Chapter 274: King Cobra
Yun Jiao squatted in the backpack, looking around. Her eyesight was good, and she immediately spotted a patch of pig feed that could be harvested.
“Over there, over there, Auntie. I also see mushrooms!”
The environment here, especially in the mountains, is very suitable for growing mushrooms.
Wang Mei walked in the direction she pointed, and indeed, there were some.
So she put her down and started gathering pig feed.
Yun Xiao Wu and the older children were together.
Wang Mei didn’t let Yun Jiao and Yun Xiao Jiu, the two younger children, hold knives, so they could only watch from the side.
“Sister, come here.”
Yun Xiao Jiu beckoned Yun Jiao over, pulled out a very thin grass vine, and made a flower wreath for Yun Jiao’s head.
While he was making the flower wreath, Yun Jiao ran off to pick her favorite small wildflowers.
Yellow, white, purple, and red.
She filled the entire flower wreath, it looked beautiful.
Yun Jiao nodded with satisfaction, lowered her head, and asked Ninth Brother to put it on her head, proudly holding her chubby little face and asking if it looked good.
Yun Xiao Jiu gave her a lot of emotional support by nodding and giving a thumbs up.
“It looks good, it looks good, no one is as good-looking as Jiao Jiao.”
“Ninth Brother is also the best-looking boy Jiao Jiao has ever seen.”
Her praise was very sincere.
After all, her Ninth Brother was so handsome, he inherited all the best features from their parents, only slightly less than herself.
“Weave a flower wreath hat for Brother too.”
So the two little ones got busy again.
Before long, Yun Xiao Jiu also had a small flower wreath hat on his head.
Then the two little ones also wove beautiful flower wreath hats for their older brothers and their aunt, a family should be all neat and tidy.
Having nothing else to do, Yun Jiao rested her chin on her hands and stared blankly for a while.
“Brother, let’s go find mushrooms.”
It was so boring to just watch Auntie and her brothers gather pig feed.
Yun Xiao Jiu readily agreed.
Then the siblings, hand in hand, said goodbye to Wang Mei and went to find mushrooms.
“Here, here, here’s a big one.”
Yun Jiao poked at the soil with a small branch, her eyes sparkling.
“Ninth Brother, is this a termite mushroom?”
It had a white stem and a grayish-white cap, and most importantly, it had a fragrance.
“Mm, this is delicious.”
Although termite mushrooms don’t grow very tall, there’s a large section buried in the soil.
“It’s so deep.”
Yun Jiao dug along the white stem, her little face wrinkled.
After she dug it out, she compared it with her own small arm.
“Wow… it’s as long as my arm!”
Yun Xiao Jiu’s eyes also lit up: “Let’s look for more.”
Yun Jiao had a sensitive nose, and termite mushrooms had a distinct fragrance. After remembering the scent, she quickly found more.
And she was very lucky, finding a whole cluster growing next to each other on a retaining wall.
Some of the caps had already opened, while others had only just emerged.
They didn’t let any, big or small, get away.
Picking mushrooms is an addictive activity. When Wang Mei came over with the other children, they found that the termite mushrooms they had dug were piled together and the quantity was quite considerable.
“You dug so much?!”
She was extremely surprised. This must be nearly half a backpack, enough to eat for three or four meals.
“There are more over there.”
Yun Jiao’s nose twitched slightly, and then she pointed in a direction.
They were already in the cornfield.
Termite mushrooms are delicious, and they also fetch a good price when sold.
“Let’s go, Auntie will go dig with you.”
Setting aside the pig feed that was already peeking out of the backpack, Wang Mei rolled up her sleeves and enthusiastically went to dig for termite mushrooms with the children.
With Yun Jiao’s almost cheating-like nose, they quickly found quite a few more.
“Ugh… it stinks.”
Suddenly, a rotten stench wafted over, almost making Yun Jiao, who was sniffing the air, gag.
“What is that?”
Yun Jiao pinched her nose. With her strong curiosity, she hesitated for a few seconds before couldn’t help but walk over.
And then she found a dead large snake.
The snake’s body was already rotten and infested with maggots.
“Such a big snake, how did it die?”
Wang Mei and Yun Xiao Wu also came over. The snake’s body was as thick as a child’s arm.
It probably wasn’t killed by humans, because if people found such a large snake and could kill it, they would definitely take it home to eat the meat instead of letting it rot.
“Let’s go, let’s go, this smell is too pungent.”
Yun Jiao pinched her nose with one hand and pointed to a tree not far away with the other.
“Auntie, that’s a huge snakeskin.”
Wang Mei looked over and saw that it was indeed a huge snakeskin, likely shed by the dead snake.
“I’ll go take a look.”
Yun Xiao Wu eagerly raised his hand: “I will, I will, I’m good at climbing trees.”
Snakeskin is also a medicinal material. That snakeskin looked large and intact, and Yun Jiao wanted to take it back for her Master.
What a pity about the large snake, its gallbladder would have been even better.
Yun Jiao watched Fifth Brother climb the tree from below. Suddenly, her sharp ears caught a rustling sound, like something crawling on the ground.
Wang Mei and her older brothers heard nothing.
She turned her head in the direction of the sound.
From the tree, Yun Xiao Wu’s terrified voice came,
“Jiao Jiao, there’s a big snake, it’s a king cobra, run!”
Almost the moment Yun Xiao Wu finished speaking, a black king cobra, standing upright taller than a person and as thick as an arm, appeared in their vision.
Wang Mei’s eyes widened with terror, and her first instinct was to grab Yun Jiao and call everyone to run.
Yun Jiao darted away like an eel, evading her aunt’s grasp. As she crouched, she picked up a stone and hurled it at the snake.
King cobras are also venomous snakes, the largest species, and they will pursue their prey relentlessly. They are also very fast and hold grudges.
It dodged Yun Jiao’s stone, but in doing so, it remembered her.
It bared its fangs, reared up, and lunged at Yun Jiao.
“Jiao Jiao!”
Several worried voices called out. Yun Jiao grabbed the king cobra’s neck and slammed it onto the ground.
The king cobra was stunned. It reacted quickly, coiling its body around Yun Jiao.
Snakes are quite strong, especially when constricting prey. A snake this large could crush the bones of a child as small as Yun Jiao.
However, by provoking Yun Jiao, this king cobra had picked the wrong opponent.
As she grew older, Yun Jiao’s abilities and strength also grew.
After slamming the king cobra’s head on the ground two or three times while holding its neck, and before it could recover from the dizziness, Yun Jiao delivered several swift slaps and then, with one hand pressing its head down, she pried open the snake’s body that was still constricting her.
The snake was too large, and it took some time to pry it open.
Wang Mei rushed over with a knife, intending to strike the snake’s head.
“Auntie, step back a bit.”
Wang Mei’s hands and feet felt weak. Hearing this, she obediently moved away. This snake didn’t seem to be Jiao Jiao’s match, so she shouldn’t interfere.
Yun Jiao quickly grabbed the king cobra’s tail and then performed an invincible spinning attack.
The king cobra spun at high speed above Yun Jiao’s head, becoming a blur of motion.
On the other side, Wang Mei and Yun Xiao Wu, who had been tense, now stared with their mouths wide open, their astonishment clearly visible.
