When I got home, it was already past nine o'clock, and my two young sons had gone to work. Li Longyuan looked at the four candlesticks, which were left by a group of tomb robbers and did not take them away. Rinsed with water, the candlestick is forged in pure copper and carved with a delicate tiger-shaped pattern around the body.

Li Longyuan couldn't identify the age, didn't know the value, planned to take a nap in the morning, recover some strength, and then think about dealing with candlesticks, at that time private business was not allowed, and after discovery, it was characterized as speculation, which was illegal, and there was no private antique shop.

He slept until three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and he knew that there was an underground market in Jiangning, but the distance was too far to catch up today, so he could only go the next day. In the early morning of the next day, Li Longyuan neatly wrapped the candlestick with a square scarf, and then walked to Jiangning, and after several turnovers, he found the person to connect with.

After arriving at the agreed place, he looked around with a roe deer, not daring to make a move easily. After getting to know each other, Li Longyuan let down his vigilance, opened the square scarf, and said that it was a family heirloom antique, and he didn't know the age. With a southern accent, he picked up four candlesticks, looked at them carefully one by one, looked at them for more than twenty minutes, shook his head, and said that this was not worth much, at most thirty yuan. In the end, it grinded two rounds of prices and sold for 50 yuan. Li Longyuan is a novice, he doesn't dare to grind more, in fact, don't mention how happy he is, this is enough to eat for a month.

But in that era, if you have money, you may not have food, and you need a certificate from the brigade to buy it. Li Longyuan didn't dare to look for the brigade frequently, nor did he dare to buy too much at one time, for fear of arousing suspicion.

That week, I opened two certificates, bought a lot of corn cob cores and came back to stew snake broth, which can be regarded as a full meal.

But Li Longyuan thought about the snake nest over and over again in his heart, and caught a nest of snakes in his heart, which was the long-term solution. Because the snake nested in the underground palace, he didn't dare to reveal it to others, let alone find a helper, so he could only do it alone.

After about half a month, Li Longyuan finally made up his mind to go to the tomb to give it a try. So I bought some realgar powder, lime powder, vinegar, and sulfur, and prepared myself to deal with the snake, and planned to go to the grave again in the evening.

At night, under the bitter cold, Li Longyuan sneaked into the tomb.

But this time, no trace of the snake was found in the tomb. He went into the ear chambers, removed the bricks from the ear chambers, and dug deep into the earth, but found no sign of the snake. Knocking around in the tomb, making noise "scaring the grass and snakes", there are still no snakes. Are these snakes already hibernating?

He was disappointed that the snake was gone, and that there was really no clear vessel to hold in the tomb except for a coffin, a few heavy wooden boxes and stone statues, so he could only return empty-handed.

Li Longyuan did not give up, and found another day, came to Baohua Mountain to look for it, thinking that the group of snakes would not disappear out of thin air, they must still be on this mountain, as long as they are willing to work hard, they will definitely be able to find traces of snakes.

On this day, the clouds are light and the wind is light, the sky is clear and refreshing, and it is rare to have a sunny day. In winter, such weather can be described as paradise on earth. Li Longyuan persevered in the woods, and really let him find a snake that did not hibernate.

This snake is two or three meters long, and its crawling form is very strange, swaying its body from side to side, and its speed is extremely fast. This weird shaking is a bit like someone who drinks too much. When the snake saw someone coming, it neither ran away nor attacked, but still crawled in the same direction as it was, maintaining its original position.

Li Longyuan followed behind him, shoveled hard, and wanted to shovel the snake in two, but the snake moved in a peculiar position and moved extremely fast, and he shoveled twice in a row without shoveling. At this time, Li Longyuan found that there was another snake not far away, which was also drunk, crawling in the same direction.

Looking at the direction in which the two snakes crawled, there was a cliff, and there was no way to go. Li Longyuan was overjoyed in his heart, he was no longer in a hurry in his hands, these two snakes must be in the bag.

Just as he was happy, a snake suddenly arched its soft body, and with a "boom", it shot forward like an arrow, flashed in the air, and fell straight to the bottom of the cliff.

Li Longyuan couldn't figure it out, is this suicide?

At this moment, the other snake also arched its body. Li Longyuan thought to himself that he was also going to jump off the cliff, and immediately flashed forward, and was about to catch it, when the snake also flew into the air like an arrow and fell under the cliff.

I've seen people commit suicide by jumping off a cliff, but I haven't seen a snake jumping off a cliff to commit suicide, or two snakes, is it martyrdom? Li Longyuan was puzzled.

This cliff is seventy or eighty meters high, the cliff is steep, the mountain rocks are steep, Li Longyuan took a closer look at the bottom of the cliff, there is a large pile of rocks at the bottom of the cliff, the cliff is too high, it is impossible to see the snake that fell to death. Thinking that those two snakes fell from such a high cliff, they would inevitably fall into a blur of flesh and blood.

Li Longyuan didn't want the food to be wasted, even if he fell and the flesh was flying, the snake meat could still be eaten. So he gritted his teeth, strengthened his courage, tied a rope to his body, and climbed the cliff down the mountain, hoping to find the two dead snakes and bring them back to feed his two sons.

There were thousands of miles on the cliff, Li Longyuan didn't dare to be careless, and carefully climbed down step by step.

After climbing for about 20 minutes, I came to the mountainside, and suddenly there was a "snort" in my ears, and a shadow flashed in front of me and fell to the bottom of the cliff. Another snake committed suicide by jumping off a cliff!

Li Longyuan suddenly had an ominous premonition, and his heart shuddered. In the middle of the cliff, he couldn't turn back halfway, so he had to climb down, and at this time he had already smelled a foul smell rushing up from the bottom of the cliff, and the further down he went, the stronger the smell became.

After ten minutes, another snake fell from above, and Li Longyuan was already very close to the ground, and the situation under the cliff was becoming clearer and clearer.

In the rocks below the cliff, there are all snake corpses, countless, at least three or four hundred, all of which are blurred with flesh and blood, and many of them have rotted. In this group of snake corpses, most of them are snakes one meter to three or four meters long, and there are also bigger ones, as well as forty or fifty spotted pythons of about ten meters, which fell down and hit the sharp blades of the rocks, broken into many pieces, and their heads were in different places.