Baby with Daoist Monarch System

Chapter 579: Chapter 230: Serving the Snake God

”Right!” The physician suddenly thought, ”Village head, how did your wife get snake venom? Our Chicken Edge Village has never had such an incident before?”

Since its establishment, Chicken Edge Village had never had an incident of anyone being harmed by a poisonous snake—how did it happen today? And in the middle of the night, no less.

It’s not just the physician who wanted to know the answer to this, even Zhang Hao wanted to know.

He also wanted to understand why a poisonous snake would intrude into his chicken coop in the dead of night, and instantly kill half of the chickens there.

With a situation like this, who could he go to for an explanation?

But he was the village head, after all.

”I will let the village know about tonight’s incident first thing tomorrow morning, so they can take precautions in advance.”

The physician nodded, ”If that’s the case, I won’t disturb the rest of you then, but if there’s any issue with your wife, feel free to call me.”

Anyway, the whole village would know what happened by tomorrow. There was no immediate rush.

After saying this, he left the sickroom to get some sleep.

...

Early the next morning.

The physician’s apprentice went around the village beating a gong, shouting, ”All villagers, gather immediately at the village entrance, the village head has important matters to announce!!”

”All villagers, gather immediately at the village entrance, the village head has important matters to announce!!”

...

Soon, just like the previous day, a crowd gathered at the entrance of Chicken Edge Village. Only this time, it was not for amusement, but rather because it concerned themselves.

As soon as the village head saw everyone gathered, he whispered into the physician’s apprentice’s ear, ”Go out and look around the outskirts of the village, see if you can find that madman who appeared at the village entrance yesterday.”

The apprentice nodded, put down the gong, and walked out of the village.

Zhang Hao looked at everyone and said, ”Now, time is pressing, let me get straight to the point.”

”Last night, a poisonous snake appeared in my chicken coop, killed more than half of the chickens, and my wife was bitten by the snake as well.”

The villagers, upon hearing this, all showed expressions of sympathy mixed with a bit of apprehension.

”The village head’s chicken coop must have had at least a thousand chickens. Losing half of them is a big loss.”

”A poisonous snake? How could a poisonous snake appear in Chicken Edge Village?”

”Exactly, in all these years, there haven’t even been sightings of small snakes in Chicken Edge Village, let alone a poisonous one.”

”Village head, is the village head’s wife alright?”

”That young man beside the village head earlier is the physician’s apprentice, so it means the physician already knows about this, indicating that there’s nothing serious.”

...

Listening to the murmurs of the villagers, Zhang Hao said, ”Everyone, my wife is fine now, thank you all for your concern.”

”The reason I called everyone here so early is that I need to take my wife to Great Wilderness Border Village for a thorough treatment, and also to remind everyone to be cautious of poisonous snakes.”

Just as he finished speaking, a trembling voice suddenly emerged from the crowd.

”Do you still remember the madman from Stone Village who appeared at the village entrance yesterday?”

This statement immediately sparked a buzz among the villagers.

”Yes, we remember, didn’t the village head drive that madman away?”

”The point isn’t driving him away, but what he said...”

With this villager’s reminder, everyone who was present yesterday recalled.

”Stone Village offended the Snake God, which brought divine punishment, resulting in the entire village perishing.”

”Indeed, that madman also said yesterday that the village head’s disrespect for the Snake God would bring retribution from the Snake God.”

Upon hearing this, the villagers present slowly turned to look at Zhang Hao, stepping back slightly to avoid potential trouble.

”Hmph!” Zhang Hao snorted coldly, ”As the village head, I kindly reminded you all to watch out for your safety, and you are now distancing yourselves from me just because of a madman’s words?”

In fact, Zhang Hao had already thought about the madman from Stone Village last night, which is why he asked the apprentice to find him, hoping to extract some information from him.

In other words, he suspected that the poisonous snake in Chicken Edge Village was brought by that madman.

But he never imagined that he would end up being alienated by the villagers.

”Village head, you can’t blame us. That madman said those words just yesterday, and then last night, your family had an incident. It’s hard for us not to associate the two!” a villager spoke up.

”Exactly, village head, why don’t we bring back the villager from Stone Village? Maybe we can find a solution.”

”Hmph!!” Zhang Hao looked at them coldly and said, ”I have already sent someone to look for him.”

”But it’s not because of any so-called Snake God, it’s because I suspect that he brought the poisonous snake here. Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence?”

Zhang Hao spoke with righteousness.

However, in the eyes of the villagers, there was doubt and disbelief.

Who knows whether you’re telling the truth or not, maybe you’re just trying to cover something up?

But considering Zhang Hao is the village head, they thought it best not to make the situation too tense, just have a bit of suspicion.

”Not good... Not good...”

At this time, a familiar voice came from outside the village, and everyone looked in the direction of the sound. It was indeed the apprentice Zhang Hao had sent out to find someone.

Even though he was running back, it was clear from his expression that he was extremely terrified, as if he’d seen something horrifying.

The apprentice quickly ran back into the village, bent over, panting heavily.

Zhang Hao handed him a glass of water, saying, ”Take your time, regain your composure first, then tell us what happened?”

The apprentice gulped down the water in one go, with his hands trembling, causing quite a bit of the water to spill from the corners of his mouth.