A quick journey starting from Wu Dalang

Chapter 232: Legend of White Snake (2)

"My lord has not returned for a hundred years, and I don't know when he will come back. I will go find a few immortal Taoist friends to see if anyone knows." The white snake left unwillingly.

Shi Yi was drinking with the God of Destiny when he heard a strange call. He looked up and saw a green snake praying beside the eggshell he had shed.

"If you have nothing else to do, please come back earlier. Xiaoqing and my sister need your help."

Thinking of the well-behaved and lively green snake who had a karmic connection with him, Shiyi felt that it would not be a big deal to go back and take a look. So he said goodbye to his friends in heaven and came to the human world.

"Xiaoqing, where is Xiaobai?" As soon as he saw the white snake, he couldn't help but feel curious.

Xiaoqing told Shiyi about the experience of the White Snake, and also told him about the cause and effect of the White Snake. Shiyi was now completely certain that the White Snake was Bai Suzhen, but it was obviously because of him that there were some deviations in the plot, but this was not a problem at all.

"Let's go, let's go find Xiaobai." Shiyi transformed into a handsome young man, holding a folding fan in his hand, and walked onto the street with confidence. Xiaoqing dressed up as a maid, and followed behind Shiyi with a wronged look on her face.

"Xiaoqing, be more careful, Xiaobai might just pass by you." Xiaoqing had agreed to come and find Xiaobai, and once she came out, all the work became Xiaoqing's. Xiaoqing was quite happy, shaking her head and looking around.

At this time, the White Snake came to a temple and burned incense to the Bodhisattva sincerely, praying for guidance from the Bodhisattva. Just when the Bodhisattva saw the White Snake's sincerity and was about to show up, Xiaoqing shouted excitedly.

"Sister, sister, I finally found you. The adults were right. It would be useful to look for you near the temple!" Xiao Qing chattered. As soon as she looked at the golden statue of the Bodhisattva, she waved her fan. The Bodhisattva left in embarrassment.

(Sorry for offending the Buddha, Sao Rui)

When Shi Yi was in heaven, he didn't get along well with the Bodhisattvas, mainly because the gods and Buddhas in the Western Heaven were all very pretentious, and when others were pretentious, he couldn't do it himself. He still liked Jin Chanzi more, or to be more precise, he should call him Sandalwood Merit Buddha.

The other party had a capricious personality and often displeased other Buddhas except Tathagata, who always protected this disciple. As for the Fighting Buddha, he had long since returned to the Flower-Fruit Mountain and no longer cared about worldly affairs. As a result, he had not left the Flower-Fruit Mountain for many years and had not been seen since.

Guanyin Bodhisattva didn't like Jin Chanzi, and by extension, didn't like Shiyi either, but it didn't matter. They kept to themselves and pretended not to see anything when they saw each other, so the Bodhisattva turned around and left, and no longer had any intention of directing the White Snake.

"Sir, what are you looking at?" Xiaoqing imitated Shiyi and stared at the golden statue of the Bodhisattva, but saw nothing.

"Nothing." Shiyi shook his head and changed the subject: "Xiaoqing said you want to end the cause and effect. As far as I know, there is no cause and effect between you and me. However, I can see that you seem to have a favor to repay."

"Repay a favor?" The White Snake was puzzled. What favor had she not repaid? Suddenly, she remembered that before she started practicing, she was captured by hunters and a shepherd boy saved her. Could this be the favor?

After expressing his guess, Shiyi immediately confirmed this statement, because after he calculated, this was the situation. However, Baishe was a little puzzled.

"A thousand years have passed. I'm afraid my benefactor has already been reincarnated. How can I find his reincarnation?" The White Snake asked the simplest question.

"Haven't you ever thought about how to repay your kindness?" Shi Yi asked curiously. He was really curious. Did the White Snake want to marry Xu Xian from the beginning without considering whether the other party was extremely ugly?

"Of course, I have to do my best to repay the life-saving grace. My master once told me that there are three ways for the demons to repay a favor. The first is to give the benefactor wealth and prosperity for three lifetimes, the second is to relieve the other person's life worries and exchange one life for another, and the third is to give the other person children."

"So what are you going to do, sister?"

"The second method is the best, but there may not be a suitable time. The first method is also very safe, but it will take hundreds of years. The third method is the one I least want to do," said the White Snake with a smile.

“Why?” Now Shiyi was really curious.

"Having children will inevitably damage my cultivation. Besides, if I am reluctant to leave this world because of my children, wouldn't all my previous efforts be wasted?" The White Snake was very clear-headed and she knew what she wanted.

I was a little surprised at first. No matter which version of the story, Bai Suzhen was determined to marry Xu Xian to repay his kindness. But it turned out that Bai Suzhen didn't think so at the beginning?

Yes, after all, Bai Suzhen in the real world is a flesh-and-blood character. She has her own thoughts and naturally will not be as one-sided as in the story.

The world is still in a time of war at this time, but no matter whether it is war or peace, there are always some people who can enjoy happiness.

Bai Suzhen's benefactor is like this. Xie Xiaolian is a concubine's daughter from the shoe rack branch. Although she is a concubine's daughter, the Xie family is wealthy and powerful, so even if she is a concubine, she is well dressed and well served.

“Is this what humans call wealth and glory? Since she has achieved what she wanted, then doesn’t my sister have to do anything else?” Xiaoqing felt that Xie Xiaolian had reached the peak of her life.

“That’s hard to say,” Shiyi shook his fan. In such troubled times, who can truly live a peaceful life?

The three of them stayed at Xie Xiaolian's home, watching her grow from a little girl to a beautiful young woman. Along with her beauty, her talent also grew.

From a human perspective, Shiyi believes that Xie Xiaolian is indeed one of the most talented women. In fact, Xie Xiaolian is also well-known in the local area.

In this era, there are only two situations in which a woman's good reputation spreads to the outside world. Either she is a prostitute seeking fame, or she is trying to climb up the social ladder for her family. This is the situation that Xie Xiaolian is facing now.

Xie's father wanted to get close to the local prefect and planned to send Xie Xiaolian to him as a concubine. Yes, a concubine. The prefect already had a wife at home, and Xie's father just wanted to curry favor with him.

If he was just a prefect, this wouldn't be necessary, but this person happened to be from a branch of the Wang family and was even highly regarded by his own family, which made his identity extraordinary.

"Father" Xie Xiaolian looked at her father, feeling reluctant: "The governor is already forty-five, but my daughter is only twenty-eight now, father..."

"Xiao Lian, you are the daughter of my Xie family. It is worth it for you to give everything for my Xie family. Do you understand?" The man frowned. Xie Xiaolian wanted to say something else, but was stopped by his shout.

"You were born in the Xie family and enjoyed the protection of the Xie family, so you should give back to the Xie family." After saying this, he waved his sleeves and left.

Xie Xiaolian cried as she watched her father leave. She didn't understand why her fate was like this. She just wanted to marry a good husband like an ordinary woman, but why did she become a gift from her father to curry favor with the prefect?

When Xie Xiaolian was feeling sorry for herself, she thought of her eldest sister. She was the daughter that her father doted on, and she was married to a man from a well-matched family. Could it be that she was not as good as her eldest sister at all?

The three of them had no idea what Xie Xiaolian was thinking, but everyone could see that Xie Xiaolian was reluctant. Xiaoqing felt that this might be a good opportunity for Xiaobai to repay her gratitude.

"Sister, she's in trouble now. If you help her, would that be considered a way of repaying a favor?"

"Compared to saving my life, this is only a small reward, but any reward counts." Xiaobai affirmed Xiaoqing's statement and planned to save the reluctant Xie Xiaolian.

"Xie Xiaolian, I feel sorry for you for being so talented and beautiful but having to devote yourself to the prefect, so I specially give you an opportunity. Do you want to leave the Xie family? I can help you leave quietly." Xiaobai did not show up, but spoke in a rather magical way.

"Who are you?" Xie Xiaolian was shocked, but there was clearly no one in the room.

"We are messengers of the Water God, walking on earth on His behalf, and we met you by chance." Xiaoqing said this nonsense casually.

Sure enough, Xie Xiaolian seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw: "I am willing, of course I am willing, my aunt is dead, and my father only uses me as a tool to please the governor, so of course I am willing to leave"

The combination of two snake spirits with no life experience and a delicate girl from an aristocratic family made Shi Yiyi's eyes go dark at the first sight. The two spirits planned to create a fire so that Xie Xiaolian could fake her death and escape.

Xie Xiaolian also agreed to this plan, so after a fire, Xie Xiaolian disappeared from the world, and the one left in the world was the extremely talented and brilliant girl Xiaolian with no family background.

"Am I finally leaving?" Xiao Lian looked at her hands in disbelief, as if some shackles that had been restraining her were broken free.

Xiaoqing and Xiaobai were also happy for her: "Now that you have left the Xie family, you can do what you want to do."

"What do you want to do?" Xiao Lian was very confused. She didn't know what she wanted to do. She had always been the daughter of the Xie family. All she wanted was to marry a man of her dreams. She left the Xie family simply because her father asked her to marry the wrong man and she didn't want to.

At this moment, Xiao Lian was confused: "Fairy, I don't know what I want to do"

Xiaoqing was also a little confused. Is there anyone in this world who doesn't know what he wants to do? She and Xiaobai have been determined to become immortals since they had their own consciousness.

"Maybe we shouldn't think about what to do right now, but how to survive. When you took her away, you didn't take any money." Shiyi finally couldn't help it and reminded.

At this time, Xiao Lian also felt hungry, and asked embarrassedly: "Could you two fairies give me some food?"

Xiaobai took out some fruits and threw them in front of Xiaolian: "Eat some fruits to fill your stomach for now."

Xiao Lian held the fruit, feeling a little embarrassed. The fruit was very fresh, so fresh that you could see some dirt on it, and even some holes bitten by insects. She couldn't eat it for a moment.

Xie's father did not lie. The Xie family really raised Xiao Lian like a treasure for sixteen years. She ate exquisite food. Even Xiao Lian's personal maid would not use such rough food.

At this moment, she began to doubt whether her desire to leave the Xie family was right. Would she really live a good life if she left the Xie family and did not marry the prefect?

"Aren't you hungry?" Seeing Xiaolian not moving, Xiaoqing asked curiously.

Xiao Lian's stomach growled in response. She took a deep breath, closed her eyes and put the fruit in her mouth. It tasted surprisingly good. She opened her eyes and said, "Delicious!"

The sweetness of the fruit diluted Xiao Lian's confusion about her future. Although she still didn't know what she wanted to do, at this moment, she felt that the freedom of the outside world might be extremely precious to her.

"It's getting dark, she should have a place to stay, right?" Shiyi couldn't help it. Seeing that Xiaobai was about to cast a spell to create a house for the other party, Shiyi couldn't help but seal Xiaobai's spell.

"In the human world, you should consider using human means more. It will be difficult to repay your gratitude successfully if you just use magic." As Xiaobai's magic was sealed, the thunder calamity condensed in the sky retreated.

At the same time, Xiao Bai's figure, which was concealed by magic, appeared. Xiao Lian took a step back when she saw the woman who suddenly appeared in front of her: "Who are you?"

"Don't be afraid, Xiao Lian, it's me." As soon as Xiao Bai spoke, Xiao Lian's expression calmed down.

"Fairy! Are you finally willing to see me?" Xiao Lian was very surprised.

"You have no place to stay now, so I would like to discuss with you about building a house for you here." Xiaobai recalled everything he had seen in the human world and spoke tentatively.

"It's in the wilderness here, I'm afraid it would be dangerous for Xiao Lian to live alone." Xiao Lian refused. She knew that the fairy would not protect her forever, so she had to make plans for herself while the fairy was still around.

Xiaobai didn't understand why there was danger, but Xiaolian was the reincarnation of her benefactor, so she had to satisfy the other party's wishes. Having lost her magic, she could only accompany Xiaolian step by step to the village where people lived.

Xiaoqing used magic to drive away dangerous creatures, including dangerous snakes and insects, as well as bandits not far away who might discover the two at any time, which made Shiyi look at them with a higher opinion.

"I didn't expect you and Xiaobai to be different."

"After you left, a lot of books were left near your eggshell. Xiaoqing read them when she had nothing to do. She also gained some understanding of the dangers of the world." Xiaoqing smiled shyly.

Shiyi recalled that he seemed to have left behind not only a few books, but a library, with the purpose of enlightening these two snakes that had a karmic connection with him. However, he did not expect that Xiaobai went out to learn skills, and only Xiaoqing finished reading the books honestly.

Thinking of this, Shiyi looked at Xiaoqing with a soft look in his eyes: "If you like reading, I have a lot of books here."

As Shiyi spoke, he took out the fully upgraded version of the magic that he had created, which incorporated various books that Shiyi had seen. Except for some magic techniques that were not passed on to outsiders, he gave all of them to Xiaoqing.

"This is an enlightenment book about heaven. You can take a look at it and familiarize yourself with heaven in advance." Yes, Shiyi had done something during his many years in heaven.

However, Shiyi did not notice that the book he gave to Xiaoqing was a fully upgraded version, which also contained some books from other worlds.