"But my daughter Su Wan is running a high fever." Seeing how serious my condition was, my mom reluctantly handed the man fifty yuan, "Please, can you find a way for us to get through?"
The man pushed the fifty yuan back, refusing, "The road is too narrow, and Wang Erdan is an idiot, I can't just run over him, can I?"
My mom looked at my feverishly confused state, her face filled with difficulty.
The man's wife impatiently issued an ultimatum, "We have other orders to fulfill, we're in a hurry, and it's not just your family, madam, please do as you see fit with your daughter."
I spoke up, parched, "Mom... didn't... he say it was a chartered ride? Why is he doing other orders?"
Hearing my words, the man's expression turned ugly.
His wife in the passenger seat also looked displeased.
No wonder it was only one hundred yuan, and yet he took other orders.
"Forget it, Wanwan, let's not make trouble," my mom didn't want any issues and advised , "Anyway, your Uncle Chong Shun will be here soon."
I sighed and nodded in agreent.
Reluctantly, I followed my mom out of the car.
The village guardian Wang Erdan is a fool, with his shoes on the wrong feet.
Wearing a tattered black coat and drooling from his mouth.
He walked towards us with a goofy smile, Wang Erdan being very strange, kept looking at and said, "Pretty girl, you've got a little baby inside. Couldn't go in, couldn't go in..."
"Why can't we go in?" My mom, hearing the gibberish from Wang Erdan, darkly asked him.
Wang Erdan smiled mysteriously, "There's a Demon Cave here, it eats both adults and children."
At the entrance of this ancient village, there's always a village guardian, naturally dull and foolish, wandering around the village daily.
Surviving on handouts from villagers, disliked by households from east to west.
Most people think the so-called "village guardian" is just a euphemism for lazy do-nothings in the village.
I'm ashad to say, I used to think this way too.
Unexpectedly, Wang Erdan outright ntioned that I was pregnant.
But my pregnancy is still in the early months, not showing at all!
This guy... might have so real ability...
Wang Erdan said we can't enter Ancient Well Village because of the Demon Cave, what does that an?
At that mont, my Uncle Su Chongshun arrived on his motorcycle.
Seeing Wang Erdan blocking us, he fiercely scolded him, "Get lost! If you keep blocking the way, I'll set the dogs on you, they'll annihilate your family."
I hadn't seen my uncle in many years, yet I didn't expect him to have beco so irritable.
Wang Erdan, intimidated, cried and shuffled to the side of the road to wipe his tears.
My uncle approached my mom and , his tone much softer, "Su Wan, sister-in-law! It's my fault for being late, allowing this fool to bully you."
"Wanwan has a high fever," my mom pleaded, looking at my uncle.
My uncle put a helt on my head, his gaze falling to my lower abdon, a hint of gloom in his eyes, "Being entangled by a snake is like this. Get on, I'll take you back first."
My uncle got on the bike first, and I struggled to climb onto the back seat of the motorcycle.
But I saw Wang Erdan, his fingers covering his face, peeking through a slit, he was actually sneering, his earlier crying had been fake, "Poor pretty girl, won't listen, wants to enter the village, one corpse, two lives... so pitiful."
Having just mounted the motorcycle, my heart skipped a beat.
Before I could react,
the world began to spin, and then I passed out from the fever.
When I awoke, I found myself lying in a quaint, ancient hall.
Beneath was a tattered mat spread on the floor.
The thin mat couldn't keep out the cold earth energy, which seeped up, making feel chilled through and through.
The air was thick with the sll of incense burning, quite suffocating.
Four Taoist nuns stood opposite, their expressions chilled, and the oldest among them, an Old Taoist Nun, gave a cold smirk, "The girl with the snake embryo has woken up."
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