Chapter 426
My name is Li Feng, and my family lives in Lijia Village in Taibai Mountain. As for the origin of my name, according to my grandfather, it was because Taibai Mountain is the highest peak in the Qinling Mountains and the highest peak east of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, so he gave me the name Li Feng.
When I came home this year after graduating from university, Grandma Wang from the village passed away suddenly.
In fact, this matter has to start from 30 years ago, when Grandma Wang was in her forties, her vision was already a little blurred, and within a year or two, Grandma Wang was blind.
Grandma Wang's son was in his twenties at the time, and one day he suddenly saw a small snake about 20 centimeters in his backyard, which was white all over.
Because Grandma Wang often eats some bright things, fish eyes and the like.
Grandma Wang's son had long heard from the old people in the village that snake gallbladder was a precious medicinal material. At that time, every family was poor, and there was money to go to the hospital.
So this grandmother Wang's son was ready to kill the little snake and take out the snake gall bladder for the old grandmother to eat.
But it was difficult to catch the white snake, and it took about half an hour to catch the little snake.
Grandma Wang's son cut off the snake's head with scissors, so he used scissors to cut the snake's belly and took the snake gall bladder for Grandma Wang to eat.
But after this incident, Grandma Wang's son had a headache all day long, and it didn't work to go to the hospital or pray to God and Buddha.
At that time, people in the countryside were also more feudal and superstitious, so they invited a goddess to come and see, and the goddess said that this white snake was a snake spirit, and the Tao was too high, and she couldn't accept it, and finally ended up in vain.
Grandma Wang's family thought that this goddess wanted more incense money, so they sent this goddess away.
But ten years later, when I was almost in elementary school, Grandma Wang's son suddenly died in a car accident.
The accident occurred at night, and Grandma Wang's son was riding a motorcycle with a helmet after working on the construction site, but was hit by a motorcycle driving in the wrong direction.
When he was sent to the hospital for rescue, the helmet shell in front of Grandma Wang's son's helmet pierced directly into his throat, bleeding profusely.
By the time the doctor took off the old grandmother's son's clothes, a wound that looked like a word appeared on his body.
There was only one wound from the chest cavity to the lower abdomen, and the rest of the body did not even scratch the skin.
The wound on Grandma Wang's son's neck was the shell of the helmet piercing directly into the throat, exactly the same as the wound on the head of a snake cut by scissors. The slender wound on his body was as if it had been cut with scissors.
Ten years have passed since this incident, and there has been an old saying in the countryside that when it is ten years old, the snake spirit asks for his life.
But ten years after Grandma Wang's son died, Grandma Wang died.
Before that, Grandma Wang felt that her body was not very good, so she prepared a coffin and a shroud for herself very early.
But the day before Grandma Wang died, Grandma Wang suddenly fainted in the yard, and when Grandma Wang was sent to the hospital, after a series of examinations, everything was normal all over Grandma Wang's body, and there was no disease at all.
But when it was time to do B ultrasound, a tumor similar to the size of an egg was suddenly found on Grandma Wang's liver.
The doctor was also confused and didn't know what to do.
If the operation was to be performed, Grandma Wang would be in her 70s and the risk would be great, so she arranged for Grandma Wang to be hospitalized first for further examination.
As a result, that night in the hospital, Grandma Wang rolled in pain on the hospital bed, rolled her white eyes, and didn't know what she was muttering.
I only heard Grandma Wang's howl in the middle of the night in the corridor of the hospital, and the doctor hurriedly gave Grandma Wang painkiller injections, but the effect was minimal.
This Grandma Wang's cry was even more beaten, and there seemed to be a trace of crying in this cry.
So under the doctor's discussion, he prepared to operate on Grandma Wang overnight, and within an hour of preparing for the operation, Grandma Wang was painful to death.
The doctor took Grandma Wang's B-ultrasound film and watched it for a long, long time, but in the end, he didn't judge what it was, but it was about the size of an egg.
Could it be that the tumor on Grandma Wang's liver, which is about the size of an egg, is the snake gall of the white snake that was eaten by Grandma Wang before.
If you think about it carefully, Grandma Wang's son died ten years ago, and Grandma Wang died ten years later.
And the time of death was July 27, according to Grandma Wang's death, the time she ate that snake gall was in the summer, it was the snake gall that Grandma Wang ate on July 27 thirty years ago.
Because it was still summer vacation at this time, our family helped out at Grandma Wang's house. The relationship between our two families has always been very good, so we stayed in Grandma Wang's white affair for several days.
At night, the two white candles in front of Grandma Wang's mourning hall could not be lit no matter how they were lit.
In the end, I had no choice but to find two flashlights to put in front of Grandma Wang's mourning hall, and the two white waxes could be lit during the day.
Because when a rural person dies, he digs a grave. But when digging the grave, several people digging the grave watched a white snake swim out of the soil.
This frightened the gravediggers in the village, but there was still a bold young offspring who cut the white snake into two pieces with a hoe without saying a word.
The body of the white snake actually wriggled and disappeared out of the sight of several people, which surprised the gravediggers.
At night, the young man who had cut off the white snake during the day had an accident.
That night, the young man died with a whimper, in fact, the cause of death was very strange, after the young young man returned home, when he was fetching water by the well, he fell into the well for no reason.
The young daughter-in-law hurriedly went to the people in the village, and when the people in the village fished up the young girl, they saw that the young man had a hoe stuck in his chest, which directly penetrated his body.
At this time, everyone can no longer remember that day, this young offspring used a hoe to cut off a white snake during the day.
It was only after this that the people who dug the grave with the young offspring never dug the grave for the people in the village again.
When it was time to bury Grandma Wang, it rained for no reason, and when the coffin was put into the grave and everything was done.
At Grandma Wang's grave, the head of a white snake appeared, shaking there, and no one saw this scene.
I thought my eyes were foggy, but when I looked again, the head of the snake was gone.
Scare yourself, what kind of snake head is there.
When I arrived at home in the evening, I was busy with Grandma Wang's white affairs in the past few days, and I also felt very tired, so I fell asleep.
When I woke up the next morning, I learned that something had happened in the village, and that the gravediggers had been taken to the hospital.
I followed my dad to the hospital to see it, after all, they are all people in the same village, and whoever has an accident has to go to see it, and the villagers usually have a good relationship.
When I arrived at the hospital, I looked at the uncles and uncles from the village from my hospital bed, and my face was pale.
But the results of the examination in the hospital surprised everyone, these three uncles were all poisoned by snake venom, but fortunately they were delivered that night.
It turned out that on the night of the burial of Grandma Wang, these uncles returned home, starting with Uncle Ximin in the west of the village, and when they went to bed in the middle of the night, they foamed at the mouth and had a hoarse voice that didn't know what they were shouting.
And kept scratching his neck with his hands, and he was scratched out of a blood mark, which looked like a circle, and the other two uncles were the same.
So the family rushed the three people to the hospital, and the county hospital also wondered that three ambulances were dispatched in one village in one night.
When they arrived at the hospital for examination, they found that all three of them had been poisoned by snakes, and the three uncles thought carefully about how they could have been poisoned by snakes.
In the past few days, when I was digging a grave for Grandma Wang, I saw a white snake, but wasn't the white snake cut off on the spot.
However, the three of them were poisoned by the snake at the same time, and finally took antivenom and stayed in the hospital for a day, and the condition slowly stabilized.
That night, someone called my dad and said, "Hadron's body is gone." ”
Hadron is the young offspring who cut off the white snake with a hoe.
So everyone hurriedly searched for it, and when they finally found the body of the strong son, the strong son was next to the Longwang Lake in the back mountain.
The name of this lake is Lake Ryuo, and it has always been crystal clear for as long as I can remember.
When we were younger, we used to go swimming in it.
Now that every household has running water, it is rare to go to Longwang Lake in the back mountain.
It is the oldest old man in the village, and he is amazed when he talks about this Longwang Lake.
I heard the old people in the village say that this Longwang Lake once saved the lives of the people in the village.
In 1929, there was a huge drought in Shaanxi, and the old people in the village said that if it weren't for Longwang Lake in the back mountain, the whole village would have died and fled.
Shaanxi Province, located on the Loess Plateau in northern China, is one of the most drought-plagued provinces in China.
Therefore, the people of Shaanxi have always said that there is a small drought in ten years and a major drought in thirty years.
But the drought of nearly 100 years has taken the lives of many people, and there is such a saying in Shaanxi: "The land is not wet, the houses are all hidden, the red land is thousands of miles, and the wells are blocked without smoke." ”
In the late spring of 1928, the drought had just begun, and there was no shadow of spring rain in 92 counties in Shaanxi. As a result, there was no grain harvest, and the seeds in the autumn were not sown, so there was no harvest for two consecutive years.
According to the Ta Kung Pao report, it can be seen how serious the drought was that year.
"The cannibalistic tragedy is getting more and more intense, and the dogs and mice are wild, and they are even more delicious. Since the autumn of the 17th year of the Republic of China, some of the victims have been feeding their hunger with human flesh. At first, he only cut and ate the nameless dead corpse, but later he could swallow the flesh of his father and son. Nearby, it is a secluded place that often preys on the living. ”
There was a cannibalistic tragedy, whether this matter is true or not, it is impossible to investigate it after a hundred years.
During the period of great drought, Longwang Lake in Houshan is a magical existence, no matter when, as long as the villagers go to the lake to fetch water, they will return with a full load.
At the beginning, the villagers were afraid that the water in the lake would be used up, after all, this Longwang Lake is only a few dozen square meters in size, in fact, it cannot be said to be a lake, but a relatively large puddle.
After all, this Longwang Lake relies on rainwater, and if it doesn't rain, the water in this well will run out sooner or later.
However, no matter how the villagers use the water of Longwang Lake, the water level will always be at that height.
Therefore, the villagers in the village drew water from Longwang Lake to irrigate their fields, but the water in Longwang Lake was not affected at all, and it was still so much.
During the drought, it was Longwang Lake that helped the people of the village to survive the difficulties.
During that period of drought, there was a situation of hunger and eating tree bark in other villages, but the life of the villagers of Lijia Village was not affected by this drought in the slightest, as before.
Therefore, it is said that Longwang Lake is the life-saving benefactor of the whole village, and it is said that Longwang Lake is spiritual.
Some people even said miraculously that Longwang Lake was formed when the old dragon king of the East China Sea came to Chang'an and inadvertently threw his rain box in our Lijia Village.
Anyway, all kinds of legends are godly, but in my eyes, they are just the gratitude of the villagers to Longwang Lake.
However, there has been no record of drought in our Lijia Village for generations, which is probably also due to the blessing of Longwang Lake.
In recent years, the Yellow River has been cut off, not to mention a small lake.
Seeing that Qiangzi's body was next to Longwang Lake, no one knew how Qiangzi came here, and it was important to carry people back quickly at this time.
Is this the legendary corpse, as the saying goes, people have three souls and seven spirits, is there anything that Hadron can't let go, is this a reminder to people.
A few people from Qiangzi's own family hurriedly carried Qiangzi back, and he was ready to bury him tomorrow.
I subconsciously walked to the lake, and the lake looked extremely calm, maybe it was because of the night. The Dragon King Lake was so black that it made people chill all over, and an inexplicable chill hit me from head to toe, and I couldn't help but shiver.
Just as I was about to leave, suddenly the moonlight shone on the Dragon King Lake, and suddenly there was a little moonlight on the surface of the lake, and then I saw that the lake water was constantly bubbling up.
My eyes widened as I watched the situation in the Dragon King Lake.
The bubbles were bubbling like boiling water, and it looked like something was trying to come out of the water.
A white shadow suddenly swam in the water, and the middle of the lake gradually became a whirlpool. The white shadow looked like a snake, but the bottom of the lake was too dark to see very clearly.
I wondered if this Dragon King Lake was not crystal clear before, and why it looked so black now, and when I looked closely, there was a black fog shrouded in this lake.
The swimming white light and shadow swam on the surface of the lake, and it looked like a giant snake.
When the moonlight completely covered the lake, the white light and shadow were never seen again.
I was so stunned that I couldn't say anything at this time, and I didn't know who to call it, so I just stared blankly at the white light and shadow that disappeared in Longwang Lake.
But someone slapped me from behind me, and it almost scared my soul out.
I flew up directly and almost kicked Li Hong's away.
Li Hong is my own brother, we both have the surname Li, it is said that my grandfather's grandfather and his ancestor are brothers, but these things about Chen sesame and rotten grain are not mentioned.
"Did you kid take the wrong medicine?"
"You don't know that people can be scared to death."
At this time, I looked towards Longwang Lake again, and there was no white shadow at all, the only thing left was the clear lake water, and the black fog just now was gone.
"What are you looking at in the lake?"
I couldn't pay attention to Li Hong at this time, and after a few minutes, I slowly looked away from the lake.
I even wondered if I had watched too many blockbuster movies, and what I had just seen was a hallucination, but what I had just done was too real, and the white light and shadow were swimming in the lake, and it looked so real.
I rubbed my eyes, and I felt that there were tears in my eyes, and all my tears of fear came out.
At night, I dreamed of the white light and shadow, which looked hazy and resembled a white snake. The white snake was wrapped around my body, and I couldn't breathe out, and I felt as if I was going to suffocate.
I woke up in the middle of the night from a nightmare and looked at myself sweating.
I sat on the bed and thought back to what had happened in the past two days, how could the strong son be next to the Dragon King Lake, didn't the strong son die, and the dead would move?
A series of questions came to my mind, and even though it was summer, I still felt a burst of gloom, and I couldn't help but wrap the quilt tightly and go to sleep.
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