pregnant snake

Su He rescued a black snake and kept it in an uncovered wooden box.In the first few days, the black snake was listless and didn't move for a whole day. If it wasn't for the occasional vomit, Su He would have regarded it as dead.

Concerned about the wounds on Black Snake, Su He would go to the mountains to gather herbs every day, mash them up and carefully apply them on Black Snake's bruised back. Whenever this happened, Black Snake would gently turn his head to look at him, Gently turn your head back and rest it on the soft cotton cloth in the wooden box.Su He smiled faintly. Although he knew that the snake couldn't understand, he still comforted him with soft words. After applying the herbal medicine, he picked up the wooden box containing the snake and put it in the sunshine in the courtyard.

Su He's tabby cat would come to make trouble occasionally, and when Su He was not paying attention, he tapped the snake's head with its paws. The snake was probably too weak, and it would not hide from it until Su He found the troublesome tabby cat, holding its back The tabby cat would always make dissatisfied grunts from its throat, and Su He would pinch the cat's face and scold the little beast.

For a few days like this, there was no waves and waves, and the wound on Black Snake's back was slowly healing and scabbing, and he looked much more energetic than before.What puzzled Su He was that the black snake was originally only as thick as two fingers, but it has doubled in size in just a few days.

Su He had never raised a snake before, so he didn't know why this phenomenon happened. At first, he thought maybe it was because he took good care of it that the snake would grow faster, but then he remembered that the snake hadn't eaten anything since it came to him. It would be too far-fetched to say that things are well fed by themselves.Su He rubbed his chin, looked at the black snakes that almost covered the bottom of the wooden box, and thought that going on like this was not an option, so he decided to go to the market at the foot of the mountain to buy some books about raising snakes and come back the next day.

Sure enough, when Su He came back the next day with a few thin books in his arms, when he stepped into the yard, he saw his restless cat scratching the door of the house.It turned out that before Su He left, he was afraid that the cat would tease the wounded black snake again, so he locked the guy outside the house to separate him from the black snake. This guy was quite dissatisfied, and now he is scratching the door to vent his anger.

Su He shook his head helplessly, walked over and opened the door and said, "Don't make trouble, little ancestor, you can enter the house if you want, but you are not allowed to bully that black snake."

The flower cat looked up at Su He and meowed, and didn't know if it understood. Su He hugged the scroll in his arms, and pushed the door open with a creak. There was an abnormal sudden pause, so startled that Su He stopped following it, looked down at it in surprise, and asked, "What's wrong?"

The flower cat didn't say a word, but actually retracted its front paws resentfully, arched its back at the door of the house and jumped in three steps and two steps.

Su He frowned and was puzzled, but he also knew that the cat in his family was stubborn, jumpy and unpredictable, so he didn't take its actions to heart, instead he felt that the cat's absence saved him some trouble.

Putting the scroll in his arms on the table, Su He looked at the black snake in the wooden box as usual, walked to the side of the wooden box and looked inside, and couldn't help but gasped.

After only seeing each other for half a day, the snake has grown a whole circle again.

Su He sighed faintly, if the black snake continued to grow like this, the wooden box would not be able to hold it.

In the evening of the same day, Su He studied the books he bought from the market today by the light of the candle before the case. Outside the house, the flower cat who returned to the small yard in the evening was still unwilling to enter the house, lying on the railing outside the house The evening wind blows.

After the startling sting, the snakes, insects, rats and ants were all active, and there was always the sound of rustling insects at night.Su He yawned slightly, and continued flipping through the scroll in his hand. There were various types of snake statues painted on the book. Su He found that there were several portraits in the book that were very similar to the black snake, but upon closer inspection, there were always such and such. The difference, until the end of a book, did not find a portrait that matched the black snake.

Su He put the scroll aside uninterestedly, propped his chin on one hand, tapped the last page of the book with the knuckle of the other hand, and suddenly saw a row of small characters at the end of the scroll: Snake, its nature is cold, There are countless people who turn into demons, cannibalize people and devour animals, and do harm to the world. People who see snake demons are often involved in weird things, so we have to guard against them.

"Snake...monster?" Su He muttered softly, but then laughed at himself and shook his head slightly.He didn't believe in ghosts and foxes at all, and always felt that such stories were absurd and ridiculous. Humans are humans, beasts are beasts, so how can there be ghosts and ghosts? Most of them are just fabricated by storytellers.

Su He withdrew his thoughts, rubbed his sore eyes, and realized that the tea in the teapot was already cold, so he wanted to get up to add some hot water, but the moment he turned sideways, he caught a glimpse of the black snake poking out of the wooden box , with his head resting on the edge of the wooden box, the black snake's black eyes still reflected the slightly flickering candlelight on the table, making those eyes seem to contain some kind of complex emotion that was unfathomable.

The teapot in Su He's hand trembled and fell to the ground. At this time, the black snake slowly retracted its head. When Su He walked over cautiously, he saw that the black snake had curled up into a ball, peacefully. Lie down firmly.Su He bit his lip, didn't bother it anymore, and turned to add water to the teapot, but he didn't see the black snake spit out the letter leisurely.

The candles on the table went out silently.