Ten years have passed in the blink of an eye.
The white snake is still five meters long and has not grown any more. However, the constant swallowing of mist every day has made it stronger and stronger. At the same time, the lubricated snake scales are whiter and more beautiful. It used to be scary at first glance, but now it looks special. The beauty.
In the pool, a triangular ripple spread to both sides.
Wow~
Raise the snake's head high when the water splashes, and then leisurely go ashore after taking a bath.
You climbed to rest under a huge old ginkgo tree, which is as thick as five or six people can hug each other. The ginkgo tree is very old and looks to be at least a thousand years old. The texture is slightly cool, and only cold-blooded animals like snakes would like to climb on it in summer.
Suddenly, the resting white snake raised its head and looked into the distance. The infrared sensor detected a humanoid object approaching, and opened its mouth to show its fangs as a warning sign.
When I got closer, I realized through my keen sense of smell that it was an old acquaintance, the herb gatherer.
We said goodbye as we did ten years ago. In ten years, time has made this man who risked his life to go into the mountains to collect herbs more vicissitudes. In ancient times, the living environment was harsh, malnutrition and various social reasons made human lifespans generally shorter. He was over fifty. Even at the age of 40, one can be considered to have lived a long life, and countless people died in their forties. Wang Da, who was in his forties, was already as old as a sixty-year-old man. White Snake doubted that his rickety body could still climb the cliff to pick dendrobium.
After seeing each other again after many years, the herb gatherer has grown old, but the white snake is still the same as it was ten years ago.
"It's been ten years, I never thought I'd see you again."
The old herb collector was talking to himself, and the white snake raised its head and looked at the old man who was no longer verbose.
"I have become a useless old man. I can't make money for my family and my son and daughter-in-law have to support me."
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"My wife left in the spring of the year before last and had nothing to eat due to drought. She disobeyed advice and ate Guanyin soil. If she didn't eat the soil, she could live longer. But if she ate the soil, she could only live seven days. I know she did it to save food for her children. …”
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"My son is married and has given birth to a daughter. In fact, deep down in my heart, I want a grandchild more. The Wang family cannot live without an heir."
White Snake listened quietly, listening to the talk of the herbal collector. This old man who had worked hard to support his family all his life could not change the poverty in his family. He did not understand why he was poor. White Snake understood that in this class, it has long been solidified and In the chaotic ancient times, it was difficult for the vast majority of the population to live a good life. To put it bluntly, being alive was a gift from those powerful and aristocratic families.
"Everyone outside said that there is a white dragon cultivating here. I know it was you they saw. The mother-in-law of Liu San's family also said that you gave him a dream, haha~"
I am speechless. I have never asked someone to give me a dream, and I don’t have the ability to do so.
Under the ginkgo tree, the old man was talking to himself to a white snake...
The herb collector left in the afternoon.
White Snake felt that he might not die soon, and Snake Xinzi could smell the smell of dying on his body. Maybe he would be very happy, as he could see his wife after death and save food for his son's family.
Suddenly he wanted to seize the time to practice. The taste of death was not good, and White Snake didn't want to die again.
Snake nature likes shade, so White Snake, who has no cultivation experience, had to look for a shady place to breathe based on his past life knowledge. He happened to remember the small puddle on the cliff where he swallowed the elixir, so he did what he wanted, left the ginkgo tree and quickly climbed up the mountainside. , the small puddle is still there, and the small water flow from the cracks in the rocks above gathers into the small puddle. The water is clear and sweet. White Snake feels that this must be a good place to practice.
Make a plate, raise your head and breathe out.
In the mountains, a white snake strives to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in order to survive...
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A few years later.
After the mountain rain, the clouds and mist surge like rivers, and the vast mist surges like the Milky Way, rolling across deep valleys and ridges. In the vast sea of clouds, a white snake stands on a boulder on the top of a mountain, floating in the sea of clouds.
After many years of practice, I seize every opportunity to swallow the clouds and mist. It feels right intuitively, and the actual results satisfy White Snake.
Cultivation can give a lonely life something to do. Snakes are egg-laying creatures. When they break out of their shells, they don't know who their parents are and they have no habit of recognizing brothers and sisters. If nothing happens, they won't meet at all. If it's serious, they may fight. White Snake is born Since then, he has lived alone and never been near other snakes. He can be regarded as a home snake that has lived at home for more than 30 years.
After the vomiting, I went down the mountain with a gust of fishy wind.
Recently, White Snake has been in trouble, and the situation is very strange.
For some reason, there was always a big snake running into his territory, and he couldn't drive it away. When he was annoyed, he had to use his size advantage to roughly throw the big snake away, but one after another kept coming.
There was a big snake in front of him, raising his body and dancing, following him wherever he went. In anger, he bit the snake's head and threw it away hard!
It took a long time for White Snake to understand this phenomenon...
Life was hard to pass. I was harassed while sleeping under the ginkgo tree. I was harassed when I went to the mountains to practice.
Four or five more big snakes swam over, but they had no choice but to move away quickly with speed exceeding that of ordinary snakes.
Running to the other side of the mountain, several more big snakes gathered over.
The extremely annoyed White Snake thought that he should think of a way. He looked at the direction where Wang Da entered and left the mountain. On a whim, he wanted to go out and see what the human world was like in ancient times. After all, he was here in the ancient times and it would be a shame not to experience it. born.
Of course, you can just look at it from a distance at the edge of the forest. There is no need to leave the forest and put yourself in danger.
Just leave, you don't have to worry about your belongings, and you don't have to worry about where to eat or where to stay. You can climb out of the mountain along the faint smell of human beings, and embark on a new journey in an S-shaped wandering.
Two days later.
The further you go, the more human activity there is.
For example, under a boulder that can shelter from the rain, there are many traces of campfires, hacking marks, and some simple traps. There are basically no large animals in the periphery and there are few types of animals. Most of them are pheasants, rabbits, foxes, and the like. Of course, there are also Rats are inevitable everywhere.
After a long time, I finally came to the edge of the woods and saw the villages of this world.
The first impression is poor. The second impression is very poor. As the saying goes, poverty makes jingle bells, but even jingle bells can’t ring in this place. There are low and dilapidated thatched houses at the foot of the hillside, and there are many rice fields beside the valley and streams. Two elderly people There were a lot of men using water trucks to fill the rice fields. Skinny yellow dogs ran across the field ridges, and even the mice were not very fat.
There are more than 20 households and less than 100 people, making it a small village.
I remember that the herb collector mentioned his son's family, but he couldn't go looking for it if he didn't know them. Forget it, just take a look and go back to the mountains. Maybe those big snakes will have subsided by then.
Thus, White Snake began his voyeuristic career.
Someone in the village discovered something unusual nearby...
"You think this is really weird. When I came back from the fields yesterday, groups of rats ran out of the village with their babies on their backs, chickens and ducks didn't return to their nests, and dogs barked all day long. It's weird."
