Chapter 47 red lady

There are many snakes in the mountains.Especially on hot nights, the snakes come out of the grass to enjoy the shade, lying on the road one by one, squirming with gorgeous patterns all over their bodies, casting green eyes at passers-by, and the catapults and shaking of the letters are like flowers.They are not necessarily aggressive at this time.Once when I came home at night, I was really sleepy, in a trance, and I accidentally stepped on something cool and soft that suddenly moved with my bare feet. , I can't wait to jump my feet on my head.I ran a few feet in one breath, and finally came up with a word in my mind: Snake!I mustered up the courage to look at my feet, but there were no wounds.Looking back, there was no snake following.

People in the mountains say that there are "chessboard snakes" here.The whole body is just like a game of chess.There is a "fan head wind", that is, a cobra, which is faster than the wind, and when it makes a sound, even the wild boar will turn into stone in fright. Mountain people also believe that snakes are lustful.Therefore, snake catchers always draw the image of a woman on the wood, smear it with rouge, and let the woman spit on it, and then insert it on the side of the road or on the ridge. The snake is entangled in the wood, motionless, as if drunk to death, and the snake catcher can calmly catch the prey into the snake basket.

It is also based on the same logic that they say that people who are afraid of snakes should carry a bamboo stick or piece of bamboo when walking at night.It is said that bamboo is the love sister of snakes. With bamboo in hand, snakes generally dare not make mistakes. If there is a poisonous snake attacking on the road, the mountain people still have ten ways to do it, which is to call out the three words "red lady". It is said that after shouting like this, the snake will be in a daze, and people have enough time to run away.As for why the three characters of the city are used instead of other characters, what is the origin of the three?They were vague.

Once, when Yanzao sprayed medicine to the north slope, he was bitten by a snake and ran back screaming.He thought his death was imminent, so after running for a while, he found that his feet were not swollen or painful, and his body was neither cramp nor cold.He sat for a while, he was still alive, he could drink water, look at the sky, and hold his nose. He turned back to find the sprayer in doubt, but was shocked when he reached the spot: the soil was more than three feet long. The leather snake, the one that bit him just now, died hard in the cotton field. He has lived to be more poisonous than a snake.

Curiously, he ran to the tea garden and rummaged in the tea bushes, where there were always many soil snakes hidden.He stretched out his hand to be bitten by the snakes, and watched the snakes writhing and twitching under his feet, and finally miraculously stopped moving. At dusk, he tied a handful of others with a dead snake and carried them home. People from afar thought he had just cut a handful of grass and went home.