Chapter 003: Mountain Village Evil Snake-3
Around three in the morning, Jiang Yan developed a fever.
He felt dizzy and weak, and felt like he was standing at the junction of a volcano and the snow. No matter which direction he went, it would be wrong, but if he stood still, his head would explode.
Fortunately, this symptom only lasted for a minute. It felt like something was touching his body, and he felt a little physically nauseous, but his mental state gradually improved.
Jiang Yan twisted his body and soon found that he seemed to be tied up by something like a rope, preventing him from swinging his body widely.
"Hmm."
He groaned a little unbearably, and then he felt that the rope seemed to loosen a little.
As time passed, Jiang Yan's condition was getting better.
"Brother, what's wrong with you?"
After an unknown amount of time, Jiang Yan could vaguely hear some sounds.
"You obviously don't have a fever anymore." The voice murmured with a hint of doubt, "Why aren't you waking up yet?"
"Brother, if you don't wake up, I will have to--"
Only what?
But I didn't hear the last few words.
Jiang Yan wondered drowsily what the voice had said in the end.
After a long time, when he woke up, he could no longer remember what had happened during his coma.
"Great, you finally woke up."
It was a very exciting sound.
At this time, Jiang Yan's posture had changed from lying on his side facing the window to facing the door. He slowly opened his eyes, and his long and narrow eyelashes were dotted with a layer of silver by the sunlight coming through the window. His eyes were a beautiful amber color.
Meng Tang, who was squatting beside the bed and looking at the young man with his chin in his hand, tilted his head and said, "Brother, you have been sleeping for a long time."
“The sleep quality is really good.”
Jiang Yan: “…” For a moment, I didn’t know whether this was a complaint or a compliment.
He opened his mouth, and when he uttered the words, he realized that his voice had become particularly hoarse for some reason, "What's wrong with me?"
Meng Tang said faintly, "You had a fever in the second half of the night. I told you to hold me while you slept, but you didn't listen. Did you feel very uncomfortable?"
When Jiang Yan heard his last words, he was stunned for a moment and then nodded.
Meng Tang added: "But fortunately I discovered it in time, and used your hands to hug me to cool you down, so that your condition was not too serious."
"I didn't hug you." Meng Tang smiled, "It was you who wrapped your arms around me, so I didn't break the agreement."
Before going to bed, Jiang Yan told him not to get close to her.
This is Mengtang's "obedience" to him.
“…”
Jiang Yan's eyebrows twitched twice, then he closed his eyes again. After sorting out his thoughts, he opened them again and looked at Meng Tang who was still squatting on the side.
Meng Tang saw him open his mouth but didn't say a word, so he said with great insight: "Brother, are you thirsty?"
Jiang Yan nodded.
"I'll go get some water for my brother."
I heard a "da da da" sound, and Meng Tang came back.
While Jiang Yan was pouring water, he struggled to prop himself up. The moment he sat up, he felt his bones were sore, as if they were about to fall apart after some strenuous exercise.
Is this snake venom so strong?
Jiang Yan hesitated and opened the quilt covering his body. Several red marks were winding all over his body like snakes, dyeing his originally snow-white skin red.
What's going on?
The red marks on his body that Jiang Yan had rolled over with his fingertips were still a little hot, but not painful.
How strange.
The door of the room creaked, and Jiang Yan caught a glimpse of Meng Tang's shadow out of the corner of his eye. He quickly covered himself with the quilt again, then pretended to look over calmly.
Meng Tang looked happy and even wanted to feed him water himself, but was rejected by Jiang Yan.
After all, such behavior is strange, and they are not husband and wife.
After moistening the throat with warm water and ginger salt, the ability to speak was quickly restored.
"What time is it now?"
Meng Tang rolled his eyes and said, "It's almost ten o'clock, brother."
Jiang Yan glanced at him and said, "My name is Jiang Yan."
Meng Tang stared at him, his eyes shining: "I know, what's wrong, brother?"
Jiang Yan frowned and said, "Just call me by my name."
"Okay, brother Jiang Yan."
Jiang Yan: “…”
"Oh, right." Jiang Yan grabbed the corner of the quilt. He thought of the inexplicable red marks on his body, which were not there before he went to bed. So he lowered his eyes and asked, "Did anything enter the room last night?"
"Huh?" Meng Tang blinked innocently, "It was just me and my brother together last night, no one else was there."
Finally, he added boastfully, "I protected my brother very well."
Okay.
Jiang Yan didn't want to say anything more, he just wanted to go home.
"Where are my clothes?" he asked hoarsely.
Meng Tang pretended to think, then shook his head.
Jiang Yan was stunned, "What does shaking your head mean?"
Meng Tang said: "I washed your brother's clothes yesterday and hung them outside to dry. But when I went to collect them this morning, I found snakes crawling on your clothes. I am very afraid of snakes, so I could only watch the snakes take your clothes away."
With a guilty look on his face, he said dejectedly, "I'm sorry, brother."
Jiang Yan was silent for a moment, "Then is there anything else I can wear?"
Meng Tang lowered his head and pulled at his clothes. Jiang Yan realized what he was thinking and his face turned dark.
"Only... mine." Meng Tang said weakly.
Ginger and salt have mixed emotions.
…
In the end, Jiang Yan chose to wrap herself in a thin blanket and be carried by Meng Tang.
"Fortunately, my brother is light in weight."
On the way, Meng Tang pinched Jiang Yan's flesh behind him, but he didn't know where he pinched, which made the latter blush and said angrily: "Don't touch me!"
The wind from afar blew along the mountainside and fell on their cheeks. Jiang Yan rested his head on Meng Tang's strong back, listening quietly to the sound of the wind in his ears.
Mingming and Mengtang had only known each other for a day or two, but they seemed to be getting too close at this point.
Jiang Yan muttered, "Have we known each other before?"
Meng Tang was obviously stunned for a moment, then he denied it with a smile: "No."
"Maybe I'm more outgoing." Meng Tang continued, "Or maybe my brother is too handsome, so I can't help but want to get closer to him."
Jiang Yan frowned slightly when she heard the other party use the word "beautiful" to describe herself.
"Are you sure you're going in the right direction?"
Jiang Yan raised his eyes and looked around. On both sides were yellow mountains, the distant sky, and unknown creatures hiding behind their shelters, ready to make a move.
"Is that a snake?"
Jiang Yan asked again.
Meng Tang answered the first question, "Trust me." Then the second question, "I won't let them hurt you."
"But it may take a while." Meng Tang said, "Brother, you can take a nap first, I will call you."
The other party's words seemed to have some magic power. Jiang Yan was very alert at first, but at this moment he felt sleepy and had to close his eyes without saying a word.
Feeling that the person behind him's breathing had become steady, Meng Tang knew that he had fallen asleep.
Meng Tang whistled.
Suddenly, the unknown creatures that had been hiding began to gradually reveal their true faces.
Jiang Yan guessed correctly, those were snakes.
Countless pairs of dark green eyes floated on the hillside like tadpoles. They crawled in a winding manner with Mengtang as the center, and then prostrated themselves at Mengtang's feet in a pious posture.
Meng Tang looked at the sleeping person in his arms and curled his lips slightly. His eyes were always on Jiang Yan, but his words were directed to the snakes: "You stay here and are not allowed to come out without my order."
…
…
When Jiang Yan woke up again, it was already evening.
"Xiaoyan, are you feeling better?"
What caught his eye was a kind-looking woman, his mother.
"I'm back?"
Jiang Yan focused his scattered eyes and his vision gradually cleared. He turned his head in confusion and looked at his mother who was nearby with a worried look on her face.
He said it again: "I... went home?"
The mother did not answer immediately, but hugged him tightly, unable to stop crying, and said, "I shouldn't have let you go out and hang out with them!"
Jiang Yan was weak and often stayed at home. Not long ago, he went to the stream to catch fish with young people from the same village, and he had to persuade his parents with great effort.
"I'm fine."
The slender and fragile young man drooped his eyelashes, his ears filled with the hoarse chirping of cicadas and the endless sound of the wind. He sat on the bed, his Adam's apple rolling up and down in his throat, and a light sound escaped from his throat.
But the mother grabbed the young man's hand wrapped in white bandage, and her eyes were trembling and distressed.
She hugged her child tightly, her bent back trembling a few times, and then she said in a trembling voice, "Are you really, really okay?"
Jiang Yan comforted her: "I met Grandpa Xu's grandson. He saved me. I am fine now."
In order not to worry his mother, he deliberately concealed the sequelae of the snake venom.
At this time, someone else walked into the room.
Jiang Yan looked over his mother's shoulder and saw his father walking towards him.
Following behind my father was a grandfather and grandson, Xu Fusheng and Meng Tang.
Jiang Yan first called out "Dad", then "Grandpa Xu", and finally his gaze paused slightly on Meng Tang who was bathed in moonlight.
"Xiao Jiang, how do you feel now?"
Xu Fusheng had a kind face and a big smile hung in the corners of his wrinkled eyes.
Jiang Yan looked at his mother, then said, "Thanks to Meng Tang, I am much better now."
Xu Fusheng nodded and smiled, "Fortunately, it was treated in time, and the snake venom did not spread to the bone marrow."
He turned to look at his grandson again and said with satisfaction: "He is more capable than I thought."
Meng Tang did not hesitate to praise him, but said: "I can do many other things."
"Oh? Then I'll have to let my son learn from you." Father Jiang said. He looked stern, but spoke generously and kindly, "So that this kid won't be bored at home every day."
Well...sometimes he is a father with a dagger hidden behind his smile.
Jiang Yan, who was stabbed in the heart: "..."
Meng Tang curled his eyes and smiled happily: "Okay, I really like Brother Jiang Yan."
The mother seemed to like Meng Tang very much, and since he had saved her precious child, the gloom on her face finally dissipated, and she smiled. "Do you want to stay and sleep with Xiao Yan tonight, Xiao Meng?"
Before Meng Tang could speak, Jiang Yan's face turned cold and he said resolutely, "No."
My mother gave me a puzzled look. Besides that, my father's rough voice could be heard from the room: "You kept complaining that we locked you up at home and you had no friends. Now that we've found you some friends, you don't want them anymore?"
"Wouldn't it be better for you to learn some knowledge from college students?" said the father dissatisfiedly. "You just act wild outside all day long. It's really not decent."
Jiang Yan was frightened by his father's changing expression. He wanted to say something but stopped himself. Under the gaze of the middle-aged man, he finally had to compromise.
"oh."
Jiang Yan said weakly.
Seeing this, Xu Fusheng waved his hand and said, "It's not too late now. My grandson and I should go back. He can come over every day."
Seeing that the grandfather and grandson were about to leave, Jiang's mother stopped them and said, "It's already dark outside. For safety reasons, you should stay at our house tonight."
In fact, their two homes are not far away, about ten minutes away.
only……
"I wonder if the sneaky man in the village has been caught." Mother Jiang looked at the old man and the young man in his early twenties in front of her, and said worriedly.
There were often some strange people breaking into their village and they couldn't be driven away, so the villagers naturally made a rule that people should try not to go out after dark.
Especially not long ago, a sneaky person came into the village and stayed there for a long time.
As the village representative, Jiang's father called other strong young men to catch someone one night, but the man ran into the back mountain and hid.
But for the villagers, the back mountain is a forbidden area, where countless snakes gather, including a snake king that can curse others.
So in the end they didn't catch anyone.
But from that day on, they all tacitly agreed that the man should die.
After all, the main reason why the back mountain was listed as a forbidden area is that since the day when the rumor of the cursed snake king existed, all those who accidentally entered the back mountain have never come out again.
In addition, for those who died in the back mountain, their relatives would also pass away for various reasons a long time later.
This is the reason for the curse on the back mountain.
But the man still came back the next night.
No one knew who he was, and no one had seen what he looked like. The only thing known was his gender.
Probably a young man in his twenties.
"That's true."
Xu Fusheng touched his chin. He didn't care, but he was mainly worried about his grandson.
"That's it," said Jiang's father.
In the end, Jiang Yan was "forced" to share a bed with Meng Tang.
"Brother, is this place haunted at night?"
Lying on the bed, Meng Tang stared at Jiang Yan's back. He made a very small sound, and his tone trembled slightly, as if he was really scared.
Jiang Yan buried his head in the whole head, "Yes, so you should be obedient."
Meng Tang rolled his eyes and said obediently, "Okay, brother."
"Can I hold you to sleep?"
"Um?"
Jiang Yan thought he had heard wrongly. He turned around and came face to face with Meng Tang, their eyes on the same level.
"What did you say?" Jiang Yan asked.
Meng Tang looked at him eagerly: "I'm afraid of ghosts."
"so?"
"So--, can I hold you?"
Jiang Yan said without hesitation: "No."
"All right."
Meng Tang said aggrievedly.
But in the second half of the night, Meng Tang still transformed into a snake body. He twisted his scaly body and carefully touched the source of warmth that was so close.
You can’t hug, but it doesn’t say you can’t cuddle.
Just change back before dawn.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com