Chapter 69: Song Keling's hands were shaking as she got back the little snake...
Shi Ling felt that there was a voice coming from the top of the mountain, and it was not the kind of "little cutie" who was calling hello to the valley for no reason, but someone's name.
The voice sounded familiar, tinged with anxiety.
"Dad, go back first. I'll go up and take a look."
The man in the Taoist robes in front of her heard this and turned around and picked her up like a chicken. No matter how hard she struggled, she refused to let go. "All things have spirits. Go home and ask Grandpa what happened to this bracelet. You caught it and you have to explain it."
Shi Ling frowned: "But there are people up there!"
The man said, "What's so strange about people? There's a Taoist temple above and a mountain resort below. Lots of people come here to visit, and your aunt is coming today too. She'll probably be here soon."
Shi Ling stopped struggling when she heard this. Her aunt was the only woman in the family who had left the family business. She was her role model. But she was puzzled: "Why did my aunt come so early this year?"
"It's hot in Xincheng. I'll probably stay for a while and wait until the temperature drops before going back."
"No matter how hot the new city is, it's not Mount Huoyan. It can't get any hotter with the air conditioning."
"How can it be as comfortable here as at home with the air conditioner on? You'll even get air conditioning sickness. Besides, there's also the matter of your cousin."
"Oh, that's right, cousin..." Shi Ling said, but suddenly remembered something and started struggling again, waving her arms. "No, cousin! That voice just now was my cousin!!"
After a while, the big and the small returned to the mountain they had just been on.
As they climbed the mountain, Shi's father asked, "Are you sure it was your cousin who was shouting for help?"
Shi Ling followed behind with a serious expression: "Absolutely true!" If not, then he must have heard it wrong.
The mountains are densely forested and the weeds are knee-high.
Although there are people living there, the population is small and the mountains are all wild. The Shi family who live in the Taoist temple only come occasionally to pick herbs.
There is a winding mountain road for cars leading to the Taoist temple on the top of the mountain, a small path for pilgrims to climb the mountain, and an old stone staircase road that has been abandoned due to its remoteness and poor terrain.
The direction going up here should be the old road.
In Shi's father's opinion, Ke Ling is as quiet and dull as his own daughter. The difference is that his own daughter can handle anything, including going through mountains of swords and seas of fire, but Ke Ling has been weak since she was born. As soon as she was born, the mother and daughter were raised in a Taoist temple. It took several years for the old man to recover their health and bring them down the mountain.
But every two or three years, he would go to Qingyun Mountain to take a bath in the hot springs, actually to strengthen the protection of the talisman in Song Keling's body.
This child, too, should not have been born.
Shi Yuefei wanted a daughter, but she had several miscarriages. Modern medical technology was of no use, so she returned to the Taoist temple desperately and begged the old man for almost a month before he finally gave in.
How hard you were when you broke off the relationship, how soft you will be when you come back to beg for mercy.
But he is still stubborn.
He refused to let the children recognize the Shi family. They were strangers to each other in normal times, and if they met, they would be donors, pilgrims, and Taoist priests.
Shi's father often tells his daughter about Shi Yue's story to serve as a warning, letting her see the lesson of her aunt and never confront her grandfather in the future.
Shi Ling only saw that his aunt was now living a free and wealthy normal life, and that his two cousins and one cousin were no longer inseparable from Taoism because they were infected with the Shi family bloodline, and were living the most normal lives.
If it weren’t for the summer vacation, elementary school students would have nowhere to go.
Shi Ling didn't want to come to the Taoist temple because he was covered in the smell of incense and couldn't get rid of it. When he returned to school, his classmates pestered him with questions.
In the scientific age, Taoism is fine, but Taoist magic is a big deal.
This kind of thing always has something to do with feudalism and deception.
The father and daughter searched from bottom to top, while Song Keling searched from top to bottom.
The first person to see the sportswear was Shi Ling. Her eyes were bright and far-sighted, and she immediately shouted, "Dad!"
Mr. Shi, who was walking in front, was startled by the shout.
"There's someone there! Someone fell down!" Shi Ling shouted. She was small and nimble, so she ran over first. Father Shi behind her didn't dare to be careless and immediately changed direction.
When the two realized that it was just a piece of clothing, they looked at each other in surprise.
Before the two could say anything, they heard a rustling sound in the grass from above. They both looked alertly and saw a figure.
It was Song Keling for sure.
Father Shi glanced at his daughter, telling her to be careful not to reveal the truth.
Song Keling also discovered two people, one big and one small, behind the heavy shadows of the trees below. She grabbed the vines in her hand, stopped and watched for a while, then continued to walk down carefully.
She already looked a little embarrassed.
His clothes were covered with barbed grass seeds and thorns, and he had fallen, so the butt of his pants was covered with dirt and mud. There were scratches on his face and hands, and traces of blood had seeped out and had already solidified.
It can be seen that this journey has not been easy.
Song Keling walked a little further to the side, and her vision was finally no longer blocked, so she could see the people below the cliff: a Taoist priest and an elementary school student in school uniform.
It doesn't matter, what matters is the clothes in their hands.
Song Keling's pupils shrank and she ran down quickly, almost slipping again.
"Classmate, is this yours?" Father Shi spoke first, taking the tracksuit from his daughter and handing it to Song Keling, saying, "It's the same style as the one you're wearing."
Song Keling took it with both hands and said thank you, but she quickly thought in her heart that if Qianqian was still in human form, it would be impossible for her to take off her clothes, so she had definitely turned back into a snake.
If she wants to find the snake, it will be troublesome if these two people are still here, as they will disturb her.
It might also scare Qianqian so much that she won’t dare to come out.
What's more, there is a Taoist priest.
Song Keling has no good feelings towards Taoist priests.
When she believed in science before, she didn't like Maoshan Taoist priests. In her opinion, they were all fictitious and deceptive.
Now that I have Qianqian, I don’t believe in science so much anymore, and I dislike Maoshan Taoist priests even more. The main reason is that I’m afraid, what if they can really catch ghosts and exorcise demons?
Shi Ling asked, "Big sister, are you lost?"
Song Keling came back to her senses, clutched the sportswear in her hand and said, "No, I'm a resident of the villa. I came up the mountain to play today. My friend's clothes were left here, so I came back to get them."
Shi Ling said, "There's no road on the mountain. If you can find some clothes, we'll take you down the mountain. We'll stay at the Taoist temple on the mountain."
"No, I'll just go up the mountain later. My friends are waiting for me up there."
“Is there no road up there?”
"Yes, it's not far away. Thank you, little sister."
Shi Ling looked at her for a moment, then suddenly smiled and said, "You're welcome, big sister. Then, big sister, please be careful."
"Okay, you too."
Father Shi didn't expect that the little girl had to come up the mountain, and now she wants to go straight down the mountain, letting her say everything.
It seemed that the two sides were about to go their separate ways.
Shi Ling suddenly said, "Dad, that little white snake we just caught is so beautiful. Can you please not use it to soak in wine?"
Father Shi: “???” All things have spirits, who said we should make wine?!
Before Mr. Shi could speak, a hurried voice came from behind - "What little white snake?" At the same time, people caught up.
Father Shi turned around and immediately understood his daughter's intention. He smiled and said, "Oh, I just caught a very beautiful little white snake on the way to collect herbs. It looks like it can be used as a very good medicinal material."
Song Keling: "Master, can you let me see what a white snake looks like? I suspect it's one of the ones I kept in the villa that got lost."
"Sure." Dad Shi rummaged through the medicine basket and pulled out a white snake that didn't react at all.
When Song Keling saw Qianqian in the other man's hands, her whole body hanging limply, her heart sank suddenly. For a moment, her ears were buzzing countless times, and everything in the world was silent. She felt like she had fallen into a horrible nightmare.
Shi Ling said in panic: "Hey, sister, don't cry."
Song Keling realized that she was crying. She found herself from the nightmare-like reality and ran towards the Taoist priest, taking one deep step and one shallow step in the weeds.
Song Keling's hands were shaking after she got the little snake back.
Father Shi raised his hand and touched his nose awkwardly. "Well, it's not dead, it just fainted temporarily. I saw it was quite fierce, so I pinched it without any restraint."
But that's not the case in Song Keling's opinion.
This Taoist priest must have thought that the snake could be soaked in wine, so he killed it. Otherwise, how could he just throw it into the basket without worrying about it crawling out?
What's more, the Taoist priest recognized Qianqian as a snake demon and immediately beat her back to her original form.
But if it was the latter, she was not right.
In the end, Song Keling said nothing, just wrapped the little snake in clothes and went down the mountain.
But Shi's father stopped her and said, "Hey, classmate, don't hold the snake like that. It will bite you when it wakes up. This snake is very fierce."
Song Keling had already wiped her tears. She turned around and glared at him with gritted teeth, "Thank you, I raised him! I know it myself!"
Shi Ling watched Song Keling disappear from her sight and said to her father, "Are you just going to let your cousin take the little snake away like that?"
"What else? Fight with her for it? Didn't you see she was crying? Since you already know it's your cousin who raised it, why don't you just go back and ask your aunt? She's probably the one who gave it to you."
As he said this, he showed his daughter the small transparent thing in his palm that he had just used to clamp the snake's seven inches.
Shi Ling looked at it in confusion: "Is this a bracelet?"
Father Shi said yes, and put the glass jadeite, which had grown into the size of a ring, on his daughter's finger. "It's a bracelet, yes. Please keep it for your cousin first and return it to her later."
After putting it on, he raised his hand and rubbed her head vigorously.
Shi Ling: "Dad, please don't rub my head. I won't grow taller."
Father Shi withdrew his hand and said, "Good."
Father Shi: "Go home."
Song Keling was in a hurry to go down the mountain. Firstly, she wanted to avoid the two people behind her, and secondly, Qianqian's condition was too bad. She had to go back for a check-up, and if that didn't work, she would try to find a veterinarian.
After climbing up the mountain for more than an hour and "picking up" Qianqian, she took ten minutes to go down the second half.
I looked back and made sure that no one was following me before I carefully opened the sportswear I had used to wrap it.
Qianqian was still lying softly inside, and her snake scales seemed to have lost their smoothness.
Song Keling's heart tightened. She teased the snake with her fingers and gently stroked its slender body to make sure there was no damage.
At this time, the little snake seemed to have caught its breath and its tail moved slightly.
But it still looked weak, and its scarlet eyes were lifeless.
Song Keling called Qianqian twice, but got no effective response. Without thinking, she covered herself with her sportswear again and ran all the way back to the villa!
When she returned to the room, Song Keling was covered in sweat, but she didn't care about anything else. She went straight into the bathroom, turned on the faucet to fill a basin with cold water, and then put Qianqian in to cool down.
Snakes are afraid of heat, maybe they are sunburned.
After the temperature dropped a little, she used two fingers to carefully and delicately pinch the spine of its body, moving all the way down to make sure that no bones had been broken by the Taoist priest.
Only then did I breathe a sigh of relief.
Indeed, no injuries.
After about two or three minutes, the little snake, which was struggling weakly in the water, suddenly flicked its tail and began to swim happily in the water.
After swimming a few laps, he suddenly remembered something and froze.
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