I had just finished my Friday morning professional class, and before I could eat lunch, I received a call from my high school friend, Mr. L.

"Hey, Xiu Thorn, do you have a class in the afternoon?"

"No, what's wrong?"

"Come to my house to play, I bought a new salmon, come and see?"

The "salmon" in L's mouth is a mutant red-tailed anacond, a python. Variation here is not about form, of course, but about color.

To give a simple example: the well-known "golden python" is an albino mutant python, which is mutated from the Burmese python. The seedlings of the Burmese python are about 300 soft girl coins, and the larvae of the golden python are about 2,000.

This kind of mutant python like the golden python, to put it bluntly, has albinism, and there is no melanin in the body, so it will show such a bright color. Pythons like this type are not allowed to be in direct sunlight for long periods of time because they are not immune to ultraviolet rays from the sun.

In fact, the golden python is only the "most basic color" among the mutant pythons, like the orange pattern of the "tiger", the pure white "ivory", the price of the former larvae to reach 20,000, and the latter is even more difficult to find.

These gorgeously colored pythons are naturally not the product of nature, but are artificially bred by humans, like the United States, which has many extremely professional related institutions.

Human beings change the genes of other species for their own preference, which seems to be the ability of the Creator, but it is actually great but cruel.

In China, there is no distinction between farmed and wild pets, and once reported, as long as the pet owner does not have a breeding license, it will face serious penalties.

Ridiculous, isn't it?

Not only pythons, but even the Komodo dragons that often appear on TV shows actually have sales channels, and even our country's national treasure panda, the Galapagos Sea hyena......

Because in a sense, money really is everything.

……

At this point, I was sitting on the edge of my best friend L's bed, watching him feed the salmon with guinea pigs.

The mouse needs to be killed before feeding, otherwise its struggle may damage the python's skin or even scratch the python's eyes.

After all, these pythons are no longer wild spirits in nature, but valuable ornamental objects, and the scars on their bodies will not become a medal for warriors, but will make them worthless and reduced to a tool that can only be used for breeding.

Moreover, this way of dealing with it is actually a kind of relief - it is much more terrible to be strangled to death by a python that is countless times larger than to die in an instant.

"How's that, cool?" L looked at the salmon that had been wrapped into a disc and asked me.

I could only see the mouse's half-truncated tail through the gap between the python's body, and although the python had become a pet, the strength and speed it showed at the moment of predation still shocked me - this is not the most ferocious reticulated python among the pythons.

“Nb。” I nodded.

"Haha, you wait for me to give you one after I finish breeding and giving birth."

"Don't, I'm afraid I'll be beaten to death by my mother." Besides, I don't have a breeding license, so if I am reported by someone who is too idle, it will hurt my heart.

"Well, you're so cowardly."

L's home is directly across from our old high school, and standing on the balcony of his bedroom, you can overlook the campus.

"Let's go see the teacher." I propose.

"Are they at school?"

"Yes, I've asked on WeChat."

"Okay, just go to the cafeteria to get something to eat, I haven't been there for a long time."

Afterwards, the two of us bought fruit at the supermarket downstairs and went to school.

Unexpectedly, the aunt who managed the canteen card recognized the two of us and lent us a meal card with a smile. We only need to buy lunch and then return the corresponding cash to the cafeteria aunt.

Our high school has a culture class in the morning and an art class in the afternoon. When we found our homeroom teacher in the office, she was discussing yoga with several other teachers.

"Wow! You two are really here, come and let me see, it's so good, you've grown taller and become handsome! Our high school homeroom teacher looked at us happily and said to the teacher next to him in a somewhat ostentatious tone, "Remember these two babies in our class, no, what good children." ”

"Haha, isn't this the guy who always sleeps in my class, he's much more energetic than when he was in high school."

I touched L with my shoulder, "Look at you, you don't make a good impression on the teacher." ”

L smiled and gave me a blank look, "you, I see the teacher is talking about you, right?" ”

Afterwards, the head teacher took the two of us to the newly built lounge at the end of the corridor, and picked up three cups of coffee from the coffee machine.

"I'll pick it up." L stepped forward.

"Go, go, I'll come, you two sit there."

"How's it going, tired of studying... Come on, seeing the two of you like this, you know that you will definitely not be tired! ”

"Hahaha." L and I laughed.

"There's nowhere to go, well, what about you?"

L scratched his head, "What's the matter, it's boring!" ”

"How can it be boring, I remember when you were in high school, you changed it to another one."

"Look at what you're saying, it's like I'm doing the same."

"What about you?" The teacher looked at me again.

"Nope."

I had already explained to my high school classmates about the spiritual blood: she was a sister I happened to know with a very strong relationship, and she regarded me as a brother, and I regarded her as a sister.

My classmates believed it and wanted me to help match them up.

And I replied with the word "roll" at that time.

Concise.

"Don't you need me to introduce you, I went to your school in the last class of my class, and the little girls are very good."

"Forget it, I can't even understand myself."

"It's really unproductive." The head teacher smiled and counted.

It's a shame that I didn't see my high school math teacher, who was one of the most respected teachers in this school.

After saying goodbye to our high school homeroom teacher, L and I went to the art building.

It was the afternoon art class, and the sound of pencils rubbing on paper-covered drawing boards could be faintly heard in the hallway.

"I miss it so much," L sighed.

I was about to say something, but he continued: "I miss the days when we skipped class to surf the Internet and went to the windowsill to watch movies in the offices of other grade teachers. ”

"Ugh." I choked up, then laughed, "I miss it too." ”

While we were talking, we came to the art classroom where our high school art teacher is currently teaching.

After knocking on the door and pushing it open, all the junior high school students in the classroom gathered their eyes.

“…… Xiu Thorn, L, why did you two come here! Come in, come in. ”

I didn't inform the art teacher in advance because I wanted to surprise him.

After meeting the two of us, the art teacher had a heartfelt smile on his face, and hurriedly led the two of us into the classroom, and said to his current students: "Let me introduce to you, this is my former student, and they are all very good at drawing!" Learn a lot from your two brothers. ”

Our high school art teacher is a person who is not good at words, but who is wholeheartedly considerate of the students.

It is an honor to be his student.

"It's okay, how can the two of us draw as well as you say." When he said this, we were a little embarrassed.

"What's not good? All good! The art teacher patted us on the shoulder, "You all remember the paintings you drew when you were sketching, how good it is, it's just that you were too playful at that time, ha." ”

"Haha." L and I looked at each other and smiled.

"Come, go and help the teacher teach your younger brothers and sisters, and wait for the teacher to invite the two of you to have a meal in the evening, I haven't seen you for a long time, I miss it."

I scanned the crowd and finally spotted Qi You in a corner of the classroom, she was looking at me curiously, but after the two of us exchanged eyes, she immediately lowered her head.

She is just like me when she first entered this school, in this new and excellent class, and the emotions in her heart are yearning and apprehensive, and even have a trace of inferiority.

I walked through the crowd to the corner where Qi You was, and carefully observed Qi You's paintings. To be honest, judging from my current aesthetic level, her paintings are actually quite miserable......

I organized the language in my heart, thinking about how to help Qi You, but I didn't think about it, but Qi You plucked up the courage and spoke before me:

"Big brother, aren't we...... Where have you seen it? ”

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