Brother Guang, as we all know, an old driver, a pure man, made his debut as a teenager, went to the northeast to pull wood, went to Hainan Island to pull fruit, and went to southern Xinjiang to pull materials. At the Water-sprinkling Festival, he met ghosts, demons, zombies, foxes, female ghosts, prostitutes, and big "milk" children streaking all over the street, and met all kinds of strange customs and had knives with Kangba men.

Speaking of local folk stories, folk songs (that is, yellow jokes) come with their mouths open, and a catty of white wine does not change color. This is a real "sex" man with fists and walking arms. I met this story with him on a trip.

Brother Guang is my good friend, but in fact he forgot to make friends because he is more than ten years older than me.

When this story happened, I had graduated from college and worked in a famous foreign company in Beijing. My salary is extremely high and my work is extremely idle. Just as Brother Guang also went to Beijing, I found a group of friends to accompany me and held a banquet for more than ten days.

Later, it was really boring, just in time for the May Day holiday. I asked several people to form a team for road trip. As a result, I met a very strange thing at the border of Hunan.

This strange experience is about snakes.

There is a saying in the circle of old hunters: "Nine trees hang in seven rows and eight rows, and the prince has a snake wrapped around his waist."

What does this sentence mean?

You just need to keep watching.

On this trip, I have two friends besides Brother Guang and me.

One is a hunter, and the other is a little rich second generation. He smirked carefree all day, driving around in herdsman, smoking pandas and beating Sparta. He likes hanging out with us best, and he can't get rid of it. I approved him to join because he paid for the self-driving business car and all the expenses.

There is also a college student named Daffat, a famous university in Beijing. He has a bright future and wants to hang out with us all day. This time, I heard that we were going to road trip, and we had to die with him, saying that he would do all the housework.

But he has a very big shortcoming, that is, he loves to fart, especially the serial fart regardless of the occasion. Before going this time, he wrote me a letter of guarantee, promising not to talk nonsense, or he would run back to Beijing himself.

This time on the road trip, there is actually no goal. Anyway, just stick it all the way south to see where it is pleasing to the eye. Before departure, everyone had a hearty meal, moved a box of mineral water, got some braised dishes, roast chicken and roast duck, and ran all the way south.

When I was young, I had to stay up late with my friends. It was a wonderful experience. The blue sky, the bright moon, the fresh grass and the faint burning smell filled the air. In the distant fields, several flickering lights are flashing, and the whistling wind is mixed with the sound of insects, like someone whispering at night, mysterious and warm.

We went all the way south, swigging iced coke, playing rock, singing and quarreling.

After tossing until midnight, everyone gradually lost their spirit. Those who didn't drink started to drive in shifts, while others fell asleep in the back. Because I can't drive, they let me sit in the co-pilot seat.

According to them, this seat is the most haunted, and someone has to stop it. If there is really no one, you have to pile something on your seat and put a bag or something, otherwise the ghosts on the road will sit on it and follow you.

I thought they were farting, drank some beer, covered their heads with clothes and fell asleep in their seats.

I'm confused. I don't know how long I slept, but I felt someone poking me in the waist with his finger. I looked straight at wait for a while, and the driver next to me had been replaced by Brother Guang.

He looked at me seriously, pointed to the front and whispered, "that car in front ... is just a little dirty!" " "

On such a deep and silent road, Brother Guang's serious appearance made me get goose bumps and woke up suddenly.

I quickly wiped his saliva, and when I looked forward, I saw that under the dim street lamp, it was all white and I couldn't see anything clearly.

I rubbed my eyes hard, but I still couldn't see clearly. I thought there was something wrong with my eyes, and I almost rubbed my eyes out with fear.

Brother Guang next to him said in a muffled voice, "Don't look, it's foggy!"

I was a little embarrassed and tightened my neckline and asked, "Hey, why is it foggy suddenly?" ? What a heavy fog! Yes, brother guang, what did you just say ... what is not clean? "

Brother Guang said in a muffled voice, "Look at the ground carefully. There is a car ahead. "

I tilted my head for a long time and finally saw something interesting. A dozen meters in front of us, there is a van, keeping the same speed as us and driving forward.

I squinted and said, "Hey, it looks like a broken gold cup! This foggy day is still on the highway, so I have to be reborn quickly! "

Brother Guang looked at me with a straight face and said nothing.

The moment I met his eyes, I froze and suddenly understood what he meant by unclean.

It's foggy!

When driving in foggy weather, you must turn on the double flash, fog lights, taillights, width lights and low beam lights, and honk your horn desperately, otherwise you may be hit by other cars at any time.

This car is good. Not only does it not turn on any lights, but it doesn't even move. How is that possible? !

Brother Guang whispered beside him, "This is a ghost car."

I'm a little scared: "overtaking!" Get rid of this stupid "power"! "

Brother Guang shook his head: "I can't surpass it."

I asked, "Why? ! "

"You can see for yourself." He turned the steering wheel to the left, trying to pass from the left, and the car in front followed him to the left, blocking us.

I shouted, "Fuck, baldy, there's someone in this car! Fucking want to hit us! "

He shook his head: "When I turned the corner just now, I turned on the headlights and looked at his rearview mirror. There is no one in the driver's seat. "

There is no one in the driver's seat, which means that this is really a "ghost" car, and my hair stands on end.

But I always feel something is wrong. I rubbed my hair hard, pressed it, forced myself to calm down, and tried to explain all this with science.

After thinking for a long time, I remembered a friend who said that he had met a car thief playing tricks when he was burning the midnight oil.

The thief got a scrap car from other places and followed someone else's car in the dark without turning on the light.

The habit of driving here is to look at the rearview mirror of the car in front with headlights and see the people in the driver's seat. As a result, he took a photo with his headlights and found that the driver's seat on the left was empty (the driver's seat of a foreign car was on the right). He thought he had hit a ghost, and he was stupid at that time. He quickly abandoned the car and ran away, and the thief stole it.

I didn't expect brother guang to say that he knew about it, and he saw it on both sides. No one was in the driver's seat or the passenger's seat!

I was a little incredulous and said, "Didn't you see it clearly? Otherwise, you can shine a headlight on him and let's take a closer look! "

Brother Guang said, "If headlights are turned on in fog, there will be a serial car accident!" ! Turn on the fog lights! "

I perfunctory: "good, good, good, open, open!" " "I thought to myself, what is clean and what is not clean? It is estimated that the bald man is bored driving by himself and deliberately scares me. When I can't see anything, I will break the bald man into pieces!

The yellow fog light is extremely penetrating, slowly passing through the layers of white fog, completely exposing the "ghost car" in front.

I stare big eyes and stare at the front unblinkingly. Just an ordinary Jinbei car. It's dark, I don't know if there is anyone in it.

This thing is really something.

I asked Brother Guang to honk his horn several times to see if the person in front was asleep, so I didn't turn on the light.

I said it several times, but Brother Guang didn't even fart.

Turning his head, he looked very nervous, his body stretched into an arch and his neck was stiff, staring at the car in front.

I couldn't help shouting, "Look at the road!"

He just panicked and slammed the steering wheel, and the car skidded and almost hit the guardrail next to him.

I didn't wear my seat belt at that time, and my head hit the windshield in front of me so hard that I almost fainted.

Holding my head tightly, I was about to curse when I heard Lao Guang say in a depressed voice, "Little fish! Look! What the hell is behind that car? ! "

Supposedly, an experienced old driver like Brother Guang wouldn't be like this, so I began to get nervous.

Looking back at the back of the car, I found a man lying on the bar behind the Jinbei car.

He turned his back on us, and his whole body clung to the car, looking at something through the glass.

After being shocked by the light, he slowly twisted his neck, fully twisted 180, staring at us intensely.

At that moment, we saw his face, and then we both gasped and trembled together.

On that foggy night, on the road as cold as hell, behind the unmanned Jinbei car, I actually saw a face twisted to an incredible degree.

This face is too strange to describe for a moment.

If I have to describe it, I can only say that his face is twisted to an incredible angle, like a person's face is deliberately elongated and his mouth is torn open with a terrible hole, which looks strange and terrible.

At that moment, a chill rose from my heart and spread to me instantly. I felt my blood was cold, and I stammered, "What ... what is that?" ! "

Brother Guang didn't speak. He turned off the fog lights. As the lights disappeared, the car fell into the fog again, leaving only a black outline.

I turned my head to wake the hunter and big P. They were staggering in the back seat, snoring like thunder, and big P was still grinding his teeth.

Looking at the dark weather outside, the fog, the faint car shadow, suddenly there is a sense of unreality. Is everything I just saw really true?

Brother Guang said, "Don't call them yet, it will be more chaotic if there are many people. Moreover, in case something happens in the future ... They are in good spirits and can block for a while ... "

I asked, "... that thing just now ..."

But I don't know what to say.

Brother Guang fumbled in his pocket for a long time with one hand, "touched" a cigarette and asked me to light it for him.

My hand was shaking badly, so I pressed my right hand with my left hand and patted it several times before I lit it.

I asked, "Is that a person?"

He shook his head. "People can't stand behind that."

My hair is straight again, so I quickly rubbed it down with my hand: "Fuck, what monster is that?"

He nodded. "You're right. That's the real monster. "

I saw the bald man talking, waiting for him to talk, wondering the shadow behind the car.

Looking back now, I feel that just now, it was foggy and the fog lights barely passed. I can only vaguely see something in the shape of a person lying behind the car, but I can't be sure it is a person. In addition, there is a bar behind the old Jinbei car. If you can lie on it, unless it's Spider-Man!

However, that thing is really alive and has a face. What about this thing?

Maybe, as the bald man said, it's a monster?

Thinking of this, I licked my face and said, "Brother Guang, what's with the monster you mentioned?"

Brother Guang snorted in his nose, took a deep breath, and the ash rustled down before shaking his head: "I met it when I was burning the midnight oil in southern Xinjiang. Master Bai, who took me into the business at that time, said that this is the essence of animals and is very important to people. Master Bai said that if a monster gets on the bus, no matter who lives in it, the people in it will not survive the night. If we follow it again, we will die here. "

I was stunned: I "fuck", what should I do?

He snorted: Bullshit! They won't go out when we get to the expressway ahead. We'll go out right away!

I just breathed a sigh of relief and asked him: Brother Guang, what monster is behind the car in front?

He gave me a hard look: "grass, didn't you see it?" That's a snake. "

Snakes? !

I was shocked. How could it be a snake? Obviously a humanoid monster, but more like a monkey. Is this person too far away from the snake?

Brother Guang ignored me. He turned the steering wheel and headed for the exit. He told me to wake up those two bastards in the back and let's go out.

Looking out, now the fog has gradually dispersed. Under the dim street lamp, there are two clear characters written on the street sign in front: Yongzhou.

When he arrived in Yongzhou, Hu found a hotel to stay. When he woke up, it was already dawn.

Brother Guang took us to the street and said that he would take us to a very distinctive restaurant, Snake House.

That is a shop with a small facade. Walking in, there are seven or eight big round tables, and there is an incense table in the innermost part. There is a're' hanging on it, and a strange snake is engraved on it. The snake body is coiled together, and there is a censer below. This wooden sign is so old that it looks strange.

The hunter said, "That's strange. Is there such a place to eat snakes? "

Brother Guang changed his face and whispered, "Shut up! This is for the Mangshan snake god! "

Brother Guang knocked on chopsticks, and a big fat man came. When he met brother guang, he scolded him first, and then said, you son of a bitch are delicious! Two snake flowers just arrived, you son of a bitch came to smell them! "

The hunter didn't understand the meaning of snake flower, and the boss told him that snake flower is specialized in catching snakes. If you want to get serpents and poisonous snakes, you must buy them from snake flowers. Snake flower is a big snake. It came all the way from Yunnan. What a snake!

Big P asked, "Didn't everyone say that you produced snakes in Yongzhou? Why do you have to come from Yunnan? "

The fat boss sighed: "This is all caused by what Liu Zongyuan did! All China thought Liuzhou was full of poisonous snakes, but in fact, where are there so many snakes in Yongzhou? ! The border of Yongzhou is similar to Xiangtan and Yueyang. There are a few snakes, but there is not much sulfur, so most of them are farmed, unless they are from Yunnan and Guangxi! "

Brother Guang smiled and said, "No, you have a big snake, too. Isn't there a snake god in Mangshan? "

The boss himself smiled and said, "You say you are a snake god, how dare we eat God?"

I became interested in the so-called "catching a snake" and asked the boss if this snake was caught, why is it still called "catching"?

The boss said, young man, you don't understand the truth here! Small snakes, usually in one place, just catch sulfur. The serpent, the serpent is a family in the world. It is everywhere, some go up the mountain, some go into the water, and wherever it goes. If you want to catch a big snake, you must drive it away along its path. Sometimes you can walk for a month and a half.

When the boss saw that we didn't believe him, he was full of sweat: Is everything I said true? According to the snake driver, some big snakes, not to mention walking mountains and rivers, are all fine, can become people and walk with cars!

Having said that, he himself felt a little ridiculous and couldn't help laughing. The hunter and big P almost laughed to the ground.

Brother Guang and I didn't laugh.

I think of the humanoid monster behind the Jinbei car. Bald man said it was a big snake. Is it really that the serpent turned into a human form and followed the car?

However, how did Brother Guang recognize that it was a big snake at a glance?

I looked at brother guang. He sat expressionless and drank half a bowl of tea on the table.

While speaking, the snake flower son came, and we watched with curiosity.

There are two snake catchers standing outside, an old one and a young one. They wore old military uniforms and snakeskin bags around their waists. This bag is coated with castor oil, so the snake can't climb out.

The old man's face is covered with scars, as if he had been bitten by something. One eye is blind, and the other muddy eye is staring at us. His mouth twitched unconsciously, affecting the scar on his face. It looks like a cold and vicious snake, an old snake.

The old snake accompanied his apprentice, who was also a small, thin and cold child. The child looked at us, obviously stiff and timid, like a timid little snake.

The boss greeted them warmly and whispered to us. The old man is a famous snake catcher. He has been catching big snakes in Yunnan and Guizhou all his life. One year, he drove a python from Guilin to Xishuangbanna for three months.

You see, all those wounds on his face were bitten by snakes, and his body is poisonous. Don't say that mosquitoes dare not bite him, even spitting can kill a bunch of ants!

This snake catcher is not easy. Craft is ancestral. Look at the buttons on their clothes. I sewed them all myself. There are "medicine" pills made of bedbugs and honey. If bitten by a snake, biting the button can detoxify. The waist buckle is a pair of six-piece bamboo waist tags, which can be extended and retracted to prevent snakes from winding around the waist.

The boss used to negotiate the price with the old snake. The old snake man ignored him and just stared at us one by one. Finally, he said two words in a special tone: "Not for sale!"

His pronunciation is a bit strange. It sounds like it was squeezed through his teeth and hissed like a snake.

The hunter was anxious, opened his bag, took out a bundle of RMB and smashed it on the table: "Why not sell it?" ! "

The man ignored him, squinted at us, finally said a word and turned away.

I was there, and I could hear you clearly. He said, "There are nine trees hanging in seven rows and eight rows, and the prince has a snake wrapped around his waist."

The hunter jumped up and called the old snake blind. I can't see that we are all distinguished guests from Beijing and don't deserve to have no money to treat our eyes!

The boss is holding him back, and he tries his best to make us angry, which means that these two snake catchers can't offend. Several people persuaded and cheated, but they dragged the hunter back to the hotel.

When he arrived at the restaurant, the boss asked the man to serve snake blood wine quickly and have a drink first to calm down.

He said that this snake blood is also used to treat diseases. In the past, some old people had bone pain and neuralgia, all of which were old diseases and could only be treated with folk remedies. This folk prescription is to find a live snake, hang it upside down on a tree, cut off the snake head with one knife, and people drink snake blood under it, drinking two or three tablets a day for half a month.

He also asked people to take out the last few wild snakes hidden in the cellar, almost five or six, large and small, colorful, twisting their ugly necks and hissing in cages.

The boss grinned with a toothache: "Alas, these are for pressing the store. If the snake flowers are not sold, I really can't bear to take them out. "

He told us that the biggest one is Wang Jin, which weighs five catties. Brown-gray "color" is banyan snake, which is the cheapest and is usually used as the base of snake soup. Wang Jin and banyan snake are not poisonous. Others, the black-and-white flowers are bungarus multicinctus, the swollen neck is cobra, and the inconspicuous one next to it is Agkistrodon. "

I asked, "What kind of snake is the most poisonous?"

Big P said: "It must be a five-step snake, five steps, five steps, bitten by a snake, or you will die if you can't walk five steps!" " "

The boss smiled: "If you say it, the most poisonous snake is the silver ring snake. This thing looks honest. It didn't move before biting, but it suddenly jumped up and bit people, and died a few hours later. "

The bald man asked, "Boss, how do these snakes count for money?"

The boss said: "The banyan snake is the cheapest, 5 1 kg, which can be used as the bottom of the pot." Flower snake 130. Wang Jinshe wants 200 yuan. Viper is more expensive, cobra 300, Agkistrodon and Bungarus are more expensive. "

The hunter waved his hand and interrupted him: "Money is not a problem. I ask you, what can these snakes do? "

The boss said, "The way we eat here in Yongzhou is still fresh and spicy. There are delicious snakes, salt and pepper snakes, stewed snakes with green peppers, ginger snakes, secret snakes, and snakes with skins on the griddle. In fact, there are two tricks to make this snake delicious.

The first is to kill alive now, and the second is to bring snakeskin. In fact, the best food on this snake is skin. You can't peel it. Scrape off snake scales like a fish.

There is still time, hello, this year, it is best to count snakes in May.

Before the Dragon Boat Festival, snakes haven't started mating, and the essence is there. At this time, meat is the freshest. After mating, the meat is rough and fishy. You have to use ginger and wine to get rid of it.

He said that you'd better take a bath after eating the snake. Snake meat is wet and poisonous. People will sweat under their armpits and legs after eating a snake meat. These are rheumatism caused by snake meat.

People with cold poison eat more snakes before and after the Dragon Boat Festival, and the cold poison will be exhausted.

You don't know that before liberation, Shanghai tycoons invited VIPs to dinner, and there was a "golden snake banquet". After dinner, they also go to the sauna to take a bath, just to sweat and detoxify. "

Having said that, he glanced at the big P and added: "This snakeskin is not only for beauty, but also for acne. If a big snakeskin goes down, the acne will be gone. "

After hearing what he said, Big P was so excited that he bent down to look at it, but he was a little scared. He couldn't help firing a gun and scolding us.

While speaking, the boss controlled several snakes.

He pinched the snake head, took a pair of scissors, cut it off with a click, scraped the snake scales with steel balls several times, washed the snake body in water several times, and immediately put the pot on the seasoning. Before long, a plate of spicy snake meat was served.

First served is ginger and spicy snake, then green pepper, ginger, green pepper, red pepper and white snake braised snake, steaming, full of fragrance, mouth watering.

The boss showed us that eating snake meat is exquisite. You have to poke the skeleton of the snake with two toothpicks, bite the snake meat with your teeth and tear it apart. The snake meat is all clean, and the remaining snake bones are like a crystal clear comb, which is convenient and decent. This is how celebrities and ladies used to eat in the old days.

We rude men don't care too much about this. Chopsticks dance like a big knife. We only hate that our parents didn't do more, and the big plate of snake meat bottomed out.

The boss looked straight and grinned and quickly called "soup, soup!" " Also sent a pot of cow "milk" like white soup.

He said this snake soup is very delicate, especially in summer. Cantonese people will drink a big pot of old snake soup in early summer. After drinking this soup, it won't get prickly heat in summer.

The boss became more and more excited when he spoke. He sat in the plush chair, with a cigarette in his mouth and a cup in one hand, and his mouth was watering.

I asked him smoothly: "boss, let me ask you something." There is a saying that' seven horizontal eight hanging nine trees, the prince with a snake around his waist'. What does this mean? "

"What? ! what did you say ? ! "The boss's face suddenly changed and he sat up at once. The glass in his hand slipped from his hand and broke into pieces. Then he slipped down from the plush chair and fell to the ground.

Brother Guang gave me a wink and told me to shut up.

I went over and helped the boss up. After getting up, the boss rubbed his eyes and said that he would go to the kitchen to see the snake soup. Then he shouted "Pockmarked, Pockmarked" and went in. He never came out until we checked out.

I felt something was wrong and didn't say anything. After we got on the bus, we found an opportunity to ask Brother Guang what this sentence means.

Brother Guang said that he had heard this sentence from Master Bai before, and it was divided into two parts.

The first half of the sentence is easy to understand, that is to say, snakes are more active in July and August, and they are all hanging around trees and mountains. At this time, they can't catch snakes and are easily besieged by snakes.

The second half sentence is very mysterious. Whether it is a curse or a snake, it is spiritual. You can't catch more, or you will be punished.

This karma is "snake around the waist".

"Snake wrapped around the waist" is a taboo in the circle of old hunters. It means that people are very nice. Suddenly, they felt a big snake wrapped around their waist. The tighter they are, the tighter they are. Finally, the man was tied to the size of a teacup, and of course he died.

This kind of thing, almost voodoo curse, it is useless for you to send it to the hospital, and there is no scientific explanation.

Therefore, people who open a snake museum should worship the snake god, otherwise, in their later years, if the yang is not enough, they will be "wrapped around the waist by snakes."

Can't you see that this restaurant is dedicated to the Mangshan snake god? They not only offer sacrifices to the gods, but also buy chickens and ducks and send them to the snake cave in Mangshan on holidays. This is the money of life.

I nodded and finally understood why the boss was so worried after hearing that sentence.

I can't help asking: Why did that old snake flower say that to us?

Brother Guang also shook his head and said, I guess it has something to do with last night.

What else do I want to ask? I heard the hunter shouting at the top of his voice, "Look, it's that blind man!" " "

Straightening his neck, I saw a Dongfeng military vehicle with a canopy on the carriage. A man is looking out from the canopy. It is the child of one of the two snake catchers.

I stretch out my hand and honk my horn when I get excited. Unexpectedly, two soldiers came out soon, gave us a cold look, and then entered the carriage with a left and a right to protect the snake catcher.

Next, the truck began to accelerate, as if to lose us.

We are one leng, how did these two snake catchers get involved with the soldiers? And it seems that it still attaches great importance to it and specially sends people to protect it.

The hunter is a slacker. Now, let's shout after him and see what the old bangzi wants!

Brother Guang stepped on the brakes, slowed down and watched the military truck drive away slowly.

He squinted and said, "The license plate starts with a V, and the people inside are not mortal!" " "

He explained to us that when they drive for a long distance, the traffic police are their first fear, followed by military vehicles.

If there is a conflict with a military vehicle, you can't manage it at all, and you dare not manage it. I can only admit that I am unlucky.

Especially some special licenses, they are firmly in mind as soon as they enter the business, for fear of conflict with them.

The most terrible thing is the license plate with the prefix "V", which is full of minefields. It is not a military commission, the fourth general manager, or a unit directly under the region. Don't touch it, or you don't know how to die.

I'm a little surprised. How did these two snake catchers get on the V-shaped car? Maybe if there are snake spirits in Guangxi Military Region, they can catch the snake demon?

Brother Guang smiled meaningfully: Do you think the military region is clean?

I asked Brother Guang again, how do you know the owner of this snake house?

Brother Guang said: Ten years ago, we came to a forest farm here to pull goods, and the owner of the forest farm was chased by a big snake, and it was not solved until we found the boss. I met my boss at that time, so I met him.

I can't help but say: What snake is so powerful that it dares to kill people?

Brother Guang said coldly, Mangshan Snake God.

I can't help taking a breath of air conditioning. Does the owner of this forest farm dare to make him really tired of living?

But no matter how I asked him, he wouldn't tell me about Mangshan Snake God.

But then, by chance, I learned the story, which was five or six years later.

Wait until you have a chance to write!