Chapter 18 The Burning Eye Snake God

"I heard from Ning Zhe and the others that you are dead." Zhang Yangxu's eyes were still wary: "Ye Miaozhu was crying so sadly, your girlfriend?"

Gu Yunqing shook his head. "My sister, we are a reconstituted family. Her biological father once had some assets, but he lost them all in the casino in Yizhou. He then left her and her mother behind and went abroad to avoid debt. There has been no news since then."

"Then, my stepmother brought the two sisters and reunited with my dad. Oh, I didn't tell you before that Ye Miaozhu has a younger sister, a little girl who is still in junior high school."

Gu Yunqing briefly introduced his family situation to Zhang Yangxu. Perhaps because of his unfortunate family, or because of Gu Yunqing's gentle personality, the two sisters were very fond of him as a brother sent from heaven. After a few years of getting along, their relationship became better and better. The elder sister Ye Miaozhu even applied for the same medical university as him. As graduation was approaching, the two came to the medical point in Gubei Town for internship together.

Then we came to Hejia Village, fuck.

However, Gu Yunqing talked about these family affairs not out of his desire to share, but because he wanted to gain Zhang Yangxu's trust in this way and make him further let down his guard.

After all, it's hard to say that ghosts would take the initiative to make up stories.

Sure enough, after listening to the complicated relationship in Gu Yunqing's family, Zhang Yangxu's guard gradually relaxed. He was no longer as nervous as before. Instead, he teased with an expression that all men understand: "You are lucky."

"I have another girlfriend in college." Gu Yunqing said helplessly: "Please be careful, Mr. Zhang. Our relationship is not good enough for us to joke about this kind of thing."

"Okay." Zhang Yangxu shut up decisively and changed the subject.

Zhang Yangxu asked Gu Yunqing several questions in succession:
"Everyone, including Ye Miaozhu, said you were dead, but you are still alive. What's going on?"

"Why are you all wet?"

"You said the snake god was going crazy and that time was running out. What's going on here?"

Gu Yunqing closed the door and raised his hand to signal Zhang Yangxu to walk into the He Mansion: "Let's talk while we walk."

"Where?"

"Go find my sister."

The two of them walked through the flowers in the He family compound, one in front and one behind. From the gate of the front yard, they could hear a faint noisy voice. A few hurried footsteps hurriedly walked from the gate to the side yard, where the kitchen was. It seemed that the cook and servants of the He family were preparing to make breakfast.

The He Mansion faces south and is in the shape of a "U". The three-story main building is located in the middle, with a stone foundation and bamboo and wood structures. The top is covered with royal blue glazed tiles, which is considered luxurious for such a place.

The main gate of the mansion is located to the south of the main building, and a green garden and vegetable garden is located to the north. The kitchen, warehouse, woodshed, servants' quarters and other facilities are arranged on the east and west sides of the main building, filling up the whole "Hui" character.

Unlike the old-style courtyard houses in Yongzhou, the structure of the He Mansion has more southern characteristics of Qinzhou. It can be regarded as a special variant of the Hakka earth building, but it is more ostentatious and has downplayed the original earth building's function of defending against bandits.

Even in the opinion of Zhang Yangxu, a veteran in the real estate and construction fields, this is an excellent architectural design that never goes out of date. This sense of culture is likely to be very popular among the landlords and wealthy people who are pretentious about culture.

Gu Yunqing walked forward while pushing aside the lush flowers, unlocked the screen with one hand and showed a photo to Zhang Yangxu.

The photo showed a slender, fair, and beautiful hand, gently holding a cell phone with the screen on. Zhang Yangxu recognized it as Ning Zhe's hand at a glance. This boy was as pretty as a woman. The screen in Ning Zhe's hand also showed a photo. It was a photo of the almanac, showing the good and bad luck for today:

【should:】

[Avoid: travel, burial, mourning, sacrifice]

"When you open the almanac to check today's luck, have you ever thought about this question?" Gu Yunqing asked, cold water dripping from the corner of his clothes: "Why is there only 'taboo' and no 'suitable' on the almanac?"

"I've thought about it, but I have no idea," Zhang Yangxu replied.

"Because the snake god is sick." Gu Yunqing said, enlarging the photo in his hand.

In the photo, Huang Li was nailed to the snake god's tongue by a nail. When Ning Zhe took the photo of it, he also took half of the snake god's head. If you look closely at the background, you can still see the snake god's lifelike flying posture and a pair of lifeless and stereotyped eyes.

The statue of the snake god looks solemn in appearance, but in fact it cannot withstand close scrutiny. The ancestral hall in Hejia Village has long been in disrepair, with even the roof leaking. The door beams and pillars have become damp and moldy in the humid environment, and the snake god carved from camphor tree roots is no exception.

The carving technique of this root carving can be said to be very exquisite, and the processing level is also quite high. The scales on the snake god are stacked in sequence, arranged delicately and neatly, giving people an unspoken sense of layered beauty.

However, beneath the shiny and bright appearance, there are layers of black mold accumulated at the base of the scales, and milky white hyphae protrude from the gaps in the snake scales, emitting the rotten smell of deteriorating wood - this was Zhang Yangxu's impression of the snake god statue when he and Xie Si Ning entered the ancestral hall to look through the almanac.

In Gu Yunqing's photo, one can vaguely see that the snake god's head is also covered with corrupted hyphae, the left eye socket is completely filled with black mold, and the right eye has also been covered with fungal plaques.

"The Snake God's left eye is blind." Gu Yunqing said at a very fast speed:
"The snake god's left eye sees good fortune, and his right eye sees bad luck. But since he became insane 18 years ago, his body has collapsed and one of his eyes has gone blind. From then on, the almanac can only give taboos, but cannot tell you what to do today, because the snake god himself cannot see, so he has nothing to say."

"So that's how it is..." Zhang Yangxu felt awe-inspiring, but also a little confused. He still didn't let his guard down and kept a certain distance from Gu Yunqing who was leading the way in front.

Zhang Yangxu asked: "If the truth is like this, how did you know about it? Also, I saw a ghost pretending to be you in the ancestral hall and looking through tomorrow's almanac. Why are you still alive? How did you survive?"

Ning Zhe might have lied about Gu Yunqing's life or death, but Zhang Yangxu believed that the fact that "looking at tomorrow's almanac is a taboo for death" itself should be correct.

"That's a long story." Gu Yunqing sighed helplessly and led Zhang Yangxu through the garden of He Mansion.

The two men avoided the cook and servants who were preparing meals and came to a row of small buildings on the west side of the main building of the He Mansion. Gu Yunqing gestured to Zhang Yangxu and took the lead to slip into a warehouse with an unlocked door.

[My sister sent me a message, so she hid inside.]

Zhang Yangxu lowered his head to look at the text message sent by Gu Yunqing. After waiting for a long time, he tiptoed forward and carefully pushed open the door of the warehouse.

The next moment, Zhang Yangxu's body fell down.

he died.

(End of this chapter)

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