Chapter 20 Rabbit Hunting Contest 2

There was no rush for the remaining work, so she planned to do it tomorrow.

Then she continued to complete her vocabulary task, but unfortunately she couldn't write in her diary until the evening, otherwise she could finish everything in the morning.

At this moment, Zhang Wei suddenly remembered something. She really hadn't thought about electronic products for a long time...

Although it was 1998, the Wilsons both had cell phones and carried laptops with them to work at all times. Zhang Wei had no intention of using any of them and remembered that she was a heavy cell phone addict before.

When we got here, there was not even a TV. Apart from electric lights, there were only a few old wired telephones to keep in touch with the outside world.

But such days are very fulfilling and interesting. Zhang Wei decided to go and see how the other brothers are progressing after taking a nap in the afternoon.

As soon as Zhang Wei entered the warehouse in the afternoon, he smelled a pungent odor. He saw Leida wrapped tightly from head to face, mixing some liquid, as if she was doing a chemical experiment.

"Vera, get out first!" Leida's voice was muffled by the mask.

Zhang Wei actually stepped back quickly when he smelled it, but he still sneezed because of the choking.

It seems that Leida is developing chemical weapons to deal with Rabbit. Oh, how pitiful!

Manny and Namiel were still rummaging through the tool shed, and Charles was there, explaining to his sons what the tools did.

The wooden boards that Chris had been asked to saw had already been sawed. Zhang Wei roughly counted them and felt that they should be enough. If not, he could just make the area smaller.

The next day, the Wilson family's first rabbit catching competition officially began.

Because the venue issue was not considered before, it was decided to proceed according to the order of the draw on the first day. This means that the person who draws the last one is the most difficult to catch. However, we can make up for it by only counting the number in the next two days.

As she expected, Zhang Wei was drawn last. She has always had bad luck in this area.

The first one was Namir. He found a lot of mousetraps from somewhere and set up a whole line in the middle of the lawn, cutting the lawn into two equal parts.

Then Charles and I each took a thin and long stick and started poking the holes from the left and right sides, trying to drive the rabbits on both sides to the mousetrap line in the middle.

Namier's short legs made him run slowly, and he only dug a few holes but no rabbits came out. Charles, on the other hand, was very fast. We were used to seeing him in a suit and tie, but he ran very agilely. Soon the rabbits were driven out, but unfortunately they went back into the hole soon, far away from the mousetrap.

"Namir! Come closer!" Charles also noticed the problem. They should be chasing near the mousetrap.

By the time Namiel ran to the middle, he was exhausted, but he still tried hard to drive away the rabbits. However, until even Charles was exhausted, no more rabbits came out.

When Charles led the dejected Namier back after putting down the stick, something surprising happened: a rabbit quickly jumped out of the hole and hit the mousetrap directly!

Zhang Wei was stunned. Is this what it means to just sit back and wait for something to happen?

"Namir! Quick! There's a rabbit!"

"Dad! Turn around!"

Namier and Charles heard the sound and looked back. Seeing the struggling rabbit, they instantly forgot their tiredness. Finally, Namier temporarily ended the first game with a rabbit.

Second in the draw was Manny, whose approach was as calm as his personality.

Just like Lu Xun and Runtu catching sparrows, he set up a dozen or so cages made of woven wire, propped up with sticks, and placed carrots and cabbages underneath. He tied the ropes on the sticks to the legs of a chair, with several ropes tied to one leg, and each rope was tied with a flag of a different color as a mark.

Then he sat on the chair and kept an eye on the movements on the grass. He was very patient and would not pull the rope until the rabbit started eating.

In this way, after all the cover was put down, Manny harvested four rabbits, which was also a good result.

Next up was Leida's chemical weapons. Zhang Wei felt her rabbit feast was going to be ruined...

After Zhang Wei looked at his arrangement, he felt that his method was not much different from his own.

He first pulled a fishing net and fixed it in a place on the grass, then picked up a medicine sprayer and walked towards the rabbit hole wearing a mask.

The smell was so deadly that rabbits kept running out near the rabbit holes he had sprayed. Many rabbits bumped into the fishing net at once. It was a pity that the fishing net was not big enough, otherwise he would have definitely caught more.

In the end, Leida harvested 9 rabbits, but of course he drove away dozens of rabbits.

Finally, it was Zhang Wei's turn. It was almost noon, and Charles suggested that Zhang Wei come back in the afternoon because many rabbits had been driven away by Leida.

Of course Zhang Wei disagreed. It was good that they hurried away. The rabbits should all be nesting on the other side now. After all, the smell did not dissipate so quickly.

She found a place farthest from the gas attack and asked Betty to hammer the wooden board into the soil about one meter deep in a circle, leaving fifty centimeters exposed.

Zhang Wei stuffed the rabbit holes on one side of the circle with semi-wet hay and covered the other side with nylon netting. After the wooden boards were tied in place, she and Betty set the hay on fire at the same time.

Smoke came out immediately, and gradually rabbits began to emerge, and there were more and more of them. They wanted to escape, but they were blocked by wooden boards and nylon nets.

Seeing that there were already a lot of rabbits, Zhang Wei asked Betty to pull the rope to collect the net. Even though Betty was strong, it was still difficult for her to drag up dozens of rabbits. Finally, with the help of Chris and the old housekeeper, she was able to count the rabbits. There were a total of 51 rabbits!

Seeing the whole bag of rabbits, not only Aunt Mary but everyone else was shocked!

In just less than a quarter of the back garden lawn, 51 rabbits were caught. The entire estate covers more than 600 acres, so you can imagine the number of rabbits...

"If you use this method, we can really catch all the rabbits here. How did you come up with this idea?" asked Aunt Mary.

Zhang Wei told the truth: "I have seen others catch it this way when I was in China." So it is not because she is smart.

"Where is China? Are there so many rabbits there?" Namir asked immediately.

Emma immediately said, "When you're older, we'll go to China together. But what should we do now? How are we going to deal with so many rabbits?"

At this moment, everyone turned their eyes to Aunt Mary, but she seemed still to be distracted by the rabbit in the big bag. She only said:

"Let's have lunch first, and then we can think about it together."

Don't the British eat rabbit? Zhang Wei saw that they didn't think about the food. If she brought it up, wouldn't it be a bit inappropriate? She had to test it out, for the sake of her rabbit feast...