Chapter 21 Chapter Nineteen Misunderstanding the White Snake

Walking out of Xiangtang, it was already dark, and the scene in the courtyard looked very bleak.The two heavy gates of the ancestral hall were wide open, and all the people in the village gathered outside the gates and pointed at the ancestral hall, but no one dared to enter the courtyard. A foolish boy also came in together. Master Zhang Yao couldn't help scolding: "The descendants of the Zhang family are really not as good as the previous generation, and they are so fucking stupid." Those two stupid boys who just came in to report the letter also wanted to follow Master Zhang Yao out of the ancestral hall.Zhang Yaoye turned his head and yelled at the two bewildered boys: "You two will stay with your fourth dad to guard the dead! Are you a fucking man?"

The two foolish boys glanced at each other, and had no choice but to retreat back into the hall in a polite manner. Zhang Yaoye, who went outside, did not have a padded jacket, but only wore a single shirt, feeling the biting cold wind.He shrank his shoulders and hunched his body. Walking out of the gate of the ancestral hall, Granny Zhang was waiting for him at the bottom of the steps. Seeing that he was dressed so thinly, she blamed him distressedly, "Where's your padded jacket? Do you want any more of your old bones?" Zhang Yaoye said to Granny Zhang: "If you have anything to say, hurry up, Ziheng and I still need to discuss things."

Granny Zhang knew that Mr. Zhang Yao was a stubborn old man, so she said, "Go back and talk about it." After hearing Granny Zhang's words, Master Zhang Yao knew that something must have happened at home, and it was related to Master Tuo's wife. Zhang Yaoye became nervous again, and followed Granny Zhang towards home, and when he was done, he told the people around the entrance of the ancestral hall, "Don't stand outside and watch, there are still two people to go inside. I'm afraid cats and mice will startle Master Tuo." Corpse, beware of fraudulent corpses!"

Zhang Yaoye's words hit everyone's hearts with a muffled bang! Before entering the house, Master Zhang Yao couldn't wait to ask Granny Zhang: "Why is it so urgent?" Granny Zhang said, "Go find a padded jacket and put it on first." Granny Zhang said as she walked towards the kitchen. Master Zhang Yao said anxiously: "Hey! You are the one who is anxious to die! Call me back and don't say anything!" But Granny Zhang has already gone into the kitchen. Master Zhang Yao had no choice but to find a ragged cotton jacket and walk out. Granny Zhang also just came out of the kitchen.She came over and whispered to Mr. Zhang Yao: "That woman said she wanted to tell you something."

Zhang Yaoye said: "Oh, something happened? I thought something happened, and I was thrown back on my heels. What is she going to tell me?" Granny Zhang said: "How do I know. She said it was very important, so I called you back in a hurry." Master Zhang Yao immediately said, "Then I'll go in and ask." Granny Zhang grabbed Mr. Zhang Yao and said, "You are a big man, and you will have bad luck if you enter Yue Pozi's room." Zhang Yaoye shook off Granny Zhang and said, "Hey! What time is it? You still taboo about this!" As he said that, he went over and pushed open the door of the kitchen.

Only a flickering kerosene lamp was lit in the kitchen, and it was very dark inside.Grandma Zhang hadn't lit a fire to cook in the stove, perhaps because she was afraid that the smoke from the stove would suffocate the mother and child. Seeing Zhang Yaoye pushing the door and coming in, the woman lying flat in the pile of firewood wanted to get up.Master Zhang Yao hurriedly said to the woman: "Don't get up, just lie down, just lie down." The woman smiled and didn't move. Zhang Yaoye conveniently found a low stool and sat by the pile of firewood.The woman looked at him, and Zhang Yaoye's eyes were a little dodgy.He was afraid that women would ask him about Master Tuo.

The woman said softly, "Master Yao, thank you!" Zhang Yaoye said: "Thank you, everyone is sure to be in trouble. How do you know my name is Yaoye?" The woman smiled and said, "Grandma Yao told me." Master Zhang Yao laughed and said, "Look, my brain is really a bit out of control, hehe..." Perhaps it was the woman's quiet and pure smile that made Mr. Zhang's tense mood relax. Mr. Yao said, "Oh, by the way, I haven't asked your name yet?" The woman said, "Your surname is Bai!" "The surname is Bai!" Master Zhang Yao muttered reflexively, and what Lan Erniang said to him in the afternoon immediately flashed through his mind.His scalp went numb, and he thought to himself: Could it be that what Lan Erniang said is true, that this woman is really a white lady?

The woman saw that Zhang Yaoye was thinking about other things, so she said, "What? Does Yaoye not believe that my surname is Bai?" Master Zhang Yao quickly said: "Xin, Xin. The surname Bai is actually quite common, hehe..." The woman said again: "My name is Bai Xiaoyang." Master Zhang Yao said with a chuckle: "This name sounds good, and it sounds like a well-educated person named it." The woman smiled. The woman suddenly asked, "Why hasn't Master Tuo come back?" Zhang Yaoye's expression suddenly dimmed.He knew that sooner or later he would tell this woman named Bai Xiaoyang.

Paper cannot contain fire. So Zhang Yaoye hesitated for a while before saying: "Bai...Comrade Bai Xiaoyang, let me tell you something...but I told you, don't worry..." Speaking of which, Master Zhang Yao looked at Bai Xiaoyang nervously. Bai Xiaoyang saw Zhang Yaoye's evasive eyes, and knew that Zhang Yaoye had a lot of pressure on his heart, so he said to Zhang Yaoye with a relaxed smile, "Say it, it's okay, Yaoye." Bai Xiaoyang's voice was always calm and delicate, which greatly relieved Zhang Yaoye's nervousness. Zhang Yaoye finally said: "Master Tuo——Master Tuo is dead, and I can't keep him alive."

Speaking of Zhang Yaoye's tears flowed down uncontrollably. Bai Xiaoyang looked at Zhang Yaoye and smiled gently, and said, "Yaoye, don't be sad! Master Tuo is not dead! His life is very hard! How could he die so easily?" Hearing what Bai Xiaoyang said, Zhang Yaoye wondered if he had heard it wrong, looked up at Bai Xiaoyang unrealistically, and said, "What did you say? Master Tuo is not dead?" Bai Xiaoyang said: "Master Tuo is really not dead." Zhang Yaoye was even more surprised, and said in a panic: "Bai... Comrade Bai, don't scare Yaoye! If you get angry again, I really can't explain to... who .”

Bai Xiaoyang still smiled gently at Zhang Yaoye, and said, "Yaoye, I didn't say angry or crazy words, Master Tuo really didn't die! What I said was true." "No, he's lying upright in the ancestral hall right now." Master Zhang Yao was still in a daze. Bai Xiaoyang said, "Master Yao, first tell me how Master Tuo died." Master Zhang Yao regained his composure and said, "The drowned one is in the cow drinking pond in the village." Bai Xiaoyang said: "He will never die. Really, Master Yao." "You mean he'll come back to life?" "He can't survive, he will only survive if I rescue him." Bai Xiaoyang said. Zhang Yaoye said: "You go to save him? How do you save him? Oh! Is it the white lady who went to the Antarctic fairy to steal the ganoderma lucidum and bring the dead back to life?" At this time, Zhang Yaoye suddenly had an association in his mind, thinking that what Bai Xiaoyang said coincided with a plot in "Legend of the White Snake", Lan Erniang's words became more concrete and realistic.He gave a jolt, stood up from the stool, knelt down and kowtowed to Bai Xiaoyang with a plop, and said as he kowtowed, "Miss Bai! Don't blame us! It's our eyes that don't know Taishan!" , Offended you!" Bai Xiaoyang was immediately confused by Zhang Yaoye's words, and stared blankly with his eyes wide open. Grandma Zhang, who was outside, heard something wrong in the stove house, and ran in three steps. When she saw Zhang Yaoye kowtowing to Bai Xiaoyang, still talking nonsense, she panicked and went up to help Bai Xiaoyang. Master Zhang Yao said: "You dead man! What's the matter with you? Are you bewitched? Why do you kowtow to a young woman?" Zhang Yaoye wanted to break free from Granny Zhang's hand, and wanted to continue to kowtow to Bai Xiaoyang to apologize.He looked very anxious and said to Granny Zhang: "Let go quickly! We have offended the gods! We are about to suffer retribution!" Grandma Zhang was frightened by Zhang Yaoye's appearance. She hugged Zhang Yaoye tightly from behind and asked Bai Xiaoyang: "What's wrong with him? Why doesn't he look like a person all of a sudden?" Bai Xiaoyang was also confused, and said, "Grandma Yao, I really didn't do anything to him! He just became like this all of a sudden." Granny Zhang's face turned pale, and she said: "It must be bewitched! It must be bewitched!" Then she let go of Master Zhang Yao, quickly grabbed a wooden ladle on the stove, and scooped a ladle into the water tank After taking a big gulp of water, he sprayed it on Zhang Yaoye's face with a puff. Shocked by the cold water, Master Zhang Yao trembled all over, and shouted at Granny Zhang with angry eyes: "You dead woman, why are you spraying cold water on my face?" Grandma Zhang saw that Mr. Zhang was awake, and said angrily, "Look at you, how can you still look like an elder?" Bai Xiaoyang also smiled at this time and said, "Master Yao, do you want to go aside?" Master Zhang Yao seemed to have not turned his head around and said to Bai Xiaoyang: "Aren't you going to save Master Tuo?" Bai Xiaoyang said, "I'm going to save him!" Master Zhang Yao said, "Isn't he Xu Xian?" Bai Xiaoyang finally understood the general reason for Zhang Yaoye's gaffe, and said with a smile, "Yaoye, where are you thinking? Have you ever seen such an ugly Xu Xian?" Zhang Yaoye thought for a while, and said to himself: "That's right! Master Tuo looks a bit ugly, he doesn't look like Xu Xian at all." Bai Xiaoyang said, "That's why I said you thought about going aside." Zhang Yaoye said: "But you are really a white lady!" Bai Xiaoyang said, "Just because my surname is Bai, I can't be Lady Bai!" Master Zhang Yao said, "Are you really not a white lady?" Bai Xiaoyang said: "I'm really not a white lady. My surname is Bai, and my name is Bai Xiaoyang!" Zhang Yaoye stood up from the ground where he was kneeling, his face was burning with embarrassment. Granny Zhang was also very angry and funny, and said: "If you are also crazy, this Woniu Village will become a village of lunatics." Bai Xiaoyang said at this time: "Master Yao, can you go and get the two wooden boxes we brought?" Master Zhang Yao said, "What are you doing with the wooden box?" Bai Xiaoyang said: "Don't ask too much, just bring it here and talk about it." Master Zhang Yao groaned, got up and went to the woodshed to carry the two black wooden boxes.