Then the snake's head was cut off and the snake's blood was poured into the wine. Li Chen asked: "Uncle Zhao, what are the snake gallbladder and blood mixed in the wine for?"
Zhao Laowai said: "You don't understand this. Snake blood and snake gall are easy to produce parasites. Soaking them in wine will not damage the nutrients in them and can also be disinfected. You understand."
Li Chen nodded and said, "It seems that this is true."
After Zhao Laowai washed the snake body, he cut it into sections, and then asked Li Chen to put a small pot in the open space in the courtyard and set it up.
Bai Lingling felt a little strange and asked: "Uncle Zhao, why do you put the pot in the courtyard? Isn't it the same in the house?"
Zhao Laowai said: "You don't understand this. Let me tell you, you can't cook something particularly fragrant in an old house like this, especially snake meat. Because the centipedes entrenched nearby will smell it.
When the smell comes, climb up to the beam and drool poisonous saliva into the pot."
Bai Lingling exclaimed: "Is there such a thing?"
Zhao Laowai said: "Of course. And before making snake soup, there is also a special emphasis on frying both ends of the snake segments until they are slightly burnt. This way, even if the poison in the bone marrow is there, it will not flow into the soup."
Li Chen said: "There are so many things to pay attention to when making things?"
Zhao Laowai said: "That's necessary. If there's one less, it won't be the same."
Bai Lingling said: "Uncle Zhao, you made that snake too. One snake may not be enough for us to eat."
Zhao Laowai said reluctantly: "You little bastard, why are you so stupid? I still want to keep one, but it seems that it won't work."
Bai Lingling said: "Of course, I am a fox..." She was about to say that she was a fox, but she was pushed hard by Li Chen, and then she swallowed her words.
In fact, Li Chen also understood that Zhao Laowai had known for a long time that Bai Lingling was a spiritual fox transformed into a human being. He was mainly afraid that Su Xiaoxiao and Su Tong would find out about this matter. After all, the fewer people who knew, the better.
It didn't take long for the fragrance of the snake soup to attract everyone. Bai Lingling couldn't wait and took out a bowl to drink first.
"It's so fragrant!" she praised while drinking.
Zhao Laowai was just about to say something to her when suddenly his eyes froze. Li Chen looked in the direction he was looking and found that there was a small white snake with white silver all over its body coiled behind Bai Lingling!
I saw that the snake's body was very thin, about as thick as a woman's thumb, but its body was very long, nearly one and a half meters. At this time, it was vomiting its tongue in front of everyone, and stared motionlessly.
He looked at them as if they were about to pounce at any moment.
Su Tong and Su Xiaoxiao had never seen this before, and they screamed together in fright. Even Qin Yue and Bai Lingling couldn't help but take a few steps back because they felt that this little silver snake exuded an extremely terrifying feeling.
the breath.
Li Chen casually picked up a wooden stick with a thick wrist and held it in his hand, preparing to attack it. Zhao Laowai quickly blocked him and said: "Don't hit it, this snake is weird, it doesn't seem to be real."
After hearing what he said, Li Chen looked carefully and found that the little silver snake was indeed somewhat different. First of all, its body was very buoyant, as if it were made of water, and it did not have the texture of flesh like a normal snake.
One thing is that its whole body is constantly emitting streams of silver light, especially there are two small meat buns on the top of its head that look like dragon horns!
"Could this snake be a little dragon?" Li Chen couldn't help blurting out.
"It's not a dragon. If I guessed correctly, it should be the spirit of a certain spiritual weapon." Zhao Laowai corrected.
"Uncle Zhao, what is the weapon spirit you are talking about?" This was the first time Li Chen heard such a term.
"Weapon spirits generally exist on ancient Taoist or Buddhist instruments. Because these instruments receive the spiritual energy of heaven and earth for a long time, they will naturally produce spiritual consciousness slowly and naturally, thus slowly forming spiritual instrument spirits. Like Buddha
The oil lamp in front of you has become the climate, or the fire stick beside the Taoist elixir stove has become essence. These are actually the so-called spirit of the weapon."
Li Chen asked: "Uncle Zhao, do you think there are ancient magic weapons here?"
Zhao Laowai shook his head and said: "It doesn't look like it to me. I think it should be a spiritual object like jade. A low-level artifact produced by absorbing earth energy for a long time. You can see on its body that it has the delicate texture of jade."
of luster.”
Bai Lingling carefully stared at the weapon spirit and said, "Uncle Zhao, I feel that the spiritual energy in this weapon spirit is very strong. It will be very dangerous if it attacks people."
Zhao Laowai said: "It doesn't matter, I'll cure it." As he said that, he turned around and walked into the house, took out a dilapidated gong of unknown age, and ran out with a large cooking spoon in his right hand.
The Silver Snake, the weapon spirit, began to sing.
He sang the tune of a great dance master: "The sun sets over the west mountain...It's dark, my God, oh, oh, oh, oh... The sun sets over the west mountain, and the sky is dark, and every house closes the door..." Zhao Laowai sang while holding a big spoon
He struck the gong and slowly walked towards the "little silver snake".
The "little silver snake" was still staring at everyone eagerly, but he didn't expect that Zhao Laowai actually had such a hand. For a moment, his spirit body was shaken by the sound of gongs and songs, as if his body was about to fall apart.
As Zhao Laohuai knocked faster and faster, the "little silver snake" banged, a burst of white light erupted from its body, and then turned around and swam out quickly.
Zhao Laowai shouted to everyone: "Follow that snake quickly. Its spirit body shook me away. Now it must return to its original body to recuperate. As long as you know where it escaped, there is a certain chance of finding the spirit object."
Where.”
As Zhao Laowai spoke, he chased the "little silver snake" in the direction in which it was swimming. The old man's agility was unusually strong. He was half a man tall and jumped over the wall with one hand. Li Chen also wanted to
I tried to jump, but after looking at the height, I still didn’t dare to jump. It would be really embarrassing and embarrassing if I fell down and lost two teeth.
Although the "little silver snake" swam very fast, it could not get rid of Zhao Laowai. One person and one snake were never more than ten meters in front and behind. Although Li Chen and others were not as fast as Zhao Laowai, they were also following closely behind.
Following closely, about ten minutes later, I saw the "little silver snake" escaping behind a mound and disappearing with a swish!
Seeing the "little silver snake" disappearing here, Zhao Laowai stopped and observed the mound carefully. Li Chen and others also caught up at this time. Seeing Zhao Laowai stop, they asked
: "Uncle Zhao, why don't you chase after that little silver snake?"
Zhao Laowai said: "This thing got into this mound of soil."
Li Chen asked: "What should we do now?"
Zhao Laowai looked at the surrounding landforms and said: "I see that the terrain here is relatively low and the yin energy is concentrated. It seems that this place should be a cemetery. But what I don't understand is that according to common sense,
This is so close to where I live, why have I never discovered it? Is there something weird hidden in it? "
Upon hearing this, even Zhao Laowai couldn't tell that there was a cemetery here. Li Chen knew that the things buried here were definitely not simple.
Li Chen thought for a while and said: "Uncle Zhao, I think since I don't know whether the things here are weak or strong, it's better not to provoke them. We are going to Beimang Mountain soon, so it's not appropriate to provoke them before then.
Something is wrong."
Zhao Laowai said: "That being said, now that we have discovered it, we cannot ignore it. If there is something like the dry corpse inside, I am afraid it will cause harm to the party sooner or later."
As he spoke, Zhao Laowai handed the gong and large spoon to Li Chen and said, "In this case, you stay here first. If the little silver snake crawls out again, you can hit the gong with the large spoon.
It will naturally shrink back again. I will go back and prepare things now, and when we come back we will dig up this place to see what is hidden inside."
Li Chen thought to himself: "Now that things have come to this, there is no other way. I have to bite the bullet."
Thinking of this, he said to Zhao Laowai: "Okay, Uncle Zhao, go and come back quickly."
He turned around and said to Su Xiaoxiao: "Xiaoxiao, you and Su Tong go back first. I don't know what dangers there are here. The fewer people, the better."
Su Xiaoxiao said: "No, we share the hardships and share the difficulties. How can my sister and I leave you here for our own safety at this time?"
Su Tong also said: "Xiaoxiao is right, everyone has helped us so much, we can't just leave like this no matter what."
Qin Yue said at this time: "Xiaoxiao is not the time to act out of loyalty at this time. How about this, I will go back with you. Is that okay?"
Zhao Laowai looked at the sky and said, "Stop nagging, it will be difficult to deal with it when it gets dark later."
Seeing that everyone asked them to go back first, Su Tong and Su Xiaoxiao couldn't really help here, so they had no choice but to agree and follow Qin Yue and Zhao Laowai back to their residence.
Li Chen and Bai Lingling were standing by the mound, staring at the holes in the ground. After about half a minute, they suddenly heard a thud, as if a stone had been overturned by something.
Li Chen and Bai Lingling hurriedly searched around, but found nothing.
At this moment, Bai Lingling shouted loudly: "Li Chen, be careful up there!"
Li Chen looked up and saw that at some point, the little silver snake actually climbed onto the tree next to him! At this moment, he saw its body suddenly bending, and it shot down at him like a silver arrow!
Li Chen couldn't react for a moment and froze on the spot. Fortunately, Bai Lingling was beside him and slammed into his body, knocking him aside. He just managed to avoid the blow.
A small silver snake shot down close to his face, smashing a stone on the ground. It can be seen how heavy the blow was. If it really hit Li Chen's face, it would probably be on his head.