The water surface of the Bahe River is stable and wide, supporting the water and water transportation of the entire capital. In addition, there is a faint shadow of the mountains in the distance, and there are willows on the riverside, which adds to the beauty.

Boating on the Bahe River was originally a beautiful thing, but with Aunt Hai, it was no longer beautiful.

The boatman is a man, and Aunt Hai has a "rule" to pull Yan Shuyu to hide in the cabin and not come out, saying that she is avoiding a foreign man. Yan Songnian, who was involved, did not let Yan Qingge, Aunt Liu, and Aunt Ying go on the deck.

Locked in the cabin, this ship is not a building ship with windows, and there are people who I dislike very much, so it is better to stay at home and embroider for such an hour.

Yan Qingge was upset, too lazy to look at Aunt Hai and Yan Shuyu, so she simply slept in the cabin.

After returning in the afternoon, the Venerable Master Zhuangzi came to report that someone in the capital had sent a letter to Yan Qingge and brought a gift.

Yan Qingge took the letter and gifts, Yan Xiuyu, Ling Xiao, and Ning Minzhi all had them, they knew that Yan Qingge went to the countryside to escape the summer, and sent the letters and gifts here.

Yan Qingge took advantage of the fact that it was still early in the day, and wrote a reply letter, making a big deal about the fact that there were rats in the Zhuangzi and people couldn't sleep, telling them not to be stupid to go to the Zhuangzi to cool off, because it was hotter here. By the way, I picked a few bags of fresh melons and fruits, and gave them them together with the letter, so that they could try them.

Yan Qingge still went to bed early at night, but when he fell asleep just now, he heard the sound of rustling again, which was louder than last night.

Obviously, all the holes in the house were blocked, and it was so noisy, plus she had slept in the cabin during the day, Yan Qingge couldn't sleep even more, she sat up angrily, didn't light candles, and listened to where the sound came from.

It took a long time for her to make out that the sound was coming from the roof beams.

During the day, they blocked the burrows on the ground and in the walls, but they did not expect the rats to be so bold as to dare to climb onto the roof beams.

Yan Qingge lit the lamp, asked Ruyi to go out and call a few mothers-in-law, moved the ladder to the beam, and saw what was going on above.

It's not too late now, I heard that there is still a rat infestation in the eldest lady's room, and the mothers-in-law enthusiastically put up the ladder, hold torches, and climb up to see.

The people above took torches and shone them, and found that there was nothing, and just as they wanted to speak, they suddenly heard a scream from the people below.

She looked down and saw that there were two more snakes on the ground.

These two snakes were colorful, each about half a foot long, with a thick wine cup and a flat head, and a strange blood-red sarcoma on the top of the head.

Their hideous little eyes stared at the crowd and torches in the room vigilantly, and they stood up high, opened their mouths wide, revealing their hideous fangs and bright red snake letters, and their slippery bodies circled and swam on the ground.

A servant woman trembled and howled, and said loudly, "Quickly protect the eldest lady and get out." The splitter grabbed Yan Qingge and ran towards the door.

In the blink of an eye, except for the mother-in-law on the beam, everyone else ran away.

A servant woman said, "I remember that the Yu Family Guild caught snakes, so please invite him over." This snake is terrible. ”

When the mother-in-law was looking over the beam of the house with a torch, the people below saw two big snakes fall from the top of their heads with a snap, fall to the ground, and then begin to make an attack posture.

Luckily, no one was bitten, otherwise it would have been a hassle today.

Because of the presence of poisonous snakes in the house, the father-in-law of the Yu family was quickly called over. This old man, who was in his sixties, carried a large bag and a bamboo flute stuck in his belt, and ran in. There was also a woman behind him, who was none other than Yu Zhao.

Yan Qingge listened to Yu Zhao's words and knew that the old man who went in to catch the snake was Yu Hua'er's grandfather.

The Yu family used to live in the poor, humid and hot east, where there were many snakes, so they had a good skill of catching snakes that has been passed down from generation to generation. More than 100 years ago, the Yu family couldn't get by, so they begged for food and went to the capital, and sold their family to the Yan family as slaves. Now that life is stable, there are few snakes in the capital, and the Yu family is the only one who can catch snakes.

There was a strange sound of bamboo flute in the house, and it didn't take long for the old man Yu to carry a cloth bag that protruded from here and there from time to time, wiped the sweat on his head, and said: "This is a poisonous snake only in the mountains, there should be no in the capital, I only heard my father say when I was a child, called a blood crown, a bite, three steps to kill." How did this kind of poison come to our Zhuangzi, looking at their length, they are definitely ten years old, it's really strange. ”

Yan Qingge also saw that something was wrong, and saluted Old Man Yu: "Thank you for your help, I don't dare to live in this house, I'm afraid there are other unclean things, if you don't dislike it, help me take a look." These two snakes fell from the beam. ”

Old man Yu nodded, asked his daughter-in-law to take the cloth bag with the snake, and went back to the house.

After a while, Old Man Yu came out, his face was solemn, and he carried a thick and long snake in his hand, which looked like a thin cloth bag that was one and a half feet long, and said: "This is found in the corner of the beam, no wonder these two snakes dare not hurt people, and only climb on the beam." There are dragon clothes left by the guardian god, they are new and dare not make a mistake. ”

The family protector and dragon clothes in Old Man Yu's mouth, Yan Qingge has heard of it. It is said that there will be some more psychic snakes who live in the same room with people, never hurt people, do not show their faces easily, and only catch rats and other things in the house for a living. This kind of protector must not be killed or driven away, otherwise it will cause disaster. And Longyi is talking about the snake molting.

Yan Qingge stepped forward and touched the half-zhang long snake with his hand, and asked softly, "According to the old man's meaning, those two poisonous snakes are new?" ”

"Yes! If we had this venomous snake here, someone would have been bitten a long time ago, and it would not have been discovered until now. Besides, this house was still occupied a few days ago, and there was no sign of poison. ”

Yan Qingge knew that someone was trying to harm her, so she sneered in her heart, and said lightly: "Since there is no poison in the house, it's good." "Asked Ruyi to give the reward, and he didn't go back to the house anymore, changed into big clothes, and went straight to Aunt Hai's yard.

She called Ruyi and banged on the door of Aunt Hai's room like a drum.

There was still a light inside, but there was no one in sight, Aunt Hai and Yan Songnian should have entered the tent.

Aunt Hai was knocked on the door like this, and shouted in displeasure: "Who is it?" ”

"Master, the eldest lady has caught two poisonous snakes in her house." Ruyi shouted.

Yan Songnian, who didn't speak, was shocked when he heard the news, and suddenly said, "Poisonous snake? How can there be a poisonous snake on the Zhuangzi. ”

After a while, Yan Songnian and Aunt Hai both got up, opened the door, Yan Songnian's shoes were not properly worn, and Aunt Hai only approved clothes.

"Father, two extremely venomous snakes were found in my daughter's house, called Blood Crown, and they were killed in three steps when they bit someone. These two snakes are still in the Yu family, can my father take a look? ”

Although she asked Yan Songnian to take a look, a pair of eyes with ice and snow crossed Yan Songnian's shoulders and firmly stared at Aunt Hai.

Yan Qingge kept looking at Aunt Hai, and Yan Songnian couldn't help but follow her line of sight.

Aunt Hai was annoyed and angry, touched her face, and said angrily: "You caught a poisonous snake in the house, what do you want me to do?" ”

"That's right, Qingge, you caught a poisonous snake in the house, why are you looking at Aunt Hai?" Yan Songnian said strangely.

"Just to see if Aunt Hai is afraid of snakes." Yan Qingge looked at Yan Songnian's confused and anxious face in disappointment, looked at Aunt Hai again, threw down a sentence coldly, turned around and left.

Yan Songnian was not interested in seeing the poisonous snake, let alone doubting the origin of this strange poisonous snake, so Aunt Lahai went back to the house.

Because she had served Yan Songnian all night, she woke up the next morning, and Aunt Hai called for hot water to take a bath.

Soaking in the bathtub, Aunt Hai remembered what Yan Qingge said last night, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt that something was wrong. When she took a bath and asked someone to wipe her head, her eldest maid Caifeng suddenly said, "Hey, madam, why is our window paper broken." ”

Aunt Hai looked in the direction of her finger, and sure enough, she saw a hole the size of a wine glass broken in the window paper, and there were still a few pieces of things shining in the hole. The hole was just thick enough for the two snakes to crawl into. When she looked at the glittering thing beside the cave entrance, Aunt Hai was even more frightened, it was the tiny scales of the snake.

Aunt Hai screamed, she didn't care about combing her hair, she only wore a small coat, and ran outside with her hair scattered, and said loudly: "There is a snake in the house, hurry up and search for me!" ”

Caifeng was taken aback by Aunt Hai's performance, swallowed her saliva, and said, "Madam, let's find someone to arrest you." Last night, the eldest lady found a snake in her house, and she came to find Old Man Yu. ”

"Don't call someone yet!" Aunt Hai's anxious voice became sharper.

In order to make medicine, Hai's prescription buys poisonous snakes all year round, and these two snakes are found by Aunt Hai from the Hai family, and they are rare goods in Beijing. She knows the poison of these two snakes best, and if she is bitten, she can basically only wait for death, and if she barely saves it, she will become a fool.

The two snakes last night were killed by Yan Qingge's order, and as long as there were a few scales, the rest was buried by Old Man Yu on his back. But Yan Qingge didn't allow Old Man Yu to say that the snake was dead, she told Old Man Yu that if others came to ask, they only said that these two snakes were very cunning, and they broke open the mouth of the cloth bag and ran away in the middle of the night.

Old man Yu didn't understand why Yan Qingge wanted to do this, so he was called by his daughter-in-law to say a few words, shut his mouth, and ran to kowtow to Yan Qingge.

Although Yu Huaer is a girl, her degree of favor is still above the two boys of the Yu family. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been cultivated to be like that. After Yu Huaer's accident, the whole Yu family was uneasy, and the old man dreamed that his granddaughter was still alive three or four times in his dreams.

Where could this poisonous snake come from? It must be Aunt Hai's treacherous person who used it to harm the eldest lady. The eldest lady asked him to lie in order to deal with Aunt Hai, which was to avenge their family's Yu Hua'er.