father snake

That morning, Shi Xiaochuan and the child looked at each other, big eyes to small eyes at the elder for a while, until the sun was shining on his body, his body was slightly warm, and his stomach was growling, and Shi Xiaochuan finally woke up.

He supported the edge of the bed and stood up, the child was sitting there so quietly, looking at him, if you look carefully, you will find that although the child is very good-looking, with slender eyebrows and eyes, the tails of the eyes are raised, and his face is solemn, At such a young age, his eyes carry a kind of vicissitudes that have seen the world of mortals, and there is also an indescribable feeling.

Shi Xiaochuan thought about it, and felt that this feeling was probably evil.

This inexplicably appearing child made Shi Xiaochuan a little embarrassed. In fact, he knew in his heart that this child must have something to do with the disappearing little guy, but it was really confusing for him to believe that this child was transformed from the little guy after shedding his skin. People find it unbelievable.

He had always thought of the little guy as a long-extinct creature, like the legend of the Loch Ness monster and the dinosaurs that survived the Jurassic era described in some books.

He sighed, he couldn't just leave this child here.

In the morning of late autumn, the temperature was still relatively low. The child was sitting on the bed naked and naked. Although he didn't look any different, Shi Xiaochuan didn't dare to delay any longer.

He ran to the room of Daoist Qingsong next door, took out a worn Taoist robe, and ran back to his room, only to see that the child was still sitting there without moving.

It's just that Shi Xiaochuan can feel it from the child's eyes. He has been watching his every move. When he sees himself reappearing at the door, he can also faintly feel it from his quiet and expressionless little face. Feeling a little happy.

Shi Xiaochuan secretly laughed, no matter how weird and mature this child is, he is still a child.

He shook off the Taoist robe, wrapped his naked body, and held him in his arms. His body was sticky. Shi Xiaochuan carried him to the kitchen, and talked to him while walking, "Where are you from? What's your name?" name?"

The child lowered his head, playing with the thing that looked like snakeskin in his hand, without raising his head, as if he didn't hear Shi Xiaochuan's words.

Shi Xiaochuan freed up another hand and tugged at the snake skin, "Do you know what this is?"

The child remained silent.

Shi Xiaochuan was at a loss, he could only moan and chirp to light the fire, hold the child in his hands, slowly warm his cold body, and only put him on the stool next to him when he finally became warm Come on, let him sit down.

Although the child didn't speak, he was very obedient, he gave every command and every movement, he was not mischievous like ordinary kids at all, he just looked at Shi Xiaochuan with those dark eyes without any distraction.

Shi Xiaochuan warmed up the leftover porridge from yesterday, took a spoon, and began to feed the child mouthful by mouthful.

His cooking skills are actually very average. The white porridge didn't add anything except a little salt, so it was really bland and tasteless. However, the child drank the whole small bowl of porridge slowly before turning his head and refusing Shi Xiaochuan to continue feeding him. the behavior of.

Shi Xiaochuan hurriedly swallowed the remaining porridge, then turned off the fire, hugged the little guy in his arms, and began to worry.

If it is a little guy, you can keep it with you for a while, but although this child has a strange origin, at least he looks like a human child. It will definitely not work to put him in the Lingshan Temple according to the original plan, but it will be even more difficult to keep him with you. Impossible, where is the guy to settle down?

At this time, there was a soft rustling sound from the grass in the yard, and Shi Xiaochuan saw Xiaobai appear in front of him shaking his head, climbed up his trousers and onto his shoulders. When he saw the child, he was stunned for a moment, and suddenly, with a flick of his head, Snake Xin frantically froze.

The child looked at him silently with big eyes. Suddenly, he clamped the snakeskin in his hand between himself and Shi Xiaochuan, and then stretched out his hand. For some reason, Xiaobai was already caught in his hand.

The caught Xiaobai writhed furiously, bared his teeth and wanted to bite the child's thin and tender arm, but the child tried his best with the other hand to prevent it from breaking free, and grabbed it tightly. Holding on to Xiaobai, the child's originally pale face was also stained with a little blush because of this violent movement, it looked white and tender, but it was much more energetic.

Shi Xiaochuan looked at the two enemies dumbfounded.

Without any other evidence, just looking at the reactions of the two when they met, one could tell that the child was definitely born from that egg.

In order to prevent Xiaobai from being strangled to death, Shi Xiaochuan pinched the child's tiny wrist and opened his fingers one by one. The child was unwilling but unable to resist. Finally, he let go of his hand neatly, but Xiaobai, But he took this opportunity to bite the child's hand.

The child's eyes turned red immediately, but he held back his tears and didn't cry, just staring at his fingers in a daze.

Shi Xiaochuan felt distressed, grabbed Xiaobai's tail, hung it in the air, cursed a few times, then tore off Xiaobai who was trying to wrap around his wrist, and put it on the grass next to him.

He took the child's hand and saw several obvious teeth marks on the thin fingers, oozing with bright red blood, and there was no medicine here, so he put the child's hand in his mouth and sucked it for him, Lick off the blood on it and disinfect it by the way.

"Okay." Shi Xiaochuan took out the child's hand, and then blew again, "It doesn't hurt anymore." He said these comforting words.

After finishing a series of movements, he raised his head, and saw that the child had already recovered his usual calmness, looking at him with unpredictable eyes.

Shi Xiaochuan murmured in his heart, why did he use the word "unfathomable and profound"?

Seeing that it was almost noon, Shi Xiaochuan opened the rice jar and saw that there was only a little rice left in it, which was not enough for a handful in his hand, and it was not enough for a meal no matter what.

The child followed behind him step by step, like a little tail, clenching his teeth and refusing to let go. Shi Xiaochuan sighed, pulled his hair vigorously with his hands, and walked with a chicken-nest head on his head, with a helpless and deep expression on his face. the door.

He stopped, and so did the child. A three- or four-year-old child was still walking unsteadily, crooked, and wrapped in a piece of clothing like a sack. The clothing originally belonged to Shi Xiaochuan, and it was too big for a child. I had no choice but to cut it open with a knife and then tie a piece of cloth around my waist and hands to tie it. However, the child still had that cute and delicate face with a serious expression on it. Why do people think it is so cute.

Shi Xiaochuan also loves him no matter what he sees, he keeps chattering with the child about some nonsense things, and he doesn’t have much to say, Shi Xiaochuan’s life is so simple that it can be summed up in a few words, he comes and goes every day with those From the moment you wake up in the morning, you know what you will do today.

Shi Xiaochuan didn't care whether the child understood or not, so he told him about his disappearance not long ago and everything that happened after that. He took the child's hand and came to the backyard.

The yard is surrounded by a dilapidated earthen wall. The wall has collapsed and there are gaps in several places. There are some weeds growing on the wall. Vegetables and weeds grow together in the yard. You can only Look for the surviving vegetables among the weeds.

Daoist Qingsong is an outsider who pays attention to quietness and inaction, so he eats when he has something to eat, and mixes when he has nothing to eat. He also grows vegetables in a free-range way, sowing seeds in the backyard, and then sits and waits for a good harvest.

The grass and trees in this backyard are lush and green, and occasionally a few stunted grasses can be seen among the gratifying weeds.

Therefore, it is a hard job for Shi Xiaochuan to pick vegetables every time, because if he is not careful, he will pick the weeds back as vegetables, and Daoist Qingsong will definitely not identify them carefully, but will take them all. Throw it into the pot and stew it in one pot. According to him, there are no poisonous weeds in his backyard.

The child staggered behind Shi Xiaochuan, and Shi Xiaochuan carefully identified the edible vegetables in the weeds. He planned to cook a vegetable porridge, and then took the child down the mountain after eating, and sent him as a lost child first. Go to the police station, anyway, it's barely possible to raise a kid, but to raise a child-maybe the child will be temporarily placed in the orphanage in the town.

When he was thinking like this, he didn't notice that the child who had been following him slowly walked towards the corner of the backyard.

There is a shrine in the corner, in which there is a statue of a god. Shi Xiaochuan once asked Qingsong what kind of god this is, but Qingsong was also vague, and finally said that when his master died, he was still young, and he didn't have time to do these things I told myself it was a perfunctory excuse.

The statue is not big, only about two feet high. It is a painted clay embryo. It has been exposed to the wind and sun for a long time. The once bright and bright colors on the outside have peeled off, revealing the mud inside. Although the sculptor tried to make it look majestic, it still remains There is a breath of treacherous eyebrows and mouse eyes, but the clothes are people from the Ming Dynasty.

Shi Xiaochuan was only interested in it for a while, and soon he completely ignored it because the statue was too ugly and boring.

Just as he was chanting and picking vegetables, he heard a strange noise, turned around, and saw the child holding a stone in his hand, and he was about to throw it at the idol.

Shi Xiaochuan hurried over, "What are you doing?" He forcibly disarmed the stone in the child's hand.

The child suddenly turned his head and stared at Shi Xiaochuan firmly.

Shi Xiaochuan trembled with fright in his eyes, and the stone in his hand fell to the ground.

The child's eyes just now are not what a child should have at all - cold, stern, and filled with unquestionable hatred.

Shi Xiaochuan hesitated, he squatted down, hugged the child, and asked softly, "What's wrong?"

The child lowered his head and raised his head to look at Shi Xiaochuan after a while, but his eyes had returned to calm and unwavering, like the sea at night, he turned his head to look at the statue, Shi Xiaochuan didn't know if the child could speak or not.

The little guy can make a small crying sound, Yiyi babbling sound, but can't speak, but this child has never made any sound.

"Don't you like this?" Shi Xiaochuan followed his gaze to the statue and asked.

The child twisted out of Shi Xiaochuan's arms, and walked towards the statue unsteadily. When he got there, he began to smash the statue vigorously, regardless of whether he could do it with his small body.

What kind of deep hatred is this?Shi Xiaochuan shook his head, but he couldn't leave it alone, hug him away, he struggled desperately, and stared at himself with that kind of chilling eyes, don't hug him away, seeing that the child's hand has been crushed by stones Several cuts and bleeding.

Finally, Shi Xiaochuan raised the white flag and surrendered. He hugged the child, put it aside, then squatted in front of him, and said solemnly, "I'll smash it for you, and you watch from the side."

Then he ran into the room, took a hoe, and smashed the statue with three blows.

While knocking, I muttered in my heart, I don't know how to explain to Daoist Qingsong, but this shrine was almost abandoned in the first place, so it shouldn't matter, right?At present, the most important thing is to appease this child who seems to be on the shoulder of this idol. From his eyes, it can be seen that if you don't satisfy him, he will continue to be so awkward.

After working for a long time, he finally finished the work. The strenuous exercise made Shi Xiaochuan sweat a little. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and walked to the child, "Okay, are you satisfied this time?"

The child glanced at him, and Shi Xiaochuan instinctively knew that the child was very happy now.

But before he could react, the child ran towards the statue with two short legs, Shi Xiaochuan followed closely, and saw the child carrying those broken stones.

Not over yet?Seeing this scene in front of him, Shi Xiaochuan almost wanted to cry, this is really a living ancestor.

He had no choice but to take the mud away without complaint. Slowly, he found that something was wrong. There was a round hole behind the statue, which was dark and had a musty smell. It smelled terrible. He didn't expect this There is another world behind the statue.

The problem now is that the child wants to climb into the hole, but he is holding the child's collar, and he doesn't know what to do. To climb or not to climb, to enter the hole or not to enter the hole, this is a problem!