Chapter 0022: Disappointed
Mo Xiu looked at me with hope and expectation. There seemed to be something deeper in those eyes that had always been looking at me in my dreams.
I looked at him with gloomy eyes and smiled bitterly: "Is it true that as long as I marry you, everything will be solved?"
"Whether it's the snake coffin, Liu Longting, or Long Xia, I can help you solve it." Mo Xiu's voice was low, and he held my hand tightly, showing his determination.
In other words, he has always had this ability?
I turned my head to look at him and reached out to touch his face. Who wouldn't be moved by a face like that?
And ever since I can remember, Mo Xiu has always been in my dreams. It is impossible to say that I have no feelings for him.
"Are you protecting me, or someone in your memory?" I spoke with a bit of a sore throat.
Mo Xiu was stunned for a moment, and a look of sadness flashed across his dark eyes. The pupils that were reflecting my face seemed to twitch as well.
"You, Niu Er, and Liu Longting, are you all waiting for the same person?" I looked at Mo Xiu with a serious look.
He whispered, "How can you be sure that I am her?"
Mo Xiu was silent, and said softly: "As long as you marry me, I can always protect you."
"Then what?" I looked at Mo Xiu and said in a deep voice, "What if one day you find out that the person you are waiting for is not me?"
"Mo Xiu, you know I can kill an entire village to save myself. I may not be the kind person you remember." I took a deep breath.
Looking at Mo Xiu: "If you were Liu Longting, I would deceive you if I could, but you are Mo Xiu, you are..."
It was Mo Xiu who protected me for eighteen years and appeared in my dreams every night.
So I don’t want him to find out in the end that I’m not that person and feel that loss and indifference, thinking that I’m deceiving him.
"Wait until you are really sure before telling me, okay?" My eyes were sore.
The feelings that Mo Xiu has for me are attached to someone else, so I don't want to disappoint him.
I don’t want to take something that belongs to someone else!
The worst result is to be buried in a snake coffin. Judging from the results of Long Xia and Liu Longting, it won’t be too bad.
Just like Qin Mipo’s disappointment in me, she told me not to save the villagers, but she didn’t expect that I would lead Long Xia away and harm those people.
Mo Xiu seemed a little sad: "Long Ling, I waited for you to be born and grow up, but I didn't expect... you don't know who you are."
"Then who am I?" I looked up at Mo Xiu and said coldly, "You all have secrets, why don't you just tell me?"
Mo Xiu looked at me with sad eyes and slowly disappeared.
I woke up from my dream, reached out and touched my wrist, and sure enough, the black snake jade bracelet was gone.
When I got up, it was already slightly dark outside.
Qin Mipo and Niu Er sat at the door and burned a fire. The strong smell of mugwort spread.
Niu Er laughed, pulled a roasted taro out of the brazier and reached out to pick it up.
It was so hot that he rubbed it with his left and right hands several times, then quickly pulled up his sleeves to pad it, blew on it several times, and then handed it to me: "It smells good, eat it!"
The taro was roasted very charred. After being tossed around by Niu Er for a while, the burnt skin on the outside had broken, and the rich taro aroma came out, whetting people's appetite.
"Thank you!" I took the taro and sat next to Qin Mipo: "Do you know about Niu Er?"
When I came to ask for money for the first time, Mrs. Qin told me to let Niu Er guard the door for my house.
Qin Mi Po added a handful of rice bran into the brazier. She opened her mouth to speak, but choked on the smoke and started coughing heavily.
I went into the room and poured her a glass of water. She moistened her throat before saying, "Well, it's all the Long family's fault. He and you were born on the same day, so you can't tell, right?"
I really can't tell. It seems like there has been a Niu Er in the village since I can remember.
"On the day you were born, my aunt suddenly called me over and said she was going to die." Qin Mipo held the water cup and used a stick to stir the firewood in the brazier.
When she looked at me, her eyes were filled with hatred: "I didn't let her go, but she took the black snake pendant and went to your house. On the way back..."
"I was worried that something might happen to her, so I followed her secretly. I happened to see..." Qin Mipo pursed her lips.
I don’t know if his face was red from the smoke or from holding back a cough, and even his eyes were bloodshot when he looked at me.
She was obviously holding her breath, so I quickly patted her on the back.
She then started coughing again, as if her heart and liver were about to come out.
Everyone knew that Qin Mipo's aunt was bitten to death by a snake .
But I didn't expect that she would follow me, and I didn't expect that she would see it with her own eyes...
I thought about the snake rolling in the grave, which must have had a great impact on Qin Mipo.
After Qin Mipo finished coughing, she drank a few sips of water before stopping: "What are you going to do in the future?"
I peeled the scalded taro and took a bite. It was still a little hot inside. I blew a breath and said, "Let's take it one step at a time."
"I will take grandma back to town early tomorrow morning and then go to apply for withdrawal from school. Niu Er..." I bit a taro and looked at Niu Er who was sitting aside eating roasted taro .
He turned his head and looked at Qin Mipo: "Just leave it here with you."
Qin Mipo's eyes flashed, fell on my wrist holding the taro, and she sighed softly.
I finished eating the taro in silence without saying anything else.
Long Xia has been deliberately approaching Zhang Hanzhu. Qin Mipo has been bitten by a snake, and grandma has been tied up twice and is now in a coma.
Whether it is the Snake Coffin, Long Xia, or those people from Huilong Village who are about to return, they are all hostile to me.
They will use the people around me to force me into the snake coffin, so it's hard to guard against.
Since the snake coffin requires me to be buried alive, I will at least be able to hold on until the time when I am put into the coffin. Let's see who can beat whom.
The night wind made the brazier whistle. Qin Mipo looked at my wrist several times, as if she wanted to ask something, but she didn't say anything.
In the evening, I boiled some water and wiped my grandma's body and face.
I asked Qin Mi Po for rice. She found a big wooden barrel, asked me to sit in it, and then slowly filled the barrel with rice.
Mi buried his body in my body, pressing me so hard that I couldn't breathe, and if I sat down, even my legs would become numb from curling up.
While helping me bury the rice up to my neck, Qin Mipo sighed, "I've seen someone poisoned by a snake before."
"My aunt was still alive at that time. There was a woman from the next town who went into the mountains to collect firewood. It was raining and she took shelter under a big tree. Then a snake hung down from the tree and sprayed a mouthful of snake poison at her." She helped me flatten the rice.
Shen laughed and said, “She was sprayed with a mouthful of water, and then she was frightened by the giant snake… It was said to be as big as her thigh!”
Qin Mipo exaggeratedly circled her hands and compared the size: "She didn't even want the firewood and ran back home in the rain. She had an attack that night and kept saying that she heard the snake calling her and wanted to go to the mountain to find the snake."
"Go ask my aunt for rice. There's no way to cure the snake's poison, so my aunt let her sleep in rice to use the shade to suppress the lustful energy." Grandma Qin Mi looked up at me.
He smiled bitterly, "But after she slept with him for two nights, the toxicity became stronger and stronger. Every day, she secretly did a lot of shameful things. Then one night, when her family wasn't paying attention..."
Qin Mipo paused for a moment and said, "She ran to the mountains! Later, someone who was collecting wood ran into her. She was naked, laughing and groaning. She smelled like snakes, and sometimes there were always several snakes wrapped around her body."
"What now?" I felt chest tightness coming from the weight of rice.
Qin Mi Po stretched out her hand and grabbed a handful of rice: "She later killed the snake lady in her village. The snake came back to the village to seek revenge, but was also captured by four wandering alchemists."
"Snake lady?" I looked at Qin Mipo with gloomy eyes, puzzled, "Aren't those like Long Xia who came out of the snake coffin called snake ladies?"
"Anyone who has been entangled by a snake is called a snake lady." Qin Mi Po scattered the rice.
He looked at me and said, "Long Xia went into the snake coffin when she was pregnant, and when she came out of the snake coffin, the baby she gave birth to would be a snake monster. No one from Huilong Village would survive."
"What is a basilisk?" The blood snake gushing out of Long Xia's body flashed before my eyes. Could that be a basilisk?
"That's not the point." Qin Mi Po squatted down and looked me in the eye: "You rejected the Snake King?"
My hands, buried under the rice, couldn't help but grab a handful of rice.
As soon as I moved my hand, I immediately felt a sense of emptiness on my wrist.
I couldn't help but feel sad. It's only been a few days and I've already gotten used to wearing the black snake jade bracelet on my wrist.
"Do you dislike the fact that he is a snake without a snake body, or something?" When Qin Mipo saw that I did not deny it, her tone became unpleasant.
"No." I held the rice and was about to explain.
After all, how can Mo Xiu be sure that I am the one he is waiting for?
Before Qin Mipo could say anything, a deep laugh suddenly rang out: "Since she has been poisoned by my snake, she will naturally wait for me, so she rejected Mo Xiu."
As soon as the words fell, I saw Liu Longting half-lying on the old beam, looking down at me: "Someone from Huilong Village has returned and will come to see you soon. Long Xia is with them."
