Chapter 6: Late summer and autumn, salmon are fat

Xu Hei stopped where he was, looking at the blood all over the ground, his heart pounding.

What a close call! He almost lost his life, but luckily he reacted quickly, otherwise he would have died.

Xu Hei dared not underestimate humans at all. The appearance of these two people was extremely unusual, and it might be premeditated.

"Why do I encounter this kind of thing every time I come to the temple? Last time it was Ren Dan and the Taoist priest, and this time it was a man and a woman, and I encountered them all."

Xu Hei cursed in his heart, wondering if he was cursed by some kind of curse, and something happened as soon as he entered the temple.

He took a deep look at the huge blurry statue, and suddenly felt an inexplicable palpitation.

Could it be that he stole the tribute and was blamed by the mountain god?

Xu Hei quickly rolled up the two corpses and threw them on the tribute table, then returned to the futon and kowtowed a few times.

"Master Mountain God, this is a tribute to you, I guarantee it will taste better than roast chicken, I'm leaving now."

Xu Hei climbed out of the window and left without looking back.

The speed was incredible.

After this experience, Xu Hei swore that he would never come to this ghost place again, and it would be better to stay in the mountains. Not only this temple, but also the area within a radius of 20 miles in Chenjia Town was regarded as a forbidden area by him.

Not long after Xu Hei left.

The statue shook slightly, and dust fell.

The smell of the corpse soon attracted some wild dogs, which had nothing to do with Xu Hei.

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After Xu Hei went back, he started his ordinary life again.

Fortunately, since he worshipped the gods that day, he has never had a nightmare again, let alone dreaming of Chen Fan. It seems that it is still useful.

This experience was gradually forgotten by him.

Time flies.

In the blink of an eye, two months passed.

During this period, Xu Hei had been wandering in the mountains, hunting small prey, and occasionally eating some fruit and vegetation to replenish his physical energy.

He passed by the farm outside the Snake Village several times. In the fields, the farmer was teaching his son to farm.

I don't know if it was a coincidence, but the boy always found Xu Hei's figure, once on a tree, once between rocks.

From a distance, they looked at each other without any verbal communication.

"Xiao Niu, what are you daydreaming about!"

"Nothing."

Under his father's scolding, the boy retracted his gaze.

Xu Hei learned from his observation that the boy was called Wang Xiaoniu and his father, Wang Daniu, were farmers in the village. In addition, there was an old mother and a younger sister, Wang Ya, at home.

Wang Xiaoniu didn't want to farm for a lifetime. He wanted to study, pass the imperial examination, and take his sister to live in the city. He often took books and sneaked to the watermelon field in the middle of the night to study hard under the moonlight.

Wang Daniu was very helpless about this. His family had no money to support him to study, but he didn't want to stop the child's ambition. Whenever he thought of this, he sighed.

Xu Hei left quietly.

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"Read books, gain knowledge..."

Xu Hei was hanging on the tree branch, and suddenly felt a little envious.

He also wanted to study, gain knowledge, and live like humans.

Humans are born with unique conditions and do not have to worry about danger, unlike these wild animals, who are always facing the threat of death.

Unfortunately, reincarnation is a skill, and not every creature has such good luck.

A squirrel climbed up the tree and got into a tree hole full of pine cones.

This is the result of its hard work for a year, and it can spend the winter safely.

Suddenly, a green snake jumped out from the corner, wrapped around and strangled the squirrel, and died instantly. The latter did not know how he died.

And this green snake has been hungry for a long time.

I wonder if they envy human life.

"Hey! Can you understand me?"

Xu Hei sent a telepathic message to the green snake.

The green snake seemed to be frightened, let go of the prey, turned around and fled, and disappeared without a trace.

Watching the green snake disappear, Xu Hei suddenly felt lonely.

He was born with intelligence, but there was no one to talk to.

However, he had no time to think about it, because he was hungry.

Xu Hei swallowed the squirrel, chased after it, and swallowed the green snake in one gulp.

"I wish you will be reborn as a human in your next life."

Xu Hei rushed into the woods and started a new round of hunting.

However, such food can only barely fill the stomach, and cannot improve the cultivation. Relying on breathing alone, the cultivation is very slow.

He fantasized about when he would eat another monster.

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At the end of summer and the beginning of autumn, heavy rains poured down.

This is the heavy rain that occurs every year. The river is surging and tributaries appear. Many fish run out of the river and rush into the branches. It is a good season for fishing.

This year's heavy rain is particularly large, and there are many salmon. There are often some farmers at the entrance of the village, carrying fishing nets out, and they return with a full load after an hour. Even the old blacksmith who can't catch fish can bring back a large bucket.

Wang Xiaoniu's family also joined the fishing team.

"The tide is rising again."

Watching the teams leave the village one by one, Xu Hei thought of last year.

At this time last year, Xu Hei hid in the river and suddenly attacked, swallowing people and fish in one gulp. He ate several people, which caused the government to dispatch hundreds of people to encircle and suppress them, and also dispatched the demon-slaying Taoist priest.

It was that time that Xu Hei almost died.

"I'd better not go this year." Xu Hei said darkly.

With his current vision, he can naturally see that the demon-slaying Taoist priest is a cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage.

He suspected that he had already become a demon beast last year, otherwise, he would not have been able to escape from the cultivator.

"Dad, we have caught enough fish. If there are too many, we can't eat them all, and they will only go bad."

"What do you know! Take these fish back and I'll go out again."

Wang Daniu threw the fish at the door and went out again with the fishing net. There were already several buckets of fish at the door.

Wang Xiaoniu could only carry the heavy salmon to his home.

Suddenly, Wang Xiaoniu turned his head and saw Xu Hei on the hillside in the distance, and Xu Hei was also looking at him.

These days, Xu Hei often walked around the farm and listened to the Wang family and his son talk, which had become a habit.

And Wang Xiaoniu discovered Xu Hei more than once.

Although this person and the snake have little contact with each other, they are very familiar with each other.

"The old snake king is here again. Doesn't he also want to eat fish?" Wang Xiaoniu said inwardly.

In fact, a normal person would be frightened if he found a snake circling his home, but Wang Xiaoniu was not afraid at all.

He looked at Xu Hei, took courage, and took a step forward.

Xu Hei immediately shrank back an inch.

He has been hiding in the dark and observing human life, but this does not mean that he wants to have any contact with humans.

Wang Xiaoniu walked forward very boldly carrying a bucket of fish and placed it not far from the hillside.

"Old Snake King, everyone in the world is afraid of you, but I am not afraid of you. This bucket of fish is given to you." Wang Xiaoniu put down the fish, retreated to a distance, and said with a smile.

Xu Hei, who has learned human knowledge, can naturally understand his words and can't help but feel confused.

"Why did this silly boy give me fish? Is it poisonous?"

If someone else gave him fish, Xu Hei would definitely think that An An had bad intentions, but Wang Xiaoniu was the person he knew best. He was just a stupid boy with no scheming intentions.

Moreover, he watched the Wang family and his son catch these fish with his own eyes, so there was no way they could have been poisoned.

Xu Hei looked at a large bucket of fish and vomited the fish, and his appetite immediately increased.

"No matter, let's try it first."

Xu Hei climbed up, bit a fish and swallowed it.

Wang Xiaoniu sat in the distance, watching quietly with a silly smile on his face.

Xu Hei tasted it and found that it tasted pretty good. The thinking of these two-legged beasts was indeed strange. They even gave food to a snake. Don't you know the story of the farmer and the snake?

Although he didn't understand, his body was very honest. Xu Hei quickly finished the bucket of fish one bite at a time, filling his stomach effortlessly, which made him very satisfied.

He looked at Wang Xiaoniu in the distance, imitated human movements, and nodded.

This nodding action immediately made Wang Xiaoniu's eyes light up, and he exclaimed: "The old Snake King nodded to me, he nodded to me!"

"Where?"

The younger sister in the room immediately ran up, looked into the distance, and saw Xu Hei nodding, and couldn't help but open her mouth.

Someone came back from outside the village. Xu Hei dodged and disappeared into the mountains and forests.

Brother and sister Wang Xiaoniu still have not recovered from the shock.

The rumors cannot be believed at all. This old snake king is not a man-eating demon, but rather polite.

"I just told you, this old snake king is not a harmful monster, he has even helped us!" Wang Xiaoniu said in a directive tone.

"I know, I know, he ate the pig demon and avenged his mother." Wang Xiaoya said innocently.

As soon as the conversation between the two ended, a scream suddenly came from the entrance of the village.

"Help! The old snake king is eating people again, eating people!"

The voice was extremely miserable. It was the voice of the son of the blacksmith next door.

After Wang Xiaoniu and his sister heard this, they immediately ran out of the yard and saw villagers outside the village running wildly into the village. Everyone looked panicked, as if they had encountered a ghost, and his father was also inside.

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