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"No!" Li Zixu refused to bother his brother, but just shook his head.

In the end, it was Li Zisheng who "threatened" him, if he didn't take himself, then immediately "revealed" Li Zixu's adventurous move to his parents, so he reluctantly agreed.

The two made an appointment to meet tonight, and then they broke up. Li Zisheng walked alone to the pond in the northwest of the village.

Li Zisheng's home is located by the small pond, with a neat vegetable garden of several acres surrounded by a regular three-way courtyard and a mill, and a pigsty and cattle pen downwind. This is also the new house that Li Zisheng's father rebuilt on his own homestead after his father's traces. In addition, it was also mentioned in the previous document that Li's father also purchased 100 acres of fertile land in the valley, and he was also considered the number one family in the clan.

He didn't go through the front door, and walked directly into the house from the backyard. In addition to the kitchen, the firewood room in the backyard is the residence of the domestic servants and long-term workers. At this time, it was already past the busy farming, otherwise there would be short-term workers hired by his family to go in and out, and it would be even more lively.

The countrymen don't have so many rules, and although it's autumn, the weather hasn't turned cold yet, so they put their food on the ground and chat while squatting and eating. The hostess of this house is generous, and she will never deduct people's food, and you can see a little meat in the dishes every day.

Seeing him enter the door, the squatting domestic servants all stood up to say hello, and Li Zisheng greeted politely one by one, and asked about today's farming affairs proficiently.

He is not an ordinary young master, as long as he is free since he was a child, he does not need to be supervised by his elders to work in the field, and he is clear about the things in the field, so everyone does not dare to be ambiguous, and he tells his young master all kinds of work.

He chatted with his subordinates in the backyard and walked around the backyard to make some preparations. Only then did he fetch water and wipe his face, and walked to his parents' bedroom. Li's father went out to do business all the year round, and only his mother was at home, and at this time he was teasing his younger brother Li Ziren in the room.

Li Zisheng's mother's name is Wu Suqin, and she is the eighth in the family, so she is nicknamed Wu Bamei. Although he is only from an ordinary family, his facial features are graceful and looks kind, and his clothes are not gorgeous, but he is neat and refreshing, and she looks like a housewife with a strict family education.

The little brother of the Li family who was teasing in front of her was only five years old, and he was the most active age. When he saw his eldest brother coming in, he staggered and pounced on him, shouting for a hug. Li Zisheng hugged his younger brother and kissed his face, and then greeted his mother.

Wu Bamei looked at the heroic son in front of her with relief, and asked, "Chisan Yanzi, why did you come back late today?

"Hehe, the child is a little playful today, so I'm late to come back. Li Zisheng scratched his head embarrassedly and replied.

The mother knew that her child knew the importance of being young and old, so she casually instructed: "Don't be too late next time." ”

The mother and son talked about homely things, and the family of three arrived in the front side hall and began to eat.

Although the family is considered to be wealthy, it still maintains its true character as a farmer under the control of his frugal mother. Dinner is simple, just two meats, two vegetables and a big bowl of egg drop soup plus a small pot of red and bright oil and spicy four dishes and one soup, meat dishes are just a steamed river fish and a shallow plate of stir-fried pork liver. Although it was just a home-cooked side dish, the fragrance still made Li Zisheng's index finger move after vigorous exercise.

The mother first put the head of the fish into her bowl, then picked up the small half of the fish, carefully removed the meat from the top and put it in the bowl of the younger brother. In the end, more than half of the fish was placed in front of Li Zisheng.

The precocious young man was moved in his heart, pushed the plate to his mother, and said, "Mother, you can eat some too." ”

"You know, my mother loves to eat fish heads. But when you grow your body, you should eat more. Wu Suqin said with a smile, she sandwiched one or two more pieces of pork liver, and the rest was all put into the bowls of her two sons.

Li Zisheng knew that he could never refuse his mother, so he also learned from Wu Bamei to carefully pick out a large piece of fish and thorns, and then put it in the bowl of the younger brother, and then silently ate the meal without saying much.

After eating and washing, he teased his little brother for a while, chatted with his mother for a few words, and then returned to his room and warmed up his book. Today he is not as calm as in the past, and from time to time he pushes the window and looks at the sky. When the moon rises in the middle of the day, when it is time for people, the average farmer has already fallen asleep, and the voices of people in the front and back yards have gradually disappeared.

Li Zisheng only then began to act. He changed into an old dress, tightened the cuffs of his trousers, and chose a pair of clogs suitable for mountain trails. Then he hung a lantern and a bag containing a fire fold around his waist, and stuck a short knife in his belt. Finally, I picked up the wooden box containing the incense and opened it, looked at it, sniffed it carefully, and carefully put it into my arms.

The boy tiptoed out of his room, walked to the courtyard wall, avoided his big yellow dog, rolled over lightly, and landed gently on the ground. Although Li Zisheng has not been able to penetrate Xiao Zhoutian so far, he has practiced the physical arts taught by the family proficiently, and this low courtyard wall cannot make it difficult for him at all. Then he pulled out a wheelbarrow from the grass outside the courtyard, which he had just pushed out of his house and hid there.

Li Zisheng, who was pushing the cart, took advantage of the moonlight to walk briskly towards his brother's home. After a while, he saw Li Zixu's small figure outside the door. In the end, it is a child, nervous in front of his own house. Beside the clan brother were four large thin wire cages, which were supposed to be utensils for prey. This is still Li Zisheng's special order, otherwise his brother's heart is not black, and he will bring two snake baskets to catch snakes at most.

After the two met, they didn't say much, they loaded the iron cage into the car, lit the torch and went straight to the ancestral hill in the north. It was just after dawn and three hours away. In the plan of the two teenagers, one hour back and forth, and two hours to catch snakes, although it is not rich, it will be enough.

This ancestral hill is the name of the Li people, but outsiders call this small hill in the north the Chiyou tomb. Legend has it that after the fall of this ancient god of war, his subordinates buried his remaining body here along with the armor honor guard.

However, that era was too far away, and even the Li people did not take it seriously, and regarded it as a mythical story.

This hilly land is barren and far from the water source, except for shrubs and weeds, even mature trees cannot grow, plus there are poisonous substances such as red snakes, except for Li Zixu's family, that is, the villagers, who come to collect some wild things as tooth sacrifices in the slack season, it can be regarded as inaccessible.

The two of them hurried to the edge of the hill before stopping. After they hid the car in the bushes, Li Zixu extinguished the torch and took out something from his sleeve, which was a lens made of ink crystal. He put the lenses in front of his eyes and took a closer look at the ground. After a while, he pointed ahead and said, "This is the direction! Brother Sheng, you can take a look." ”

Li Zisheng took the lens with a little curiosity, and put it in front of him like a clan brother. I saw a little red light on the ground in that direction. It turns out that the scales dropped by the red snake as it wandered on the ground could be seen in this lens.

Li Zixu took out another porcelain bottle, poured out oily snake medicine from it and smeared it on his body. This is his family's special snake medicine, but the effect is not to repel snakes, but to make the prey unable to show itself.

This red snake is a genus of fire, and has become a special warm-blooded snake that does not need to hibernat, so it has lost the infrared imaging ability of ordinary snakes, and can only rely on its sense of smell and less than its vision to perceive its surroundings.

Of course, Li Zixu didn't know anything infrared, but he learned about the characteristics of this snake through practice, and boiled a snake oil with an exclusive herbal formula and applied it to his body to avoid the attack of prey.

The problem is that they can get close to the red snake with this object, but this snake is violent, and at the slightest irritation, it will wantonly attack everything around them, even their own kind. If a snake catcher is careless, he will inevitably encounter a snake kiss, either dead or injured.

So it's extremely dangerous for even an experienced adult to do this job, let alone two inexperienced children like this.

After the two of them had smeared the snake oil, they lightly carried the iron cage and followed the trail towards the bushes.

As they progressed deeper and deeper into the hills, they saw that the red spots of light on the ground were getting more and more dense.

After less than a meal, they met the target of their trip, the red snake. Li Zixu's snake medicine did work, and the snakes passed by their feet with ease, and they all twisted their bodies towards the same goal.

In the past, Li Zisheng had seen the red snake a few times in his brother's house, but because the adults were afraid of any accidents, they never let him get close to him. It was only at this moment that he could fully see the prey tonight.

These red snakes are no different in size from ordinary snakes, ranging from the size of chopsticks to the palm of an adult's hand, and the largest as thick as a baby's arm and up to three feet long. It's just that there are some more red lines on the body, and there is a red dark light in the night. The most bizarre thing is that those snake eyes are also red, like two small red night pearls, shining with a strange light in the moonlight.

They followed the snake and walked a few dozen steps up a hill before them, and they were stunned by what they saw. Halfway up the hill there is a sunken pit in which hundreds of snakes entangle. Their red light streaks and red eyes made the snake look like an ember of a fire. The hiss of hundreds of red snakes spitting out snake letters and the subtle sound of the scales rubbing against their bodies converged to make it sound tooth-aching.

Li Zixu liked and was afraid in his heart. I like that so many snakes gathered together, which is equivalent to putting the money for my father's treatment in front of me, and I am afraid that this battle in front of me is not to mention him, even his father has never seen it. Because even his father or grandfather or great-grandfather never thought of coming to catch snakes at this moment.

However, this young man, who had never thought that if he went deep into the snakes, he would not even have room to escape, and he was completely ignorant of this, and he never thought about why his ancestors had never captured the red snake on a large scale.

He swallowed a mouthful of saliva, straightened his small chest, picked up an iron cage and was about to step forward to catch the snake. This reckless and impatient child was pulled by his own brother as soon as he moved.