Snake Tangled Three Dreams

Chapter 4
The young man wiped his tears, sobbed and said slowly: "I, I don't know, my dad has been doing well today. Before dinner, he said that he would go to the melon shed to pick two fresh cucumbers to make cold dishes. I was in the kitchen. After waiting for a long time and not seeing him come back, I wanted to look for him in the backyard."

"At that time, he was standing under the melon shed, repeating the action of picking things back and forth. I thought it was a bit strange, so I called him, but he ignored me, so I walked behind him to take pictures. him."

Speaking of this, his face turned pale, and gradually showed a look of horror, his hands on the ground kept shaking, and cold sweat flowed down his forehead to his face.

"I don't know... I don't know that he suddenly stopped there, and then a snake came out of his ear in the next second! I screamed in fright, and saw my dad lying on the ground straight, with many, many snakes coming out of his stomach. If it comes out of his mouth, he is like a hollowed-out skin, it will collapse and disappear!"

From this point of view, the snakes in the melon shed actually came out of the old Wangtou's body?And the old Wang's head, including the flesh and bones, was almost eaten clean by those snakes...

The crowd began to murmur again, evidently taken by surprise.

I just felt my scalp go numb, and goosebumps all over my body ran all the way down my arms, and I didn't know what happened to Old Wang's head, such a tragic way of death.

Granny Mei knocked on the floor with her cane, and when the crowd quieted down, she asked again: "Has Old Wang gone out these few days? Where has he been? Or did he say something strange to you?"

The young man thought for a while, then shook his head: "No, my dad has never gone out except for a trip to the back mountain to dig wild vegetables two days ago. He has been fine since he came back, who knew that it would suddenly be like this today... ..."

Back mountain?How could it be the back mountain?

Hearing this place, my whole body suddenly tensed up, my heart was flustered and flustered, and even my palms were sweating.

Granny Mei noticed that I was shaking slightly, and raised her hand to pat the back of my hand: "Tingyue, what's wrong with you?"

"I...I'm fine." I pulled the corners of my mouth, trying to keep my face calm.

Not long after the crowd was quiet, an old man suddenly stood up and said quietly with his hands behind his back: "Here we come, another one who was punished, just like those who were killed by snakes back then. Those people, damn it They're all dead, and the people behind...hehe, they can't escape."

This old man suffers from dementia, and usually speaks without beginning or end. Some people of the younger generation were curious about what he said, but the old man wanted to continue talking, so he was dragged home by his wife.

Granny Mei didn't ask any more questions, she raised her crutch with her right hand and pushed the person kneeling in front of her: "Get out of the way, don't get in the way."

Old Wangtou's son stood up quickly to make way, and I helped Granny Mei walk over. She stopped a few steps away from the pile of corpses and chaotic snakes, and looked at the snakes on the corpse with her cloudy one eye.

The closer you get, the more you can smell the suffocating smell of the corpse, like the rotten smell of dead rats and rotten pork after covering it for half a month, mixed with the wet and cold snake smell, it rushes straight into the body. nausea.

"Ouch..." I couldn't bear it any longer, so I turned around and ran to the side to vomit.

Granny Mei came over to straighten my back for me, raised her head and said to the old Wangtou's family: "This is a snake, and it cannot be buried unless it is cleaned up. You go and prepare some things now, and I will come and deal with him later. "

Old Wangtou's wife was helped up, and she followed Granny Mei's words and began to help prepare things.

First, Old Wangtou's son caught a live rooster, killed it on the spot, and brought it over with a bowl of hot chicken blood.

Granny Mei took the chicken blood, took out a bag of realgar from her cloth bag, poured it in, and said to him while stirring, "Your father died before eating, and the last thing he did before he died was busy cooking. If If you don’t feed him enough, he’ll be a starving ghost when he gets down there, making your family restless.”

Old Wangtou's son was a little scared, and quickly asked: "Then what should we do? There is food at home, so I'll bring a bowl here?"

"No." Granny Mei shook the chicken blood bowl and looked up at him: "Your stove is in a bad location, and the rice cooked there is useless. Go grab a handful of rice, and take the pot to the northeast corner of the kitchen to cook. Bring it over after it’s cooked, and it’ll be useful when the time comes.”

Old Wangtou's son responded, and hurried to grab rice and cook.

"Here we come! The red rope is here!" Old Wangtou's wife ran out of the house, holding a red rope as thick as a finger in her hand.

I was still standing on the sidelines watching, when I suddenly heard Granny Mei call my name: "Tingyue, go and hold this rope, and help me later."

I have also dealt with dirty things with Granny Mei before, but this is the first time she has let me get involved with snakes.

"Okay, got it." I breathed out, walked over to take the red string from Aunt Wang's hand, and walked back behind Granny Mei to stand by.

Granny Mei glanced at the sky, murmured some formula, then suddenly said "Break!", and then "wow", poured the bowl of hot chicken blood mixed with realgar all over Old Wang's head face.

As soon as the chicken blood came into contact with the unrecognizable face, the rotten skin immediately began to bubble up, and then the snakes on the old Wang's head seemed to be scalded, dragging the crippled snake body to start They all climbed outside.

It's a pity that we didn't climb very far, and all of them died on the road one by one.

Granny Mei asked Old Wangtou's wife to bring a pot of rice wine and washed the dirt off the corpse. She turned around and asked me if I was leaving the red rope, and tied up the hands and feet of the corpse by herself.

Not long after, the rice was cooked, and Grandma Mei asked me to go to the kitchen to serve the rice in person, and told me to only serve one spoonful, no matter how much I filled, never serve it a second time.

I took the white bowl and went to the pot to put the rice into the bowl. As soon as I went back to the melon shed, I heard Granny Mei say to me: "Tingyue, just take this bowl and go directly to feed the corpse." .”

What?Let me feed, feed the corpse? !
I glanced at the old Wangtou's rotten face, and I couldn't even hold the bowl firmly in my hand.

Seeing the embarrassment on my face, Grandma Mei patted me on the shoulder and kindly encouraged me: "It's okay, just feed it to pigs."

"..." It's okay to let me feed chickens, but the problem is that I haven't even fed pigs.

But since my mother-in-law said it, I had no choice but to follow suit.

I walked over slowly, controlled the speed of my breathing, and squatted down carefully beside the corpse.

The mouth of the corpse was always open, but the eyes were too wide open, as if staring at me.

After thinking about it, I took out a tissue from my pocket and covered the upper half of his face, then held the spoon and started to feed Old Wangtou's corpse mouthful by mouthful.

The hot rice was fed into the corpse's mouth, I don't know if it was my eyesight, but I suddenly saw the old Wangtou's mouth move, and then the mouthful of rice was swallowed!
I was so scared that my arms shook, and the rice in the spoon almost spilled out.

"What's wrong with Tingyue?" Seeing that I hadn't moved, Granny Mei came over and asked while leaning on a cane.

I swallowed my saliva and looked back at her: "Mother-in-law... he, he ate it..."

Granny Mei nodded and said with satisfaction: "Very good, let's continue feeding."

I braced myself and fed the old Wangtou the few mouthfuls of rice left in the bowl. It was really weird, the corpse actually ate up all the rice...

After the corpse finished eating, the limp corpse slowly swelled up. Although the appearance was still terrifying, at least it looked much more normal.

Granny Mei told Old Wangtou's family to take the body out and bury it the next day. When sealing the coffin, the coffin had to be painted with rooster blood before it could be lowered into the pit.

Seeing that the matter had been dealt with, the surrounding villagers also dispersed.

Before leaving, Granny Mei held me back and asked casually, "Tingyue, have you been doing well for the few days I've been out of the village?"

I was slightly taken aback, and calmly withdrew my hand from her: "It's okay, I...everything is fine."

"Okay, then I don't worry." Granny Mei touched my face, smiling around her wrinkled eyes, "Go back, if there is anything you can't solve, come to Granny anytime."

"Well, thank you mother-in-law."

I reluctantly smiled and said goodbye to her, fearing that she would notice something strange, so I hurried home.

It was late at night, and the lights in the room had been turned off.

Bai Mengyue was exhausted from crying and fussing all day, she fell asleep with the pillow on her head before she came to find fault with me.

I lay on my own bed and covered my face with the quilt, tossing and turning, not feeling sleepy.

I kept thinking about the old Wang's head covered with snakes, and there was a terrifying thought circling in my mind, which I couldn't get rid of.

Old Wangtou's son said that he had been to the back mountain two days ago, but I know better than anyone what is on the back mountain.

Mengyue was retaliated by those snakes on the mountain because she robbed the snake beads.But what did the old Wangtou do wrong, why was he killed by the snake for no reason?
Besides, didn't I satisfy their request last night and pay off the so-called "debt" by myself, and it's only the second day that my neighbor next door was killed by a snake.

What are they thinking?That man...was it also related to this matter?
I pulled the red rope to pull out the black flake on my neck, rubbing it, thinking wildly, and fell asleep without knowing it.

In the haze, a coolness penetrated into my quilt, and then something soft and slippery wrapped around my legs, gently rubbing against my body while slowly sticking to my body.

The scent of grass and trees became clearer and clearer, I shivered suddenly, and opened my sleepy eyes.

After his sight gradually adapted to the darkness, he suddenly realized that there was a figure beside the pillow!I subconsciously wanted to open my mouth to yell, but the man pressed his slender jade fingers to my lips and sealed my mouth.

"Shhh, don't make noise." The man put half of his body on me, his peach-like eyes were full of melting moonlight, but his expression was very dull.

He leaned over and whispered with his thin lips close to my ear, his voice like wine filled my ear socket with warm and fragrant breath.

"I just saw you last night, and I don't need to see you today. What do you think, huh?"

(End of this chapter)