In May 1995, the site of an air-raid shelter in Yingzhuang Village, Pishan Town, Luoyang City was renovated, and the sound of machines rumbled on the construction site. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Right! And to the right! No, it's on the left! The blind man shouted loudly.

My cousin sat in the cab of the crane and shouted at the blind man, "Shut up, you don't know what you want!" ”

This is my cousin's first actual combat operation after a year of miscellaneous work on the construction site.

With a loud bang, the concrete slate was lifted, and a python as thick as a bucket sprang out, as if frightened, and in a blink of an eye, it rushed into the wheat field in the distance.

My cousin jumped off the crane, picked up a shovel and chased after him, and several brave workers followed one after another.

The python hovered over the field, overpowering the vast expanse of wheat that was about to ripen. Everyone gathered around, and the cousin waved the shovel and was about to smash it, and the python slipped into the robbery hole in the ancient tomb next to it.

Then the blind man came timidly and asked his cousin, "Where did the snake run?" ”

The cousin pointed to the mound, and said helplessly: "It's in the graveyard!" ”

The blind man breathed a sigh of relief, shook his head, and said, "Alas! It's a pity, the next time I run into it, I'll have to dismantle it! ”

The cousin was dismissive and pointed at Otsuka: "Go, I'm optimistic about you!" After saying that, he turned around and walked back to the construction site.

"Hey, just kidding! But it's a shame that the delicious taste ran away like this! The blind man followed with a grin.

"Can you eat this too? The taste is too heavy! ”

"Then what are you doing with it?"

"I'm afraid of endangering the masses!" My cousin was speechless and beckoned everyone to continue their work.

When it was dark, everyone finished their work, and after eating a big pot of rice together, they slept on the drafting mat on the construction site. In the middle of the night, a scream woke everyone up, and they heard that it was a co-worker Xiao Tang's wrist bitten by a snake.

Everyone hurriedly helped Xiao Tang to the clinic in the village, and on the way, Xiao Tang said tremblingly: "I was in a daze just now, and when I turned over and touched a cool thing, I subconsciously retracted my hand, but I didn't expect the snake to bite me on the wrist when it jumped up, and I ran away as soon as I shouted." ”

The blind man trembled incessantly, apparently frightened, and looked at his cousin and said, "The snake must not have come to seek revenge......

"That's all nonsense, I never believed that snakes would hold grudges!" In fact, my cousin was also muttering in his heart.

After going to the clinic for examination, Xiao Tang's wrist only bit through the skin, and it was not poisonous, and the doctor gave them two band-aids and let them come back.

A false alarm......

Unexpectedly, the next night, another worker on the construction site was bitten by a snake, also on his left wrist. At this time, the whole construction site exploded, and no one dared to sleep on the construction site.

The blind man's father, who was a contractor, was also frightened by this, so he asked everyone to go back to their respective homes at night to rest and work again during the day.

On the evening of the third day, before it was dark, the construction site was finished early, and my cousin and the blind man went home together. When I passed National Highway 310 on the way, I saw a girl squatting on the side of the road, about fifteen or sixteen years old, ragged, like a street child.

The blind man had always taken pity on the jade, so he stepped forward and asked, "Girl, what difficulties have you encountered?" ”

The girl looked at the blind man and her cousin without speaking.

"Where do you live?"

The girl shook her head.

"Why are you crouching on the side of the road?"

The girl shook her head.

The two thought that maybe she was a mute, and the cousin jokingly whispered to the blind man, "Look at this girl's face is very good-looking, how about taking it home and being your daughter-in-law?" ”

In fact, I saw that she was pitiful and wanted the blind man to bring her back and give her something to eat.

I didn't expect the blind man to be quite happy, so he nodded and said, "I'll see it!" Then he looked down and asked the girl, "Are you hungry, go to my house to eat something first?" ”

The girl nodded, looking like a homeless street child.

In the evening of the same day, the cousin and the blind man returned to the blind man's house with the girl, and the blind man's mother was very enthusiastic, and when she heard the reason, she steamed the big white rice and fried several dishes. The girl was really hungry and ate two full bowls of white rice.

The blind man's mother kept saying, "Eat slowly, eat slowly, child, these are all yours." ”

It can be seen that everyone's hearts are sour.

After the meal, the blind man's mother bathed the girl and arranged for her to sleep in the blind man's house first, and the cousin and the blind man slept in the living room. Everyone discussed bringing the girl to the village brigade tomorrow.

After the girl fell asleep, they went out to the door to cool off, and it was already dark, and the blind father's father was fanning and smoking on the stone bench outside the door, and the fire was flashing. The three of them talked about what happened on the construction site.

The blind man said: "I said that snakes will seek revenge, but Brother Erdan still doesn't believe it!" ”

The blind father did not speak, and the cousin defended: "It's just a coincidence, maybe the bomb shelter was originally a snake den." ”

"How can a snake only bite its wrist, and it bites so lightly, it is obviously a warning!"

When the blind man said the word "warning", he deliberately elongated and emphasized, as if he was acting in the narration of a horror movie.

The cousin smiled: "Your imagination is really rich, and you have a fight with the loach!" ”

Then the blind man's father coughed and said, "What if this snake runs to our house to take revenge?" ”

The cousin was speechless for a moment, and even the blind man laughed.

The blind man's father frowned, sat on the stone bench like a statue, and fell into deep contemplation again. The cousin and the blind man looked at it from the side, and they were both thinking that maybe it would really happen, after all, the seniors were well-informed.

After a while, the blind father stood up and said, "We must take precautions!" ”

Then he went into the utility room, and after rummaging through the cabinets, he came out with two steel blades, and said to them, "Come and help me fix this at the door of the house!" ”

The blind man was puzzled: "What are you doing here?" ”

"If the serpent enters the house to seek revenge, it will surely be cut into three knots when it crawls over these two blades of steel."

The cousin and the blind man were skeptical.

In the middle of the night, there was a commotion outside the door, and my cousin woke up from his sleep. Pushing open the door, a big python was lying in front of the door, its stomach was deeply pierced by the steel blade, and the more it twisted, the deeper it pierced, and it was already dying.

The blind man and his father also came out, and turned on the lamp on the eaves, and the ground was red with blood, and the snake had stopped moving, except for its mouth. Everyone was stunned, and the blind man retreated into the house and watched from afar.

The cousin and the blind father lifted the python, and the white rice flowed out of the scratched stomach, and the cousin was shocked: "Why is this snake a vegetarian?" ”

The blind man's father shook his head, also expressing his incomprehension.

Suddenly, my cousin froze motionlessly, his hand shook, and the python that had been lifted up fell heavily to the ground again.

The blind father hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" ”

The cousin didn't speak, his eyes looked straight at the ground, and under the snake's body, a rusty bronze mirror, red with blood, was still so familiar.

In my memory, it was the only funeral item that my grandmother held tightly in her arms when she was buried.