Chapter 3 Chapter 2 Seal of the Snake Emperor

When I heard this, I hurriedly put it back on the table, frowned and felt disgusted: "Why? This is something you dug out of the snake's belly?" The man replied: "Yes! I found this in its stomach, but I have washed it very clean." Er Xia and I looked at each other, feeling puzzled, Er Xia said: "I've heard that snakes swallow cows, sheep, and even humans, but I've never heard of snakes swallowing such inedible things, and it's not afraid of indigestion. "While speaking, he winked at me, expressing that he did not intend to accept this thing. But I always feel that there is something strange about it, I always feel that this thing has some origins, and I tend to spend less money to collect this thing. Anyway, this person himself doesn't know how much this thing is worth, so I thought about it for a while and said to him : "Brother! This thing of yours is just an ordinary bronze, not worth much, but seeing you travel all the way, it's not easy. You have also traveled here to many places , let's show our sincerity, what do you think of this number?" He stretched out his right palm and gestured as he spoke.

The man stared at my shaking palm with wide eyes, slapped his thigh and shouted excitedly: "Five thousand? Brother, you are really a Banza person (a person who does things well)! The previous few companies said that my things are crooked. Or (fake and shoddy), I think they are crooked or people don't know the goods!" I couldn't laugh or cry when I heard it, I thought this guy thought too beautifully, I planned to get it for five hundred yuan when I reached out, don't think I'm stupid, this kind of thing is normal in this circle, let alone now I still I didn't see the real origin of this thing, so I didn't dare to bid rashly. We could only try our luck to see if we could get it at a low price first.

Before I could speak, Er Xia said anxiously: "Brother! This thing is not so easy to sell, you misunderstood, my brother means..." Er Xia made a point while talking The action of paying five tickets. The man was taken aback for a moment when he heard this, then got up suddenly, quickly picked up the thing and put it back in his cloth bag, and walked out the door without looking back, muttering something incomprehensible He seemed extremely dissatisfied with what he said, and we were upset, thinking that this guy had a big appetite, and we had seen this kind of person a lot, so we didn't keep him, and let him go straight into the shop of the girl next door.

At this time, the girl next door had already sent the two clients away, and warmly received him with a smile on her face, looking at us from time to time while talking.The shop of the girl next door is only half separated from us, and we could see and hear the conversation there very clearly, but we heard the man say: "How much is this? Just now the two over there gave five hundred, hehe, really It’s a joke, people of mine have seen at least this number! Those two elder brothers are also crooked.” He held up the bronze vessel in one hand and raised three fingers in the other. But when the girl next door took it, she took a look at the bronze ware, beckoned him to sit down and drink tea, raised a magnifying glass to take a closer look, then nodded happily with a smile: "Yeah! Is this your thing?" , it’s just an ordinary bronze ware. Although it’s old, the upsurge of bronze ware collection is over now, and you need to take risks, but I see that you have changed many houses, I’m afraid you won’t be able to raise the price again. , my grandpa likes bronze wares better, so I will take it as looking for something for him. According to the price you said, I will add another thousand to you. Brother, I just buy it for collection. If I do business, I will pay for it. Big! What do you think?" He said while putting the bronze snake sculpture back on the table, looking indifferent.

The man was overjoyed, picked up the teacup in front of him and drank it down, wiped his mouth and said, "Okay! Okay! Four thousand is four thousand!" The girl next door nodded with a smile, and was about to turn around and go into the inner room to fetch money. The second shrimp next to me immediately shouted: "Hey! Brother, how about selling it to us for five thousand?" The girl next door and the man cast their gazes towards us together, and looked at us suspiciously. The man asked tentatively, "Didn't you just now?...Can you really give five thousand? Five thousand yuan, Sell ​​this thing to you?"

"Of course! It was a misunderstanding just now!" Er Xia said as he stepped forward and was about to pull the man over. I quickly poked him and asked him what he wanted to do. He whispered to me: "Look at this thing! The girl at home fell in love with it at a glance. There must be something in it. She said it well and bought it for her grandfather to collect. Our business can tolerate this." I said to him: "This is not appropriate. We drove him away. Now that he has settled down next door, you bid to get him back. Now we are robbing other people's business, which is too bad." Alright." Er Xia insisted on paying for it, claiming that if I didn't want to accept it, he would pay for it himself, saying that it would be useful for him.

Speaking of this, what else can I say, I can only acquiesce, the person who sells things happens to be a guy with an eye for money, and when he is sure that our side pays more money than that side, He turned around and returned to our side, with a generous look regardless of past suspicions. Er Xia lit another cigarette for him, then Pidianpidian went to withdraw 5,000 yuan in cash, and threw it generously on the table. Never seen so much money. "Okay! It's almost there, the number is absolutely correct, we will accept the things!" I said to him and picked up the things, and in a blink of an eye the girl next door was still staring at us with wide eyes, looking extremely contemptuous He was dissatisfied, then gave us a blank look, turned around and left angrily with a "hum".

"That's enough! The number is right!" The man was very excited, carefully put the wallet in a handkerchief, slowly stuffed it into his pocket, got up and was about to leave, I grabbed him and said: "Brother, this The money has also been collected, this time we should tell us how this thing came about, otherwise if we sell it as a cultural relic, we will not be able to escape the responsibility!" The man waved his hands repeatedly and said: "Absolutely not, I said I picked it up!" Er Xia didn't wait for him to finish speaking, stepped forward and pushed him on the chair to sit down again, stretching out his hand to motion for him to explain in detail.People seem to become obedient only after getting money, and the man raised his glass and drank a glass of water: "If you want to talk about the origin of this thing, it really has a bit of origin..."

His name is Li Fuli, and he is a medicine farmer on the China-Myanmar border in Tengchong County, Baoshan, Yunnan. His ancestors and his generation have never been out of the mountains where they live. , A characteristic industry has been formed in the local area, and there are many drug farmers like him who make a living by collecting herbs. Because of the lush vegetation, activities such as poisonous insects and snakes are also extremely rampant, and there are not a few people who are bitten by poisonous snakes and insects every year.They have a rare medicinal herb that grows deep in the mountains, but the place where this medicinal herb grows is also the favorite environment of poisonous snakes, and it is extremely dangerous to collect this medicinal herb.There is a local saying that there is one day every year, that is, the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May, when the local snakes are not allowed to move, and only on this day, the local medicinal farmers have the opportunity to collect this medicinal herb.Over the years, this statement has been very effective, and it has never gone wrong.

It was just in time for this year's Dragon Boat Festival that Li Fuli went to the mountains with his brothers to collect that kind of medicinal herb. Everything went smoothly. When night fell and he was returning home, he suddenly heard rustling in the nearby grass sound.Several people felt strange, thinking that they had encountered some kind of wild beast, and immediately grasped the handle of the medicine hoe and approached it gently. When they lifted the grass, they were surprised: there was a big green-brown snake with a bowl-sized mouth coiled in the grass, and it opened its mouth. Waiting for an opportunity with blood in his mouth, he was ready to pounce on them.The few people were startled enough. You must know that encountering such a big snake on this Dragon Boat Festival is tantamount to breaking the law mentioned before, which is very unlucky.Frightened and astonished, several people hurriedly gathered together calmly and beat the big snake to death. Li Fuli and the others were still not at ease. The sight of the big snake on the fifth day of May must be an ominous omen. They were afraid that the big snake would not die, so they faced the big snake again The dead body continued to be beaten violently, and suddenly there was a "creaking" sound. They felt as if they had hit something, so they disemboweled the big snake and got this bronze snake sculpture.

At that time, no one dared to take it out. Who knew whether it was bad luck or good luck for this strange big snake to have such a strange thing in its belly?Although Li Fuli is thin and small, he is very courageous. He doesn't believe in this evil. In addition, he often meets some antique artifact collectors from the county in the village. He thinks it's better to take it back and sell it for some money, so he brings it back. at home. Who knew that when such a thing was shown to those collectors of antiques, everyone waved their hands repeatedly, and no one dared to take it, saying that it was the snake seal of the Snake Emperor, which was equivalent to the token of the Snake Emperor, saying that Li Fuli was killed If you miss the messenger sent by the Snake Emperor, you will be retaliated by the Snake Emperor.Li Fuli was helpless, afraid to put such a thing at home, and was reluctant to throw it away, so this time he borrowed the opportunity of visiting his cousin who was working in Beijing, and found out about it. I hurriedly asked: "What is this Snake Emperor? Could it be that he is the King of Snakes, and he has such a pomp that he has become an emperor?" Li Fuli replied that this is a legend in their local mountains. The Snake Emperor is a snake god in their mountains. It also has a snake palace deep in the mountains. Every few years, it will send envoys with snake seals to order snakes to pay tribute to it. , These are all legends, and he has never seen any Snake Emperor. The second shrimp listened to me and said: "Damn! This is much more powerful than the Amazon python. They have become emperors among snakes. Other snakes have to pay tribute, just like humans. This snake emperor It must be a big snake spirit." Li Fuli said that some of their local ancestors had seen the Snake Emperor with his own eyes, but after he saw the true face of the Snake Emperor, his appearance gradually became like it, and it didn't take long for him to peel off his skin and die, and the skin all over his body fell off automatically It's like being skinned alive. It's very scary. Unless the locals are attacked by snakes and have to protect themselves, otherwise they generally dare not beat snakes, because they are afraid that the snake king will blame and retaliate. "Alas!" Li Fuli sighed, his eyes were frightened, "I didn't believe it at first, but one day not long after, a lot of small snakes suddenly came to my yard, killing my chickens and dogs, scaring them to death. Dead, our family has moved to the town now." After finishing speaking, Li Fuli got up immediately: "This is how it is. You two elder brothers can sell it for a lot of money. I don't want to bother you. The Ke family (go home)!" Pocket, turn around and leave quickly, for fear that we will regret it.