Yun Le was startled to see his son carrying his wife back home.

"What happened? Where are you hurt?"

“Then we encountered a snake on the mountain,” Yun Jianying began, but was interrupted by his father.

"I encountered a snake! Where was I bitten? What kind of snake bit me? I'm going to Zhijian right away!" she said, trying to run outside.

"Dad, Mom is fine."

"How can you say you're alright? Your lips are all blue, and you still say you're alright." Yun Jianying was interrupted by his father as soon as he opened his mouth, but fortunately Ma Lan spoke up at this moment.

"Le Jia, I'm really fine. I'm just so scared by the snake that I feel weak all over."

Hearing his wife say this, Yun Lejia was still very worried. He rolled up his wife's trouser leg and carefully checked her until he found no wounds, only then did he feel relieved.

"How could you have gone there by yourself if you had nothing to do? If it weren't for Ah Cheng and the others being there by chance, the consequences would have been unimaginable." Yun Lejia became more and more frightened as she thought about it.

At this moment, Yun Qi also arrived at his door and called out loudly.

"Jianying, I've put your hoe and bucket in the yard."

"Sis! I'm so sorry to have troubled you. I was so anxious that I forgot, and I'm so grateful that you had to make this special trip."

"Xiao Qi, come in and sit down." Yun Jiale invited Yun Qi to sit down at his home.

"No, Uncle Le, I have things to do at home. I'll come over next time I have time." He said as he walked out.

Seeing that Yun Qi had already walked away, Yun Jiale then nudged his son, urging him to quickly recount what had happened.

"Sigh, we should have kept Xiao Qi here, at least to take something back for her." After hearing the whole story, Yun Jiale was both shocked and scared. It was really lucky that they encountered the Si Cheng family. Otherwise, most people wouldn't have dared to approach and rescue such a large snake as her son described.

"My brother Cheng and the others won't mind these things. I'll put in extra effort when we go out with him." Yun Jianying felt a little embarrassed as soon as he finished speaking. Brother Cheng really didn't need his help.

Instead of looking at her own foolish son, Yun Lejia went straight to the room to rummage through it, looking for anything she could bring to Yun Qijia.

Just as Si Cheng was about to reach his doorstep, he ran into his second grandfather, Yun Zhiming, who was walking towards him. Yun Zhiming quickly went to greet him with his two young grandsons.

"Second Uncle, are you taking a walk? Why didn't you ask Yuntao and the others to accompany you?"

"Why should I need them to accompany me? They're busy enough with things at home. I won't go far; I'll just wander around this neighborhood."

"Hello, Second Great-Grandpa!" Junjun and Lele quickly greeted their maternal grandfather after he finished speaking. They usually liked this Second Great-Grandpa very much because he could always pull out candy from his pocket, and their parents never dared to stop them from eating candy in front of him.

"Has our little one been good today?"

"Second Grandfather, Junjun was so well-behaved today, she didn't make a sound at all." Si Yongjun quickly raised his hand to express his gratitude.

"Lele was good today too. I even learned to count from Grandma." Lele saw her older brother answer first and quickly shared her own performance.

"Hey, you did a really good job. Your second great-grandfather will give you some candy as a reward." He then pulled out a few more fruit candies from his pocket. These candies were brought back from the county town last time. He would put some in his pocket every day and give a few to the children in the village. Now he was the most popular old man in the village, without a doubt.

"Thank you, Second Grandfather!" The two little ones quickly accepted the candy that Second Grandfather gave them.

During this period, their family limited their sugar intake, and no amount of pleading or acting cute worked. They could only satisfy their cravings at their great-grandfather's. The moment they received a candy, they quickly unwrapped it, stuffed it into their mouths, and hurriedly put the rest into their pockets, clutching them tightly, as if afraid it would be taken away at any moment.

"Don't worry, your parents won't dare to take it from you. If they do, tell your great-grandfather, and he'll beat them with his big cane." The second grandfather watched them reenact this scene with amusement and quickly reassured them.

"Second Grandfather is the best, we like you the most."

"You little ingrate, you were saying this morning that you loved your grandpa the most. How come you've changed your mind now?" Yun Zhiming looked at the old man and the two children in front of him with amusement, their cooperation becoming more and more perfect.

"Where did you find this? It must weigh more than ten pounds!" The second grandfather noticed the cobra in Si Cheng's hand. Although he had caught many snakes recently, this was the first time he had seen such a large venomous snake.

"It should weigh about twenty-five pounds." Si Cheng weighed the item in his hand and gave an accurate figure.

"That's quite a lot. I wonder where all these snakes came from? It feels like we can't kill them all." Because of the snake infestation, several old men have been confined to their homes and are no longer allowed to go into the fields. My second grandfather, for example, was only allowed to take a walk in the village after a period of protest.

“They must have moved from other mountains. These animals have an innate instinct to avoid natural disasters, and they may have migrated here before the earthquake. Many of these species were no longer found here before,” Yun Zhiming said, expressing his guess.

"If that's the case, then it's bad. If this continues, we need to be on guard. A snake that big is not something an ordinary person can subdue."

"Indeed, it took A-Cheng quite a bit of effort to subdue him." Yun Zhiming then recounted the process of subduing the snake to his second uncle. Seeing that they were chatting enthusiastically, Si Cheng greeted them and went home first.

To avoid frightening his mother-in-law, he took the snake directly to the ditch in the backyard, took out a dagger from the side of his boot, carefully removed the snake's gall bladder, and cut off the snake's head, placing it in a basin. He planned to take advantage of its recent death and quickly send it to Yunnan Medicine to see if it could be used for medicine. He put the snake meat in a basket and hung it under the eaves, then took the basin and went out.

On his way back, Yunqi happened to run into his father chatting enthusiastically with his second grandfather, while the two little rascals in the family were eating something with their mouths full.

Upon closer listening, I overheard them discussing ways to deal with snakes, even mentioning where to find snake venom to reduce the chances of them entering the village.

"Actually, we could plant snakes to wipe out the entire family." Seeing them reject each suggestion one by one, Yun Qi couldn't help but interject.

"I've heard of snakes wiping out entire families before, but I don't know what they look like or how to find them. Does Xiao Qi know where snakes can wipe out entire families?"

"I do know about this. The snake-killing family is what everyone calls wild cassia. It used to be sold in seed shops, but now you can't buy it at all. However, some families in the village should grow it. You can look for it and plant it in front of and behind your house. That way, snakes usually won't dare to come near."