Just as the doctor reached for my pants, a gust of cold wind blew by.
Along with a strong fishy smell, the wine in the glass jar trembled violently.
The snake that was curled up suddenly raised its head.
Then he bared his fangs and made a hissing sound, and hit the glass hard.
A scream suddenly pulled me back.
I finally managed to get the focus right, but I saw the horrified face of my stepmother.
Following her gaze, the hairs all over my body exploded.
I saw the doctor in ragged clothes leaning in the corner, black blood slowly sliding down from his seven orifices.
And dozens of snakes were nailed to his body.
The doctor died. He died of poison.
And those poisons come from the poisonous snakes in the wine.
It sounds outrageous.
It is impossible for anyone to believe that a snake that has been soaked in wine for several years can come back to life and even kill someone!
But, I saw it with my own eyes.
It was not until that moment that I believed that what happened twenty years ago was not a fabrication made by my father when he was drunk.
As soon as I got home, my stepmother pushed me hard to my father.
I staggered and came face to face with an old face.
My father, who is only in his fifties, has a weathered face.
The deep and shallow ravines above made all my tolerance and anger toward my stepmother along the way instantly melt into heartache.
"Why are you so ignorant, Suisui? Why do you always make your mother angry?!"
My father raised his cigarette and took a long puff.
Her tone was stern, but when she turned her back to my stepmother and looked at me, she winked.
This is a small gesture that we only understand between father and daughter. It comforts me.
The mother contracted the disease during childbirth and died within a few years.
In order to have someone to take care of me when I was young, my father married a widow, who is now my stepmother.
My stepmother brought her daughter from her ex-husband to marry me, and she rarely looked down upon me.
But for the sake of family 'harmony', my father could only wrong me.
After all, he remarried and lost all his wealth.
"Dad, I..."
"Old man, you are going to be a grandpa!" Suddenly, the stepmother interrupted angrily. "Your good daughter is so old...she is pregnant!"
The curvature of the father's mouth suddenly froze.
And I raised my head and looked straight at my stepmother.
I was just afraid of her before, but now I find her scary.
The doctor who performed the surgery on me died, which was a life-threatening matter.
But she avoided the important things and only wanted to humiliate me.
"This is the good daughter you raised by Nian Dafu! She doesn't study well and just messes around outside! Now she is pregnant! She doesn't know how to behave, just like her mother..."
"Shut up! Get out!"
Before the stepmother could finish shouting, the father shouted angrily.
This is the first time in my memory that my father was angry with my stepmother.
Although it is only four short words, it is still shocking enough.
After giving me a resentful look, my stepmother reluctantly slammed the door and walked out.
My father adjusted his facial expression and then looked at me.
"Girl, Dad wants to hear what you have to say!"
I nodded and told everything truthfully.
As I elaborated one by one, my father's face became more and more ugly.
I was even so excited that I had already burned out the tobacco and was still smoking hard.
My father went down to the cellar and brought out a jar of realgar wine.
"Drink the wine and wait for dad to come back!"
After hastily saying these words, he hurriedly put the pipe into his belt, and his father left in a hurry.
It should be extremely cool in a cave dwelling in midsummer.
But the cold sweat on my body never dried up.
When I opened the red oil paper that sealed the mouth of the altar, a smell of wine immediately hit my face.
Even though the aroma of the wine is strong, I still smell the realgar scent keenly.
He brought a big bowl, picked up the jar and poured it down.
But what came out with the wine was a live rattlesnake!
The rattlesnake's tail twitched and made a snapping sound.
He cocked his head and kept spitting out messages.
Seeing this, my head started buzzing.
When he reacted, his hands softened.
The wine jar immediately fell to the ground and broke into pieces with a 'pop' sound.
I subconsciously stepped back and fell on the bed.
The hands holding the bed felt strange.
Under the palm of my hand, something seemed to be moving.
Swallowing my saliva, I turned around.
He carefully grabbed the quilt and opened it violently.
Suddenly, my scalp exploded!
I saw that the bed was densely covered with hundreds of snakes squirming.
The snakes squeezed together and made a spine-chilling 'hissing' sound.
I was very scared but I didn't dare to scream again for fear of startling the snakes.
So I could only swallow the fear in my throat, stare at the snake on the bed and slowly move back.
But as he was retreating, his back was suddenly blocked by something hard.
A chill penetrated his collar.
In an instant, all the pores opened.
The original group of vicious snakes lowered their heads in a pious and prostrate posture.
'hiss'
A strange sound came into my left ear.
There was a moist cold air that brushed against my earlobes from time to time.
My back was stiff and I didn't dare to look back.
But when he looked at the mirror on the wall, his whole body couldn't stop trembling.
I saw a huge black snake standing behind me.
It's exactly the same as the black snake in my dream.
The black snake poked its head and narrowed its sinister eyes.
The letters I spit out are brushing against my ears from time to time.
My nasal cavity, contracted due to fear, could no longer supply enough oxygen to me.
So, I could only breathe rapidly with my mouth half open.
Suddenly, the black snake raised its head.
My eyes met with mine in the mirror.
As if it had touched the reverse scale, the black snake suddenly opened its bloody mouth.
A burst of cold air spurted out from his mouth.
In an instant, the mirror fell apart.
And my figure also became fragmented.
Just when I was shaking like a sieve, a tail slipped silently across my ankle.
It rotated all the way up and finally wrapped me tightly.
Immediately, the huge head of the black snake stretched out in front of me.
It spoke to me and descended slowly.
Until it is level with the abdomen.
The black snake squinted its eyes and rubbed its head against my belly.
The cold touch made all the hairs on my body stand up instantly.
Even, I can clearly see the dense goosebumps on my arms.
Just when my mind went blank, there were sudden sounds of rapid footsteps outside.
The black snake bit my shoulder fiercely as if it was frightened.
Before I could even cry out in pain, it slipped out of the door.
The snake on the bed also got into the gap along the wall.
"Sui Sui!"
My father rushed in and helped me up.
Following closely behind him was a gray-haired old man.
"That snake...here he comes!"
Having said this, I slowly let go of my blood-stained hand.
"Old sir! Old sir!" The father was anxious and yelled hurriedly.
The old man hurriedly took out a paper bag and sprinkled the medicinal powder inside on my wound.
But then, he sighed softly.
This sigh made me smell despair, and made my father turn pale with fear.