Chapter 392: Miscalculation

Catching centipedes is not a simple matter, Liu Junhao was bitten a few times when he was a child.

Although the centipedes in this area of Daqingshan are large, they are not very toxic, and the most wound parts are red, swollen and swollen after biting people, and the pain is unbearable. After being bitten, as long as you immediately wash the wound with soapy water or get some houttuynia cordata and dandelion to mash it and apply it to the wound, the swelling will subside after an hour or two.

But not really, he remembered that Er Mazi caught a red-headed black-bodied centipede with long chopsticks and thick thumbs somewhere in the spring, and showed it to the villagers at that time, but was bitten on the hand and immediately began to jump on the ground. And then nausea and vomiting, sobbing on the ground. A group of people were frightened and hurriedly carried him to the hospital, where he stayed in the health center for five or six days.

In the nineties, a centipede was only five cents, but he spent more than 30 yuan on hospitalization, and more than 30 yuan in those years was equivalent to hundreds of yuan, which made Er Mazi feel distressed.

Since then, few people in Liujiagou have been catching centipedes and scorpions in the mountains, after all, these things are not easy to get, what if something really happens.

Strange to say, in the early years, there were a lot of centipedes in Liujiagou. In the crevices of masonry, at the foot of the wall, or in the dark corners of the piles of leaves, weeds, and rotten wood, as long as you pick up casually, you can always find a few, but now people don't catch them, but there is no trace, at least Liu Junhao has not seen much in recent years.

Of course, the reason for this is also related to the environment, centipedes like to stay in dark corners, especially adobe houses. Nowadays, most people build brick houses and clean them frequently. Like the scorpions, there is naturally no place for them in the village.

"Fifth master, you sit here to rest first, and I'll lead these bear children to the backyard to look for it," the hairy children haven't left yet, which just comes in handy.

It's a pity that I picked up the yard for a long time, and I didn't even see a centipede hair.

Faced with this result, Liu Wuye was also quite disappointed, saying that he would look for it in the village later.

Liu Junhao naturally went over to help, he originally thought that even if there were fewer centipedes, he would definitely be able to find a few. So he took these bear children to search everywhere in the corner of the village, but after searching for an hour, half of the village was almost finished, and Leng did not find a centipede, but the scorpion caught seven or eight.

Seeing that it was really not good in the village, after eating at noon, Liu Junhao shifted his attention to the outside of the village.

I heard that I was going up the mountain to catch centipedes, Zhang Qian was also very interested, and said that she would follow and have a look.

Liu Junhao took care of his daughter-in-law's body and said why not agree. What did you just check on the Internet, so be careful before the month.

The bear children in the village wanted to learn more, but Liu Junhao nodded and agreed. School is about to start, and they can't jump for a few days, which is their last madness. In order to popularize knowledge for them, Liu Junhao deliberately found a few pictures of centipedes from the Internet for everyone to compare carefully, and then explained the precautions again and again, don't sting.

As in the village, I was busy for half an hour, but I still didn't see a centipede, and the scorpions caught a lot. The scorpions were collected in bottles and ready to be fried and eaten with the morning ones.

The more he picked it up, the more confused he became, not knowing where the centipedes had gone.

When he was depressed, Xiao Jianhui began to shout: "Uncle, look, I dug up a centipede......"

"Really" Liu Junhao was very excited when he heard this, and hurriedly ran over. But when he saw that thing, he knew that he was happy in vain, and his feelings were a "string of money". This guy is a close relative of the centipede, the scientific name is Worm, although it is also a traditional Chinese medicine, but no one accepts it at all.

Liu Junhao was busy with himself, ignoring the group of children messing around on the hillside. How do you know that when the hairy children saw a stone the size of a tabletop, they all guessed that there were centipedes in it. The children discussed and planned to lift the stone together. This stone belongs to granite and is not heavy.

They all ignored Liu Junhao below, the mountain was steep, and the big stone was loose and rolled down the mountain, rolling faster and faster under the action of gravity, roaring.

"Uncle Liu, get out of the way" The children turned pale with fright and hurriedly shouted.

Almost at the same time as they shouted, Liu Junhao also heard the movement. He was startled when he saw the big table swooping down on him. said that it was too late, it was fast, and in a hurry a fish jump, the person rushed to the side more than three meters away. Large rocks whizzed past him, and finally plunged into the mountain stream.

This accident made Liu Junhao break out in a cold sweat, and he no longer dared to continue to lead the hairy boy and others to find the centipede, but ended hastily with a nail rake.

He was really a little unwilling to return to the village in such a gray way, and thought about whether to wait to find a grave where no one was going to go around, maybe he could pick up a few. But then he dismissed it again. When I was a child, it was reasonable to dig indiscriminately, but now adults in their twenties, if they do such a ridiculous thing again, they will have to be scolded by the elders.

"Knocking on widows' doors and digging up the graves of desperate households" seems to be the work of hooligans and scoundrels.

Before he got home, he saw Liu Wuye waiting in Professor Zhao's courtyard, and shouted from afar, "Xiao Hao, have you dug up a centipede?" ”

"No, or I'll go up the mountain tomorrow to have a look," Liu Junhao replied a little depressed. He thought in his heart that when he dug up centipedes, he must raise a few in the stone lock, and he could take them out at any time when he needed them.

"No, we should have one on this mountain, and you haven't dug any of them for so long?" Liu Wuye was even more puzzled than him, and asked in detail about the process just now.

Before Liu Junhao could speak, a group of bear children were already talking nonsense, and at the end they held cans and bottles for him to see the results.

"I mean, if you can dig up centipedes, you kid will be a ghost. How can there be a ...... to dig centipedes on the sunny side?"

Listening to what the old man said, Liu Junhao patted his head, "No, I complain that these bear children are making trouble in my ears and forgetting about this stubble...... "Don't look at the centipedes on the sunny slopes in spring, but in summer, these things are transferred to the damp and shady side." I just searched the hillside for a long time, but it was completely useless.

"Forget it, I'll dig my own nest and get some chicken feathers and horse manure to catch later......" Liu Wuye saw that he couldn't count on this goods, and shook his head to leave.

"Digging a pit to catch centipedes, isn't that Hong Qigong's method" Liu Junhao's eyes lit up, he had seen this method from "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" before, but he had never had the opportunity to practice it. When the old man brought it up, he was very interested, and hurriedly said, "Fifth master, I'll go with you later, I know where there are many centipedes......

"Fifth master, we are going too" When the hairy boy and the others heard this, they immediately began to shout. These bear children are idle, and they always like to mix blindly. "Okay, okay, you all go collect chicken feathers and bones, and better everyone else pick up some more tiles." Hearing Liu Wuye's command, these children nodded vigorously.

After all the materials were ready, Liu Wuye led everyone towards the mountain beam, of course, he did not make the same mistake again this time.

Liu Junhao directly took everyone to a wild grave, and then began to dig a pit according to the old man's instructions. There is a main force here, and this work can only be done by him.

The pit is in the shape of "ten", two meters long, half a meter wide, twenty or thirty centimeters deep, Liu Junhao took the shovel and dug it with a few shovels. According to Liu Wuye's instructions, everyone put chicken feathers, chicken bones, horse manure and rotten dry grass into the pit, and covered it with some branches, clods, bricks and tiles.

"Okay, let's go down the mountain" dug three pits in a row, and Liu Wuye estimated that he was about to take everyone down the mountain.

"That's it?" Several bear children looked at each other, and they all felt that it was not interesting, and they couldn't see where the mystery was.

"yes, I'll be able to catch centipedes when I come over tomorrow morning."

It was not too early to go down the mountain, and Liu Junhao finished the meal. After dinner, taking advantage of the cool weather, the little couple led the red rabbit and began to walk slowly along the dirt road. Blow the evening breeze, listen to the cicadas, catch grasshoppers...... Unhurriedly walked to the edge of the river embankment, Liu Junhao casually spread the prepared newspaper on the ground, and then sat there to watch the sunset. Little Yellow Spotted Skin didn't know where to get a newborn rabbit, screaming happily and wanting to come forward to ask for credit, but was scolded by Liu Junhao, this guy had to go to the reeds with his tail to catch the wild ducks.

I thought that Zhang Qian would go home to rest after shopping for a while, but who knew that she actually proposed to go to the weir pond to listen to people talk about the ancients.

Seeing that his wife was in high spirits, Liu Junhao did not dissuade him, but just led Chitu to the stable, and then the two of them led a few troublemakers to the village to play.

With the increase of tourists, the weir pond has become the most lively place in Liujiagou at night. When the heat drops, many tourists spontaneously gather here to play chess, poker, watch TV, and so on.

However, this is an activity for young people, and the elderly prefer to sit on the stone pier under the tree, fan the fan and talk about the past and the present leisurely...... The children were even more playful, jumping squares and playing hide and seek in the clearing.

In the weir pond, listen to the sound of frogs; On the poplar trees, there are bursts of cicadas; I don't know when the fireflies also flew out to enjoy the coolness, flashing in the distance, which was very beautiful.

Throughout the summer night, Liujiagou was so lively. It wasn't until more than ten o'clock that the two of them led Haoyu and the others home.

As soon as they had dinner the next day, the group of unbearable bear children gathered in Liu Junhao's courtyard early, ready to follow him up the mountain to dig centipedes.

Liu Junhao was actually quite curious, so he cleaned the pots and pans neatly, and set off with a nail rake.

This time he was not disappointed, seven big centipedes were dug out of the three pits, and all of them were broken off by Liu Junhao and thrown into the bottle. Don't look at the babbling of these children when they go up the mountain, but none of them dare to reach out and break the stinger.

Liu Junhao shook his head when he saw it, their courage was far more wrong than when he was a child.

After returning home, he got a few more bamboo pieces, sharpened the two ends, inserted one end under the centipede's palate, and the other end into the tail, and then straightened the centipede, put it in the sun to dry, and prepared to dry it for Liu Wuye. Of course, in order to prevent his hens from stealing food, he deliberately covered them with window screens.

There should be another chapter later,