After being reborn, I have seven older sisters.

Soon, Zhang Junwu spotted the venomous snake crawling out and exclaimed in shock, "It really is a venomous snake!"

After he clearly saw the snake's appearance, he immediately comforted Chunsheng and his son, "Chunsheng, don't be afraid, you and Uncle Mantun. This kind of venomous snake is called a red-banded snake. Although it is poisonous, the venom is very weak. Hand me the sickle you're holding, and I'll take care of it for you!"

"Okay, got it!"

Chunsheng agreed and readily handed the long bamboo pole with the sickle attached to it up the city wall.

After getting the sickle, Zhang Junwu shouted, "Chunsheng, you and your uncle step back a bit, don't let the falling clods of dirt hit you both."

After Zhang Junwu finished speaking, he held the bamboo pole and slowly lowered the sickle end towards the location of the poisonous snake.

To avoid startling a venomous snake and causing it to fall into Chunsheng's yard, he was extremely careful when lowering the sickle.

Because snakes have very poor eyesight and rely entirely on heat to catch their prey, they are completely unaware of the hooks and sickles approaching them.

Soon, the sickle reached the red-chained snake.

When Chunsheng looked up at Zhang Junwu, he found that both his facial expression and his hand movements were extremely calm and composed, without the slightest hint of tension or panic.

He couldn't help but admire him inwardly. No wonder he was a militia captain who had served in the army and fought wolves. If it were anyone else in the village, they would probably be covered in sweat by now.

After bringing the sickle close to the red-chained snake, Zhang Junwu did not rush to hook it.

Instead, he waited quietly until the red-chained snake crawled onto the sickle and wrapped its entire body tightly around the handle before he began to pull the hook sickle upwards little by little.

After he had pulled the entire hook chain up, Zhang Junwu called out to Chunsheng, "Chunsheng, take a bowl from home and wait for me at the city gate."

"good!"

After giving his orders, Zhang Junwu immediately disappeared from the city wall.

Song Mantun looked at Chunsheng with a puzzled expression: "Why does your brother Junwu want you to get a bowl?"

Chunsheng shook his head, looking blank, and said, "I don't know either. I'll go out and take a look, and I'll come back and tell you in a bit."

Chunsheng opened the door and immediately ran to the kitchen.

Liu Yan'e and her two daughters, who were cooking, immediately looked up at him.

Liu Yan'e glanced at Chunmiao and Chunzao beside her, then looked towards the main room behind Chunsheng, and asked, "How did you get out here so quickly? Where's your father?"

"My dad's still in the backyard!"

"Then why didn't you care about your dad and ran away all by yourself?"

Chunsheng couldn't help but laugh, "My dad's tidying up in the backyard!"

"Huh! What are you packing?"

After Liu Yan'e finished speaking, she immediately came out of the kitchen with a surprised look on her face and ran towards the backyard.

Chunsheng ignored his mother, instead reaching for an empty bowl on the cutting board and leaving the house on his own.

Chunmiao and Chunzao exchanged a glance, neither of them knowing what had happened.

When Chunsheng came out of the city gate, he found that a large crowd had already gathered outside.

He rushed over and discovered that the person surrounded by the crowd was Junwu.

He saw his own bamboo sickle lying at his feet, and the red-banded snake he was holding in his hand, its tongue flicking out.

The scene before him immediately startled Chunsheng. "Junwu, you dare to catch a snake? Be careful, it's poisonous!"

When Zhang Junwu saw Chunsheng arrive, he immediately asked the onlookers to step back a little and said, "It's alright. When I was in the army, the venomous snakes that my comrades and I caught were much bigger than this."

Chunsheng estimated that the red-and-black patterned snake wrapped around Junwu's arm was at least a meter long.

For the people who have lived in Songjiazhuang for many years, a venomous snake of this length is already considered quite large.

"Brother Junwu, what are you planning to do with it?"

Before Zhang Junwu could answer, a villager nearby laughed loudly, "Junwu is definitely going to beat it to death. He'll dig a hole and bury it. Are you suggesting we let it go? What if it bites someone else later? That would be fatal."

Northerners have always been afraid of snakes, and they will usually kill any snake they see.

Especially if it's a venomous snake that appears in your home, there's absolutely no way you can let it leave alive.

However, Zhang Junwu said with a smile, "It's definitely impossible to let it go, and of course I won't dig a hole to bury it. That would be too wasteful."

"So what are you planning to do?"

The villager and all the onlookers looked at Zhang Junwu with puzzled expressions.

Zhang Junwu glanced at the bowl in Chunsheng's hand and laughed, "Don't worry, you'll find out soon enough."

At this moment, Zhang Junwu picked up the sickle at his feet, held the sickle head in his hand, and said to Chunsheng, "Come on, follow me to the city wall so as not to dirty this road."

Zhang Junwu walked straight to a wall not far from the city gate, with Chunsheng and the others following behind.

When everyone stopped, Zhang Junwu turned to Chunsheng and said, "Bring the bowl over here!"

Chunsheng didn't dare to delay and immediately took the bowl and went over.

Just then, the sickle that Zhang Junwu had been holding suddenly fell to the ground, and between the thumb and forefinger of his right hand that had been holding the sickle, he was now pinching something the size of a grape.

The object was dark red and had bloodstains on it.

After placing the snake gall into the white porcelain bowl that Chunsheng was holding, Zhang Junwu said, "Take the snake gall back and soak it in alcohol for your dad to drink. He injured his back before, and snake gall alcohol can help relieve his back pain."

"So this is snake gall?"

"My God, Junwu actually managed to remove the snake's gallbladder."

Amidst the uproar from the crowd, Chunsheng noticed that the head of the venomous snake that had been wrapped around Junwu's left arm had now completely drooped down.

At the same time, about 20 centimeters from the snake's head, a small hole appeared, with traces of blood still remaining around the hole.

Immediately, someone asked Zhang Junwu, "You've removed the snake's gall bladder; what will you do with the snake if you don't bury it?"

Zhang Junwu smiled and said, "This is a secret. Even if we really have to bury them, we can't bury them in the wild!"

"So you're going to bury it at home?"

The crowd erupted in uproar once again.

Zhang Junwu didn't answer, but instead said to Chunsheng, "When you get the snake gall bladder home, remember to soak it in the wine immediately. The weather is starting to get hot now, and it will spoil easily."

"Alright, I'm going home now. I can't easily deal with the snake blood on the sickle right now, just wipe it off yourself with some yellow soil from the city wall!"

As soon as Zhang Junwu left, Song Mantun ran all the way from his home.

At this moment, several villagers were still gathered around Chunsheng.

As soon as those people saw Song Mantun, they brought up the matter of snake gallbladders with him.

Among them was an elderly man of similar age who smiled and said, "Brother Mantun, I'd like to discuss something with you!"