228 Causes
But they said that they had seen something.
But seeing that the famous snake catcher in Kaifeng City lifted his hood and only exposed his old face, even Su Hong's confidence chuckled, and there seemed to be a cold air in the collar.
Chen Laoqi let out an "oops", his lame leg was weak, and he immediately hit the ground with his butt and fell.
"Hehe, hey, I'm also a butcher, and I'm a little bolder!"
The old man said with a smile.
The reason why he said that he didn't smile was because the old man's face was faintly covered with a layer of snake scales, white and blue, very thin, and he couldn't see it if he didn't look closely.
In the neckline, it is even more continuous.
The old man's face is very strange, his cheeks are sunken, and he is also very white, pale, it is the kind of white that does not see the light of day all the year round, and the white ones are a little scary, the eyes are slightly bulging, and the pupils are faintly green, like two ghost fires, and then with a sparse white hair, it can be regarded as a withered spirit, like a living ghost.
"Demon, demon, demon......"
Chen Laoqi was so frightened that he couldn't possess his body, and watched the old man say a few words "demon" in a trembling voice, but there was no follow-up.
"Hey, hey!"
But the snake catcher only laughed, not angry or annoyed.
Thinking of his appearance, anyone who sees it is frightened and mistakenly thinks it is a monster.
Su Hongxin was taken aback, and frowned when he looked at the old man's appearance of not being a human being, a ghost or a ghost.
"Boy, you're a little special with these eyes!"
He looked at the snake catcher, and the other looked at him, and when he saw his eyes, he couldn't help but be amazed.
"It's the monk of Xuyun who said it, I haven't seen him for more than a year, and the monk has turned into a lonely ghost on Yi Mountain!"
The snake catcher's voice was very thin, and Su Hongxin noticed that the tongue that was protruding between the lips and teeth of the other party's mouth was impressively narrow and long, and the tip of the tongue was narrow.
"How do you know we're here for the sake of the mountain?"
However, Su Hongxin was also a little curious, although he had heard of the business of the person in front of him, he didn't know much about it, and he had heard his grandfather mention it before.
As the saying goes, the line in the world is simply countless, come and go, and most of them can't get rid of a "profit" word, but where it is profitable and can live, it will naturally create the birth and rise of all walks of life.
In fact, he has not only heard, but also seen, when he was a child, the county town was full of festivals, there would be some acrobatic troupes to perform, often outside will put a few enlarged incense ** pieces, women are wearing revealing clothes, with a python coiled on their bodies, the reputation of the snake dance, but it attracted many people to sneak in to see.
Later, his grandfather said that there might be snake charmers among them.
To put it simply and bluntly, that is, to drive snakes, control snakes, the means are bizarre and mysterious, the level of the realm, you have to distinguish according to the number of snakes, but this in front of you is amazing, this is almost not a human form.
"Hey, hey!"
The snake catcher smiled first, as if with a bit of sarcasm.
"You have the smell of that beast on your body, if you hadn't heard you say a word about the spring ceremony, now, I guess you're going to feed the treasure of my yard!"
He looked at Mr. Chen, who was embarrassed on the ground, and said with a smile: "Do you want to come in and sit?"
Chen Laoqi shuddered and hurriedly waved his hand: "No, no need!"
"Hey, hey, that's fine!"
The snake catcher looked at Su Hongxin again: "It seems that you have already seen that beast!"
Su Hongxin nodded.
"Yes, dare to ask what the seniors are called?"
The snake catcher played with the wooden flute in his hand, and replied without being salty or indifferent: "It's been a long time, I have forgotten my name, not to mention my appearance of not being a human or a ghost, and a few people know it, and the people in this city call me "Snake King", so you can call me that!"
Su Hongxin is not reluctant, what he is interested in now is not these.
"I listened to the meaning of my predecessors before, and I seem to know the things in the "Zenjue Temple"?"
"Hahaha!"
Not wanting to hear Su Hongxin's words, the snake catcher's cheeks trembled, and he laughed a little, he said: "Know? naturally know, if your family's wife and children are eaten by this beast, I will keep you until you die!"
The old man laughed like a madman, crazy and weird.
However, Chen Laoqi and Su Hongxin looked at each other when they came, they inquired when they came, there are very few "snake catchers" in the city, just because for more than a year, those original "snake catchers" either did not see people alive one by one, did not see the corpses, or suffered from a vicious disease one after another, it is said that there are many blisters on the waist of the deceased, large and small, dense, very weird.
And one of the most famous is the person in front of him, it is said that this person is also more than a year ago in Kaifeng, no one knows the origin of his surname, but the means of catching snakes with one hand is superb and wonderful, all the snakes encountered, all can not escape the hands and ten fingers, so he got the name of "snake king".
Hearing the other party's words at this moment, it seems that most of them have some stories.
"Does that senior know the origin of this beast?"
Su Hongxin asked tentatively.
When the snake catcher heard this, he laughed even more strangely.
"Of course I know, this beast is known as the White Dragon True Monarch, but south of the Yellow River, the lord of thirteen waterways, rampant rivers and veins, famous, and worshiped as the White Dragon God by the world, as for it to run here, it has to be counted on me!"
The laughter gradually dissipated, and then I heard the snake catcher say quietly: "My vein, for generations, to play snakes for a living, with this skill to break through the rivers and lakes, all over the north and south of the river, where the world meets snakes, all like mice see cats; in fact, not only me, even our village also uses snakes to make a living, play snakes, catch snakes, kill snakes, but all the livelihoods that can be related to snakes, there is almost nothing we can't think of, and I, just because I was born to understand the words of those snakes, so I am the most powerful ......snake trick in our village."
The old man didn't know where to get a wine gourd, and said lightly while drinking.
“...... The snake is a treasure, at first we also thought that the opportunity to make a fortune came, what snake meat can be used as soup, snake gall can be used in medicine, so we caught a lot, the villagers are indeed rich a lot, but unfortunately the good times did not last long, once, while I was out, the beast actually took the opportunity to break into the village...... By the time I go back, there will be bloody bones all over the ground, and my wife, children, and children will not be happy!"
At this point, it is obvious that there is no need to go on.
Su Hongxin pondered for a moment, did not hide it, and said directly: "I plan to find out its body before it goes flooding, do your predecessors have any guidance?"
The snake catcher's eyes flickered, like a ghostly fire that was extinguished.
"Okay, but if I catch this beast, I'm going to cut it with a thousand knives, cramp and peel the skin, in order to avenge the blood and the sea!"