Chapter 340 Chapter 9 Odor Release

Zhang Jiu thought that the strong wind outside could prevent the father next door from hearing the sound in his room.In fact, Zhang Jiu's father has been raising snakes for many years, and he is much smarter than Zhang Jiu.He prepared early on how to deal with the snake that sneaked into the room. Zhang Jiu's father knew four ways to catch snakes. The first method is the sling method.In spring and summer, water snakes and flower snakes often like to show their heads by the pond to breathe. Zhang Jiu’s father tied a thin rope with a bamboo pole, put a slipknot on the rope, and floated the slipknot on the water surface until the snakes Swim the head of the snake into the slipknot, hold the bamboo pole in your hand, and lift it up quickly, the slipknot will hold the snake's head tightly, and the snake becomes a bag.This is the easiest way and the hardest way.Because using this method requires the snake catcher to have extremely keen eyes and extremely precise hands.

The second method is the cage method.The cage made of bamboo slices is placed in the place where snakes often come and go, and the food that snakes like to eat is placed in the cage as bait. The design of this kind of cage is very particular, and the most mysterious design is at the mouth of the cage. Put a mechanism here, that is, a barbed mouth made of sharp bamboo slices. It is easy to climb in along, but impossible to climb out backward.The whole shape looks like a baseball bat, except that the inside of the bat is hollowed out.Because the barbs made of bamboo slices are extremely sharp, the snake will definitely get cuts and bruises when it crawls out.With this magic weapon, the snake that crawls in becomes a turtle in an urn.Many local people use this kind of bamboo cages to catch loaches and eels.

The third way is to find the dragon.The so-called dragon hunting technique is actually looking for snake holes.There is a good way to check the snake cave: according to the traces on the soil, use a hoe to slowly dig the soil, and make a move to go straight to the "Huanglong Cave", find the sleeping snake, shovel it with a shovel, and put the snake that cannot react in time to the snake hole. bag to go.This method is more efficient, but much more dangerous.If you don't know how to treat snake venom, most people would never dare to try it lightly. The fourth method is fumigation.First get some hay, light a fire next to the snake cave, use a fan to fan the smoke into the snake cave, and look around the snake cave at the same time, if there is smoke coming out of the cave, you have to set up an ambush, that is, smoke is coming out. The openings of the caves are equipped with snake cages to catch escaped snakes.

If Grandpa knew about Zhuyeqing and Zhang Jiu before that, he might have asked Zhang Jiu's father to improve the fumigation technique into chicken feather fumigation.Because both the aquarium and snakes belong to yin, and the chicken is originally an image of accumulating yang in the south, and its nature belongs to fire, so it is the most yang thing. "The meaning of "the system of small and big is in the air but not in the form" said. The assumption was nothing more than an assumption, but Zhang Jiu's father didn't have any guidance from his grandfather, so he just piled some wet firewood in the stove, and waited for the snake to enter the door before lighting the wet firewood.In fact, before Zhuyeqing entered the door, Zhang Jiu's father had already placed the bamboo cage at the door.The woman didn't see it when she entered the door, and stomped the bamboo thing flat.

While Zhang Jiu was impatiently waiting for the woman, Zhang Jiu's father was listening next door.Perhaps it was the influence of the wind, but he never heard any unusual sounds.After guarding for a long time, he couldn't stand the temptation of dozing off, and his eyelids became heavy.Zhang Jiu's mother had opposed his father's raising snakes before, but later saw that no amount of persuasion was effective, so she didn't care.When she heard her husband say that a snake had sneaked into the room several nights in a row, she didn't take it seriously: "I'm not afraid of raising snakes and selling snakes, but I'm worried about this when a snake crawls into the house?"

So when Zhang Jiu's father put his ear to the wall and listened, she persuaded her husband not to delay dozing off.The snake can do whatever it wants, and let it come and go freely. Don't do bad things, don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door.However, since Zhang Jiu's father sold snakes, there was not a day when he was not worried that the snakes would retaliate.He had long expected that one day he would be unable to avoid a battle of wits with snakes.As a snake breeder, he knows that the spirituality of snakes is no less than that of cunning foxes.If it is a poisonous snake, it is more dangerous than a fox.

Judging from the traces left by the snake these two times, it is obvious that the snake came for his son.And his son's snake playing skills were far behind his own, so he couldn't help but not worry. He listened to the whistling wind outside, took two naps, and suddenly smelled a vague smell.If it is someone else, no matter how sensitive the nose is, they will not be alert to this smell.But for him who has raised snakes for many years, this smell is enough to make his whole body tense like a needle prick. Although there is no howling wind in the house, no matter how well the window paper and door are sealed, they will be affected by the wind.The air convection in the room is much stronger than when there is no wind.Even if there is any strong smell, it will be dispelled and faded away.The wisps of smell seemed to be full of vitality, trying to get rid of the breath of the snake breeder.

Here comes the snake. he told himself.He got up quietly and came to the main room.His footsteps are light, like a thief.His wife was calm and unaware of the changes in the room. He then groped to the gate in a dim light, put his nose close to the threshold and sniffed, and then picked up the crushed bamboo cage. Could it be that Zhang Jiu got up in the middle of the night and went out?At that time, he would never have thought that it was the imprint left by the woman transformed from the snake.But the breath left on the threshold told him that the snake had crossed the bamboo cage and entered the house.He quietly slipped into the kitchen, hung the bamboo cage on the hook, then ignited a handful of dry straw, stuffed it into the stove, then turned the wet firewood in the fire stove, and pressed the wet firewood on the burning stove. on the straw.Immediately, thick billowing smoke emerged from the stove.

The snake breeder had already blocked the chimney and windows, opened the kitchen door, and took a cattail fan to draw the thick smoke into the main room. When he walked into the main room and his eyes were filled with tears from the smoke, he suddenly remembered an important thing - this season happened to be the estrus period of the snake.This season is also the most aggressive period for snakes.The scent he smelled just now was released by the female snake during estrus, and the male snakes in the 30 kilometers around could smell it.At this moment, the smell was emanating from the son's room.