Chapter 3 Snake God Chu Yuan

I felt like I was struck by lightning, I lost all sleep in an instant, and my mind went blank.

After putting on my clothes tremblingly, I hurried towards the river. My aunt was crying and talking about what happened in the early morning.

Grandma folded the bedding neatly in the middle of the night, straightened her clothes, and sat at the gate staring blankly at the dark outside of the courtyard.

My aunt choked up and said, "When your grandma went out on crutches, I saw a black snake coiled around her body."

I was so frightened that I kept saying it was impossible, and said to my aunt: "Why didn't you stop her!"

"She couldn't sleep. She just said she was going out for a walk. Who would have thought..." My aunt looked sad. Even if my heart hurt, I couldn't say much to her.

My aunt and I arrived at the Yuanjiang River in grief. There was mist on the river, and the night was so dark that not even a shadow could be seen on the river beach.

People drown in the Yuanjiang River every year, but bodies are rarely found. If grandma really jumped into the river, her body would probably never be found.

“Go downstream and have a look!”

But I didn't want to give up. I still held a glimmer of hope in my heart and hurried downstream along the riverbank.

When I walked to the river, I picked up a pair of cloth shoes with a white sole and black surface. When I held it in my hand, I couldn't stop shaking.

The aunt said with a sob in her voice: "If your grandma throws herself into the river, it's like she has exchanged her life with you!"

Once a person born under the sign of snake appears in our family, he must be sacrificed to the snake god, otherwise he must pay for his death by blood.

Grandma said that this year is the Year of the Gengzi Snake, and she wanted to make a settlement for me.

I can't accept this fact. Is this how grandma ended it for me?

I couldn't find my grandma's body, and I felt extremely guilty. I squatted by the river and couldn't help but cry.

But after a while, my aunt patted me on the shoulder and said nervously: "Yaoyao, look quickly..."

The aunt pointed at the center of the river, looking terrified.

I looked towards the center of the foggy river, and could vaguely see ripples. There was a person lying on the river, slowly drifting towards the river beach.

As I got closer, I saw clearly that the person lying on the river was grandma.

"ah!"

My aunt screamed in surprise, and then she covered her mouth tightly with a look of extreme horror on her face.

When I took a closer look, I couldn't help but take a deep breath.

Thousands of densely packed snakes of different thicknesses were twisting under the river surface, carrying grandma's body towards the river beach.

I was so frightened by this scene that I lost my mind completely. It wasn't until my grandma's body reached the river beach and the snakes dispersed that I finally recovered.

"grandmother!"

Grandma was all wet, lying on the river beach without any movement.

It wasn't until dawn that my aunt called the villagers and carried grandma's body back.

The strange thing is that after carrying grandma's body back, her whole body curled up into a ball, her spine curved like a coiled snake's body, her eyes were wide and protruding, and her pupils were like vertical snake eyes.

A funeral shed was set up in the yard, and a group of people were pointing around the dilapidated yard. I heard my aunt sobbing softly, and there was a smell of snakes in the air.

In a trance, I saw a small yellow-green snake crawling out from the gap in grandma's mouth. It had black spots on its body and two yellow stripes on its head.

A pair of snake eyes were filled with scarlet, and he raised his head and hissed at me.

The busy people around did not notice anything strange about the body, so I looked away in panic.

When it was time to mourn, my aunt knelt down in front of the coffin and cried loudly. I lowered my head and didn't dare to look at my grandma again.

Just thinking about my grandma's love for me in the past, my nose felt sour, my eyes instantly moistened, and my eyes were rubbed by tears.

According to the rules of the village, a person's body must be kept in morgue for three days after death.

I didn't stay at the mourning hall in the second half of the night and stayed up all night. My aunt asked me to go back to my room and lie down for a while.

I was lying on the bed, and when I was drifting off to sleep, I always felt like something cold was clinging to me, moving slippery and slowly over my body.

Also accompanied by the scratching feeling of thick scales...

I wanted to turn over, but found that my body was heavy, as if it was wrapped in something cold...

I was originally in a daze, but it wasn't until the cold, slippery snake letter wrapped around my lips that I suddenly woke up.

This is the second time I've seen this man.

His body is like a snake's tail, his temperament is gorgeous.

His snake tail wrapped around my legs, the black scales glowed coldly, and a huge black shadow enveloped me.

"Hide from me?"

His voice whispered in my ear, thin and cool, with a hint of mellowness, which made my ears feel a little itchy.

Even while talking, the snake leaned forward and rubbed the tip of its nose against my face.

I had goosebumps all over my body. I hugged the quilt tightly and shrank back in fear.

"Who are you?" I asked in fear.

"Why are you so afraid?" He spoke in a cold tone, licked my face with the cold and slippery letter, and continued: "I want to kill you, but it will be easy."

His dark green snake eyes stared at me closely with a cold light, "I can bite off your fragile neck, or tear your bones into your belly."

"However, there is an extremely painful way to die." He gently tightened the snake's tail around my waist, "I will tighten my strength around your waist little by little, and you will slowly feel suffocated, and your lungs will

The whole body is squeezed, and the air inside becomes less and less. Finally, all the internal organs are broken, and you are not even dead at that time."

His snake's tail rolled inward violently, and my abdomen was squeezed by a sudden force, causing a burning pain for a moment.

I coughed violently and cried.

And he looked at me quietly for a while, then suddenly relaxed.

"Ha!" He suddenly chuckled coldly and hoarsely.

The huge snake turned into a black shadow, and an evilly handsome man in black clothes walked out from the shadow. His handsome face was as cold as an immortal, and his deep black eyes had an undisguised coldness.

He pinched my cheeks without using any force, he just forced me to look at him.

"You...are you that black snake?" I stiffened and trembled all over.

"Not stupid!"

His lips curled up slightly, and his voice was so cold that it seemed to freeze the air into ice.

I was trembling and uneasy, but I felt very sad and angry in my heart, "Why did you want to kill my grandma? She has been worshiping you for more than ten years!"

His bone-cold hand caressed my cheek and said, "In order to save your life, Bai Jianshan took my inner elixir when I was at my weakest after going through the tribulation and turning into a dragon. He deserved to die."

"Although my physical body was destroyed, I have already cultivated my three souls. The snake spirit has been attached to the inner elixir for recuperation and health. Although your grandma said to worship, she was afraid that I would take your life. For more than ten years, she has been letting you drink the snake-repelling talisman.

Water, you just want to use fragrant ash water to restrain me."

His dark green pupils exuded a ghostly cold light in the darkness. He half-leaned in front of the bed, curled his lips and sneered: "Moreover, your grandma's death has nothing to do with me. She is about to expire, and she knows that she has no time left."

Duo, I just want to save your life in this way."

He spoke very slowly, revealing a cold contempt and disdain, "Speaking of which, you should be grateful to me. There are thousands of limbs and hundreds of corpses at the bottom of the Yuanjiang River. If I hadn't been kind and merciful in sending her body ashore, I'm afraid she would have been dead by now.

It was eaten up by stinky fish, rotten shrimps.”

The slender, cool fingers covered my lips, gently twisted them, slid across my lips, and grabbed my chin fiercely, so hard that it hurt.

I was forced to raise my head and look at her resentfully.

"To think of canceling the worship service for more than ten years is a bit of an idiot's dream." He curled his lips and put his hand on my waist, half-smiling but not smiling.

"What are you going to do?" The coldness on the man's body, as cold as a corpse, immediately made me panic.

He leaned over, spat out a scarlet snake letter and pressed it against my earlobe, and said in a cold and hoarse voice: "What do you think we should do?"

He completely ignored what I had to say, and the movements of his hands suddenly went too far. The depressing and difficult feeling made me burst into tears.

"My name is Chu Yuan!" He smiled coldly, buried himself in my neck, hissed, and said in a hoarse voice: "Remember, from now on, you are mine, and you can only be mine."

The lights flickered, as if blown out by the cold wind, and dissipated along with the cold man.

A buzzing sound fell into my ears, as if coming from the yard, and my head only felt more and more painful.

I tossed and turned restlessly in bed, the voice became more and more urgent, and my brain became a little bit slower.

Then, he slowly lost consciousness.
Chapter completed!