Chapter 0048: Hatching Chickens and Hiding Snakes
There was deep hurt in Mo Xiu's eyes, and it seemed that he had made up his mind.
His forehead rested against mine, and his eyes were so dark that he seemed to brand himself into mine.
In the distance, a breeze blew across the rice fields, making a rustling sound, accompanied by the croaking of frogs.
"Long Ling!" Qin Mipo was calling me.
Mo Xiu's eyes flashed, and he carried me down and helped me tie my hair up: "The snake poison will be cured in a few days, you stay here, I will find a way to send you away."
After he finished speaking, he glanced inside the house and then disappeared.
Qin Mipo seemed to be looking for me and called out a few more times in a hurry.
I hurried in and saw that the incense table had been set up. Mrs. Wei was pulling Gu Xiaolan to kneel on the cushion, and Mrs. Qin Mi was putting incense into the rice jar.
Wei Changshun seemed to be waiting outside and did not come in.
Seeing me coming back, Qin Mipo hurriedly said, "Pour them some drinks."
Pour water and toast, then burn a round of paper, report your birth date and then you can ask for food.
Gu Xiaolan was kneeling there, with her head lowered, her chin pressed against her chest, her forehead drooping, but her eyes slanted as she looked at me through her bangs.
When I brought her the drinks on the tray, she reached out for the glass and then looked up at me.
It's just that when he raised his eyes, they rolled up too high and the whites of his eyes were visible again.
I saw bloodshot on the whites of his eyes. Those bloodshot seemed to be alive and moved a little. I was so scared that I held the tray tightly.
After toasting, I handed the paper to the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, then stepped aside.
When asking for fortune, one may ask for the presence of a ghost, find something, or inquire about something.
Gu Xiaolan is the one asking about whether something is good or bad, and it depends on the situation of the eggs buried in the rice.
After burning a round of paper, I reached out to take out the incense stick inserted in the rice basket. As soon as I pulled it out, I felt the incense head flash, and the hot incense ash fell on my hand, burning my fingers.
When I looked again, the three incense sticks had gone out.
Asking about the rice and whether its fragrance is extinguished is a bad omen.
I turned my head to look at Qin Mipo. She shook her head slightly at me, signaling me not to say anything, but she glanced at Gu Xiaolan out of the corner of her eye.
Since the incense was out, there was no need to plug the incense burner again. I threw the incense directly into the brazier and held the rice scoop to gently pour the rice into the tray.
The one who asked about the rice this time might be Gu Xiaolan, so the rice did not become moldy or black like the last time when Mrs. Wei asked about it.
The egg rolled out and landed on the tray. Just as I was about to reach out to take it, I heard two "clicks".
The egg actually had a crack!
Mrs. Wei's face immediately changed. She looked up at Mrs. Qin Mi and said, "Look, everyone is saying that the daughter of Snake Wine Dragon is a jinx. She is so heavy-handed that her eggs are broken."
I stared at the egg and felt a dull pain in my shoulder.
Before Mrs. Wei could say something, the egg cracked with a "crack" and then a "chirp" sound was heard.
A little yellow velvet chicken shook off the mucus on its body and slowly crawled out, raising its head and chirping.
"Are they hatched?" Mrs. Wei looked at the hatched chicks with a happy face: "Is this a sign of something?"
"Oh my." Mrs. Wei was overjoyed and pulled Gu Xiaolan up: "Why are you still kneeling? Let's go back! Let's go back!"
Qin Mipo and I looked at each other. There was deep helplessness and pain in her eyes. She wanted to say something, but as soon as she took a breath, she started coughing.
Mrs. Wei was unusually happy. She pulled Gu Xiaolan and didn't care whether she coughed or not or whether she gave any comments or not.
He took out a red envelope and put it aside, then said to Qin Mi Po: "We have guests at home, we will go back now."
She hurriedly took Gu Xiaolan away, and said to us happily, "Let's eat together later!"
The little plush chicken jumped a few times in the tray, and the egg liquid on its body fell onto the rice. The originally crystal white rice immediately turned black and moldy, and began to rot at a speed visible to the naked eye. It was even worse than the last time when Mrs. Wei asked about the rice.
Qin Mipo coughed for a while, panting, and said helplessly: "Gu Xiaolan's resurrection may be related to Huilong Village. This vitality is too strong..."
She reached out to pick up the jumping little chicken: "That's good, don't you want to raise chickens?"
As her hand was about to touch the little chicken, the pain in my shoulder became even worse.
Vaguely feeling that something was wrong, he quickly held Qin Mipo down and said, "Don't touch me."
Just as my hand brushed over the little plush chicken, I saw the little plush chicken, which was chirping in the tray, suddenly raised its neck and screamed.
At the same time, a snake head as thick as a chopstick jumped out from under the little chicken's neck, hissing and spitting out its tongue. It twisted its head, bit the little chicken's head, and opened its mouth to swallow it.
Its body was still in the little chicken's stomach, but its raised snake head had already swallowed the chicken's head.
The chick kicked its legs and flapped its tiny wings, but it couldn't escape.
Qin Mi Po stood aside and watched, trembling all over: "Eggs hatch chickens, chickens give birth to snakes, and they devour each other, and they will never die."
"What do you mean?" I looked at Qin Mipo in confusion.
She looked down at my wrist: "Snake Lord..."
But the black snake jade bracelet on her wrist didn't move at all.
Qin Mipo got so excited that she started coughing again. She coughed so hard that her whole body was shaking. Her throat was gurgling, but she couldn't spit out any phlegm.
I quickly helped her sit down and poured her a glass of water.
The snake that crawled out had already swallowed the chicken's neck. It seemed that in an instant, the little snake had grown a little bigger.
I hurried to the kitchen, got the tongs, picked up the snake's body, and prepared to burn it on the coal stove.
But as soon as the tongs were used to clamp the snake, its body immediately twisted, and its tail pulled out of the chicken's stomach and swung around on the tongs.
While the chicken claws and the snake's tail were flapping their wings at the same time, I quickly walked to the coal stove with the tongs, grabbed the snake, and pressed it tightly onto the red-burning coal.
The snake had the chicken head in its mouth, but still refused to let go. The chicken feathers were catching fire and glowing a faint blue. The snake's tail swung twice in the fire and then stopped moving.
But my shoulder hurt even more, and there was something sticking out faintly.
Just when the little snake stopped moving and slowly turned into charcoal on the coal fire, I felt a piercing pain.
The pain made my hand twitch and the tongs fell to the ground.
Something was slowly moving beneath the clothes near the shoulder.
My arms went limp in pain, cold sweat ran down my back, and the clothes on my shoulders were stained with blood.
There was a cough at the door. Qin Mipo held the door and looked at me while coughing: "What's on you?"
I leaned against the darkened kitchen wall and shook my head at her.
But Qin Mipo walked over step by step, her face turning purple from coughing.
I wanted to move, but the pain of pulling tendons, squeezing bones, and tearing flesh made it hard for me to breathe.
Qin Mipo pressed my shoulders and tore the clothes off my left shoulder.
A blood snake as thick as a thumb was half-raising its head, swallowing flesh and blood, and there were already two blood pits next to its shoulders.
The blood snake was not afraid of people at all, nor did it care about Qin Mipo. After swallowing the flesh and blood, it lowered its head and bit.
"Double snake clavicles, the bones are indestructible." Qin Mipo's face turned purple, her eyes were bloodshot, but she seemed to have stopped coughing.
He took out a razor, twisted his fingers, and just as the blood snake raised its head, he suddenly reached out and grabbed the blood snake's head and slashed it with the knife.
With a flash of the knife, the blood snake's head fell into Qin Mipo's hand, but the half of the snake's body hidden in the flesh shrank back instantly, as if a big nail had been driven directly into the shoulder.
I groaned in pain, slid down the wall, and sat directly on the ground.
Qin Mipo threw the blood snake head in her hand to the ground and looked at the right shoulder.
But just as she got closer, a complete blood snake emerged from her left shoulder again, this time roaring and screaming at Qin Mipo.
Even the blood snake on the right shoulder reached out and roared at Qin Mipo.
I wanted to speak, but every muscle in my body seemed to be pulled by these two blood snakes. The pain was so severe that I was sweating profusely and couldn't even breathe.
"It's useless." Mo Xiu appeared beside me at some point and helped me up.
Looking at Qin Mipo: "She and Long Xia are from Huilong Village after all. Once they violate the snake coffin, blood snake collarbone, blood swallowing and flesh eating punishment, life is worse than death. Since you know that bones are indestructible, what's the point of cutting off the head."
Qin Mipo's throat was swollen and her cheeks were puffy, as if she was holding back a cough, or as if there was something she couldn't say.
Mo Xiu stretched out his finger and pointed at the two blood snakes.
The blood snake still seemed to be afraid of Mo Xiu and slowly shrank back.
"You shouldn't have killed the snake hatched by the chicken. That's the meaning of the snake coffin. Why do you always have to go against it?" Mo Xiu picked me up and took a look at the burnt ashes on the coal stove.
This time he didn't carry me to the cave, but went directly outside, took out a few leaves from his sleeve and applied them to my wound.
I didn't recognize that leaf, but when it fell on the wound, the pain was much relieved.
Mo Xiu looked at me sullenly, as if he wanted to leave again.
I hurriedly pulled Mo Xiu's wide sleeves and looked up at him: "I looked through the roster last night and found that Long Xia's mother didn't seem to have arrived at Huilong Village. This means that Long Xia's mother is still alive, right?"
Mo Xiu tugged at his sleeves: "I'll send you away as soon as possible."
He seems to not want to face me recently, perhaps because he is afraid that I will ask about Fu Qian and the snake coffin, or maybe it is because I asked about the fireflies last night.
But I pulled his sleeve tightly and refused to let go: "Everyone in Huilong Village is Fu Qiansheng's descendant, right? But Fu Qian gave birth to only boys, not girls."
"You and my mother know each other. There were no girls in my father's generation, but there are two in our generation, Long Xia and I. Neither of us is Fu Qian's, right?" I pulled Mo Xiu's sleeve tightly.
He said in a deep voice, "You took the roster away because you were afraid that I would find out who Long Xia's mother was? Or were you afraid that I would ask you about my mother?"
