"stop!"
Upon hearing Ruan Meng's exclamation, the third brother stopped what he was doing and didn't dare to move.
Ruan Meng threw down her basket, ran over, pulled her third brother away, and carefully examined his face, neck, and hands.
With a small amount of white paste staining her clothes, Ruan Meng asked her third brother to take off her shirt and burn it with a tinderbox before she could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
"What's wrong, little sister?"
The third brother also became nervous.
Clothes are expensive on the island, and my sister wouldn't have burned them unless it was an emergency.
"Third Brother, which eye of yours is looking at this tree? Is it a holly?"
Ruan Meng felt powerless, but her mood gradually calmed down.
Ruan Zheng asked in confusion, "Aren't they the same? They look the same to me! Look at this bark, it's so thick!"
Ruan Meng retorted, "Didn't you notice that not even grass grows underneath it?"
The third brother looked down and carefully surveyed the area. He discovered that within a ten-foot radius of the tree, not a single blade of grass grew, and his skin broke out in goosebumps.
Ruan Meng continued, "We cut down the iron holly twice, but Third Brother didn't notice that you can't get any white sap out of the iron holly trunk?"
The third brother then remembered that his sister had checked him earlier and found a small amount of tree sap on his clothes, which was why she had asked him to burn them.
"Third Brother, did you catch your hunger from Second Brother? You're so lucky!"
Ruan Meng's rant.
The second son was cooking rice when he suddenly sneezed and muttered to himself:
"Hmm? Who's thinking about me? It must be my sister!"
The third brother, steeling himself, asked, "Sister, is the sap of this tree poisonous?"
Ruan Meng took a deep breath. "Poisonous?"
"It's known as the most poisonous tree in the world, called the poison arrow tree. You've probably heard of another name for it..."
"The Antiaris toxicaria tree! How poisonous? It can kill itself!" (Image from the internet) "The white sap, a single drop can kill a cow. If, by chance, it gets on a skin wound, even Hua Tuo (a legendary Chinese physician) couldn't save it!"
The third brother's face turned pale instantly. Even though Ruan Meng had just checked him, he checked himself again to make sure there were no wounds before he breathed a sigh of relief.
Compared to his second brother, he originally felt confident that he could withstand the risks in the deep mountains...
At this moment, I felt a sudden surge of tension and a renewed sense of awe.
Without a shirt to cover her, Ruan Meng was worried that her third brother might be attacked by poisonous insects and snakes, so she told him to go down the mountain first.
But after experiencing the danger just now, how could the third brother leave his sister alone?
Ruan Meng had no choice but to walk down the mountain with her third brother.
As soon as they turned around, they heard a dull thud behind them.
Ruan Zhenggang turned around and saw a huge black object rushing towards his sister!
Without thinking, he lunged at his sister!
"ah!"
The third brother screamed.
Ruan Meng quickly got up, dragged her third brother behind her, and also saw the black object in front of her.
Black bear.
He is as tall as a person when he stands up.
When he ambushed Ruan Meng, he smashed the basket on Ruan Meng's back with one palm. Ruan Zheng blocked the attack from the other palm for Ruan Meng.
However, at this moment, the black bear did not attack the two, because...
It smashed the bamboo basket, and the venomous snake trapped inside slipped out and began to coil around the black bear's body.
Scorpions are also found near the brown bear's feet.
The venomous snake bared its fangs and lunged at the black bear!
The black bear must have been bitten, as it roared and smashed the venomous snake into a pulp!
Ruan Meng pulled her third brother back and checked the wounds on his back.
The bloodstains were conspicuous, but they weren't too deep after being exposed to the sun.
Ruan Meng removed the herbs from the side, chewed them up, and applied them to her third brother's back, keeping a distance that was neither too close nor too far from the black bear.
She counted silently in her head.
"three......"
"two......"
"one......"
The third brother turned his head in surprise, not understanding what was going on.
But as Ruan Meng finished counting to "one," the enormous thing suddenly collapsed to the ground with a "bang."
Ruan Meng held down her third brother, making him wait where he was.
He quietly approached, intending to check on the black bear's condition, when suddenly half a venomous snake flew towards him!
"younger sister!"
The third child screamed.
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