Hearing the three words "it's coming", everyone held their breath and looked at Grandpa Zhou.
Old man Zhou showed a reminiscence look on his face: "At that time, I was so young and snooze. After waiting for a while, I fell asleep in a daze. In the middle of the night, I was awakened by the sound of rustling, and I looked up just in time to see Fang Liang There is a huge white snake hanging on it. Most of its body is wrapped around the beam, and its upper body hangs down and stares at me tightly." Thinking of that scene, the old man laughed: "To be honest, I didn't feel scared at all. On the contrary, there is a kind of kindness as when I saw my relatives, because I know that it is the domestic snake that has guarded our house for hundreds of years. I got up from the bed and worshiped it, and then passed the food on the table. The white snake looked at it. I glanced over and swallowed the roast chicken in one bite from my hand."
Hearing such a visual sense, Zhou Wenshan and Zhou Zihao couldn't help but hugged their arms. Although they knew that the white snake was their own domestic snake, they still did not have the courage to be as close as the giant snake, old man. The courage is really too big.
Grandpa Zhou saw the thoughts of the two of them and smiled softly: "They said that the newborn calf was not afraid of tigers. I really didn't think it was afraid at the time. In fact, it was my mother's feather duster that scared me even more. When my mother found out After stealing my family’s living expenses for half a month, I took a feather duster and chased me for half a street. I couldn’t get the money from my home, so I could only go up the mountain to find tribute. With a slingshot, sometimes I can hit a pheasant, and sometimes I can catch a hare. After hitting the prey, I cleaned up the wild animals by the river and cooked them, and offered it to the white snake if I couldn't bear to eat it."
When Zhou Zihao heard this, he couldn't help interrupting Grandpa Zhou: "Grandpa, can't snakes be eaten raw? Why are you still trying to bake it?"
Grandpa Zhou gave Zhou Zihao a dissatisfied look: "My ancestors were familiar with the worship of the White Snake, so I don't respect it with raw worship."
Zhou Zihao honestly closed his mouth and didn't dare to say anything. The old man coughed twice with a guilty conscience, so he wouldn't say that he had never thought that snakes could actually eat raw food at that time.
"Nobody in the family knows the existence of the white snake. I enshrine it secretly, and it silently protects our home. The war in that era, the white snake protected us again and again. It killed traitors and hanged bandits who took advantage of the fire. I even witnessed it swallowing a few devil soldiers who ran to our house in one bite.
"Under the protection of the white snake, our family escaped the war without incident. Later, the war subsided and I grew up, but the white snake, who had lived for hundreds of years, became extremely weak and could only stay on its own. At that time, I didn’t go to worship on the 15th day of the new year. I had to catch pheasants and rabbits every day to feed them. I was afraid that there would not be enough fighting outside. The chickens and ducks I raised at home were reluctant to let my children eat. .
"In the beginning, it was okay. Although I didn't tell your grandmother explicitly, the villagers said that my house enshrines a life-saving snake fairy, so she understood it as a bewilderment, no matter how many chickens and ducks I took out of the house. She doesn't care."
Grandma Zhou raised her head and smiled at Grandpa Zhou when she heard this, her life's understanding and support are reflected in this smile.
"Later, things began to break down again. The son of a bandit who was hanged by a white snake, Wang Gao, brought a group of young people to my house and beat them up. He said that I offered to support the snake fairy and asked me to hand over the white snake. I Yaguchi To deny, Wang Gao was unwilling to smash my house upside down, hurt my forehead and arm, pushed my wife and kicked her in the stomach." Grandpa Zhou stretched out his hand and covered Grandma Zhou’s hand. There was a look of guilt in her eyes: "I didn't protect her. She lost her child when she was only three months pregnant."
Zhou Wensheng was already born at that time, but because of his youngest, he didn't remember very clearly what happened at that time, only vaguely thinking that his mother could only go to the kang after lying in bed for seven or eight months in a year.
"My wife had a lot of blood at the time, and those people were so scared that they disappeared. I rushed to send her to the hospital with a cart, and when the situation stabilized, I went home and gave her a stew of chicken soup." Grandpa Zhou put her on the table. The upper hand clenched into a fist, and his voice was a little choked: "I used two whole chickens when making the chicken soup, one for my wife and the other for the white snake.
"Wang Gao has always been brooding about the White Snake, so he sneaked up the mountain behind me. In fact, he followed me before, but I was thrown away. I was delayed because of being beaten and smashed. In a day's work, when I went up the mountain, I didn't notice the back, and he followed him all the way into the White Snake Cave."
Seeing his grandson breathing nervously, Grandpa Zhou's eyes were red: "I arrived that day and found that the white snake that had rarely come out of it came to the entrance of the cave. I thought it was hungry and hurry up to feed the cooked chicken. Give it to it. It ate the chicken and rubbed my head with its head, and then whizzed out from the hole. I found out that Wang Gao was behind me with a sharp axe in his hand. I didn't know it. When he was taken aback, the white snake jumped high, rushed to Wang Gao's body, opened his mouth and swallowed him alive.
"I know that the white snake swallowed Wang Gao to protect me and to avenge my child who failed to give birth. Maybe it was not to hurt me. The white snake flew up the mountain after looking back at me for a few times. I chased desperately from behind, but in the end I watched it jump off the cliff."
Grandpa Zhou wiped his tears with the palm of his hand: "The cliff is high and there is a deep pool underneath. I have been searching below for many years and haven't seen the white snake. I don't know if it died or escaped by luck. He looked at the old house that was not far away, with nostalgia on his face: "Zihao told me to demolish the old house after building the villa for me, but I did not let it. Although the house looks dilapidated, old and incomplete Yes, but that is the home where I lived with White Snake."
Grandpa Zhou burst into tears after saying this, Zhou Wensheng and Zhou Zihao also wiped their tears with their backs. Seeing the family crying so uncomfortably, Yang Dashuai couldn't help but ask what was in his heart for them: "Little Master, why does the white snake have to jump off the cliff in the end?"
Lin Qingyin, who had not spoken all the time, sighed lightly: "Although it can't speak or become human, it has already opened up its spiritual wisdom, and according to your sayings, it has become a fine. The white snake was seriously injured while crossing the thunderstorm. Almost eaten by a bald eagle, your ancestor rescued it from the eagle's claws and cured it, which has caused cause and effect with it. But at that time, your ancestor said something in return, even though he was It's a joke, but in the spirit of the snake, this is a promise that it must fulfill. But..."
When Lin Qingyin's conversation turned, people couldn't help but chuckle: "Humans cultivating immortals go against the sky, not to mention animals. Even if they get lucky, the road behind the spiritual wisdom is extremely long and difficult, and they have to go through time and time again. Not to mention Tianlei, it is more restricted by the laws of heaven and earth."
Lin Qingyin took out the shell of the tortoise and stroked it gently. Once her golden tortoise was also a spiritual creature, but it was a pity that she fell under the tribulation of nine days of thunder. Fortunately, its soul is intact and its shell is intact. It is unwilling to reincarnate, so it uses the last bit of strength to beg her to refine itself into a magic weapon, and the trace of its soul voluntarily becomes a tool spirit.
Although reincarnation may have different rebirths, these are not the slightest temptation for it. It just wants to protect its master forever.
Seeing the white snake, Lin Qingyin seemed to have seen the spirit turtle he raised.
"The first law of heaven and earth that the spirit creatures with the spirit of wisdom have to face is that they can't hurt people, let alone kill people. Back then, it killed a group of gangsters in order to protect your ancestors. At that time, it suffered a severe backlash. This After more than two hundred years, its cultivation base has not only failed to make gains, but has been retreating. Later, when it was by your side, it committed another murder. By then, its cultivation base could no longer withstand the condemnation of the heavens."
Lin Qingyin’s words hit Grandpa Zhou’s heart like a small hammer. He remembered the first time the White Snake appeared weak, after hanging six devils, and after the war ended, its ability to hunt even after the war ended. It's all gone.
I don't know how many years the white snake has lived. It has been cultivating hard, and perhaps it is hoped that one day it can fade away from the snake body and become a human being, or it may become a fairy. But when it saw that the person it was guarding was about to worry about his life, it resolutely gave up everything.
It has survived the catastrophe of the sky thunder, but it has not passed the emotional test.
Grandpa Zhou was sobbing, Lin Qingyin lowered his head and gently stroked the turtle shell: "This is its choice. It hopes to protect you."
"It's all my fault!" Grandpa Zhou cried and hammered his chest: "If I hadn't been curious to worship the White Snake, it would still be able to cultivate in the mountains at this time! I forcibly called it back. The dunya has delayed its practice and killed its life."
Although Zhou Wenshan and Zhou Zihao were also sad for the white snake, at this time they were more worried about the old man's body and hurriedly went up and held his hand.
"But it hasn't left." Lin Qingyin looked up at the old house, with a warm smile on his face: "It still guards you."
"Yes, yes, yes!" Zhou Zihao said quickly: "Last night the little master set up the formation, we saw the white snake coming in through the gate, and it turned around from house to house..." He scratched his head. A little embarrassed, he said, "It's just that it didn't see us and seemed to be angry."
Grandpa Zhou quickly wiped away his tears. He wanted to ask about the White Snake. He was afraid that Lin Qingyin would blame him for his bad attitude at the beginning. He quickly explained: "Actually, I have been secretly worshipping the White Snake over the years. When I was at Zihao's house, Zihao’s parents are busy. I didn’t notice it at all when I worshipped them in the room. It would be more convenient when I returned to the village to worship. In addition to offering sacrifices at home on the fifteenth day of the new year, I would usually go to the cave. Burn incense for the white snake. Since I built this villa, my children, grandchildren, and so on, don’t worry about our old couple living on their own. We have to take turns to come back to accompany us, but let me be restrained."
Zhou Wensheng remembered that his father would often make himself roast chicken, roast rabbit, stewed duck, and bring him to the room every time he made it. For this reason, he babbled at him and touched his nose with guilty conscience and did not dare to say anything.
"Just now Zihao called you a master. I thought they found out that I worshipped the White Snake, so they reacted a little bit. I don't want anyone to disturb it because it is disrespectful to it."
The old man sighed softly: "Actually, I said a few things about white snakes when they were young, but they all listened to stories when they were younger, and when they were older, they sneered at them and said that they didn’t like to listen to such stories. In this case, I don’t want to. Having said that, I don’t want to explain too much to them. As long as I remember the white snake, I don’t force others to ask. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, I also said that after I die, I will scatter my ashes under the cliff. Maybe I will be able to see the white snake at that time, and my children and grandchildren are also very respectful. There must be a lot of burnt paper money sacrifices, and it will be enough for me and the white snake."
The old man didn't wait for Granny Zhou to be unhappy, and stretched out his hand to pinch him: "Don't you want to eat it for me?"
Grandpa Zhou quickly took her hand and comforted: "I naturally want you to be with me, I'm afraid you are unhappy. After all, there will be no cemetery when the ashes are scattered. I don't know if I can find a place to shelter you from wind and rain. ."
"Nothing to be unhappy." Grandma Zhou bowed her head and peeled a melon seed and stuffed Grandpa Zhou's mouth: "If I wasn't happy, let you take out so many chickens from home when it was so difficult back then? I can't bear it myself. Eat it."
Hearing that the topic of the old couple had gone to the funeral, Zhou Wensheng quickly brought the topic back: "Little Master, did we see the soul of a white snake last night?"
Lin Qingyin looked at the old house: "It's right there, do you want to see it?"
Elder Zhou stood up abruptly, turned the chair over with a big move, and fell to the ground with a creak, his hands trembled in excitement, "Can you really see it?"
Lin Qingyin raised his chin towards Zhou Zihao: "Help your grandfather, let's go see the white snake."
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When I was building the villa, I wanted to build a yard alone, but the old man was unwilling and had to let the yard come in. The family didn't want to make the old man upset because of this little matter, so he got his mind.
Although the old couple now live in the villa, they go back to the old house every day to clean up and clean up. The windows are open for ventilation, so the inside is no different from the past.
After Lin Qingyin went in, she went directly to the easternmost room. She asked Zhou Zihao to close the window and set up the formation. After the last stone was placed, the originally bright room suddenly darkened, and a giant snake coiled on the beam gradually emerged.
Grandpa Zhou watched the sleepy Bai Snake with his eyes closed and tears suddenly fell, but he covered his mouth tightly for fear of waking it up. Lin Qingyin explained in a low voice: "The white snake did indeed die under the cliff, but its consciousness was not extinguished. Your worship, belief and incense allowed its consciousness to survive in this world, even from the beginning. The whole body can be seen in the stars. It's just that it has no body after all. The yang energy during the day is a kind of harm to it, so it can only leave the room during the period from Zishi to Yinshi."
Lin Qingyin stretched out his hand and waved the spiritual energy into the white snake's spiritual body. The white snake was nourished by the purest spiritual energy and slowly opened his glasses. The White Snake who just woke up saw the red-eyed old man Zhou who was weeping before he knew what was going on. It immediately jumped off the beam of the room, stroked the old man's head with the snake's tail for two times, and then directed towards Zhou Wensheng angrily. Charged with Zhou Zihao, hitting their butts with a snake's tail.
Although the white snake's body is composed of spiritual energy and faith, it doesn't hurt to be drawn by the tail of the snake, but Zhou Wensheng and Zhou Zihao still blushed and covered their ass at a loss.
Seeing the movements of the two, Bai Snake stopped the beating with some doubts, tilted his head to look at them, and then suddenly turned his head to look at Grandpa Zhou as if he had understood something.
Grandpa Zhou looked at White Snake tearfully, and rushed towards White Snake at a speed that was not suitable for his age, reaching out to hug him. The white snake quickly touched Grandpa Zhou's chest with its tail, and rubbed his head affectionately against Grandpa Zhou's head.
Seeing the affectionate interaction between one person and one snake, let alone Zhou Zihao and Zhou Wensheng, even Fatty Wang and Marshal Yang were crying.
After finally stabilizing his emotions, Zhou Zihao remembered what happened last night, and asked curiously: "Why does the White Snake Immortal come to my room every night? I thought the house was haunted!"
Bai Snake's big eyes stared at Zhou Zihao angrily, and he kept pulling his tail at him.
Lin Qingyin thought of his spirit turtle when he saw the white snake, so he couldn't help but want to be nice to him.
She took out a fine jade and placed it in the palm of her hand, drew a talisman in the air with her fingers in her right hand and hit the white snake's throat.
There is a transverse bone in the throat of an animal. If you want to spit out human words, you must break this bone to refine it. However, snakes do not have real bones in their throats because of their body's particularities. Only when they have cultivated to a certain level and let all the spiritual energy in their bodies squeeze into their throats, the bone that prevents them from spitting out human speech will appear.
After all, Lin Qingyin was the top level existence in the cultivation world in her previous life. This kind of Taoism is not difficult for her, but there are very few animals that can make her willing to do this.
The Golden Tortoise was the first one. The White Snake's relationship with Grandpa Zhou was so warm that Lin Qingyin remembered his spiritual pet, and made an exception to remove the crossbones.
The formation was set up in the room. Everyone could see the spirit snake and naturally they could also see the aura that Lin Qingyin shot out, and saw the golden aura rapidly flipping between the white snake’s throat, and soon a white one The bones are looming in the golden aura. A look of pain flashed across the white snake's face, but it still stood firm and refused to hiss.
Just when everyone was about to sweat out, the golden aura became more and more dense, and the scope became smaller and smaller. The thick one could hardly see the bones inside, just like a golden ball.
As the golden ball gradually shrank, the squeezed bones of the horizontal bones were crushed into pieces, turned into white auras and the golden ball merged into one, and disappeared into the spirit body of the white snake together.
The white snake was pleasantly surprised and touched the part of the lower throat with the tail of the snake, happy like a child of several thousand kilograms. After spinning around for a few times, he made a soft coughing sound, which sounded no different from a human voice. two.
"Zhou Zihao." Bai She murmured. Although the tone was a little awkward, every word was very clear.
When Zhou Zihao heard the white snake calling himself, Le Diandian ran forward: "Bai Snake Fairy, you can speak?"
"Hmph!" Bai Snake snorted, and suddenly raised his tail to smoke Zhou Zihao frantically: "I told you to stay up at night and just look at the bright box. I won't come back to accompany your grandpa for ten and a half months."
"And you!" White Snake turned around and pulled Zhou Wensheng's tail again: "Where did you take your nephew last night? I have searched for several times and haven't seen you. Didn't I go home to sleep?"
"I don't come home at night! Humph!" Bai Snake looked at them condescendingly, looking straight at them, looking like an old father who broke his heart: "It really makes the snake angry."
Grandpa Zhou couldn’t help laughing happily when he heard what Bai Snake said, and quickly waved to it: “Okay, let’s stop talking about them. Nowadays, young people like to play with mobile phones. They don’t like to go to bed early. It's the same."
Bai Snake looked down at Grandpa Zhou, and the sturdy snake tail patted him on his head: "Do you think you are fine? It was very noisy when I was young, and I didn't stop when I got older, and I was not obedient at all. When I was eight years old..."
The white snake has been holding back for decades, and now he can finally talk nonstop. Zhou Zihao watched his grandfather's gray-headed face and hurriedly covered his mouth for fear of laughing out loud, in case Bai Snake heard a turn of his head and the gunfire would be directed at him.
Fortunately, the white snake has lived for hundreds of years to adjust its emotions quickly. When it calmed down, it finally remembered its great benefactor, and quickly bowed its head to Lin Qingyin respectfully: "Thank you, Master, for helping me refine the bones. ."
"It's okay." Lin Qingyin threw the powdered jade aside, patted the fragments of his hands and asked, "Do you have any plans in the future?"
The white snake pointed at the old man Zhou with the tail of the snake: "Since I have received his worship, I will accompany him until he grows old. When he is gone, I will go to the mountains to practice again, hoping to reshape my body one day."
Lin Qingyin nodded: "This is also an idea, but now your aura is thin, and your wish is too difficult to realize. If you change your mind then you can come to me."
The white snake nodded earnestly. It has stayed on this mountain for hundreds of years. It knows the changes of this mountain best. The aura is indeed thinner now than it was hundreds of years ago. If only relying on the aura cultivation in the mountain, it might not wait. After practicing the body, it will dissipate.
It is indeed the best choice to take refuge in this kind-hearted master.
Lin Qingyin looked at the formation in the room and said, "This formation can help you in your cultivation and it can also help you meet with Zhou's family. Turn around, you can tamping the formation yourself so as not to be messed up. Okay, there is nothing here. What's wrong with me, I should go back."
Zhou Wensheng quickly said, "Master, stay a while longer, shall we finish our lunch after lunch?"
Hearing the invitation of the New Oriental chef, Lin Qingyin hesitated immediately: "What do you eat for lunch?"
"Make braised duck!" Bai Snake shook his tail happily: "This boy braised duck is the best, but every time he makes tribute, he always cooks roast chicken! Roast chicken is not as delicious as braised duck at all. !"
Zhou Wensheng shrank his neck and looked at Grandpa Zhou pitifully. It was obvious that the old man arranged everything he did, so he didn't think about it at all.
Grandpa Zhou immediately turned his head and pretended that this matter had nothing to do with him. In fact, he can't be blamed for this matter. Beating his ancestors was for roasting chicken. Who knew that his white snake liked to eat braised duck!
Seeing the white snake wagging his tail in excitement, Lin Qingyin finally relieved: "Well, I will leave after eating, but you must make a few more ducks at noon, or I'm afraid I won't be able to grab your home. White snake."
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White Snake is happy: I can finally order food!
Lin Qingyin: Look at the way you haven't seen the world, and haven't eaten a few good things.