Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 315 The Snake of Shu Mountain

Chapter 310 Six Snakes in Shushan

After pulling out the plug, Li Junge cleaned up the fish directly by the stream, then put away the fishing tackle, and everyone returned to the camp.

The camp has been cleared out, with six tents in a row. Uncle Orion has found a water source in the crevice of the mountain wall, inserted half a blade of grass to draw it out, and received several pots of water, one pot has been stewed with potatoes.

Uncle Yaoshi was not idle either, he dug up some Imperata coronata roots and made a pot of Imperata coronata root tea.

Uncle Orion was empty-handed, and said: "Hahaha, there are no accidents, I have to rely on you tonight!"

Uncle Pharmacist said: "Wei Wei is not bad, he added an appetizer for us!"

Li Junge put the sauerkraut into the pot and sautéed until fragrant, then poured in the pot of potatoes that had just been stewed, then removed the meat from the side of the general fish with an oblique knife and changed it into fish fillets, wrapped in flour, cut the bones and fish heads into pieces and stewed first Serve for a few minutes, then slide in the fillets.

On the other side, Uncle Yaoshi started to fry peach blossom fish, and said while frying: "I'll do this, and fry some side dishes by the way."

Wei Wei leaned over curiously: "Uncle Pharmacist, what are you frying?"

Uncle Yaoshi hung a wild vegetable on the batter, fried it into golden noodles, and said while frying: "There are a lot of wild vegetables in the mountains in spring, and this is chopped bitter cabbage."

Li Junge smiled while watching the fire: "Wei Wei, teach you a good boy, if you don't know how to cook all wild vegetables with thick fibers, chop them up and beat them into eggs or into batter, then scramble eggs or fry them , basically the taste is passable.”

Wei Wei clapped her hands and said, "Hey, there is still this formula? That's very simple! Then I can do it with my mother-in-law Ding at home from now on?"

Li Junge said: "Grandma Ding is dandelion, right? Yes, but it's best not to pick wild vegetables on the roadsides and parks in the city. If you have just been treated with medicine, you may cry blind if you eat it!"

While talking, the dishes are ready, and Uncle Pharmacist said: "It's easy to get sour when you eat potato soup alone, it tastes delicious when you eat it with pasta!"

Professor Li laughed and said, "Oh, you guys are really particular about mountain running! In our field trips, we often have broken instant noodles and cold water. Everyone will suffer from stomach problems!"

Uncle Orion took out a bottle of wine and said, "Come, come, drink a glass of medicinal wine to dispel wind and dampness, but you have to stay in the mountains for half a month, so you can't open it up."

Professor Ding said with a smile: "It's good to have it. Meihuaxue is a military fish, tsk tsk tsk, this is an enjoyment!"

Uncle Yaoshi also laughed and said: "In the past when we went to the mountains, it was not much better than you. This year Piwa came back and lived in a tent house. The sleeping bags are warm and comfortable, and the food is even more particular! I won't run into the mountains for a few months. , the soles of the feet are itchy!"

Everyone laughed and started to fish fillets in the pot.

The fish fillets are smooth and sweet, Professor Ding said: "The fish from Dushui River tastes really good!"

Uncle Orion said: "The military fish in Dushui River is a must, and it sells for as little as two hundred pounds in the county! The cost of this pot is a thousand dollars. By the way, have you figured out the matter of peach blossom miasma?"

Professor Li drank a bowl of fish soup and praised: "This thick soup can stick your mouth." Then he said: "I didn't go far in the afternoon, I just checked the two banks. There is less organic matter, the water quality is clear, and the rocks in the water are mainly igneous rocks, and no strange minerals have been found."

Professor Ding also said: "The surrounding plants are also common, mainly shrubs and bamboo forests, and there are barbed barb and broad-finned carp in the water, ah, we eat these two kinds of fish, and these two kinds of fish have very high requirements on water quality. It is correct to say that the water quality is not a problem.”

Professor Li thought about it thoughtfully, and said, "By the way, Orion, this peach blossom miasma only occurs in April?"

Uncle Orion ate a piece of peach blossom fish, nodded and said: "Well, it was about that time, about a month or so."

Professor Ding said: "The old Li, it seems that it is still plant-based, and the influence of minerals should be ruled out."

Professor Li said: "Well, it seems that there should be a large-scale plant community in the upper reaches that can anesthetize fish. This so-called peach blossom miasma is seasonal, because it does not affect people after eating fish in Dushui River. record."

Uncle Yaoshi nodded and said: "Well, this is also reasonable. The fish in Dushui River can always be eaten, even the fish that has been turned over by numbness can be eaten, and it saves the effort of fishing!"

Professor Ding said: "Then the so-called miasma-poisoned fish here, are they big or not?"

Uncle Yaoshi and Uncle Orion looked at each other, and Uncle Orion said, "It seems that it's really not big. The main reason is that the peach blossom fish that Weiwei caught was seven or eight centimeters. Sometimes there were some white strips and small crucian carp."

Professor Ding said: "It seems to be a matter of concentration. This ingredient has an anesthetic effect on fish. The concentration can only affect small fish. Hahaha, this is really an interesting topic."

Uncle Medicine Master said: "I also know some medicines for this hemp fish, such as croton, oil tea cake, mangcao, and even mosquito coils, but there seems to be none in the upper reaches of Dushui River."

Uncle Orion said: "Whoever has nothing to do to study this, in Lijiagou, whoever dares to poison fish in the stream will be punished!"

Professor Ding said with a smile: "Then you have done a good job in protecting the ecology here. But then again, there are far more plants that can poison fish than the pharmacist. You said these, Strychnaceae, Humanaceae, Camellia genus, Lilac Polygonum genus, Urtica, vine, yam... at least twenty or thirty species."

Uncle Pharmacist was stunned: "There are so many? Oh, old Ding, you are too good!"

Professor Ding said: "The medicines you research are mainly in this Bifeng Mountain. We study all kinds of medicines across the country. We specialize in surgery. I am not good at it. Speaking of the medicinal materials in this Bifeng Mountain, I am Definitely not as good as you."

Uncle Orion smiled and said: "No matter what, we still have to walk along the river valley for two days anyway, and then Lao Ding and Lao Li can study it slowly, don't worry! It's serious to get rid of this pot of fish now!"

After eating, everyone chatted for a while, and then they got into their personal tents, and fell asleep in the valley without light pollution, under the starlight all over the sky, smelling the faint fragrance of plum blossoms.

Li Junge added some more firewood to the fire, took out an old-fashioned mobile phone with a long standby time that he bought specially, and called Ayin. After looking around, he felt that there would be no nocturnal animals in such an environment. Also sneaked into the tent and fell asleep.

There were no major discoveries in the next two days. A group of people walked along the river valley and found a lot of various plants and birds, but nothing worthy of the table.

On the contrary, he ate a lot of fish, and the pharmacist uncle also collected a lot of medicinal materials, some of which Professor Ding didn't know very well, and the two of them talked speculatively along the way.

But on the third day, when Weiwei passed a shallow stream, she suddenly found something moving under the water.

Weiwei pointed it out to Li Junge: "There, there! There's something under the water!"

Li Junge fiddled with the stone with the yellow thorn stick in his hand, and a small brown-gray thing came out from under the stone, and burrowed into another crevice of the stone.

"Hi, a little salamander." Li Junge said.

Seeing a giant salamander immediately raised the discussion about reptiles and amphibians.

Weiwei said to Li Junge: "Erpi, how big have you seen the salamander in Shushan?"

Li Junge said: "The ones I've seen are nothing, Uncle Orion, how big have you seen them?"

Uncle Orion said: "The biggest one I've seen weighed forty to fifty catties, but at that time I didn't know how to protect it, so it was stewed in a pot..."

Hearing this, the three researchers rolled their eyes.

Seeing the expressions of the three scientists, Uncle Orion smiled and smacked his forehead: "Actually, it's too big and it's not very tasty. Three to five catties is suitable. It tastes like Shi Kang..."

Even Li Junge couldn't listen anymore, so he hurriedly interrupted: "This year the salamander woke up quite early."

Uncle Orion said: "In the past ten years, the salamanders have woken up sooner and earlier. There are quite a lot of salamanders in this stream."

Weiwei asked: "This tributary looks quite clear, can the giant salamander find enough food?"

Uncle Orion was still leading the way, and said as he walked: "This thing has a variety of food habits. It can eat fish, shrimp, crabs, waterfowl, frogs, and everything. I have found bugs, wood blocks, small stones, and even worms in their stomachs. There is also a small salamander."

"Damn!" This Li Junge really didn't know: "It even eats its own children?!"

Uncle Orion said: "Is it strange that wild animals have this habit? When the chicks hatch, they push their nestmates out of the nest and die. After the goldfish lay eggs, they eat their own eggs. There are many such things. gone."

Wei Wei nodded and said: "Even the male lions on the grassland are mostly killed by young male lions who came to compete for territory and lionesses after aging. The cruel competition in nature is the survival of the fittest, that's it."

Li Junge shook his head and said, "No wonder the ancestors listed the 'Life Test' as one of the five blessings. If Zhuangzi knew the survival rules of fish, he would probably not be envious anymore, hahaha..."

Weiwei thought of another thing, and said, "Ouch! The salamander has woken up, will the snake wake up too?!"

Uncle Orion said: "Most of the snakes in Lijiagou are non-venomous. There are only a few types of snakes that are poisonous. Generally, they don't attack people. You just need to see clearly from the aisle."

Seeing that Weiwei was still frightened, he said: "The snake hasn't woken up yet, it will take a month, Weiwei, you don't have to be afraid, there are only a few poisonous snakes in Lijiagou, the wind over the mountain, the wind with the flat head, the iron head, and the green bamboo leaves. , There used to be gold-coated iron and silver-coated iron, but now I can’t see it.”

Li Junge also explained in a serious way: "The wind over the mountain is the king cobra, the wind with the flat head is the cobra, the iron head is the viper, the gold-coated iron is the golden krait, and the silver-coated iron is the silver krait."

Wei Wei's hair was almost standing on end, and she pulled Li Junge's sleeve: "Oh, don't scare me!"

Uncle Orion said: "Our mountain runners are never afraid of snakes, because as long as you don't provoke them, they will basically not attack people, and will hide from people. Just look carefully, stop and wait for a while when you see it. Just wait until it's gone and you can go."

"Zhuyeqing may have to pay attention, because this snake is mostly on the tree, and the wounds of people bitten are mostly on the upper body, which is closer to the heart and head, so it is more dangerous. But it is easier to find, so don't be afraid."

"We also have a kind of tree snake here called 'Green Snake', which is non-toxic. The difference from Zhuyeqing is that the green snake is emerald green all over, while Zhuyeqing's belly and back are two colors, the top is darker and the bottom is lighter, and there is a line in the middle. The tip of the tail is burnt red, and the eyes are also red."

"The most important thing to pay attention to is probably the tip of the soldering iron. The main reason is that this snake is fat and lazy. It doesn't hide from people. It doesn't move when it hears footsteps. It will only give you a bite when you step on it. But it's easy to recognize. Its head is like a soldering iron. The back of the head is slightly concave, causing the tip of the front nose to look slightly upturned, and this snake is also named 'Bamboo Shoot Shell Spot', which is similar in color to the bamboo shoot shell."

"Only you are from the north. It's normal to be afraid of snakes. As long as you pay attention to what I said, it's about the same."

Li Junge said with a smile: "In the past, there were houses with earthen walls and thatched grass in the countryside. If a house didn't have a snake or two on the foundation, people would say that this house couldn't afford it. Legend has it that the old ancestors were reincarnated to guard the foundation of the house."

Uncle Yaoshi said: "There is really nothing to be afraid of now, even in a month or so, as long as you sprinkle a circle of snake medicine around when camping, you will be fine."

Seeing that several locals were downplaying the snake and not paying attention to the snake, Wei Wei's nervous mood gradually relaxed.

(End of this chapter)