Chapter 12 What Animal
The body is about the thickness of a thumb, with green-brown dorsal scales, two black lines running vertically, and rare large round eyes.
This black-necked snake is the most common snake in Meishan. It likes to hide under dead trees to rest. Although it is not poisonous, it has serrations on its teeth and its bite is very painful. The bite will leave two big holes.
She sawed off the branch and moved away the leaves before she found it. At this time, the man and the snake were only two meters apart.
Zhao Yeqing stared at it motionlessly, cursing in his mind.
'Hey, brother, the tree just fell down for one day, why are you here so soon?
If the enemy doesn't move, I can't just stay still.'
Zhao Yeqing tried to move back a little, and the black-banded snake slowly straightened up. She immediately dared not move.
Where are the geese? Can they fly out and save us?
Zhao Yeqing swallowed his saliva, struggling with whether to run or continue standing there and confronting.
The black-banded snake suddenly leaped forward and opened its mouth to bite Zhao Yeqing's thigh.
She opened her eyes wide and instinctively swung the hand saw in her hand forward, hitting the black-necked snake that was pouncing forward. The saw scraped off a layer of skin and flesh from the snake's body and threw it aside.
The injured black-banded snake fell to the ground and turned around and swam away.
Zhao Yeqing ran back to the yard.
Snakes are the animals she fears the most, no doubt about it.
Even if you face a bird of prey, it's no big deal if you die quickly.
But snakes are really disgusting.
Zhao Yeqing hugged his arms and rubbed them vigorously, and goose bumps appeared all over his body.
But the sticking branches had not been cleared away yet, and she didn't want to save any more money at this time.
Zhao Yeqing took out an electric saw and connected it to a power source. He discovered through practice that the sun in the mountains now can generate less than one kilowatt-hour of electricity a day, which is just enough to supply a small freezer and electric lights. But now he can only be a little extravagant and make a quick decision, using an electric saw to cut off the branches.
She found a hemp rope, tied a loop around the goose's neck, and then coaxed, pulled, and fed the goose until it stood next to a big tree.
Zhao Yeqing felt much safer now.
Once I got the hang of using the electric saw, my efficiency improved significantly.
Just in case, she sawed off the front half of the tree, about two or three meters outside the wall, and cut it into small pieces, and put them aside to dry as firewood.
Keeping it in other places would not pose a threat to the family for the time being, so she decided not to deal with it for the time being.
After all, electric saws are very powerful and consume a lot of electricity, so you have to save some.
Before, he only sprinkled some snake repellent powder around the yard. Now that the activity range has expanded, Zhao Yeqing sprinkled a circle of snake repellent powder around the entire homestead.
She was afraid of snakes, so when she bought this thing, she bought it by the kilogram.
After doing all this, I remembered that the Artemisia selengensis I had picked earlier had not been processed yet.
Wash the Artemisia selengensis, put it into water with some salt, boil it for a few minutes, take it out and squeeze out the water, then cut it into small pieces, stir-fry it in oil and serve.
Take out the glutinous rice flour and rice flour and add cold water. She didn't like her hands and the dough, and always felt uncomfortable when it stuck to her hands, so she used chopsticks to mix them into a dough, then cut them into pieces and put them in the pot to steam.
Knead the steamed dough and the previously fried Artemisia selengensis together with a little sugar. The dough made from glutinous rice flour and rice flour is not as firm as that made from wheat flour, and it takes a lot of effort to knead it well.
Cut the fully kneaded dough into small pieces, roll them into balls and flatten them, and the mugwort rice cake is ready.
Pour some oil into the pan, put the glutinous rice cakes into the pan, fry them on both sides until they are browned and then you can eat them.
Zhao Yeqing couldn't wait to pick one up, took a small bite, and his hands couldn't bear the heat anymore, so he quickly threw the glutinous rice cake back into the plate.
The skin is crispy and the inside is soft and glutinous, glutinous but not sticky, and the mouth is full of fragrance.
Zhao Yeqing narrowed his eyes in satisfaction, blew on the glutinous rice cake to cool it down, picked it up and took another big bite.
She felt full after eating two palm-sized glutinous rice cakes. Sticky foods are very filling.
As soon as she had eaten her fill, she was already thinking about picking some more to bring back. Next time, she would make the glutinous rice cake with brown sugar filling. She would fry it until the surface was crispy and the inside was glutinous and filled with runny brown sugar.
Is there anything more delicious than a sugar-oil mixture?
In Zhao Yeqing's memory, the Qingming rice cake in spring definitely occupies a place.
He fried four more glutinous rice cakes in oil, put them in a bowl, walked to the grave of his grandparents, and placed the glutinous rice cakes in front of the four elderly people.
It seems that the older generation has a deeper affection for glutinous rice cake. She has never seen an elderly person who doesn’t like to eat glutinous rice cake.
When my grandparents were still alive, they would make a lot of glutinous rice cakes every year, both during the Chinese New Year and Qingming Festival, and they would last for several months.
The forest in spring has two colors of green, the dark green that has not withered in the previous year and the tender green that grows in the new year. She leaned against the tombstone, looking at the branches and leaves rustling in the wind above her head. The dappled sunlight sprinkled through the leaves, so beautiful that it was a little dazzling.
She didn't say anything about what had happened recently.
She wants the world her grandparents see to always be the most beautiful.
After showing filial respect to the old man, Zhao Yeqing repacked the glutinous rice cake and took it away.
There's no other way. Food is precious nowadays, and I, your granddaughter, don't mind eating what you leave behind.
On the way, I didn't forget to pick up some dry firewood. Now I need firewood every day to make fire, cook, boil water and take a bath.
The tricycle is being charged, and only half of the battery is left. If the tricycle can be used to pull a load of firewood back, it can be used for several days.
Now she carries the goods manually, and needs to carry them several times a day to meet the demand.
So the original intention of human invention is laziness.
It takes two kilowatt-hours of electricity to fully charge her tricycle, which is beyond her ability to afford right now, so she can only move it manually.
Holding the bowl in one hand and the firewood in the other, his efficiency was even lower. Seeing that the firewood stock was running low, Zhao Yeqing picked up an axe and planned to chop back two days' worth of firewood.
He sprinkled snake repellent powder on his body and went into the woods.
A lot of branches fell during the last earthquake, and she tried not to cut down trees as much as possible. She would chop the fallen branches into pieces and take them home to dry.
From being unskilled, he was able to pick up a branch and cut a piece of firewood of uniform length with one chop of the axe. He chopped as he walked, and slowly reached the side of the dirt road.
She discovered that the trap cover had collapsed and her heart skipped a beat. Could there be more infected people?
I approached slowly, stretched my head slightly and looked inside, and saw a little deer lying on the ground.
But it has no horns.
Knowing that it was not an infected person, Zhao Yeqing moved closer to take a look. It looked like a deer but it was not a deer.
Could it be a roe deer?
Everyone says that silly roe deer is silly roe deer, so that's why he fell into the hole she dug?
The animal in the cave was obviously a little weak, perhaps it sprained its foot. It had been in there for who knows how many days. It squinted its eyes and did not move. It seemed that it sensed another creature approaching, so it opened its eyes.
Seeing Zhao Yeqing at the entrance of the cave, the animal raised its head weakly and barked a few times.
"Mi mi..." showing the teeth inside.
Mimi calls? And has little fangs?
Zhao Yeqing remembered that there was a rumor that there was an animal in Meishan that was listed in the "Red List of Endangered Species of the World Conservation Union" and was also a first-class protected animal in my country.
Musk deer.
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