The happy little days of the Ye family

Seeing Mr. Ye nodding, the two brothers held up torches and couldn't wait to enter the cellar.

Xiao Tongsheng moved away two years ago. The cellar has not been opened for a long time. There is a musty smell and dust everywhere.

The brothers held torches, and the fire slowly illuminated the entire cellar.

The cellar is not big, about the same size as a wing room. There are three wooden shelves on the left, with several small backpacks and baskets placed on them.

On the right side are seven or eight clay pots of different sizes, the big ones are about the same size as wine jars, and the small ones are smaller than buckets.

Each clay pot has a lid on it, so you can't tell whether there is anything inside. .

The two brothers walked to the innermost place and stuck the torches in the corners of the walls on both sides, which were designated places for torches.

Immediately afterwards, Father Ye and Mr. Ye also came in with others holding torches.

Four torches illuminated the small cellar.

Ye Mu walked to the back, came in and walked towards the wooden frame in the corner. Unexpectedly, she saw a long and thin thing with patterns on the wall.

Ye Mu suddenly broke into a cold sweat.

"Ahhh! There are snakes and there are snakes."

Mother Ye was usually most afraid of snakes, so she screamed and ran away.

Father Ye reacted quickly, holding a torch and hurried forward to check.

The torch illuminated the thing on the ground clearly, and it turned out to be just a white snake slough.

"It's okay, it's a snake slough, not a real snake." Ye's father comforted Ye's mother softly.

Snakes shed their skin two or three times a year, and the shed skin is called snake slough.

It is a white film that is long and thin and has the same shape as a real snake. It also has patterns on it. At first glance, it looks like a real snake.

Mother Ye breathed a sigh of relief when she heard it was just a snake shedding, but she still felt very scared and her heart beat a lot faster.

Mr. Ye took out a sack, put the snake away, and said cheerfully:

"This snake slough is still a traditional Chinese medicine. The pharmacy usually accepts this snake slough. A complete snake slough costs 10 cents."

"Doctor Li in the village said that snake slough has the effects of dispelling wind, calming panic, relieving nebula and detoxifying. It can also treat convulsions, laryngeal paralysis, convulsions and itchy skin in children."

Snake sloughs can be sold for money, and people in the village will collect them if they see them when they go up the mountain.

Father Ye reminded loudly: "Since there are snakes retreating from the cellar, it means that there are snakes coming in. Please be careful, especially those clay pots. I wonder if there are poisonous snakes hidden in them."

Ye's mother and Wang Chunyu were standing next to the clay pot. After hearing what Ye's father said, they were so frightened that they hurried to the open space aside.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were too timid to look into the pots for fear that there might be poisonous snakes hidden inside.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law looked at the small baskets and backpacks in front of the wooden frame together.

They say they are afraid of something. Wang Chunyu lowered his head and saw a long, thin and patterned thing hiding behind the wooden frame.

"Ahhh! There's a snake, there's a snake behind the shelf."

Wang Chunyu screamed and pulled Ye Mu back.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law hugged each other and shivered.

Ye Donglin happened to be standing nearby and quickly came over with a torch and a machete, ready to catch the snake.

When I got closer, I found that the snake was motionless. When I got closer, I saw that it was another snake sloughing off.

This snake's slough is particularly complete, and the patterns on it are clearly visible. Hidden behind the wooden frame, it looks just like a real snake.

Mr. Ye put the second snake slough into the sack and pretended to be calm to comfort everyone:

"It's okay, it's all snake slough, don't be afraid."

Mrs. Ye felt a little scary when she saw the dark wind in the cellar. She pulled Mr. Ye's sleeve and said:

"How about we move these shelves outside and take a closer look. The light here is too dark, and it's scary to look at them in an eerie way."

Ye Mu and Wang Chunyu were timid and nodded desperately.

The three shelves were made of thick wood and were quite heavy. It took a lot of effort for several people to move the shelves outside.

Ye Mu and Wang Chunyu were left outside to look at the shelves and the things on them.

Just as Ye Xilin was about to move the clay pot in the corner, he was stopped by Mr. Ye.

"Snakes like this kind of shady place. These clay pots are the easiest place to hide snakes. Check to see if there is anything inside before moving."

The two largest clay pots, one is for pickling sauerkraut and the other is for pickling pickles.

There were even uneaten pickles and sauerkraut inside, but they had gone bad over time.

Mr. Ye stirred it with a wooden stick a few times. When he saw that there was nothing hidden inside, he asked brothers Ye Xilin and Ye Donglin to move outside.

Father Ye opened a clay pot that looked a bit like a wine jar, and found a small green snake as big as a thumb inside.

Father Ye was startled and quickly put the lid back in his hand.

"Dad, there is a little green snake in the clay pot."

After the lid was closed, Father Ye discovered that there was a hole slightly larger than his thumb.

As soon as the lid was closed, the little green snake came out of the hole again.

Father Ye quickly picked up the wood on the ground and hit the snake's head. The green snake moved very quickly and immediately shrank back.

Mr. Ye: "They say snakes are spiritual and very vindictive. Let's take this snake to the mountain outside and let it go. Don't kill any animals inside the house."

"The lid of the sky is broken. This green snake will come out at any time. How can I carry it outside?"

The little green snake was eventually beaten to death by several men from the Ye family.

But they didn't eat the snake, and buried it directly outside by the stream.

There are a total of 7 clay pots in the cellar. The two larger ones are used for pickling pickles and kimchi, and the others are empty.

Old Mrs. Ye looked at the clay pots and said cheerfully: "These clay pots are all good and can be used again after being cleaned."

Most of the small baskets and small backpacks on the wooden shelves are empty.

Even if there was something, it was some broken seasonings or dried vegetables, and nothing valuable was found.

Mrs. Ye saw that the wooden frame was a little moldy, so she asked Father Ye and others to carry the wooden frame to the yard to bask in the sun.

After everything was moved out, the cellar looked much larger.

Mrs. Ye took two hoes and came down. She and Mr. Ye each had a hoe and started digging in the cellar.

Maybe there is silver hidden in the ground.

Father Ye took the two Ye Xilin brothers and knocked on the wall to find the secret compartment.

Unfortunately, only two snake sloughs were collected in the cellar and nothing was found.

When coming out of the cellar, Mr. Ye specially told Father Ye:

"Be sure to buy more realgar powder when you go back and sprinkle it inside and outside the house."

"You know, I'll buy realgar powder tomorrow."

Father Ye was also frightened by the green snake in the clay pot just now. It was a poisonous snake.

Coming out of the cellar, everyone was so hungry that their chests were touching their backs.

Ye Mu took out the steamed buns and steamed buns she bought in the morning, and everyone ate them hungrily.

Ye Xilin was eating steamed buns and deliberately talked about the smelly wing.

Then he was beaten by Mother Ye and Mrs. Ye.