Snake Tangled Three Dreams

Chapter 49
When the door was opened, Mengyue was no longer outside.

There was such a big commotion in my room last night, I don't know if she heard it.

I turned my head and exchanged glances with Liu Wangzhi, knowing the reason for the sudden visit by the village head, we each packed ourselves quickly and went to the living room together.

The bright daylight shines in through the open door, making the interior bright and clear.

There are several tea cups on the old wooden table over a hundred years old in the hall, the tea smoke curls up from the cup, and the tea fragrance disperses in the slightly hot air. The fragrance of the room.

My dad was sitting on the single sofa, chatting with the white-haired old man on the right. I don't know what he was talking about before, and the expression on his face was so serious that he didn't look good.

The gray-haired village head is still wearing a white Tang suit, his withered and yellow face is a bit darker than the last time I saw him, and he has an extra dark walnut walking stick in his hand, even when he is sitting, he needs to stick it Seeking stability, it seems that this old body is getting worse day by day.

Sitting next to him was a woman with a beautiful face and a graceful figure, with a pair of white and slender legs folded, listening to the two of them talking impatiently.

Hearing the sound of footsteps entering the living room, the woman suddenly raised her slender winking eyes, and when she saw that it was me and Liu Wangzhi, she immediately put down her crossed thin legs and got up from the sofa, trotting all the way to welcome us .

"Mr. Snake~ Mr. Snake, you are finally here!" Yuzhi twisted her waist and leaned closer to Liu Wangzhi, swaying in a high-cut cheongsam skirt, and stepped on a crisp beat with her high-heeled shoes, "If you don't show up again , this flower will be thanked by me."

After getting the medicine, her face has returned to its original state, only yesterday Liu Wangzhi broke off a fox tail, her pretty face is still a little pale, even with red lips and black eyebrows, she still looks a little sick.

But looking at her enthusiasm, it seems that the scar has healed, and she completely forgot what she suffered from the snake last night.

I was originally standing beside Liu Wangzhi, but when I saw her coming, I held Liu Wangzhi's arm and insisted on squeezing in the middle. I gave her a sideways look with no expression on my face, and simply moved to the side, leaving a space for her. Free performance space.

Liu Wangzhi's posture was loose, his chin was slightly tilted, and he glanced down at a pair of plump men stuck to his arms through the cheongsam. He pulled out his arms calmly, looked at the woman and said indifferently: "Go to the side. The smell of powder Too heavy, stuffy head."

"Ah? What, what...?" Yuzhi probably seldom gets rejected by a man, and when she sees Liu Wangzhi's proud charm with such a dull attitude, she winks and is slightly startled for a moment, and everyone is surprised Some were stunned.

Liu Wangzhi didn't bother to pay attention to her surprise, frowned slightly, and patted the place on the clothes that she touched.

This woman almost took my life yesterday, and now seeing her deflated in public, I feel inexplicably refreshed, and the corners of her slightly raised mouth hide a happy curve.

I was still watching the fun with relish, Liu Wangzhi had already withdrawn his gaze, took the beautiful Yuzhi as air, turned his head and glanced at me who was still feeling refreshed, and stretched his slender arms across the back Waist, gently brought me back to his side.

"In a good mood?" He put his arms around my waist and said as he walked.

I didn't look back at Yuzhi who was stomping her feet angrily, but just yawned lazily, "It's okay."

We walked to the sofa and sat down opposite the village head. My dad hurriedly picked two clean and delicate porcelain cups from the tea set and put them on the table. Holding the teapot in both hands, he stood up and poured tea for Liu Juzhi respectfully and carefully. : "Mr Snake, please, this is the new tea this year. There is nothing to sell at home, so please don't dislike it."

"En." Liu Juanzhi responded lightly, but his eyes fell on the village chief sitting opposite.

I picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, while slandering my father for being too gracious to Liu Wangzhi, while silently sizing up the village chief, taking all his embarrassment and anxiety into my eyes.

The village chief rested his hands on the top of the walnut walking stick, rubbing the handles anxiously, seeing Liu Wangzhi's cold peach blossom eyes staring at him without saying a word, he took out the cotton kerchief in the pocket of his Tang suit and wiped it. Wiping the sweat from his forehead, he got up tremblingly with his crutches, and said in a hoarse voice, "Snake... Snake Lord, what happened yesterday is all my fault. I tried to fabricate another fact in order to preserve this old face." I came to deceive you. At this point, please hold your hands high, spare the lives of my children and grandchildren, and give me another chance to confess. I am willing to tell the whole story about what happened in Houshan back then, and I promise to tell you everything.”

I don't know what Yuzhi told him when he went back yesterday, maybe it was to get back his tail, to add fuel to Liu Wangzhi's anger, and to make the village chief think that his whole family was implicated, that's why he said this today, to talk to him Liu Wangzhi begged for this love.

Liu Wangzhi folded his slender and straight legs indifferently, picked up the teacup with one hand, sipped the tea with downcast eyes, not wanting to talk nonsense with him, "Did you find someone to get the seal of the grotto?"

The village chief bent his back slightly, and nodded with his hands on a walking stick: "Yes... I did it. After what happened back then, I invited an alchemist to help solve the problem, and he made a Feng Shui Bureau, using mountain stones Based on the forest, the cave and the forest were sealed together."

I rubbed my hands on the glazed surface of the teacup for a moment, then frowned and asked, "In this way, do you admit that you have something to do with Mr. Qianlin?"

The old village chief took a look at me, opened his mouth to say something, but in the end he insisted on not saying anything, he could only lower his head slightly, and sighed with melancholy.

"Whether it's Mr. Qianlin or Mr. Shuiyun," Liu Wangzhi leisurely turned his wrist and shook the teacup, raised his cold eyes to look at the village chief, "tell me what happened back then."

The old village chief clenched his hand tightly on the walking stick, and the back of his dry hand was bulging with veins. He looked up at the bright sun outside the house, his eyes were far away, as if he had returned to a certain day decades ago: "Ah... back then, everything It was me who was blinded by lard for a while, and that's why I hurt Shuiyun Qingjun..."

We were silent, waiting for him to continue on his own.

"Our Linxiu Village used to rely on the woodland in the back mountain for generations to catch and raise snakes for a living, but in our generation we are only good at catching snakes, not at raising snakes. If it’s too big, it has to be sold outside.”

The old village chief said slowly, "It was time-consuming and not profitable, so at that time, everyone ran to the back of the mountain desperately, basically catching one for life, and would rather take the risk of being poisoned to death than Will spare any snake in sight."

"Fortunately, the woodland resources in the back mountain are rich, and many snakes can always be naturally bred for the people of our village to make a fortune." The village head changed his expression when he said this, "Until one day, I fell asleep. When I was sleeping, I suddenly dreamed of a big snow-white snake. The snake was as big as the mouth of a bowl. It was coiled beside me, spitting out a letter, and staring at me. At that time, I was shaking all over, but I couldn’t wake up when I wanted to. At this time, the snake suddenly opened its mouth and told me what we people say."

I was still wondering why these snakes like to come to other people's dreams at every turn, but the village chief was talking about something serious, I threw away other thoughts, and couldn't help saying: "What did it say? This white snake... Could it be?" Is it Shuiyun-jun?"

The village chief nodded slowly, and continued: "That's right, he said that he is the snake fairy guarding the mountains in this area. To remind me of one thing, the Mountain Snake Race has begun to become seriously unbalanced due to the overcapture of our generation."

Hearing this, Liu Wangzhi narrowed his eyes slightly, his expression on Bai Yu's face was cold.

The village head was flustered by his staring eyes, and he calmed down before he dared to continue: "Almost all the male snakes in Houshan and Houshan were hunted down at that time, and the young snakes left behind were killed by the female snakes who worried that they would not survive. Snakes swallowed by themselves... The snakes in the mountains are on the verge of extinction, and Mr. Shuiyun, as a member of the snake clan and the guardian of this mountain range, implores me to lead the villagers to suspend snake hunting within three years, so that the snake clan can breathe and survive Three years later, he will personally teach us how to raise snakes, so that we can continue to live."

I sniffed out a different kind of information from these words, frowned slightly, and asked tentatively, "So...how did you do it?"

(End of this chapter)