Chapter 52: The White Snake Lady
Early in the morning, Jun fell back to the room and slept, and when he got up at noon, he didn't see three hundred, and asked Ah Lu to know that the disciples of Shuiyue Pavilion had sent a message this morning, saying that two more people had been lost in Yiyang City, and it was estimated that they had been captured by the black Jiao, and ten had been lost this month; Shen Yan and others thought that they could not delay, so they asked Xia Han and a few of them to set off immediately, and Xia Pingya also repaired a letter to ask Xia Chong to send more than a dozen Xia disciples to Yunmengze, but the life and death platform only went to three hundred and no wind, and Wu Yong did not follow.
"What's the matter with the villa?" asked Jun Luo as he drank the porridge. Ah Lu shook his head: "The Fourth Highness left the Sword Village this morning, and Ah Lan also sent a message to ask when the Sword Master would go back, it will be the old man's eighty-sixth birthday soon, and it is time to start preparing." β
"It's not in a hurry, the old man's birthday is in April, and it's been a long time. The woman in red nodded slightly, her fingers lightly clasped the table, and muttered: "There has been nothing going on in the village recently, since this is the case, then I might as well go to Yunmengze to do activities with them......
Green: Is it too late for me to say something?
Seeing his subordinates' faces, 'Actually, there are still many things in Jianzhuang', Jun Luo smiled helplessly: "What are you afraid of? Even if that piece of Tanzhou is the territory of Shuiyue Pavilion, can Zhongli Mingyue still eat me?" I heard that the old man and the master of Heijiao have gone to fight, and it just so happens that this time there is a chance, I also want to go and see who the demon is." β
"Water Moon Pavilion naturally can't do anything to you. Ah Lu sighed lightly and said in a low voice: "Sword Master, the Water Moon Pavilion has been quite strong recently, our Sword Village's business in Tanzhou has basically been broken, plus the Langshan Sword Sect is also friendly with the Water Moon Pavilion, and two large orders were withdrawn last year......
As soon as the woman in red raised her hand, Ah Lu closed her mouth knowingly and said no more. Ah Lu said that these junluo naturally knew that Zhongli Mingyue looked like a straw bag and actually liked to use some small tricks behind his back, Jianzhuang's income last year was less than thirty percent, and twenty percent less in Tanzhou, which is still the case that there are fewer immortals in Tanzhou. Now that Han Rong is also in line, Junluo should really plan carefully.
Han Rong...... With this name in his heart, Junluo fell into deep thought.
Baijia Village.
A few rays of light crossed the sky, and Xia Han and the others collected the magic weapons one after another and landed outside a village. It was evening, and the brilliant fiery clouds covered half of the sky, deep red and light purple, with a dark blue skylight, which was wonderful. There is still half a day's journey away from Yun Mengze, and several people are going to stay in this village.
There are about 30 families in this village, chickens and dogs smell each other, the houses are like this, there is an official road to the west, and there is a hill to the east; flowers are planted at the door of each house. Yu Tianhe walked in front, and suddenly said: "This village doesn't seem to be quite right...... I saw that the doors of the houses in the village were closed, and a strip of white cloth was tied in front of the door, although it could be seen that there were people living, but at this time the streets and alleys were empty, and gusts of wind blew through the flowers in front of the courtyard, which was quite weird.
Suddenly, Xia Han moved his nose, his brows furrowed slightly: "There is a smell of snakes...... Yu Tianhe glanced at her in surprise: "How did you smell it?" The woman in Tsing Yi smiled helplessly: "There are thousands of snakes in the valley, and you can smell them after a long time." β
"The demon wind is gusting, there is definitely something strange about this place. Wufeng raised his hand, and a wisp of white smoke rose from his fingertips, spreading towards the village, but when he entered the village gate, it turned black in an instantβthe jade fragrance changed color, and there was a demon here. The three hundred leaders walked towards the town, and before they stepped into the village gate, they suddenly heard a few door knocks, and all the originally closed wooden doors were opened, and the villagers rushed out and knelt down in front of the three hundred Qi brushes: "See the white snake lady!"
"White Snake Niangniang?" Sanbai was slightly stunned, looked at his white clothes, and was helpless for a while: "You recognize the wrong person, we are just on the road for a long time, and we want to come to the village for a night, not the White Snake Niang Niang in your mouth." Saying that, she raised her hand backwards, and the village chief led by her hesitated for a moment, and when she saw that several people were dressed differently, she was sure that she had really made a fuss, coughed twice, and said quite unnaturally: "It turned out to be an outsider, and we thought it was the White Snake Niangniang who came to choose a boy and a girl." There are two rooms in the village that are specially prepared for outsiders to settle down, Ah Fu, and take these guests there. β
Three hundred wanted to continue to ask, but saw that the villagers returned to their homes like a puff of smoke, and with a few muffled sounds, they returned to the way the door was closed just now, and the young man named Ah Fu who stayed behind looked at them and smiled stiffly, and made a gesture of please: "A few people here, please." β
"Little brother, just now you said that the White Snake Niangniang chooses boys and girls, what is this saying?" The woman in white asked softly, Ah Fu's body trembled, shook his head, pursed his lips tightly, and did not speak, but Xia Han found that his eyes were wandering around, and when he looked at Ah Fu's gaze, he could see a pair of villagers' eyes in the cracks in the window. They were like watchers, watching Ah Fu lead a few outsiders to their house, their eyes numb and stern, which made people very uncomfortable.
"This is it. "Open the door, Afu. These two rooms are neatly tied, even the quilts are new, Ah Fu said that this is a few days ago there are also visitors to live, just freshly washed. He seemed to be scared of these people, but when he looked up at the sky for the tenth time, Wufeng spoke: "What happens when it's dark and stays outside?"
This sentence seemed to explode a thunderbolt in Ah Fu's ears, and he was so frightened that he sat on the ground as if he had seen a ghost: "You can't say this nonsense, you can't say it nonsense...... Can't talk nonsense......" I don't know who he is emphasizing to Wu Feng and Yu Tianhe glanced at each other, and directly pulled people into the house, and Peng Di closed the door suddenly.
Ah Fu, who entered the house, howled twice like a pig, and was directly stuffed into his mouth by Yu Tianhe with a ball of waste paper. The ears were temporarily clear, Xia Han touched the paper-paste window, and his brows shrugged high: "Other rooms are all wood-opened windows, but here is paper-paste, it seems that there is something strange about these two rooms." β
Seeing the four of them surround themselves, Ah Fu let out a muffled cry and finally deflated. After taking out the paper ball and regaining the freedom to speak, Ah Fu looked at the darkening sky outside, and trembled like chaff: "You, you, you want to know what......"
"White Snake Lady. "Three hundred.
Ah Fu tried to calm his voice and said, "Our village has been here for generations, and it has a history of hundreds of years. The people in this village are all surnamed Bai, because of the white snake Niangniang. Legend has it that when our ancestors first arrived here, they were about to flee when they heard the screams of the monsters in the caves in the mountains, and some dared to say that they saw a white light falling from the sky. The next day, a lady in white came to the village with the head of the monster and said, 'This evil demon has been subdued, so you don't have to be afraid.' Someone asked the name of the immortal to build a temple to worship, but the lady in white turned into a white python and rose to the sky and disappeared. The ancestors thus set up a temple on the mountainside, which was called the White Snake Niangniang Temple, and changed their surname. β
"The White Snake Niangniang has blessed our village for hundreds of years, no matter what kind of disaster year outside, our village will not be affected, and there will be no shortage of food and clothing. Until someone went to the temple and made a wish...... The man was a drunkard, and that night he got drunk, and went to the temple to make a wish to marry a beautiful wife, but the next day, the parents of the little beauty in our village went to propose marriage to him. The man felt that it was working, and it spread throughout the village, and the people of the village rushed to make a wish, and all the gold they collected on land was fulfilled. Last year was also in February, it was dark, we were sleeping soundly in the village, and suddenly heard the sound of fluttering music from the entrance of the village, a few of us dared to go out to see, only to see a lady in white coming to the clouds, but it is not the one enshrined in the temple!"
"The White Snake Niangniang said that she has blessed the village for many years, and now there is a shortage of boys and girls around her, so she will come to choose once a month in the future. We were all scared, but the old people in the village were so happy that they were still vying to send their grandchildren forward. There are a total of 33 families in Baijia Village, where are there so many babies and children? When there are no children, the village chief goes to intercede, but the White Snake Niangniang says that as long as they are virgins, it is fine. At this time, the people in the village knew that they were afraid, so they hid their seven or eight-year-old children, and the village chief said no, but the white snake lady found the child hidden in the cellar and took it away. Since then, at the beginning of every month, we have not dared to go out at night, and now that there are no children in the village, she can only arrest us if she arrests us......"
Yu Tianhe nodded, and glanced at the paper-paste window: "So there are outsiders at the beginning of the month, you treat them as substitutes for the dead ghosts, this paper-paste window will be broken as soon as it is poked, and the white snake lady will naturally come to the good house first." β
The calculation was exposed, and Ah Fu hung his head deeply. Three hundred sighed softly and said, "Then will we sleep in separate rooms tonight?"
"Let's sleep separately. Xia Han looked at the three hundred windless: "This white snake demon likes to catch a pair, you two in one room, and two of me in one room." The details of this snake demon are not clear, but it is definitely not a thousand-year cultivation, so it should not be difficult to deal with, and the remaining two people stay in the village to avoid any changes. β
"It's okay, just follow what Miss Xia said. Yu Tianhe echoed. The four of them divided the room and stuffed Ah Fu under the bed, and it was already the moon outside.
Wufeng lit the half of the candle on the table, and said softly: "I'm tired of a day, you can sleep for a while, I'll be here to watch." Three hundred obediently responded, and was just about to lie down, but his hand touched a cold object. She picked up the jade pendant, the water head was very full, it must be expensive, it didn't look like something that would be left behind.
Unless they left in a hurry and never returned.
Recalling the sluggish appearance of those villagers, as well as the smell of snakes that Xia Han said when he entered the village, Sanbai's heart palpitated.
"By the way, Miss Xia, didn't you say that you smelled the smell of snakes, but are you still there?" Yu Tianhe suddenly remembered and asked. The woman in Tsing Yi at the table shook her head: "I can only smell the fragrance of flowers now, I really don't know why I plant so many ......."
Something suddenly crossed his mind, Xia Han turned around suddenly, and Ah Fu under the bed met the angry gaze, grinned, and spit out the snake letter:
"Welcome to Baijia Village, monks. β