Preface:
In 2006, a beekeeper in Heilongjiang discovered a snake and took it in. Unexpectedly, the snake took its partner and moved in completely the next day. During the 15 years of living at home, it raised hundreds of baby snakes.
What is going on? Could a snake really repay a favor?
1. Found a snake
One evening, as soon as Liu Yuping entered the house after seeing the bees he raised, he saw a pine flower snake lying on the ground.
This startled her, and she quickly picked up the stick beside her and backed out of the door, fearing that the snake would suddenly rush over and bite her.
"Don't come here, stay away from me. If you see the stick in my hand, come over and I will hit you."
Liu Yuping backed away while waving the stick in his hand to threaten the snake.
Songhua Snake looked at the stick in her hand and seemed to be frightened. She stood there and did not dare to move forward.
One person and one snake were in a stalemate for a long time, as if they were waiting for the other party to make a move first.
Liu Yuping saw that the snake was motionless. Just when she was about to relax her vigilance, the snake slowly crawled towards her.
This time her slightly relaxed nerves became tense again, and she picked up the stick to hit the snake.
At the moment when the stick was about to fall, she saw that the snake had no intention of hiding, and it did not jump towards her.
This made Liu Yuping quickly deflect the stick a little and hit the ground next to him.
She was still very scared when she saw the snake that was about to come to her. Seeing that the snake didn't seem to be hurting her just now, she gently poked the snake with a stick, but it still didn't rush to bite her.
She was thinking: "Maybe it didn't intend to hurt me from the beginning, but I was too scared."
So, Liu Yuping picked up the snake gently with a stick, and then put it outside the door. She thought that the snake she released would run away immediately, but the snake turned around and continued to look at her.
"Come on, you scared me just now. I don't have anything you can eat here. Don't come here again."
As she said this, she poked the snake's body with a stick. The snake seemed to be psychic. He looked at her for a while, then turned around and crawled away slowly.
Liu Yuping breathed a sigh of relief as he watched the snake leave.
She was complaining in her heart, looking forward to the fact that no more snakes would appear at her door tomorrow, but there is an old saying that goes, "Enemies don't meet until they meet." The next day, there was a sequel to this confrontation between humans and snakes...
This This made Liu Yuping very distressed, "Isn't this snake here to 'step on'?" Liu Yuping thought to herself, but she did not dare to act rashly.
Although the snake did not attack her yesterday, it may not be so today.
Although Liu Yuping was not as panicked as the first time this time, she was still very scared. She slowly walked to the snake, squatted down and looked at the snake and said:
"Didn't I tell you not to come? I'm really "I don't have anything for you to eat. Didn't you come here after you were full yesterday? Do I have what you want?"
Liu Yuping looked at the snake motionless and thought to himself, "No, that's what it wants to eat." Let me do it."
When she thought of this, the hairs on her body stood up. She quickly stood up and carefully walked around the snake into the house.
As soon as she moved, the snake moved with her, so she quickly turned around and closed the door, but the snake rushed in the moment she closed the door.
Now he was completely in the same room with the snake. One person and one snake were standing on both sides of the room. Liu Yuping saw that the snake had no intention of leaving, so he said to the snake: "If you want to stay here, then you can, but You can't affect my normal life."
Just as she finished saying this, Snake started to check out his "new home."
If snakes could talk, they might say: "I won't hurt you. I just want to find a place to spend the winter. And I don't eat people, but I can eat your mice."
She looked at it The snake that "patrolled" around the house thought that since I lived alone, having another snake wouldn't be a big problem, and besides, it was a snake that wouldn't hurt anyone.
Over time, Liu Yuping became accustomed to the existence of snakes. Every time the snake did not come on time, she would sit at the door and wait. While waiting, she thought to herself: "Why are you hunting outside today? I won't encounter anything." Is it dangerous?”
She was like a mother looking forward to her child coming home.
After living like this for a while, Liu Yuping had become accustomed to the existence of snakes, and would even pick them up and put them in her hands to read when she was bored.
Slowly, she found that there were a lot fewer mice in the house, which must be all due to the pine flower snake.
However, one day when Liu Yuping came home, she found that there was an extra snake in the house. This made her feel very strange. She quickly picked up a stick and tried to drive it away because she was afraid that the new snake would hurt the original pine flower snake.
So, how will Liu Yuping and the "aboriginals" react to the addition of "new members"?
2. Bringing "family members" to move in
Liu Yuping first took Xiaohua (the original pine flower snake) behind her, then picked up a stick to drive the new snake out, but when she just lifted the stick, she saw something behind her Xiaohua rushed in front of the new snake, as if she didn't want her to hurt the "new member".
After she saw Xiaohua's behavior, she put down the stick and guessed that the two of them might know each other, or maybe they were Xiaohua's family members.
saw Xiaohua looking at the new snake for a while, maybe the two of them exchanged something, and then saw the new snake slowly approaching Liu Yuping.
When she saw the new snake doing the same thing as when Xiao Hua came for the first time, she knew that it was not malicious either.
So, Liu Yuping squatted down and stretched out her hand to touch, and saw the new snake slowly approaching her hand with its head.
She felt relieved when she saw the snake behave like this, so she said to the new member: "From now on, you and Xiaohua can live here together. I think you two are both pine and flower snakes, so let's call you Xiaosong."
On the ground Xiaosong seemed to understand what Liu Yuping said, turned around on the ground, and then looked at her.
Liu Yuping felt that it was better to keep one snake than two, so it would be better to let these two snakes be companions.
Just like that, Liu Yuping has another member in his family.
She originally thought that the two snakes would leave after spending the winter at home. Unexpectedly, one of them stayed until spring was over and had no intention of leaving. She suddenly understood that maybe the snakes really regarded this place as their home. .
One day after she came back from outside, she suddenly found a nest of snake eggs in the corner, which made her very curious. At the same time, she also understood that the two snakes turned out to be a couple and had already settled here.
It didn’t take long for these snake eggs to hatch into many little snakes. Liu Yuping originally thought that the newly born little snakes would be hostile to her and did not dare to approach easily.
But after a while, she discovered that these small snakes would not attack her, but would gather around her feet every day when the big snakes went out.
So she freed up half of the space in her home for Snake and his family to live in.
Not long after, Liu Yuping’s relatives learned that there were many snakes in her home and wanted to help her kill them. The relatives were afraid that these snakes would hurt her.
But this proposal was immediately rejected by Liu Yuping, who said that these snakes were her neighbors and would not harm her.
In the eyes of relatives, snakes are bad things that can not only hurt people, but are also highly poisonous, so regardless of what Liu Yuping said, he came to the house with the guy.
When Liu Yuping saw his relatives coming, he quickly blocked the door to prevent them from entering. Upon seeing this, the relatives quickly said:
"Get out of the way. If these snakes don't bite you now, they will definitely bite you in the future. By then, they will have multiplied a lot." "You can't even run away."
"They really won't hurt me. If you don't believe me, I'll catch one for you to see." As he spoke, Liu Yuping reached out and took down a small snake from the pillar next to him.
The relatives looked at the snake in her hand and took a few steps back in fright. Liu Yuping stood there and said: "Look, I said they won't bite me, so you don't have to worry.""
The relatives saw that they couldn't persuade her, so they waved their hands and left.
Just like that, there were more and more snakes in her house. Every day, the big snakes went out to hunt, and the little snakes caught mice and cockroaches at home.
Some When the snake grows up, it will leave Liu Yuping's house to hunt for food in the mountains, but in winter, it will return home to spend the winter.
Looking at the harmonious coexistence between humans and snakes in Liu Yuping's house, many people will wonder whether humans can really live in harmony with snakes. ?
3. Humans and snakes live in harmony
The snake in Liu Yuping's house is called Songhua Snake. This kind of snake usually feeds on frogs, birds and mice, and it is not poisonous.
In fact, snakes are not harmful things. When they are in danger, they will attack.
And snakes will also help people clean up pests such as rats and cockroaches. On the contrary, with the development of people, many snake habitats have been destroyed, and some people hunt snakes. .
Because some venomous snakes have certain medicinal value, people will go up the mountain to catch snakes. They will not only kill venomous snakes, but also non-venomous snakes.
Over time, they will slowly become trapped in the snake circle. "Bad words" about humans have been spread all over the world, so wherever humans appear, snakes will start running for their lives or attack people.
After people see snakes attacking people, they leave such a bad word in their hearts. This is how the suspicion between humans and snakes arises.
People think that snakes will attack people, and snakes think that people will hunt and kill their companions.
People like Liu Yuping have established a good relationship with snakes. There are very few relationships, so people will subconsciously think that snakes will hurt her.
The reason why she can establish a good relationship with snakes is because she was a beekeeper before meeting snakes.
She was afraid that bees would. It hurt the people in the village, so Liu Yuping simply lived in the mountains. It happened that bees would change their honey-gathering routes according to the flowering period. The mountains were convenient for following the bees' routes.
Liu Yuping's job every day was to observe bees and collect honey, because the bees changed their routes. Her habits are different, so she often moves with the bees.
Perhaps it is because of her status as a beekeeper that the snake feels that she is not dangerous to animals, so it lives in her house and even brings her family with her. .
Sometimes, when Liu Yuping was sleeping at night, snakes would get into her bed to keep warm.
At first, she would always feel something under the quilt when she was sleeping. When she opened it, she saw one coiled up. The snake at my feet.
Although she knew that the snake would not hurt her, she was still startled when she saw the snake when she lifted the quilt at night.
One person and one snake were staring at each other on the bed. Liu Yuping had no choice but to get up and put the snake on the ground, but after a while, the snake would climb up again.
Seeing such a situation, Liu Yuping had no choice but to sleep with snakes. Over time, she got used to it.
In the past 15 years, Liu Yuping had grown up with countless snakes in her family. There were two in her family. Thirty big snakes, and too many small snakes to count.
Every day, she would clean the skins shed by snakes on the floor and on the beams.
The reason why snakes choose to breed here is because Liu Yuping's home is relatively quiet and she will not hurt snakes. Slowly, snakes begin to trust her, and she treats them as family members.
When a new snake egg is born, she will directly grab it, and the female snake next to her will not attack her. She has watched many baby snakes being born and growing up.
The news that there were many snakes in Liu Yuping's house quickly spread, and people said they were afraid to approach. Because of this, there has never been a thief in Liu Yuping's house.
In this way, Liu Yuping has lived with the snake for 15 years. She even jokingly called herself the snake's natal home.
4. Conclusion
We have all heard the story "The Farmer and the Snake" when we were children. In the story, we thought that the old man saved a snake, but the snake bit the old man.
This story makes us think that snakes are particularly bad since childhood, but this is not the case. Through the situation in Liu Yuping's family, what we see is a picture of people and snakes living together peacefully, rather than a fight between people and snakes.
So this fully demonstrates that animals and people can live in harmony.
However, with the development of people, the construction of high-rise buildings and the establishment of factories, animals that originally lived in the jungle have lost their homes. Some people even hunt wild animals for money, which puts animals and people on opposite sides.
However, with the implementation of environmental reforms, the ecological environment is slowly recovering, and wild animals have begun to appear in some areas that had never had wild animals before.
The relationship between humans and nature is not inherently antagonistic. In the ecological chain, every creature is mutually reinforcing. As the top of the food chain, humans should be tolerant of any species in nature.
When human beings look back at the earth from space on the spacecraft , they can't help but be stunned by it - this oval planet surrounded by a dreamy blue ocean is the earth on which we humans live.
However, for a long time, human beings have ignored the endurance of nature and the environment for the development of themselves and society. Many developments have been achieved by plundering nature, and even "cutting off descendants".
The harsh reality tells us that if we do not raise our environmental awareness now, do not respect nature, and do not take practical actions to protect the environment on which we live, nature will punish humans!
So we must find a balance between man and nature A balance point to ensure the harmonious coexistence between man and nature.
Let us use human conscience and the "love" of the human soul to get close to nature and preserve nature.
