All Chapters of Ten Months Pregnant with Snakes: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Twelve years ago, in the year of the Snake. I had been gravely ill for no apparent reason, and had a fever throughout the year. No matter what we tried it could not be cured. One midnight toward the end of the year, I watched in a daze as a big white snake slithered into my bed and climbed up my leg. The snake's coarse scales rubbed against my skin—it was painful and itchy at the same time.I was terrified but did not dare to shout. I watched as the big white snake moved under my blanket throughout the night until the next day when Grandmother threw aside the blanket to carry me up. The moment she lifted the blanket, the smell of urine hit us right in the nose, but the snake was nowhere to be seen. Grandmother slapped me on the bum and asked me why I had wet the bed. I told her that a snake had crawled into my bed last night, but she did not believe me and asked what was going through my mind. We were not staying in some village in the mountains; where would a snake even come from

Who would want to be an animal’s wife? Even an idiot would know what to pick! There were so many handsome guys out there. Why would I choose to be married to a snake?I immediately picked the first option, and said to the snake-possessed Yinggu, “Then I’ll choose to be your shaman and help you cultivate as long as you stop harming my family.”It was as if he was reading my mind because Yinggu’s eyes narrowed and he snorted, “Don’t you look down on me. If you marry me you’d be able to live a comfortable life. But since you chose to be my disciple… Don’t regret it.”“No regrets. No regrets!” I quickly kowtowed in front of Yinggu in gratitude. However, she had stopped talking to me. Her whole body fell forward to the ground and her eyes rolled back. She flopped on the floor like a fish a few times and then slowly recovered. I helped Yinggu off the ground. She massaged her waist and—still with that neutral tone from earlier—told me, “There are so many things that you could’ve been. Wh

The way Wang Hong talked was as if I owed him something!I felt a surge of unhappiness and immediately ushered him out. “So what if I’m being cruel! Go away! If you weren’t the most popular guy in our high school, I wouldn’t even have spared you the time of day. If not for that, you wouldn’t even have been able to step inside my house!”“When did you get such a rude temper? Please listen to what I have to say, Bai Jing... “Wang Hong was still standing outside the door pleading to me. I proceeded to shut the door in his face, not wanting to bother with his yapping. However, it seemed like Liu Longting built the bridges to this issue with Wang Hong himself. It looked like he might actually care about this matter quite a bit. If I chased Wang Hong away and he found out, would I not be punished?I hesitated for a bit and then made up my mind. Who cares? No matter what kind of punishment, he still needed me. So long as he did not remove the snakes in my stomach, I would not help him.

I was so scared at that moment that my heart could jump out. If it were not for Liu Longting possessing me, my legs would probably be too weak to stand up. We were staring at each other for almost ten seconds when that horrifying woman’s face suddenly warped into panic, as if reacting to something. She pushed Li Juan aside and quickly tried to flee toward the wall. Liu Longting naturally did not give her the chance as he quickly chanted an incantation and slapped his palm on the wall. It was as if he had locked the wall up because when the lady aggressively rammed into the wall she bounced back onto the floor. However, she did not give up and kept trying to crawl toward the wall while avoiding Liu Longting like the plague. Her sharp nails were speedily scratching at the surface of the wall, emitting a sharp and horrible sound!Seeing her struggle like that, the few small shadows on the wall tried to pull the woman in in futility. However, as their power was unable to penetrate the s

“Mountain God’s Marriage?” That sounded like some television drama, or maybe the plot of a story. Was there actually such a thing? “Nope, but I might’ve read it in a book,” I answered Grandmother. “Yesterday I went to Grandma Li’s house downstairs to chat and she told me about a strange custom from her hometown. She said that every ten years, they would need to pick a young child no older than 13 years of age to be wed to the Mountain God. They said it would bless them with a good harvest and allow them to be free of disaster and sickness.”If I had heard this back then, I definitely would not have believed what Grandmother said and dismissed it as superstition. However, I was proof of the existence of superstition so I did not reject the idea of such a thing. I smiled at Grandmother and asked, “Those are all determined by nature. Even if there was a mountain god, if the heavens really wanted natural disasters and plagues to befall them, how could he control it?”“Indeed, with

I did not dare to believe my ears! Liu Longting wanted to sacrifice me to the Mountain God?!“Doesn’t this god want girls who have not reached 13? I’m way past that age. He wouldn’t want me,” I told Liu Longting.“It’s fine. To any being that has lived past a few hundred to a thousand years, age is just an approximation. Thirteen and twenty looks pretty much the same outwardly. The main differentiators are bodily attributes. A child below thirteen years of age would have a smooth, clean body. As long as you shave all the hair below your neck clean and dress up like a child, you can definitely pass off as the real thing.”The hair below my neck, other than armpit hair there was still that area. Having a man like Liu Longting standing in front of me and saying all those things made me feel awkward. “Other than this, is there any other way?” I asked Liu Longting, embarrassed. Liu Longting probably guessed what I was thinking and refused to give me a way out. “This is the simplest w

”What do you mean? Do you want to eat my flesh, or do you want to have sex with me?” I asked the man.After all, I had read my fair share of trashy romance novels and the term ‘I want to eat you’ was definitely open for interpretation. Perhaps my question was funny, but the man’s hand holding onto the tangerine dropped, and he excitedly asked me, “Why aren’t you scared of me? You’re not even crying!”Of course I was scared! I was so scared I wanted to immediately run down the mountain. Who would want to be with this supernatural thing? If he really wanted to kill me, it would be as easy as killing an ant. However, I could not show him fear since I still needed to trick him into eating the pill later, thus I told him, “You’re so good-looking. Who would be afraid of a good-looking person?”The man smiled and handed the tangerine in his hand to me. He looked to be in a good mood and sat down on a chair next to me. He asked, “Interesting. Why don’t you tell me what looks good about me

Do not tell me the Mountain God’s spirit possessed my body??However, I did not think that was possible. Besides, if he really did possess my body, Liu Longting would have realized. Those few hundred small snakes slowly become wisps of smoke after swallowing the Mountain God’s flesh and blood, disappearing from our sight. Currently, aside from traces of blood across the floor, the temple was the definition of silence. It was so serene that only the sound of Liu Longting and my breathing could be heard. “Ughh…!”I whimpered to get Liu Longting’s attention just to remind him not to forget about me. When Liu Longting heard me, he turned around and looked at me. Seeing that I could not talk and was lying down on the chair unmoving, he smiled and asked, “Why did you eat the pill?” Was that not a dumb question? If I had not eaten that thing, would he have gotten the chance to ambush the Mountain God? However, I could not talk so I gathered my strength and let out a few more whi

I had not even graduated from college. How could I simply look for someone to marry? Discounting the number of officials who could possibly still be single, in this day and age, how many youngsters would be deeply religious? Would I have to look for some old man in his thirties or forties to marry?I thought it was not very realistic, but I could not think of a better way so I asked Yinggu if she had any cases for me. Seeing that I intended to help her solve her cases, she quickly turned around and retrieved a few contact details from the drawer of her bedside table. She told me that the few houses were more urgent as they were last month’s cases. It was not convenient for her to head out, so she could only rely on me. I took contact details she had in hand, and before I could even ask Yinggu for more details, people started shouting at Yinggu from the outside to hurry up. Yinggu muttered a few curses in frustration. Not having enough time to give me more details, she just asked m

After getting an understanding of the situation, I hung up the phone. I asked Liu Longting how we should proceed; after all, they were of the same species. Listening to what Ma Jianguo had to say, Liu Longting’s expression remained unchanged. He told me we did not need to prepare anything to deal with that and could head there right away.Ma Jianguo’s house was quite a distance from mine. It was in Tieling, and I did not have a car yet so all I could do was get a train ticket. It was an approximately six-hour journey! I thought that I would have to suffer alone on the train, but unexpectedly just as I was heading out, Liu Longting casually told me to prepare his luggage. He would be sitting on the train with me. That was going to be awkward. I did not mind if he accompanied me, but why would he want to sit on the train with me. Furthermore, I did not have much to talk about with Liu Longting—it would be uncomfortable to sit together. However, since Liu Longting wanted to, I wo