Half a month later, when the flood waters receded, several houses on the shore of the lake were revealed, and all the houses with earthen walls had collapsed, and became ruins mixed with tiles, rafters, and dirt, and all the houses with brick walls were stained with watermarks, and their colors were gray and black, like a person who had lost a circle, and his face was blue, and he saw that he was much older, and even if he stood there, he was listless. Water birds such as cranes, herons, and fish-catchers sometimes fly around the lakeside, as if they are still paying attention to this bleak scene.

The kiln owner Wu Daqiang got into trouble, but it was not that he caught Li Jieshi's sacrifice chimney that night, that can be kept secret, although it is very tragic, all the kiln workers can accept it, thinking that this is a "custom" handed down in ancient times that cannot be changed, who sacrifices the chimney who is unlucky, and the interests of the kiln owner tied to the kiln workers may also get benefits, because by sacrificing the living to worship the kiln god, the kiln god may bless each kiln lime or brick tile to be burned well, and the high quality of the fire.

But that night was not beautiful, thunder and lightning, and torrential rain poured down, causing flooding, and more than a dozen kiln burners who lived in the tiled houses on the lake at the foot of the mountain drowned. Their families sued Wu Daqiang, who should be jointly and severally liable.

Before Wu Daqiang appeared in court, he fell ill, not frightened, but when he was inspecting the kiln, he was bitten by a mountain mosquito on the neck, and he was only itchy at that time, and then he had a fever, and his whole body was hot, and several kiln workers carried him to the Wanshengqiao Town Health Center five kilometers down the mountain to see a doctor.

He was lying on the sickbed while hanging needles, and talking nonsense: I should die, that mosquito was changed by Li Jieshi, and it bit me to avenge my hatred, I really regret that I shouldn't have caught him and sacrificed his chimney......

Due to two bottles of hanging needles, the fever still does not subside, and the body temperature is as high as 47 °C. Seeing that the situation was not good, the director was worried about delaying treatment, so he immediately made the decision to transfer to the county hospital, but on the way to the referral, Wu Daqiang's heart stopped beating. Because of his sudden death, he escaped a lawsuit that was difficult to escape and could be blamed for.

You can't take it away, only karma can be taken with you. After Wu Daqiang's life was restored, his kiln assets were confiscated by the local clansmen. When Wu Daqiang was alive, because he was looking for someone to sacrifice the chimney, it should be said that he owed a lot of blood debts, so he was angry, and he was sent to Fengdu City as a sin soul to be detained.

The king of Yama rebuked that the Yin Si has its own law, and the undead do not need to harass official business, if they do not listen, let the inspector catch him, and the staff will be 20 at the light and 80 with the staff. When the king of Yama was angry, the spirits of the dead were scattered as birds and beasts.

Wu Daqiang was shocked, the undead investigator of the underworld looked at his exploits and deeds in the Yang world, and it was recorded that Wu Daqiang did less than 10% of the good things he did, that is, he was domineering all his life, mainly doing evil things, and he owed 14 lives to the kiln owner for 14 years, and he owed 14 lives every year, and there were usually abuses to the kiln workers, deducting wages and other lack of morality and stubborn things are accumulated, and there have long been land gods, mountain gods, and tree gods who have accused him of being unkind, so Wu Daqiang's life limit should be 74 years old, Because of the frequent receipt of complaints, the king of Yama commissioned a day tour and a night tour to investigate the correctness, so he reduced his life expectancy by 20 years, so that Li Jieshi, who had a disagreement with Wu Daqiang in his past life, became a mosquito to bite him to death.

Because Wu Daqiang committed great crimes in the yang world, he went directly to the hell of Ah Bi after being judged and condemned in the underworld, and then reincarnated as a gecko, crawling on the walls day and night, and living by preying on flies, mosquitoes, moths and other insects.

It's really a narrow road, and after Wu Daqiang became a gecko, he actually stared at the mosquito that Li Xie Shi became. It was the Mengqiu season, the weather was still very hot and dry, and the sound of cicadas rained like raindrops in the kiln field that Wu Daqiang had managed before his death and the mountains and jungles connected to the kiln field, it was particularly quiet here, so quiet that you could faintly hear the evening drum and morning bell in the Xishan temple.

But wild geckos regardless of those, including the night flight, occasionally also fly in the daytime mosquitoes are only concerned about foraging, they forage is free, this freedom lurks all kinds of dangers, maybe animal A is eyeing B, B is eyeing C, etc., when A preys on B, it is likely that B is preyed on by C again, so there is a saying that "the praying mantis catches the cicada, and the yellow finch is behind".

At this moment, it is almost dusk, the west of the kiln is covered by mountains and mountains, and it is shrouded in the shadow of dry heat, the gecko crawls out quietly from the crack in the wall of the earthen house where the kiln is resting, quietly observes, a mosquito lying on the wall falls into its sight, about two feet away from it, and then above is the eaves, at the junction of the eaves and the wall hangs a spider web like a gossip Taiji diagram, the mosquito found it, avoided it and buzzed to the low place, flying, flying, is hitting its mouth, the gecko may as well "whoosh" swallowed the mosquito into his stomach.

In an instant, the ghost of the mosquito broke away from the corpse and fluttered, and it sank gradually, not so much as by an attraction. It turns out that after the death of the living animal, its ghost is directly sucked into the underworld by the earth's qi, which is no more than the spirit body after the death of a human being hooked and arrested.

At that moment, the ghost of the mosquito arrived in the underworld, and it did not need to be interrogated by the king of Yama, and soon it was sent to the palace of the king of the wheel, and because its sins were not fulfilled, it continued to be reincarnated among the next beings.

This time, it was reincarnated as a slightly larger animal, and became an egg laid by a cauliflower snake in a crevice in the cliff wall near the Xishan Temple, and soon it grew into a small cauliflower snake, biting through the soft and thin eggshell, and burrowing out of it. Maybe it's because the by-animal didn't drink and didn't have to drink the soup, but it vaguely remembered that it was a mosquito in its previous life, and was devoured by the gecko, and the gecko naturally became its enemy.

It thought that since it had become a snake, it would be able to fight the gecko when it grew up a little bit. It also vividly remembers that a spider web like a gossip diagram hung from the junction of the eaves and the wall of the earthen house, where the gecko moved. In the future, whenever this cauliflower snake has the opportunity, it will definitely prey on it in the same way that it preyed on mosquitoes.

Unconsciously, after a year, this cauliflower snake crawled out of the hibernation soil hole, its body has grown into the thickness of a bamboo, about a meter long, two eyes glowing with cold light, like crystal pearls, not only make the round head move, but also make the whole body full of aura.

Its fine scales form stripes of patterns, forming a clear style of white belly and black back, like a woman who is good at knitting sweaters carefully made out of the color, which is very good-looking, but a little cold and glamorous.

But it is not for anyone to watch or win the praise of others, it is for the sake of survival in the wild and conducive to camouflage and concealment.

When this cauliflower snake crawled out, it was March when the earth was heating up, the trees that had lost their leaves were already sprouting and spitting green, the blooming mountain flowers had picked out the bones, the mountain springs were tinkling, the were singing, and the mountains were lively and quiet.

The cauliflower snake had not forgotten to seek revenge on the gecko, and it could not reach the earthen house in the kiln for the time being, and it felt that there was at least a few dozen miles of mountain roads from here, and if there was no danger on the mountain road, it could slip through in a few hours.

But it was very cautious and very conservative, it slipped into a jungle, tired, and wrapped around a dead tree to rest, as if this was its protector, no, the real protector was not a dead tree, but a small hole next to the dead tree, and it tried to drill into it, just enough to fit down, very deep, and it could hide the whole thing, so it was very safe.

Sure enough, it heard a sound with keen hearing, a pangolin unexpectedly pounced from behind, so dangerous, it drilled into the hole with lightning-fast movements, the pangolin because of its large body, could not drill in, and when it made the hole bigger, the hole inside was still so small, still could not get in, and at this time, the cauliflower snake that drilled into the depths had already crawled out from the other end of the cave for safety.

Now it was a little hungry, and in the grass a mouse was gnawing on a piece of carrion, and it slipped quietly, and with a pounce, the mouse was in its mouth, and it was squeaking, and its body was constantly struggling. In a few moments, it filled the cauliflower snake's hunger, and this was the first time the cauliflower snake had made a tooth sacrifice since waking up from hibernation.

This meal can provide it with more than a month of active energy, that is, it will not eat for more than a month or so, and it will not feel hungry.