In Coconut Village, Qionghai City, Hainan Province, 33-year-old Huang Kaining inadvertently rescued and adopted a small python less than a foot long nine years ago. In the past 9 years, Huang Kaining has taken good care of pythons, almost eating and sleeping together; The python "feeds back" to repay the favor, connecting Huang Kaining, guarding the door, taking care of the children, and becoming the "nanny snake" of the Huang family. Now, this python has become a giant python, about 4 meters long and weighs more than 100 pounds.
One day in August 1996, Huang Kaining found a small python with a knife wound on its tail in the betel nut garden, lying motionless on a rock. Huang Kaining, who has loved small animals since childhood, took it home and, under the guidance of an old Chinese medicine doctor, used an herb to stop bleeding and rejuvenate muscles to heal the little python.
In order to raise pythons well, Huang Kaining specially went to the bookstore to buy some books on raising snakes to study and study, and at the same time he also recorded some of the life habits of pythons one by one. At first, Huang Kaining fed him frogs, toads and fish, but later found that he loved to eat mice, so Huang Kaining specially designed several small bamboo cages specifically for pythons to catch mice. The time of feeding of pythons is not fixed, and sometimes the amount of food is so large that it swallows 28 rats in one meal! The news spread that as long as the villagers caught the rats, they were sent to the Huang family, and Huang Kaining was more confident in raising pythons, and Huang Kaining sometimes bought chickens, rabbits and other delicacies that he did not often enjoy even himself.
In the winter, the python is afraid of cold, Huang Kaining uses an electric heater to warm the python, and bathes the python with warm water containing potassium permanganate every day.
One morning in 1997, Huang Kaining felt a chill on his face in his sleep, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that it was the python, which was meekly swinging its head! Later, this python often took advantage of Huang Kaining's sleep to climb to his pillow, like a gentle girl like water.
In this way, Huang Kaining simply prepared two pillows on his bed, one for his own and the other for the python. When pythons fall asleep, they like to curl up on their pillows. Sometimes the python will also spoil the owner, the summer weather is hot, Huang Kaining sleeps naked, the python often climbs up and down on him, and plays for half a day to fall asleep.
When the python saw Huang Kaining happy, it would sometimes excitedly circle around him; If Huang Kaining sat still, as if he was sulking, the python would also lie quietly on the floor and accompany him silently. What moved Huang Kaining the most was that once he sprained his leg during labor in the field and was bedridden for half a month, while the python had been with him and did not move around for half a month.
In 1998, Xiaolan girl from a neighboring village heard that Huang Kaining had raised a python and slept with the python, so she couldn't help but ask her female companions to come to the Huang family to watch. Among the girls, Xiaolan hugged the python and asked Huang Kaining, "The python sleeps with you, has it ever lost sleep?" Huang Kaining smiled and kissed the python on the spot.
Huang Kaining left a deep impression on Xiaolan. She thought that a man who has such feelings for small animals, who takes such care of them, must be very kind in heart, and must have good contact with him. So Xiaolan went home and made a few small bamboo cages and began to help Huang Kaining catch mice. Every time Xiaolan sent a mouse, she talked speculatively with Huang Kaining, and gradually established a deep relationship between them. A year later, they happily entered the palace of marriage.
In 2000, after the birth of Huang Kaining's son, the python was particularly kind to his son and never hurt the child. Whenever Huang Kaining and his wife went out, this python became the "snake nanny" of the Huang family's dutiful dutifulness. His son rode the python as a horse for a while, and the little face on the back of the snake.
Pythons have been in the village for 8 years, and children regard pythons as their good friends. As soon as school was over, the children happily ran to Huang Kaining's house to visit the python and play with it.
In summer, children like to carry pythons to the river outside the village to swim. Once in the water, the python can come to power, making a special fuss, and from time to time slapping the children's bare butts with its thick and smooth tail. Some children who can't swim often hold the body of the python or grab the tail of the python to play in the water, play for a long time, and even learn to swim.
One day, while children and pythons were having fun in the river, a little boy encountered quicksand. Seeing that he was about to be swept away by the rapids, an older companion swam over with a large python in his arms, but the water was too fast, and the companion could not pull the child back from the water several times. At this time, the python seemed to understand everyone's meaning, and suddenly wrapped its powerful tail around the little boy, dragging him back from the rapids.
Late one night in the summer of 2001, Xiaolan was awakened by a noise in the living room, and she hurriedly woke up her husband. Huang Kaining got up and turned on the light to see that the legs of a strange man were dead entangled with a python. When asked, it turned out to be a thief, ready to steal the betel nut that Huang Kaining had just acquired. Huang Kaining and his neighbors twisted the thief to the town's police station overnight.
No matter how good Huang Kaining is to pythons, pythons like to live in the wild after all. In a year, it always has to go out to "hang out" several times, when it leaves and when it returns, Huang Kaining has no bottom in his heart. Whenever the python "disappeared", Huang Kaining would be uneasy at home, living like a year, and he was very worried about the safety of the python. Fortunately, this python is always in danger, as little as ten days, more than a month, it will return safely, and Huang Kaining will always reward it with a fat rooster.
Pythons sometimes do bad things. Once When Huang Kaining went out, the hungry python actually stole his chicken. After Huang Kaining returned, it wrapped around Huang Kaining's neck and stuck out its tongue to kiss his face, as if to make him happy, Huang Kaining cried and laughed.
After the story of Huang Kaining and the python spread, some wealthy merchants learned about the situation and wanted to buy the python back as a pet. Although Huang Kaining's family is not rich, he is not moved by money, he said: "This python is like my family, I will not be separated from it, let alone sell him!"
A Taiwan businessman who runs a business in Haikou is willing to pay 80,000 yuan to buy this python, but after being rejected by Huang Kaining, he is still not dead hearted, and his wife drove a Mercedes-Benz car to Huang Kaining's house 5 times. A python can be worth so much money, which is really strange in the eyes of the villagers of Coconut Village! A kind aunt also scolded Huang Kaining for being stupid, saying that 80,000 is enough to build a beautiful building! But Huang Kaining just doesn't sell.
An overseas Chinese named Wenchang, after coming to see the python during the first annual meeting of the "Boao Forum for Asia" in 2002, has always been obsessed with the python, often writing letters to understand the situation of the python, and also sending some fees from time to time, asking Huang Kaining to supplement the python with more nutrition.
Huang Kaining said, I never want to be separated from it (python), do you know how deep my feelings with it are?
astound! The sichuan old house surprised the long-legged snake
Last year and this summer, Qiongxiu's family in Section 422 Lingquan Road, Renli Town, Suining City, was full of strange things, and snakes of different sizes frequently arrived unexpectedly. Why do snakes frequently haunt Duan Qiongxiu's house? Why do snakes have long legs? For a time, the residents of Renli Town had different opinions and disagreements. Renli Town is located in the suburbs of Suining City, Lingquan Road is the old street of Renli Town, and most of the houses have been converted into cement brick houses, but Duan Qiongxiu's family is still a wooden house built before liberation. "Although the wooden house is old, it is warm in winter and cool in summer, and I like to live here." The 66-year-old Duan Qiongxiu is in good health and usually has a very optimistic personality, and when she talks about her old house, she always shows a look of treating it as a baby on her face.
At more than 10 o'clock in the evening of the 8th, it was hot outside, and Duan Qiongxiu's home was quite cool, so Duan Qiongxiu went to bed early, and soon she fell asleep. At one o'clock in the morning of the 9th, a sound of "sand, sand, sand-" woke Duan Qiongxiu up. In the middle of the night, the sound is particularly frightening. "No, there are thieves-" Duan Qiongxiu "giggled" in her heart, but thinking that there were neighbors on the left and right, she immediately calmed down, quietly put her hand to the light switch, quickly turned on the electric light and shouted loudly, "Catch the thief." Duan Qiongxiu looked around, empty. However, the new situation on the wall in front of the bed made Duan Qiongxiu take a breath of cool air: there was a snake with a long foot crawling on the wall, and this foot clung to the wall, perhaps it was a sudden bright light and the roar of the master, which also frightened it, and its head was still looking at the master!
Surprised to find that this snake has a "foot"
After finding the snake with feet, Duan Qiongxiu had the courage to beat it to death. After the news of the Duan family's discovery of a footed snake spread, on the 9th and 10th, the citizens who came to visit were endless. Duan Qiongxiu used chopsticks to clip the snake out of the bottle. The snake is 40 cm long, with thick little fingers, only one foot on the whole body, the foot is 15 cm from its head, the foot is two centimeters long, and the foot has 4 claws. Seeing this strange snake with long legs, no one did not exclaim.
Why? Experts are also surprised
Why do snakes have long legs? Yesterday afternoon, the reporter consulted Zhou Caiquan, dean of the School of Life Sciences of China West Normal University, on relevant issues. As a senior expert, Teacher Zhou had never seen a snake with one foot, and he was very surprised by this.
Yesterday afternoon, entrusted by Dean Zhou, his student Long Shuai, a technician of a certain unit in Suining, rushed to Duan Qiongxiu's house. After observing, Long Shuai believed that because this snake was still in a sub-adult state (not grown up) and was soaked in wine, the color had changed, what kind of snake needed to be further studied, "What is the snake's foot?" As long as the snake is dissected and analyzed, it can be figured out. As for why snakes frequently haunt Duan Qiongxiu's home, Long Shuai believes that Duan Qiongxiu's home is dark and damp, and it is an old house, which is exactly the environment that snakes like.