Chapter 24: The Black Python at the River Bottom
Speaking of the long worms we have here, it is actually commonplace. Whether it's a red snake, a water worm, or even the fat tiger snake, we can often see it here.
But it's rare to see this big insect that is so thick and constantly swimming north under the water. I was immediately curious, and I always wanted to follow it to see if it showed its head, so I could see up close whether it had grown that fleshy crest.
To the north, there is the row of salad poplars of Brother Zhongxiu's house, and further north, the bushes of pepper trees of the old Zhongyu family, several acacia trees thicker than my waist in Erbiezi's house, and the two deep and thick sweet potato cellars of Uncle An's house, and then to the north are dozens of boxes of bees raised by Haifu Sanbo's family, and then to the north are the thick old elm trees that are the big officials in the county, and to the northernmost part, there are the old neem trees that protect the slope of the cow's eye.
I followed the big worm and ran north vigorously, and it ran slowly, as if it were leading me, and kept swimming forward against the bottom of the water. I could clearly see that it didn't even look up at me on the shore.
And I have been watching it through the very deep water. I saw this big worm, much longer than the old flat pole we had here, and its body was black and blue, like a layer of asphalt, and there were many large and small spots on it.
When I saw that I had reached the edge of the little bridge, I saw that it was a fork in the road, and the water should be deeper, and I saw the big long worm, whoosh at the bottom of the river, turned around and was about to run east.
This was a terrible thing for me, because I had to go to the other side from the back of Niu Eye's house, and I had to run a long way, cross the small bridge between the bluestone slab and the stone tablet, and then run east for a while, so that I could catch up with this big worm.
I was so anxious that I saw that there were no flowers around, so I jumped up and jumped to the north of the moat river, and the north side was directly opposite the courtyard of the twin baby's house. At this time, I looked at the big long worm again, and it had already sped up, and suddenly ran outside the courtyard wall of the son-in-law's house that had recruited him.
I know that this big long worm is probably going to run to the carp pit in the northeast corner of our village, because the water is very open, and there are many big fish in it, and it can catch those fish to eat.
I thought so, but just as I had just run in front of the poor baby's house, I saw the big worm, with a roar, rushing out of the water.
I saw what looked like a big black purlin suddenly emerging out of the water, and I hurriedly stepped aside, lest it rush at me. However, as soon as the big creature came out of the water, as if he had wings, he writhed a few times, and at once he jumped to the top of the treetops, and then, like gliding, fell straight to the roof of the black brick bungalow of the poor baby's house.
I saw that this was worth it, if this guy attacked someone from the roof, wouldn't it be able to swallow a person's head in one bite. I also forgot to be afraid, so I thought that I wouldn't let this guy harm the poor baby. After all, this poor baby has no father, and the barbarian mother ran away again, if he is bitten off by this big worm again, won't the poor baby's little brother be even more pitiful?
I don't know where I got the guts, so I jumped up from the ground with my feet up, and while the big worm was gliding in the air, I jumped to the back of the head of the big worm in a horseback posture, and my legs were parted, and I rode right behind the head of the big worm.
Since the big worm was too smooth, I tried my best to clamp this guy tightly with my legs, but who knew that maybe I was using too much force, and the big worm suddenly felt pain, so it suddenly twisted the huge triangular head back.
It never thought that why a person would suddenly ride over its neck! Seeing that it was about to bite me with its bloody mouth open, at the last moment, I saw a black mass leap over my head and smashed into the big open mouth of the big worm.
All I could hear was a grunt, and the black thing burrowed into the blood-red throat of the big worm. And at this moment, I heard the heart-rending cry of this big long worm, which sounded like an earth-shattering sound.
Immediately afterwards, the body of the big long worm began to fall rapidly, and the place where it fell was not yet on the roof of the poor baby's house, but fell straight into the courtyard of his house.
After falling, I quickly jumped, jumped to the outside of the yard of the poor baby's house, I looked through the courtyard wall, the big long worm did not know what black thing was smashed into the stomach, this moment, it was on the ground kept rolling, the thick tail slapped loudly, not long after, I saw the big worm mouth began to come out of the black and red blood foam, and soon the big worm died straight in the yard of the poor baby's house.
At this time, I saw that the big worm was dead, and I wanted to turn around and run back to find my milk. However, the moment I turned around, I saw my father staggering from the east road, waving to me, while shouting: "Xiaoliang, Xiaoliang, I am your master, come here, I'll give you candy to eat......"
I saw that my father was still dressed like that, an old black cotton jacket and old cotton pants, waving non-stop, and I was standing outside the courtyard wall of the poor baby's house, twisting my head to the east, watching me run towards me step by step.
I thought it was my grandfather who used something to smash this big long worm to death, but as a result, I watched the big worm die so quickly, and thought how could my grandfather have such a great magical power. However, who killed this big worm at this critical time?
I didn't have time to sort out the chaotic thoughts, and I saw that my father was already close. I can already smell my grandfather's peculiar smell of fire paper clearly. Although I looked at my father, when I saw that he was about to run to me, I suddenly felt an invisible fear that instantly enveloped my heart.
I know that my grandfather has been dead for many years, and I have grown so big, but why does my grandfather always appear in my sight at some critical moments, and the rest of our family can't see him!
I looked at my grandfather's outstretched hand, which kept shaking at me, and I was quite scared, so I quickly turned my head and raised my foot to run away, but I didn't expect that I jumped up all of a sudden.
On the side of the road is the salad poplar tree planted on the edge of the village sprinkler, those big poplar trees, no lack of water, grow that tall, thick and smooth trunk, there must be several people to hold it, I jumped this jump, pouted, and went straight to the top of the big poplar tree, just had a three-pronged branch, I rode on it.