Chapter 1219: Chapter 941: Poison Doctor Unrivaled 2 (Five Thousand)_3

Once Jiang Xue left, Wang Yongqiang looked at Zhang Yonggang with tears in his eyes: "Dazhuang, this is not a child, this is clearly a monster. What kind of child is this fierce? If it weren’t for this poison not having any cure, we are seven-foot men, how could we end up being long-term workers for two kids? If word got out, wouldn’t our buddies laugh their heads off?"

Names were changed, though it sounds slightly better than the original name, it’s still not what you would call a cultured name!

If Jiang Xue heard this, she’d definitely die laughing. Two rough guys still dreaming of getting a highbrow name. If you really got that name, do you even understand what it means?

Under the control of others, the two brothers had no choice but to nervously follow Dong Yao, carrying baskets to haul soil.

Jiang Xue was not afraid that these two would do anything to Dong Yao. With a dagger in hand, she entered the grove to find suitable bamboo for bows and arrows. After spending quite a bit of time, the bows and arrows she made had poor range and no power at all. After repeatedly selecting lots of bamboo, she eventually managed to make a bow with decent elasticity.

However, the arrowheads were not made of iron but of bamboo, so even if the bow worked, the arrows were inefficient, thus unable to catch any prey.

In the end, she had to use the "Cat Manual" magic that she just started to cultivate recently to find prey, whether it’s bamboo rats, snakes, wild chickens, wild rabbits running underground, or sparrows and various birds she couldn’t name flying in the sky. There were many kinds and as long as she had the chance, she could use her spiritual power to control them and subsequently capture them.

The grove had many mushrooms, and by using her sense of smell, she could detect animal feces near the mushrooms. Occasionally, she would use her magic to discern whether they were poisonous or not. After confirming they were non-toxic, she stuffed them into her basket to take back.

When the sun set, she returned to the cave with three snakes, a bamboo rat, some wild vegetables, and wild mushrooms. The three people were still busy, and upon seeing her return with the basket, their eyes carried a hint of curiosity.

Jiang Xue was mischievous, placing the basket in front of them and directly pulling out three snakes in their presence — two non-poisonous snakes and one poisonous snake. Even though they were dead, the two men, who were essentially just bigger kids themselves, turned pale in the face and even retreated several steps, with Dong Yao directly scared to tears.

"Scared already? We’ll have many encounters dealing with such things in the future. See this one, it’s poisonous; the other two are non-poisonous. In the future, if conditions allow, I will need to extract its venom and also need to have some poisonous creatures around. You’ll be scared now, but after catching them with me enough times, you’ll think it’s nothing. Tonight, I’ll make snake soup for you. Rest assured, as long as the poisonous snake is properly handled, it won’t cause poisoning."

Many people soak snakes in wine, worried about its internal poison. But actually, as long as the snake is steamed well before soaking, the venom is destroyed by high temperatures, and drinking such wine won’t cause any harm.

Even soaking raw without removing the poison sac, how can snake venom compete with rice wine above 50 degrees?

As soon as it touches alcohol, it loses its toxicity.

Actually, as long as our mouths and digestive tracts have no wounds, even consuming a small amount of snake venom is harmless, because snake venom cannot withstand the "knife and axe" attack from protease in the digestive tract, and they will each be dismantled by enzymes.

Snake meat is precious all over, and venomous snakes are even more valuable than gold as medicine. These three snakes lying here may look ghastly, but the snake soup cooked from them is extremely delicious.

However, when she squatted on the side with a dagger, gutting the snakes, skinning and drawing their tendons, her ghastly facial expression unconsciously left an indelible psychological shadow on the two men and one woman present.

When she finished making the snake soup, the three people opposite, despite smelling an irresistible aroma, upon seeing the snake skins she dried on the side, couldn’t help but grit their teeth and held back their hunger, repeatedly thinking in their hearts: "This girl is too scary, too scary!"

"Hey, really not going to eat? If you don’t eat, you’ll have a hungry stomach, there’s only a little here, and if I finish eating, there’ll be none left. Don’t regret it if anyone sneaks food at night, I’ll punish them by making them catch snakes!"

Under Jiang Xue’s coercion and intimidation, the two long-term workers and the girl were forced, even Dong Yao shed tears, to pick up their bowls.

The strong psychological shadow stimulated them, even though the first piece of snake meat entered their mouths, they couldn’t yet taste what it was. The unique taste left between their lips and teeth was something they had never tasted in their lives. They licked their tongues and subconsciously went for the second bite. This time, they genuinely felt with their tongues the top-notch delicacy of the era. They were stunned and looked up in surprise at Jiang Xue, who sneered: "Bumpkins, delicious, right?"

Delicious? It’s not just delicious; it’s simply a human gourmet, how could something taste so good?

Unexpectedly, beneath that ugly exterior, there hid such a wild taste that people couldn’t stop eating, so unbelievable.

Actually, Jiang Xue didn’t eat much, she knew the meat was tasty, but she hadn’t eaten it much herself, mainly because it was too scary. Especially in later generations, wild game couldn’t be eaten casually, prone to parasites. It’s safer to eat farm-raised pork.

Now seeing them eating joyfully, she found it amusing, as just a moment ago, these people were still resisting her with disdain!

How to say it, although the time spent together wasn’t long that day, Jiang Xue noticed these two weren’t inherently bad; they ate accordingly to what they were given, worked according to what was arranged, simply too obedient. Due to this, she specifically allowed them to sleep by the edge of the cave, and when their house was built later, let them move out.

Because the day was too exhausting, with three to four years’ worth of physical work done by them that day, after getting full, they fell asleep stuck in the grass nest, snoring loudly!

Dong Yao leaned over, silently giving her a thumbs-up.

"Xiao Xue, you’re amazing! If it was just the two of us working, who knows how long it would take to finish. These two really have great strength, work honestly, without shirking!"

"Useful right? In the future, our fields depend on them to open up. Leave a few trees around to block wind and rain, chop down the others, plant vegetables, and medicinal materials. This mountain ground isn’t suitable for crops, otherwise, I’d plant crops here too."

In the following days, the two long-term workers built houses, Dong Yao followed Jiang Xue to collect medicinal materials, some even dug up whole to plant in suitable places, worried they wouldn’t survive, watering them every day with their space watering cans until they perked up. Once they lifted their heads, she felt relieved.

The mountains have many medicinal materials, lots of wild vegetables, and equally dangerous animals aren’t lacking. They’ve seen bear tracks and wild boar footprints, though not witnessed directly, indirectly proving these creatures still move around the forest outskirts, not limited to the deep woods.

After more than a month of laboring, not only was the wall around the cave built, but even a door was made, windows were left, and on the breezy side left of the cave, three new rooms were built with kiln-fired bricks, with wooden interiors and brick exteriors. With bricks as insulation, it won’t be too hot in summer or too cold in winter.

The space connecting the left three rooms and the cave in the middle was turned into a safe kitchen, storage room, and firewood room.

Throughout this month, Jiang Xue and Dong Yao went to dig medicinal materials every day, while Wang Yongqiang and Zhang Yonggang, once finishing house-building, dug fields and planted vegetables. Medicinal materials were under Jiang Xue and Dong Yao’s jurisdiction, and didn’t require their worry. Thanks to this effort, they not only built houses but also made wooden beds, chairs, tables, cutting boards, and all sorts of woodworking tasks. They even added bedding and clothes, all carried back by Jiang Xue from down the mountain and then crafted by her and Dong Yao for the four of them...