Chapter 14: The Embarrassment of Getting a Glimpse of the Truth
"The third brother wants to learn the craft and get ahead.
And he talked to me, and he always felt that he had been immersed in Uncle Wang's for more than a year, and he couldn't do all the small work he had done before.
He served Uncle Wang well, maybe one day Uncle Wang would be moved, and he would teach him all his skills. Wang Xiaodao.
Liu Wan listened, shook her head, and didn't say anything.
Wang Jing: This is a dream!
Uncle Wang must be afraid that his business will be robbed, how can he teach Wang Jing his skills?
Wang Xiao is right, Uncle Wang is treating Wang Jing as a free laborer.
The Wang family used to be poor, and he was a bad gambler, and his mother was a woman who suffered domestic violence all the year round, and she couldn't support the door.
It's no wonder that these children are developing outward.
She found an opportunity to talk to Wang Jing and let him go home, instead of letting others make it for free, it was better to help her do things at home.
The mother and son quickly filled two back baskets with camellia seeds, which were heavy, and one back basket weighed at least sixty catties.
Wang Xiao tried the weight, looked at Liu Wan worriedly, and said:
"Mother, your body has just recovered, why don't you pour half of the camellia seeds and put them on me, and you will carry them a little less."
"No need, I'm as strong as an ox now, I don't believe let's go down the mountain and see who doesn't gasp?"
Liu Wan also proposed a competition with her son.
Wang Xiao was happy when he heard it, and the young man was competitive, so he was naturally willing to compare.
Two people carried bamboo baskets on their backs and walked briskly on the mountain road.
Wang Xiao felt that he was obviously a few steps away from his mother, but no matter how he accelerated, he still couldn't catch up with his mother.
Wang Xiao stopped on the road to catch his breath, wiped the sweat on his head and said:
"Mother, I don't compare with you, you are walking too fast, I am tired."
In fact, he was worried that his mother was competitive, and his body had just recovered.
Liu Wan saw him admit defeat and said with a smile: "Okay, then let's go slowly, I'm afraid that the king will pity him and the two of them will be in a hurry." ”
"Mother, you see there's a big clump of Zhongni here, let's pick some back and give them to eat, otherwise they will say that we have no credit."
Wang Xiao looked up and saw a large clump of Zhongni on the side of the mountain road, the fruit was black and red, and it was ripe, so he told Liu Wan happily.
Liu Wan stepped forward to pick it up, and muttered: "Good luck!" It's almost down the mountain, and you can still pick Zhongni. ”
Unexpectedly, Wang Xiao glanced at the corner of his eyes and suddenly shouted:
"Mother, get out of the way, there are snakes."
Liu Wan was taken aback, and the hand that stretched out to pick the fruit stopped suddenly, Wang Xiao didn't have time to run over, so he had to take out the woodcutter he was carrying, and threw it at the snake's head.
Liu Wan saw a flash of snow, and a big snake that jumped up from the grass to bite fell heavily, and the snake's head was cut off by a firewood knife, and its head was separated.
Liu Wan is not afraid of snakes, come forward to see, this snake is three feet long, quite fat, as a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, Liu Wan knows a lot about snakes, this is a non-venomous snake, that is, commonly known as cauliflower snake.
"Xiao'er, what a skill! But it's okay, this snake is not poisonous, we can take tonic tonight, and my mother will cook snake soup for you to eat. ”
Liu Wan was not only not afraid, but also very happy, grabbed the snake and threw it in her hand.
Wang Xiao couldn't help but widen his eyes, wasn't his mother the most afraid of snakes before?
She once bumped into a house snake in the house that was devouring rats, and she would scream in fright.
However, Wang Xiao quickly made a good excuse for Liu Wan's change, he felt that his mother witnessed the scene of his father being killed by Butcher Zhang that night, and he was greatly stimulated, and his temperament changed greatly.
If a woman even saw the scene of her husband's murder, what else in the world was she afraid of?
"Mother, I'll mention the snake."
Wang Xiao was not afraid of snakes, so he stepped forward to take the snake from Liu Wan's hand.
The snake had just been cut off and its body could still move, and its tail was bound to roll up on Wang Xiao's arm, Wang Xiao ignored it and let it roll up, saving effort.
The mother and son talked and laughed to the bottom of the mountain.
The two little ones waited at the bottom of the mountain for a long time, and when they saw them coming down, they hurried up to meet them.
When he got closer, and saw the snake wrapped around Wang Xiao's arm, Wang Lian couldn't help but cry out in fright:
"Brother, the snake is on you, don't move, I'll help you pick it out."
Wang Lian said, rushing up with a small stick to help his brother fight snakes.
Wang Li also ran up.
"Haha, you two have lost your eyes, this snake has been beheaded by me, it's okay, and it's a non-venomous snake.
My mother said that today we are blessed and can eat snake soup. ”
As soon as Wang Xiao's voice fell, the two little ones put down the sticks in their hands and breathed a sigh of relief.
When Liu Wan said that she was making snake soup, she found that she did not receive the task triggered by the system, which made her sure that the system would not send a new task if she did not complete the previous task.
But fortunately, Liu Wan is majoring in traditional Chinese medicine, and there is a professional course on snake cognition in the professional class, so Liu Wan is very familiar with snakes, and she did it in the experimental class.
Snake meat is a good tonic, containing a variety of amino acids needed by the human body, rich in protein, easy to absorb, looking at these children with yellow muscles and thin muscles, she really wants to give them supplements.
"It would be nice if there were chickens stewed together, dragon and phoenix fights, the taste is beautiful."
Liu Wan said casually.
Wang Xiao listened and said: "Mother, I will carry the tea oil seeds home, and then go up the mountain to try my luck to see if I can catch the pheasant." ”
Wang Xiao learned to hunt, but because hunting required expensive equipment such as hunting rifles and hunting clips, he could not afford it.
Later, he followed the hunters in the village and died begging for nothing, that is, learning how to set a trap and other basic hunting skills.
But Wang Xiao's luck is good, he has caught pheasants a few times, hunted wild turtledoves, and still knows a lot about the situation on the mountain.
Later, when he got married, Wu Hui didn't let him go to the mountains to hunt easily, after all, it was still risky to go to the mountains.
Although the mountains here are not high, the forests are dense and the grass is deep, and it is said that there are tigers and leopards in the inaccessible places.
"Okay, you can just go up the mountain and look for it, forget it if you don't have it."
"Ding, host, found that there are ingredients that can be used as ingredients for snake soup within 100 meters, does the host enable the search and positioning function of auxiliary materials?"
The system will automatically prompt you suddenly.
Liu Wan found that this dog system still has such a function?
Every now and then, you can surprise people!
Thinking of the system's unprofitable temperament, Liu Wan asked vigilantly:
"Is there a charge for this feature?"
The system was silent for a while.
There seems to be an embarrassment of being glimpsed into the truth.
"There is a charge, a survival point is charged."
"That's too expensive, isn't it? What an unscrupulous profiteer. What other ingredients do you need for snake soup? I'll just stew the big snake in the iron pot! ”
Liu Wan snorted coldly.
The system hastened to explain:
"After this function is turned on, it will be free for life, but it is easy to use, and you can find the ingredients and accessories that appear within 100 meters of the host's body in the future."
"How many survival points do you need?" Liu Wan asked.