Xu Qingyan thought about it and told the truth.

"Shuiyun Village."

Hearing these three words, the boss was horrified.

"Shuiyun Village? Sir... listen to my advice. If you are not desperate, don't go to that damn place!"

Xu Qingyan narrowed his eyes.

"What happened to Shuiyun Village?"

The boss seemed a little panicked and said, "There is a man-eating Dragon King there! If you make the Dragon King unhappy, no matter what boat you are on, everyone on the boat will be buried with you! You don't know that Shuiyun Village was originally quite good, with beautiful scenery and a lot of precious wood. But since this incident, no merchants dared to go there."

Xu Qingyan asked curiously.

"Has anyone seen this Dragon King?"

The boss thought about it.

"I haven't seen it, but it's said that a merchant who escaped by chance saw it briefly. It was said that it had a thick black beard and a huge body. When it opened its mouth, the whole boat went into the Dragon King's stomach. Fortunately, he could swim and jumped off the boat early, otherwise he would have died in the Abyss River."

Xu Qingyan thought for a moment, "It sounds so scary, no one dares to cross it, so is it true that such a long river cannot be crossed? Then this ferry should not exist."

The boss sighed.

"That can't be helped. To survive, people need to eat, and to eat, they need to make money. Many merchants still choose to cross the river when the sun is good. As for the most dangerous route, few people dare to go there, which is the route to Shuiyun Village. Sir, I think even if you go to the ferry, no boatman will dare to take your job."

Hearing this, Xu Qingyan thought about it secretly.

He nodded.

"Thank you for the reminder, boss. I will find a way."

The boss sighed and looked at Xu Qingyan with some regret.

It seems to be lamenting that young people are too stubborn and always fail to understand the dangers of the world.

"Alas, I can only hope that everything goes well for you, young master."

"Thanks."

At this moment, footsteps were heard behind me.

"What are you talking about? Let's go."

Ye Yanxi resumed his arrogant and cold demeanor in front of others.

Xu Qingyan turned around with a smile, "Nothing, I'm just learning from the boss."

"What sutras are you learning? You are not a monk."

The young man smiled and said, "There is a saying that goes, every family has its own problems. Isn't this the way to manage a family? The boss has experience."

The boss couldn't help laughing, "Hahahaha, you are too kind. I think your wife and you are a match made in heaven. There is no need for us mortals to say that you are naturally in harmony and treat each other with respect."

"Bah! Who would treat a bastard like you as an equal? ​​Get out of here!"

Not sure if it was out of shyness or anger, the girl with a red face grabbed Xu Qingyan's sleeve and hurriedly walked out of the inn as if fleeing...

I kept cursing in my heart.

Also raised the case to eyebrow.

Just look at me, I don't need to use a table to smash his pig head and that's it!

Vui lòng ??ng nh?p ?? mua ch??ng sfacg.

Vui lòng ??ng nh?p ?? mua ch??ng sfacg.

When Lao Qin brought Xu Qingyan and Ye Yanxi to a courtyard.

They saw the white-haired old man who was leaning on a cane and standing under the melon shed.

There are some fruits and vegetables growing on the melon shed, including gourds and loofahs.

The tree looked lush and green, which formed a sharp contrast with the old man's decrepit appearance. Unfortunately, there seemed to be no hope in his cloudy eyes.

"This is our village chief, his last name is Li."

Village Chief Li glanced at the three people, then said to Lao Qin.

"Old Qin, thank you for your hard work. I want to chat with the two distinguished guests."

Old Qin hesitated and glanced at Xu Qingyan and Ye Yanxi.

He said softly, "No matter what it is, I hope you won't embarrass the village chief. He... is a good man."

Xu Qingyan neither agreed nor denied, but just responded calmly.

"We are here to solve problems, not to kill innocent people."

"it is good."

Lao Qin looked at the two of them deeply, then walked out of the yard.

Only Xu Qingyan and Ye Yanxi were left looking at the village chief surnamed Li.

Village Chief Li staggered towards the two men with his cane.

Then.

"boom."

The crutches fell to the ground.

Village Chief Li, with his old body, knelt down directly in front of the two young men.

Trembling voice.

"Please forgive me, both immortal masters, and punish me..."

Neither Ye Yanxi nor Xu Qingyan stepped forward to help.

It's very simple. What the other party said was not please help, but please forgive me.

Only guilty people ask for forgiveness.

Ye Yanxi narrowed his eyes and looked at the other person.

"Did you give the letter to the Eighteen Sword Sects?"

The old man nodded tremblingly.

"It's the common people..."

Xu Qingyan looked around and brought over a chair.

"Let's sit down and talk. Talking like this is tiring for everyone."

The old man hesitated and glanced at the two people, and found that they didn't seem to care about his behavior, but sat down in the only available seat.

Feeling a little embarrassed, Village Chief Li slowly stood up and sat on the chair.

Under Xu Qingyan's calm and deep gaze, he slowly told the secret.

"It was about forty years ago, when I was in my early twenties. Shuiyun Village was peaceful. At that time... I saved a dying little girl by the Yuan River near the village."

"At that time, I was still an ordinary villager of Shuiyun Village. I didn't think too much about it. I just thought it was a good deed. But I felt something was wrong at the time. I spent some time to heal the little girl's injury, but she seemed different from other children of that age. She seemed to be extra mature and sensible. Even under my care day by day, she grew up at a speed visible to the naked eye and became a graceful young lady."

"Why do I smell dog blood?"

Xu Qingyan frowned.

"Where's the dog?"

Ye Yanxi asked curiously.

Xu Qingyan shook his head and looked at the white-haired Village Chief Li. "It's okay, Village Chief Li, please continue. I guess what happened next is related to the woman you saved."

Village Chief Li nodded in shame.

"Yes, I felt something was wrong at the time. After all, how can someone grow up like this? She must not be a normal person if she grew up from a few years old to a teenager in a short time. And she loves to eat meat, even raw. She had kept it from me until one day when I accidentally broke into her room and found that she was actually eating a lively rabbit alive, and behind her... there was a green snake tail hanging."

"Snake demon?!"

Ye Yanxi was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt sick.

Village Chief Li nodded, "I never thought that the one I saved was actually a snake demon. But by the time I knew it, it was already irreversible."

"What does irreversible mean?"

"At that time...she was pregnant."

When Village Chief Li said this, Ye Yanxi's eyes widened.

"Pregnant?! Then her pregnancy is...wait, could it be..."

Village Chief Li looked a little embarrassed, and a trace of embarrassment appeared on his old face.

"It's my fault... I was so lustful at the time that I clearly realized something was wrong, but I was still tempted by her beauty. But when I realized she was a snake demon, I quickly realized that how could a human and a demon be together? That was against heaven. Although I was reluctant, when I felt that I really loved her, I still told her that for the sake of the village and for my anxiety, we should separate.

"So she left pregnant?"

As expected, it really tastes like dog blood.

Wow, I thought it might be an adaptation of Journey to the West, but now it feels like the Legend of the White Snake?

But it seems that the Legend of the Green Snake is more appropriate.

"Yes, she left while pregnant." Village Chief Li nodded in shame, and then said with emotion, "I thought it was all over. Before she left, she told me that when I saved her, she swore to fulfill my two wishes. Her leaving was one of her wishes, and she would repay me in the future. I didn't take it to heart. Until later, because of the guilt and uneasiness in my heart, and even my longing for her, I never got married and had children. At that time, I was in my thirties and was nominated as one of the candidates for the village chief of Shuiyun Village."

His old eyes looked toward the sky.

"I wanted to become the village chief because it seemed that apart from this, I could not find any motivation in life. But my competitor at that time was better at dealing with people and more knowledgeable than me, and was an outstanding person. I felt that the competition was hopeless, so I did not have much hope. But I did not expect that within a few days, on the night before the village was about to elect a village chief, that person...actually drowned in the Yuan River, and I, of course, became the village chief of Shuiyun Village."

Ye Yanxi reacted quickly.

"Is this the second thing she did to repay you?"

Village Chief Li sighed, "I didn't think of this at first. I thought it was just the unpredictable nature of life and that he was just unlucky. Until she appeared in front of me again after not seeing me for a long time, she told me coldly that this was the second thing she did to repay me. I suddenly felt like the sky was falling. I have never done anything bad, but because of my desires, I caused a person to die for no reason. Even if it wasn't my own fault, he did die because of me. I didn't even dare to tell anyone about this... She also told me that from now on, we would repay each other for our kindness and have nothing to do with each other."

Xu Qingyan frowned.

"Since there is no connection anymore, how could there be any further events?"

Village Chief Li shook his head.

"Alas, this happened 20 years ago. At that time, I had been the village chief for a long time, and I gradually forgot about this matter. Apart from not getting married and having children, I worked hard to manage the village in order to calm my inner guilt. But I didn't expect that during that time, there were rumors that there was a green snake in the village that ate livestock and even harmed people. I thought at the time, could it be that she finally started to do evil back then?"

"Is it her?"

Village Chief Li shook his head, and his eyes began to turn red.

"I would rather it was her... I didn't want to get involved in this matter, and even tried to avoid it. But soon I heard that several villagers had united to kill the green snake! I felt something was wrong at the time, so I rushed over to see, and found that it was a small green snake. Soon, she appeared in front of me, and she told me that her child was beaten to death by the villagers. That was also my child..."

Clear tears flowed from the dry eyes of Village Chief Li.

He said with a trembling voice.

"I could see the hatred in her eyes at that time. I wanted to tell her that leaving this place and leaving Yuanhe would be good for everyone. She could even take my life as compensation. But... she told me that it was my villagers who killed me, the village chief, and I didn't stop this tragedy in time. So she wanted to take revenge on everyone in Shuiyun Village. She wanted Shuiyun Village to be destroyed on the spot."

"I know she has such ability, but I don't know what to do about it. I can only beg her not to do such a thing. She told me that if I don't want Shuiyun Village to be destroyed and if I don't want the bad fate I created to be made public, I must cooperate with her to do something."

Ye Yanxi gritted his teeth slightly.

"You want to sacrifice a boy and a girl to her?"

The village chief nodded.

"That's right... I didn't agree at the time, because I thought it was too immoral and unfair to anyone. But soon she showed me her methods, constantly stirring up storms, and the passing ships always sank due to sudden changes in the sky and clouds, and no one survived. Finally... I had no choice. I felt that the situation was serious and I didn't even have the courage to announce the truth. I could only quietly let people spread the rumor that only by sacrificing a pair of boys and girls every year can we ensure good weather and no accidents..."

Ye Yanxi couldn't help but sneer.

"You thought she would stop while she was ahead, but you didn't expect that her ambitions would grow and accidents would happen more and more frequently. It was not until you finally couldn't take it anymore and realized that this village might no longer have a future that you thought of asking for our help?"

Ye Yanxi was very disdainful of this kind of people.

Even though she could understand the courage of an ordinary person, everyone has a dark side and reasons for wanting to escape from things.

But we cannot deny that this man is indeed irresponsible, always making wrong choices and always realizing things too late.

Village Chief Li burst into tears and his voice trembled.

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