Snake Tangled Three Dreams

Chapter 25
The clues close at hand were abruptly interrupted with the death of the old man, and the only chance to touch the secrets of the back mountain was also blocked by the old lady behind this gate.

In fact, the elders in the village are not limited to the uncle and his family. Maybe ask other people, maybe there are other clues.

But I didn't dare anymore. The old lady's words just now were like a cold wind passing through the country, which made me calm down suddenly, and those thoughts disappeared.

After all, human life is too precious to bet on.

Fortunately, the eggs in the basket were not damaged. I leaned against the door frame and put the basket away. Through the door and window, I told the old lady that the old man’s body must be processed before cremation, and then I turned and left the house of the two old people.

I didn't go home right away, instead I wandered all over the village along the village roads and alleys, trying to find the evil flower snake.

This thing has harmed people, and I know so many things, I'm not sure what to do with it after I find it, but when I think of its warning and the tearful face of the old lady, I'm so upset, I always want it pay the price.

But I almost searched all the eaves and garden trees of every house, but I didn’t see the trace of the flower snake. Instead, wherever I went, some snakes would gather one after another, so that the villagers who saw it Fear and suspicion are born.

Within a few days, rumors spread throughout the village again, and everyone said that the curse on my body had summoned these snakes, and that I, a snake girl, was doomed to destroy the entire village.

The scary thing is that ordinary realgar snake medicine has no effect on those snakes, and no one can control these long insects when Granny Mei is not around. They even began to enter the house and hide in the dark corners of every house.

Many villagers were bitten by snakes at home. In addition to feeling pain, they also experienced various abnormalities one after another.

I don't know exactly what happened. I heard that the village head was afraid of causing panic among the villagers, so he quietly blocked the news, and gathered those who had been bitten by snakes in a spacious room at the end of the village. No one is allowed to visit the food delivery person in private.

For so many days, apart from the many snakes coiled on the yard and eaves of the Bai family, not a single snake dared to set foot in the house.

I don't know if there is Liu Wangzhi's protection among them, but at least within the scope of the Bai family's house, they will not be harmed by those eager snakes outside.

My dad hated to hear rumors about me the most. For the sake of the Bai family's face, and also to clarify the relationship with those things, he locked me at home again and didn't let me take a step out of the door.

Special times are not suitable for arguing with him. At first I pretended to cooperate, stayed at home honestly for a few days, and used the situation in the village to persuade him to agree to reconcile with Liu Wangzhi first for the sake of the overall situation.

But my father refused to live and die, and stayed with me and Mengyue mother and daughter at Bai's house every day, never leaving the gate, as if nothing happened if the fire couldn't burn me.

Now the village has been reduced to the territory of those snakes. If they are allowed to continue, who knows what a good village will become.

I couldn't sit still, so I sneaked around to the wall of the backyard while my dad was dozing off at noon, picked up the bamboo poles on the side and blasted the snakes away, dragged the bamboo poles back to the ground, and stepped on them , With hands and feet, he turned over the wall of his own house.

After just a few days of not going out, the village road is already deserted.

In the past, the villagers would pick vegetables and peel garlic at the door of each house, and chat about homework by the way. The laughter and cicadas are sandwiched together, which is the most common and lively.Under the big tree on the side of the road, there are always people moving small stools and square tables, playing cards and chess, and old men standing around holding pipes and chattering.

Now there is no one in the avenues and alleys in front of me, the lush treetops are all occupied by snakes, and there is not a single eaves in the courtyard.

The doors of every house were closed tightly, and even the windows were not dared to open, for fear that if a snake slipped in, he would be locked in the big room at the end of the village.

The scorching sun was shining on the empty village road, and I looked up at the glaring and white Xia Yang. I never felt that summer was so desolate and quiet.

I swung the bamboo pole I brought from home to drive away the snakes that were approaching, and I grabbed the realgar medicine bag tied to my waist, and hurried towards the taboo house at the end of the village.
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This is a farmhouse that has been vacant for a long time. The owner heard that he was killed by a snake more than ten years ago. The death condition is so ugly that people who have seen it have had nightmares for several days. Later, even if the house has been dealt with It was clean, and no one dared to live in it. Over time, it was abandoned.

The bungalows that have not been renovated for a long time are mottled and old. After years of wind and rain, the yellowed walls are covered with large black mold spots.

I stood in the middle of the yard and looked around. It was obviously the summer when the vegetation was growing wildly, but there was no grass growing in this yard. The bare dead trees were covered with snakes of all sizes, like a spirit-calling banner, which was shocking to see.

The sweltering air was filled with the peculiar earthy smell of snakes. I suppressed my nausea and walked around the dead trees in the yard, and walked carefully to the three opposing bungalows.

There are still many snakes coiled on the roof, and the number is much more than that on the roof of ordinary people's houses.

I reached into the realgar medicine bag pinned to my waist, grabbed a handful of realgar powder mixed with cinnabar wormwood, and sprinkled it on the snakes hanging from the eaves.

The slightly larger snake shrunk its body and retreated lazily to avoid it. Several small snakes twisted and slid down the eaves. I picked them up with a bamboo pole and threw them aside vigorously.

After clearing the snakes from one side of the room, I opened the umbrella soaked in realgar wine in advance to cover my head and back, and stepped cautiously under the eaves.

The door of each bungalow is locked on the outside, and even the windows are nailed with wooden boards. All the places that can enter and exit the house are almost sealed off. Only a movable window is left on one side of the door to close the inside. Those who are sitting deliver meals.

I don't know if it's too hot today, and the food delivery man was in a hurry to go home. The lock on the movable window was just hanging, and the lock accidentally forgot to close it.

I was still worrying about how to spy on the situation in the house, but now it just fits my wish.

I put my ear on the door and listened quietly for a while, and found that there was no sound inside, so I stretched out my cold hand and carefully unlocked the small lock hanging on it.

When I held the lock in my hand, I was so nervous that my palms were sweating, I took a deep breath to calm myself down, raised my hand to touch the wooden board of the movable window, pulled it slightly outward, and then took out the pocket with the other hand With the mobile phone in the room, turn on the flashlight that comes with the system, and shine a light on the door through the crack.

The room was pitch black, and the stench of damp was instantly squeezed out from the open gap. I suppressed the discomfort and looked into the room with the light source. When I finally saw the situation inside, I immediately covered my open mouth to avoid I couldn't help screaming out loud!
There was no furniture in the messy bungalow, only a layer of withered and yellow straw was laid on the floor.Those locked inside were all lying on the grass, with their hands and feet close to their sides, their tongues sticking out and retracting, wriggling on the ground like snakes.

They didn't speak or make a sound, and they had an inexplicable fear of the light source penetrating into the room.

But what surprised me was not only these, because I found that besides acting like snakes, those people’s skin was grayish blue, and the skin surface was covered with lavender tendons, and there seemed to be something wriggling under the thin skin Walking around, at first glance, the shape vaguely looks like a tiny living snake...

(End of this chapter)