It happened too suddenly.

With a sound of "Bang——", the small porcelain bowl painted with blue and white fell to the ground, rolled twice, and shattered into several small pieces. At the same time, the gleaming brass bell polished by time also fell from the sky. You jingled twice in panic, and finally crooked beside the shards.

"Young Master... Young Master Young Master... Someone! Young Master was bitten by a snake!..."

The sharp voice cut through this rare sunny afternoon that just started spring. Immediately afterwards, there were hurried footsteps in the originally quiet and peaceful mountain courtyard, kicking and kicking, and even the sound of these footsteps knocking things over in a panic.

Shen Qingxuan stared at the front with wide eyes, trying hard to see the appearance of the beast biting him, but his eyes were blurred, as if the eye mask was covered with a thin white gauze, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't see the real thing. He couldn't help being horrified by the power of the snake's venom, but he secretly thought that human beings are not as good as heaven.

After thinking about this, I was not shocked in my heart, I just closed my eyes, vaguely aware that the servants who came to move him from the chair, panicked and called the doctor, and shouted for some antidote pills.

What happened after that is completely unknown.

The eldest young master of the Shen family was bitten by a snake in the villa.

The news seemed to be carried out by the wings of a bird in the mountain forest. About the time of the tea, there were several hooves on the originally peaceful and quiet mountain road.

The carriages and horses and the soft gauze sedan came one after another, in a hurry, and finally stopped at the gate of the villa. Immediately the rider and the noble in the sedan hurriedly descended to the ground, entered the door, and rushed into Shen Qingxuan's room without waiting for anyone to greet them.

The man lying in the blue gauze tent closed his eyes, the Yintang was glowing with an ominous black purple, and the thick black purple gradually spread to his entire face. The originally pale lips turned red and strange on the black purple face. The original appearance of Qing Jun was completely gone, but when he looked at it, he was three-pointed like a human and seven-pointed like a ghost.

"Xiao Xuan!" The elder with the wind and frost on his temples shouted in a low voice, his voice was very sad, "My son!" There was still something to say, but only choked.

"Master." The butler who stood by with his sleeves folded hurriedly interrupted the master's sadness and reminded: "Master, don't be sentimental at this time, it's business to save the life of the young master first."

"Yes." Under the impact of pity, Master Shen, who was reminded to wake up, quickly got up, covered his eyes with one hand, and asked the servants beside him with choking: "Have you detoxified him?"

"There are often snakes, worms, rats and ants on the mountain, so there are all kinds of medicines. The pills designed to detoxify snakes have just been given to the young master, but...the effect is not very obvious."

"What kind of snake is that, can you see it clearly?" the butler asked anxiously.

"It was so chaotic at the time that the villain couldn't see it clearly. It was coiled on the pergola in the courtyard and was blocked by branches. I only glanced at it quickly. After he finished speaking, he was slapped hard on the forehead, and the housekeeper said angrily, "You stinky little servant, you are full of nonsense!" He ignored his cry, and only explained to Master Shen, "Master, Lu also lived in the mountains and forests when he was young. I have never heard of a snake that grows so thick. Unless a python, but although the python is thick, it will not bite people easily, and its poison is even less likely to be so violent. This little servant must be talking nonsense, what he described is more terrifying, I just want to be less punished."

Master Shen was upset, and he didn't care about it at the moment, he just scolded the servant to get out of the way.

"Where did you bite it?" The housekeeper asked the shivering maid who was standing at the door. She was Shen Qingxuan's personal maid.

"On the wrist," the maid said in a hurry, with a pale face, "Today the sun is shining, the young master wants to bask in the sun, so I will push him to the courtyard. As always, the young master wants to drink a pot of scented tea at this time, and I will make it for the young master. Tea was about to bring some refreshments, when he turned around and walked a few steps, he heard the sound of the tea bowl falling to the ground, and when he turned around, the young master had already been bitten by a snake..." Having said this, the maid's eyes closed, Hyun Ran If weep.

"Did you see the snake?"

"I saw it. The man didn't lie, the snake really had a thick mouth and was sitting on the railing. When I saw it, it was just retracting itself. I saw it was black and black, but its belly was golden. I served on the mountain for all these years. Young master, I have seen some snakes killed, but I have never seen such a big snake..."

"Is it really that big?" The butler was doubtful.

Her knees softened, and the girl fell to her knees, crying and swearing, "How dare a slave to lie about such a big thing, if there is any lie, the slave will not die!"

Here, the housekeeper faced the testimony, and over there, Mr. Shen, who suppressed his heartache and watched his son's injury, pulled out the eldest son's wrist. Seeing that the wound bitten by the snake's teeth had been crossed by the blade, he felt a little relieved, knowing that it was A clever servant opened his mouth in time and sucked the poisonous blood. It's just that the venom of the snake is so aggressive that it can make an adult lose his sanity in a short amount of time. I'm just afraid that this poison has entered the heart and is difficult to clear!

Master Shen grasped the thin and pale wrist, and his heart was full of sadness. It is said that the eldest son is the pillar of the family, but he only had a son in his thirties, but he let Shen Qingxuan fall into an ice cave when he was eight years old. After being rescued, he came back with a high fever. Only slumped on the couch. thought that would raise him well, and didn't ask him to earn some fame and fortune. With his huge sum of money from the Shen family, it would be enough to only support the eldest son in a safe life, but unexpectedly, at the age of twenty-seven, he was bitten by a snake again.

"Bastard!" With a low voice, Master Shen had the heart to catch the snake and eat its flesh.

"Master, don't be in a hurry." The old butler who worked hard for the Shen family once again comforted him: "Young master has always been weak, and he has been raised in the villa all the year round, so all the rare medicinal materials are still available, maybe there is a way."

"Any way?"

"Master, do you still remember the Mid-Autumn Festival the year before last, when someone in the southern barbarian land that traded with the Shen family brought two pills claiming to be able to cure the strange poison in the world?"

"Remember, I took the medicine....Is it really useful?"

"I don't know about it, but I just heard that there are many poisonous insects and beasts in the Nanman Wetland. Maybe this pill has a miraculous effect?"

"Why don't you bring it?" Master Shen hurriedly got up.

"Yes."

The medicine was quickly taken, and it was dissolved in warm water to feed it. When feeding the medicine, Shen Qingxuan's teeth were closed, his cheek muscles were stiff, and he could see that he was full of anger.

The house was full of panic, and the air was dignified.

Night fell, and the servants lit the oil lamps. Shaking light.

Shen Qingxuan's door was sometimes open and sometimes closed, and people came and went in and out.

But no one noticed that in the shadow of the shaking oil lamp, there was a person standing quietly.

Black hair draped around his waist, and he was also dressed in a black robe, standing with his hands behind his back, with simple patterns embroidered with gold threads on the front of his clothes, his expression was cold, and he didn't know how long he stood there with pursed lips.

No one noticed, not even passing him a glance at him, if anyone had seen it, they would never turn a blind eye to this man who seemed to be alive.

Indeed, no one knew of his existence.

It was late at night, and Mr. Shen was exhausted physically and mentally. He wanted to be by his son's side, but his age cruelly shackled his affection. At the end of February, although it was the beginning of spring, the nights were still cold and the nights were cold. He coughed a few times, and Master Shen felt a dull pain in his head. Under the consolation of the housekeeper, despite being reluctant, he went to the charcoal-fired warm room to lie down on the soft couch.

In Shen Qingxuan's room, only the housekeeper and three servants were still guarding him.

After another two hours, Shen Mingxuan, whose breath had always been weak, gradually began to breathe smoothly and vigorously. The man standing motionless in the shadow raised his eyes slightly, his eyes were slightly surprised, he didn't believe that there was a magic medicine in this world that could cure his poison.

Sure enough, he stared at the thin and frail man on the bed for a while, and realized that this was the so-called "return to the light".

Those antidote, at most, will delay a few lines of time. Detox? Pure delusion.

Shen Qingxuan tried his best to move his eyelids, the heavy eyelids seemed to weigh thousands of pounds, and he couldn't open them.

The maid who was on the side noticed it, and shouted in surprise, "Master, Master!"

The voice was filled with reckless joy, awakening the courtyard and forest that had just fallen asleep.

Soon, Master Shen was wearing a cloak and couldn't even put on his shoes and socks. He staggered and ran over, shouting all the way, "Xuan'er, Xuan'er... Are you awake? Dad is so anxious..."

Xu Shi's relative's call gave Shen Qingxuan strength, and the trembling eyelids struggled to open. His eyes were slack, and after a long while, they gradually condensed, and there was a certain look in the eyes.

Shen Qingxuan opened his mouth slightly, but couldn't make any sound.

But everyone knows that what he said is: Dad.

"Hey, Dad is here..." Tears flowed all of a sudden, and Master Shen didn't care how many years old he had taken the posture of his elders, he held his son's hand tremblingly, and murmured, "Qingxuan, are you better? not worried……"

Shen Qingxuan used all his strength, and just barely managed to pull a smile from his stiff face. Inexplicably, he knew in his heart that he could not escape this time. The whole body was trapped in a numbness, unable to move. When breathing, there was a smell of fishy sweetness in the mouth and nose, and there was a dark and clear light in front of him.

That's how it feels to be about to die.

In fact, there is nothing to fear. For a cripple like him, death is not as terrible as living.

Only my parents and my younger brother can't be left behind.

Relatives are the only pillars that have supported him in his search for happiness in life over the years. Whenever I think of Gaotang's tragic situation after his death, I can't bear it.

He imagined his own death, not because he gave up on himself. He was used to the life of being unable to take care of himself in a wheelchair for so many years, and it was not so difficult to bury his childhood ideal of whipping the whip and riding the horse.

It's your own body, which is not as good as a year.

Originally, could bask in the sun from time to time, and asked people to push it and go for a walk in the mountains and forests.

In the past two years, it has gotten worse. Just a little bit of wind blows, you will get sick again, and each time it is more serious than the previous one, and later it develops to the point where you can't get out of bed for a month or two.

He hadn't been out this winter, and he seldom even opened the windows.

It is rare to recover from the disease. He wants to bask in the sun, but he alarms a snake that has just finished hibernation and also comes out to bask in the sun.

Thinking of this, Shen Qingxuan couldn't help but smile, thinking in his heart that neither he nor the snake seemed comfortable with the sun.

He knew clearly in his heart that the snake was originally sitting on the railing to bask in the sun.

They could have been at peace with each other, and they went back to their houses after sunbathing.

But somehow, a broken leaf dipped in soil fell from the clear tea water.

The snake was not seen at that time. When it was noticed that something was wrong, the tea had already been spilled out, and the black and bright scales were drenched in steam.

Before he could retract his hand, he called the startled snake to turn around and take a bite.

In fact, it was his own fault. Such hot water, not to mention a snake, even a rabbit, will be frightened to fight back.

That is a very mighty snake. only had time to look at it, and the pain was distracted. But Shen Qingxuan still remembered that the snake was black and bright, and when it was entrenched in an upright position, its neck and abdomen were golden, and it was particularly dazzling in the afternoon sun. Later, wanted to take a closer look, but couldn't see it clearly. don't know if the snake was scalded or not.

It is said that this footless animal is covered with tiny scales, and it is not easy to be hurt by a cup of hot tea.

There was a dizzying blackness in front of him again, and even the voice of his father was drifting away from his ears. Shen Qingxuan tried to listen to what his father was saying, but he could only feel the rumbling in the cochlea. All the messy and broken sentences came from the roar, but still could not reach the sanity. Shen Qingxuan only knew that his father spoke again, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't hear what he was saying.

Shen Qingxuan knew that the deadline had come, and he couldn't tell whether he was more sad or relieved. He always knew that he was dying, but this scene was still unpredictable.

The longing in his heart made him want to take a last look at the world that has accompanied him for more than 20 years. Although he didn't even have the strength to breathe, Shen Qingxuan still tried his best to open his eyes wide, and the look that disappeared from his eyes was stubbornly gathered by him, looking at his relatives. Stare for a long time.

The well-maintained father who is now showing his age, the old housekeeper who has been busy with the Shen family all his life, the maid who has long been crying softly, and everyone who is familiar with him, who has done his best to take care of him all these years... It passed everyone's face rigidly, Shen Qingxuan slowly rolled up the corners of his lips, revealing a shallow smile. It's like saying goodbye.

His smile was so shallow that it was even hideous on his face at the moment.

But it depicts deep, nostalgia for life and reluctance.

Such a desperate nostalgia, but with a sense of relief from death.

Perhaps this smile was too shocking. In the shadows, the condensed man who watched the scene from the beginning to the end raised his eyelids, and his eyes as dark as the water of the abyss had ripples of splashing water.