Chapter 84: The Python Plate Wellhead
So Yi Xingchen helped him to get up slowly, held on to the wall and walked under the crossing, opened the stone slab, and then pulled Li Xuehao up after he went up first. Just like this, Li Xuehao's wound was so painful that he died, sat on the stone slab and gasped for half a while, and then he barely stood up again, and thanks to his martial arts, he was able to slowly support and walk within a few days when he was so seriously injured.
Yi Xingchen helped him out of the backyard, came to the street, sat down on the stone steps of the roadside shop, waited for a while before seeing a specially hired carriage coming, beckoned to stop, Yi Xingchen helped Li Xuehao into the carriage, and then asked him: "Do you need me to send you there?" Or do you go on your own? ”
Li Xuehao swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, and said: "Brother Yi, help people to the end, send the Buddha to the west, please give me another ride." I'm worried that the friend I'm going to find isn't there, and I'll have to trouble you to take care of me at that time. Thank you! ”
Yi Xingchen chuckled in his heart, wondering if he would trick himself into going to that place, find someone to kill him, and kill him? However, he immediately denied this idea in his heart, because he had already said that it was a good luck to associate with this Li Xuehao, so he would not be worried.
So Yi Xingchen nodded and said, "Where are we going?" ”
"Out of Nancheng to Xiaohezhuang."
Yi Xingchen told the handlebar style the destination, and the handlebar price was very high, asking for 300 wen, because the distance was a little far, and it was night. The money Li Xuehao gave him before was no longer enough to pay for this trip, but Li Xuehao said that someone would naturally pay when he arrived at the place, so he didn't bargain anymore and drove to Nancheng with a handlebar.
Li Xuehao lay on the car, and there were two sounds from time to time as the car shook. Obviously, the shaking of the car affected the wound, and Yi Xingchen couldn't talk when he sat next to him, because outside the carport was the handlebar type, and it would be miserable if he said that he leaked his mouth, so he silently walked out of the city and south with the shaking of the cart.
There is an official road to the south, but the ancient official road is because it is all horses and carriages, and Tunzhou is not a very important town, and the funds for maintaining the official road are very limited, so the maintenance of the official road can not keep up, and a road is full of potholes. Coupled with the crushing of the wheels, the road was full of ruts, the already uneven dirt road was crushed and even more tattered, and the carriage was very bumpy when it walked. This is really miserable for Yi Xingchen, who is accustomed to modern and smooth cement roads and asphalt roads.
The handlebar type didn't care, and even hummed a little song, after all, this trip can earn 300 Wen, and the hard work of the night is worth it.
After traveling for more than an hour, I finally saw the lights in the distance. The handlebar type said, "It's coming soon." ”
Yi Xingchen lifted the curtain and took a look, and saw that the village was not big, only a few scattered lights. Perhaps because of the habit of resting at sunrise and sunset, the ancients, especially the peasants in the countryside, mostly went to bed after dark, and did not light the lamp.
When they arrived at the edge of the village, they heard the barking of dogs, and several little black dogs stood on the side of the road and barked wildly at the carriage, but they did not dare to come up.
The car went all the way into the village, and when it arrived in the village, Yi Xingchen helped Li Xuehao to get up and watch the surrounding situation, directed the carriage to move forward, and stopped in front of a house.
Li Xuehao said to Yi Xingchen: "Brother, please go down and knock on the door, just say that Brother Li from Causeway Lane is here." Let them come out and pick me up. ”
Yi Xingchen estimated that this place should be a den of the White Lotus Sect, and hurriedly agreed to jump out of the car and step forward quickly. Looking up at this house, it was just an ordinary farmhouse courtyard, and the only thing that caught his attention was that there was a very tall and curved poplar tree growing outside the wall of the house, and this poplar tree must have been around for many years, and it was very thick and tall, and it took almost two or three people to hug it. And most of the tree has died, and only a new branch has grown near the treetops.
He went up the steps to the courtyard gate, grabbed the brass ring on the door and knocked on the door. Soon, a question came from inside: "Who?" ”
Yi Xingchen replied according to what Li Xuehao said, and the people inside quickly opened the courtyard door, and a middle-aged man came out and looked Yi Xingchen up and down, then looked at the carriage behind him, and asked in a deep voice: "Who did you just say?" ”
So Yi Xingchen repeated it again.
The man turned around and shouted in surprise, and two more people came out of it, the first one was an old man with a slender figure, and the three of them came to the carriage together, and when they opened the curtains, they saw Li Xuehao, and they were suddenly surprised, happy and panicked. The two hurriedly helped him, one ran back to get a couch, helped Li Xuehao to sit on it, and the three of them carried him out of the carriage and walked inside.
When passing by Yi Xingchen's side, Li Xuehao hurriedly stopped, beckoned Yi Xingchen to come over, and whispered in his ear: "Thank you brother, it's still the same sentence, thank you for your kindness, if you need my help, you can go to the Causeway Teahouse at the mouth of Causeway Lane, find a tea doctor surnamed Xie, and ask him if he has any old tea from Lotus Mountain?" He would say that there is an old tea that has been separated for three years, and if so, what price would he be willing to pay? Answer that you are willing to pay three hundred and sixty-five dollars for one penny. This is the incision for identification. Once you've made the incision, you can tell him something. He'll tell me. I'm here to help. Remember? ”
Yi Xingchen couldn't help but be overjoyed, nodded and said, "I remember." Thank you."
"You're welcome, Brother Yi, you take the car back, they will pay the fare. Also, don't tell anyone about what I'm doing here, please. ”
Yi Xingchen nodded, didn't say much, jumped into the carriage, and someone came up to pay the round-trip fare. The handlebar turned the carriage and walked back.
As soon as I arrived at the entrance of the village, I suddenly saw a few children running in this direction, screaming as they ran, and seemed to be very panicked. The handlebar type was startled and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" What's wrong? ”
One child gasped and said, "Over there, in that abandoned well, there is a big snake that scares people to death." ”
The handlebar style was also startled, and quickly pulled the reins to let the horse slowly move forward from the other side of the road. He was afraid that the poisonous snake would bite the horse, but he would lose a lot.
The carriage went a short way, and sure enough, it saw the well that the child had mentioned.
When they came over before, Yi Xingchen just looked around, and didn't pay attention to the situation on the ground on both sides of the road, so he didn't pay attention to any wells. Now I heard what the children said, and I looked up busily, the moon was exceptionally bright this night, and it was bright all around, and I could roughly see it clearly from dozens of steps away, so I could see clearly that there was indeed a black hole hole on the side of the road, but the water wheel on it had fallen aside, and from this situation, it seemed that there was no water in the well, and it was an abandoned well.
Yi Xingchen carefully identified it, and finally saw the situation in Qingjing, and couldn't help but feel the cold hairs on his body stand on end. - It turns out that there is a big python coiled down that well! There were children with the thickness of their arms, and they wrapped the whole mouth of the well, and their heads were lying on the ground staring at them.
Could it be that this snake python lived in this ruined well and crawled out now?
Seeing Yi Xingchen and their carriage coming, the python didn't move, still lying lazily, hissing and spitting out a long snake letter, which could be seen very clearly in the moonlight, and scared the handlebar style into a cold sweat.
Yi Xingchen was taken aback, not because he saw a big python, but because the scene was too weird. -- In an abandoned dry well under the moonlight, a huge python coiled. This kind of scene is not something you usually see.
Fortune-telling pays attention to "vision divination", that is to say, when encountering strange phenomena that are rarely seen in ordinary times, then you need to see if there is any warning through fortune-telling? Can you peek into the heavens from it?
So, Yi Xingchen decided to calculate a hexagram