Snake Tangled Three Dreams

Chapter 1 The Snake Girl

My name is Bai Tingyue, and I was born just in time for the Awakening of Insects in solar terms.

That day, there was a thunderstorm and heavy rain outside. Everyone saw the long snakes in the back mountain that had just woken up from the cave crawled out of the grass, rushing towards my house as if they were rushing.

Countless snakes braved the thunderstorm and surrounded my house densely. All of them were straight and spit out letters, and they looked through the door eagerly.

My mother gave birth to me for three days and three nights, and those snakes stayed outside the house for three days and three nights.

The moment I landed, my mother died, and I only cried three times, no more, no less.

The group of snakes outside heard the crying of the baby. The heads of the snakes bent to the ground, and they all began to worship towards the house, and then slowly dispersed and left like the ebbing tide.

The midwife who delivered me was trembling with fear of the snake, until she saw two red marks on my wrist, she suddenly yelled "Snake girl" in horror, and ran away without cutting the umbilical cord.

Those two red dots were born on the inner side of my left wrist, like two bright red cinnabar moles, and also like a pair of bright tooth marks.

Some people in the village said that this is the brand that the snake branded on me, and it will ask me to collect debts from now on.Others said, this is the snake's curse, and I will surely bring disasters because of it in the future.

As for the snake, we have to start from 18 years ago.

I heard that when my mother was still pregnant with me, she saved my father from the mouth of a big black-scaled snake.

That day the heavy rain washed away the mountain road back to the village, and a dark coffin rolled down the mountain along with the gravel and mud, and happened to hit my dad who was rushing to repair the road at that time.

The coffin fell to the ground with a bang, the lid tipped over and shattered, a strong scent of sweet-scented osmanthus mixed with the smell of spirits filled the rain, and then everyone present saw with their own eyes a big snake with a bowl-sized mouth staggering out of the coffin .

There were two triangular bulges on the top of the snake's head, and its black scales were shiny and clear. The snake bent and twisted a few times, and slowly lay cross-legged in front of the coffin, surrounding my dad like it was guarding a prey.

No one has ever seen such a big snake, not to mention that this snake does not look like an ordinary thing, no one dared to approach it rashly for a while.

When my mother heard that something happened to my father, she rushed to find him alone in the rain, and bravely kowtowed to the snake on the spot. The blood on her forehead was mixed with the rain, and she just begged it to let me go. Dad has a way out.

The snake suddenly raised its head, and it snaked its body and swam towards my mother. Its two golden snake eyes stared straight at her belly, and it stretched out its snake letter and touched it lightly.

Just when everyone thought that my mother was going to be swallowed by a snake, suddenly a gust of wind and rain and fog blinded everyone's eyes, and when people came back to their senses, the big snake had disappeared.

My dad saved his life, but from then on, my mom started dreaming about snakes every night.

At first, she only dreamed that the big snake covered in black scales raised its head and coiled in the distance, looking at her faintly with a pair of vertical pupils.

Later, as the months got bigger and bigger, she started to sleepwalk frequently, often running silently to the wild mountain behind the village in the middle of the night, and when someone found her the next day, she lay on her back like a snake with her arms and legs upright. In the mud, with his head raised slightly, his eyes turned white, and his mouth made a "hissing" sound like a snake spitting out a letter.

The old people in the village said that my mother was dreamed of being entangled by a snake, and there must be a snake girl in her stomach.

A snake girl is actually a girl who is missed by a snake. According to the old man's words, such a child is branded in the mother's womb, and will be picked up by things in the mountains in the future.

My mother gave birth to me regardless, but she lost her life.

I don’t know if it is true that the saying of “snake girl” is true, I was born with those two red marks on my hands, and for several years, snakes gathered at my house every Dragon Boat Festival.

My dad tried all the realgar insect medicines and couldn't get rid of them. He had to lead me out to worship the snakes before they would leave slowly.

Until the age of seven, a one-eyed old woman called Granny Mei came to the village.

She came to my house to find me, and said that she could save me from being dirty and change my life. My dad couldn't wish more, and he agreed immediately.

Then Grandma Mei took out a blood-red gecko and a small silver snake, threw them into the medicine mortar together with a piece of pure white jade and crushed them, and then smeared the paste on the red spot on my wrist.

Miraculously, the two red dots just disappeared, leaving no trace.

She also gave my dad a one-legged rooster to keep in the yard, and told me not to mention to anyone that I had such a mark on my wrist in the future.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, the snakes did not come again.

But everything didn't end there, and what happened next was even more frightening.

I, a "snake girl", was born different from other children. Not only was I beautiful and beautiful, but I was also dumb until I was seven years old.

After finally being able to speak, the first thing I said was to point to an old man in the village and say "you are dying".

At the beginning, people just thought I was a child talking nonsense, but three days later, that person died in an accident.

Not only was his death ugly, but the corpse was also covered with dense live snakes.

After that, this happened several times one after another, and everyone in the village said that I, the snake girl, cursed people to death.Only a few old people murmured with trembling hands, and kept whispering "Retribution is coming".

My dad beat me more than once because of this and ordered me to stop talking nonsense.

But gradually, he also became suspicious and jealous of me, and like those people outside, he thought that I was a snake girl with an unknown birth.

The stepmother Liu Fangyun saw that my father didn't want to see me, and she also started to treat me badly.My younger sister, Bai Mengyue, can't see me having a hard time even more, but whenever I have something good, she will grab it domineeringly.

Granny Mei used some folk methods to deal with the corpses that had been eaten by snakes, and told me not to be afraid, and not to reveal the snake language I heard to others.

Later, I realized that I was different from others, and these "kind reminders" were not accepted by others. As I got older, I gradually learned to keep my mouth shut.

Time flies, 18 years have passed in a blink of an eye, and another year of Dragon Boat Festival is approaching.

But for some reason, starting from the night before, every night in my dream, I would see a big black snake coiled in the distance, spitting out scarlet snake letters, and staring at it with those green eyes stared at me.

This has been the case for several days in a row. Every time I wake up, I am covered in cold sweat, and it takes a long time to catch my breath before I can recover.

I know my mother dreamed about snakes all the time when she was pregnant with me, but for no reason, why did I also start dreaming about snakes?

I rubbed my drowsy temples, remembering that there was still a lot of laundry to be done, so I simply put on my clothes and got out of bed, and went to the backyard with my shoes on.

While washing, suddenly there was a damp earthy smell in the air, followed by a rustling sound in the grass outside.

I looked up and saw countless snakes swarming into the grass and into my backyard!
The big flower snake headed by it meandered to me, slowly opened its mouth, then rolled its throat, and spit out a red jade bead the size of a longan from its mouth.

The bead was as if soaked in blood, so red and translucent, it rolled all the way to my feet.

I was so frightened that I took a big step back, only to see the flower snake spit out a snake letter and make a human voice.

"Snake beads are the appointment, and the Bai family's daughter orders them. When the wedding comes, Wan Snake will carry the sedan chair."

After all, the group of snakes bowed to me three times, leaving behind the ruby ​​bead, and slowly crawled back to the grass.

I was stunned by these sudden snakes and beads, and those strange snake language kept echoing in my mind.

Before I recovered, I suddenly heard my younger sister Bai Mengyue screaming in the front yard. Immediately afterwards, my father's violent cursing came from the front yard.

I hurriedly kicked the bead into the grass, and ran to the front yard in a panic, and when I saw it, I was stunned on the spot.

I saw snakes of different sizes crawling everywhere in the yard of my house, and the one-legged rooster that had been raised for more than ten years was lying in the pile of snakes.

"It's such a short-lived ghost. These snakes haven't reappeared for more than ten years. Why did they suddenly appear again today!" My stepmother yelled and dragged Bai Mengyue to hide behind my father.

My dad saw me coming, turned his head and yelled at me with a dark face: "Who told you to come out, go back to the house!"

In the current scene, I didn't dare to tell him about the snake beads, so I had to turn around and go back to the house honestly.

Unexpectedly, as soon as I entered the room, I saw the red jade snake bead that I kicked into the grass unexpectedly appeared on my table.

Suddenly, I seemed to hear someone laughing.

The laughter was cold and terrifying, vaguely mixed with hissing snake language.

"Snake beads are the appointment, and the Bai family's daughter orders them. When the wedding comes, Wan Snake will carry the sedan chair..."

(End of this chapter)