Chapter 0003 I am Mo Xiu
I heard that my father asked me to stay at Zhang Hanzhu's house for a few days. I looked at the ambulance driving away and the snake corpses on the ground, feeling a little nervous.
The auntie who was sweeping the sidewalk saw the snake corpses on the ground and looked at the small Taoist temple of the Zhang family next to it. She quickly clasped her hands together and kept muttering something, but her eyes were always on me with a curious look on her face.
I didn't want to stay for long, so I took a taxi back and asked for leave from my class teacher on the way.
When we got home, there was a cordon at the door. My mom and dad were standing at the door in their pajamas. My dad was still taking a statement and my mom was explaining things non-stop. There were a lot of people outside watching the fun.
Aunt Liu from the noodle shop next door saw me and immediately laughed: "Long Ling, you didn't sleep at home last night. Fortunately, you didn't sleep. The wife of Chen Quan upstairs from you was entangled by the snake that your father soaked in snake wine."
"What does it mean to be entangled by a snake?" I felt a little uncomfortable when I heard about snake wine, and Chen Quan's abnormal look kept flashing through my mind.
Aunt Liu had a weird and strange expression on her face, her eyebrows and eyes seemed to be squeezed together, and she looked like she wanted to say something but couldn't.
A few hooligans nearby who usually hang out on the street laughed, "She was bitten by a snake. I heard that when Chen Shun found her in the morning, the snake was still inside. It was Chen Shun, the father, who pulled the snake out. Hey, a father-in-law pulled the snake out of his wife's body. Wow! That's amazing!"
"It's really strange. I've heard of snakes entangle people, but this snake soaked in wine can also entangle people." Aunt Liu had a strange expression on her face: "Chen Quan is also strange. After his wife died, he actually grabbed the snake and ran away. Now he's fine. I suspect he did it on purpose."
"The snake ran away?" I just felt cold all over.
Aunt Liu immediately became excited and was about to speak at the top of her voice.
In the crowd, my mother saw me coming back and shouted at Aunt Liu: "Why are you talking to a little girl like her about this? It's bad luck!"
Aunt Liu laughed and called those who were watching the fun nearby to come into her shop to eat noodles.
My mother quickly pulled me aside and said, "What are you doing back home? Someone died, it's very unlucky. Go back to school and don't worry about the family affairs. You are staying at Taoist Zhang's house, so ask him to draw a talisman for you to get rid of the bad luck. You are going to take the college entrance examination, and you are still so unruly."
As she spoke, she took out her cell phone and said, "I'll transfer some money to you. You can stay at Hanzhu's house for a few days and buy them some fruits, small gifts, etc. Be a bit observant and help with any work. Wash your own clothes. Don't be like at home, where you just take a shower and throw away your clothes. Got it!"
She was quite generous this time and directly transferred me a thousand yuan. She also asked the motorcycle driver who was watching the fun to take me there: "Go to school first, and I will pick you and Hanzhu up in the evening and send your clothes over as well."
"Mom." I held my mother's hand tightly and said in a deep voice, "Does my family have a black snake-shaped jade pendant?"
As soon as I said this, my mother froze and looked at me with gloomy eyes: "How did you know?"
"Last night, there were dead snakes all over the ground outside Taoist Zhang's house. Taoist Zhang was bitten by a snake and was sent to the hospital. Those snakes followed me." I held my mother's hand tightly.
He said in a deep voice: "The black snake in my dream came out and told me that I must get the black snake pendant and find the coffin that contains the snake's corpse."
My mother's body was shaking a little, and her eyes seemed to be twitching as she looked at me.
"I heard that the woman who died upstairs from your house was killed by a snake?" The motorcycle taxi driver also came over and asked curiously.
“Get out of the way!” My mother’s face darkened as she shouted at the motorcycle driver, “Don’t you know that the dead are the most important?”
I couldn’t get into my house for the time being, so my mother pulled me to a milk tea shop nearby. Even the boss was watching the fun, so there was no one else there.
My mother was about to say something to me when Chen Shun's wife rushed in crying and shouting that my family should pay with their lives.
"Go directly back to your hometown and ask your grandmother. Your grandmother knows this matter best. Once things here are resolved, your father and I will go back to find you." My mother hurriedly helped me walk out.
Pushing me to the intersection, he said: "Just take a taxi back. Don't be afraid to spend money. I'll transfer the money to you later."
There happened to be a familiar black car driver on the side of the road, so my mother asked that person to take me back to the village.
I was sitting in the car and saw Chen Shun's wife rushing towards my mother screaming, and was kicked to the ground by my mother.
The black car driver was Yuan Fei. He glanced back through the rearview mirror and said, "You are the daughter of She Jiulong, right?"
Snake Wine Dragon is my father’s nickname, everyone calls him that.
I hummed softly, and Yuan Fei chuckled: "Your dad is in trouble this time. You said Chen Quan is really..."
Yuan Fei drove a black car in the town. He had many acquaintances and knew almost everything about the matter.
My dad had a big sale on snake wine yesterday. Everyone in town knows my dad’s name, and they heard it was cheap, so a lot of people bought it, and no one got hurt.
According to Chen Shun's confession, Chen Quan drank snake wine last night and felt a little drunk. He kept strolling on the balcony and looking downstairs.
Chen Quan and his wife lived in the room above mine, and they drank until the early morning.
Chen Quan was so drunk that he could hardly walk, but he carried the bottle of snake wine into the room, saying that he wanted to drink some with his wife to cheer himself up.
"Chen Shun heard the couple doing that, and it was said to be very intense. But when he got up in the morning and went to check, he saw Chen Quan's wife lying naked on the ground. The snake's tail was still twisting on her leg, and she was stiff." Yuan Fei said, smacking his lips.
"Chen Shun was really brave. He pulled the snake out. As soon as he pulled it out, he heard Chen Quan screaming. He grabbed the snake and ran away. I guess he went to kill the snake somewhere. Chen Quan really had a lot of fun." Yuan Fei looked at me in the rearview mirror and laughed, "Little sister, do you know how women play with snakes?"
The image of Chen Quan spitting out a snake's tongue flashed before my eyes. When I heard Yuan Fei ask this, I felt sick and ignored him.
Yuan Fei was talking to himself and driving very fast. After a while, he was out of the town and heading towards the path leading to the village.
Our village is quite remote. It takes more than an hour to drive from the town, along a long mountain road.
When Yuan Fei drove the car to the middle of the mountain road, a deserted place, he suddenly stopped the car and said to me: "Xiao Longnv, brother is going to relieve himself, do you want to get off and take care of it too?"
I looked around. The road was just wide enough for two cars to pass each other. The roadside was overgrown with weeds. I felt unsafe and shook my head at Yuan Fei: "Hurry up."
"I see. The little girl is very alert." Yuan Fei smiled at me, held up his trouser waist, hummed a song, and walked towards the woods nearby.
I was afraid something might happen, so I rolled up all the car windows and closed the door tightly.
Just as I closed the door, I heard a weak voice beside my ear saying, "He's here."
I was still a little curious about where the sound came from, then I heard Yuan Fei, who was in the woods, laughing strangely.
Then he seemed to see something and slowly walked towards the woods, his hands pulling at the waistband of his pants and slowly unzipping them.
Just as Yuan Fei walked past the tree, Chen Quan, with the wine-soaked snake wrapped around his neck, walked out from behind a big tree.
His head slowly twisted along with the snake's head wrapped around his neck, and his eyes flashed a faint green light under the shade of the tree.
The snake's head slowly raised up, opened its mouth, and stuck out its tongue, hissing.
Chen Quan also followed the snake head, opening his mouth, sticking out his tongue, and making a hissing sound.
From a distance, I was in the car, watching the man and the snake spitting out their tongues, and the voice calling me rang in my mind: "Long Ling, Long Ling..."
Yuan Fei had already gone into the woods. I knocked on the window and shouted for Yuan Fei to come back, but Yuan Fei seemed not to hear me at all and kept walking into the woods.
Instead, Chen Quan walked towards me slowly with the snake wrapped around his neck.
The voice in my ear shouted at me: "Go quickly and find the Black Snake Pendant."
I looked at the car keys, then at Yuan Fei, and with a ruthless heart, I quickly climbed into the driver's seat, and the words my father said when he taught me to drive flashed through my mind.
Start the engine, press the clutch, shift gears, release the brake, and go straight away with your foot on the accelerator.
As soon as I started the car, Chen Quan suddenly pounced on the front of the car, lay on the front of the car, grinning, sticking out his forked tongue, and hissing at me strangely.
The snake wrapped around his neck pounced towards me with its teeth bared, as if it was going to penetrate the glass and pounce on my face.
I was so scared that I couldn't hold the steering wheel steadily. I couldn't even scream. I pressed buttons on the control panel, trying to find the wipers.
Just at this moment, a black shadow flashed beside me, followed by a strong stream of water sweeping across the front windshield, washing away the snake and Chen Quan.
I quickly turned my head to look to the side, and saw the man in black, wearing a black robe, sitting next to me, his figure looming.
His handsome face turned pale, he seemed to be out of breath, his pink lips slightly parted: "Long Ling, go back and get the black snake pendant first."
"Who are you?" It was my first time driving, and I was shocked and scared, with sweat all over my palms and forehead.
The black-robed man glanced at me and whispered, "I am Mo Xiu, Long Ling, you don't remember me."
