snake in the drawer

"Actually, it's nothing." Mo Bai raised his left hand, drawing the scales of the snake demon with his eyes, as if lost in memory, "I've never seen my father, and my mother is often away from home, basically they are taken by the nanny."

Hearing a new ranking, the snake demon raised his head and asked, "Nanny?"

"It's just a profession, please come here to take care of people." Mo Bai didn't blame the snake demon for interrupting him, but just explained patiently.

After waiting for a while, seeing that the snake demon was fine, Mo Bai continued, "The nannies are often changed, and the longest one in my impression will not stay for more than three months, so even if you want to get close to them, you have no chance."

"I can't remember what happened when I was two or three years old. I just remember that I waited and waited, but she just didn't come back."

The snake demon knows that the "she" mentioned by humans refers to his mother.

After a pause for a few seconds, Mo Bai continued, "Of course, that was just a part of it. Before she was five years old, she spent a lot of time with me. She would come back to see me for a few days every month. Sometimes If you're in a good mood, you'll hug me too."

What Mo Bai didn't say was that his mother hugged him no more than ten times in his memory.

The snake demon felt that humans were very strange, "Why wait for her?"

"Why... because she is my mother."

"Is it mother who wants to wait?"

The snake demon thought of his mother, he never thought of waiting for her to come back, because the snake demon knew she would not come back.I didn't even think about looking for her in the past. She didn't know how many litters she had given birth to now. How could she remember that one egg was missing from the nest born 3000 years ago?

The snake demon clan has a strong reproductive ability, and correspondingly, they take much less care of their children, and they basically let their offspring go after they reach adulthood.

After the snake demon came out of the shell, he thought he was three thousand years old, so of course it was impossible to find his mother again.

It would be embarrassing to stay with a group of little snakes.

"...I don't know how to explain this." Mo Bai thought for a long time, and to be honest, there is really no way to explain such things as family affection.Some people take it seriously, some people take it lightly.

"Oh, keep talking." In fact, the snake demon didn't hear anything sad about the human beings, but the tone and expression of the human beings were very depressed and uncomfortable.He cannot understand, but can feel human sorrow.

"After that, I grew up and could take care of myself, and she came back here less and less often."

"I've only come back twice this year. Sometimes I promised I would come back, but I called temporarily to say I couldn't come back. Sometimes I didn't even have a phone call."

"What's the phone? It's the strange looking one that rings, the one you often talk to?"

"Yes, you can communicate with people far away."

"Thousands of miles transmission?"

Mo Bai was serious, "Yes, no demon power is needed."

Hearing what he said, the snake demon also felt that human beings had some abilities.Can come up with such amazing things.

"Last year, I asked her not to ask my aunt to clean it. Anyway, it will be changed soon. She also agreed at the time, but now it seems that she forgot."

"The memory is really bad." The snake demon said contemptuously, but he can remember everything from birth to the present clearly.

Mo Bai lowered his eyes and said softly: "It's because I have a bad memory, it's better to say I don't care."

"Sometimes, I really miss her."

Mo Bai was shrouded in this indescribable loneliness.

"I've never met my parents and brothers, and I never thought about looking for them." The snake demon doesn't quite understand human thoughts, but he knows what it's like to be alone, "But I know a monster is really boring."

Mo Bai thought it was funny for the snake demon to pretend to be old, "Didn't you just come out of the egg? You learned the word boring?"

"I stayed in the egg for about 3000 years, and it's only been 200 years since I came out, and I turned back into an egg again." The snake demon began to flick his tail. Thinking of the days he had lived in these years, he felt very tragic.

As a big monster, the snake demon felt that he was ashamed to say these things, but the human beings had told him all these things, so it was fine for him to simply say something.

The snake demon remembered that if it weren't for humans, he would have stayed in the egg for more than 3000 years, but he couldn't say the nasty words, "Anyway, humans, I want to thank you."

"Thank me?" Mo Bai didn't know why the snake demon suddenly said this, and carefully recalled what happened this year. It seems that he hasn't done anything worthy of the snake demon's gratitude, right?

"It's nothing." The snake demon turned his head, without explaining, it was already embarrassing for him to choke out a thank you.

Mo Bai couldn't imagine what it would be like to be trapped in a narrow space for more than 3000 years. Compared with the snake monster, the things he struggled with were nothing serious.No wonder the snake demon likes to cling to people, anyone who has the same experience as him will do so.

"By the way, don't always call me human, call me Mo Bai."

The snake demon was very strange, "Why?" Didn't he understand him when he was called a human?

"Names are for calling, what's your name?"

"...I don't have a name."

"Then I'll get you one?"

"Hmph, yes."

The snake demon tried his best to pretend not to care, but the expectation in his eyes still revealed his true thoughts.

Name... Mo Bai suddenly regretted that he had given the snake demon a name, he couldn't think of it, and seeing the snake demon waiting anxiously, he couldn't even think of it.Snake demon...that's called...

"Then you will be called Mo Shi from now on, homophonic." Mo Bai felt sorry for the snake demon, but he really couldn't think of anything better.

"Huh." Although the snake demon felt that it could not reflect his domineering, he still did not refute.It was the first time someone named him, and he was a little happy in his heart.

The snake demon has no name, and he doesn't need a name.

The snake demon's mother ran so fast that she didn't even know if she had his son, so naturally she didn't name him.Later, he was the only snake demon on Jingxu Mountain, so his name was meaningless.

And it's weird to name yourself.

"Mo Shi...how do you write it?" The snake demon was curious about the words for the first time.After knowing how to read, he wanted to know how to write.

He is almost completely illiterate, and the language of the Yaozu has not changed for thousands of years, and it is still the same as in ancient times, so he can speak, the words have changed a little, and they are roughly the same.But the human language is very different from that at that time, and he doesn't know how to write it.

Mo Bai got off the bed, put on his slippers, walked to the desk, took out a pen and paper, and wrote the word "Mo Shi" stroke by stroke. After thinking about it, he wrote "Mo Bai" next to it. .

The snake demon was happy in his heart, and he didn't care that Mo Bai chose the name casually. He exuded a pleasant atmosphere, but he couldn't see the expression on the snake's face.

The snake demon climbed down from Mo Bai's wrist, swam to Mo Bai's right hand, and wrapped his tail around the stick called a pen under Mo Bai's curious eyes.

Mo Bai understood his intention in an instant, and let go of his hand to make it easier for the snake demon to move.

The snake demon's tail looked thin, but it was actually very powerful. He followed Mo Bai's example and wrote the words "Mo Shi" and "Mo Bai" on the paper, but they were crooked and almost invisible.

Mo Bai thought it was very interesting, so he suggested: "Mo Shi, are you interested in learning how to write with me?"

The snake demon just wanted to speak human characters and he didn't want to learn it, but thinking about Mo Bai just giving him a name, it would not be easy to embarrass him, so he nodded, "Okay."

Seemingly thinking that saying this lacked momentum, the snake demon added, "You begged me to learn it!"

Mo Bai smiled at the corners of his eyes, and nodded seriously, "I begged Mr. Snake Demon to learn it."

The smile in Mo Bai's eyes made the snake demon a little uncomfortable, but he didn't know what made him uncomfortable. He turned around and pointed his tail at him, out of sight.

"Haha..." Mo Bai finally couldn't help laughing.

The snake demon turned around and glared fiercely at the human who dared to laugh at him, but unfortunately it was too small to be a deterrent.And humans... Mo Bai smiled happily.

Forget it, just this once.

The laughter gradually stopped, Mo Bai stared at the snake demon for a few seconds with a serious expression.

The snake demon looked at him for a while with the thought of "the enemy can't move, I can't move". Before he couldn't help but speak, Mo Bai said first: "Thank you."

The snake demon didn't know what he had done to deserve human gratitude, but since he was an "omniscient" monster, it was difficult to ask, so he said seriously, "No need."

Mo Bai smiled unkindly again, the snake demon was puzzled, thinking to himself, human beings are really strange creatures.

Mo Bai took a blank piece of paper and taught the snake demon a few words. The snake demon learned it very quickly, basically mastering it in one pass.There was a smart student, and Mo Bai taught him very happily. When the two of them stopped, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon.

Mo Bai was a little hungry, so he got up to cook, and the snake demon continued to practice calligraphy there.

It is said that there is a fire in the kitchen, and the snake demon doesn't like fire very much, so he didn't follow it. Humans actually said that his handwriting is not good-looking, he must practice well!

After writing it dozens of times, it was still crooked. The snake demon thought that it must be because the tail was not easy to use. When he became a human in the future, he must write better than Mo Bai.

When Mo Bai was eating, the snake demon didn't mix it up, anyway, he couldn't eat it, and it didn't feel good just looking at it.

The snake demon turned grief and anger into strength, and practiced calligraphy more seriously.

The Yaozu were already smart, and when Mo Bai came in, the snake demon's handwriting had already improved a lot.

Although it was still too ugly to read, but in order to encourage him, Mo Bai still praised him: "The writing is very good."

"Humph."

The snake demon wanted to pretend not to care, but Mo Bai could tell from his slightly wagging tail that he was in a good mood now.

The snake demon seems to understand why those monsters like to keep their subordinates, and it feels good to have someone to accompany them.

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