Chapter 353 Chapter 21

Hearing what he said, his father immediately relaxed a lot, pointed to the corner and said, "The washbasin is there, fetch water to wash your face yourself. By the way, bring a bucket of water. The tank is almost out of water." Zhang Jiu pretended to be sleepy, walked slowly to the corner, picked up the washbasin and walked out.Zhuyeqing in the woven bag kept watching him walk out the door, but Zhang Jiu didn't dare to take another look at Zhuyeqing.Walking to the side of the door, he stopped, listening to the snake dealer finish his story. The snake dealer continued: "I got married in winter, when the snake spirit went back to the cave to hibernate. So my wedding went smoothly. But my daughter-in-law often wakes up in a dream."

"Why? Did she dream of something bad?" Zhang Snake asked. "No, she said that she felt cold all over her body when she fell asleep, and almost died." The snake dealer shook his head and said, "She said she woke up from the cold. But she was covered with a good quilt, and the bed was very hot. I There was really no other way, so I had to add a quilt. But she still often wakes up from the cold in the middle of the night." "Could it be something wrong with your body?" Zhang Snake asked, "I've seen people suffering from cold disease, and they have to wear cotton jackets in the dog days."

"Oh? I've never seen this kind of disease before." "The sick person was a cruel stepmother. That woman didn't buy many warm clothes for the child brought by her husband in cold weather. Later, the child got sick from the cold and died soon after." Zhang Snake Humanity said, "In March of the next year, one day the woman was washing vegetables at home, and suddenly felt a cold place behind her, like a piece of ice stuck to her back. After a while, the cold air moved to her abdomen. From there Since then, she has been looking for a doctor who can cure her strange disease, but the cold air is like a naughty child. The doctor treats this place, and the cold air goes there; when the doctor treats there, the cold air goes here again. .Sometimes I have to move several places a day. The doctors are helpless."

"Is she still like this up to now? Hasn't been better?" "Later, I heard from an old man that her son was taking revenge on her by sticking ice cubes on her body. She refused to listen to her son's burning paper clothes, and she is still shivering from the cold. In summer, The asphalt road has been sunburned, but she still has to sit around the stove to warm up." Zhang She said humanely, "Your wife is cold all over, isn't that different from this woman?" The snake dealer nodded and said: "My wife is a good person, she has never done anything wrong, she must be different from the person you mentioned. At first I didn't know what was going on, and I looked for doctors everywhere, but the effect was not great. Winter passed Then, one night my wife and I were suddenly woken up by a sound. When we opened our eyes, we found that snake spirit standing in front of our bed. The snake spirit lost his temper and blamed my wife for sleeping in her position, calling me Daughter-in-law, go away. Fortunately, my daughter-in-law has never done anything evil. The snake spirit only yelled at the side, but dared not touch her. Later, the snake spirit vented its anger on me and pinched me with its nails, which made me bruised A piece of purple."

"Are you so annoyed by her every day?" Zhang Snake asked. "I was really annoyed by her every day before. She said that I still had affection for her, and it was because of my wife that she separated from me. I like playing snakes, and she thought I like snakes very much." The snake dealer said , "Later, I invited Taoist priests and monks to give me the snake spirit, but either I encountered a scam, or they thought they were too shallow to deal with the snake spirit." "Then what did you do afterwards?" "Later, I thought about it, since the snake spirit thought I liked snakes, then I stopped playing snakes, and instead sold snakes, and sent them to restaurants or erhu factories. If I caught a good snake, I would soak it in wine. Drink." The snake dealer said viciously, as if the person sitting opposite him was not his friend, but the entangled snake spirit.

"Hehe." Zhang Snake said with a dry smile.He must have recalled the time when he switched to selling snakes. "Later, when the snake spirit saw poisonous snakes soaked in my big glass wine bottle, he was so frightened that he never dared to come to my house to mess around again." The snake dealer said triumphantly. Zhang She said humanely: "Actually, you can't blame the snake spirit all the time. Who told you that you couldn't resist the temptation at the beginning. Since you had a good time with her, you shouldn't be so unfeeling." Zhang Jiu, who was standing by the door and eavesdropped, felt hot.

Zhang Snake said again: "However, what will happen between snakes and people?" Zhang Jiu's heat still hasn't dissipated, it's as if someone has poured a basin of cold water on his head. Next, Zhang Snakeman and the snake dealer chatted about some insipid topics, Zhang Jiufang walked away lightly, went to the pressurized well, fetched a basin of water to wash his face, and took another bucket of water into the house.The father and the snake dealer were still chatting and laughing, and they didn't pay attention to Zhang Jiu who was walking up and down in the main room.It's just that Zhuyeqing's head swayed back and forth following Zhang Jiu's footsteps.

"Okay, that's enough. I'm leaving." The snake dealer shook hands with his father, ready to say goodbye. The snakes on the ground seemed to understand what they said, and immediately crawled about.It seems that they also know that in the hands of snake dealers, it means that they are not far from seeing Lord Hades.Just as a cow sheds tears before it is slaughtered, a snake has the same keen sense of foreboding.Many animals have stronger hunches than humans. For these snakes that are about to be sold, the snake dealer is Cui Judge, the number one figure in the Underworld The task of returning the evil to Yin. According to records, this man’s surname is Cui Mingyu. He was a minister under the driving of Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty. After his death, he became the most trusted investigator of the King of Yama, in charge of the investigation department, rewarding good and punishing evil, managing life and death. , who deserves to die and who deserves to live is only a moment away. According to legend, Judge Cui, named Jue, was a man from the Sui and Tang Dynasties. He became an official in the seventh year of Tang Zhenguan (633) and was the eldest son of Luzhou. It is better than a god to solve the injustice of the Yin government and pick people and ghosts." There are many folk legends about Cui Jue's settlement of the case, among which the story of "clearing the case of the evil tiger wounding people" is the most widely spread. The story says: the junction of the southwest of Changzi County and Qinshui There is a big mountain named Diaohuangling, which used to be haunted by ferocious beasts. One day, a woodcutter went up the mountain to cut firewood and was eaten by a tiger. His widow mother was so sad that she went to the court to complain. Cui Jue immediately dealt the cards and sent Meng Xian, the yamen servant, to go up the mountain with a talisman. Detain the tiger. Xian recited the talisman in front of the mountain temple and offered it to the god's case. Immediately, a tiger rushed out from behind the temple, held the talisman to the front of Xian, and let it be bound with iron chains. The evil tiger was detained in the county government, and Jue Immediately promoted to the court hearing. In the hall, Jue counted the evil tiger's crimes of hurting people, and the evil tiger nodded again and again. The final verdict: "Eating human life is an unforgivable crime." In the case of Long Yi, he passed away suddenly, and went to the Yin Division to confront the three Caos. Therefore, Wei Zhengxiu entrusted him with a heavy trust. Cui Jue not only protected Tang Taizong from returning to Yang safely, but also added 20 years of life to him in private. On the way to return to Yang, Taizong met again In the sixty-four places he swept away, tens of thousands of innocent souls who died tragically from the seventy-two grass bandits came to ask for their lives. Cui Jue came forward to resolve disputes and helped Li Shimin borrow a treasury of gold and silver to appease the ghosts. Cui Jue became famous because of this. After Cui Jue died, people set up temples in many places to offer sacrifices.).

Although he can't hold the Book of Life and Death in his left hand and the Soul Evoking Pen in his right.But once the snake fell into his hands, there was basically no way to survive.