have already experienced the pain we are going through.

My chest was so congested, I took a deep breath to change my breath, looked at the annoyed and crying father in front of me, and said, "Bai Hansheng, only you and I are safe in the Bai family, if you want to save your own life, you can, then We will continue to stay in this room until the whole village is completely destroyed."

"But if you want to save Mengyue and your wife, then let go of the past and grudges, and follow me to the back mountain to ask Liu Wu to come down."

Now everyone's fate depends on my father's thoughts, no matter what debts or grievances he and Liu Wangzhi have, I have persuaded him so many times, and it is time to pay them back.

My dad held his head and pulled his hair vigorously, as if he was struggling violently.

I waited patiently for him, and I had already made a decision that if he chose to protect himself, I would go to the back mountain to look for Mengyue by myself.

After a long while, my dad suddenly raised his head, sighed heavily, and nodded slowly: "Everyone has nowhere to go. They shouldn't stay, and they can't stay anymore."

What to keep or not, what he said made me confused.

Just as he opened his mouth to ask him more questions, he suddenly stood up, pulled me up from the ground, and said solemnly: "Tingyue, you go and prepare some incense offerings, and I will go to the room to get something. We will immediately Then go to the back mountain to burn incense, and ask the Snake Lord to come down the mountain to quell the catastrophe."

As soon as I heard that he actually agreed, and respectfully called Liu Wangzhi the "Snake King", the boulder on my heart fell to the ground with a bang, and I was so overjoyed that I smiled, and was so excited that I couldn't speak for a while.

Without further ado, I turned around and ran to the kitchen to pack up the things I will use later.

I put all the tribute candles into the bamboo basket, and then made half a bottle of sorghum wine from my dad's wine jar, and wrapped a few pieces of mung bean cakes in paper. Time was tight and there was no time to kill chickens, so I could only add more fruits to show my sincerity .

I returned to the living room with a basket full of things, and saw my dad standing in front of the altar dedicated to the ancestors, holding a wooden carved box the size of two palms in his hand, looking up at my grandpa's memorial tablet quietly, Hidden in the dark without saying a word.

"Dad, I'm ready."

Listening to me calling him from behind, my dad turned around slowly, walked towards me with the wooden box in his hands, and nodded to me: "Let's go. I know you have a lot of questions, and I will talk to you slowly on the way." .”

My dad passed by me, and when I turned my head, my eyes fell on the wooden box. The weak moonlight shone in from the door, casting a faint white glow on the red sandalwood box.

The workmanship of the box is exquisite, and the two sides and the position connected to the lock are carefully carved with lifelike hollow flowers.The antique box does not show any traces of time, the wood color is moist and bright, exuding a faint woody fragrance.

I recognized the box, it was locked in the dark cabinet of my father's room, I saw it by accident when I was a child, and it was under a statue of Guanyin.

I followed my dad out of the door, and as soon as my front foot stepped over the threshold, I saw the snakes in the yard suddenly agitated, and they all fell crookedly from the treetops of the eaves, spitting out snake letters from their mouths, and resonating a noisy sound "Hissing" sound.

Seeing the group of snakes whizzing towards me and my dad, I was startled, and quickly stood in front of my dad, holding a bamboo pole in a defensive posture.

My dad was surprisingly calm. He glanced at the snakes around him, and raised the wooden box above his head. At this moment, an astonishing scene appeared!

Those snakes that had been stalking my yard all straightened up, then bent their heads and bowed their heads, respectfully kissing the ground with their scarlet letters!
The nearby snakes also began to gather towards my house one after another, just like when I was just born, they surrounded the yard densely. They maintained this unified movement, worshiping the wooden box in my father's hand!
I was dumbfounded, and couldn't help looking at the wooden box in my father's hand again, and said in surprise, "What's in this box, and what's going on with these snakes?"

My dad took back the box and held it in his hand like a treasure. As he walked forward, he said, "This is the secret that the Bai family has been able to live alone for many years, and it is also something that the Bai family has always owed to Lord Snake."

Liu Wangzhi said that the Bai family owed him not only the life he spared my father, but also something they owed him all along.

But what is in there, I really want to see it with my own eyes.

I was about to question my dad, but he spoke first and interrupted me: "Don't worry, wait until Fenxiang invites Mr. Snake, and when I return this thing in person, I will explain everything clearly to you. .”

I nodded and said "OK", and followed my dad to walk towards the back mountain.

Along the way, the snakes gathered together with the movement of the box, and then retreated slowly after worshiping, as if they were avoiding or sending them off.

The more I looked at it, the more bizarre it became, and I couldn't take my attention away from the box.

I always feel that there must be some evil treasures inside, which is why those snakes are so abnormal.

The snake cave in the back mountain is dark and quiet, without lights, and can only be illuminated by candlelight.

I laid out the tributes one by one at the entrance of the cave, prepared the tribute incense in the basket, and signaled my dad to start burning incense to invite the immortals.

My dad held the wooden box and kowtowed three times and nine times from outside the cave, holding the box high every time he knelt down, and then respectfully knocked his forehead to the ground.

It happened to be the last time when he knelt down to the entrance of the cave. He carefully placed the wooden box in front of the tribute, took the three sticks of incense that I handed over, turned the incense head upside down and lit it on the candle, then raised it over his head, towards the cave. I prayed three times.

The moment he straightened up, two sticks of the three sticks of incense in his hand snapped with a "snap", and thin cigarette smoke floated out, and dispersed within a short while.

"What's the matter?" I knelt beside the tribute, nervously looking at the incense in my father's hand.

The candlelight shone on my dad's face, he frowned, looking at the few broken incense sticks, he was puzzled: "Snake Lord...he won't take my incense sticks."

"How come?" I didn't understand what Liu Wangzhi meant, so I took three sticks of incense and handed it to my dad, "Try again."

My dad repeated the action just now. After lighting the tribute incense, he raised his head and bowed three times. Unexpectedly, as soon as he stood up straight, two of the three sticks of incense broke again!

My dad didn't complain, and patiently kept lighting incense and praying. As a result, the incense was cut off once every time he prayed.

I guessed that Liu Fangzhi must be fighting with my father again, so he pulled out the snake scales in desperation, clasped his hands together in his palms, bowed to the candle sacrifice, and said to himself: "Liu Fangzhi , my dad has already apologized to you three times and nine times, so you just hold your hands high and don't care about him?"

My dad lit another three sticks of incense. Before this worship, he solemnly licked three heads, facing the bottomless snake hole, and said sincerely: "Please calm down, Mr. Snake, I'm ignorant of what happened before." Congratulations, today I specially brought the treasures to return, and please accept my offering, and show up to see."

After finishing speaking, he lit three sticks of incense again, and bowed three times towards the bottomless snake cave.

He straightened up, looked down at the three sticks of incense with hope in his arms, and saw the incense burn fiercely with a "cracking" sound, and then disappeared in an instant, and the smoke curled up to three feet high.

"It's done, it's done!" My dad laughed and happily inserted the incense into the soil.

At this time, there was a sudden breeze around, and the trees all over the mountain were swaying under the clear light of the bright moon.

A burst of clear fragrance of grass and trees spread from the deep forest, and suddenly a wisp of white smoke skipped over the verdant green grass, floating over the snake cave like mist.

The smoke dissipated, and a pair of black boots with golden moiré pattern slowly landed, and a slender and handsome figure stepped out.

Liu Wangzhi, dressed in a black robe with scale patterns flying around, walked towards me at a leisurely pace through the mist washed by the moonlight.

(End of this chapter)