rebirth 1998

Li Wei is not afraid of snakes. As a child in a mountainous village, he has seen too many snakes since he was a child. On the contrary, he often catches snakes and sells them.If it wasn't for his mother's fear of his son having an accident, and hitting her son every time she caught a snake, maybe Li Wei would be able to develop into a professional snake catcher now.

But the snake in front of him made Li Wei very jealous. It was one thing that the snake was too big, and the snake appeared in the wrong place.In Li Wei's house, this kind of snake is called a house snake. The house snake cannot be beaten or caught. You can only use please, that is, drive it away directly, or you will be punished.

Whether this is accurate or not is superstitious Li Wei can't tell, but when he was a child, he saw with his own eyes a family in the village whose house was destroyed by a house snake. The scene is a bit scary when I think about it now, so Li Wei asked the snake in front of him. I became more and more afraid, especially when the snake appeared on the beam of an ancestral hall in a village.

Li Wei was only six years old when the accident happened to the family in Liwei Village. At that time, there lived a family at the end of the village who made a living by gathering herbs, hunting snakes, hunting and practicing medicine.Because the practice of medicine at that time was not like it is now. They usually practiced acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine plus some methods. In Li Wei's family, these people were called strategists, and they usually also worked part-time to exorcise evil spirits and catch ghosts.

Li Wei doesn't know why people like them seem to have to suffer some retribution when they do this business.It is said that they often do good deeds and should be rewarded, but the fact is not. Compared with those monks who only chanted scriptures in temples and collected incense money to cheat people, their life experiences were very tragic. Strange things happen to them.

What happened to the house snake did not happen to this family, but to another family.In the summer of that year, when an old man in the village was sleeping, a huge snake crawled out out of nowhere. It seemed to be a cauliflower snake, weighing about ten kilograms. The snake's head seemed to have two small bumps, like horns. .The specific gravity of a snake is very light, so you can imagine how long it is with such a heavy snake.

You said that such a big snake climbed onto the bed in the hot weather, and the body of the snake is much cooler than ordinary things, so that all kinds of people woke up with fright.The old man didn't dare to move after waking up in fright, so he desperately woke up the family members, turned on the light and saw such a big snake coiled around the old man like that, sleeping in the same bed with the old man, no one dared to move around. The snake just coiled and did nothing else.

At this time, those who were more awake ran to the end of the village to wake up the strategist to come and have a look. The master came to have a look and said with a smile that it was all right.This is a house snake, it is a good thing, it will bring good luck, and most people will not encounter this kind of thing.Don't hurt it, just go away, if you hurt it, you'll be in trouble.After speaking, he read something to the snake, and then opened the door, and the snake really crawled out by itself.

It wouldn't be too surprising if things just got here, but it's not over yet.A few days later, the old man's youngest son came back from the outside. He was a bold master. He was considered a gangster in Li Wei's hometown, and he had done a lot of stealing.Two days after he returned home, he saw the snake again in his kitchen, but he was not so polite, and wounded the snake when he went up with a stick.Then I caught it and called a few cronies to say that I wanted to kill the snake and stew it for food. The strategist was not at home that day, and when the old people saw this, no one took the strategist's words seriously and watched them kill the snake like this. .

Li Wei was playing next to him at that time, so he went to watch it when he heard about it.Now that I think about it, maybe these are the lives of their family. Three or four people held down the snake, and the old man's son chopped off the snake's head with a knife. At this time, an unfortunate thing happened. When the snake's head was cut off, suddenly There was a strange wind, and the severed snake's head did not fall forward, but turned back, and bit the old man's son's neck.

Generally speaking, the toxicity of cauliflower snakes is very small, and the bite will not kill people, but this time is different, the person convulsed a few times within ten minutes after being bitten, and died.Li Wei was right there at the time, and the snake blood even splashed on his left arm. It seemed that the eyes of the snake head seemed to be laughing at people, but I didn't think about it at the time, and I was timid at the time. I cried in fright.The high fever lasted for several days, and people were confused. At that time, the barefoot doctors in the countryside did not know how many penicillin antipyretic injections were given, but none of them worked.

Later, when the strategist went home and heard about it, he hurriedly ordered Grandpa Li Wei to take Li Wei to the back mountain for a tour. After burning some incense, the fever subsided when he came back, and nothing happened.The decapitated snake was thrown on the ground and no one cares about it. When the people around remembered it the next day, the snake was gone.The strategist waited for Li Wei to heal, and called Grandpa Li Wei and some old people in the village to perform rituals for the dead snake, hoping that the snake would go away and not stay in the village to play tricks on others.

It just doesn’t seem to have much effect. After the incident, the family of the person who was bitten to death by the snake had accidents one after another. The only grandson was drowned. After the eldest daughter-in-law left, she never came back. It didn't take long before he died of illness. When the old man died, the people in the village were busy farming. There was no one around him, and no one noticed. .

Since then, the village has always been a little restless. The village, which had never had plagues and natural disasters before, has been suffering from minor disasters. The children in the village are often frightened by a big snake when they play at night, but when the adults come, there is nothing.I heard from the underground strategist in the village that the snake was resentful, but he was not good enough to deal with it even if he couldn't send it away.Later, the people in the village couldn't stand it anymore, and they discussed together to go to a far away place and invited a Taoist priest with good morals to come over to solve the matter.

So Li Wei was particularly afraid of the snake in front of him, and he even retreated.But when he thought about the millions of gold, and what the strategist in the village said, it was a good thing to encounter a house snake, so he didn't get off the beam directly.I looked at the house snake for a while, but the guy didn't move at all, and he was still shrinking as if he was going to sleep again.Li Wei saw that going on like this was not an option. If he didn't drive this guy away, he would definitely gain nothing at night.

Li Wei took a closer look at the house snake in front of him. It should be a cauliflower snake, not poisonous, so he swung the rope in his hand in front of the snake, not daring to throw it directly at the snake. It would be troublesome if that guy mistakenly thought he was hitting it later.