Ruyi looked at the sky and thought, strangely, the rain came and stopped inexplicably. Could it be that this rain was just to create an opportunity for him to run out and take a shower?
While Ruyi was thinking about it, the calm sky suddenly began to change drastically. The wind blew away the clouds, dust filled the sky, and all the fallen leaves in the forest near the lake were blown to the sky.
Dark clouds were surging, and the thick clouds were rolling like boiling water.
Ruyi took a few steps back. She vaguely felt that the sky was unusually dark, as if something was about to happen.
The wind roared suddenly, and Ruyi felt that if the wind kept blowing like this, she would be blown into the sky. Her hair was flying wildly with the wind.
"Crack!!!" A bolt of lightning as bright as day tore through the clouds, went straight down, and struck into Yueling Lake.
What followed was a low roar of thunder - boom.
Ruyi was so frightened that she closed her eyes and covered her ears, squatting on the ground and not daring to move.
But then there was no second thunder. She opened her eyes and found that the wind had stopped, the clouds had cleared and the fog had dispersed, and there was only a bright moon.
If Ruyi hadn't been in such a mess right now, she would have definitely suspected that the thunderstorm just now was her imagination.
She glanced into the lake and wondered if such a huge lightning strike just now might have hit something.
She walked to the lake and took a look, and saw a white thing floating on the lake where it had been struck by lightning.
Ruyi hurriedly rowed over, and when she got closer, she realized that the white thing was actually a snake.
Looking at it with its belly upwards and motionless, it must have been struck to death by lightning.
If you find it pitiful, you should bury it no matter what, otherwise it will soon become food for the fish in the lake.
She used the oar to fish out the white snake. The white snake was as thick as her forearm and more than two feet long. It was all jade-white, without any trace of color, and radiated a faint fluorescence under the moonlight.
"So beautiful..." Ruyi couldn't help but sigh. She had never seen such a beautiful snake. She had also seen many native snakes in the village, and Tiezhu had caught several of them. Those snakes were all gray-looking and had no trace of their appearance.
There is no beauty.
Ruyi couldn't help but want to touch it with her hands. The moment her fingers came into contact with the scales of the white snake, the white snake suddenly jumped up, bared its long fangs and bit Ruyi's hand.
Blood flowed out for a while, and the white snake's mouth was filled with wishful blood. It spat out fiery red lobsters and arched its body as if preparing to attack again.
Ruyi was unprepared and was bitten by the white snake. She felt the pain and ran away.
White Snake looked at her very warily.
Ruyi hurriedly said: "Don't... don't bite me... I had no intention of harming you. I just saw you floating in the water and thought you were struck to death by lightning. I didn't want your body to be exposed on the lake. I just wanted to bury you... nothing else."
think……"
After talking a lot, Ruyi felt that she was so stupid. Why did she have to explain so much to the snake? The snake couldn't understand human speech.
White Snake gave her a complicated look, jumped into the water, and disappeared after a while.
Ruyi looked at his injured hand and said with a wry smile: "It's really a waste of time to be a good person. The little snake doesn't appreciate it..."
She dragged her cold and tired body back to the small courtyard. Due to the injury on her hand, she didn't bother to light the water basin or step on the brazier. She dried her body and went to bed.
It was almost noon the next day, and Lao Liu and Lao Qi stretched themselves out of their hut, but they didn't see Ruyi's shadow and there was no food on the stove. They felt something was wrong.