My 1995 Small Farm

   Chapter 52 Poison

   I just said that there is a trap, but I didn't walk a few steps, but I actually saw one.

   The clip was badly rusted and was placed between several dogwoods.

   If it wasn't for the white cow going to eat the flowers of the dogwood, Chen Ling wouldn't have noticed it.

   "See, it's just this thing. If it gets caught, you two will lose your little legs."

  Chen Ling pointed to the traps under a few dogwood trees to frighten Heiwa and Xiaojin.

   As a result, the two little guys didn't know why, they just looked at him with their tails wagging and their heads tilted, looking puzzled.

  Chen Ling picked up a dead branch when he saw it, and stabbed it on the clip, only to hear a "pop", and the branch was snapped off instantly.

   Now both the dog and the ox were taken aback.

  The two puppies even had their hair exploded and barked at the trap.

   "Well, now you know the danger."

  Chen Ling smiled and continued to walk with Wang Susu with the ox.

   Just entered the forest, there are many thorns, locust trees and dogwoods.

   Dogwood, also known as meat dates, is also a medicinal material, with yellow flowers and green leaves, red fruits and fruits, which are very easy to identify.

   But it has just bloomed now, and the fruit will not be fully ripe until the eighth and ninth lunar month.

   There is no medicinal value at this time.

   Entering the forest, the young couple did not walk fast.

  Because of the two rains a few days ago, I could see a few mushrooms sporadically along the way.

   But it’s still too few to be worth picking.

   When passing through a small bamboo forest, the bamboo shoots are densely popping up.

  Chen Ling looked a little hot, and said to Wang Susu: "Even if I don't collect herbs, I will go up the mountain again tomorrow for the bamboo shoots."

   "Susu, don't you know, last time I cooked at Brother Jusheng's house, and he still had a big piece of bacon, but it's a pity that dried bamboo shoots were from last year, and the tide was a little back, and the fried dishes were a little less interesting."

   "If I use such fresh and tender spring bamboo shoots, they will swallow their tongues when I keep the fragrance."

  Wang Susu couldn't help but smile: "I see, you just remember the bacon from Brother Jusheng's house."

   "Hey, look what you said..."

   "His bacon has been made so much, so people don't remember it anymore?"

  Chen Ling said with a look of course.

   "Pfft."

  Wang Susu couldn't help laughing: "Let Brother Jusheng hear this, he won't say it, he has to find time to eat us two more meals."

  Chen Ling also laughed, just as he was about to say something, Wang Susu grabbed him.

   "Ah, be careful with your feet..."

  Chen Ling looked down and saw a taupe-brown scorpion, about the length of a finger, lying on the side of a stone crevice not far from his feet.

   then took a closer look, and then said to Wang Susu: "It's okay, this is not a scorpion, it's the shell that the scorpion dropped."

  Wang Susu also saw clearly at this time, and could not help but breathe a sigh of relief, caressed his chest lightly and said, "I was stung by a scorpion once when I was a child, and since then I have been especially afraid of this thing. As long as I see it, I can't help my heart palpitations."

  Chen Ling quickly grabbed her hand and comforted her.

   But after walking forward for a while, Chen Ling found that there was a scorpion molting a few steps away.

   Needless to say, there must be quite a few scorpions around here.

  Chen Ling picked up a shell and glanced at it, then said to Wang Susu: "In the future, if you are alone, don't come here easily. You can see from the shells on the ground that there are quite a few scorpions here."

  Wang Susu nodded with lingering fear in his eyes: "I have never entered the mountain from here before. I have always walked up the mountain from the south, from our former farmland, and have never seen a scorpion."

  Poisonous insects such as scorpions come out to move after being stunned. Once the weather is warm and food is sufficient, they grow very fast, and shed their shells more often at this time.

  The mountains in the south are shady, not as much as the sun in the north, and the temperature is low, which is not a suitable growth environment for scorpions.

   Even if there are not many, and at the same time, there are few activities during the day, it is difficult to encounter.

  Chen Ling and the two were talking while walking, but Heiwa and Xiaojin devoured the scorpion shell on the ground.

   I didn't think it was delicious, but I was curious when I saw Chen Ling holding one in his hand, and wanted to taste it.

   A one-month-old dog is active and energetic.

   quickly lost interest in the scorpion shell, and kept going between the big trees, and after a while, he barked at a place.

   "Yeah, it's a snake!"

  Wang Susu took the lead in walking to the front, and immediately shouted excitedly.

   She is afraid of scorpions, but not snakes.

   In the stockade where she lived when she was a child, many people kept snakes. Not only was she not afraid, she was also very kind.

   Of course, scorpions are also raised, but after being stung once, they became a shadow of childhood, and they were very scared when they saw them.

   "Susu, don't get close..."

  Chen Ling hurriedly walked over with the cow, and saw a snake with black and gray patterns, crouching on a stone under the tree and spitting out letters.

  Although he is not very big, but looking at his triangular head, he can tell that he is a poisonous guy.

  Chen Ling took a breath and hurriedly pulled Wang Susu back.

   Just now, the scorpion, this is a poisonous snake again, is it so unfriendly to enter the mountain for the first time?

   "It's okay, A Ling, don't be afraid, I won't let it bite us..."

  Wang Susu smiled at him, and then approached lightly.

   Chen Ling was stunned for two seconds. When he looked at it again, he wanted to stop it, but saw that his daughter-in-law had already caught the poisonous snake in her hand.

   squeezed the head of the poisonous snake, let it "hiss" and wriggled and struggled, and even raised his head and smiled sweetly at Chen Ling.

  Chen Ling was immediately stunned.

   I can't figure out why the little daughter-in-law, who turned pale with fright just when she saw the scorpion shell, suddenly became so fierce and sturdy when she encountered a snake.

   "This is still a small snake, it's not very poisonous, don't be afraid, A Ling, come and see, there are good things here..."

   Wang Susu shouted with a smile.

   "You are so afraid of scorpions, how come you are not afraid of snakes at all?"

   Chen Ling said strangely.

  Wang Susu immediately stared unhappily: "Hmph, because my family raises snakes, have you forgotten the wine my mother gave you when you got married? It's all made from snake gallbladder!"

   Chen Ling was slightly stunned. He had a little impression of the jar of wine, but he had never drunk it in the backyard cellar.

   "Don't worry about this for now, come here, there are good things here."

   Listening to Wang Susu's urging, Chen Ling walked over and looked around.

   "What good stuff? Where is it?"

   "Oh, A Ling, why don't you even recognize Tianma."

   "Not far from this snake just now, those under the tree..."

   Wang Susu glanced at him and motioned him to look in that direction with his toes.

   "Ah? This is Tianma, I really don't know."

  Chen Ling walked over and took a look, "Hey, look at this bare pole, I thought it was weeds."

   Then he turned his head and asked Wang Susu, "Do you want to dig now? Or come back tomorrow?"

   "Tomorrow, there is a lot of gastrodia, we can't bring it back with my medicine basket."

   Wang Susu replied.

   At this time, she pressed the head of the viper to the ground with a tree branch. When Heiwa saw it, she hurried over and bit the head of the snake. Xiao Jin followed by biting the tail of the snake.

  Wang Susu saw this scene and couldn't help but be surprised by the teeth of the two puppies. The baby teeth had not been replaced yet, but they were so sharp that they grew up.

   "Spit it out, you can't eat this yet..."

  Wang Susu saw that they put the snake in their mouths and thought they were going to eat them, so she hurriedly stopped them.

   Who knows, these two little things dodged her outstretched hand, ran to Chen Ling's side, and put the two-and-a-half snake body in front of him.

   wagged his tail and looked at him ingratiatingly.

   Wang Susu was instantly angry and funny, got up and patted a small head.

   "You two have little conscience, you know how to please A Ling."

   (end of this chapter)