Chapter 52 Poisons
I was talking about an animal trap, but after walking a few steps, I actually saw one.
The clip was badly rusted and had been placed among several dogwood trees.
If the white cow hadn't eaten the dogwood flowers, Chen Ling wouldn't have noticed it.
"See, if this thing gets caught, both of your little legs will be useless."
Chen Ling pointed to the traps under some dogwood trees to scare Hei Wa and Xiao Jin.
As a result, the two little guys didn't know what was going on. They just wagged their tails and tilted their heads to look at him, looking puzzled.
When Chen Ling saw this, he picked up a dead branch and poked it into the clamp. He heard a "snap" sound and the branch was instantly cut off.
Now both the dog and the cow were frightened.
The fur of the two puppies was all blown up and they were barking at the trap.
"Well, now you know the danger."
Chen Ling smiled, led the cow and continued walking forward with Wang Susu.
When you first enter the forest, there are many thorns, locust trees and dogwoods.
Dogwood, also called jujube, is also a medicinal material. It has yellow flowers, green leaves and red fruits, which is very easy to identify.
But it's just blooming now, and the fruits won't be fully mature until the eighth or ninth month of the lunar calendar.
It has no medicinal value at this time.
Entering the forest, the young couple couldn't walk very fast.
Due to the two rains in the past few days, we could already see a few mushrooms sporadically along the way.
But there are still too few to be worth picking up.
However, when passing by a small bamboo forest, bamboo shoots sprouted densely.
Chen Ling looked a little hot-eyed and said to Wang Susu: "Even if it's not to collect medicine, I will go up the mountain again tomorrow for these bamboo shoots."
"Susu, you don't know. Last time I cooked at Brother Jusheng's house, he still had a big piece of bacon. Unfortunately, the dried bamboo shoots were from last year and were a bit trendy, so the fried dishes were a little less interesting."
"If I use such fresh and tender spring bamboo shoots, I will keep them so fragrant that their tongues will swallow them."
Wang Susu couldn't help but smile when she heard this: "I see, you are just thinking about the bacon from Brother Jusheng's house."
"Hey, look what you said..."
"He makes so much bacon, why don't people still care about him?"
Chen Ling said matter-of-factly.
"Pfft."
Wang Susu couldn't help but laugh: "If Brother Jusheng hears this, even if he doesn't say anything, he will have to find time to spend two more meals with us."
Chen Ling also laughed, and just as he was about to say something, Wang Susu stopped him.
"Ah, be careful where you step..."
Chen Ling looked down and saw a gray-brown scorpion, as long as a finger long, lying outside a crack in the stone not far from his feet.
Then he took a closer look and said to Wang Susu: "It's okay, this is not a scorpion, it is the shed shell of a scorpion."
Wang Susu also saw it clearly at this time, couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief, gently stroked her chest and said: "I was stung by a scorpion once when I was a child. Since then, I have been particularly afraid of this thing. Whenever I see it, I can't help but feel heart palpitations."
After hearing this, Chen Ling quickly grabbed her hand and comforted her.
But after walking forward for a while, Chen Ling found a scorpion's shell a few steps away.
Needless to say, there must be a lot of scorpions around here.
Chen Ling picked up a shell and took a look at it, then said to Wang Susu: "In the future, if you are alone, don't come here easily. You can tell by looking at the shells on the ground that there are a lot of scorpions here."
Wang Susu nodded with fear in her eyes: "I have never entered the mountain from here before. I always walked up the mountain from the south, from the farmland where our family used to be. I have never seen a scorpion."
Venomous insects such as scorpions come out and move around after their awakening of insects. Once the weather is warm and food is sufficient, they grow very fast and most of them shed their shells at this time.
The mountains in the south are shady and don't get as much sunlight as the ones in the north, so the temperature is low, which is not a suitable growth environment for scorpions.
Even if there are, there are not many, and there are very few activities during the day, so it is difficult to encounter them.
Chen Ling and Chen Ling were talking while walking, but Hei Wa and Xiao Jin ate up all the scorpion shells on the ground.
It wasn't that I thought it was delicious, but I just saw Chen Ling pinching one in his hand and felt curious and wanted to taste it.
A one-month-old dog is lively and energetic.
He soon lost interest in the scorpion shell and kept running between the big trees. After a while, he started barking at a certain place.
"Yeah, it's a snake!"
Wang Susu walked up first and shouted excitedly.
She is afraid of scorpions, but not snakes.
In the village where she lived when she was a child, many families kept snakes. Not only was she not afraid of them, she was also very kind to them.
Of course, scorpions are also cultivated, but after being stung once, they become a shadow of childhood, and they are very scared when they see them.
"Susu, don't get too close..."
Chen Ling hurriedly led the cow and walked over, and saw a snake with black and gray patterns, coiled on the stone under the big tree, spitting out letters.
Although he is not very big, you can tell he is a poisonous guy just by looking at the triangular head.
Chen Ling suddenly took a breath of cold air and hurriedly pulled Wang Susu back.
Just now, the scorpion, this one belongs to the venomous snake. Is it so unfriendly for the first time in the mountains?
"It's okay Aling, don't be afraid, I won't let it bite us..."
Wang Susu smiled lightly at him, and then approached him lightly.
Chen Ling was stunned for two seconds. When he looked over again, he wanted to stop him, but he saw that his wife had already caught the poisonous snake in her hand.
He pinched the venomous snake's head and let it hiss, twist and struggle, and then raised its head and smiled sweetly at Chen Ling.
Chen Ling was immediately stunned.
I can’t understand why my little daughter-in-law, who was so frightened that she turned pale when she saw a scorpion shell, suddenly becomes so fierce and fierce when she encounters a snake.
"This is still a small snake, not very poisonous. Don't be afraid, Aling. Come and take a look. 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 glared in displeasure: "Huh, because my family keeps snakes, have you forgotten the wine my mother gave you when you got married? It's all made from snake gall!"
Chen Ling was slightly stunned. He had some impression of the jar of wine, but he had never drank it since it was stored in the backyard cellar.
"Don't worry about this for now, come here quickly, there are good things here."
Listening to Wang Susu's urging, Chen Ling walked over and looked around.
"What good thing? Where is it?"
"Oh, Arling, why don't you even recognize Gastrodia elata?"
"Just not far from the snake just now, the ones under the tree..."
Wang Susu gave him an angry look and pointed him to look in that direction with her toes.
"Ah? This is Gastrodia elata, 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 to Wang Susu and asked: "Do you want to dig now? Or come back tomorrow?"
"Let's do it tomorrow. There are a lot of Gastrodia elata here, and we can't take them back with us in the myrrh basket."
Wang Susu replied.
At this time, she pressed the venomous snake's head to the ground with a tree branch. When Heiwa saw it, he ran over and bit the snake's head. Xiaojin then bit the snake's tail and tore it hard, easily tearing the venomous snake into two pieces.
When Wang Susu saw this scene, she couldn't help but be surprised by the teeth of the two puppies. The deciduous teeth hadn't even been replaced yet, but they were so sharp, and they would be better when they grew up.
"Spit it out quickly, you can't eat this yet..."
When Wang Susu saw them taking the snake into their mouths, she thought they were about to eat it, so she quickly stopped them.
Unexpectedly, these two little creatures dodged her outstretched hands, ran up to Chen Ling, and placed the two half snake bodies in front of him.
Wagging his tail, he looked at him fawningly.
Wang Susu was immediately angry and amused. She stood up and went over to slap him on the head.
Chapter completed!