As soon as I heard it, I understood that it was supposed to be Yanagawa Minami's snake skin.

Snakes will molt their skin regularly, and each time they molt, it is a growth, and some snake skins have great medicinal value.

After Liu Chuannan left Jiaolongpo, he didn't know if the snake skin was still useful to him, and now he didn't know when he would come back, and the snake skin was dug up, so he didn't know if there was any hindrance to him.

"No, the snake skin that has shed is so big, so how big does this snake have to be now!" Someone exclaimed.

Wang Tiezhu's face turned pale, and he pulled the fat baby and left: "Let's go to Jiaolongpo first." ”

As soon as they left, almost everyone followed, and who wouldn't want to see a snakeskin that big?

We are not a tropical rainforest area, so it is very abnormal for a large python to appear, and besides, a slightly smaller python may not be as good as Yanagawa Minami.

I also followed, although I knew the origin of the snakeskin, but I also wanted to see what it was like, and besides, I had to pay attention to the dynamics of the villagers, in case Yanagawa Minami still wanted the snakeskin.

……

Jiaolongpo was already full of people, the fat baby opened the way, we followed Wang Tiezhu to squeeze forward, the people who were originally around the front have seen it, but they are willing to let it aside.

The snakeskin had been dug up intact and coiled on the ground in a circle, and the patriarch was smoking a cigarette while the villagers were talking.

The snake's skin was really large, coiled like a hill, the snake's skin was white as a whole, almost transparent in some places, and there were still a lot of scales hanging on the tail, and it looked crumbling.

"Patriarch, you have a word, such a big snake is entrenched in our village, if it suddenly appears one day, it will not swallow the villagers alive!"

"Yes, patriarch, you have a plan, even if you dig three feet into the ground, you have to find out this scourge."

"Why have there been so many strange things in our village recently."

……

The patriarch smoked a cigarette, smoking very hard, and after a while, he reached the butt of the cigarette, he threw the cigarette butt on the muddy ground, twisted it fiercely, and then looked at Wang Tiezhu: "Tiezhu, what do you think about this?" ”

"It's useless to look for it blindly, if you startle the snake and anger him, it will become a big deal if it's fine." After all, Wang Tiezhu is a young talent with knowledge and brains, and he is not so reckless, which is why the patriarch has to discuss with him no matter what.

"Don't talk empty words, come up with a plan." Someone shouted, and all the surrounding villagers echoed.

Wang Tiezhu thought for a while, waved his hand, and asked everyone to calm down: "Before you find this big snake, don't act rashly, I will urgently purchase a large number of male yellow and other things to restrain snakes and distribute them to everyone, and each family will take precautions first; We will report to the above as soon as possible, and wait for them to send professional snake catchers to catch snakes; Don't scare yourself, I don't think this snake skin is very new, maybe the snake has already left our village, and everyone has been walking around less in the camellia forest recently, in case of danger. ”

"Yes, yes, maybe this snake is cultivating in our village, and after shedding the snake's skin, it has already ascended to immortality, and it is not in the village at all." The fat baby interjected.

The child's words immediately caused the laughter of the people around him, and someone immediately spoke: "Fat baby, you have read too many villain books, right?" is also promoted to immortal, and it is almost the same as being promoted to a ghost. ”

The fat baby suddenly exhaled angrily: "Ascending to immortal is ascending to immortal, and you are only ascending to a ghost." ”

"You kid......" The man suddenly got angry and wanted to beat the fat baby, and then glanced at the patriarch standing next to him, gritted his teeth, and didn't dare.

The patriarch breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly said: "The lunch time is coming, the construction team will go back to eat and rest for the time being, and I will go to explain to the foreman if the work is stopped for half a day in the afternoon; Jiaolongpo found such a big snakeskin, and he was not allowed to spread it out, so as not to cause panic; Jiaolongpo is encircled, and no one is allowed to approach any more without my order, let alone dig without authorization, and I am caught and expelled from the stockade, and never allowed to come back. ”

Everyone was stunned, they didn't expect the patriarch to have an iron and bloody wrist this time, this is not like his style of doing things?

"Iron Pillar, you put away the snakeskin and keep it safe." The patriarch turned to Wang Tiezhu to explain.

Wang Tiezhu nodded, and just as he wanted to make a move, he heard a voice shouting: "Patriarch, don't accept it yet, let's talk." ”

Everyone looked in the direction where the voice came from, and they were all immediately a little surprised, and someone muttered in a low voice: "Why are the people from Daojiazhai here?" ”

Daojia Village is a special existence in our ten miles and eight villages, and everyone is not very willing to have much contact with their village, because their villages are all engaged in occupations related to the dead, and paying them to do things is another matter.

And the people of Daojiazhai are also easily reluctant to get close to the outside world, but today they suddenly appeared in Jiaolongpo, which really surprised us.

The patriarch was also surprised, but he still greeted him with a smile: "Why did Brother Guochang remember to come to me today?" Is there something wrong with me? ”

Dao Guochang is the speaker of Daojiazhai, but his status is not as good as our patriarch, he can only be regarded as a proclamator of their village, and the decision is made by the great wizard of their village.

Dao Guochang stretched out his finger and pointed to the pile of snake skins and asked, "Patriarch, can you let me take a closer look at this snake skin?" ”

"Brother Guochang is interested in studying snakes?" The patriarch asked rhetorically, I guess he didn't want people from other villages to touch this snake skin in his heart, if the above really sent professionals to catch snakes, such a rare snake skin might be taken out for study, and if anyone came to see it, it would be a pity if it was broken.

Dao Guochang shook his head: "It's our great wizard who asked me to take a look, he may want to spend a lot of money to buy this snake skin from you, the specific use of the great wizard didn't tell me, I guess it's for medicine." ”

"Heavy money purchase?" The patriarch smiled, "Brother Guochang, this time it may be difficult to obey your fate, this snakeskin is also very important to our village, we don't sell it for any amount of money, and I hope to explain to the great wizard when I go back, it's troublesome." ”

When the patriarch said this, some villagers were reluctant: "Patriarch, you first ask him how much money the great wizard is going to pay for this snake skin, don't refuse directly." ”

"Yes, patriarch, everything else is fake, and the money is real when you hold it in your hand."

……

Dao Guochang also echoed: "Yes, patriarch, our great wizard said that as long as it is a snake skin we need, he will pay 50,000 yuan to buy it from you." ”

"Patriarch, sell, I'm the first to support."

"I also support, with 50,000 yuan, let's replace the machine for pressing tea, the old machine has been used for decades, and the efficiency is getting lower and lower."

For a while, the villagers were discussing how to use the 50,000 yuan, and it usually seemed that there was no expense in the village.

"Shut up." The patriarch suddenly became angry, "I said that if this snake skin is not sold, it will not be sold, Brother Guochang, please also ask Haihan, Tiezhu, to collect the snake skin." ”

Dao Guochang's face suddenly turned unpleasant, but he still begged patiently: "Patriarch, I'm not sure if it's the snake skin we want, don't be so excited, let me take a look first?" ”

Wang Tiezhu was already collecting the snake skin, and the patriarch thought for a while and said, "Go to my house and see, there are too many people, and they are in a hurry to break it again." ”

"Okay, okay." It's not easy for Dao Guochang, if you go back without looking at it, it's not easy to explain to the great wizard.

……

The villagers slowly dispersed, and they all followed the patriarch to go back, we followed behind, and the classmates began to pinch me: "Bai Xiaocha, we haven't seen what this big snake skin looks like yet, you can also take some photos and come back for us to feast our eyes, right?" ”

"Yes, Xiaocha, I want to see it too." Ji Beibei's eyes burned.

Mo Bai also continued: "Such a big snake is really the best, my dad is old, if this snake skin can really be used in medicine, I want to spend more money to buy it back." ”

"Bai Xiaocha, go and help us take a look."

"That's right, your team leader just said that everyone is not allowed to enter the camellia forest casually, you can't see the camellia, just look at this big snakeskin."

They talked about it, and it seemed that I couldn't go if I didn't go, so they said, "I have to discuss it, it's not that I want to go and see it." ”

I trotted to catch up with Wang Tiezhu and looked at him flatteringly: "Brother Wang, can you let me follow you later, I also want to see the snakeskin." ”

Wang Tiezhu glanced at the patriarch, but the patriarch didn't speak, so he said, "Then don't make a sound, just follow me and stand next to me." ”

I nodded hurriedly and ran back to let everyone go back to my house first and wait, and I went to shoot the video.

As soon as he entered the patriarch's house, the courtyard door was tightly closed, and even the patriarch's family was locked in the room and was not allowed to come out to make trouble.

The snakeskin was completely unfolded in the courtyard, and the courtyard of the patriarch's house was still quite large, but it was circled six times, which shows how long the snakeskin is.

Dao Guochang bent down and approached the snakeskin, looking carefully section by section, I paid attention to his movements, in fact, he saw very quickly at first, until he was close to the tail, he squatted over there, looking back and forth several times, as if he was looking for something.

Later, he looked up and asked the patriarch, "I have to touch it with my hand to make sure I don't break it a little, okay?" ”

The patriarch nodded, and he reached out and stroked the snakeskin he had seen several times, and at last I saw that his little finger seemed to be gently picking.

His movements were invisible, just because the place where I was standing was facing the light, and when he picked it with his finger, the beam hit it, and I was surprised to find that the piece he picked had an opening of about one centimeter.

Snake molting is the first break from the mouth lip, and then from the head to the skin back, until the entire tail is separated, this process can be completed in the shortest minute or so, and the long one depends on the state of the snake itself.

Therefore, if there is a crack in the tail of the shedding, then it is likely to tear open all at once, and it is difficult for the snakeskin to remain intact.

The skin is intact as a whole, with only a few openings there, which in more cases suggest that the opening existed before the snake molts.

And this person named Dao Guochang obviously knew this for a long time, so he looked for it for so long before making a final decision.

So, has he seen this snake before? Or, have you seen Minami Yanagawa yet?

Liu Chuannan seems to have said before that he has an enemy in Daojiazhai, could it be that he has an enmity with Dao Guochang, or that great wizard?

I was thinking about it, Dao Guochang had already stood up and said: "This snake skin should have shed three years ago, the entire snake skin is very complete, it is the material that our great wizard needs to use medicine, patriarch, you say, what price can be transferred to us, we sincerely want to buy it." ”

I quietly turned off the recorded mobile phone video and put it in my pocket, over there, the patriarch shook his head: "No need to ask, Brother Guochang, I won't tell you, it's also useful for me to keep this snake skin, no matter how much money I give, I won't sell it, you can watch it, go back first." ”

"Patriarch, think about it again, this snakeskin is just a snakeskin in your hands, but in the hands of our great wizard, it may be ......"

"Iron pillar, send-off."

The patriarch directly interrupted Dao Guochang's words, and everyone was a little embarrassed for a while, Wang Tiezhu made a 'please' gesture towards Dao Guochang, Dao Guochang had a cold face, and he had to leave if he didn't leave.

When he walked to the door, he still turned around and said, "Patriarch, when have you changed your mind, call me at any time, we sincerely want to buy it, and we will not lower the price." ”

Subsequently, Dao Guochang left.

Wang Tiezhu bolted the door back and walked over: "Patriarch, this snakeskin ......"

"Put the snakeskin away, and come to the study together to find me."

After the patriarch finished speaking, he entered the house, and Wang Tiezhu and I glanced at each other, and I was a little surprised: "He said, together?" ”

"Yes, it's to say together, the patriarch acquiesced to you coming, maybe you have something to say to the two of us." Wang Tiezhu began to collect the snake skin as he spoke, and I hurried to help.

When we entered the study, the patriarch was standing in front of a bookshelf with his back to us, as if looking at something, Wang Tiezhu and I walked over, he turned around, pointed to the stool on the side and said, "Sit." ”

"Patriarch, what's wrong?" Wang Tiezhu asked.

The patriarch lit another cigarette, took a few puffs, and said, "Our village may be in trouble. ”

Wang Tiezhu and I were taken aback again, and Wang Tiezhu was relieved: "No, the matter of Gu poison is so difficult, didn't we survive it in the end?" Isn't it just a snake, there are professionals on it to deal with, don't stress too much. ”

"No, it's not, you don't know." The patriarch shook his head, "We have a secret in our village, which is this one in my hand. ”

The patriarch erected a yellowed pamphlet in his hand, the booklet was very small, and I don't know what era it was left behind, but I only saw in a hurry that the words on it seemed to be written vertically.

"This is a county chronicle, the Tang Dynasty has been passed down to the present, when each patriarch of Jiaolongpo takes office, the previous patriarch will hand over this county chronicle to him, Tiezhu, I will cultivate you as the next patriarch, so I still have to tell you some things in advance." The patriarch said solemnly.

I hurriedly said, "Then I'll go out and avoid it, you guys talk." ”

Since it's a secret, I, an outsider, shouldn't be present to listen to it, and I still understand this truth.

The patriarch said, "Xiaocha, don't go." ”

Today's patriarch feels so abnormal!

"Xiaocha, I know that you are very unhappy in this village, because of many things, I used to be ...... to you" The patriarch sighed, "But since the last Gu poison incident, my attitude towards you has completely changed, I think you are really different from ordinary people, maybe ...... in the future At the critical moment, it can help our village. ”

The patriarch's tone was very heavy, as if he was explaining his last words, which made Wang Tiezhu and I very nervous.

"This county chronicle records all the major events in the county where we are located in the early Tang Dynasty, which is not unusual, every county government used to have it, but the difference in this book is that there is a mythical story recorded in it."

The patriarch kept us, so cautiously, that he wanted to tell us stories, which made me feel funny.

"There is no record of what dynasty this myth and story took place in, but at that time, our area belonged to a small country, and there were many similar small countries around, and every year we had to pay tribute to the top powers, and over time, the king of our country was unwilling to be satisfied with the status quo and was constrained by others, so he launched a war against a neighboring small country, hoping to continue to expand and strengthen himself, but he was repeatedly defeated and not smooth.

Later, the national teacher told the monarch that there was a dragon hidden in our country, and the tendons and skin of the dragon could consolidate the fortune of the country, and the monarch had no children under his knees, only a princess, and the princess took the initiative to ask Ying to slay the dragon in order to share his father's worries.

But who knows, in the process of slaying the dragon, the dragon transformed into a human form, and got along with the princess day and night, and the two had feelings for each other, and it was difficult to separate.

But the surrounding small countries are invading their country more and more frequently, and seeing that they are about to be unable to support it, the princess can't bear to let her country be ruined, so she gritted her teeth and wanted to poison Jiaolong, but when she finally wanted to start, she hesitated.

And the dragon has already seen the princess's intentions, for the sake of his beloved, he snatched the poisonous wine, swallowed it in one gulp, committed suicide, the princess reluctantly peeled his skin and pulled his tendons and brought it back.

The country is getting stronger and stronger, but the princess is extremely guilty of the dragon in her heart, thinking about it day and night, and not long after she dies of martyrdom.

The monarch buried them together, and the place of burial was named Jiaolongpo. ”

"Jiaolong Slope?" Wang Tiezhu and I spoke in unison.

The patriarch nodded: "Yes, it's called Jiaolongpo, this is the secret of Jiaolongpo." ”

"That's why, in the past, in order to plant tea trees, we could flatten the fields and lakes, or even the flat graves, but we couldn't move the Jiaolongpo, right?" Wang Tiezhu asked.

The patriarch nodded: "Yes." ”

"But why, twenty years ago, my mother was allowed to be buried in Jiaolongpo?" I don't understand, logically speaking, isn't this disrespectful to Jiaolongpo?

"Twenty years ago, the patriarch of Jiaolongpo was not me," the patriarch didn't know the real reason inside, and then said, "But I later had a guess, Xiaocha, your mother was pregnant for no reason, whether it was the day of the tea god Niangniang, or the day she gave birth to you, it was all in Jiaolongpo, we may be bold to guess that your father may have an inseparable connection with Jiaolongpo." ”

"No way, maybe it's just a myth made up." I immediately denied it, I didn't want to be treated as an outlier anymore, I was just an ordinary person, I could never have a father, but I couldn't tolerate that I really had such a mysterious father.

"Xiaocha, I've been exploring all these years, just like digging Jiaolongpo this time, do you know how much psychological pressure I'm under?" The patriarch said, "I just see that your mother and brother are buried in Jiaolongpo, maybe this mythical story is indeed just a legend, if I break this legend, there will not be such a big psychological burden in dealing with Jiaolongpo in the future, after all, now that the above has decided to develop this piece of land, do you want me to use a mythical story to reason with them?" But I didn't expect to dig up this snake skin, which has to make me doubt that everything is real, everything has really happened. ”

"Patriarch, are you too arbitrary to be so determined with just a piece of snake skin?" I questioned him directly.

The patriarch smiled bitterly and said: "If Dao Guochang hadn't rushed to come, I can't be sure, but you also saw Dao Guochang's attitude just now, the great wizards of Daojiazhai all want this snake skin, do you think this is a mortal product?" ”

It's not ordinary, but I know it's Yanagawa Minami's snake skin, to put it mildly, isn't it just the skin of a snake spirit, as for imposing a mythical story on it?

At that time, I didn't know that this snakeskin would lead to so many unexpected things, of course, that was a story for later.

"In any case, if this snake skin is dug out, it is very likely that the national fortune has been moved, to be exact, it is the great fortune of our southern Yunnan, Jiaolongpo can not be dug up, and then dig down, if the formation made by the national teacher back then, it will really be irretrievable." The patriarch was clearly convinced that the myth was true.

Wang Tiezhu and I stared at each other, not knowing what to do.

After a while, the patriarch said: "If something really happens, Tiezhu, Xiaocha, I will come to the top, you will escape with the villagers, how far and how far you can escape, I have only one request, I must protect my grandson Fat Baby, and leave a queen for our family." ”

The fat baby was brought up by the patriarch and his uncle and aunt since he was a child, and in the summer of his birth, his parents irrigated the camellia forest in the upper reaches of the small stream, and both fell into the small stream and drowned.

……

In the end, this matter did not come to a final result, I don't believe in this myth anyway, and the patriarch is determined, Wang Tiezhu is silent, and it is estimated that he can't make up his mind.

Coming out of the patriarch's house, Wang Tiezhu had a lot to do, and he left after explaining a few words to me, and I walked slowly towards home alone.

As I walked, I repeated the video I had secretly recorded over and over again, watching it no less than ten times, and I could be sure that Dao Guochang was indeed picking out a small opening in the snakeskin near the tail, which is equivalent to the position of the human lumbar vertebrae.

If my guess is correct, correspondingly, there should be a small wound on Yanagawa Minami's lumbar vertebrae.

Thinking so, I have already walked to the gate of the courtyard, the courtyard gate is ajar, the courtyard is quiet, it is estimated that everyone has nested in the air-conditioned room again.

I raised my foot and just wanted to step over the threshold to enter, when a gust of wind suddenly rose behind me, and when I turned around, I saw Yanagawa Minami standing behind me.

I was overjoyed, and I opened my mouth to speak, but he put his finger on my lips and whispered in my ear: "You came back just in time, don't make a noise, I'll show you something." ”

I didn't know why, but he hugged me, lifted my feet off the ground, and quickly moved towards the window on the east side of my house.

Through the glass, I saw a figure with his back to me, half-bowed, looking out at my grandmother's bed.

I recognized that figure at once, who was it if it wasn't Mo Bai?

Shouldn't he be in my room on the west side with his classmates? What are you doing alone in my grandmother's room?

Also, under my grandmother's bed......

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