Chapter 252 Bitten by a Rat 6

Someone took a torch to probe the area, and after digging a few times with a hoe, they startled the brood of rats inside. In an instant, the rats seemed to go mad and all ran out.

No one expected that so many rats were hiding in this hole, densely packed together, at least dozens at a glance!

The rats were greatly disturbed when their nest was destroyed. Not only were they no longer afraid of people, but they even squeaked and pounced on people to bite them.

The villagers hurriedly picked up their hoes to chop it down, but several villagers were still bitten on the toes.

When Li Chunhua saw the rats, she immediately hid behind them and didn't dare to approach until all the rats had been eliminated.

She squatted on the ground, looking at the few grains of food that were sticking out, and her heart ached terribly.

If all that grain were in my own pocket, I could eat dry rice every day for months!

Just then, a mouse hiding in the hole suddenly leaped up, pounced on her face, and bit her mouth!

"ah!!!"

Li Chunhua's face contorted in pain instantly. She screamed as she grabbed the rat, pulled it off her hand, and threw it on the ground.

While covering her mouth, she stomped on the rat, saying, "You dare bite me? I'll stomp you to death, stomp you to death!"

After stomping the rat to death, Li Chunhua covered her mouth and cried out in pain.

The rat bit her lower lip, and with the slightest tug, she felt another wave of pain.

Chen Jianye quickly went over to check the injury on her mouth.

The rat bit quite hard, leaving a hole in Li Chunhua's lower lip that bled.

Fortunately, it wasn't too deep; at most, it would just be a bit of a hassle for the next few days when eating and talking.

Zhou Zhaodi, trying hard to suppress her laughter, deliberately teased, "Oh, third sister-in-law, how come you're the only one so unlucky to have your mouth bitten by a mouse? Is it because you were talking badly about us just now?"

"Ouch, that hurts!"

Li Chunhua opened her mouth to yell back, but the pain from the pull on her mouth was unbearable, so she could only glare at her fiercely.

Zhou Zhaodi wasn't afraid of her sharp glare and went off to dig a mouse hole with great enthusiasm.

The villagers dug open the rat hole, revealing the grain hidden inside.

The people were even more excited to see the grain, and they worked even harder.

With more than a dozen men working together, the rat hole was quickly cleared out, and all the grain was laid out in front of them.

"My God, this is too much."

Someone in the crowd remarked subconsciously that the amount of grain a typical family receives in a year is less than what's in these two rat holes.

Even if the entire commune distributed grain, each of their families would still receive a bag.

Zhao Mancang shouted to the back, "Hurry up and get your tools and load all this grain into the commune so we can distribute it to you tomorrow."

"Okay."

The crowd responded excitedly, and several women packed the grain into baskets or bamboo crates, which the men then carried back to the commune's granary.

"Captain, what do we do with these dead rats?"

Someone asked a question, and when Zhao Mancang turned around, he realized that many people's eyes were fixed on the pile of dead rats on the ground.

There must have been at least thirty or four dead rats, and they were all quite large. Once we got home, we could skin them and get a lot of meat for a treat.

Zhao Mancang waved his hand and casually said, "Whoever kills the rat can take it home."

(End of this chapter)