"What about those two names?"

Xing Ruyi took the pen in his mouth and turned his head to the fox. The fox put the coat in his hand on her shoulder, wrapped his arms around her from behind, and looked down at the ghostly words on the rice paper.

"It's ugly."

"Is the name ugly, or is my word ugly?"

"It's ugly." The fox said, stretched out his hand, and grabbed Xing Ruyi: "These words have to be written like this." ”

"You know how to make fun of me." Xing Ruyi lowered his head and lightly bit the back of the fox's hand. The force was so light that not even a decent impression remained. "You don't know where I came from. I have done my best to write this with a brush, and I can write like this. ”

"It's just that you don't work hard enough, and you just make excuses for yourself." The fox let go of his hand, picked her up, put her on the floor, lowered his head, and clenched her eyes: "The lazy and quibbling lady will be punished!" ”

was stared at affectionately by such a handsome and invincible face, even if Xing Ruyi looked at it thousands of times, he still blushed. She wanted to bow her head shyly, but suddenly thought of the nature of the fox, hugged his neck, and hooked him back with a charming voice: "Then Lord Husband, how do you want to punish your wife?" ”

The corners of the fox's mouth rose and pressed closer to her lips: "What does Madame think of this?" ”

"It's not good to evaluate, it depends on how the husband behaves." Before he finished speaking, his lips were caught by a certain fox.

Just as he was about to make some intimacy, there was a magpie's cry outside the door.

"Sister, sister, come on!"

Xing Ruyi blushed, poked his head out of the fox's arms and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Liu Shisan is here, and he is crying in the shop right now, crying so much that he is crying wolf, scaring away many of our guests. Sister, if you don't take care of it anymore, our Ruyi Rouge Shop will make him cry. ”

"Crying yellow?" Xing Ruyi and the fox glanced at each other: "Otherwise, I'll go and take a look first." ”

"Hmm." The fox nodded sullenly, with some dissatisfaction in his eyes.

"Not happy?"

"Nope!" The fox put down the punishment, picked up the coat that had slipped to the ground, and carefully draped it on her: "Although it is spring, the weather shows no signs of warming. You have just come out of confinement, so you wear more clothes so that you don't get cold. ”

"Got it." Xing Ruyi stood on tiptoe and kissed the fox lightly on the cheek: "Wait for me to come back." Oh, by the way, there are two more children's names, and we have to give them today. ”

The two children looked like they were going to be 100 days old, but the name was never found. Xing Ruyi thought about it a few, but he didn't feel very satisfied when he looked left and right. It's easy to get inspired today, but I'm being disturbed by the fox again, and now there is something about Liu Shisan, and I don't know if I can finalize the names of these two children before dark.

It was only a few dozen steps from the backyard wing to the front shop, but Xing Ruyi still wrapped himself tightly according to the fox's instructions. She was already afraid of the cold, but after giving birth to a child, her physique became weaker and weaker, and she couldn't even perform ghost magic well. If it was before, she would probably still think about whether she was beautiful enough, but now she only thinks about taking good care of herself, and living one more day is a day.

Three years, as the Immortal King said, she only has three years of fate with the fox and the children. In the past three years, she has to be good no matter what.

When she opened her eyes and saw the fox and the children, she told herself that she didn't care about the things she shouldn't care about in the future, didn't ask about the things she shouldn't ask, and had few curiosity that she shouldn't have. But in the face of Liu Shisan, who was crying bitterly, her heart still softened.

"Oh, I said Brother Thirteen, don't cry. My shopkeeper is already standing in front of you, but you should tell her. ”

The magpie stomped his feet in a hurry, and the man who was eight feet tall and looked tall and strong was crying.

"Thirteen, what the hell is going on?"

"Shopkeeper, shopkeeper, I beg you, save my father, save my father."

"Daddy Liu?" Xing Ruyi glanced at the magpie, and the magpie shook her head, indicating that she didn't know either. "What's wrong with Daddy Liu? Don't cry first, make your words clear. ”

Liu Shisan's father's name is Liu Ji, and he is a snake catcher who makes a living by catching snakes.

Liu Zongyuan once wrote an article "The Snake Catcher Said", saying that a peculiar snake was born in the wild in Yongzhou, which has a black base and white patterns. If this kind of snake touches grass and trees, the grass and trees will dry up and die, and if it bites a person, the person will be killed immediately. Although this snake is venomous, it is a good medicine primer, which can be used to cure leprosy, fisted hands and feet, swollen neck, sores, and can also remove dead flesh and kill parasites in the human body.

Because of the remarkable effect, so the powerful people are scrambling to get this snake, the emperor knew, so he asked the imperial doctor to issue an order to levy this snake twice a day, and anyone who can catch this snake can offset the tax.

Although there are no such snakes in the suburbs of Luoyang, there are other snakes everywhere, and these snakes can also be used for medicine. There are also many restaurants in the city, which make a living by making snake soup, so this snake catching has become a serious job, and its income is even higher than that of other coolies.

Liu Shisan's father, Liu Ji, is a person who makes a living by catching snakes. He had been with his father earlier, but he was timid and refused to go again after being bitten by a snake. Liu Ji couldn't do anything about this son, so he killed the snake he caught, took out the snake gall, peeled off the snake skin, and then classified the snake meat in a unified manner, and Liu Shisan sent it to sell everywhere.

There is a very good snake oil ointment in Xing Ruyi's shop, and this raw material was bought from Liu Shisan. If you come and go, you will be familiar with it.

Liu Ji, Xing Ruyi has also seen it twice, and he has the impression that he is a taciturn old man, because he catches snakes all year round, and he always has a fishy smell very similar to snakes.

Liu Shisan stopped crying, and sobbed for a long time before wiping his tears and saying, "My father is gone!" ”

"What do you mean it's gone?"

"Three days ago, my dad went out to catch snakes, saying that snakes are the easiest to catch back in the spring. According to the old habit, I will be back in two days at most. But this time I walked, and I walked for three days. ”

"Xu is far away."

"It's possible." Liu Shisan nodded first, and then said, "No, no." What the shopkeeper said, I also thought about it with my mother. Although there are many snakes, they can't stand the catch of adults for many months, and the more people they catch, the fewer snakes they will naturally have. My father is strong, even if he catches snakes, he always has to catch one more than others. Originally, he went to catch him elsewhere, but it wasn't until the neighbor Uncle Wang was carried back that we knew that something had happened. ”

"Who is Uncle Wang?"

"Like my father, they are snake catchers, and they have been catching snakes together since I was very young. This time I went out, and the two of them were also together. Liu 13 wiped his tears: "Uncle Wang didn't come back alive. ”

"Dead?"

"Hmmm! When Uncle Wang was pulled back, his face was deformed, it was the kind of blue-gray color that looked very scary. His face is also different from usual, like my mother's steamed steamed buns, swollen, and if you don't look closely, you can hardly tell that the person is him. ”

"Was he bitten to death by a snake?"

"Well, I was bitten to death by a snake." Liu 13 pointed to his calf: "In our village, eight out of ten families are snake catchers. As soon as the old people saw him, they knew that he had been poisoned by snakes. Flipping through his trouser legs, there were indeed two marks of snake fangs biting this place. Uncle Wang's leg was white and white, but the wound was blue-black. ”

"Who carried Uncle Wang back, did the person who carried him back tell you where he found Uncle Wang, and did he see your father?"

"I asked, not only me, but my mother too. The two who brought Uncle Wang back were from the next village, and we all knew each other. One is called Liu Chang and the other is Ma Wei, both of whom grow crops in the village, and that Liu Chang is still related to our family. They said that Uncle Wang was found at the head of their village, and when they found him, Uncle Wang was already dead. Because they recognized his clothes, the two men sent him back after reporting to the village chief. As for my father, they said they hadn't seen it, but judging from Uncle Wang's poisoning, my father shouldn't have gone too far. ”

"As far as I know, there are no poisonous snakes on the outskirts of Luoyang City, where did the snake that bit Uncle Wang come from?"

"The shopkeeper is wrong, we have poisonous snakes here." Liu Shisan paused: "I heard my father say that we have poisonous snakes here, but the poison is not so great, and where this poisonous snake haunts, there are often antidote herbs." People who catch snakes outside all the year round know and know these detoxifying herbs, even if they are bitten, as long as they find the herbs in time, apply them externally, and take them internally, they will soon be relieved. I've also been bitten by snakes, and it was a snake that didn't have a lot of poison, and it only took me a turn to find me. The herb was bitter, but after eating it, the feeling of paralysis in the wound quickly disappeared. It's just that I'm timid, and since then, I don't dare to follow my father up the mountain to catch snakes. ”

"Does Uncle Wang recognize those herbs?"

"I know it." Liu Shisan nodded hurriedly: "Uncle Wang was an apprentice in the medicine workshop in his early years, not only knowing those herbs, but also preparing his own detoxification powder. Many snake catchers in our village have the medicinal powder prepared by Uncle Wang. Although there are people in this village who have been bitten to death by snakes, the big guys didn't expect that Uncle Wang could also be bitten to death by snakes. ”

"Then, is it possible to judge what kind of snake it is from the wound of Uncle Wang's bite?"

Liu 13 shook his head.

"If I could find the snake, I wouldn't have to come to the shopkeeper. I've heard people say that the shopkeeper is not like the female shopkeeper of the ordinary rouge shop, you will have a lot of things, and you will also check the feng shui and watch the fate, just like the living fairy in the mouth of the old man. I beg you, help me find my father and see if he is still alive. ”

Liu Shisan said, and knelt in front of Xing Ruyi with a "plop", and grabbed the corner of her clothes with both hands even more abruptly.

At that moment, she saw a picture. In the picture is a snake nest, and in the snake nest is a large blood-red snake, and the big snake is staring at her with cold eyes.