pregnant snake

After talking to himself for a while, the Taoist patted the dust off his body and walked up the mountain. Not long after, there was a knock on the door of Su He's house.

Su He has lived alone in this mountain for many years, and very few people came to visit him. He was slightly startled when he heard the sudden knock on the door. After confirming that it was his own door, he walked over to open the door with a full face of doubt.

Pushing open the courtyard door, I saw an old Taoist priest with a white beard and a mahogany sword on his back.The old Taoist smiled all over his face, bowed and made a series, saying: "The poor road has been traveling for days, and when passing this mountain, I was extremely thirsty. Fortunately, I saw a family here, and came to bother me without even thinking about it. Don't be surprised, Mr. Wang, I donate a bowl of white water to the poor."

Hearing this, Su He let go of his guard, and he, who has always been gentle with others, turned sideways and made a gesture of invitation, and said, "It's easy to say, come in first, Daoist Priest, I'll make you a pot of hot tea."

The Taoist laughed wrinkled, stepped into the courtyard gate, and said, "That's really troublesome, my lord."

Su He shook his head and turned to make tea.

The Taoist stood in the courtyard and looked around, and finally fixed his eyes on the black snake coiled on the railing in front of the house. He changed his kind smile just now, and sighed with a straight face, but the black snake just looked at it. He glanced, turned his head and continued to bask in his sun.

"Immortal guy." The Taoist muttered softly, rolling his eyes.

As soon as the words were broken, Su He walked out of the house with a bowl of hot tea, handed it to the Taoist priest, moved a stone bench for him to sit on, and said, "Drink slowly, my yard is small, but the tea is very small. It's enough."

The smile returned to the Taoist priest's face, and after taking a sip of hot tea, he felt refreshed physically and mentally. He didn't forget to thank the young man beside him, wiped his mouth and continued: "The poor monk's surname is Liu, and his name is Shuyi, and you don't know your son's name? "

Su He smiled warmly, and said respectfully: "When asked by the elder, I dare not refuse to answer. The junior's surname is Su, and the single name has the word He."

The Taoist nodded slightly, put down the teacup and said, "Listening to Mr. Su's conversation, he seems to have read the book. How could he live in such a deep mountain, and even like it..." Instead, he turned his head and pointed his chin at the door on the railing. Black Snake, "You even like to raise some snakes, insects, rats and ants?"

Su He followed the Taoist priest's gaze and looked back, not knowing what he was thinking, he moved his footsteps slightly, blocked the black snake behind him, and said to the Taoist priest: "The Taoist priest misunderstood, this junior didn't intend to catch snakes to raise. It's just that the snake was seriously injured a few days ago, I saw it was pitiful and saved it."

"Hmm..." The Taoist sighed softly, seeing that Su He seemed to be protecting the black snake intentionally or unintentionally, he frowned slightly and said, "Mr. Su, don't blame the poor Taoist for being talkative, it's inevitable that people in the deep mountains and old forests will There are some ghosts and ghosts, you should be careful, after all, it is difficult for us and me to compete with those monsters."

Although Su He was confused, he paid special attention to the word "monster". After the Taoist priest finished speaking, he asked half-believingly, "In this world... are there really monsters?"

Hearing this, the Taoist priest just smiled meaningfully and refused to answer. He stood up and said, "I don't want to bother you if I have to go on my way. Thank you Mr. Su for the hot tea. If Mr. Su needs help from Mr. Go find me on Wudang Mountain, where the poor monk has been practicing all the year round, and if I can help you, the poor monk will definitely do his best."

Su He nodded. At this time, he only regarded these words as a courtesy, and didn't do much to keep the Taoist priests who came here to beg for tea. After sending them out of the courtyard gate, they said a word and walked slowly, but Su He closed the courtyard gate and turned around. At that time, I found that the black snake that was originally wrapped around the railing was gone...

Wudang Taoist Liu Shuyi walked at a leisurely pace after leaving Su He's house. After making two turns along the mountain road, he sat leaning against a banyan tree and counted ten with his fingers. When he looked up, he saw A black snake as thick as an adult man's forearm was wrapped around the trunk of a banyan tree and looked down at him.

Liu Shuyi folded his arms in front of his chest, pouted his lips with an angry expression, and said to the black snake: "You, a thousand-year-old snake demon, don't count your words."

The black snake vomited the letter, and then someone's voice came out, it was a man's voice, the voice was deep and slightly hoarse, and said: "You should blame a cat, if it didn't take me to find that mortal, I will definitely die under the catastrophe of Jing Zhe, and you don't have to act like this just because you didn't get my demon pill."

It turns out that this black snake is really strange, and it has been cultivated for thousands of years.It's just that the transformation of living beings into immortal demons violates the law of the operation of all things, so this kind of monsters will experience a catastrophe every hundred years, and this catastrophe will become more powerful every time until these monsters are wiped out.

Few monsters can survive the thousand-year catastrophe, even the black snake who has devoted himself to cultivation is not sure.So before the catastrophe came, Black Snake had promised Liu Shuyi that if he failed to survive the catastrophe, Liu Shuyi would take away the demon pill he had cultivated for thousands of years to help him become a fairy.

Who would have thought that the black snake survived, Liu Shuyi was naturally lost, sat with arms crossed for a while, suddenly narrowed his eyes, turned to the black snake and asked, "But you old snake demon who walks alone, How could you stay by that mortal's side for so long? I thought you had already gone back to the cave to practice."

Black Snake tilted his head, and asked in a human voice, "You really can't see?"

Liu Shuyi's eyes were narrowed, and he was as cunning as a fox, and said: "I know, that mortal may have lived in the deep mountains for a long time, and his body is full of aura of plants and trees. Being tainted with the breath of grass and trees is naturally good for you to recover your mana. But old snake demon, I think that young man surnamed Su took good care of you, it must have taken a lot of effort, and you stayed by his side only to steal Lingqi, you are too naive, aren't you?"

A sneer came from Hei She's mouth, and he said, "Since I promised to give you the demon pill, you have been expecting me day and night to be struck to death by lightning. Are you doing it better than me?"

Liu Shuyi was choked speechless, opened his mouth in embarrassment, and heard the black snake continue: "Don't worry, I have my own measure, and I didn't want to have anything to do with that mortal body. After seven or eight, I will naturally leave."

"That's good." Liu Shuyi said. Even so, there was a faint uneasiness in his heart. After suppressing his emotions, he got up and said half-jokingly: "Of course I can't get your demon pill. Wudang Mountain is gone, clean it up well, maybe you can wait until your next catastrophe. Hey old snake monster, let’s make an agreement, if I’m still there next time, the demon pill will still be mine.”

The black snake let out a helpless sigh, climbed up the banyan tree, and hid itself among the branches of the treetops. Liu Shuyi looked up, lowered his head and muttered a few words for the strange temper of the snake demon, and left Banyan tree, walk in the direction of Wudang Mountain.