As soon as the sky was bright, Na Jiuye, who was disturbed by a hangover and had a headache, was woken up by the movement from the yard. Opening his hazy sleepy eyes, Na Jiuye stood up and listened for a while, but then fell down on the pillow again, muttering in a low voice: "I really know the rules."

Wielding a willow broom, the leopard boy carefully cleaned the courtyard of the entire courtyard, and even the stack of old city bricks piled up in the corner of the wall was moved, turned over one by one, moved to the root of the sunny wall, and then swept away the dust accumulated under the old city bricks.

Resting the willow broom on the wall, the leopard did not pause at all, stood in a spacious place in the courtyard and stretched his posture, and walked the mud step by step.

It is completely different from the mud steps taken by ordinary practitioners, and the mud steps that you step on under the feet of a leopard do not have the smoothness and rhythmic beauty of flowing clouds at all, but no matter how you look at it, you feel that it is a toddler struggling in the mud, stumbling and stumbling. Coupled with the arms held by the leopard in his arms, he is a handan toddler who is trying to make himself look like a human.

Before Xiang Youbao walked eight laps of mud steps according to his previous habits, a crisp chuckle almost made Xiang Youbao stumble garlic under his feet and plunge into the dry pond in the courtyard.

Turning her head, the girl in the moon-white skirt was braiding her big black braids, standing in front of her room and glancing at herself, but the smile on her face could not be hidden.

Politely retracted his posture, and Xiang Youbao politely nodded to the girl: "Senior sister is early!" ”

Maybe he felt that he shouldn't laugh at Xiangyouleopard, or maybe he felt that Xiangyoubao had already finished his cleaning work every morning, and the girl wearing the moon-white jacket skirt braided her big braids in twos and threes, but she didn't have anything to say to the old city bricks that had been moved by Xiangyoubao: "Who is your junior sister?" What are you screaming about? I ask you, who told you to move those old city bricks? ”

Turning his head to look at the old city bricks that he had just placed under the sunny wall, Xiang Youbao raised his finger and pointed to the location where the old city bricks were originally stacked: "When Uncle Shi put the old city bricks in the shade, he should want to go to the fire and dryness in the old city bricks, and he can take them to make a winter house for the scorpion in the future." But if the old city bricks have grown moss, it means that there is water vapor in the old city bricks. If you don't hurry up and bask in the sun for a few days, when the scorpion drills the winter house made of bricks in the old city for the winter, it will have dark spots on its body and drag its tail."

Pursing the corners of her mouth disdainfully, the girl in the moon-white skirt rolled her eyes at Xiang Youbao: "Can you still get it?" This old city brick is three steamed and three sun-dried, even if the old city bricks accumulate water vapor, put the kang feet to warm up before making a winter house for the scorpion! I don't understand anything, and I'm still filling up a big clove of garlic here, why don't you hurry up and move the old city bricks back?! ”

He hugged his arms, raised his eyebrows, and smiled at the girl in the moon-white skirt with a little dissatisfaction: "Yo, this has become mine, hasn't it?" It is clearly written in the "Eight Methods of Raising Scorpions" at the main gate of the fire - warm bricks, tiles, and porcelain at the foot of the stove, and the fire is skipped"

Before the leopard finished speaking, the girl wearing the moon-white skirt suddenly threw the braided braid behind her, and hummed unconvinced: "Then the "Eight Methods of Raising Scorpions" also said - wrap the winter house in cotton, take shallow water and put stones in it, so as to moisten the winter dryness of the scorpion?" ”

Showing a look of surprise, Xiang Youbao frowned and muttered: "There is this sentence in "Eight Methods of Raising Scorpions"? How did I not know? You can't be blind and come to slander me, right? ”

Very annoyed, the girl in the moon-white skirt paused slightly: "Who has the leisure to come to you in the morning?" "The Eight Methods of Raising Scorpions" made me memorize all of it when I beat my father, and only my father has the whole article of "Eight Methods of Raising Scorpions" in the main gate of the fire! ”

Showing a look of disbelief, Xiang Youbao said hesitantly: "Uncle Shi has the whole article of "Eight Methods of Raising Scorpions" here? Can't it be in the shape of seven sesame oil lamps and two cups of rice wine cloth nine palaces, what are the last two sentences? ”

Raising her chin proudly slightly, the girl in the moon-white jacket skirt replied with some disdain: "Attract scorpions by the rocks on the sunny slope, and take purple bamboo to catch scorpions."

"With contempt as the cage, wood is second, tiles and porcelain are secondary, and the back is"

"Avoid light, avoid fire, do not be alarmed, do not disturb"

"Don't catch the opossum, don't catch the nest, don't catch it for three years, and then"

"Take the purple back, green tongs, and red tail as the top grade!"

"I remember there was also a saying that if the scorpion dragged its tail, it should be fed cinnabar?"

"How can you say that?! It's to feed Dansha mixed with black dog blood! What did you think about when your master taught you?! ”

"When fighting scorpions, how do you start the scorpion?"

"It's funny!"

"What should I do if I meet a fighting scorpion raised by a player with a dragon bone and a king?"

"Are you stupid? The scorpion raised with the keel with the king does not stay smells of medicine, and the two pincers are stunned, and you still want to fight when you see such a scorpion? Besides, can't you wash the scorpion you have on it with the marching water? ”

"Oh, what's your name?"

"Nalan"

Nalan, whose face turned red suddenly, and who said his name carelessly, looked at Xiang Youbao with a wicked smile on his face, half shy, half annoyed, turned back to the house, and closed the door heavily.

Sticking out his tongue towards the door that Nalan slammed on, Xiang Youbao, who had succeeded in his treacherous scheme, had just turned around, but saw Na Jiuye, who was pulling a pair of shoes, leaning against the door of his room, staring at him with a strange smile.

nodded flatteringly to Na Jiuye, and greeted Na Jiuye as if he had nothing to say: "Uncle Shi is early!" ”

With a strange laugh, Na Jiu Ye pulled his shoes and walked into the courtyard: "It's still early? If it's too late, I'm afraid you can get the whole article of "Eight Methods of Raising Scorpions" out of my stupid girl's mouth, right? You are really your master's apprentice, and you don't dare to say if you don't learn it, you must have learned the kung fu of bad water in your brain! ”

With great discernment, he moved a chair and placed it near the dry pool, and said with a smile to Na Jiuye, who was sitting down with the elders: "This is also to learn the skill of waiting for scorpions with my junior sister."

With a sneer, Na Jiu Ye unceremoniously raised his hand and slapped the head of the leopard standing beside him: "Learn the skill of waiting for the scorpion?" Okay, let's talk about the recipe for some gold and stone first, right? ”

received a slap from Na Jiu Ye without dodging, and Xiang Youbao responded to Na Jiu Ye without hesitation: "The recipe was pondered by the master, a total of thirty-six flavors!" It's a blind sight."

Raising his hand to interrupt Xiang Youbao's narration, Na Jiuye squinted his eyes under the sunlight that had just shone on his face: "Go to my room and get a pen and paper and write it down!" Your master's number of roads, others don't know, but I know it clearly! Hum thirty-six flavors, of which there are no more than six flavors that are useful! The others, I'm afraid it's just a guise that your master uses to bluff people? Needless to say, the hundred-year-old hearth soil and the winter solstice rootless water, these two things that fool people, right? To tell you the truth, when your master and uncle bluffed people together, it wasn't you! ”

put on a surprised face, and shouted in surprise: "Uncle and master still bluffed people together? ”

With a triumphant sneer, Na Jiuye took out a small porcelain bottle from his arms, and gently sprinkled the gray powder in the porcelain bottle into the dry pool: "Back then, your uncle wanted to marry a daughter-in-law, but I didn't have any money on hand!" I was in a hurry, so I could only save a game with your master, and a southern Sichuan mastiff dyed with turmeric water was sold to a big official from the northeast to Beiping when the golden mastiff king in the Tibetan border was sold to a big official from the northeast to Beiping, and this was exchanged for this quadrangle, and "

As if sensing that he had said something old that should not be known by his juniors, Na Jiuye coughed a few times in embarrassment, raised his finger and pointed to a pile of sand piled up in the corner of the courtyard: "Have you learned how to mix nest soil from your master?" ”

Glancing at the pile of sand piled up in the corner of the courtyard, Xiang Youbao nodded quickly: "The master has taught that one sand, two soil and three gravel are not dry or wet, and they are not in a lump!" ”

Nodding slightly, Na Jiu Ye pointed to the shovel and iron sieve placed on the side of the sand with a big grin: "This sand has been turned and sieved twice, and then turned and sieved again, taking advantage of the noon sun, to change the subsoil in the dry pond, but you must carefully pick it clean!" ”

Nodding neatly, Xiang Youbao strode to the pile of sand, stretched out his hand and leaned the huge iron sieve against the courtyard wall, and then shoveled up the sand that was not dry or wet with a shovel, and shook and sprinkled it on the huge iron sieve.

Raising scorpions, especially fighting scorpions, the subsoil spread in the dry pond is particular that it can not be scattered because it is too dry, nor can it be agglomerated because it is too wet, and it is best to pinch it by hand to form a clump, but it is appropriate to fall to the ground and break it into the size of a mung bean.

Moreover, when mixing the subsoil, all the dead branches and leaves mixed in the subsoil must be carefully removed, so as not to affect the living environment of the fighting scorpion, and even cause the fighting scorpion to get sick and die because of the unsuitable living environment.

Combining these elements, the subsoil of mixing and raising fighting scorpions can really be regarded as a basic skill that combines strength and technology. Many veteran players who have played Scorpion all their lives can't even mix the right subsoil themselves, so they can only spend money to buy it from those who have mastered the technique. Therefore, there is a saying among players who play scorpion - playing scorpions does not mix soil, and spends money to beg the landlord!

Coldly watching Xiang Youbao shake off the subsoil and pick out the dead branches and leaves by the way, Na Jiu Ye nodded slightly, and then turned around and took out a pair of delicate scorpion tongs made of purple bamboo branches from the house, and carefully stepped on the thick wooden plank on the dry pool.

Scorpions like to live in groups, and they are dormant and resting during the day and foraging at night. Generally, people who keep medicinal scorpions almost never disturb the scorpions during the day, so as not to sting each other or mutilating themselves.

Raising fighting scorpions is completely different, even if the fighting scorpions are alarmed in the daytime, those ferocious fighting scorpions are all standing up, shaking two huge pincers, erecting the tail stinging needle, waiting for the attack opportunity to come at any time!

Carefully turned over a capstone made of blue stone, Na Jiuye's right hand holding the purple bamboo scorpion pliers accurately stretched out and clamped, and the scorpion pliers wrapped in rabbit fur immediately clamped the tail of a scorpion. Without waiting for the menacing scorpion to turn over its body, Na Jiu Ye grabbed a scorpion jar made of gold silk thread in his left hand, and immediately put the scorpion into the scorpion jar steadily.

Carefully fastening the lid of the scorpion jar, which was also made of gold thread, Na Jiu Ye slowly put the scorpion jar back to the edge of the dry pool, and then took a new scorpion jar and walked towards the next capstone.

The fighting scorpion is fierce, and in the large dry pool, the eighteen fighting scorpions all have their own territorial divisions, and they will not easily invade the territory marked by the smell of other fighting scorpions. Unless it is a fighting scorpion courtship, there will be a fight for more mates. In addition, the fighting scorpions raised in the dry pond are relatively non-inviolable.

Turning over a capstone, Na Jiuye easily put another fighting scorpion into the fighting scorpion jar. But after finding sixteen fighting scorpions in a row, Na Jiu Ye wrinkled his brows and pursed his teeth

There are a total of eighteen capstones, and in the entire dry pond, this is the most suitable place for fighting scorpions to live. But there are still two scorpions, and they are not hidden under the capstone?

Looking around at the location where the fighting scorpion could be hidden in the dry pool, Na Jiu Ye couldn't help but muttered in a low voice: "This is really an evil sect?" Where are the other two? Where have you gone, my ancestors? ”

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