It turns out that the old man in front of me is the old Chinese doctor who once treated my mother.
"I can't die!" The old gentleman shook his head.
Can't die?
My father and I looked at each other.
The older generation once said, "When a doctor sighs, there will be consequences."
"Then why did you..."
"Although your daughter's wound looks very deep, no venom was sprayed when she bit her! The snake king didn't want her life, but just wanted to leave his own mark!" At this point, the old gentleman sighed again. "
Wild beasts all have territory-marking behaviors, just like tigers and lions urinate to declare their territory."
The old gentleman's words made my heart tense.
Then, he quickly turned away.
I saw a blood mark on my right shoulder.
The capillaries around the blood marks appear to be diffusely congested due to inflammation.
One by one, they unfold in an orderly manner.
Suddenly it looked like a blooming flower from the other side.
Coquettish and ghostly.
The old gentleman stood up and walked back and forth with his hands behind his back.
"This is fate! You can't escape it!"
"What do you mean you can't escape?" The father suddenly became anxious, "You are the most powerful doctor in the country, you must have a way to save my daughter!"
"How to save it?" The old gentleman stepped forward and said, "You owe it two lives!"
The old gentleman's words made my heart skip a beat.
The father's eyes widened with a look of confusion on his face.
"I only killed the female snake! It's just one life!"
"Plus your wife's one!"
The old gentleman stared into his father's eyes and spoke slowly.
"I'll tell you the truth! Your wife suffered from severe kidney disease before she got pregnant. It was conservatively estimated that she would only live for a month at most. But she gave birth to the child safely and lived for another five or six years!"
"Could it be...that black snake that kept my wife alive?"
"Otherwise?" The old gentleman looked solemn, "Now it's time for you to repay your debt!"
…
The old gentleman told us that I was pregnant with a snake fetus.
I want to replace the female snake that was killed by my father and give birth to the snake king.
Otherwise, our Nian family will never have peace!
If it were an ordinary father's debt repaid by his daughter, I would accept it and regard it as repaying the kindness of raising him.
But the other party is a snake!
A cold-blooded animal with a ferocious face and unpredictable moods!
The thought of laying snake eggs makes me shiver all over.
Suddenly, the cold eyes of the Snake King flashed through my mind, and I couldn't help but shudder.
I packed my luggage and prepared to leave secretly, but when I opened the door, I saw my father.
"Girl, haven't you slept yet?"
The father walked directly in carrying a wine jar.
He glanced at the suitcase on the floor and sat down at the table.
"Come, have a drink with dad!"
"Dad! I..."
"How can a father be willing to sacrifice his daughter?" The father smiled bitterly, "I will send you away from home at dawn tomorrow."
My father's words made me feel a little guilty.
If I really leave, will the Snake King take revenge on him?
"This is the money I saved!" Father slapped a bank card on the table, "Don't tell your mother, she doesn't know about this money. I have wronged you all these years!"
Suddenly, my father burst into tears.
"Your mother and your sister have been bullying you, and I don't dare to speak out even though they see it. After all, this family cannot live without women."
Having said this, my father picked up the wine and drank it all in one gulp.
"Dad, I don't blame you!"
I sniffed and picked up the wine bowl in front of me.
"Thank you dad for raising me!"
After I finished speaking, I drank it all in one gulp.
The spicy taste in my mouth turned into warm current and poured into my stomach, but it choked my eyes to tears.
Touching my father's rough hands, I have decided to compromise with fate.
I was born and raised so big that my father could have a "perfect" family, so I swallowed my anger and pretended to be weak and was bullied by my stepmother.
Now, in order to repay the kindness of raising me, I should even sacrifice my life for my own life.
Thinking of this, I picked up the wine jar.
But the next second, his fingertips became numb.
With a 'clang' sound, the wine jar tilted to the table.
Clear liquid flows out smoothly.
Feeling that my legs were weak, I quickly supported the table with my hands.
how so?
I have been drinking since I was a child, and a pound of wine and hard liquor is not a problem at all.
But you just drank half a bowl and you fainted?
"Girl, I'm sorry!"
Suddenly, my father stood up.
"dad?"
Looking at his father in disbelief, an ominous premonition filled his heart.
"It's all my fault that Dad caused a big trouble back then, which hurt your mother and you!" Dad wiped his tears, "If you don't follow the Snake King, our Nian family will be destroyed!"
As he spoke, his father untied his belt and opened his clothes.
All I saw were dense pustules, criss-crossing around my waist.
A stench came to my face.
"This nasty disease is called snake-banding. It is contracted after killing a female snake. After eating the Ganoderma lucidum left by the snake king, the disease has been almost controlled. But half a year ago, it recurred again!"
etc!
What did father just say?
Ganoderma lucidum?
Could it be...
"You didn't give your mother Ganoderma lucidum?"
After shouting this sentence, I slumped down on the chair helplessly.
"I really gave it! Only a little!" Father quickly waved his hands to explain, "Seeing that your mother's fever has gone away, I ate the rest!"
No wonder!
No wonder my mother died!
The Ganoderma lucidum given by the Snake King was originally used to save her life, but her father ate her only life-saving medicine!
"You killed my mother!"
I tried my best to shout out such a sentence, which made me burst into tears.
"I don't want to!" My father's eyes turned red and he grabbed my shoulders. "The old man said that the virus has eroded my internal organs, and only the snake gallbladder of the snake king can make me fully recover! So, I have to do this!"
My father actually wants to use me to lure out the snake king and kill the snake to get its courage?
He is so selfish!
It turns out that people who appear to be honest and cowardly are the most cruel and terrifying!
"Girl! After I kill that snake king, I will take you to the city to have an abortion! Then we will move to a place where there is no one, and we will start our lives again! No one will know about your scandal of getting pregnant out of wedlock!"
scandal?
It turns out that in my father’s eyes, I have always been contemptible!
Even though he is the real instigator!
I wanted to cry, but I couldn't open my mouth.
I wanted to resist, but I couldn't move at all.
When my body completely lost strength, my father carried me on his shoulders.
He led a few villagers and walked toward the mountains.
Accompanying me was my stepmother.
On the way, my stepmother kept insulting me.
As usual, my father remained silent.
I don’t know how long it took before I was put down.
The father and others began to set traps.
An iron net with fine barbed thorns was spread out on the towering tree overhead.
The activated silk thread was tied to my wrist.
With just a slight movement, the iron net will fall down.
The moment it falls, it will automatically tighten.
"Do you want to tie a rope around her leg? Wait for the snake king to go in and pull it out first, so that she will not be trapped together with the snake king!" A young man suddenly said. "Don't tell me that the thorns of the barbed wire are anesthetic. The snake king is so angry that he is afraid.