snake coffin

Chapter 2 Relentless pursuit
Hearing the crackling sound upstairs, I went up the stairs a little uneasy, and knocked on the door.

The person who opened the door was the son of the renter, named Chen Quan. As soon as he opened the door, he could smell the strong smell of medicinal alcohol on his body.

I felt bad instantly, Chen Quan looked at me drunkenly, "It's Long Ling, what's the matter?"

His eyes were very strange, I tried to look inside: "Are you drinking snake wine?"

"Would you like to come in and have a drink or two together? Your dad is selling it cheaply today, so you can have some together." Chen Quan chuckled and looked down my neck.

I just took a shower, and he looked at me very uncomfortable, so I quickly covered my body with a bath towel: "My dad just told me that the snake soaked in wine died, let me buy it back, please, double the price .”

I don't know if it was an illusion, but standing in front of his house, the sound of the snake's tail hitting the glass became louder.

"The snake is not dead, it is alive." Chen Quan chuckled, opened the door, and reached out to pull me: "Come and have a drink."

When the door opened, there was a large glass bottle on the coffee table in the living room, the kind my dad used to make snake wine. Inside, a big snake with the mouth of a white wine glass opened its eyes and swam gently in the wine.

And Chen Quan's father, Chen Shun, seemed to be very happy. He kept poking the glass with his chopsticks, knocking on the snake and swimming around.

But no matter how I swam, the snake's head was facing me, and the light in the living room was reflected on the glass. The snake's eyes seemed to be shining with green and resentful light, staring at me firmly.

I was so frightened that I took a step back and swallowed my saliva: "I'll pay four times the price and buy it back."

"Not for sale. Look, they are alive, they are all alive." As Chen Quan spoke, his tongue seemed to be enlarged, and his tongue kept sticking out. The wide tongue seemed to have a crack in the front.

He was sticking out his tongue, and his head was slowly moving forward. Obviously his shoulders didn't move, but his neck moved forward in a translational manner. In those drunken and blurred eyes, the pupils seemed to be shrinking constantly.

The smile on his face became more and more weird, as if he had malicious intentions.

I turned my head and glanced at the snake soaked in the wine. It seemed that it was annoyed by Chen Shun poking it through the glass. It swam in the wine with its tail swung, and even bared its teeth and spat out snake messages.

It was obviously far away and separated by glass, so there shouldn't be any sound, but I heard a hissing voice shouting: "Dragon Spirit, Dragon Spirit."

I was so frightened that I took two steps back. I didn't care about the bottle of snake wine and hurriedly walked downstairs.

"They're all alive, they're all alive, Long Ling, hehe..." Chen Quan smiled strangely at me from behind.

After I went downstairs, I didn't dare to stay at home, so I hurriedly packed the clothes for tomorrow, took my schoolbag, and called my dad, saying that there were a few questions I couldn't do, and I was going to stay at Zhang Hanzhu's house for a night.

"Go, go, dad will pick you up tomorrow morning, and send you and Hanzhu to school together." My dad was drinking and bragging with his friends over there.

He also said loudly: "Listen! My daughter is sensible, and never has to worry about studying or anything. Who said I only have one daughter, she is much more caring than your son."

After hanging up the phone, I went straight downstairs and took a motorcycle to Zhang Hanzhu's house.

While waiting for the bus, I vaguely felt something watching me from upstairs. When I turned around, I saw Chen Quan standing shirtless on the balcony of the third floor.

He was lying on the balcony guardrail, his upper body tilted down, as if he was about to fall down if he made a mistake.

The driver of the motorcycle followed my gaze and immediately yelled to the top: "Hey, brother, don't fall off."

Chen Quan immediately shrank back, and his reaction was very quick.

After the motorcycle driver saw me off, Chen Quan was still standing on the balcony looking at me. The dim street lights reflected his eyes, which seemed to be shining with a faint green light.

On the motorcycle, I called Zhang Hanzhu. She had a good relationship with me and was waiting for me at the door.

Zhang Hanzhu's father is a Taoist priest at home. He built a small Taoist temple in the town. He usually makes money by running a Taoist temple for others.

Her house lives upstairs of the Taoist temple, and when I was about to enter the Taoist temple, there seemed to be something "suggesting" in the green belt next to it, and the ornamental green plants planted fell on both sides.

"Wild cat." Zhang Hanzhu took a look and pulled me in.

As soon as I stepped into the Taoist temple, Taoist Zhang was doing evening class or something. When he saw me, he immediately yelled: "Long Ling!"

I was terrified by him, but he directly picked up a liter of rice offered on the incense table and poured it on me.

The cold rice beads were splashed directly on my face, it was cold and painful, I seemed to have a shock.

"Dad!" Zhang Hanzhu called out.

However, after a shock, I felt a lot more relaxed. I came all the way just now, and it seemed that I had put on several heavy clothes, which would be taken off with the rice falling.

"Long Ling." Daoist Zhang came over holding a brazier and looked behind me: "Did something happen to your house? Why are there so many snakes following you?"

I followed his eyes and looked back, only to see the rice spilled all over the ground, but in the middle of the rice, there were a few winding thin lines swimming out from my heels, as if something on my body was flying back along the rice. swam away.

"Your family..." Daoist Zhang seemed to shake his head, and burned paper in the brazier: "You step on the brazier first."

When I stepped over the brazier, the burning paper in the brazier rolled up with a splash, and there seemed to be something "hissing" on my body.

Some of the paper rolled around me with fire, burning with something and making a sizzling sound.

After I stepped over, the paper slowly turned to ashes.

Taoist Zhang squinted at me: "Okay, it's okay, you can sleep with Hanzhu tonight."

"Thank you Taoist Zhang." I was slightly relieved when I heard that it was all right.

Zhang Hanzhu also saw something, and said to Taoist Zhang, "Dad, is Long Ling okay?"

"I'm not going to sleep tonight. I'm just downstairs. You go to bed. You have class tomorrow. I'll watch it after tonight." Daoshi Zhang frowned fiercely.

I didn't dare to think too much about it. I went upstairs with Zhang Hanzhu. There was either a mahogany sword hanging in her house, or some evil-suppressing items. I was relieved a lot.

Zhang Hanzhu was the only one who knew about the black snake in my dream, and she believed it because her father was a Taoist priest.

I told her what happened last night, and she comforted me: "That black snake is still protecting you, your father sold all the snake wine, but the bottle is at home and soaked in wine. And with my dad, what are you afraid of?"

After finishing our homework with Hanzhu, we crowded into her bed and slept.

After lying on the bed for a while, Hanzhu fell into a deep sleep.

My mind was full of strange things, like that snake soaked in wine, baring its teeth and about to pounce on me.

After finally staying up until the early hours of the morning, he fell asleep in a daze, and the black snake crawled over immediately.

This time it directly turned into a human form, looking at me a little weakly: "Long Ling, he is very angry now. You must go back to your home as soon as possible, find that black snake jade pendant, and then put the snake coffin that your ancestors raised snakes into. Dig it out again, find the snake's carcass, and expose it to the sun for seven days."

The black snake seemed to have been looking at something and said to me: "He is chasing me."

Then it turned into a black snake again, quickly coiled around me, and protected me between the snake's body: "Go to sleep first, I'm here. You must go back to find the black snake pendant tomorrow!"

I don’t know whether it was because I had grown up watching it or because I just couldn’t bear it anymore, but I actually fell into a deep sleep.

It's just that in the dream, there seemed to be a low growl sound in my ear, and there seemed to be some strange hissing sound in between.

I was woken up by the alarm clock early in the morning. Just as Zhang Hanzhu was going to help me find a toilet, Taoist Zhang knocked on the door: "Long Ling."

After only one night, Taoist Zhang seemed to be completely exhausted. He was holding a mahogany sword in his hand, holding the door and looking at me: "I can't suppress this snake. Go back and ask your dad if he has offended anyone." Snake. I tried my best last night, you have to find a way to get rid of that snake as soon as possible."

After Zhang Daoshi finished speaking, he fell directly to the ground.

Zhang Hanzhu supported him, only to find that he had many snakebite wounds on his body, and there were marks on his hands where he had been tightly wrapped and strangled.

"Hurry up to the hospital." I didn't even think about it, and hurriedly called the emergency number.

He and Zhang Hanzhu helped Taoist Zhang go downstairs, and saw many snake corpses spread out in disorder outside the Taoist temple downstairs.

Zhang Hanzhu looked at me with deep eyes and said to me: "Long Ling, my dad has really tried his best on this matter. You should go back and find a solution."

It was still early, the ambulance came quickly, and the medical staff were shocked when they saw the snake corpses all over the ground.

Hanzhu and I put Daoshi Zhang into the ambulance and were about to call my dad.

He called in a very deep voice: "Long Ling, Dad can't see you off anymore. Something strange happened at home. Chen Quan's wife upstairs died suddenly. You and Hanzhu should go to school. She is here for a few days. Let's borrow at home."

(End of this chapter)