Since I was a child, I knew that when I was born, there were ten thousand snakes, so the village didn't want to see me, and my parents didn't take me back to the village very much.

When my grandmother wanted to see me, she would go to the town to see me.

The only time I went back to the village was to worship my ancestors during the Chinese New Year, which was very lively and there were many people of the same age.

But now looking through the roster, I suddenly found that those so-called peers are actually no younger than me.

I flipped through the roster three times and went through it in my head again.

Not really!

In the roster, the last one born was called Long Ruze, and his date of birth was the same day as mine, just over an hour later than me.

Because I wasn't on the roster, I saw him at a glance.

The annotation behind the eight characters of his birthday has only three words: village guard.

In other words, this person is Niu Er.

I held such a large roster in my hand, and tried to remember who had children brought back when I worshipped my ancestors.

I thought about it, but I didn't have one.

As if my throat was choked, I put the roster down and rummaged through the office.

But except for those official seals and accounts, and messy information, there is nothing.

The whole room was silent, and I was holding the roster and suddenly a little flustered.

Is it that no children have been born in the village for 18 years, or are those who are outside later having children and want to cut off contact with Huilong Village, so they are not on the roster?

There seemed to be a loud shouting voice from Niu Er in the distance, and I held the roster and locked the door and came out.

This kind of thing can only be known by asking grandma.

When I walked to the square outside the public hall, I felt something looking at me, and I couldn't help but look back.

I saw a three-story tiled building, and there was a half-story small attic above the third floor.

In the past, before the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the village chief Tang Bo, that is, Long Xia's father, would put out the ranking of ancestors and put them in the main hall of the public hall.

The people in the village, with their families as units, all knelt down in this square and bowed together in front of the tablets in this three-story building.

Now it seems that he is worshipping this building!

Although I didn't believe in this before, but after worshipping, the cousin would take the older generation to give everyone a red seal, which was divided by the public account of the village, and there was a lot of money, and I was still very happy.

Looking back at the building, I slowly took a few steps back and slowly knelt down.

Just as I was prostrate and about to kowtow, I looked up violently.

Sure enough, in a window on the third floor, a cloud of darkness flashed.

I stared at the window, my gaze slightly back, at the locked door.

When worshipping ancestors, there are tablets all over the place, densely packed, and each one has its name written in traditional Chinese......

Long Xia has been studying in the county since she was a child, and she knows more words than me, and one year she deliberately played in front of me and read me the traditional names on those tablets.

"The spirit of the ancestor dragon pseudonym, the spirit of the ancestor dragon ......"

Ancestors......

Panting heavily, I stuffed the thick roster into my backpack, picked up a piece of wood next to it, and smashed it against the glass next to the hall.

When I climbed in through the window, all the tablets in the hall were standing quietly.

The pieces were like a stacked hill, and I swept through the top three words one by one.

Ancestral Dragon!

Ancestral Dragon!

Ancestral Dragon!

Can't women offer tablets? Why are all of them men, all of them surnamed Dragon!

The words of the motorcycle driver flashed through my mind, and I was about to run up the stairs of the hall with my legs.

But just as I was going up the stairs, the black snake jade bracelet on my wrist moved, and Mo Xiu stood in front of me, stopped me, and shook his head at me.

"Mo Xiu......" I gasped slightly and looked at him, "Let me go and meet her?" I would like to ask her a few words. ”

"She can't speak." Mo Xiu shook his head at me and said softly, "Don't go." ”

Outside the house, Niu Er hummed a song: "The daughter of the Long family, entangled by snakes, became a snake woman, and gave birth to a snake baby." gave birth to a snake, but the surname is dragon, you say it's not strange, you say it's not strange. ”

He got closer and closer, and shouted outside the square: "Long Ling, I'm so hungry, I want to eat." ”

Mo Xiu was still standing in front of me, stopping me, and shook his head at me: "Go back, you know enough." ”

I looked at the staircase that I had turned up and smiled bitterly at Mo Xiu: "I'll find out." ”

When he turned around, he still crawled out of the smashed glass window, and when he turned around, the tablets carved in wood and red lacquer looked like a monster crouching there.

As soon as he came out, Niu Er immediately said to me: "Long Ling, I'm so hungry, eat!" Dine! ”

I looked at him, nodded, and led him out of the village.

So many people died in the village, and people from nearby villages walked around.

So I couldn't get a taxi at all, and what was even more strange was that so many people died, except for the sixth uncle, no one else returned to the village.

I took Niu Er to the boundary of the next village before I hit a motorcycle.

Back at Qin Mipo's house, she was coughing and cooking at the same time.

After I glanced at my grandmother, I gave her a hand on the side, and she raised her eyes to me from time to time: "Found Long Xia?" ”

"Nope." I also wondered why Long Xia hadn't returned to the village.

Turning his head to look at Qin Mipo: "Aunt Qin, do you know how to line up the eight characters?" ”

Qin Mipo looked at me with strange eyes, and suddenly shook her head: "No." ”

As she said this, her eyes fell on the black snake jade bracelet on my wrist.

I just nodded, and when I had eaten, I left Niu Er here with Qin Mipo, and I directly called the driver of the motorcycle and asked him to take me to the town.

I didn't dare to ask him to take me directly to the Snake Hotel, just let him take me to the street.

When I got home, I found the key and found the little electric donkey that my mother was riding.

Aunt Liu heard the movement, ran over to see, and when she saw that it was me, she seemed to exhale: "Is it the dragon spirit?" Why did you come back? ”

"Aunt Liu." I pushed the little electric donkey out the door and locked it.

He said to her, "Do you know where my uncle's house is, I have something to find my uncle." ”

"How can you have an uncle!" Aunt Liu clapped her hands and looked at me with sympathy.

Heha laughed dryly: "I've known your mother for nearly twenty years, and I've never seen her mother's family, and I haven't even mentioned it." ”

"It is said that your mother was abducted back from outside by your father, and eloped, and your mother's family may not even know." Aunt Liu had a smile on her face.

patted me: "Do you miss your parents, and you have something to find your aunt." Come on, you haven't eaten, my aunt will cook you powder! ”

"Really never heard my mom mention it?" I tried to think about it, as if there really wasn't.

Kemo's driver said that the daughter-in-law of the people of Huilong Village should be in eight characters.

Those who eloped would be caught, and even the children they were carrying were lost.

"Do you have an uncle, you don't know yet?" Aunt Liu tentatively reached out to touch my forehead, and said worriedly, "Is it a fever?" ”

I shook my head, tried the little electric donkey, and said to Aunt Liu: "I have something, go first, if there is anything, you call me." ”

My mom usually rides to play cards, and I sometimes ride to study, so it's quite smooth to ride.

I rode to a place where no one was, took out the thick roster from my backpack, and copied down the birthdays of several aunts and sisters who married into Huilong Village.

Then ride to the bridgehead in the town, where there are many people who are posing for the endgame, setting up stalls and divination, and fortune-telling.

I went in and walked back and forth twice.

In the end, I found an old man who seemed to be more reliable: "Help me measure the eight characters." ”

A bunch of people, either playing cards and chess together, or playing with mobile phones.

If you don't see me, you will immediately call: "Little girl, fortune telling, draw lots, measure eight characters, and row four columns!" ”

Only the old man was wearing presbyopia, and it was almost summer, and he was wearing a torn jacket, and he was flipping through an old book.

Seeing me sit down, he put down the book: "The little girl is trying to count the eight characters, is it to be considered a marriage?" ”

"Hmm." I guess it's okay.

But the old man looked at me, and followed the movement of his nose, and his gaze went down my shoulder, and down to my wrist.

At this moment, the black snake jade bracelet on his wrist moved.

Slowly swimming under the clothes on my wrists, Mo Xiu whispered in my ear, "Go." ”

I was stunned for a moment, but I didn't move.

The old man looked at me, picked up a yellowed bamboo cane next to him, and pulled it towards my arm wrapped around the black snake jade bracelet: "The old man is here, and he hasn't shown up yet!" ”

But before the bamboo cane could reach my arm, there was a "click", and each section of the entire bamboo cane cracked instantly.

The old man stood up violently with a bamboo cane, looked at my wrist and said, "What's on your wrist?" ”

I thought about it for a moment, and ripped open the sleeves of my shirt, revealing the black snake jade bracelet.

The old man pushed his reading glasses, looked at the black snake jade bracelet, and his eyes flashed.

Looking at the black snake jade bracelet, he nodded respectfully: "Offended." ”

He looked at me and said, "You want to show me the eight characters you want to close." ”

I handed over a copied eight-character character, and the old man read it: "The eight-character you gave, you have a blessed life but no children, but you enjoy the blessings of your children and grandchildren, it is a good life!" It's a pity that it's already in vain, and there's nothing to count. ”

"Where's this?" I handed it over again.

Mo Xiu seemed to sigh softly in my ear, but it didn't stop me.

The old man took it and looked at it, and suddenly held it and didn't move: "You are from Huilong Village, this is the eight characters of Huilong Village's wife, your surname is Long?" ”