The next morning, Lin Qingyu woke up around noon.
She woke up to find that Gu Shi wasn't home, and neither was Zhao Xiaobao.
I don't know where those two went.
Even though Gu Shi was the one who put in the most effort, he was still the one who felt the worst the next day.
Lin Qingyu was initially somewhat unconvinced, but Gu Shi said her health was too poor.
Now we have to admit that Gu Shi was right.
Lin Qingyu went to the kitchen and found that there was still food and meat in the pot.
The Gu family is living such a good life!
After finishing her meal, she tidied up the kitchen briefly, thinking that it was almost noon, so she would cook lunch for the two of them.
While she was tending the fire, she suddenly remembered that she had clearly intended to discuss something with Gu Shi yesterday.
Unfortunately, it later turned into a debate about Gu Shi's name. Now that it's so late, how is she going to get to the county town?
Lin Qingyu was absentmindedly tending the fire when she heard a dog barking in the yard, so she ran out to see what was going on.
She knew that Gu Shi's family had a dog, but she had never actually spent time with that dog.
When she got into the yard, she discovered that a snake had crawled in there at some point.
It was as thick as her thigh and was crawling around in the yard, its purpose unknown.
Lin Qingyu was so frightened that her legs went weak; she had been afraid of snakes since she was a child.
She had never seen such a large snake before, and she stood frozen in place, too afraid to move or make a sound.
The big dog in the yard was barking uneasily in its kennel; it could sense the approaching danger.
The large snake was not sluggish; on the contrary, it nimbly crawled across the firewood on the ground in the yard.
Lin Qingyu kept her eyes fixed on the snake for a while, maybe a minute, maybe five minutes.
She finally had the idea of running away.
But her legs were weak and she didn't dare to run outside, so she could only retreat back to the kitchen and carefully close the door.
At this moment, she desperately wished she had a cell phone; she couldn't even contact Gu Shi right now.
She could only close the door and dared not take her eyes off the snake, for fear that it would run away to hide somewhere she couldn't see, which would be troublesome.
The Gu family's house is the first house on the east side of the village, and it is right next to a mountain.
No wonder snakes crawled in.
Lin Qingyu kept staring at the snake and didn't notice that the firewood in the stove behind her had burned out and had burned all the way outside.
Then it burned through, fell down, sparks flew everywhere, and landed on a nearby tinder tree leaf, where it immediately caught fire.
When she sensed something was wrong, she turned around and saw flames leaping up.
Startled, she turned pale and quickly scooped water from a large water vat next to her and splashed it over.
Fortunately, there was no real harm; the fire only reached the kindling.
When Lin Qingyu was less nervous, she remembered the big snake in the yard.
She quickly ran to the doorway and looked outside when she saw Gu Shi leading Zhao Xiaobao, walking step by step towards the house.
She looked around the yard but couldn't see the snake.
Lin Qingyu suddenly became anxious, but even more anxious was the big dog in the yard, which kept barking.
Gu Shi also heard it. At first, he saw smoke coming from the kitchen and thought Lin Qingyu was cooking.
Now that the big dog at home was barking again, he thought something had happened and wanted to run back home as soon as possible.
Seeing this, Lin Qingyu had no choice but to open the door and shout to Gu Shi, who had already arrived at the gate.
"Don't come any closer! There's a snake in the house, a big snake!"
Gu Shi heard Lin Qingyu calling, but he couldn't hear her clearly, so he took a few steps into the courtyard.
Before Lin Qingyu could shout again, he saw the snake.
A snake as thick as an adult's thigh and at least four or five meters long was lying at the entrance of his main room.
Upon hearing Lin Qingyu's voice, the snake turned its head away.
Gu Shi panicked, grabbed a sickle from the yard, and rushed over quickly.
No one would be unafraid of seeing such a large snake, but Gu Shi was worried about Lin Qingyu, so he wasn't afraid.
Fortunately, the snake had half its body inside his house and half outside, so it wasn't very agile.
Gu Shi slashed at it with all his might, but failed to cut it in half.
The worm struggled desperately, but it was no match for Gu Shi's scythe. It was killed before it could fully crawl out!
The scene was quite bloody. Gu Shi didn't have time to clean up and turned to shout at Lin Qingyu in the kitchen.
"Go back first, go back!"
After watching the person go inside and close the door, he looked at Zhao Xiaobao, who hadn't yet entered the house, and called out.
"Xiao Bao, you go out first. I'll tidy up and then you can come back."
Zhao Xiaobao, being short-legged and slow, didn't see the scene of Gu Shi fighting with the serpent.
He was still a little confused about what was going on when Lin Qingyu heard it and ran out of the kitchen.
Her legs were still weak, and she stumbled as she ran out, even falling at the door.
Lin Qingyu reached out with trembling hands to pull Zhao Xiaobao away. Just as they were about to leave, Gu Shi's neighbor returned home.
"Ouch! What happened?"
Zhu Chunyan, Gu Shi's neighbor, was carrying a hoe. She only glanced at Gu Shi in the yard before she was so frightened that she rushed over to pull the two of them away.
Lin Qingyu's legs were so weak that she had no strength left when someone helped her.
"Sister-in-law Zhu, there are snakes in my house! I'm so scared!"
Lin Qingyu said weakly to Zhu Chunyan, leaning against her, her heart finally settling back down.
Zhao Xiaobao was wearing a shirt inside out, the sleeves were dirty, and his face was red as he stared at Lin Qingyu.
"Auntie, what's wrong? Why won't Uncle let us go home?"
Zhu Chunyan is a very kind neighbor. She is a little older than Gu Shi, and the man in her family is also very nice.
The couple often helped Gu Shi.
She glanced at Gu Shi and saw that he was tidying up the house. Feeling scared, she spoke to Zhao Xiaobao.
"Little Bao! Your uncle caught a giant snake, it was huge! Oh my god! It was terrifying! And it had to be your uncle; if most people had seen it, they would have been eaten by that snake!"
Zhao Xiaobao still didn't understand, because he had never seen a large snake before.
What is a long worm?
He pulled Lin Qingyu aside, wanting to ask her something.
Lin Qingyu's own voice was trembling, and she couldn't answer his question at all.
Zhu Chunyan pulled the two of them along as they walked towards her home, explaining to Zhao Xiaobao as she went.
"A 'long worm' is a big snake, a really big snake. Are you scared, Xiao Bao?"
"Snake! I'm scared!"
Zhao Xiaobao shrank his neck as soon as he heard the word "snake," he was also afraid of snakes.
Snakes are animals that can easily evoke fear in people, and it's fortunate that Zhao Xiaobao didn't see one just now.
Otherwise, he would probably have nightmares all night.
Lin Qingyu herself felt that she would definitely have nightmares at night.
Zhu Chunyan took the two men back to her home, and after settling them in, her husband also went home.
"Oh! What brings you to my house, little sister? Come here, let Uncle give you a kiss!"
Zhao Xiaobao kept saying, "No, no!"
But he was still smiling.
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