"Oh my, such a long snake skin!"
Lin Mu finished tidying up, just sat down to soak her feet, picked up her phone, and saw the news in the hoowner group.
She was startled by the snake skin in the picture.
"Mom, what snake skin?"
Fan Lalan walked over, holding An’an.
Lin Mu: "Soone in the apartnt complex’s owner group posted a picture of a snake skin that long, look at it."
Lin Mu held up the phone for everyone to see.
Several people gathered to take a look.
The photo was taken in the underground parking lot, showing a long snake skin hanging down from a sewage pipe.
The tail end of the snake skin almost touched the ground, and they couldn’t see the snake’s head yet.
Before long, soone took a complete picture of the entire snake skin.
The hoowners in the group were shocked upon seeing the complete snake skin.
"Oh my god, it’s got to be four or five ters long!"
"How can there be such a big snake in our community?"
"This isn’t a snake anymore; it must be a python!"
"Oh my god, call the police! Get this python caught quickly; what if it enters soone’s house?"
"With that size, it feels like it could swallow an adult!"
"Who the hell keeps such a thing?! Did soone’s pet escape? I advise you to turn yourself in quickly, and then catch the snake; if it hurts anyone, it’ll be too late!"
...
Lin Mu got goosebumps looking at that snake skin.
"Tomorrow, I’ll go to the market and see if there is any realgar, buy so and sprinkle it at our windowsill and doorway."
Lin Xiaoyan and Nanxi Xiaobo saw that snake skin, and old mories surfaced.
The three couldn’t help but think of past events.
Lin Xiaoyan rubbed her arms; she really, really, really hated snakes!!!
"Soone has already called the police; they should find the snake soon, right?" Fan Lalan said, looking at the group’s ssages.
"People these days are so strange, keeping such things for fun? Gross!"
Lin Mu couldn’t understand it at all.
Lin Xiaoyan: "It’s a matter of personal preference, I guess. Nowadays, people keep all sorts of pets; so like cold-blooded animals."
Suddenly, Lin Xiaoyan rembered the fishy sll she noticed upon returning to the apartnt complex. She wondered if that odor... could be from this snake!
Looking at the ssages in the hoowners group on her phone, such a big snake should be found soon, right?
When Lin Hao returned ho, he saw everyone still awake and gathered in the living room.
"What’s going on in the complex? Why are the police and fire departnt here?"
Lin Hao asked while changing his shoes.
Fan Lalan stood up and went to the kitchen to heat up so food for her husband.
"Tonight, soone took a picture of a really long snake skin in the underground garage!" Fan Lalan said.
Lin Hao: ???
"Snake skin?"
"Yeah, look, the snake skin is so long, the snake must be very large!" Lin Mu showed the photo to her son.
Lin Hao took the phone and was puzzled by the complete snake skin.
"But isn’t this the ti of year when snakes should be hibernating?"
Lin Xiaoyan: "Not necessarily. Today, the temperature in Sea City was twenty-two degrees."
Fan Lalan finished heating the food and brought it out.
"Co over and eat quickly."
Lin Hao kissed his son and smiled as he sat at the dining table to eat.
"Such a big snake must be soone keeping it secretly, otherwise, how would it appear in the city?" Lin Hao speculated.
Everyone nodded, thinking it was likely.
At night, the police and fire departnt searched for several hours but couldn’t find any trace of the snake.
They had to let the property managent remind the hoowners to keep their doors and windows tightly closed and to call the police if anything happened.
Also, to watch their children and pets carefully...
Late at night, on the top floor of unit 4, a skinny girl looked at her pet that had just finished shedding its skin and returned to its nest, angrily saying.
"Tuantuan, how did you sneak out on your own?!"
Wang Na held up her phone, showing the photo to Tuantuan in the glass enclosure.
"Look, soone found your snake skin!!!"
The large python coiled in the glass enclosure flicked its tongue, staring at Wang Na.
It’s unclear if it understood, but its eyes were fixed intently on its owner.
Wang Na looked at Tuantuan’s gaze and reached her hand into the glass enclosure, gently stroking its body.
"Tuantuan, mommy’s not scolding you; it’s just that you can’t go outside.
The outside world is too dangerous; if you go out, you’ll be caught and taken away. If you get taken away, you’ll never see mommy again.
Understand?"
The golden python slowly crawled out, gradually approaching Wang Na.
It rubbed against Wang Na’s cheek.
Wang Na felt the warmth of Tuantuan’s body and smiled indulgently.
"Alright, mommy knows you’re wrong, go back now. You must be hungry after shedding your skin!"
Wang Na put the python back in the glass enclosure, covered it securely, ensuring it couldn’t escape again. Then she took so frozen at out of the refrigerator to thaw in the kitchen.
She must have forgotten to close the lid when she left for work in the morning, so Tuantuan sneaked out.
She knew Tuantuan was due to shed its skin these days, and previously, Tuantuan was well-behaved when it shed. She had remodeled the room for Tuantuan.
From temperature to humidity, and even the green plants in the room, everything was set up to et the optimal survival conditions for a python.
She had even chosen the top floor to give Tuantuan a chance to explore and get so fresh air outside.
Tuantuan is already nine years old, and her Tuantuan is thriving particularly well.
Better than other pythons!
When she thought of the snake skin Tuantuan shed today, Wang Na felt heartache.
Such a complete snake skin, why couldn’t it have shed at ho?
If the police took it, she wouldn’t be able to get it back, alas.
Wang Na quickly thawed the at, checking the temperature to make sure it wasn’t cold, then took it to Tuantuan’s room to feed it.
"Tuantuan, mommy is off to work now, eat well on your own."
Wang Na placed the food in the glass enclosure, gently coaxing, "Eat this first, and when mommy’s off work, I’ll buy you fresh food from the market!"
Wang Na lovingly caressed Tuantuan’s body before reluctantly leaving the room to work.
After Wang Na left, the python in the glass enclosure began to move slowly.
It gently used its head to nudge open the lid, bit by bit.
Once the lid was open, it carefully moved it aside, making no noise.
With the lid removed, it didn’t co out imdiately but crawled to the food, slling it.
After sniffing, it turned away imdiately, apparently disdainful of the food.
Then it slowly slithered out of the glass enclosure...
Late at night, after finishing all her work, Wang Na washed up and went to bed.
Lying in bed before sleeping, she suddenly rembered that she forgot to say goodnight to Tuantuan, so she got up and went to Tuantuan’s room.
"Tuantuan?"
Her heart tightened when she saw that there was no sign of Tuantuan in the glass enclosure.
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