"I'm going to eat you!" Zhang Tao told Xue'er straightforwardly with his eyes.

"It's okay to eat, but don't eat it all?" Cher replied shyly and hesitantly.

"No! I'm going to eat you to the bone! Zhang Tao said fiercely.

"But... But I'm afraid of pain, you know, it's the first time for people! Cher said nervously.

"Don't worry! Brother has experience and knows how to be gentle. Of course, Zhang Tao will not pass on this to the past.

After a heart-to-heart conversation, Zhang Tao roughly pulled Xue'er into his arms, looking extremely vicious and hideous, and the mouth that was still stained with snake blood also bit Xue'er fiercely.

Cry wolf! Xue'er suddenly let out a terrifying exclamation, and then pushed Zhang Tao away and stood up.

Zhang Tao was about to get angry, and a voice sounded behind him, "Who?" ”

Zhang Tao looked back and saw an old man with a rickety body walking towards them through a pile of thorns.

"Gengenye, what are you sneaking around for? It's scared to death! Zhang Tao shouted angrily.

"It's Tugu! You kid, so the cat is here! Gen Genye glanced meaningfully at Xue'er beside Zhang Tao, and suddenly said.

Then he said angrily as if he suddenly remembered something: "This is my territory, why can't I come?" Your classmates screamed and screamed and turned the whole mountain upside down, I thought the bandits burned the mountain! ”

"Did you see them?" Zhang Tao asked suspiciously. But he snorted coldly in his heart and said, your territory? It's going to be Lao Tzu's territory soon!

"They are all screaming on the top of the mountain, don't you hear that loud noise?"

After a pause, Gengen snorted coldly and said, "I don't see them, they will catch my chickens as pheasants!" ”

Zhang Tao didn't answer, but he was secretly scolding in his heart, catch it well, you dead roots, you will go to your chicken coop to steal it.

Gengen was also a little angry when he saw Zhang Tao like this. I told you about your classmate's chicken stealing, and you didn't say a word, but seemed to agree with it, what kind of behavior is this? Didn't I just ruin your good deeds? I didn't mean to do it, wasn't I patrolling the mountains? Besides, with such a large mountain forest, why do you want cats on my way to patrol the mountains? Also, you guys are hiding from doing that, just doing it, but you want to make such a big move, can I not come and see it?

Thinking about it this way, Gengen, who originally planned to walk away with interest, felt that it was necessary to teach Zhang Tao a lesson before speaking. However, as soon as his eyes swept over the serpent on the ground, the anger and anger in his heart, and the words of the lesson, all disappeared. He took a few steps back in involuntary panic, and then shouted in a fuss, "Oops! Tugu, you killed this snake! ”

"It's a joke, I didn't kill it, did it kill itself?" Zhang Tao sarcastically said that obviously he was still angry about the good thing that Gengen Ye had broken him. It seems that Zhang Tao, this kid, is sometimes quite narrow-minded.

Gengen froze for a moment, then suddenly rushed up, knelt down in front of the snake, buried his head, and muttered something inaudible in his mouth.

"Brother Tao, what is he doing here?" Xue'er pulled Zhang Tao's hand and asked in surprise.

"There are a lot of people here who have a lot of respect and reverence for snakes. Some families even use the snake as their family god, and worship it regularly, religiously worshipping their ancestors. Zhang Tao explained briefly as far as he knew.

"It's a bit unreasonable that snakes are all worshipped as gods." Xue'er shook her head and said with some disdain.

"You are a little lonely and unheard of, and the snake is also the totem of the Chinese nation. Are there dragons in the world? It is basically a fictional animal, and the snake, it is actually a real thing in the dragon family, and many ancient tribes use snakes as totems. ”

Zhang Tao is half a bucket of water swayed violently, although Xue'er listened a little confused, but also nodded from time to time as if she didn't understand.

After getting up, Gengen said with a heavy face: "This snake has been in this mountain forest for at least a hundred years, anyway, the people who guard the mountain in the upper realm have seen it several times, and I have seen it more than a dozen times in the past few decades. On two occasions it was peeled off in an abandoned house on the farm. In my heart, I have always regarded this snake as the guardian god of this mountain forest. ”

After saying that, Gengen turned around and stood solemnly and reverently facing the snake, as if he was repenting, as if he was overliving for the snake.

Zhang Tao said disdainfully: "Isn't it just a snake?" You're so mysterious. I am doing it for you, do you understand? Didn't you always say that this chicken was often bitten by unknown animals? I guess it was the snake that ate it. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Tao suddenly exclaimed: "I know, this snake must be coming for this nest of rabbits." It can't eat these two big rabbits, and these little rabbits are obviously fine. Maybe the snake is also here to wait for the rabbits, and when the two big rabbits leave, they will go to catch the little rabbits. Who knew that we bumped into it and ruined its good deeds, and took away its delicious food, so we attacked it in anger and shame. ”

"Who knew that it ran into our hero Brother Tao, and not only took away its food, but also left it behind." Xue'er snuggled up to Zhang Tao and said proudly.

Zhang Tao scratched her nose and said with a smile, "You're fine, I was about to go crazy." You know? Almost you become its delicacy. ”

"With Brother Tao here, I'm not afraid of anything!" Xue'er raised her face and looked at Zhang Tao emotionally and said.

"Aren't you afraid that I will do evil?" Zhang Tao lowered his head and whispered in Xue'er's ear.

Zhang Tao's fiery lips touched the root of Xue'er's ear, causing Xue'er to shiver strangely and happily. Cher enjoyed the shiver, but considering that there were outsiders present, she pulled herself away slightly, deliberately bringing up other topics.