Chapter Three, Mr. Lin
Mr. Lin is Lin Ergou's father, but Mr. Lin only asked Lin Ergou to call him Mr. Lin. It is said that he was recommended at the beginning, but Mr. Lin did not agree. Instead, he moved to Xiaoniu Village to teach children in the village to read. However, he only reads and does not teach studying.
There are two rumors about this in the village. One is that Mr. Lin thinks that it is enough for the villagers to read, and studying is useless. The other is that Mr. Lin feels that he is not talented and does not want to mislead his children. However, since Mr. Lin was once elected as an official, everyone believes that it is the first reason.
The only exception is the crazy girl in the Zhang family, but everyone knows that Mr. Lin is kind-hearted and helps others in different ways. When the eldest girl in the Zhang family is almost done, wouldn’t Zhang Sanhua stop reading? Besides, reading that cannot be read is really not that important to the merchants, and it is enough to be able to read.
On the way down from the top of the mountain, Zhang Sanhua chased the pheasant, then went to the mountain stream to step on the water, ran to the sun and basked in the sun and took a nap, then walked lazily towards Mr. Lin's house. When he walked to Mr. Lin's courtyard, Mr. Lin was sitting on the bamboo chair in the garden, basking in the sun and drinking tea.
"Sanhua is here, come and sit with uncle for a while and bask in the sun."
Mr. Sanhua Lin always called himself uncle and was committed to letting Sanhua call him Uncle Lin, but Sanhua always agreed to call him Mr. Sanhua again.
"I won't be sunbathed anymore, I've been sunbathed before I came." Sanhua stood up properly in front of Mr. Lin, "Lin Ergou said you have something to ask me for?"
"Yes, yes, Sanhua, it's not a big deal." Mr. Lin took the teapot and sipped the tea with a happy mouthful. "It's just that uncle has been greedy recently and wants to try the chrysanthemum and snake soup."
Zhang Sanhua was silent for a while.
"Sir, it's spring now, no chrysanthemums."
"That's not certain, but there must be no more here." Mr. Lin sighed, "It would be pitiful if there is no chrysanthemum, not even the snake soup."
Zhang Sanhua Mo.
Mr. Lin is pretending to be pitiful again.
"Then I'll catch one for you?"
"Why are you so embarrassed? Sanhua is really my caring little cotton jacket." Mr. Lin pretended to be polite. "The tools are still in the original place. Ergou found a litter of silver rings a few days ago. Go and go back and bring a few snake eggs."
Zhang Sanhua:………………………
Mr. Lin likes to eat snakes. When some villagers beat the snake, he spent a few dollars to buy it. Zhang Sanhua saw that he liked it, so he caught a cauliflower snake for him. This was her and asked for it from time to time. Fortunately, there were only some non-toxic small snakes, but later they started to eat poisonous snakes. The more venomous the better.
The poisonous snake is not that easy to find, so Mr. Lin asked Lin Ergou to check out the site, and then asked Sanhua to catch it. Lin Ergou was bitten by the poisonous snake twice at first, but fortunately it was not very toxic. He was taken back by the villagers and raised for a few days, but he was never bitten again.
Sometimes Zhang Sanhua feels that it is quite miserable to have Mr. Lin, a father like Lin Ergou.
I would never let Ah Niang know about catching snakes. Although Zhang Sanhua didn't think it was too dangerous, she would definitely not let her go if she knew it. So the tools were placed in the Lin family, and the villagers only thought that Zhang Sanhua often gave Mr. Lin some mushrooms.
As for mushrooms, they are everywhere on the mountain and are worthless.
Zhang Sanhua and Lin Ergou both carried bamboo baskets, which were covered with gray cloth. There was a piece of meat in Zhang Sanhua's bamboo basket, and Lin Ergou's bamboo basket had a retractable bamboo fork and buns and water to serve them as lunch at home.
This meat is used to seduce snakes, but it usually ends up in their stomachs, and the snake enters Mr. Lin's stomach.
"Why are you looking for a snake nest again? Aren't you afraid of being bitten and killed by wild animals halfway through?" Zhang Sanhua glanced at Lin Ergou with a slanted glance.
Lin Ergou looked helpless.
"I've been bitten twice. Do you need to laugh at me like this every time?"
"It's twice so far, maybe I'll be bitten this time. Silver ring, tsk, it's very poisonous."
"Will you watch me get bitten?" Lin Ergou smiled with his lips pursed, "It doesn't matter if I get bitten, but unfortunately no one stews you mushrooms."
"Who is strange?" Zhang Sanhua muttered in a low voice, "It seems like you didn't eat it."
Lin Ergou listened clearly on the side, his mouth was raised, pretending not to hear him and he didn't talk to him.
After walking for about an hour, the surrounding environment became more quiet and darker. Lin Ergou walked around a shade several times and signaled that Zhang Sanhua's place was arrived.
Zhang Sanhua found a place to sit, put down the bamboo basket and sat aside, and looked up at Lin Ergou.
"How to catch this time?"
"After all, it's Silver Ring." Lin Ergou pondered for a while, "Everything should be safe."
After hearing this, Zhang Sanhua sneered.
"As long as you don't get bitten, any snake is not the same."
"I know that you are very skilled in the heroine," Lin Ergou looked pitiful, "Isn't it because I, a weak scholar, dragged you down?"
Zhang Sanhua felt so heartbroken that she was worthy of being a father and son, and both of them were used to pretending to be pitiful.
"Okay, as you said."
The pork I brought was rich in color, and it was tender and fragrant for roasted pork. At this time, it was tied up by a rope and threw it on the ground casually. Zhang Sanhua's bamboo basket was also put down and placed in a grass not far away.
"Come on, wait now."
The two of them cleaned up and found a place near the basket where they could see the meat and hide and hid.
All you have to do next is wait.
Waiting is actually quite boring and can't speak. Lin Ergou usually memorizes classics and plays time silently, so Zhang Sanhua can only stay there. Fortunately, after only half an hour, Lin Ergou poked Zhang Sanhua and signaled that she was in trouble.
Zhang Sanhua looked carefully and saw a silver ring as thick as her forearm slowly approaching the piece of pork that was used as bait.
When the snake approached the pork about two feet, Zhang Sanhua gently pulled the rope. Seeing that it was almost moving, the snake was stunned for a moment and slowly leaned over.
Zhang Sanhua broke up again.
After repeating this for four times, seeing that the big snake was a little impatient, Zhang Sanhua pulled it hard, and the pork belly flew into the bamboo basket. The big snake was immediately shot in like an arrow full of strings. Zhang Sanhua saw that the big snake was trapped and immediately rushed out and grabbed the bamboo basket and grabbed it. Lin Ergou then lit the fragrance of medicine and threw it into the small hole at the bottom of the bamboo basket.
Zhang Sanhua pressed the bamboo basket hard, and the big snake's struggle became smaller and smaller until there was no movement. When she opened the bamboo basket, the big snake lay motionless.
"Lin Ergou, go touch the egg, I'll go to the poisonous fangs first."
He took out the small dagger with him and Zhang Sanhua pried the poisonous fangs from the mouth of the fainting big snake. Although it is safer to kill the snake, Mr. Lin must be fresh when he is picking...
After packing up the snake and putting it into the bamboo basket and covering it with cloth, Zhang Sanhua began to sit aside and chew the buns he brought. A total of six were brought, two of them were hers, and the others were all Lin Ergou.
It is hard to understand that I am so strong that I am not as thin as Lin Ergou, who eats so much that I eat.
After eating the buns, I took the dirty pork belly to the nearby wild springs to wash it. Lin Ergou hadn't come back yet. Zhang Sanhua began to worry that Lin Ergou would fall into a trap or roll down the mountain?
When Zhang Sanhua's mind was scattered infinitely, Lin Ergou's footsteps rang out. When he looked up, he found that Lin Ergou was back.
"How many eggs are found?"
"Ten people in a nest and got six."
Mr. Lin said that he could not kill all the animals, and that he could not catch them when he was pregnant. He could only catch one at a time, and he could take half of the eggs at most.
"Old rules?" Zhang Sanhua smiled innocently.
The old rule is to cut the pork belly out of the texture, then shake the extra snake egg into egg liquid, and apply it when barbecuing. The roasted meat has a special aroma.
Putting down the bamboo basket on his back, Lin Ergou began to deal with pork belly. Zhang Sanhua began to use a dagger to cut branches for a while to use them to penetrate meat and use them as chopsticks.
"I think I always cook. Sanhua, don't you learn how to cook?"
Zhang San gave Lin Ergou a white look.
"Is it to give you face and stop whining, or is it a man?"
"That's right, Aunt Li wants you to hire a husband. Those who can marry into a husband won't mind whether his wife can cook."
Zhang Sanhua did not answer. Lin Ergou wondered if it was because he said it was a bit too much, after all, he was a girl. When he turned around, Zhang Sanhua stood half a step away, holding a dagger in his hand, and his face was almost cold.
Lin Ergou froze.
Has the day he finally arrived when he used his knife... Why is he not surprised at all?
Still stunned, the dagger was about to stab. Before Lin Ergou decided whether to hide or not, the dagger had already stabbed him on the ground beside him.
When I turned around, I saw another silver ring being nailed to the ground.
He turned to look at Zhang Sanhua again, and Zhang Sanhua frowned tightly.
“…Let’s just bake it together.”
Lin Ergou didn't react.
"Mr. Lin only asked to catch one at a time," Zhang Sanhua looked disgusted, "and it was determined to be nailed to death by seven inches, so just eat it."
After cutting the big snake, Zhang San was slapped with some snake gall, roasted the snake meat and ate most of it. Lin Ergou was still a little confused when he was overeating.
After Lin Ergou slipped twice on the road and was supported by Zhang Sanhua, the two finally returned to Mr. Lin's house.
Mr. Lin checked the snake and egg and expressed his satisfaction.
"I haven't encountered any dangers along the way, did I?"
“Does we look like we are in danger?”
"How many eggs are there in total?"
"Ten."
"Okay, you are obedient. Why is Ergou stunned?"
“…It may be because I have eaten too much.”
Mr. Lin looked at Zhang Sanhua with a smile, reached out and pointed her forehead. Zhang Sanhua covered her forehead and smiled at Mr. Lin.
"Then you go back soon."
"Okay." Zhang Sanhua agreed immediately, turned around and was about to leave. When she looked up, she saw a man with a gentle smile and gentle as jade.
Zhang Sanhua was stunned.
Chapter completed!