Chapter 38: Talking Snakes
"Come, I'll introduce you to you, this is the third girl Jiao San, the daughter of the Taifu Temple Cheng family, the other is the daughter of the right senator of the General Political Division, and the other is ......" Cousin Lin has already begun to introduce everyone, Wu Yue is so embarrassed that she just wants to pinch her eyebrows: Sister, which of you is here to introduce us? We are also the children of the official family, and we come and go to the door every year to socialize, this Jiao Sanniang has met seven or eight times, and she is so familiar that she only needs to nod and signal when you meet, so you can be introduced?
Everyone collectively committed embarrassment and phobia for a while, and saluted each other under the introduction of Cousin Lin, although there were really a few of them who did not know each other, but the daughter of a commoner was mixed with a group of officials and relatives to charge a big mallet, this situation is really weird, fortunately, the upbringing of the daughters of the official family is good, no one pierces this exaggerated appearance, and they all patiently accompany this cousin Lin to act here.
After the introduction, Cousin Lin naturally took over the role of the host of the tea party, and asked everyone in the style of the host: "How is the scenery here?"
Everyone: "......"
The young master of the master's family is still here! What do you want to do by asking this? Do you say that the scenery carefully arranged by others is only at the level of "not being able to enter the eye"? How did you develop this generous character of being generous to others and humble to others? !
"In fact, the most wonderful thing is that this stream is used to play with the flow of water, which runs through the entire peach forest, and flows into the pond outside the Yinghong Xuan with falling flowers, we sit in the Xuan, open the Xuan door and you can see a large number of petals slowly floating over with the water, reflecting the green grass on both sides, it is really beautiful. Cousin Lin exclaimed.
Everyone nodded: finally it was a bit like a human being.
"However, there was no such stream in this peach grove originally, and thanks to my idea, it was dug out for the purpose of entertaining guests at this birthday banquet. Cousin Lin said a little proudly.
Everyone: "......" said that the purpose of talking was to praise himself.
"How is it, is this idea good?" Cousin Lin asked, and seeing that everyone happened to bow their heads and drink tea in unison, she directly pulled someone to answer, "Miss Yan Qi, what do you think?"
"It was very nice and everyone had a great time. Yan Qi replied at the level of elementary school students' composition.
Cousin Lin laughed happily: "Yes, do you know where my inspiration came from? It is the birthday gift given by my father to the second great-grandfather, the true work of Wen Zhengming-"Lanting Repair Map"!"
The love is to show this.
"Lanting Repair Map" is also known to the daughters, although they have not seen the real handiwork, the imitations in the shop that sell paintings abound, this painting depicts the Jin Dynasty Wang Xizhi and others repaired on the Lanting Creek, the story of the composition of the water flow of the meeting, the painting has its own Qu River, and there is also an open Xuan, there is also a pond under the Xuan, this Ying Hongxuan must be based on the transformation of this painting, although there is a suspicion of vassal elegance, but it is indeed a good scene, and the guests are indeed having a good time.
"That's good. "Yan Qidao. Cousin Inlin spoke to her, and her eyes were full of hints of "praise me, praise me, kneel and lick me", which did not mean that she really couldn't explain it.
"Hehe, what's it, it's just a vassal elegance. Cousin Lin immediately looked at Yan Qi with a smile on her face, "You are so hypocritical, your words are so exaggerated, you are good at sneaking around at a glance, you really have no choice, I can't help but give you face, so I have to accept your praise with a hard face" The expression glanced at Yan Qi with a smile.
Wipe it, and beat you to death again.
Yan Qi lowered his head to peel the pine nuts, and was knocked on the table by Cui Xi with his fingers, remembering his words, he put them back on the plate.
"But I've heard that when I was digging the pond, I dug up a big black snake in the ground below!" Cousin Lin had a chattering expression on her face again, and her face changed freely enough.
This kind of topic is quite attractive, and the third girl Jiao San, the daughter of the Taifu Temple Cheng family, said: "I heard that snakes hibernate in the ground, and some sleep from September and October to February of the next year, but what you said is possible." Is it alive?"
"It's alive!" said Cousin Lin's tone as if she had seen it with her own eyes, "and even its letter was black, and it was sloppy and probing around. ”
"How thick is it?" asked the second girl from the deputy family of Dali Temple.
"Oh, it's scary to say it!" Cousin Lin gestured with her hand, "It's as thick as an adult man's waist!, it's two feet long, and it's coiled there, like a small hill, and the snake's head is raised like this, swaying left and right, you see, just like my hand. ∫, its head and neck were so vertical, and then turned into a bow, I heard people say, ah, if the head and neck of the snake are bent into a bow, that is to prepare to attack the prey, the snake rushes to the prey when the action is so fast, with the naked eye can not see clearly, only feel a flower in front of the eyes, it has already been bitten by it, so ah, if we accidentally meet a snake in the wild, but if we see it erected like this, you have to run quickly, never hesitate, if the snake runs much faster than people, this body jumps forward, and instantly you have two more holes in your body!”
Wu Yue desperately lowered his head and endured a smile, pulled Yan Qiyi left under the small few, and pulled Lu Lotus right: "Oh, this sister is too good at vernacular (huo), it looks like the real thing, and it is a two-zhang long snake? The man's waist is so thick? Not to mention that Cui Fu has lived in this realm for more than ten years, when did this snake get under the house in the back garden of other people, let's just say that it is such a big body, and it is not allowed to come out to forage after hibernation? What does it eat? Does Cui Mansion eat once a few days on average? Doesn't Cui Mansion have fewer people? This snake has been drilling in and out of the back garden for many years without anyone noticing?
Said that there is a snake, this may be true, this is near the water, the grass is lush, and the owner of the Xinguo Mansion across the street from Cui's Mansion Xinguo Gong is a snake lover, maybe he raised the snake occasionally did not look good and slipped out and ran to the opposite side of the door, looking at the good feng shui and settled here, but the designation will not be as thick and long as Cousin Lin said, and it will become fine.
"I heard that snakes with flat heads are poisonous, and those with round heads are generally not poisonous," He Er Girl was still seriously discussing, "Is the head of the black snake you said round or flat?"
"This ...... This is not clear," Cousin Lin still knows that words can't be said to be too full, and it won't be realistic to say too full, and it's more credible to be half-virtual and half-real, "Speaking of snake venom, I know that a kind of sharp-mouthed snake from the south is called 'five-step down', as the name suggests, if you bite it, you will die of poison if you can't walk five steps!" Although the poison of this snake is exaggerated, I have heard my relatives who have been there say that if a person is really bitten by this snake, he will not survive, once bitten, he will not stop bleeding, and he will not even be able to stop bandaging, so if the local people are unfortunately bitten by this snake, they will immediately have to take a knife to cut off their limbs to save themselves, and those who bite their hands will have to cut off their arms, and those who bite their legs will have to cut off their legs. ”
"It's terrible...... the girls gasped.
Although this cousin Lin is a little strange in her words and deeds, she chatted with a lot of conversation, and attracted everyone's attention in a few words, and the young lady surnamed Zhang continued her words and said: "I heard that a snake called Zhuyeqing is also extremely poisonous, I don't know how it compares to this five-step snake?"
"Although Zhu Yeqing is not as venom as a five-step snake, it is really terrible if it is bitten," Cousin Lin said, "Being bitten by Zhu Yeqing will not only produce severe pain and be miserable, but the wound will quickly fester, blood blisters, and even cause the injured to vomit blood and blood in the stool, my relative once told me an example, saying that there was a little girl over there who was unfortunately bitten by this snake, although she was immediately rescued by a miracle doctor, but the finger was still festering, and even the bones were exposed in vain......"
"Uh-"
"Oops-"
"It's horrible—"
These daughters, who have grown so big, have only read the relevant descriptions of snakes in books and have hardly seen real snakes, and when they heard this, they couldn't help but exclaim in unison, frowning and shrinking their heads in empathy, looking at each other.
"What happened later?" Wu Yue was also attracted by this topic and asked.
"Later, I cut off my finger," said Cousin Lin, sighing, "such a beautiful little girl, even her mother-in-law's family said that she was okay, and for this, she can only be alone with her sister-in-law for the rest of her life. ”
"......" everyone couldn't help but sigh with regret.
"There is such a terrible thing in this world. Miss He Er frowned, "Like tigers, jackals, and leopards, these beasts don't know how many lives have been killed, and it would be great if they could be completely eliminated." ”
Sister, you're too ruthless, you want to tear down the food chain, you don't want to exterminate the species, how sacred and inviolable are you human beings, I'm scared to death of this baby, you don't hate the fat star people, right?
"Having said that, but there are thousands of creatures in this world, when will it be removed?" Cousin Lin laughed, "Especially a weak woman like us, if she really encounters a poisonous snake and beast, she can only think of a way to escape quickly, if you escape, you are lucky, if you can't escape, you can only accept your fate, anyway, if I am bitten by a poisonous snake, I would rather die than have my arms and legs broken, and I will live in a miserable and lonely second half of my life." ”
When several young ladies heard this, they also nodded, what else can a woman who can't marry live? Especially the daughters of official families like them, marrying is not only for the sake of entrusting them for life, but more importantly, for the benefit of the family; if you fall into a situation where you can't marry and lose a place that can be used by the family, what is the point of your life? A woman who is useless, who wants to hold you every day for you to think about you?
Women, but you really have to take good care of yourself and protect yourself, this is not hypocrisy or narcissism, this is survival.