Chapter 0007: Moving a Tomb and Marrying a Snake
I thought I could just figure out a solution slowly in my hometown, but I didn't expect that I would become a nuisance to the village.
But thinking about what happened to Chen's family, the dead chickens at grandma's house, and that dead snake that was really chasing me pretty closely, I really don't deserve to stay in the village.
"Uncle, do you know why I provoked those snakes?" I really didn't understand why that corpse snake kept chasing me.
The cousin took a long puff of his cigarette and narrowed his eyes: "It's because your father killed that coffin snake, so when you were born, you were stared at by the snake."
When he said this, he smoked loudly, and the smoke choked me so much that I took a step back.
As soon as he moved, the cigarette that my cousin was smoking suddenly went out with a "hiss".
My cousin curiously turned the cigarette butt over to take a look, then took out his lighter and tried to light it twice, but it just wouldn't light.
I had to throw it away and took out another one, but every one of them was wet.
The black snake jade bracelet on my wrist moved, and Mo Xiu whispered in my ear, "He's lying. Even though the coffin snake was killed, how did it get in? Why was the grave moved?"
Seeing that I couldn't smoke, my uncle looked at me and said, "Pack up, I'll take you away now."
"Can we leave a day later? I have to look for the snake coffin tomorrow." My uncle was rushing me.
Although it was my grandmother who asked him to help, he brought so many relatives here at once, and they all drank realgar wine and brought sulfur, which made me feel that my cousin seemed to have been prepared.
"What snake coffin? The coffin with the snake coiled in it was struck by lightning on the night you were born. There is not even a trace left. How can there still be a snake coffin?" My uncle was a little angry and threw all the wet cigarettes in his hand to the ground.
He looked at me and said, "Aren't you going to take the college entrance examination? Your parents spent so much money to send you to school, just to be superstitious? Get out of here!"
As he said this, he stretched out his hand to pull me, but halfway through his hand, he seemed to be pricked by something and gasped in pain.
Knowing that it was Mo Xiu who did it, I stared at my uncle and was about to ask him about the relocation of the grave.
But I heard screams coming from the backyard. Fearing that something had happened to my grandma, I hurried to the backyard.
I saw those relatives holding hoes and shovels and pounding on the ground in panic.
Snakes thicker than arms crawled out of the pit where the dead pigs were buried, raising their heads and hissing loudly as they crawled.
As soon as I came in, all the snake heads immediately hissed at me.
The voice was very uniform, just like a big tongue holding something and saying, "Long Ling, you can't escape, you can't escape."
This time I wasn't the only one who heard it, everyone present heard it.
All of these relatives looked at me with fear, and the things in their hands were shaking. No one dared to step forward to kill the snake at this time.
Mo Xiu snorted coldly, and directly guided the black snake jade bracelet to the back of my hand. Then the black jade snake raised its head and let out a low growl from its mouth.
All the snakes that were holding their heads high and hissing suddenly fell to the ground and collapsed.
"What are you looking at? Kill it and bury it." My uncle was the first to react. He grabbed a shovel and hit the snake's head several times, smashing it to pieces.
The others then reacted and began to deflate and smash the heads of the snakes one by one, then buried them all in the dead pig pit.
My cousin wanted to borrow cigarettes, but no matter whose cigarettes he borrowed from, his hands were always wet.
He looked at me angrily and said, "This is weird. You saw that the snakes crawled out of the dead pigs' stomachs and they are targeting you. If you don't leave, your grandmother will probably die. The village will also suffer. Do you still want to harm the village?"
My grandmother was helping to bury the snake at that moment. I looked at her and thought of what Qin Mipo said, and I knew in my heart that this wasn’t the right way to go.
He could only say to his uncle, "I won't go to town anymore. Please take me to find Qin Mipo."
"It's up to you, just don't go into the village." My uncle winked at me, signaled a relative to go talk to grandma, and then walked out directly.
I didn't have much to pack, I came back just to find a black snake pendant. Now it has become a black snake jade bracelet on my hand, so it's nothing special.
When I left, I didn't take the big white goose with me. Now that Mo Xiu is here, I'll let this big white goose help grandma look after the house .
My cousin drove me there in his car. When we passed the village entrance, the car I drove from Yuan Fei had disappeared. I guess Yuan Fei drove back.
Niu Er was leaning against the stone tablet, drinking a bottle of beer. He looked at me through the car window and laughed, "Go, go."
I felt a little disappointed and took out my cell phone to call my parents, but the call still didn't go through.
I tried to call Aunt Liu at the noodle shop next door, and she immediately said, "Chen Quan is missing. Your parents went to help look for him, and their phones probably ran out of battery. Your mom told you not to come back recently. Chen Shun's family wants you to marry Chen Quan as a daughter-in-law."
Thinking of Chen Quan's weirdness, I left a message for Aunt Liu, asking my parents not to look for him for the time being, as something happened at home. If they come back, let them go back to the village directly.
Not long after I hung up, my grandma called and asked me where I had been.
I had to lie and said that Qin Mipo was worried that I would not be safe at home and asked me to stay at her place overnight.
Grandma obviously knew something, but she just said awkwardly: "Don't listen to your cousin's nonsense, the village owes you these. Why did they drive you out just because of a snake disaster? Come back and see who dares to drive you away. The whole village owes you, Long Ling!"
"It was really Qin Mipo who asked me to spend the night." I was confused when I heard this. What did she mean the whole village owed me?
But it seemed like someone was calling her from her grandmother's side, so she hung up the phone hastily: "If anything happens , come back! Long Ling, don't be afraid!"
My uncle obviously had no intention of letting me have a good conversation on the phone with grandma, so he turned up the car music to the maximum.
The car drove very fast, but it only took me to the intersection. "It's okay for you to stay here with Qin Mipo. Anyway, don't go back to the village. I will have someone watch you at the entrance of the village, and Niu Er will not let you enter the village. Don't look for that so-called corpse coffin. You won't find it."
I just closed the door and ignored my uncle.
Qin Mipo was also stunned for a moment when she saw me coming back, but when she saw the black snake jade bracelet on my wrist, she could only nod and sneer, "You were driven out by the people of Huilong Village, right? Sleep here tonight."
At Qin Mipo's place, Mo Xiu came out directly. He didn't say anything, but just searched around in Qin Mipo's house.
Qin Mipo was obviously afraid of him. Mo Xiu was obviously doing something very rude, but she didn't dare to stop him. She just glanced at him from time to time.
While making my bed, she glanced at Mo Xiu as if she wanted to say something.
After the bed was made, Qin Mipo went to cook. It must be said that her family was quite poor and the food was not very good.
She seemed to be in poor health. She was burning coal briquettes, and when she was cooking, she would choke and cough from time to time, and she almost died every time she coughed.
In the end, I couldn’t bear to watch it anymore and still cooked the dish myself.
She didn't talk much and her face was gloomy. She went to wash the dishes after dinner, which left me confused.
Mo Xiu didn't know that he had found several thick bound books from Qin Mi's mother-in-law's house and said, "Take a look."
Those notebooks are all handwritten, equivalent to notes.
Some of the writing is very blurry, and some has been smudged and is hard to read.
"It would be good for you to take a look." Mo Xiu flipped open a book and said to me, "That corpse snake is very vicious. It's better to rely on yourself than on anyone else."
I flipped through it for a while, and it was actually just a note about asking about Mi, which year and month he came to ask about Mi, what happened, what he brought, and what the result was.
Just read it as a story book, and it's quite interesting.
Mo Xiu was also flipping through it, and when he saw certain places, he folded them specially.
After washing the dishes, Granny Qin Mi saw me flipping through the notes and trembled all over. But when she saw Mo Xiu standing beside her, she could only take a deep breath and said, "The Qin family doesn't plan to ask for money anymore. I have no children, so my generation will be the end. Why did the Snake King have to find these notes from underground..."
"Long Ling's surname is not Qin." Mo Xiu handed me a folded piece and looked at Qin Mi Po: "Teach Long Ling how to ask for rice."
"Snake Lord!" Qin Mipo's face turned pale.
He stared at me and said, "These are all sins committed by the Long family themselves. The corpse snake itself is dead and we can't deal with it. As long as Long Ling marries the corpse snake, everything will be solved. Why bother, Lord Snake?"
"Marry that dead snake?" I turned my head to look at Qin Mipo and then at Mo Xiu: "You're just being entangled by a snake ? But didn't they say that the snake is dead? How can I marry you?"
Just like Chen Quan’s wife?
Mo Xiu snorted coldly and looked at Qin Mipo.
"Snake Lord, don't look at me like that. I won't live long." Qin Mipo suddenly looked at me fearlessly and said in a deep voice, "Being entangled by a snake is inevitable. This is the promise made by your Long family."
"In fact, the real solution is to bury you and the dead snake in the snake coffin together when the grave is moved." Qin Mipo's voice was deep and she snorted coldly: "What do you think your Long family moved the graves for generations? Just to bury a Long family woman in it!"
