Chapter 334 Chapter Three: The Reason for Saving the Snake

Grandma said: "Zhang Jiu, you must have not had breakfast when you came here so early, right? We just happened to be preparing for dinner, so you just let it go." Zhang Jiuke said politely: "I already had dinner before I came here. You can eat first, and I will talk to Master Ma after I finish eating." Grandpa grabbed him, dragged him to the table, and said with a smile, "Don't be too polite. It takes at least two hours for you to walk here from home. Why would you eat so early? Your father has a very close relationship with me. Well, you know that. So don't push back."

Although I am not used to eating casually in a stranger's house, but the master said so, even if I really ate it, I would pretend not to eat it, and sit at the table and move my chopsticks.However, this Zhang Jiu is too reserved.He actually walked away from the table again, sat down on a chair against the wall, and said as if begging for mercy, "I really have eaten. You can eat first." Grandma waved her hands helplessly and said, "Since he is so polite, let's eat first." Hearing what grandma said, Zhang Jiu blushed.Like a young lady who has never been out of the boudoir, he kneaded the corners of his clothes with both hands, and muttered: "I have really eaten. I always get up early, because the collected dew cannot let the sun It’s too hot. I usually eat breakfast and collect the dew, and then go back to bed.”

Grandma served me a meal and asked: "What are you doing collecting dew? You are not a Taoist alchemist, are you? I only heard that the emperor ordered girls to collect dew to make tea. You are also so particular about drinking tea?" Zhang Jiu shook his head and said, "I...I didn't drink tea with it." "Then what are you doing?" Grandma didn't notice Zhang Jiu's expression at all, and didn't know what he was trying to hide. Fortunately, grandpa noticed Zhang Jiu's unease, so he quickly stopped grandma's words and said, "It must be useful for people to do this, maybe it has something to do with raising snakes, and you don't understand, so why ask?"

Only then did grandma realize Zhang Jiu's embarrassment, so she laughed. We finish our meal.Grandma brewed four cups of tea, each of them handed over a cup, and cleaned up the dishes on the table.So we sat around the table and drank tea. After drinking half of the tea, Zhang Jiu still didn't ask any questions, and looked at the teacup in his hand with some absent-minded eyes. Grandpa was addicted to cigarettes, so he took out a cigarette and held it to his nose to sniff.I asked instead of grandpa: "Didn't you say you had something to do with my grandpa when you were on the road? Now you can talk about it."

He asked grandpa with his eyes like a schoolboy.Grandpa nodded, and held the cigarette on his nose again.I really feel that this man doesn't have any masculinity.If he is a woman, then everything is just fine.The Creator seemed to have deliberately played a joke on him, and just reversed the gender of this person. At this time, he still asked a redundant question: "Then...then shall I start talking?" Grandpa put the cigarette on the table, nodded and said, "Speak up, don't be so cautious." Zhang Jiu wiped the corner of his mouth with his slap, as if there was a grain of rice remaining there, and then said, "I want you to help tell my father and tell him not to sell the newly caught green snake."

Grandpa frowned and asked, "When did your father start selling snakes? Did it start recently?" Zhang Jiudao: "It's been three or four years. There are five or six hundred snakes sold, I can't remember the exact number. Two days ago he caught a blue snake at the door of the house, and the dealer who collected the snakes will come to my house the day after tomorrow. Come on, that dealer comes to my house regularly to collect snakes." He was pinching his slender and delicate fingers while speaking. Grandpa said: "It means that you want me to tell your father not to sell that green snake before the dealer comes. Is that what you mean?"

Zhang Jiu pursed his lips and nodded. Grandpa looked at the cigarettes on the table for a while, and asked, "Your father sold so many snakes, but you didn't care. Why didn't your father sell the green snake he caught at the door?" Zhang Jiu bowed his head and pinched his fingers without speaking.I saw him pinch from the thumb to the little finger, then change hands and pinch from the thumb to the little finger, and so on. "If you don't give a reason, then I can't persuade your father!" Grandpa also stared at his finger. The movement of Zhang Jiu's fingers suddenly stopped.

"You won't help?" The movement of pinching the fingers stopped, but the fingers suddenly bounced slightly, as if they saw something terrible.I also wondered in my heart: his father, the snake breeder, caught so many snakes, and he didn't save any of them. Why did he save the green snake he caught the day before yesterday?Is there anything special about that green snake?Or, he had a premonition that his father would suffer retribution if he offended the green snake? Grandpa picked up the cigarette and knocked it lightly on the table twice, knocking the tobacco leaves in the paper roll more tightly.

Zhang Jiu's hand suddenly sighed like a tight spring, and he grabbed Grandpa's hand holding the cigarette, and said nervously: "Master Ma, you must help me! No matter what, you must help me persuade my father, call Don't sell that snake! That snake dealer will peel the snake open, sell the snake meat to restaurants, take the snake gall for medicine, and put the snake skin on the erhu!" My grandfather and I were confused by him. Every snake sold is nothing more than snake meat delivered to diners' bowls, snake gall delivered to patients' medicines, and snake skin packed on the artist's erhu.Since his father had raised and sold snakes before, he should have known the usefulness of snakes a long time ago, so why was he still so nervous?

Zhang Jiu grabbed Grandpa's hand and shook it desperately.The cigarette in Grandpa's hand was crushed to pieces, and the finely shredded withered yellow tobacco leaves were scattered on the table, like fallen leaves after autumn. Grandpa said: "It's not that I refuse to help, but you have to tell me the reason? Even if I agree to you now, but there is no reason to convince your father, I agree to it for nothing! Zhang Jiu, don't worry, just say it well." This is why. Why did you have to save this snake. Only when you make it clear can I persuade your father."

Zhang Jiu withdrew his hand violently, and said to himself nervously: "No, no, no, if I make it clear, my father will not agree..."