Chapter 411 I am a puppet
Tang Bushi stood aside, seemingly indifferent, his ears almost standing straight up.
Ye Xiaomei listened with uneasiness.
Old Man Yuan said in a hoarse and low voice: "When I first saw you at the entrance of the village, I was not sure. I just felt surprised. Why do you have the aura of the ancestor snake?
It was not until later, when we were at the Niu family homestead, that you said you could tell fortunes and knew so much about me. In fact, I still didn’t think that you were the spirit of the ancestor snake at that time. It was not until I was in a daze on this day that I figured it out.”
Ye Xiaomei took a deep breath, hoping that he wouldn't say anything, but also hoping that he would be quick and give her a quick answer if she wanted to kill him:
"Tell me what you know."
Old man Yuan raised his head with great effort and withdrew his tired gaze from Tang Buci: "Let him go."
Tang Buci's pupils shrank, he put his hands on his waist and pointed at Old Man Yuan: "Hey, old man, I just paid to save you..."
Ye Xiaomei glanced at Tang Buci. She was already in a heavy mood, and her eyes were unintentionally sharp. She directly interrupted Tang Buci.
He nodded his chin in dissatisfaction. Fine, you heartless old man, it's okay if he doesn't want to listen. Besides, the relationship between Ye Xiaomei and him is not ordinary. She will definitely tell him later.
The door was closed with a bang.
Old man Yuan on the bed seemed to relax completely:
"The ancestor doesn't know what happened in the past. There is only one reason. The snake spirit of the ancestor snake has not yet fully awakened. And you are the little girl who died ten years ago. I have seen you..."
Ye Xiaomei's heart skipped a beat, but now she had to face reality:
"How do you know I died once ten years ago?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Ye Xiaomei seemed to realize something. Ten years? Is it such a coincidence? When she was about ten years old, she was frightened to death by a white snake and had a high fever for several days.
Ye Xiaomei's pupils shrank: "Is it the time when you moved the black toad to the Niu family's foundation?"
"Yes, the white snake brought the spirit of the ancestors and chose you. I received a message from my ancestors in their dreams and brought the snake thousands of miles to find Plum Blossom Village.
I was just ordered to bring the White Snake here. As for the selection, it was the choice of the ancestors. You are the girl who was chosen that year. So when I first saw you at the entrance of the village, I felt very strange. Maybe you look so different from when you were a child, so I can't recognize you with the naked eye."
Ye Xiaomei felt cold sweats on her back as she listened. Does this kind of thing... really exist in dreams?
But for some reason, Yuan Lao choked up when he said this: "The death of the ancestor was so tragic that we had limited time to find a spirit host. At that time, I was too poor to afford a ride, so I could only rely on my Feng Shui skills to earn money and rush back. If I missed the time, the ancestor would have turned to ashes.
By then, I'm afraid the red maple tree will never grow again, its offspring will never have a chance to revive, and the black toad will no longer exist."
Ye Xiaomei was surprised: "The red maple tree also has offspring?" Why does this sound like a ghost story? The tree has become a spirit?
What Mr. Yuan said next completely shattered Ye Xiaomei's worldview.
"Yes, the red maple tree is ten thousand years old. It has long been hermaphroditic and secretly bears a red fetus once every five thousand years. Only a few old men at that time knew the date of the birth. However, time is not forgiving, and one by one they have passed away. This matter cannot be made public, and can only be passed on orally to the next generation.
I am the 83rd generation guardian, but I have no children and have not seen the birth of Red Maple for a long time. I am afraid that I will take this secret to the grave. Moreover, I have to complete the entrustment of my ancestors. I don’t know when I can return. So I handed this matter to a businessman named Tang. Because I considered that even if Red Maple was born, it would not be able to stay in Changshou Village for a long time, so I asked him to promise to take him away once the immortal fetus was born, the farther the better... Everything is waiting for the day when the time, place and people are right. "
Ye Xiaomei's heart was like a surging sea. He couldn't be talking about...
Ye Xiaomei was uncertain and continued to listen to him.
"Wait for the ancestor snake to be reborn, and then the red maple tree will be able to revive... cough cough cough." Yuan Lao's body convulsed from coughing, and his expression was in great pain. Only after he calmed down did he continue:
"I never thought that I would be alive today and have the honor of meeting my ancestors again."
Ye Xiaomei's hands were shaking a little, and she glanced at the closed ward door with fear:
"You mean, Tang Buci is the reincarnation of the red maple tree?"
He nodded: "The things here are very strange, but they contain the natural laws of the Great Dao. If the ancestor snake spirit doesn't find a soul host and dies, the maple tree fairy fetus will not be able to live long, ahem, including the black toad. So according to the instructions of the ancestor, from the day you were reborn, the white snake and the black toad have shown signs of revival."
Ye Xiaomei suddenly felt a tightness in her chest. She opened her mouth but couldn't say a word. How could she have deserved this?
Her face turned pale as if she had lost too much blood. She struggled for a while before she managed to utter a few words:
"It's because the three of them love and cherish each other."
Old Yuan nodded: "Without the black toad, the red maple tree will grow a kind of insect. Without the white snake, the black toad will be poisoned and die. Without the red maple tree, the white snake will be helpless. If I am not mistaken, the young man must have suffered from a serious bone disease."
Ye Xiaomei shuddered. Was everything destined? The legendary red maple tree, black toad, and white snake were now adults. Everything was destined. Otherwise, why would it be such a coincidence?
Just after she encountered the Black Toad Stone, she was taken to the Tang family residence by Tang Buci and his men to treat her illness. Later, she met Zhang Erquan at 615.
Oh, and there’s also Qin Rong, no, Qin Xiaoyi. Everything is being guided by the spirit of the ancestor snake.
She suddenly thought of what Tang Bushi had said before: Why can you meet white snakes and black toads wherever you go, but I can't?
It seems that all this is not a coincidence. The White Snake Ancestral Spirit is driving the development of all events. Moreover, Ye Xiaomei has been a puppet since her resurrection. She has been unconsciously trapped in a game that was arranged in advance:
"And then...what?"
"Yes, he is the immortal fetus of the red maple tree."
Yuan Lao added: "So, according to the dream of our ancestors, you are the axis of the three natural laws."
Ye Xiaomei had already thought about it, so she didn't react excessively when she heard this.
It turned out that she had been living for the mission of the ancestors since then. Ye Xiaomei subconsciously grabbed her clothes.
Mr. Yuan seemed to sense Ye Xiaomei's uneasiness. He sighed and said:
"Ordinary people don't have this blessing. When the ancestor snake was killed, I was at the scene. At that time, I didn't know that the matter was so complicated. I just thought it was a snake demon. I was just a feng shui master. The mission I received was just to protect the fairy fetus of the red maple tree. Later, I had a dream... Only then did I know the seriousness of the matter.
That is not a snake demon, but a spirit snake. It has the merit of saving lives. In front of it, I am like an ant. Therefore, I hate the person who killed the snake. In order to atone for my sin, I am willing to follow the instructions of the snake spirit and find Meihua Village. "
Ye Xiaomei looked at Old Man Yuan suddenly. Is this why he wanted to harm Master Niu's son? The so-called revenge?
"By the way, at that time, there was another ancestor in Changshou Village who lived the longest. His surname was Zhang, and he also knew about this. He was a fellow apprentice of my ancestors, a mountain doctor and fortune teller. He studied medicine, and I am from the same lineage as the mountain doctor.
But this old man has gone traveling, and his whereabouts are unknown."
Ye Xiaomei let out a long breath: "The old gentleman told me so much, is he trying to let me complete the mission of the ancestor snake?"
Old man Yuan smiled knowingly: "Yes, you will live up to your mission and make the red maple trees in Changshou Village flourish again, let the white snakes have a home to return to, and let the black toads continue to reproduce. They are the ancestors of Changshou Village, the old gods, and the backbone that protects China."
Ye Xiaomei couldn't listen at all. She didn't want to be a puppet:
"Then let me ask you, what would happen if I chose not to be a puppet and completed this mission?"
Unexpectedly, Old Man Yuan's reaction was beyond Ye Xiaomei's expectations.
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