"Come out at night, how do you come out?" Zhong Huachi thought that a female ghost with a face with a Chinese character was cloaked and came out in the dead of night to feel sorry for herself, it didn't feel as simple as horror and horror. Yan Heyi found that although this Miss Li likes to dress up, there is one thing missing on the dressing table, that is, a comb.

"Miss Xiangli, why is there rouge gouache and all kinds of hair accessories here, but only a comb is missing?" Yan Heyi opened and inspected each drawer, but there was none. Xiangli sighed and said, "Miss is dead, the master is sad, and the people are also in chaos. The thief entered that night, and nothing else, but the young lady's ebony and silver-inlaid comb was missing. ”

"There's a gem on it?" Zhong Huachi's eyes were full of gold ingots, but Xiangli shook his head and said, "That's not true, it's just an ordinary ebony comb." Yan Heyi took out the pen and paper he carried with him and put it on the table, "I also asked Miss Xiangli to draw the general appearance of the comb." ”

On weekdays, fragrant pears like to draw patterns, and it is not difficult to draw a comb. She sketched a picture, and in a few moments, a strangely shaped comb appeared on the paper. Zhonghuachi came up and took a look, it was not a dragon or a phoenix, not to mention the peony and rose that the girls liked, but a somewhat scary giant snake entrenched on the cliff!

"Your girl's hobby is very chic!" In Zhong Huachi's words, there was no hint of praise. Xiangli was honest and didn't hear it, but said, "This comb was given to the girl by a mother-in-law, and she likes it very much and uses it all the time." Those combs from the past were given away or put away, and they were never bought again, only this one! ”

In this boudoir, the golden hairpin skirts that girls like are all good, and there are many styles and colors, which shows that it costs a lot. But there is only this one comb that needs to be used every day, and the style is strange, which can't help but make Yan Heyi suspicious.

"This mother-in-law, can you be in the house?" Yan Heyi wanted to meet this mother-in-law, but Xiangli shook her head and said, "This mother-in-law seems to live near the east of the town, alone, I heard that she sells combs for a living, and is often not at home." Even I don't necessarily get to see her. ”

"It's Zhendong again, it's really evil!" Now as long as Zhonghuachi hears the word "Zhendong", his heart is cold and his scalp is numb. Yan Heyi said, "Then let's go look for it, thank you Miss Xiangli!" ”

The two of them went out with their front feet, and the pear with their back feet slipped out of the back door, beckoned a little beggar of five or six years old, and passed it on with a handful of copper coins and a small sealed paper scroll.

According to Xiangli, Yan Heyi and Zhong Huachi inquired all the way and found the place where the mother-in-law who sold combs lived. It was a small fenced yard, and the two thatched huts were crumbling, and I was afraid that they would not be able to withstand the wind and rain of next summer. A gap opened in the courtyard door, Yan Heyi knocked a few times, and asked loudly, "Is there anyone at home?" No one answered him.

"Look, it's empty and quiet, there must be no one." As soon as he got close to here, Zhong Huachi felt uncomfortable all over his body, and there were a few small red bumps on the back of his hands, and he kept scratching along the way.

"Let's go inside!" Yan Heyi ignored him at all, pushed the door and walked in. There were some miscellaneous items piled up in the corner of the yard, and it was so dark that I couldn't see my original face. The door of the thatched hut was just a wooden board standing there, and Yan Heyi was about to move it open, when he suddenly heard the sound of a rope, and then, a black flattened, triangular snake head with patterns was revealed.

"Oh my god!" Zhong Huachi shouted as he pulled Yan Heyi up and hurriedly took a few steps back. Although the snake was terrible, it had no intention of attacking people, but only looked at them coldly in the gap between the door panel and the door frame.

"Snakes, there are snakes!" Zhong Huachi is most afraid of these things with cold bodies and scales, so all snakes and fish are very terrible to him. Yan Heyi's nose twitched, there seemed to be a faint bloody smell coming from here, could it be that the old woman was bitten by a snake and was killed?

Thinking of this, he didn't hesitate any longer, picked up the three-toothed fork leaning against the wall and went to pick the snake. Suddenly, an old voice came slowly from the thatched hut, "Don't move, it won't hurt you!" ”

Little by little, the planks were removed, and an old man in a black cotton coat walked out with his waist bent. The gray hair was tied back and pinned with an ebony hairpin. Other than that, there was no decoration, and the smell of blood came from her.

"Heyi, look at her hands!" Zhong Huachi patted him nervously and looked at the old woman's hand. A few slender pieces of bloody flesh were carried in her hands, as if they were disemboweled snake flesh.

"This is a yellow eel!" The old woman seemed to see their doubts, and took a piece and threw it to the viper, which was swallowed by the snake in two strokes. This year's drought has caused waterways to be impassable, and even the price of fresh goods in the water has risen with the tide. Not to mention white fish and crabs, the price has increased by more than five or six times. Even yellow eels and white eels were sold for a pound. In winter, it has increased several times, and the average small restaurant no longer cooks eel dishes.

This old woman's family is poor, and it seems that it is difficult for her to eat, if there is an eel, it is better to sell it in the market for rice and noodles, how can she be willing to use it to feed the snake? Yan Heyi's doubts were also Zhonghuachi's doubts, and he couldn't help but ask, "Mother-in-law, this eel is expensive, so it's better to sell it." ”

But the old woman shook her head and said, "This eel can be eaten by snakes, but people can't eat it!" A thought suddenly appeared in Yan Heyi's heart, and he blurted out, "Could it be that what you are holding in your hand is the moon eel?" ”

"Young man, how do you know?" The old woman showed a hint of surprise, and Yan Heyi said, "I've only heard of it, and it's the first time I've seen it for you." Zhong Huachi asked embarrassedly in a low voice, "What kind of eel is Mochizuki eel, why don't I know?" ”

Yan Heyi said, "Don't you know, this Mochizuki eel is also a kind of eel. It is very large, omnivorous, and likes to eat carrion the most. Not to mention stinky fish and rotten shrimp, if there are people who drown, it is the best quality! Hearing that this kind of eel eats dead human flesh, Zhong Huachi almost vomited, "I, I said, this is too disgusting!" ”

Legend has it that on the day of the full moon, this eel jumps out of the water and stands upright towards the full moon, as if looking at the moon, hence the name. But mother-in-law, where did you get these eels from? ”