smuggler

Chapter 21

"What is this?" I widened my eyes and exclaimed.

He frowned, stared with narrowed pupils, and said two words in a light tone.

"Snake scale!"

Hearing his words, I gasped suddenly, eyes full of disbelief.

I suddenly thought of the scene where my grandma was lying in the coffin a few days ago, and many little black snakes came out of her coffin. I clenched my hands tightly, then let go, and my face turned pale.

"You said just now that someone was doing tricks, but it was the same when grandma passed away. Why are there so many snakes in the village for no reason?" I looked at Chu Yuan suspiciously, hoping he could give me an answer.

Chu Yuan is so smart, he understood the meaning when I said this.

"Are you doubting me?" He smiled sarcastically, and said dismissively, "I want to kill you, it's easier than trampling an ant to death, there's no point in wasting time like that."

Chu Yuan's feelings for mortals are nothing more than God's mercy for believers.

His words are very cold, but they are not unreasonable. Although I don't know much about him, I believe that he really wants to harm people, so there is no need to put aside this little game of playing tricks.

Chu Yuan ordered: "Let the villagers prepare three piles of realgar and some white candles, and then let them paste snake-repelling charms on the door. Let the old man do this."

My seniority is small, no one in the village cares about it, and no one will take it seriously at all, so Chu Yuan's concerns are not unreasonable. With Zhang Xianren's seniority and reputation, the villagers will definitely listen.

I nodded and said, "When?"

"Now." Chu Yuan said simply.

"What about this corpse?" I stared at the charred corpse in the yard.

Chu Yuan said bluntly, "Let the villagers carry it away."

In Chu Yuan's tone, I could hear a bit of solemnity, which made me feel that something big had happened.

I didn't dare to delay, so I turned around and went into the house to get dressed, picked up the flashlight and went to see Immortal Zhang's house in Houshan overnight.

I didn't expect that Zhang Xianren would not sleep in the room at night, but lay on the wicker chair in the yard. When I opened the door, I jumped up in shock, and it scared me half to death in the middle of the night.

Now he thinks I'm like a plague god, so when I step into the gate of the courtyard and weep, I call my little aunt.

"Why are you here again?"

I saw him as a ghost, so scared that I almost dropped my flashlight, and said tremblingly, "Something happened!"

I directly told him what happened just now, and Zhang Xianren said in a deep voice, "Those snakes should be coming towards your house."

"Hey!" He wanted to say something, but hesitated, and finally sighed.

"Daozhang Zhang!" Seeing that he didn't speak, I tried to ask.

Zhang Xianren waved his hands helplessly, shook his head and sighed, "You go back first, I'll go to the village to call for someone to carry away the body of Wang Mazi's wife first."

Seeing that he didn't want to say more, I felt that something was wrong, so I didn't stop, turned around and rushed back.

I just entered the village from the back mountain, and when I passed the ancestral hall, a black shadow suddenly jumped out of it and blocked the road, which scared me so much that I almost ran out of my soul.

I shook my flashlight and called, full of surprise: "Second Treasure!"

I was scared twice this night, and I was really convinced.

Er Bao is a village idiot, in his 40s and [-]s, as thin as hemp sticks, in a tattered black mandarin jacket, and his mouth is still dripping.

He smiled and walked towards me, the second treasure was very weird, he waved his hand at me stupidly and said: "Can't pass, can't pass, no..."

"Why not?" I asked Er Bao with a dark face.

"The snake demon is following you!" Er Bao looked at me in horror, waved his hands and said, "You can't enter the village!"

According to legend, there will be a fool in every village.

And they also have a nice name, called "Village Guardians", and in some places they are also called "Zhenling People".

According to records, most of these people were evil people in their previous lives. They were enlightened by the Buddha before their death, and they voluntarily suffered in the next life, so as to accumulate virtue and get good results.

Villagers can help the village resist evil spirits and protect a side of water and soil.

Without them, there would be no peace in the village.

Their life bears all kinds of bad luck, and their fate also dooms them to have no offspring and die alone.

Most people think that the so-called "village guard" is just a glorification of the lazy and inactive bums in the village.

I used to think the same way.

But now, looking at his demented appearance, I suddenly feel a little unpredictable.

At this moment, a figure appeared out of thin air, with long black hair floating in the air, a black robe fell to the ground lightly, and a cold and stern aura approached him.

There was another piercing snake hissing in the air. Seeing the huge snake shadow covering him, Er Bao turned pale with fright, curled up and hugged his head and cried loudly.

"Don't kill me, don't kill me!" Er Bao held his head in fear and shrank to the side of the road.

I looked at the black-robed man standing with my back to him, and just about to say something, the black-clothed figure turned into a black shadow and slipped into my bracelet.

"Don't worry about him, go back first!" Chu Yuan's voice came from beside his ears.

I said "um" in a low voice, Erbao must have seen Chu Yuan just now, or sensed something unusual about me, and wanted to stop me.

The situation was urgent, Chu Yuan showed up directly and scared him away.

There are one or two hundred households in the village, and the snake-repelling charms left by my grandma are not enough at all, so I can only follow the steps in the book to draw the charms.

Talismans are collections of mantras, symbols, and energies.

It is a method bestowed by the gods to communicate with the gods, to participate in the aura of the essence of all things in the world, and to sacrifice one's own vitality to convert the energy into the talisman orifices.

Just like reincarnation, the body has a body, but the soul is the key.

The spell condenses the special energy in nature. The anger of the caster and the help of hidden energy have great effect and power.

There are also high and low points for this talisman. Paper talismans are considered the lowest level, so snake-repelling talismans are considered entry-level.

But even so, I just entered Novice Village, and after drawing [-] or [-] pictures in one go, I felt exhausted. To put it bluntly, I was exhausted.

After drawing too much, I felt chest tightness, shortness of breath, dizziness, double vision, and felt like vomiting and fainting.

With this breath, he almost couldn't get up, lay on the bed in a daze, and then fell unconscious.

When I woke up, it was already high in the sun. Thinking of Chu Yuan’s warning, I quickly searched for realgar powder and sprinkled it around the eaves of the hall.

Another two snake charms were pasted on the gate. After seeing it, my aunt asked me why I sprinkled realgar powder. I didn't know how to explain it, so I lied and said that there were too many bedbugs in the house.

After finishing, he drew some snake charms and handed them to Zhang Xianren to distribute to the villagers.

After dinner, I washed the dishes and came out of the stove, and saw my aunt holding a piece of wood in the dimly lit yard, beating something.

I asked suspiciously, "Guy, what are you doing?"

The aunt said anxiously: "A snake came from somewhere in the yard."

I was taken aback, and when I walked up, I saw that my aunt had killed a flat-headed snake, and she was holding it with tongs and was going to throw it out.

He opened the courtyard door, and as soon as he stepped out with his front foot, he bounced back in fright.

"Yaoyao!" Auntie screamed in fright.

(End of this chapter)