Chapter 8 The pot at home
He almost passed through every piece of gravel in the dry pond, and even searched for the slightly larger earthen walls at the corners of the dry pond, but Master Na Jiu still couldn't find the two missing scorpions.
Wiping the sweat faintly oozing from his forehead, Master Na Jiu didn't bother to think about it, and shouted at Nalan's room in a stack of voices: "My daughter, come out and find your father quickly. How could my ancestor be missing two ends?"
As soon as he lifted the door curtain, Nalan, who was still blushing, walked out neatly and took the scorpion pliers made of purple bamboo branches from Master Na Jiu's hand with a little anger: "How did you speak? Who cares about the 'head' of their ancestors?"
He lowered his head and re-checked the entire dry pond, but Nalan could only stand up in disbelief, shook his head and muttered in a low voice: "I counted it when I was feeding live food yesterday. There were many eighteen scorpions at a time! Why did it last night..."
He gathered the few dead branches and leaves on the iron sieve into the small dustpan next to him. Xiang Youyou walked to the edge of the dry pond with a small dustpan, and glanced at the dry pond for a moment, muttering as if he was talking to himself: "Can't it be... Is it... I left?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the saliva from Master Na Jiu and the purple bamboo scorpion pliers in Nalan's hand flew over together!
In the Fire Head Gate, players who serve insects have some taboo things or words.
Words such as realgar and sulfur must not be mentioned in places where people are serving insects. Dragon Boat Festival is the most taboo day for players who serve insects. In addition to closing the door and thanking guests, some players will even paste a black peach charm at the door to block the collision of yang energy.
The word "travel" cannot be mentioned in front of players who are serving insects!
In ancient times, the torture of the worms was to put all kinds of poisonous insects and poisonous snakes into a huge soil pit, and then throw the tortured person into the worms and poisonous snakes to death. It was extremely cruel.
After the torture is over, the poisonous insects and poisonous snakes in the pot will gradually begin to fight and devour each other due to lack of food or conflicts between each other's nature, until the strongest poisonous insect and poisonous snake are left, but more often they will suffer losses.
Players who serve scorpions like Na Jiuye are most taboo in daily life to catch scorpions and kill each other. However, because scorpions live in groups, they cannot separate the scorpions and raise them alone, so as not to cause scorpions to lack fighting and predation experience, resulting in growing up and eventually becoming a waste with huge size but extremely slow movements.
According to the eight methods of scorpion raising inherited in the Fire Master Gate, in addition to minimizing the number of scorpions raised in the dry pond and distributing enough food, it is more important to add some medicinal materials to the food that usually raises scorpions, so that the body odor emits from the scorpion body is stronger, so that other scorpions who smell this smell will not easily touch the territory of other scorpions.
But once these prevention measures fail, the scorpions raised in the dry pond, especially those who have successfully hunted the same type, will inevitably give up the food that is within reach like a devil, and instead use the hunted kind as the only source of food. Under this almost even hunting, most players who serve insects can only watch the scorpions in the dry pond, bruised or killed, and in the end there are only one or two broken pliers, which hurt the scorpions that sting needles!
Seeing that Master Na Jiu and Nalan were full of unhappy expressions, Xiang Youbao, who was taboo, had no guilt at all. He put down the small dustpan he was holding in his hand, and Xiang Youbao jumped gently and jumped onto the thick wooden board with a shaped like "玉" on the dry pond. He reached out and picked up half a matchstick-slot arthropod from a lifted pressing stone, and handed it to Master Na Jiu: "Uncle Master, take a look?"
Just as he saw the arthropod of the scorpion pinched on the finger of the leopard, Na Jiuye suddenly collapsed into the chair like a deflated ball: "My mother... I have been raising the tender scorpion seedlings for three years. Finally, I can see the hard shell and stinging pliers stabilized, and I can take them out to fight when I speak. At this critical moment..."
With a cloudy face, Nalan sighed quietly: "What a pity... she serves without any darkness and whiteness. She covers her quilt all day in winter and sprinkles cold well water once every half an hour in summer. She is afraid that the food will not be fresh and the fighting scorpion will be damaged. In the hot weather, there are manure and maggots in the yard, which makes people unable to stand..."
As if he was sad to speak, Nalan suddenly covered his mouth, turned his head and rushed back to his house, and stumbled heavily onto the door. But after a while, the low and depressing crying came faintly from Nalan's house.
Rubbing his slightly sluggish eyes, Master Na Jiu looked at the purple bamboo scorpion cage placed beside the dry pond, and sighed helplessly: "In just a blink of an eye, the flesh in the heart of the liver was cut off! I'll give you a money-losing guy..."
As if he was about to vent the anger accumulated in his heart, Master Na Jiu suddenly jumped up from the chair, raised his foot and stepped heavily on the exquisite purple bamboo scorpion cages!
A fierce eagle was scrambling water, and Xiang Youbao snatched the purple bamboo scorpion cage from under the feet of Master Na Jiu's feet, and jumped off the thick wooden board with the flow of "玉" and stopped him in front of Master Na Jiu: "Uncle Master, can we still think of ways..."
He stared at Xiang Youbao in anger, and Master Na Jiu reached out and pushed his hand to Xiang Youbao's chest without hesitation: "Get out of here! I know what you want to say - I met a walking insect player in the Huozheng Gate. From ancient times to the present, three people who can meet a seven-killing scorpion..."
He stood in front of Master Na Jiu motionlessly, Xiang Youbao raised the purple bamboo scorpion cage held in his hand high: "Then are three people serving out the Seven Killing Scorpions? Why can't we do it? Uncle Master, it's a dead horse to treat it as a living horse anyway, why can't you try it?"
Staring at his pair of eyes that turned red due to hangover and anger, Master Na Jiu was stunned for a while before he let out a long sigh: "No one in the Fire Master Gate has ever made this idea. He wants to use the method of leaving the sect to serve a Seven Killing Scorpion! No matter whether it is successful, I am not sure about the things that serve the Seven Killing Scorpion, I am not sure about it! Especially the three main medicines - Seven Star Vine, Shark Teeth and Green Wolf Treasure. I only have the Seven Star Vine on hand. The two main medicines left, where can I touch them at this moment?!"
Frowning slightly, Xiang Youbao muttered in a low voice: "I heard from the master that this shark teeth can be replaced by the dogfish teeth practiced by Shaoxing Yellow Wine, and Qinglangbao is even simpler. Go to the pharmacy to buy some dog treasures and some hot medicines to steam, which is no different from Qinglangbao!"
Smiling cunningly, Xiang Youbao raised his hand and pointed to a new red silk rope on Master Na Jiu's neck: "Besides, even if these things are unreliable, don't we still have a piece of gold and stone?"
As if he suddenly realized, Master Na Jiu suddenly jumped up on the spot: "I am really enraged! The insects served by gold and stone are even worse than ordinary insects, and I don't believe it..."
As if he was injected with a heart-boosting needle, Na Jiuye snatched the purple bamboo scorpion cage held by Xiang Youbao's hand, carefully placed it next to the dry pond, raised his hand, grabbed a rock from the dry pond and threw it out: "Then don't be stunned?! Hurry up, take advantage of the sun at noon to replace the subsoil in the dry pond!"
He grabbed Master Na Jiu's arm, but Xiang Youbao shook his head and shouted, "I'm afraid I can't rush to change the base soil at this time, right? I heard from the master that the dry pond that had left behind was already full of the smell of the scorpion. When the soil was changed, the scorpion that had left behind was not clear about the territory that he had drawn yesterday. It would be better to sprinkle a layer of the soil and half-cover the smell of the scorpion left behind, so that the scorpion could rest for a night and not be too busy to catch a scorpion, but to draw its territory first?"
He reached out and patted his head, and Master Na Jiu simply turned his head and walked towards his house: "I'm confused in my mind... I'll leave this job to you! And the prescription for some gold and stone assigned by your master, hurry up and fix it for me!"
He agreed simply and neatly. Xiang Youbao first moved the small dustpan containing dead branches and leaves aside, and then he filled the subsoil that had just been screened and mixed with fine bamboo radish. He stood on the thick wooden board with "me" shaped shaped shaping of fine bamboo radish, shaking the subsoil, and evenly sprinkled the subsoil into the dry pond.
Through the slightly chatting curtains, Nalan looked at Xiang Youbao who carefully scattered the soil into the dry pond, and couldn't help but stomp his feet angrily.
I knew there was a way to serve those scorpions well, but I just kept it a handle and had to wait until I cried so hard that I could show off my odor!
How could this person be so bad?!
Bitering his lip gently, Nalan turned around and glanced at some bottles and jars in his room. He grabbed a small white porcelain gourd from the corner of the kang, poured some of the blue-gray powder in the small gourd into his palm, but then used his fingernails to pull some of the blue-gray powder back into the white porcelain gourd.
When serving the Dou Scorpion, I encountered Dou Scorpion getting angry because of eating too much live food. Those fierce Dou Scorpion even bite off their pliers. Whenever I encounter this situation, I must add a little powder of finely ground senna leaves to the water I drink to help Dou Scorpion clear the fire.
If a person accidentally eats the powder made of senna leaves, he will feel the intestines rumbling and the belly will be louder after less than half an hour. If he eats too much, even the strongest man will be able to get diarrhea and make his face turn blue and gray after just one short time!
When he opened the door, Nalan didn't even look at the Xiangyou Leopard who was carefully scattering the soil into the dry pond. He just walked straight to the stove, lifted a pot of boiling water on the stove, sprinkled some high-mooth flower tea into a white porcelain teapot, and made a large pot of tea high.
He sprinkled the senna powder tightly in his palm into the steaming teapot. Nalan gently shook the teapot, then walked out of the stove with a thick porcelain tea bowl, put the teapot and tea bowl on the edge of the dry pond, and raised his face at Xiang Youbao: "If you are thirsty, pour tea by yourself!"
Before the answer was done with the thin bamboo roe, Yun Zheyue's voice suddenly came from outside the door: "I closed the door early in the morning. Is there a kiln sister hidden in the house and afraid that people will look at it, or is there an old lady on the kang hidden in the bed? Na Jiu, open the door for me!"
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Chapter completed!