A snake with black and yellow lines intersecting is wrapped around the eaves. Hearing the sound of footsteps, the head of the snake was raised, and the people rushed to spit out letters.

"Didn't anyone catch this snake?"

Xing Ruyi frowned at the snake, she hated to pass under its entrenched eaves.

"It came back with Uncle Wang." Liu Shisan glanced at the snake, and there was some fear in his eyes: "The old people in the village all say that this snake is evil, and with Uncle Wang's matter, no one dares to catch it." ”

"On the way, you said that Uncle Wang crawled back from the cemetery after being buried, and bit Aunt Wang, what is going on? Why didn't you say this when you were in the Ruyi Rouge Shop? ”

"It's not that I don't say it, it's that I dare not say it." Liu 13 lowered his head: "I'm worried that if I say it, the shopkeeper won't help find my father." ”

"Now, I'm here, you can always tell what happened."

"Actually, I don't know what's going on." Liu Shisan glanced at the snake coiled on the eaves, held his head, and squatted down: "Uncle Wang's death is strange, and our whole village is panicked, and when it gets dark, the big guys don't want to come out." My mother and I couldn't sleep at night because of my father's business, and the lights in the house were always on. On the night of Uncle Wang's burial, my mother and I were talking in the house when we heard a voice outside. ”

Liu Shisan looked up at the courtyard of Uncle Wang's house.

"It wasn't the sound of people walking, it was like someone was dragging something along the way. Intrigued, I peeked out the window. The yard was white and there was nothing. In the distance, there is only the shadow of snow and trees. Just as I was wondering, I heard Aunt Wang shouting: Kuizi! ”

"Kuizi?"

"Uncle Wang's nickname, Aunt Wang has always called him that." Liu Shisan's head hung down again: "When I first heard it, my mother and I didn't expect to see such a scary situation, we all thought that Aunt Wang missed Uncle Wang, and we felt uncomfortable, so we shouted in the middle of the night." But when we came out of the house and looked at Aunt Wang'er's house through the fence, we realized that something was wrong. ”

Liu Shisan's hands were twisted together: "The windows of Aunt Wang'er's house are the same as ours, they are all made of paper paste. This paper is all straw paper, very thin, and the wind can blow through it a little stronger in winter. So, through the window, you can almost see the inside, especially since the lights are still on in this room.

My mother and I saw two shadows in the window, one of which was Aunt Wang. She was fatter, fatter than all the women in our village who had become mothers. Therefore, her shadow is also easier to identify. The other one, through the window, we couldn't tell who it was, only vaguely that it was a man. His figure was very strange, like a zigzag vine wrapped around Aunt Wang'er's body.

Just when my mother and I were wondering what that thing was, the door of Aunt Wang'er's house was broken. With the help of the light and snow, we can see clearly that what is wrapped around Aunt Wang'er is not something, but Uncle Wang, who has just been buried during the day. ”

"And then?"

"My mother was so frightened that her hands trembled so much that she couldn't say a word. I was also terrified, so I shouted a few times. Call my mother, and shout for help. The people in the village soon came out, and when they saw that scene, everyone was also afraid. In the end, it was the village chief who stood up and said that if Uncle Wang was not captured, the whole village would suffer. ”

"What about Uncle Wang and Aunt Wang?"

"Uncle Wang is tied up."

"Where's Aunt Wang?"

"Aunt Wang...... Aunt Wang ......" Liu Shisan swallowed for a while, "Anyway, Uncle Wang and Aunt Wang's family are no one now, so you better go to our house first." I went to beg you to find my father. ”

Liu 13 had something to hide.

Xing Ruyi glanced into the courtyard, and when he retracted his gaze, he met the eyes of the flower snake, and the flower snake shook its head and pulled its head down.

This snake is not evil.

"Let's go, let's go to your house."

Walking more than ten steps from Uncle Wang's house is Liu Shisan's home. The fence gate was open and the yard was clean.

Aunt Liu was lying in the hall of Chaoyang, sick, and her face was an extremely ugly waxy yellow. Xing Ruyi checked her pulse and found that she was an old illness that had not been cured, and because of her excessive exertion and fright, she would not be able to afford to be sick under the action of many parties. She wrote a prescription and handed it to Liu Shisan, telling him to go to the city to get the medicine later.

When Liu 13 turned around to put the prescription, Xing Ruyi took out a porcelain bottle from his cuff and put it under Aunt Liu's nose for her to sniff.

Aunt Liu's complexion instantly changed a lot.

"It's—"

"Fox incense." Xing Ruyi shook the porcelain bottle in his hand: "It has the effect of calming the mind, sleeping and driving away evil spirits." ”

"No wonder I feel so much lighter." Aunt Liu smiled and pulled Ruyi's hand: "You are the torture shopkeeper, right?" I've often heard my old man and Thirteen talk about you. They all described you to me, so I recognized you the first time I saw you. ”

"Do Daddy Liu and Thirteen often mention me?"

"Well, often. Don't look at my old man, he doesn't have any great skills in his life, but his heart is high, and there are not many people who can make him boast. ”

"Great ability does not have to govern the country and level the world, it is a great ability to arrange things in your own family properly, so that your wife and children can follow you without being guilty or wronged. Although Daddy Liu doesn't like to talk, I can see that he is a good father and a good father. ”

Hearing Xing Ruyi say this, Aunt Liu turned red all of a sudden like a girl who had not yet left the cabinet. She said a little embarrassedly: "I have been with the old man of our family for so many years, although I have not enjoyed any great blessings, but I have not suffered any major crimes. If I had to go back to when I was seventeen or eighteen, I think I would still choose him. ”

"The relationship between the eldest mother and Daddy Liu is really good."

"What's good or bad, just like ordinary couples, they quarrel when they should quarrel, and they blush-faced when they should be red-faced. But there's one thing, I'm an old man who doesn't drink or hit people. ”

"Hitting? Are there any drunken beaters in this village who beat their wives? ”

"Yes, the sister of the Wang family who lives next door to us is often beaten by her man." Aunt Liu shook her head: "Speaking of which, this sister of the Wang family is also a poor person. She was originally a young lady from a village family, her family has more than a dozen acres of land to collect rent, and she is spoiled by a few brothers, although she does not wear gold and silver like your young lady in the city, but in our countryside, she is also very delicate. But this god is not long-sighted, when the sister of the Wang family turned sixteen years old, on a windy and rainy day, his father was killed by thunder and lightning. Her mother, who was not good in her own right, was too sad, and went a few days later. ”

Aunt Liu sighed several times in a row.

"My father and mother are gone, and my brother is gone. The brothers of the Wang family's sisters are also honest people, and they love this sister even more. But somehow, in the year when the Wang sister-in-law's father was killed by thunder, her brothers also had three accidents one after another. Big brother, he fell into a deep ditch and died. The second brother was burned to death by fire when he went to check the granary. The third brother, the death is even more strange, he was knocked to death by mixing stones on the way home. The fourth brother, who is cautious, thought that he would be fine, but never thought that he would be bitten to death by a snake when he went to the ground. In just one year, except for the sisters of the Wang family, the rest of the Wang family died. ”

"Then how did Aunt Wang marry Uncle Wang?"

"Coincidentally, Uncle Wang happened to be doing a short-term job in their house that year, and when he saw that the sister of the Wang family was pitiful, he helped her everywhere. A girl's family, the family suddenly encountered such a big change, naturally it was impossible to survive. If you meet a man who helps you everywhere and is good to you, won't you just get married? ”

"Since Aunt Wang is married to Uncle Wang, is the land in the family also owned by Uncle Wang? When I came, I happened to get off the bus outside Uncle Wang's house, but no matter how you look, their family doesn't look like they are very wealthy. ”

"The family property has been lost, where can you still get rich."

"Defeated...... Was it defeated by Uncle Wang? ”

"Who else could it be if it wasn't him? His Uncle Wang looks very shrewd and capable, and he is not confused when he does things. Compared with the old man in my family, people's brains are more flexible, and they are decent in everything they learn and do. But there is one thing, he loves to drink. When he drank alcohol, he became drunk, and when he was drunk, he either dropped something or hit someone. ”

"You can't drink all the property, can you?"

"I can't." Aunt Liu sighed again: "When his uncle Wang was young, he was lazy, he didn't want to go to the field, and he didn't want to go out to collect rent, and he felt that rent collection was done by people who had no ability." Soon after he married the sister of the Wang family, he made the decision to pawn and sell the dozen acres of land. ”

"It's sold, and there's still silver."

"Not really. Those dozen acres were all fine fields, and they were sold for hundreds of taels of silver. If he kept this silver, he could live most of his life, but his uncle Wang was lost and wanted to be an official. This official was not done, and the silver was biased. Later, I went to learn to be a doctor, and after a few days of taking medicine, I felt that it was not good to be a doctor. This ability has not grown, but the addiction to alcohol and temper have grown a lot. The people in our village all thought that this Wang sister was going to be beaten to death by him nine times out of ten, but they never thought that in the end, she would be bitten to death by him. ”

"Was this Aunt Wang bitten to death?"

"This, I didn't see it with my own eyes, and I heard Thirteen say that it was bitten to death." Aunt Liu is tired, and when she speaks, her eyelids always droop down from time to time.

Liu Shisan put the prescription and went out to pour some water for his mother. Seeing that Xing Ruyi had been talking to Aunt Liu, he stood aside with his head stuffed and didn't talk. At this time, seeing that his mother was asleep, he urged and asked, "When will the shopkeeper look for my father?" ”

"Don't worry, wait until I ask it."

Xing Ruyi pointed outside, only to see that the flower snake that was originally entrenched on the eaves of Uncle Wang's house climbed onto the windowsill of Liu Shisan's house at some point.