"The stuff dug out from the grave bag... what else... come here and see for the teacher."
The old man leaned in with a drink, then with a bang, he opened the red cloth seal and looked inside.
"Um... powdery, off-white..." Then he stretched out his hand and dug a little, tasted his mouth: "It tastes salty and slightly bitter... Tsk tsk... ashes."
"Ashes?!" I jumped back several steps in surprise: "You still eat the ashes!!!"
"Wine... the teacher told you that we doctors pay attention to the four big characters, look, smell, and ask! Of course, you can also include tasting. Shennong knows if you taste the herbs? Without Shennong, where does it come from now!"
"Okay, what you say is reasonable!" I moved away from the jar again: "But doesn't this dead person not burn it?"
If I remember correctly, I have traveled through the past six years... I have never seen cremation. Basically all of them are dead and buried in change and fat!
"Isn't the fire tormentor burnt..." The old man burped again: "Anyway, no matter what the torture is, I have to leave some for my family's thoughts... Isn't this just thinking!"
"In other words..."
I started to get a bit of cold, Nima, what kind of baby I thought I was holding a jar of ashes, came back all the way? !
"Okay, go and put people in the soil for safety. Tomorrow the cellars in the city will pick up a good green bamboo fermented wine to cheer up the party. You can steal some for the teacher."
"Drink and drink! Why don't you drink to death!"
I stomped my foot and hugged the ashes jar and went out very depressed.
"No wonder... No wonder... I'm still a baby, I'm so naive... I disturbed your old man's rest... I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."
After a series of apologies, I buried the ashes jar under a big tree far away from our cave, and continued to kowtow begging for forgiveness.
Because I have died, I can occasionally see one or two wandering spirits with deep resentment. I know very well that there are ghosts in this world... When I was a ghost, I did not harm people, but it does not mean that other ghosts do not. Harm!
"Swish-"
There was a weird sound, and I was even more frightened. I quickly filled the dirt pit, and then rushed back!
At this time, the sky is already bright, and I can be a little bit bolder than in the middle of the night!
But... Just when I ran out for a hundred meters or so, something suddenly tripped me with a snap! Then I felt a large piece of coldness entangled my body!
snake! !
I just saw a snake, so my first impression was that the thing came back with me!
I have forgotten the rest... I think I was so frightened, but when I woke up, I found myself in a cave, lying on a bluestone slab.
It's not the cave where my family lives. This cave is a big rock that has been hollowed out, and the entrance of the cave rushes up... In other words, I can't get out anyway!
I was brought back to the den by the snake? !
The previous memory quickly returned, and I sat on the bluestone slab a little scared, watching the surroundings.
The sun was shining from the entrance of the cave. I thought it would be noon or afternoon. There were a few tomatoes on the slab...
I couldn't even find a rope in this cave, and I had no hope of getting out of this cave with the entrance to the sky.
After hesitating for a long time, the sun went down, the cave was pitch black, and a few stars could be seen at the entrance of the cave...until there was another slur.
The snake is back! ! !
I shrank in fear, and hid in a corner of the bluestone board. The big snake was the big snake I dug out last night, the boss’s... As soon as it came in, the hole was almost full, but strangely, it was still there. Being able to wander flexibly, I found me shrunk behind the slate at a glance.
Facing each other... Looking at each other with huge distances.
"Hi..." I greeted shiveringly.
I was an animal trainer in my previous life, and I died accidentally in the mouth of a tiger. Although I learned to be a doctor from an old man in this life, the ecstasy once gave me the skills to understand the conversation of small animals to save my life.
Although such a big cold-blooded animal has never tried it, I believe that kind communication may still be effective.
The big snake vomited a letter and didn't talk to me. The dark scales were relatively dark in the hole, but they were still glowing with cold.
Looking at each other for a long time, seeing that it didn't mean to eat me, I boldly stepped forward and touched the snake's belly.
It's icy.
"Don't eat me... I'm a good person..."
The weak voice, I don't know if I was too scared or I was afraid to startle the snake suddenly, in short, it was almost a tone that I could hear myself.
The snake didn't respond, and then glanced at the tomatoes on the chopping board.
"I didn't move... I didn't eat..."
I quickly clarified my position and said that I didn't grab food with it, and I didn't threaten it at all.
Animals protect food, even if it is two fruits... But what makes me even more trembling at this time is that in theory, tomatoes are vegetarian, I am meat, and I may also be considered food.
Maybe it's the same food as tomatoes, which are stored in the hole and not eaten.
But luckily it didn't plan to eat me now... I was thinking, this snake is so big, is it possible for me to step on it and crawl out while it is sleeping
Snakes are clever animals, which is unlikely, but its movements are to pick me up... together with tomatoes.
Well, I am really food.
The hope of running out was lost... But when the big snake suddenly said a word.
"eat."
"...?!?!?!"
I looked around in panic, and after confirming that this was indeed what the snake said, I started struggling with the snake's belly in panic!
This is human words! Not the crooked animal language I usually hear! !
The serpent had no more words, just held me tighter.
The suffocation calmed me down, I thought... Maybe it's a spirit snake that has lived for hundreds of years or a fine snake, so it's just talking about humans.
Being able to speak human words means that this matter is solved better, right? !
I looked at its head, and it was smooth... Didn’t it say in ancient times that snakes that have grown for hundreds of years have snake crowns? Why is it not
Try to calm yourself down... Then the big snake suddenly enjoyed the tomato by himself, the huge snake head, and it felt a little strange to eat a small tomato.
But after that, it held a tomato in its mouth and poked me in the head.
"..."
It took a while for my empty brain to understand.
"Give me to eat?"
The snake is still dull, just holding the tomatoes in his mouth and looking at me coldly.
Snakes don't have eyelids, they just have their eyeballs covered by transparent scales, so even if they don't move, they look glaring.
When I took the tomatoes out of the snake's mouth and ate them, I began to understand.
This snake is going to feed me for the winter... or what
But it's only March. In the early spring, it should...
Early spring! Early spring? !
The snake in the early spring just hibernated well! Is it because it is hibernating. I dug it out of the soil and disturbed it? !
What surprised me even more was... In the early spring of March, where did this snake get the tomatoes? !
This is ancient times, there is no refrigerator! There is no anti-season greenhouse either!
Oh no... There are also greenhouses, but they are all grown by rich people. There are countless refugees like me who live in caves. How can they have tomatoes? ! ? !
The more I think about it, the more I feel scared... But I can't sleep at all, just staring at the big snake.
It's cold in the middle of the night... Although snakes are also cold, snakes can cover the wind, so I nestled a bit in the belly of the snake.
The snake seems to have no objection, but what scares me is that I don't know when it is sleeping... There is no eyelid, and it seems to be staring at sleep.
So I stared at a snake with big eyes, until the sky was light up again. I didn't know when I fell asleep. I only knew that when I woke up, the snake was not there.
This time, there are lychees on the chopping board... lychees, lychees, lychees!
Oh my god! I have been a refugee for six years since I was dragged out by the bewildered ecstasy, and traveled to this place where birds do not shit! I have never seen lychees! !
So I didn't think much about it. Considering that I didn't annoy the big snake after eating tomatoes yesterday, today this lychee is obviously mine!
The food dazzled my head. Although sweet my throat and eyes are itchy, but after six years of lychee eaten up all at once, I lay on the bluestone slab and slept all the way until the snake came back at night...
I still glanced at the chopping board first, and then the act of being coiled up again. I got used to it a bit, and I was thinking about it in my head.
Since this big snake is not malicious, can I develop some theories about beast-taming... and take this big snake as my own? !