Chapter 0004 Black Snake Jade Pendant
Mo Xiu's voice was low and lost, and he seemed a little hurt.
"I remember you." I drove the car, turning the steering wheel wildly: "You are the black snake in my dream."
"Heh..." Mo Xiu chuckled at himself.
Although I could tell there was something wrong with his voice, I didn't have time to pay attention to him and turned to look in the rearview mirror.
Chen Quan, who had just been washed away by the water, actually climbed up again, stood behind the car, and stretched his hand towards my car.
The snake coiled around Chen Quan's hand, and its head followed his raised head towards the car, spitting out its tongue and seeming to hiss. The voice calling me began to sound again.
There seemed to be some rustling sound in the woods next to me, and even the sound of the wind blowing through the treetops seemed to be calling me: "Long Ling, Long Ling!"
"Go quickly, don't look back, and don't look into the snake's eyes." Mo Xiu's voice was heavy.
It was my first time driving, and the car was moving like a snake on the mountain road. I was so flustered that I didn’t even have time to look back.
As we were driving shakily, we suddenly passed the edge of a cliff and several snakes fell directly from a half-leaning tree onto the windshield.
The snakes coiled and swam, baring their teeth and roaring at me through the glass.
However, Mo Xiu waved his hand and a stream of water rushed over, washing away all the snakes.
Snakes fell from time to time along the way, but were all washed away by Mo Xiu with water. I drove with cold sweat all over my body.
Just as the car was about to enter the village, I looked at the stone tablet at the entrance of the village from afar and breathed a sigh of relief.
The car didn't steer correctly and crashed into the stone tablet, stalling.
"Go into the village and find your grandmother." Mo Xiu's figure became fainter and fainter, and he said to me: "After you get the black snake pendant, you just need to drip blood on it. But the snake coffin must be dug out and exposed to the sun."
As he spoke he disappeared. I hurriedly got off the car and put my schoolbag back on.
I saw a man with tattered clothes, tangled hair and beard, and a face so dirty that his features could not be seen clearly. He was hunched over, with his hands hanging down, and he was grinning strangely at me.
This guy is Niu Er. He has a bit of a problem with his brain. He usually hangs around in the village. Whenever there is a wedding or funeral, he goes to beg for food.
I hurriedly took out a box of biscuits from my backpack and handed it to him, and was about to enter the village.
But Niu Er stopped me, and while tearing apart the biscuits, he looked at me and laughed strangely: "You can't go in, there is a snake following you, a big one, without a body, very scary. You can't go in!"
"There is no snake!" I thought he was talking about Mo Xiu, so I turned my head and looked around, but Mo Xiu was not there.
Niu Er pointed at the shadow behind me, ate biscuits and laughed, then came up to me and seemed to be whispering something.
He said carefully: "I'm telling you, it's the snake that your father Pao Jiulong killed. It has no body, but it will take revenge on you. It's coming to find you..."
Following his gaze, it was around ten o'clock in the morning. The sun was shining brightly and my shadow was very long, but it was not a human shadow at all. Instead, it looked like the shadow of a crawling snake.
My clothes were already wet, and now I was sweating profusely.
He hurriedly took out a bottle of drink from his backpack and stuffed it into Niu Er's hand. While Niu Er was carrying the drink, he turned sideways and ran towards the village.
"Long Ling, you can't enter the village. Hehe, this snake is here to find your Long family, hehe..." Niu Er shouted from behind, but did not chase after it.
I ran home in one breath. My grandma was feeding the chickens. When they saw me come back, the chickens that had been gathered at her feet eating were all scared and their feathers stood on end. They flapped their wings and ran back to the chicken coop.
Grandma looked at me with the food bowl in her hand, and followed my gaze to see the long snake shadow on the ground.
Her eyes flashed, and she said in a low voice, as if she had expected it: "Long Ling, stand still and wait for grandma for a while."
I stood outside the door, looking at my grandma, feeling a little nervous for a moment, not knowing what she was going to do.
But not long after, grandma came out with a big snow-white goose in her arms, and threw the goose towards my shadow.
The big white goose was already furious after being caught. It was thrown into the air, flapped its wings twice, stretched its neck and cackled loudly.
Geese are for people. Every year when I come back, I get scared when I see this big white goose. My dad has suggested several times that he want to stew the goose meat, but my grandma scolded him every time.
I instinctively wanted to avoid it, but my grandmother shouted in a stern voice: "Don't move!"
I was immediately frozen and looked at my grandmother in confusion.
The big white goose landed in my shadow, stomped its feet twice, found the right direction, and then stretched out its long neck, spread its two big wings, and pounced towards me with its big feet stomping along the shadow.
"Long Ling, don't move." Mo Xiu in my mind also shouted at me.
When a goose bites a person, it hurts so much that it is not satisfied with just one bite and will keep pecking and biting.
I was bitten several times in succession, and I felt confused and scared.
After a while , grandma brought out a plate of food and led the big white goose over.
Then he looked at my shadow and said to me, "It's okay, come in."
Following my grandmother's gaze, the shadow that I was originally dragging like a winding snake has become normal.
I breathed a sigh of relief. I didn't expect it to be solved so easily.
He hurriedly asked his grandmother, "Is the black snake pendant still there?"
Grandma added water to the big white goose and looked at me with a sigh: "It's finally here. I have raised this goose for ten years, and I always thought it would be fine if I didn't need it. I didn't expect that you would use it as soon as you turned eighteen."
"Grandma, what is going on? Was there really a coffin snake when I was born?" I held my grandma's hand, my mind confused.
My grandmother took me into the house and found a palm-sized carved wooden box from the large wooden box with copper nails that was her dowry. After opening it, she found that it was wrapped in white cloth.
"At the beginning, Grandma Qin said that this black snake pendant can keep you safe, but if I give it to you, I'm afraid..." Grandma looked worried, but still gave me the black snake pendant: "This is all the sin committed by your ancestors of the Long family."
Grandma said, tears flashing in her cloudy eyes. She held my hand and sighed, "Long Ling, they committed the sin themselves, but they didn't pay for it themselves, and it fell on you. If you have the ability, punish those men. Why let my Long Ling suffer these sins?"
I looked at my grandmother in confusion: "What's going on?"
Grandma waved her hand at me and said, "You just came back. Haven't you had breakfast yet? After breakfast, I'll take you to find Grandma Qin's apprentice. She's now a famous rice expert in the surrounding area."
"But Mo Xiu said that he still had to go look for the snake coffin." I stood up holding the white handkerchief.
But grandma waved her hands and said: "I can't find it. It was struck by lightning."
She obviously didn't want to talk about that matter and went to the kitchen.
"Drop blood on the black snake pendant first." Mo Xiu reminded me in my mind.
I slowly untied the white handkerchief, revealing a piece of ink-black snake-shaped jade inside. The jade was carved into a coiled snake, and the carving was extremely delicate, with the scales clearly visible.
They were clearly carved from the same piece of black jade, but the pair of half-closed snake eyes seemed so clear that they could illuminate people.
This black snake looks exactly like the black snake in my dream.
As I watched, the half-hanging, half-buried eyes of the black snake slowly opened.
I was so scared that I nearly dropped the black snake pendant. Mo Xiu in my mind didn't say anything either. It seemed that he also fell into deep thought when he saw the black snake pendant.
Hearing the "quack" sound of the big white goose outside, I hurriedly found my grandmother's sewing needle, pricked my finger, and squeezed a drop of blood on the black snake pendant.
The bright red blood fell on the pitch-black jade pendant. The blood seemed to come alive and spread rapidly along the scales carved on the snake's body. In the blink of an eye, the whole snake seemed to be dyed red.
I was staring at it in a daze when I felt the light in front of my eyes dim, and then something cold and soft fell on my lips.
I looked up in surprise and saw Mo Xiu's handsome face in front of me. He pressed his lips against mine and pursed them gently, as if he was sighing or talking to himself: "Long Ling, I finally kissed you."
