Chapter 8: The Black Serpent
Following the direction of the second uncle's finger, I looked ahead, and under the light of the stars, I could vaguely see the outline of a mountain in the night.
The second uncle opened the backpack he was carrying and took out some torches and a few bottles of wine from it.
The second uncle handed me and the fat man a lit torch, handed the flashlight in his hand to Biaozi, and said to us: There are more poisonous insects and snakes in the mountains this season, everyone comes to drink a few sips of "realgar wine" to drive away evil spirits, and after speaking, the second uncle raised his head and poured half a bottle of wine into his stomach.
Xiao Fatzi and Biaozi also took a bottle of realgar wine.
Only I didn't go over to get it, because I don't know how to drink at all.
Seeing that I didn't take it, the second uncle handed me the half bottle he had left: Take a few sips, otherwise it will be troublesome to let the poisonous snake entangle.
I reluctantly lifted the bottle and looked up to learn from the second uncle just now, who knew that as soon as I drank it, it all squirted out, choking my tears and my throat was hot.
Biao Zi smiled on the side: Xiao Bi wants to learn from your second uncle, I'm afraid I will have to practice for a few years. I think that your second uncle drank all 7 people by himself.
The second uncle couldn't drink it when he saw me, so he asked me to smear the realgar wine on my body.
I smeared wine on my body, so that my whole body smelled of alcohol, and I could smell it from afar, and those who didn't know thought I was a drunkard.
The second uncle saw that Xiao Fatzi and their wine were almost drunk before he spoke: Let's go into the mountain.
We didn't speak after the second uncle, only the sound of the torches crackling and burning from time to time in the night, and there was silence all around, and the flames shook from time to time.
I thought to myself, if I looked at it from a distance, I must have thought it was a few ghost fires.
The fat man suddenly said: Comrades cheer up, we are going to enter the mountain.
Looking at his thief's eyebrows, I didn't know that I thought it was a devil entering the village.
Biao Zi soothed him: I said little fat man, if you were in the Republic of China, you would definitely be a leading figure.
Xiao Fatzi looked at Biaozi with a stunned expression, what kind of leader?
I quipped next to me: It must be a puppet army.
Ha, ha, ha, Biaozi squatted on the ground and laughed so much that he couldn't stand up.
Xiao Fatzi looked at Biaozi with a black face: You are fucking laughing, and labor and management will fight with you. As he spoke, he glanced at me and my second uncle a few more times, and said with a bitter face: Forget it, you are too many, just laugh if you want to.
I saw a smile on the corner of the second uncle's mouth, who had always been serious, but he had to endure it now as a leader.
Do you still want to go into the mountain, if you don't leave, we can only spend the night with the snake on this mountain, the second uncle scolded me and Biaozi.
The fat man said; Snake! That has to be Bai Suzhen.
The second uncle ignored him and was the first to enter the mountain.
I looked around and saw that there was a road into the mountains, and there were weeds and thorns half a man tall everywhere.
The second uncle didn't know when there was an extra open-shansan knife in his hand, and he opened the way in front of him.
We followed the footprints of the second uncle, walking and stopping very slowly, coupled with the fact that the deep mountains and old forests were relatively hot, and our foreheads were covered with beads of sweat.
I took a breath and said: Second uncle, when is it going to go, or we will simply burn this place with a fire.
Before the second uncle could speak, Biao Zi said on the side: His grandmother, you don't want to die, as long as we burn it, we will all be finished.
I said forcefully: Then we will retreat to the place where the most advanced mountain is lit by fire.
Biao Zi explained to me bitterly: It is summer, as long as the whole mountain is set on fire, not to mention how long the fire will burn, as long as the firefighters come, how can we go to the ground? Maybe it's bad luck, so I'll let Tiaozi be arrested.
In fact, it was just an angry word I said, Biaozi gave me the steps and I went down, if it was the second uncle, there would definitely be a burst of scolding, I played haha: Actually, I think everyone is too boring to make a joke, how could I go and set fire to the mountain.
The fat man seemed to have seen through my tricks, and said with a smile on the side: Little comrade, you can't make this joke, if you are caught, you will have to kill your head, and the fat man also made a gesture of cutting off his head.
The second uncle made a gesture to shut us up, do you think there is anything wrong?
I thought about it and said: the air is fresh, the environment is quiet."
The second uncle rolled my eyes: How can there be crickets in this summer, you know, chirp, don't you think this road is a bit too quiet?
Then there is only one possibility, and that is that there must be "" in this vicinity
Before the fat man could finish speaking, suddenly I heard hiss, hiss, hiss, hiss, like the sound of the wind blowing weeds, but now there was no trace of wind, and I was still wondering where the sound came from.
The second uncle in front yelled, run!
By the time I reacted, Xiao Fatzi and Second Uncle had already run more than ten meters away, and they could only see a hazy figure.
The second uncle saw that I didn't follow me and turned around and yelled, what are you kid doing in a daze, do you want to die, run quickly!
Before I could understand what the second uncle's words meant, I saw the hissing sound getting closer and closer to me, and the weeds around me swayed.
I can see clearly that the weeds are full of small snakes with black squire, at least hundreds of them, to be honest, I have been afraid of earthworms and mollusks in snakes since I was a child, as long as I see my feet are almost soft, maybe the smell of realgar wine on my body has worked, I only saw which snakes are very uneasy to wander a meter or two away from me, now let alone running so soft that we can't even stand up.
When I turned around, I saw that the second uncle was not much better than me, and they also let a group of black snakes surround them, and it seemed that there were more snakes on their side than on my side.
I sighed in my heart, if I didn't come to this troubled water, I guess I would still be sleeping at home with the air conditioner blowing peacefully. For the sake of curiosity, I might immediately die in the belly of the snake, and finally turn into stool and excrete it, and when I thought of this, I don't know where the courage came from, I bit the tip of my tongue violently, and a sharp pain spread throughout my brain, and I jumped up and regained my mobility in my hands and feet.
The snakes around me seemed to feel threatened, and all of them arched their bodies at once, spitting snake hyacinths at me, feeling that they might pounce at any moment.
The second uncle, Biaozi, and Xiao Fatzi were back to back, constantly waving torches at the snakes that wanted to get closer.
The second uncle saw me stand up and yelled at me: Backpack.
Is there anything in the backpack to restrain snakes? I carefully removed the backpack from my back, opened it slowly, and groped inside, fearing that my movements would cause the snakes to attack.
I pulled out a dagger for a while, and I casually put the dagger on my waist, and my hand wanted to reach in and pick up something else, but before I could reach in.
At this moment, the fat man shouted at me loudly: Back, back, run.
I immediately reacted that there should be something dangerous behind me, and I didn't care about the snakes around me, in order to reduce the weight I threw my backpack on the ground, and after throwing down the bag, I pulled my legs and ran, and before I could take two steps, a huge tail wrapped around my neck and dragged me to run.
Immediately, my whole body was dragged to the ground, and the thing didn't stop and dragged me forward frantically, my face was scratched by the rubble I don't know how many blood marks, and my whole back was hot.
I hit my head on a rock, something hot ran down my head, (I knew it was blood) my head was dizzy, I thought that if I went on like this, I would have to be dragged to death, I grabbed my hands everywhere, trying to find a weapon, who knew that I actually touched the dagger that was just inserted in my waist, and without thinking too much I took out the dagger and stabbed it into the tail that wrapped around my neck.
A warm current slid down my neck, and the thing stopped and let me go.
I lay on the ground and looked up vigorously, only to see that it was a large black snake as thick as a thigh that had just wrapped around me, and a dagger with only an exposed handle stuck in its tail.
The black snake stared at me not far away, and kept spitting out letters to me, not daring to come over easily.
I don't know how far the snake dragged me, I don't know where to throw the torch, but fortunately some starlight can barely see the distance of 4 or 5 meters around me. At this moment, bang, bang, bang, there was a burst of gunfire from behind, and I knew that it was the second uncle who was chasing them.
I looked at the black snake vigilantly, and roared loudly: Second uncle, I am here.