Snake Tale

The Story of the Snake · Zhou Budan

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更新时间：2019-03-1723:33:42

There was a lot of wind and snow outside, and the snow was more than a foot deep, and many noises were silently buried.It wasn't until the end of Shen Yuzhu's words that Mrs. Zishuo suddenly remembered that the Xun that Shen Yuzhu played just now was the ancient song "Rabbit" when hunting.

The traps for catching rabbits have been densely laid out, and the valiant warriors are already lined up——

Mrs. Zishuo whispered in disbelief: "You——led Zhong Lichun here?"

Shen Yuzhu smiled slightly, and said lightly: "If it wasn't so, how could we reunite our family?"

Everyone's expressions changed, and Zui Yu took the lead to rush out of the hall, looking around independently in the whistling wind and snow.At the end of the vast snow field, there is only a dark and endless fir forest. Perhaps the branches and leaves are blown by the strong wind, but the outline of the forest is trembling, and it is getting closer. If you look closely, where is the fir tree?It is clearly a group of black and strong soldiers and horses, winding towards this place!

Surprised and suspicious, she went back to the library and reported to Mrs. Zishuo.Mrs. Zishuo's eyes turned and she thought secretly, three points suspicious and seven points sullen, and said with a sneer: "Okay! Okay! Are you one or two only thinking of dying with me?" After finishing speaking, she stood up and walked straight out. post house.

Luo Yi turned to look at Shen Yuzhu, only to see him looking at Mrs. Zishuo's back and smiling slightly, standing up on his knees.Perhaps the wound was affected, suddenly he frowned and his figure swayed.When Luo Yi came to his senses, he had already jumped up and supported Shen Yuzhu.

Shen Yuzhu snuggled up to him, coughing lightly.Luo Yi held his hand, but felt his palm was icy cold, and heard Shen Yuzhu whisper in his arms: "I really regret it..."

Luo Yi was startled, with mixed feelings in his heart, he gritted his teeth and said in a low voice, "You shouldn't have come."

Shen Yuzhu raised his eyes to look at him, and said calmly: "You will die." He stretched his body a little, put most of his weight on him, and said slowly: "If I miss this scene, I will regret it for the rest of my life."

Luo Yi looked into his eyes.Shen Yuzhu's expression was indifferent, and there was even a smile on his lips, but he realized that he was very angry.Of course he should be angry.Shen Yuzhu takes "no competition with the world" as his standard, and should have nothing to do with all of this.If it wasn't for himself, he wouldn't be seriously injured; if it wasn't for himself, he wouldn't be running thousands of miles, working tirelessly, without a moment of peace; if it wasn't for himself, he wouldn't be dragged into the center of the vortex of fighting for power and profit, facing such an uncertain moment... situation...

Luo Yi turned his eyes away, "You shouldn't have come." He repeated softly.

An uncontrollable annoyance flickered on Shen Yuzhu's face, and he opened his mouth to say something, but hearing the commotion of people and horses outside the post house was getting louder, he finally endured it.He rolled his eyes, as if thinking of something, he leaned down while supporting Luo Yi with one hand, and grabbed a handful of black charcoal powder into the cold charcoal basin.

Luo Yi was startled: "You..." Before he finished speaking, Shen Yuzhu raised his hand, and slapped his hand full of black charcoal on Luo Yi's face.

"..." Luo Yi resisted the urge to kick the seriously injured man away, and let him do whatever he wanted on his face, holding back his anger, and calmly said, "You don't think that you can teach the soldiers to recognize you like this?" Why don't you leave me?"

Shen Yuzhu smeared his face with charcoal ash, stretched out his index finger and traced the word "Wang" on his forehead, and said with a smile, "Of course not."

He wrapped his arms around his waist, bowed his head close to his neck, and said with a soft smile: "But I am willing."

His lips gently brushed against his neck, and the warm breath was like the countless gentle nights spent together in the past.Luo Yi couldn't help trembling slightly, forced himself to suppress it, brushed off the cloak to wrap him around him, and helped Shen Yuzhu walk out slowly.

Outside the post house, Mrs. Zishuo led her men to confront the oncoming Qi army.Luo Yi glanced around and recognized all the faces in the army.Obviously, even with the name of "punishing the culprits who collaborate with the enemy and treason", Zhong Lichun is still not at ease in letting the soldiers he trained to perform the duty of arrest.This force is the personal guards who protect the relatives and nobles of King Qi.

A general in silver armor came out in a row, staring at Mrs. Zishuo in the center, and said coldly: "Madam, this subordinate has come all this way under the order of the emperor. Please return with the last general!"

Mrs. Zishuo sneered, "Wu Kui is dead, whose order are you following?"

The general said: "Although the monarch is dead, the young gentleman is still alive. Before the new monarch takes the throne, the edict issued by the young gentleman Zhong Lichun is the king's order."

Mrs. Zishuo said with a smile: "It's okay to go back with you. Staying in this icy and snowy place is really torturing. But I want to ask you, have you been convicted of treason and collaborating with the enemy during your visit?"

The general hesitated.The crime of treason and collaborating with the enemy is no small matter, and if the crime of treason is rashly determined in the absence of the principal culprit, it will definitely be punished.Zhong Lichun fought alone and was extremely cautious, so he has not made a conclusion until now.

Mrs. Zishuo sternly said: "Then I will still be the Queen Mother of Qi! Who would allow you to sit on a horse and talk to me like this?"

The general was startled by this sudden questioning, hesitated for a while, and said coldly: "The subordinate is in armor, so it is inconvenient to salute, please forgive me! As for the case of 'treason', the details of the case are not yet clear, and I am about to ask the Queen Mother to return All assist in the investigation."

Luo Yi understood that Mrs. Zishuo seemed to be arguing with the Qi army, but she was actually throwing stones to ask for directions.Qi Jun's attitude is very clear.This trip is absolutely impossible.When Shen Yuzhu brought the army here, did he really intend to let them die together?

Before he could figure it out, the general of the Qi State had already turned the spearhead, and said coldly: "This subordinate has another order from the king, to escort Luo Yi, the chief criminal who committed treason..."

After a pause, he was stunned when he saw Luo Yi standing tall in the crowd.

Shen Yuzhu took a step forward, afraid that the other party would not recognize him, and pointed out with a smile: "This is the 'principal culprit of treason'."

Luo Yi didn't retreat or evade, with a calm face, in stark contrast to the six jet-black whiskers on his cheeks.The general couldn't believe it: "...you don't think that you can escape the pursuit by this kind of disguise?"

Luo Yi said proudly: "I am willing, can you control it?"

The general was irritated by this arrogant attitude, and said coldly: "The turtle in the urn dares to be so rampant! Someone—"

Before the words were finished, it seemed that a little black shadow pupil came straight to him.The general subconsciously knocked it down with a flick of his hand, and when he held it in his palm, he saw that it was just a flying insect with a red shell the size of a thumb.

It's freezing cold, and it's supposed to be the time when bugs and bees are dormant, so how could there be flying insects flying outside?The general hadn't reacted yet, but he felt a burning pain in the palm of his hand. It was the crimson bug's body that shattered, and the oozing corpse fluid stained his palm, and burned a hole out of the sheepskin glove.

Annoyed, he threw the insect corpse away, but he heard a sudden chaos in the formation behind him. A soldier at the end of the phalanx suddenly rode his horse and broke through the formation, rushed forward, screamed hoarsely in pain, and shouted:

"Help me!—save me!"

All the soldiers were terrified, and when the soldier rushed to his eyes and fell off his horse, it was clear that his face was red, swollen and festered, and red and yellow pus kept coming out of his eye sockets. It was as if a will-o’-the-wisp had been burned, and densely packed sauce-purple blisters swelled up. When he scratched it with his fingers, it burst open like soft carrion, revealing the white bones under the cheeks!

Struggling with the last bit of strength, he rushed to the general's horse and hugged his leg, begging sadly: "Commander! Save—"

The general turned pale in shock, grabbed the man's skirt, and asked, "What happened?!"

The soldier struggled to spit out a few words: "Red Snow..." Before he finished speaking, the soldier was shaken all over his body, and the eyeballs on his face, which had already swollen to the point of being transparent, burst open with a soft "poof", splashing out several streams of muddy juice. Spray, shot in the general's face.

Everyone was terrified, but they saw the soldier stretching his five fingers forward, and slowly fell to the ground on his back.From his hollow eye socket, Gululu crawled out a crimson worm.Stretching out the six wings, leisurely flew into the mid-air, and flew to a certain place at the end of the team.

Everyone's eyes widened, and following the insignificant red point, their gazes slowly fixed on a person in the distance—holding a red umbrella, covered in wreaths, stepping on the snow.

The general said sharply, "Who is coming?"

The man turned a deaf ear, and his clothes fluttered in the wind. As he came, he chanted softly:

"There are dragons flying around the world;

The five snakes follow it and support it;

The dragon returns to its hometown and takes its place;

The four snakes follow it and get its dew and rain;

Ashamed of a snake, Qiao died in Nakano*—”

The voice was clearer and more mournful, although the volume was not loud, it passed through the wind and snow in the wilderness, and reached everyone's ears clearly and unmistakably, as if reciting by his side, which shows that his martial arts foundation is extremely profound.

When Mrs. Zishuo heard this poem, she immediately showed a horrified expression, and said to herself incoherently: "This is...'Dragon Snake Song'? Could it be, could it be her... No, it's impossible! She, she should have already -"

Shen Yuzhu turned to look at Luo Yi, but saw that he also had a look of astonishment on his face, and asked softly, "What's wrong?"

Luo Yi said in a low voice: "This song... A Niang used to sing it to me before."

Just as he was talking, the weird man with the red umbrella had already walked in front of him.Only then did everyone see clearly that it was a woman with slender stature and icy muscles.Dressed in a gorgeous floral dress full of flowers, red and green, and full of pearls and necklaces, with cold eyes, standing in front of the formation, she said coldly to Mrs. Zishuo:

"Long time no see, little bitch."

Mrs. Zishuo's almond-shaped eyes widened, and she said in astonishment, "Are you—?"

The woman with the red umbrella smiled coldly and said, "Why, don't you recognize me?" She caressed her cheek lovingly, lowered her eyebrows and smiled softly: "That's right, my appearance has changed a lot, I'm afraid it's him Even if you see me, you will be dazzled and fascinated for a long time, let alone your cloudy eyes?"

Mrs. Zishuo's entourage couldn't hold back anymore, jumped forward, and asked angrily: "Where did the monster come from, dare to talk to our wife like this—"

The woman with the red umbrella waved the catkin lightly, but saw a icy cold light shoot out from between her fingers, and a silver needle as thin as a bull's hair had already hit the man's eyebrow!The attendant stared wide-eyed, unable to speak anymore, his face turned from white to blue, from green to black, but in an instant, it turned into a gray-black and corrupt color, and fell to the ground with a bang, a stream of blue-purple slowly dripped from the snow beneath him pus and blood come.

Everyone was horrified.The woman with the red umbrella said lightly: "I want to take this little bitch away. Anyone who is sensible, get out of here."

Mrs. Zishuo's entourage drew their swords as if they were facing a formidable enemy.The general of the Qi army was even more annoyed when he saw that this person's words and deeds were upside down, and he blocked him arbitrarily. !"

The soldiers responded like a cloud, and rode their horses to rush forward. Mrs. Zishuo's followers also shouted, pulled out their weapons, and swarmed forward.Yang Yang was about to chop the defenseless and weak woman into mincemeat, but she snorted coldly: "I don't know how to live or die." He held the umbrella in his hand, pointed it at the crowd, and turned the handle of the umbrella suddenly.The umbrella surface is very bright and bright, shining brightly under the sunlight, decorated with magnificent and strange patterns, which seem to be constantly changing and changing shapes. If you look closely, where are the patterns? ——There are layers upon layers of densely surging on the surface of the umbrella, clearly tens of thousands of crimson strange insects!

Shen Yuzhu who was outside the crowd grabbed Luo Yi's hand and said in a low voice, "Go!"

Luo Yi didn't doubt that he was there, embraced Shen Yuzhu, and jumped back dozens of steps—it was thanks to this momentary retreat that he was not stained by the sudden burst of crimson blood.But seeing the crimson monster on the woman's umbrella exploded in the wind, like a surging red wave, it rushed towards the people around it!

*From the Pre-Qin Elegy "Dragon Snake Song".