Chapter 185 Little Leopard
Sprinkle a little powder and blow a bamboo whistle.
Not only can it lure snakes out of their holes, but it can also attract snakes to people.
Chen Ling admires such ability.
And the fire chain snake crawled in front of Wang Cunye. After being caught by Wang Cunye, he did not do anything drastic. He just curled up slowly and coiled himself into a ball.
"Before the light snow, after the beginning of winter, this is the time when the worms are most fertile..."
Wang Cunye held the snake in his arms and touched it. Seeing his son-in-law's surprised look, he immediately smiled: "I'll tell you later. Let me teach you. You can try it too.” Shouldn't it be passed down from son to son but not from daughter? "
Wang Susu doesn't know how to prepare the snake-attracting medicine. How can his son-in-law rush to get it? When he comes, he just wants to see the novelty.
Hearing what he said, Wang Cunye didn't know what he was thinking, and it was quite funny: "It's a matter of the old generation to pass on male rather than female. How can we still pay attention to this now? Besides, this thing is not valuable, and people nowadays don't I hate this."
"Your eldest brother and second brother, I taught them, but they didn't learn."
At this point, he glanced at Chen Ling: "I didn't teach Su Su. "But, your mother and I never thought of letting her do this."
Chen Ling suddenly felt ashamed.
“If you want to learn it, I will give you the recipe when I go back, and you can prepare it yourself at home.”
Wang Cunye held the fire chain snake in one hand and stroked it gently with the other: "However, this snake-attracting powder cannot be used frequently, otherwise if the snake catches too many snakes and makes the Snake Lady anxious, retribution will be meted out."
"Like In the past, when we were gathering herbs, we would catch a few snakes. Some of the herbs were close to insect nests, which were full of poisonous insects. With the snake-attracting powder, I felt more at ease.”
My father-in-law is humble. Said loudly.
While walking, I explained to Chen Ling.
Spreading the snake attractant can attract all the snakes within about ten meters.
Not only can it attract snakes, but it can also make them tame and docile.
Some snakes with bad tempers and strong aggressiveness will not bite even if they are caught on the hand.
Therefore it is also called "Lock Snake".
It can be said to be very magical.
But in view of this, it is too easy to catch snakes. In the past, drug farmers in other villages caught too many snakes and suffered retaliation from the snakes.
I heard from my father-in-law that hundreds of venomous snakes came through the door at that time, but I don’t know if it’s true or not.
Afterwards, it was widely rumored that too many snakes were caught, which angered the snake queen in the mountains.
Of course Chen Ling didn't believe this statement.
But everything goes too far. Whether they are hunters hunting or farmers gathering herbs and catching snakes, they each abide by their own rules.
This is the wisdom of surviving in the mountains.
The sun is rising higher and higher.
The weather has been good in the past few days. Walking on the mountain and through the forest, the warm sunshine of early winter falls through the gaps between the branches and leaves. When the breeze blows, the sound of the leaves matches the sound of the gurgling stream, which is pleasant to the ear. Ethereal.
Wang Cunye has poor legs and feet and walks relatively slowly, but he often walks in the mountains and his endurance is quite good. The average half-grown boy cannot compare with it.
At this time, he found traces of snakes again, and asked Chen Ling and the two dolls to stop and stop walking around. He walked back and forth along the forest path alone, looking for confirmation on both sides.
“This is it.”
After two or three minutes, Wang Cunye turned around and walked to Chen Ling: "Come on, open your hand."
When Chen Ling opened his hand, he poured the snake-attracting powder from the gourd into the palm of Chen Ling's hand. .
Then he taught Chen Ling how to sprinkle snake attracting powder along the snake's trail.
"Take three steps and look back, wave your hand after five steps, don't scatter the snake-attracting powder randomly, pay attention to your steps and behind you..."
My father-in-law warned.
There is nothing mysterious about this.
It makes people pay attention to the wind direction and current, as well as the poisonous insects hidden in the trees under their feet.
The wind direction is wrong, or it is near the water flow, which can easily cause the powder to become ineffective and prevent snakes from being attracted. Poisonous insects on the trees and under the feet can sometimes be fatal.
There are also some details of spraying the powder, which are the most critical.
Chen Ling followed suit.
After sprinkling the medicinal powder, I returned to the original place and blew the bamboo whistle as taught by my father-in-law.
The mountain breeze blew slowly, and the faint bamboo whistle lasted for less than two minutes. Snakes of all sizes crawled through the grass, tree holes, and gaps in the rock sills. Some snakes were as big as one meter tall. Nearly two meters long, some small snakes are only as thick as a thumb, some are venomous, and some are non-venomous.
At first, they were quite docile as they crawled over one after another.
But after a yellow and black striped grass-headed snake appeared, many small snakes avoided and tried to escape. Only a few white snakes with black stripes were suddenly greatly stimulated and followed the thick grass-headed snake. Tangled and wrestled together.
Let Xiao Tongtong next to Chen Ling stare at him.
Wang Zhenzhen raised his head proudly and said: "Dad, let me just say that my brother-in-law is great. Look, he can attract so many snakes at once, and he can also make snakes fight."
Wang Cunye suddenly couldn't laugh or cry. I thought you thought you were doing acrobatics.
I don’t know what to say.
Only Chen Ling realized something was wrong, because the snakes were fighting, and none of them came towards him, so he took off the bamboo whistle and asked: "Dad, am I not doing it right?"
< br>"Well, you didn't blow the whistle well."
Wang Cunye nodded, then pointed to a few snakes that were wrestling together and said: "The other grass-headed snakes are coming, they are afraid. There are only a few white snakes, it is probably the time for breeding. At this time, they have a bad temper and are easy to follow. Other longworms fight, but they are not scared away when they encounter grass-headed snakes. "
The white-flowered snake is the bungara snake. This kind of snake has a relatively late estrus period and only mates in late autumn and early winter. It will lay eggs in the next summer. It is normal to be irritable and fight with a ferocious and domineering grass-headed snake.
The grass-headed snake is also a king snake. There are generally no venomous snakes in places where this kind of snake lives. There are also very few other small snakes and will be eaten by the grass-headed snake.
But there are no absolutes in this world.
In this season, various types of snakes begin to hibernate one after another, eating less and becoming less vigilant.
Otherwise, if you smell the scent of a grass-headed snake, you will stay away.
As the saying goes: There are grass heads in one place, but there are no poisonous snakes in ten miles.
This is the power of grass-headed snakes.
While talking to Chen Ling, the father-in-law used a snake hook to separate the fighting snakes, then picked out two male white snakes, caught them in his hand, and handed them to Chen Ling.
“You see, with the snake attractant, no matter what kind of insect is growing, it will be honest once you catch it.”
Chen Ling grabbed one in his hand and held the snake's head tightly, not daring to be careless. This was a bungara snake, and the two little guys were still following it. It would be bad if it bit it.
However, the snake attractant is indeed very miraculous. This white snake, which is just over one meter tall, was fighting angrily with the grass-headed snake before, but now it is quiet and can't feel the struggle at all.
“How is it?”
Wang Cunye asked with a smile.
“Well, it is indeed very stable in my hand and does not move around.”
Chen Ling said, looking at the one on his father-in-law's hand, he was also very obedient.
No wonder this snake attractant is not allowed to be abused.
Sometimes it is not good if the effect is too strong.
"Haha, let's just catch these two. If there are a few left, we can still give birth to small worms next year."
Wang Cunye looked at the sun in the sky: "It's almost noon, let's It’s time to go back to eat.”
Then use the snake hook to fly the grass-headed snake that has not crawled far on the ground far away.
Without the grass-headed snake, other snakes will no longer fight.
However, the effect of the snake-attracting powder is still there, and they are still lingering nearby.
In this regard, Wang Cunye said: "Don't worry about this. When the herbs are no longer useful for half an hour, they will leave."
Walk back.
Chen Ling held his little nephew in his arms.
Tease him and ask him questions. Xiao Tongtong is also very well-behaved. After getting to know him, he would tell stories to his grandfather and uncle angrily, and then he would ride on Chen Ling's neck, flipping his hair with his little hands, looking for white hair for him. Wang Qingwen had a lot of white hair, and he thought Chen Ling There were some, but I couldn't find them for a long time.
"Why doesn't my uncle have white hair?"
Xiao Tongtong asked very strangely: "Dad, my second uncle all has white hair. Every time he washes his hair, Just let me pull it out for them..."
"Haha, uncle is still young and has not yet grown gray hair."
Chen Ling smiled, moved him from his neck to his arms, and then lifted him up a few times to make the little baby giggle. .
“Have you learned how to write?”
“Yes, I can write three characters, which is my name.”
“Uncle, you can write mine. My name? Grandpa said that my name is the most difficult to write because it requires a lot of gestures.”
"Ah? How to write? My uncle doesn't know how. You write for your uncle."
"Okay, uncle, please stretch out your hand."
When Chen Ling stretches out his hand, Xiao Tongtong is there. He wrote stroke by stroke with his hands.
While writing, he read: "King, government, general."
"Uncle, do you know how to do it?"
"Okay, is that how you write it all?"
Chen Ling used her fingers to write on his chest and stomach, and the itchy little guy laughed again.
Wang Cunye watched with joy.
Chen Ling smiled at his father-in-law and said, "My eldest brother is really good at naming. My baby's name is aspirational."
Political and well-rounded, it seems that he was chosen by a cultured person.
"He doesn't want to give the baby a nickname. A nickname is easy to make a living on. You see, this baby has always been sick since he was a child..."
Wang Cunye shook his head: "Susu and Zhenzhen both have nicknames." , your eldest brother refuses to take it, he thinks it’s unpleasant and he’s afraid that he won’t be able to change after screaming for a long time.”
Chen Ling nodded, his mother didn’t do it before. He was willing to give him a nickname, and gave him a fancy name, Chen Lingyun. He said that it matched the name of the county, and he said that he would be admitted to university and become a high official in the future.
Later, I got sick because of old age, so I changed it, and my grandpa also gave me several nicknames.
Although this kind of thing is a bit superstitious, Chen Ling is still quite interested.
He didn't know that his wife had a nickname, Wang Susu had never said anything about it.
Just when I was about to ask, I suddenly heard Wang Zhenzhen’s shout from in front, and two dogs were also yelling crazily.
The two men were startled and ran over quickly.
Unexpectedly, Wang Cunye's legs and feet were not good, and in desperation, he tripped and fell to the ground.
"Lingzi, go, go quickly, see what's going on, leave me alone..."
Seeing Chen Ling turn around, the father-in-law hurriedly waved to him, signaling to leave him alone.
Chen Ling didn't care about anything, put down his little nephew, turned around and ran over.
Actually, Wang Zhenzhen is not far ahead.
Chen Ling arrived soon.
The little girl was hiding behind a big rock with a face full of fear. The two dogs raised their heads beside her, staring closely at the trees around them. They looked around and kept whining and whispering. roar.
"What's wrong, Zhenzhen?"
Seeing this situation, Chen Ling asked hurriedly.
"There is a leopard, brother-in-law, such a ferocious leopard. It is so big that it can jump up to the tree..." Wang Zhenzhen was so frightened that his face turned pale and he gestured with his hands.
"Leopard? Is there such a small leopard?"
Watching his sister-in-law making gestures, Chen Ling raised his head and looked around. There was nothing on the trees around him, "You can't be wrong, right? Don't forget the mountain raccoons."
There are many kinds of mountain raccoons. , some mountain civets are very similar to leopards, and the color spots on their fur are almost the same as those of small leopards, but they are rare.
“It’s not Shanlizi, definitely not.”
Wang Zhenzhen denied loudly, how could she not recognize Shanlizi.
"That's the leopard. I don't know what it has in its mouth. It was munching in the sun in front of me. When it saw me, it rushed over like a gust of wind. I thought it wanted to eat me, but it didn't Thinking of it jumping into the tree.”
"What happened? Are you okay, Zhenzhen?"
At this time, the father-in-law also limped over and led his little grandson over.
"Dad, there was a leopard just now..."
Wang Zhenzhen recounted the situation again.
When Wang Cunye heard what his youngest daughter said, the expression on his face was the same as Chen Ling's before.
"You read that right? How can there be such a small leopard?"
"Leopards don't come out during the day, so don't mistake the mountain raccoon for a leopard..."
Their side There are indeed leopards and wolves in the mountains, but in all these years, I have never heard anyone say that they have encountered these two things during the day, and they always come out at night.
Those who come out to run around looking for food during the day are all wild cats, which are often called mountain cats by the locals.
While talking, two dogs barked loudly and rushed down the hillside.
He didn't go far before he stopped.
Chen Ling walked over and saw stains of blood under the tree.
Xiao Jin sniffed around the area and quickly noticed the target and hurried forward. Hei Wa was stopped by Chen Ling and followed beside him, looking at his father-in-law and two children.
“It doesn’t matter if it’s a leopard or not, prepare it first.”
My father-in-law often walks in the mountains, but he can see clearly. He took out his bow and arrow. The arrow had been coated with poison earlier, and let him Chen Ling picked up the steel fork, and Wang Zhenzhen also picked up a hatchet, looking left and right.
The little girl was very frightened just now, and now her heart is still a little cold.
Having never encountered a wild beast in the mountains face to face, I couldn’t feel the fear. I was so scared that I didn’t dare to move, and the hair all over my body would stand on end.
"Don't be afraid of Zhenzhen. Have you forgotten how many wolves Heiwa and Xiaojin killed in our village? With them here, there is no need to be afraid of leopards."
Chen Ling comforted.
"Got it..."
The little girl nodded with a sullen face, somewhat insincerely.
She grew up listening to stories about jackals, tigers and leopards, but she had seen wolves and leopards from a distance. This was the first time they were so close, and her legs were so scared that they became weak.
Xiao Tongtong also shrank down, holding his breath and not daring to say a word.
After walking less than half a mile, Xiao Jin started barking in front.
Except for Xiao Jin’s cry.
There were also bursts of fierce "click-click" sounds, similar to the sound of an angry beast baring its teeth, mixed with the swaying of branches, making the movement extremely loud.
Wang Zhenzhen reacted the fastest, pointing to the top of the tree in front of him and shouting: "Leopard, dad, brother-in-law, look, it's the one just now!"
They looked up, I was a little dumbfounded. A small leopard, no more than two circles larger than a mountain leopard, was holding a small fluffy thing in its mouth. Blood was dripping from the corner of its mouth. At the top of a nearby tree, stood a group of monkeys of all sizes. , golden hair, nostrils pointing upward, and a white face, which looks quite strange.
At this time, the little leopard was surrounded, grinning and letting out sharp and angry roars.
“It turns out to be a grass leopard, then it’s okay.”
Wang Cunye's expression softened, and he smiled at Chen Ling and said, "Look at this situation, this beast must be dishonest. He secretly caught a baby monkey to eat, and was blocked by the golden monkeys."
My father-in-law loosened his tights. Tense heartstrings.
Chen Ling did not blink, his heart filled with novelty.
This is the golden monkey!
After two lifetimes, this was the first time I saw a pure wild golden monkey! So exciting!
(End of this chapter)