Chapter 460 The World Has Its Own Flavors
Gao Mingcheng pulled back a cart of red bricks. After unloading them, he went to the bayberry forest to see if the bayberries were ripe.
The temperature is hot in summer, and the fruits ripen faster. After a few days of growth, the bayberries that were previously raw have now all turned dark red.
People passing under the tree can smell a sweet and sour scent.
Gao Mingcheng reached out and picked one and ate it, and felt that it tasted quite good.
He found that under the tree with the most bayberries, there was a simple scaffolding, so people could climb up the scaffolding to pick the bayberries.
In addition to the bayberry forest, Gao Mingcheng took a walk around the area and saw several snakes in the grass.
In the past, Gao Mingcheng would ignore snakes even if he saw one unless he went out to catch them. But now that he has learned that snakes have eaten his eggs and bit his chickens to death, he no longer likes snakes.
No matter whether it was done by these snakes or not, let’s get it!
Gao Mingcheng picked up a wooden stick and swung it down. All the snakes he saw could not escape this fate and were killed.
In the spring, Gao Mingcheng bought a large amount of barbed wire and surrounded the entire Xiaofushan.
These barbed wire fences can effectively prevent wild animals from the outside forest from coming in, and can also prevent the chickens raised inside from escaping.
However, there are holes in the wire fence, so small animals like snakes and mice can still enter and exit freely.
But this is my territory and you are the one who listens to me! Any snake that dares to appear here will be killed!
Gao Mingcheng started to compete with the snake.
It is already dusk, and crepuscular snakes are starting to become active. At night, there are nocturnal snakes, and during the day, there are diurnal snakes.
Different species of snakes have different activity patterns.
Gao Mingcheng searched for a while, but didn't find any more snakes.
After all, there are traces of human activities in Xiaofushan. There is a lack of widespread food here, and snakes generally will not stay here for a long time. The snakes that were just killed were probably attracted by the chickens in the chicken coop.
Gao Mingcheng carried a few snakes back to the chicken coop.
Chen Dasong and his colleagues are still working, but the foundation has been almost dug.
Seeing Gao Mingcheng coming back with a few snakes, Chen Dasong couldn't help but feel happy.
He said to Gao Mingcheng, "Mingcheng, do you have any realgar at home? Snakes are most afraid of realgar. If you sprinkle some around the chicken coop, snakes will definitely not dare to come near."
Gao Mingcheng just smiled.
He had often heard people say that snakes were afraid of realgar wine. The most famous incident was when White Snake changed into her original form after drinking realgar wine, which frightened Xu Xian to death.
But Gao Mingcheng later found out that realgar is somewhat useful in repelling snakes, but not very useful.
The reason why realgar can repel snakes is not that it can directly harm snakes, but because realgar contains sulfur. Snakes are very sensitive to the smell of sulfur, so after smelling the odor, they are unwilling to come close.
Here comes the question, people's sense of smell is different, so snakes' sense of smell is also different!
For example, the cobra, which has the most sensitive sense of smell, will avoid realgar, but the rat snake, which has an insensitive sense of smell, will not avoid realgar at all and will regard realgar as nothing!
In this case, no matter how much realgar you sprinkle, it will be useless.
Besides, realgar is a toxic mineral medicinal material and should not be used indiscriminately. The volatile smell it emits is toxic. If a lot of realgar is sprinkled in a chicken coop, the toxic smell will cause harm to chickens and people.
Gao Mingcheng gave Chen Dasong and his friends some scientific knowledge, but Chen Dasong was skeptical and said, "That's what the old people said before. It can't be wrong!"
Practice is the only criterion for testing truth!
Gao Mingcheng had no intention of arguing with them, and just said: "Next time if I catch a rat snake, I will let you see whether it is afraid of realgar or not!"
"Okay, it's getting dark, go home and have some rest. I'll go get half a truckload of river sand and half a truckload of cement tomorrow morning. If you have time later, just finish building the house."
Gao Mingcheng said, motioning for everyone to go back home.
Chen Dasong asked Gao Mingcheng if he was going to have dinner at his house tonight, but Gao Mingcheng said he was not there.
"I'm going to my grandmother's house for dinner. By the way, do you want these snakes?" Gao Mingcheng shook the snakes in his hand.
He killed three snakes, two of which were non-venomous and one was actually a poisonous pit viper.
The pit viper has a very obvious characteristic, which is the triangular head and small tail. As for the pattern, different species have different patterns.
He didn't ask Zhang Chengyuan whether he wanted it or not, because he knew that Zhang Chengyuan and many other people were afraid of eating snakes.
Chen Dasong looked at the snake but was not afraid. He even happily accepted it.
Everyone dispersed and headed towards home.
Gao Mingcheng filled a basket with more than twenty eggs and walked towards his grandmother's house.
Some of the hens in the chicken coop have started laying eggs, but the newborn eggs are particularly small. Normal ones are as big as ping-pong balls, but there are also many small ones as small as quail eggs.
They have a saying here that newborn eggs are very nutritious and suitable for the elderly and children, so Gao Mingcheng took a lot of newborn eggs.
When we arrived at my grandmother's house, it was not completely dark yet. In summer, the days are long and the nights are short. Even though it was already seven o'clock in the evening, there was still a dim glow in the western sky.
As soon as I walked into my grandmother's yard, I heard familiar sounds - the sound of cooking and the radio.
While grandma was cooking in the kitchen, Gao Zhuang was sitting on a recliner, listening to stories on the radio to relax.
Seeing Gao Mingcheng coming, he immediately stood up and shouted with a smile: "Brother Mingcheng!"
"Gao Zhuang, why are you darker again? Don't think that you don't have to care about your appearance just because you married a wife. You have to wear a straw hat when you go out to work!" Gao Mingcheng was startled and almost didn't recognize Gao Zhuang at first sight.
"Hehe." Gao Zhuang touched the back of his head and smiled foolishly, saying, "The straw hat at home is broken, and I haven't had time to buy a new one yet."
Gao Mingcheng was speechless and said, "How difficult can it be to buy a straw hat? How about this? Tomorrow is the market day in the county. You can just go with me to the county to buy it, and by the way, buy all the things that are missing at home! Then look at your wife and children."
Gao Zhuang was extremely moved by what Gao Mingcheng said.
Before, his grandmother also asked him to go for a walk in the county.
Gao Zhuang was both excited and worried that his grandmother would be too busy at home after he left.
There is also a pig and a dozen chickens at home.
"Zhuangzhuang, just go!" Grandma came out of the kitchen with a plate of food and persuaded Gao Zhuang to go for a walk in the county.
Although the grandmother herself doesn't like to move around, she still hopes that her grandson will go to the county more often, especially since He Xiuman and Xiao Yuanyuan are also in the county.
The couple haven't seen each other for almost a month, so they must miss each other a lot.
Both of them advised him to go to the county, so Gao Zhuang no longer hesitated and nodded in agreement immediately.
Gao Mingcheng said, "Okay, I have to go buy a truckload of river sand and cement tomorrow morning. I'll call you when I get to the county."
"Brother Mingcheng, are you planning to pick bayberries and sell them in the county tomorrow? Then I'll go pick bayberries for you in the morning." Gao Zhuang said positively.
Gao Mingcheng refused to let him go, saying, "I don't need you. I have three people working here. There aren't many bayberries. If they each pick a few, they'll be gone. If you want to pick some, wait until next year! There will definitely be a lot more next year!"
"Okay!" Gao Zhuang agreed happily.
"Come and eat!" Grandma called them to eat. The three of them sat at the table. There were four dishes on the table. Although it was a simple meal, it had the flavor of life.
(End of this chapter)
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