Chapter 783: A Thief with Snake Scales
Are you sure you want to hear that story again?
This is an inquiry, but at the same time as it comes from Bai Yi's mouth, there is also a vague sense of warning.
He was indeed warning the other party, because that story was not something that everyone wanted to hear again.
"Your life and death depend on whether this story is good or not. In the empty wooden house, there was a deep cold voice from the ghost king: "Say, try to tell it as excitingly, maybe this story is the last story you can tell in your lifetime." ”
As if whispering from all directions, with indescribable weirdness and gloom, in this real haunted house, Bai Yi's demeanor was still calm and natural, knocked on the table again, and spoke in a gentle and quiet tone.
A long time ago, at the foot of a cold mountain river, there was a Dongjia village, the village lived with the poor all the year round mortals, that year, in the coldest winter, the village gave birth to a baby boy.
What should have been a happy birthday turned out to be a source of disaster, and when the midwife was frightened and fainted when the baby was seen, his parents all regarded it as a bad omen, because the baby boy was covered with snake scales.
The people in the mountains have little knowledge, and most of the incomprehensible phenomena are classified as disasters sent by the gods, so the baby boy, who is regarded as the source of the disaster, was abandoned outside the village just after birth.
In this kind of weather, let alone a newborn baby, even some small beasts will freeze to death if they are lost outside the cave, and the baby boy will become silent soon after being thrown outside the village.
After the cold winter, the weather began to warm up, but the people of Dongjia Village found that near the village, there was a small monster like a snake, in the shape of a human baby, the monster could climb, as if it couldn't walk, it would drink water when it encountered a puddle, and it would eat rotten wild fruits, but it was very clumsy, like a half-year-old baby.
Gradually, people guessed the truth, the snake-like monster should be the baby boy who was left outside the village before, after a long and harsh winter, he was not frozen to death, and survived!
The surviving baby boy has become a nightmare in Dongjia Village.
In order to prevent the baby boy from crawling into the village, a thick fence was built outside Dongjia Village, and if someone met the baby boy outside the village, they would also bypass it, and when they returned home, they would burn incense and pray, hoping to get rid of their bad luck.
A year later, the baby boy was gone, and he walked very fast, much stronger than other one-year-olds, and he began to pick up some of the debris thrown out of the village by the villagers, sometimes he could pick up a rag, sometimes he could pick up half a bad bowl, he made a home in a tree hollow, covered his body with rags to keep warm, and used the broken bowl to catch the rainwater and store it, so strong that the unbelievable desire to survive made the scaly child finally grow up.
By the time he was three years old, the boy was able to walk like a fly, he ran faster than ordinary people, and climbed trees even more vigorously, but the snake scales never allowed him to return to the human world, let alone return to the arms of his parents.
When he was five years old, the boy infiltrated Dongjia Village for the first time, he stole a lot of food from a family, like a wild beast tasted blood, and after discovering that the food in the village could make him grow up faster, he really became a thief.
A thief with snake scales!
At the age of six, he was discovered by the people of Dongjia Village, and the villagers finally waved a stick at him and beat him out of the village, in order to prevent this monster from disturbing the village, the villagers also organized a hunting team of more than 20 people to hunt him around, but he would easily avoid him every time.
At this time, he had learned human language, and also understood some simple truths, and even learned about the existence of his biological father and biological mother during an eavesdropping, so he found his parents with apprehension, but he did not go home, but outside the house, looking at the ordinary mortal couple from a distance.
The boy who already has enough self-protection ability can actually leave the village, even if he is in the company of wild beasts in the mountains, he can still live, the indifference of the villagers is nothing, and the indifference of his parents is the reason for his sadness.
The leader of the hunting party was his own father......
The sad boy hated the snake scales on his body, and at night when no one was around, he even broke many scales, making his own flesh and blood blurry, and he once naively thought that as long as he got rid of the scales on his body, he would be able to go home.
Monsters, always monsters.
The scales could not be faded unless he died, and in those confused days, the boy would often sneak around his house, as if it was a great satisfaction for him to take a look at his parents.
In the blink of an eye, another year, the seven-year-old boy finally decided to leave Dongjia Village, he had already accepted his fate, and knew that his parents would not want him anymore, but when he was about to leave, he found that his mother was pregnant with a life for the second time.
I don't know whether it was his brother or his sister, but the boy was very happy, but while he was happy, he was horrified to find that his father had begun to go into the mountains continuously, and when he came back, he would bring back many bird's eggs to make up for his wife's body.
It was a very common scene, but in the boy's eyes, it became extremely frightened, because he recognized that those little eggs were not bird eggs, but snake eggs!
Finally, the boy learns why he was born with snake scales, which are the result of his father's kindness.
There are snakes in the mountains, and there are many, many of them, snake eggs are very similar to bird eggs, and if a pregnant woman eats snake eggs all day long to replenish her body, then the result will usher in a second nightmare.
The boy didn't want his brother or sister to become a monster like him, so he ran into the mountains like crazy, killed many snakes, and destroyed many snake eggs, but the mountain was so big that his father would still pick up some snake eggs, and then the boy had no choice, so when his father had cooked the snake eggs, he rushed into the house and snatched them away.
It was easy to grab it once, and it was easy to grab it a second time, but every day to grab it, it finally made his father angry, and two months later he set a trap, and the boy who fell into the trap shouted in a strange and green voice not to eat eggs, not to eat eggs, but what greeted him was a raging sea of fire.
The wood and oil in the trap were ignited, and the boy's father burned his son to death with his own hands, and when the flames were extinguished, only a small white bone was left in the trap, which was exactly the same as that of a mortal child, without the slightest snake scale, but it looked extremely desolate.
He finally lost all his scales......
Perhaps frightened by the basilisk, or perhaps moved by the basilisk's last cry, the boy's father never looked for the snake egg again, and a few months later, he gave birth to a baby boy in his family again, this time the baby boy, without a single snake scale, chubby and cute.
When the first cry of the baby boy sounded in the village, no one saw it, and a ghost that had wandered outside the village for months gradually faded away, with a twisted heart woven by joy and hatred......
At this point in the story, Bai Yi's voice stopped, and there seemed to be a trace of sadness in his eyes, looking at the darkness outside the door, and after a long time, he said softly: "That boy once gave himself a name, called ...... Dong Qianlan. (To be continued.) )