I listened to the sound of popping upstairs, and with some unease went up the stairs and knocked on the door.

The man who opened the door was the son of the renter, named Chen Quan, and as soon as he opened the door, he smelled the strong smell of medicine and wine on his body.

I felt bad in an instant, and Chen Quan looked at me with drunken eyes: "It's Long Ling, is there something wrong?" ”

There was something wrong with his eyes, and I tried to look sideways inside, "Are you drinking snake wine?" ”

"Will you come in and have a drink or two? Your dad is selling it cheaply today, so you can drink some of it. Chen Quan smiled and looked down my neck.

I had just taken a shower, and I was very uncomfortable by his gaze, so I hurriedly put the bath towel on my body: "My dad just told me that the snake that soaked in wine is dead, let me buy it back, double the price." ”

I don't know if it's an illusion, standing at the door of his house, the sound of the snake's tail slapping against the glass is louder.

"The snake is not dead, it is alive." Chen Quan smiled, pulled the door open, and reached out to pull me: "Come and have two drinks." ”

As soon as the door opened, I saw a large glass bottle on the coffee table in the living room, which was the kind of snake wine that my father made, and a big snake with a thick mouth of a white wine glass in it was swimming gently in the wine with its eyes open.

And Chen Quan's father, Chen Shun, seemed to be very happy, holding chopsticks and constantly poking at the glass, knocking on the snake and swimming.

But no matter how I swam, the snake's head was facing me, and the light in the living room was refracted to the glass, and the snake's eyes seemed to shine with a faint green and resentful light, staring at me.

I took a step back and swallowed, "I'll pay four times the price, buy it back." ”

"Not for sale. You see, alive, alive. Chen Quan said as he spoke, as if his tongue was bigger, his tongue kept sticking out, and the wide tongue seemed to have a crack in front of him.

He stuck out his tongue, his head was still slowly stretched forward, obviously his shoulders were not moving, but his neck was tilted forward in a translational way, and the pupils seemed to be constantly shrinking in those drunken eyes.

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

I turned my head to look at the snake soaked in the wine, as if I was annoyed by Chen Shun's poke through the glass, and swam with the snake's tail in the wine, and even bared my teeth and spit out the snake letter.

Obviously, there should be no sound from the distance and through the glass, but I heard a hissing voice shouting: "Dragon Spirit, Dragon Spirit." ”

I was so frightened that I took two steps back, ignoring the bottle of snake wine, and hurried downstairs.

"All alive, all alive, Long Ling, hehe......" Chen Quan smiled at me behind him.

After I went downstairs, I didn't dare to live at home, so I hurriedly packed the clothes I would wear tomorrow, took my schoolbag, and called my dad, saying that there were a few questions that I couldn't do, and I wanted to go to Zhang Hanzhu's house to borrow it for one night.

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

He also said loudly: "Listen! My daughter is sensible, and she never has to worry about reading or anything. Who said I only have one daughter, it's much more intimate than you have a son. ”

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

While waiting for the bus, I vaguely felt that something was looking at me upstairs, and when I turned around, I saw Chen Quan standing shirtless on the balcony on the third floor.

He was lying on the balcony guardrail, and his upper body was tilted down, as if he was about to be planted if he was not good.

The driver of the motorcycle glanced at me and immediately shouted, "Hey, brother, don't fall off." ”

Chen Quan immediately retracted, and his reaction was very fast.

After the motorcycle's driver saw me off, Chen Quan was still standing on the balcony looking at me, and the dim street lights reflected his eyes, as if they were 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 of my house.

Zhang Hanzhu's father is a Taoist priest at home, and he built a small Taoist temple in the town.

Her family lives upstairs of the Taoist temple, and just when I was about to enter the Taoist temple, there seemed to be some "instigation" in the green belt next to her, and the ornamental green plants planted fell on both sides.

"Wildcat." Zhang Hanzhu took a look and pulled me in.

As soon as I stepped into the Taoist temple, Daoist Zhang was doing an evening class or something, and when he saw me, he immediately shouted: "Dragon Spirit!" ”

I was so frightened by him that he took a liter of rice from the incense table and threw it at me.

The cold rice beads splashed directly on my face, it was cold and painful, and I felt like I had been stirred.

"Dad!" Zhang Hanzhu screamed.

I felt a lot more relaxed after a stirring spirit, and I came all the way just now, as if I had put on several heavy clothes, which would fall with the rice and take it off.

"Dragon Spirit." Daoist Zhang came over with a brazier and looked behind me: "Is there something wrong with your family?" Why are so many snakes following you? ”

I followed his eyes and looked back, and saw the rice spilling all over the ground, but in the middle of the rice, there were a few thin lines that snaked from my heels and swam outside, as if something on me was swimming back along the rice.

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

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

Some of the paper was still rolling up on me with fire, and something was rattling.

When I stepped over, the paper slowly turned to dust.

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

"Thank you, Daoist Zhang." I was slightly relieved to hear that it was okay.

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

"I'm not going to sleep tonight, it's down there, you go up and sleep, there's going to be class tomorrow, and we'll see it tonight." Daoist Zhang frowned violently, and glanced at me, as if he wanted to say something.

I didn't dare to think about it, and I went upstairs with Zhang Hanzhu, her house was either hanging a peachwood sword, or there were some items to suppress evil spirits, and I was a lot more relieved.

Zhang Hanzhu is the only one who knows about the black snake in my dream, and it is also because her father is a Taoist priest, so she believes it.

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

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

After lying on the bed for a while, Hanzhu fell asleep deeply.

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

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

This time it directly turned into a human form, and looked at me a little weakly: "Long Ling, he is very angry now." You must go back to your house as soon as possible, find the black snake jade pendant, and then turn out the snake coffin of your ancestor who raised snakes, find the snake corpse of the snake, and expose it to the sun for seven days. ”

The black snake seemed to be looking at something, and said to me, "He's coming after him." ”

Then it turned into a black snake, quickly coiled around me, and protected me in the middle of the snake: "You sleep first, there is me." Tomorrow you must go back to find the Black Snake Pei! ”

I don't know if it's because I grew up watching it, or if I can't stand it, I really fell asleep.

It's just that in the dream, there seems to be some low roaring sound in my ears, and it seems to be mixed with some kind of hissing strange scream.

I was woken up by the alarm clock in the morning, and Zhang Hanzhu was about to help me find a mouth for washing, when Daoist Zhang knocked on the door: "Long Ling." ”

After only one night, Daoist Zhang seemed to have collapsed, holding a peachwood sword in his hand, holding the door and looking at me: "I can't suppress this snake, you go back and ask your father if you have offended some powerful snake." I did my best last night, you need to find a way to get rid of that snake as soon as possible. ”

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

Zhang Hanzhu helped him, only to find that he had many snake bite wounds on his body, and there were strangulation marks on his hands.

"Get to the hospital." I didn't think much of it, so I hurriedly called the emergency number.

and Zhang Hanzhu helped Daoist Zhang downstairs, and saw many snake corpses spread out outside the Taoist temple downstairs.

Zhang Hanzhu looked at me with heavy eyes and said to me: "Long Ling, my dad really tried his best in this matter, you go back and find a way." ”

It would be early, the ambulance came quickly, and the paramedics were shocked to see the snake corpses all over the ground.

Hanzhu and I put Daoist Zhang in the ambulance and were about to call my dad.

He called, and his voice was very deep: "Long Ling, Dad can't send you anymore, something strange happened at home." Upstairs, Chen Quan's daughter-in-law died suddenly, you and Hanzhu go to school, let's borrow it at her house for the next few days. ”