When Yang Chunyan returned home, she first went to the kitchen to shovel half a basket of wood ash and brought it to the eaves. Then she went to the backyard to bring the potatoes that Yang's mother had picked out and had already sprouted to the front yard.
Wangcai was taken away by Zhou Huaian, and Lai Fu lay there with his eyes following her.
Yang Chunyan prepared the potato seeds and wood ash, then found a piece of wood and placed it on a long bench. She cut off the spores on the potatoes one by one. Cutting potatoes into pieces and planting them can increase the germination rate and survival rate.
Wood ash contains alkali and is also an excellent potassium fertilizer. It has a bactericidal and disinfecting effect. Wood ash does not dissolve in water and will remain in the soil for a long time. It contains a special smell that pests in the ground do not like.
The cut surface of freshly cut potato seeds contains a lot of moisture. Rolling them in wood ash can clean the cut surface and kill some bacteria.
In addition, the cut potatoes can absorb sweat quickly and are not easy to rot after being planted.
After cutting most of the potato seeds, two baskets were filled.
Yang Chunyan carried potato seeds to the newly opened potato field and saw rows of ridges neatly arranged there, with even furrows dug.
The two old ladies were worried that she couldn't handle it all by herself, so they dug all the ridges yesterday and also picked up two loads of mature manure from the old house and piled them by the side of the field for her to use.
Yang Chunyan picked up a hoe and dug a bag of mature fertilizer. She scattered a handful every half a foot or so, covering all the ridges before starting to plant potatoes.
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Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding have now chased the little bee to the forest where they cut the chicken blood vine last time.
The two found the nest of bumblebees in a large dead tree stump at the foot of the slope. They were stunned when they saw the stump was so large that it took at least two people to hug it.
Zhou Huaian looked around and said, "If it is hidden in here, how much effort will it take to split the tree stump?"
Zhou Yiding put down his backpack and took out his machete. "What can I do? I have to do it even if it takes time!"
"Yeah, we can't just throw it away!" Zhou Huaian took out a machete, and the two of them started fighting.
After watching for a while, Wangcai went out for a walk to look for prey.
"Hum~hum~" Zhou Yiding seemed to hear a painful groan coming from the bottom of the slope. He raised his hand to interrupt Zhou Huaian and listened attentively with his ears pricked up. "Youngest, did you hear any sound?"
Zhou Huaian listened for a while and said, "Something seems to be barking down there. Where did that dog Wangcai go?"
The two men put down their machetes, picked up their guns and walked towards the place where the sound came from. When they came to a ravine with a little water left, the sound became smaller and smaller, leaving only a low, intermittent "hum" sound like a gasp.
The sound was eerie in the silent forest.
Zhou Huaian turned his head and glanced at Zhou Yiding, "Fuck! My hair is standing on end."
Zhou Yiding nodded, "That's right, could it be a monster?"
Zhou Huaian raised his gun and said, "Fuck you, I want to run away when you say that."
"Me too!" Zhou Yiding listened for a while and heard no more noise. "Then let's go back and fix our beehive."
"Then why are you still walking? Go back!" Zhou Huaian turned around decisively. Before he took two steps, he heard Wangcai's barking from the front.
"Why don't you come back soon, you bastard! I'll teach you a lesson when I get back."
"Like you, half-hearted and running around."
The two men ran over with guns in hand, and stood there in shock when they saw the situation in front of them. Their scalps went numb, and they kept muttering, "Fuck! Fuck!"
When Wangcai saw the two people coming, he also stepped aside and looked into the ditch.
I saw a huge python as thick as an adult man's calf, brown in color, with irregular light brown cloud-like spots all over its body, tightly encircling a half-grown wild boar.
The snake's mouth was as big as a large wooden basin, with the back half of the wild boar's body in its mouth, and the remaining ugly pig head seemed to be looking at the two people and the dog.
The wild boar's eyes were bulging from being entangled by the python, with blood oozing from its eye sockets. It was motionless and looked like it was dead.
Zhou Huaian shook his head. "Damn it, it's so disgusting. I'm about to vomit..."
Zhou Yiding thought of something, "Next time, give a few of your hunting rifles to Sister Huifang. If she is unlucky enough to encounter this thing, she will have a life-saving weapon."
"That's right, if you hadn't told me, I would have forgotten about it. If they encounter this thing, it will be a disaster." Zhou Huaian raised his gun and aimed at the python, "Ding Ding Cat, kill it!"
The python sensed danger and looked at the two-legged monster and the dog vigilantly, but the wild boar was stuck in its throat and it couldn't launch an attack at all.
"Yes, we're saving it for the New Year!" Zhou Yiding reacted and raised his gun, "Let's shoot it below the snake's neck!"
"Oh!" Zhou Huaian immediately aimed at the position he said, and the two fired a few shots "bang, bang". The python was broken into two sections, and the wild boar fell into the ditch with its head, and the snake's body was still rolling in the ditch.
The two men and the dog stared at the thick snake body and slowly stiffened.
Zhou Huaian exclaimed, "Oh my god, it's at least four or five meters long when connected together." He turned his head and looked at Zhou Yiding, "I've never seen such a big python before, what should I do?"
Zhou Yiding thought for a moment and said, "Of course we have to take it back! Even if we can't sell the snake meat, we can probably sell the snake skin for 10 to 20 yuan."
Zhou Huaian suddenly remembered that day when he saw someone selling snakes at Douhua Village, and a small piece of cauliflower was sold for three yuan. "Go back and peel some and keep them, and send the rest to Douhua Village, and you can also sell them for some money."
Zhou Yiding said happily after hearing this: "It would be better if someone collects them. Let's go back and get the backpack, peel the snake's head and get the wild boar out."
The two men ran back to the tree stump, picked up the machetes, picked up the backpacks, and ran back again.
Zhou Huaian took out the dagger from his lower back and cut the snake's neck. The two men felt sick when they saw the wild boar covered in mucus and blood.
"Ding Ding cat, the pig is still hot. Cut it and drain the blood, so that the meat won't be covered in blood foam."
"Yes!" Zhou Yiding took a look and said, "There is a pit over there. Carry it over there, drain the blood, wash it and put it in the backpack."
The two men hurriedly carried it over and stabbed the wild boar with a knife. After draining all the blood, they carried it to a place with water downstream, got some water and dry grass to wash it, and then lifted it up and put it on the backpack and tied it up with a rope.
Zhou Yiding looked at Wangcai who was looking at him eagerly and patted his head. "You have done a great job. I will give you some bones to chew when I get back!"
"Woof woof!" Wangcai sniffed the peeled snake head and stepped aside.
Zhou Huaian took a look and said, "We'll take the body back and eat it, and bury the snake head so that it can be reborn as a human as soon as possible."
"Yes!" Zhou Yiding jumped into the ditch and lifted up the snake with great effort. "It may be 60 to 70 kilograms. I just can't understand how such a small creature can swallow a wild boar weighing more than 100 kilograms?" (End of this chapter)
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