Chapter 7: The Villagers and the Snake
When Yun'er was looking forward to it, the white snake dragged a strangled 100-catty wild boar back.
Letting go of the wild boar, he looked at Yun'er and nodded at the wild boar on the ground, this is for Yun'er's family, it is not too easy to catch a hundred-pound small wild boar.
"This is for me?"
White Snake nodded.
Yun Erle's eyes bent into crescent moons, jumping up and running all the way home, and the white snake turned its head and burrowed into the forest.
The hungry front chest against the back of the Yun'er family picked up a wild boar from the mountains, this matter quickly spread in the village, with the food of Yun'er's father is not stingy, after killing the pig and cutting the skin, to the same food of several families to send meat, everyone to support each other to go on, the countryside is very simple, not to mention living on the edge of the 100,000 mountains can only be safe, otherwise the beasts in the mountains will become a demolition brigade in minutes.
Pork can last for several days if you save a little to eat, and the offal is even more reluctant to throw away, it is said that people in the county never eat offal, but when there is no food, as long as they can eat it, they will never throw it away.
When the wild boar finished eating, Yun'er picked up two pheasants in the back mountain, and Yun'er's father and mother had begun to change their attitude towards Yun'er.
It can be said that it was lucky that the incident happened once or twice, but when Yun'er, who had nothing to eat at home, picked up a wolf again, the people in the village finally felt that something was wrong......
You can get wild boars and pick up pheasants, but how can a fierce wolf in the prime of life be found by the little girl?
Hillside.
Dozens of villagers surrounded the wolf corpse, and Yun'er stood in the middle and bowed her head silently.
Although there is food for the villagers to get through, this thing is too weird, and if you don't get it right, it is very likely that Yun'er will be thrown into the fire and burned to death as a demon, which is not unusual.
"Yun'er, what's the matter with this wolf?"
"............" Yun'er lowered her head and rubbed her fingers without speaking.
"Who sent it? Could it be a hero passing by our village?"
The heroes that Yun'er's father said are those martial arts people who are mixed in the rivers and lakes, but Yun'er, who lowered her head and rubbed her fingers, changed to a corner of her clothes, and still shook her head.
The man was stunned, could it be an immortal?
"Is it the gods who have seen us suffer too hard to help us?"
Still shaking his head.
Yun'er's father, who felt that things were very strange, had to speak out and threaten.
"Yun'er! You have to tell the truth! Otherwise, don't recognize me as a father!"
The neighbor wanted to stop him, but Yun'er's father waved his hand to signal that it was okay and then stared coldly at his daughter, thinking that if he didn't say anything again, he would have to beat someone with a broom.
This sentence is probably the harshest reprimand for a seven or eight-year-old girl, Yun'er immediately panicked, recalling that her father and mother especially liked her younger brother and deliberately snubbed herself, the more she thought about it, the more scared she became, afraid that the family really didn't want herself, and she still remembered that her mother said viciously that she was losing money......
Wow, Yun'er howled and cried.
The surrounding villagers were very embarrassed, and there was a feeling that a group of adults were bullying a little girl.
Not surprisingly, Yun'er, who was still a child, recruited everything, and that reprimand was like a spell that frightened the seven or eight-year-old girl, and she told what had happened little by little in her sobs.
In the dense forest not far away, the white snake sighed in his heart, thought about it and decided to show his face from afar, and then hide and observe the follow-up, if they plan to be unfavorable to Yun'er, they will have to fight a bloody way to take Yun'er into the mountain.
The crowd, with a shout, frightened everyone.
"Look! White Snake!"
Everyone looked at the man and saw a huge and somewhat beautiful white snake......
Yun'er ran over crying, hugged the white snake and shed tears as if she didn't want money, if it wasn't for the fact that she probably guessed it before, she would have taught those people a lesson and let Yun'er get angry.
He lowered his head and rubbed the girl's back twice to show comfort.
After showing up and announcing his existence, he turned around and swam back to the forest, and went around in a big circle to the other side to observe the progress, and saw that the villagers did not tell Yun'er how to put down the snake heart.
After that, the village began the legend of the snake fairy, and even some villagers took yellow paper candles to burn paper worship in the place where the white snake appeared, in addition to thanking the white snake fairy for sending food and making a wish, such as praying for good weather next year, the villagers who made this wish were generally normal, and there was a wish to find a good mother-in-law and a good man, this is a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, and a wish to give a son, giving birth to a daughter is easy to be looked down upon in the village, in short, began a variety of performances.
Every few days, the white snake will send wild beasts to the village, such as wild boars, and the most common are wild wolves, who let the wolves be too arrogant in the deep mountains to make the white snake unhappy.
Wolf meat can be eaten, wolf skins can be sold to buy food, and although the villagers are not full, they can survive the wet and cold year.
The good times did not last long, and the strange events in the mountain village attracted the attention of people outside.
Someday.
Yun'er ran quickly to the back mountain, and she didn't care if she fell and broke her little hand.
"Run away, big snake! Someone from the town says they want to catch you and sell you for money! There are a lot of hunters and big horses!"
White Snake did notice that there was an extra group of people in the village, and the heat sense could clearly see the crowd as well as the hounds and horses, which still attracted the attention of some greedy people.
"Daddy asked me to tell you to go, big snake, you go quickly!"
The head of the snake nodded, and the white snake turned and swam towards the mountain.
Behind her, the gray-faced Yun'er finally breathed a sigh of relief and waved at the back of the white snake.
There are a lot of people in the village, most of them are hunters and family members who carry big knives, it is said that the patriarch of the town personally led the team, the patriarch who lived in the town immediately recruited hunters to go into the mountains to catch snakes after hearing the news about the white snake, the white snake saved the villagers who had no food, and the old and young villagers knelt on the ground and begged the lord to let the white snake go, in exchange for a burst of whipping.
"Patriarch...... Please spare the snake fairy......"
"Yes, yes, please let go of the snake fairy, what we didn't eat was the snake fairy who sent us food to let us live, the snake fairy is kind......"
The family whipped with a leather whip, and the villagers dared to be angry but did not dare to speak.
Spend money to lure a few villagers to tell the location of the white snake and hunt the bow with a big net to the back mountain, but of course there is nothing, but the hound reacts very much and keeps yelling in the direction of the deep mountain.
The next day, the snake catching team swept into the mountain under the leadership of those villagers, the white snake is rare, especially the white snake that is so big and has a spirit is even rarer, whether it is a gift or a sale of money, it will not lose money.
These people don't know that they are dying step by step, and it is not a legend that 100,000 mountains are famous.
In the valley, a group of people slowly moved forward.
In the distance, the white snake's cold snake pupils looked at the crowd, turned around and wandered away and deliberately left a strong smell, the direction was not the old nest ginkgo tree valley but another forest that is rarely visited, the white snake is a snake, it is a cold-blooded animal, cruel and vicious, etc., the words describing snakes are not a joke, and the people who go into the mountains to catch snakes are about to face a snake for fierce revenge......
The hounds are getting more and more manic.
"Let's work hard! The big snake is about to be caught! Everyone will be rewarded for catching the big snake!"
There must be brave men under the heavy money, so the already tired team accelerated to chase again, and the villagers in the team wondered if the hound was leading the wrong direction, knowing that the valley infested by the white snake was on the other side......