Chapter 9: Choice: Eyelashes drooping in thought grow thick and straight.
Song Keling put down her backpack and went to look for the dirty clothes and pants she had taken off before taking a shower. The clothes were a T-shirt without pockets, and the jeans were...
As soon as Song Keling lifted her pants, she saw that the trouser legs were folded in several places.
She suddenly figured out how Qianqian had followed her back.
If she didn't go through the conveyor belt in her backpack, Qianqian would have hidden it in her trouser legs and followed her through security.
At that time, the staff responsibly checked her from head to toe, but the detector only responded to metal.
But……
How is that possible?
When she released it, she clearly saw Qianqian disappear into the tall grass. Even when she reacted and chased after her, she was gone.
There was not even a trace of the snake's tail or any movement.
Thinking of this, Song Keling suddenly remembered something and put down her jeans with a helpless look.
She walked back to the table.
The breeding box is not much bigger than the scum box, so it takes up almost half of the desk.
And Qianqian was free climbing inside.
It crawled into the hole hidden in the stone, leaving only a thin tail. Soon after, the little head with horns and scales on it crawled out from another hole.
Song Keling sighed softly, sat down, propped up her chin, and watched the little snake's slow play movements.
Yes.
After being together for so long, Qianqian has always been so leisurely, not even in a hurry, just like a Buddhist who takes things slowly.
So, how could it be possible for it to disappear so quickly on the day of release?
Later, I chased after it but didn't see any snake shadow, nor did I hear any movement. I just thought the little snake had left, and stood there feeling lost for a long time.
But at the moment, it seems that when she was standing there, the little guy who had not walked far away sniffed the smell and slowly crawled into the rolled-up leg of her jeans.
I followed her all the way back to the new city and back to school.
Thinking of this, Song Keling broke out in a cold sweat again.
She took the cable car down the mountain, took the bus to the airport, went through security and boarded the plane, and came back in a taxi... Throughout the journey, she had no idea that Qianqian, who had been released, was rolled up in her trouser legs.
What if there is a little accident in the middle?
For example, she bumped into something and accidentally hurt Qianqian, who got frightened and bit her. Or Qianqian might have "escaped" and bit someone else.
And, just like in a nightmare, Qianqian was run over by cars on the road...
That scene was so horrible!
Even in the laboratory, and in the morning classes in the teaching building, including going to the cafeteria at noon and on the way back to the dormitory after eating.
If an accident were to happen.
This period is enough for countless accidents to happen.
Song Keling looked at the little white snake, which had stopped playing hide-and-seek at some point and now stood up in front of her. She sighed worriedly and poked the box with her fingertips. "Little guy, you really are… what am I supposed to do with you?"
If I send him back to school again, I won’t be able to spare any time in the short term.
The research project on pit vipers that I participated in with my seniors should produce results soon. By then, I will have to write a research report and publish a paper in SCI.
There are also required courses for which she did not complete the credits in her sophomore year.
Then ask someone else to deliver it?
But who can guarantee that the man won't be tempted by the snake and sell Qianqian, or keep her himself, or even dissect her for research?
Song Keling couldn't think of a solution. When she came to her senses, she saw the little snake's head pressing against her fingertips through the breeding box.
Behind the wall of the box, I actually didn't feel anything.
But Song Keling played with the little guy and moved her finger to the side.
Sure enough, the little snake followed the fingertips and moved.
"You still want to eat my fingers." Song Keling said, then remembered something, immediately retracted her fingers, slid back in the ergonomic chair, and then looked down at her ankles.
I looked carefully and made sure there were no teeth marks, then I breathed a sigh of relief.
When Song Keling looked up again, she saw Qianqian climbing up high. The little snake's head had already touched the lid of the breeding box, and its cute pair of horns and scales were flattened, as if it wanted to come out and take a look.
have a look?
What are you looking at?
Song Keling didn't think much about it. She raised her fingertips and tapped on the box, "Qianqian, come here."
The little snake turned its head slightly, and slowly retracted its body that was raised high. After a while, it came to the place where her fingertips fell and spit out its thin tongue.
While playing with it, Song Keling thought, I'll just keep it for now. Summer vacation will be here after I finish my thesis and final exams.
I can send Qianqian back then.
"Oh, yes." Song Keling remembered something and retracted her fingers from playing with him. She went to the bed and took out her cell phone. She saw that it was already past six o'clock.
I had said before that I would contact Senior Sister Su when I woke up, but I forgot about it after Qianqian’s incident.
But when Song Keling opened the contact and was about to send a message, she hesitated again when she thought that she would be very busy for a long time and would not have time to accompany Senior Sister Su to the movies, have dinner, etc.
If Qianqian has successfully released the animals, then she can still squeeze out some free time.
There is a small snake in the dormitory now, and it’s a poisonous one, so I must take good care of it.
If you refuse, the relationship between the two people, which has not yet begun to develop, will probably end here.
No one was obligated to wait for her.
What’s more, it’s such a beautiful and popular senior sister Su.
Song Keling's well-proportioned fingers tapped lightly on the side of the phone, and her eyelashes, which drooped in thought, grew thick and straight.
After a moment, she turned to look at the breeding box on the table.
The little white snake did not play hide and seek, nor did it wander slowly around its new home. Instead, it maintained a fixed posture, staring at this side with its vertical pupils.
It lay motionless, only occasionally spitting out its long, thin black tongue, proving that it was not a beautiful sculpture.
Song Keling felt that she could see curiosity in those red eyes.
But snakes don't have human emotions.
so……
This "feeling" already represents her attitude towards an unresolved issue.
Okay.
Not only during this period, but I will also be very busy in the future. If I really stay with Senior Sister Su, it will delay her.
Such a relationship cannot last long.
After thinking this way, Song Keling became open-minded. She closed the WeChat app, found Su Yili's mobile phone number in her contacts, and called her.
The call was connected quickly.
"Senior."
"Finally woke up? I'm just downstairs from your dorm. Do you want to have dinner together later?"
Song Keling was left speechless by Su Yili's word "just right".
"Really?"
"What's real?"
"Near my dorm?"
A gentle smile came from the other end of the phone, and Su Yili deliberately stretched out her voice - "What else? Does my schoolmate think that I am... lying to you~?!"
The words "I lied to you" were spoken in a slightly playful tone. Song Keling not only heard the voice from the phone next to her ear, but also vaguely heard it from outside the door.
Then the phone was hung up, and a cute voice came from the dormitory door: "Ke Ling~!"
Without waiting for Song Keling to react.
The little snake in the breeding box had already turned its head, swung its tiny tail, and swam towards the direction where the sound came from.
As Song Keling stood up and left, its little head slammed against the wall of the transparent box, and its beautiful little horn scales were directly dented.
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