Medicine King Chapter 15 - Encounter with a Fierce Snake at Night

Wang Jin originally came all the way to the west of the mountain. The aforementioned "Medicine King Hoe" is still a long way from the village. Wang Jin didn't plan to go over there, behind him was the direction of the village, surrounded by farmer's fields, and there were many snakes here. In order to be safe, Wang Jin is going to take everyone over there to fish for snakes, and he will definitely not return empty-handed.

At this time, when he walked to the fork in the mountain, Wang Jin was a little hesitant, whether to continue to the west, or to turn to the south mountain to take a look. Just thinking about it, suddenly Xiaobai reacted. I saw it suddenly lower its body and burrow into the grass. One of this guy's white tails, like a big pencil stick, stood straight behind his buttocks.

Wang Jin stopped and slowly turned off the flashlight. It was pitch black all of a sudden. After a while, but listening to the sound of the grass rustling, Xiaobai let out a low roar, and immediately quieted down. Wang Jin turned on the flashlight and saw Xiaobai coming out of the grass with the neck of a long-eared animal in his mouth, and he couldn't help but be happy. It turned out that Xiaobai had caught a hare.

Wang Jin took out a woven bag from the backpack behind his back, took the hare from Xiaobai's mouth, and saw that Xiaobai was a little ruthless. Biting through the hare's trachea, he can't survive. I was going to take the rabbit home alive and raise it for two days. Now he died, and when he went back, he was seen by the Wang family. I know that when I go up the mountain in the middle of the night, I will inevitably have to nag again. So he touched the Rambo jungle saber that happened to be tied to his trouser leg, and said in his heart: Otherwise, just eat it.

I have never eaten hare meat, and it is difficult to describe the delicious taste. Wang Jin has all the things he carries, and the first layer of the backpack is dedicated to all kinds of bits and pieces. Although there is no spicy, a pinch of salt is a bit. This salt, which must be brought at all times, is used to treat all kinds of accidental injuries, and in terms of disinfection, salt will play a big role, and sometimes it can even play a key role in saving lives.

Now that he had to find a place with water to disembowel the rabbit, Wang Jin remembered the place with mountain spring water not far from the mountain in the south. So, carrying the rabbit, he turned and headed south to the mountains. Yaowang Valley is surrounded by mountains on all sides, and it is said that it comes to the south side of the mountain, but it is just at the foot of the South Mountain, and there is a gentle soil slope on the north slope. There is a sandwich road on the soil slope, which is a large ditch washed out by mountain spring water for many years. Wang Jin is very familiar with it, and he doesn't walk from the ditch at this time, the black light is blind, in case he encounters something unexpected, it will be difficult to do. What's more, the South Mountain of Yaowang Valley is where the ancestral graves of the villagers' families are located. Walking into the cemetery in the middle of the night, if any gods ..... alarmed, Wang Jin's heart trembled when he thought of this. He told himself: I am not afraid of heaven and earth. However, since I was a child, my family has told me to have a sense of reverence for my ancestors. This hill to the south is not a place to play. Thinking of this, I went directly to the edge of the ravine, and came from memory to the place where there might be water on the slope.

When I arrived at the place, I saw a large spring in the depression. At this time, it was still early in the morning, so I found a sheltered place and built a circle with nearby stones. Then find some dead weeds and make a fire. Xiaobai lay on the edge of the fire, just watching with his eyes open. Wang Jin patted him on the head, went to the water's edge, skinned the rabbit, and removed the internal organs. After cleaning up, he came back and threw all the rabbit entrails to Xiaobai. It's a piece of living water, but it's winter, and there's very little water flowing. Wang Jin cherishes the natural environment of his hometown very much, and deliberately carefully does not let some rabbit internal organs that cannot be processed fall into the water, but finds a place to bury them.

Then he made a stand out of wood, and pierced the hare with a stick of snake tongs and roasted it on the fire. After a winter, the hare is no longer fat. However, there is still some grease, which has been roasted by the fire, and it drips in the fire from time to time to make a "sizzle" sound. Wang Jin kept turning the rabbit and skillfully sprinkled salt on the roast rabbit. After a while, the tempting aroma of rabbit meat entered Wang Jin's nose.

Wang Jin was not polite, cut the rabbit meat with the Rambo jungle saber, and ate it. This rabbit meat can only be enjoyed by himself, but he will not share it with Xiaobai. It's not that Wang Jin is selfish, it's just that all animals such as cats and dogs have unique digestive systems that are different from people. People feel that delicious sugar and salt are actually very harmful to their internal organs. Owners who don't know how to keep their pets tend to cherish their pets too much and give them everything. Therefore, their pets will age at the age of 7 or 8 and eventually die. The main reason for this is that the digestive system has been damaged too much. Generally, the normal lifespan of a dog should be at least about 12 years, and the lifespan of a cat is about 15 years. When Wang Jin was working in Beijing, he had the opportunity to secretly taste the dog food raised by other people's dogs, and there was indeed no salty taste. However, he also found that these city people don't look at their pets one by one: baby sons, daughters and the like. I don't even have the basic common sense that cats and dogs don't eat salt, and I can't help but feel sorry for those pets.

Wang Jin was eating rabbits while looking at the surrounding scenery. Inadvertently looking at a strange rock, the more inadvertent, the more surprising it can sometimes be. What did he see and say? It turned out to be traces of some people's actions. Wang Jin stood up and walked over to look, and sure enough, someone had dug a big hole in the grass. Yaowang is extremely rich in cereals, not only snakes, birds, and hares. There are also many badgers, ferrets, and weasels. Larger prey, such as wild boars, wolves, and leopards, should be in higher and deeper forests. Therefore, hunting for prey such as rabbits, pheasants, badgers, and ferrets is called "hunting hills" in the local area. This big pit must be hunting by the villagers, I don't know what kind of animal was demolished by illegal buildings, it seems that it was connected to the nest. For this kind of behavior of hunting without leaving seeds, Wang Jin hated it to the core. However, now that the social climate is like this, what can I do? Looking at the big pit in front of him, he didn't think about it, was this a preparation for the excavation of some ancient tomb? At this point, let's put it aside for a moment.

Wang Jin returned to the fire and stirred up the bonfire. I think of how many times I was with a few partners when I was a child. I enjoyed a meal in the mountains at night. I couldn't help but think of Zhilan. When I think of Zhilan, I can't help but bring out the good brother I once had, Sanbao. Now that I hate him to the core, the more I think about it, the more angry I become, so I picked up a stone and threw it at a strange pile of rocks on the side.

The sound of the stone falling to the ground was accompanied by a strange "hissing" sound, after which the weeds shook and something burrowed into the rock. Before Wang Jin could react, Xiaobai had already rushed towards the pile of strange rocks. I saw Xiaobai go over, just sniffed it with his nose, and it was like an electric shock, and his whole body jumped up. As soon as his body hit the ground, he ran back with his tail between his legs, hiding behind Wang Jin and constantly whining. Wang Jin looked down at Xiaobai, Xiaobai's two round eyes were wide open at this time, and Wang Jin began to be alert.

Years of experience in dealing with snakes made Wang Jin immediately understand. Think about it, it's a snake, and this snake is a dangerous guy. It doesn't seem small, it's not winter, it's this cold night. If you accidentally bump into this guy, both humans and animals will suffer. It's just that how such a ferocious poisonous snake could appear so close to the village is really puzzling for a while.

If you don't think about that, let's take a look at it first. So Wang Jin picked up the snake catcher and said in his heart: Just see if this thing is good or not. And he walked over. Came to the pile of strange rocks and cleared the weeds. A few stones were turned. The entrance to a snake's den appeared in front of me. The hole was the size of a fist and was extremely smooth on all sides. Within twenty centimeters of the hole, there was not a single sign of weeds, let alone cobwebs and animal tracks. Wang Jin knew that this snake should have been newly moved not long ago. However, snakes move in winter, which is too rare! Yes, cold-blooded animals don't make sense!

Wang Jin probed into the depths of the cave with a probing hook and found that the hole was actually very deep. I don't know what animal the snake robbed of the nest of the animal's home. So he quietly got up, returned to the fire, and took out the snake trap and snake hook from his backpack. The snake hook is actually a piece of wire. One end was smashed flat with a hammer and rounded into a hook. Here I want to explain that the hook tip cannot be sharpened for fear of stabbing the snake's throat, and if it can't be pulled out at that time, the snake will definitely die. On the other end, bend a ring, and how to use it here is not in a hurry, and it will be clear in the future.

Wang Jin was not in a hurry to act, but went to the water's edge with his hands, snorted some water, and came back and poured it on a strip of rags. I picked a little snake trap with my fingertips and rubbed it on the strip of cloth. Then tie the strip of cloth to the snake hook, and you have to start fishing for snakes. At this time, Xiaobai, as if he had found some prey again, stood up and sniffed the air vigilantly, this time it couldn't help. Wang Jin came to the snake cave, squatted down and looked at it carefully. After a long time of aging, he lay on the ground, fixed the flashlight, focused the light on the mouth of the snake cave, and slowly stretched the snake hook in.