It took more than three months for Yang Xue to finally drive the road to the foot of the mountain. The rest of the road she didn't cut as wide as before, but roughly cut a path suitable for a person to pass through, and it wasn't very obvious. She didn't want people to find out that someone lived on that mountain, and she always had a sense of insecurity in her heart. It's for the rules of this era, for the humanity here.

She has watched a lot of TV and knows some historical knowledge, this is not the civilized society of the past. Here is a point where the people do not report to the officials and do not prosecute, for example, if she dies unexpectedly one day, no one will help her report to the officials to seek justice for her. There was much, much darkness that could not be spoken, so she didn't want people to find out that she lived in this mountain. But then she realized that she was thinking too much, and no one here would ever come, let alone find out where she lived.

Ever since she had driven to the bottom of the mountain, she had been able to go back and forth every time she went to town as long as she didn't delay a day. Since then, she doesn't have to wait until a certain amount of time to go to town, now she can go whenever she wants.

For example, today, she wants to go to the town to buy a hanging pot for boiling water, which is specially used to boil water. It only took more than two hours to get from the mountain to the town, and this was because the road down the mountain had not been tidied up. It was not yet noon in the town, and although some of the early gatherers were dispersed, there were still many stalls selling things.

After walking around the town twice in men's clothes, she went to the iron shop to buy pots and spatulas and spoons, and she also wanted to change the spatulas and spoons at home, and she could also use them if she didn't change them. Next, I went to the grain store and bought two catties of rice, five catties of broken rice, two catties of white flour, and two catties of cornmeal. In the end, I went to the hospital to get some medicine to repel snakes, insects, rats and ants, and I want to say that I bought this medicine because she found a snake at home.

At that time, she was still driving the road, and the chickens had been raised for more than a month, each of which looked like more than a pound. Since the chickens were too big to close the coop, she opened a piece of the ground and surrounded it with bamboo to feed them. During the day, she let them out to eat, and at night she drove them to the latrine for the night, and she paved the floor of the latrine, so she was not afraid of them falling. It is also possible to rinse the chicken feces into the pit for fertilizer. It was the height of summer, and it was the time when the serpents came out and moved frequently.

It was late in the evening, and she drove back home, nothing happened, everything was normal at home. When she got home, she started to make a fire and cook, because it was not very clear in the evening, so she lit a torch that she made herself. The torches are made from pine nuts from pine trees. At first, she didn't notice it, but then she lit the fire and boiled the rice in the pot and was about to go out to pull the vegetables, when she suddenly heard the slightest sound. Originally, she only heard it suddenly, and she didn't plan to look for it, so she continued to walk out. But after taking two steps, he saw a shadow pass by his feet, and when he looked closely, it turned out to be a snake.

In fact, it is not a big snake, the snake body is about the size of three fingers of an adult combined, and it is about one meter long. Watching the snake pass by the side, she was so frightened that she didn't dare to move, and just stiffened her body and watched the snake disappear.

It took a long time for her to slow down and move, but she didn't dare to be careless. Cai didn't go out to look for it, but went back to the cave, lit two more torches, and checked the cave well, and then sat down on the bed after making sure that there were no snakes. Anyway, she wasn't particularly afraid of snakes, but that was the kind she said was kept in the zoo. But today it was just one meter next to her feet, and she was really frightened.

She knew that there were snakes in the mountains, but it was the first time she had seen snakes in or near the cave for more than a year, not even when she had opened the land at the entrance or when she was driving down the mountain. Luckily, the snake simply passed by her and didn't hurt her.

I still remember that in her previous life, when she was in the first grade of junior high school, she had to go to school, her home was in the countryside but the school was in the town. She had forgotten what season it was, but she was living on campus, and it was the day the school was returning from the weekend. In the afternoon, she set off from home to school, walking on the usual road, and it didn't go far to be a hundred meters away from home. I saw a very large snake lying in the middle of the road, the size of an ordinary lady's arm, with no head or tail in sight, both ends were hidden in the grass, and only the thick body could be seen, and the body was still undulating as if it was breathing. At that time, she was still two meters away from the snake or a little farther away, and when she saw the snake, she froze for a moment and then immediately tightened her schoolbag and turned to leave, at first slowly faster and faster, and finally began to run when the distance was far away. She was going down, and backwards was uphill, but she kept running, but instead of running home, she ran to another road, which was also the way to school.

After that, she didn't dare to walk slowly on the way to school, but kept following the road. Even though she knew that the snake was not following her, she was still afraid, and she did not dare to stop and ran all the way to school. That day, she cut the usual one-hour walk in half, and arrived at school in less than half an hour.

Another time it was at home. It seemed like it was a holiday or something, she went to the toilet at night, and it was fine, but halfway through it, she found a snake coiled at her feet. It's not very big, it's the size of her thumb and index finger, and she doesn't know what kind of snake it is, but she is really scared and doesn't dare to move, but she still insists on slowly coming out of the toilet until she finishes going to the toilet. Then he cried all the way to the hall, really crying all the way, crying and shouting "Mom, Mom, there are snakes." At that time, my parents and brother were watching TV in the hall, and my mother heard her crying and went to the toilet to watch. But she did not dare to go again, and later her mother said that the snake was still there when she went, and then they said that they could not fight it, so they burned some paper snakes and left.

Since then, she has been afraid of snakes moving outside in the house, no matter what she wants to do when it gets dark, as long as there are lights wherever she walks, she will turn them on and run over where there are no lights. Later, her parents said that she had not changed it many times, and she knew that she had changed it a little later when she went out to work, but it was only a little. But that habit doesn't seem to have occurred since I came here.

So she wanted to buy some medicine to repel snakes, insects, rats and ants and spread them in the cave, and she also wanted to plant some flowers and trees to repel snakes around the ground and on the side of the road down the mountain. This time it frightened her, and she recalled all the things she had heard before, as well as the news she had heard before, and what others had said about who had been bitten by a snake and died. However, because she was still a little lucky and lucky at that time, she didn't buy medicine immediately, but then she was afraid that it would start to grow after time slowly passed, so she still bought medicine even though it was autumn now.

Having said that, after Yang Xue bought the medicine, she went to buy some steamed buns and then went home. When I returned home, I put my things and went out to find vegetables to make dinner, and all the vegetables in the field in front of the door could be eaten. A slicing of mung beans that have basically not been harvested, red and green tomatoes and peppers, long cowpeas, green beans that have been picked about the same, and white, green, yellow pumpkins and gray-green ripe and unripe winter melons hanging on the trees. What a scene full of harvest in the farmhouse!