"rustle--"
The sound of the withered branches and leaves rubbing against each other became louder and louder.
Hua Shi opened her eyes wide and watched as one, two... countless frogs jumped out of the sunken mud pit.
There were also several black-striped snakes entwined together, hissing and spitting out their tongues. The snakes' bodies were half as thick as her wrist, gliding slowly across the ground...
She blinked and quickly hid to the side.
A rough estimate showed there were about twenty frogs and five or six black-spotted snakes...
Hua Shi's scalp tingled for a moment as he looked at it.
No wonder Hua Yu was scared. These things suddenly appeared and crawled under your feet, which scared you to death.
It's strange to say, aren't snakes at the top of the food chain for frogs? As predators, when five or six snakes see so many field frogs, they shouldn't have pounced on them and eaten them directly. Why would they get entangled together, twisting and turning, with no desire to eat at all?
Moreover, how could there be frogs and snakes in such a good soybean field?
October isn't the peak breeding season for frogs and snakes, is it?
etc!
A flash of inspiration struck Hua Shi, and he suddenly thought...
The rats that drowned in the water tank in the Hua family’s kitchen, and the rats that suddenly swelled up and appeared everywhere.
Thinking of this, Hua Shi also remembered that two days ago, when she was watering Hua Yu, she mixed half a bucket of water from the spring into the last half bucket of water and poured it on the ground...
Hua Shi held her forehead, not knowing how to react.
I think it was the water from this spring that attracted these frogs and snakes...
It's only been two days, why are there still so many people gathered here?
She leaned over and took a closer look several times.
Seeing that the soybean seedlings and leaves hadn't been eaten, I breathed a sigh of relief. Then I noticed that the plants watered with spring water hadn't been eaten by frogs or snakes. It must be that they don't eat these things...
This also reminded her not to use the water from the spring carelessly again.
If anyone discovered the unique power of this spring water, she would be mistaken for a monster and burned to death...
And even though I only watered a small amount, it attracted so many small animals nearby. Fortunately, it didn't attract any insects that eat the soybeans.
Otherwise, this small piece of mature soybeans will be in danger...
Hua Yu, who was not far away, kept staring at Hua Shi. He saw that she was startled for a moment, then jumped onto the edge of the field. He lowered his head and looked down curiously with a frown on his face. No one knew what he was thinking.
Hua Shi kept pinching the spring in the palm of her left hand, fearing that the frogs and snakes would smell the scent and come to her feet.
Fortunately, the disturbed frogs and snakes came out of a hole, ran around like headless flies for a few times, and then scattered.
The black-spotted snakes also twisted their bodies, crawled out of the field, and hid in the dense bushes nearby. In a short while, they disappeared without a trace.
Hua Shi waited until the black-spotted snake had gone away before jumping down to the ground. He quickly pounced on the remaining frogs that had not yet completely escaped.
I caught four, one in each hand. When I turned around to look, the rest had all disappeared.
The scientific name of this field frog is tiger frog, and its other name is frog. Because of its unique flavor, delicious taste, protein and fat content, it is deeply loved by the people in some places.
So after recognizing that these were edible frogs, Hua Shi wanted to catch two and bring them back to eat.
This morning she had touched all the treasures in Li's cabinet, and she guessed that Li would not be in a good mood with her from now on, so she didn't even expect to have any food to fill her stomach. It was considered good enough if Li could give her some porridge with pickles.
For the first time, Hua Yu opened his eyes wide and looked at Hua walking step by step out of the field. He was startled by the few field frogs in her arms.
His eyebrows twitched slightly, his eyes were filled with astonishment, and then he asked, "Why are you catching this frog?"
Hua Shi's expression remained unchanged, "Eat."
Her tone was so natural that Hua Yu's expression became strange for a moment.
"Are you sure you want to eat this?"
"Yes, don't worry, you can eat it."
Hua Shi thought that he didn't know that field frogs were edible, which was why he looked so strange, so she just said something along the lines of,
Hua Yu looked at her serious expression, frowned, and thought for a moment before saying, "Frogs are poisonous. You'd better not eat them."
Perhaps he felt that she had changed a lot recently. She had kept her promise and really gave him more than a hundred coins. Moreover, she was about to get married. Her crime was not punishable by death. After weighing the pros and cons, he decided to tell her that the field frog was poisonous.
If it were half a year ago, he would have hoped that she would kill herself, and it would have been considered merciful for him not to poison her.
Hua Shi pulled out a few straw ropes growing on the edge of the field, tied the frog's legs together, pressed it into his basket, and covered it with a cloth. Then he turned around and asked him,
"Who told you that frogs are poisonous?"
She had eaten frogs before and had seen what they looked like, so she was sure that she was not mistaken and that frogs were non-toxic and edible.
Hua Yu frowned and reminded calmly, "Someone in the village ate a field frog and died of poisoning."
"Then he must have eaten frogs, not poisonous ones. I've eaten frogs before, and I guarantee they're not poisonous. I also make frog stewed with soybeans. I only caught two, so it's a little less, but it's okay to try it if you want to satisfy your craving."
Hua Shi said this and swallowed. She felt a little disgusted now.
Hua met her stubbornness and snorted silently in his heart.
Whatever. He won’t eat her anyway, and if she dies, he won’t collect her body.
After saying two sentences, Hua Yu wiped the sweat from his forehead, then stood up, suppressing the dull pain in his ankle.
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