Chapter Twenty-Three: Encountering a Five-Step Snake
After Qingfeng Dao Chief finished speaking, the village chief immediately mobilized a few villagers and hurried home to get the guys, preparing to pry open the sarcophagus.
"Dao Chief, what do you think will be in this sarcophagus? There won't be any zombies, right? After the village chief transferred a few people back to get the coffin prying tools, he looked at the Qingfeng Dao chief and asked with some concern on his face.
"There are dead people, what else can there be?" Qingfeng Dao said and threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stepped on it, then turned to look at everyone and said:
"This dead man opens the coffin, and all women have to avoid it."
After listening to the words of the head of Qingfeng Dao, the village chief hurriedly shouted back to the few women in the crowd who had come up to watch the excitement.
Seeing that all the women present were gone, Qingfeng Dao Chang cleared his throat and shouted:
"All pigs, dogs, chickens, horses, rabbits, snakes, dragons, and oxen, all avoid." After Qingfeng Dao Chang finished saying this, this person walked for the most part, and the remaining five or six people saw this, so they simply followed the crowd back together.
Suddenly, near this "dead tripe point", there were only me and Qingfeng Dao Chang, as well as the village chief and Zhuangzi.
"I said, Master, what do you mean when you say that people who belong to dogs, chickens, horses, and rabbits avoid it? Could it be that the opening of the museum is still avoided? I asked, looking at the Qingfeng Dao Chief.
Qingfeng Dao Leader shook his head and said:
"I deliberately, if the coffin of this "dead tripe hole" is opened, if the corpse inside is not decomposed, it is very likely that the corpse will change, in case the corpse changes, so many people will not be able to run away when they want to! Qingfeng Dao Chang said, and began to walk around the sarcophagus with a cautious face, one foot after another.
Seeing this, I asked curiously:
"I said, Master, what are you doing?"
Qingfeng Dao Chang did not reply to me, but continued to walk step by step around the sarcophagus like this, until he finished walking a circle, he breathed a sigh of relief, looked at me and said:
"Your master was exploring the cave just now."
"What do you mean by cave exploration?" I asked.
"This acupuncture point is popularly said, also called Yin Tan, the feet are short, it is very difficult to explain, your master and I can't tell you in jargon, considering your IQ, let me tell you this, if I walk around this coffin seven feet away, more than thirty-five steps, it is the tomb of the great murderer, this tomb is just thirty-four steps, so the dead people inside should be corrupted normally, at most it is a yin soul harming people, this matter will be much easier to deal with." Qingfeng Dao Chang looked at me and said with a relaxed expression.
I listened to the words of the head of the Qingfeng Road and expressed my doubts:
"Master, you can pull it down, it's not that I deliberately doubt you, everyone's feet are different in size, you measure it with your feet is thirty-four steps, and if you replace someone else, maybe it will exceed thirty-five steps, isn't that a murderous tomb?"
Hearing my words, the Qingfeng Dao Leader smiled, pointed to the vicinity of the sarcophagus and said to me:
"You can follow my footprints just now and see how many steps you measured, if not thirty-four steps, when you go back, I will cook you a month's meal!" His expression was full of confidence.
I am a man who is born not to believe in evil, and the big feet of the Qingfeng Dao are more than one or two sizes bigger than me, can this be measured with different sizes of feet?
So I didn't think much about it, and walked directly to the sarcophagus, and I was secretly happy as I walked, this is cool! Let him cook for me, I'm finally going to turn over!
"Wait a minute!" Just as I was about to lift my foot to measure my steps, the Qingfeng Dao Commander stopped me.
"I said, Master, you've said everything, but you can't go back." I looked at the breeze and said.
"It's not a repentance, I just want to add, if it's exactly thirty-four steps, you pour me a month's worth of footwater." Qingfeng Dao Chang looked at me and said with a treacherous expression.
"No problem!" After thinking about it, I just don't believe that at the same distance, these two pairs of feet are not the same size, and the measured number of steps can be the same.
But after I walked around this sarcophagus along the footprints that came out of the Qingfeng Dao Chief, I understood a sentence:
"The ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel......"
No more, no less, just thirty-four steps, which is not bad from the one measured by the head of the Qingfeng Tunnel!
At one point, I suspected that I had miscounted, and then I walked around again, and the measured steps were still thirty-four.
This is really evil, why is there not more than one step, one step is not less?
I'm going to be the old fox again!
Seeing this, the village chief and Zhuangzi on the side were also quite puzzled, and after Zhuangzi stepped forward curiously and walked around, he also stared and said:
"I'm also thirty-four steps, aren't all our feet a yard! Otherwise, it's not bad at all. ”
At this time, Qingfeng Dao Chang laughed and said:
"Is this metaphysics something you can comprehend? Don't talk about the two of you, no matter how many people come, as long as you follow my footprints, you can only measure thirty-four steps, not a bad step! ”
"Why?" I asked.
"Hey, now that I've told you, you don't understand, the Tao in this is too profound." Qingfeng Dao said as he looked at me profoundly.
"Cut~ I don't want to know yet." After I finished speaking, I walked to the side, sat down on the ground, and began to look at the dead trees and grass near the "dead tripe hole".
At this glance, I found a problem, near this "dead tripe hole", whether it is an adult's thigh-thick tree or a bush on the ground, their dead branches have a thin layer of black powder on their dead branches.
Just as I was about to talk to the head of the Qingfeng Road, the people who had gone back to the village to get tools had returned.
Some carry crowbars, others carry shovels, pickaxes, etc.
Seeing that everyone was coming with tools, Qingfeng Dao Chang hurriedly shouted at me:
"Thirteen, give me the bag."
I hurriedly handed him the yellow bag that the Qingfeng Dao Commander had asked me to carry along the way.
After Qingfeng Dao took the bag, he directly took out a bundle of yellow paper from it and sprinkled it.
Seeing this, I stepped forward and asked:
"Master, are you going to worship the dead inside before opening this sarcophagus?"
"Worship a fart! The ghosts in this have all killed seven people, and Lao Tzu still worships it as a rabbit! This is to prevent the corpse! Captain Qingfeng said to me.
At this moment, the Qingfeng Dao Leader shouted to the few people with tools behind him:
"Come, there are many people, let's pry open the lid of this sarcophagus at once!!"
Everyone listened to the words of Qingfeng Dao Chief, although everyone had a guy in their hands, but you look at me, I look at you, and none of them stepped forward.
It's no wonder that the people who dug this tomb before died seven in three days, and it was still just digging the tomb, if the lid of the sarcophagus in this tomb was lifted, it would not be even worse?!
Therefore, Qingfeng Dao's words were spoken for a long time, but none of them stepped forward.
Qingfeng Dao Chang seemed to be earlier than expected, and suddenly his tone increased a few points, looked at everyone and said:
"What are you afraid of?! The Taoist is watching here! Alright, I'll be the first to do it! Follow me! As he spoke, Qingfeng Dao took a pickaxe from a man beside him and smashed it down on the hard soil above the sarcophagus!
At this time, the village chief also shouted at the right time:
"Whoever pries the coffin today, this piece of land is developed, and each person gets five points more! I have the final say! ”
This wealth is moving, and coupled with the fact that the Qingfeng Dao Leader made the first move before, it gave them courage, and everyone gathered together, and walked towards the sarcophagus together.
The strength of the people is great, and the thick layer of hard soil on the sarcophagus lid was quickly cleaned up, but because of the age of the sarcophagus, the coffin lid of the sarcophagus has long been combined with the sarcophagus.
This sarcophagus is so hard to pry it off.
Qingfeng Dao Chang lowered his head and pondered for a while, then hurriedly picked up a pickaxe, jumped on top of the sarcophagus, looked at everyone and shouted:
"Folks, even if we smash it today, we have to smash this coffin open! Come up with two pickaxes, while it's still dark, let's chisel through the lid of this coffin! ”
As soon as Qingfeng Dao Chief's words fell, I inadvertently saw something on the sarcophagus cover at his feet, and I was immediately startled, and hurriedly shouted to Qingfeng Dao Chief:
"Master! There's a snake under your feet! ”
After listening to my words, everyone looked at the feet of the Qingfeng Dao Chief!
Sure enough, on the sarcophagus less than half a meter away at the feet of Qingfeng Dao Chang, I don't know when there was an extra poisonous snake with a triangular head and spitting bright red letters!
If you know how to do it, you can recognize it at a glance, it's a sharp-nosed pit viper!
Highly toxic!
The sharp-nosed pit pit is commonly known as the five-step snake or seven-step snake.
Although the snake venom of this five-step snake is not as exaggerated as its name, if you are bitten, you will die if you don't take five steps, but it is also a well-known highly venomous snake!
In the area of Shibi Township, Chenxi, Hunan, the people who were bitten by this snake basically died, and those who were bitten by cobras were basically saved.
The most important thing is that the sharp-nosed pit viper has a short temper, gets angry when touched, and is extremely aggressive, and if the Qingfeng Dao Chang is bitten by it here, it will rush the traffic conditions in this village, which is no different from being sentenced to death.
At this moment, the face of the Qingfeng Dao Chief, who was standing on the sarcophagus, also broke out in a cold sweat, and my eyes kept staring at the five-step snake under the sarcophagus, and my heart was about to jump to my throat.
The eyelids also began to jump vigorously, and the people around the sarcophagus did not dare to breathe, as if time had frozen at this moment.
There was tension everywhere in the air.
Because everyone found that there was something wrong with this five-step snake, if it was another poisonous snake, as long as you stood still, it would not take the initiative to attack you, and would generally swim away by itself.
But this five-step snake has been not leaving the feet of Qingfeng Dao, and it has also made an attack posture from time to time!
Time passed minute by minute, looking at the five-step snake that had been staring at the Qingfeng Dao Leader and kept raising his head and spitting out letters, I took a few deep breaths, tried to calm myself down, and thought of a way, if it goes on like this, it will definitely not work!