“...... When I met the snake, I was still a young and handsome offspring, just like the man at the table. ”

The verdant pines and cypresses were dappled and imprinted on the stone slabs of the mountain road, and there was a burst of laughter in the tea shop on the side of the road, which provoked passers-by to look sideways, and the old man inside was carrying a teapot, his face was full of red light, and he said, "It's the same as that tableman".

Lu Liangsheng saw him pick his chin and point, couldn't help pinching his chopsticks and smiled, beckoning the half-blind to continue eating and drinking tea.

...... This old man said skillfully, I don't think I said it once or twice, it should be a means of soliciting customers, if you have really seen a snake of more than ten zhang, I am afraid that it will be difficult to save your life.

When I thought about it, the other three tables of guests were also wandering outside and had rich experience, and when they heard this, someone picked up a tea bowl and joked.

"Shopkeeper, I'm afraid you made it up. ”

"Oh!"

Lao Sue glared at him, straightened his face, walked around twice with a tense body, waved his hands, and knocked his fingertips on the other party's table.

"The old man lives at such an old age, what are you lying about, I really see that snake, that waist, tsk......"

The hand was opened and compared to his waist: "It is thicker than my waist, and my head is bigger than this table." ”

Speaking of the day he met the snake, Lao Suo said that he was also scared, his legs were weak and he couldn't walk, and when it was almost dark, he shivered down the mountain and went home.

"That time, the old man relied on his youth and strength, and he played firewood and rabbits all over the mountain, and did not meet jackals, tigers and leopards, but he met the big snake, when the old man turned over several mountains, and did not necessarily see one or two families within a radius of dozens of miles, while it was not yet dark, he carried three bundles of firewood and two mountain rabbits, and he was on the way to and fro, after all, it was dark in the mountains, and the road was not easy to walk. ”

Lao Suo carried the teapot and poured tea into the bowls of Lu Liangsheng and Wang Banblind, looked at everyone's interested looks, and continued with a smile.

"In the mountains, there are all kinds of legends, the rumbling noise in the night, the lanterns lit up for no reason, and the rumors of the big white snake, the sun has not yet set, the old man walks with his feet as if he is running, just down a mountain, has not yet gone up the hill of another mountain, suddenly a gust of wind blows, the old man's eyes are confused and can't see things clearly, like a hazy white mist, before he has taken a few steps, he listens to the hissing movement......"

Outside, two guests came in with their burdens, and Lao Suo stopped talking and greeted him.

Wind, white fog..... Lu Liangsheng took a sip of herbal tea, frowned slightly, can set off the demon wind and raise the demon fog, it should be a bit of a Tao, presumably he has cultivated into a demon, but he doesn't know how long he has been a demon.

The guests at the three tables who listened attentively asked Lao Suo's son to add tea and serve the food, and hurriedly urged.

"Speak quickly. "Listen to the energy, don't break it here." ”

"Hurry up, our brothers are not short of food money, hurry up and finish!"

The tea shop was noisy, and there were new guests who came in, so Lao Suo greeted him a few times, invited the other party to sit down, and after wiping the table, he said:

"Don't worry, let the old man think about where he said. ”

Wang Ban Blind reminded at the table.

"When you encounter the white fog, you hear the hiss!"

"Haha, this guy has a good memory. "I remember where I just talked about, the restaurant asked his son to come over to help announce the name of the dish to the customer, and walked to the middle by himself, stroking the white short beard on his chin.

"That movement, the old decay still remembers, it is the snake roar, at that time young and vigorous, and quite bold, follow the sound past, open a few tufts of grass, on the mountain wall in front of a stream, ouch, there is a big snake hanging there!

The second half of the body is still in the forest above the cliff, the thick ones are about to catch up with the water tank, a piece of white scales, the big head is raised, and the letter is constantly spitting, sucking the water into the air, flying into the mouth, can scare people to death, when the old rotten legs are soft and sitting on the ground, covered in cold sweat.

But alas, the snake seemed to find me peeping on the side, and set off a gust of wind, and the old decay that blew rolled on the ground a few times, and when I got up and looked again, the snake disappeared in the blink of an eye. ”

When the new guest heard Lao Suo's words, he couldn't help but laugh and interrupted: "Shopkeeper, I'm afraid it's not an illusion, there is a miasma in the mountains, and people can't see the hallucination unconsciously." ”

"Impossible!"

Hearing other people's questions, the shopkeeper almost had a straight face and waved his hand: "The old man won't fool you, after the snake leaves, there are stones falling down on the mountain wall and smashing into the stream, how is that an illusion, absolutely not!"

"Blowing, blowing, such a big snake, didn't eat you, but ran away, who will believe it. One of the guests shook his head and sat back to continue eating.

Hearing this, Lao Suo slowly walked back to the stove, rubbed under the cabinet where the vegetables were kept, and turned out an ordinary wooden box.

"Don't you believe me? ”

The brass buckle was opened, and a small piece of fine silk was spread inside, causing several tables of people to stop chewing and stretch their necks to see what he would come up with.

Lu Liangsheng faced the stove on the side, and just happened to see the open wooden box, the fine silk was uncovered by Lao Suo, and there was a faintly transparent white quietly placed inside, the size of a man's palm.

Hiss~~

Seeing the thin scales raised in Lao Suo's hand, the people at the table couldn't help but take a breath, and they didn't know what to say for a while, and kept the posture of drinking tea with vegetables and motionless.

"This ...... It's snake scales. ”

"Is it true that the shopkeeper is telling me.....? Such big scales. ”

"Then I'm afraid this snake is a demon, the scales are so big, so how big is it, tsk, fortunately, we collected medicine in the mountains and didn't encounter it. ”

It was quiet for a while, and in the uproar that broke out, Lu Liangsheng quietly finished his meal, watched the shopkeeper put the snake scales back into the wooden box, the toad Taoist licked his lips, snorted, and jumped back into the apprentice's cuffs with his four fins on the spot.

"It's just a snake scale that has faded, and even the demonic energy is gone. ”

Lu Liangsheng hummed lightly, after decades on the fading scales, the demonic spirit had already dispersed, and after settling the account, the guy helped put the bookshelf back on the donkey's buttocks, and just untied the reins from the stake, a woodcutter wearing a sleeveless linen coat came from the direction of the mountain with a load of firewood, and the firewood was put at the door of the tea shop, patted the dust on his trouser legs, and walked inside.

"Lao Zhao, tell my story to others again, come to a bowl of herbal tea!"

Several tables of guests in the tea shed suddenly squirted water, or choked coughs, and Lu Liangsheng, who was about to leave, also stopped, pinched the reins and looked inside in surprise.

The woodcutter was very familiar with the shopkeeper, asked for a bowl of herbal tea, and did not look for a seat, took a cake and squatted next to the stove to snort and eat, and saw everyone looking at him, and his dark face couldn't help laughing.

"Look at what I do, I told this story to this shopkeeper, and I also sold the snake scales to him, and I didn't charge any money, and when I passed by here to go up the mountain to collect firewood, he would eat a bowl of herbal tea and a cake for nothing. ”

Lao Suo probably didn't mind, but he still said that these business tourists who come and go from the south to the north may not meet again in a few years or even one or two decades, and the business can still be done.

The woodcutter said a few words, was urged by Lao Suo to walk out of the tea shed, picked up the burden and continued to go down the mountain, Lu Liangsheng looked at his back and thought about it, and suddenly opened his mouth to stop the other party.

"Big brother, take a little slower. ”