Chapter 398 Why do so many snakes appear?
Ye Xiaomei looked around and when she came to her senses, she saw Li Dayun doing something unknown. He was burning a few talismans in his hand and then muttering something.
Not long after, the rustling sound really came. Ye Xiaomei's scalp tingled and she looked around. She actually found several small green lights at equal distances appearing in the dry grass. They were obviously the eyes of snakes, some big and some small.
Before anyone could react, Li Dayun struck a match, lit the firecracker and threw it on the ground:
"Go."
So fast?
When Ye Xiaomei came to her senses, she discovered that the barking of dogs was heard all around her and the lights were on in several windows. This obviously attracted attention. If someone didn't know better, they might have thought that someone was stealing bricks.
On the way back, Li Dayun dragged the clothes as he walked, folded them carefully and held them in his arms:
"I don't know how many there are, but there are quite a few. I don't know why there are so many snakes under the Niu family's foundation."
Ye Xiaomei's pupils shrank: "You have been working in construction for so many years, under what circumstances do you think there would be so many snakes?"
I watched the two of them quickly leave East Village. By the time they reached West Village, the barking of dogs had been left far behind them:
"It's probably related to the geology. When I was leading a construction team five or six years ago, I dug a foundation like that. Water seeped out of the rocks underneath, and it was warm water. In the middle of winter, this was the only place that was most suitable for hibernation. That's why I'm worried about one thing."
Li Dayun added: "If it is the underground environment that forces these snakes to live here, then the shallow techniques I have learned will probably be difficult to get rid of them, unless we are sure what is under the homestead, then we can find the right treatment."
Ye Xiaomei nodded thoughtfully: "This is easy to handle. Master Niu's house was demolished and renovated on the spot. He must have known what was underground when he built the old house."
Li Dayun sighed: "I heard that his son died. It's bound to make him uncomfortable if I ask about it at this time."
The next day, news of trouble broke out in the Niu family again, and this time it was even more outrageous.
It is said that someone saw a lot of snakes appearing near the Niu family’s homestead last night, but they all disappeared in the blink of an eye. Now everyone in Meihua Village has started to become suspicious.
The fire department came again today, and there were more than twice as many people as yesterday.
Liu Zhihua was now anxious. He couldn't do anything, and this was the first time in all the years he had worked in the construction team that he had seen so many snakes in the foundation. Several families living nearby were so scared that they dared not live in their old houses and urged Liu Zhihua to build a new house as soon as possible.
Ye Xiaomei was puzzled. It seemed that Li Dayun's guess made sense.
At the east end of the village, even the people who came to watch the fun were few and far between. In the middle of winter, most of the east end of Meihua Village was filled with the smell of realgar wine.
"Hey, Xiaomei's making more and more noise. Why do I feel a little scared?" Shang Zhen and Ye Xiaomei stood on a pile of rocks and looked towards the Niu family's homestead.
More than 20 firefighters, along with a dozen construction workers under Liu Zhihua, launched a carpet search.
Ye Xiaomei didn't find it strange. Logically, she should be able to communicate with snakes, so why couldn't she communicate with that spotted snake?
If possible, Ye Xiaomei could have taken the snake away last night.
Is it because of a lack of spirituality? Or is it that the white snake species simply cannot communicate?
Thinking of this, Ye Xiaomei suddenly remembered the origin of the Ancestral Snake. Yes, the Ancestral Snake was the ancestor of the White Snake, so naturally it had this innate connection with the White Snake.
Huh? That's right!
"I remembered..." Ye Xiaomei was suddenly surprised.
Shang Zhen was startled: "You scared me, what did you remember?"
As he was talking, Liu Zhihua came over, his face was full of fatigue and his beard was untidy: "Miss Ye, can't you help me? You are so capable, just lure the snake out, just tell me how much you want as a reward."
Money? Ye Xiaomei really didn’t need the money for the time being: “Do you know why the snake won’t leave?”
Liu Zhihua was slightly startled, looking at Ye Xiaomei who gave an irrelevant answer: "I'm not a snake, how would I know?"
"Why don't you ask Marshal Niu? You'll know why just by looking at the snakes." Ye Xiaomei turned her head and thought about it. If she knew the reason, perhaps Li Dayun would really have a solution.
"Ask him?" Zhang Zhihua was also confused, but from his initial disbelief to the torture he had endured over the past few days, he had to think more about it:
"Is it any use asking him? He's probably in the crematorium right now."
Although cremation was introduced ten years later, burial is still generally maintained in rural areas. But it stands to reason that Marshal Niu’s son should have been cremated when he died.
Liu Zhihua stamped his feet in anger at this question, and his face became even uglier: "Damn, that spotted snake is so weird, it was originally non-venomous, but who knew that after biting someone, not only did it poison people, but it also had terrible poisonous blisters all over its body, as if it had been scalded by boiling water. The hospital asked for a spark, and I'm afraid it has some virus."
"..." Ye Xiaomei was slightly startled. Could it be because of the poison that came from the fusion with the white snake? Then the little snake was also poisonous?
"No poison? How could he be poisoned?" Shang Zhen's face turned pale and she imagined the scene of death. At this moment, she really didn't want to stay here and watch the excitement and wanted to run away.
"That's what's weird about it." Liu Zhihua wiped the sweat from his forehead when he said this. He had never encountered such a weird thing in his life.
The villagers who lived far away asked for the new houses to be built quickly and on time, but who would dare to do it after the workers heard the news? They were all here to earn money to support their families, not to die.
He currently only has a dozen or so trusted men under his command, and they are willing to help find snakes only if he agrees to pay them wages.
But Liu Zhihua didn't think of a perfect plan last night. The only possibility he could think of was:
"I really think that Li Dayun deliberately hurt me like this."
Ye Xiaomei was slightly startled: "I came over last night to help you drive away the snake." After saying that, Ye Xiaomei took Shang Zhen and walked away.
"Him? How could he be so kind?" Liu Zhihua spit with a sneer. Seeing Ye Xiaomei was about to leave, he hurried to catch up with her. Even if Li Dayun really helped him, it was nothing more than the thief crying "stop thief" and putting on an act. But wasn't it this girl who could really take the snake away?
"Miss Ye, wait a minute."
After catching up, Liu Zhihua lost his cursing temper: "How about this, when Uncle Niu comes back, I'll ask you to come over, and I'll ask him in front of you and see what he says."
"Okay." Ye Xiaomei agreed immediately.
Walking on the road, Ye Xiaomei felt vaguely uneasy.
Meihua Village is surrounded by mountains on three sides. If you were to say that areas with warm winters and cool summers are mostly found in the mountains, how come it appears in the village?
Moreover, when Ye Xiaomei was luring the snake yesterday, she clearly found that it was near the Niu family's house, and there was no trace of the snake even in the land of Zhang Changjiang's house next door.
Isn't that weird?
Just as I arrived at the village entrance and was about to walk towards Majia Road, an old man with a cloth bag on his shoulders came up the mountain road. He was wearing tattered clothes, and there were small holes in his navy blue cotton jacket, revealing tufts of yellowed cotton. In his hand was a wooden stick for climbing.
He looked around in confusion, with an embarrassed look on his face. When he saw Ye Xiaomei, he quickly stepped forward:
"Excuse me, girl, can you tell me how to get to the Marshal Niu at the east end of the village?"
Ye Xiaomei then stopped and looked at the skinny old man, who was dressed like a refugee who wandered the streets during the famine. He was about fifty years old, and his accent was very different from the locals, more like a southern accent.
Ye Xiaomei thought that he must be a distant relative of the Niu family who had come to attend the funeral, so she immediately pointed out the route.
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