Picking up a greedy snake [Liao Zhai]

At noon, the sun was shining hotly, and the branches and leaves were blown by the wind, shaking the mottled light spots on the ground from side to side.

Gu Huai stepped on the dry branch at the bottom of his feet with a "snap", squinted his eyes and looked up at the sky. The sunlight penetrated through the gaps in the branches and leaves and hit his black jewel-like eyes, which made his eyes alive for a while. Pain, quickly lowered his head.

"Master," the servant Fuan behind followed pantingly, wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve, and said excitedly, "Pass this Heilonggang, and walk another [-] miles to arrive at Suzhou City is gone!"

Gu Huai nodded his head lightly, walked forward without saying a word, and stomped on the dead branches and leaves on the ground with a "creak" sound.

"I heard that the beautiful women in Suzhou City are like clouds," Fu An chuckled, his withered face twisted into a ball, and while looking up at Gu Huai sneakily, he deliberately lowered his voice and said, "Everywhere is a place where you can find flowers and ask willows." Nah... ouch..."

Before he finished speaking, Gu Huai tapped Fu An's head with the handle of the dagger.

"What are you talking about?" The clear and clear voice like spring water flowed out slowly, with a little sullenness, "Daddy told me to go to Suzhou to visit my cousin who was seriously ill, but you are thinking about the flower street and willow alley all day long." ?”

Fu An gritted his teeth and rubbed his painful head, and muttered dissatisfiedly: "Isn't this your favorite thing to do? Why is it like a different person since the young master came back from the dead?"

"What did you say?"

"No, no... I didn't say anything..."

Gu Huai shook his head and ignored him.

Three months ago, Gu Huai traveled to the world of "Liaozhai" and passed on the body of the dead second young master of the Gu family.At the original owner's funeral, he crawled out of the coffin, scaring all the guests out of their wits.

After his father, Gu Yuanwai, recovered from the fright, he held him and cried all night, crying and saying: "My poor son, if you just leave like this, how will Dad live? Fortunately, you live again!" Come here, thank you God for your blessing!"

Gu Huai looked at the father's hair, which was half gray when he was just over [-] years old, and felt sour in his heart.He himself was an orphan in the original world. Now, facing the sudden family affection, besides being a little confused, there is also a faint sweetness and warmth in his heart.

Another gust of wind hit, and the snow-blue lotus-leaf scarf on Gu Huai's head fluttered in the air.

Behind him, Fu An folded his arms and shuddered, ran up to Gu Huai's side, and said tremblingly, "Master, why does the wind seem weird?"

Gu Huai stopped in his tracks, his two slender and delicate eyebrows that flew straight to his temples lightly frowned, and he clenched the short knife in his hand.

The gust of wind was indeed very cold, and the high temperature just now subsided a lot.

In the book "Liao Zhai", the appearance rate of monsters and ghosts is extremely high.If you want to live in peace, you have to be careful every step of the way.

"I often hear from the elders that there is a thousand-year-old snake demon dormant in the Black Dragon Gang." Fu An shrank his neck, with a little panic in his tone. It is eaten by humans. It is said that no less than a hundred people have been buried in the belly of snakes!"

Gu Huai chuckled, what a thousand-year-old snake demon, this is Liaozhai, not the Legend of the White Snake, if it is a thousand-year-old fox demon, maybe he would still believe it.

"It is rumored that the snake demon is one foot thick and several tens of feet long. Before eating people, it likes to wrap people around with its slippery body, and then swallows them in one gulp...Eh...it's scary..."

Gu Huai patted the back of his head and said, "Don't scare yourself, go quickly, otherwise it will be even more terrifying if you can't get out of Heilonggang before dark?"

Fu'an's mung bean-like eyeballs rolled twice in their sockets, as if thinking of something terrifying, he shook violently, and followed Gu Huai's pace.

Fu An followed Gu Huai step by step, secretly looking at Gu Huai's back.

He was wearing a moon-white brocade robe embroidered with golden cloud patterns, and a dark blue pipa sleeve girdle covering it.A gray embroidered silk belt around his waist outlined his thin and graceful waistline.

Compared to men of the same age, Gu Huai's figure is slightly slender and thin, but he does not look weak at all, but instead adds a bit of elegance to him.

Fu'an swallowed quietly, thinking that his young master is really a very good-looking person.

At this time, there was a "rustling" sound, as if something was sliding towards them close to the ground.

Gu Huai stopped suddenly, and Fu An almost bumped his head on his back.

"Master?"

"There are snakes."

"What is the easse, it really really has a snake, Niang Ye will not really be the snake demon!" Fu'an screamed scared.

Gu Huai was noncommittal, bent down and picked up a thick and long branch.

I don't know how thick and long the snake is, whether it is poisonous or not.As for ordinary non-venomous snakes, there is no need to worry about them. If they are not big poisonous snakes, he can barely deal with them.But if the snake is really a giant man-eating python, no matter whether it is a monster or not, the consequences will be disastrous.

"Hiss..."

Gu Huai gently pushed the scabbard away with his thumb, pulled out the short knife that was shining with blue light, and held a wooden stick in one hand.He stretched all his muscles, and a thin layer of sweat appeared on his forehead.

"Sizzling... rustling..."

The snake seemed to be fighting against them, but it didn't show up, and it swam around them quickly while spitting out its message.

"Master..." Fu'an, who was shaking like chaff, pressed tightly against Gu Huai, wishing to shrink into his body.

"Hush...don't make a sound."

Gu Huai looked around, trying to find the snake.He faintly saw something moving fast under the leaves. The snake, it seemed, wasn't particularly big...

Suddenly, behind them, a lightning-like figure rushed towards them, biting Fu An's ass with lightning speed.

"what!!!"

With a shrill scream, Fu'an flew out like an arrow, and ran around a big tree at high speed, with a thin and long thing behind him.

It was a green snake, only one meter long, and it was biting Fu'an's pants tightly at this time, and it would not let go when it was thrown around.

Gu Huai was stunned for a moment, and rushed up.He pulled the snake's tail with one hand, pinched the snake's jaw with the other, and took it off Fu'an.

Fu An slumped and sat on the ground, panting heavily.

The emerald green snake struggled and twisted in Gu Huai's hands, its tail wrapped around Gu Huai's arm, and it bared its fangs and roared angrily.

The corner of Gu Huai's mouth twitched, he raised his chin at Fu'an, and said, "Is this the thousand-year-old snake demon you're talking about?"

Fuan clutched his chest in shock, and said in a crying voice, "Madam, ma'am, it's terrible!"

The color of the snake is a beautiful emerald green, like a leaf in midsummer full of sunshine.The belly is yellowish green, like the buds just born in early spring.

Gu Huai suddenly noticed two red dots on the snake's head.

His eyes suddenly lit up, and he said to the snake, "You must be Erqing!"

Gu Huai remembered that there was an article "The Snake Man" in "Liaozhai", which said that a man raised two snakes, one named Daqing and the other Erqing, and Erqing had two red spots on his head.Later it was put back into the mountains and forests, and it could still recognize its original owner.

"Why are you in this Black Dragon Gang?" Gu Huai stroked the green snake's smooth skin, his dark pupils sparkled like stars, "Where are Da Qing and Xiao Qing?"

The snake ignored him, and continued to shake its head trying to break free from Gu Huai's shackles.

Fu'an stared dumbfounded at Gu Huai getting close to the snake, thinking that his young master might be bewildered.

"Young master...Young master, throw that snake away or kill it, let's go on our way!"

"Hey, that's not okay, you don't know, this snake is spiritual."

Fu An rolled his eyes, sat on the ground with a broken jar, and waited for the young master to play with snakes enough before going on the road.

"It came out to attack people for no reason, I'm afraid it's starving," Gu Huai murmured in confusion, tilting his head, then turned his head and shouted at Fu'an, "Fu'an, take out some dry food from the luggage. "

"No, young master, are you still feeding me?" Fu An complained and took out a steamed bun from the package, walked to Gu Huai's side, and waved the white steamed bun in front of the green snake.

"Do you want to eat, do you want to eat, hey, I won't let you eat!"

As soon as the words fell, the snake rushed out of Gu Huai's hand, and bit the steamed bun in Fu'an's hand, and its sharp fangs almost bit Fu'an's finger.Fu An was so frightened that he threw away the steamed bun and the snake with one hand, and exclaimed in fear: "Oh my mother!"

Erqing fell to the ground together with the steamed bun, and it opened its mouth wide, swallowed the whole steamed bun without chewing.The belly suddenly swelled up into a round ball.

"Hahahaha." Seeing this situation, Gu Huai couldn't help laughing.

Fuan's eyeballs were about to fall out. He had heard that snakes eat chickens and mice, but he had never heard that snakes could also eat steamed buns.

The snake opened its mouth, took a breath of satisfaction, and crawled towards Gu Huai.

Gu Huai took out another white and fat steamed bun, and the snake stood upright, trying to bite that steamed bun.Gu Huai shrank his hand behind him and said to it: "Don't worry, you can't swallow it in one gulp."

After finishing speaking, he tore off a moderately sized piece and threw it at the green snake's mouth.The green snake jumped up, and the white steamed bun just happened to be thrown into his mouth.

Just like that, Gu Huai fed all the dry food in the luggage to the green snake like feeding a pet dog.

The green snake ate up the rations of the master and servant, but still grinned dissatisfiedly and spit out the letter, its thin body wrapped around Gu Huai's ankles one after another.

Gu Huai patted the crumbs off his hands, stood up, and said to the green snake: "You have eaten up all the food, and we have to continue on our way. You stay in this mountain forest for a while, and someone will come to adopt it." Yours. Remember, you must not attack humans for no reason."

After finishing speaking, he waved to Fu An: "Fu An, let's go."

As a result, as soon as he took a step, he felt his left leg sink, as if being entangled by something cool.When he looked down, the green snake was tightly wrapped around his calf, and the two black round eyes were staring straight at him.

Gu Huai clicked his tongue, and bent down to peel off the strip of meat wrapped around his leg.As a result, as soon as it was pulled apart a little, it was tightly entangled again.The snake raised its head and vomited at Gu Huai, with an expression on its face that seemed to say, "Hey, you can't get rid of me."

Gu Huai was extremely depressed, and there was a little irritation in his tone: "Don't pester me, I'm going to the city, how can I take you with me? What if you scare others with your appearance?"

After hearing this, the snake really let go of Gu Huai obediently, and crawled off his lap.

Gu Huai breathed a sigh of relief, and sighed in his heart that the green snake was indeed very intelligent.

The snake meandered on the ground towards Gu Huai's package scattered on the ground, and slid in, wrapping cloth strips around its body to cover the package tightly, making it impossible to see that there was a snake inside.

Gu Huai: ...

Fuan: ...

Gu Huai looked at the package on the ground dumbfounded, and said to Fu An: "Why don't we take it with us."

"Then I won't recite the salute!" Fu An jumped three feet away, looking at the package with disgust, "If you want to bring it, you can recite the salute yourself!"

Gu Huai laughed out loud, packed the salute helplessly, and pulled it on his shoulders.

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The green snake is attacking!