dream village

"Brother Tao, why is this snake shedding its skin?" Xue'er asked.

"Have you ever seen a Peking Opera movie "Chasing Fish", in which the carp essence endured hell-like pains before shedding its fish scales and transforming into a human being. This is how a snake sheds its skin. When I was a child, I saw a small snake shed its skin. The skin starts to fall off from its head first, and peels off from the body little by little. The snake needs to keep crawling to let the skin leave the body. At this time, the snake is the most painful, the most vulnerable, and the most dangerous. Because the skin is slow Slowly fading from front to back is like wearing shackles on a person, making it inconvenient to move and most vulnerable to other animals.”

After mourning for the snake and praying, Gen Gen interjected: "You young people don't understand, this snake is actually a kind animal, if you don't mess with it, it won't take the initiative to attack people at all."

These words naturally made Zhang Tao uncomfortable, and even the gentle Xue'er showed displeasure.Zhang Tao really wanted to sarcastically, to give Gengen a bitter resentment, but Gengen seemed to know that the two young men were angry, so he changed the topic tactfully.

"Snakes have nine difficulties. Buddhists call them kalpas. Ordinary people have kalpas, gods have kalpas, animals have kalpas, and even plants have kalpas. If you survive a catastrophe, you will have future blessings. If people survive the kalpas safely, they will be happy. When the doom comes, you may become an immortal, like Marshal Canopy and General Rolling Curtain in Journey to the West; the doom of animals may be the most difficult and the most difficult, and they will become gods and immortals when they are cultivated. A carp cannot jump Yumen , it can only be eaten by people or other fish." Gen Gen, a Buddhist believer, talked eloquently.

Zhang Tao and Xue'er couldn't help but look at each other, where did the old man talk?

"Let's go! Let him chatter here alone!" After Zhang Tao finished speaking, he coiled the snake around his neck, put the two rabbits in the back basket, and picked up those little bastards and put them in Xue'er's fish basket inside.

"Hey! Why don't you just leave?" Seeing that Zhang Tao and the others didn't pay any attention to his knowledge, he stopped talking and asked anxiously. When he asked this question, his eyes were fixed on Zhang Tao's neck with twinkling eyes. snake.

"What's the matter! Do you want to bury this snake and set up a monument for it?" Zhang Tao mocked.

"What are you talking about? This belief in Buddhism is a kind of belief of people, and it can also be said to be a kind of spiritual sustenance."

After a pause, Gengen said with a sullen face again: "Isn't there another word? The Buddha sits in his heart, and the wine and meat pass through his intestines. Isn't it a pity that such a big snake is buried?" He concealed his desire to salivate over snake flesh.

Zhang Tao looked at Gengen's fear of locks with amused expression, this dead Gengen was as sad as if his parents had died just now, but now he is greedy for delicious snake meat.He deliberately wanted to be anxious, deliberately did not answer, and walked up the mountain with his head buried.

"Wow! You have caught so many rabbits, Tugu, you are so amazing! No wonder I heard shouts from here." Gengen followed Zhang Tao and said out of words.

"Really?" Zhang Tao replied coldly.

"What a formidable young man! You don't know, there are many people who specialize in snake hunting for this snake, but none of them succeeded." Gen Gen admired.

Is not this nonsensical?They succeeded, where did my snake come from?It seems that he will not be reconciled if he does not take a share of Zhang Tao's pie.

"Tugu, those classmates of yours are really interesting. Almost half of the things they pick are not edible." Seeing that his words couldn't pry Zhang Tao's mouth open, he asked Zhang Tao for something he might be interested in. stand up.

"Didn't I tell them to only pick the things I brought them to identify?" Zhang Tao asked strangely.

"It's true, these people all look alike, not to mention these wild things? If you look at the bubbles they picked, many of them are poisonous snake bubbles. There are also many mushrooms that are not edible." After a pause, he said flatteringly to Zhang Tao: "Don't worry about this matter, I already told them to throw away all the unedible things. Now they are all sleeping on the grass on the top of the mountain!"

Zhang Tao said with an oh: "Then I have to thank you very much!"

He deliberately dragged on the following words for a long time, trembling with joy, pricking up his ears and waiting for Zhang Tao to say thank you, but after waiting for a long time, there was nothing.

Gengen is angry, this Situ Gunaizi, such a big snake, do you want to eat it alone?Although this snake is not raised by my family, it is also from the mountain forest I guard, so it has something to do with me.Besides, the hunting rules are for those who have seen them. Could it be that you have forgotten these rules after studying for a few years?What's more, you played with me when you were young, and I took care of you a lot!Now Baba is asking you for a piece of snake meat, are you also so stingy?

What a ruthless guy, he kicked a stone far away from his feet with hatred, and poured his anger on this innocent stone.

Zhang Tao suddenly remembered that he was entrusted to guard the Luozishan ancient tomb, so he told him about it immediately.

"The straight-line distance between the two mountains is not far, but it would be a little difficult to walk there to catch the thief." Gengen said hesitantly.

Zhang Tao said: "I don't want you to catch thieves. There are tomb robbers. You just need to ring the gong and shout a few times. People in the nearby villages will definitely hear you." Before you come to dig the tomb, I will pay you 50 yuan for every day you watch.”

After listening to such a simple matter, Gengen immediately said straightforwardly: "Okay! Leave this to me. Don't think I'm old, but I still have good eyesight. I know the place you mentioned. During the day, I will He could see clearly in front of the house where he lived. At night, if he wanted to dig the grave, he had to turn on the lights. If the lights were off, there would be some noises, which would definitely be heard at night. These days I just Just stay inside and don’t go out, anyway, it’s impossible for anyone to go up the mountain in the season of double grabbing. As for the matter of money or not, what is the relationship between us? Isn’t that hard to say?”

Speaking of this, he stroked the snake on Zhang Tao's shoulder with his hand, and then pulled the words to the snake. It seemed that the 50 yuan was far from worth the temptation of the snake to him.

"The whole body of this snake is full of treasures! Snake is not only a delicacy, but also a very precious Chinese medicinal material. Snake head, snake eyes, snake slough, snake gall, snake liver, snake ointment, snake venom, etc. can be used as medicine. Snake skin can also be used as medicine. You can play the erhu and the tambourine. It's a pity that the snake blood was wasted for nothing."

Gengen sighed and continued, "Take this snake blood as wine, it can dispel wind and dampness, and has unique curative effects on various rheumatism." Painful.