My Demon Husband Is a Snake

"All right, as soon as the temple fair ends, you leave."

I reluctantly agreed, "Yang Xi, let's walk around."

"Okay, Sister Yuanyuan." Yang Xi was a young man of eighteen or nineteen, resembling a young Master Yang.

His face wasn't as handsome as the cloaked man who had died last night, but he was still quite fair-looking and was considered one of the better-looking ones in the village.

Much better than Chen Ahmao with his bulky, rough-looking ruggedness.

Along the way, almost every household had their doors wide open, facilitating the entry of newly chopped bamboo.

This, in turn, made it easier for me to check out the situation.

Women usually handled the task of shaving bamboo strips, and nearly every household had a woman doing so.

The spider net frames made of bamboo strips were placed in the yards.

In each compartment of the spider net frame, there was a human-faced spider spinning silk.

You could see men of the family chopping bamboo while the women wove the spider net frames.

The children in the family were responsible for cutting the bloody beef to feed the human-faced spiders in the compartments of the spider net frames.

There were even children who, under the watchful eyes of the elders at home,

cut open their own fingers, crying as they fed these human-faced spiders with fresh blood.

Seeing this made my heart involuntarily clench, and I turned my head away from such scenes, "Yang Xi, when did the village start cultivating Heavenly Spiders, and why do they do it?"

"Sorry, Sister Yuanyuan, I... am not very clear," Yang Xi said with embarrassed discomfort, "All I know is that a year ago, everyone suddenly started cultivating Heavenly Spiders. Others did it, so my family followed."

Heavenly Spider Cultivation required Ghost Bamboo and also needed human blood for feeding.

Even if the price for the spider silk was high, there should have been some objections.

"Damn! With so many spiders, what about those who have arachnophobia?" Chen Ahmao looked around and saw spiders crawling densely on the spider net frames of every household, a look of creepiness on his face.

My mind kept pondering the reason behind the whole village raising spiders.

Suddenly, I saw an elderly blind man in one of the houses.

Unlike others, who bled on the compartments, he placed his entire palm on the spider net frame,

letting the spiders bite through his hand to suck the blood directly.

I paused in my steps and walked in.

Yang Xi jumped in fright and urgently tried to stop me, "Sister Yuanyuan, don't go in, that's Grandpa De's home. He's highly respected in the village."

"Grandpa De, I am Chen Yuanyuan from the village next door." I completely disregarded Yang Xi's words and straightforwardly started conversing with the elder, "Our village also wants to cultivate Heavenly Spiders to earn money, but for some reason, the Heavenly Spiders don't survive in our village."

"You're from Niuyan Village, right? You refuse to believe in the Five Passages God, how could the Divine Oracle reach your unclean land?" The elder said disdainfully, his face filled with hostility.

But my heart leaped with joy, and I bowed my head, squatting in front of the elder, "Yes, I am from Niuyan Village. All the people in our village have come to an understanding and decided to believe in the Five Passages God, but... what is the Divine Oracle? Has the deity ever bestowed a Divine Oracle upon you?"

I put all my effort into speaking in the most sincere tone I had ever used in my life to this elder.

Perhaps my sincerity moved him, as the disdain and hostility on his face faded, replaced by a sense of recognition.

"One year ago, the Five Passages God bestowed a Divine Oracle,"

said the elder, his face devout and proud as he spoke of the Divine Oracle, "He commanded everyone to cultivate Heavenly Spiders, which are sacred insects descended from the Immortal Realm! Not only can they make us wealthy, but they can also bring us good luck, hmph, the people of your village are just too ignorant, only now coming to realize their error."