Chapter 140: Great Change
The appearance of Ah Hua completely impressed the two of them.
The ghost protector forcibly pulled Chen Xinli to tell him a story from the past.
I only heard the old man say to Chen Xinli with a solemn face:
"Many years ago, Shu was divided into many parts. Many small countries were greedy for food and robbed each other for territory. The people who were robbed either lost their property or their women. Some were even massacred.
At that time, Lady Jinhua was still an ordinary mountain woman, doing housework and raising children every day.
But not long after, war broke out where they lived. The whole family was killed or injured. After the death of the youngest child of Goddess Jinhua, her intense grief caused her to transform into a giant golden python.
She went through numerous hardships and defeated all the forces, giving the surrounding people a chance to breathe.
People were grateful for her kindness and built a temple for her.
However, the battle that year caused serious damage to Lady Jinhua's body."
The ghost guardian sighed, his old face full of sadness.
Chen Xinli looked at him with admiration. It turned out that the protagonist of this story was White Snake.
How come she seems to be even more powerful than White Snake? This Golden Snake was able to end the war on her own. She really has great magical powers.
Chen Xinli became a spectator and expressed her support appropriately: "That's amazing."
The Ghost Guardian said respectfully, "Yes, when the Queen was about to die, she did not forget the people here. She told the several guards who built the temple:
"I am a descendant of the ancient spirit snake. During my transformation, I was severely injured and could not escape death.
After I leave soon, you can open up all the blood in my body. My blood is a precious treasure and can be used as nourishment to bless this place.
Within a hundred years, this place will surely have good weather and the people will live in peace and happiness.
Just one thing, the snakes here will be your friends, so don't hurt them easily.
As for my body, you must build a separate underground stone temple to store and worship it."
Seeing that Chen Xinli was listening attentively, the Ghost Guardian continued in a stern voice, “We, the guards, complied with the Empress’s last wishes.
After peace was restored and a new dynasty was established, we guards gradually grew old.
Until one day, a farmer suddenly started killing snakes on a large scale.
Upon some inquiry, I found out that someone outside was buying up the gallbladders of venomous snakes in large quantities.
Seeing others making money, people around them also start to feel jealous.
As a result, snakes suffered a large-scale massacre, and the snakes that had never attacked humans fled frantically to the vicinity of the Jinhua Niangniang Temple.
Several of us tried our best to stop the snake catcher.
Because the empress said: "If you harm the snakes here, you will be bitten back."
But no one believed it, so they set fire to the Golden Flower Goddess Temple, and most of the snakes were burned to death.
Chen Xinli was very surprised and asked, "If the snakes have been burned to death, why are there still so many snakes around Bear Village now?"
The Ghost Guardian said with a sad face: "To be honest, there was a traitor among our guards. He betrayed the Queen, so the Queen punished him."
"What does this mean?"
Chen Xinli listened for a long time, but the doubts in her heart were not dispelled.
That day, Yu Lizheng said that his family had lifted the curse of the Bear Village.
As for what was behind the curse, Yu Lizheng did not explain it clearly. Chen Xinli only knew that there were many poisonous snakes in the Bear Village.
"The news of killing snakes to extract their gallbladders was spread by that traitor," the Ghost Guardian spat.
"That traitor secretly collected a jar of the Empress's blood and sold it for a high price.
Later, I heard that a noble in the palace was in urgent need of snake gall to save his life, and that anyone who had a thirty-year-old snake gall would be rewarded with a hundred gold coins, so I found a merchant to buy up the gall in large quantities.
"Traitor, damn it!" Protector Li said viciously with a look of disgust on his face, gritting his teeth.
The Ghost Guardian continued, "Fortunately, even though the Empress's blood had been drained, she was still an ancient spirit snake, and the gallbladder in her body had transformed into a powerful inner elixir, which contained powerful spiritual wisdom.
When the goddess learned what happened to the snakes, she told us that we didn’t need to avenge her.
She also ordered us to give her inner elixir to a small snake that had managed to escape, so that it could be swallowed. Perhaps many years later, her inner elixir could help her produce excellent offspring."
Seeing Chen Xinli's doubts, the ghost guardian looked at Ah Hua's golden body and said, "The Queen only said that those who are destined to meet her descendants in the future, we just need to serve them as our master."
The two men bowed again and said, "Young Master, we have already signed a soul contract with the Empress, and we have also found out that the noble lady in the palace back then was none other than the grandmother of this Crown Prince Jiang. We have waited for fifty years, and we still hope to help the Empress avenge her blood feud."
Chen Xinli: ...
"What makes you think Ah Hua is the descendant of Jin Niang...Jin Hua Niang?"
"It's very simple." The old ghost took out a piece of pure gold stone from his pocket and handed it to Ah Hua.
"Ahua saw Chen Xinli nod and swallowed it directly."
It listened to what the two old men and Shen Xinli said, and only then did it truly understand its own life experience.
Seeing Ah Hua swallow the golden stone, the ghost guardian said in surprise, "The Queen said before her inner elixir left her body that the power transformed from her blood would form a gold mine. They are from the lineage of the Golden Python, and their bodies are full of treasures. They have the ability to swallow gold, so naturally they also have the ability to transform it into gold."
"There must be some of the Queen's inner elixir left in this giant python." Protector Li pointed at Ah Hua and said with certainty.
The two men said in unison, "Young Master, we've already found out that it was the ancestor of this Crown Prince Jiang who used snake gall to save his life. We're here today to take their lives."
"I won't allow it." Chen Xinli said angrily, "Empress Jinhua never asked you to take revenge, so why are you so obsessed with this?"
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