Chapter 22
“After doing this for a long time, it turned out that you were shedding your skin. I was scared to death. I thought something had happened to you. I thought how could I be so powerful I could casually peel your scales.”
After realizing that the black snake was simply shedding its skin, Wan Zhong breathed a sigh of relief and came to the shore to call it softly.
“Now that you’ve finished shedding, don’t stay in the pool anymore, come out quickly.”
“…”
“Handsome snake?”
The surface of the pool was calm and quiet, and the black snake hiding inside showed no response.
Wan Zhong looked at the snake skin covering the entire pond, feeling a little scared but also a little moved.
This snake skin was a good thing.
Not only it did contain collagen, but it was also a great source of nutritional supplements. It could also be used as medicine, which had the effects of calming convulsions and relieving pain, dispelling fever, relieving itching and improving eyesight.
The black snake was not an ordinary snake, and the effect could only be better. Maybe eating it would have miraculous effects.
Wan Zhong was bold enough to hold a corner of the snake skin with two fingers and rub it carefully.
It felt very cold and smooth to the touch. Even the finest silk might not have this feeling.
“Handsome snake, this skin… do you want it?”
Wan Zhong waited for a moment, saw that the black snake didn’t respond, licked his lips, and while pulling the snake skin ashore, he said in a low voice: “Then, if you don’t want it, just give it to me, okay? It’ll save a lot of waste.”
As for whether it could hear it or not, it didn’t matter. Anyway, he had already said it. Since it didn’t refuse, it meant it agreed.
The black snake skin was very complete, fine, thin, and textured. Under the sunlight, it appeared as pure black as iron. Moist, but not sticky.
Wan Zhong spread it flat on the cliff to be exploded, planned to dry in the sun, ground into powder, and stored it for later use.
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During this period, the black snake remained huddled in the pool and did not come out.
When Wan Zhong was cleaning up the mud and gravel in the cave, it would lift the mirror out of the pool to peek. Once Wan Zhong got close to the pool, it would disappear in a whoosh.
So, no matter where Wan Zhong went in those days, there would be a mirror bigger than the door panel surrounding him. And the black snake didn’t know what it was doing. It was so stingy that it didn’t even want to show the tip of its tail to him.
“Handsome snake, how long are you going to stay in the water? Aren’t you afraid of soaking yourself to death?”
Gududu~
A few bubbles appeared on the surface of the pool.
When Wan Zhong looked in that direction, a golden mirror immediately blocked his view.
“…” Wan Zhong held his forehead and said, “I have already cleaned up the cave. The mud you were playing with was washed away by the water. I mixed new mud for you. Come up and see if it is thicker or thinner. Or I’ll do it again for you.”
“~~~”
“Handsome snake?”
The cave was extremely moist after being flooded, so he couldn’t stay there for long. At night, he saw that the black snake ignored him, so he had no choice but to leave.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he came out of the cave, there was a sound of water coming out from behind him. As soon as he turned around, there was another “Plop!”
There was a muffled sound of a heavy object falling into the water. The speed was so fast that it didn’t even leave an afterimage.
Wan Zhong: “…”
What should he do if he really made the black snake scared of him?
Sometimes he felt like he was the terrifying beast between the two of them.
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Wan Zhong went to the cliff and found that after a few days, the snake skin shed its water and evaporated, making it no longer wet. It was still as silky as satin, showing no signs of drying out.
“Huh? Can’t you dry it in the sun?”
Wan Zhong didn’t know much about snakes, and he had the impression that snake skin could be dried in the sun. But why didn’t the skin of the black snake dry in the sun?
After waiting for a few more days and seeing that the snake skin could not be dried, he stopped tossing it.
He carefully rolled up the snake slough like a carpet, and found that no matter how long the snake skin was exposed to the sun, it was still bone-chillingly cold.
Wan Zhong tried to tear it apart with his hands.
The snake skin had no elasticity, but it was so strong that it couldn’t be torn no matter how hard you apply it.
“This…”
Wan Zhong immediately felt an instinctive awe of this magical snake skin and did not dare to think about eating it anymore.
He didn’t know how to deal with it now. He wanted to throw it off the cliff, but he was a little reluctant to let it go.
Wan Zhong was hesitating when he suddenly felt a naked and direct gaze behind him prying at him openly. He couldn’t ignore it even if he wanted to.
Wan Zhong sighed softly and turned around helplessly. Sure enough, before he could catch anything from the corner of his eye, the black snake that was hiding at the entrance of the cave and peeking at him suddenly disappeared again.
Since the last time the black snake peeked at him with a mirror and set the leaves around his waist on fire, he had learned to behave. Now it peeked on its own and went into battle in person. If he reacted faster, he might be able to catch its little tail.
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Wan Zhong carefully avoided the scales scattered randomly on the ground, returned to the cave, and faced the bubbling water in the southeast corner and asked: “Handsome snake, are you feeling better yet? Why are you always hiding at the bottom of the pool and not coming out? Could it be that you have changed skin, are you shy and afraid that I will see you?”
A certain snake that turned into a voyeur after shedding its skin did not come out and was spitting bubbles.
Wan Zhong waited for a long time and saw that it had made up its mind that it did not want to see him. He went back and continued to think about what to do with the snake skin.
As soon as he sat down, another green sight immediately stuck to his back.
If that look had substance, it would have made two holes poke out of him.
Wan Zhong pretended not to notice at first, and after pretending to be busy for a while, he suddenly looked over unprepared, and finally caught the tip of the black snake’s tail peeking at him.
“Handsome—”
Before Wan Zhong could finish his words, a snake that peeked at him ran away in a hurry. It probably hid in the pond again.
Wan Zhong was speechless and didn’t know what to do. The biology teacher never taught him what to do if a snake refused to see people after shedding its skin.
Wan Zhong was really afraid that the black snake would soak itself to death, but he couldn’t care less about it, he lowered his head and continued to do his own thing.
He made up his mind and started tinkering with the snake skin, he tried scratching it with a knife and poking it with any sharp object. The snake skin was intact and the quality was incredible.
Wan Zhong sat in the shade and wiped the sweat from his head, watching the scales of the black snake falling on the ground emit a cold and dazzling light under the sunlight.
He had tried to collect these scales before, but the edges of those scales were sharper than blades. Even if he wrapped his hands with clothes, they would not work, so he left them alone without daring to move.
Now maybe he could use the scales to cut off the snake skin?
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Wan Zhong found a calf-high scale stuck in the ground, flattened the snake skin and placed it on the edge of the scale. After pulling the skin up and down a few times, the snake skin that had previously been unable to be broken was slowly cut open.
As soon as Wan Zhong found the way, he started making underwear for himself with the snake skin without stopping…
The black snake, hidden in the shadows with a mirror, observed every move of his spouse.
He watched as Wan Zhong crafted various clothes from the shed snake skin. Not only did Wan Zhong wear them, but he also wrapped the snake skin around his body with a delighted smile.
It seemed like someone was overly fascinated with himself, admiring his own reflection. The black snake opened his thin lips slightly and spat out a scarlet snake tongue.
[Mirror, mirror.]
[I believe he has been captivated by my irresistible charm, impressed, and has surrendered beneath my powerful and exceptionally beautiful snake tail.]
[But I still want to know.]
[Which one of us boasts the most handsome and stunning visage in the world?]
In simpler terms…
‘Will he still appreciate me as he did before?’