Chapter 174: Two mysteries, rice straw drinking pumpkin wine

The venomous snake breeding base was built next to the manor, and these five minutes of land were rented by Fang Rui from the village. 1 Novel Network

In order to build this base, the manor was completely stopped, and all the masters came over to work on it. It took less than a week to build the base. In order to facilitate the breeding of various venomous snakes, Fang Rui divided the base into five small areas.

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This breeding place has been set up, but the total number of snake seedlings is a five-step snake caught from Langya Stream. Fang Rui is not in a hurry. He doesn't know much about venomous snake breeding, and basically depends on space.

But judging from the energy value of the system, it will take some time for the third dimension of the second dimension to open.

For this reason, every morning when the sun comes up these days, Fang Rui wears a straw hat, carries two cloth bags, and a stick in his hand, and goes out leisurely dressed like a beggar gang member.

Doesn't his character mean that he goes to beg for food? Of course not, he goes back to his old business of catching snakes.

The temperature in late autumn is much lower than that of mid-summer and much higher than that of spring and winter. It is the most pleasant. People like it, animals also like it, and snakes also like it. Therefore, Fang Rui's harvest these days is pretty good, and he can catch ten fish every day.

A few snakes. However, most of these snakes were non-venomous snakes such as cauliflower snakes, pine flower snakes, and enamelled snakes. Fang Rui threw all of these snakes into the snake house in the back bamboo forest.

We also caught a lot of venomous snakes, but these snakes were local Pingyang cobras called chrome plate cobras. These snakes are not very valuable because they are common and large in number. Fang Rui was not polite to them and turned them all into snakes.

Chinese food.

Fang Rui wandered around the fields and forests for seven or eight days, and only caught two five-step snakes in total. In order to catch more five-step snakes, Fang Rui set his sights on the area at the foot of Mount Li and near Langya Stream.

. So he walked back and forth for nearly three hours every day. When he got there, his harvest was finally better. In addition to a large number of other snakes, he could also catch three or four five-step snakes a day.

During this period, Fang Rui also took Yang Zhicheng to the fishing shop to get the fish cage and put it in the pond. After walking around for a long time, when he went to pick up the cage again, the cage was still there, but it was empty. Fang Rui

Rui thought that the reason for the lack of fish was that there was no bait in the cage, so he tried putting various baits in the cage, but the bait was eaten up and there were still no fish.

Not only is this fish incredibly powerful, its intelligence is not to be underestimated!

Fang Rui had to put aside his thoughts of coveting the black fish or mysterious creatures in the pond.

So I went to the area near Langya Stream every day to search.

After five days, there were more than twenty five-step snakes in the poisonous snake base.

On the sixth day, Fang Rui went to the foot of Mount Li as usual. On a pile of rocks, Fang Rui saw a big five-step snake. This snake was bigger than the one he chopped up and ate during the picnic that day. It was at least five feet tall.

Six kilograms. If this snake is sold as meat in the market, it will be worth at least a thousand or hundreds of yuan. Fang Rui suppressed his excitement and touched it lightly. When he was almost far away from the five-step snake, Fang Rui

Rui was ready to attack, but he immediately realized something was wrong.

This huge five-step snake was lying motionless on the stone. It turned out to be a dead snake that could no longer die!

Fang Rui was very puzzled. If the snake died of old age or illness, it would die in the cave. But how could such a good big five-step snake die here? There is only one reason, and that is that it was committed suicide.

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There are not many natural enemies of the five-step snake in the mountain forest, but they are definitely not many. So what will kill it? And after that thing killed the five-step snake, why didn't it eat it? Is it a vendetta?

Fang Rui was thinking and exploring the five-step snake's dilemma, but Fang Rui turned over and over, staring at the five-step snake for a long time, but he didn't notice how ugly the five-step snake was... What exactly was this five-step snake?

Why did he die? Deep confusion remained in Fang Rui's heart...

The weird stuff doesn't end there.

On the seventh day, in a weed near Langya Stream, Fang Rui met another five-step snake that died mysteriously. He looked left and right, up and down, but still couldn't see any clues. This time Fang Rui

Not giving up, Fang Rui took out the self-defense saber he carried with him and slashed open the snake's belly.

As soon as the snake's belly was cut open, a fishy smell immediately filled the air.

This snake seemed to have been dead for some time and had already started to stink.

Fang Rui frowned, resisting the strong odor, using a knife to open the snake's internal organs and inspecting it. Seeing how impressive he was, people who didn't know why would think he was a highly skilled veterinarian.

However, even though Fang Rui was a poor person, he still found out the reason why the snake died.

The internal organs in the snake's belly are all complete, but the snake's gallbladder is missing. This is really inexplicable. How can a good snake be missing its snake's gallbladder? It can be said that it was taken away by people or animals, but the snake's body was not injured at all.

There are no traces? Could it be that the snake gallbladder escaped from the body on its own?

Things were so weird that Fang Rui couldn't figure it out.

After checking again and finding nothing, Fang Rui slapped his forehead and thought of something. He quickly buried the five-step snake. He came to the place yesterday and dug out the dead snake that he had also buried.

I cut open the belly of the five-step snake, and sure enough, the snake's gallbladder was also gone.

Both snakes' gallbladders were missing, which made the situation even more bizarre.

Fang Rui looked and looked and looked with incomparable patience, looked and looked and looked, and thought and thought, but he still couldn't find any clues. Forget it, there is nothing to think about. The only thing missing is chance. Once the opportunity comes,

If it's done, maybe it won't take any effort to untie it. Thinking of this, Fang Rui didn't bother to think about it anymore.

After more than half a month of continuous snake hunting, the venomous snake base is no longer lonely. There are more than 40 five-step snakes in total.

The five-step snake has a wide food range. Rats, birds, frogs, toads and lizards are all its dishes. Among them, rats are the food it kills the most because there are huge numbers of rats and they can be found in every corner.

Rats are relatively easy to catch.

Just like raising non-venomous snakes, Fang Rui raises them with chickens. When feeding these five-step snakes, Fang Rui also acts as a hands-off shopkeeper. He throws a certain number of chickens into the field, puts some food for chickens, and leaves it alone.

There is a pool in the snake farm itself, so there is no need to worry about the chickens dying of thirst.

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On this day, I put away my straw hats, cloth bags, and bamboo sticks and went back to a leisurely life.

Fang Ruicai suddenly remembered the pumpkin wine in the pumpkin patch. Usually, the wine is put into the pumpkin, the holes are plugged tightly, and it can be enjoyed within ten days at most. But now more than half a month has passed, and this pumpkin wine party

What will it look like? Will those three big pumpkins be wasted in vain?

Also, during this period, my parents would come over every once in a while to pick two pumpkins and fold some pumpkin vines back. Those three wine pumpkins were mature pumpkins that I had carefully selected, and they would not be picked away by them as well.

Already?

Thinking of this, Fang Rui hurriedly ran to the melon field.

In the melon field, her mother Yu Yinghong happened to be breaking pumpkin vines. When she saw Fang Ruixing running over in a hurry, she thought something had happened and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong with Xiao Rui?"

"Nothing's wrong, come over and take a look inside."

Fang Rui scratched his head and said, walked into the pumpkin patch and started looking for the three marked pumpkins.

"Xiao Rui, you are looking for those three pumpkins." My mother has also been involved in pumpkin wine. Of course she understands this. She smiled when she saw her son acting like this.

Fang Rui was stunned for a moment, then said a little embarrassedly, "Yes, Mom, how did you know?"

Mom joked, "Like Xiaogang, you are becoming more and more foodie, and you even started thinking about pumpkins in the ground... Those three pumpkins were found by your father when he was picking pumpkins. I guess they are

The hands and feet you moved are still there...but it seems to have been more than ten days now, and I don’t know if they are damaged or not.”….

"Let me see."

Fang Rui just happened to find a wine pumpkin. He turned the pumpkin over and checked it. Fortunately, there were no holes where rats and insects were living. Fang Rui picked up the big pumpkin and shook it. There was a rattling sound inside. It seemed that the pumpkin wine had fermented.

, I just don’t know if the taste of this pumpkin wine has changed.

"Okay, let me see the next one."

Fang Rui said something to his mother and continued to look for the second wine pumpkin. He found it soon. Fang Rui looked and shook it again and found that it was fine. Fang Rui was relieved now.

When he found the third pumpkin and looked at it, Fang Rui found that there was an extra hole on the pumpkin covered with soil. Fang Rui inserted four holes from four directions into each pumpkin, and then inserted the holes through these four holes.

The wine seeds are put in, so that the wine seeds can be fermented evenly throughout the pumpkin... But why is there an extra hole inexplicably?

When ordinary people enjoy pumpkin wine, they will not poke the holes where the wine drops were originally placed, because if they poke it, the dried soil will be pushed in, which will stain the pumpkin wine... People

I will poke a few more holes, then insert the straw into it and drink. This way of enjoying is the most childlike and interesting.

Fang Rui moved the pumpkin depressedly, and found that this pumpkin, which was about the same size as the other two pumpkins, was much lighter. When he shook it again, there was a splashing sound inside, but the sound of water was small.

A lot... In this way, there is no doubt that this hole was dug by someone else, and this person was very familiar with pumpkin wine. He also secretly drank the pumpkin wine in the pumpkin.

"Mom, have you and dad drank the wine from this pumpkin?" Fang Rui asked his mother.

"Such a big pumpkin, if we want to drink it, we have to take it back and drink it with everyone... Has the pumpkin been touched by others?" When my mother heard Fang Rui asked, she made a guess. Remember.

When I was a child, I would put wine and medicine into pumpkins at night. It would be hidden at night so that no one would see or tell me. You could also take advantage of the pumpkins in other people's melon fields. By the way, if you were making pumpkin wine, others would see you.

, you just wait to hold an empty pumpkin shell and ask the sky silently.

"Yeah, I don't know which guy has bad words." Fang Rui said with a bitter smile.

"Think about it, did anyone around you notice when you were making this pumpkin wine that day?" Mom reminded me seasonedly.

"Discovered?" Fang Rui suddenly remembered that he was seen by three masters and apprentices from the Provincial Agricultural University and the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhang Shunyi, and it was this pumpkin that was seen... That guy was studying

After some fuss, he even poked the holes in the pumpkin. Later, after just smelling it, he asked his male apprentice to plug the holes. He must have understood the pumpkin wine, and he was

When you smell the wine, you know you are making pumpkin wine.

Could it be that the old guy secretly drank with his two apprentices? But this old guy came to Xiaotai'er Village just for fun, and it was purely a coincidence that he was seen. And after putting this wine and medicine in it, he will definitely not be able to drink it for two or three days.

Yes, did he stay in Xiaotai'er Village for a period of time specifically for this pumpkin wine? Or maybe he stayed in the village for a period of time to study the winter melons and pumpkins in his field, and then secretly drank his own pumpkin wine.

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Pumpkin wine is rare, isn't it? Fang Rui felt that his reasoning was a bit absurd and shook his head.

"Xiao Rui, forget it if someone drinks it. It's normal. It's not like you haven't drank from others before... Okay, mom is going back first." The mother said teasingly to her son, carrying a bag on his back.
To be continued...