It is said that in ancient times, Nuwa mended the heavens and quelled the ravages of poisonous snakes and beasts in the world, and these scourges could still be suppressed in the peaceful and prosperous times, but in troubled times, some poisonous snakes and beasts would still take the opportunity to make waves and endanger the world.

In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, internal and external troubles broke out frequently, such as the Opium War, the Taiping Uprising, the Boxer Rebellion, the Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion of China, and a series of wars, coupled with frequent natural disasters, which displaced the people and caused chaos in the world. A poisonous snake took the opportunity to entrench itself in the Mangdang Mountains at the junction of Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu and Shandong, and injured and killed the local people from time to time.

Until the fall of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the government also sent troops to encircle and suppress it, although it could not be captured, but in the following years, it was really never seen again. However, when the warlords were fighting later, this poison took the opportunity to stir up trouble, demagogue, and endanger the local people. The government yamen also offered a reward, and anyone who could catch this poisonous snake would be rewarded with a thousand oceans. Snake catchers from surrounding counties and even all over the country have flocked to the county, but no one has been able to capture them for many years, and many of those who went to catch this big snake were killed by the big snake.

Dakai and Shi Zhu are going to catch this big snake in this Mangdang Mountain.

After the two of them left the road, they went all the way to the west, and the young man had good foot strength, and he didn't feel tired with some luggage on his back. They walked along the Gubo River for a while, and then crossed several rivers of unknown sizes, and crossed Maling Mountain to the north bank of Luoma Lake. There were many villages along the way, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, but unfortunately now there is only a withered scene, and many empty houses have fallen in large villages, and even the sound of dogs barking can rarely be heard, and the two of them can just stay in these empty houses.

The couple grew so big, except for the sea, they had never seen such a big inner lake, so they stayed in Llama Lake for half a day, and when they came, they could rest and rest, and enjoy the beautiful scenery of the lake by the way; Second, at this time, the government of the Republic of China is dredging the river, and the Fangting River, a tributary of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which is connected to Luoma Lake, has not been officially navigable, but some small boats have begun to run passengers.

The lake is full of verdant reeds and duckweed, white water birds fly in the air, chirping up and down, left and right, far and near, water ducks swim on the water in flocks, the leader of the group plunges down, and the latter ones also plunge into the water one after another, and after a while they show their heads one by one. From a distance, fishing boats come and go on the lake from time to time, casting nets or harvesting fish and shrimp. In the evening, the western half of the sky seems to turn yellow, and further down closer to the sky it turns a deeper orange, and the sunset turns white, and the reflection is stretched long in the lake, rippling with the surface of the lake.

"It would be nice if it could go on like this!" Shi Zhu admired the beautiful scenery in front of him and said to Dakai.

Mr. and Mrs. Dakai had never seen such a beautiful scenery, and the two of them sat by the lake and watched it all, until the last light disappeared into the distant sky, and then reluctantly went to the place where they landed.

The next morning, there was a boat to the west, and the two of them got on it, and chatted with the boatman about catching the big snake in Mangdang Mountain along the way. He said: "It turns out that when the Qing Dynasty is not dead, this python does not know where it came from, and some people who have seen it say that it is at least three or four zhang long, and it is black and black, and it will spit out black smoke when passing by, making people unable to figure out the direction, and many people were swallowed by this snake at that time." That winter my nephew went to the mountains to collect some firewood, and expected that the snake would sleep in the winter, but who could have known that the beast would not survive the winter, and my nephew lost his life because of this, and it is a pity that the corpse cannot be found in the capital to this day. ”

At this, the boatman became more and more excited, and hated that he only stamped the plank with his right foot, as if it was the big python under his feet. After stomping, the boatman continued: "When it came to the Republic of China, the government sent a team of soldiers to the mountains to encircle and suppress, but nothing was found, only a stone cave with a thick well, and it is estimated that the snake was hidden in it. The soldiers searched for a long time in the vicinity, but they did not see any other entrances and exits, and they did not dare to climb into the hole, so they put a few shots and threw a few bombs inside. Don't say it, it's really useful, the snake must have been scared, and no one saw it for the next few years, and the people around it were much more relieved. But then there were wars everywhere, and the serpent came out again to harm people through the way of the world. Since the government posted a reward notice, many snake catchers have gone to cast spells to catch this beast, but none of them have succeeded in these years, and many snake catchers have lost their lives because of this! ”

After chatting all the way, I unconsciously arrived at a wharf called Bayiji, and the boatman docked the boat, beckoned the two of them to get off the boat, and went straight to the west, and then took the boat to detour the long way. He thanked the boatman and wanted to give some money for the boat, but the boatman said, "Young man, since you catch the snake, I will not take any money from you, but I hope that the snake can be caught and avenge my nephew!" ”

Da Kai replied: "Old man, I will definitely try my best to catch the big snake this time, but one yard is one yard, you still have to collect the money for this boat, and it is strange to row all the way over!" ”

The two sides went back and forth, and in the end, the boatman was really stubborn, and only symbolically received some.

The couple went ashore, take a closer look at this place called Bayiji, it is completely different from the scene encountered on the road before, people come and go everywhere, there are also many shops along the coast, tea houses, restaurants, jade shops, pawn shops, medicine shops, silk shops, etc., all available, there are many hawkers on the side of the road to sell all kinds of things, shouting constantly, and children are playing on the street with toys in their hands, it is really a prosperous scene.

At this time, a familiar figure walked up to the two of them, wearing gray cloth sea green, with a pair of black cloth shoes on their feet, and saluted Dakai.

When I opened my eyes and looked at it, it turned out to be Master Famao. It was a bit surprising to meet someone I knew here, and he said in return: "It's rare to meet a master here, it's really fate!" Dare to ask the master, what is going on here? ”

Master Fa Mao did not say any polite words, but his tone was a little hurried, and he said to Dakai and Shi Zhu: "Amitabha! The poor monks have traveled here and waited for the stone donor for a long time. If you pinch your fingers today, I'm afraid that the two donors will have a catastrophe. Now it seems that the donor's seal hall is blackened and the clouds are covered, and this catastrophe must be real. The poor monk has two charms here, which may save the life of the donor in times of crisis, but the two donors can only start to go up the mountain at the end of the day, and they must go down the mountain before three o'clock in the afternoon. The donor must remember that no matter what happens when you go down the mountain, you must not turn back, and whether you can survive this catastrophe can only depend on the donor's creation. The poor monk has already leaked the secret of heaven, and I hope the donor will take care! Amitabha! ”

After Da Kai and Shi Zhu thanked them, they watched Master Fa Mao disappear into the crowd.

It was still early, so the two left Bayiji and continued to travel westward, crossing the ancient Yellow River and then crossing the Anhui border, and came to the foot of Mangdang Mountain in Yongcheng in less than two days. There are no high mountains and ravines in the Jianghuai area, the terrain is relatively flat, and the young people have better foot strength, and the countrymen are used to walking the road, even if the Dakai couple stayed on the shore of Luoma Lake for half a day, the 600 miles of the road, the husband and wife only spent more than eight days to complete.

After inquiring about the people at the foot of the mountain, Dakai learned that anyone who came to catch snakes needed to register in the town for future rewards. The husband and wife then followed the instructions and came to the town office. At this time, the army was fighting with the "Northwest Army", and the area around Yongcheng was not very peaceful, and only a few civilian personnel remained in the office. From their mouths, they learned that because of the repeated wars, there were very few people who came to Mangdang Mountain to catch snakes in the past few months, and they really hoped that Dakai could catch the big snake and eliminate harm for the people.

After the formalities were completed, Da Kai and Shi Zhu hurried back to the bottom of the mountain. It was getting late, so the two of them lit a bonfire and camped at the foot of the mountain.

The two have been away from home for several days, and Shi Zhu's heart misses his son very much, he doesn't know how he is at home, and he is worried that he is thirsty and hungry at home. Da Kai naturally thinks about his son, but after all, men don't have the delicate thoughts of women, and even if they do, they often hide it in their hearts, so Da Kai has been comforting Shi Zhu and reassuring her. The two discussed that they would go to the mountains tomorrow to find out the situation, and then decide how to catch the snake, and then they went to sleep.

When they woke up, the sky was already bright, and after a brief tidying up, the two rushed up the mountain at midnight. On the way up the mountain, they couldn't even see a single figure, presumably because they were afraid to go up the mountain at will, which is understandable, but in a huge place, not even a bird can be seen, which is too strange. Occasionally, a gust of wind blows, and only the rustling of the mountains can be heard, which is not uncommon elsewhere, but here, it sounds creepy.

When the two of them came to the place where the townspeople said they had bumped into the serpent, the sun had fully risen, and only then did they feel that the yin qi had receded. Shi Zhu first sprinkled some sulfur around him, and Dakai held the yin and yang gossip plate next to him, but the hands of the gossip plate did not move at all. Shi Zhushi took it and tried it, shaking it with his hand, and the same was true.

Since the gossip plate couldn't point to the location of the demon python, Dakai used straw to light the sulfur, but the two tried several places in a row, but still didn't hear any movement. Seeing that it was almost noon, remembering Master Fa Mao's advice, the two went down the mountain. This was the case for two days in a row.

On the third day, before going up the mountain, Shi Zhu suddenly remembered what his father-in-law said before leaving-the Yin and Yang Bagua Plate needs to be used by both men and women to work, "Could it be that the meaning of this is not that the two of us are present at the same time, but that the two of us should hold the Bagua Plate at the same time?" She said to Dakai. So the two stood side by side, Da Kai on the left and Shi Zhu on the right, holding the gossip plate with their right and left hands respectively. It's also very fast, the pointer turned a few times, and instantly came to life, and when it was fixed, it pointed to a direction, which was the direction that the husband and wife had been in the past two days.

After arriving at the mountain, the two of them tried this method again, and then walked eight hundred and sixty-four steps to the right and tried again, and the junction of the two pointers should be where the serpent's lair is located.

Dakai looked forward, and there was nothing unusual except for a few stones in front of him, but the grass there was shorter than the surrounding ones, and it looked as if it had been crushed. The two of them searched carefully, but did not see the entrance to the cave. But this ancestral treasure can't go wrong, so the two decided to give it a try. This time they added some tobacco leaves to the sulphur, and then opened it with straw and lit it, and some of the smoke floated into the air, and some of it actually penetrated with a few stones.

Dakai removed the stone, and found that the soil below was very soft, so he gently picked it up with his hands, and after a while, he found that there was a hole with a thick well mouth hidden underneath, but this was not the same place as the hole that the soldiers blew up in those years.

"I guess this is another entrance!" With that, Shi Zhu lit the sulfur and tobacco and stuffed them into the hole, and after a while, he heard a hissing sound inside. With years of experience, Dakai knew that it was the sound of the snake crawling and rubbing, and this must be the cave where the big python was. However, this place has been covered by earth and rocks, at least for several years, but this python has often come out to hurt people for several years, and there must be another exit nearby.

The two searched around again, but found no other holes. When he was wondering, bursts of black smoke suddenly came out of the hole just now, presumably the python was angry with the smoke and wanted to come out to clean up the snake catcher. Da Kaiben wanted to use the seven-inch peachwood sword to wait for the big snake to come out to fight, but he heard Shi Zhushi say: "This time, we are mainly looking for the snake's den, and the guy with the headband in our hands is not complete, so let's go down the mountain first." Anyway, now that the snake's den has been found, I'll catch it again tomorrow morning when everything is ready. At this time, Dakai also found that the black fog was getting heavier and heavier, so the two went down the mountain first.

The two of them tossed and turned that night and couldn't sleep, and they always felt that something was going to happen. After finally falling asleep, Shi Zhushi dreamed that his son had been crying, crying very sadly, tears drowned the bed, and she herself unconsciously dreamed of crying, until Dakai pushed her, opened her eyes and found that the sky was already bright, and then wiped away the tears in her eyes.

It is said that the mother and son are connected, in Haizhou, six hundred miles away, Shizhu really cried all night that night, the old stone and Shi Yu's old husband and wife were at a loss, how to coax them, the two were really exhausted, and finally they could only let Shizhu cry until the sky was bright, Shi Yu's quickly took him to see the doctor, but the doctor couldn't find out why.

Having said it again, Da Kai and Shi Zhu cleaned up, and then went up the mountain with a dry thing, and Da Kai carried the demon sword, and Shi Zhu carried the demon sword - of course, this sword is no different from ordinary swords, but the two of them regard the sword as a treasure and are used to calling it like this.

When I arrived at the entrance of the cave I found yesterday, I opened it and checked it, and there was no trace of the snake, so I guessed that the big black snake was still inside. So the two of them unloaded their bags and set up a snake hunting array according to the direction of the eight trigrams: the Qiangua faces south, facing the entrance of the cave, and turns in the right-hand direction to Xun, Kan, Gen, Kun, Zhen, Li, and Huihexagram. According to the estimation that the snake is three or four zhang long, the distance between the south and north of Qian, Kun is set at one zhang and two feet away, and a piece of wood is nailed to both ends of each hexagram, a total of 16 roots. There is a distance of about a foot between the adjacent hexagrams, which allows the snake to penetrate it, but it is not so easy.

After arranging, Dakai and Shi Zhu changed into black and white clothes respectively, then lit the straw, sprinkled sulfur and realgar, added some tobacco, and stuffed it into the cave to force the snake out. After smoking for a while, until the black gas came out of the entrance of the cave, the two of them stood at the two points of the yin and yang of the snake trapping array, holding two long swords to kill demons and eliminate demons, ready to meet the enemy.

The black smoke grew louder and louder, until half of the mountain was enveloped, and finally a black head poked out of the hole, spitting blood-red letters. The couple knew how long the snake was, so when the python was completely out of the hole, they were not surprised to see the snake grow. The snake first circled around the gossip array a few times and didn't dare to come in, and took the opportunity to spill vinegar and realgar wine on the snake's head, but after all, this is a thing that has been cultivated into a demon, and it is useless to sprinkle these ordinary things on it.

After a few circles, the black python finally stopped, and it seemed that it was about to enter the battle. The husband and wife agreed to stare at the snake's head with a wide open eye, and Shi Zhu's family stared at the snake's tail. When the snake's head was about to get close to Dakai, he shook the long sword in his hand to attract its attention, and Shi Zhushi stepped forward to the edge of the formation with a fierce arrow, and before the snake could react, a sword pierced the snake's tail and nailed it to the ground.

This gossip array was originally arranged according to the length of the snake, the snake has been completely unfolded around the edge of the array, at this moment the snake head has entered the formation, the head and tail of the snake can not take care of each other, the guy can only open his mouth wide in pain, show his fangs, and shake the letter up and down.

Da Kai stabbed his sword at the snake's head, but the black python dodged left and right and dodged a few moves. After a few times, he saw the opportunity and threw the snake killer who had soaked in white vinegar for seven or four hundred and forty-nine days into the snake's mouth, which did not harm the skin of the demon snake, but it still had some effect in the snake's body, and the snake head that had been cocked fell to the ground instantly. Then, Da Kai also stepped forward with an arrow, nailed the snake's head to the ground with a long sword, everything seemed to be going very smoothly, and the surrounding black qi slowly dispersed.

The husband and wife saw the snake lying on the ground motionless, so they stepped forward to check whether it was dead, but they never thought that in a blink of an eye, the snake's body suddenly turned from black to purple, and it was red, as if it was full of energy in an instant, and the snake's head broke up from the ground and threw out the long sword, and the snake's tail was the same.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Da Kai hurriedly picked up the seven-inch peachwood sword with Shi Zhu, saw where the black python was seven inches, and stabbed it directly. This peachwood sword is not an extraordinary thing, the snake was stabbed seven inches after it was like being struck by lightning, and its whole body twitched, but it didn't take long for the black python to spit black breath again, and it slowly came back to life. It seems that this python is really not shallow, and even the seven-inch peachwood sword can't help it.

After the snake came back to life, it opened its mouth and pounced on the two of them, and the two of them dodged lightly. At this time, Shi Zhu's family jumped out of the formation, and Da Kai went around in the gossip array to attract the snake to chase, and after most of the snake body had entered the formation, he also jumped out of the formation. Shi Zhu's clan was ready outside the formation, and after Dakai jumped out of the formation, he used the fire fold to ignite the Bagua Array.

This gossip array is set up with realgar, tobacco, green wood incense, dog shit beans and snake killing powder, etc., after burning, the snake will be smoked around, plus the fire, the black python will be trapped in it and cannot get out. Da Kai and Shi Zhu knew that the two of them were still shallow, and they were afraid that they would not be able to defeat this black python, so they resorted to the last trick of the old stone sect - if they can't beat it, they will leave! It was difficult to get out of the snake for a while, so the two of them picked up their swords and went straight down the mountain.

The two ran out not far, suddenly heard a scream of "bleating" on the mountain, looked back, it turned out that there was a ragged, barefoot boy chasing a sheep into this place, the sheep had been swallowed by the snake into the mouth at this time, the boy was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground, his eyes looked straight at the snake, his legs were completely frozen, and he didn't know how to run.

Seeing this, the two of them knew that if they didn't save him, the boy would definitely be doomed.

At this time, Shi Zhushi said: "Master Fa Mao told us not to turn back no matter what happens, but now we can't see death without help!" "Dakai also knows the stakes in it, but as Shi Zhu said, they can't see death without help.

The two hurriedly turned around and ran, taking advantage of the snake swallowing the sheep, and lit a cannon and threw it at the black python, first, to attract attention, and second, to make the young man run for his life quickly. Although the black python knew that it had just gained a slight upper hand, it was also seriously injured and suffered a lot, and when it saw the two of them turn back, it took the first step, spit out black mist and laid down the maze, ready to fight.

By the time the boy ran up to the two of them, the fog had covered the entire mountain, and he couldn't even see the way back. Da Kai let the young man leave first, and at the same time took out the yin and yang gossip plate in his arms, preparing to be with Shi Zhu's palace. The black fog was too heavy, and the two of them couldn't see where the black python was at all, so they could only judge the direction by the instructions of the gossip plate.

Although the black python was seriously injured, at this moment, the two of them had no protection from the snake trapping array, and it was extremely laborious to fight with the black python. Although the two tried their best, the black python demon method was still better, and finally in the fight with the snake head, the snake tail swept over, the power seemed to be a thousand pounds, the two were slammed to the stone, and then, the black python pounced on the two of them, unable to move.

At the last moment, although the spell given to the two by Master Fa Mao sent out a golden light to stab the black python's eyes, and the black python also fled, but Dakai and Shi Zhu were finally too seriously injured and lost their souls......

At this time, Master Fa Mao pinched his fingers and knew that the two of them still couldn't escape this catastrophe in the end, so they could only chant "Amitabha"!

He was originally a white rabbit who had achieved cultivation, but when he saw the wars and disasters in this world, he transformed into a monk and traveled all over the world, hoping to purify all sentient beings. But when he was in Haizhou, he was poisoned by eating wild celery by mistake, fell into the flood, and was trapped by the Eight Immortal Grass and could not escape, thanks to the Dakai family who saved him, otherwise on the day Shizhu was born, he might have been buried in the belly of the snake.

Now, in order to repay the grace of saving his life, he was willing to risk leaking the heavenly opportunity to help the two of them, but the will of heaven was difficult to disobey, and he failed to save the two after all. However, he knew in his heart that although the young man who was rescued by Dakai and Shi Zhu's family could not repay the two in this life, the descendants of the young man had an indissoluble relationship with their son Shi Zhu, which of course was a later story.

Shizhu, who is far away from his hometown, has been crying all morning, this will finally stop, crying tired and falling asleep, in the dream the family of three got together again, but after waking up, he still has to face reality.

Lao Shi and Shi Yu naturally didn't know what was going on, they counted the days, estimated that they would go this time, plus the time to catch the snake would not exceed a month, and they could still come back in time to help Master Ding's family harvest wheat. But two months have passed, Master Ding's wheat has been harvested, and even the soybeans have to be ordered, and the two of them have not come back. They were all anxious, and they were afraid that something was going to happen.

A few days later, when he got up early in the morning, Shi Yushi felt his eyelids jump violently, and the magpie chirped in the tree behind his home, and when the sun came out, the weather became extremely hot, and Lao Shi and Shi Yushi both felt uncomfortable.

At this time, a young man dressed as a soldier came to his house on horseback, and although he was on a horse, he was also sweating profusely. The man handed over a dry thing to the old couple - some clothes, a yin and yang gossip plate, two jars of ashes, and some oceans. The old couple only then knew the bad news, and in an instant the old tears flowed down, and the old stone kept blaming himself for not thinking about catching the big snake, Shi Yushi fainted, and the neighbor who heard the news pinched him, and then he came back to the yang. As the so-called white-haired people send black-haired people, that kind of heartbreak, that kind of earnest sadness, people who have not experienced it will never be able to experience it.

After the old couple calmed down a little, the soldier said that the villagers under the mountain transported the bodies of the two to the town for cremation, and later the town office reported the matter, Yuzhou Dao Wu and the new Feng Dujun specially instructed that the ashes must be sent back, but also to give some condolences money, although the black python could not be caught, but not let the people who eliminate harm for the people die in vain!

After the old man thanked the little brother, the man jumped on horseback, left Guwei Village and returned to Yongcheng to resume his life.

After everyone in the village dispersed, the Shi family was already silent, and only the wailing sounds of "quacking, quacking" were heard from the croaking birds in the distance, and the sound echoed in the fields. After the silence, Lao Shi asked someone to help him go to Zhuzhuang and informed Shi Zhu's in-laws of the bad news.

Shi Zhu's girlfriend name is Guanghua, and he likes to dance with knives and sticks since he was a child, and his personality is like a boy. When it comes to the age of marriage, no one dares to come to propose marriage, which makes Daddy Zhu sad. When Lao Shi heard about this, he personally went to Zhu's house to propose marriage, but Zhu Guanghua refused three times in a row. Later, Shi Dakai went directly to Zhuzhuang and threw a big grass snake at Zhu Guanghua, but he didn't expect that Zhu Guanghua was not only not afraid, but also immediately decided to marry Shi Dakai.

I wish my father a good relief that his daughter finally got married and found a good home, but he didn't expect to suffer this fate, he was grief-stricken, he didn't come up in one breath, and he passed away. Zhu Lao Tai also cried until she fainted, if it wasn't for everyone to save her, I am afraid she would have gone with her husband.

After the Shi family finished the funeral of their son and daughter-in-law, the old couple still couldn't let go, but life had to go on after all, and the most important thing at the moment was to raise Shi Zhu, so as to leave the blood of the old Shi family.

Spring goes to autumn, flowers bloom and fall, just between this bucket and the stars, it has reached the sixteenth year of the Republic of China, and the stone pillar is already seven years old.

The ancestor of the old Shi family was the fourth son of the Yuan Dynasty Shi Mo Kan, and then, Shi Mo Kan lived in seclusion in Jiaodong from Xingzhong Mansion to reproduce his children, and after the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, he changed his surname to Shi in Han. Later, during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, due to the White Lotus uprising, he moved to Jining Prefecture, and lived in Jining for 440 or 50 years in the generation of Lao Shi's great-great-grandfather. During the Opium War, when the people's lives became increasingly difficult, Lao Shi's great-grandfather became a snake catcher from a local snake catcher. In the twelfth year of Guangxu, the natural disasters in Shandong continued, the Yellow River broke more than ten places, water, drought, wind, insect disasters followed, it can be said that the people were not able to make a living, the grandfather of the old stone led the whole family to the southeast direction and moved to the current Haizhou Guwei Village according to the instructions of the fortune teller.

The men of the Shi family have small thin eyes and single eyelids since word of mouth, but Shi Zhu followed her mother Shi Zhu's family, and she grew a pair of big eyes at a young age, with double eyelids inside, and the inside was bright, and she was bright at a glance.

The old stone knew that the world had changed, and the snake catcher would eventually become history, and besides, his son and daughter-in-law all died because of the snake catcher, and he was afraid that the stone pillar would suffer this accident in the future, so he decided not to teach the stone pillar the art of catching snakes, but only taught some self-defense methods and some martial arts moves. On the other hand, this snake catcher family has a strange ancestral motto, all snake catchers, no matter how many girls they gave birth to before, as long as they give birth to a boy, they can't have other children, therefore, in addition to the old stone family, there is an aunt in the old Shi family, and the generation of Shi Zhu is actually five generations of single transmission.

Now, in order to spread out the descendants of the Shi family and not break the rules of the ancestors, Lao Shi and Shi Yu have strengthened this determination.

Shizhu is no different from his peers in the village, only slightly thin, but he has learned a few kung fu tricks from Lao Shi since he was a child, and his body is very flexible, and children who are slightly older than him can't skin him. Although the old stone did not teach the stone pillar the art of catching snakes, but perhaps the family genes have taken root in his body, the stone pillar likes to catch snakes since he was a child, and often brings back some small snake seedlings, or throws them at other children to scare them, or directly throws them into their own homes, which is naturally indispensable to the old stone to count down, but the family is this one single seedling, and the old couple is hateful and pitiful.

Before and after the rain in the valley this year, Lao Shi suddenly received a letter from Jining Dao, and the letter was signed by Feng Qingyun. The old stone was surprised and delighted when he saw the letter, and he couldn't help shouting "oops" in his mouth, and even the stone pillar who was playing outside thought something had happened, and hurriedly ran into the house to see what was going on. The old stone couldn't wait to open the letter, and even his hands trembled visibly.

The letter was to the effect: My brother in Kyushu, it has been more than 20 years since the last parting, my brother is very worried, and everything is okay with my brother today? The foolish brother was shocked to learn that his nephew and nephew-in-law were killed in Mangdangshan a few years ago, and his heart was very sad! Thinking of how happy you and I were to fight with the evil python for three days and three nights in Jinan Mansion, now my brother wants to join forces with my brother again to go to Mangdang Mountain to capture the demon python, one to avenge the death of my nephew and nephew, and the other to remove this scourge for the people, I don't know what the virtuous brother wants? If agreed, the brother should meet with the younger brother on April 30 at the Peng Zu Temple on Xuzhou Road. I hope that the virtuous brother will reply!

The Kyushu mentioned in the letter is the real name of the old stone, Shi Kyushu, everyone now calls him the old stone, it is estimated that there are few people in the world who can know his name, Feng Qingyun is one of them.

Feng Qingyun's ancestors have been snake catchers for generations, his ancestors are said to be from Pingyang Mansion in Shanxi, created the snake catching tantra, and later immigrated to Tuntian in the early Ming Dynasty and were forced to move east to Jining, living there for more than 500 years, and the great-grandfather of the old stone was the father of Feng Qingyun's great-grandfather as a teacher.

Lao Shi has been playing with Feng Qingyun since he was born, and the two are of the same age, and they are like brothers together. Even if Lao Shi moved to Haizhou with his grandfather when he was very young, the two could still get together often because of snake hunting. They have been to Fujian and Hunan to catch small green dragons, and as far as Shaanxi, Gansu and Qinghai have been to catch snow mountain pitpers.

One year, the two of them rode to Jinan, in order to catch a local python, the two set up a few dragon formations, and it took three days and three nights to finally catch the python. On the way back, the old stone also happened to meet the current Shi Yushi, from a group of splashes to relieve her, at that time Shi Yushi in Jinan was already unrelated, the two fell in love at first sight, she followed the old stone to Haizhou.

When the old stone got married in the second year, Feng Qingyun also went to Haizhou to have a banquet, and a few years later, the two met again in Leifeng Pagoda to capture the legendary white snake, but there was nothing there. After that, the two were busy with their respective families, so they did not contact each other again, and it was more than 20 years.

After reading the letter, the old stone came back to his heart, and he also felt the fleeting time of time. After discussing with Shi Yu, he replied: Brother Qingyun, Huishu respectfully learns, and he is overjoyed to read it repeatedly. Since the last parting, my brother is also very concerned about my brother, thank my brother for my family's care, a few years ago the dog was killed, the white-haired man sent the black-haired man, the brother felt deeply remorseful, regretted that they should not have let them catch the demon python. The younger brother vowed to capture this python, peel the skin and cramp, and avenge his son. Then I also wanted to go to Mangdang Mountain, but I was afraid that it would be difficult to succeed on my own. Now the elder brother is willing to catch snakes with the younger brother and eliminate harm for the people, and the younger brother should be grateful. On April 30, he met with his brother in Xuzhou Road. Goodbye to my brother, my little brother is looking forward to it!

It was late afternoon after the old stone delivered the letter and then rushed home, and it was estimated that the letter would be delivered in less than 20 days.