Portable space

In the evening Zhang Taiping came to the back room, the old man was playing chess with Mr. Li.

Mr. Li's chess skills are very deep, at least Zhang Taiping himself loses more and wins less.However, he was always frustrated in front of the old man, so Mr. Li suffered repeated defeats and battles, and he could be seen in the old man's room every evening.

Compared with Mr. Li, Mr. Tang's chess skills are much worse. He can't win many games in front of Zhang Taiping, so he also has self-knowledge. He seldom comes to play chess with the old man. Most of the time in the evening is in the village. An old man about two years old sat in front of the wall and chatted.

Zhang Taiping didn't bother the two of them, and just casually looked inside the room after he came in.

A pennant hung on the wall with the words "Jishi Miracle Doctor" embroidered on it.This pennant was given by the mother and daughter who came here to see a doctor at that time, because the old man cured the rheumatism that had tortured the old woman for many years.

Wait for the two old men to finish this game of chess before they have time to pay attention to Zhang Taiping.

"But what's the matter?" asked the old man.

Zhang Taiping took out a wooden box, opened it, and placed it in a grimace flower.However, this grimace flower is much smaller than the one he dug up at that time, that one is still growing in the space, and this small one was spawned by him with seeds.

Seeing the plants in the box, the old man was a little unsure.

Mr. Li asked, "Oh? Is this just a ghost face flower?"

Zhang Taiping called this plant Grimace Flower at that time because the flowers it bloomed resembled a ferocious grimace, but he just called it that way.In fact, he didn't know this plant, but the grimace that was really known to the outside world was something else.

The grimacing flower that people usually call is actually pansy, also known as human face flower, cat face flower, sun butterfly flower, pansy flower, etc. It is the national flower of Poland and Cuba.

Because of its flower shape like a cat's face, it is called cat's face flower in some places.Pansy has beautiful flowers and various colors, so it is a common garden garden and an excellent landscaping flower variety for streets, and it is also the national flower of Iceland.Although the flower shape looks like a small grimace, it doesn't contain any toxins.

And the flowers that Zhang Taiping takes out now are absolutely poisonous.

Zhang Taiping shook his head and said: "It may not be a ghost face flower, but I don't know what kind of plant it is."

Mr. Li asked the old man, "Can Uncle Zhang see what kind of flower this is?"

"I'll take a look again." The old man stared at the flowers in the box and prepared to pick them up with a book to have a look.

Zhang Taiping quickly stopped and said: "This flower may be very poisonous."

The old man smiled and said, "It's okay. Did you dig this flower in a place where poisons gather?"

Zhang Taiping nodded: "It was indeed found on a land soaked in poison."

"Then it's not just this flower, is it? Take out everything else." The old man put down the flower in his hand and said.

"Grandpa really knows the origin of this flower?" Zhang Taiping took out a wooden box from behind and uncovered the strange snake that was indeed broken in two.

After seeing this disproportionately large and thin body, the old man was obviously a little excited. He stroked his beard and calmed down and said, "It can't be wrong."

At that time, there were two strange snakes, one was taken into the space by Zhang Taiping, and the other was cut into two ends when he attacked him, and then it was also taken away and kept in the space, so now it is taken out and the wound is still on the same side. Blood was dripping out, as if it had just been killed.

"Your preservation method is not bad." The old man admired, then reincarnated, took out a glass bottle and a jade bottle from the medicine shelf behind him, and disposed of the severed snake on his own.Separate the gallbladder, blood, and body for preservation.

After tidying up these things, he turned to Zhang Taiping and said, "Where did you get this flower and this snake?"

Zhang Taiping replied: "In that valley?"

The old man paused slightly and said, "Did you go in there again?"

Zhang Taiping nodded: "Go in and have a look again, and met this strange flower and snake."

"I don't go there anymore." Zhang Taiping knew what the old man was worried about, but what no one could have imagined was that the big snake had been taken into the space by him, but such a thing could not be said, so he had to tap gently nod.

Although Mr. Li was beside him, he couldn't understand what the two were saying, but he wisely didn't ask any more questions.

"What are these flowers and snakes that can make Uncle Zhang take care of them so carefully?" Mr. Li asked the old man.Zhang Taiping also waited for the old man to tell.

The old man smiled and said: "This is really a rare thing. This flower is called ghost-dispelling grass, and this kind of snake has a very vulgar name 'big head'. This kind of flower can't grow in places that are highly poisonous. Half of the flower is surrounded by big-headed snakes. Big-headed snakes are highly poisonous, which is just conducive to the growth of ghost-killing grass, and the petals of ghost-killing grass are necessary for the growth of big-headed snakes. So these two things always They appear in pairs."

Mr. Li was surprised: "Irrigate the grown flowers and plants with venom, and the toxin inside must be quite large. What effect can such a poisonous weed have?"

The old man shook his head: "That's not the case. Although the flowers are watered with venom, they are not poisonous at all when they grow up, just like green lotuses that come out of mud and are not stained. The flowers that can be seen have soothing properties." It is the main medicine for treating human nerve damage, especially for concussions."

"What about the big-headed snake?" Zhang Taiping asked.

"Tsk tsk, big-headed snakes are even more amazing." The old man's eyes showed a happy look again, "I once saw a prescription in an ancient book, do you know it is for the above diseases?" People shook their heads before saying, "It's for the treatment of rabies."

Rabies does not seem to be such a serious disease, but now there is no cure in the medical field, and the main thing is prevention.

An important reason why rabies is difficult to treat is that the incubation period is long, ranging from three to two months to more than ten years, and the onset is sudden. It invaded the central nervous system within a short period of time, and the death rate reached [-]%.

Zhang Taiping knows some medical skills and knows that rabies is not as simple as people think on the surface.But Mr. Li didn't know, he had a puzzled look on his face.

The old man explained: "Rabies will invade the central nervous system and spinal cord of a person after an attack. As far as I know, the current medical technology is still insufficient for this aspect and cannot be treated well. But the bile of this big-headed snake has a magical effect on this aspect." Treatment."

"There is such a miraculous effect?" Mr. Li was surprised.

After the old man put away the flower, he began to look for books with some excitement, at this time Zhang Taiping and Mr. Li retreated out with interest.

As soon as he returned to the front room, he was grabbed by Fan Ming: "Brother, you said you wanted to fry melon seeds and pine nuts."

Zhang Taiping naturally remembered that he had promised two girls, one big and one young, to fry melon seeds and pine nuts, but he had been busy for the past two days and had no free time, and now he was finally free and said: "Have you got the things ready? If they are ready We can fry it after we have dinner."

"It's ready, it's been ready a long time ago, and I just wait for the elder brother to fry it." Fan Ming nodded hurriedly and said.

After dinner and clearing away the pots and stoves, Zhang Taiping said to Fan Ming, "Take out what you prepared."

Fan Ming and Yaya took out several packs of things in a row, put them on the side of the pot, and brought over the high-quality melon seeds that had been seldom selected.

Zhang Taiping saw that the two people had prepared a complete set of things, and asked, "What flavor do you want to fry?"

Yaya said first: "Sweet."

Fan Ming added: "There are also creamy ones, five-spice ones, and some dry-fried ones at the end."

Zhang Taiping looked at the things they had prepared, and asked with a smile: "Is this prepared by your aunt Xing for you?"

Fan Ming nodded: "I asked Aunt Xing to bring it back when Aunt Xing went out to do errands two days ago."

The two pots are started together, one pot is dry-fried, and the other is fried with five spices.

As the name suggests, dry frying means that no seasoning is added, and it is just roasted on the side of the fire.The spiced ones need to be spiced, but instead of frying them directly in the pot, soak the melon seeds in spiced water to let the flavor enter them, and then take them out for frying.

Weigh 100 grams of ginger, 50 grams of cumin, 200 grams of star anise, 25 grams of Chinese prickly ash, and 50 grams of cinnamon, and seal them in a two-layer gauze bag.

Next are cream melon seeds and sugar melon seeds, both of which are prepared in the same way, but the ingredients are different.

It was already ten o'clock after all the melon seeds were fried, and the fried melon seeds could fill a big bag together.

Before going to bed, Cai Yazhi said to Zhang Taiping slightly reproachfully: "You can give whatever Yaya wants now, be careful dad is spoiled."

Zhang Taiping smiled and said: "It's all small things, not as serious as what you said, but I can still tell the difference between big things."

Seeing what Zhang Taiping said, Cai Yazhi stopped being entangled in this matter, and of course she doted on her own child, but she was afraid that Zhang Taiping would dote too much and let the child develop bad habits.

"Ready." Cai Yazhi said to Zhang Taiping.

This is a signal to enter the space, and now the two of them will enter the space for a period of time every night.

Zhang Taiping said: "Don't be shocked after entering."

"What's wrong?" Cai Yazhi asked puzzled.

Zhang Taiping shook his head without explaining, his thoughts appeared in the bamboo building in the space.

"You should be careful outside your debut." Zhang Taiping said again.

"What happened?" Cai Yazhi asked.

Zhang Taiping still shook his head with a smile, and said, "You will know when you go out."

Cai Yazhi rolled her beautiful eyes: "What, you made it so mysterious." Even so, she walked outside cautiously under her feet.

Despite Zhang Taiping's repeated instructions, Cai Yazhi made some preparations in her heart, but when she saw Xiaobai coiled up on the side of the bamboo building, she was still stunned, her eyes widened and she froze there.

"Ah!" Suddenly shouted, turned around and threw himself on Zhang Taiping, although not to the extent of trembling, but his face was completely pale with fright.

Zhang Taiping felt that the joke was a little too big, he patted her on the back and comforted her: "Don't be afraid, this big snake won't hurt anyone after it enters the space."

"Really?" Cai Yazhi asked pitifully, it seemed that she was really frightened.

Zhang Taiping nodded solemnly and said, "Can I still lie to you?"

Xiao Bai was awakened by the scream just now, looked at the two people in front of him, spread his body and swam over.

"Come here, come here!" Cai Yazhi still couldn't calmly regard her as a pet like Ah Huang and the lion like Zhang Taiping, and when she saw Xiaobai approaching, she quickly shouted and hid behind Zhang Taiping.

"It's okay, don't be afraid, Xiaobai doesn't hurt others. If you don't believe me, take a look." Zhang Taiping said and touched Xiaobai's raised head.

Cai Yazhi grabbed Zhang Taiping's clothes from behind and stuck out half of her head to look at the big snake. Seeing that Zhang Taiping really touched the snake's head but the big snake didn't respond, she felt a little more relaxed.

Zhang Taiping sensed her emotional change, and said with a smile: "Why don't you come over and touch her too."

"No, no." Cai Yazhi quickly shook her head, and then asked, "Is this the big snake in the mountain you mentioned?"

Zhang Taiping nodded and replied: "Well, I went into the mountain this time to take this big snake into the space station."

Cai Yazhi opened her mouth to say something, but in the end she didn't say anything.

"Although this big snake looks scary, its temperament is very docile and it won't hurt people. I named it Xiaobai." Zhang Taiping said.

Cai Yazhi finally came out from behind Zhang Taiping and stood in a row with him. Although Zhang Taiping repeatedly said that it would not hurt anyone, in fact this big snake named Xiaobai had no intention of hurting anyone, but she still felt a little tremble with fear.

After seeing the big snake, Zhang Taiping took her up the mountain again, to see if the two big eggs had surfaced.

"What else is there on the mountain?" Cai Yazhi asked.

Zhang Taiping said with a smile: "You will know when you arrive."

"Tell me, or I will be shocked again." Cai Yazhi was afraid of seeing something beyond her imagination, and begged Zhang Taiping to find out first.

"This time it's not something to scare people, but two eggs." Zhang Taiping didn't hold back anymore.

Cai Yazhi let out a long sigh of relief when she heard that there were two eggs.

Zhang Taiping asked with a smile: "I scared you like that just now?"

"Isn't that right, I almost died of fright." Cai Yazhi rolled her eyes again, then patted her increasingly plump breasts, and asked, "Could it be snake gall?"

Zhang Taiping shook his head: "It's a bird's egg, a big bird's egg. It may be what people often call a big eagle."

In the coming year, I came to the top of the mountain alone, and Xiaojin was bringing food to feed Xiaofeng and the baby bird that had already made a sound in the nest.And the two giant eggs under Xiaofeng's body haven't hatched yet, but it should be soon, because Zhang Taiping can sense a strong vitality from inside.

"Such a big egg!" Cai Yazhi was surprised once again, this time it was not panic but surprise. "Is it also found in that valley?"

Zhang Taiping nodded: "Their mothers are more than five meters long when they spread their wings."

Cai Yazhi imagined what it would be like to have a big bird growing on the roof.