Chapter 168 Is this normal?
When Liu Baogen heard the news, he thought he was dreaming: "What did you say? The educated youth were driven mad by something??"
Liu Erzhu slapped his thigh and shouted, "Snake! It's a snake! And rats too!"
snake? ?
Liu Baogen laughed angrily: "Liu Erzhu, do you want to listen to what you're saying? Those snakes have been hibernating for a long time. Are you going to go up the mountain and dig them out? Those educated youths are just bored and have nothing better to do than cause trouble all the time. Are you going to join in their antics?"
Liu Erzhu stamped his feet anxiously: "Hey, Captain, I'm not kidding you, there really is a snake, I saw it!"
Seeing that he didn't seem to be lying, Liu Baogen's expression immediately changed: "There really are snakes?"
"Yes, you should go and take a look. Those educated youth are freezing to death and they won't go back. What are we going to do?"
Even if the educated youth were troublesome, nothing could happen to them in their brigade. Liu Baogen jumped out of bed, put on his cotton coat, and rushed over.
On the main road at the entrance of the village, a group of people stood there chattering away, which gave Liu Baogen a headache: "These old women and men, it's one thing to watch the excitement during the day, but aren't they afraid of getting sick from the cold in the middle of the night?"
When he saw the educated youth dressed in only thin clothes, his face changed completely, and he cursed, "Do you all want to freeze to death? Just stand there like that! Go back and put on some clothes!"
That's really courting death; if something really happens, the whole brigade will have to step in.
At this point, Zhou Hu had no regard for his image anymore, and cried with snot and tears streaming down his face, "Captain... we dare not go back, there are... there are snakes!"
He was shivering from the cold, and his teeth were chattering as he spoke. The other educated youth were in a similar state, nodding desperately for help, and they looked pitiful.
Liu Baogen: ...
Now is not the time for you to stubbornly steal things from the former educated youth? You've finally met your match!
"Aunt Qiao, you and a few other aunties who live nearby, go home and get some clothes for them to tide them over. Don't let them get too cold. Erzhu, you take a few strong men and come with me to the educated youth settlement."
Liu Erzhu shook his head so hard it was like a spinning top. "Captain, I dare not go. There really are snakes, swarming everywhere, like I've been possessed!"
Liu Erzhu whispered the last sentence almost into Liu Baogen's ear.
Liu Baogen slapped him on the head: "So what if there really is a snake? Have you never seen a snake before? You coward, what a wimp! I'm telling you now, whoever catches the snake keeps it. It'll be good to have some meat for the family during the winter."
Upon hearing this, the group of onlookers seemed to have their "Ren and Du meridians" opened up, realizing, "Oh right, snakes are meat too!"
"Captain, I'll go with you!"
"I'm going too!"
"Me too!"
"Forget it, why are you getting involved, you old woman!"
"What, you look down on women? Chairman Mao said that women hold up half the sky, so you look down on women?"
"Hey, what's wrong with you? I'm not talking to you."
Liu Baogen completely ignored their argument; as long as the matter was resolved, it didn't matter how many people were involved.
At first, he thought the educated youth were naive and had never seen the world, but when he saw the dense swarm of snakes crawling all over the wall, his scalp tingled and a chill ran down his spine.
"Oh my God! This...this...!!!" His voice trembled slightly. The scene before him was too bizarre. Was this really normal?
That's delicious snake meat!
Thinking of this, their eyes lit up, as if the snakes were no longer terrifying creatures, but mouthwatering delicacies.
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