Snake Tale

The Story of the Snake · Zhou Budan

Words: 3101

更新时间：2017-11-2710:55:02

There was a soft sound in front of the door, and Luo Yi quickly hid half of the pottery in his sleeve - it was left secretly when he pretended to drop the dishes yesterday when he was cleaning up. The incision is sharp, and if used properly, it can be scratched easily Open the fragile tendons of the neck.

He lay down on the couch in a flash, pretending to take a nap, just as the door opened with a "creak", Shen Yuzhu walked in with a smile, and suddenly grabbed his hand.

Luo Yi thought he had discovered the murder weapon hidden in his sleeve, and his whole body tensed up instantly.

"Stop pretending to be asleep," Shen Yuzhu shook his shoulder affectionately, "Come with me."

Luo Yi sat up and looked at him without words.

"Let's go!" Shen Yuzhu urged.

Luo Yi sighed silently, and was about to stay on the bed, but saw Shen Yuzhu take a step back, frowning and looking at him.

"are you……"

Luo Yi's breathing tightened slowly, and he looked at him motionlessly.

"Too little to wear?"

"..." Luo Yi said expressionlessly, "I think it's pretty good."

Shen Yuzhu shook his head, turned around and took out a robe from the cabinet, and he couldn't help but put it on for him.Luo Yi couldn't resist him, and hurriedly said, "I'll do it myself!"

However, Shen Yuzhu turned a deaf ear, grabbed his arm (on the sharp pottery piece in his sleeve), ignored Luo Yi's resistance, and put on his robe graciously (the sharp blade was cut several times by Shen Yuzhu's hold on Luo Yi's arm) There were bloodstains, the pain made his hair stand on end and he dared not speak), then he smiled and said: "Okay! Let's go."

Luo Yi gritted his teeth and was dragged all the way to the living room by Shen Yuzhu.I saw a cauldron boiling, filled with soup and water; two skinned hares were hanging under the eaves, dripping blood; Open your eyes, a large pool of scarlet bowel waste has just been taken out, still hot and smelly, winding in the stone trough.But seeing the smog lingering and the smell of mutton soaring to the sky, it almost knocked Luo Yi, who is sensitive to five senses, overturned.

Luo Yi leaned on the wall and sat down slowly, feeling horrified in his heart, is this killing chickens to scare monkeys?Or did Shen Yuzhu come up with some weird medicinal materials to concoct himself?

Sure enough, Shen Yuzhu was holding a long-handled copper spoon, stirring in a tumbling cauldron with strong aura, scooped out a spoonful of thick and black unknown substance, and stuffed it into Luo Yi's mouth without any explanation: "Try it!"

Before Luo Yi could struggle, he felt a lump of hot and delicious meat slowly slipping into his esophagus.

Shen Yuzhu asked expectantly: "How?"

"……'how'?"

"How about the saltiness?"

"...the smell of ginger is a bit stronger."

Shen Yuzhu followed good advice, turned around and picked up the luan knife, cut off two rows of meat from the side of the wild pig, and threw it into the cauldron.

In the next few days, Shen Yuzhu graciously invited Luo Yi to try burnt wild quail, crucian carp, roasted roe jerky, shiitake mushroom soup with bracken, and bean rice with bean sauce... The expected torture was delayed, Luo Yi Full of suspicion, he is always on the alert, guarding against Shen Yuzhu's sudden rape, obscenity, shamelessness, and conscience; for a moment, he thinks that a soldier can be killed and cannot be humiliated, and it is better to fight with him to the death; The heart of merit is not dead, it is better to endure the humiliation of the moment, to suffer from the fire, to obey, to wait for the future; to struggle and sway, to be in fear all day long.In contrast, Shen Yuzhu didn't notice it at all. During the day, Luo Yi was fed with plenty of wine and food, and his oily water was shining; .If Luo Yi hadn't had to take time to worry about his own future, he would have put on a few catties of weight.

When Luo Yi woke up from his dream late at night.It was warm and cold at the end of spring, the small window on the east side was not closed tightly, and the night wind blew into the bedroom from time to time.Luo Yi closed his eyes and curled up towards the warm body behind him, and subconsciously took the warm thing around his waist into his arms.

The next moment, Luo Yi who suddenly realized what he was doing froze instantly.He opened his eyes suddenly, slowly and carefully lifted the quilt away, and looked at the things he had pulled into his chest.

That was Shen Yuzhu's hand.

Luo Yi stared at it for a long time with complicated expressions.Behind him Shen Yuzhu breathed heavily, buried his head on his shoulders and neck, and fell asleep soundly, not aware of any inappropriateness in the weird situation of the two of them.

A wave of depression welled up in his heart, Luo Yi suddenly couldn't bear it any longer, turned around and vigorously shook Shen Yuzhu awake.

Shen Yuzhu was woken up reluctantly: "...what's wrong?"

Luo Yi asked with a dark face, "How long do you want to play?"

Shen Yuzhu yawned: "What are you playing?" Because he just woke up, his voice was extremely low and lazy.He rubbed his sleepy eyes, and saw a strand of black hair falling on Luo Yi's cheek, looking at it made him itchy, and couldn't help reaching out his hand to brush it away for him.

Luo Yi opened his hand, annoyed in a low voice: "I've had enough! Get out and sleep by yourself!"

Shen Yuzhu said straightforwardly: "I don't want it. You are warm."

"...Why don't you go to Dou Guxu?"

"Ah Xu grinds his teeth when he sleeps."

Luo Yixin said: "This bastard really slept with someone else! Wait, that's not the point..."

It's just that when Shen Yuzhu stretched out his hand and touched him, the lust that had been suppressed so easily stirred up again.He held back his anger and said, "How on earth are you willing...to take the effect of the red pill?"

Shen Yuzhu was puzzled, and looked at him with a pair of defenseless black eyes.

"I didn't give you a red pill." He said.

Luo Yi gritted his teeth and said, "Nonsense! You didn't drug me, why did you just..."

"Just what?"

Luo Yi took a deep breath, and said coldly, "You know it well, I won't mess with you."

Although he denied it verbally, after thinking about it in his heart, he also figured out the reason.Although the red pill that Shen Yuzhuqiang fed to him at the Liumeikan that day was full of weight, the effect of the medicine would not last for dozens of days.Presumably it was because he took the medicinal diet that sharpened the five senses, and he made skin-to-skin contact with Shen Yuzhu intentionally or unintentionally all day long, which inevitably caused his body to remember the feeling of being in love in the past.For example, during the winter dry season, the mountains and forests rekindle one after another. If there is not a pleasant rain, it will not be completely relieved after all.

Shen Yuzhu also seemed to be vaguely thinking about this, blushing for no reason, and turned away.Seeing his expression, Luo Yi felt less ashamed but blazing with anger, suddenly turned over and sat up, scolded in a cold voice: "Shen Yuzhu, you and I both know that you hate me to the bone and wish to eat me flesh Sleepy, why hide it? If you want revenge, just do it openly and aboveboard! Will you be afraid of me? Why are you here to play tricks now? "

Shen Yuzhu understood these words, but he didn't intend to pay attention to them. "Because I'm happy." He responded lightly, stretched out his hand and pulled Luo Yi into the quilt, gave a "tsk", and scolded: "Don't turn around, you're bringing in the cold wind!"

He carefully tucked in the corner of the quilt, wrapped the two of them comfortably, and said with satisfaction: "Okay, go to sleep! Don't move any more!"

Luo Yi was forced to turn over and lay down again, extremely annoyed but unable to think about it, he said contemptuously: "Shen Yuzhu, who did you learn the virtues of a mother-in-law like you? Do you still have to tell a story to lull me to sleep?"

Before the words fell, Shen Yuzhu felt a movement behind him, and was caught off guard and "wowed" and turned over and sat up.

Luo Yi was stunned, turned around and saw Shen Yuzhu staring at the void motionlessly, with an extremely strange expression.After a long time, he finally turned around and stared at him in a daze.

"I see what 'blue eyes' means."

He said.

"I tried to think about the phrase 'death to blue eyes' from the aspects of strokes, pictograms, rhythm, etc., but I couldn't figure out the answer. But there is no doubt that since Master can say this sentence in public, it can be seen that He was very sure that no one but me could solve the riddle. Now I finally understand that this is because the phrase 'the blue eyes are all dead' is itself the answer to the riddle."

Luo Yi's eyes flickered, and he said, "You mean, there is a mystery that only you know?"

Shen Yuzhu nodded: "When I was three or four years old, I had a severe illness. I was in a coma for several days, had a high fever, and was dying. Many people thought I was bound to die. But the master never gave up. When I was sick, crying and crying, and refused to take medicine to fall asleep, Master told me many anecdotes to amuse me, the story of 'blue eyes' was one of them.

"He said that there is a small island far away from human habitation outside the East China Sea. There is a group of ethnic groups with different eye colors living on the island. They are the remnants of the former royal family and practice a strange religion. This religion has three iron laws: First, they cannot look in the mirror to see the color of their own eyes; second, they cannot talk to each other about the color of other people's eyes or their own; third, once someone knows their own eye color, they must go to the Jongmyo Massacre in public on the altar.

"The islanders abide by these three strange precepts for a long time, but they live in peace. Until one day, a wandering traveler came to this island by chance. He was warmly received by the islanders and learned a lot as he wished. The etiquette of the priests of the previous dynasty. On the day he left the island, he thanked the islanders at the farewell banquet, and said inadvertently: "I didn't know until I got here that there are other people with blue eyes like me in this world. .'

Just after he said these words, all the islanders looked at each other, slowly showing panic.The traveler realized that he should not talk about the color of the eyes, but then he thought, didn't the islanders already know that there are people with blue eyes on the island?So he bid farewell and left with peace of mind.

"However, what he didn't know was that a few days later, all the blue-eyed people on this island came to the altar of the Jongmyo together, massacred and died*."

I thought it would be solved suddenly, but the story told by Shen Yuzhu was even more absurd.Luo Yi frowned and said, "Why? That traveler didn't specify who has blue eyes!"

Shen Yuzhu shook his head: "I can't understand it for a while. What I don't understand is why the master specially reminded me of this story before he died? It has nothing to do with his death—"

*"Blue-Eyed Death" is adapted from "The Red-Eyed Islander Suicide Mystery".