Chapter 56 White Snake 1
"What are you talking about?"
The young Miao man beside her spoke excitedly, but when his eyes met her pretty face, he blushed brightly and his arrogance instantly dropped.
Chu Tingbai stared at the Miao boy with heavy eyes. Seeing that he was still staring at Qing Yanrou in a daze, he couldn't help feeling annoyed. He walked to Qing Yanrou's side calmly and blocked his gaze.
"Chief, are you sure you want to say this here?"
She was not affected by others at all. She just smiled and stared at the Miao chief.
"Ding ding ding, what's going on?"
Suddenly, a young man riding an electric scooter came in from the entrance of the village. Seeing a large group of people gathered here, he parked his car aside and asked in confusion.
"Village Party Secretary, you're back."
"Village Party Secretary, how did the conversation go?"
The man who came was the village party secretary of the Miao village. He was about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, but he had a high reputation among the people in the Miao village.
"Chief, what's going on?"
The village party secretary greeted everyone one by one, came to the patriarch and asked in confusion.
"Outsiders took away God's things."
Facing the young village party secretary, the clan leader's sullen expression improved slightly, but his tone remained serious.
After hearing this, the village party secretary Liu Shan frowned, then looked at the people surrounded by the clansmen and spoke slowly:
"Hello, I'm Liu Shan, a village cadre stationed in the village. We have a strong faith here. If any guest accidentally took something, please return it."
"Yan Yan, think about it quickly, did you really take something by accident?"
The girl who was comforting Jiang Yanyan couldn't help but ask anxiously.
"I don't know, I don't know..."
At this time, Jiang Yanyan's cheeks were flushed, her eyes were blurred, and she could not stand steadily. She was completely supported by the girl next to her.
"Brother Liang, Yanyan seems to be sick."
The girl who was supporting Jiang Yanyan saw her condition and hurriedly spoke to Li Liang in front of her anxiously.
Seeing that Jiang Yanyan's condition was very abnormal, Bai Yi couldn't help but feel a little anxious, and urged Qing Yanrou with his eyes.
"Village Party Secretary, huh? Let's find a place for the girl to rest first. Chief, I can help you."
Everyone could only see the girl's weak appearance, but Qing Yanrou saw that the spiritual power in her body was too full and she was about to explode and die.
Liu Shan first looked at the clan leader, and seeing that he was in deep thought, he quickly asked someone to help Jiang Yanyan into the house, and then looked at Qing Yanrou.
"I don't know what you mean by help?"
Looking at the beautiful girl in front of him, Liu Shan was a little confused.
Qing Yanrou didn't say anything, but just looked at the patriarch quietly.
"Well, please follow me."
After walking a short distance with the patriarch, they arrived at an ancestral hall. When they pushed open the heavy door, the first thing that caught their eyes was a tall stone statue standing in the center of the hall.
It is a three-meter-high statue of Nuwa with a human face and a snake body.
"You believe in Nuwa!"
Bai Yi looked at the tall stone statue in front of him and said hesitantly.
After the clan leader and Liu Shan respectfully bowed to the statue of Nuwa, the clan leader spoke solemnly:
"This is the Holy Queen who protects our tribe. Of course we believe in her."
"But don't you want Jiang Yanyan to marry your 'god'? Does this mean she's marrying Nuwa?"
Bai Yi asked in disbelief, his tone full of surprise.
"Of course not."
After the clan leader finished speaking, he turned and looked at Qing Yanrou, "Didn't this girl just say that she could help us?"
"Chief, are you trying to test me? Why don't you take me to the back mountain?"
She lowered her head and smiled, then looked at the patriarch seriously.
The patriarch was startled when he heard her words, then his expression relaxed, as if he had put down a heavy burden, and he said to her in a serious tone:
"I'm not sure what to do, but this is a matter of God, so I can't be careless. Please follow me."
The other three people who followed him had no idea what he meant. Seeing that the patriarch had already gone out the back door of the ancestral hall, they had no choice but to follow him.
Everyone followed him onto a small path. Although it was winter, the weather here was suitable and was not affected by the cold air at all. Even the path was blooming with various unknown small wild flowers, which looked particularly beautiful.
"Chief, the temperature here is still so comfortable in winter. Why don't you develop it sooner? This will also increase the income of the tribe members."
Looking at the wild flowers blooming all over the road, Bai Yi couldn't help but speak, but the clan leader ignored him. Liu Shan spoke instead:
"Before, our village was relatively backward and information was not easily accessible. No matter how other public officials tried to persuade us, they were always unable to convince us. So after graduating from university, I took the initiative to return here and applied to be a village cadre, just to connect our village with the outside world."
"Are you a local?" Bai Yi asked in surprise.
"Of course."
While they were chatting, they finally arrived at a cave.
The entrance to the cave was small, barely enough for an adult to pass through alone. The patriarch took out a flashlight and entered first, followed closely by the others.
Less than half a minute after walking into the cave, the view in front of everyone became much wider, and there was an oil lamp hanging on the stone wall. The patriarch lit the oil lamp as he walked, and the situation in the cave suddenly became clearer.
Under the light, they could see clearly that there were murals carved on the stone wall, which were a group of story-telling murals.
The story begins with a woman wearing Miao costume who rescues a white snake. After the white snake recovers under the woman's care, it leaves the woman and goes to a deep mountain to begin practicing.
Time passed, and three hundred years later, the White Snake had achieved a certain level of cultivation, while the woman had long since passed away. However, her descendants were suffering.
When the White Snake came out of the mountains and rushed to the Miao village, most of the villagers in the village were killed or injured, with less than a hundred people left, and a group of people wearing Japanese pirate army uniforms were still killing the remaining villagers.
In a rage, the white snake swallowed dozens of Japanese pirates and was injured again.
To express their gratitude, the remaining villagers began to treat its wounds and offer sacrifices to it. Eventually, the white snake became the patron saint of the village.
"Are you talking about your village?"
Bai Yi looked at the mural above and asked Liu Shan curiously.
“I heard this story when I was a child, but I didn’t know there was this cave or the murals.”
Liu Shan himself was also surprised. When he was a child, he often listened to his grandfather telling him the story of the White Snake. He just thought it was a story. He didn't expect that there was a mural. This looked unusual. He couldn't help but feel excited and began to look forward to what he would encounter next.
After walking in for about ten minutes, we arrived at an open area. There were murals carved all around the cave, and they were more complete and detailed than the previous ones.
"Xiao Liu, why did you bring a strange human in?"
Suddenly, a childish voice of a boy was heard in the cave. The voice was clean and ethereal, and echoed in the cave for a long time.
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