Chapter 0023: Humans and Snakes Have Different Paths
How did the people from Huilong Village get mixed up with Long Xia? Didn't Long Xia say she wanted to kill everyone in Huilong Village?
Just as I was thinking, Liu Longting suddenly stood beside the wooden barrel, looked down at me and said, "Long Ling, how long can you endure? Mo Xiu left in disappointment, right?"
"You didn't choose him last time, and it's the same this time." Liu Longting chuckled.
I looked up at him, suddenly jumped out of the barrel, grabbed a handful of rice and poured it heavily into his face.
As soon as the rice spilled onto Liu Longting's face, he immediately let out a low sigh and disappeared in a flash.
"I have to thank you, Long Ling. If it weren't for you, Long Mingshan wouldn't have taken out my snake body, and I wouldn't be here." Liu Longting's voice was full of pride.
But he seemed to have heard something and disappeared immediately.
I was about to sit down again when I heard the sound of a car outside. Granny Qin Mi glanced at the rice all over the floor, shook her head and sighed, "Alas, when will this end?"
"I don't like to see people from Huilong Village. Don't let them into the house. Your grandma and Niu Er are with me, so they will be fine." Qin Mi Po took a broom and swept up the rice that was spilled on the ground.
"Thank you." I looked at her with gratitude.
She was able to help me only because of Mo Xiu's kindness. Now...
I touched my empty wrist and went out to open the door.
I saw Long Xia and a middle-aged man standing beside the car. I couldn't tell if he was my uncle or my cousin.
When Niu Er saw Long Xia, he was so scared that he huddled beside the empty chicken coop at Qin Mi's house, holding a broken bamboo pole and muttering to himself.
"Long Ling." Long Xia waved at me, pointed at the person next to her, and said in a deep voice: "This is Sixth Uncle. He knows everything about the village."
She was being so naive that she directly contacted these people. Who knows what kind of eye drops she used.
I brushed off the dirt on my body, glanced at Niu Er, confirmed that he was still quite security-conscious, and shouted to him, "Come in."
Niu Er was obviously very afraid of Long Xia, and hurried into the house with a bamboo pole.
I then said to the "sixth uncle" who had risen in rank, "I don't want to see Long Xia. For other matters, come to my house to discuss it tomorrow morning."
Sixth Uncle looked at Long Xia helplessly, shook his head and said to me: "Long Ling, since you have become a snake woman, according to the rules of our village, you should be beaten to death. Long Xia has agreed to suppress the snake coffin, we are here to take you away."
Although I knew that Long Xia would play tricks on me, I didn't expect that she could actually reverse her identities.
I was about to say something when I heard a deep shout and a large net dropped from the roof.
It covered me directly, and before I could struggle, four people in robes and strange masks jumped down from the roof and pulled me down by the four corners of the net.
It is true that it is better to guard against people than snakes. I quickly pulled out the hidden fruit knife from my clothes and used all my strength to cut the net, shouting to my sixth uncle, "Long Xia is the snake lady!"
But inside the net, there were soft steel wires twisted inside. Even when the outside was cut open, the inside didn't move at all.
The people in robes next to me were jumping and pulling the nets, while throwing things at me, such as wine, bones, stones and so on.
I was caught in the net and pulled around in circles, and I could feel all kinds of dust and other things falling on my body.
She pulled the net and screamed at her sixth uncle, "Long Xia is the snake woman!"
Sixth Uncle stood still, just staring at the four people in strange clothes.
The net was swaying left and right as it was pulled. I was pulled and my face brushed against the ground, and a smell of earth rushed into my mouth.
I looked at these people and suddenly felt a little angry.
While the four men in long robes were throwing things at me, I suddenly pulled the net forward, then reached out and used a fruit knife to overturn the brazier next to me.
In order to make it easier to burn the mugwort, Qin Mipo added firewood into the fire basin. I picked it up and the charcoal fire spread everywhere.
Those strange men pulling the nets were all wearing loose robes. As the coals rolled, their robes began to smoke and catch fire .
While they were loose, I pulled the net and quickly got out of the opening.
He picked up a bamboo pole with a loofah vine on it in front of the house.
Pointing at Long Xia, he said to Sixth Uncle, "I told you, Long Xia is the snake lady. It was she who had blood snakes coming out of her body and killed everyone."
"Don't go back to the village, and don't think about the snake coffin anymore. Don't come back, run for your lives!"
No matter how loud I yelled, Sixth Uncle didn't believe me. He just shook his hand at the four people in strange clothes and said, "Go ahead."
The four weirdos, wearing bronze masks, looked at me with weird grins, and one of them took out a snake from his pocket.
Each one was as thick as an arm. They ran over holding the snakes and surrounded me.
I put the snake around my neck and the snake's head immediately hissed at me.
These snakes were obviously domesticated and all were venomous.
I was holding the bamboo pole and was about to attack, but I didn't expect them to throw the poisonous snake directly towards me.
I saw the cobra baring its fangs and pouncing towards me.
I was so scared that my palms were full of sweat. I held the bamboo pole and swung it violently.
But in the end, there were snakes everywhere. One of them was picked up and crawled towards me along the bamboo pole.
And then I felt a weight on my back and it turned cold, and I thought that I couldn't avoid being bitten by the snake.
Unexpectedly, Long Xia didn't care about the snake coffin and wanted to poison me to death directly.
But at this moment, I heard a soft sigh.
The person who had been climbing up the mountain towards me along the bamboo pole suddenly fell down, and something on his back hit the ground with a "bang".
Long Xia on the opposite side slowly took a step back. The four people in robes and masks shouted in a deep voice, "Snake demon!"
I threw away the bamboo pole and turned my head to take a look.
I saw Mo Xiu in a black robe standing behind me, looking at the person opposite with serious eyes.
"Long Ling, you said you are not a snake woman, so this snake demon must be your snake husband!" Sixth Uncle said in a cold tone.
He said to the four people nearby: "Kill the snake woman and the snake demon will be yours."
The four men immediately began to dance in a weird manner, raising their hands and spilling something.
Mo Xiu looked at me solemnly, stepped forward, and looked at Long Xia: "I don't care what you want to do, but Long Ling can't move."
Long Xia chuckled, stretched out her arm to hold Sixth Uncle, put her head on his shoulder affectionately, and kissed Sixth Uncle: "I found a way to prevent Long Ling from entering the snake coffin. You should thank me."
"Long Ling, you really should go back to the village. There are so many secrets in the village." Long Xia chuckled.
But when she laughed, Sixth Uncle didn't react at all.
I instantly understood that my Sixth Uncle was being controlled by Long Xia using the silk snake.
Mo Xiu just looked at Long Xia with a gloomy look and ignored the four masked men in long robes.
But before they had danced for long, a fishy wind began to blow.
A snake thicker than my thigh swooped down from the roof and opened its mouth to bite me.
At the same time, Mo Xiu snorted coldly, raised his hand slightly, and a bolt of thunder fell, hitting the snake directly on the top of its head.
Seeing the giant snake fall to the ground, the four masked men were suddenly shocked: "Attracting lightning, you can attract lightning, you are... you are..."
Mo Xiu snorted coldly: "Get lost!"
The four masked men ignored even the snakes on the ground, saluted Mo Xiu in a strange way, and turned around to run.
But just as they reached Long Xia, they saw something rushing quickly under her skirt and wrapping around them.
Mo Xiu shouted coldly, and the blood snakes shrank back again, quickly disappearing under the skirt.
As the blood snake entered her body, Long Xia seemed to be in great pain and groaned twice.
But he looked at Mo Xiu in disbelief: "You also came out of the snake coffin, why can you control the blood snake in my body?"
She seemed to have thought of something and said with a smile: "You didn't...you didn't come out of the snake coffin? You are different from Liu Longting?"
When the four masked men saw that there was a snake hidden in Long Xia's body, they were so scared that they didn't even dare to say a word and just ran away.
Long Xia glanced at me, then smiled charmingly at Mo Xiu, "No matter how powerful you are, you will still die in the end, and you don't even have a snake body."
She said this and turned and left.
There was a silk snake in Sixth Uncle's body, and he was actually like a puppet. He didn't even want the car and just followed her.
I pulled the bamboo pole to grab my sixth uncle, but I thought that there was no way he would survive if a silk snake entered his body.
Or just let it go quietly...
Mo Xiu went to the side and touched the big snake.
The big snake that was originally knocked unconscious by the lightning woke up. It raised its head, but when it saw Mo Xiu, it immediately crawled on the ground and did not move.
"Go back to the mountains." Mo Xiu looked at it and sighed, "Humans and snakes will eventually go their separate ways. Forget about her."
Qin Mi Po stood at the door, looked at me and said quietly, "This is the snake that spewed poisonous snakes from the next town, and lured a woman to become a snake witch. The four wandering people are Taoist priests who specialize in catching snakes with some magical powers ."
The big snake nodded at Mo Xiu and slowly swam towards the back of the house.
Mo Xiu stood there, watching the snake swim away, looking a little lonely for a moment.
My heart ached. I didn't know which snake he was referring to when he said, "Humans and snakes take different paths."
Or is it him himself...
