"How could it be? Could it be that both of us were hallucinating?"
After closing the door and just returning to the room, there was another loud "snap" on the door panel.
After opening the door, there was indeed no one walking along the corridor. Chujiu looked at the door suspiciously. I knew he was wondering if we also encountered the same "ghost knocking on the door" as in Jing Fei's old house.
There was nothing on the door except some dust, and there were no bats this season.
"Tch, there are no praying mantises this season, so haven't we encountered them?"
In the past two days, Chujiu's tone of voice has always been a little irritable. I guess it's because the little bully wants to go back to the village.
At this time, we had lost our sleepiness and were lying on the bed without anyone talking. Since we got on the train, we have encountered too many strange things. We have some guesses but no clues.
Then there was another heavy sound on the door. This time Chujiu and I were lying on the bed indifferently.
We thought it was just the door knocking caused by the strong wind. This was beyond our ability, so we could only wait until daybreak.
We unanimously decided not to open the door again that night no matter what. At least it was safe for now.
But the fact is, the more you don’t want to do something, the more likely it is to happen.
When I walked out of the bathroom again, holding on to the wall, Chujiu was no longer calm.
"Guo Guo, you look so pale."
"It would probably be the same if you did it twice. You're probably just acclimated."
Before I came out of the bathroom, I saw myself in the mirror. I had severe dark circles under my eyes and my face was surprisingly pale.
There was no water in the thermos bottle placed in the hotel. Chu Jiu cursed, picked up the thermos bottle, and prepared to go to the bar downstairs to get water, and to see if there was any medicine for diarrhea.
Ten minutes later, Chujiu returned to the room, carrying a thermos bottle and cursing.
"The shady boss, he actually charged five yuan for two antidiarrheal pills."
When I woke up again, it was already light.
The moment I opened the curtains, I froze on the spot and couldn't believe what I saw.
There was a hornet's nest the size of a football stuck to the glass outside the window.
Now let’s look at where this is a hornet’s nest. At first glance, the ball mistakenly looks like a hornet’s nest, but it is made up of hundreds of moths entwined with other bugs.
Chujiu was also stunned on the spot, looking at the wonderful scenery outside the window, and said nothing for a long time.
"Guo Guo, this is so spectacular. It's the first time I've seen a moth's nest. I didn't expect it to look like this."
After tidying up, I checked the time and found a place to have breakfast.
After going down the stairs, the bar was empty, and there were a few people standing in the courtyard, staring into the distance and chatting casually.
Following the direction they were looking, I saw a white car with blue police lights flashing on the roof. It was an ambulance.
Chujiu walked up to the crowd and asked casually if he had seen the owner of the hotel.
One of the middle-aged men pointed at the ambulance driving in the distance.
"Boss, I was just taken away."
Chujiu took out cigarettes from his pocket and passed them around one by one. The crowd started chatting with each other.
It turned out that these people were all truck drivers. They woke up in the morning, went downstairs to check out, and prepared to have breakfast and go on their way.
As a result, I didn't see the boss at the bar. After waiting for a few minutes, I still didn't see anyone.
The drawers and cabinets at the bar were not locked, and the boss was nearby, probably going to the toilet.
Several people were standing in front of the bar, chatting and waiting for the boss to come back and go through the check-out procedures.
One of the men, who was leaning against the bar, inadvertently looked back and pointed at the back of the bar and shouted.
There was a man lying on the ground behind the bar. He was the owner of the hotel.
The hotel owner was tightly wrapped around a two-meter-long python.
When everyone saw it, the python's tail was wrapping around his neck several times, tightening it more and more.
One of the people, who was familiar with the hotel owner, shouted several times from a distance.
"Pony, pony, can you hear me?"
The hotel owner's face turned purple, and he looked like he was breathing in but not out. Everyone saw that the owner's body was still twitching uncontrollably, and they were sure that he was probably still alive.
The generation of truck drivers from Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan are well-informed and have heard more or less stories about pythons.
Immediately, someone said that they should bring two buckets of water and pour the water on the python. The python would not be so tightly wrapped and would slowly loosen up.
At this time, you must not anger the python. The more you resist, the tighter it will be.
Fortunately, it was winter, and pythons are lazy. If it were summer, a person weighing 200 pounds would probably suffocate in about ten minutes.
The two carried buckets to fetch water, and sent a person to drive a truck to the health center and police station for help.
Sure enough, it was just as I heard. After pouring two buckets of water, the python's body gradually spread out and got off the colt.
Apparently, the boa constrictor didn't pay attention to the people in front of it. It just sat cross-legged next to the pony for a while, and then prepared to climb up the stairs.
No one dared to let the python climb upstairs and beat the ground with wooden sticks to scare the python.
The boa constrictor still looked lazily, raised its head, stared at a few people, vomited blood-red letters, and crawled out the door.
Several people did not dare to get too close, and followed the python at a short distance until they saw it getting into the woods on the roadside.
No one dared to touch the pony lying on the ground floor of the bar. If he was moved inappropriately at this time, no one would be responsible for the death of someone.
One of them stretched out his finger and put it on the foal's nose, feeling that there was still a breath of breath.
The two policemen came together in an ambulance. They briefly took a look at the foal lying on the ground, shook their heads, and then asked a few people next to them about the situation.
When the foal was carried into the ambulance and taken away, someone heard a policeman whisper to his companion: "Sure enough, the disaster will last for thousands of years."
Suddenly there was a scream on the ninth day of the lunar month. The check-out procedures had not been completed yet, and there was still a deposit of 40 yuan.
The other people also shook their heads for a while, saying that they can only wait until the next time they stay. After all, they saved the boss's life. They shouldn't deny it, right?
Chujiu muttered in a low voice, and what I heard him say was: "Is it strange that such a person can admit his debt?"
We were in a hurry to catch a bus, so we didn't delay too much and walked out of the far gate of the hotel with our luggage.
The station is located in the middle of the county town, not far from the government and the guest house.
On the road, we met another middle-aged man wearing a ragged cotton-padded jacket. The man waved to us from a distance.
Fortunately, there was a place to have breakfast next to the station, so I bought two bus tickets on the ninth day of the lunar new year.
This kind of ticket is just a piece of white paper with a place name written on it and then the signature of the conductor.