Chapter 10: Catching Scorpions
"After we catch the scorpion, we can exchange it for candy directly with the seller, a scorpion of this kind can be exchanged for five pieces of fruit candy, and if it is a larger one, it can be exchanged for eight pieces. Da Niu stretched out his hand and made a gesture of eight.
Zhou Sining translated in her heart, she also saw a few times in this month carrying a burden to the village to sell goods, he has only one kind of fruit candy, that is, glass ball candy the size of the little finger cap, if you buy it with money, five pieces of fruit candy is a penny, which means that a little scorpion can be sold for a penny.
"If you don't want to change the sugar to eat, you can also take it to our town's purchasing station to sell it. But I haven't sold it, and I don't know how much it will cost. Da Niu said and raised the small bamboo basket in his hand.
Zhou Sining heard that there was a place to collect scorpions, and her eyes lit up, but now she doesn't know that it's okay, she can go and see if she has time.
"Oh, thank you so much, I still have to go collect firewood, so I won't delay you. "Knowing what she wanted to know, she was ready to retreat, and she had to think carefully about whether it was feasible or not.
Da Niu looked at the somewhat stupid woman in front of him, and was about to leave after he really finished speaking, with a tangled expression on his face, and finally said after Zhou Sining took two steps: "Hey, don't really catch the scorpion, although this thing can be sold for money, but it is poisonous, if you don't know how to catch it, you may be stung by it, poisoning is not a joke, don't cry when you become crooked, you will die if you sting twice, do you know it." ”
Zhou Sining couldn't help but smile when he heard his childish words, but he was still very heartwarming to his words of concern, and turned back with a smile and said: "Your name is Da Niu, thank you, don't worry, I don't catch scorpions, I'm a girl, I'm terrible with crooked eyes and eyes." ”
This is purely to fool the child, so the child believes it.
"Well, it's good if you understand, this thing needs to be caught in addition to being bold and mastering technology, not ordinary people can catch it, there are few people in our village who can catch it, you are a girl, or honestly collect firewood, let us men do these things. Da Niu said and deliberately straightened his small chest.
"Well, I think so too, that little man, I'm going to collect firewood, thank you, I'll treat you to candy when I have time." Zhou Sining waved her hand with a smile on her face, to be honest, just these few words, she felt that these two children were very good, at least much better than those in her own family.
Zhou Sining and the two children waved their hands, and then walked to the place where they had just collected firewood and continued the unfinished business.
The two children came together and bit their ears.
"Da Niu, I know her, my mother told my sister at home that the Zhou family's eldest girl is very good, but she is an unobtrusive mother, and some of them will suffer in the future. The simple boy said in the tone of his own mother.
"Well, what should I do, this is not our sister. Da Niu also heard her mother say that the big girl of the Zhou family, but it was a little more than what Hu Ziniang said, saying that the big girl of the Zhou family is a girl who can endure hardships and work hard, but she is much stronger than her mother, but her temperament is too soft, that is, her younger brothers can bully her, but he just saw that she doesn't seem to be as easy to bully as his mother said, "Hey, if you can take care of it in the future, take care of it." He spoke in a tone like a little old man.
"Well, let's give her a piece after changing it to sugar, I don't think she looks like a person who has eaten sugar. "Huzi is very generous.
"Okay. Da Niu agreed casually, but immediately noticed that something was wrong, "Hey, no, I caught this scorpion just now, and I didn't even have a share of you, why do you still give the sugar to others." ”
Huzi was a little dumbfounded, and then his eyes seemed to contain two bubbles of tears, "Da Niu, I, I also want to eat sugar, I was not ready just now, or you put it on the ground, I'm re-grasping it." ”
"You're stupid, I've caught it, and I've put it on the ground for you to catch again? If you want to eat candy, you can quickly turn over the rocks again, and I'll let you catch the next one when you find it." ”
"Okay, I'll dare to catch the next one. ”
The two children here muttered and continued to rummage through the stones, and Zhou Sining over there couldn't help but open them when he saw the stones when he was collecting firewood.
Although she has never raised a scorpion, she also knows its basic living habits. This animal likes yin and tide, and it will not gain much from turning stones during the day. And although the scorpion is poisonous, but the toxicity is not very great, the two children just said that the mouth is crooked and the eyes are slanted, but it is absolutely unbearable to be stung.
Thinking so, Zhou Sining hurriedly picked out two more well-proportioned branches from the small handfuls of branches she picked up and held them in her hands, if she really turned over the scorpion after a while, she didn't know if she didn't have the tools to catch it.
In this way, Zhou Shining carefully rummaged through the stones, while paying attention to the movement over there. Just now I told people not to catch scorpions, and it would be bad for them to see that they were turning over stones, she is also an adult, and she also wants to save face.
But it's been a while, and Zhou Shining didn't see the two children coming, and I don't know if they were satisfied with catching one, or if they knew that she was here, so they changed places.
Zhou Sining thought about it and walked to the top of the mountain bag, standing here, he could clearly see the situation around the mountain bag. She looked around, she really didn't see the two children just now, she breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and walked back happily, and then picked up the branch chopsticks with one hand, and began to turn the stones with the other.
After turning over more than a dozen stones, she finally let her see a scorpion, which was bigger than the one caught by the big cow just now. Zhou Sining thought to himself, this is estimated to be exchanged for eight pieces of sugar.
She wondered in her heart that the movements of her hands were not slow at all. She quickly took two branches that were used as chopsticks, and held down the scorpion hidden under the stone from above, and the scorpion, probably aware of the danger, propped up its tail behind its buttocks, and flicked it at the branch, as if it was warning the enemy that if it did not let go, it was about to attack.
How can Zhou Sining still consider the feelings of a scorpion, in her eyes, this is not a poisonous scorpion at all, but money.
Sure that the scorpion can't run, this is one hand to control the two branches, one hand quickly untied the back basket on the shoulder, first poured the wild vegetables inside to the ground, and then the pair of long chopsticks forced, the scorpion was firmly clamped, and it was thrown into the back basket in a flick, afraid that it would run around and quickly take the small bamboo basket containing wild vegetables and buckle it at the bottom of the back basket, so that the scorpion could only obediently stay at the bottom of the back basket.
Zhou Sining looked at the scorpion in the frame, thinking that he might have to catch a few more in a while, so he simply piled all the things in the back basket on the ground and put them on the ground temporarily, picked up the empty back basket and continued to walk forward.
She had turned over a small hill in an hour, and today she was lucky enough to catch two large and one small, a total of three scorpions.