He is a normal person. There is no normal person who is not afraid of snakes. Only A Guang is a pervert. He caught snakes every day when he was a child. They were all scared when they were young.
However, because of his ability to catch snakes, he attracted a group of children to gather around him.
Children are very likely to develop feelings of admiration and find it exciting and fun. Moreover, since they are short of food and clothing, his skill can satisfy everyone's cravings, so a bunch of children want to play with him.
Snake meat is also meat. When they were young, they often used broken clay pots to cook snake soup during picnics in the mountains.
Ah Guang grabbed the snake's head with one hand and used the other hand to untie the snake's body that was wrapped around his arm. He grabbed it in his hand and raised it towards them, scaring them so much that their necks shrank back a little, but they did not retreat.
"Bring the bamboo basket over here, why are you standing there like an idiot?"
"I just wanted to see you first. Your posture of catching a snake is the coolest."
Ye Yaodong opened the bamboo lid of the bamboo basket and handed it to him.
"Are you comforting yourself? I'm better than you in every way except that I'm not as white as you!"
As Ah Guang spoke, he put the snake's tail into the bamboo basket first, and then threw the snake's head down. Ye Yaodong quickly closed the lid with his quick eyes and hands.
"Tsk, stop bragging, I'm the most handsome young man in the village! Keep going, catch more before it gets dark, and we can recycle them and make soup after we use them up."
“You can have this!”
"I have chickens at home!" Ah Zheng said excitedly, "When it gets dark, the chickens will all go back to the coop, so it's a good time to catch one."
"Will your mother and wife scold you?"
"No, I've made a lot of money this year, and I'm very proud of myself. I can kill them all at once!"
"I see. Then we can just take the chicken coop away tonight. It's a perfect match for a snake and a chicken. Monogamy, perfect!"
"ah?"
A Zheng was dumbfounded. He was just bragging.
Xiao Xiao clapped her hands and praised, "Hahaha, Dongzi is right, one snake and one chicken, monogamy, one pot a day!"
"Hey... I'm just saying, if I take away a whole chicken coop, my mom will break my legs! How about this, eat my family's chicken today, eat my eldest sister's chicken tomorrow, eat my second sister's chicken the day after tomorrow, eat my third sister's chicken the day after tomorrow, and my fourth sister's chicken the day after tomorrow. Distribute them evenly, and everything will be fine."
Ye Yaodong almost laughed at him.
"You are clearly relying on your parents for support. Should we distribute the wealth equally and let everyone enjoy the benefits?"
No one understood what "living off parents" meant, but that didn't affect their understanding of what he meant at all. They were all envious and talked about it as they walked.
“You’re really good!”
"That's quite a plan..."
"The calculations are clacking, the risks are shared, and the food is still the same. The more sisters there are, the more powerful it is!"
Ah Zheng was also a little proud, "I also sent fish, shrimps and crabs to their family. This is called reciprocity."
"Come on, we're tired of eating dragon and phoenix soup every day. We need to change the taste occasionally. After we collect it, we can fry, stir-fry, boil and stew it. We'll have a full snake feast."
"How can I cook so many different dishes? It's not that troublesome. I can just cook them in one pot..."
"Are you stupid? What does the fat guy do? Why not ask him to do it? What's the trouble? Isn't this all his job? Let's just wait for the food."
"Right… "
They walked and talked, not at all afraid that any poisonous snakes would jump out.
Poisonous snakes are relatively rare here. Unless they accidentally jump in, most of them are various non-venomous rat snakes.
There are many kinds of snakes called rat snakes in the countryside. One is the black-browed rat snake, and the other is the king rat snake. However, some people also call other snakes rat snakes, such as the tiger-striped colubrid, the double-shifted rat snake, the white-striped rat snake, etc.
The rat snake is also unique to China. Just as the native dog is called the Chinese garden dog, the rat snake can also be called the Chinese garden snake.
The rat snake is a snake-eating snake. It is more flexible and powerful than other snakes. It can easily kill snakes that are smaller than it. It is like the king of snakes. Even poisonous snakes will die in regret if they encounter it.
So there is a saying that "if there is cauliflower within a mile, there will be no poisonous snakes within ten miles."
"It's only been a short while since the Waking of Insects. It's not summer yet, so there shouldn't be that many snakes. Should we go look for mouse holes?"
They walked around and didn't see it anymore, so Ye Yaodong suggested.
"That's fine. Let's look for it separately. It's too inefficient to look for it together."
"But I don't dare to catch it. Can I go with you?" A Zheng said timidly.
Ah Guang looked at him with contempt, "Okay, let's look for them together, and when you find them, just tell me and I'll go over and catch them."
"Okay, okay, then I'll leave it to Brother Guangzi." Xiaoxiao said jokingly.
Ye Yaodong also handed the bamboo basket that had just caught the snake to Zheng, "Here!"
Ah Zheng hesitated for a moment, "Can't you just give me another empty one?"
"No, I'm just testing your courage. Take it. You have a master by your side, what are you afraid of? We two weaklings need to take an empty one."
"All right."
Work in groups of two to find efficiency savings.
The weather has just warmed up, and the daytime temperature is not that high or hot. Rape snakes basically will not leave their caves too far, and they mainly hunt near mountain caves.
Searching for rat holes with a purpose will yield certain rewards.
Just then, Ye Yaodong and Xiao Xiao had just climbed up a slope and walked into a mountain path when they saw another rat snake appearing in the grass not far away. This one looked quite big, and it felt like it was about 1.7 meters long.
I don't know if it had just swallowed a mouse. Its belly was bloated and looked a bit disgusting and scary. It was also moving constantly in the same place and didn't swim away.
"A Guang, A Guang, hurry up, something's wrong..."
There was no one else on the surrounding hillside except them, and they were not far away. After a shout, A Guang and A Zheng immediately hurried over.
The snake didn't know if it heard the noise from their side, but it actually spit out the bulging mass in its belly and then moved quickly to escape.
Ye Yaodong and Xiao Xiao didn't even bother to look at the black stuff it spit out, and immediately stepped forward with long sticks to stop it from leaving.
In order to prevent the snake from getting caught on the stick and entangled with the two people's sticks, they used each other's sticks. As soon as the snake got caught, the other person would pick it up, but would not let it leave either, thus delaying the time.
Ah Guang jumped down a hillside and ran over quickly, "I caught another one. This one is a little bigger."
Maybe it had just vomited out the big thing in its stomach, and it was tortured by their sticks for a while, so the snake didn't seem to be that flexible, and A Guang caught it with just a pick and grab.
Ye Yaodong was stunned by his quick movements. "You caught it so easily, I almost thought I could do it!"
"How difficult is this? Why don't you try it? I'll give it to you to hold on to."
He waved his hands repeatedly, "Forget it! Anyway, I have you, and we are good brothers for life!"
"Tsk~"
"Put it in quickly."
Ah Zheng immediately hid the bamboo basket in his hand behind his back and said, "Put it in Dongzi's bamboo basket. If you put the two together, they will fight. The big snake will eat the small one and we will have caught them for nothing."
"Normally not. If they do eat anything, they only eat poisonous snakes, unless they are extremely hungry."
"Put it there too! Distribute it evenly!"
Ye Yaodong glanced at him speechlessly, "You are affecting my efficiency in finding snakes. Hurry up, or I won't be able to help you do anything good tonight if you keep talking too much."
"Are you going to threaten me too?"
Ah Guang urged, "Hurry up, why are you taking so long? We have to fill it up anyway, fill yours first, then fill Dongzi's."
When you are under someone's roof, you have to bow your head. They are a family and he is an outsider. The ratio is 2 to 1. He cannot even speak loudly. Damn it!
Ah Zheng muttered a few words, quickly opened the lid, handed the bamboo basket to him, and asked him to put the snake in.
Ye Yaodong took a stick and poked at the side, and saw a black thing that the rat snake had just spit out.
“It really is a rat.”
"It looks wet and a bit disgusting."
"This is what the snake just vomited out."
"Evil~"
"If we catch it later and let it digest naturally, maybe it will grow some meat." Ye Yaodong said shockingly without caring about other people's feelings.
"Ew! You're so disgusting! I don't even want to eat anymore."
"That's great. We can still have a few more bites of meat to share."
They shook their shoulders in disgust and quickly moved away from him.
Then, they went their separate ways to search.
The weather had just started to warm up, and the snakes did not move around very widely, so it was relatively easy to search for them around the mountains.
When it got dark they found three more, but they were a little further away.
"Next time, let's make a few snake traps and put them on the mountain. This will ensure that we can harvest snakes every day. It will save us a lot of trouble and can be used at critical moments."
"We'll talk about it next time. Let's finish today's work first. It's getting dark now, so I guess we'll have to work in the dark."
"We can make a few more cages. We just saw a pheasant and a hare, but we didn't catch them. What a pity..."
"Ahh... Muntjac! There's a muntjac!" Suddenly, Zheng screamed.
The others turned around in surprise and saw a yellow figure running over.
"Fuck, there really is a muntjac!"
"Hurry up... catch up and take a look..."
The four of them chased after it excitedly, but their eight legs were no match for the muntjac's four legs. It ran up and down the hill a few steps and left them behind.
"Oh, what a pity, I didn't bring a rifle."
A Guang felt regretful too, because he had a homemade gun at home, and he thought of just catching a snake, so he didn't bring it with him.
"Wait, that's not right. Listen, there seems to be some other sound." Ye Yaodong pricked up his ears. "It seems like a cat's meowing?"
"It's a wild cat, right? There are stray cats everywhere, and there are quite a lot of noises at night in the mountains." Ah Zheng said casually, holding the bamboo basket carefully in his hand.
A Guang and Xiao Xiao were shining flashlights everywhere, but it was dark and the light was poor, so their field of vision was limited, and they didn't find anything after looking around.
However, after walking another two meters forward, they heard a clearer cat cry, and the flashlight also shone into the corner downhill.
A Guang, who was walking in front, stopped, looked carefully, frowned and identified it carefully.
Seeing that he was not moving and the beam of the flashlight was not moving, everyone also fixed their eyes on the place where the flashlight was.
"Damn, it's not a stray cat, it's an ocelot!"
"Huh? Ocelot?"
"Ocelot?"