One thought of Acacia, one thought of perseverance

Chapter 60

It is not enough to observe the emptiness of the Laba Festival, at least not to drink Laba porridge.He Mu was not happy, and had been pestering Rong Chenzi to take him down the mountain to drink porridge since morning.Rong Chenzi was studying Zhuang Shaoqin's little snakes together with Master Jiaye and others, but now she is also pestering her very much.But she was squeamish and wanted to cry again.Rong Chenzi could only coax: "You can drink porridge anytime, right? Go play with Qing Yun and the others first, and then Pindao will take you down the mountain some other day."

All the little Taoist priests lowered their heads, for fear of being ordered by the master to accompany the mussel.He Mu was originally a child with a temperament, so she was shameless now, she was about to cry while holding Rong Chenzi's leg.Rong Chenzi hastily pulled her up, and was about to scold her with a straight face, when a voice behind him said loudly: "Since you have no time to know, why don't you let me do it for you. I haven't seen the folk scenery for a long time, and I just happened to accompany Panpan let's go."

Jiang Haoran stretched out his hand to He Mu with a smile on his face, and He Mu avoided Rong Chenzi's arms with a look of disgust on his face: "Who wants to be with you? I hate it!"

She turned around to wrap around Rong Chenzi again, and Rong Chenzi finally couldn't help it: "Okay, okay, you change your clothes first, and Pindao will take you down the mountain later."

Only then did He Mu give a cheer, and bounced back to the bedroom to change clothes.She wore that long white feather coat again today, and the golden bells on her feet rang. When she was about to run, the feather coat spread out, like a ball of snowballs rolling farther and farther away, lively and playful.Rong Chenzi's expression had a trace of warmth hidden in helplessness, staring at the back for a long time, Fang sighed deeply.

He Peng was very worried, Rong Chenzi disliked her clothes, she felt that they were so exposed that they were almost immoral, but Ye Tian had women's clothes, but she also disliked them being too serious and rigid.Rong Chenzi also disagreed with her wearing Daotong's clothes - this Hemu girl is also handsome and pretty in men's clothing, and she even wants to stick to him when she walks.A Taoist priest and a handsome Taoist boy embraced each other and walked on the road... Rong Chenzi couldn't imagine the eyes of passers-by.

After choosing and choosing, there was no suitable clothes, He Mu pouted all the time: "You just don't want to take someone out!"

Rong Chenzi was a scholar and met soldiers, so he could only coax him in a low voice: "Why don't I want to take you, or you will become a mussel, and the poor will carry you down the mountain."

When Dahe Mum heard this, it was a good idea, and he didn't have to walk, so he agreed, and happily followed him down the mountain.

At the end of Xu Dynasty, Rong Chenzi went down the mountain with a mussel in his arms.The Laba Festival was originally a very important day in Lingxia Town, Rong Chenzi walked through the long streets and alleys, his face became more dignified as he walked.He Mu also felt something strange, she poked her head out calmly from Rong Chenzi's arms: "Zhiguan, no one sells Laba porridge!"

The long street is empty, every house is closed, and even the sporadic lights can't be seen.The bustling Lingxia Town suddenly appeared desolate and decaying.As the cold wind blew in, Rong Chenzi beat the mussels into a burden with a crocodile and carried them on his back.The clam was still twisting and turning, Rong Chenzi patted its shell: "Good boy."

He went to a house and raised his hand to knock on the door.The weather is dripping into ice, and the eaves are too short, with ice edges as thick as wrists condensed on them.The old wooden door creaked, but no one answered.Rong Chenzi's heart sank—now that all Taoists are gathered in Changgang Mountain, could it be that... something happened to Lingxia Town?He thought for a moment, and suddenly his face changed drastically—at the beginning of the incident of the mad dog cannibalism in the Li family, and the mysterious disappearance of the corpse, at that time he was delayed by the incident of the clam, and he never thought of it again.If the mad dog is indeed related to the Singing Snake, Li Jiaji is probably doomed at this moment!

He pushed the door hard, but unexpectedly the door opened from the inside.An old woman in her 70s and [-]s opened the door. She was wearing a padded jacket and a black turban on her head. She had lost a lot of teeth and couldn't stop the wind when she spoke: "Who is it?"

Rong Chenzi couldn't help taking a step back, seeing that it was an old man, he changed his friendly expression again: "Old man, I've been traveling for a long time, and I want to ask for a stutter."

The old woman stared at him for a long time, and suddenly said haha: "Look at me, this old woman, let the guest stand at the door, come in."

The room was very narrow, the old lady lit an oil lamp, the lamp was shaking, and the mud walls and tiled roofs could be seen. Rong Chenzi sat down at the table, and suddenly frowned—the table was covered with dust, obviously no one had cleaned it for a long time up.

He frowned, but after a while, the old lady brought a bowl of cold porridge, and when Rong Chenzi smelled it, it was all rotten.He stirred the porridge with his chopsticks, and as soon as he made a stance with his right hand, the woman rushed forward, but Rong Chenzi didn't bother her, the sword in his right hand pierced her to death.She was still writhing on the ground, with her big mouth open, and a three-eyed snake with yellow flowers on a white background slowly crawled out of it. Just as a snake head poked out, Rong Chenzi chopped it off with a sword. Light bloodstains.The snake was also fierce, it opened its mouth and sprayed out a stream of venom, Rong Chenzi sideways avoided it, the venom was sprayed on the old wooden table, and the wooden table was corroded with several holes in an instant.

After dodging like this, the whole body of the snake crawled out of the human body, and with a flick of its tail, it rushed over like lightning.Rong Chenzi raised his sword and was about to meet him, when the three-eyed snake that had rushed towards him suddenly broke into pieces.It was like being torn apart inch by inch by a tornado, and finally even the snake bones were broken into several pieces.

Rong Chenzi was splashed with blood all over his head and face, so he had no choice but to put the mussel on the ground: "Did you know that something happened in Lingxia Town?"

He Mu's voice in the bag was dull: "I was just wondering if the Three-Eyed Snake has been silent for a long time, maybe it's a trick to fool us on Changgang, um... Now it seems that something really happened in Lingxia Town. "

She was transformed into a human form, still made of water into clothes, but Rong Chenzi didn't have time to pay attention to her "revealing and immoral" clothes at the moment. This catastrophe..."

He Mu put his small hands on his shoulders, and gently rubbed his soft body against him: "Actually, this world is the survival of the fittest, so we don't have to blame ourselves. Besides, we should see which family doesn't make Laba porridge at this time! Those who don’t make Laba porridge during the Laba Festival must be three-eyed snakes!”

"..." Rong Chenzi searched everything in the room, and sighed, "This method of distinguishing monsters can be regarded as unprecedented."

He led the mussels from house to house and knocked them. There were only five families making Laba porridge along the way, and another family was really poor, but they also substituted sour radish and a few shreds of pork.Rong Chenzi also realized the truth - it seems that the three-eyed snake really doesn't know festivals.

Sometimes when people dodge Laba porridge at home, Dahe Mum gathers the whole family together and asks them one by one. The questions are varied, such as: "What do you eat for the Dragon Boat Festival?" "What do you eat for the Lantern Festival?" Wait.

Those who couldn't answer were killed with the wind splitting technique. After death, all of them were the bodies of three-eyed snakes.

Although Rong Chenzi felt that it was extremely absurd, but seeing that it was really effective, he never stopped it.The two of them walked all the way to the end of the street, and there were probably no fewer than fifty three-eyed snakes killed.The mussel was also a little tired.Rong Chenzi leaned over and picked her up: "It seems that the rest of the townspeople must be gathered in the Qingxu Temple, and we can wait until the snake trouble is over."

The clam stayed in his arms obediently, and the golden bell on his feet rang, which was very clear at night: "Zhi Guan, I am very tired."

Her voice was soft and weak, and Rong Chenzi inevitably felt distressed: "Then you wait for me here, it's not too late, I'm afraid there will be no further delay."

He Mu hesitated several times: "I want to be with you."

Rong Chenzi was also afraid of hurting her vitality, so he had no choice but to turn her back into a clam and wrap her into a bundle and carry it on his body.

When the mussel woke up, it was already in the view of Qingxu. Rong Chenzi soaked her in warm water, ordered Qingzhen and Qingyun to add some hot water from time to time, and went to resettle the more than 100 townspeople who brought up the mountain this time. .The three-eyed snake pretending to be Liu Qinfang deliberately went down the mountain to steal a few catties of pork ribs in order to please the river mussels, and Qing Yun secretly cooked a pot of Laba porridge without telling her master.At this time, two people and one snake were guarding a big river clam. It was the first time that Qingzhen saw the so-called monster in the legend, and it was very strange.From time to time, he poked the clam's shell with his finger, and whispered: "Junior brother, do you think this clam will really become the emperor of the sea?"

Qing Yun rolled her eyes: "Brother, here is a three-eyed snake that looks like a human, don't you see it too strange..."

The clam opened its shell and spit out a string of bubbles, Qing Yun hurried forward: "Xiaodao made a pot of Laba porridge, your majesty, get up and drink it while it's hot."

The clam snorted, and the three-eyed snake had already squeezed up: "Hey, His Majesty the Sea Emperor, I specially found Laba Gu to honor you!"

Hemu Dayue: "Little San'er, you should be good." She spat out a bright pink bead from the shell, "This is for you!"

The three-eyed snake trembled when it saw it: "Pearl again? Your Majesty..."

The mussel impatiently said: "What pearl, this is the inner alchemy of a sea turtle demon, it is very precious!" The three-eyed snake was suspicious, and the mussel became impatient: "Do you want it, don't give it back to me!"

The three-eyed snake gritted its teeth, poked its head quickly, put the bead into its mouth, and swallowed it with a grunt: "Thank you, Your Majesty."

Hemu hums, she has been a great demon for thousands of years, and has often lived in the sea in recent years, so she definitely has a lot of treasures.When Qing Yun saw it, she was a little greedy: "Your Majesty, the porridge is still made by Xiaodao!!"

The clam opened its shell: "You are good too, but you are a Taoist priest. The magic weapons I have here belong to monsters. You can't use them... Ah, I have them!" She rolled and spit out a small crystal-clear gourd , "This is a bottle for collecting monsters. It can collect some little monsters that have been around for hundreds of years. Give it to you."

Qing Yun put it away, and Qing Zhen also came over with a shy face: "Your Majesty...ah no, Mistress! Mistress, you can't treat one more favorably than another! This apprentice will add water to you..."

He Mu was a little puzzled: "What is Master Mistress?"

Qingzhen quickly explained: "It is the wife of the master, the master is like a father, and the wife is like a mother!"

The clam was effervescently beautiful: "Not bad, you're good too, um, what can I give you..." There was a jingling sound in her shell, and she seemed to have finally found it after searching for a long time, "Ah, I'll give you a pump." Shuiyu can change the veins of water, but the Yellow River and Yangtze River cannot be changed, and well water and running water can still be used."

As soon as Rong Chenzi came back, he found that his two apprentices had sold his master for two little treasures...

He was a down-to-earth person, and immediately reprimanded him sternly: "If you give Qingyun the demon-receiving bottle, he won't work hard to learn the art of subduing demons! If you give Qingzhen water jade, he won't pay close attention to the terrain and mountains. Once the bad habit of liking leisure and loathing work is formed, they will accomplish nothing! You two have not yet established a solid foundation, so you are already thinking about reaching the sky in one step?"

Both Qingzhen and Qingyun were trained so hard that they did not dare to raise their heads. Dahe mussel crawled from the basin into Rong Chenzi's arms, stretched out his ax to tease him: "Zhiguan, are you angry?" Peng started to play rogue again, "Ge Laozi, you are so stingy as a master, how dare you get angry! If you get angry again, I will cry!"

Rong Chenzi was really a little afraid of her, seeing Qingzhen and Qingyun lowered their heads to the ground, he snorted coldly: "What are you doing, why don't you go out to do something!"

Qingzhen and Qingyun responded, and quickly oiled the soles of their feet.Only then did Rong Chenzi hold the mussel in his arms, and wiped her dry with a sweat towel: "They are just learning something, so don't get used to it."

He Mu murmured, she turned into a human form, the skirt on her body only covered a third of her thighs, Rong Chenzi swallowed slightly, and couldn't help being tender with her again.

However, the next day, the entire Qingxu Temple received a news like a bolt from the blue—an order from the imperial court ordering Zhuang Shaoqin to seal off Li Jiaji and Lingxia Township.In order to prevent the situation from expanding, the villagers in the inner village, regardless of whether they were human or snakes, set fire to it.

The decree was brought by a thousand households, and there were more than 8000 guards with him. These more than [-] soldiers surrounded Lingxia Town and Lijiaji.At present, using the method of dealing with spirits and monsters, the blood of animals and livestock was found to coagulate around the village, spread tung oil, and wanted to burn Lingxia Town and Lijiaji together.

Suddenly, Lingxia Town was in chaos.

(End of this chapter)