On the mountain path, an ox cart pulling grain grass was slowly swinging back and forth on the slightly bumpy mountain road, and an old man was sitting in front of the car, waving his whip in the air from time to time, and humming an unknown mountain song in his mouth.

"The mountain peach saffron is full of heads, and the spring water of the Shujiang River beats the mountain flow. The bonus is easy to decay, and the infinite flow of water is nong's sorrow. ”

"Grandpa, what's the name of this song? It sounds so good. ”

Behind the old man came a young girl with a high ponytail, one hand propped up on the soft grass, smiling. Next to the girl lay a slender young man, with a dog's tail in his mouth, closing his eyes and basking lazily in the sun.

"This is the great poet Liu Yuxi of the Tang Dynasty "Bamboo Branch Words", which is said to be adapted from the folk songs of Shudi." The old man smiled: "Some young people in our village have nothing to do, and they always like to change Liu Yuxi's poems into mountain songs, and they say that the poems of this great poet are ...... Anyway, it's biased towards the poetic style, and it's easy to change. The old man, I don't have all the five notes, so I only learned such a simple song. ”

"What's the matter, the old man sings very well, I have never heard such a beautiful song in our house," the girl praised.

"By the way, I forgot to ask, your accent doesn't seem to be from Huizhou, almost none of the villagers in our small mountain village have ever left the village, how can the little girl have acquaintances with us?" The old man asked curiously.

"That's the case, a few days ago, my husband and I went to the capital to do some business, and I happened to meet Brother Li You there, and by accident we became close friends, we passed by Huizhou in the past two days, and remembered that Brother Li said that his hometown was here, so I wanted to come and see him." The girl talked nonsense casually, her face was not red and her heart was not beating.

When talking about "husband", the girl deliberately accentuated the tone of these two words, looked at the man beside her, the man rolled his eyes, ignored her, and then closed his eyes to recuperate.

"Oh, that's a bad luck for you guys." The old man touched his head, "The boy is still on the road, and he hasn't reached the village yet." ”

"Stones? Is it Brother Li's nickname? ”

"Yes, the stone child has a hard life, as soon as his mother conceived him, his father was forcibly conscripted into the army by the imperial court and went to the north to resist the Jin people. Later, on the day he was born, it was just in time for the night, and there was no helper in the family. Brother Liu and his wife, who were still at home next door, found out, and hurriedly sent Shi and his mother to find a doctor in the neighboring village overnight, but they never thought that his mother would give birth to him halfway. The old man recalled: "At that time, his mother happened to give birth to him on a big stone in the village, so the people in the village liked to call him Stone, and over time, it became his nickname." ”

Speaking of this, the old man sighed again, "Not long after giving birth to the stone, his mother began to work in the field before her body recovered in order to make money to support her family, but her body fell ill and unfortunately passed away when the stone was five years old. As for Stone's father, he never came back.

Over the years, the stones have grown up eating hundreds of meals, the Zhang family has a mouthful of rice, the Li family has a mouthful of water, and the stumbling can be regarded as coming. Fortunately, this kid is competitive and reads well, if he can get a reputation in the exam in Beijing, then so many years of hard work will not be in vain. ”

"I can't imagine that Brother Li's life experience is so bumpy." The girl sighed.

"Alas, our village somehow, as if it had violated the rules of heaven, has seen fewer and fewer young people in the village over the years, either dying at birth or dying in some accident when they grow up. There are very few children in our village who can grow up to such a big age in a healthy way, and if this continues, I am afraid that in a few decades, there will be no one in the village at all. The old man's voice was a little lonely.

The girl frowned, "Could it be that someone in the village has done something extremely evil to anger the heavens?" ”

"I don't know much about this, I don't think so, if there is such a thing, I must know the old man." The old man affirmed: "Besides, the people in our village are simple, and everyone is an honest person who works in the fields, and they can't do anything terrible. ”

The girl looked at the man beside her, and the man just pursed the corners of his lips contemptuously, indicating his attitude.

"You husband and wife have come from all afar, it is better to stay in the old man's house for a few days and wait, maybe the stone will come back in two days, otherwise you will not be able to row for nothing." The old man suggested.

"It's okay grandpa, although Brother Li is not at home, it is the same for Sister Cen to be here." The girl replied.

The old man's eyes lit up, and he turned around and asked, "Do you know that fairy?" ”

"Fairy? Why? ”

"I remember that the day after Shi went to Beijing to take the exam, Miss Nacen suddenly came to the village. Oh, although I am old, old man, I can still see at a glance that Miss Cen is as good-looking as a fairy in the sky. The old man recalled: "It is estimated that the child who sees the stone is living too hard, so he sent the fairy of the sky to take care of the stone." ”

"The day of the stone in Beijing coincided with the season of planting seedlings, and the bangs next door to him wanted to help him plant the seedlings first, but he never thought that as soon as he arrived in the field, he saw that Miss Cen was already busy working in the field, looking like a lady with golden branches and jade leaves, and she was shrewd and capable of doing her work."

"After the seedlings were planted, after a while, the village caught up with a great drought, and every day the sun was scorching, and the dry land was cracked, and we used up all the water stored by every household in the village.

Seeing that those seedlings were about to die, one day the old man thought about going to the field again to see, watering a little, maybe there would be some turnaround, and suddenly saw Miss Cen in the field as if she was casting some spell, and there were words in her mouth, and then she pointed to the sky with both hands, and after a while, it rained heavily in the sky, and all the seedlings who were about to die were saved. ”

"Does the rest of the village know?" The girl asked.

The old man shook his head, "I told some people in the village, but they didn't believe in these gods and ghosts, they just thought that it had been a drought for too long, and it was time for it to rain, so I didn't mention it again." ”

"But little girl, since you know Miss Cen, do you two know if she is a fairy or not?"

"How can there be any fairies in this world, Sister Cen is indeed very good-looking, but she can make it rain with her hands, what a fairy must be if she can use such a profound spell, and will she come to the village to help Brother Li do farm work." The girl squinted and smiled.

"You can't say that, Shi is a good boy, and in that mythical story, didn't the seventh princess of the Jade Emperor also fall in love with Dong Yong?"

"Grandpa, you also said that it was all a myth, maybe it was a coincidence."

The old man shook his head, "You young people, you don't have reverence for the gods, as the saying goes, there are gods three feet above your head, and there are many mysterious things in this world." ”

The girl tilted her head and smiled, nodded and said, "What Grandpa said is that maybe one day I will meet it, and I will definitely believe in these things." ”

The old man smiled heartily, "But when I came to the village, I can come to the old man's house to taste the dishes made by my mother-in-law, my old woman is from Hunan, and the Hunan cuisine is very authentic." ”

"Since the old man said so, then we have to take the time to go there these days." The girl agreed.

The two chatted casually without a word, although they were not on the same channel most of the time, but they could still catch the conversation, pass the time, and after a while, a small mountain village surrounded by mountains appeared in front of them.

"Grandpa, this village was built in the mountains." The girl blinked and looked around the village.

The old man stretched out the whip in his hand and pointed to a big mountain opposite, "When I was young, I heard the elders of the family say that there was a monster suppressed on the other side of the mountain, and the surrounding mountains were the formation that imprisoned the monster, and our village was the eye of this big array. ”

"It is said that the mage who imprisoned the monster at the beginning failed to get rid of it by all means, so he could only set up a formation around it and migrated his family here as an eye to suppress the monster. Later, after about 100 years, a small mountain village slowly formed here, but now the young people in the village regard this as a story, and I am afraid that our generation is gone, and no one will take it seriously anymore. ”

"I don't know what the monster will do if it escapes by then." The old man shook his head, a little helpless.

"Maybe by then, there will be another mage with advanced mana to suppress the youkai." The girl smiled and comforted.

"That monster is very powerful, but it is not something that ordinary mages can deal with." The old man sighed, then stretched out his hand and pointed to a low house in the east, "The one in the east is Shishi's house, and about a mile east beyond the house is his family's field, it is the afternoon at this time, Miss Cen is probably still busy in the field." I'll send you here, old man, and the old woman is waiting for me to go back and feed the cows. ”

"I'm very grateful to be able to pull us from the city to the village." The girl took out a gold ingot from her bosom, "Grandpa, this is a little bit of our husband and wife's heart. ”

The old man waved his hand again and again and said, "This can't be done, girl, I was going back to the village, and I took you two young people by the way, and then collected your money." ”

The girl jumped out of the car and stuffed the gold into the haystack, "Grandpa, you can take it, we can't let you pull us in vain on a hot day." ”

After speaking, before the old man could answer, he pulled the man who had just gotten out of the car slowly and ran to the east, trotted for a few minutes, and looked back to see that the old man did not chase before stopping.

"Uncle, did the old man hide something from what the old man said about the people in this village?" Su Jianxia asked curiously.

"At the beginning of the establishment of this village, the clansmen of the mage family settled here, the Song Dynasty was actually a dynasty that rejected the marriage of close relatives, the mage was indeed a righteous person, but his people, for a long time, in order to reproduce offspring, there were many people who stayed on the road at the entrance of the village, and robbed the girls passing by nearby to go home for their ancestors." Wei Ziqi sneered, "Later, the people in this village seemed to fall in love with this feeling of robbing the people's daughters, so they started this kind of unsightly deeds for decades, the way of heaven is good reincarnation, this is also the retribution they should receive, and in another thirty years, with Li You being killed in the court, this village will completely cease to exist in the world." ”

"Then what about the monster suppressed behind this mountain, if you don't have an eye, wouldn't that monster soon break out of the formation."

"That youkai is now working in the village."

"Huh?" Su Jianxia was taken aback, "You can't be talking about Sister Cen, right?" ”

"To be precise, she and Bai Suzhen. At that time, they had not yet cultivated into human form, and they happened to bump into the mage who could barely enter the hall, and the mage couldn't kill them, and they couldn't help the mage.

Later, the mage exhausted his life's work and laid out this formation, using his entire family to make a formation to seal their sisters, but it didn't take long for the two of them to become adults, and the formation couldn't suppress them. ”

Su Jianxia said with a smile: "So the people in the village thought that they were holding monsters, but they didn't expect that this monster was actually right under their noses, and it is estimated that the mage would be able to come back to life when he knew about it." ”

The village is not big, the two talked slowly and leisurely, and soon walked past Li You's house, Su Jianxia raised his eyes, and in the field not far away, he could vaguely see a figure in a white dress bending over in the field to do something.

"It would be nice if she wasn't a youkai." Su Jianxia sighed.

Wei Ziqi walked to the root of the big tree on the side and sat down, leaned against the tree and said lazily: "The children born to Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian are all humans, and it won't be good if they are monsters, but since ancient times, humans have always been prejudiced against monsters. ”

"It's good in ancient times, but in modern times, there are very few women who are willing to do the farm work by themselves when their husbands are not at home."

"Uncle, I don't approve of your idea of overturning a boatload of people with a stick." Su Jianxia glared and said, "No wonder it's a man, he just wants a woman to be a housewife at home." ”

"I won't answer this kind of topic that provokes confrontation between men and women." Wei Ziqi said defensively, "Your Senior Brother Li will be back in a while, don't forget to get down to business." ”

Su saw Xia Leng snorting, walked over to Wei Ziqi and sat down, "Some people are just at fault!" ”

Wei Ziqi was a little helpless, didn't dare to answer, stretched out his hand and waved down, the upper body of the huge tree behind him seemed to be reversed in a direction, and the large dense leaves moved just above the two of them, blocking the sun tightly.

There is no sky polluted by industrial waste and naturally formed forest paths, this primitive and ecological rural environment makes Su Jianxia feel very comfortable, and he took out his mobile phone and began to shoot at the surroundings.

"If these photos are posted to the circle of friends, everyone will definitely think that they have added a deep filter." Su Jianxia sighed, "The ancient environment is really good. ”

"In Yunnan and Guangxi, the environment in some remote areas is still very good." Wei Ziqi thought for a while and said: "I suddenly thought that I hadn't taken you out to play much before you became an adult, and when I went back this time, I could go out for a walk while you were on vacation." ”

"Where are you going?" Su Jianxia turned his head, and the excitement in his tone could not be concealed.

"Yunnan or Hunan."

"If you say yes, you can't go back." Su Jianxia raised his fist and threatened.

Wei Ziqi nodded and looked in the direction of the entrance of the village, "Your Senior Brother Li is back, and it will be time for the husband and wife to have a deep relationship in a while." ”

Su Jianxia put away his mobile phone, looked at it curiously, and within five minutes, Li You appeared in the sight of the two, walked to the ridge, looked at Cen Biqing, who was watering the seedlings, and casually pulled up his trousers and went down to the field, after the two stood face to face for a while, Li You mustered up the courage to hug the woman into his arms, Cen Biqing seemed to be a little surprised, but he did not break free, hesitated, and reached out to hug Li You.

"Qingqing, marry me, I will definitely be able to pass the test next year, and I won't let you plant rice for me in the field again."

"yes, okay."

The two parted for a long time, and there should have been a lot of things to say, but in the end, a thousand words were only combined into two sentences.

"How beautiful it is now, how painful it will be in the future." Wei Ziqi said lightly, reaching out and snapping his fingers.

The surrounding scene changed, the sun hanging high above their heads seemed to be pressed the accelerator button, and quickly set into the west, the bright full moon rose from the east, the cold light shone on the earth, and the position of the two people also went from the tree to the roof of Li You's house.

In the era when there were no street lights, the bright moonlight and sporadic fireworks in the houses illuminated the world.

"Young man, you try to mix this spell into wine or vegetables, let the snake demon take it, and in less than half a pillar of incense, she will appear in her original form, and her mana will be lost, and Poor Dao will hide behind the house, just wait for the spell to take effect, and Poor Dao will kill the snake demon to help you get free."

In the empty courtyard, the tall sword-carrying Taoist priest handed the talisman in his hand to Li You, carefully instructing him how to use it.

Li You trembled and stretched out his hand, and just touched the charm and retracted it like lightning.

"Dao Chief, lady, she ...... No, the snake demon has been with me for a year, and she hasn't hurt me in the slightest. ”

The Taoist priest frowned and said: "A demon is a demon, there is no good or bad, I didn't do anything to you now, maybe I was just secretly sucking your essence, and when you have no use value, it will be simple food for the snake demon, and it will be too late to regret it at that time." ”

Li You's face struggled, his hand hung in the air, and he hesitated for a while before taking the spell from the Taoist priest's hand.

"Dao Chief, do you have to kill her? Can it be sealed or suppressed or something? It is said that there is a yokai suppressed in the back of the mountain in our village......"

The Taoist priest interrupted him with a wave of his hand, "You and I, as human beings, have a lifespan of only a few decades in this life, but that snake demon can live for hundreds of years and thousands of years, what if she breaks free from the seal after a hundred years and continues to harm the world?" Then you and I have not become sinners? ”

Li You listened, silently put away the charm in his hand, and no longer refutated.

"It's not early, the snake demon is estimated to be back soon, you go and prepare first, I'll hide behind."

The Taoist priest looked around, jumped on the roof of the house, and jumped under the haystack behind the house to meditate.

"He can't see us." Su Jianxia watched the Taoist priest pass by her.

"If he could see it, he wouldn't have been eaten by the green snake for a while."

"I remember that Senior Brother Li said that in his dream, it was him who was eaten."

"It's just that his fear of the green snake in these two lives has changed the original direction of the dream." Wei Ziqi shook his head, "Humans and demons are still different after all. ”

Su Jianxia nodded and looked up at the moon in the sky, "Uncle, when we go back, how are you going to mention this matter to Senior Brother." ”

"I didn't think about it before, but I don't have to think about it now." Wei Ziqi narrowed his eyes, "At this time, Lu Ling's kid should have already received Li You's 100,000 yuan and is slowly coming to the store." ”

"Senior brother still went to find him." Su Jianxia sighed, "If the person surnamed Lu makes a move, there will be no room for negotiation in this matter." ”

"As an ordinary person, the behavior of suddenly being entangled by monsters when living a good life is understandable, but it is understandable that he grabbed a life-saving straw by his side, but it is not a good straw."

Su Jianxia nodded in approval, then sat up straight and looked ahead, a woman in a white dress was holding a lunch box in her hand, and she was walking into the door with a smile.

After that, just like the dream narrated by Li You, Cen Biqing drank the bowl of white porridge mixed with charms, revealing a huge body that was hundreds of feet long, and with a flick of his tail, half of the village was almost razed to the ground.

The Taoist priest hurriedly jumped into the courtyard, pulled out his long sword and inserted it into the ground, and wiped it the sword body with his palm, blood flowed through the sword body, and the long sword trembled on the ground, as if it would eject out at any time.

The huge snake head of the green snake stared at the young scholar who was slumped in the chair and couldn't move, and put on an attacking posture. Under the effect of the Taoist charm, although the great pain swept through the body, the green snake still maintained this posture, as if he wanted to get an answer from the scholar.

"You...... You and I have different paths, please let me go. Li You covered his face with his hands, not daring to look at the green snake, the liquid on his face couldn't tell whether it was tears or snot, and he didn't know if it was because of fear or reluctance.

Looking down at Li You, who was curled up on the stool, the green snake retracted its huge head, and no matter how the Taoist priest recited the mantra, he didn't react.

The Taoist priest gritted his teeth, stretched out his hand and pulled out his long sword, and cautiously looked at the green snake in front of him, ready to go up and give her a fatal blow at any time while she was not paying attention.

But the green snake didn't give him a chance, just in a daze for a while, then turned the snake's head and opened its mouth at the Taoist priest.

The Taoist priest silently recited "Fusheng Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable" in his heart, and the sword body where the blood flowed was instantly covered with golden light, and the momentum of the Taoist priest's whole person suddenly became solemn and majestic.

Seeing that the green snake was approaching him, the Taoist priest's long sword was horizontal in front of his chest, blocking the attack of the two fangs, and then pinched the trick with his left hand and pressed it on the forehead of the green snake.

A huge pain came, and the green snake shook off the Taoist priest and raised his head to the sky and let out a long roar.

After the Taoist priest landed, he stabilized his body and rushed towards the green snake again to take advantage of the victory to pursue.

Due to being suppressed by the Taoist priest's spell before, the green snake couldn't change back into human form for a while, and couldn't cast a spell, so he glanced at the Taoist priest fiercely, then turned around and fled backwards.

The Taoist priest didn't give the green snake a chance to escape, and with words in his mouth, his body suddenly burst out on the spot, and he rushed to the front of the green snake, and the long sword was chopped down again.

The green snake opened its mouth and bit the sword body, the Taoist priest did not panic, the golden light on the long sword skyrocketed, the green snake let out a miserable scream again, and threw the Taoist priest away, but he fell to the ground weakly, and his huge body shook the surrounding earth violently.

"Sister Cen is also a monster who has cultivated for thousands of years, even if she doesn't have mana, she shouldn't be bullied by this Taoist priest like this." Su Jianxia frowned.

"The sword in the hand of this Taoist priest is the ancestral true martial arts demon sword of the Taoist Dragon and Tiger Mountain." Wei Ziqi explained: "This Taoist priest's identity in Taoism should be unusual, and he can go down the mountain with a true martial sword to subdue demons and eliminate demons. He used the blood of the Taoist bloodline to gain the power of the ancestor for a short time, although it was not a long time, it was not a big problem to suppress a green snake that was extremely weak at this time. ”

"Isn't that Sister Cen ......" Su Jianxia looked at the green snake that fell to the ground, his eyes were a little unbearable.

After watching the two of them go from acquaintance to love, Su Jianxia felt that although this woman was a demon, she was emotionally more sincere than humans, and she really shouldn't have such a result.

The whole battle process was only twenty minutes from the beginning to the end, the green snake had collapsed to the ground, and the Taoist priest's original green hair had turned into white hair.

Taking advantage of the remaining strength, the Taoist priest gritted his teeth, roared angrily, and a sword pierced through the seven inches of the green snake, and the green snake twitched fiercely on the ground a few times and then never moved again.

At this time, the blessing of the patriarch's power had also dissipated, and the Taoist priest breathed a sigh of relief, and then he also lay down on the ground, looking at the sky with blank eyes, and felt that he had just done a great thing, and couldn't help laughing, but soon coughed violently again, sighed, and his breath slowly weakened, until he completely lost his vital signs.

"I didn't expect it to be a lose-lose result." Su Jianxia was a little surprised, "Then the Sister Cen you see now, did she use some secret method to resurrect her?" ”

Wei Ziqi pointed to a bright light flying like a meteor in the sky, "The plot after that is that Bai Suzhen sacrificed her thousand-year-old Taoism, forcibly resurrected the green snake, and changed back into a snake form. But fortunately, she was favored by the Nine Heavens Xuannu on Kunlun and brought back to Kunlun to cultivate, and since then she has been far away from the world.

Although the green snake has been resurrected, the side effect of this method is that she has to be like a vampire, constantly sucking people's fresh blood to survive. ”

"What's the purpose of living like a monster like this?" Su Jianxia sighed.

"It's just to see Li You again." Wei Ziqi stood up, "Let's go, it's time to go back, it's all over." ”

Su Jianxia nodded, looked at the woman in white who was squatting beside the green snake, and shook her head.