My sister said, "Mom, there is a big snake on the old well. ”

That was my sister's first and last words after waking up with a high fever.

The next morning, my mother woke up to find that her sister was not around, and she thought that her sister had gotten up and gone to the toilet on her own, but she did not see her sister come back after a long time.

Mother got up and went around the yard and didn't see her sister, she suddenly saw that the gate was still locked, her mother panicked, she rushed to the village like crazy, rushed to the old well, in that old well, my sister's small body floated on the water, she was wearing a flower cloth jacket that had been completely soaked in water, and it looked shining in the rising sun, and on it was a koi fish embroidered by her mother.

I was held tightly in my mother's arms, it was raining heavily outside, I don't know why my grandfather didn't come to see me at this time, I touched my mother's face and said, "Mom, I miss grandpa, I want to eat meat." ”

Suddenly, there was a loud thunderclap, and I broke free from my mother's embrace, walked to the window, and saw a huge black shadow falling in the rainy sky.

My mother and father watched from behind me, not knowing what I was going to do, and after a while, my grandfather burst through the door, completely drenched and covered in mud, and I had never seen him so embarrassed.

Grandpa coughed and said, "The baby is fine." ”

My father and mother looked at me lying by the window, and my grandfather nodded and said, "It's okay." ”

Grandpa turned around and left, I wanted to call grandpa, but I didn't know why I couldn't speak, in the footprints left by grandpa, I vaguely saw blood stains.

A few days later, I stepped into the school again, from that day on, every day after school my mother would pick me up at the school gate, although the school is next to the village, but when I came back, I always had to pass by the old well, my mother sometimes took me on a long detour from the back of the village home, I knew what my mother meant, she was worried that I was afraid, she didn't say it, I didn't say it.

Until one day, rumors began to spread in the village that there was really a big snake in the well.

The first to discover the big snake was Wang Fugui's mother-in-law at the head of the village, Wang Fugui's mother-in-law had a broken mouth, and she loved to nag other people's family routines, plus she believed in ghosts, and sometimes she would chatter, so everyone called her Wang Mother-in-law.

At noon that day, Mrs. Wang walked towards the old well with a bucket, and saw a black thing poking out from the mouth of the well from a distance, and then shrank back after a while, at first Mrs. Wang thought that the child was naughty and picked up the snake skin on the eaves of the well, she scolded and scolded while speeding up the pace to the old well, who knew that she looked into the well, almost not scared to death.

I saw a black python with the thickness of a thigh in the well, looking up, its head was pitch black, as big as an iron shovel, Wang Pozi was so frightened that she screamed, and the bucket in her hand fell to the ground with a bang, and ran home like crazy.

Her sons Wang Dahai and Wang Erhai heard Wang Pozi screaming, and ran out with hoes and flat poles, and when they saw that no one had a corner of their mouths with their mother, they asked Wang Pozi what happened, and Wang Pozi told what had just happened, Wang Dahai listened to it, thinking that although his wife had a broken mouth, but it was not enough to tell such a lie, but our Wangjia Village adult drought, not to mention such a big snake, even the most ordinary cauliflower snake can not see a few all year round, if there is really an old lady who said so big, That's not a good thing?

When Wang Fugui heard the sound, he saw that his mother-in-law was trembling, and she was sitting at the door of her house babbling nonsense, and was busy asking what was going on.

After listening to this, Wang Fugui went to the back room and picked up the harpoon he used when he was fishing out in his early years, and the grandfather and his wife went to the old well, but when they reached the edge of the old well, there was no black python in the well.

After this incident spread, everyone in Wangjia Village fell into a panic, the soul of the child is weak, occasionally see some unclean things, often be scared out of the soul, this is a common thing in the vast countryside, but if adults see unclean things, then nine times out of ten it is true, especially when everyone sees the appearance of Wang Pozi being frightened out of her soul, you are even more convinced.

There are two taboos in the village of Wangjia Village, the first is the plane tree that has been cut down, and the second is this old well, the people of Wangjia Village can still live and work in peace and contentment without the old tree, but if the old well is gone, it is equivalent to cutting off the water source of Wangjia Village.

Now everyone says that there is a black python living in the old well, under the different opinions, the size of the black python from the initial thigh thickness, was passed to the thickness of the water tank, originally drowned in the well, and now there is a black python that has become a fine living inside, even if Wangjia Village is dry, no one dares to drink the well water.

Grandpa went to the town to discuss with the town leaders on the same day, and proposed to let the town's waterworks go to Wangjia Village, but the town's waterworks refused to agree, not to mention that the project is huge and costs a lot of money, even if the waterworks bypass a few miles of mountainous terrain to Wangjia Village to connect the tap water, with the living standard of the mountain village, the ordinary family of four people can use less than 5 yuan a month of electricity, how much can the water bill use? I'm afraid the money they collect every year is not enough to cover the cost of pipeline repairs.

In addition, the project of connecting tap water is not a matter of one or two days, at least two months, at most a year and a half, and by then the people of Wangjia Village may have become human beings.

So the immediate thing is to find a water source, as I said earlier, Wangjia Village was a water town more than a hundred years ago, since the phoenix was besieged to death on the plane tree at the head of the village, Wangjia Village began to drought year by year, except for this old well, it is difficult to dig water anywhere, even if the water is dug out the next day.

Grandpa was also worried for a while, he gathered all the villagers of Wangjia Village together to discuss countermeasures, and everyone discussed for a long time but did not come up with a good attention.

Grandpa looked at the old well in the distance while smoking a dry cigarette, and he said in a deep tone: "Everyone comes out tonight to catch snakes." ”

Grandpa's decision was not objected, although everyone was afraid, but the water source problem urgently needed to be solved, the waterworks did not give water to our village, and it was not a way to go around the mountain road to other places to fetch water.

The snake is a cold-blooded animal that is diurnal and nocturnal, and if the black python really lives in the well, it must wait until the evening when it comes out to feed.

Soon after nightfall, under the leadership of grandpa, the men, women and children of Wangjia Village waited for the appearance of the black python not far from the old well, but everyone waited until the middle of the night to see no trace of the black python, some women took their children home to sleep, and the men continued to stay around the old well, waiting for the appearance of the black python.

After the bell struck midnight, the snoring of some people gradually sounded, and the grandfather wanted everyone to go back to sleep and wait until tomorrow to think about it, at this time, a dark shadow slowly appeared on the eaves of the old well.

All the napping people were screamed, everyone held their breath, and stared motionlessly at the huge black shadow under the moonlight crawling out of the old well little by little, until it crawled more than ten meters away from the old well, and the grandfather secretly shouted: "Do it!" ”

The nearest two people hiding next to the old well were about to cover the bluestone slab prepared in advance on the top of the wellhead to prevent the black python from turning back again, everyone turned on the flashlight in their hands, and some lit torches to surround the obviously frightened black shadow, this is a black python seven or eight meters long, the thickness of the thighs, there are folds of different shades on the body, the head of the black python is the size of an iron shovel, at this time is holding his head high, spitting out the letter and confronting the people who surround him.

The men in Wangjia Village have never seen such a big python, although they are scared to the point that their scalps are numb, but there are many people with great strength, and there is a grandfather with them, so they have some confidence in their hearts.

Seeing that the circle surrounding the black python was getting smaller and smaller, the black python suddenly straightened up and soared! This can scare the people of Wangjia Village, everyone has never eaten pork and has never seen a pig run, such a big snake has never been seen, but they have always heard of it, but they have never heard of a snake will jump up, and jump so high that it almost has to climb over the human wall!

Everyone was so frightened that they ran away, the black python saw a gap in the crowd, and drilled out of the smoke, the speed was as fast as the wind, and he was about to climb to the well, and the grandfather grabbed the iron fork in the hand of a person and threw it at the black python, the iron fork penetrated the tail of the black python, and nailed the black python in place, the black python screamed, shook its tail violently, broke the iron fork, and the snake's tail was also broken, and then smashed the bluestone slab into the old well.

"Brute!" Grandpa scolded.

"Secretary Wang, it's all our cowardice that we let this beast run away, what can we do now?" The few people who had been frightened by the black python and fled before showed shame on their faces, and at the same time they also showed fear on their faces, because they knew that snakes were vengeful animals, especially such a large snake.

Grandpa said: "No wonder you, you are all watching here, Fugui, you go home with the sea and bring all the vinegar in your store, Sanzi, you come to my house and bring the realgar I put on the wine vat behind the door." ”

Everyone doesn't know what grandpa is going to do, but grandpa is the think tank of our village, and now the black python drilled into the well must be removed, so everyone is even more obedient to grandpa, and after a while, a large vat of vinegar and a piece of realgar were transported.

Grandpa smoked a dry cigarette and said: "The snake is afraid of realgar, but also afraid of vinegar smoke, we still have to drink this well water, realgar is poisonous, if you throw it directly into the well, the well water will become poisonous water, pour the vinegar into it, the snake will naturally be smoked out, and then put the realgar into the well water and then put it into the well water and harmonize, not only can purify the snake blood, but also play a role in invigorating blood and detoxifying." ”

Everyone listened to what Grandpa said, and did not hesitate at the moment, poured a large vat of vinegar into the well, and it didn't take long for the black python to come out again, and the grandfather poked through the head of the black python with a fork, the black python was in pain, and suddenly raised his tail and swept over, and the grandfather and a group of people around him were swept to the ground, and the place where the snake tail was swept was immediately black, and the rest of the people raised the guy in their hands and smashed it to the head of the black python, and smashed the head of the black python to pieces before stopping, and the black python finally swallowed his breath after a struggle, and died by the old well with his belly turned over.

Grandpa grinded realgar into powder and sprinkled it into the well, then took out a blade from the cloth bag around his waist, and cut a hole in the snake's belly, he reached into the snake's belly without fear and felt it, and after a while, he took out something bigger than a goose egg, which was the gall of this black python.

Grandpa glanced at the dead black python and said, "This beast is thrown here, and tomorrow I will show it to the whole village, and when I go back, I will tell my mother-in-law about tonight, so that they will not be afraid again." ”

The scourge in the old well was removed, and the grandfather specially found someone to purify the well water again, and the people of Wangjia Village lived a life of water to drink again. Everyone thought that the matter of the old well would be revealed, but what was unexpected was that the strange things about the old well had just begun.