Chapter 18 Killing the Snake and Picking the Flowers
"Xiaohu, you take a few brothers back, get some of our realgar wine, and prepare some kerosene, so many poisonous snakes don't know how many animals will be harmed in the mountains, today while they are gathered, let's try to get a nest." Zhao Wenwu hurriedly arranged, seeing that Fan Zhaohu had left with a few brothers, and ordered Er Zhuang to take Liu Shi back to the camp, Er Zhuang refused, Liu Shi may have encountered the big snake again, his body couldn't help but tremble, and he stammered and didn't know what he was talking about, Gu Yongquan was angry:
"Hurry up and take you Uncle Liu back, his illness has just improved a little, won't he give up his efforts if he commits it again?"
Erzhuang had to go back to Liu Shi step by step, as for Zhaoyu, Zhao Wenwu did not intend for her to avoid, the process of putting the mountain is as short as February, and as long as four or five months, during this period will encounter all kinds of difficulties and thrills, only by constantly accumulating experience can we deal with it easily, especially this oolong ginseng is difficult to find, and the eggplant viper is naturally more difficult to encounter, these are rare good medicinal materials, Zhao Wenwu is thinking in his heart to let Zhaoyu see it.
Zhaoyu, you and Yongquan and a few uncles go to the neighborhood to find some hay, and if not, cut some pine branches or something.
"Okay."
The crowd split up.
Two hours later, the direction designated by Zhao Wenwu was already full of mountain materials, and kerosene and spirits had been prepared.
The purple-black vipers wriggled and entwined with each other, and were constantly rolling in a not too deep ravine, which really made the scalp tingle and goosebumps all over the body.
Everyone is a veteran of the mountain, tiptoeing around the mountain beside the ravine and then quietly retreating.
Several torches made by Zhao Wenwu were blazing, and they were stained with kerosene, and he made gestures, including himself, a total of four people divided the ravines in four directions, and at the same time made the three people hold wine jars in their hands, and the rest of them are holding the Solo stick tightly in their hands, Zhaoyu was nervous and anxious, his palms were sweaty, and he kept wiping for fear of delaying the business, and Zhao Wenwu said to Zhaoyu with a smile:
"Yu'er, don't be afraid, when you see a snake that has slipped through the net, you will shoot it with a slingshot, it's no problem with your ability."
"Oh." Zhaoyu promised on his lips, but his heart was beating a drum, and the slingshot was nervously holding it up and staring at the ravine with full attention.
Zhao Wenwu's raised hand was decisively put down, only to see a few jars of rice wine and torches being thrown into the ravine at the same time, and the fire instantly ignited along the spirits splashing around.
The sound of "hissing" suddenly rose, and countless constantly writhing bodies seemed to suddenly break through the blocked flood and poured out wildly, but they couldn't withstand the fire of spirits and kerosene, and after a while, more than half of the poisonous snakes' bodies began to catch fire.
"Quick, quick." The surrounding mountains were also burned, mixed with realgar, and those big snakes were inevitably rolling and twisting to look shocking.
Suddenly, a giant snake broke through the encirclement of the mountain and jumped into the air and pounced directly on Gu Yongquan, who was setting fire, Zhaoyu's eyes were fast, and Shi Maru shot out instantly, knocking the big snake to the ground, Gu Yongquan saw this and quickly stepped forward to make up for a few sticks, and the poisonous snake died on the spot.
Next, in the midst of the raging fire, the big snake struggled desperately, and many of them rushed out of the fire ring with fire on their bodies.
"Stand back, everybody."
Zhao Wenwu ordered loudly, and at the same time, the Solo stick in his hand used a fierce stick technique, and kept letting the big snake that rushed out whine, and cooperated with Zhao Yu to shoot down the big snake that jumped in the air, and had resisted most of the attacks of the poisonous snakes, and the rest was killed by everyone.
With a crackling sound, the flames were extinguished, and many of the incompletely burned corpses were still burning in the charred ravines, and the people buried them with the surrounding earth.
"Haha, I earned it this time." Fan Zhaohu laughed.
This poisonous snake can be described as a treasure, not only the snake gall is precious, even the snake head, snake moult, snake liver, snake head, snake paste and even snake meat can cure diseases, is a rare good medicinal material.
There are hundreds of large snake corpses that everyone counted and rushed out, plus the dragon ginseng that has been found so far, it is only at least a month, and this year's harvest is comparable to last year.
"Yu'er, I'll let you taste Uncle's craftsmanship today." Gu Yongquan laughed and took the snake's corpse back with everyone in a coarse sack.
"Dad, can we go pick the flowers of oolong ginseng?" Zhaoyu was thinking about the ginseng flower.
"Head, this ginseng flower will be given to Zhaoyu, and it should be regarded as an uncle who thanks her for watching the enemy and plundering the formation." The youngest of the ten people, Lonely Swollen Xia, said with a smile.
"That's not possible, let's come out together, and what we get must be divided equally by everyone." Zhao Wenwu flatly denied it.
"Oh, put your head on, don't say that people outside the mountain rarely know the preciousness of this oolong ginseng flower, even if they do, they won't give a good price, people in the mountains know things in the mountains, Zhaoyu This girl is naughty all day long, in case she is bitten by poisonous insects on the mountain one day, this ginseng flower can save her." Deng Lu, who was in the group, also said.
"That's it, that's it, I still remember that last year we picked the white flower snake grass, to the shopkeeper outside the mountain, he actually said that most of the doctors outside the mountain don't recognize that, how do we carry it out and how to carry it back, this oolong ginseng flower is extremely precious in our opinion, it is estimated that it is not easy to find a suitable buyer outside the mountain, it is better to use it for our girl, just her monkey-like temperament, this flower will be used in the future." The crowd was in a hurry.
"Stop, how can I listen to your uncles discriminating against me? I'm a girl as quiet as water, where did I offend your uncles and uncles? Zhaoyu crossed his waist and said very dissatisfied.
"Just you? If it weren't for your appearance and being able to look at your sister-in-law, we would really think that you were born to Brother Wenwu and a monkey! Deng Lu joked with a smile.
"Dad, look at them!"
"Hey, don't talk about them, even I sometimes have some doubts about whether you are my biological daughter after all."
"You, you, huh." Zhaoyu ignored everyone, carefully cut off the ginseng flowers with a knife, and turned around and left with the roots.
"Haha, go back quickly, I have a good mouth today, this eggplant snake meat is a great tonic, I don't know if Brother Liu will get better after eating it." Everyone happily moved to the camp, and when they were still far away, they saw the two Er Zhuang who were standing outside the camp and were circling in a hurry.
If you talk about cooking, only Gu Yongquan ten fingers do not touch the spring water in this line, on weekdays everyone cooks he stands there shouting, today may be really greedy, maybe he wants to change his impression among the brothers, so he volunteered to cut a few eggplant snakes that were cleaned up, skewered them on the bonfire with willow wood, and roasted them like a look.
"You don't know, Uncle Zhao said back then that the meat of this poisonous snake is the most supplement, especially when roasting, only some salt can be put and other ingredients can not be put to retain the original flavor."
Everyone laughed and ignored him, for fear that what he said would be inappropriate, this guy didn't do it, so Gu Yongquan took care of himself and roasted meat while talking to himself in the open space outside the house.
"Yu'er, later, you and Er Zhuang will process those snake meats, brush them with salt, hang them on the wooden shelves on the second floor and dry them, and those internal organs will also be processed and air-dried." I won't ask you Uncle Fan, he is an expert in this area.
After Zhao Wenwu finished ordering, he instructed everyone to put the wine on the table, mixed the wild vegetables and brought up two large pots, washed the wild fruits and put them on the table, everything was ready and waited for Gu Yongquan's roast snake meat.