Chapter 2 second quarter

Later, he dragged Hong Xiaowu to search several surrounding villages, but he couldn't find a person named Lu Zhaohui. "Maybe she was afraid that I would harass her, so she deliberately said a false name." Hong Wuji comforted himself. "Well, it must be." In fact, Hong Xiaowu was dubious. Hong Xiaowu said that from that extremely hot summer, Hong Wuji became supernatural.Especially after enjoying the cool once, his problem of supernatural power became more serious. That's when the hot weather was almost coming to an end.But absorbing the heat emitted during the day at night still makes it impossible to sleep peacefully.Many people just pour a few buckets of water on the ground, put the bamboo bed on the place where the water is splashed, and then sleep on the bamboo bed to enjoy the cool. Usually, they wait until the night dew falls before putting away the cattail fan, bamboo bed or bamboo chair and going back to the house to sleep.People in good health even pour cold well water directly on the bamboo bed and sleep on it.This is more cool when sleeping, but most people can't bear it.Some people move the bamboo bed to the pond or the river to borrow a little coolness from the wind.

Enjoying the cool that night, Hong Wuji and a few people moved the bamboo beds of each family to the pond, and chatted while beating the mosquitoes with cattail fans.Hong Wuji said with a smile: "Some mountainous areas have very interesting ways of enjoying the cool air. For example, in a certain place, people there do not weave bamboo into a bamboo bed, but weave it into the shape of a beautiful woman, and then sleep with their arms around each other. The people there Calling this thing 'Bamboo Beauty' is cool and...hahaha..." Someone laughed and said, "Wuji, why don't you try hugging one too."

Hong Wuji said: "I'm not a bamboo craftsman, I don't know how to do it. It's okay to have a dream once in a dream." When he said that, he really dreamed that night. He later dreamed about all sorts of weird things, but no one believed him when he told them.Because his spirit is not normal, at least in the eyes of others.But the dream that night still had a certain credibility.He was normal back then. After chatting with the Bamboo Beauty by the pond, they became sleepy, and someone's snoring had surpassed the crowing of frogs in the paddy field on the other side of the pond.

Hong Wuji also felt that his eyelids were heavy, and he gradually fell into a dream.He dreamed that there was a bamboo beauty in his arms, and the coolness was transmitted to his skin through the bamboo beauty, which was extremely comfortable.It's just that this bamboo beauty doesn't seem to be dead, it can twist slightly, which makes his mind fluctuate uncontrollably. The moonlight is still the moonlight when enjoying the cool, breaking into pieces on the water surface caressed by the breeze.He looked at Bamboo Beauty's face by the moonlight, he seemed to know her before, but he couldn't remember her name.

Although Hong Wuji is usually frivolous, he has never actually touched a woman's body, especially such a close contact. How could he not be excited to have such a beautiful beauty in his arms at this time?He impatiently stretched his hands towards Bamboo Beauty's chest, intending to tear her clothes off.But he tried hard for a long time but couldn't succeed, his hand hurt badly.Only then did he discover that the bamboo beauty's clothes were also made of bamboo strips, and his finger was scratched by the bamboo strips. The pain woke him up from his dream. The pain in the fingers is still there, and the coolness on the body is still there, but the beauty is gone.

A fellow villager who was sleeping not far from him suddenly shouted, "Snake! Snake!" He looked at the man, only to see that the man was pointing at himself. He felt something wriggling around him, and when he looked sideways, there was indeed a green snake with the length of a pole lying beside him!Hong Wuji screamed and rolled off the bamboo bed. Seeing that the snake had spotted it, it slithered down around the legs of the bamboo bed and slipped into the grass by the pond. After hearing a sound of water, it must have swum out of the water. After being frightened, Hong Wuji discovered that his hand was bitten by a snake. Fortunately, it was not poisonous and the wound healed soon, but the wound in his heart seemed to never heal again.From then on, when he saw the snake, he was so frightened that he cried like a woman. He didn't dare to move his legs forward, and he didn't have the strength to go back.When he didn't see the snake, he also talked to himself in a spirited way.

His parents thought he had offended the snake spirit, and most of the snake spirits were women, so his parents felt that they should marry Hong Wuji a daughter-in-law as soon as possible, so that the snake spirit could not "take advantage of the situation". I once asked my grandfather about this statement.Grandpa said, don't be surprised if you see the strange, the strange will defeat itself.Most of the time, it doesn't matter whether those things really exist or not. The important thing is to give people psychological comfort, so that they no longer feel guilty or fearful, and all "diseases" will naturally heal.

From this perspective, there is no right or wrong in what Hong Wuji's parents did. After that hot summer, Hong Wuji got married.His wife was originally a chubby and strong woman, but since she married into Hong's family, she lost weight rapidly, became sharp-mouthed and monkey-cheeked, and her body was like a bamboo pole. A year later, Hong Wuji had a son.The whole family rejoiced, thinking that they had gotten rid of the snake's entanglement since then. But not long after the son was born, Hong Wuji's wife suddenly left without saying goodbye, and has never been heard from since.Hong Wuji's parents asked everyone they knew, but no one knew about Hong Wuji's wife.

On the day my son turned one year old, many guests came to congratulate him.Hong Wuji's parents were very busy, but Hong Wuji himself stayed on the bed and didn't get up. Hong Wuji's parents couldn't get away, so they asked Hong Xiaowu to ask Hong Wuji to get up and help. At that time, Hong Xiaowu confirmed that the snake did not leave Hong Wuji. When Hong Xiaowu pushed open the door of Hong Wuji's bedroom, he heard the faint sound of snakes crawling.After opening the door, Hong Xiaowu saw that Hong Wuji was still sleeping with his head covered.There were no other abnormalities in the room.The big red happy letter on his bedside is still there, but it has faded a lot.

The floor of the room was so damp you could almost smell the water.When Hong Xiaowu stepped in, he left a shoe mark.