In a person's life, at every stage, there will be big things that force us to complete, and this is the meaning of life!

These days, the major event of his son's marriage has gradually become an overriding thing in Wang Maoyong's heart!

The son is already over 19 years old, and although the legal age for marriage is set at 22, in the countryside, 20 is already the marriageable age.

Get married early, hold your grandchildren early, and enjoy happiness early!

After Wang Maoyong took his son Wang Shiyi to renovate the mountain pond at home, he has been thinking about money, although his son is tall and handsome, but he has no money, how can there be a matchmaker stepping on the threshold of your home?

Although this place is in the mountainous area, it is not poor, young people have gone out to work, earning more than 8,000 yuan a year, some fathers do big work on the construction site, mothers do small jobs on the construction site, and sons do general work on the assembly line, and it is not a big problem to save 30,000 or 40,000 yuan a year.

When people in the mountains have money, they begin to compare when they marry their daughters-in-law, and at that time, the marriage in the city is compared to cars, houses and tickets, and the bride price is compared in the mountains of Chungcheng.

The price of the bride price is 50,000 yuan, and the average person opens it to 80,000 yuan, plus other expenses, and it takes 100,000 yuan to get married!

In ordinary families, once the son gets married, the family will be burdened with a big debt, and they will not be able to turn over for a few years.

There were several sons in the family, and at first the glory of passing on the family line made the young fathers' heads higher than roosters, and in the mountain villages they were so proud that when they faced the tuition fees, they began to bow their heads, and when they reached the marriageable age, the fathers who were not old and decrepit would have gray hair.

Without bride price money, how many small fresh meat has been boiled into lonely old bacon, and you can only go to the kiln to touch the woman's body, so as to obtain great physical satisfaction.

Wang Maoyong only gave birth to one, and his concept is very clear, to create high-quality products, he does not want to produce a large number of inferior products for the society.

A son's bride price must be put together!

Recently, the rapid economic development, there are more rich people, and there are more people who eat snake meat, and everyone at the dinner table calls snake meat dragon meat, and snakes and hens are stewed together, called dragon and phoenix Chengxiang.

There are many snakes in Chungcheng, cobras, bamboo leaf green, cauliflower snakes, etc., which are everywhere in the mountains and forests of Chungcheng, and it is the delicious dragon meat that has brought fire to the craze of snake catching in Chungcheng mountain villages, and it can also be said that the high-priced dowry offered by the mother-in-law has brought fire to the prosperity of the snake catching industry.

In winter, the mountains are colorful and beautiful, the burning leaves of the red maple are still held high, the fir and pine trees are a solemn green uniform, and the golden leaves of the deciduous forest are still dancing in the wind before the heavy snow arrives.

There are no migratory birds in the subtropics, and the birds in the jungle still fly high.

The winter sun hangs lazily overhead every day, her heat can no longer drive away the surging cold, in the sun, the air is cold, and in a breath, it is a piece of green smoke.

On the side of the ditch, on the sunny slope, there are always some caves that attract Wang Maoyong's attention.

Over the years, snake meat has become a delicacy on the dinner table, the purchase price has risen, a one-pound snake, selling a hundred yuan is not a problem, a hundred yuan, at that time is the income of an acre of rice field, catching a dozen snakes a year, than planting a year's crops will be more money.

"Son, let's go, dig snakes in the afternoon!" One day, Wang Maoyong finished eating Chinese food, put the dishes and chopsticks down and said, in recent days, he has been turning around the stream and ditch, and found a snake in the wild grass, from the snake grass, there should be a big snake nearby.

"Digging snakes?" Wang Shiyi asked in surprise.

"Winter snakes, hibernating, attack ability is very weak, you put on water shoes, let's go dig snakes together!" said Wang Maoyong, who has also caught snakes before and is no stranger to this industry.

In fact, the life of the people in the mountains is also a life of dealing with snakes and ants, between the fields, on the mountain road, and even at the door of the house, there are snakes and ants infested, and people in the village are often bitten by poisonous snakes, and there are often people who bravely stand up to hunt giant snakes.

That afternoon, father and son carried a bag of fertilizer fiber with a hoe and walked towards a ravine.

After reaching the creek where the snake was shedding, Wang Maoyong walked ahead, sweeping through the grass with a hoe and looking for a cave.

"Dad, can snakes make holes?" Wang Shiyi was very strange, how could snakes dig holes without claws.

"Snakes don't burrow, rats burrow, and rats make burrows for them. Wang Maoyong said.

"This snake is too unreasonable, not only occupies other people's houses, but also eats others bite by bite!" Wang Shiyi felt hateful when he thought about it.

Be sure to dig out those hateful snakes one by one, peel them off, and stew them in a hot pot in winter, which tastes good.

The caves in the leeward direction of the river immediately aroused Wang Maoyong's interest, and the openings looked smooth, so he waved his hoe and continued to dig from under the holes, and after digging for a while, he shook his head and said, "The mouse hole, I am happy in vain!"

"Dad, look, there's one under the tree over there!" Wang Shiyi's eyes lit up.

"Give it a try!" Wang Maoyong said, propping himself up with a hoe.

"Bah!" Wang Shiyi spat two bubbles of saliva in his hand, brandished his hoe and dug it up.

"Dig up from under the hole, don't dig on it, the dirt will fall down and cover the hole!" Wang Maoyong shouted in a low voice.

He dug under the entrance of the cave for a while, only to see that the wall of the cave was smooth, the more he dug the wall of the cave, the smoother it became, and there were no traces of insects and spiders in the hole, Wang Maoyong patted his thigh and said: "Son, you are still at a high level, there is! Don't worry, smoke a cigarette first!"

After Wang Maoyong finished speaking, he handed a dry tobacco to Wang Shiyi.

"Dad, how do you know there's a snake in here?" asked Wang Shiyi suspiciously as he smoked a cigarette.

"The mouse holes are not smooth, the snake holes are very smooth, the snakes crawl around, and the hole will be polished with their bodies, this eight or nine is not far from ten is a snake hole, and there is a hot pot to eat tonight." Wang Maoyong said with a puff of cigarette.

After he finished speaking, he dug up with his hoe.

The hole is getting bigger and bigger, and the snake's body can be faintly seen.

"Dad, be careful!" Wang Shiyi held his breath and shouted in a low voice.

Oh my God, there were two snakes, with black eyebrow stripes on their cheeks and cauliflower-like body patterns, coiled around their holes in an orderly manner like mosquito coils.

"It's a cauliflower snake, it's not poisonous!" Wang Maoyong said.

Wang Maoyong pinched the neck of the snake with his fingers, put it into the snakeskin bag one by one, bandaged it, and said, "Eat one at night, and sell one at the market tomorrow!"

As they turned to leave, they felt a dark cloud over their heads, and when they looked up, they saw a huge goshawk with its wings spread out, like a cloud hanging from the sky.

"Let's go!" Wang Maoyong carried the snake bag on his back and ran away.

Wang Eleven carried a hoe on his back and walked behind his father, and in case the goshawk attacked, he used the hoe to clean it up.

The goshawk was not attacking, and the two of them stopped when they walked out of Zhangxu.

At this time, a huge wind blew on the two wings of the goshawk, blowing the father and son into an inclined position, and Wang Shiyi opened his eyes and saw the goshawk snatch a huge cobra from the cave he had just dug up.

A gust of wind blew from the north, and the eagle that spread its wings and flew into the sky braved the wind, raised its head, let out two "chirps", and flew towards the sun.

Half a ring, the two came back to their senses!

If Wang Maoyong was bitten by the huge cobra when he caught the cauliflower snake, his life would be in danger!

That night, the family gathered around the fire pit and ate delicious wild snake steak hot pot together.

Wang Maoyong was actually drunk.