Chapter 44: Turning the Tide of Danger
In the early morning, the sun is rising, the essence is ready to be vomited, the inside and outside are red, and it slowly protrudes above the mountains and the sea of clouds.
A pine tree with staggered roots stands tall among the thorns on the mountain. A yellow snake coiled around the pine branch, with several scratches on its body, and Yin Yin oozed blood. I saw it holding its head high to the sun, its eyes seemed to be open and closed, absorbing the essence of the sun.
A cloud of white mist slowly drifted from the sky to the top of the mountain. The white mist converged and turned into a woman.
The woman stood quietly under the tree, looking at the yellow snake with pity. When she was young, a crystal clear red bead spit out from the woman's mouth and slowly floated above the yellow snake, the red bead became brighter and brighter, emitting a dazzling light to shine on the yellow snake. Irradiated by the red light, the scratches on the yellow snake's body slowly healed, and gradually disappeared from the traces.
The sun rises higher and higher. The woman sucked the red beads back into her abdomen, and the yellow snake ended her cultivation and crawled to the bottom of the tree along the branches, and as soon as she landed, she turned into a young girl, threw herself into the woman's arms, and wept.
The woman stroked the girl's hair and blamed herself: "It's all bad for my mother, let my son go out in danger!"
The girl raised her head, her face full of tears, and comforted the woman: "Mother, it's all my carelessness, it's none of my mother's business!" The girl spoke very slowly, as if racking her brains to think and say what she wanted to say.
The girl suddenly asked curiously, "How did my mother know that I was injured?" ”
The woman said: "You are the heart of your mother, as soon as you have an accident, I am frightened, I am recuperating in the cave, suddenly my heart moves, I feel wrong, I know that something is wrong with you." I know that you like to go to the Xishan Ridge to collect the water of the Tianhe River, so I came straight in this direction, and I searched for a long time before I found you here!"
The woman breathed a sigh of relief and continued: "Xiaoqian, tell Wei Niang, what's going on?"
Xiao Qian went out to look for Tianhe water, but was attacked by the golden eagle, but fortunately met a gentleman who killed the golden eagle with a pine ball, and he said that he had saved the day.
It turns out that the mother and daughter are both snake spirits, the old snake spirit has been practicing for thousands of years, and the little snake spirit has just cultivated into a human body. This snake essence absorbs the essence of the sun and the moon, accumulates over the years, and after achieving the death of a person, it must learn to speak like a human before it can recite mantras, continue to cultivate, and leap to a higher level. In order to learn the human language, the snake spirit must take advantage of the time when the person is asleep, to the person's mouth to absorb the yang energy, after the loss of the person's yang energy, the mouth will not be so effective, will flow out of saliva, that is, saliva, the northerners are commonly known as Harazi, the snake spirit takes the opportunity to collect the saliva with a utensil, return to the cave and then use a certain method to absorb the aura, in order to learn the human language.
After this little snake cultivated the human body, when stealing people's yang energy, he happened to meet a girl with a language impairment, the little snake spirit only saw that the girl was beautiful, and did not think that her language was born dull, after stealing her yang energy, although she could speak human language, but also the same as the girl, the language expression ability was extremely poor.
In order to gain better language skills, Xiao Qian must return the yang energy she had stolen earlier. She went out this time to return the yang energy to the girl with a language barrier, and after returning the yang energy, she picked a little yang energy and Tianhe water by the way.
Xiao Qian kept her mother's teachings in mind, and after stealing other people's yang energy and Tianhe water, she thought of finding some precious medicinal materials from the mountains, or finding some gold and silver to repay others. After the snake is refined into a human form, it has a lot of mana and supernatural powers, it is not difficult to obtain these things, but it still takes effort, who knows that one and two come and go, overworked, show its true appearance, and was attacked by the golden eagle, if it was not for someone to rescue, I am afraid that it would have been buried in the belly of the eagle.
Xiao Qian's language skills are even worse after she loses her yang energy, so that she has to think before and after thinking to express her thoughts.
"Child, we have to find a chance to repay others, without your father-in-law, I wouldn't have your precious daughter!"
Xiaoqian nodded, and said slowly: "Mother, it's just that I don't know who this Engong's surname is, it's a pity, I don't know if I will have the opportunity to repay others in the future." ”
"Pay attention in the future, maybe there will be a chance to meet. The old snake spirit and his daughter Xiaoqian were talking, and then they flew towards the cave in a cloud of mist.
As he was about to return to the cave and fly in the air, the old serpent was stunned by what he saw: the mountains were charred and black, and only a few unburned tree trunks stood in the autumn wind. I had just left the cave for half a day, and the mountains and forests in front of my house had become like this.
The mother and daughter sighed and were very sad. As soon as they went down to the cave, they suddenly found that there were people in the cave, and the mother and daughter were taken aback. I saw Zhao Wanming and Huang Xian leaning against the stone wall at the bottom of the cave and sleeping. Xiao Qian recognized Huang Xian and Zhao Wanming at once, and said to her mother in surprise: "Mother, this Langjun is my benefactor!"
Xiao Qian saw that it was Engong sleeping at the bottom of the cave, so she took a closer look. Who knew that this detail was not tight, but it touched the emotional barrier of this little snake spirit. Huang Xian was born with a handsome physique, eyebrows and eyes, his face was like a crown of jade, his nose was straight and his mouth was square, Xiao Qian looked at it carefully, and fell in love. The old snake spirit was afraid of alarming the two, so he motioned his daughter to leave quickly, and the two entered the inner cave.
The old snake spirit said: "Xiaoqian, it is inconvenient for our mother and daughter to come forward to meet them. After all, we are snake fairies, they are human beings, and there is a gap in communication. Then we will not become graces and revenge. Now that you've met your benefactor again, it's better to help them secretly. Looking at their embarrassed appearance, they must have encountered insurmountable difficulties. Xiao Qian nodded yes.
The two of them were talking, when they heard someone shouting on the top of the cave, "Wang Dao Chief, there is a cave here." Then I heard footsteps, and seven or eight people were walking towards the cave.
The old snake spirit immediately realized that these people might have come to look for these two people outside the cave, and that they were not good, and most of them were their enemies, so he said to his daughter, "Daughter, the opportunity to repay your benefactor has come." ”
Before Xiao Qian could reply to her mother's words, she heard the sound of Huang Xian and Zhao Wanming approaching the inner cave lightly.
The old snake spirit motioned to her daughter to hide herself and not make a sound, so as not to alarm these people outside.
Inside the cave is a dark river that leads to a stream in the valley beyond. When it rains, it flows from the dark river into the stream. The old snake spirit recited the mantra, stretched out his hand and waved at the dark river, and a layer of mist rose on the surface of the river, and the mist became more and more, constantly converging in front of the mother and daughter, and in the blink of an eye, the snake spirit mother and daughter disappeared into the thick mist.
Huang Xian was really startled when he heard the sound of talking on the top of the cave: he was not the opponent of the kings, if he was blocked in the cave by them, how could he escape! At this time, Zhao Wanming also heard the movement, woke up from his sleep, and looked at Huang Xian with a pair of big watery eyes, as if he was expecting him to have an idea.
Huang Xian was in a hurry, took Miss Zhao's hand and went into the inner cave, he hoped that he could find a hidden place in the cave, and he could avoid the search of Wang Daoren and others. The cave was so dark that they could barely see their fingers, and the two groped their way to move deeper into the cave.
There was a crunch, followed by a pop, and it was someone jumping from the bottom of the hole with a rattan.
"Wang Daochang, there are sika deer and rabbits that have been eaten here! and there are firewood piles for warmth, they must have stayed here. ”
Huang Xian secretly regretted that he should clean up the scene, and now his whereabouts are all known by his opponents.
There was a pop, and four or five people jumped into the cave again.
"Light a torch and search inside. It was the voice of the royal man, and Huang Xian listened to this voice very harshly.
Knowing that Suosuo's footsteps were getting closer and closer, it was obvious that Wang Daochang and the others had slowly come to the inner cave.
"Oh, there's nothing to see here!" someone exclaimed in a low voice.
Under the light of the torches, the water in the cave was so misty that it was impossible to see anything clearly.
"Go inside!" urged Wang Daochang.
Wang Daoren was just about to scold everyone for a careful search, when suddenly a gust of wind blew in the cave, and everyone couldn't help but shiver.
"Oops!" After the wind passed, with a scream, the torch was extinguished, and the inner hole was completely black.
"There's a bit of an evil sect in here!" someone complained in the dark.
Wang Daoren muttered to himself, this wind is blowing evilly, is there something strange in this cave, so he was cowardly, and he wanted to leave and was unwilling, so he had an idea and ordered everyone to release arrows into the cave.
When Wang Daoren entered the cave with a torch, Huang Xian took Zhao Wanming's hand and was groping in the inner cave to find a place to hide, but the walls of the cave were smooth and there was nothing to hide. Huang Xian touched his body, the black smoke bombs had long been used up, and there were only three darts left with him. He clasped all three darts in the palm of his hand, and once the enemy spotted him, he fought them.
Hearing Wang Daoren say that he wanted to release arrows, Huang Xian was afraid of hurting Miss Zhao, so he hurriedly reached out and held her in his arms and pressed her under him. Zhao Wanming was already snuggling tightly to her side, and she couldn't see the position clearly in the dark, Huang Xian's hand was unfortunately pressing on her chest, the tentacles were soft, Huang Xian hurriedly moved her hand down, but a passion quickly rose in her heart, and her blood seemed to be boiling.
The water in the cave is full of mist, and it is difficult to see the five fingers when you stretch out your hand, but the snake spirit mother and daughter are not affected at all, and the behavior of the people in the cave can be seen clearly. Xiao Qian was afraid of hurting her benefactor, so she used her magic power and blew on the archers, and their archery hands unconsciously raised their positions, and the arrows sneered and shot out, all of which clanged and fell to the ground on the stone wall above Huang Xian's body, and the two of them were unscathed.
"Wang Dao is long, there is no one in the cave. Someone reminded the king.
The king told everyone to retreat.
Everyone was eager to leave this ghost place quickly, and after listening to the instructions of the king, they rushed to get out of the inner hole.
When it was young, there was no sound outside the cave.
Huang Xian tentatively walked out to investigate, but sure enough, there was no one to see.
"It's so dangerous! Brother Huang, if they let go of their arrows a little lower, I'm afraid we will all die. Zhao Wanming had palpitations.
Huang Xian smiled: "It's really strange that these grandsons are close at hand but don't find us!"
Huang Xian scratched his head and wondered, "When I went to the cave yesterday to see, there wasn't so much fog!"
Huang Xian shook his head, and suddenly said happily: "I understand!"
Zhao Wanming also felt strange, and when she heard Huang Xian explain, she asked eagerly, "What do you understand?"
Huang Xian's eyes lit up, looked at Miss Zhao's clear eyes and smiled: "I heard my mother say that all beautiful girls have fairy protection, and those mist are probably taken by the fairy mother to protect you, I'm afraid it's your blessing!"
Miss Zhao saw Huang Xian turning around and praising herself for her beauty, and said with a smile: "Then you should thank me, what do you use to thank me?"
"Bang, bang!" Suddenly, there were two crisp sounds in the inner hole, and Huang Zhao and both of them jumped.
Xiao Qian listened to Huang Zhao and the others flirting and scolding outside in the inner cave, and she was so jealous that she raised her foot and kicked a piece of gravel, and the gravel flew to the cave wall and fell to the ground, with two crisp sounds.
The old snake spirit glared at her daughter angrily, signaling her not to act rashly, which frightened Huang Zhao and the others.
Huang Xian tiptoed to the inner cave to find out, Miss Zhao was injured, limped, and followed closely behind.
As soon as they entered the inner cave, Huang Zhao and the others were taken aback, the fog inside had almost disappeared, although it was dim and damp, but the carved arrows scattered on the ground and the stalactites hanging from the roof of the cave could be vaguely seen.
The snake spirit mother and daughter performed stealth and stood beside Huang Zhao and the others, but the two turned a blind eye.
Huang Xian was amazed and sighed: "Sure enough, there is the protection of the fairy mother, otherwise how could there be no fog in a blink of an eye! But this sound is indeed a bit evil?"
Miss Zhao leaned over and picked up a stone from the ground, pointed to the stalactites on the top and said, maybe it was peeled off from above.
Huang Xian nodded yes, and suddenly said in surprise: "Miss Zhao, I have a way to get out of the cave!"