Our father and daughter, one of us pinched the end of the snake, and left Dong Ling's house with our heads held high.

The hostess of the house stood aside and looked at me, a seven or eight-year-old little girl, with such a thick snake tail in her hand, and her expression was very complicated.

When I got home, my dad started slashing snakes.

As for me, I was still pinching the snake's tail, while my dad picked up a knife and pulled it directly from the snake's stomach.

The sound of "bang" is very cruel.

Next, it's time to gutt, peel the skin, and ...... My dad did a great job.

This coherent movement is pleasing to the eye.

Soon, the big snake as thick as an arm was stripped off by my father, and after being skinned and hearted, only the tender pink and fleshy spine in the middle remained.

I have to say that the vitality of this thing is really strong.

It's all packed up like this, and it's still moving around in the plastic basin of my house.

A white piece of flesh with a spine, without a head or tail, looks a little funny in the vice.

Now that I think about it, I was really bold enough at the time, squatting in front of the basin and staring at the moving "meat rope" inside, and I actually reached out and grabbed it and played.

At that time, I felt that its spine was really strong, and it wrapped around my wrist in a few strokes.

At first I just played with it and thought it was pretty good.

Later, I gradually realized that something was wrong, this "meat rope" was so strong that it was so tightly entangled in my palm that no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't break it at all.

Gradually, I lost sensation in some parts of my palms and fingers.

I hurriedly called my dad, and he rushed out of the back room, and when he saw this, he was anxious, and picked up the scissors and cut the "meat rope".

The scissors at my house were a bit blunt, and my dad had to cut them hard several times before he cut them in two.

My wrists relaxed a lot, and my fingertips felt numb.

The snake, which had been cut in half, though much less powerful, was still wrapped around my hand left and right, slippery and warm.

It is said that snakes are cold-blooded animals, but I don't think so, this warm feeling is quite comfortable.

My dad was angry at the time:

"Xiaofan, I asked you to stay away from it, but you just didn't listen, fortunately it didn't wrap around your neck, otherwise, your life would be lost."

I grinned and grabbed the two twisting "meat ropes", which I thought was very interesting.

That night, my dad boiled it.

I boiled a big pot with potatoes, and sent some to the neighbors, especially Aunt Dong Ling, my dad said that the snake was from someone else's house, and he specially served a lot of it, so I brought it to her.

Dong Ling didn't know what it was at first, she looked at the pot of meat with ruddy oil and felt that it was not bad.

Picking up the chopsticks and taking a bite to eat, she asked me: "Tang Xiaofan, what is this, the taste is quite good, the meat is delicate, and the entrance is a little sweet." ”

I looked at her with a smile and said, "Aunt Dong Ling, this is your snake, my dad braised it, with a little kimchi and potatoes, the taste is okay......"

Before I could finish my sentence, I heard another scream.

I saw Dong Ling's whole body pressed against the wall, her face was already blue, and she stared at the pot of snake meat in horror.

Her tears were about to flow out, and she asked stupidly, "Xiaofan...... I just ate ......"

"Yes!" I laughed: "Snake meat, that snake of yours!" ”

Listening to my words, Dong Ling was about to collapse.

For many days afterward, I didn't understand why Aunt Dong Ling was so scared, it was normal for you to be afraid that it would bite you when that thing was alive.

It's all delicious when it's dead, and you're still afraid of wool.

I asked my dad why Dong Ling reacted so violently, and my dad said that people are actually like this, they like to scare themselves. Fear, in fact, is an obsession in people's hearts, and weak-willed people will unintentionally amplify it.

To be honest, a living snake may not bite anyone.

Not to mention a pot of snake meat.

What we fear is the fear that has never happened, that is, we have imagined everything terrible to scare ourselves.

But when real fear comes, people are less afraid.

I was so young at the time that I didn't understand it.

I asked my dad again, how could Aunt Dong Ling's house suddenly run into a snake.

My dad thought about it and said, half a month ago, in the open space near here, there was a troupe walking the rivers and lakes, and there were snakes, monkeys, and a lot of wild animals in it, and the snake probably ran out of it.

I groaned.

asked again: "That Aunt Dong Ling's house is the one closest to the staircase in this tube building, and it stands to reason that it is the farthest away from the troupe, why didn't the snake come to our house, nor did it go to someone else's house, but she was reluctant to go far away and went to her house farthest?" ”

My dad asked me, "Xiaofan, do you remember the peculiar smell of perfume we smelled when we took you into her bedroom?" ”

"Yes." I nodded.

When I walked in the door, it smelled so good that I could smell it right away.

At that time, perfume was not very popular among women, and I just thought it smelled really special, so I took a few deep breaths and thought it was very good.

My dad said, "That's the smell that drew the snake here." ”

I don't understand what the smell of perfume has to do with snakes, and how they can attract snakes from so far away, which is a bit incredible.

My dad didn't say anything more, he had already packed up the dishes and chopsticks, squatted on the ground and began to sort out the mess that had been dug out of the snake's belly.

I saw him dig it out a few times, and after a while, a dark brown thing the size of a snow pea was separated from those intestines.

He rinsed it under the tap and put it directly in a bowl.

Then my grandmother came over, and she glanced at the contents of the bowl: "Yo, it's quite big." ”

My dad handed the bowl to my grandmother: "Yes, it's very rare, I've cleaned it up and can use it." ”

Grandma smiled and took it and pinched it up with two fingers. Seeing me staring at her, she walked up to me and shook the thing in front of me a few times: "Fanfan, come, open your mouth, eat a snake gall bladder, and replenish your body." ”

I hummed and opened my mouth obediently.

If you look at the snake gall up close, although it is brown, it has an amber glow inside, a bit of opal.

It's eye-catching.

My dad on the side said to my grandmother: "Mom, this snake gall is not easy to get, don't give it to the child, didn't you say that your eyelids are hot the day before yesterday, swallow this thing, just make sure it." ”

"I want to give me food."

"I really don't need it, this thing is cold, and it's too good for children to eat it."

Hearing this, grandma sighed.

She smiled happily at me: "The rice is still small, and you can't have snake gall, so grandma will eat it." ”

As she spoke, Grandma put the snake gall in her mouth, and I saw her throat move, and the thing went down her throat at once......