Duan Cheng returned soon and brought back a bundle of bamboo. The soldier took the saber and began to cut the bamboo, cutting the bamboo into strips of thin bamboo.
"Get more, let's make more cages, and tomorrow we will catch ten or eight snakes. Not only can there be snake soup, but also snake slices, how beautiful!" Duan Cheng hadn't touched meat for a long time, and thought The taste of the snake soup just now is really greedy and can bite off his tongue.
When making up the snake basket, Bai Zhi and Duan Cheng looked interesting, so they followed together. Later, Dr. Shen also joined in. The other two soldiers who were slightly injured and capable of action also joined in. There are so many people and powerful. A dozen baskets were compiled.
Bai Zhi smiled and said: "If the snakes around here know that we have made so many snake cages, I'm afraid they will escape after hearing the wind."
Duan Cheng said: "I'll go to put the cage, and I can eat snake soup tomorrow morning."
The soldiers were happy, "This is not true. It depends on luck to catch snakes. It is now in winter. Although snakes have not started hibernating, they have rarely come out to move. It may not be easy to catch more than a dozen at a time. Woolen cloth."
Duan Cheng smiled and said: "It's hard to say, my luck has always been good."
Bai Zhi said: "Add some oily fruit soaked in water to the bait. The smell of oily fruit is the favorite of snakes. As long as they are nearby, they will definitely smell it."
The soldier looked surprised: "How do you know this method? This is our ancestral method of catching snakes, and it is impossible for ordinary people to know it."
Bai Zhi said that in modern times, there is nothing that people want to know but cannot know. The era of information sharing on the Internet has been at its peak for a hundred years, and this is also the need for the development of the world.
The poverty and backwardness of ancient times has a lot to do with the inability to share information. Everyone regards new inventions and discoveries as private secrets, and cannot allow those great inventions and discoveries to be shared by the world, thereby advancing the development of the times.
Bai Zhi smiled lightly: "I heard that by chance, people in our place all know this method, it's not a secret."
Duan Cheng quickly found oil fruit from a pile of medicinal materials, soaked it with water, then mixed it with other prey, packed it in various bamboo baskets, drove a carriage of Angelica dahurica, and put snake cages around, working until dawn. . .
Duan Cheng couldn't open his tired eyes, and fell asleep after returning to the small account.
Bai Zhi said to Doctor Shen: "Duan Cheng is also good enough to eat snake soup."
Doctor Shen shook his head helplessly: "It's not that he is gluttonous. It is because the food in this barracks is too poor. It is common to not eat a little oily meat for ten and a half months. This time it has been especially long. I haven't seen oily meat for a month. Not to mention Duan Cheng, even me, I feel uncomfortable."
Bai Zhi sighed slightly: "It would be great if there is a market nearby, we can buy some ingredients to improve our lives."
Doctor Shen waved his hand: "Where is the market like this, almost no one lives nearby. The vegetables eaten in the barracks are also grown by the soldiers themselves. Apart from growing cabbage, they don’t grow anything else, so they can only eat it every day. Cabbage." Doctor Shen felt helpless, and felt that he was about to become cabbage.
"Why didn't the wounded come here today? Truce again?" Bai Zhi asked.
Doctor Shen nodded: "It is said that this is the case. Marshal Wang will bring a hundred thousand troops to the border today. They will be stationed five miles away. They will continue to truce until the two armies are integrated."
Bai Zhi asked again: "Is this Marshal Wang from Kyoto? Will he fight?"