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Since the absence of a woman who is prone to the disaster system, the days of dying have been relatively quiet. Although there are still many demons and monsters appearing here, there are no more problems except for the trouble they took the initiative to get into that time.

Several people tacitly agreed that no one mentioned what happened to Sinan and Xiuhe after they went out alone that day. But since then, Bonghyo's fear of snakes has not been as serious as before.

Three months passed without incident, and the season outside gradually turned from early spring to midsummer. The unair-conditioned streets seem to have turned into steamers, so hot that people feel a little out of breath, and in order to avoid heat stroke, more and more people give up sports and playing cards, and hide in teahouses to drink tea and chat, as a way to avoid the hottest time of the day.

There are more people, and the stories told during tea are also more. In addition to watering the tea trees in the yard behind the house, Ah Shu's favorite thing to do every day is to sit next to Sinan and listen to those people tell stories. Sometimes he was stupid to listen to, and he couldn't hear Sinan shouting him a few times, so Feng Xiao would walk over and knock on his head with a smile, saying that if he listened more, he wouldn't have to open a teahouse, just by writing a novel from these rumors, he could make money to support them. It wasn't until he heard such a tease that Ah Shu realized that he had forgotten his work because he was too obsessed, and he would shake his head in shame and say that he was not as literary as Bonghyo, and then immediately start working, but then he still listened very seriously to the stories woven from rumors whenever he had time.

Sinan didn't have any intention of blaming Ah Shu, in fact, in Ah Shu's own affairs, he almost never interfered, and let Ah Shu do what he thought. For Sinan, Ah Shu is like his child, he prefers guidance to discipline, and he believes in Ah Shu's choice, so he has never intervened in what Ah Shu likes.

In a blink of an eye, it was the day when the storyteller came to the teahouse to tell the story, and early this morning, when the door had not yet been opened, Ah Shu prepared everything the storyteller needed, and then deliberately put away the big board and replaced it with a tea table, so that customers could better listen to the book. Then he prepared the breakfast of the three people, and then called the three people up. And just when several people were about to have breakfast together, the old man who told the story appeared at the door of the dead on time.

Several people were already familiar with each other, and after nodding to each other, they went their own way. The old man sat at the table as always, carefully wiping the waking wood in his hand over and over again, and Ah Shu finally couldn't help it, and secretly asked Sinan Dao at the dinner table:

"Lord Sinan, the ...... in his hand"

"Storytellers will use waking wood, but his piece is relatively old, nothing special, let's eat. ”

Sinan answered Ah Shu's question without raising his head, and Ah Shu saw that he didn't mean to continue, so he had to suppress the doubts in his heart, finish breakfast as quickly as possible, and start the day's work.

Soon, the memory of the dead was full of people who came here to listen to the book. With the sound of the waking wood in the old man's hand, the originally noisy hall suddenly fell silent. After the old man squinted and looked around for a week, he began to tell a story about the legend of the White Snake with emotion.

In recent years, there have been a lot of literary works and film and television works about the legend of the White Snake, and this story can be said to be a household name. But the strange thing is that this story came out of the old man's mouth, as if it was a completely strange story, and everyone listened to it with fascination, as if they were there, and they couldn't extricate themselves at all. Especially the woman sitting in the corner who had never been here was even more tearful when she heard it, and she didn't care about maintaining her image at all.

Because everyone was listening carefully, and she was sitting in a very inconspicuous corner, no one noticed her performance at all, and if it weren't for Ah Pu accidentally knocking over Bonghyo's teacup, the two of them wouldn't have noticed that she was crying so sadly. It stands to reason that although the ending of this story is not so satisfying, it is not to the point where it can make people cry so miserably, this woman cries like this, I am afraid that she is not possessed by a crybaby, and she wants to cry happily.

The two of them were pondering, and there was another sound on the waking wood, indicating that today's book was over. Under the influence of this waking tree, everyone broke away from the story as if they had just woken up from a big dream, and then thunderous applause and cheers rang out from the audience. The old man was not affected by this applause, stood up, bowed to the audience, picked up his things and left the teahouse. As soon as the old man left, these unfulfilled people also lost their interest in drinking tea, and left together one after another, except for the woman, who seemed to be still immersed in the story, still sobbing and never looking up.

Feng Xiao couldn't see a woman like this, he wanted to step forward to persuade him, but before he could take two steps forward, he was stopped by Si Nan. Seeing this, Feng Xiao thought that there was really something wrong with this woman, and Sinan was ready to catch ghosts, so he didn't care anymore. didn't expect Sinan to ignore her at all, turned on the TV and started watching the news on his own.

After cleaning the hall, a few people took some snacks and sat next to Sinan, watching TV while enjoying the few cleanliness, but unfortunately, as soon as Feng Xiaogang sat down, the TV broadcast a news related to snakes as if cooperating with the storyteller who had just left.

According to relevant witnesses, at about 8 o'clock in the morning, in the newly built high-end community in our city, there was a long white snake with a thin bowl mouth coiled on the balcony of a house. The snake stayed on the balcony for about two hours, and the neighbors were so frightened that they called the police. The police arrived at the scene and tried to contact the owner of the house several times to no avail, so they had no choice but to break down the door by force. It is reported that an elderly man in the house has been dead for a long time, and the door lock and glass at the scene are intact, and there is no outsider invasion to commit the crime, and the possibility of homicide has been ruled out. As for why the white snake appeared at the scene, it is still under police investigation, and the police said......"

Before the host's words were finished, Ah Pu grabbed the remote control and turned off the TV despite Fengxiao's obstruction. Although Bonghyo knew that Apo was worried about him by doing this, such a move still attracted Bonghyo's dissatisfaction. He just wanted to explain to Ah Pu that he had no problem, and hoped that Sinan could tell him the story, when the woman who was sitting in the corner and had been immersed in her own world actually opened her mouth unexpectedly before him:

"This old man must have saved this snake, otherwise after the old man died, how could this snake stay by her side. ”