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Chapter 24 The Snake Fairy Willow Family
Behind Mrs. Liu stood two men and women who looked about my age. The men were wearing long gowns and gold-rimmed glasses, with gloomy eyes.

The girl's eyes seemed to be arrogant, and she muttered, as if she didn't want to look at the villagers more.

Just after I finished talking to Chu Yuan, Mrs. Liu's eyes fell on me through the crowd, and the corners of her mouth curled up in a smile.

The village head was receiving the reception, and accompanied several Liu family members to look around the ruined temple, as if they were discussing how to renovate it.

The villagers who were watching the excitement were noisy, and they couldn't understand what they were saying. After a while, the village head came out of the ruined temple wearing a coat.

He gathered his clothes and said to the surrounding villagers: "Be quiet, let me say a few words."

The villagers outside the door quieted down, listening to what the village chief had to say next.

"Old lady Liu has a compassionate heart. She visited this ruined temple a few years ago and said that the temple has spirits. That's why she came here to repair the ruined temple now."

The village chief paused, cleared his throat, and said, "The Liu family contributed money and efforts to help repair the dilapidated temple, and also repaired a road for the village."

The Liu family is rich and powerful, and now the villagers heard that they not only helped the village repair the ruined temple, but also built a road for the village. Of course, everyone likes to hear this kind of thing.

"it is good!"

The villagers applauded excitedly.

The village head coughed twice, then changed the topic, and said again: "But this temple is different from traditional temples. Instead, it will be built as a snake temple, and every year on the ninth day of September, we will worship the snake ancestor!"

"Snake Temple?"

Everyone was stunned after hearing this, and then started discussing one after another.

When I heard this from behind the crowd, my heart suddenly tightened.

Seeing that the villagers' discussions are getting louder and louder, from the previous high spirits, to now a bewildered look.

At this moment, a one-eyed woman with a cane came in, she looked like she should be the housekeeper of the Liu family.

It's just that this one-eyed woman looks very scary, and her whole body is skinny.

A face, like a layer of bark on a skull, is still crumpled.

Just looking at it makes people feel creepy.

After she came out of the temple on crutches, she said in a low voice with a fake smile: "How can there be such a good thing in this world? It is for you to build temples and roads. My old lady sees this. The temple spirit, seeing that it is so deserted, that’s why we spend a lot of energy to build the temple.”

"As for why the snake temple was built, it was also out of good intentions, and it was entirely for your consideration. The reason why there are snake disasters in the village now is not because your village used to catch snakes for a living a long time ago."

"All things have spirits, and they also pay attention to cause and effect, especially this snake, which is one of the five immortals. The purpose of building a snake temple is not only to accumulate merit, but also to atone for the sins of your village."

The one-eyed woman had a low and hoarse voice, and her voice was like fingernails scratching a coffin board, making the listener feel uncomfortable.

As the saying goes, relying on mountains to eat mountains, relying on water to drink water, in the early years of war and famine, the village did rely on going into the mountains to catch snakes and some yams for a living.

The older generation of villagers didn't say anything after experiencing what happened back then, but the younger ones were a little unhappy.

After all, the villagers no longer rely on catching snakes for a living, and no one takes such illusory things as retribution seriously.

It is good to be greedy for cheap, but I heard that after the temple is built, there will be worship every year, and every household in the village may need to contribute money and effort, of course some people are not happy.

Liu Laizi from the village smiled sarcastically: "What age do you still believe in? Let me make an agreement first, and don't call me when the time comes to contribute money and effort."

"I agree with what Liu Laizi said, what kind of temple is not the spirit of the temple, how good is it to distribute the temple construction money to everyone, we can live a good life for a few days, anyway, you can build temples as you please, don't think about it from me Take out a steel coin and go out." Zhang Ergou, who was standing in the crowd, also echoed.

No one wanted to be at a disadvantage. Upon hearing this, the villagers started to make noise again.

Seeing this scene, the one-eyed woman smiled: "You two are disrespectful to the snake fairy and the gods by saying these words here. If the fairy family hears about it, it will be a catastrophe."

Liu Laizi glared, then raised his voice and cursed: "Stop doing this with me, I've caught quite a few snakes for dinner in half my life, all immortals are bullshit, I'm not afraid."

After speaking, Liu Laizi spit on the ground, snorted and pushed away the crowd, turned around and left the temple gate.

The faces of Mrs. Liu did not change at all, they still had a kind face.

The one-eyed woman leaning on crutches stood at the gate of the temple and looked at Liu Mangy who was striding away. Although there was a smile on her face, her eyes seemed to be looking at a dead person.

The surrounding villagers were noisy, and the village head looked embarrassed. He didn't know how to deal with this kind of thing, so he walked up to Mrs. Liu and whispered something.

The two whispered a few words, and the village head straightened his waist and said to the villagers: "Since everyone disagrees, Mrs. Liu is not ignorant, so let's go back to the village to coordinate again. Go away."

The excitement was almost over, and the villagers dispersed one after another, talking in twos and threes while walking towards the village.

On the way back to the village, Chu Yuan, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said, "This Liu family, you have to be careful."

He showed a bit of guard against the Liu family in his tone, and I asked in a low voice: "What's going on?"

"The Liu family should be disciples of the Snake Immortal. Just now I saw a snake coiled around the body of the Liu family."

When he said this, Chu Yuan said in a dignified voice: "I just showed a little bit of aura before, which attracted the attention of the Liu family. They built a snake temple in the village, and I'm afraid they have other purposes."

It is indeed strange that the Liu family came to the village to build a snake temple for no reason.

It suddenly occurred to me that in the crowd, I had said a few words to Chu Yuan at that time, and the old lady Liu's gaze had been caught.

The look in her eyes at that time was clearly not looking at me.

I restrained my mind, and while walking towards the village, I asked, "What is a disciple?"

According to Chu Yuan's explanation, Chumaxian is more complicated than I thought.

Generally speaking, some animals will cultivate when they become spirits. Among them, the five great immortals are more prominent, but they will encounter shackles when they practice to a certain extent.

At this time, some immortal families will go out of the mountains, looking for people with immortal fate to be their disciples.

Some will do good deeds and donate horses to others to accumulate merit, but there are also some immortals who find other shortcuts, do all kinds of evil, and quickly increase their Taoism through practicing demon methods.

Just like the centipede essence attached to a corpse, it just wants to suck human essence and blood to quickly increase its cultivation.

As for the immortal family, they also scattered immortals and family immortals.

The Liu family should be the latter. Chu Yuan could feel the aura of the snake fairy from them.

The Liu family is on behalf of the Snake Immortal, and they came to the village to build a Snake Temple at this time, what is their purpose?
(End of this chapter)