After returning to the village, start chasing the mountain from binding Emei

Chapter 170 How big is this snake?

"What's wrong?"

After Huang Can picked fruits from one tree, he came under Chen Yang's tree.

"nothing."

Chen Yang shook his head, feeling that Song Kaiming was a bit weird.

What does he want to show me?

A bit of curiosity arose in my heart.

Huang Can grabbed the branch and climbed up in a few steps. "Did you know that Chen Guoliang and his wife are back?"

Chen Yang frowned slightly when he heard this.

A few days ago in the town, Chen Yang used a hornet to send the couple to the hospital. Did they recover so quickly?

It seems that the sting was too light.

You know, when Huang Can was stung by a wasp, he had to stay in the hospital for a week.

"I ran into them when I came back from your house at noon. They haven't fully recovered yet. Their faces are still swollen like pigs' heads. It's so funny."

Huang Can smiled happily, as if he had completely forgotten that he had experienced the same thing not long ago.

"Really? Your physical condition is so good these few days?" Chen Yang was not very interested and said perfunctorily.

"These two are such a bad couple."

Huang Can looked disdainful. "That day, after they were stung by a wasp, wasn't it the lady boss of the tofu pudding restaurant who felt sorry for them and called 120 for an ambulance? These two old guys are blackmailing them!"

"What are you talking about? I didn't ask you to call 120. They can get over this small injury by just holding on. Why are you blaming the boss lady for meddling in their business and making them spend more money? You want her to pay for their medicine..."

"real or fake?"

Hearing this, Chen Yang was stunned.

Are there really such shameless people in this world?

"Why did you lie to me?"

Huang Can said jokingly, "The lady boss was very angry. She was not someone to be trifled with, so she found a group of people and blocked the hospital. In the end, Chen Guoliang and his wife didn't get any advantage, and they were afraid of spending too much money, so they were discharged from the hospital in disgrace."

Looking at the boy's expression, he seems to be gloating.

Chen Yang shook his head after hearing this. He had broadened his horizons. It was true that there were many different kinds of people in the world.

"correct."

Huang Can put away his smile and said, "There was another person who came back with them. I don't know who he is. Chen Guoliang and his wife nodded and bowed to him. I don't know where he came from. He is big and strong and doesn't look like a good person. He might be the helper hired by those two old guys. Chen Yang, you'd better be careful. You never know what trouble these two will cause..."

Chen Yang hesitated for a moment and nodded slightly.

The Chen Guoliang couple are indeed among the most shameless people Chen Yang has ever seen in his life.

In other words, Chen Yang had never seen such a shameless person.

Not only is it shameless, but it's also like a dog-skin plaster that you can't get rid of once it sticks to you.

Although it can't hurt you, it can make you sick to death.

To be honest, he doesn't like to provoke such things, but now that he has, he can only find a way to resolve it.

Chen Yang is not a person who likes to be passive.

Chen Guangjun has not been released yet. There is no doubt that this couple will definitely come to cause trouble for Chen Yang again.

Therefore, Chen Yang felt that he should perhaps take the initiative to prevent any problems before they occur.

……

After picking plums for an entire afternoon, Chen Yang was exhausted.

Although he was physically strong, he had never done this kind of thing before. After half a day, he was exhausted and his skin was tanned red by the sun.

We had dinner at Song Kaiming’s house in the evening.

It is common for neighbors to help each other with simple home-cooked meals, and there is no need to prepare any big dishes. Nowadays, no one lacks a meal.

As for wages, there is no such thing. You help me today and I will help you tomorrow.

After dinner, Song Kaiming called Chen Yang and led him to the inner room mysteriously.

Song Kaiming's house is still an old-style adobe house, passed down from his grandfather's generation.

It is much more dilapidated than Chen Yang’s old house.

Although Chen Yang's old house is also an old adobe house, it has been renovated. It looks old on the outside, but feels new inside.

Song Kaiming's house looks old from the outside and even older from the inside.

There wasn't much decent furniture.

The tiles on the roof are not often turned over. The last time Chen Yang came, it was raining heavily outside and drizzling inside.

To be honest, the key is that Song Kaiming is playing badly.

If only they were a little more diligent and managed the business well, this wouldn't be the case.

Of course, Chen Yang is just an outsider, so it is difficult for him to say anything.

Huang Can followed in and wanted to join in the fun, but was scolded out by Song Kaiming.

Apart from anything else, this brother-in-law has a really bad temper.

The layout of old houses in the countryside is similar, with a main room in the middle and several rooms on the sides.

Song Kaiming took Chen Yang into the bedroom and turned on the light. There was an indescribable smell in the room.

Chen Yang held his breath, but felt that it would be a bit impolite not to breathe.

At this moment, Song Kaiming directly lifted up the bed board.

Under the bed, on the cement floor, there was a wooden cover like a manhole cover.

He opened the lid, and a dusty and musty smell immediately came out.

In the early years, many rural families had the tradition of digging cellars at home to store sweet potatoes, potatoes and the like.

Chen Yang's family had an old house before, but it was later used for nothing, so it was filled in.

Chen Yang leaned his head in and looked inside. It was dark.

He was thinking, what did Song Kaiming want him to see by calling him here in the middle of the night? To see his sweet potatoes?
"Come down with me."

Song Kaiming didn't say much and just jumped down.

Chen Yang was shocked.

Uncle, you only have one leg, aren’t you afraid of falling to death?
"Come down quickly."

Song Kaiming's voice then came from the cellar.

Obviously, he did not fall to death.

Although he only has one leg, he is still quite agile.

Chen Yang jumped down immediately.

The cellar was not high, only about two or three meters. The air was a little turbid, with a smell of earth and mold.

Song Kaiming's hands were groping around.

There was a click.

The cellar was lit up.

There was even a light installed.

Chen Yang looked around and was a little surprised.

This place doesn't look like a cellar because there are no crops stored here. Instead, it looks more like a basement.

Several wooden pillars support the wooden beams, and if you look up you can see the soil on top of the beams.

Chen Yang really doubted whether they could hold on. If it collapsed, would it bury them directly?
Song Kaiming ignored him, picked up his crutches and jumped towards a wooden door next to him.

There was a big lock hanging on the wooden door. Song Kaiming fumbled for a while and took out a key from his trouser pocket.

After fiddling with it for a few times, the lock was opened. Song Kaiming threw it aside and reached out to push open the wooden door.

crunch...

The wooden door rubbed against each other, making a harsh sound.

Behind the door is a larger basement, about 20 to 30 square meters wide, and when the lights are turned on, everything is visible.

There are a lot of junk piled up in the room.

Bows and arrows, knives, forks, spears, axes, nets...

Chen Yang even saw a few shotguns in the corner. The barrels were more than one meter long and the gun bodies looked very new, as if they had just been made.

"Wow, Uncle Kaiming, this place of yours is incredible."

Chen Yang felt like he had entered an armory, even though it was a rather crude and shabby looking one.

Are these the things he wants to show me?
Song Kaiming came to the corner, lifted a dusty tarpaulin, revealing a box.

Since he had difficulty walking, he asked Chen Yang to move the boy to a conspicuous place under the light.

It was an old-fashioned red leather suitcase that looked very vintage.

The suitcase was not heavy, at least Chen Yang didn't feel any weight.

Song Kaiming stood there, hesitated for a moment, then leaned over and opened the box.

The moment the box was opened, a look of surprise appeared on Chen Yang's face.

Inside the box, there was a white, film-like substance.

Folded well.

Song Kaiming reached out and took the things out of the box. He looked up at Chen Yang and asked, "What do you think this is?"

Chen Yang was stunned.

He really didn't see it.

Song Kaiming shook his hand and shook the thing away.

Suddenly, a long white silk-like thing was pulled from under Song Kaiming's feet directly to the corner of the wall on the other side.

Under the light, it is white and reflects light.

He took a closer look and immediately frowned.

"Snake slough?"

Chen Yang blurted out.

If I'm not mistaken, this thing is a snake skin.

That is, when snakes grow, they shed a layer of skin at a certain period of time.

He reached out and touched it, and it was undoubtedly a snake skin.

but.

He took a look at the whole thing, and his expression changed slightly, "This is too big."

Just looking at this snake skin, it is more than one foot wide and more than three meters long, and it is obviously not the whole thing.

With such a big snake skin, how big must this snake be?
Chen Yang couldn't help but think of the king cobra in his mind.

Even though the king cobra is big, it’s not as big as this, right?
"Where are you from?"

Chen Yang turned his head and looked at Song Kaiming, his face full of confusion.

"I picked it up in Mixiangou that year. There was only this small piece."

Song Kaiming's voice was very serious. He had never told this matter to outsiders before. Today was the first time he took the initiative to tell it to outsiders.

"which year?"

“The year I broke my leg.”

Song Kaiming smiled bitterly, "The snake slough is so big, this snake must be big. Based on my understanding of snakes, it should be a green snake slough. However, it is obviously unrealistic to be this big. It is more than one foot thick. I am afraid that ordinary pythons can't grow to this size..."

"Uncle, when did you break your leg?"

Chen Yang asked this question subconsciously.

After I said it, I realized that I shouldn't have asked that question, as it was a bit like exposing someone's scars.

"In 2000, if you count the time, that was 24 years ago."

Song Kaiming sighed, "At that time, I was only a few years older than you are now. A drugstore owner in the county bought snake gallbladders at a high price. I was full of vigor and thought I could go anywhere in the mountains, so I went into the mountains alone and went to Mixiangou..."

In 2000, it was obviously not the snake slough of a crested snake, nor was it the snake slough of a king cobra.

Of course, it couldn't be the giant snake that was struck by lightning in Longtuocao as the legend goes, because that snake died in the 1960s and 1970s.

"So, there's another big snake in Mixiangou?"

Chen Yang felt a little confused. Since there was a snake skin, it must be proved that such a big snake had appeared in Mixian Gou.

I went to Mixian Gou twice, why didn't the snake show up?
Did this snake die a long time ago, or is it hiding on purpose, or has it already left Mixian Gou?

"I'm showing you this to give you some ideas. You killed the crested snake and destroyed its den. If the snake is still alive, your actions might anger the snake..."

He didn't expect that Chen Yang would go to Mixiangou again and destroy the snake nest. It was only after hearing Chen Yang talk about it this afternoon that he thought of bringing Chen Yang here to see this thing, as a reminder to him.

Some things can only be convincing if you see them with your own eyes.

Seeing such a huge snake skin in front of Chen Yang, Chen Yang couldn't help but believe it.

There was indeed such a big snake in Mixiangou.

"Uncle, can you give me this snake skin?" Chen Yang asked.

Song Kaiming nodded and said, "Take it. It's useless if you keep it here."

When he first found this snake skin and brought it back, he actually wanted to show it to the villagers, to show off and shock them.

But who would have expected that he would be attacked by a crested snake and lose a leg. His temperament would change drastically after he woke up. This thing instead became his shadow and he kept it at the bottom of the box. Over the years, he had never shown it to anyone else except his wife.

Chen Yang was also clear and thanked him.

After carefully folding up the snake skin, Chen Yang looked around the room and said, "Uncle Kaiming, did you make all of this yourself?"

The room was filled with all kinds of weapons, and it was obvious that many of them were handmade. Chen Yang was dazzled.

“Some of them were bought, and some of them were made by myself.”

There was a hint of sadness on Song Kaiming's face. He had been running in the mountains with the adults in the village since he was very young, and he had a special love for the mountains.

However, the mountain hurt him, buried one of his legs, and almost ruined the rest of his life.

However, this still could not stop his love for the mountains. Many times in the middle of the night, he dreamed of himself galloping and running in the mountains.

Unfortunately, after waking up from the dream, I had to face the reality, the reality of losing a leg.

In this life, I am destined to have no chance to chase mountains.

Unable to get rid of the depression in his heart, some strange little hobbies were born. Song Kaiming liked making and collecting weapons.

Some things were regulated and not available for purchase, so he made them secretly himself.

For example, those shotguns in the corner.

He made it himself, and although he never fired a shot after it was completed, every time he saw it, he felt a sense of accomplishment.

"Take a look yourself. Is there anything you like?"

He made these things quietly, but of course he still hoped to get recognition and appreciation from others.

Without him saying anything, Chen Yang had already started looking through the books in the house.

There are spears, long guns, various knives, and various animal traps.

However, what interested Chen Yang were those firearms.

He took a shotgun and demonstrated it.

The barrel is too long.

The style is very old.

The disadvantage is that every time you change the bullet, you have to refill the gunpowder and iron sand, which is troublesome.

The advantage is that it is powerful and can kill a large area with one hit.

Song Kaiming said that he had never used this thing before and its safety was unknown. Chen Yang looked at it for a while and then put it back.

If this thing explodes, it will be very dangerous. He dare not joke with his own life.

(End of this chapter)