father snake

The passing Taoist priest Shisong, who will eventually pass away, is actually not very old, about 50 to 60 years old, but his wrinkled face is like an old tree root, and he looks older than those people in the town who are over [-] years old.

Now, he was lying on the bed, and the wrinkles on his face were stretched out, as if he had finally reached the ground, he was relieved, and he could sleep peacefully.

Shi Xiaochuan was standing by his bed, remembering that early in the morning, he saw Shi Song returning to the Taoist temple, with his back to the light, smiling lovingly at him, and then fell straight to the ground with a "bang".

At first, I thought it was a serious illness or some accident, but I ran over to see that she was asleep and snoring loudly.

Shi Xiaochuan couldn't laugh or cry, but he had to admit that at that moment, he almost thought the sky was falling.

Shi Xiaochuan desperately dragged Shi Song to his room, covered him with a quilt, and moved the brazier in his room over. The textbooks are being studied seriously, without any intention of helping.

Shi Xiaochuan also knew that both Tianqiu and Xiaobai hated this Taoist temple, let alone the only Taoist priest in this Taoist temple.

Just like an enemy, it was because of him that he didn't rush up and step on his feet.

Xiaobai uttered the snake letter and circled the stone pine several times. Shi Xiaochuan looked at it nervously. Finally, it flicked its tail, touched Shi Xiaochuan's face, and slowly crawled into the woods.

Except for the first day when Xiaobai stayed in the house when he arrived at Lingshan Temple, the rest of the time, he would rather be frozen in the cold wind outside to the point of freezing his skin, and never take a step closer to this house.

Shi Song slept for a whole day and night before finally waking up.

He opened his bloodshot eyes, looked at Shi Xiaochuan lying beside his bed, stretched out his hand, touched his head, and sighed.

He had been out for so long, exhausted all kinds of methods, even used such low-handed methods as cheating and abducting, and finally he found some clues.

In the middle, he was surrounded and beaten several times, and suffered injuries ranging from slight to serious. Not to mention, the road was full of dust and dust, and he chose the cheapest food and lodging. His body suffered too much, so when he came back, he saw Shi Xiaochuan As soon as he relaxed, he immediately fell down.

What Shi Song didn't expect was that after walking so far, he turned out to find the solution by his side.

The "Snake Classic" passed down by word of mouth may be in the "Sanqing School" to which I belong.

He went to the "Sanqing Temple" in the provincial capital to find out about the situation with the head teacher of the "Sanqing Sect" generation, and to see if the life-saving "Snake Scripture" was indeed in the "Sanqing Sect" .

Unexpectedly, he was kicked out just as soon as he mentioned this matter.

However, it is precisely because of the taboo appearance of the people in the "Three Purities" that Shi Song believes that even if the "Snake Classic" is not included in the "Three Purities", it is inseparable from the "Three Purities".

Originally, this "Snake Sutra" was owned by the snake demon who was rounded up back then. Since the snake demon was finally the master of the "Sanqing Temple", that is, the founder of the later "Sanqing School" was trapped by his life, then it Nine out of ten things fell into his hands.

This speculation is reasonable, so Shi Song unceremoniously put aside his taboo about Taoism and sneaked in in the middle of the night, thinking that he could always find some clues, but he did not expect to discover a shocking secret for himself, because it was too much. Shocked, he accidentally revealed his whereabouts, but was chased by people from the "Three Purity Temple". After a hard fight, he escaped luckily.

Just like that, he always felt that he was being followed by a few stalkers, so he had to take a long detour and traveled all over half of China by train. Finally, he felt relieved and returned to Lingshan Temple evasively.

Shi Xiaochuan lay there half asleep and half awake, and felt that someone was touching his head with a broad palm, which was very warm. When he raised his head, he saw Shi Song raising his hand and rubbing his hair, "Still sleeping Ah, hurry up and pour a glass of water for grandpa, I'm so lazy, go quickly, hey, grandpa is old, and now I want someone to slobber and ask for it."

Hearing this familiar voice, Shi Xiaochuan finally realized that Daoist Shi Song had indeed returned.

He poured a cup of hot water over and handed it to Shi Song.

Shi Song refused to drink, and put it on the small wooden cabinet with a missing corner beside the bed, "Come on, Xiao Chuan, is the snake you raised last time still there? Where is it?" Lala asked with an unnatural expression on her white beard.

Shi Xiaochuan made gestures, "It's still there, it's on this mountain now, but it's grown up a lot, it's just this big in front—it's become so big—"

Shi Song nodded repeatedly and said, "That's good, that's good."

At this time, Tianqiu opened the door and came in. He stood impatiently at the door, "It's time to eat."

Shi Xiaochuan looked at Tianqiu who turned his face away with some embarrassment, "Grandpa, this is my friend, named Tianqiu, and it is Autumn written in reverse."

Several people sat around a table and ate with dim oil lamps.

While eating, Shi Xiaochuan chatted with Shi Song, talking about all kinds of weird things that happened these days, as well as the strange state of his body recently.

I only ate a little of the rice in Shisong's bowl, stretched out my chopsticks a few times, and listened to Shi Xiaochuan's ramblings, nodding or shaking his head frequently, as if he was really listening carefully, but in fact he didn't have any thoughts. Listening to Shi Xiaochuan's words, the young man named Tianqiu on the opposite side always felt a little strange, but he couldn't tell where the strange thing was.

After eating, Shi Xiaochuan was driven by Tianqiu to take a medicinal bath in the back.Shi Song also went over to have a look. He grew up as a primary school doctor. Although he didn't have much talent, he was hardworking and serious. It's still hard to find it now, but now it's all soaked in the water, not to mention that the bath water still has a sweet fragrance, smell it carefully, and there is a bloody smell in the sweet fragrance.

Tianqiu's face was looming behind the steaming white water vapor, he didn't seem to notice anything, stood there quietly, watched Shi Xiaochuan jump into the barrel, added some hot water into it, tested the water temperature, and then He dried his hands and walked out.

Shi Song looked at Tianqiu thoughtfully, didn't say anything, just shook his head, and followed him.

Tianqiu didn't stop until he walked to the small flat outside the Lingshan Temple. He raised his head and looked at the cold crescent moon in the sky. , Tian Qiu was only wearing a white shirt and trousers, his hair hung behind his fair neck, revealing half of his face, and under the moonlight, he cut out a delicate silhouette.

Shi Song walked over slowly, and the two of them stood in silence for a while, and finally it was Shi Song who broke the silence.

"I can't see this moon for long." Shi Song's old voice sounded in the night, with some helplessness, "I think you are really kind to Xiao Chuan, so I want to entrust him to you." Shi Song looked at it seriously Tianqiu went on to say, "I know you are not an ordinary person. Whether it's a spirit or a ghost, in the end, no matter how poisonous or ruthless you are, it will not be as powerful as those living people. I only realized this truth after so many years. This mountain, but I didn't expect it to be helping the evildoers." Shi Song became more and more excited as he spoke, and couldn't help coughing, the intense coughing sound was heart-piercing, making people feel uncomfortable listening to it.

At this time, there was a rustling sound from the dark woods ahead, and a white snake crawled over. Xiao Bai stopped not far from the two people, looking at them with glowing eyes like lanterns.

Shi Song was not frightened at all, but seeing such a big snake suddenly appearing in front of him, he couldn't help but took a step back, and then stopped firmly. He remembered what his master said, that there is a snake in Lingshan Temple. The evil snake demon was trapped by the ancestors after a lot of effort. Hearing this story since he was a child, he was always a little afraid of this vicious snake demon.

16 years ago, because he was young and frivolous, he didn't know the seriousness, and he had an awkward fight with his master. In a fit of anger, he pushed the statue on the shrine in the backyard of Lingshan Temple. Unexpectedly, this statue was the eye of the formation that restrained the snake demon , That night, several people, young and old, died in Lingshan Town, not to mention Shi Xiaochuan, who was implicated.

He got into a big disaster, but it was the master who always scolded and beat him to clean up the mess for him.Master used his life to fill in the formation and quelled the riot, but those lives could not be saved no matter what.Although he was young at the time, he also knew some inside stories, but he didn't expect that the inside stories were more and deeper than he thought.

Afterwards, he has been guarding this Lingshan Temple cautiously, afraid of any accidents, but he has been safe and sound until he saw Shi Xiaochuan, who was only five years old, holding a worm and trying to stuff it into his mouth.

He thought of the place where the snake appeared, the sweet smell of the bath water, the snake's supernatural powers, and the stories he had heard before that he thought were legends but were actually true. In the accident that happened 16 years ago, a vague idea formed in his mind.

Maybe this snake is the shadow of that snake demon. Then, Shi Xiaochuan, who has a close relationship with that snake demon, will always get some protection. As long as Shi Xiaochuan is safe, he is old and can't worry so much. I don't want to worry so much.

He told Tianqiu all the things he encountered along the way, of course, and the spiritual white snake next to him, including where the "Snake Scripture" is now, the founder of the "Sanqing School" People, what did the Sanqing Taoist who he had worshiped for decades do, etc., until his mouth was dry, and he stopped when he heard Shi Xiaochuan walking behind them.

Shi Song touched Shi Xiaochuan's wet hair, and patted it, "I ran out without drying it, so I'm not afraid of catching a cold? When I was a child, I let you drink some medicine, and it was like an eagle catching chickens, running around. It's good now." Clicked.

Shi Xiaochuan's face was flushed, and those embarrassing things in his childhood were brought out to be teased. Of course, it didn't feel good, but Tianqiu seemed to be quite interested, so Shi Song talked about sex, and began to talk about Shi Xiaochuan's childhood. some fun.

As we chatted, the night became darker and darker unconsciously.

Several people slept very late. When Shi Xiaochuan got up, it was already dawn. He walked to Shi Song's door, but found that Shi Song, who always got up early, hadn't woken up yet.

He knocked on the door, but there was no response from inside, Shi Xiaochuan frowned, and pushed the door open.

Shi Song was lying on the bed, motionless.

Shi Xiaochuan walked over and pushed him.

But he found that his face was peaceful, his whole body was stiff, and he had already lost his breath.

Shi Xiaochuan stood there blankly, for some reason, he didn't have the urge to cry, he pulled up the sheet and covered Shisong from head to toe.

Then he knelt in front of his bed, knelt, knelt.