On the day of my birth, something strange happened at home.

On that day, my father was about to dig the tomb when he found a python as thick as a bowl on the coffin.

There was a black bag on the top of his head, and the skin of the snake was white. The tongue of the snake in the snake's mouth was sizzling, as if it was shedding its skin.

As soon as the Feng Shui master saw it, he said that there was a black bag on the top of the snake's head, and it was about to turn into a flood dragon.

Turning a snake into a flood dragon is a legendary story in the legend. My dad didn't take it seriously.

He was very bold. Seeing that the snake had no ability to resist, he used the snakeskin bag to wrap around the snake's head and was ready to grab it back to soak in the medicinal wine.

But the snake was so fierce that it bit my father's wrist. My father was so anxious that he accidentally killed the snake.

At that time, my mother was pregnant with me and was about to give birth at home. I heard that my father was bitten by a snake and was in a hurry to go up the mountain to send medicine. As a result, she was scared by a snake that suddenly popped out halfway and fell to the ground. Her lower abdomen ached and it began to work at that time.

At that time, there was no one around. My mother was lying alone on the mountain road, trying her best to give birth to me.

At the moment of my birth, countless snakes suddenly came from all directions, surrounding my mother, raising her snake head and sticking out her snake tongue.

It was like the worship of ten thousand snakes.

My mother held me, who was just born, and cried out in fear.

My father and the Feng Shui master rushed over when they heard the news. Seeing the situation, the Feng Shui master didn't even ask for money and fled to the mountain like crazy.

While running, he said, "Something big has happened! Something big has happened!"

The next day, I heard that he moved out of our town.

My father was bold enough to drive away those snakes with a stick, and then helped my mother home.

As soon as he got home, he fainted.

That night, lightning flashed and thunder rumbled. A thunderclap split open my family's ancestral grave. The strange thing was that the big snake that my father had beaten to death was gone.

My father was in a coma for three days. To be exact, he was not in a coma, but possessed.

He lay on the bed with his eyes closed, and his body kept trembling. From time to time, foam would flow out of his mouth, and from time to time, he would say some nonsense that he could not understand.

My mother had just given birth to me, so she didn't have the energy to take care of him. Seeing that something was wrong, I immediately invited the most famous goddess in the village.

As a capable woman, she could please God through the rice, so the villagers regarded her as the rice Granny.

After Aunt Mi asked for my permission, she told my grandmother that my father was not bitten by a snake, but by me.

She took out a black snake-shaped jade pendant and handed it to my grandmother. She told her that she must give this jade pendant to me after I grew up.

Later, she used sticky rice to remove the poison from my father's body. That night, my father woke up, but the goddess who woke him up died on the way home.

She was bitten to death by a snake.

According to the witnesses, when she was walking on the mountain road home, countless black snakes suddenly came from all directions and surrounded her, biting her to death.

Soon, there were rumors in the village. People in the village all said that it was my father who killed the snake that was about to turn into a flood dragon, so his descendants came to take revenge.

And the rumors about me have never stopped since I was born.

They all said that I was an ominous thing, a monster that was targeted by snakes.

Of course, my dad didn't believe that. Although he was from the countryside, he was more open-minded than ordinary people. He didn't think that I was a girl, but cared that I was a cradle, so he treated me double.

My father was engaged in the snake wine business. Since more and more rumors about our family grew in the village, he took our family to the town and continued to do the snake wine business.

My mother was injured because of her early delivery, so she took care of me at home and took care of my family.

As for me, since I could remember, there has been a big black snake hovering in my dream.

It was one head taller than me, with dark scales and strange dark brown pupils.

It didn't move when it saw me. It just stared at me quietly.

Every time I dreamed of it, the next day, my father would find snakes under the big tree in the yard in front of the house or on the roof.

Sometimes there were one or two, and sometimes there were seven or eight, but they were all caught by my dad to make snake wine.

Every time my dad catches a snake, I'll tell him my dream.

But when my father heard too much, he would shout at me impatiently, "Xiaoling, I dreamed that the snake represented wealth in the near future, or your mother could give birth to a younger brother for you in the future. You are just a child. Why are you so superstitious?"

Every time my dad got angry, I didn't dare to continue.

But as I grew older and older, the snake in my dream became clearer and clearer.

The more sensible I was, the more scared I felt. Sometimes, when I was awakened in the middle of the night, I always felt that the snake was lying beside me.

There was even one time when I was so scared that I couldn't sleep after waking up in the middle of the night. I turned over, but I felt something cold in the quilt. I reached out and touched it. It looked like the scales of a snake!

Frightened, I quickly got out of bed, ran to my parents' room, and fell asleep slowly under their comfort.

Later, when I grew up, I gradually got used to this dream and gradually became no longer afraid.

Occasionally, I would chat with it in my dreams and ask it what its name was, where it lived, and why it appeared in my dreams every day.

But the snake was very cold, and it always ignored me. It had been staring at me for so many years.

Until the night of his 18th birthday, the snake finally changed.

That night, I still dreamed of it, but it no longer hovered around and looked at me as before. Instead, it slowly climbed toward me.

Its dark brown eyes were fixed on me, and its snake tongue was exposed, hissing.

Even in my dreams, I was scared out of my wits and desperately wanted to wake up, but I just couldn't open my eyes.

Finally, the snake crawled in front of me, and its huge head stopped five centimeters away from me.

I wanted to close my eyes, but found that I couldn't do it in my dreams.

The snake stared at me for a few seconds and suddenly said, "What are you thinking about?"

I widened my eyes in surprise. Just when I didn't know how to answer, the snake suddenly transformed into a black-robed man in front of me.

But he seemed to have no spine. He lay on the ground like a snake and looked up at me in a strange posture.

Looking at his face, I suddenly froze.

He was very handsome, with delicate facial features, and his skin was pale, which had not been sunshine for a long time.

The dark brown pupils were like amber that had been melted by the sun. Just one glance was enough to make people unable to move their eyes away.

I've never seen such a good-looking man.

The man in the black robe looked at me and said, "That snake is coming. You must make sure that Xiaolong Ping takes out all the snake wine tomorrow. Don't leave any snake at home."

There seemed to be some unknown fear in his voice, as if he was afraid of something.

"Remember, you can't keep a snake." After that, he slowly turned into a black snake with a trace of sadness in his eyes. "Xiaoling, I really hope to go out to protect you."

I didn't understand what he meant. I was about to ask, but the next second, I woke up.

It was dark outside the window and the room was quiet. The fear in her dream was still lingering in her body.

I took a deep breath to ease my tension. My hand under the quilt gently moved to the side. After making sure that there was nothing else under the quilt, I breathed a sigh of relief.

My father was in the next room, snoring like thunder. I didn't want to sleep, so I got up and went downstairs to drink water.

My family had a three-story self- two-story house in the town. The first floor was used for business, the second floor was for living, and the third floor was rented for a family of four doing business in the town.

I walked to the water dispenser at the corner of the stairs and took some water. I was still thinking about what had happened in my dream.

The words of the man in the black robe seemed to echo in my ears.

He wanted my dad to move all the snake wine away from home, and he also said that there would be another snake at home.

He seemed to be afraid of the snake. Was it very powerful?

I wanted to drink at the same time, but because I came out in a hurry, I didn't even turn on the lights in the corridor.

Just then, I suddenly heard some strange sounds.

It came from the shop on the first floor, as if something was whipping in the water, or as if something was constantly hitting the glass.

I stood rooted to the spot, feeling a chill down my spine.

Black Snake's words rang in my ears again, and even my hand holding the cup was trembling.

But somehow, as if possessed by a ghost, I couldn't help walking to the shelf where the Snake Wine was placed on the first floor.

The shelf was placed against the wall, filled with all kinds of snake wine, which were personally brewed by my father.

After turning on the light, the snake in the glass jar appeared in front of me.

The wine was light yellow. Under the light, the snake in the glass jar seemed to come alive. Its scales were shining, and all kinds of patterns were reflected in the wine.

The weirdest thing was that although their bodies were obviously pressed by various kinds of medicinal materials, I could clearly see their bodies moving slowly against the bottom of the glass jar.

Some of them even whipped the glass jar with their tails, as if they were going to rush out of the jar.

It turned out that the voice I heard just now came from this place!

I was stunned by the scene in front of me, and my body couldn't help trembling.

Then, the weirdst thing happened.

The snakes in the glass can seemed to be controlled by some kind of force. Almost at the same time, they all raised their heads, opened their eyes, and stared at me.

Their terrifying snake eyes were filled with a strange light.

I was so frightened that I felt a burst of pain in my head.

In a trance, I seemed to hear the hissing of those snakes, and it turned into a voice calling me.

They called out to me in a strange voice. "Xiaosing, Xiaosing..."

I wanted to run and scream, but as soon as I turned around, my back was full of green eyes staring at me.

They lined up in a row, raised their heads, stuck out their snake tongues, stared at me with strange eyes, and hissed, as if they were trying to convey something to me.

I stopped where I was, and my eyes gradually became dull.

In a trance, I seemed to hear someone growling in my ear, and then I felt dizzy and regained consciousness.

The man in the black robe in her dream suddenly appeared in front of her. He opened his sleeves and blocked my eyes. "Xiaoling, close your eyes."

I closed my eyes subconsciously, and then I heard the sound of water splashing in my ears. After a long time, I heard the man in the black robe say, "Okay, open your eyes."

I slowly opened my eyes and saw the man in the black robe standing in front of me with a pale face. His legs were trembling and he was on the verge of collapse.

I don't know what happened just now, but I'm sure it was him who saved me.

I took a deep breath and said seriously, "Thank you."

He shook his head with a bitter smile and said in a weak voice, "Remember, you must send all these snakes away tomorrow, otherwise..."

Before he could finish his words, his body became weaker and weaker, and finally disappeared in the air.

I watched him disappear in front of me in surprise, and it took me a long time to come to my senses.

The store had returned to normal, but the snakes on the shelves seemed to be dead.

Her belly was turning white and soaking in the wine, which looked particularly creepy.

When it came to making wine, people would pay attention to using living snakes to make wine. This was also what my father was most proud of, because the snake wine he made was all made of living snakes.

But now all the snakes are dead. If my dad knows, he will be very angry.

But thinking of what the man in the black robe said to me, I still held the cup and ran upstairs quickly.

My dad was sleeping soundly in the room, snoring like thunder.

I woke him up. "Dad! Wake up! Something's wrong!"

My dad was woken up from his sleep and was very unhappy. "Why are you arguing at midnight? It's still dark."

I shouted anxiously, "Go downstairs and have a look. All the snakes in the medicinal wine are dead!"

I concealed the existence of the man in the black robe, and I don't dare to let my father know about it for the time being.

"What?" My dad quivered and jumped up. "Hurry up! Take me to see it!"

He didn't even have time to put on his shoes and hurried downstairs.

When he saw that all his treasured wine had been destroyed, he was so angry that he swore.

I went up to him with a guilty conscience and tried to persuade him. "Dad, these snakes are all dead. Why don't you throw them away?"

My father was so angry that he put his hands on his hips and said, "Don't you think I'll suffer a great loss if you throw me away? The wine made by a dead snake is not so valuable, but it can at least make a little profit. Well, don't worry about it. Go to sleep!"

I kept the words of the man in the black robe in my mind and said, "Isn't our family making money in the name of a living snake making wine? If people find out that you sold dead snake wine, wouldn't you lose your reputation that you have worked hard to build for so many years?"

My dad had been doing business for many years. He valued sincerity and reputation the most. Hearing what I said, he could only nod helplessly. "Okay!"

At noon the next day, I was still worried, so I called my mother from school to ask her. But I happened to hear my father selling snake wine to customers.

It seemed that he was still reluctant to throw away those snakes.

When I got home the next night, I found that all the snake wine on the shelf was gone.

My father sat at the door, smoking happily. When he saw me coming back, he said proudly, "Girl, did you see that? Your father made a promotion today. He sold all the wine and made a lot of money. After you graduate from the college entrance examination, my father will take you out for a trip!"

I ran into the store to check. After making sure that there was no snake wine left, I breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as there were no snakes at home, there should be no problem, right?

But to be honest, I really admire my father. He is really good at doing business.

My mother was still playing mahjong outside and didn't go home. Over the years, she had developed the habit of playing mahjong. Most of her time in a day was spent in the mahjong shop.

After I went home for dinner, my father was also called out by a friend to have supper and drink. I was the only one left at home.

I washed up early and was about to fall asleep early. I went to the dream to ask the man in the black robe what was going on.

In front of the closed door, I vaguely heard movement upstairs, as if something was beating in the water. The sound was exactly the same as the sound I heard last night when the tail of the snake smacked against the glass!