Chapter 6: Snake Wine

  In the ancient-colored house, Song Mingde sat on a chair reading books, behind him was a row of bookshelves, with books and several meridian and skeletal diagrams hanging on them.

  "Ah Ba."

  Coming inside, Song Wen respectfully called out to Song Mingde.

  Song Mingde is Ah Fen's father and above him is an old father, Song Axi, who is the founder of this clinic.

  "What's wrong."

  Seeing Song Wen enter, Song Mingde put down his book and asked.

  "I don't know, it's just that I've been having diarrhea all morning and have gone to the bathroom over a dozen times already." Song Wen said with a bitter face.

  "Reach out your hand."

  Song Wen obediently stretched out his hand and let him take his pulse.

  After a moment of silence, Song Mingde finally spoke up: "Nothing's wrong, I'm just a bit weak physically. I'll prescribe some tonics for you to take back and supplement with."

  Song Wen rolled her eyes and pulled it off early in the morning, no ghost if the body is not weak.

  While Song Mingde got up to fetch medicine, Song Wen looked around the room.

  The room was a combination of a Chinese medicine house and a clinic, one end was for diagnosis, the other end was a counter for traditional Chinese medicine. The counter had all sorts of things, including two-hand-wide lingzhi mushrooms, thick deer antlers, ginseng, high-grade ginseng, cordyceps sinensis, etc. He also saw a large tortoise shell and the corpse of a pangolin, it was unclear whether they were real or fake.

  "Hmm..."

  Suddenly, Song Wen saw a one-meter-high glass jar next to the medicine cabinet, placed on a table, with several rice spoon-sized Angleworms (also known as Eyeglass Snakes) soaking in medicinal herbs inside. He stared, his eyes widening involuntarily - he had never seen such large Angleworms before. Looking at this wine, it must have been brewed for at least a few years; otherwise, the color wouldn't be so intense. This is indeed a great tonic!

  "Uncle, when did you get this big bucket of snake wine? I've never seen it before!"

  Song Wen curiously asked Song Mingde about the symmetrical medicine.

  "You don't come back often, how would you know. He's been in the mountains for several years, originally catching snakes on the mountain, when he came down, his luck was bad and he was bitten by a five-step snake. At first, he thought it was just a mosquito bite, didn't pay attention, until he realized later, he was already a bit dizzy. Luckily, someone passed by at that time and carried him to my place. I saved his life, and as a thank you, he wanted to give me the snake, but I didn't want it, instead I bought it from him with money."

  "Will this snake catcher run into the mountains to catch snakes?" Song Wen asked in surprise.

  "Otherwise, where do you think there is such a big rice scoop?"

  "This snake catcher is really bold."

  Behind Song's house is a bamboo forest contracted by the villagers, and after the bamboo forest is the mountain forest. In the mountain forest, there are still some untouched primitive forests, where there are many centipedes, mosquitoes, snakes, and wild beasts. The villagers usually don't dare to enter, but unexpectedly, the snake catcher dared to go in and catch snakes, it's really courting death. There aren't only small snakes like this inside, there are also big pythons as thick as a waist that Song Wen has seen before.

  "However, Abe was also lucky, as such a large rice scoop is not commonly seen."

  "Not really."

  "This wine must taste good."

  Song Wen's eyes stared at the snake wine and said.

  "Do you want a drink or are you going to bed? Your dad had one and it was just right, but if you have one, you'll be in for a rough night."

  The snake's nature is extremely lustful. Song Mingde used dozens of precious medicinal materials to soak in wine, which can not only cure rheumatism and activate blood circulation, but also greatly supplement the body. Old people who drink it don't feel anything, but young people with vigorous blood and energy will have a terrible time after drinking at night, especially someone like Song Wen who is still unmarried.

  "It's okay, I'll just try it, won't drink too much."

  "Alright you little rascal, I'll pour some for you. But honestly, don't drink too much or your body won't be able to take it."

  "Got it, Uncle."

  Helpless, Song Mingde bandaged his wound and then filled a small glass bottle with snake wine for him.

  He picked most of the herbs for this snake wine himself on the mountain, some can't even be bought in the market. So he always treated this snake wine as his life, never easily gave it to others, if not for thinking highly of Song Wen, he wouldn't have given it to him either. Many young people in the village wanted to buy it, but he didn't even give them a glance.

  Song Wen put the snake wine in his pocket and walked out with the prepared tonic. When he came to the door, he suddenly felt a little dizzy for no reason, as if he was hungry, so he thought of going to find something to eat.

  Who would have thought that a small car was coming straight at him, and he didn't see it either, just walked past.

  The driver was a woman, who looked at him in such a way that she was frightened to death, and hastily stepped on the brakes, but it was too late. Song Wen himself had already crashed into her car and then fell to one side.

  The woman took one look and was nearly frightened to death, hastily running out to take a look.

  At this time, Song Wen stood up again, swaying back and forth, without caring that she was a woman or that he had crashed into her car. He opened his mouth to lecture her: "How do you drive? Don't you look at the road? Having a car is nothing special! Driving requires a conscience, morality, culture, and quality. You should be a person who contributes to society, a 'four-haves' new person. What's wrong with you? Are you not looking at the road? Are you nearsighted? If you're nearsighted, don't drive, lest you harm others and yourself."

  Song Wen was so hungry that he felt dizzy and his words were incoherent when speaking.

  "I... I don't have nearsightedness."

  Huang Xiaojun said innocently.

  I originally wanted to go to a good sister's house to play, but I didn't expect this thing to happen. She really has grievances that can't be spoken out loud. Fortunately, it wasn't her who crashed, otherwise he would have jumped into the Yellow River and still couldn't wash himself clean.

  "No shortsightedness, no shortsightedness would collide with people, having myopia also got it, they say the green snake's mouth, the yellow bee's tail needle, the most poisonous is the woman's heart. It seems that it is really true, you this woman..."

  Perhaps it was because he had pulled too much in the morning, or perhaps he was dizzy from hunger. As they spoke, Song Wen became dizzy and fell forward.

  Afeng in the clinic heard the noise outside and came out to see, just saw Song Wen falling to the ground, hurriedly walked over and asked Huang Xiaojun: "What's going on?"

  "I don't know, he just ran over here and said a bunch of nonsense before passing out," Huang Xiaojun said with furrowed brows.

  "This guy, even when he's sick, doesn't let people off the hook. Come, help me carry him in."

  After finishing speaking, he went to lift Song Wen, and Huang Xiaojun hurried forward to help. She often comes over, Ah Fen also knows her, otherwise if it were any other stranger, they wouldn't be able to speak so nicely even if they bumped into each other.

  The two women had just laid Song Wen on the clinic bed when he slowly came to.

  "What's wrong?" Song Wen asked strangely as he saw himself in the clinic.

  "What's wrong with you? Don't you know? You fainted just now, and Xiao Jun and I helped you in."

  Afeng said in an ill temper.

  "Oh, it's nothing, maybe I'm just lightheaded from hunger. My stomach is starving to death, can't take it anymore, I need to go eat something."

  Having finished speaking, he got out of bed, picked up the medicine bag beside him and walked out.

  Afen and Huang Xiaojun were both stunned, and by the time they reacted, Song Wen had already disappeared without a trace. The two of them couldn't help but look at each other in dismay.

  Song Wen was so hungry that his belly was stuck to his back, he came to a fish porridge shop, ordered a bowl of fish porridge and started eating fiercely, he ate eight bowls in a row, only then did he suppress the hunger in his stomach, the shop owner's eyes were about to pop out.

  After paying the bill and returning home, my stomach suddenly started acting strange again, so I rushed to the bathroom.

  After emptying my bowels, I couldn't help but feel puzzled in my heart. What on earth is going on? If it's just a case of food poisoning, then why does it keep coming out like this? And everything that comes out is some kind of black, sticky stuff with a foul smell. It doesn't seem like I've eaten anything black before, so how did all this come out? But after it was all over, my body felt much more comfortable. This is really strange.

  Just as Song Wen was lost in thought, Ah Fen brought Huang Xiaojun to his home, with Huang Xiaojun carrying a bag of fruit, seemingly to visit the patient.

  He looked a bit embarrassed, having just scolded someone without regard, but the other person not only didn't take offense, they even brought fruit to comfort him, truly making one feel ashamed.

  "Sister, how did you all come here? Come on, sit inside."

  Song Wen invited the two to sit down, but in his heart he was secretly relieved that his mother and sister-in-law were not around. Otherwise, with his mother's personality, seeing a girl come home would have led to who knows what kind of situation. After all, her current top priority was finding him a good wife.

  "You suddenly fainted and then ran away, I just came to see what's going on. Coincidentally, Huang Xiaojun also wanted to come over, so we came together. You're also something else, how can you be so reckless and scold others without caring? If Huang Wenhong finds out, you'll be in trouble."

  Huang Wenfeng isn't Song Hu's wife? What does she have to do with anything? Song Wen thought in confusion.

  Afen seemed to see his doubts and said: "Xiao Jun is Wenfeng's good sister, you say you disciplined her, does it have anything to do with her?"

  Song Wen was shocked and sweated profusely, never expecting that after all the twists and turns they would still end up as one family. This world is really too small!

  Ah Fen ignored his thoughts and took up the instrument to examine him. At this time, Song Wencai had a chance to carefully look at Huang Xiaojun.

  All I saw was her red lips and white teeth, delicate skin, wearing a Han-style dress, like an ancient woman walking out of a painting, she can be considered a beauty.

  "Sorry about that, I made a mistake just now."

  Song Wen hurriedly apologized to her, not expecting that he had bumped into someone's car, and the person not only didn't say anything but also came over to show concern, making him feel ashamed. From this it can also be seen that this woman has a good character, if it were someone else, they would probably be afraid to avoid her.

  "It's okay," Huang Xiaojun smoothed out her slightly disheveled hair, "I'm just glad you're fine. I was so scared when I saw you like that earlier. Luckily, Sister Afen came out, or else I wouldn't have known what to do."

  Afen saw the two people's appearance, and her mouth slightly curled up with a hint of playfulness.

  After a while, seeing that Song Wen was fine, Ah Fen and Huang Xiaojun bid farewell and left.

  Song Wen saw them off to the door, watched as they walked away, and only then turned back into the house. But suddenly he felt his stomach start to feel unwell again, and couldn't help but mutter a curse under his breath, "Damn it!" before rushing towards the bathroom.

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