Chapter 349 Chapter Seventeen

According to what Grandpa Zhang said, he broke off a few bamboo leaves on the way back.Back home, while my father was not paying attention, I put the blue bamboo branches on the woven bag containing the green bamboo leaves.After Si time, Zhuyeqing did not move.Then, he quietly waited for the arrival of the next day.Based on years of experience, he was sure that the snake dealers would not come early. Zhang Jiu's parents didn't find anything unusual. Early the next morning, Zhang Jiu's father returned to the house through the dew with several bamboo cages.At this time, Zhang Jiu's mother hadn't woken up yet. Although Zhang Jiu himself woke up, he was still lying on the bed.

He knew that his Bamboo Leaf Green was hung on the main beam in the main room, and he could hear the sound of the snake letter, but he paid more attention to the footsteps on the ground. What he was looking forward to was not his father's footsteps, let alone It may be a woman's footsteps, but a pair of steady and slightly old footsteps.Although he didn't know what the old man's footsteps should look like, as long as he heard his father exclaim "Huh? What wind brought you here?" He could be sure that the life-saving Master Ma had arrived as promised.Then, his beloved Zhuyeqing would have the hope of being rescued.

He didn't quite believe what Master Ma said that Zhuyeqing might have had his flesh and blood. He heard his father's footsteps from far to near, and then heard the door creak open.He could have expected that what followed was the sound of the bamboo cage being thrown on the ground, and then the rubbing sound of the woven bag.It was his father who moved the snake in the bamboo cage into the woven bag, and then tied the mouth of the woven bag.Of course, the new snake caught today will not be put together with Zhuyeqing, for fear of fighting between snakes.If the snake is bitten, the price will be greatly reduced.His father was always careful when catching snakes, not because his father was afraid of being bitten by a snake, but because he was worried about hurting the snake during the catch.As long as the snake loses a piece of scale, the vicious snake dealer will say this and that, and try his best to lower the price of the snake.

"Zhang Jiu, are you up? When you get up, drink the snake gall!" Zhang Snake shouted in the main room. This is a habit formed by Zhang Snake people since they changed from raising snakes to catching snakes.Snake gallbladder has the medicinal effect of improving eyesight and detoxifying.Some snake catchers took out the gallbladder of the cheap and bad species of snakes, then raised their necks, threw the raw snake gall into their mouths, and swallowed it forcefully.Anyway, if you can't buy a good price, you might as well enjoy it yourself.The snake whose gallbladder has been dug out will curl up on the ground, and the snake catcher generally ignores this kind of snake that has no use value, and allows it to slowly die in pain.If the snake caught is golden krait, coral snake, cobra, king cobra, five-paced snake, pit viper or other snakes with extremely precious guts, the snake catcher will not be willing to "reckless".

Although Zhuyeqing's gallbladder is not precious, it is poisonous and has other uses.This is why Zhang Snake left it. It seems that what his father caught was an ordinary snake, Zhang Jiu thought.But he didn't respond to his father, he still lay lazily, his ears catching other subtle sounds in the ground. After his father changed to catching snakes, Zhang Jiusheng swallowed a lot of these snake galls, which were more bitter than pills, so he could only swallow them forcefully with his eyes closed.If you accidentally touch the gallbladder with your teeth, the bitter liquid will spread in your mouth, which is really miserable.

Seeing that his son didn't answer, Zhang Snake thought his son was still sleeping, so he swallowed the snake gall with a grunt. Then, he continued to check whether the remaining bamboo cages were harvested. Precious snakes are getting rarer and rarer. In the past, he often encountered poisonous snakes in the mountains and forests when he was a child.At that time, an old man told him that if you encounter a snake in the mountains and forests, it suddenly jumps up and straightens up, it is not necessarily to bite you, but it is likely to compete with you.At this time, if you have a wooden stick in your hand, never hit it with the stick, just lift the wooden stick in your hand beyond its height.If you don't have a stick in your hand, you can lift your foot, take off your shoe, and throw the shoe over its head, and that will exceed its height.But you must remember not to lean over to take off your shoes, because this means that you admit defeat, and the snake will quickly come and bite you, poisoning you to death.

This is called "snake is taller".As long as you surpass it, it will retreat obediently.But if you lose to it, even if it didn't bite you to death at that time, it will chase your breath everywhere like a haunted ghost, until it kills its defeated opponent. Of course, he also heard the old man talk about many strange snakes, such as a cockscombed snake. He had heard more than ten people say that this snake can fly, has a crown, and is extremely poisonous.There are also rabbit snakes, which are white and hairy all over, and often live in a kind of bamboo called Arrowhead bamboo. Its leaves are the brown leaves used to make rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival, and they are also extremely poisonous.There is also a kind of snake that will be broken into pieces when falling from a high place, and then the pieces will move, slowly connect together, and come back to life.There is also an inflating snake, which is usually only as thin as chopsticks, but when it is disturbed, it immediately becomes as thick as a shoulder pole.

Perhaps these snakes existed in the past, but gradually disappeared.The scariest snake he himself had ever seen was a king cobra.The king cobra is ferocious by nature.When they are in danger, the sides of their necks swell up and they make a whirring sound.Its eyes are very bright, and Zhang Snake people found that there seems to be a light of wisdom in their bright eyes, which is not available in other snakes.The king cobra is also known as Guoshan Fengbo, and you can know how fast it is by its name. That was his first and only encounter with a king cobra.Since then, not to mention the king cobra, even the cobra has become increasingly rare, so that there is no more.

Zhang Snake looked up at Zhuyeqing in the woven bag hanging on the beam of the house, and sighed that there were fewer such poisonous snakes, and I am afraid that catching snakes will not be able to sustain his life in the future. Zhang Sheren settled down and cleaned up the few bamboo cages on hand.Zhang Jiu was startled again when he heard the sound of the bamboo cages bumping into each other in the bedroom. "Hello, Zhang Snake. Have you packed all the snakes I wanted?" A familiar voice suddenly entered Zhang Jiu's ears, and Zhang Jiu was so scared that a layer of cold sweat broke out on his back!

That snake dealer!he!Why did he come a day early!