Chapter 0024 Hiding a Woman
After sending the snake away, Mo Xiu looked at me with a serious look, and the jade bracelet turned into a black snake again and returned to my wrist.
I held the black snake jade bracelet and suddenly didn't know what to say.
Mo Xiu just said quietly, "I was away for a while, and Liu Longting came looking for me. Long Ling, how can I feel at ease with you?"
So he finally came back to protect me?
I felt a little sad, but I suppressed my emotions and helped Qin Mi Po mix mugwort ash, incense ash and rice and sprinkle them around the house.
Grandma Qin Mi said that this can prevent dirt, but I don’t think it is very useful. Aren’t there enough dirt coming into her house?
Niu Er sat on the eaves and laughed. He looked at me and said, "I'll take you to see what the village chief has hidden tomorrow!"
After finishing all this, Qin Mipo and I were covered in dust and took a quick shower.
When I was alone, that voice came again: "Long Ling, Long Ling..."
This time, it wasn't just her body that was hot. Her mind kept flashing back to the snake lady from the next village that Qin Mipo had mentioned, and the way those snakes had surged when Long Xia had fallen into the snake pit...
The ambiguous scenes between men and women in the movies and TV dramas I had watched before, the feeling of description in the novels, all the implied and explicit things seemed to jump out automatically.
While washing my hands, I ran to the bathroom, as if I couldn't help but want to do something!
I simply turned on the faucet and showered under cold water for a long time, until my teeth were chattering with cold, then I put on my clothes and went out.
Grandma Qin Mi was already waiting for me with half a basket of rice. "You've been like this for several days now, you won't be able to hold out for much longer. You have to find a solution as soon as possible!"
I sat in the wooden barrel: "Do you know who Mo Xiu and Liu Longting are waiting for? The Long family and the Qin family seem to have some past? Tell me about it!"
This was mentioned by my grandmother when she brought me to see Qin Mipo to ask about rice.
Qin Mipo didn't answer directly, but just looked at me: "Are you afraid that you are not that person?"
"How did your aunt know for sure that I was the one who could get the black snake pendant?" I was buried under the rice, but I still felt the black snake jade bracelet turn.
Qin Mi Po looked at Mi with gloomy eyes: "Because the Snake King said you were born."
"When you were still in your mother's belly, the snake coffin started to move." Qin Mipo sighed.
He said in a deep voice: "Obviously, Long Xia can suppress the snake coffin, but your cousin said that he saw the snake coffin, and the snake coffin specifically wanted you."
Qin Mipo's eyes were heavy. "My aunt and a famous local Feng Shui master went to take a look. Your cousin was indeed possessed by something, so..."
I suddenly understood and nodded : "Because the snake coffin strongly wants me, I am the person that Mo Xiu and Liu Longting are waiting for? Who is that person?"
Qin Mi Po just put down the rice basket in silence and walked away, and the black snake jade bracelet under the rice did not move again.
I leaned against the wooden barrel, feeling the coolness of the rice, slowly closed my eyes, and thought about recent events.
But that kind of dry feeling could not be suppressed no matter what. Even if I buried myself under rice, my legs still felt itchy as if something wanted to come out.
From time to time I lowered my head and buried my face in the rice.
This went on over and over again, making me feel drowsy and finally able to hold on until dawn. My whole body was numb, so I had to take another hot bath and drink the ginger soup that Qin Mipo cooked for me.
After what happened last night, I don’t even want to go to school, for fear of causing trouble for the school.
I just called my homeroom teacher and told him I wanted to drop out of school.
What happened in my family and my village has probably spread all over the town. My head teacher just expressed his understanding and told me to calm down and repeat the year next year.
After hanging up the phone, I called Zhang Hanzhu again, but the call didn't go through.
I tried calling Taoist Zhang, but the call didn't go through.
"Master Zhang and Mr. Hu, the Feng Shui consultant who relocated your family's grave eighteen years ago, are fellow apprentices." Qin Mipo stood at the door.
He said sarcastically, "Back then, when we asked about fortune and looked at graves, it was Mr. Hu and my aunt who went together. My aunt was bitten to death by a snake, and Mr. Hu ran away overnight to save his life. He must know something. Taoist Zhang either ran away, or he would not have allowed Zhang Hanzhu to associate with you."
It’s better not to have any contact with her. After all, Zhang Hanzhu has been caught once, so it’s right to avoid her!
Thinking of this, I felt a little sad. The snake coffin, Liu Longting, and Long Xia were going to leave me with no one around me!
Let’s not worry about what the snake coffin is for now. Qin Mipo, Mo Xiu, and even my grandma know something about it, but they all keep it secret.
I collected the nets left by the alchemists last night, took Niu Er with me, asked Qin Mipo to call a motorcycle taxi for me, and went directly to Huilong Village.
Qin Mipo looked at me and said, "What are you going to do when you enter the village?"
She never wanted to help with Huilong Village's affairs, and was even very resistant to them.
"You all don't want to talk about those things, so I'll go back to the village and look for anything. Try to control Long Xia. If that doesn't work, bury her." I thought of the silk snake that could control people. Although I didn't know what to do, at least Long Xia wouldn't kill me.
When the motorcycle driver heard that we were going to Huilong Village, he looked frightened.
I gave him double the price and he agreed to go, but only to the entrance of the village.
On the way, the motorcycle driver told me about the tragedy in Huilong Village, saying that the village had committed a sin and several people were bitten to death by snakes.
As a result, during the funeral, the entire funeral procession was bitten to death by snakes.
"What a sin this is. Snakes are very vengeful creatures, so don't mess with them easily." The motorcycle taxi driver seemed to have a deep understanding of this.
But he turned around and said angrily: "It's what they deserve. The people of Huilong Village look down on people from other villages because they have money! They choose wives just like they choose concubines. They copy the horoscopes of girls from other villages and choose them one by one. Fortunately, no girl in their village has married off. Otherwise, how could she get married?"
"What do you mean by looking at the horoscope?" I was stunned for a moment.
"You are not from Huilong Village, are you? But no one in their village has daughters." The motorcycle driver laughed.
She said to me, "How would I know? It seems that you need to have a very good fortune to marry into the family. In this day and age, how can such a thing exist?"
"I heard before that in their village, there was a man who fell in love with a female classmate and insisted on getting married. However, the two of them eloped and were caught and brought back." The motorcycle driver seemed a little emotional.
He shook his head and said, "The woman was already pregnant, but the pregnancy was aborted. As for the man, no one knows what happened to him afterwards, but he disappeared anyway."
The motorcycle taxi driver was filled with emotion: "Huilong Village is rich, so they paid a sum of money to settle the matter. But the woman seemed to have died later... Alas!"
They drive motorcycle taxis and every day they either chat with customers or gather together to gossip.
Naturally, he knows much more than I do, who only goes between two places and lives in a simple environment.
When I arrived at the entrance of the village, I specifically asked the motorcycle driver to leave me his phone number.
Then he gave him fifty yuan and said, "If you find out who is the person who helps Huilong Village with fortune-telling, please give me a call and I will give you a red envelope."
"Little girl, feel free!" The motorcycle driver took the money, smiled at me, and rode away on his motorcycle.
Niu Er immediately rushed to the village boundary marker, sat with his back to it, and scratched his itch on it.
"Let's go, take me to see what the village chief hid." I pulled Niu Er.
He immediately became excited and laughed: "He hid a woman, a woman..."
Niu Er ran towards the village. I took a look at the black snake jade bracelet on my wrist, then followed him holding the strap of my backpack.
Mo Xiu hasn't said anything since last night, but I don't know why, before I do anything now, I always instinctively want to take a look to see if the black snake jade bracelet is there, and if Mo Xiu is there.
Niu Er ran straight to the court and waved at me: "Come quickly! Come quickly!"
Next to the court is the village office, a three-story building. Behind it is the village's public fish pond, and the villagers get fish to eat every year.
Niu Er said he hid the woman, and I thought she was in the basement or something.
But I didn't expect that he took me directly to the third floor, and pushed a filing cabinet open with force, and there was a small vertical staircase behind it.
"Woman! Woman!" Niu Er pointed upwards and climbed up.
He climbed up in no time, pushed open the cover, and waved at me: "Come on."
As soon as the cover was opened, a strong strange smell rushed in.
I was about to go up with Niu Er when Mo Xiu suddenly came out, grabbed me and shouted, "Don't go!"
This was the first time he stopped me so strongly, which made me a little nervous: "What's up there?"
Niu Er's body was already halfway up there. Seeing that I hadn't gone up, he lowered his head and called me, laughing: "Come up quickly, the woman the village chief is hiding."
The entrance leading up was only wide enough for one person. Niu Er had his head lowered and his body half bent, taking up most of the space.
But just as he lowered his head, his messy long hair suddenly fell down to his side.
The long hair almost reached Niu Er's feet, and I took a step back in fright.
Mo Xiu held my hand tightly and reached out to cover my eyes: "Don't look."
But something suddenly stood up behind the long hair, and then a pale human face emerged from among the black hair.
