This thatched house in the woods seems to have been built a long time ago.
The wooden door frame was stained with mold and rotten, and there were a few fungus growing in the corners.
There was obviously candlelight just now, but no one answered after calling twice.
I slowly looked in through the crack in the door.
There were several large pottery jars on the floor inside the house, and a broken porcelain bowl was placed on the table, with a pair of chopsticks leaning on the edge of the bowl. It seemed that someone was eating just now.
"No one? Did you go out to relieve yourself?"
I was just about to look away, but at this moment...
Inside the crack of the door, a yellow eye suddenly appeared, staring at me coldly!
When I was too close, my pupils showed a vertical line, staring at me motionlessly, like the eyes of a poisonous snake!
I was startled, turned on my flashlight and shined a light on the door, gasped and shouted: "I was passing by! I mean no harm! I'm looking for someone!"
At this time, the candlelight in the thatched house suddenly went out.
In addition to the whistling wind, there seemed to be a "hiss...hiss" sound mixed in, and it seemed that there were many snakes spitting messages.
Listening to the hissing sound, I held a flashlight in one hand and a bamboo pole in the other, and swallowed twice subconsciously.
A minute or two passed.
The broken wooden door of the hut opened by itself with a creak.
"anyone there?"
I shouted in the air and got no response, so I gritted my teeth and entered the house. After working so hard to find this place, I had to go in and take a look. There must be someone in the house, otherwise the door would not open by itself.
Carrying the bag, I walked carefully into the house.
It's very cool and humid here.
I felt something behind me, so I turned my head sharply!
It was an old lady with disheveled hair. She stood there motionless with bare feet and her head lowered.
"Hello, aunt..."
"You, are you the Zhanghu snake girl?"
This is a human being. I kept telling myself not to be afraid, but I still stuttered when I spoke.
I shined my flashlight into her face.
The next second, the old lady slowly raised her head.
Her face was as white as a piece of paper, her eyeballs were cloudy and dark yellow, and there were a large number of age spots on her forehead. I don’t know if it was because of being angry. The corners of her mouth were all rotten, and she had yellow water, which was very serious.
Angular cheilitis.
I realized it was impolite to shine the flashlight on someone's face like this, so I quickly moved the flashlight away.
The white-faced old lady raised her head and her dark yellow eyes moved.
She stared at me, suddenly stuck out her tongue, and licked the corners of her mouth from left to right.
No wonder it's so serious, maybe it's because she keeps licking the corners of her mouth.
The old lady finally spoke, her voice sounding leaky and unpleasant.
"What are you doing with my daughter?"
Just make sure it's a person in front of you, but I'm afraid it's not a human. Before I came here, I imagined that the snake girl living in the hut had a human head and a snake body, with a forked tongue, and could be wrapped around a tree and look down.
I swallowed and asked, "Your daughter? I came to see the snake girl from the Zhanghu Snake King Temple? Aren't you, aunt?"
"Heh...heh...you call me aunt...I am only 37 years old this year."
“37??”
The messy hair is gray and withered and dull, there are a lot of age spots on the face, the skin on the bare feet and the back of the hands is like tree bark, is this 37? No one can say that he is 37 years old...
Are the rumors among the villagers in Zhanghu Town true?
Snake girls are said to be short-lived, and none live past the age of 40.
Hearing is false, seeing is believing. I thought to myself, do all Zhanghu snake women have physical problems? It's like hereditary progeria or something.
She asked me in a hoarse voice: "Have you brought anything?"
"Bring it, bring it."
I quickly said: "I brought apples and oranges in my bag."
This is what Lao Zhao told me. He said that someone was bitten by a very venomous snake in the past. It was a highly venomous snake that even big hospitals did not have serum. The family carried it on their backs and went into the mountains overnight to find the snake girl and gave them some fruit.
, pork or other tributes, and then the snake girl can help cure it.
Lao Zhao also said that he was not sure whether it was true or not, but that was what he said anyway, so before I came, I bought oranges and apples and put them in my bag.
