Chapter 017: Mountain Village Evil Snake-17
In order to marry Jiang Yan as soon as possible and make him willingly spend the bridal chamber, Meng Tang had been trying every possible way to cultivate the relationship between them.
First of all, after careful observation, he finally discovered the reason why Jiang Yan was so thin.
This person is a very picky eater!
By the stream where the sun was shining, the light shone down from the branches, passed through the gaps between the branches and leaves, and sprinkled on a person standing next to the tree.
Meng Tang leaned against a tree stump, his hands in his trouser pockets, staring coldly at Jiang Yan who was washing clothes in the water not far away. He coughed twice, successfully attracting the other party's attention and asked, "Why don't you eat?"
Did you eat so little ginger and salt when you were in the village?
He doesn't remember much.
The sunlight stretched the reflection of Jiang Yan in the water. He paused after hearing this, then lowered his head and continued to wash clothes while saying, "I have eaten."
Meng Tang's expression changed, "You are talking nonsense! You didn't eat the scorpion tail I gave you last night, the spider leg I gave you the night before yesterday, and the whole frog I gave you the day before yesterday!"
"That little snake ate you all! I saw it!!"
There was a hint of hysteria in his voice, just like a husband on the verge of collapse confessing to his wife.
When Jiang Yan heard the man reading out the "menu" word by word, the food he had eaten in the past few days emerged in his memory. He frowned and his stomach churned, and he almost vomited out all the bitterness.
“…Stop talking.”
Jiang Yan spoke with difficulty, and the clothes he had just wrung out in his hands were thrown back into the water with a "splash".
"Okay, but you should tell me what you want to eat first, and I'll go get it for you."
A faint voice came from behind Jiang Yan.
He sighed, changed his pants and continued to rub. The man behind him saw that he didn't say anything, so he ran over on his own. The man stood beside him, blocking the sunlight from the side and casting a shadow.
Jiang Yan was slightly startled. He turned his head, and his eyelashes fluttered, shaking off the fragments of light stuck on them. His gentle and calm voice was mixed in the wind, "What's wrong?"
Because the clothes were being washed by Jiang Yan, the man in front of her was only wearing a pair of trousers. His naked upper body was immersed in the soft light. With his orange skin and smoothly defined chest muscles, it must be said that this man's body was indeed very sexy.
It’s a pity that Jiang Yan considers himself a straight man, and even when faced with such naked temptation, he remains calm.
"I just think you're too thin," the man said.
Um?
Jiang Yan's calm heart suddenly trembled, as if a feather had fallen on it.
However, the man's next words tore the feather to pieces, "How can you give birth to a baby for me when you are so thin?"
After saying that, Jiang Yan clearly felt the man's gaze lingering on her stomach for a few seconds.
Jiang Yan: “…”
He was silent for a moment, then stood up, threw down the clothes and pants in his hands, and walked straight out, saying coldly, "Wash them yourself."
By the time Mengtang's reflexes were pulled back, the opponent had already gone so far away that only a condensed shadow remained.
"Hmm? Eh?? Ah??!"
Meng Tang opened his eyes wide, filled with question marks.
"Daddy, you don't have a wife anymore~"
The little snake that is always everywhere said something again. This time it appeared in the book, and its posture was still hanging upside down.
The little snake hung its head, and its two bright green eyes stared with a smile at its father's melancholy face one meter away.
Meng Tang's face was dark, and his voice was no longer as gentle and patient as it was when he was treating Jiang Yan. He scratched his hair irritably and asked abruptly, "What do you mean?"
The little snake, who was used to this mode of getting along, stuck out his tongue playfully and said, "It's a pity that you have so many books hidden under your bed. It turns out that you only learned the movements but not the ideas."
Meng Tang was stunned for a moment, then immediately realized what it was saying. His face turned red, irritated, and angry. He quickly put on a posture of an adult educating a child to show his intimidation: "What do you know?"
"Hmph, anyway, I think Mommy likes me a little more." The little snake cub "clucked" fearlessly, with an expression that said "There are people protecting me outside, so who is afraid of who?"
The reason why the little snake is so confident mainly comes from two reasons.
First, I would hold it very gently (in its eyes) and fall asleep together at night.
Second, I always give it a lot of delicious food. (Actually, I don’t dare to eat ginger and salt.)
With all the above, the little snake believes that he has defeated his father.
Moreover, it is now trying hard to cultivate into a human form in order to get closer to its dear mommy.
Meng Tang looked at the little snake, which was wandering in a trance with a sneaky expression on its face, and a vague feeling of uneasiness gradually crept into his heart.
He always felt that he should have fed the little snake directly to the flies a few years ago.
Meng Tang rubbed his head with a headache. It was not like he had never seen anything like that in those "books" before, such as the content about the adopted son stealing away the adoptive father's wife.
At this moment, Mengtang felt an unprecedented sense of crisis. It seemed that a drama between father and son would be staged soon.
Fortunately, this heartbreak didn't last long.
It was almost evening, and dusk had covered half of the mountain. When Mengtang was carrying food for the night back home, a cry broke the tranquility of the mountain.
Meng Tang stood at the entrance of the cave, where a little snake was escaping. Seeing this, he quickly picked up the little snake that was about to escape and put it in front of him. His slightly wide palm was covered with blood, which was from the prey.
Seeing that it could not run anymore, the little snake had to lower its head and whimper, looking like a wilted eggplant hit by frost, in sharp contrast to its arrogant fireworks in the daytime.
"What's going on?" Meng Tang raised his eyebrows, stared at it and asked.
The little snake cub said aggrievedly: "My mommy scolded me."
"Oh?" Hearing this, Meng Tang was very interested, and at the same time thought in his heart: Tsk, you little snake, you dare to fight with me.
However, the next words made Meng Tang freeze.
The little snake curled up its tail and said bitterly, "I didn't know Mommy was taking a bath. I just walked in by accident and I think I scared him. Woo woo, I really don't know."
Meng Tang: “…Aha?”
"Then you die."
Meng Tang's face turned cold and he spoke with gritted teeth.
“Woo woo woo.”
The little snake started to cry. He was so upset that his mommy hated him. And, his daddy squeezed him so hard that he was about to break in two!
"Cry, cry, my poor son." Meng Tang let go of the snake cub in his hand and curled the corners of his lips. "You should run as far away as possible. Now your father and I will go to comfort your mother."
The little snake hid in a dark corner. It didn't know what to do except crawling in the darkness.
Meng Tang put down the prey in his hand, clapped his hands, and then elegantly adjusted his clothes.
Makeup is ok.
You can go see your wife now.
Meng Tang took a long step, humming a little tune happily, and walked slowly towards the "bathroom" inside.
About a minute passed.
As the sun sets, only two shadows, one long and one short, can be seen sitting side by side on the stone steps outside the cave. The light of the setting sun falls on them, and a desolate wind blows over along the horizon.
Meng Tang stared at the tiny bit of sunset in the sky and said worriedly, "Do humans need to take such a long bath?"
Their snakes would roll around in the water a few times and that was it, and it would take no more than a minute. Of course, it would take longer for female snakes, about three minutes.
The slightly shorter shadow sitting next to Meng Tang shook his head, "We are both wanderers in this world."
Meng Tang: "Where did you see this? I have never seen it before."
"..." Little Snake, "Anyway, it's not from your action drawing book."
***
The red candle flame burned quietly in the darkness, and the melted juice splashed on the gray-brown stone platform. The faint light illuminated the faces of every snake beside the stone platform, some cold, some beautiful, and some ferocious.
"Boss, that group of people captured many of us. What should we do?" A snake with a silver ring hanging from its tail spoke first.
The snake king, who was surrounded by them, said coldly: "Where is that group of people now?"
A female snake swung her tail charmingly and said, "To the west, there is a temporary village they built."
The female snake paused, as if she was thinking of something, and then added: "In addition to our people, there are several humans imprisoned in one room."
An angry voice suddenly interrupted the conversation, "Damn it! Humans are so cruel that they don't even let their own kind go!"
The atmosphere was silent for a while, and several snakes looked at the snake king, "What should we do now?"
"Do you have any other news?" the snake king asked after thinking for a while.
The female snake replied: "It is said that they will have a transaction at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, but I don't know the specific content of the transaction."
During the day, the snake tribe who were hunting in the west suddenly encountered a group of thieves. As the other party's weapons were powerful, they could not defeat them, so many snake people failed to escape and were captured instead.
The irritable snake showed a ferocious expression and said, "No matter what the plan is next, I must go tomorrow afternoon." Because its wife was in the hands of that group of people.
It looked at the small flower on its tail, which was tattooed by its wife. Unfortunately, its wife could transform into a human, but he could not.
"Boss, what do you say?"
The silver ring snake, which remained calm throughout, raised its head and looked at the big snake in the center in front of it.
Meng Tang, as the leader, was silent.
There were always people who went to the mountains to catch large wild animals and then sell them. Therefore, in order to protect the tribe, Mengtang sent people to spread the rumor that there were evil things in the mountains and anyone who entered the mountains would be cursed and die.
In fact, Mengtang didn't think his speech would have any impact at first, but it turned out to be useful. Some villagers had done many bad things and naturally believed it. So the mountain became quiet.
However, although there are fewer thieves, there is still a group of people who exist, and these people are often called "desperadoes."
Now it seems that they do not ban the hunting of animals, but even sell their own kind. They are truly a group of fearless and ignorant thieves.
Meng Tang thought about it and still had a headache. He had been avoiding conflicts with humans for years, but it seemed that this day was inevitable.
"Okay, call some capable people and gather tomorrow morning."
The Snake King gave orders, and the others obeyed.
…
When he returned to the cave, his wife, who was not yet married to him, had fallen asleep softly holding the cute little snake.
The big snake slowly crawled towards the person on the straw mat, lifted the other's head very gently and carefully, then it crawled over and replaced the few balls of thin cotton under the wife's head with its thick body.
good evening.
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