After a night, many tender white bamboo fungi appeared in the bamboo forest. Zhang and several daughters-in-law spread out the half-dried bamboo fungi that had been dried yesterday to dry in the sun, and then took Liu and Wang with them to carry the backpacks up the mountain.

There are much fewer bamboo fungi today than yesterday, but there are quite a few wild peppers along the way. The mother-in-law and her daughter-in-law specially set aside a backpack to carry the wild peppers, so that they can pick more and bring them back to stir-fry more snails in the evening, as the pot they had last night was not enough.

Li was holding Cheng Xingwan and taking the five little kids to feed the rabbits. All five female rabbits had given birth. Rabbits were very fertile. Each female rabbit gave birth to eleven or twelve little rabbits. The little rabbits grew fast. The first rabbit born had grown to the size of a palm, and was furry, chubby, and very cute.

Cheng Xingwan stretched out her hand to touch the little rabbit, but was stopped by the quick-eyed and quick-handed Li.

She sighed softly. She was so pitiful. Being small, she was restricted in everything she could do.

He could only helplessly chew his own hands and quietly sprinkled some spiritual spring water into the little rabbit's feed. The little rabbits may have smelled the scent of the spiritual spring water and scrambled to eat it. Even the newborn little pink ball closed its eyes, tilted its head back, shrank its nose and sniffed in ecstasy.

After feeding the little rabbit, it was time to feed the little wild boar. After a night, the little wild boar's stomach was deflated due to hunger. It was now grunting and pushing against the pigpen door. The little wild boar had been back for more than half a month, and there was not much change. It was mainly fed with grass and wild vegetables every day, and it didn't grow meat. It would have been better if it had rice bran, sweet potatoes, and corn flour.

Thinking of sweet potatoes, Cheng Xingwan narrowed his eyes. He should find a chance to slowly harvest the sweet potatoes and potatoes. There are still two months before the late rice harvest. He would get tired of eating yams every day.

Li was pouring the cooked pig feed into the trough. Cheng Xingwan turned her head and looked behind her. She saw her five sensible brothers picking duck eggs in the duck pen. No one noticed her, so she quickly poured some pig feed into the trough and put some spiritual spring water in it.

Li looked at her helplessly and resignedly took the stick to stir the trough. The little wild boar enjoyed the feast contentedly, licking the trough clean until not even a drop of water was left. Then, with its belly bulging, it lay in the haystack and fell asleep.

In the duck pen on the other side, five-year-old Cheng Jinhao and four-year-old Cheng Jinheng were trying hard to drive the ducklings out.

“Drop…Ding ding ding…!”

Cheng Jinheng was calling the ducklings in a baby voice in front, while Cheng Jinhao was busy driving the ducks behind. From time to time, there were newly hatched ducklings that failed to keep up with the group, so he would stop patiently and carefully chase the ducklings to catch up with the group.

Children from farming families grow up early and can understand the hard work of their family members at an early age. They know how to help with things within their ability at a young age.

Even three-year-old Cheng Jinmao and Cheng Jinsheng, and two-year-old Cheng Jinchen were not idle. The three little kids were carefully picking up duck eggs and putting them into the basket. Although they were young, they had to do this kind of work every day and they had already become very good at it.

Li looked at them, feeling relieved but also quite sad. Such a young child should be held in the palm of his parents' hands and carefully cared for by his family. However, the world is so unpredictable that everyone is forced to work hard for a living all day long, and even such a young child has become sensible so early.

After helping to drive the ducks into the creek, Li did not go down to pick up the snails because it was inconvenient with her daughter in her arms. Besides, the children were still young and there were inevitably deep places in the creek, which was still quite dangerous.

When Zhang went out this morning, she had already told them to wait for them to come back before picking snails. She thought about it, then carried a basket and took the children to the river to pick peppers.

He was holding Cheng Xingwan in one hand and picking red peppers with the other hand, when suddenly he found something wrong with one of the red peppers. It was sometimes long and sometimes short, like the tongue of a snake, until he met the pair of cold vertical pupils behind the red pepper.

Li was so frightened that her scalp exploded. Her body was trembling, her mouth was half open, her heart was in her throat, beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down from her forehead, fell into her eyes, and then flowed out of her eye sockets, making it difficult to tell whether it was sweat or tears. She just stared at the snake, her whole body tense, like a bowstring that was fully drawn, and it took her a long while before she let out a scream.

"Oh my god! There's a snake! There's a snake!"

Along with her scream, the snake as thick as an adult's arm moved. It spit out a bright red tongue, opened its bloody mouth, and quickly straightened its body and shot out. Li didn't care about her weak legs. She hurriedly hugged Cheng Jinchen beside her and dodged quickly, while shouting at the other children.

"Run, kids! The snake is chasing us!"

Although the children seemed to be very sensible on weekdays, they were only babies of a few years old after all and had never seen such a scene.

Humans' inherent fear of snakes made them scream and scream, their legs trembled involuntarily, and their hands shook constantly. When they heard Li telling them to run, they ran back reflexively, but their legs were weak and they were tripped by the weeds and fell to the ground one by one.

Seeing that the snake's bloody mouth was about to bite her, Li pushed her two children out in despair. For the sake of her children, she had to stand up. At this critical moment, the power of maternal love added to her, making her look extremely sacred.

She suppressed the fear in her heart and grabbed the snake's head fiercely.

In the past, big snakes would wait until night to come out to look for food and usually did not come out during the day. One reason was because of their habits, and the other was that they were afraid of encountering humans and being caught and skinned and boned.

Today, it was curled up in the cave and sleeping as usual, when it was suddenly attracted by a sweet smell. It couldn't help but risk its life to come out and take a look. It saw a human female with several human cubs picking red fruits outside its cave.

The sweet and delicious smell came from the smaller cub in her arms. It smelled so good. It felt that this was a rare opportunity. As long as it ate this thing, its snake life would be complete. A desire rising from its bones made it want to pounce on it and take a bite.

It lurked in the grass, waiting for them to get closer before it took action. In order not to be discovered, it stuck out its tongue to disguise itself as a red fruit.

It’s getting closer, almost there, almost there, you can taste the delicious food soon!

When it was jumping for joy and preparing to attack, it suddenly felt a gaze falling on it.

Its thick snake body stiffened. It was in trouble. It was discovered. What should it do? It pretended to be calm and looked at the female human.

She looked weak and frail, far inferior to those male humans, so she should not be a threat to it.

"Oh my god! There's a snake! There's a snake!"

A scream startled it, and when it saw her trying to escape with the cub in her arms, it didn't care about anything else. It couldn't just watch its path to becoming an immortal end in such a short time.

It opened its bloody mouth and rushed out suddenly. Its sharp fangs were about to bite the cub's face, but the cub was thrown out. It was a little angry, but was unwilling to give up this treasure that was within its reach.

It rushed forward with all its might, but suddenly its body could not move. Its neck was grasped tightly by a pair of soft and boneless hands. It angrily wrapped its body around the woman's neck.

Damn it, I miscalculated. I didn’t expect this weak female could actually have such attack power. Let’s have a competition. It’s still unknown who will win. Let’s see who strangles whom first.

It looked smugly at the woman who rolled her eyes as it was strangled. With its cold body it could feel the pulse in her neck beating weaker and weaker. Victory was in sight; as long as it could hold on a little longer, it would be able to enjoy the delicious food.

boom--

As the stone fell to the ground, a sharp pain came from the top of its head. It was hit so hard that it saw stars. The pain made it involuntarily loosen its body that was wrapped around the woman's neck a little.

bang bang bang-

Before it could react, there was a burst of intensive stone-collision sounds, and blood from nowhere flowed into its eyes. It suddenly felt sleepy. Through its blood-stained eyes, it saw the cubs it had ignored, tremblingly holding stones and smashing them down one by one.

In the last moment of its snake life, it clearly saw its head being smashed, while the sweet cub was lying in the grass, looking at it with a pair of bright eyes and giggling, as if making fun of its arrogance.

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