Nalan, who was carrying a few small medicine bags in his hand, and had bought a few sesame seeds to burn, tied with dried lotus leaves and fine wheat grass and hooked on his little finger, had just walked into his yard and was startled by two men lying on the dry pond!

From going out to going home, it was at most an hour, Na Jiuye had already taken off and put on a pair of calf-nosed shorts, and held a shepherd's grass in one hand and lay on the thick wooden plank on the dry pond in the shape of 'eye', constantly isolating the fighting scorpions that were about to fight together.

At the other end of the thick plank, the leopard, who had also taken off his calf-nosed shorts, waved two shepherds in his hand, and drew palm-sized squares on the freshly sprinkled subsoil in the dry pond horizontally and vertically, in order to block the smell left by the scorpions as they crawled.

Glancing at Nalan who was standing at the door dumbfounded from the corner of his eye, Na Jiuye shouted in a muffled voice: "Come in quickly and close the door!" My old girl, these days your father and your brother have been eating, drinking, and sleeping with your senior brother, as well as boiling medicine, dispensing medicine, and looking for wild scorpions, but I am counting on you! ”

Subconsciously crossed the threshold, Nalan closed the courtyard door with his backhand, and shouted to Na Jiuye, who was holding the camellia and staring at the round eyes: "Dad, what kind of thing are you doing?" ”

Suppressing the tension and excitement in his heart, Na Jiuye shouted in a muffled voice: "This time your father is lucky!" Things that have never been mentioned in "Eight Methods of Raising Scorpions" can actually make your father encounter - a pot of double scorpions! My old girl, your father has been out in the past seven days! ”

Twisting his brows, Nalan was just stunned for a moment before coming back to his senses, and his eyes widened in surprise: "Are you going to boil?" ”

Waving the camellia in his hand, Na Jiu Ye once again separated the two fighting scorpions that were about to collide together: "In the mantra of boiling fighting beasts in the main gate of the fire, the dog has seven monkeys, eight eagles and fifteen, and the fighting scorpion will be seen in three days!" There are a few words on the fragment of the beast picture in your father's hand, saying that it is seven days."

Obviously, he had seen the fragment of the strange beast picture, and Nalan couldn't help but say urgently: "But after seven days, there must be people who keep holding camellia to separate those scorpions who want to fight together, and they have to keep catching wild scorpions from outside to feed those fighting scorpions!" The fragments of the strange beast map are all written - the seven killing scorpions in the former Qing Dynasty, nine hundred and eighty-one people in the main gate of the fire took turns, and in the end, they still didn't look at it, and destroyed one of the seven killing scorpions."

Unhurriedly drawing a palm-sized square on the subsoil in the dry pool, Xiang Youbao was not in a hurry at all, and said slowly and logically along Nalan's words: "What ninety-nine eighty-one people take turns to wait for the Seven Killing Scorpions, that is, the players in the main gate of the fire are holding coaxing pieces of soup!" In the former Qing Dynasty, there were only about 30 people in the main gate of the fire, including the master and apprentices, plus the miscellaneous fires! ”

Walking a few steps in a bit of a hurry, Nalan Hao hung and smashed the small medicine bag he was holding on the back of Xiang Youbao: "You understand? Can you make it happen?! Even if there weren't ninety-nine people waiting for the seven killing scorpions in the main gate of the fire back then, it was up to us."

Before Nalan finished speaking, Xiang Youbao had already propped himself up from the thick plank, and shouted to Na Jiuye, who was busy on the other side of the plank: "Uncle, I've got this piece done, you can slowly drive those scorpions over!" ”

With a dull answer, Na Jiuye waved the camellia in his hand, followed the crawling route of those fighting scorpions, and gradually drove the fighting scorpions that would bump into each other from time to time to the side of the dry pond that was drawn out of the square by the leopard.

Strange to say, the fighting scorpion, which was still looking for the same kind of fighting just now, slowly became quiet after crawling into the range of those small squares. Especially when crawling through the straight lines that had been crossed by leopards, even the two most outstanding fighting scorpions became cautious, and after a long time of temptation, they entered the next square, repeating the tentative action again, but became familiar with the close proximity.

Jumping onto another thick plank, Xiang Youbao continued to wave the shepherd's grass in his hand, drawing an even grid on the subsoil that had just been sprinkled, and at the same time hurriedly squeezed his eyes at Nalan who was stunned next to the dry pool: "Is it written on the map of the strange beast, and the insects have their own smell on the path they walk?" ”

opened his mouth, and Nalan, who was just about to sneer at him, seemed to suddenly realize something, snorted softly, turned around and walked towards the kitchen: "Crooked and evil methods, I don't know as much as you?!" ”

Staring at Nalan's back, Xiang Youbao nodded slightly, and smiled at Na Jiuye, who had just freed his hands to wipe his sweat: "I can't see it, my junior sister's brain is really awake!" The first half of my sentence has just come out, and I guess my sister has already figured out what I'm doing?! ”

Nodding with some relief, but immediately shook his head with a little chagrin, Na Jiuye sat cross-legged on the thick wooden plank, stared at the fighting scorpions that were smashing around in the small square, and said, "It's a pity that the female scorpion can't get on the fighting platform!" If only I had a son."

In response to Na Jiuye's not-so-loud muttering, the muffled sound of a kitchen knife chopping on the board suddenly came from the kitchen: "Then you can find a son to summon you!" ”

quickly changed into a flattering smile, and Na Jiuye shouted towards the kitchen one after another: "My old girl, you just drink too much nonsense when you are your own father, okay?" If this is gone, this old girl who knows cold and hot will hurt to serve"

Carrying a steaming pot of jasmine high-foam catechu, Nalan came out of the kitchen with a feigned anger and put the teapot, tea bowl and the sesame seeds he had just bought next to the dry pool: "If you think good words can fill your stomach, you can eat it!" ”

After drawing the last few small squares with shepherd's grass in three or two, Xiang Youbao jumped up from the thick wooden board with agility, grabbed the teapot and poured a bowl of tea for the sneering Na Jiuye: "How else can I say that my junior sister will hurt people?" I know that Uncle Shi, you have been busy all morning, and I didn't fight my teeth, and I didn't forget to buy you a fire mat to pad your stomach when you went out."

Peeked at Nalan who was still with a tense face, and smiled at Nalan with a flattering smile: "Senior sister, you haven't forgotten to put senna leaves in this pot of tea, right?" ”

Glancing at Xiang Youbao's strange smile on his face, and then looking at Xiang Youbao holding his stomach and grimacing intentionally or unintentionally, Nalan finally couldn't hold back his face, and laughed out loud: "You can figure it out, occupy the thatched house and talk to people again."

After eating two sesame seeds in one go, Na Jiu Ye sighed with satisfaction, and glanced dotingly at his daughter who was smiling beside him: "These days, if I can do this every day, I will be steady."

Gobbling up sesame seeds, Xiang Youbao pointed back at the fighting scorpions that kept crawling in the dry pool, and said vaguely: "Such a day is not far away, and it will come after this autumn insect meeting!" When the time comes, with the seven killing scorpions that we are waiting for, we will pay off the debt of the Debelle donkey rolling first, and it is estimated that there will be a lot left? ”

Raising his eyes and looking at Xiang Youbao squatting beside him, Na Jiuye groaned and refilled a bowl of hot tea for himself: "This is really a hope!" However, among the players who serve the fighting scorpion in Sijiu City, there must be six who have names and surnames. And I heard that the Deshengmen Qi family found thirty-six southern scorpions from the deep mountains and old forests of Yunnan this year, and they are racing to take the insect king of this year's autumn insect club! ”

With a condensed gaze, Xiang Youbao couldn't help but exclaim in surprise: "The southern scorpion is very poisonous, and it has always been known as a sword to seal the throat!" But in terms of size and weight, the southern scorpion is also small According to the master, it is not that no one has used the southern scorpion to fight back then, and there are not many times to win."

Sipping on the hot tea, Na Jiu Ye nodded approvingly: "In the past few years, the Deshengmen Qi family has not lost the capital on the Southern Scorpion!" The southern scorpion that came out of the autumn insect meeting the year before last failed to come down without a single face. But last year's girl, what was the number of roads last year? ”

Like a few family treasures, Nalan wrenched his fingers and said: "Last year, in the Autumn Insect Meeting, the southern scorpion of the Desheng Menqi family won six games in a row, and only lost to the fighting scorpion that Debel had at hand to serve with a golden stone in the seventh game!" But the southern scorpion that went up in the eighth game won six games in a row, which made a fighting scorpion of a river player cut off his tail! ”

With the camellia in his hand, he refilled the small square that was crawled by the fighting scorpion, and Xiang Youbao wrinkled his brows and said: "At the autumn insect meeting, each player can bring two fighting scorpions into battle." But this Deshengmen Qi family once found thirty-six fighting scorpions from Yunnan, which is not quite right? ”

pursing his lips, Na Jiuye nodded in a deep voice: "The Deshengmen Qi family is rich and rich, could it be that this year, the Deshengmen Qi family is planning to surround the Autumn Insect Association in order to get a worm king?" ”

Raising his eyes and looking at the leopard with a puzzled look on his face, Na Jiuye sighed slightly: "The water in this autumn insect meeting is deep!" I heard the old man in the door say that in the late Qing Dynasty, in order to get the name of the king of insects, there were players with a fighting spirit who found a hundred people to act as players in one go, and one person had two fighting scorpions in his hand. After a wheel battle, if it weren't for the fact that there was a fighting scorpion in the main gate of the fire back then, the autumn insect meeting that year would really let the vindictive player win the jackpot! ”

Playing with his fingers, Xiang Youbao, who was sitting next to the dry pool, counted and said: "Deshengmen Qi family, Debele, and those players who are waiting for the scorpion, Uncle Shi, you just said, all the players who are waiting for the scorpion, all of them are counted, everyone can be regarded as a hurdle, and everyone may be holding the fighting scorpion that occupies the winning side in their hands!" In that case, what are we going to do? Simply shoot the scorpions we are serving to death with the sole of your shoe, and then there will be no Na Jiu Ye in the main gate of the fire."

With round eyes, Na Jiu Ye stared at Xiang Youbao viciously and shouted, "Boy, how to fight with your uncle here?" ”

Pointing to the kitchen nonchalantly, a leopard pricked his shoulders and shouted: "One sheep is to drive, and two sheep are also to be herded!" It is said that if there are more lice, you will not itch, and if you have more debts, you will not worry, uncle, you are just sitting here and pondering until your hair is gray, and you still have to rely on the scorpions we have at hand to fight one by one, right? If you have the time to ponder these useless things, it is better to spend time and think about how we can serve the scorpions we have at hand! ”

Nodding heavily, Nalan echoed Xiang Youbao's words and said, "It's really such a reason!" The people who served the insects in the main gate of the fire had their own ways back then, not to mention those players who were outside? Zuo is just holding the scorpion to fight one by one, the best can win, if you really lose, it's a big deal I'll wait for you to go to the nest outside the city wall! ”

Glaring at Xiang Youbao, and then looking back at his daughter standing beside him dotingly, Na Jiuye smiled helplessly and shook his head: "It's really that the older the rivers and lakes, the less courage you have, and the left and right are just the words win or lose!" Fight hard with all your heart, and I can be regarded as worthy of my grandfather! My old girl, prepare the medicine stove, let's open the furnace and boil the medicine! ”

Pursing his lips and chuckling, Nalan pointed back to the kitchen where smoke was emitting: "Where do you still need to wait for your orders?" I've just cleaned the stove and I'm resting on the stove to get rid of the water! ”

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