Chapter 114 Crossing the Mountain
When my younger brother went for an outing in the mountains, he saw a nest of white eggs. They were neither big nor small, and looked neither like chicken eggs nor bird eggs. So the curious younger brother took all the fifty or so eggs in the nest back home.
In the previous life, the original owner tried her best to persuade her brother to return the egg, but her brother refused to listen and complained to her grandparents. The original owner was slapped thirty times by her grandmother, and her face was swollen.
My younger brother is the only boy of this generation. He was raised in the palm of his grandparents’ hands, and my uncle and aunt also counted on him to support them in their old age.
Mom and dad’s spines are straight because they gave birth to such a baby.
The whole village is full of relatives, and the younger brother is a complete bully in the village. The original owner was slapped in the face and was pointed at and scolded by the aunts and uncles in the group.
But for the safety of the village, the original owner secretly put the egg back.
The younger brother came back with his friends to show off his eggs, but found that all the eggs were gone. He was embarrassed and was laughed at by his friends.
The angry brother found the original owner and asked her if she had thrown away her eggs. The original owner admitted it without hesitation.
So, the angry younger brother, together with his protective grandparents, beat the original owner and asked the original owner to pick up the egg back.
Worried that the original owner would pretend to obey but actually disobey, the younger brother and grandparents followed the original owner.
When the original owner reached the flattened haystack, she stopped. Because she had good eyesight, she felt her legs weakened when she saw the densely packed little snakes in the haystack.
"Jinbao, grandpa and grandma, there is a snake here, run quickly..."
As soon as the original owner turned around, he was pushed by his grandmother and fell into the haystack, crushing several small snakes to death.
The female snake is very protective of her children. When she sees her child dead, she straightens her neck and bites the original owner.
The original owner was bitten to death by a king cobra.
After her death, my grandparents took the villagers into the mountains with torches and burned the king cobra and its cubs to death.
The original owner's body also turned to ashes.
"The third girl from the Zhang family is such a piece of shit. She actually brought such a dangerous thing home. She's going to kill us..."
"That's right. She didn't kill them, but sent them back. With so many snake eggs, how many snakes would hatch?"
"That's over the mountain. A bite from a snake can kill you. There are so many snakes. We don't dare to go up the mountain anymore..."
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All the words were complaints.
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"Grandpa and grandma, come and look, what kind of egg is this? Why does it look so strange?"
Each one is oval in shape, like a big cocoon.
This is a sign of hatching.
"Are these pheasant eggs? My great grandson is really amazing. He went up the mountain and found a nest of pheasant eggs. Grandma will make you egg drop soup tonight. Pheasant eggs are the most nutritious."
Zhang Shan hid far away and said, "Drink, drink. I'm afraid you won't die fast enough."
Slowly, Zhang Shan found her way back to the room. As soon as the college entrance examination was over, the original owner returned to her hometown. First, she missed her relatives at home, and second, she wanted to help her grandparents with farm work as they were old and their hands and feet were not as nimble as before.
Zhang Shan didn't notice at all that they were not clumsy. Don't you think they are good at beating people?
She took out her ID card and admission ticket. As for her household registration, she would get a new one when they all died.
He changed his clothes, put his ID card and admission ticket in his trouser pocket, picked up Zhang Jinbao's clothes and walked towards the river.
The river was calm and not very wide. Zhang Shan found a corner, avoiding everyone's sight, brought Zhang Jinbao's clothes to the mountain, threw them into a flattened haystack on the top of the mountain, and then ran back quickly.
It was impossible to wash clothes, so after hiding in the mountains and taking a bath, Zhang Shan got on the bus to the county.
This was the last bus and there were not many people on the bus. The driver looked at Zhang Shan's red eyes and didn't say much, thinking that she had a conflict with her family and wanted to run away from home.
Zhang Shan lowered her head, got off the bus, found a hotel near the station, and left by bus the next day.
As for where to go?
She didn't know either, so she left first.
Grandma Zhang wanted to beat the "wild eggs" to make soup, but Zhang Jinbao stopped her, "Grandma, don't cook it yet. I'm going to bring my friends to see it tomorrow. They won't believe that I picked up so many eggs."
"Okay, okay, grandma won't hit you. I'll go to the chicken coop to pick eggs and make egg custard for you." Grandma Zhang agreed lovingly.
When he turned around, he didn't see Zhang Shan coming back from washing clothes, and his face immediately darkened.
"Where has this little bitch been hiding away again? She hasn't come back for so long. She'd better die outside..."
Grandma Zhang would not touch the eggs brought by Zhang Jinbao. If she looked at them towards the light bulb, she would definitely see the small black worms wriggling inside.
At night, the snake eggs are slowly hatching and showing signs of breaking out of the shells.
In the silence of the night, two king cobras ran wildly in the woods and finally returned to their nest, only to find that the luxurious villa more than one meter high was gone, and more than fifty babies were also gone.
They smelled the enemy on the haystacks, their pupils erected, and they swam towards the village with their necks erected.
But it was safe for the night.
For a dangerous storm is brewing.
The King Cobra couple went to seek external help!
Zhang Shan, who disappeared for a night, did not get any attention from her grandparents. When they woke up to have breakfast the next day, they found that the pots and stoves were cold, so they smashed open Zhang Shan's door angrily.
The old wooden door clanged and fell to the ground, raising a gust of dust with the fragrance of earth.
"Bah, you lazy bastard, you don't even clean your room, it's like a pigsty, and you're a girl, you have no shame."
She completely forgot that this room was not a place for a decent person to sleep. It was filled with garbage that people were reluctant to throw away, the chickens she raised, and the "pheasant eggs" brought back by Zhang Jinbao.
All sorts of things were piled up in a small room. Against the wall was a bed made of three wooden boards, on which was neatly folded an old quilt, made of old-fashioned homespun cloth, that looked dirty and worn.
This doesn't look like a place for family members to live in, but rather like a beggars' den.
Not seeing Zhang Shan, the old lady stormed out again and howled twice at the door, "You little bastard, you don't even cook for me, and you want me to cook for you? Do you have any shame?"
"Aunt, what's wrong? Is the third girl disobeying you again?"
Grandma Zhang's face was gloomy. "Did you see her go out this morning?"
"No." The man shook his head.
She had just gotten up.
Grandma Zhang didn't have time to look for Zhang Shan because the crown prince woke up. "My dear, why did you wake up so quickly? Did grandma disturb your sleep? It's all grandma's fault. Go back to sleep, my dear!"
Zhang Jinbao looked at the time. It was only six o'clock in the morning. The old man slept little and woke up early. Zhang Jinbao lay back in bed and fell into a deep sleep.
Grandma Zhang closed the door carefully, knowing that Zhang Jinbao would not wake up soon, so she planned to go out for a walk and bring back some food for her good boy.
Of course, Zhang Shan is the main person to be asked to do the job. The family hasn’t even fed the chickens, ducks, pigs, and cows. Should she, an old woman, be asked to do it?
Grandma Zhang walked around the village again and again, even going to the place where Zhang Shan washed clothes, but she couldn't find any trace of Zhang Shan.
"Isn't this my sweetheart's clothes? Zhang Shan, this lazy bitch, just left them here. If my sweetheart does something wrong, I will beat her to death."
There is a saying in the village that if you leave a child's clothes in the wild, the child's soul will be taken away by wandering ghosts.
To the older generation, it is a curse.
So, the old lady is particularly angry now.
"Auntie, you got up so early to wash clothes? Where's your third daughter?"
"Dead, fell into the river and died!"
"what?"
The person asking the question was stunned for a moment. How could he die suddenly?
Grandma Zhang returned home with the clothes, built a fire at the door, and roasted the clothes on it, saying that she wanted to drive away the ghosts and spirits that were living in the fire.
It was a long time before it was brought into the house.
After all this busy work, it was already eight o'clock in the morning.
It was as if the words Zhang Shan fell into the river and died, and Grandma Zhang, who was psychologically hinted at, really treated Zhang Shan as a dead person.
At this moment, Zhang Shan had already boarded the escape car. Looking at the scenery going backwards, she felt particularly happy.
Zhang Jinbao has more than one or two pieces of clothes, and there are more than one or two haystacks on the mountain peaks.
The people in Guo Shanfeng who were mentioned by Zhang Shan held a meeting, and then followed the smell and found Zhang's house.
To be precise, it should be the original owner's room.
Seeing the intact snake eggs, the female snake stretched out her slender tongue and licked the eggs. After feeling the response from the baby snakes, she relaxed and coiled around the eggs, gently shaking her tail as if to comfort them.
At this time, Zhang Jinbao woke up.
"Grandma, I'm hungry!"
"Hey, dear, are you hungry?"
"Grandma, come and eat the egg custard. Eat more. You have lost weight at school. All the fat on your face has fallen off."
While eating the egg custard in his bowl, Zhang Jinbao was sending messages to his good friends. At that time, he was still using a keypad phone, and he pressed the keys quickly and well.
After sending the message, Zhang Jinbao didn't see his grandfather, "Grandma, where is my grandfather?"
"He went to the market and bought you some meat."
Zhang Jinbao, who often eats meat at school, is not greedy at all, but he is unwilling to eat vegetables every day.
After breakfast, Zhang Jinbao went to find his good friend.
His friends are all from this village, and they got together to see the "pheasant eggs".
"Jin Bao, you are amazing. Where did you find this pheasant egg?"
Pheasant eggs are very nutritious. They ate them when they were young. They can’t remember the specific taste, but they have the impression that they were very fresh and delicious.
Several teenagers swallowed secretly.
They didn't dare to ask Zhang Jinbao for money, because he was a stingy person. He would not let them eat even if they were shown the peach, and he was always complaining. When they were little, they ate a piece of his peach and were chased for two miles by Grandma Zhang.
"Yes, Jinbao, where did you find it? Take us to find it too."
Zhang Jinbao's nostrils were all pointing upwards, and his vanity was greatly satisfied.
"Okay, bring your baskets and follow me up the mountain. I'll show you the world today."
The boys were all very excited. Going up the mountain was nothing more than climbing trees to pick bird eggs. If they were lucky, they could take two or three eggs home.
Zhang Jinbao was walking in front. He still remembered the locations of the haystacks on the mountain and searched them one by one. Fortunately, the king cobras were not at home.
The boys in the village took baskets and picked up all the snake eggs from the mountain. When they met villagers on the way, they couldn't help showing off.
"Why does this egg look like a snake egg?"
"What snake eggs? These are pheasant eggs. You are ignorant."
"Really? Don't I recognize pheasant eggs? These are snake eggs."
During the quarrel, an egg was broken. After the eggshell broke, a small snake curled up inside was revealed, which was black and bloody.
"what!!!"
"It's really a snake!"
The boys dropped their backpacks one after another, and several snake eggs were broken.
An old lady trotted over, pushed through the crowd, and saw the little snake on the ground. The little snake was still wrapped in the placenta, and its heart was beating fast.