【28】Waiting for the Rabbit
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The shopkeeper looked at Su Xueer with a hint of worry, his brows slightly furrowed. "The Taipan snake is extremely venomous and extremely rare. If you are accidentally bitten, you will fall into a coma at best, or die quickly at worst. Therefore, this kind of snake is particularly difficult to catch. If you are not a professional, it is better not to look for it. It is too dangerous."
Su Xueer smiled, nodded slightly and said, "Thank you, shopkeeper." After that, she turned around and left the pharmacy and returned home.
She gave all the vegetables to Qianyu, then prepared some tools and went up the mountain.
He never told Chi Rui that he was going into the mountains to look for the Taipan snake worth a hundred taels.
Before leaving, Chi Rui specifically told her to go early and come back early, and not to look for wild vegetables if she couldn't find any.
The nearby hills are all low hills.
Today, she decided to go to the very high mountain in the east to try her luck.
She was not familiar with the way up the mountain, so she asked the nearby villagers and, with the help of the original owner's memory, she quickly climbed the mountain.
Although it is late autumn, you can still see small yellow flowers swaying in the autumn wind all over the mountains.
You will also see many women carrying bamboo baskets and digging wild vegetables in the mountains.
Su Xueer didn't have time to greet them, she went deep into the mountains.
Her goal today was clear: it wasn't to find wild vegetables and herbs, but to find traces of the Taipan snake.
She walked straight ahead along the bushes where the shopkeeper told her that the taipan snakes might appear.
When you reach a place where there is no road, use the sickle in your hand to cut a path forward.
But she didn't know that in this bush, in addition to the rare Taipan snake, there were also various other snakes, insects, rats and ants.
It is more likely that there are some large beasts roaming around.
Suddenly, in a pile of leaves in front of his feet, there was a snake with a pointed head coiled up.
The whole body is emerald red and translucent. Su Xueer looked through the encyclopedia in her mind but couldn't recognize what kind of snake it was.
But when she was a child, she heard her grandfather say that the brighter the color of the snake, the more poisonous it is.
Some are so bad that even gods cannot save them after just one bite.
This snake was not the Taipan she was looking for, so she decided not to mess with it.
Su Xueer cautiously took a step back, bowed to the snake, and said softly: "Brother Snake, I'm sorry to disturb your sleep. I'll leave now." Then she changed another route.
It seems that even in late autumn and early winter, there are still snakes.
Then, the Taipan snake can definitely be found.
As the saying goes, people die for money and birds die for food. For the sake of one hundred taels, she risked everything.
Su Xueer continued to search for the Taipan snake in the bushes with difficulty.
She was extremely careful with every step she took, because she didn't know when a dangerous snake would emerge from the corner.
Her forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat, and her nervousness made her heart beat faster and faster.
Suddenly, she felt a movement at her feet. Looking down, she saw a small dark brown snake swimming quickly by.
Su Xueer was so scared that she almost screamed and quickly took a few steps back.
She calmed herself down and secretly thanked her lucky stare that she had not disturbed the snake, otherwise who knows what danger might have happened.
Then she came to an even denser patch of bushes, dark and damp, with a pungent smell.
She carefully pushed aside the branches and leaves, only to find a huge spider web inside with some unknown insects hanging on it.
She frowned and was about to go around it when she heard a hissing sound. Her heart suddenly rose to her throat, and she looked around nervously. Not far away, she saw a large, colorful snake, its head held high and tongue sticking out, as if warning her not to approach.
Su Xue'er was trembling with fear. She knew that such brightly colored snakes were often very poisonous. She backed away slowly, not daring to make any sound, for fear of angering the snake.
Change lane, then change lane again.
He continued searching in the bushes, muttering to himself, "God, since you gave me the lilac, please have mercy on me and give me a taipan snake."
But there is no such thing as having so many lucky fish and being extremely lucky.
I didn't find any taipan snakes, but I did see a lot of snakes, insects, rats, and ants. My biggest reward was a nest of pheasant eggs and I also killed a wild rabbit.
It was a good harvest, but she still didn't give up looking for the Taipan snake.
After searching for several hours, I suddenly heard a tiger roar.
She stumbled and twisted her ankle in fear. Su Xueer's face was filled with fear, and she thought to herself, "Snakes, insects, rats and ants are not scary, but I can't defeat tigers, leopards, jackals and wolves with this little sickle in my hand."
Is this mountain so scary? Before she finished thinking, she heard some people crying over there.
From what they said, they probably heard that there was a hunter in the mountains who had gone into the mountains yesterday and had not returned. The family only found a bloody shirt in the mountains. Judging from this, the hunter was most likely eaten by a tiger.
Su Xueer was terrified and prepared to take a detour down the mountain. When she limped home, it was already dark.
Chi Rui was sitting at the gate of the yard, holding a wheelchair, his brows furrowed and his eyes full of anxiety. What was he waiting for?
Then, when he saw Amelia Su, the panic on his face suddenly disappeared, replaced by the previous cold expression.
"Where have you been?" Chi Rui asked with a cold expression, raising his eyes slightly. Then, he turned his wheelchair and entered the yard.
Su Xueer limped in and shuddered at his sudden indifference. "I went to the mountain in the east to pick wild vegetables."
She walked to the small earthen stove in the yard, saw the cold pot and stove, turned around and asked: "Where is Qianyu? Didn't he cook for you?"
Chi Rui didn't answer her. He looked at the rabbit she put down, frowned angrily and said, "Why, did you find a rabbit while digging wild vegetables?"
Su Xueer glanced at the rabbit and smiled, "Oh, when I was digging wild vegetables, I happened to meet a rabbit. It bumped its head against a tree root and died. I picked it up after it died."
"Oh? So you're going to sit back and wait for something to happen tomorrow?" Chi Rui raised the corner of his mouth slightly, revealing a sarcastic smile.
Su Xueer heard the sarcasm in Chi Rui's words, but she focused on keeping a stable mood.
She lowered her head slightly and said softly, "Okay, I'll go and see if there are any rabbits looking for death tomorrow and run into them again. I'll just wait and see."
Chi Rui was even more angry at her words. "Don't go to Dongshan anymore."
Su Xueer nodded, "I see. It was indeed a bit scary on the mountain today."
Chi Rui frowned slightly and said, "From now on, I'll just dig for wild vegetables in the West Mountain. If I can't find any, forget it."
In fact, he had already asked Qianyu to look for her.
I learned from the villagers that she had gone to the deep mountains of Dongshan.
There are often jackals, tigers, leopards, poisonous snakes and other animals in the deep mountains of Dongshan.
How could she, a weak woman who knew no martial arts, dare to do that?
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