31. A dead snake

The author's hometown is Chuxiong City, Yunnan Province, and when I went back to play a few years ago, I heard a neighbor tell me about something, so let's turn it around and let everyone hear it.

This neighbor was very naughty when he was a child, and the children had nothing else to do, and they loved to hunt and kill animals. What kind of bird catching, catching snakes, touching chickens, fishing, a set of means. But I didn't like him since I was a kid and basically didn't play with him. The main reason is that I am relatively timid, and I will never do anything about killing animals. Sometimes, though, I look at it out of curiosity. Even though I just watched, I cried several times because his approach was so bloody. After killing the animals he catches, it is time for him to enjoy the delicious food, roasting earthworms, roasting field chickens, roasting fish, and marinating snake meat...... He can do everything, and it smells good. He took the other friends to eat happily. He would also hand me the game he had made, but I couldn't eat a bite of his cruelty in killing animals. Now that I think about it, I think he has a psychopath, and I even suspect that he has mental problems.

Now he's an adult and works for a company. But this time I found out that he had completely changed. Not only did they no longer hunt animals, but they didn't even dare to kill the chickens they raised at home. I asked him curiously why, and he told me what had happened to him.

That is, five years ago. At that time, although he was already a young man, his temper and personality had not changed at all, and he still took pleasure in hunting animals, and he also made a group of bad friends, all of whom liked hunting and game. Once, they made an appointment to get together again to go game hunting. A few people turned around all morning, and they didn't gain much. While they were about to make lunch, the neighbor suddenly spotted a snake, which was a delicacy he couldn't let go. In fact, he is a veteran of snake catching, and he has no trouble at all. Today is a whim, I want to be cool and show off my knife skills. He stepped forward and swung his sword, and with a single blow he cut the snake in two. But the snake did not die immediately, the upper part of the snake squirmed, and it turned its head, staring at him with its eyes, as if it wanted to remember him. He was startled, too, and stared at the snake in a daze. I only felt a chill from the bottom of my heart.

Then he kept thinking about the snake. In fact, he knew that the sight and hearing of a creature like a snake were very poor, and it was impossible for the snake to see him clearly. But as soon as he thought of those cold, hateful eyes, he felt a chill in his heart, and he began to be a little in a trance. At noon, he went out to relax. On the way back to the camp, there was a pit about half a meter deep, and this pit was very conspicuous, but the neighbor did not know whether he was just running away or what was going on, so he turned a blind eye to the big pit and fell into the pit. His friends rushed around and got him out of the pit. The neighbor had passed out. Under the vigorous slapping and calling of several of them, the neighbor came to his senses, but he was only unconscious for a few seconds. He checked himself and found that there were no serious internal or external injuries, so he did not go to the hospital.

But since then his personality has changed dramatically, and he will never kill any animal again. There is a feeling of "putting down the butcher knife and becoming a Buddha on the ground". I asked him what was going on. He told me that he only saw the flat ground and didn't see any big craters at all. And when he fell, he didn't immediately fall into a coma, he just felt like he couldn't breathe, he almost suffocated. He could still see his friends rushing to help him up, he could see their mouths moving, he knew they were calling to him, but he couldn't say a word, and then he felt like his eyes were black and he had entered another world like a dream.

He felt himself walking on a road, as if it were night, but not like it, in short, everything around him was gray and foggy. Suddenly, he saw that someone seemed to be walking in front of him, he subconsciously followed, walked for a while, he saw a small door in front, the person in front of him pushed the door and went in, he was just about to push the door and go in, suddenly heard a commotion around, he looked around, only to see countless snakes, insects and animals swarming towards him. His frightened soul did not possess his body. Then he heard the calls of his friends, and he came to his senses.

From then on, he began to believe in reincarnation and karmic retribution, so he no longer killed at will.

32, blood stains on the back seat (above)

The hot summer is coming, and my rich second-generation girlfriend (because she didn't get involved in the company's affairs much, but only came to me twice, so I never introduced her, her name is Xiaoyu) started her summer vacation life with "excellent" grades in two subjects in a row. This little girl doesn't know which tendon is wrong, she has a lot of RMB at home but she is not at home blowing the air conditioner to surf the Internet, so she has to run out to work. She studied tour guide, so after several twists and turns, she finally found a travel agency as a tour guide.

Travel agencies are not big or small, but they can receive a lot of groups every year. In fact, tour guides are very hard, and a tour guide has to bear the safety of dozens or even hundreds of tourists. Lead the team, explain, organize the stay, and arrange catering. Before and after running, I was so tired that I didn't say anything, and if I didn't provide good service, I would be scolded by some low-quality tourists. From time to time, they also face deliberate difficulties from ground pick-up and drivers. Xiaoyu is also facing all this, and when she led the group, Xiaoyu would cry to me on the phone almost every night about her grievances. I repeatedly persuaded her to quit her job, and she was not short of money to spend. But I really didn't expect that this pampered eldest lady would insist on it.

I gradually found that a Manager Li began to appear frequently in the conversation between Xiaoyu and me. This Manager Li is Xiaoyu's direct leader. Xiaoyu's stay and treatment are all decided by him. This Manager Li takes great care of Xiaoyu. Several times Xiaoyu made mistakes, but with the help of this manager, he was exempted from punishment. Naturally, Xiaoyu is grateful to him and is very dependent. The two people are in more and more contact, and the relationship is getting closer and closer. Xiaoyu's upbringing environment is very superior, her father is a wealthy man, and her mother dotes on her. So she hasn't suffered any grievances since she was a child, which makes Xiaoyu relatively simple, and she doesn't know much about many negative things in society. She didn't see that this Manager Li harbored evil intentions at all, but actually had other plans for her. For Manager Li's karaoke, she will basically participate in various invitations such as dinner.

The intensification of the matter occurred in an accident. Xiaoyu is a novice after all, although she works hard to do her job, but her experience is still too little after all, and finally something happened.

Because the summer vacation is the peak period for tourism, the travel agency is seriously understaffed, so novices like Xiaoyu also have the opportunity to lead a few groups independently. At the end of July, a small group in the province was handed over to the light rain belt, which lasted for three days. Xiaoyu said goodbye to me and left. But the next afternoon, I received a call from Xiaoyu. Xiaoyu cried and told me that something was wrong.

It happened in the part of arranging rafting for tourists. Because it is summer, rafting is very popular, and the number of tourists participating every day is amazing. The scenic spot has been overloaded. Because of the large number of people waiting, the tourists gradually became anxious, and some tourists began to discourage them, and as a result, due to improper operation in the rafting, a tourist who violated the rules fell from the boat in the rafting and was injured.

The injured tourist was taken to the hospital by the scenic spot, and Xiaoyu was overwhelmed with fright. In particular, the relatives of the tourists vented their anger on Xiaoyu. All kinds of accusations, complaints and even insults made Xiaoyu almost collapse.

I was also very anxious after hearing this, and I was about to rush over immediately. But Xiaoyu didn't let me go, she told me that this time the matter was more serious, so the boss who directly arranged her in the club was Manager Li to deal with it. I didn't really help much in the past. But how could I not ask about such a big thing. I rushed to the scenic spot immediately despite Xiaoyu's dissuasion, but I was not familiar with the road, spared a lot of detours, and when I rushed to the scenic spot in a hurry, it was already 9 o'clock in the evening.

After receiving my call, Xiaoyu ran out and threw herself into my arms and cried. I thought she was scared, and hurriedly comforted her. Xiaoyu didn't say anything, just told me that she didn't want to be here and asked me to take her away. I accompanied her back to the hotel to get her luggage. As soon as we walked out of the hotel door, a man chased after her, called out to Xiaoyu, and told her to go back to the club tomorrow and not think about it. Xiaoyu ignored him, just glanced at him and got into the car.

On the way, I cautiously asked her how she was doing. Xiaoyu didn't seem to want to talk very much, and only told me that the person just now was Manager Li, and he had taken over the matter. I felt a little apologetic when I heard it: "He is the Manager Li you often say!" I didn't even say hello just now, it's rude! Xiaoyu lowered her head and didn't answer my words.

That night, the light rain held me tightly all night. I could see the tears on her face in the morning, but I thought she was scared and didn't think more. Because of the accident, Xiaoyu was severely punished by the club, and he didn't leave the group much later. Manager Li's calls are becoming more and more frequent. It's just that Xiaoyu's attitude towards him has changed 180 degrees. All his invitations to Xiaoyu flatly refused. And I noticed that Xiaoyu also had a change, she often hid when she answered the phone, and she was afraid that I would touch her phone. These changes made me more and more suspicious that Xiaoyu was hiding something from me.

One night, I was woken up by the ringing of my phone. I got up and saw that it was Xiaoyu's mobile phone. Seeing that Xiaoyu was sleeping very soundly, I didn't call her, and hung up the phone directly. But I didn't expect that just two minutes later, the phone rang again. I picked it up and looked at it, and the caller displayed was "Manager Li". I was slightly dissatisfied. Look at the watch, it's already two and ten o'clock at night, so I have to call here. But thinking about the peculiarity of Xiaoyu's work, I still woke Xiaoyu up. Xiaoyu saw that it was Manager Li's phone in a daze, and immediately hung up. I said, "He's already done it once a few minutes ago." Will there be any urgency? Xiaoyu shook her head: "No!" Let's sleep! "But as soon as she lay down, the phone rang again." You take it, see what happens to him? "I'm already getting a little irritable. Xiaoyu habitually wanted to pick her up outside the house, but when she saw me looking at her, she hesitated for a moment and answered the phone. only listened to what was said on the phone, Xiaoyu's face became gloomy: "I'm sorry, it's already midnight, it's not suitable for me to go over, you can find someone else." After saying that, he hung up the phone and turned it off. Xiaoyu climbed into bed, covered herself with a towel and stopped talking.

I gently pulled the towel quilt open and pulled the light rain over. "What's wrong with you? What the hell is going on? I don't think you've been normal lately. Xiaoyu suddenly cried out, and slowly told me what was going on after a while.

It turned out that it happened on the day of the drifting accident. Xiaoyu was overwhelmed by such a big accident. After Manager Li arrived, on the one hand, he comforted and treated the injured, and on the other hand, negotiated with the relatives of the injured on the issue of compensation. In the evening, he asked Xiaoyu to go to the river where no one was, and then told Xiaoyu. The tourist's injury was not too serious, but the relatives of the other party insisted that the travel agency had made improper arrangements and did not take good care of the tourists, so they claimed 150,000 yuan from the travel agency. Actually, after my investigation, this is not the case. The tourist's injuries were not serious. And in order to clarify the responsibility, the scenic spot also called up the video at that time, and the reason for the accident was that the tourists themselves did not listen to the dissuasion of illegal operations, so the travel agency only had to bear a small responsibility. Manager Li deliberately exaggerated the facts to scare Xiaoyu at that time. And even if what Manager Li said is true, it should not be Xiaoyu who pays the compensation in full. Xiaoyu nodded indifferently after hearing this. This made Manager Li very surprised, he knew that Xiaoyu had very little social experience. In his imagination, Xiaoyu should be at a loss after hearing such a large number, and even cry in fright, he thought that Xiaoyu would definitely beg him to save himself. But he didn't know Xiaoyu's background. Of course, 150,000 is not a small amount, but it is not a big deal for Xiaoyu's family.

The conspiracy did not succeed, but Manager Li still did not give up, and just as Xiaoyu was about to leave, he suddenly hugged Xiaoyu into his arms. Then push the light rain down on a rock. While talking incoherently about how he likes Xiaoyu, he kisses Xiaoyu desperately. Xiaoyu was really frightened this time. He didn't expect to encounter such a thing, how the usually amiable leader suddenly turned into a beast. It wasn't until Manager Li tore her clothes hard that she reacted. Xiaoyu resisted desperately and shouted for help. It just so happened that a few other tourists came out to hang out at night and rushed over when they heard Xiaoyu's cries for help. Manager Li had to let go of Xiaoyu. Xiaoyu was ashamed and angry, crying and running back to the hotel and never coming out. (To be continued...... ）