The atmosphere was a little awkward for a while, and I could see that Liu Liwei was a little embarrassed.

At this time, a hoarse voice came from the crowd: "I...... I'll go with this lad! ”

Looking for prestige, it turned out to be the bald old man who just reminded everyone that centipedes are most afraid of pesticides.

"Old wood! Are you going with your little brother? ”

Uncle Xing saw that someone took the initiative to ask for help, and he was immediately overjoyed.

At this time, the middle-aged woman beside the old man hurriedly grabbed the old man's arm: "Dad, you are this age, you ...... What can you do? Saying that, the middle-aged woman was about to cry, and the middle-aged man on the side also persuaded the old man not to go.

I can see that this middle-aged couple is a couple.

The old man smiled: "It's been almost six years since I came to our village, and I haven't done anything for everyone...... I've caught snakes for a while before, and I'm not afraid of this thing! ”

The middle-aged men and women were still persuading, but the other villagers were disagreeing.

"If you want to go, let Lao Mu go!"

"That's it...... That is, I have been in our village for several years, and everyone takes good care of them. ”

It's really spitting stars and drowning people, and it's so reasonable.

Lao Mu gently patted the middle-aged woman's hand: "Don't worry! What did Daddy do when he was young, you don't know yet? I'll be back soon! This is very decisive.

Liu Liwei shook his head and sighed: "That's okay!" Be careful, brother! ”

Lao Mu handed me a willow stick: "The young man's courage is okay, you can follow me!" As he spoke, he walked towards the village.

Looking at Lao Mu up close, I noticed that he has a very distinctive appearance: first, he has a bald head, and secondly, he has two very large yellow front teeth, and there is a gap between the two teeth that can be stuffed into a coin, much like a character in a cartoon.

I was a little confused, listening to their conversation, Lao Mu is not from Niutou Village, he used to do snake catching and other jobs - Liu Zongyuan's "Snake Catcher Says" has this kind of occupation, but how can anyone make a living by catching snakes in contemporary times?

Stunned for a moment, I hurriedly followed.

Walking on the street of the village, I can still hear cries and shouts, it is estimated that most of the villagers are trapped in the house, my heart is a pimple, Wu Jinghan is completely fine! Otherwise...... Otherwise......

Soon came to the door of Uncle Xing's courtyard, the door was closed, I listened carefully, and there was no movement inside.

"The young man is from the estuary district east of the river?"

I was about to push the door when the old man on the side suddenly asked me.

"Oh, yes!" I replied casually, reaching out to push the door.

"Slow!"

As soon as my hand was halfway out, Lao Mu suddenly slapped me. I was so frightened that I quickly shrank back

I'm sick! Startled by him, I cursed in my heart, but after thinking about it, it was enough for people to risk their lives to take the initiative to accompany me back to the village, and it may not be a bad thing to be more cautious in doing things when I am older.

"What's wrong, Uncle Mu?"

Lao Mu pulled me back a step, then took out a long needle and stuck it into the willow stick, shook it, and then fixed it again.

"You open the door slowly, and when you open the door, don't rush in."

At this time, Lao Mu looked serious and pointed to the gate on the left.

I instantly became nervous again, nodded, and gently pushed the door open.

When the door was halfway open, a black snake suddenly fell from the door frame, and as soon as it landed, it bared its teeth and pounced on me.

This snake is not big, but it is the thickness of an adult's thumb, but it is very imposing and fast, and it confuses me for a moment. The black snake first pounced on me, I was a little caught off guard, at this moment my brain was cut off, and I forgot to dodge, but who knew that when the black snake was less than a meter away from me, it suddenly stopped, and then made a sharp turn and crawled to the side.

Just at the last moment, I saw the shadow of the stick flash, and the black snake was nailed to the ground.

I turned around and saw the old wooden hand holding the other end of the willow stick, smiling at it.

"I said I had been catching snakes for a while!"

This time I took it, it was a capital "service", and I quickly took the initiative to get out of the way, and Lao Mu was not polite, threw the dead snake to the side, and stepped into the yard.

There are more than a dozen snakes lying on their stomachs in the yard, all of them are red-striped black snakes, with pointed snake heads, spitting bright red herringbone letters, which makes people tremble when they see it.

"Uncle Mu, where are there so many snakes?"

Thinking that Lao Mu himself said that he had caught a snake for a while, he might know what this snake came from, so I asked him casually.

"I'm weird too...... These snakes seem to have been domesticated and are very organized. Lao Mu replied in a hoarse voice.

Raised? It can't be!

Just as he was pondering, he heard a familiar voice from the room: "Is it Lu Dong outside?" ”

Wu Jinghan? It was Wu Jinghan's voice.

"You...... You okay? As soon as I heard Wu Jinghan's voice, I subconsciously took a few steps forward and hurriedly shouted towards the house.

"It's okay, we're all right! Uncle Xing's house is a new house, and the doors and windows are very tight - I want to call you, but the mobile phone has no signal......"

My hanging heart finally fell back into my stomach.

"You, young man...... Do you have sulfur or alcohol or something like that? The old man behind him suddenly asked me.

"Nope!"

At this moment, I was very anxious, looking at the dozen or so snakes in front of me, I couldn't wait to care about anything, I didn't care about anything, I rushed up with a stick, all of them were killed, and then rushed into the house to rescue Wu Jinghan, how could I still have the heart to listen to what Lao Mu said.

"That's strange, you didn't notice that the snake seems to be afraid of you?" Lao Mu continued to ask.

This calmed me down a bit.

"What? Snakes afraid of me? Why do you say that! ”

Lao Mu actually smiled, revealing two big yellow front teeth.

"The snake just now clearly wanted to bite you, but after getting close to you, it crawled to the other side as if fleeing for its life." He paused for a moment and pointed to the black snake in the courtyard that bared its teeth and spat out the letter towards us, "Just now you took a few steps forward, and these snakes also retreated two meters with you, you...... You should have something on you that snakes are afraid of. ”

These words calmed me down completely.

first shouted a few words into the house to reassure Wang Shengjia and Wu Jinghan in the house, and then turned around and asked Lao Mu:

"Uncle Mu, snakes aren't also afraid of pesticides, right? But I don't have any pesticides on me! ”

Lao Mu smiled: "Snakes are most afraid of irritating substances, such as sulfur and alcohol, in addition to tobacco, realgar, especially realgar. ”

I suddenly thought of the TV series "The Legend of the New White Lady" that I watched when I was a child: Bai Suzhen drank realgar wine by mistake and recovered the snake body, which scared Xu Xian to death on the spot.

But the problem is that I have neither realgar, nor sulfur or alcohol as Lao Mu said, nor even a cigarette.

Lao Mu glanced at the snake five meters away, walked up to me, leaned over and sniffed.

"Strange! You really don't smell anything but sweat, so it's you who are afraid of the snake! ”