novelraw Chapter 23 Pheasant Neck
Chapter 23 Pheasant Neck
Chapter 23 Pheasant Neck
Along the way, Song Changshang picked a lot of slender vines, and she found that every time the official sent a break, he would find a small river or lake with water.
There are palm-sized crucian carp in the river and lake, and there are many carp. She tried to go into the water to catch it once before, but she couldn't catch it. Since the river was cold, she came up.
Weave some nets and it may be easier to catch.
Besides, the net made of vines can be placed under it when sleeping at night, which is better than directly touching the ground.
When the Shangshu family saw Song Shangshang making something, they asked about it, and followed suit.
In fact, these exiled prisoners were negative for a few days at the beginning, and then they all started picking wild vegetables, catching pheasants and hares, etc. to feed themselves.
Because officials sent two meals a day in the morning and evening, if they were not full, they had to have enough food and clothing.
Not to mention that sometimes you are really lucky. You can really catch a few hares and pheasants a day, plus wild vegetables picked by women and children, and the family can have a meal or two.
Rich people exchange things with officials, such as the patriarch's son Song Chengyi's family.
Officials eat whatever they eat.
Their family is richer than the Shangshu Mansion, and there are more than twenty people in their group, apart from haggard and disheveled hair, there is no shortage of flesh on their bodies.
On the other hand, the other clansmen have sunken eyes and sallow complexions, and even Mr. Shangshu's round belly has become smaller at the beginning.
The least changed in this exile team should be the patriarch's family, and Song Shangshang and the others.
"Ah! There are snakes, there are snakes!!!" There was a sudden scream from behind.
Hearing that the voice was still a thick male voice, Song Shangshang had a black line on his forehead, and turned his head to hear the sound.
It was a 21-year-old man who was climbing onto the people around him, pointing to the ground and shouting.
"You boy, isn't it a snake?"
A middle-aged uncle next to the other party said, squatting down, grabbed the snake by seven inches, and started playing with it in his hand.
"Grandpa roasted you at night and made you come out to scare people."
Song Shangshang stepped forward to take a look, and instantly took a few steps back in fright, shouting, "Uncle, let go of it, it's poisonous."
When the people around heard the word poisonous, they all took a few steps back in fright.
"Huh? Poisonous?"
The uncle was so frightened that he threw the snake out of his hand.
The snake swam into the nearby grass in two or three strokes.
"I'm going, it's actually poisonous!" The uncle regained his composure for a few seconds, and thanked Song Shangshang, "Thank you for reminding me, girl, otherwise my little life will be here."
Uncle is different from others. Even though he is guilty and exiled now, he is still full of hope for the future, thinking that he must reach Fusang alive.
He regrets his life.
Otherwise, I wouldn't be so hungry and want to eat grilled snakes.
"It's okay, uncle, just be more careful in the future, try not to eat snakes!" Song Shangshang kindly reminded.
After all, there are so many snakes in the wild, and I don't know which ones are poisonous and which ones are not.
In fact, there are fewer types of poisonous snakes in the north than in the south, because poisonous snakes like warm and humid environments.
The northern climate is not suitable.
But there are also several types of venomous snakes.
The snake just now had an obvious neck groove on the back of the neck, a pair of thick black spots on both sides of the pillow, grass green on the back, and square black spots, and bright red between the neck and the black spots at a distance behind. It is pale yellow-green, with white underlips and sides of the neck.
This is a tiger-necked trough snake, or a tiger-spotted snake. It also has another name, called pheasant neck.
It can be found everywhere, both in the south and the north.
All of them have its figure.
She also knew about this snake after watching an adventurous TV series in her previous life, and then checked the characteristics on the Internet.
I secretly wrote it down.
"Niece, you are amazing! You know even poisonous snakes." Shang Shu's youngest son, Song Jingrui, praised with a thumbs up.
(End of this chapter)