In the countryside, raising the main beam of a house was a major event, requiring a banquet to invite villagers to drink.

Zhang Fang, seeing the crowd, didn't go into the courtyard but stood behind them, waiting for Dai Xuelin.

When Dai Xuelin's house was raising its beam, Zhang Fang even told the people nearby that the main beam of Dai Xuelin's house was not right.

Others asked him: "What's wrong?" But Zhang Fang couldn't explain, just saying: "The main beam, no matter how you look at it, makes people feel uncomfortable..."

Just as the people next to him were thinking Zhang Fang was talking nonsense, they saw a long white snake crawl out from under the red silk covering the main beam.

The carpenter on the beam was startled, but the master carpenter standing below jumped up and down, shouting, "Quick, quick...lower the beam, it's a white dragon circling the beam, very auspicious! Hurry!"

Dai Xuelin's father couldn't stop smiling, but the white snake coiled on the beam suddenly bristled, its head rising on the beam, staring down at the people below, its mouth constantly spitting out its forked tongue.

Just as the carpenters were about to lower the beam, the white snake suddenly opened its mouth, its fangs shining like hooks.

The people raising the beam were so frightened that their hands trembled, and the beam was immediately misaligned. The white snake fell to the ground.

The master carpenter had just shouted, "Don't hit it!"

Zhang Fang pushed through the crowd and rushed to the front, picked up a wine bottle from the table, threw it, and smashed the snake's head to pieces.

The whole courtyard was dumbfounded. Dai Xuelin's father jumped up and down, cursing Zhang Fang, "What are you doing, you little bastard? Are you courting death?"

Zhang Fang, however, told him confidently, "This snake is here to take your lives. If I don't kill it, your family will have a funeral within three days."

Country people are most taboo about such things. To say unlucky things at someone else's happy event, even the best relationship would be broken.

Moreover, Zhang Fang had killed the "auspicious sign" of Dai Xuelin's family. Dai Xuelin's father went up and slapped Zhang Fang twice across the face, and pressed Zhang Fang down, making him pay for his family's white snake with his life.

Zhang Fang was pressed to the ground at the time, shouting desperately, "Let me get up, I'll pay you back for the snake."

At that time, Dai Xuelin's father probably calmed down a bit, so he pulled him up and said to Zhang Fang, "Today, if you can't pay for a snake, I'm not done with you."

Zhang Fang stood up with a mouthful of blood, picked up the dead snake, threw it into a jar, and sprayed a mouthful of blood into the jar, saying: "It won't be long before the snake comes back to life."

No one in the village believed him, saying he was fooling people and wanted to beat him again.

Just as they were pressing Zhang Fang to the ground, they heard a rustling sound in the courtyard!

In a short while, the whole courtyard was crawling with snakes, all kinds of snakes, a colorful gathering in the courtyard.

The villagers were all frightened. The master carpenter shouted, "Find that kid, he's the one doing this!"

By the time the villagers wanted to find Zhang Fang again, he was gone.

The Lao Dai family finally managed to clear the courtyard of snakes, and the beam could not be raised, so they had to choose another day.

But the next day, someone really died in the Lao Dai family. First, the two carpenters who raised the beam died inexplicably in the wing room.

The two men's faces were flushed purple, and there were two marks on their necks. It was obvious that they had been strangled to death in the room.

The police came and said that the two were not strangled to death, but were strangled to death by snakes. The snakes just wrapped around their necks and strangled them to death.

The villagers were all frightened, and some said that Zhang Fang was behind it, and asked the police to arrest Zhang Fang.

But they had no evidence! Without evidence, without suspects, the police could not arrest people casually. They could only tell them to pay more attention.

The day after the police left, the second carpenter also died, drowned in a water tank.

Dai Xuelin's mother got up in the morning to cook and wanted to scoop water, but when she opened the water tank, she saw a human face and was so frightened that she collapsed.

The second carpenter was squatting in the water tank, his head raised, his nose just a little bit out of the water, but that little bit, the water not even covering the tip of his nose, took his life.

The master carpenter took a look and his face turned pale. He said: "That Zhang Fang is an expert! We have offended someone we shouldn't have."

Dai Xuelin's father asked the master carpenter what was going on.

The master carpenter said: "Didn't Zhang Fang say that? He will pay you back a snake, and now the snake has come. The snake he returned is my junior brother."

"But this snake is not here to protect your house, but to kill people."

The master carpenter pointed to the corpse in the water tank and said: "This is called a snake drilling into a tank! If someone offends the snake immortal, the snake will sneak into the water tank when the family is not paying attention at night, leaving only a head outside, and when the family scoops water to cook the next morning, a bite can take a person's life!"

"Zhang Fang said he would return you a snake, and that is returning you a snake. If you don't believe me, try putting the ladle over there."

Dai Xuelin's father put the ladle on the mouth of the tank, and the dead man in the water tank bit off half of the ladle in one bite.