There is a demon who pleases you

Part Three: The Story of a Scholar Going Up the Mountain

Yaoshan has fewer goblins and less non-demons.

Therefore, the trivial matter of a ghost scholar coming to the mountain has become a major event.The elves in the mountains rushed to tell each other, and within half an hour, more than a dozen goblins, big and small, gathered in front of the hut where the ghost scholar lived temporarily.Even the monk, oh no, the former monk, was pulled over by the curious Fu He.

Ghost Book grows up well and has a good temper, and the fairies will not be angry if they watch around.He cupped his hands to the demons and said, "I don't intend to disturb your cultivation, I just went up the mountain rashly this time just to meet the little fox."

The goblins looked at each other and hesitated when they heard the words, but the little magpie said straight up: "Brother Rao Yun was taken to the snake cave by the green python from the next mountain to be the wife of the snake cave, and he is not here."

The crow spirit quickly covered her mouth to comfort the scholar: "Don't be sad, the scholar can still flirt with flower demons, cat demons, snake demons..."

The cat demon and flower demon present immediately jumped three feet away to show their innocence, while the snake demon secretly blushed.

The scholar laughed and said: "You have misunderstood, I have no admiration for the little fox, but I just want to clarify some things."

"Oh..." The monsters who had been brainwashed by the script all the year round obviously didn't believe it.

The Dryad stroked his long beard that dragged the floor and said earnestly: "Life is short, forget it when you forget it, young man."

"Tch..." All the demons despised it unanimously.

Who doesn't know that the dryad liked to pretend to be a tree hole to deceive people when he was young, but now he tells the young saplings those secrets as jokes every day, and can shake out all the old sesame seeds and rotten millet.

"Since the little fox is not here, it's inconvenient for Xiaosheng to stay for a long time. Let's leave." The scholar shook his sleeves and prepared to leave.

"Wait a minute! We can send the little demon to bring the little fox back."

"That's right, young people, don't worry."

"Stay and play with us."

All the monsters stopped him in a hurry, the mountains have been boring for hundreds of years, how could he let go of a scholar who only appeared in the scriptures.

The scholar has always been mild-tempered, unable to hold back the enthusiasm of the goblins, so he was welcomed to a luxurious little courtyard and "lived forever" thereafter.

The goblins on Yaoshan took turns to go to the scholar's small courtyard to chat. They were very interested in the affairs of the world and why the scholar became a ghost scholar.

The scholar didn't hide it, he knew everything and said everything.

One day, a little snake came shyly to the scholar's feet.

The scholar bent down to pick him up and coiled him up on his arm.

"Scholar, scholar, are you really a ghost?" The little snake asked impatiently.

The scholar smiled wryly, "I don't know if I'm a human or a ghost."

He was supposed to be dead, but somehow he came back to life.Thought alive, but no heartbeat.Forgot many things, and vaguely remembered that he had rescued a talking fox, so he broke into Yaoshan bravely, hoping to recall a little bit of the past.

The little snake shook its head, and cautiously approached his ear and said, "I think you are a fairy."

This kind of speculation is new, the scholar asked: "How can you see it?"

The little snake thought he had guessed right, and said happily: "The book says that ghosts have no shadows and are afraid of the sun. You are not afraid of anything."

"Well, it makes sense." The scholar said to the little snake with bright eyes, "Unfortunately, I'm not a god."

"Is that so..."

The little snake lowered its head dejectedly.Just when the scholar was thinking about whether to comfort him, he suddenly got his head into the scholar's sleeve.

"If you are not a fairy, would you like to be with a snake?"

Through the fabric, the scholar can feel the body of the little snake, which is burning with shame.

The little snake said: "The cat demon and the flower demon are afraid of suffering with the scholar, but I am not afraid."

Scholar Quan pretended to be a child, and said jokingly: "From this point of view, you are not afraid of anything."

"Yes, yes, we are made for each other," the little snake came out cheerfully, and his eyes froze when he met the scholar, "Actually, I am afraid that the cat demon will catch me, that the flower demon will sprinkle pollen, and that the tree demon will break my mind." , I was afraid that the monkey demon would force me to drink..."

He counted them one by one, and he finished talking about all the goblins on the mountain.

"What are you afraid of?" The scholar asked after hearing it interesting.

The little snake thought for a while: "Let's say there are so many."

The scholar nodded: "It seems there are quite a few more."

The little snake shyly climbed off the scholar's arm and twisted his body into a twist.

At this moment, the wind in the forest suddenly picked up, and the scholar was fascinated by a piece of falling petals. When he opened his eyes again, a butterfly landed on the "twist".

"Okay, you lied to me that the ghost scholar is not here, but you came to play with him!"

"Twist" raised a small snake's head: "The scholar will not turn into a butterfly after death, and cannot fly away with you."

"Idiot, haven't you heard the story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai? When a scholar dies, he becomes a butterfly!" The butterfly flapped its wings and patted the little snake's head.

"I am not a fool!"

"You are!"

The two little things quarreled and forgot about the scholar.

The scholar cleared his throat and opened his hands one by one: "If you want to come to me, I welcome you at any time, so don't quarrel."

The little snake clung to his hand in grievance, and the butterfly flew to his shoulder humming and chirping.

"Scholar, tell him quickly that you are a butterfly." Huadie ordered arrogantly.

The scholar said helplessly, "I'm sorry, I really won't become a butterfly."

The little snake swept away the sluggishness just now, straightened up the snake body and waved its tail, saying: "Look, look, I'm still right."

Huadie looked at the scholar and then at the little snake, and turned into a girl in a colorful skirt, and ran away crying with a "wow".

"You bully me, I want to tell sister Hongli!"

The scholar touched his nose. Although he did nothing wrong, he still felt like he was bullying a child.

The little snake said sweetly: "Don't worry, the butterfly complains to the red carp every day, and the red carp won't take it seriously."

The scholar thought that this was not what I was worried about. He pinched the little snake's tail: "What about you, who do you complain to when you are wronged?"

"I used to tell it to myself," Xiao Snake peeked at the scholar's face, "Is it okay if I tell you later?"

Perhaps the wind was too light and the flowers were too fragrant, so the scholar's voice couldn't help but soften a little.

He heard himself answer with a smile:

"it is good."

The scholar is a person who goes with the situation, he is in life, he is in death, and he is not born or dead.

He lived comfortably in Yaoshan, and his body was no longer sickly. He planted flowers, drank tea and listened to gossips from gossips every day.It's just that a small snake sprang out from time to time, either in the grass, on the beams of the house, or between the quilts, and the scholar almost crushed him several times when he was careless.

The little snake is not as shy as when we first met, and he talks a lot.

"I want to ask for some seeds for you, but the flower demon is unwilling. She said that it will become a token of love. Why can't the banshee give people things? Peacocks like to give feathers when they see beautiful people. Doesn't he have something? Lots of lovers."

Since the scholar promised him that he could come and confide in his grievances, Xiao Snake came to report almost every day, and pretended to be aggrieved if he had no grievances.

The grievances he racked his brains to come up with are ridiculous to the scholar.The goblins on Yaoshan Mountain are not as vicious as the villagers at the bottom of the mountain said, but they are very simple. They believe what is written in the scriptures.When the scholar told them that he neither planned to go to Beijing to catch the exam, nor lost his way in the mountains, nor ran into a peerless beauty or eloped with a boudoir lady, the goblins were all incredulous and dumbfounded, unable to believe that there would be such a thing in the world. Scholar who does nothing.

"Scholar, scholar!" The little snake bumped his head into the palm of his hand.

The scholar came back to his senses, smiled at Xiao Snake and said, "It's called a token of love when people who love each other give gifts to each other."

"The two are in love..." Xiao Snake murmured and repeated, and then she didn't know what to think of, and her face was ashamed.

When the scholar woke up the next day, he found that his chest was cool. He lifted his underwear and saw that the little snake coiled around his body and spit out a crystal bead.

"I don't know how to raise flowers and grass, and I don't know how to write poems or paintings," said the little snake, "I can only give you this."

"Wait a minute!" The scholar felt bad, "You must not lose the Yuan Dan."

"Did I lose the Yuan Dan?" The little snake asked puzzledly, then panicked, "When did I lose the Yuan Dan!"

The scholar realized that he had misunderstood, coughed twice and said in embarrassment: "No, I hope you are careful."

"Oh." Little Snake nodded half-understood, then held the pearl in front of the scholar like offering a treasure, "This is the pearl I bought when I turned into a human and went down the mountain for the first time, is it good?"

It turned out to be pearls...

The scholar breathed a sigh of relief, and took the beads: "It's very beautiful."

The little snake looked at him expectantly.

The scholar froze for a moment before realizing that he was waiting for a gift in return.

Could it be... a token of love?The scholar thought with a headache, this is really not good.

"Where is my gift, scholar?" Little Snake said with a blushing face, "You can write me a couplet as well. The other little demons say that your handwriting is very beautiful."

Speaking of this, the little snake showed a proud expression, as if he was the one who wrote beautifully.

The scholar sat up, put the little snake on the table, and then put the pearl beside him.

"Sorry, this bead is very beautiful, but I can't have it."

"Why," the little snake asked with wet eyes, "do you think my delivery is not good?"

"No, your gift is very good, but I can't take it." The scholar touched his head, "I can't give you a gift either."

The little snake wrapped itself around his hand: "Since the gift is very good, why can't I take it?"

The scholar wanted to say that they couldn't exchange tokens of love if they didn't have a mutual love, and he also wanted to say that he had never thought of being with a mountain spirit. Behind the pair of Wugou eyes, he couldn't say anything.

Some can't bear it, some feel pity.

The little snake climbed onto his shoulder, and its cool scales stuck to his face.The little snake imitated the tone of the cat demon and said coquettishly: "Scholar, you just accept it, I will give you a bigger and better-looking pearl in the future. I, I don't want your gift in return, can't I?"

The scholar sighed and said, "I haven't seen the little fox yet, I haven't figured out what I want to know, and I don't have time to think about other things, do you understand?"

The little snake shook his head: "I don't understand."

"To put it simply, I won't give gifts to people... goblins before I meet the little fox." The scholar lied. An excuse to refuse, such a pure feeling is worth cherishing by everyone.

If the little snake realized something: "If I let you meet the little fox, will you accept my gift?"

"Let's think so." The scholar said.

The little fox can't get out under the protection of the green python. Sooner or later, the little snake will retreat, and probably his feelings for him will also fade away.

The little snake picked up the bead again, rubbed it around the scholar, and got into the grass with confusion, while the scholar stared blankly at his leaving figure for a long time.

That day the little fox was taken away by the green python, and he just stood in front of the inn in a daze.The scholar laughed at himself, turned and went back to his hut.

However, he forgot that the little snake is not a little fox, and he is no longer the tuberculosis he used to be.

After that, the little snake disappeared for several days, but the other goblins in Yaoshan came frequently. The carp spirit who received the complaint from Huadie stood in front of the scholar in a red dress, and behind her was a tall and strong woman. Crab Essence.

Li Yujing flicked her long hair and said, "Xiaodie is my younger sister anyway. My younger sister is crying. As an older sister, I have to express my disapproval."

The scholar said gently, "It was my fault, I made Hua Die cry."

"Oh, I don't understand my sister, she's headstrong and loves to cry." Li Yujing waved her hand, "I'm just telling you a few words, don't take it seriously."

The scholar couldn't laugh or cry when he heard the words, and put on an attitude of being taught.

Carp looked clear: "Scholars do like snakes more than butterflies. I can't blame you for this. When we taught the little fox to go down the mountain to seduce you, who would have thought that he would kill a green python halfway? Fortunately, there are now Little Snake, otherwise we are really ashamed of you."

This remark was too absurd, the scholar opened his mouth to refute, but was covered by the carp spirit.

"You don't need to tell me, I know you're suffering. The vixen and the scholar used to be a good story, but now I can't get into the story, I don't know if there is a storyteller who is willing to tell the story of the snake and the scholar." The carp spirit continued, "But Thinking on the bright side, the little snake studies harder than the little fox. I taught him to be pretty to seduce a scholar. After he fantasized, he found himself not seductive enough and was sad for a long time. This kind of single-minded little monster is rare. oh."

Then he babbled a lot of comforting words, the carp spirit thought about it for a while, thinking that there was nothing missing, then turned around and took the crab spirit, jumped into the water and swam away.

The goblins in Yaoshan have a completely different thinking angle from the scholar, and the scholar's explanation is useless.Shaking his head, the scholar suddenly realized that he had never seen the human form of Little Snake.

Probably a child as big as a butterfly.

A chubby face appeared in the scholar's mind, and he couldn't help smiling.

On the eighth day when the little snake disappeared, the scholar realized something was wrong. He found the butterfly in the garden in front of the dryad's house.

Hua Die and Xiao Snake are usually at odds, but at the critical moment, they talked about brother-sister loyalty. Under the scholar's questioning, they pursed their lips and looked like they were about to cry, but refused to say where the little snake went. In the end, the tree spirit stroked Beard told him that the little snake had arrived at the next mountain.

When the scholar heard the news, he was almost unsteady. He didn't know what kind of monster the green python in the next mountain was.

Countless thoughts swirled in his head, the scholar settled down, thanked the tree spirit, and then turned back to his small residence to pack his things.

The dryad looked serious, bent down and said to the little grass under his feet: "The scholar is going to find the little snake, looking for a husband from thousands of miles away, they must want to elope."

Xiaocao opened her mouth wide: "So legendary?"

The tree spirit smiled meaningfully: "Our Yaoshan is finally going to have a story."

The grass attracts the butterflies, and the butterflies fly to inform the carp spirit. The gossip gets more and more bizarre among the fairies. By the time the scholar tied up his bag, all the fairies from the whole mountain had gathered in front of his door again.

The scholar was surprised for a moment, and then smiled: "Since you are all here, I don't need to say goodbye one by one, Xiaosheng will leave for a few days..."

Impatiently, the cat demon jumped in front of him and said with righteous indignation: "That green python is too deceitful, it robbed you of a little fox, and even wanted to rob you of a little snake!"

"It's not what you think I..."

The taciturn crab spirit stepped forward: "I am willing to help you."

"I'm not here to fight..."

Tears fell from the eyes of the little magpie: "You all run to the next mountain and don't play with me anymore."

The crow covered her mouth and said awkwardly to the scholar: "Don't be sad, the scholar can flirt with the cat demon if he is not with the vixen and snake demon."

Hearing this, the cat demon immediately withdrew its legs and jumped behind the dryad. The sun and the moon can learn from the world, and they don't compete with their friends for scholars.

After listening to these goblins, the scholar couldn't explain clearly, so he didn't intend to explain.A lot of things suddenly appeared in his arms: the ecstasy powder given by the butterfly, the love potion given by the cat demon, the big red robe made by the carp essence...

These goblins don't know whether they really care about him or are just joining in the fun.

The scholar came down the mountain, buried the fairies' hearts at the foot of the mountain, and bowed respectfully.

In the place where green pythons are entrenched, the mountain road is rugged and foggy, the scholar picked up a long branch as a stick and waved away the lush weeds and bushes, and he was able to climb halfway up the mountain.The white robe on his body was so dusty that he couldn't see its original color, his fingertips were stuck in the mud, and his face was covered with a layer of sweat.

In fact, he passed this place for the third time.

When approaching the top of the mountain, a gust of wind would blow the scholar back to the foot of the mountain. It goes without saying whose trick it is.

The scholar climbed up step by step with his sore legs, and he said to himself, you are a ghost scholar now, why do you have to walk a little longer? Didn’t you look forward to going to the ground every day when you were alive?

Being blown down again, the scholar shook his head and started to move his legs again.Qing Mang finally couldn't see it and showed up.

"Little Fox and I live happily in the mountains, you can't take him away."

The scholar bent over and arched his hands.

"The little fox and I have long since ended. I came here this time because of the little snake. He is ignorant. Please forgive me if there is any offense."

"That little snake demon?" Qing Python's eyes changed slightly, "He left three days ago."

"Three days ago?" The scholar frowned when he heard the words, Qing Mang probably wouldn't lie to him, since the little snake had left, why didn't he go back to Yaoshan? Could it be that something happened.

"Let's go when you know." Qing Mang started to chase people away.

"Wait, I still have something to ask." The scholar said.

"You want to ask why you didn't die." Qing Mang said, "That's because you got half of my Yuan Dan."

"Your Yuan Dan?" The scholar was extremely surprised.

Qing Mang snorted: "Of course it's mine. The little fox owes you a life and I'll pay it back for him. From then on, you can have nothing to do with each other again."

At that time, he calculated that the scholar's lifespan was near the end of his life, and he would save him if he risked his life with the heart of a little fox. How could Qing Mang allow this to happen? Pulled back to the human world, in the future, if the little fox wants to repay his kindness, he can only repay him to Qing Mang.

When the scholar got the answer, a big stone in his heart fell to the ground, but the other one was still hanging high.

Could the little snake be captured by a Taoist priest?

The little Taoist priest who was far away from the Taoist temple sneezed.