What is wrong with raising snakes?

Xuan Qingci lowered his head to hide his smile, walked over to look at the still struggling red snake, and replied loudly: "I want to swallow it alive, you want to try too?"

Yan Fenglang frowned, somewhat embarrassed: "It's not impossible."

Xuan Qingci saw that he was unwilling and unwilling to eat snakes, snorted coldly, grabbed the bamboo slip with one hand, pulled it out suddenly and inserted it again, the red snake stared round Then he tilted his head.After Xuan Qingci was sure that it was dead, he held it on his shoulders and returned the bamboo slips to Yan Fenglang.

Yan Fenglang didn't understand what he meant, he didn't care about the dirty bamboo slips, so he pinned his backhand to his waist and followed behind him.

Xuan Qing resigned and went in the direction of Yuechi, imagining Yan Fenglang saying "I want to do what you have done" in the Wangchuan River, while gradually disappearing until he disappeared.

Yan Fenglang naturally didn't know what Xuan Qingci was thinking at the moment, seeing how he swayed while carrying a snake on his back, he looked like a simple and honest uncle.

Xuan Qingci threw the red snake "puchi" on the ground, and found wooden branches from other places, each about half the thickness of an arm, and he set them up into two triangles, with a wooden stick in the middle.

He put on airs, looked at the pitiful red snake on the ground, then at Yan Fenglang who was sitting under the tree watching the play, and walked over.

"Ok?"

Yan Fenglang looked at Xuan Qingci's palm stretched out in front of him with a puzzled expression.

"dagger."

Yan Fenglang took out a black gold dagger from the bamboo slips, Xuan Qingci held the dagger with his backhand, and walked towards the Red Snake with arrogance and arrogance, which made Yan Fenglang feel like he was going to kill a pig.

Xuan Qingci held the head of the red snake with one hand, cut off the snake's head quickly, ruthlessly and accurately, and threw it under the wooden branch frame. He skillfully lowered the knife from the broken part of the snake's head, slashed open the snake's belly in one go, and used the dagger to open the bones. A complete snake bone ridge is then pulled straight out.

So a piece of soft snake flesh was clearly displayed in front of Yan Fenglang, which made him dumbfounded.

Xuan Qingci held the snake meat in one hand and the black gold dagger in the other, walked towards Yuechi without a trace of blood on his body, threw the headless and bone-shaved snake back and forth into the pool, making sure to wash the snake clean Then he picked it up, and it was as tall as Xuan Qingci's body.

Yan Fenglang had never seen a straight snake before, and after the red snake was picked up by Xuan Qingci, he felt terrified.

Xuan Qingci turned around, and saw Yan Fenglang staring at the disemboweled red snake in his hand, showing resistance.

"If you don't want to eat, you can watch me eat." Xuan Qingci said while flying the black gold dagger in his hand to Yan Fenglang, who grabbed the handle with his bare hands.

Yan Fenglang swallowed, but didn't speak, he wanted to see what Xuan Qingci wanted to do.

I saw Xuan Qingci drew the length of the snake's body and the length of the wooden stick, and found that the snake's body was slightly longer than the wooden stick by an arm.

Yan Fenglang watched as he pierced the tip of the stick into the broken part of the snake's head, then wrapped the stick with the rest of the snake's body, inserted the tail of the snake into the tail of the stick, and firmly fixed the snake meat on the stick.

Xuan Qingci cast a spell and ignited the broken wood and dry grass placed under the stick.

Yan Fenglang understood, laughed and leaned over, squatted on Xuan Qingci's left side, pointed at the smoked snake meat, and said, "I thought you were going to swallow it as your original body."

Xuan Qingci bared his teeth at Yan Fenglang, and replied: "In the original body, I couldn't bite it, I could only swallow it. The human body is different."

Yan Fenglang grabbed Xuan Qingci's chin, looked at his pair of white teeth, sitting peacefully behind a pair of red lips, wondering how such beautiful teeth could bite someone to death?

Xuan Qingci pouted, his jaw ached from being held by him, he waved his hand away, and said: "When I was in the human world, I saw those scholars did this. They caught fish, cut off the fish scales, and then let them go. Grilled on a fire grill, I saw that they were delicious, so I tried it a few times myself."

Yan Fenglang said strangely: "You can't taste sweet, sour, bitter, hot, so this..."

"Although I don't have the sense of taste of a mortal, I can sense warmth and smell, as well as smell." While talking, Xuan Qingci turned the wooden stick with spells, so that the snake meat on the wooden stick was evenly heated.

Yan Fenglang nodded as if understanding, Xuan Qingci glanced at him, and said intentionally: "Fenglang go somewhere else to rest for a while, the fireworks are too heavy here."

Yan Fenglang got up and made a gesture to leave, but squatted down again, as if he was relying on Xuan Qingci.

Isn't he going to drive himself away, and then eat alone?

Seeing him like this, Xuan Qing thought it was funny, leaned into his ear and blew, and asked, "Want to eat?"

Yan Fenglang stared straight at the reddened snake meat, and replied: "No, I said to do what you have done, but I never said to eat what you have eaten."

Xuan Qingci pretended to be nonchalant and let out an "oh", and saw that the piece of snake meat closest to the fire had turned yellow, so he kept fanning with his hands, blowing the aroma of the cooked snake meat over.

"Well... you can eat here."

While talking, Xuan Qingci turned his head and glanced at Yan Fenglang, only to see him staring at the snake meat, swallowing quietly, couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth, took the black gold dagger from Yan Fenglang's hand, and looked at himself Cut off the cooked snake meat, put it near his mouth and blew it.

Yan Fenglang's eyes were attracted by Xuan Qingci's movements, and seeing his pouting and not opening his mouth made him feel itchy, so he snatched the black gold dagger from his hand and said, "Let me taste it for you. cooked."

Before Xuan Qingci could reply, Yan Fenglang opened his mouth wide and bit down, then suddenly covered his mouth.

"Oh! This... burns me to death!"

Xuan Qingci was so teased that he showed his white teeth and smiled, his brows and eyes softened the desolation of the cypress forest, so that Yan Fenglang forgot the burning of his mouth.

Xuan Qingci laughed enough and came back to his senses, seeing him staring at him in a daze, glared at him, took the black gold dagger and put it near his mouth and blew it, then tested the temperature of the snake meat with his lips and handed it to Yan Fenglang's mouth side.

"Eat it, it shouldn't be hot anymore."

Yan Fenglang took the dagger and took a bite without hesitation, but before chewing a few times, he frowned.

"Qingci," he called out in a low voice, "no matter what kind of food it is, is it so bland in your mouth?"

Xuan Qingci was stunned for a moment, said softly "um", narrowed his red eyes and smiled and said, "But my life is not dull." He turned the wooden stick over, and there was a burst of fragrance immediately, and continued: "I have you."

Yan Fenglang smiled comfortably, took out another dagger from the bamboo slips, and asked inexplicably: "You really don't want to taste the ups and downs of the world? Don't you want to truly experience the feeling of being a human?"

Xuan Qingci stuffed himself another mouthful of meat, looked up at the blue sky, his expression was complicated, he hesitated for a long time, and suddenly asked: "Feng Lang, do you...don't like me?"

"What did you say?"

"I mean...do you dislike me as a snake demon?"

Yan Fenglang frowned, and asked angrily, "Why do you think so?"

Xuan Qingci didn't answer, Yan Fenglang pondered for a while, finally understood what he said, "I became a human being, but I can't enjoy the life of a mortal. I just... feel a little pity for you."

"Don't be sorry, humans and monsters are different, just like gods and monsters are different. Even if a monster cultivates to become a fairy, it will never be a real fairy, let alone a god." Xuan Qingci said lightly.

These words fell into Yan Fenglang's ears, as if they were reminding him of something, he immediately felt depressed.

"I won't let you leave me."

The voice was very small, but it was Yan Fenglang's biggest promise.

Xuan Qingci once again thought of the picture he saw in the River of Forgetfulness, he was a blue-blue light and shadow void, and in this void there was a trace of crimson luck, which belonged to Yan Jun.

Manshu told himself that living beings can see their future in the Wangchuan River, while souls can see their afterlife.But Xuan Qingci didn't see any future of himself in the River of Forgetfulness, but a mass of light and shadow, not even a human form.

Is it...

"Feng Lang, when you found me cannibalistic, do you still remember how you punished me?"

Yan Fenglang paused holding the knife with the snake stuck in it, and tried to find everything he saw in his consciousness that day in his memory. The small tree house, and then trapped him in the soul lock array, starving for half a month.

"Sixty years ago, you forgot me completely. Although you remember me now, time will wear everything out. One day, you will still forget me."

Yan Fenglang's heart ached, and he didn't know how to comfort him, or rather, he didn't know how to comfort himself.He didn't remember Xuan Qingci, it was true; seeing the past between himself and Xuan Qingci was also true; those memories that were within reach but never really experienced were even more true.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Xuan Qing took it as acquiescence, cut off the last piece of snake meat and handed it to Yan Fenglang, and said with a light smile: "There is a saying in the human world, if you have wine today, you will be drunk today."

Yan Fenglang took the knife in his hand and responded: "Tomorrow is worrying, tomorrow is worrying."

Swallow the snake meat in one gulp.

At this moment, Xuan Qingci suddenly felt a chill on his back, trembling all over, and got goose bumps all over his body.

The two looked at each other, the smiles on their faces stopped abruptly, and then became gloomy.

The sky over the cypress forest is cloudless, and the blue is mixed with ash, covering the silent cypress forest, which makes people feel frightened.

The cold and wet wind blew past, blowing out the fire of Xuanqingci's roasted snake, blowing a smell of meat and smoke into Yuechi, sending it into the air, and the ashes that were burned by the fire were also blown in the air Move up to the sky.

Yan Fenglang wiped his lips with his thumb, then searched for this unusual breath, plunged into the cypress forest, Xuan Qingci turned into a blue shadow, followed behind, pressing every step of the way.

Within half a stick of incense, Yan Fenglang found the source of the breath, and stopped on a cypress tree to observe the soul that was pinching a man's neck not far away, as if trying to take his head.And Xuan Qingci was standing on a cypress tree next to him, hiding behind the dense cypress leaves, also observing the scene.

The arrival of the two caught the attention of the soul, and when Yan Fenglang and Xuan Qingci wondered why the soul could feel the breath of the two of them, the soul turned its head.

However... there is no trace of the five sense organs on the soul's head.