A Guide to Raising your Natural Enemy

chapter 14

14. Stepping on the Snake in the Middle of the Night

The huge snake unexpectedly didn't eat the frogs! Shu Shu stared at Edgar with a puzzled look. After much deliberation, he ultimately concluded that the huge snake was not able to catch the frogs.

Indeed, suffering so many heavy injuries, he supposed that the huge snake could not move anymore. Right, he had not gotten the chance to ask the huge snake a question before. Did the huge snake could only use his tail to point something out?

Shu Shu glanced at the huge snake with a sympathetic look. Grabbing a frog and breaking its legs, he then threw it near the huge snake's mouth: "Snake, eat the frog."

Edgar merely eyed the slimy frog struggling beside his head. Then he moved his head far away from it.

Edgar's movement made Shu Shu jump in fear again. He drew back a few steps to lean against the cave's wall and realized that the huge snake was just trying to stay away from the frog. Having not been attacked by the snake, he breathed a sigh of relief.

However, getting frightened by his own disciple was really humiliating . . . . Shu Shu pretended that he was just occupied with something on the side of the cave. He grabbed a frog next to his feet and began to speak to calm himself down: "You don't eat frog, ah . . . . And for what reason is it that you don't eat frog?"

"Being picky about food is not good. You're being so troublesome to keep, you know!"

"Anyway, I can't catch other prey. It's good enough that I can catch frogs. What else do you want to eat, ah?!

"If you don't eat, I'll starve you to death."

. . . .

Shu Shu relied on the fact that the huge snake couldn't understand his words to educate the huge snake sincerely and earnestly. Of course, considering that he was afraid of the snake, he didn't dare to look at the snake while educating it.

In the meantime, he had grabbed all the frogs that had escaped to his side, and now he was running to the cave mouth to kill them.

Shu Shu did not feel like going to the lakeside. After killing the frogs, he just buried their heads and viscera in the mire nearby. Then he brought back the frog meat to the cave and put it inside the wooden basin he had made with his own hands to wash.

The frogs here were all larger than the frogs that Shu Shu had seen before. Each one was the size of the palm of the hand and had a lot of meat, too. After Shu Shu was done washing the frog meat, he could not help but feel ravenous to the point of wanting to gnaw it raw. Of course, he certainly wouldn't do such thing.

But, how was he going to cook these frogs? That's the problem . . . .

After pondering for a while, Shu Shu took out the slab he had used to make dried meat.

He had always used this slab to make dried meat, so the upper layer had become oily. Shu Shu placed the supported slab in the middle of the fire and put the frogs on it one by one. Then he adjusted the fire under the slab.

"Slab frog, it's the first time you see it, right? I'm the one who make it, so it must be very tasty!" Shu Shu once again said to the huge snake. He really liked to talk, but there had only been him alone before, so he had just hummed and sung a song. Now there was this disciple of his, he started to jabber on and on: "The most delicious frog on earth will be made by me!"

"The frog meat is very tender; it'll get burnt if it's roasted for a little bit too long. It's no good to continue like this . . . . Adding some water should be fine, right? Don't you need to add some water when pan-frying fried dumplings?" Shu Shu kept harping on. Using a small ladle, he poured a little water on top of each frog and flipped them over with a pair of chopsticks.

Among the rising steam, it was actually true that the frogs were cooked. But of course, it was just that and nothing more. Forget about calling it the most delicious under heaven, it was even not qualified to be called delicious.

"I can't finish eating them, ah. How about making dried frog? The frog's meat is very tender; it'll probably shrink a lot when made into dried frog, right?" Shu Shu looked at the pile of frogs in front of him and fretted a bit. He suddenly heard some movements. Only to find that the huge snake was close by and gazing at him impatiently. Even more, the snake was rapping the ground with its tail.