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Mo Nan has a secret that no one knows.

No one knew that this cheerful young master of the Mo family, when he was young, because of his love for play, caught a sleeping snake by the side of the road and stuffed it into his pants to try to take it home quietly to play with, but the white snake suddenly woke up, suddenly He took a bite at the base of his leg and slipped away from his crotch.

Mo Nan didn't remember whether it hurt or not when he was bitten, but he only knew that since then, there was an extra mark on the bitten part of him, in the shape of a biting snake, at the base of his leg.

When he was just bitten, Mo Nan was actually very scared. Although he didn't understand many things when he was young, he knew that many snakes are poisonous, so he was bitten like this. Will be poisoned and die.Afterwards, he lived in panic for a few days. Fortunately, he felt that there was nothing unusual about his body, so he was relieved.

No one in the family knew that he had been bitten by a snake. Fortunately, the place where the mark was located was extremely hidden. No one had seen it except Mo Nan himself, not even his two closest relatives, the younger brothers.

In this way, he grew up peacefully until he was 22 years old. After a long time, Mo Nan almost forgot that he still had this mark on his body. I don't know if he was afraid that he would forget, but the mark began to move around the corner.

Some time ago, the mark on the heel of his leg suddenly appeared itchy.At the beginning, Mo Nan thought it was his own psychological effect. As the days went by, the itchy feeling became more and more obvious. He couldn't ignore the nerve-stimulating feeling, and he often ignored it when he was doing other things. , I couldn't help but want to reach out and scratch.

But the itching of this imprint seems to come out continuously from the inside of the body, no matter how he scratches or scratches outside, he can only stop the boiling, and treat the symptoms rather than the root cause.

Seeing that scratching and pinching were ineffective, Mo Nan also thought about applying plaster to solve the problem. He secretly ransacked the box at home, but no matter what medicine he found, it had no effect.

What a hell.

It's not that I didn't suspect that the snake was poisonous, but it took more than ten years for the poison to show up, which is too abnormal.

As the symptoms became more and more serious, it had already interfered with his peaceful life, and Mo Nan became anxious day by day, but he didn't dare to tell his parents, he would inevitably be scolded, and he might not believe it.I want to find a doctor by myself, but I don't know how to speak.

Did he want to say, "Doctor, I was bitten by a snake on the base of my leg more than ten years ago, and there is a biting snake mark, which is very itchy in the past few days, can you take a look for me?"

It is estimated that the doctor will feel that his brain is flooded, and he will grab some medicines for his brain.

On this day, Mo Nan was asked by his father to deliver goods to a family in the town.

"It's really hard work, Young Master Mo, who made the trip in person," the middle-aged woman in front of her said with a smile after she finished moving the last box of silk on the truck.

"Sister-in-law Zhang, what are you talking about?" Mo Nan was about to say a few polite words with a smile when he suddenly felt an itch between his legs.

"Hey, it's not that I'm being polite, but that the silk and satin in your father's mansion are really top-notch. Don't you believe it, young master, Mo's silk is not only famous in Yangyuan Town." Mrs. Zhang began to praise Mo's without end. The goods came, and by the way, even the Mo family, big and small, boasted.

"Hahaha……"

The smile on Mo Nan's face couldn't hold anymore, the stimulation from the base of his thigh occupied his whole nerves, he felt that he would be unable to control it in the next second and scratched it, but fortunately, he still had the last bit of reason in his mind, so he tried his best to stop it His desire caused some cold sweat to break out on his forehead.

"Master Mo, are you about to start a family too?" Mrs. Zhang asked suddenly in the middle of speaking.

"Ah? It's... sooner." Mo Nan was surprised that he could still answer.

"Oh, master, it's getting late. Look at that Li Si next door, but he married a daughter-in-law just after reaching the weak crown, and he is about to become a father this year. The sooner this kind of thing happens, the better. Do you have a fancy? Girl?"

"No..." Mo Nan, who was on the verge of collapse, just wanted to end the conversation early.

"It doesn't matter if you haven't found it yet. The young master has a beautiful life. Look at these beautiful peach eyes. A smile will surely fascinate a bunch of girls. However," Mrs. Zhang said, looking at the tear mole at the corner of Mo Nan's eye, "this mole is in the corner of Mo Nan's eyes. This is a bit of a disgrace, and it seems that the young master is a bit feminine."

If you talk for a few more seconds, my eyes, which you praised, will shed tears of aggrievedness.Mo Nan felt aggrieved, and while Mrs. Zhang was focusing on his face, he rubbed his legs a few times, and the itching became more pronounced, and a voice in his head was about to end, I couldn't take it anymore, let me Scratch.

"Well, Mrs. Zhang... It's almost lunch time, I think my parents should be waiting for me at home..."

"Oh! It seems to be true. See, I couldn't stop talking at the beginning. The sun is still quite bright today. The young master should hurry back to the house, and don't keep the old lady waiting."

"Oh, that's cool! I'm leaving! Goodbye, Mrs. Zhang!" Finally, Mo Nan's eyes burst out when he heard these words.

After he bid farewell, he hurriedly walked towards a place where no one was around, and finally moved to a pond where no one was around. Scratch up.

Anyone who has experienced this kind of itching knows how refreshing it is to finally encounter it after enduring it for a long time.

"Hmm..." Mo Nan hummed subconsciously in a satisfied voice.

It's still very refreshing when scratching, that's for sure, but it will continue to attack soon after scratching, even if it bleeds, this is where Mo Nan's headache comes from.

Mo Nan supported his upper body with one hand to maintain a sitting posture, while the other hand kept grasping between his legs. The posture with his legs open was extremely unsightly. If a passer-by who was familiar with him saw him, he would probably be quite frightened.But fortunately, he had already confirmed that there were no living people within a few hundred meters, so he boldly continued to sit like this, his hands kept moving, and his eyes casually aimed at the calm lake, thinking about the solution to this mark.

Just cut off the whole piece of meat on the leg.He thought cruelly in his mind.

"No way! No way, young man!" A startled cry came from behind.

Mo Nan was so frightened that he almost choked on his saliva, and subconsciously turned around abruptly. As a result, his center of gravity was unstable, and he almost fell into the pond.

"Who!" He sat upright and looked at the person who came. It was a short old man, dressed like a Taoist priest, with a lot of white hair on his forehead, covering his eyes, and dressed in gray blue. Taoist robes, and a short snake-shaped cane in his hand.

Mo Nan stared at the old Taoist suspiciously and vigilantly, wondering when he appeared.

The old Taoist also seemed to feel that he appeared a little abruptly, coughed awkwardly, and said solemnly: "You are Mr. Mo Nanmo, alas, Pindao finally found you."

"What? Do you owe me money? Or do I owe you money?"

"You... Do you think that Pindao looks like someone who is short of money and in debt!"

Mo Nan endured it, so he didn't say the word "like".

The old Taoist seemed to have seen through Mo Nan's thoughts, and he was not in a hurry to get angry. His eyes rolled behind the white hair, and he began to put on a pose: "Mr. Mo can't sleep every night, and he is involved in his actions during the day, just because..." He Glancing at Mo Nan's lower body, "The biting snake mark on your leg?"

Mo Nan, who was originally looking at it as a joke, immediately became excited when he heard this, and he hurriedly asked, "How do you know?"

"Not only do I know that you have a mark," the old Taoist smiled triumphantly when he saw his interest, "I also know how to solve it."

"Tell me quickly!" Mo Nan seemed to have caught some life-saving straw, wishing he could pounce on the Taoist priest and shake him violently, so that he could come up with something quickly.

"Don't worry, don't worry, wait for me to speak slowly, do you still remember how you got this mark?"

"When I was young, I caught and played with snakes, and then I was bitten. That's it."

"Do you remember what kind of snake that was?"

"Hmm..." Mo Nan thought carefully about his situation ten years ago, and realized that he had forgotten the details, "It's probably small." Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to fit it in his crotch.

"Is it a white snake?"

"Seems to be."

"Oh, that's it, that's a monster, a monster." The old Taoist looked worried, and tapped the ground with his crutches worryingly.

Mo Nan was taken aback: "What do you mean by monster?"

"It's a monster snake with strong monster power. It has been cultivated in the mountains for hundreds of years. Its name is the seal snake. It will bite certain people. The bitten person will leave the mark of the bite snake on the body. The meaning of the snake is to devour yourself. The reason is obvious, if you leave it alone, the imprint will devour you."

"That is to say... I will die?" Mo Nan looked at the old Taoist priest suspiciously, and had an intuition telling him that the Taoist priest was lying.

"Yes, and..."

"Wait, didn't you say that there is a way to solve it? Don't talk about other things and talk about it."

"It's pretty easy to solve, but there's only one way," the old Taoist paused, then looked at Mo Nan and smiled meaningfully, "The only way is to get married."

"Huh?" Mo Nan suspected that his ears had misheard, "What did you always say? Repeat it again."

"Get married, as long as you get married with someone who also has this imprint, you can guarantee that you won't be disturbed by it for the rest of your life. This is better than any medicine. Even if you cut this piece of meat, it won't work. Really, even though Don't worry, and Pindao has already done the calculations, the person who meets the conditions is the Ji family... Hey Mr. Mo! Where are you going, listen to Pindao's lecture!"

Believe you have a ghost.

Mo Nan really wanted to turn around and spray him with saliva.Ever since the old Taoist said about the monster snake, he had already suspected it, and when he mentioned the inexplicable marriage, he felt that this was a charlatan, maybe he was a spy sent by a matchmaker, it was really sinister , hard to guard against.He also didn't want to think about how the Taoist knew he had a mark on his body, so he just patted his butt and left without looking back.

The white-haired old man was left alone by the pool, and the wind blew across the lake, causing several layers of ripples, adding to the sadness.

The old Taoist tapped the ground lightly with the snake-shaped crutch in his hand, and sighed with a headache as he watched Mo Nan's figure gradually go away.

Perhaps because of the influence of that old Taoist priest, Mo Nan had a nightmare that night after returning home.

He dreamed that the old Taoist priest with white hair covering his eyes was talking about what his parents said, and his parents immediately welcomed an ugly woman from the door, gloomy, and asked him to marry her. It doesn't matter if the woman is ugly, what's more important is that she laughs and spits out a letter, like a snake.

He was so frightened that he slapped the woman and wanted her to leave quickly. Unexpectedly, his feet were entangled by the snake's tail and he couldn't move.He watched in horror as the woman gradually turned into a snake and entangled him. He asked his parents and younger brother for help, but they turned a deaf ear.Seeing that the snake head aimed at him opened its bloody mouth and was about to swallow him, he yelled in despair.

"Ah!!!" Then Mo Nan woke up.

The first thing he saw was the ceiling of his own room, then he turned his head and saw the worried expression of the servants in the room.

"Master, did you have a nightmare?" The servant asked embarrassingly when he saw Mo Nan who was covered in cold sweat.

"Well, sort of," Mo Nan rubbed his aching temple, "What time is it?"

"Master, it's time now."

"I see, you go back first."

"Yes."

It was already getting late, Mo Nan gave up his plan to sleep back in the cage, and planned to get up dressed.He yawned and put on his clothes slowly, grabbed a handful of hair and tied it up high. With the hair tied up, he became more energetic.

Mo Nan's hair is naturally a bit broken, if it is not tied up like this, it will be easily messed up.

After getting out of bed, he felt hungry, so he moved to the kitchen to get some snacks. While passing the courtyard with a piece of mung bean cake in his mouth, he heard two maids whispering.

"You know, when I went to serve tea in the living room, I found that the master and madam were entertaining a guest."

"Isn't it normal for Mo Mansion to have guests?"

"That's what I said, but it's the first time I've seen such a guest in Mo Mansion for so long."

"How is it?"

"It looks like a Taoist priest. He is already old, and his white hair covers his eyes. I really don't know how he can see the road clearly."

With a snap, the mung bean cake in Mo Nan's mouth fell to the ground, rolled down the steps and fell into the dirt.The two maids took advantage of the situation to look over, and found a dark-faced Mo Nan, with a pair of peach-blossom eyes stained with a lot of shadow, and his complexion was frighteningly gloomy.

"Eldest Young Master!" The two little maids were obviously frightened by his expression, and they didn't dare to speak any more.

"Let me ask you," Mo Nan looked at the maid who had been to the living room, "Is that Taoist priest wearing a dirty-looking blue Taoist robe and a particularly ugly walking stick in his hand!"

"Yes, that Taoist priest is indeed like this...Young Master, do you know him?"

"Not only do I know him, but I also want him to look good!" Mo Nan said through gritted teeth.It was so deceiving, I was so frightened that I had a nightmare all night, and even went home to deceive the elders. It is unbearable to be so daring!He put on a vicious expression and walked towards the living room.

The two servant girls were still there and watched him leave blankly.

"Just from the young master's eyes... I seem to see murderous intent."

"Me too……"

Mo Nan rushed to the living room in a hurry, and when he was about to kick the door with all his might, he suddenly stopped, calmed down, and decided to observe the internal situation first.

He secretly moved aside, peeking in through the crack of the door, and saw the old Taoist priest from yesterday sitting in an armchair, talking softly with his parents, but due to the distance, Mo Nan couldn't hear him He was talking about something, but he could see Mo Yuancheng's serious expression, and he showed a little respect when he talked with the Taoist priest.

Mo Yuancheng is Mo Nan's father, the head of the Mo family. He is bloated and amiable. His personality flaw is that he is too careless and some things are too casual. It makes people suspect that his shrewd mind is used in business.

It is such a casual father who actually respects an old Taoist priest who has never met before!Mo Nan felt more and more unbelievable, and in order to make sure that he was not dazzled, he took a few extra glances at Mo Yuancheng's expression.

After making sure that he read it correctly, he calmed his beating heart, and his right eyelid suddenly jumped.He reckoned that his parents must have been bewitched by this old Taoist priest, and the anger that had been suppressed suddenly came up again.

He got up and was about to kick the door, when suddenly he felt the mark on the heel of his leg start to itch again, causing goose bumps all over his body.

The itching became more and more intense, like countless bugs gnawing and crawling on it, he leaned against the door frame impatiently, stretched his hand between his legs to scratch, the desire to break in and the desire to stop the itching collided, forcing He's going crazy.

At this moment, he heard Mo Yuancheng say a few words in the room. Although his voice was low, Mo Nan could barely hear a few words.

"...Since that's the case... we can only let Nan'er..."

What?so what?Can only let me what? ? ?

Sure enough, that Taoist priest came for him! !

Mo Nan couldn't control that much anymore, and when he thought of what the Taoist priest would do to him in conjunction with his parents, he felt very anxious.Forcibly ignoring the itchy marks on his legs, he kicked the door open.

"Father! Mother! You can't trust him!!"

"Nan'er?" Mo Nan's mother, Qiu Zhengshu, looked at the eldest son who suddenly appeared, and asked in surprise.

As if the old Taoist had expected it long ago, he took a sip of tea from the teacup on the table leisurely, and turned to Mo Nan: "We meet again, Young Master Mo Nan, what a destiny."

I have to say that this old Taoist priest is very powerful. For example, a few words made Mo Nan want to copy the guy and beat him up.

But for the sake of his parents being present, he endured it, ignored the old Taoist priest, turned around and threw himself into Mo Yuancheng's arms, crying, "Father, this man is a liar, drive him out!"

"What nonsense are you talking about, but the Taoist priest is here to avert disaster for you!" Mo Yuancheng refused to accept his objection.

"What a disaster! That's a charlatan!"

"Nonsense!" Mo Yuancheng became serious all of a sudden, and a little anger grew on his kind face, "What kind of rudeness does it look like, go back to your room and stay!"

"..." Mo Nan couldn't believe it, and turned to someone else to ask for help, "Mother...look at Daddy..." He choked in his throat before he finished speaking, because he saw Qiu Zhengshu also had the same expression.

Heck!

Seeing this, the old Taoist said with a smile that was not a smile: "Master Mo, you should go back to your room quickly. According to the poor, you should be very uncomfortable now."

Yes, itchy like crazy.

... A hero does not suffer from immediate losses.Mo Nan gritted his teeth, got up and glared at him, his eyes filled with "I want you to look good", and ran out after staring, feeling his legs trembling.

In the next few days, Mo Nan locked himself in the room. To be honest, he was a little scared. Ever since the old Taoist priest came to the house that day, his parents have been busy, and they don't know what they are busy with.

His intuition told him that it was not a good thing.

But one thing was lucky, he felt that the itching in his area gradually eased, even if it was not as strong as before, until today, it was almost as bad as being bitten by a mosquito.

This made Mo Nan feel a little bit of joy in all the troubles, and he counted that he hadn't seen the sun for several days, so he straightened the broken hair on his shoulders, and planned to go out to get some air.

Stepping off the bed, her mood became a little more beautiful, but this beautiful mood dissipated completely when she opened the door and saw Qiu Zhengshu with a serious face outside the door.

"...Mom...?" Mo Nan tentatively made a weak sound.

"Well," Qiu Zhengshu glanced at the half of his leg that he stepped forward, "Nan'er, go back, mother has something important to tell you."

Mo Nan felt his right eyelid twitch again symbolically, and a bad premonition arose spontaneously. He had no choice but to retract his legs and follow Qiu Zhengshu into the house. At this time, for the first time, he felt that his room seemed seamless. hell.

He sat at the square table with Qiu Zhengshu, sitting upright, like a child who has made a mistake and is waiting to be punished.

"Do you know what my mother is going to tell you?"

Mo Nan vaguely knew what was going on, and blurted out: "I'm not sick, I'm fine, I'm not getting married."

"You can trust the first two as a mother, but you can't decide on the third one."

"Why?!"

"I haven't asked you yet, why didn't I tell my parents about being bitten by a snake!" Qiu Zhengshu said in a tone of hatred, "Why are you so skinny!"

"That's not the point I want to talk about now...and it's been more than ten years..." Mo Nan knew he was wrong, and said awkwardly.

"And you are not young anymore, it's time to start a family."

"Wait - this is not the reason for you to listen to that charlatan!!"

"What nonsense!" She knocked Mo Nan's head hard, "That's a Taoist priest who has practiced for a hundred years, don't be rude!"

"..."

"Besides, your father and I have already discussed it, and there is no room for change."

"...So you didn't intend to ask my opinion in the first place, did you?"

"Yes." Qiu Zhengshu admitted generously.

"..."

"And everything is ready."

"Properly mean?"

"We will be married in a few days."

"..." Happiness came so suddenly, Mo Nan felt dizzy from the neck up, "...Mother, can I ask who the other party is?"

"Don't worry about it, it's from Ji's family. As you know, Ji's family has a good relationship with us, and this marriage is also a close relationship." The wishful thinking in my heart crackled.

Mo Nan knew the Ji family, they were family friends of the Mo family, the Mo family was a silk merchant, and the Ji family was a tea merchant, the two have had business cooperation since their ancestors, and the relationship is harmonious.

In Mo Nan's memory, the wife of the head of Ji's family was a famous talented woman in Yangyuan Town in those days. She had a daughter who was both talented and beautiful. I heard that she had quite the demeanor of her back then. I had seen her a few times when I visited Ji's house before. Well-deserved reputation.

It should be her.Mo Nan rested his chin in thought.It's not impossible... But it doesn't matter if you don't know him well... He thought about it, anyway, he doesn't have anyone in particular he wants to marry, and being able to marry such a talented woman for no reason... doesn't seem like a bad thing.After thinking about it a few times in this way, I am not so opposed to my parents' decision.

"Forget it, it's up to you."

"That's good." Seeing that Mo Nan didn't particularly want to resist, Qiu Zhengshu heaved a sigh of relief.

"...?" Mo Nan felt that his mother was weird.

Until the wedding day, when Mo Nan saw the women's wedding dress prepared for him, his heart was enlightened.

If you give yourself another chance, you must choose to run away from home.