I don't think I'm a mediocre player, at least not so much that I can't even tell if I'm at home. As a person who survives in this industry, I absolutely have the most basic observation skills, but in the past three days, almost every time I come to knock on the door, I will carefully observe the surrounding environment, if there are people in and out during the period, I think I have to distinguish, it should not be difficult.

The middle-aged woman, however, spoke so firmly, as if she were particularly puzzled by the fact that I had not been able to find anyone for several days. She said to me that when she went out this morning, she saw the people in the house come out.

So I asked the middle-aged woman, "Do you mean there's someone in this house?" So why do I knock on the door all these days and no one answers? The middle-aged woman said, maybe people don't know you, so they don't want to open the door, I said duckling, you better wait until the day to come back, it's so late now, even if someone is at home, they don't dare to open the door for you easily, it's so messy outside.

She was telling the truth, but I still couldn't figure out why I was called a duck, did I look like a bird in the dark?

The middle-aged woman seemed to want to turn around and leave after speaking, but I stopped her and asked, Auntie, are you from the neighborhood? She said yes, then pointed to the end of the alley and said she lived over there. I asked again, "Do you all know the one who lives here?" The middle-aged woman said that she knew each other, but she was familiar with her face and had no friendship. I looked at the surroundings, these houses have been here for at least 20 years, judging by the age of the middle-aged woman, it should be the old residents here, this alley is not very long, shouldn't the neighbors have known each other for a long time? The middle-aged woman told me that the house is now occupied by a tenant who moved in almost five years ago, and that she is a little unsmiling on weekdays, so she does not have deep contact with the neighborhood.

I thought to myself that what she said was somewhat similar to the personality of the old Qin seniors I had heard, so I said again, but that shouldn't be, I heard that she is a kind old sister, and she is also helpful on weekdays, and the neighborhood relationship is good! As soon as I said this, the middle-aged woman looked me up and down again and said, "Little duckling, are you really here to find someone?" Then I'm afraid you're looking for the wrong place, it's not the eldest sister who lives here, it's an old man, with a big beard, and he gets along with everyone on weekdays, but it's helpful to you, I'm afraid it's not necessarily, right? Do you want to check the address and find it again? And we don't have such a big sister in this alley...

The middle-aged woman's enthusiasm for relieving doubts made me even more sure that the person living in this house was the old Qin senior. Just now, I used a very ridiculous assumption about a middle-aged woman to deliberately arouse her doubts, so as to get out her truth. So I thought to myself, if this Qin senior, if he was obviously at home, I would knock on the door so many times, it wouldn't be every time he wasn't there, right? Then he avoided me for only two reasons, either he deliberately did not open the door and made me anxious, or he was wary of me and deliberately did not see me.

I don't think it's just me, I guess over the years, many people who have come to visit him have encountered such a situation. So I thanked the middle-aged woman, said that I would check the address carefully, and told her by the way that I was a human being and I was not a duck, and I deliberately "quacked" twice after saying that, and then reveled in my self-deprecating sense of humor.

The middle-aged woman also laughed, and she told me that the people here call the young dialect "伢子" instead of "duck", and it is only because in the southwestern official dialect, "伢" and "duck" are the same tone, so I have such a misunderstanding.

I went back to the guest house that night, planning to find a plan to lure that Qin senior to show up, at least to meet with me, and I didn't come to find him, but I just thought he should know about my master's whereabouts, and I really couldn't avoid it, although it was an old-timer, it was really rude. So I decided, tomorrow morning, I won't knock on the door, but find a place to hide from a distance, as soon as someone enters and leaves his house, I will immediately run over, this time I can't hide from it, it seems that to treat this kind of industry seniors who don't follow the routine, you have to outwit it.

But that night, when I slept until three or four o'clock in the morning, I was suddenly in a daze, disturbed by a rustling sound, and not only that, but I also smelled a strange fishy smell in my nose. That smell I once smelled from Aunt Xu's angry open mouth when I was fighting with that cat at her house.

As a person in the rivers and lakes, I am still quite alert. I was immediately shocked by this sudden anomaly that was different from the environment I was used to, and rolled on my side to roll over from the bed to the ground, and then rushed to the door to turn on the light.

On the bed where I slept, about the side of my feet, there was a large white snake with the thickness of an arm, standing with its head upright, spitting out letters in front of me!

When I suddenly saw this scene, I was so frightened that I didn't have time to think about why there was such a big snake in the city, I felt a sudden numbness in my body, and involuntarily retreated to the wall, so I reached out to grab the door, intending to escape despite wearing only a pair of boxers, but after twisting the door a few times, I found that even the doorknob was locked tightly, and it couldn't be twisted at all, so I suddenly despaired, and I didn't dare to blink my eyes to stare at the big white snake on the bed, and I didn't dare to take a breath.

That's when I had time to think about why there was such a ridiculous thing as a big snake in the city. A snake of this size, if the whole body is unfolded, must be at least two meters long, and it is impossible for it to survive in the city and grow so big without being discovered. Take a closer look, this big snake is two pointed and thin, the middle section is thick and fat, the thickest part is about as thick as my shoulder, and the head from my point of view, is an inverted triangle, close to the two horns of the snake's neck, there is a convex bone like an eyebrow bone, although the whole looks white, but the back is slightly yellow, I don't know if it is the reason for the light of the guest house, sad and some diamond-shaped light white patterns, the whole snake looks oily, plus I am a person who is afraid of snakes, Not to mention that because of the relationship between the snake, I had collided with the great god of the fairy family before, and the scene in front of me scared my heart to my throat.

When I couldn't open the door, I realized that someone might have tampered with it, otherwise how could the door be so closed. So the snake appeared in my bed, which is obviously not a coincidence, but someone deliberately did it. But I've only been here for a few days, and I'm keeping a low profile, so who discovered my whereabouts? Could it be that because I stepped on the line and crashed into the altar of the local master's door, people want to teach me a lesson?

While thinking quickly, he looked at the big snake without moving. The serpent didn't attack me, but just stood with its little triangular head, and just looked at me. Earlier, when I was in the countryside, I often heard the news that some villagers said where they caught a snake, and the natural environment in the countryside is good, and the snake is easy to survive. And I also know that most of those colorful or brightly colored snakes are highly venomous, and the most powerful ones are said to be killed in seven steps after being bitten. And these highly venomous snakes generally have a characteristic, that is, when you look at it, you know that it is poisonous, including the fact that the head is triangular. So although I am not sure whether the big snake in front of me is poisonous or not, at least if I am bitten by it, it will definitely hurt very much.

My bag was all on the side of the bed, and if I had taken it now, I would have been just one step away from the serpent, and I would not have done such a thing as a death. I can only face each other silently, on the ground not far from me, there are two boiling kettles and an iron basin, and in the boiling kettle, there is still boiling water I went to fetch last night, which is probably the only thing I can get, so I began to think in my heart, or I will pour a pot of boiling water on the snake first, and when it struggles in pain, I will cover it with an iron basin, and my body of more than 100 catties will not be so easily broken free. I'll figure it out when the time comes. But there are so many possibilities in between, what if it suddenly rushes over me when I splash the water? What if I don't get it right this time? What if I accidentally burn myself? What if I can't cover this basin?

All these things made me hesitate to act rashly, but I also knew that if the confrontation continued, I would definitely not be the opponent of this big snake, so even if it was dangerous, I still had to take a risk.

So I leaned my back against the wall and slowly moved towards the kettle and the iron basin. I moved very slowly, so that the serpent would not be alarmed. Although I was puzzled by its appearance, and even felt a little like the story I heard when I was a child, I believe that it was always a brute, and even if it was spiritual, it was definitely not as smart as me.

I moved slowly until I felt that I could reach the kettle as soon as I reached out, and I even calculated the time it would take me to lift the lid and remove the cork, and just as I was taking a deep breath and about to grab the kettle quickly, a hoarse, cold voice came from the window of the room, and the voice said:

"Why, you still want to burn my snake?"