Picking up a greedy snake [Liao Zhai]

When Gu Huai and the others crossed the Black Dragon Gang, it was already dusk.

From a distance, they saw a small inn standing at the foot of the mountain, looming in the hazy evening mist.There is probably no other place to rest within a few miles around, so Gu Huai and Fu An decided to sleep in that inn for the night, and then set off on the road tomorrow morning.

Gu Huai tightened the wrap around his body, and said softly to the green snake nestled inside: "We're going to stay in the hotel later, you have to be quiet, don't just run out and scare people."

As if the snake understood, it squirmed twice in the package in response.

Fu'an shook his head, thinking that Gu Huai was a teenager at heart, raising a reptile, snake and scorpion for fun.

They walked to the inn and gently pushed open the wooden door that was ajar.There was a heavy and strange "squeak" sound from the door, thick dust on the door fell down one after another, Gu Huai frowned and dodged back.

The inside of the inn was a little dark, only an oil lamp was lit on the counter, which turned the whole room into an orange-red color.

Through the light, they faintly saw a person lying on the counter, with a wide back rising and falling evenly, accompanied by rhythmic snoring, it seemed that he was fast asleep.

Fu An stepped forward, pushed the man's shoulder, and said, "Hey, shopkeeper, wake up, we're staying in the store."

The body of the prone person shook violently, and the head buried in the crook of the arms raised up in a daze, revealing a face full of flesh.When he saw the two people in front of him, his eyes, which were squeezed into a slit, brightened up.

He wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth, got up quickly, put on a flattering smile, turned to them with a nod and bowed his head, and said, "Oh, the two masters live in the hotel, come on, please come this way!"

This person is tall and strong, Gu Huai is already considered tall, but that person is half a head taller than Gu Huai.

At this time, a thin, middle-aged woman came out from the room. She was wearing a grayish-brown coarse sackcloth, and looked at Gu Huai and the two with complicated eyes.

The shopkeeper hurriedly stepped forward to grab the woman, winked at her and said, "Old lady, there is a guest coming to the store, hurry up and entertain her."

The woman's emaciated body trembled slightly, she responded excitedly twice, and said to the two of them, "Follow me, both of you."

A trace of doubt arose in Gu Huai's heart, he always felt that these two people were mysterious, as if they were planning something.

They followed the woman to a courtyard behind the house, and suddenly heard coughing in a room.Gu Huai stopped in his tracks and looked around the dilapidated courtyard to find the source of the sound.

The woman's mung bean-like eyeballs rolled shrewdly, and she said with a smile on her face, "That room is my daughter. She went to play in the mountains a few days ago, and got some cold and coughed."

As soon as the words fell, the cough sounded again, this time, it became a bit heart-piercing, accompanied by some painful panting as if he couldn't breathe.

Gu Huai was taken aback for a moment, then nodded to the woman and said, "This cough can be a big or small problem. If you suffer from the wind and cold for a long time, it may turn into pneumonia. Why don't you bring Lingmei to the doctor and grab a few herbs. It can also make the disease heal faster."

The woman responded nonchalantly a few times, then stopped talking about this topic, led Gu Huai and the two into a room, and lit a few oil lamps.

The house is fairly clean and comfortable. Although it is not very spacious, Gu Huai and the others are already satisfied with finding such a place in the deep mountains.

Gu Huai asked the woman for two bowls of noodles, ten steamed buns, and ten catties of cooked beef.Fu An rolled his eyes in his heart, the two of them, the master and the servant, definitely couldn't eat these things, the young master of his family must have brought so much food to feed the green snake of unknown origin.

After the woman left, Gu Huai gently opened the package.

The snake was indeed hovering inside, and it was feigning sleep with its eyes closed.Gu Huai poked the red spot on the top of his head and said, "Erqing, aren't you full yet? Get up and eat."

Fu An wrinkled his nose, took a bowl of noodles and squatted beside the bed, "sucking and sucking" and started eating, looking at Gu Huai and Qing Snake with a face that couldn't bear to look directly.

Hearing the words, the snake slowly opened its eyes, "hissed" and spat out the red letter twice, and wrapped it lazily around Gu Huai's arm.

Gu Huai laughed and brought the snake to the table.Tear off a piece of beef and put it in front of the green snake's mouth.

The snake wrapped around Gu Huai's arm and didn't move. He just opened his mouth and asked Gu Huai to feed it food one bite at a time, just like an old man.

Gu Huai thought to himself, this green snake is really interesting, it actually eats cooked food and doesn't bite people.

After eating and drinking, Uncle Snake climbed off Gu Huai's body, climbed onto the bed along the bedpost, sank into the soft quilt, closed his eyes and continued to sleep soundly.

Gu Huai looked at the snake dumbfounded.Er Qing and Yi Snake ate up all the steamed buns and beef that Gu Huai wanted, leaving him a bowl of noodles.In the meantime, Fu An desperately snatched two steamed buns from Shekou, but was almost bitten to death by the green snake.

After Gu Huai ate the noodles, he leaned against the head of the bed, took out a copy of "The Analects of Confucius" and began to read.

He is not particularly smart in modern society, but because of his hard work, he was admitted to a good university.He is an orphan and has no parents or relatives to support him to study, so he works part-time in college to earn money while studying.

He looks handsome and pleasing, and his temperament is also gentle and kind. He has always been popular in school.As a result, when he was about to graduate, an accident took his life away. Afterwards, his soul traveled here, to Gu Huai who also died, had the same name and surname as himself, and looked exactly the same.

He knew that if he wanted to adapt to life here as soon as possible, he had to understand their thinking.Therefore, during the few months he came here, he always kept the four books and five classics in his hands, and read them whenever he had free time.

Flames flickered in the oil lamp, and the shadows of two people and a snake dangled on the wall.As the night gradually deepened, Gu Huai's eyelids became heavier and heavier, and he fell asleep without knowing it.

At night, he suddenly felt a biting chill, and he shivered suddenly and got up.

There was a burst of snoring from the bedside, and Fu An was already fast asleep against the bedside.Gu Huai climbed out of bed and wanted to shake him up so that he could sleep on the bed.

He stepped on the ground with bare feet, and suddenly found that there was an extra bench in the house.The stool was about one person long and one foot wide, and it was placed in the middle of the room in a gloomy manner.

Gu Huai walked over suspiciously, bent down and touched the stool.It doesn't matter if you don't touch it, but when you touch it, you will find that the stool feels the same as the flesh.He was so frightened that he quickly retracted his hand, and suddenly lost all sleepiness.

He took a closer look, and saw a cloud of black and purple smoke rising from the stool—this was the resentment of the ghost.

Gu Huai could see the ghost's resentment, the heavier the resentment, the darker the color.

He quickly took the dagger close to his body and held it tightly in his hand.A layer of cold sweat oozes from his back. Although he has long known that there are many ghosts in "Liaozhai", this is the first time he has encountered ghosts directly.

With a "squeak", the door slowly opened.Gu Huai swallowed, and looked outside the house, there was nothing outside.

Just as he was about to go forward to close the door again, several children suddenly appeared at the door. They carried a gloomy rosewood coffin, walked straight into the room, and put the coffin on the bench.

Gu Huai stared dumbfounded at what happened in front of him, too shocked to speak.

The resentment above the coffin turned pure black, and Gu Huai was shocked, thinking something was wrong.He turned his head and shouted loudly: "Fu'an, run!"

As soon as the words fell, the coffin lid was lifted with a "bang", and a white figure jumped out of the coffin, suspended in mid-air.

Fu An vaguely heard someone calling him, and reluctantly opened his eyes.As a result, a distorted grimace came into view, which made him scream in horror.

The ghost was floating in the air, her long black hair was scattered in front of her face, her face was blue, and her sharp fangs were bared ferociously.The most frightening thing was that a big cut was made in her abdomen, exposing the entire abdominal cavity.

The children carrying the coffin smiled and blocked the door, blocking them in the house.

The female ghost suddenly burst into tears, black and red blood slid from her eyes along her blue-purple cheeks.

Gu Huai suppressed the fear in his heart, straightened his back, and Ling Ran said in an upright voice, "Who the hell are you? We have no grievances against you, what are you doing here?"

"Also..." The gray lips parted slightly, and a hoarse voice like withered grass came out from it, "Give me back my heart..."

"Heart? What heart?" Gu Huai thought that the ghost was also a human being before he was alive, so he might be reasonable. He tried to communicate with this female ghost, so he softened his tone and asked softly, "Or, what can I do for you? ?"

Suddenly, the female ghost's cries stopped abruptly, her eyes widened, and her entire face looked even more eerie.She curled the corner of her mouth and grinned a weird smile.

"Do you have a heart?" The female ghost approached Gu Huai little by little, her voice hoarse and ethereal, "Give me your heart!"

Gu Huai's pupils shrank suddenly.As soon as the words fell, the woman stretched out her sharp claws and attacked his chest.Gu Huai turned sideways, narrowly avoiding the female ghost's attack.

Fu An next to him was so frightened that he passed out, rolling his eyes and foaming from his mouth.The green snake on the bed also woke up. It sneaked under the bed and hid its body, revealing a pair of black round eyes, observing Gu Huai and the female ghost.

While dodging, Gu Huai said to the female ghost: "You have resentment in your heart, why did you come to me? Who is the person who killed you, you go to him, why did you come to hurt innocent people..."

Before he finished speaking, Gu Huai received a solid claw on the back, and suddenly three cracks appeared on the white shirt, from which there were bloody wounds.

Gu Huai fell to the ground, grinning in pain.The female ghost approached him slowly, her sharp claws quickly dug into his chest.Gu Huai subconsciously blocked it with the dagger in his hand...

"Bah-"

The expected pain did not come.Gu Huai opened his eyes in disbelief, but was surprised to find that the short knife in his hand had turned into a long silver knife, piercing through the female ghost's body and splitting her in half.

The female ghost's expression froze from excitement to surprise, and her body gradually became transparent, slowly turning into a wisp of purple smoke and disappearing in the air.

A lavender, crystal-clear stone fell from the cloud of smoke.

Gu Huai let out a breath, and the long knife in his hand fell to the ground with a "ding dong", turning into the usual short knife again.

The pain behind him surged like a tide, and he grunted with a pale face.

The green snake crawled straight out from the bottom of the bed, and crawled to the lavender spar dropped by the female ghost.The snake tilted its head to look at the spar, spat out the letter and licked it.

Gu Huai struggled to pick up the spar, but Erqing opened his blood-red mouth and swallowed the spar in one gulp.

Gu Huai's eyes widened, and he quickly stepped forward and grabbed Erqing to break its mouth, and said anxiously, "What did you eat? You can't eat this, why do you eat everything?"

Erqing kept his mouth shut, and Gu Huai tried all his strength to breastfeed but did not open his mouth.

Suddenly, Gu Huai realized a serious problem.What about the children who carried the coffin?Why are they missing?

He searched for memories in his mind, and he remembered that the moment the female ghost was split open, those children did not disappear, but floated in one direction...

It is the bedroom of the shopkeeper couple and their daughter!

Thinking of this, Gu Huai ignored the pain on his back, picked up the dagger and rushed out.

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