snake wife

Towering old trees rise from the ground, and their dense branches and leaves almost cover most of the sunlight.

Shen Ci looked up at the criss-crossing branches and leaves, then he climbed to the root of the old tree, stood on tiptoe and looked into the distance.

The branches of the ancient trees are intertwined with each other, and the end of the forest cannot be seen at a glance.The unfamiliar scene made Shen Ci suddenly realize that his current location is definitely not in Baihua Mountain.

"Where is this place, am I lost again?"

Shen Ci jumped from the root of the old tree to the grass.The grass was wet and uncomfortable to step on.

The soles of his feet were scratched several times by dead branches, and the excruciating pain did not stop his determination to move on.He lifted the hem of his clothes that was too long, and walked aimlessly on the path in the forest.

If he feels tired, he will stop and rest for a while.When the rest is almost over, he will continue to move forward based on his intuition.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and gradually, the sound of gurgling water came from his ears.

His throat was unbearably thirsty, and he was already sweating profusely in the hot and humid environment.He wiped the sweat from his forehead, then gritted his teeth, enduring the pain and ran towards the sound of running water.

He had just run a few steps, when a white light suddenly fell from the sky, he only felt a blur in front of his eyes, and then subconsciously covered it with his hands.In the blink of an eye, the white light was fleeting. He slowly opened his eyes, and saw the scene around him change again.

There are many mountains and winding streams, like a silver snake climbing among the cliffs.

"Could I have traveled to another world..."

Shen Ci opened his mouth and rubbed his eyes in surprise.He stood there for a long time before recovering from the shock.

Looking at the clear stream, Shen Ci ran to the bank of the stream and squatted down, ignoring the wound on the sole of his foot.After he put his hands together and drank several mouthfuls of stream water, he felt a little more comfortable in his throat.

The stream was crystal clear, like a mirror, reflecting his reflection.

At the same time, Zhou Yunze passed through a dense forest and also came to the bank of the stream, but it was completely different from what Shen Ci saw.The creek at his feet is only half a meter wide, and he can jump to the other side of the stream without any effort.

Zhou Yunze is not interested in the surrounding scenery, he just wants to find Shen Ci as soon as possible, and then lock this disobedient Lu Chi by his side, to see how he still runs around.

He crossed the stream without any hesitation, and the moment he reached the opposite bank, ripples suddenly appeared on the surface of the water.He looked down and saw Shen Ci's reflection suddenly floating on the water.

"Shen Ci, where did you go, do you know how worried I am about you?"

Zhou Yunze was overjoyed, and then turned around abruptly, only to see that there was no one behind him.

Could it be that he was blind?He looked down at the water again, only to see the reflection in the water also looking at him in surprise.

"Shen Ci, can you hear me?"

Zhou Yunze dropped his backpack and reached out to touch the figure in the water.

Shen Ci, who was sitting on the shore, was taken aback. When he saw that another reflection on the water was Zhou Yunze, he quickly waved to him and said:

"Yunze, where are you?"

Zhou Yunze was not behind him at all, but he could see Zhou Yunze's reflection in the water.From this point of view, he is more certain in his heart that this is not the real world.

He couldn't hear Zhou Yunze's voice, but seeing Zhou Yunze's flustered expression, he could guess in his heart that Zhou Yunze couldn't hear his voice.

In order not to worry his friend, Shen Ci stuck his fingertips into the soil, rolled up his sleeves and wrote six large characters on his arm.

[I'm fine, don't worry. 】

Just as Shen Ci was about to extend his arms to the water, a gust of cold wind suddenly blew, and ripples appeared on the surface of the stream again.

"Yunze, can you see the writing on my arm? Yunze, where have you been? Why can't I see you?"

As soon as Shen Ci finished speaking, the water surface became calm again.He leaned over to look, trying to find Zhou Yunze's reflection in the stream.

However, the moment he lowered his head, the originally calm stream suddenly became choppy, and immediately behind him, a green snake more than three meters long appeared out of thin air.

The green snake spit out the snake letter and crawled in front of him, his body began to tremble uncontrollably, and the image of entanglement with the green snake in the hot spring last night instantly appeared in his mind.

Shen Ci's face was red, and he wanted to go up to say hello to the green snake, but because he stepped on a stone, he lost his balance and fell to the ground.

Smelling the smell of blood, the green snake pounced on Shen Ci, and then wrapped Shen Ci into its arms with its huge tail.

If it was an ordinary person, he would have been terrified by the sudden appearance of the green snake.However, as Shen Ci, the attitude towards the green snake is quite different.

After confirming the identity of the green snake, Shen Ci rubbed the green snake's jaw affectionately, then looked up at the green snake gratefully and said:

"Mr. Jun, are you here to pick me up?"

The green snake's amber vertical pupils narrowed into a slit, and the slender snake letter licked the mud stains on his face, and then licked his earlobe along his cheek.

"Haha, it's so itchy, don't lick it."

Shen Ci stretched out his hands and touched the head of the green snake. The green snake was not displeased with his resistance, but licked Shen Ci's fingers with great enjoyment.

"How did you get yourself so dirty, where are your shoes?"

The green snake spit out words, and in an instant, it turned into a long-haired man in ancient costume, and hugged Shen Ciheng.

"sorry."

Shen Ci didn't know how to answer Jun Yao, it was impossible to tell him that he got lost in the yard because he was looking for his mobile phone.Then he walked into the woods by accident, and even scarred himself.

"Why do you say sorry?"

The corner of Jun Yao's mouth curled into an imperceptible smile.

"I should stay in the room and wait for you instead of running around. Mr. Jun, are you angry?" Shen Ci said.

Jun Yao didn't answer Shen Ci's words, but pronounced a few jerky syllables.The syllables are high and low, which sounds a little harsh.

After a few seconds, a counterclockwise black hole suddenly appeared in front of them.

"Good boy, close your eyes." Jun Yao leaned over to Shen Ci's ear, and said in a low voice.

Shen Ci gave a faint 'hmm', and then he obediently closed his eyes.The wind was blowing in his ears, and the temperature dropped by more than ten degrees in an instant, and then rose rapidly.

Under the dual stimulation of one cold and one hot, Shen Ci couldn't help but sneezed.

"Ah sneeze!"

Even when he sneezed, Shen Ci didn't open his eyes.There was a faint fragrance of herbs in the air, Shen Ci sniffed, and immediately felt refreshed, and the pain on the soles of his feet was relieved a lot.

"You can open your eyes."

Jun Yao used magic to conjure a chair, and then put him on the chair.Shen Ci nodded, and slowly opened his eyes, only to see the surrounding white mist, and the range of sight was less than one meter.

"Mr. Jun, where is this place?"

Shen Ci wanted to get up, but was pushed back by Jun Yao's palm.Cold fingers grazed his skin, and then he untied his muddy robe very easily.

The robe slipped to the ground, and Jun Yao bent and knelt down in front of him, then grabbed his right ankle, and said in a low voice:

"Does it hurt?"

"Well, it hurts." Shen Ci said.

"Since you know it hurts, why keep moving forward."

Jun Yao's eyes darkened. In fact, Shen Ci didn't need to explain. He could guess that Shen Ci was looking for an exit out of the secret realm despite the pain in his feet in order to escape from the secret realm he had set up.

"I'm sorry, I just want to find my lost phone. That phone is really important to me because it has text messages from my mother and photos of my mother and me when she was alive.

There are two other reasons, I want to report to my family that I am safe - it hurts! "

Before Shen Ci finished speaking, he was interrupted by a piercing pain.He looked down and saw that Jun Yao was holding a piece of navy blue silk cloth in his hand, carefully cleaning the wound on the sole of his foot.

"Hey, just be patient, it won't hurt soon."

Jun Yao wiped off the blood stains on the soles of Shen Ci's feet with a silk cloth soaked in elixir, and then wrapped Shen Ci's feet with gauze.

"Don't get your feet wet, the wound will heal after a few days."

"Thank you."

Shen Ci and Jun Yao looked at each other for a few seconds, then immediately lowered their heads to avoid Jun Yao's sight, and then used their arms to cover key parts of the body as much as possible.

Jun Yao stood up slowly, then lifted Shen Ci's chin with his fingertips, and said with a smile:

"Why is your face so red? Could it be a fever?"

"No, I don't have a fever. Mr. Jun, can I get dressed?" Shen Ci quickly shook his head in denial, with crystal tears in his eyes, and murmured.

"No, your clothes are stained a lot, and you sweat so much, what can you do if you don't wash them off?" Jun Yao said with a smile.

"But my feet are wrapped in gauze."

Shen Ci pointed to his feet wrapped like zongzi, indicating that he could not take a bath yet.Jun Yao smiled meaningfully, then bent down, leaned close to Shen Ci's ear, bit his earlobe and said:

"It's okay, it's a husband's duty to help his injured wife take a bath."

For this kind of skin-bruising trauma, Jun Yao can heal the scars on the soles of Shen Ci's feet as long as he casts a little magic.But the dark-bellied Immortal Lingqing didn't want to heal his little wife's foot injury so quickly.

Their newly married life has just begun, and he hopes that Shen Ci can rely on him more...

Jun Yao's movements were very gentle, completely different from the first 'crash'.Shen Ci only felt that his body was light and light, like a cloud floating in the sky.

The hot and humid towel wiped all over his skin, and Jun Yao's slender fingers gently pressed the acupuncture points on his head.

Shen Ci narrowed his eyes comfortably, and his tense body gradually relaxed. I don't know if it was because of the effect of the herbal medicine, or because he was too exhausted from physical strength.He actually leaned in Jun Yao's arms and fell asleep unknowingly.

Shen Ci had a dream. In the dream, he sneaked out from home in the middle of the night, with a white flour steamed bun in his arms, and ran towards the foot of Baihua Mountain.

The sky was gloomy, and lightning flashed from time to time, illuminating Baihua Village shrouded in darkness.

At that time, he was just a child, and he was out of breath after running for a while.No matter how tired he was, he didn't stop.Because of the weather, it will rain heavily within half an hour.

At the foot of Baihua Mountain, there is a thousand-year-old locust tree.People in the village say that this old locust tree is very spiritual, and it is a fairy tree that has become a spirit.

As long as you sincerely kneel in front of the old locust tree and make a wish, the old locust tree will draw a corresponding price to fulfill the wishes of the villagers.However, such a spiritual locust tree was struck by lightning two days ago.

After the old man Liu in the village learned of this incident, he insisted that it was an ominous sign, and clamored to cut down the old locust tree.

At first, no one believed what old man Liu said, thinking it was nonsense.It wasn't until Zhou Bo's daughter-in-law in the village hanged herself in front of the old locust tree in the middle of the night that the villagers began to believe what Old Man Liu said.

The villagers who had good deeds asked old man Liu why he cut down the old locust tree.Old man Liu didn't answer the man's question, but told a story mysteriously.

The content of the story is as follows. It is said that 600 years ago, Baihua Village encountered a great plague.And the source of the plague came from this old locust tree.

On the eve of the outbreak of the plague, it rained continuously for seven days.Just when the villagers were still worried about whether the rice would be flooded by the rain, a thunderbolt suddenly struck the branches of the pagoda tree.Immediately after the heavy rain stopped suddenly, the locust tree that was struck by lightning actually bleed out mucus similar to human blood.

Not long after, those villagers who had seen the bleeding of locust trees all got a strange disease.First a mole grew on their back, and then the mole grew bigger and bigger, gradually forming a human face.

The county magistrate who took over Baihua Village at that time, after hearing about this incident, immediately sent yamen servants to surround Baihua Village, and then ordered that all villagers who contracted this strange disease should be burned to death immediately and no one would be left alive.

The county magistrate announced to the outside world that the villagers of Baihua Village were infected with the plague.However, only a few people knew that these villagers were not infected with the plague at all, but were cursed by the locust tree, and had a ghost face sore on their backs.

Old man Liu paused at this point, and the villagers were fascinated by what he heard and asked what happened to old man Liu afterwards. Were the villagers with ghost face sores really burned to death?

Old man Liu shook his head, saying that he couldn't remember what happened next.

The villagers talked a lot, and soon some unbelieving villagers retorted that Zhou Bo's daughter-in-law hanged herself from the old locust tree, what did it have to do with the legend 600 years ago?

The rest of the villagers thought it made sense, so they put the story told by old man Liu behind them.On the other hand, Shen Ci, who was listening with gusto, planted a seed of curiosity in his heart.

That night, while his parents were asleep, he planned to sneak up to the locust tree alone to see if there was any brownish-red liquid flowing from the branches of the locust tree.

With the bright moon in the sky, Shen Ci stood under the old locust tree, looking up at the woman who was hanged on the branch.The woman stretched out her tongue, and also stared at him.

'Auntie, your tongue fell out. '

The female ghost looked at Shen Ci resentfully, she slowly raised her arm, and then floated in front of him from mid-air, pinching his neck with both hands.

Shen Ci only felt that it was difficult to breathe, his face turned from red to purple, and he was about to be strangled to death by the female ghost.At this critical moment, a small blue snake suddenly sprang out from the root of the old locust tree, and the small snake quickly wrapped around Shen Ci's right ankle.

With a scream, the female ghost turned into black mist and disappeared without a trace, while the little snake wrapped around his ankle lay weakly on the grass.

'Ahem, ahem—'

Shen Ci covered his neck, knelt on the ground and coughed continuously.After a long time, he finally stopped coughing, and looked down at the little snake that was about to crawl back into the tree hole.

There is a scorched mark on the tail of the little snake, and a long and thin scar on its back.

Seeing the little snake crawling so hard, Shen Ci walked up to the little snake, gently grabbed the little snake's head, and put him into the gap between the roots of the locust tree.

'Thank you for saving me, are you hurt? '

The little snake crawled into the tree hole without looking back, while Shen Ci squatted on the ground and observed for a long time, and after confirming that the little snake would not crawl out of the hole, he returned home disappointed.The little snake saved his life, and now seeing the burns on the little snake's tail, he must not ignore it.

The next morning, he stayed under the old locust tree for a long time, but he didn't see the little snake crawling out of the tree hole.

The villagers saw him lingering under the old locust tree, called him a broom star, said he would bring misfortune to the village, and then picked up stones on the ground and threw them at him.

He had no choice but to return home, and after the villagers fell asleep, he brought some herbs and steamed buns that he couldn't bear to eat, and came to the old locust tree alone.

'Little Green Snake, I brought you herbs and steamed buns, are you still there? '

How could a snake understand human language? If someone else saw this situation, they would definitely think that Shen Ci was a lunatic with an abnormal mind.

Shen Ci sat down with his back against the trunk of the old locust tree. He took out a steamed bun from his arms, then broke off a small piece and put it at the root of the old locust tree, waiting patiently for the green snake to crawl out of the hole.

When the green snake heard the movement, it poked its head out curiously, and then stared at Shen Ci with those amber vertical pupils without blinking.

'Little Green Snake, thank you for saving me yesterday.Can I see the wound on your tail?Don't be afraid, I won't harm you. This is a herbal medicine for treating burning. It is cool when applied, and it can reduce inflammation and relieve pain. '

Shen Ci took out a bag of sachets from his pocket, poured the herbal medicine into the palm of his hand, and handed it to the green snake.

Seeing that Shen Ci was not harmful to him, the green snake crawled to his feet, and then looked at the human being in front of him curiously.

'Don't move around, I'll help you deal with the wound on the tail. '

As Shen Ci spoke, he wiped the muddy tail of the green snake with his sleeve, and then lightly sprinkled the herbs in his palm on the burnt wound on the tail of the green snake.

At this moment, Dou Da's raindrops crackled on Shen Ci's body.

'It's raining? '

As soon as Shen Ci finished speaking, a thunderbolt suddenly fell from the sky and struck in their direction.Shen Ci's eyes widened, and he instinctively grabbed the green snake and hugged him tightly in his arms.

'Little baby, run, the human body can't bear the thunder at all, you will die! '

Suddenly a cold male voice came from his ear, and then he lost consciousness and passed out.