Chapter 1 Bit by a Snake While Defecating in the Field

The northwest is windy, sandy and dry.

In the hot summer, cicadas are chirping and heat waves are rolling everywhere, especially at noon, the air in the wheat fields begins to distort, and the farmers working in the fields are suffering from the sun.

"Brother, brother, take a break, grandma has prepared lunch, I brought it to you!" On the dirt road, under a thick locust tree, a little girl with a ponytail holding a lunch basket in her hand, tiptoed to the boy in the field, and a big black dog was lying on the ground next to her feet, sticking out its tongue due to the heat.

"You are finally here, sister! My stomach has been growling with hunger for a long time, just waiting for you to come!" In the golden wheat field, a boy with dark skin and sweat on his face heard his sister calling him, so he stopped his work, reached out and wiped the sweat dripping from his face casually, and slowly walked to the roadside holding a sickle.

"Brother, guess what delicious food grandma made for you today?" The little girl asked the boy who was walking slowly towards her with a suspenseful look on her face.

"Oh, what else can it be? Isn't it just plain noodles? Is there vegetables and tofu?" The boy had come to the little girl and asked with some doubt.

"Brother, I guess you can't imagine that there are not only vegetables and tofu in the noodles today, but also meat! Haha..." The little girl smiled happily, and stretched out her white right hand to open the lid on the rice basket.

As the lid in the little girl's hand was opened, a light fragrance of rice wafted out, and the boy's eyes stared at the rice basket suddenly widened. There was a bowl of clear soup noodles in the vegetable basket, and there were two buckwheat noodles next to it, each with a few slices of meat.

It turned out to be Roujiamo? The boy stared at the two Roujiamo in disbelief, swallowing his saliva in his throat.

However, he also had some doubts in his heart. How could his family afford to buy pork and make a roujiamo to satisfy his craving? The boy was sure that the roujiamo was given by someone else.

The boy's name was Yan Moshan, a name that sounded very strange, and his sister was called Xu Xiaona. Although they lived in the same family, they were not siblings.

According to his grandmother, he was picked up by his grandmother at the gate of the Great King Temple on the mountain seventeen years ago. Because he was naked at the time, he had a black ring-shaped jade pendant on his neck with the words "Moshan" engraved on it. And because that day happened to be the Ghost Festival, he was named Yan Moshan. His grandmother said that this kind of name is very evil and he will have a hard life in the future.

Although this name is weird, Yan Moshan has never had any disease since he was a child. He ran around the village naked and grew up to be a strong young man. Now he is exactly seventeen years old and has become the only labor force in the family.

"Sister, who gave you this roujiamo!"

"It was given by sister Xu Xiaoya, who is new to our village health station. She saw that our family is poor and can't afford meat, and you have been doing such hard farm work these days, so she asked me to send you some."

"Oh, Dr. Xu Xiaoya is such a good person!"

Yan Moshan immediately thought of the pure-looking city girl in a white coat. When he first came here some time ago, the single men in the village would run to the health station whenever they had nothing to do, just to see the city girl. Sometimes even people from other villages would come to see her. Xu Xiaoya is almost the dream lover of these single men. If there were no more farm work in the world these days, many people would probably run there.

If I could marry a girl like that in this life, this life would be worth it, he thought to himself.

Forget it, stop daydreaming. Yan Moshan immediately dispelled the unrealistic fantasy in his heart, reached out and picked up a roujiamo, ready to eat. At this time, he suddenly found that his younger sister was looking at the roujiamo in his hand with envy, swallowing saliva constantly.

Seeing this, Yan Moshan shook his head helplessly and scolded with a smile:

"Look at your achievements, are you so envy?"

Having said so, Yan Moshan still took out another roujiamo from the basket and sent it to his younger sister, saying: "Eat it, eat slowly, don't choke!"

"I don't eat it, you eat it, this is what sister Xu Xiaoya asked me to send you, I can't eat it."

"You eat it, I'm giving it to you." Yan Moshan sent the roujiamo in his hand to his sister again.

"Then keep it for grandma, I'm not hungry yet." Xu Xiaona lowered her head, turned around, and no longer looked at the roujiamo in the boy's hand.

"Alas——" Yan Moshan sighed in his heart, and secretly made up his mind that after the wheat was harvested, he must go to the city to make some money, so that his sister and grandmother could live a good life and have meat to eat every day.

"Forget it, this Roujiamo is for grandma, and I'll give you half of this." Yan Moshan said, and put one Roujiamo in his hand back into the basket, and then broke the remaining Roujiamo in half and sent it to his sister.

"Brother, I'm not hungry. You've worked all afternoon. You can eat it!" Xu Xiaona turned around and looked at the half Roujiamo in Yan Moshan's hand, saying something against her will.

"Humph, I still have a bowl of noodles. If you don't want it, I'll give it to Da Laohei." Yan Moshan said, pretending to throw the half Roujiamo in his hand to Da Laohei, who was lying on the ground and staring at the half Roujiamo.

"Hey, brother, you really want to feed the dog with roujiamo?" Xu Xiaona hurried forward and grabbed Yan Moshan's sleeve, snatched the roujiamo from his hand, and looked at her brother in surprise.

Yan Moshan was secretly proud of himself. His sister was still too naive. He used a little trick to deceive his sister. He laughed and said:

"I told you I can't finish it. I still have a bowl of noodles. You are not hungry, so I can only reward Da Laohei!"

"Humph, bad brother! You lied!" Xu Xiaona said angrily: "You just want to trick me into eating roujiamo. Do you really think I am a child!"

Yan Moshan was speechless for a while. It seems that his uneducated brain is not as good as his younger sister who is already in the second grade of junior high school. This lack of culture is really terrible. Although the younger sister is only twelve years old this year, her academic performance is good. Children of this age in the mountains are generally not graduated from the fifth grade of elementary school! Thinking of this, Yan Moshan felt more pressure. He didn't study, but he couldn't let his sister not study. He had to let his sister study more so that she would have a good future. He couldn't let his sister suffer in the countryside.

"Forget it, can't I eat?" Seeing that her brother's face was gloomy and he didn't say anything for a long time, Xu Xiaona immediately comforted her brother, took a bite of the Roujiamo in her hand, and ate it with relish.

Yan Moshan saw his sister eating Roujiamo, and he felt happy. He didn't hesitate any more. He swallowed half of the Roujiamo in his hand in two or three bites, and then picked up the bowl of clear soup noodles and started eating. Soon, he finished the bowl of noodles.

After eating and drinking, Yan Moshan burped and felt around for a long time and found a pack of cigarettes. He opened it and saw that his heart was throbbing. There was only one cigarette left, and it was crooked.

"Sister, did you bring toilet paper?"

"What for?"

"What else can I do? A shit after dinner is as good as a living god!"

"Brother, can you wait until I finish eating this roujiamo before saying this?" Xu Xiaona complained angrily. She really couldn't stand her brother's habit.

"Hehe, this stomach is not doing well. What do you call it in the words you learned... Oh, yes, it's convenient, I'm going to go to the toilet!" In the countryside, shitting is shitting and peeing is peeing. No one ever says it's convenient, but in order to take care of his sister's emotions, Yan Moshan has to speak politely and not be too vulgar.

"That's all!" Xu Xiaona turned her back to Yan Moshan and stretched out a small piece of toilet paper.

"That's not enough. Forget it. Just make do with it!"

Yan Moshan grabbed the small piece of toilet paper in his hand and ran to a wheat field. He unzipped his pants and squatted on the ground. He took out a cigarette and lit it so that the smell of the cigarette could offset the stench.

Soon, he was done. Because there was not enough paper, he felt that he didn't wipe his butt clean enough, so he looked around to see if there were any leaves or something that could make do.

At this time, she saw a black branch-like thing on the ground next to her feet. She thought it looked enough, so she reached out and picked it up to wipe her anus.

"Ouch!" Yan Moshan didn't know that the black branch suddenly moved and bit her buttocks. She stood up in pain, pulled up her pants and ran outside.

"Brother, what's wrong with you?" Xu Xiaona looked at her brother who jumped out of someone else's wheat field in a panic.

"I was bitten by a snake, take me to the health station! Quick..."

Before Yan Moshan finished speaking, he felt dizzy, and fell to the ground with a black vision and fainted.