Chapter 0009: Can't Escape
I didn't expect that the snake, which hasn't even appeared yet, would play such a conspiracy.
Chen Shun's wife was twitching from being drenched by Mi Yu, but she was still laughing strangely.
I just felt a surge of evil fire in my heart, and I picked up the rice bucket and hit her hard on the head.
The whole world suddenly became quiet. I looked at the people lying on the ground and the dead snakes crawling under the wall, and my heart began to chill.
Mo Xiu was exhausted after killing so many snakes, so he went back to the black snake jade bracelet to recuperate.
I stood alone in the night wind. I couldn't even hear the chirping of insects nearby. There was only the sound of the wind whistling and my own heavy breathing.
I don't know if that snake poison is real, but I can feel my body getting hotter and hotter, and my legs seem be getting weak and numb.
I carried the rice bucket, filled a bucket of water from the faucet at the door, poured it over my head, and then went into the house.
I felt better after being soaked all over. I took a deep breath and got a kitchen knife from the kitchen.
Qin Mipo was still unconscious. I followed my father's instructions and first lifted her upper body up and leaned her against the bed, making sure her heart was higher than the wound.
He used a kitchen knife to cut a cross on the wound, found a glass, tore a piece of paper and burned it in the glass, and then, while the fire was still burning, he suddenly covered the cut with the mouth of the glass.
This is the cupping method used in my hometown. As soon as the glass cup is covered, dark and red blood will flow out.
I sat among the snake corpses, leaning against Qin Mipo's bed. I waited until the blood from the wounds stopped flowing. Then I took a glass, poured out the paper ashes mixed with the poisonous blood, and started pulling out the snakes for the second time.
It would definitely take a long time for the ambulance to come to the village from the town. If Qin Mipo didn't save herself, there would be no way she could wait for the ambulance to arrive.
I removed the cupping jar twice. The third time, the blood turned bright red. Then I called my parents, but still no answer.
The only sounds in the entire room, besides my heavy breathing, were the beeping of the busy phone.
I thought about it and decided that I was afraid that my grandma would worry if I called her, so I called my cousin instead.
Since waiting for an ambulance is not possible, I have to go to the hospital myself, but the only person I know in the nearby village is my cousin.
When the cousin heard that something had happened, he just said in a deep voice: "I'm coming. Even if the ambulance is dispatched, it probably won't be able to find the place. Wait for me."
My cousin arrived very quickly and brought four of his relatives with him.
The four relatives looked at me, their eyes flickered, but their faces showed reluctance and understanding.
My uncle looked at the dead snake and the unconscious Qin Mipo beside me, sighed, and arranged for the people he brought: "Two people carry the injured to the car, and the remaining two deal with the dead snake. Sprinkle some sulfur nearby to prevent snakes from coming over again."
"Long Ling, put on some clothes and come with me to the hospital." My uncle didn't seem surprised at all that this happened.
I didn't bring any clothes when I came here, and now I was soaked all over and had no time to change, so I just grabbed an overcoat from Qin Mipo and put it on, then went out with my cousin.
They drove two cars and the four injured people had been loaded into the cars.
The other two relatives just drove away.
My uncle gestured for me to get in one with him. Lying in the back seat were Chen Quan and Yuan Fei.
"Now you know why I don't let you stay in the village, right?" My cousin was driving the car, and the light of his car flashed by.
The two relatives who stayed behind found a hoe and used it to hook several snakes out of the grass.
Even though it was dead, the snake's body was drooping limply, and under the headlights of the cars, its eyes emitted a faint green light, still looking creepy.
I wrapped my clothes tightly around me, but now I couldn't suppress the heat in my body anymore.
He held the cold door handle tightly, suppressing the heat: "The snake said that I would sleep with it in the snake coffin. So do we still need to find the snake coffin?"
My uncle seemed silent, and the car sped along the country road.
After a long time, my uncle lit a cigarette and took a puff, and half of the smoke was gone.
The uncle seemed to calm down, and then he said quietly: "If it says so, there is no need to look for a snake coffin. One day you will agree to it, follow it, and sleep in the snake coffin by yourself. This is your fate, Long Ling."
"Why me?" I turned my head and looked at my cousin, sneering, "Isn't my cousin a daughter of the Long family?"
My uncle didn't say anything, he just smoked heavily, obviously unhappy, and was acting against his daughter and me.
"What exactly is that snake coffin?" I was so angry when I saw him like that.
"I don't know, Long Ling." The cousin pointed the direction with one hand and smoked a cigarette with the other. He used the cigarette to light his cigarette. In the flickering firelight, he said in a deep voice: "Since I can remember, the snake coffin has existed. Every eighteen years, the Long family adds a daughter to it."
"But I've seen it. There was no body in the coffin except the snake." My cousin threw the cigarette butt away. His hand was burned, but he didn't seem to feel any pain.
He just turned his head and glanced at me: "The Long family girl who was buried with the snake is also missing, and her body is gone."
"I don't know what a snake coffin is. I just know that even if we don't bury the Long girl in it, the snake will find it. Just like it did to you!" My cousin held a cigarette in his mouth.
He smiled bitterly and said, "You saw it too. I didn't want to do anything about it, but the snake kept chasing you. If you really want to find the coffin that was dug out during the relocation and struck by lightning, I'll take you there tomorrow."
I didn't expect my cousin to be so reassuring, so I breathed a sigh of relief: "So who did you plan to bury when you moved the grave when I was born?"
If this is true, shouldn't there be a girl from the Dragon family in the snake coffin?
Why haven't I heard of it?
The cousin took a puff of cigarette and turned the steering wheel: "There is no Long family girl in our generation. Long Ling, from the beginning when I knew you were a girl, I had planned to send you to prison."
"So the time chosen for moving the grave is your mother's due date! They will be buried there as soon as you are born. That's why your father killed the snake. He was saving you!" His cousin's face was hidden behind the smoke. After he finished speaking, he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.
But I just felt cold all over, so I really can't escape?
When we arrived at the town hospital, the serum was already prepared because we had called in advance, and the wound had been properly treated, and the coral snake was also taken care of.
Qin Mipo was injected with serum and just needed to stay in the hospital for observation.
Because of the so-called snake poison, I also made an appointment and said that I felt like I was burning all over and was poisoned.
The doctor looked at me strangely, but still wrote me a prescription and asked me to do a blood test.
My uncle and the two relatives made arrangements for Chen Quan and the others. They were also worried that something might have happened to my parents, so my uncle asked the two relatives to look for my parents while he went back to the village to arrange some things and would come to pick me up at dawn.
I had my blood drawn and sat in the ward, waiting for the results.
It was already early morning and there were not many people in the town hospital, not even the staff on duty. Only faint light came in, and even though it was almost summer, it still felt cold.
I was sitting there and vaguely heard footsteps. When I looked up, I saw Chen Shun's wife standing at the door, smiling at me strangely.
I was so scared that I quickly picked up the iron rack where the medicine bottles were hung and shouted outside: "Nurse! Nurse!"
"She asked you to be her son's wife, but she is not worthy, she deserves to die!" Chen Shun's wife opened her mouth, but a hissing sound like a snake spitting out its tongue came out.
I didn't know what to do for a moment. I just held onto the iron frame and yelled outside, "Nurse! Nurse!"
Chen Shun's wife raised her hand, and saw that she was still holding the intravenous injection needle, but there was only a small needle at the back.
She pulled out the needle suddenly, inserted it into her neck, and pulled it out very quickly.
It seemed that she used too much force and the entire needle was inserted. When she pulled it out, the skin on her neck was pulled and deformed, and blood gushed out instantly.
"No! Nurse! Nurse!" I held the iron frame and didn't dare to go over because of what I had learned from the previous experience.
I saw blood gushing out of Chen Shun's wife's neck. She still hissed at me, "Long Ling, I'm waiting for you. I'm waiting for you in the snake coffin. This is destined when you were born. You can't escape it."
Then he fell to the ground, and the blood gushing from his neck was like a bright red snake, crawling towards me on the ground.
I was so scared that I screamed, "Nurse!"
Perhaps because the noise was so loud this time, the nurse rushed over and saw Chen Shun’s wife lying on the ground with a pale face from fright.
He stretched out his hand to cover the wound tightly and shouted, "Hurry up, hurry up! First aid! First aid!"
The hospital was in chaos again, but the bloody snake on the ground was still slowly crawling towards me.
I felt cold inside, but my body was strangely hot.
I saw the doctors and nurses hurriedly carrying Chen Shun's wife away. I leaned against the bed, thinking about the snake and my cousin's words.
Even if the Long family doesn't bury me, the snake will force me to sleep in that coffin myself.
Touching the black snake jade bracelet on my wrist, I have never wanted to fall asleep so much since I can remember.
I want to see Mo Xiu in my dream and ask him what is going on.
But I couldn't fall asleep and I didn't even dare to close my eyes.
As soon as I closed my eyes, I saw Chen Quan's weird smile, the blood gushing out of Chen Shun's wife's neck, snakes of various colors, and the twisting blood snake...
I just dared to keep my eyes open, wishing I could just faint and fall asleep.
But what if I fall asleep and the snake comes again?
I hugged my knees tightly, sat on the edge of the bed, held the phone, and called my dad again and again, but no matter how hard I tried, the call didn't go through.
It's only been two days and it seems like I'm all alone!
Seeing that my phone was running low on battery, I put it away, held the black snake jade bracelet on my wrist, and whispered, "Mo Xiu, tell me what to do?"
