Chapter 59: The Dragon and the Snake
In order to save the Three Realms, Hou Qing used his life to resolve this crisis. Because of Hou Qing's departure, the Ice Breaking Divine Iron and the Red Refining Cage naturally ceased to exist.
Han Meng's heart couldn't forget Hou Qing for a long time, he had promised Hou Qing to let him have a real body, but now he did let him deserve a life, if it wasn't for his own reasons, then he was very likely to be the king of the Three Realms with Ouyang Bing.
"No, Ouyang Bing is such a narrow-minded person, he won't share the world with others," Han Meng thought to himself.
Han Meng and Liu Yiyi stayed in X Town for another two days, prepared some necessary cold things and dry food, and then rushed to the next stop, Shuishui Town.
Shuishui Town is surrounded by mountains on three sides, one side faces the water, the source of water comes from the high Himalayas, the water is crystal clear, the town is surrounded by evergreen trees, clear air, green blue sky, so that the people here are all white in leather clothes, a little girl is as beautiful as a fairy, and the dimples on the face are even more moving.
Every household in Shuishui Town believes in the snake god, because there are many snakes and insects in the primeval forest here, people generally do not go to the forest to play, and only woodcutters often go up the mountain.
And there are always some children who talk non-stop and are happy to play in the mountains, and the adults in the family often scare the children with some stories, and what they tell the children is the story of the dragon and snake.
Legend has it that a thousand years ago, an old man went to the mountains to chop wood, and on his way back, he saw a hunter holding a small snake in his hand, and his tail was bleeding non-stop.
After the little snake saw the old man, its tail kept swinging, and tears kept flowing out, and the old man saw that the little snake was really pitiful, so he decided to go up to the hunter to ask for this little snake.
"I don't know what this brother wants this little snake for."
"Hehe, go back and kill it to make snacks."
The hunter replied treacherously, he looked at the old man and understood what he meant, and he smiled and said, "Does the old brother want this little snake?"
"Hehe, brother is really smart, you see that you have caught so much prey, it would be better to give me this little snake." The old man pointed to the prey in the hunter's hand and said.
The hunter smiled at the old man and said nothing, the old man looked at it and was also anxious, I don't know what he meant, "Seeing that there is unhealthy air leaking between the eyebrows and feathers, I better hurry down the mountain" The old man said in his heart.
"Hey, don't you want this little snake" The hunter saw that the old man wanted to have it, and quickly stepped forward to stop him and said, at this time he was thinking quickly in his heart, he was very unhappy in his heart, and thought in his heart: I have such a hard prey, I will give it to you with your words.
"Brother, if you cut off an arm to make me a drink, I'll give you this snake," said the hunter rudely, thinking that he would not cut off one of his arms for such a small thing.
The old man looked at the hunter and thought, "I still don't want to lose an arm because of such a little fellow," but he looked up at the little snake again, and was looking at himself and waiting for his life.
The old man suddenly took out a woodcutter from his back and cut off his right arm with a "click".
"Take my arm to the bar for you", the old man picked up the arm from the ground and gave it to the hunter, the hunter was already stupid at this time, he was just joking, who knew that the old man was serious.
"I, I, don't want it, you better keep it for yourself" The hunter dropped the prey in his hand and ran away, now he didn't want to drink with the old man's arm, and his legs went weak when he thought of the scene just now.
The old man collapsed halfway up the mountain due to excessive blood loss.
Three days later.
The old man slowly opened his eyes, looked up and saw that his left arm was really gone, he originally thought it was just a dream, who knew that it was true, he turned his head to the left, and suddenly found a small snake coiled on the head of the bed.
The old man slowly calmed himself down, thinking that he had lost an arm to save it, and it would definitely not hurt him.
"Did you bring me back," the old man said, looking at the little snake on the bedside.
"Hehe, how is it possible, how can such a small thing of yours have so much strength, what am I thinking" The old man shook his head with a wry smile.
"Zizi...... Zizi" The little snake spit out his tongue at the old man, and then nodded to him, the old man was very surprised when he saw it, "Could it be that you understand what I said" The old man said to the little snake.
"Zizi" The little snake nodded at the old man again.
The old man was suddenly overjoyed, he didn't expect that he had saved a very humane snake, and when he saw that the snake's body was like a dragon's body, he named him "Dragon Snake".
The dragon snake and the old man live happily, no matter where the old man goes, the dragon snake will follow him, since the luck of the old man with the dragon and snake is also good, he will always win when he fights crickets, go fishing in the lake, and will catch a fish in less than half an hour.
It is precisely because of this that the old man lived a rich life, and the neighbors were very envious of the old man's life, and they all knew that he could live such a rich life, all of which was given to him by his little snake.
Hurry up and the hunter found out about the dragon snake, he now regrets giving the little snake to the old man, and he decided to steal the dragon snake back, so that he can live a happy and prosperous life himself.
One night.
"Giggle...... Giggle......".
The light in the old man's house suddenly turned on, and he heard the chickens in the chicken coop crow, "Could it be that there is a chicken thief in the house," the old man said in his heart.
"Who~".
The old man picked up the wooden stick behind the door and walked out, just in time to see a huge figure walking towards him.
"Who are you and what do you want to do?" asked the old man, daringly, and seeing the man approaching him, he quickly retreated into the house, hiding behind the door with a stick.
The door was slowly opened, and the old man raised a wooden stick and beat it, but he was caught by the big man with his hand, and the big man smiled and wanted the old man to walk away, his expression was so obscene.
"It's you, what do you want to do" The old man saw that he was a hunter, so he calmed down a lot.
"Hehe, brother, I just want to go back to that little snake," the hunter slowly approached the old man.
The old man has always regarded the dragon snake as his partner, the dragon snake can not only bring him good luck, but also can give him happiness, and now hearing that the hunter wants the dragon snake, the old man quickly picked up the dragon snake and hid on the bed.
"Don't come here, or I'll kill you," said the old man, holding up his stick with a trembling hand, and as soon as the hunter stepped forward, the old man struck him on the head.
"Uh............".
The hunter stood motionless, his pupils slowly dilated, and his head was bleeding. The old man was also stupid when he saw this situation, and he fainted on the bed at once, and the dragon snake crawled on his stomach and slowly fell asleep.
On the second day, the people of the Yamen took the old man and convicted him of murder, and killed him without the old man's explanation, and the little snake was taken away by the hunter's wife that day.
A week later, all the hunters' families died on that mountain, and another week the yamen and the official who cut off the old man's head also died, and the dragon snake disappeared that day.
Later, I heard that their death was related to the dragon and snake, as long as someone went to the mountain, they could not escape the fate of being killed, so the people of Water Town did not ask the children to go up the mountain to play
The people in the village were afraid that the snake would take revenge on the village, and they also believed that the snake was spiritual, so they built a dragon and snake temple at the west end of the village.
The story has been passed down to this day, and to this day there are many areas where snakes are spiritual, and when you see them, you have to stay away.