smuggler

Chapter 9
My aunt and I didn't dare to delay for a moment. According to Zhang Xianren's instructions, we found twelve bowls, filled them with water, and placed them in different directions in the room where I slept.

The aunt looked worried and called softly: "Yaoyao!"

I was inexplicably terrified, but I still forced a bitter smile: "Tonight, I can only rely on you to keep grandma awake."

My aunt sighed and had no choice but to close the door for me and exit my room.

He pricked his hand, drained the blood, and returned to the bed.

Time passed bit by bit, I stared at the door with a tense expression, the night was getting deeper and deeper, and at two or three o'clock in the morning, my head was very dizzy, my eyes were in a trance, and my eyelids began to fight.

A "tick tick" sound suddenly sounded outside the yard, as if something had fallen on the ground, and the sound gradually became more and more intensive.

At this time, I felt that the room began to become gloomy and cold, and I couldn't help but start to fear.

The cold feeling as if entering an ice cellar gradually changed in a way that could be clearly felt, and a slight overcast wind rose in the room.

I looked up and saw strands of black air drifting in through the gap in the door and through the hole in the window, a thin layer of black air.

But after the black air drifted into the room, it condensed into a huge snake shadow.

Then his figure twitched, and he meandered in the water bowl like a snake, slowly coming towards me.

I stood up in horror and wanted to run, but I felt the thick scales wrapped around my waist, wrapping me and throwing me back with a forceful roll.

Shrouded by the thick black mist, a familiar cold air hit.

"I haven't seen you for a day, you have become more courageous and dare to resist!" There was a deep and trembling voice in my ear.

I was trembling and stiff, my throat was dry and I couldn't speak.

"You think you can deal with me like this?"

The cold and scaly snake tail wrapped around my ankles, and the cold and slippery touch gave me goosebumps until it touched the red ribbon on my wrist.

The red ribbon was scorching hot and made a sizzling sound in the palm of his hand.

boom! !

The blue flame burned the red ribbon that grandma took out from the ancestral hall, leaving a black mark on my wrist.

"Don't wear something like this next time."

He leaned over and spoke in an orderly tone, and the black mist slowly gathered and became a slender figure in a black shirt, with a crown-like silhouette staring at me close at hand.

The overwhelming coldness wrapped me up, and there was no way to escape or retreat.

I flinched back, gritted my teeth and said to him in humiliation, "I... I want to talk to you?"

"Talk?" He said in a cold voice with a hint of playfulness, "What do you want to talk about?"

I took a deep breath, summoned up the courage and said to him, "You, how can you let me go?"

He chuckled lightly, but didn't say a word. Although the outline was still surrounded by strands of black air, I could feel his cold eyes staring at me.

"Can you let me go?" I was so wronged that I was about to cry, my voice was almost pleading, "I beg you!"

But he didn't care about it, and the scarlet letter curled up wantonly behind him. I shook my head vigorously, trying to push the cold snake letter out.

But he was unmoved, and I opened my eyes wide and let out a whimper.

Aware of my shame and resistance, it made him chuckle even more cheerfully, and his deep voice was full of playfulness, "Is this how you repay your savior?"

"Please, let me go!" I trembled, looking up in a panic, without a target.

I didn't get any response, but I could feel the cold snake letter wrapped around my earlobe, and let out a cool breath.

"Why let it go?"

The deep and magnetic male voice floated into the eardrums, then moved to the ear, and suddenly squeezed it gently.

Such a move made the hairs on that side of me stand on end, and tremors continued to spread along the pores to every part of my body.

"Don't pester me, please!" I cried.

"But, you are already mine!" He said with a low voice, smiling.

I am afraid, the previous pain is clearly hidden in the memory!

"Don't do that!" I trembled.

He only met me a few times, and I was just an insignificant passer-by in his life. In the long years, he was a ghost and needed a companion.

"Don't do that?" His lazy voice came into his ears lightly, "Is this so?"

Speaking of this, the snake's tail suddenly wrapped around my ankles, and the cold feeling made me tighten my whole body.

"My grandpa was killed by you, and my grandma is gone now, why are you still pestering me?" I don't know where I got the courage to shout.

However, he chuckled lightly.

"From the moment you were born, you have been doomed!" He whispered evilly.

"You were born in the Year of the Gengzi Snake, and you are my eternal sacrifice. This is also your destiny." The deep voice resounded in my ears, making me tremble all over.

"You want...you want to follow me?" I swallowed.

He just added a prefix, 'forever'!
"From now on, wherever you are, I will be there!"

After he finished speaking, his thin lips curled up, carrying a charm of speaking.

I panicked inside and began to struggle non-stop, but my limbs were limp, like meat on a chopping board.

It was as if I had been soaked in water, and the water was bone-chillingly cold, in stark contrast to the dry heat on my body.

After waking up, I felt cold all over, and the cold and slippery touch seemed to remain on my skin.

The legs were a bit sticky, and I scratched there, and I touched a few dark, shiny scales.

I felt a chill in my heart, and hurried to take a bath, but no matter how I washed it, I always felt that there was a sticky feeling in that place.

And there is a lingering snake smell.

"Yaoyao, what's wrong with you?" As soon as I went out, my aunt seemed to see that I was not in good condition.

I shook my head: "No, it's fine."

Today is the day of grandma's funeral, and my aunt is busy with many things, so I didn't ask any more questions, and said with a hum: "It will be dawn soon, it's time to send your grandma up the mountain."

When it was just dawn, a few coffin bearers came in desertedly, but they didn't speak. When the coffin was carried out of the village, Erbao, a fool at the entrance of the village, was singing a ballad.

The golden bell rings, the curtain is red, and the village girl wants to marry Snake Xianlang.

Carrying the sedan chair, putting on red makeup, the snake wife and bride come to church early.

Three life deeds, heart-wrenching, happily entering the bridal chamber.

He stared at me as he sang, grinning and smirking stupidly.

That smiling face looking straight at me, for some reason, made me feel a chill in my bones, so I could only lower my head and walk quickly towards the cemetery.

According to Zhang Xianren's instructions, some realgar powder was sprinkled on the grave, and there was no trouble during the process of encoffining and burying the body, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

As soon as the funeral was over, the coffin bearers left in a hurry.

(End of this chapter)