Snake Tangled Three Dreams

Chapter 31
My dad originally had several brothers and sisters, but they never went back to Linxiu Village after they got married.

I just make a phone call to say hello during the holidays. I don’t usually mention it, and I forget that there are other relatives in the family.

But grandpa said that if someone comes to my dad, let him go with that person, not to mention who the person grandpa mentioned, but my dad is still living in the old house of the Bai family, which means that he did not follow that person. Go, and although the relatives at home are not in touch, they are still living their own lives.

So, did my dad do something back then to get the peace and tranquility of this half life?
"Stop talking?" Liu Wangzhi saw that my father was silent for a long time, and his collar was drenched in cold sweat in the sultry summer night. He brushed the wide sleeves of his black robe, walked slowly to my father, and looked at him coldly. Looking at him, "Why not, let me tell you."

My dad raised his head suddenly, his eyes were full of struggles, but in the end he didn't refute anything, he just glanced at me, and then lowered his head again.

From his look, I saw timidity and panic, as well as too glaring cowardice. I suddenly thought of him saying that he was sorry for me and my mother at the beginning, and a bad premonition slowly surfaced on his frowning brows.

Liu Wangzhi glanced at our father and daughter indifferently, and said in his usual indifferent tone, without emotion: "I just passed through the little thunder calamity, so I randomly found a mountain in the deep forest of a nearby village, and put it on the ground. I sealed myself in a wooden coffin and peeled off my skin. The man surnamed Bai somehow found the stone cave where I stayed, and even dared to sneak into the cave and pry open the wooden coffin, trying to steal the snake slough I just shed when I was weak and unable to move. .”

"It's just..." He pulled the corners of his lower lip, and the cold moon was shining in his eyes, "He underestimated my cultivation and ability. I tied the snake's tail before I got it. When he was dying, he begged me to let him go." One life, it is said that there was a snake disaster in the village, so I had to take the risk to get my snake slough, and I planned to use it to suppress those snakes that caused trouble."

"In this way, you gave him the snake slough?" I walked around to Liu Wangzhi's side and stared at him, knowing that Grandpa didn't hurt him, somehow I felt a little relieved.

"What do you think? My snake slough is not a mundane thing. If I didn't agree, how could an ordinary mortal take it away?"

Liu Wangzhi looked at me coldly, and seeing that I was silent, he said again, "I just passed through the calamity, when I lacked the most merit, so I made an exception and allowed him to take the snake slough and return it after 30 years. But in exchange, he I have to send one of my heirs to work for me."

"what?"

I didn't expect that the snake slough was taken away by my grandfather in exchange. After thinking about these things together again, my heart was shocked, and I suddenly looked at my dad in disbelief.

Liu Wangzhi was like a jade-faced Buddha untouched by mortal worldly feelings and sophistication, still speaking the most cruel and embarrassing truth in the most indifferent tone: "So, after he died, I went to look for Bai Hansheng, but Bai Hansheng was greedy for life and afraid of death, so he refused to go with me. He knelt down in front of me and begged me to let him go, and promised that after he got married and had children in the future, he would offer his first child to me as a sacrifice for the Bai family and his family. , to repay the debt owed by two generations.”

There was a sound of "Boom", as if thunder exploded in the clear sky, the landslides and the ground cracked in my mind, and the world became chaotic.

It turns out that I, the so-called "snake girl", was not branded because I was spotted by a snake, but was given to the snake king by my biological father as a sacrifice before I was born. Anything else is just a life for a life.

In exchange for my life, for the rest of his life and freedom.And I have long been Liu Wangzhi's accessory.

No wonder my father met the coffin and the black snake when my mother was pregnant with me. No wonder the snakes woke up and worshiped on the day I was born. No wonder those snakes dare not set foot in Bai's house no matter how noisy the village is...

The cause and effect of all this has long been determined, but I am in the middle of the game, but I don't realize it.

Seeing that my eyes were red, my dad quickly got up from the ground as if the sky had collapsed, grabbed my shoulders with both hands, and his whole body was shaking violently with emotion: "Tingyue, Tingyue, listen to Dad say , Dad was still young at the time, he didn't understand what family responsibilities were, he didn't understand the feelings of being a parent, he just made that promise out of desperation to save his life."

"But when you grew up, I began to regret it. I regretted giving you to the Snake King, and I was even more afraid that one day you would be taken away. So at that time, everyone said you were a snake girl, and I was afraid of being exposed because of this. Your identity, so I kept you locked up when I was a child, it was me who was protecting you!"

I looked at my dad expressionlessly, tears rolling down from my red eyes, the bright moon in the sky was so bright that it made my heart so devastated that there was nowhere to hide, and it hurt my eyes.

"No wonder." I took a deep breath and let it out slowly, "No wonder you've been partial to Mengyue since you were a child, it's because you already knew that I wouldn't be able to support you in the future."

"No wonder you didn't ask anything after I came back from the back mountain that night. That's because you knew from the beginning that I would only encounter snakes in the back mountain."

"It's no wonder that after Liu Wangzhi came to our house, you were worried every day, and you even wanted to kill him, saying that you didn't want to see me being entangled by snakes. In fact, you were afraid that he would come to retrieve the snake slough hidden in Bai's house." .”

"No wonder... no wonder you let us hide in the Bai family to live on, because you can leave the snake slough after you force Liu Wang away, so you want to follow the example of grandpa and let the Bai family survive the disaster."

"No, Tingyue..."

"Let go."

My dad reached out to hug me, but I pushed him away.

I didn't collapse as much as I imagined. After all, the tall building built in my heart for my father had already collapsed and turned into a pile of ruins and rocks on the day he abandoned his stepmother.

Now what the Bai family owes Liu Wangzhi, I finally figured it out, but I never thought that I came to this world to repay this debt of favor to him.

But how can the dogtail grass at the base of the wall have the ability to break through the stone wall that was born to press on the head?

No matter how unwilling and complaining in my heart, it is like a broken sand bottle suddenly, everything will be scattered when the wind blows.

I raised my hand to wipe away my tears, turned around and faced the snake that was destined to entangle me for the rest of my life, and looked at him quietly for a moment. Under his calm eyes, I bent my knees and knelt down on the ground slowly, and kowtowed to him "I promise to repay the Bai family's debt, and I won't go back on it. Now that the snake has been repaid, please fulfill your promise, resolve the disaster in the future, and help the Bai family and Linxiu village to tide over the difficulties."

Now is not the time to quarrel endlessly because of their own grievances. Mengyue, Li Heng, and everyone in the village below the mountain are all in disaster and waiting for redemption.

I've been delaying for a long time about the Bai family, and I must not delay any longer.

Liu Wangzhi lowered his eyes and looked at me kneeling in front of him, he probably didn't expect me to be so stubborn, he slightly raised his brows, and said calmly: "Get up, follow me."

After finishing speaking, the sleeves of the clothes lightly brushed against my side, skipping past me.

I turned around abruptly, looked at the tall and slender figure, and asked hurriedly, "Where are you going?"

Liu Wangzhi paused on the side of the mountain path, tilted his head slightly, his jaw line was like a beautiful jade carefully cut by a craftsman: "Go down the mountain and save people."

He said yes!

The breath I was holding in my chest finally dissipated, and I immediately stretched my brows, stood up quickly from the ground, and walked briskly to stand beside him.

When my father heard Liu Wangzhi's promise to save people, his pained facial features suddenly unfolded, and he was about to stand up from the ground and plan to walk with us when he saw Liu Wangzhi look over coolly, and said casually: "Who will You're up."

My dad was taken aback for a moment, then knelt back again.

"Ben burn incense for three days, and don't let it go short for even a moment."

The bright moon illuminates the road ahead, Liu Juzhi averts his eyes lightly, walks down the mountain with his straight long legs.

I didn't go to see my dad, I just looked ahead and followed Liu Juzhi closely.

The road down the mountain was very quiet, with occasional breeze blowing through the grass, making a slight "rustling" sound.

Liu Wangzhi and I didn't say a word, as if to see who could be more silent than this night.

Many things quickly flashed through my mind, for example, if the snake catchers of my grandfather's generation offended Liu Wangzhi in the back mountain, then what did they offend, so that they would be retaliated generation after generation?

Did the old man suffering from Alzheimer's know the secret, and that's why he didn't die well in the end?

As for me, if this catastrophe is not caused by me, then what role do I have in this catastrophe?If the owner of the snake bead wasn't Liu Wangzhi, then why did he insist on bearing Liu Wangzhi's mark on me and take the risk of offending him to get me?

These old and new worrisome doubts were all entangled together, snowballing and getting bigger and bigger, leaving me trapped in a lost forest.

As I was walking, a gaze fell on the side of my face, and then I heard the mellow voice of the person next to me suddenly say: "I asked you the question before, and I want to ask it again."

"What?" I turned my head in bewilderment and looked at him puzzled.

Liu Huanzhi's brows are pale, his long eyelashes are half drooping, revealing a small shadow under his eyelids.He said: "Bai Tingyue, is it really worth it for you to be willing to be the debt repayer for the sake of the Bai family and Lin Xiucun?"

Good question, is it worth it.

I paused and pondered for a while, then suddenly walked forward again, looking at the gray village at the foot of the mountain, and sighed softly: "I don't know if it's worth it or not."

"But I was born here, no matter how filthy the soil here is, my roots are here."

The footsteps behind me stopped suddenly, I turned around and looked back at that magnificent figure.

Liu Wangzhi didn't say anything, just stared at me quietly with a pair of long and narrow peach eyes, then slowly opened his arms towards me and opened his arms.

"If you feel tired, you can come here."

"I am here."

(End of this chapter)