freeloader
□ Ling Han bloomed
Halfway home, as soon as I opened the door, I jumped down, and there was an uninvited guest in the living room- a snake.
Since the new house was built, the family has not seen it for several years.
When I live in the old house, I will occasionally visit the courtyard or the house. Sometimes in the corner, sometimes on the grain heap, and sometimes it seems to be under the bed. The skin under the snake's shedding, we call it long worm pants, all said to be medicinal herbs, can be sold for money, once found a thick and long snake pants behind the door of the neighbor's house, several children also scrambled. I have often said that I belong to the serpent and am not afraid of it. Once it came to the house, just when the child saw it, in order to make the child not afraid, I said, the snake is a small dragon, in the folk it represents the dragon, indicating that our family is the land of Crouching Tiger and hidden dragon. The child understood the meaning of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, there was no obvious sense of fear, and it was as usual as good as usual.
Today I saw it again, and I couldn't help but shout, there are snakes in our house, both children have come, and they have not shown special fear, and they all say that they want to find a way to let it out. I took my phone and took a picture, and you clicked on the phone. The son said, see you two have a snake in our house, you two are happy to be like this.
Watching the snake crawl in the living room, in fact, we are also afraid, and close the bedroom door. It was crawling around the living room doorway, probably not knowing how to get out, fortunately there was no hole in the floor, if it was an old house, I don't know where it would go.
Hearing the sound of the child's father coming home, I shouted, we have a snake in the house, get it out, don't beat it to death. Repeated a few words "Don't kill." He took a stick, and the snake seemed frightened, holding its head straight and straightening its neck a little angry. Dad may be afraid that the child is afraid, saying, I will not kill it, as long as you do not hurt it, it will not hurt you, do not be afraid, our family is the land of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Unexpectedly, he also said this. Take a bucket and let it climb into the bucket! Where will it obey?
In the end, it climbed out of the house on its own, and after reaching the door, we couldn't find its shadow anymore. I asked, are you sure you climbed out? Did you see it crawl out the door? The heart is still a little unsteady, after all, it is a snake, not afraid of just talking.
Maybe it is autumn, the fields are full of locomotives, full of people wielding labor tools, disturbing the people in the fields, it is looking for a place to live, people and nature need a quiet home.
2021.10.3
About the author: Ling Han Bloom, a farmer in Henan, likes ancient poetry. Loved being with the kids. Raising tadpoles has been fishing and drying nets for more than 20 years.