Medicine King Chapter 06 - Snake Catcher

This year has been good, and the mother and son have been lively on the fifth day of the new year. The seventh Wang clan is going to help the second dog. As soon as they said this, both mother and son diverged the topic intentionally or unintentionally. According to the custom of the countryside, this year is counted until the first month of the new year. However, over the years, people in the village have gone to the big cities, and many people have to start preparing after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. The people of Yaowang Valley slowly felt that the taste of this traditional New Year was getting weaker and weaker, but they couldn't say why.

One day after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Wang asked his son: When are you leaving? Of course, the Wang family didn't want his son to leave again, but there were also reasons why Wang didn't want his son to stay.

Wang Jin was teasing the dog in the yard, and after listening to it for a long time: I didn't think about it.

Wang pretended to be absent-minded: money can be earned at any time! It's chaotic outside, I don't think about it, I raise it at home, and when I think about it, I will go out.

Wang Jin snorted, but he was anxious. Secretly said to himself: Things have to be handled as soon as possible.

Speaking of heart matters, Wang Jin has another matter. It's still an idea that I came up with in the past half a month. I remember mentioning it by the four new acquaintances on the train. One of these four people did not know what to do, and was blessed to marry a Beijing girl, whose brother was trading in a flower and bird market. It is said that selling amphibians made a lot of money.

At that time, I just paid attention to the fact that I made a lot of money. After all, I also have a degree of early Chinese and know the general difference between amphibians and mammals. In the past few days, I have been wandering around the mountains, and I have really encountered a lot of snake nests, so I began to have an unformed idea.

Said: The habits of snakes, in winter, the surface is cold, but the ground is warm. Snakes burrow into burrows to hibernate. If you are not an experienced person, you can't see it. However, people who have grown up in the mountains for many years, and have accumulated experience for many years, can conclude that they are inseparable from each other when they look at the cave. Wang Jin has been a good hand at this since he was a child, and he can estimate what kind of hole and how big the snake is.

On the train, I vaguely remember that a snake can be sold for tens of thousands of yuan if it is expensive, and it can be sold for three or five hundred yuan if it is cheap. Although I don't understand why these people in the city want these things, in short, the more bizarre things are, the more valuable they are. There are many snakes in this Medicine King Valley, as for scorpions, centipedes, Lai Gebao and the like, there are, but they are nothing unusual.

When it comes to the profession of snake catching, the most common knowledge that comes to people's minds comes from an ancient text called "The Snake Catcher Says". In middle school textbooks, you need to memorize them. For example: Yongzhou to the real estate snake, black and white, touch the grass and trees to die~ and so on. I don't know if it's still in the textbook.

The poisonous snake in "The Snake Catcher Says" is actually only a five-step snake, whose scientific name is Sharp-nosed pither.

The risk of catching poisonous snakes is indeed high, and if it is a profession, it is definitely a high-risk occupation. In fact, the practice of catching snakes has been around since ancient times. It belongs to one of the three religions and nine streams, and is a branch of the middle nine streams.

Not only snake catching, but also raw materials for various biopharmaceuticals need to be collected manually. I can't expand on it for a while. Just talking about how to catch snakes this winter, the ancestors of the Wang family have a secret recipe that has been passed down for seven generations. It is generally believed that using musk, cinnamon, licorice, and other fragrant ingredients as bait can lure snakes out of their holes. In fact, I don't understand the mystery.

It may also come from a mythological story, from the "Li Ji Snake Cutting Chapter" of "Sou Shen Ji", the content of which mainly describes the use of snakes' favorite food as bait, and so on!

The Wang family has a secret recipe for catching snakes, but things are very simple. Raw materials can be collected wherever there are snakes. The principle has to be explained first. Let's put it simply: a person will ignore the danger and do something stupid without rational judgment, which is generally caused by anger. The same is true for snakes, if they are full, you know, snakes eat very infrequently, sometimes they don't need to eat for months. Especially in winter, no matter how sweet you take food, it won't work at this time. For example, if you have already eaten to the throat, I will give you a bowl of braised pork? So, I'll give you a bowl of shark fin (shark fin is really nothing to eat), it's good for you, right?

Therefore, the main ingredient of the bait used in snake fishing is the smell of things that snakes hate, such as predators or other poisons. The stronger this stimulus, the more the snake will stimulate a self-protective nature. Biting something with your mouth is almost without thinking. The principle is as simple as that, and the most critical thing is the toad skin, which we call in Sichuan dialect.

Toads are also one of the poisons, but they can be used in medicine. Back then, the elders, how to discover this secret, I think it was discovered without opinion in the process of experimenting with medicinal materials.

The other thing needs to be collected around the mouth of the snake cave. Find succulent plants, mix the juice of the plants, replace toad skin, eagle claw powder (chicken paw ash), mix honey (sticky), stinky tofu, pepper powder (no more), and a few flavors are inconvenient to disclose, go research yourself.

The most important point is that China has a vast land and resources, and the populations of different environmental organisms are different, so you take the toad powder from Shandong to Guangdong and Zhoushan to fish (cobras) for a generation. This eye-eyed snake will call you from the hole with a mobile phone when it smells: ask you, what a hair! It won't work at all. Therefore, snakes in different regions should correspondingly find toads in different regions.

Question, what do you fish them for? If there is no Wang Jin's sake, then you are looking for death. According to a clever online search, there are more than 20 types of venomous snakes distributed in China. Let's take a look at the case of poisoning, let's not talk about violating the laws of the country, your life is your own.

With this secret recipe in hand, Wang Jin felt that catching snakes was not a problem. Modern medicine is so developed that the secret recipe of snake medicine passed down by his family has long been replaced by antivenom. Otherwise, with this pharmaceutical technology, how would it be like this?

What is lacking at the moment is money, and with money comes a wife. With a wife, my mother has someone to take care of. Only by yourself can go out and earn money. So, Wang Jin made a short-term plan for himself. Half a year, let's get this thing done. If only it could be sold for money. Then the rest will be easy. But for now, I have to discuss it with Ergouzi.

In the afternoon, Ergouzi was greeted by Wang Jin to come home. The two closed the door and began to ponder the matter.

The second dog said: As soon as you told me about the things on the train, I knew that you also had this idea. However, I'm not sure my brother is smashing his thoughts. After all, I don't know anything! There is an old saying that the mountain eats the mountain, and the water eats the water. We don't have to do anything, we don't have the ability, and we were born in this ravine, if we don't eat this mountain, what will we eat? If you don't go far, you can't kill a few snakes in a year and a half, and it's not as good as rolling over them every day on the highway. Besides, do you know how many people were bitten by poisonous snakes in our village last year?

Ergouzi knew that Wang Jin was still hesitating, otherwise he would have directly confessed to himself.

When the second dog saw that Wang Jin listened, he stretched out his slap: Fifteen, a full fifteen. Don't you wonder why there are so many snakes?

Wang Jin also felt curious when he heard it: I also thought about this, but I didn't understand it. We were born here since we were children, where there are snakes, where are there animals on which mountain, we know best, just like at home, this time I feel completely messed up.

Ergouzi nodded: So, let's not talk about business first, let's talk about understanding this matter first~ It means to ourselves. In addition, hurry up and get some snake medicine for your family! You can't count on this hospital for everything, just in case.

After hearing the words of the second dog, Wang Jin figured it out and decided to do it.

So, the two began to divide the labor, and the second dog went to the countryside for a trip in the past two days, and his family had a motorcycle. The first is to go to the pharmacy to pick up the medicine according to the herbal prescription given by Wang Jin, and the second is to contact the friend in Beijing who went home to visit relatives and talk about this idea.

Wang Jin, prepare first. The second dog contacted the buyer. Just go up the mountain and catch a few, and try it if you can't succeed.

The two of them discussed, and the two dogs were happily busy, and what would happen later was far from what the two of them could predict at the moment.