"No!" Li Zixu refused to implicate his clan brother, but just shook his head and refused.

In the end, Li Zisheng "threatened" him. If he didn't take him there, he would immediately "expose" Li Zixu's adventure to his parents, and then he agreed reluctantly.

The two made an appointment to meet tonight, and then they broke up. Li Zisheng walked to the pond northwest of the village alone.

Li Zisheng's home is located by the small pond. The neat acres of vegetable gardens are surrounded by a regular three-entry courtyard and a mill, and there is a pig shed and cow pen at the lower wind. This is also a new home built by Li Zisheng's father after he became rich. In addition, the previous document also mentioned that Li's father also bought a hundred acres of fertile land in the valley, which is also considered the highest-ranking family among the clans.

He walked directly into his home from the backyard without going through the main entrance. In addition to the kitchen, wood, there were also the residences of servants and long-term workers. The busy farming process was already over, otherwise the short-term workers hired by his family would be even more lively.

The country people don’t have so many rules. Although it is already autumn, the weather has not turned cold yet, so they put the food on the ground, squatting while chatting and having fun. The hostess of this family is generous and will never detain the food of the people. They can see some meat in the dishes every day.

When he saw him enter the door, the squatting servants stood up and greeted him. Li Zisheng greeted him politely one by one and asked about the farming work today with familiarity.

He is not an ordinary young master. He has been working in the fields without the supervision of his elders since he was a child. He is clear about the matter in the fields, so everyone dare not be vague and tells his young master all kinds of work.

He chatted with the people in the backyard, and then made some preparations. Then he fed water and wiped his face and walked to his parents' bedroom. Li's father went out to do business all year round, and only his mother was at home. At this time, he was teasing his younger brother, Li Ziren, in the room.

Li Zisheng's mother is named Wu Suqin, and she is ranked eighth in the family, so she is nicknamed Wu Bamei. Although she is only born in ordinary families, her facial features are upright and graceful, and her body is not gorgeous, but she is neat and clean. She looks like a housewife with strict tutoring.

The little brother of the Li family who was teasing in front of her was only five years old, and he was the most active. When he saw his elder brother coming in, he swayed and shouted to hug him. Li Zisheng picked up his younger brother and kissed him in the face, and then said hello to his mother.

Wu Bamei looked at her heroic son in front of her with relief and asked, "Aka Sanyazi, why are you late to come back today? But is she stayed in the court by her husband?"

"Haha, today I'm a little playful, so I'm late to come back." Li Zisheng replied with a embarrassed scratching his head.

The mother knew that her children were old and old, so she casually told her: "Don't be too late next time."

The mother and son talked and said something about family matters. The family of three arrived at the front hall and started dining.

Although this family is considered wealthy, they still maintain their true nature in the farming family under the thrifty mother's care. The dinner was simple, but two meats and two vegetables, a large bowl of egg flower soup, and a small pot of bright red oil-splashed chili. The meat dishes were just a steamed river fish and a shallow plate of fried pork liver. Although it was just a home-cooked side dish, the fragrance still made Li Zisheng, who had been vigorously exercising, stirred index finger.

The mother first put the fish head into her bowl, then picked up half of the fish, carefully picked down the fish meat on it and placed it in my younger brother's bowl. Finally, she put more than half of the fish in front of Li Zisheng.

The precocious boy was moved, and pushed the plate at his mother and said, "Mom, you can eat something too."

"You know, I love fish heads the most. But when you grow up, you should eat more." Wu Suqin said with a smile. She picked up one or two pieces of pork liver, and put the rest into the bowls of her two sons.

Li Zisheng knew that he could never reject his mother, so he also imitated Wu Bamei to carefully pick out a large piece of fish and then put it into his younger brother's bowl. Then he ate the food clean without saying a word.

After dinner and washing up, he teased his younger brother for a while, chatted with his mother for a few more words before returning to his room, and warmed up his books. Today, he was not as calm as before, and he pushed the window to look at the sky from time to time. When the moon was in the middle of the sky, it was time for people to go to bed. At this time, the average farmer had already fallen asleep, and the voices in the front and back yards gradually disappeared.

Li Zisheng then started to act. He changed into an old piece of clothing, tied the cuffs of the pants tightly, and chose a pair of wooden shoes suitable for mountain roads. Then he hung a wind lamp and a bag containing a fire fold around his waist, and inserted a short knife on his belt. Finally, he picked up the wooden box containing the Dingshen Incense and opened it, sniffed it carefully, and put it in his arms carefully.

The young man who had finished his stay tiptoed out of his room, avoided his big yellow dog and walked to the wall of the courtyard, turned over lightly, and then landed gently on the ground. Although Li Zisheng has not been able to understand the small Zhoutian, he has mastered the physical skills taught by the family, and the low-high courtyard wall cannot defeat him at all. Then he pulled out a wheelbarrow from the haystack outside the courtyard, which he had just pulled out from his home and hid here when he was unprepared.

Li Zisheng, who was pushing the cart, walked quickly to his clan's brother's house under the moonlight. Soon he saw Li Zixu's small figure outside the door. After all, he was a child who was nervously wandering around his house. There were four large thin wire cages next to his clan, which seemed to be utensils for prey. This was Li Zisheng's intention to instruct, otherwise his clan's brother would not be unlucky and would at most take two snake baskets to catch snakes.

After the two met, they didn't say much. They brought the iron cage onto the car and lit a torch and ran straight toward Zuqiu in the north. At this time, just after midnight, there were still three hours before dawn. In the plan of the two boys, one hour was back and forth, and two hours were used to catch snakes. Although it was not enough, it was enough to just go.

This Zuqiu is called by the Li people, but outsiders call this small hill in the north Chiyou Tomb. According to legend, after the fall of this ancient military god, his subordinates buried his remaining body and military armor and ceremonial guards here.

However, that era was too old, and even the Li people did not take it seriously, and regarded it as a myth.

This hilly land is barren and far away from water sources. It cannot grow except for shrubs and weeds, and there are poisonous substances such as the Red Qi snake. Usually, except for Li Zixu's family, the villagers come to collect wild animals during the slack season as a tooth sacrifice, which is rare.

The two of them ran to the hills in small steps before stopping. After hiding the car in the bushes, Li Zixu put out the torch and took out something from his sleeve. It was a lens made of ink crystal mill. He put the lens in front of him and carefully observed the ground. Soon, he pointed forward and said, "It's this direction! Brother Sheng, come and take a look."

Li Zisheng took the lens with a little curiousness and put it in front of him as he imitated his clan brother. He saw a little red light on the ground in that direction. It turned out that from this lens, you could see the scales falling from the red Qi snake when it was wandering on the ground.

Li Zixu took out another porcelain bottle, poured out an oily snake medicine from it and applied it on his body. This is his special snake medicine, but its effect is not to drive away snakes, but to make the prey unable to detect itself.

This red Qi snake is a genus of Fire, and has become a specific warm-blooded snake that does not require hibernation. It has also lost the infrared imaging ability of ordinary snakes and can only sense the surroundings by relying on developed smell and less developed vision.

Of course, Li Zixu's ancestors didn't know about infrared rays. They just learned the characteristics of this snake through practice and cooked a snake oil with an exclusive herbal formula and applied it to the body to avoid attacks from prey.

The problem is that they can approach the red Qi snake with this object, but this snake is violent and will attack all the moving things around it when it is slightly stimulated, even their similar species. Snake catchers will inevitably encounter a kiss from a snake if they are not careful, and they will either die or be injured.

So it is extremely dangerous for experienced adults to do this job, let alone these two inexperienced children.

After applying snake oil, the two of them gently carried the iron cage and followed the traces into the bushes.

They gradually went deeper into the hills and saw that the red spots on the ground were getting more and more dense.

Less than a meal, they encountered the target of this trip - the Red Qi Snake. Li Zixu's snake medicine was indeed effective. These snakes passed by their feet freely, and they all twisted their bodies towards the same target.

Li Zisheng had seen the red Qi snake several times in his clan's family, but because the adults were afraid of something unexpected, they never let him get in close contact. It was not until this moment that he could see the prey tonight clearly.

These red Qi snakes are no different in size from ordinary snakes. The small ones are only as thick as chopsticks and are only as long as a human palm; the large ones are as thick as a baby's arms, three feet long. However, there are some red patterns on their bodies, emitting a red dark light in the night. The most strange thing is that the snake eyes are also red, like two small red night pearls, flashing with a strange light under the moonlight.

They followed the swim snake and walked dozens of steps toward a hill, and were stunned by the scene in front of them. There was a sinking pit in the waist of the hill, with hundreds of snakes entangled in it. The red light patterns and red eyes of their bodies made the snake look like a fire without resting embers. Hundreds of red Qi snakes spit out the hissing sounds of snake letters and the subtle sounds of the friction of scales on their bodies gathered together, which made them sour.

Li Zixu liked and was afraid in his heart. What he liked was that so many snakes gathered together was equivalent to putting the money for his father to treat his injuries in front of him. What he was afraid of was that he had never seen the situation in front of him, not to mention him, even his father had never seen it. Because even his father, grandfather or grandfather Zeng had never thought of coming to catch snakes at this moment.

However, this young man who never thought that if he had entered the snake group, he would not even have room to escape if he had any accidents. He had never thought about why his ancestors had never captured the red Qi snake on a large scale.
Chapter completed!