Snake Tangled Three Dreams

Chapter 50 Half Snake, Half Dragon
"How do you do it..." The village chief swayed like dry wood, but thanks to my dad helping him, he regained his footing.

He lowered his head slightly, and said in a low voice: "At that time, I told several cadres in the village about my dream about Mr. Shuiyun, and wanted to see their opinions, but everyone didn't believe it at the time, saying that I couldn't because A dream that is not clear about reality can easily cut off the wealth of everyone in the village."

"Besides, every household has seniors and juniors. If there is no snake hunting for three years, what will everyone rely on to make a living, and even how to ensure the most basic food and clothing is a question that needs to be carefully considered."

Several generations of people in Linxiu Village have been hunting snakes for a living. Their ancestors did not know how many snakes they caught along the way. If they were told that the snake population in the back mountain was about to become extinct in this generation, they would not believe it easily.

Besides, giving up catching snakes meant that they had to find another way to make money to support their families. People in that era did not read much and were not well-educated. To let them suddenly give up their old profession and choose another way of making a living would undoubtedly cut off their life. The source of income also disrupted the original order of existence.

This is indeed a big challenge for their lives.

But the snake tribe in the back mountain is so innocent, because human beings hunt and kill indiscriminately, even the most basic natural survival rules can no longer be maintained, so how can they not be pitiful?
"And then?" I wondered how it worked out, or if it worked out.

"Later..." the old village chief sighed and raised his head, "Later, the villagers naturally didn't take Mr. Shuiyun's request seriously, and went up to the mountain to catch snakes as usual, but within a few days, people found out There's something seriously wrong with the mountain."

"Yes, I still remember this." My father put one hand on the sofa, his face solemn, "I heard from my father at the time that the snakes in the back mountain seemed to have disappeared suddenly, and there was not even a shadow of a snake."

The old village head closed his eyes and nodded: "Actually, not only the snake, but all the birds and beasts in the back mountain disappeared within a few days, and even the river began to show signs of drying up. The entire mountain forest almost lost its vitality in an instant, like a lifeless Dead Mountain."

"There is such a thing?" I was quite surprised, accidentally spilled the residual tea in the cup, quickly pulled a paper towel, and wiped the clothes carelessly.

"What's so strange about this?" Liu Juanzhi kept silent with a cold face, and he rarely opened his mouth when he heard this, "You despise the laws of nature, so nature will abandon you."

He drooped his long eyelashes slightly and drank his tea indifferently, "This result is purely your own fault."

My father wisely kept his mouth shut, seeing that the teacup was empty, he quickly got up to refill Liu Wangzhi's tea.

The village chief didn't dare to look into Liu Wangzhi's eyes, he secretly rubbed his hand holding the walking stick, and lowered his brows, "What you're saying is...we made a wrong decision from the beginning, so the rest of the matter is only a matter of course." It's going to get more and more out of control."

I already feel that this situation is very bad, and I can't even imagine what happened in the mountains and forests later.

Probably used to our silence, knowing that we were listening, the village chief continued to speak slowly: "At that time, the back mountain became dead silent, and the older generation said that we offended the mountain god, so they wanted to cut off our way of life. , let our village perish.”

He said, and suddenly looked at me, "At this critical moment, your Bai family members stood up and said that there is a way to help everyone get Shuiyun Jun's forgiveness, but everyone must abide by his rules, and we must not ruin the future arbitrarily. The snake tribe of the mountain."

"That Bai family, but my grandfather?" I asked.

"That's right, it's your grandfather Bai Hanlin." The village chief said again, "Your grandfather is different from us. He knows some ways that ordinary people don't. After the snake tribe disappeared in Houshan, he found me in private. He said that he knew where Shuiyun Jun lived, if I was willing to lead the villagers to sincerely apologize to Shuiyun Jun, then there might be room for redemption in this matter."

"I immediately agreed to his proposal, made an offering to Lord Shuiyun, and organized all the snake catchers in the village to follow him up the mountain. I burned incense and offered offerings outside the snake cave in the back mountain, and knelt for three days. It took three nights to finally get the white snake's forgiveness."

The news was good, but the village head was not excited, "Mr. Shuiyun finally entered my dream again and condemned our selfishness. I kowtowed and repented in my dream. He blamed us again and provided us with a way to survive, that is, at the beginning of each month, he will ask Bai Hanlin to lead everyone to a designated forest in the back mountain to catch a few young snakes, and we must get Raise those young snakes and return them to the forest in exchange for corresponding rewards."

"Then what about this time, did you do it?" There was some hope in my eyes.

"Of course we did it..." The village head looked a little dazed, "We went to a specific place to bring back those young snakes as he said, and took the weeds and soil from the forest back to make something for the little snakes. It is strange to say that the snakes that could not be raised by this generation in the village have miraculously succeeded in breeding. Not only have the young snakes grown into big snakes, but they have also passed on to the next generation through natural mating."

"At that time, everyone was very happy, so they picked a day to send all the raised snakes back to the mountain, leaving only some young snakes, and planned to continue to raise them." The village chief said this, and there was a little bit in his old eyes. The meaning of nostalgia, "every time the snake is released back to the mountain, Mr. Shuiyun will leave some gold in that place, which is considered as a reward for us. So, under the guidance of Mr. Shuiyun, we cultivated one brood after another. The big ones were released back into the mountains, and the small ones were raised, and life gradually improved."

Knowing that the situation of the Snake Clan has improved, and that it has only improved under the care of the villagers, the tension in my heart has been slightly loosened.

But the string didn't relax for a long time, and when the village chief's words changed, it stretched again.

"Alas... such days are the rules we should follow, but people's hearts are the most difficult thing to satisfy." The village chief wiped his face, looking dejected, "Although Shuiyun-jun will always let the snake go back to the mountain, every time you let the snake go back to the mountain, Shuiyun-jun will not be satisfied." Give us a reward. But it takes several months to raise snakes, and that little gold is not enough to share among so many people. Gradually, some people can't bear it anymore, and they start to return to their old business. snake."

"Isn't this breaking the rules?" I frowned a little angrily.

The village chief said: "It is true that we broke the rules, but Mr. Shuiyun didn't blame us. He said that as long as we regularly put the raised snakes back into the mountains, it would not be considered a breach of our promise. So everyone started to catch snakes and raise snakes at the same time." , the life of the whole village is getting better and better, until that day..."

"What happened that day?" When I saw the village head suddenly opened his mouth but stopped talking, a bad premonition rose in my heart.

The village chief's pupils slowly narrowed, and his hands began to shake violently: "I remember that day very clearly. I took the villagers to catch snakes in the mountain stream. Suddenly, the sky was full of dark clouds, and there was no rain in the sky, but there was lightning and thunder. Then everyone suddenly heard A strange roar, like the cry of a snake or the roar of a dragon, came out from the mountain behind us one after another!"

I suddenly remembered Qian Linjun's roar, which was exactly the same as what the village chief said.

Liu Wangzhi's face was like frost, and the fingers holding the teacup turned white.

"At that time, everyone was terrified, and they all said that there were monsters in the mountains!" The village chief suddenly looked at us, "It was Bai Hanlin, who stopped everyone from entering the cave with a knife, saying that the monsters in the mountains were not monsters, but were guiding us all the time. Shuiyun-jun who improved his life! He also said that Shuiyun-jun has reached a certain level of cultivation, and the appearance of the vision in the sky means that he is about to pass the catastrophe!"

"So what did you do to make him half snake and half dragon, and even lose his life?" Liu Wang's voice was like a cold spring falling into a pool, his eyes were coldly staring at the village chief, and his whole body exuded a dangerous aura.

The village chief's hunched back was shaking non-stop, and his hands were shaking so much that he could no longer hold the walking stick, "I...I..."

He fell to the ground with a "plop", and my dad didn't dare to help him again.

"It's all my obsession, it's all my obsession!" The village head beat the floor with his withered hands, weeping bitterly on his face, "Bai Hanlin said before that the reason why this back mountain is rich is because Lord Shuiyun is connected to the mountain. , has been sorting out the auras everywhere, and if he turns a snake into a dragon, he will have to find a river to continue his practice, and this small place in the back mountain is obviously unable to keep him."

"So when I heard that Lord Shuiyun was about to cross the catastrophe and transform into a dragon, the first thought in my heart was that no one would be able to guard this mountain range after he left. This would affect the future fate of our entire village, and even our children and grandchildren. future, so...so..."

"So what!?" My shoulders trembled uncontrollably, and my whole heart almost jumped out of my throat.

The village head threw himself on the ground and told the cruelest truth intermittently in a hoarse crying voice.

"So... when he came out of the cave to transform into a dragon and flew into the air to ask us for the title, I instigated all the snake farmers and gave him a no answer... At that time, there were ten thunderbolts in the sky, and all of them hit him. On his body... Shuiyun Jun failed to cross the tribulation, and with astonishment and anger, he fell down from the sky..."

(End of this chapter)