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Liu Yifang: "Snake"

author:Department of Chinese Language and Literature and Chinese
Liu Yifang: "Snake"

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Xu Xian has a scar on his right leg, which is as big as a wine cup. He was asked, "What sores have you had?" He shook his head, refusing to tell the story. In fact, this is not a shameful thing, and if you say it, you will never lose face. Don't talk about it, because things are a bit weird. At that time, when I was just over eleven years old, I caught a cricket in the grass, caught it, and put it in a bamboo tube. Joy was like a wave, running quickly, and a white snake more than five feet long crossed the field, jumped over, and returned home, its right leg was red. At first, I didn't think it was anything; Later, the pain was unbearable. Lang Zhong took medicine for him, and the edema gradually disappeared. When it healed, the wound had a scar, the size of a wine cup. From then on, when he saw something like a thick hemp rope or a long cloth belt, he would be terrified.

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Clear and bright. Xu Xian, who returned from sweeping the tomb, walked to the lake on the mountain path. West Lake is beautiful. The West Lake is more beautiful during the Qingming Festival. On the lake there are dark clouds pressing on the peaks. Flocks of birds flutter in the air. The wind was blowing, and all the flowers and plants were swaying in a panic. Qingming seems to be impossible without rain. The rain is coming. The rain hits the surface of the lake, as if throwing vegetables into an oil pan, making a piercing rustling sound. He longed to see the boat, and the boat actually rowed over. Board the ship. The boat swings in the water. When he brushed the raindrops off his body with his sleeve, "Boatman! Boatman! "Call to break through the envelope of the sound of rain. So crisp. So beautiful. There were two women on the shore. Xu Xian squinted and peeked, and couldn't help but be surprised by the other party's charm. The captain rowed the boat closer to shore. Two women boarded the ship and entered the cabin. Four eyes touched. The heart is like a deer. The fingertips of the weeping willow flicked the hatch cover, and the ship rowed away in the rain. And so, the short conversation began. "It rained a lot," he said. She said, "It rained heavily. "Outside the cabin is a picture of spring rain, in which the colors are chasing an image. The color of the scenery was originally thick, but it was suddenly diluted by the showers. Trees sing the praises of life with lushness. The Baochu Pagoda suddenly disappeared. So the laughter was out of character, crisp and pleasant. The wind sends the rain strips. Stripes of rain dance in the wind. The ship's boss suddenly became more interested, and he opened his voice and sang a few mountain songs. Someone thought of the question: "Will the broken moon be reunited under the three pools?" Bai Suzhen lowered her head and was silent. The confrontation in the high walls is the next day. The next day, the afterglow of the setting sun painted golden on the door wall. Xu Xian's boots are still stained with the mud of yesterday. "You're here?" The scent of flowers rushed out of the door. Xu Xian entered the hall and sat on a porcelain stool. In addition to the dragon well soaked in the mountain spring, Bai Suzhen also poured a glass of wine with her own hands. The candlelight is cast on the wine, and the wine has the reflection of a smile. Drinking the smile, vision began to blur. The fire of depositing money has a magical change and transformation. The absurdity comes from drinking, and everything is sweet.

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Candle Flame Jump. Flower candles cannot be blown out. Desire looks for another definition in the head of the fire. The whispers in the tent could not be heard clearly even by the maid who was close to the crack in the door. It was a happy sound. The playful maid knows: Bai Suzhen, who has always liked the scenery of the West Lake, does not want to go to the West Lake to capture the sense of paradise. The fragrance coming out of the window does not necessarily come from the bronze incense burner. The night wind is shaking the curtains. Outside the wall came the sound of the gong beating the watchmen, and they had not yet slept.

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Xu Xian opened a pharmacy, and there were more sick people. The neighbors all said that Bai Suzhen had good luck, and Xu Xian smiled from ear to ear. The pharmacy business is booming, and it is worth rejoicing. And the greatest joy came from Bai Suzhen's whispering. With a gentle sentence of "I already have", Xu Xian jumped up with joy.

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There is a yard behind the pharmacy. The yard is overgrown with plants and potted plants. Too much beauty, instead it looks messy. "This yard," Xu Xian often thought, "should reduce some flowers and trees." However, the trees and flowers are growing deeper. On this day, someone borrowed a medical book from Xu Xian, and the medical book was placed in the back room, and it had to be passed through the courtyard. As we walked through the courtyard, a snake swam into the depths of the courtyard. A burst of darkness appeared in front of Xu Xian's eyes, and he fell to the ground without knowing it. The frightened dispersal may not be effective, but the frightened Xu Xian still woke up. When the maid helped him into the room, he saw Bai Suzhen with a worried face. "That'...... The serpent ......" he wanted to say: "The serpent got into the haystack," but after saying four words, he did not have the strength to say the remaining half of the sentence. He was shaking. A terrible impression occupies the thinking body. The serpent, though it did not harm him, made him feel greatly disturbed. The snake no longer appears. For him, the serpent is omnipresent. In order to help him get rid of the terrible impression, Bai Suzhen instructed the men to invite the snake catcher. The snake catcher demanded a tael of silver. Bai Suzhen gave him two taels. The snake catcher caught a few dead branches in the yard, said "there are no snakes in the yard", and then swaggered to the restaurant across the street to drink. Bai Suzhen sighed and instructed the man to invite another snake catcher. The man asked for two taels of silver, and Bai Suzhen gave him three taels. The snake catcher's skillful technique did not have the desired effect, insisting that there were no snakes in the courtyard. Bai Suzhen advised Xu Xian not to worry, Xu Xian said: "I saw it with my own eyes, that snake swam into the messy grass. Bai Suzhen instructed the men to pull out all the grass and trees in the courtyard. There are no snakes in the courtyard. The snake is in Xu Xian's brain. Bai Suzhen personally fried a large bowl of medicinal tea for him to drink. There was a shadow in front of him that kept shaking. He had a dream. In the dream, Bai Suzhen took a long sword and went to Kunlun Mountain to steal Ganoderma lucidum grass. Grass grows in fairyland. There are heavenly soldiers and generals in the fairyland. Bai Suzhen went to such a distant place to steal grass, just to treat him. He was half sick. Without Ganoderma lucidum, you will see Hades. Bai Suzhen and Bai He compete with each other. Bai Suzhen and Huanglu compete with each other. You can't win in the sword competition, you can only win the sympathy and pity of the Antarctic fairy with tears. She used fairy grass to revive Xu Xian...... Xu Xian woke up from the dream, opened his worried eyes, and saw that Bai Suzhen was still sitting on the edge of the bed, and his suspicions suddenly rose, and he asked in a phlegm-blocked tone: "Who are you?" ”

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After recovering from his illness, Xu Xian still couldn't overcome the fear entrenched in his heart, and every time he stepped on the courtyard path, he always felt that an attack would come from either side at any time. Bai Suzhen's thoughtfulness aroused his suspicions. He didn't believe that there would be all American women in the world.

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So there was such a gloomy day, Bai Suzhen was wrapped in rice dumplings at home, and Xu Xian was stopped by a monk holding a Zen stick on the street. The monk calls himself Fahai and has a pair of glowing eyes. Monk Fahai said: "Bai Suzhen is a goblin. Monk Fahai said, "Bai Suzhen is a snake. Monk Fahai said: "The snake spirit who has been practicing in the mountains for a thousand years does not want to be a god. Monk Fahai said, "For a thousand years, I often saw myself in the reflection of the clear spring and did not like my own body. Monk Fahai said, "The monster can't resist the temptation of the red dust, and longs to taste the sour and sweet tastes." Monk Fahai said: "She exchanged her thousand-year-old Taoism for the joy of the world. Monk Fahai said, "The joy of the world made her forget that she was a fairy. She doesn't like the clear springs and the night breeze and bushes in the mountains. Monk Fahai said: "Tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival, give her a glass of realgar wine, and she will appear in her original form." ”…… Monk Fahai turned to him.

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The oars are rowed to the sound of drums. Dragon boats compete with dragon boats under umbrellas for pride on the water. Bai Suzhen didn't go to join in the fun, but she was afraid that excessive fatigue would affect the tire gas. Xu Xian could have gone to see it, but he didn't go. The pharmacy wasn't open, and he was busier than usual. He has always been cowardly, and with the five poisonous cakes and the auspicious gourd, his courage has grown. Early in the morning, calamus and mugwort are all over the door frame, with charms, and any poison must be avoided. On this day, he was particularly emotionally stressed. In addition to detoxification, I also want to seek an answer to a question. Is his wife a goblin who covets the joy of the world? He pasted Zhong Kui's ghost hunting picture on the door and used it as an access curfew in an attempt to imprison Bai Suzhen in the room. Bai Suzhen has a calm attitude and is not afraid or avoided. As a result, realgar wine became the only effective anti-evil substance. When sitting oppositely, Xu Xian poured a full cup and forced Bai Suzhen to drink it. Bai Suzhen said: "For the sake of the child, I can't drink. Xu Xian said, "For the sake of the child, you must drink." Bai Suzhen refused to drink. Xu Xian was angry with a straight face. Bai Suzhen was most afraid that Xu Xian would be angry, so she had to raise her glass and taste it. After Xu Xian drank a drink, he asked her to do the same. She said: "If you drink too much, you get drunk." Xu Xian said: "Drunk, go to bed and rest." Bai Suzhen raised her neck and drank the wine in the cup in one gulp. The head is heavy. The scene in front of you began to rotate. "I'm a little unwell," she said, "and I'm going back to my room to rest." Xu Xian helped her back to her room. She said, "I'm going to sleep in the quiet, and you go ahead and watch the guys play cards." Xu Xian snorted and staggered through the courtyard to the front. After more than an hour, he staggered through the courtyard to the back room, gently pushed open the hidden door, and tiptoed to the bed, where there was a snake on the bed, so frightened that his soul did not possess his body, and walked towards the door quickly, and Bai Suzhen stood outside the door. "What's wrong?" "There's a snake in the bed." Bai Suzhen pulled out the Ai Hupu sword inserted in the door frame, and strode in, thinking that there was really a snake on the bed, and there was only a belt on the bed that had just been unfastened!

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Xu Xian walked to Jinshan Temple to find Monk Fahai. The monk said: "Abbot Fahai has passed away in the last month. Xu Xian said: "I met him on the street the day before yesterday. The monk said, "What you meet must be another monk." ”

(11 August 1978)