Snake Tangled Three Dreams

Chapter 30 The Treasure in the Box
After many days, I didn't expect to see him again outside the cave where I met him for the first time. The natural reaction that came out of my subconscious was to take a breath.

After the smoke dissipated, the moonlight became clear again, and a piece of bright water, like flowing water from the sky, dripped from the dark night dome to the stone wall at the entrance of the cave.

Liu Wangzhi came out of such a piece of moonlight, and stopped in front of me with his back facing the cave. The golden crown was black with white jade face, and the moonlight was shining in those peach blossom eyes with fluorescent lights, which set off the vermilion tears in his eyes. The mole is so bright and eye-catching.

I put my hands on my knees, knelt on the ground and raised my face to look up at him. Liu Wangzhi lowered his eyes that were naturally breathtaking, and his thin lips were slightly raised as if he was about to speak. At this moment, the figure beside him moved, but the words were not spoken yet. It rolled back into the throat calmly.

"Junior Bai Hansheng, pay homage to Mr. Snake." My father moved his knees to face Liu Wangzhi, stretched his hands above his head, bent down, and knelt down respectfully on the ground, "Before, I didn't know good and bad, and I hurt the Bai family and others. Lord Snake's kindness, today I deliberately came here with Ting Yue to bring the treasure together and sincerely come to plead guilty to Lord Snake."

I carefully observed Liu Wangzhi's expression, after all it took so long to say no, and I don't know if the snake in front of me thinks my father is dishonest.

But the snake seemed much calmer than I imagined.

Liu Wangzhi's eyes slanted slightly, and he glanced at my dad without emotion, and put a big sleeve behind his back, and said indifferently, "Where's the thing?"

My dad's back stiffened, he straightened up and looked at him, and said kindly: "It's here." He winked at me as he spoke, "Tingyue, don't give the wooden box to Mr. Snake yet."

"Ah?" I seemed to have returned from my soul, and seeing my father and Liu Wangzhi looking at me, I quickly nodded, "Okay, I see."

I turned my head to look at the carved sandalwood box placed in front of the offering, moved my knees in small steps, and carefully held the box in my hand.

The box was unexpectedly light, as if it was empty, the outside felt smooth and cool to the touch, exuding a faint cool fragrance of sandalwood.

Probably because I was getting close, I suddenly caught a faint scent of grass and trees from the woody fragrance, fresh and cold like the dewy mountain forest in the morning light, just like... the body fragrance of Liu Wangzhi's body.

"Tingyue, why are you in a daze, don't waste time."

I was still pondering the vague smell on the box, when my dad reminded me, I quickly turned around and moved to Liu Wangzhi, holding the wooden box and offering it with both hands.

"Here, what the Bai family owes you, I will pay you back today."

Liu Juanzhi glanced at me indifferently, his eyes wandered to the wooden box in my hand, then raised his bony hand, and took the box over without saying a word.

I stared at the box in his hand, and saw that he was holding the bottom of the wooden box with one hand, and twisting the copper lock with the other hand. The light golden flakes were scattered here and there, and then his slender white fingertips moved towards the box. With a pick on the lid, the wooden box was easily lifted from the seal.

The moment the lid was lifted, a strong scent of grass and trees overflowed from the wooden box, as if a perfume bottle was broken, and the scent of Qing Lie instantly filled the entire nasal cavity.

In this lingering fragrance, I saw the dripping silver light in the wooden box, I couldn't suppress the curiosity in my heart, stood up suddenly, and looked into the box in Liu Wangzhi's hand.

Inside the square wooden box lay a piece of neatly folded cloth, the light silver background with fine lin patterns, like the surface of a lake wrinkled by the wind under the moonlight, with a layer of shimmering luster.

I was amazed by this unbelievably beautiful object, looked up at Liu Wangzhi with eyes full of surprise, and asked him: "What is this?"

Liu Wangzhi's brows and eyes were calm, his jade-like fingers picked up the thin silk cloth, and two words came out from the gap between his thin lips: "Snake slough."

"Huh? Snake, snake slough?" I was dumbfounded, glanced at the beautiful silk cloth, then at Liu Wangzhi's cold face, almost unable to close my mouth in surprise, "Your?"

"Otherwise?" Liu Juanzhi closed the wooden box, turned the back of his hand and used magic to hide the wooden box, then he raised his eyes and looked at me calmly.

They thought that the wooden box contained some kind of treasure to exorcise evil spirits, but who knew that what the Bai family had hidden for so long and refused to return to others was actually the snake skin that sloughed off from Liu Wangzhi's body?

I couldn't digest the shock for a while, and my whole body was clouded, so I had to ask my dad for an explanation: "Dad, what are we doing with the snake slough? What's going on?"

My dad looked at Liu Wangzhi with complicated eyes, but Liu Wangzhi was unmoved, and looked back at him extremely coldly: "Say it yourself."

My dad looked at me slowly again, and suddenly he slumped and sat on the ground, frowning and sighing: "Ah... Speaking of which, Ting Yue, I am ashamed of you and your dead mother."

When he suddenly mentioned my mother, I frowned slightly, and my mood began to sink.

My father looked at the unburned tribute incense on the ground, and then continued: "As for this snake slough, we must start from your grandfather's generation."

"Your grandfather and many of the elders in the village were actually snake farmers who made a living by catching and selling snakes. At that time, most villages were poor and backward. Only our village is blessed with mountains and rivers, and our living conditions are superior to those in nearby villages. other people."

"At first, everyone's life was going smoothly, and the village was safe and prosperous, until one day when a thunderstorm poured down, the village head brought many snake catchers back from the back mountain. People asked what happened to them, and everyone kept silent about what happened on the mountain after that day, as if they had made an agreement. Soon after, the village started to be noisy."

"Snake trouble? Grandpa started to make snake trouble?" I was so surprised that I couldn't help but interrupted.

"Yeah, oh..." My dad continued with a sigh, "I was still young at that time, and I didn't know what happened in the village at all. I only knew that all the snakes raised by a few snake farmers ran away overnight. The snake breeder was killed alive, and the others were thinking that retribution was coming, and since then, no one has gone to the back mountain to catch snakes, and the living standard of the village has also plummeted."

The more I heard the frown became tighter, thinking that those people offended Liu Wangzhi in the back mountain?Otherwise, how could this matter have something to do with his snake slough?
"What happened to the snake slough?" I couldn't wait to ask him.

"Don't worry, just listen to me." My dad pursed his chapped lips and continued, "Your grandfather was also one of those snake catchers. When there was a snake scene in the village, he threw all the snakes in the house into the village. He burned to death in the kang, and after that, he was like a different person, shutting himself in the room all day long, not eating, drinking or sleeping, and no longer communicating with me and your grandma."

"We all thought he was sick and advised him to go to the city to see a doctor. At first he ignored us and lost his temper with us. Then one day he called someone who he didn't know, and then he took the snake-catching equipment that day He took a ride outside, and we don't know where he went, but when he came back, he was holding this wooden box and the shiny snake slough that was neatly packed inside."

"Since then, no matter how bad the snakes are outside, our Bai family has not been harmed by snakes and insects, and we can even remain alone in the turbulent and chaotic days, which has continued to this day."

My brows twitched, and I was secretly surprised, thinking that my grandfather was out to catch snakes at that time?Was it Liu Wangzhi, the Lord of Ten Thousand Snakes, who was arrested?

My God, how could the old man have such courage, Liu Wangzhi has become a fine snake, and he is so easy to deal with, I have to lend me a hundred courage, I may not dare!

I quietly glanced at Liu Juanzhi's face, he looked normal, but the pool of peach blossoms in his eyes was like a layer of ice floes.

I swallowed nervously, and looked at my dad: "Dad, grandpa..."

My dad understood what I meant, and his face turned pale: "He didn't say how the snake slough came from, he just told me before he died that he must not touch the wooden box after he died, and let it be pressed on the Guanyin Like below, if someone comes to the door in the future, tell me to return the wooden box and snake slough, and then follow him, don't drag the family down."

"Heh." Liu Wangzhi sneered, looking down at my dad like a god in the clouds staring down at an ant in the mortal world, "You remember his words clearly. But how did you choose? I still remember Is it?"

My dad's face turned even paler, and big drops of cold sweat dripped from his forehead, and he didn't make a sound for a long time.

(End of this chapter)