Chapter 11 Sights and Stories in the Forest, Catching Snakes
In the village, the ancient ritual before departure was quickly completed, and it also signaled the official start of this collective hunt.
As is customary, the old and young and the women of the village are left behind, and some of the young and strong people are left to guard the village, and most of the remaining adult villagers and a few young men of age are all for this hunt.
The village chief is over half a hundred years old, so naturally he will not go with him, and after he told Uncle Lin a few words to the leader, Uncle Lin shouted to the army:
"Departure"
The dense crowd burst out of the village.
In a short time, the crowd has already walked into the forest and entered the periphery of the forest, so many people want to go hunting, naturally they can't all walk together, which will make the team very bloated, it is difficult to take care of all aspects, and it is not easy to cooperate when hunting.
Therefore, it is best to divide into multiple teams, and the villagers quickly formed seven teams according to the specifications of a small team of about a dozen people, and each team was required to take one or two half-sized men, led by skilled hunters, to teach them to adapt to the jungle environment as soon as possible and grow into a qualified hunter as soon as possible.
After dividing the teams, it was agreed that they would rush back to the village within three days to meet, and all the teams dispersed in turn and marched towards the depths of the forest.
Pang Yuan and Huzi were naturally pulled into his team by Uncle Lin, plus there were a total of twelve people in the team. Living in the same village, the villagers are familiar with each other, basically Pang Yuan and Huzi and their uncles, the two teenagers naturally do not have any inhibitions when they are in it, they are all excited to smile and greet these uncles, and walk through the team happily.
At this time, there was also a young man in the team who winked at the two teenagers and beckoned to him, and Pang Yuan saw that it was Li Xing, who lived near his house.
Li Xing is the eldest nephew of the head of their mountain village, he is very clever, cheerful and optimistic, but he is usually a little idle, not doing his job, and he is good at bragging, but he has no bad intentions, and the village chief sent him to often go out hunting with the team to polish his temperament, so don't look at him young, but he can be regarded as an old fritter.
Although Li Xing is a member of Pang Yuan's uncle's generation, he is not a few years older than Pang Yuan, and he has a very good relationship with Pang Yuan and Huzi.
Seeing that he deliberately made some funny expressions, Pang Yuan couldn't help but feel a little funny, pulled Huzi over, and deliberately asked:
"I said, Brother Daxing, you are also in this team, that's great, but why didn't the village see you just now? ”
Li Xing glanced at the two of them, held his head high, raised his chin, and made a bullish look.
"Joke! Brother Daxing, I need to hide?! Didn't I hear that you two rookies participated in a group hunt for the first time today, as your seniors, as an old hunter, I can't carry forward my spirit to guide you personally?! ”
Hearing him blowing nonsense here, the two teenagers were full of black lines.
Pang Yuan gave Tong Hu on the side a look, and pouted at Li Xing, who was blowing, and Hu Zi understood.
The two of them pounced on each other and restrained Li Xing, who was still chattering,
"Who do you say is a rookie?!huh?" "Blow it to me again, who do you want to instruct?!"
Pang Yuan clamped his head, Huzi hugged his waist and pulled out his kidneys behind him, and Li Xing bared his teeth and asked for mercy again and again.
When the two of them let it go, and begged for mercy, they farted, Brother Daxing did not show weakness and fought back, and the three of them laughed and made a mess...
Uncle Lin, who was traveling with him, was a little helpless and didn't bother to care about them, while the other adult hunters watched them play with smiles on their faces, using them as condiments for boring journeys.
Pang Yuan's group walked quietly in the forest, keeping vigilance, beware of possible dangerous situations, Pang Yuan and Huzi walked in the middle, in order to maintain their physical strength, Uncle Lin also reminded Pang Yuan that they should try to talk as much as possible.
Under the feet of thick greens and moss, the trees seen beside him are getting taller and thicker, as far as the eye can see, most of them are very old trees, the vines on the thick trunks are very strong, intertwined, and many thick aerial roots hang down. They even saw the spectacle of new small trees growing on many old trees, which made the group secretly amazed, which should be the tree species in bird droppings falling on the thick branches of the old trees, and then taking root and sprouting.
Their path is often blocked by scattered branches or vines hanging down, which requires the hunters in front of them to cut or pick them apart with sharp blades.
Walking and walking, Uncle Lin, who was in front of the team, suddenly waved his hand, and the team stopped suddenly, Pang Yuan and the others didn't know what was going on, so they hurriedly approached to take a look, it turned out to be a nest of long snakes scattered on the messy branches that ran across the front, and there were about four or five of them, blocking their way.
The body length of these long snakes is about two meters, the thickness of the wooden stick, it is a number of big snakes that Pang Yuan has seen, and what is striking is that the heads of these snakes are pointed, in a triangular shape, the snake body is brightly colored, and many have ring-shaped stripes, which are obviously extremely poisonous and deadly snakes!
Most of the deadly snakes scattered around this litter are lazily coiled on the branches, and some are still slowly squirming forward, and the wet and smooth snake body is swirling and twisting, making people's scalp tingle. As if he had found someone, a colorful poisonous snake coiled up, the head of the snake was high, and he quickly spit out a slender letter, and the pale golden vertical eyes in a pair of snake eyes stared coldly at the human beings in front of him, and he was a little flustered when he saw Pang Yuan and Huzi.
Pang Yuan thought that Uncle Lin would notify their team to take a detour this time, but Uncle Lin's face did not change, and it didn't seem to be a big deal, he just waved to the back and shouted:
"Menzi, Zhuzi, you two pick these long worms down and cut them down, be careful, add food at noon today, snake soup!"
Two honest and strong adult villagers came out of the back team, their faces were somewhat similar, Pang Yuan recognized them, but they were the two brothers in the village, Uncle Menzi and Uncle Zhuzi.
Menzi and Zhuzi, one with a long snake trap in his hand, and the other with a long knife, cautiously approached the poisonous snake coiled on the branch.
Menzi carefully approached one of the poisonous snakes with a snake trap fork, and slammed it to the ground, the poisonous snake was frightened and wanted to fight back, but it was thrust seven inches by a fork, unable to move, the pillar was quick and fast, and he stepped forward to cut off the snake's head with just a knife.
Then the two of them concocted the same method, dealing with several other poisonous snakes, and in just a moment, a nest of terrible poisonous snakes blocking the way was completely slaughtered by the two of them, and the ground was full of curved snake bodies and bloody snake heads.
The two began to dispose of the poisonous snake corpses at the scene, and when they saw those snake heads, Pang Yuan and Huzi squatted forward curiously and wanted to take a closer look, but they were pulled away by Uncle Lin and stopped their dangerous behavior.
Uncle Lin carefully swept the snake heads aside one by one with a stick, pointed at the snake heads, and taught the two with a serious face.
"For a period of time after the death of these poisonous snakes, the head of the snake actually still has the ability to attack instinctively, especially must not be touched with the body, otherwise once bitten and poisoned and not rescued in time, it is likely that there will be a danger to life, in previous years, several villagers in our village died because of this. ”
When Pang Yuan and the others heard this, they quickly stepped back and distanced themselves, feeling a little palpitating.
On the other side, the door and pillar have also finished processing the snake body, put the peeled snake flesh and snake skin into a thick sealed bag, tie the mouth of the bag tightly, and it is done.
Uncle Lin waved his hand, and the group continued on the road.