Chapter 17 Overcoming the Tribulation

I shook the snake soul bell, and the snake shadow that came out of Zhang Xianren's neck twisted even more fiercely. After it came out completely, I used the snake repelling charm to scatter the snake shadow.

After those snake shadows were eliminated, I put a snake-repelling charm on Zhang Xianren's forehead to protect his spiritual platform and prevent evil spirits from entering his body.

I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw Zhang Xianren lying on the bed and completely quiet.

It is late at night now, and it will be dawn in a few hours.

Just in case, I didn't go back and stayed by the table. It was a quiet night and I fell asleep after a tiring day of running around.

When I woke up, it was already three o'clock in the morning, and the bed was empty. I stood up and walked out of the door, and found Zhang Xianren sitting in the yard basking in the sun.

As soon as he saw me, he smiled and said, "I can finally speak, and I almost didn't choke to death."

Is this old man's words more important than his life?

But I was very happy to see that he was fine. He placed his eyes on my wrist, suddenly shrank and then stretched, and said with a smile: "It's exactly what I thought."

I looked down at the snake bracelet on my wrist, with a puzzled look on my face.

Seeing my doubts, Zhang Xianren said: "I have been to the deep mountains before and met the Ba people who are isolated from the world. They have respected snakes for generations and are proud to be asked to marry by the snake king."

"Conclude a marriage with the Snake Lord and pray for the prosperity of the Ba tribe. The Snake Lord will irrigate the red blood vine with his heart's blood, and then use magic to polish the snake bracelet as a matchmaker, and only give it to the destined person."

Zhang Xianren said with a smile: "It seems so, this girl is so lucky."

Is it good luck to be given a snake as your wife?

When Zhang Xianren said this, I couldn't help but take a closer look at the snake bracelet on my wrist. I cursed in my heart and shook my head and said, "Rumors are just rumors after all and cannot be trusted. Besides, the village is not a Ba tribe."

Zhang Xianren didn't say much, and said with an undiminished smile: "If it weren't for your snake man, I might have lost the ball last night!"

When I heard what he said, I felt very unnatural, and said with a slight blush: "Daoist Zhang is fine, I'll go back first."

Zhang Xianren nodded, suppressed his smile and said, "You have to be careful, I'm afraid things in the village are not that simple."

"I see."

After Wang Mazi's accident yesterday, those snakes have been chasing me, and I have always had a strong sense of uneasiness in my heart.

After returning home, I thought about what Zhang Xianren told me about the snake bracelet, and I couldn't help but pester my aunt about the relationship between our family and Chu Yuan.

"This matter has something to do with you!" My aunt raised her eyes to look at me, sighed and said, "I only know a rough idea."

This matter started when I was born. When I was born, I only weighed three pounds and six taels, and my umbilical cord was wrapped around my neck. I was as thin as a lump of earth.

People in the village said that I would not survive because I was a metamorphosis (a child who would die before reaching adulthood), and the barefoot doctors in the town said that there was no way to save me.

But my grandfather was unwilling to give in. He held me in his arms and drove me home in the wind and rain.

On the way back to the village, I met a wandering wild man.

The man was very strange. He was wearing a leather jacket in the summer, and had a very large gaiter on his shoulders. Inside the gaiter squatted a big black cat, almost as big as an adult native dog, half a meter tall.

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The wild man said that he escaped from the north and made food by looking after people along the way.

Grandpa immediately begged him to save my life. The wild man opened the swaddling clothes and looked at me. His face was particularly heavy. He pondered for a long time before saying in a somewhat embarrassed tone: "If you want to save her, I'm afraid you have to pay a lot of price."

The wild man took out a strange pebble and handed it to Grandpa. Then he leaned closer and said something.

After hearing this, Grandpa's expression became extremely unnatural. After a moment, he gritted his teeth and asked, "Is this all right?"

But Ye Langzhong shook his head slightly, "This can only save her life. If you want her to survive, you have to go to the mountains to find some medicinal materials!"

"What medicinal materials?"

The wild man said: "Snake gallbladder!"

After hearing this, grandpa breathed a sigh of relief and said that there were many snakes in the snake ditch behind the village. The snakes had not yet drilled their holes, so it was not difficult to catch one.

But the wild man said: "The snake gallbladder I am talking about is not an ordinary snake gallbladder. It can only be found in snakes that have existed for hundreds of years."

When grandpa heard this, he was stunned for a moment and thought of something. He suddenly took a breath of cold air and looked at him with wide eyes in disbelief.

After I got home, my aunt hugged me, and my grandma sat aside and kept blowing the weird little stone. She sat there all night without taking a break.

But a miracle really happened. On the third day after I was born, I finally opened my hands, kicked my legs, and finally let out my first cry after being born.

"Mom, look, she's alive..." My aunt cried with joy, holding me in her arms and calling me grandma repeatedly.

But grandma didn't say a word, and went back to her small house without even looking at me. Since then, grandma has not shown her face.

She was seriously ill, very seriously ill, and seemed likely to die at any time.

Moreover, she also made a strange rule not to let me appear in her house.

When my aunt said this, she suddenly skipped the conversation and said: "Your grandfather was a good snake catcher. In order to find snake gall for you, he hung a snake basket and a pipe pot on his waist and went to Panlong Mountain to catch snakes almost every day.

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"Every time he caught a snake, he would disembowel it in the yard. After a month or two, he would catch hundreds of snakes, but these ordinary snakes didn't have the courage he was looking for."

I asked: "What happened next?"

"That year your grandfather went into the mountains to catch snakes and met an old woman in a black cloth gown wearing pudding. The old woman's voice was cold and hoarse. She said something incomprehensible to your grandfather, saying that all her descendants in the mountains had been captured. If

If you dare to go into the mountains to catch snakes in the future, don’t blame her for being ruthless."

"After that, the old woman in black left. When your grandfather turned around, there was no sign of the old woman in the deep mountains and old forests."

The big mountain next to our village is called Panlong Mountain, and there is a Snake Pangou at the foot of the mountain. The elders in the village there heard that there is a big snake, more than ten meters long. When the weather is good, it sits on Panlong Mountain and puffs out clouds and mist, causing the Snake Pangou to wander.

The clouds are shrouded.

What's more, it is said that on every first and fifteenth day of the lunar month, if you stand under the Snake Pangou, you can see the big snake swallowing the inner elixir towards the moon, radiating light and absorbing the essence of the sun and moon.

When I heard what my aunt said, I was surprised and said, "Then the old woman turned into a snake?"

My aunt's face turned pale, and she said without saying anything clearly: "Later, your grandfather said that he went into the mountains that day and caught snakes, but the more he caught, the more snakes he caught. It was as if those snakes came out specifically to look for him. After he caught one, he immediately jumped out of the grass.

If one comes out and doesn't move, let him catch it."

"Grabbing the one in my hand, I raised my head and saw that there were snakes all over the grass, on the trees, and by the river. No matter how courageous your grandfather was, he was so frightened that he poured the snakes out of the snake basket."

Hearing this, my tense heart breathed a sigh of relief.

"Grandpa let those snakes go, and everything will be fine."

My aunt hesitated for a while and said that after my grandfather released the snakes, he found that the snake heads were all facing the same direction, just like some kind of ritual.

Grandpa came out from Panlong Mountain. As soon as he entered the village, the sky suddenly became cloudy, with lightning and thunder, and then it started to rain violently.

Erbao, the fool in the village, clapped his hands and jumped, shouting vaguely, "The big snake is going to ascend to the sky, the big snake is going to ascend to the sky..."
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