The next morning, Lin Chen got up early, and Zhan Yiyang also got up early to prepare. He prepared snake catching tools according to what Mr. Shen taught him at that time.
After everything was prepared, Zhan Yiyang took two steamed buns and went up the mountain.
Before leaving, Xu Rongrong was very worried and chased him out. He pulled Zhan Yiyang's waist and tidied him up.
"Be careful. If you can't catch it, don't catch it. Let's go outside..."
Xu Rongrong was a little speechless. Zhan Yiyang kissed Xu Rongrong, turned around and walked directly towards the mountain. When winter is approaching, snakes are lazy and don't like to move very much, but the mountains here are lush green all year round, so
He said that he could catch snakes at any time.
But there are exceptions, such as Zhan Yiyang, who only caught a snake once and took an apprentice up the mountain to catch the snake. Xu Rongrong felt terrible when he thought about it, but he just refused to say it out loud.
After they left, Xu Rongrong stood at the door and watched. Ye Jing didn't know what Lin Chen was doing, so she always followed him.
Xu Rongrong had no choice but to coax Ye Jing and tell her to go grab some delicious food. Ye Jing didn't think so much, so she really believed it.
Xu Rongrong took Ye Jing back, and Lin Chen followed Zhan Yiyang to the foot of the mountain. After eating the steamed buns, Zhan Yiyang told Lin Chen and started walking towards the mountain.
Compared to the last time I caught a snake, it was a bit more difficult this time.
On the one hand, Zhan Yiyang is unprofessional. This is his second time here, and the first time he caught him was a bit thrilling, let alone this time.
This time he brought another Lin Chen with him, and Zhan Yiyang was not very confident in himself.
But if it doesn't come now, he has no other option.
Even if snakes can be bought elsewhere, white flowers cannot be bought within seven steps. They have to come up no matter what. Zhan Yiyang has no choice for Ye Jing.
Before coming, Zhan Yiyang had promised Ye and his wife that he would cure Ye Jing.
Ye's parents also agreed to Zhan Yiyang. As long as he healed Ye Jing, they agreed to Lin Chen and Ye Jing's marriage and would not interfere in the future.
Zhan Yiyang has never been a virgin, but Zhan Yiyang owes Lin Chen a favor.
Lin Chen saved Xu Rongrong once and for all.
Zhan Yiyang was repaying a favor this time. After this time, he wouldn't owe Lin Chen anything.
With this understanding, Zhan Yiyang can only take this trip.
When they got to the mountain, Zhan Yiyang picked the herbs that he had eaten on the mountain and ate them all the way. Lin Chen felt bitter and kept watching Zhan Yiyang eat them, but he didn't take a bite.
"This Chinese herbal medicine can prevent the onset of snake venom. Although it is slightly poisonous, it will never kill people. On the contrary, when encountering a snake, it can prevent the onset of snake venom for a period of time.
What we are looking for is an extremely poisonous snake, and this is the antidote." Zhan Yiyang said and started eating again.
He didn't know this at first, but after reading a book on Chinese herbal medicine, he realized why he was eating this stuff all the way up the mountain. It was because this stuff could keep snake venom at bay.
Thinking of Mr. Shen's good intentions, Zhan Yiyang couldn't help but feel nostalgic.
Thinking about it, she heard some movement behind her while she was still standing. Zhan Yiyang raised his hand to signal Lin Chen not to move.
Turning around, there was indeed a snake circling somewhere.
Lin Chen was so frightened that there was a thick layer of sweat on his head and he did not move.
Zhan Yiyang stretched out the pliers in his hand, and the snake launched an attack, but Zhan Yiyang had quick eyes and quick hands. He struck the snake and pinned it to the ground. He turned around and Lin Chen looked over. Not long after, a two-meter-long snake appeared.
The many snakes were put into the basket.
After putting it in, Lin Chen shook it a bit and it was still a little heavy.
"Why are you catching these snakes?" Lin Chen didn't think that Zhan Yiyang was a person looking for trouble, so he went up the mountain just for a few snakes. He couldn't sell them for money.
Zhan Yiyang has always been a man who is short of money and cannot afford to exchange his life for a few small coins.
Zhan Yiyang didn't answer. He bent down and uprooted the white flowers on the ground. He wrapped the flowers with a prepared piece of white cloth and put them in the frame behind him. Then he looked around and continued walking up the mountain.
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When they reached the top of the mountain, Zhan Yiyang had already caught four snakes. Zhan Yiyang let go of one of the smaller snakes and just drove it away.
Lin Chen looked at it for a while and didn't understand: "You don't want it, little one?"
Zhan Yiyang glanced at Lin Chen: "I don't want the medicine if it doesn't work."
Although Zhan Yiyang answered like this, Lin Chen always felt that it was not what Zhan Yiyang said, but he couldn't tell and did not continue to ask.
After catching three snakes, Zhan Yiyang began to walk down the mountain. He caught another snake when he went down the mountain. This time he went up the mountain and returned with a full load.
It was getting dark after going down the mountain. When following Mr. Shen, Zhan Yiyang went down the mountain when it was still dark. Although it was already dark, Zhan Yiyang was already very satisfied.
When they arrived at the foot of the mountain, Lin Chen asked Zhan Yiyang, "Do you often come here to catch snakes?"
"Not often."
"Then how often do you catch me?" I asked as I walked.
Zhan Yiyang pondered for a while: "I came to catch Rongrong once when he was sick, and now this is the second time."
Lin Chen seemed to have thought of something, and immediately thought of Ye Jing's illness. He quickly lowered his head and glanced at the two baskets on his waist. They seemed to be vital treasures. He was afraid of losing them, so he put his hands on them.
Zhan Yiyang didn't say anything, turned around and walked towards home.
It's not too early. If we go at this speed, it will be past one o'clock when we get back. I don't know why Rongrong is so worried at home.
Lin Chen followed from the meeting and asked as he walked: "Are you coming again in the future?"
At this time, Lin Chen didn't feel scared at all.
Zhan Yiyang glanced at him. All men were like this. They cared about the lives of the people they loved and would sacrifice anything, even their own lives.
"From now on, you will always come when you don't want to." Zhan Yiyang had these four snakes, which were enough to heal two people. Zhan Yiyang didn't think it was such a coincidence that he met the third Xu Rongrong.
Zhan Yiyang strode towards home, but Lin Chen had already made up his mind to go up the mountain to catch a snake in a week.
It is estimated that if Mr. Shen knew about it, Mr. Shen's ghost would come looking for Lin Chen.
According to Lin Chen's idea, Lin Chen soon captured the snake on the mountain.
It was almost eleven o'clock when we got home. Xu Rongrong and Ye Jing were standing at the door of the wine shop, looking around. Fortunately, it was summer, and it was indeed cool outside at ten o'clock. If you had known better, I wonder if the two of them would freeze to death.
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Seeing Zhan Yiyang, Xu Rongrong immediately ran over, took Zhan Yiyang to look at him, and shed tears of worry.
She could hold it back when she didn't see anyone, but suddenly she couldn't hold it back when she saw someone. Tears fell from her eyes disobediently. No matter how hard Xu Rongrong held it in, she couldn't hold it back.
Xu Rongrong raised her hand and wiped it hurriedly. She knew that Zhan Yiyang had worked hard and did not want Zhan Yiyang to see her cry, as if she was not optimistic enough.
But he couldn't hold back the tears, and Zhan Yiyang also understood Xu Rongrong's character early on.
He raised his hand and patted Xu Rongrong on the shoulder: "I understand the habits of snakes. Besides, if I go up to catch him, there is its smell on me, and they will back away before they get close to me."
"Back off?" Xu Rongrong looked up at Zhan Yiyang in surprise. She didn't understand.
Zhan Yiyang explained: "Except for the first snake, the other three, plus a small snake I let go, they all backed away when they saw me, obviously they were afraid of me."
"Why are you afraid?" Xu Rongrong asked.
"I ate the bones and blood of their kind, and there may be a smell in my body that we don't know about, but they could detect it from a few meters away or even several meters away, and they backed away one after another."
Zhan Yiyang did not expect such a result. There are no ghosts in this world, and Zhan Yiyang believes that it is definitely not a theory of ghosts and gods.
Then there can only be one reason, and it's Mr. Shen's relationship with medicine and wine.
In ancient times, whenever someone who hunted tigers would avoid the tigers wherever they passed, it must be because the person who hunted tigers expected to have an odor such as evil spirits.
Even tigers are like this, let alone snakes.
There is a certain reason why snakes are called little dragons in medical books. Their spirituality must be similar to that of dragons.
After hearing what Zhan Yiyang said, Lin Chen also hugged Ye Jing and recalled the scene of going up the mountain. Indeed, some snakes stepped back or even turned around and fled when Zhan Yiyang stepped into the attack range.
Lin Chen really didn't notice this at first, but now that he thought about it, it was indeed what happened.
Ye Jing held Lin Chen's hand, thinking that Lin Chen had brought her some delicious food for a day out, but she didn't expect that it turned out to be two baskets.
Ye Jing reached out and touched it, trying to open the lid, but Lin Chen pulled her back.
"Don't move, you're still alive, you'll bite." Upon hearing Lin Chen's words, Ye Jing immediately became frightened and retracted her hand.
Lin Chen really wanted to scare Ye Jing so that he would not know when he touched the snake and bit Ye Jing.
Some things, no one knows what will happen.
Zhan Yiyang also felt tired, so he took Xu Rongrong in and got a large wine vat. He put a few snakes in the basket and put the ones that were not released inside.
"Will you be suffocated to death?" Because he had drank it, although Xu Rongrong didn't know what he was drinking at first, he later knew everything.
Xu Rongrong knew that the snake was put into the basket while it was still alive. Although it was a bit cruel, it was nothing that could be done. Who made them sick?
Xu Rongrong was very confused about this matter.
On the one hand, this is a matter of harming living beings, and on the other hand, it is a last resort.
If these snakes were not killed, they would not be well.
"It's okay." Zhan Yiyang ignored it, turned and walked towards his room, intending to take a bath and rest.
However, Ye Jing was still very curious about what was in the basket and kept staring at the basket in the wine vat with her big eyes blinking.
Lin Chen was afraid that Ye Jing would be dishonest, so he touched the basket and took her back to sleep immediately.
Even at night, Lin Chen would tie Ye Jing's feet with his shirt to prevent Ye Jing from running out while he was sleeping.
But even so, Ye Jing still ran out, took advantage of Lin Chen not waking up in the morning, untied the shirt tied around his feet, and ran to see the snakes in the baskets.