At this time, I didn't care about being in front of my cousin and them, so I hugged Sister Li tightly and threw my head into her arms, Sister Li also hugged me tightly, and gently stroked my face with her hand, muttering like a child: "It's okay, don't be afraid, we're all here, well, don't be afraid, Xiao Ming, don't be afraid, it's okay".

Xiao Lei and his cousin quickly looked out of the window, and the big black cat, at some point, had jumped out of the window.

Hongmei brought me a cup of hot tea, then took out a thick blanket from the house, put it on me, and said to me in a gentle and soft voice: "Xiao Ming, your face is very pale, drink hot water." Then, as if comforting, he shook my hand tightly.

My cousin and Xiao Lei also sat next to me gently, not in a hurry to ask me anything, but quietly waiting for my love to come down.

After a long time, I calmed down a lot, and only then did I tell what happened just now, I could see the nervous expressions of my cousin, Xiao Lei, Hongmei and Sister Li, this time fortunately I found it early, otherwise, the consequences would be really unimaginable.

We never dreamed that the blind man would have such a trick, and through this sneak attack, we also learned that the blood-colored fox was actually at the behest of the blind man, which was completely unexpected.

Also, I can't figure out why the big black cat cooperated with the fox and the high blind man, as if it was hypnotized, this is really terrible, we really don't know, the high blind man has the ability to hypnotize animals.

But my cousin thinks that with his understanding of the blind man, combined with the specific situation this time, he thinks that it is not the blind man who can hypnotize the consciousness of the big black cat, but the blood fox, which is also the reason why the blind man brought the blood fox with him this sneak attack, otherwise, he would not need to bring the fox at all.

My cousin's analysis made a lot of sense, and then my cousin told us about such an incident, and this story has this subtle similarity with the incident we encounter today.

My cousin said that in the Ming Dynasty, on our mountain, there was once a big python, which not only ate other birds and animals, but also ate people.

The officers and soldiers went up the mountain to search several times, but because the mountain is high and the forest is dense, they have not found it several times, although once, more than 10 officers and soldiers, finally found the python, but not only did not catch it, but let the python swallow four people.

After that, the local officials wanted to send more people, but the mountains were high and the forests were dense, and no matter how many people there were, they could not carry out, and in the end, the officials really had no choice but to give up.

But in the surrounding mountains, there are many medicine farmers who make a living by collecting medicines, and some of them have been medicine farmers for generations, and there is no other way to make a living, so they have no other choice but to risk their lives to go up the mountain to collect medicines.

In the past two or three years, in the villages in this area, forty or fifty medicine farmers have been eaten. Although the hunters here also organized more than a dozen people to round up the python, they were also swallowed by the python two or three, and since then, no hunter dares to provoke this python.

At that time, in this mountain area, when talking about this python, people had a feeling of "talking about the tiger's color change". Everyone has a legend, this is not an ordinary python, but the "god of the mountain" of this mountain, so, there are people to build a temple for this python, often go to worship and pray, hoping that this python can be merciful, do not harm the medicine farmers who go into the mountain to collect medicine, if this python, there are other requirements, can appear and say, the local people, no matter what, will meet it.

Of course, this did not work, and the medicine farmer was still eaten by the python.

Experienced hunters say that compared with other animals, human flesh is smooth and delicate, and there is more oil than other wild animals, so those carnivorous beasts, once they have eaten human flesh, will easily become obsessed with this "food", and they will also be more likely to attack people, this python is also, it has become addicted to eating human flesh, so it will become more and more ferocious to people.

Moreover, this python's sense of smell is extremely sensitive, and it can smell people's breath from a few miles away, so as long as someone appears within a radius of its location, it can quickly smell it, and can crawl towards people at a very fast speed, waiting for an opportunity to eat people.

Some people have seen this kind of python, and say that this kind of is terrible, and there are human bones in it, and even a human head - the kind of head that has been half digested, and there is still a bit of flesh and hair left.

The reason why this big python is difficult to kill is because its skin is so thick that even if it is chopped with a knife and axe, it is difficult to really hurt it, and it is infinitely powerful and can easily sweep away trees as thick as thighs. Not to mention the human body, as long as it is swept away, it will break bones and tendons.

But what no one expected was that the one who finally surrendered this python turned out to be a child.

This child, whose parents died when he was a child, is a bitter child who grew up wearing hundreds of clothes and eating hundreds of meals, and the children of poor families have long been in charge, and they have just reached the age of fourteen or fifteen, and they began to go into the mountains to collect medicine.

It is strange to say that four of the six medicine collectors in their village were eaten by pythons, and one was chased by pythons, and fell off the cliff, fortunately they were hung by branches, so they were not killed, but they fell into cripples, and they couldn't walk, let alone go up the mountain to collect medicine, and the only remaining medicine farmer was so scared that he no longer dared to go up the mountain to collect medicine.

The village where the child lived was deep in the mountains, and the terrain was dangerous, two or three miles away from the village, it was completely a deserted alpine dense forest within hundreds of miles, and it was also the place where pythons were most active, and of course, that area was also one of the areas with the best quality of herbs.

But for some reason, the child still went into the mountains every day to collect medicine, sometimes with dry food and water, and even lived in the mountains at night, and only came out once for two or three days.

Some well-wishers in the village inevitably persuaded the child bitterly, saying that it was too dangerous to go into the mountains to collect medicine, and if he was not careful, he would be eaten by the python, and it was better not to send him to death.

And when the child heard the advice, he just made a gesture of thanks, and said nothing else. But he still went his own way, and still went into the mountains to collect medicine almost every day.

Because of the python, the output of medicinal materials in this area has decreased sharply, and at this time, the price of medicine has risen, and the price of some drugs has even increased by four or five times longer than before.

But during this time, this child has entered the mountain more times than anyone else, stayed for a long time, but there has never been an accident. During this period, he also earned a lot of money by collecting medicines.

It's weird!

In the past, no one paid attention to this inconspicuous child, and, at the beginning, some people saw that he went into the mountains every day to collect medicine, but he could come back unscathed, and they all felt that this child was just a stupid and bold, and he was lucky, and if he continued like this, he would be eaten by a python sooner or later, but in this way, a whole year has passed, and there is still news of pythons eating people from time to time nearby, but this child is still safe and sound.

As a result, more and more people believe that the child was not eaten by the python, it must not be due to luck, and there must be something unknown in it.

In the same village, there were two other orphans who were about the same age as this child, and these two orphans didn't know who they said - pythons don't eat children under the age of eighteen, so the young man who collected medicine was able to go to the mountains to collect medicine for a year in a row, and he was still safe and sound, and he made a small fortune by selling medicine.

The two orphans listened to this rumor, so they also decided to go into the mountains to collect medicine, they felt that they were about the same age as the child who collected medicine, since the child was fine, they should be fine, and they wanted to make some money while the price of medicine was so expensive.

But after the orphans went into the mountains for the first time to collect medicine, they never came out again. People know that this must have been eaten by a python, and since then, the rumor that "pythons don't eat children" has also been self-defeating.

But why is this child the only one who is okay?

People couldn't figure it out, and some people tried to ask the child himself, but they didn't ask why—whenever someone asked about the python, the child always said lightly that he had never seen a python.

Slowly, however, the news spread around the mountain. Within a radius of hundreds of miles, everyone knew about this child.

After coming and going, this matter reached the ears of Zheng Yushi, the new local parent official. Why is it that he is obviously a county order, and others call him Zheng Yushi?

Because this Zheng Yushi, who was originally an upright imperial history in the court, couldn't help but be knowledgeable, upright and selfless, jealous and hateful, because he offended the traitorous ministers in the court, he was impeached and demoted to a county order, but others have always called him Zheng Yushi to show respect and admiration for him.

This Zheng Yushi, as soon as he arrived in the county, wanted to do something practical for the people, he had long heard that the python was a big harm to the local area, and the locals were panicked, and they even ate dozens of people, and the number is still increasing.

So, Zheng Yushi made up his mind to get rid of this python, but how can he get rid of it? He thought of a lot of plans, and also asked a lot of local old hunters for advice, but this python was too difficult to deal with, and no one could think of a practical way.

When Zheng Yushi was at a loss, he suddenly heard the "strange thing" about the child, and his heart couldn't help but move, and he vaguely felt that maybe he could find out the secret about the python from this child.

Zheng Yushi immediately sent someone to find the child. However, he didn't ask directly about the python like others, but talked to the child first.

Although this child has been an orphan since he was a child, he seems to be very quiet and polite, although he can see a little nervous when he sees the official for the first time, but he still knows how to greet him, and he seems to be much more mature than children of the same age.

Zheng Yushi kindly asked him to sit down, like an elder, kindly asked him about his living situation, and then chatted casually, while the child seemed a little restrained, Zheng Yushi asked, he answered, and other than that, he didn't say a word.

And Zheng Yushi chatted, while carefully observing the child, at this time, an old servant according to Zheng Yushi's instructions, brought a bowl of bubbling broth with a special fragrance, and was about to bring it over to the child to drink, just at the door, suddenly, bang, the old servant knocked the soup bowl over to the ground, and at the moment when the bowl landed, Zheng Yushi saw a very strange reaction on the child.