I immediately took action, climbed onto the desk, used my tail to pick up a pen, found a piece of paper, and wrote down what had happened at that time. It was just a simple mention of how I was killed by the murderer and the license plate number of the murderers car. After finishing writing, I put down the pen and looked at it, so ugly!
Its a good thing I practiced in the cage before, now its recognizable, after all, it was written with my tail, and being able to write at all is already quite good. I immediately picked up the paper clip and crawled onto the table outside to put it down.
I originally wanted to go out, but I still couldnt help crawling onto my own bed and falling asleep, maybe this is a nostalgia for the past.
The next day, I was woken up by my parents voices at dawn. I heard my mother say: "Huh? Who put this here?"
Right after that, my fathers voice came: "This is written about the murder and license plate number. Is this the license plate number of the car that killed Xiaochen? Look again, it says Xiaochen was trying to save a woman and then was run over by a rich boy."
Heres where I mention my name, let me introduce myself. My previous name was Ji Chen, no mistake, homophonic with the fruit "season orange". Ive also been teased by friends before.
At this time, the mother said: "Its very likely, but who put it in our house? I remember that there was none when I went to bed last night. Could someone have sneaked into our house at night?"
His father frowned and thought for a moment, saying: "It should be that there was an eyewitness at the time who saw it, but was afraid of offending someone, so he quietly wrote a note and put it in our house."
Hearing this, I really want to crawl out and meet them, but I understand that I am now a snake, how can I meet them?
Maybe I was too excited, when I got down from the bed, I suddenly bumped into my previous desk and made a "bang" sound.
My parents heard the sound and immediately opened the door to take a look. When they saw me, they suddenly let out a loud cry: "Good heavens! How can there be such a big snake in Xiaochens room?"
My dad reacted quickly and ran into the kitchen to grab a cleaver, saying to my mom, "Dont be afraid, let me chop it to death!"
When I heard this, my heart ached. My parents actually didnt recognize me and were even holding a kitchen knife to chop me. Alas, at that moment, I dont know what taste was in my heart.
At this time, my father had already walked over to me, but he was still a bit afraid. After all, I was now almost one meter long, and he should have recognized that this was a highly venomous snake. If bitten, it would be very dangerous.
He saw that I was somewhat afraid to come over, so I slowly retreated backwards. At this time, my father saw me retreating and thought I was afraid of him, so he summoned up his courage and chopped towards me.
I couldnt bite him, so I had to retreat immediately. Seeing that one knife didnt cut me, he came again with another knife. I continued to dodge, and now my reaction is quite agile, so he cant cut me at all.
After a while, he got tired of chasing and stood there saying: "This snake is really strange, how can it move so fast? And no matter how I hack at it, it doesnt even bite me."
When I heard my father say that, my mother also reacted and said: "It seems to be true, huh? Look what its doing?"
At this time, I slowly crawled onto the desk, rolled up that pen, and wrote out the license plate number. They took a look, were startled, and exclaimed: "Heavens! This snake can write?"
I finished writing and climbed down, at this time they walked over to take a look, surprisingly it was the license plate number again. They only looked at me then. My mother said to my father: "Could it be that the paper last night was also put on the table by it?"
"My father nodded and said, Well, it seems thats the case, but this is really scary. A snake can actually write and even come to deliver a message to us?"
"My mother thought for a moment and said: I wonder if its Xiaochens spirit? And then asked this snake to come back and tell us who the murderer is?"
My father nodded and said, "Its very possible, but lets not worry about that for now. Ill go to the police station and report the case, see if they can find out anything."
"Alright, go quickly!" My mother nodded immediately.
But just before I left, my father looked at me and said to my mother: "What about this snake?"
My mother thought for a moment and said: "I think it doesnt have any ill intentions towards us, so lets just let it stay here. Who knows, maybe it was really sent by Little Chens spirit to deliver a message?"
After hearing what my mother had said, my father thought it made sense and didnt bother me about it anymore, then he went to the police station.
As for why I didnt write on the paper that I was their son, its because I thought that if they knew I had become a snake now, they might be even more heartbroken. It would be better to let them think Im dead, and maybe after a while, they will gradually forget.
At this time, my mother was alone at home, she looked at me and then squatted down to ask me: "Can you understand what Im saying?"
I nodded and spat out a wad of phlegm in response to her, indicating that I could understand.
Seeing me like this, my mother was also stunned, then said: "You really can understand, so is it Xiaochens spirit that called you to our home?"
I nodded again, and at this time my mother suddenly became excited and said: "Really didnt expect it, my little Chen is really showing spirit, then you quickly tell me, how is he doing now?"
I nodded again, and then my mother slowly shed tears and said many touching words, which made my heart break, but what could I do?
It wasnt until almost noon that my father returned, but at this time his complexion was very poor. My mother went up to ask: "How is it?"
My father slammed his hand on the table and angrily said, "Those guys really dont know what theyre talking about. They say that this piece of paper is not enough as evidence, unless someone testifies, and they even say Im framing others. If I go there again to make trouble, theyll arrest me."
"What? This... how is this possible? Its clearly Little Chens spirit coming back to tell us!" My mother said with a disbelieving face.
My father glared at her and said, "This is something only we two believe in, but if you go tell the police this, do you think theyll believe it?"
My mother listened and nodded indifferently, saying: "Yes! They dont understand that... what can be done about it? If they dont believe, how can the murderer be caught? Can Xiao Chen just die like this without any explanation?"
"My father also shook his head helplessly and said: I dont know either, let me try again tomorrow!"
The two of them conferred for a while, seemingly unwilling to let that murderer go unpunished and unavenged.
At this time, the two elders looked at me with some difficulty. My mother said, "What about this snake? After all, it was Xiao Chen who called it to report to us. We cant drive it away, can we?"
My father listened, thought for a moment, and said: "Well, this snake is indeed spiritual. Lets let it live here first. If it likes to sleep on the small morning bed, thats fine. If it wants to leave, we wont stop it!"
After the two of them finished discussing, they left. I actually didnt want to leave either, I just wanted to spend more time with them, so I followed behind them. My mother saw this and turned around to say to me: "You want to go out with us? But its not possible during the day, what if someone sees you and gets scared? Its better for you to stay at home."
I thought for a moment and then nodded, slowly backing away. They saw how obedient I was and smiled, saying: "This snake is really quite intelligent!"
This is the first time Ive seen the two old men smile since I came back, I know they regard me as their spiritual sustenance, perhaps they see a shadow of their son in me.
Although I am their son now, I couldnt admit it, this feeling is really suffocating, I can only look at it and see if I can make up for the two old men.
It was soon evening and my parents came back. My mother had a big bag of food in her hand, and when she opened it, I found that some of it was actually brought back for me.
She put it in front of me and said: "Oh, little guy, youre so well-behaved. You must be starving after staying home all day today, eat something quickly."
Looking at her benevolent eyes, my nose turned sour, unfortunately I couldnt cry out, although she didnt know that this snake was me, but still showed the same concern for me. I looked at the food she brought back, its the cold mixed beef tripe that I used to love eating.
I didnt stand on ceremony and started eating mouthful after mouthful. When my mother saw that I had finished, she smiled happily and said: "The little guy can still eat a lot, tomorrow Ill bring more for you!"
At night, I climbed onto the windowsill and didnt feel sleepy, but instead faced the moonlight shining in through the window, feeling very comfortable all over. Even I could feel that when this moonlight shone on me again, the scales on my body gradually hardened, and the meridians inside my body also gradually strengthened.