[25] The Farmer and the Snake
The snowflakes in the sky are constantly fluttering like catkins in spring, and in addition to the river that rolls the waves, the whole land has become an infinitely quiet and beautiful silver-white world.
On an early winter morning, the countryside is so quiet that you can hear wisps of white smoke rising from the chimneys talking to the northwest wind, and you can hear every high and low note beating in the pots and pans symphony as every house plays.
Occasionally, you can smell one or two roosters and dogs barking, and occasionally, you can hear a woman calling the child's nickname at the top of her voice.
The countryside not far from the Great Forest was also covered by the sudden arrival of snow yesterday, which covered the beautiful village with a white fox fleece.
Cheng Jianguo is an old farmer who has lived in the protection of mountains and forests all his life, farming in beautiful fields, and his age can be known from his name alone.
In the snowy season, the farmers are very idle, thinking about the busy time in the summer, Cheng Lao showed a relieved smile, but the next moment it was like thinking of something bad and frowned.
He looked up to the sky and sighed, thinking nothing about it, walking alone by the rushing river, which was a rare leisure time among the peasants in winter, and he could relax well.
“…… What is that?" Although Cheng Lao was already old, his eyes had not yet spent, he looked at the driftwood stuck in the frost in the distance, and walked over curiously.
It was a piece of rotten wood on which a small snake coiled up, like a man swimming on the water in a boat.
He vigilantly touched the snake's skin with his fingers, hard like frozen chicken nuggets.
"Is it a dead snake that has froze to death?" his eyes flashed with bewilderment, for the moment he saw the snake seemed to see a myriad of sleeping maidens among the flowers on the other side, and that maiden was so beautiful and holy that one could not help but approach ......
"Snake meat is delicious, snake gall is also a great tonic, today's luck is really good, could it be that God took pity on us and gave us this gift......" Although Cheng Lao saw that this snake was a little evil, he didn't think too much, and his face was about to grow flowers with a smile. He thought about opening meat tonight and eating snake meat, snake gall is also a great tonic, it just so happens that his granddaughter has a heavy academic burden, and the Spring Festival is coming soon, so he just makes up for her.
The rough hand picked up the frozen snake, tucked it in the coarse cloth clothes, and walked happily in the direction of home. Back at home, Cheng Lao put the snake on the kitchen table at random, ready to boil water to boil the snake......
"Hmm......" Drunken Moon felt the unknown warmth, came back to her senses, vigilantly raised the snake's head, and found herself sticking out of a human home.
Her body was hunched on the table, away from the ice. Looking back, the severed tail has been completely regenerated, exactly the same as before it was cut off.
I have to sigh at my regeneration ability, if the average beast loses 40% of its body, even if it is not hemorrhagic and dies, even if it does not die, it will not be able to regenerate completely, and it can only survive in the future.
"This ...... Where is this?"
She didn't know how many days she had been drifting down the river on a "raft", and her flat belly revolted and told her that she should go and eat something.
The gray tiles are full of cracks, as if they have been struck with great force, symbolizing its long history, but it is very clean, and it seems that someone has done a careful work of hygiene.
This home is very old and not very big, with only two bedrooms and a living room, a bathroom, a kitchen, and a small yard outside the door, where a few chickens are walking in the snow.
She's in the kitchen now, with pots and pans and a few eggs on them.
Wait, eggs!
Drunken Moon walked over with her eyes shining, opened her mouth and swallowed the egg, and the slender snake body immediately bulged into a large bag.
When you feel the muscles in your mouth crush the eggshell and the yolk flows into your abdominal cavity, you feel very refreshed and feel a sense of happiness in the air.
After crushing the egg in the abdomen, the eggshell was spit out of his mouth, and the bulging body of the drunken moon shrank back.
"You snake actually stole our eggs, this is for Phantom Xi, see if I stew you later!" Suddenly, Cheng Lao, who heard the voice in the next room, rushed out, saw the picture of the awakened drunken moon devouring eggs, and angrily picked up a broom to drive the drunken moon.
Even a swift leopard, a skilled poacher would not be able to attack Zuiyue, how could an old farmer hit her?
Drunken Moon jumped off the table and ran towards the half-hidden doorway, but when she got closer, she was forced back by the cold air.
Seeing that Cheng Lao was about to swing a stick, Zuiyue's tail hit the ground, and his whole body catapulted to the door of a room, and the huge impact directly opened the door, and Zuiyue rushed into the door.
I found a beautiful girl doing her homework, her black hair fluttering down like a waterfall, her skin as white as a white swan, her petal-like mouth was pink and cute, and her green and jade fingers were dancing between the scrolls.
Wearing a school uniform, it is a bloated sportswear in the Chinese style, as the saying goes, a naturally beautiful person is beautiful no matter what she wears, and she can't hide her beauty......
"Grandpa, what's wrong?" the girl looked at Cheng Lao, who suddenly broke into her room.
"There's a snake coming in, run away from Phantom Dawn!"
"Ahh
It's a pity that Zuiyue can't blink innocently, but her head is tilted, looking at the grandfather and grandson left and right.
"Don't be afraid, grandpa is here to save you!"