father snake

foster a snake one

In the back of the mountain in the middle of the night, the rustling sound brought by the wind blowing through the treetops makes the surrounding tranquility even better.In the late autumn night, the night was deeper and heavier, and the chill was chilling. Shi Xiaochuan gathered his clothes and curled up in a corner outside the cave.

He poked the fire that was about to go out with a stick, and added a few more logs in, trying to let the red ashes emit more heat. He rested his chin on his knees, staring at the jumping flames in a daze, His face flickered in the red firelight.

This is already the third night, he lied to the people in the dormitory that he would go home to live in these few days, but sneaked to this back mountain after school, just to guard the hatching of this snake egg.

The snake egg lay obediently in the small box he brought. A few days passed, but there was no movement in the faintly visible crack on the eggshell. Shi Xiaochuan stretched his hand over and touched the snake egg. Rubbing his eyes sleepily, he has been exhausted for the past few days. If the snake egg still opposes him and refuses to come out, he will throw it in this hole and let it fend for itself. He was thinking wildly in his heart .

Fortunately, he is not the only one here. Xiaobai, who woke up from a coma, has been by his side all the time. Now he is not ambiguous, and is competing with him. It still does not give up, and continues to covet this snake egg. Especially in the past few days, after the snake eggs showed signs of hatching, it frantically tried to steal the snake eggs from Shi Xiaochuan.

It has already entered November, at this time, according to the normal habits of snakes, it should have entered the hibernation period long ago, but Xiaobai is still alive and kicking every day, his energy is as good as anything, and he doesn't seem to need to hibernate at all.

Since Shi Xiaochuan found out that when snakes hibernate, if they hibernate scattered, the death rate is as high as 1/3 to 1/2. Even if they hibernate in groups with dozens or hundreds of snakes, the death rate is still quite high. , This makes Shi Xiaochuan worry about the frost that falls every morning, and he has no conditions to buy a ceramic heater so that Xiaobai does not have to hibernate in winter, and can only watch the harsh winter come.

Now, this kind of worry is gone, and a new kind of worry has been added.

Shi Xiaochuan sometimes looks at Xiaobai's flicking tail, the snake letters that are swallowing sharply, the high head, and the circling body. These terrifying appearances make him feel a little scared. This is really different from Xiaobai's lazy habit The difference is too far. In his mind, Xiaobai is a non-aggressive and cute creature, not the red-eyed look like now.

He held Xiao Bai who was lurking next to him in his hand, and Xiao Bai's tail wrapped around his wrist.

He scolded Xiaobai in a very low voice, Xiaobai got angry, and grinded the back of his hand with his sharp teeth, Shi Xiaochuan looked at Xiaobai's slender body, thinking that it just woke up from a coma , and felt that he shouldn't vent his anger on it, he stroked Xiaobai's body and comforted him softly.

In such a silent night, only hearing my own whispers, it feels a bit desolate.

Just like that while comforting Xiaobai, Shi Xiaochuan yawned, Shi Xiaochuan felt a little sleepy, looked at the alarm clock he brought, it was already two o'clock in the morning, he took the box over, hugged it to his chest, and made the whole bed The coat on the ground, and put some firewood on the fire, ready to sleep.

At this moment, he heard a slight voice, and looked suspiciously. He grabbed Xiaobai who had crawled over in his hand, opened the lid, and saw the cracks on the shell of the snake egg lying inside began to crack. Gradually expand.

The snake eggs are about to hatch.

Shi Xiaochuan held his breath and looked at the scene in front of him. At the beginning, it was a bit like the process of a chicken hatching, but soon, Shi Xiaochuan found that this snake egg was destined to give him a surprise, or it should be said to be a shock.

He stared blankly at the snake egg floating in the air, and made a few laps.

The egg was originally a dead thing, but looking at the ambilight on the eggshell and watching it fluttering in the air, you will feel that maybe this egg is a living thing, or at least, there is something inside the eggshell. The thing finally came alive.

Shi Xiaochuan stared at the snake egg without blinking, and he didn't even pay attention to Xiaobai who was lying there sleepily.

After spinning in the air for more than ten minutes, the snake egg finally felt enough, and slowly landed on the coat that Shi Xiaochuan had laid. Shi Xiaochuan's eyes followed it, and the snake egg hit the coat a few times. Roller, blooming with a dazzling soft white light.

Shi Xiaochuan closed his eyes, opened them again, and was startled by the scene in front of him, stood up from the ground, took three steps back, put Xiaobai in his breast pocket, and watched the monster appearing on his coat defensively.

Yes, for the creature in front of him, Shi Xiaochuan really didn't know what to call it, and the first reaction in his mind was a monster.

This is a half-human, half-snake creature. From the abdomen up, it looks like a pre-born human baby, like a mouse cub, with small arms and legs, thin eyebrows and thin eyes, distinct facial features, and small fists still clenched. The eyes opened at birth look at everything around, but below the abdomen is the slender body of a snake.

It still has the mucus from birth, and its black grape-like eyes looked at Shi Xiaochuan ignorantly and quietly.

Shi Xiaochuan hesitated for a moment, and wanted to leave the cave. Anyway, the appearance of the snake eggs hatched was too much for him to accept, and he simply fled in despair.

But when he was about to step out of the cave entrance, a faint cry from behind made him stop, similar to the cry of a human baby, as thin as a gossamer, as if to indicate that if he left without care, Then the strange creature in the cave will die in the cold autumn night.

— when it was just born.

Shi Xiaochuan sighed softly, he knew he couldn't do it.

Turning around and walking back to the cave, I saw another terrible scene.

Xiaobai's slender body was wrapped around the little monster, and his mouth was biting its little arm.

The little monster's weak cry gradually faded away, and it seemed that it was about to die.

In the dark, Shi Xiaochuan turned on the small flashlight in his hand, walked over in three steps at a time, and tore Xiao Bai off the little monster. On the little monster's white and tender arms, there were several bone-deep teeth marks. The monster seemed to have sensed his approach, opened its eyes, looked at him accusingly, and yelled "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo".

Shi Xiaochuan gently wiped the mucus from the little monster's body with the paper towel he brought, trying not to pay attention to its abnormalities, carefully cleaned it up, and wrapped it inside his coat.

The place where Xiaobai was bitten had stopped bleeding, Shi Xiaochuan was helpless against the wound, but fortunately Xiaobai didn't seem to be a poisonous snake, so he could only wrap a clean cloth strip around the wound and bandage it roughly.

After finishing it, he looked at the small cloth bag that could be held in his palm. It was so small that it could hardly feel the weight, weak and helpless, and he was its only support. This thought dispelled Shi Xiaochuan's fear, and he lightly Gently lifted the clothes covering the little monster's face, and saw him lying there quietly, his face pale, without the slightest movement.

He stretched out his finger tremblingly, and put it under the little monster's nose. Fortunately, he was still breathing.

Raising a Snake Part [-]

This night is destined to be a sleepless night.

The little monster's whimpers from time to time made Shi Xiaochuan very worried. The little monster held in his palm had a wrinkled face, as if in extreme pain. Shi Xiaochuan imitated the women he had seen with children, Shake him gently, try to make him more comfortable, but unfortunately his kindness obviously didn't get good results, every time he shakes, the little monster's weak moaning sound becomes slightly louder.

After a few times, Shi Xiaochuan didn't dare to move anymore. He sat by the fire, holding the little monster in one hand, and took care of the fire with the other to keep it from going out.

He still didn't have the courage to look at the lower body of the little monster. It was okay to just look at the normal upper body. As long as he thought that the body extending into the small cloth bag was a snake, he wanted to throw away the things in his hand.

He sighed, half human, half snake, a creature that only appeared in mythology.

In Chinese mythology, Nuwa and Fuxi, who created human beings, are both half-human and half-snake.

In Western mythology, there are similar images, such as the famous Echidna, whose upper body is a beautiful woman, and the lower body is a ferocious snake. She and her husband Typhon gave birth to many terrible monsters, such as Hell. Cerberus the door dog, Hydra the hydra, the harpy siren, the lion-headed goat-body monster Chimera, the undead vulture, the half-griffin and half-griffin griffin, and the sphinx who gave birth to his own son The head of the Sphinx.

It is simply a half-human, half-demon family. When reading these descriptions in the book, the only thing Shi Xiaochuan felt strange at the time was why there were so many strange and different half-human, half-demon families, shouldn’t they all be half-human and half-demon? Man half snake?Thinking back, I smiled dumbly, using genetics to compare the truth with the myth!

What the myth reflects is actually the reality and history at that time. Perhaps there were indeed half-human, half-snake creatures in history.

The morning light was slightly dew, such a chaotic night finally passed, and a new day came.

Shi Xiaochuan smoothed the wrinkled clothes on his body, he must go down the mountain now.Because he was helping in the cafeteria, he had to arrive half an hour earlier than the average student. If he went down now, it was just right.

And from the very beginning, the little monster kept crying, moved slightly in the small cloth bag, opened his thin eyes, and looked at him with tears in his eyes. Touching its face, the little monster was very dissatisfied with this perfunctory reaction.

It began to cry again. Although its voice was very small, it was a great test of patience to hear it continuously in a very quiet environment.

Shi Xiaochuan was at a loss, until he saw the little monster put the uninjured hand into his small mouth and sucked it, and he remembered that it had been hatched—or it should be said to be born—for so long and had never eaten. .

——The little monster is hungry.

This realization gave Shi Xiaochuan a headache again. It is a creature that is both human and snake. What should it eat?

Seeing that this little guy is dying, he almost lost the strength to suck his own finger, no matter what, let's try first.

He extinguished the fire, stuffed the little thing into the box, and held it in his hands, carefully preventing it from being bumped. He also picked up Xiao Bai who was lying on the side and stuffed it into his pocket, and walked down the mountain.

At five o'clock in the morning, the campus is filled with a layer of white mist, and people who are a few steps away can't see clearly. Occasionally, you can feel someone walking not far in front of you. The elderly who have little sleep have already woken up and started morning exercises. Shouting and drinking, occasionally mixed with the sound of English reading aloud, it was the morning reading of a very small number of diligent students.

Shi Xiaochuan walked slowly on the road, trying his best to walk steadily. After a while, he finally came to the back door of the cafeteria. He slipped through the door, greeted the cafeteria staff he met along the way, and came to the changing place. Tuck the box into his little space, put on a white coat and hat, and start doing the usual helping activities.

When he got busy, the time passed very quickly. It seemed that he hadn't been doing it for a long time. The aunt next to him had already told him that when the time came, he had breakfast first, and then he was going to go to morning self-study.

He returned to the common room in the kitchen with his own breakfast, and a raw egg from the kitchen in his hand. Is it the raw egg or the bowl of smooth and thick preserved egg porridge in his hand? this is a problem.

Shi Xiaochuan decided to try eggs first, he broke the raw egg, scooped up a little egg white with a small spoon and sent it to the little thing's mouth.

The already weak little thing felt something approaching his mouth, instinctively moved his small pink mouth towards it, and licked it. Seeing that it could eat, Shi Xiaochuan happily moved his spoon towards it a little.

But the little thing closed his mouth, and he refused to take a second bite. Facing Shi Xiaochuan's forced action, he even began to cry softly.

Shi Xiaochuan was frightened by its cries and looked around. Fortunately, the staff in the canteen were eating outside and no one came in. He wiped off the egg whites on the spoon, scooped some preserved egg porridge and sent it to the little thing's mouth side.

The smell of porridge caught its attention, it opened its wet black eyes, and eagerly leaned over to take a big mouthful, but for some reason, it started to cry again, Shi Xiaochuan quickly took back the spoon, why did he cry again ?What exactly is it going to eat?

The action of him taking the spoon back made the little thing excited, and he clenched his fist and waved it desperately. Shi Xiaochuan hesitated for a moment, and then sent the spoon over. As a result, the little thing stretched his neck and looked at it eagerly. It looked like I was very hungry and wanted to eat, so why was it crying just now?

Shi Xiaochuan couldn't help crying and laughing as he watched Xiaoxiong eat while choking up, his little eyes were red, and he looked so wronged that he almost accused Shi Xiaochuan of child abuse.

It sucked the thick porridge slowly, and ate it very slowly. Shi Xiaochuan also fed it patiently. After feeding four spoonfuls, the little thing burped and turned his head away.

Seeing that after he was full, his complexion improved a lot, with some ruddy little things, Shi Xiaochuan was half relieved, in order not to waste food, he took out Xiaobai, and wanted to feed it the broken raw egg eat.

Xiaobai lay lazily on the side, turned his head in disdain, and seemed not interested in raw eggs, Shi Xiaochuan had no choice but to pour out the raw eggs in the small bowl.

He returned to the dormitory when the morning exercise assembly bell rang, prepared a basin of hot water, brought the small things into the bathroom, untied the small cloth bag, and there were still some mucus on the body that had been slightly wiped on the mountain. the remains.

The little thing probably also felt uncomfortable, moving around on the spread out cloth bag.

Shi Xiaochuan took a soft cloth, soaked it in water, and helped it scrub his body bit by bit.

The warm water probably made the little thing very comfortable. It opened its small mouth and yawned. Before Shi Xiaochuan finished wiping, it closed its eyes and fell asleep.

Its snake tail curled around its waist, shrinking down from the small chest, and streamlined down into a snake-like body.

In fact, from the looks of it now, the lower body of the little thing is not so scary. The snow-white and cute slender body with red lines, when viewed separately, is very cute, but when put together, it is a bit weird.

After finally cleaning and drying it, Shi Xiaochuan found a spare box in the dormitory, put a towel in it, put the sleeping little thing in it, put the little thing in his closet, put the I took out all my clothes, hung them all over the closet, and only left a small hole for the little thing to ventilate, then closed it and locked it, so that even if the little thing cried, its voice would be weak at first, and secondly With such a tight cover, the chances of being overheard should not be high.

Even if it is possible to be discovered, it can only take this risk for the time being.

The little thing is still too weak now, and Shi Xiaochuan is worried about putting it on the mountain, and there is no other safe and close place for it to stay, so he can only let it stay by his side first at the risk of being discovered, Shi Xiaochuan Xiao Chuan wondered whether he should buy a pacifier or something to cover the little thing's mouth so that it would not cry or make a sound.When it grows up and can take care of itself, Shi Xiaochuan plans to transfer it to Lingshan Temple, where there is no one, just enough for the little thing to live.

I hope that the little thing is more like a snake than a person, so that he doesn't need to take care of it for a long time, otherwise, this expedient measure may not last long.