Chapter 63: Raid the rat's nest and catch them all in one fell swoop!

Mrs. Huang was surprised: "Of course I want to! I dream about it! But it's obviously impossible with our food!"

Mingdai looked around and saw that there was only Zhou Sinian outside, and Liu Guoqiang, who was being stared at by Zhou Sinian and dared not move, so she lowered her voice and spoke.

"Zhou Sinian and I found a lot of rat nests on the mountain, and there were food and dried fruits inside!"

Mrs. Huang looked at her in surprise and said, "How did you find out? This rat is very smart at digging holes!"

Ming Dai had already thought about this, and looked at her with her big eyes blinking: "I didn't find it, it was Zhou Sinian who discovered it."

Mrs. Huang suddenly realized: "Oh, it's him. That's right. Before, someone with bad hands had hidden the madman's things. The madman would go and look for them after beating people, and he would always find them. He would always find them accurately."

Mingdai was speechless. What kind of people are these?

She quickly brought the topic back to the topic: "That's right, I found that he found it very accurately, and there is a lot of food in it. If we can get it, we can also supplement it, right? They can't stand eating porridge all the time."

Mrs. Huang nodded in agreement: "Yes, you don't know, our family also has guests coming every year. If we go back, we have to lie down for a whole winter, and we may not be able to rest."

Having said this, Mrs. Huang slapped her thigh suddenly!

"Yes! Not only food, but also rats are meat! We can use the meat to nourish these people!"

Ming Dai's smiling face froze instantly: "Sister-in-law, mice can be eaten?!"

Mrs. Huang laughed at her embarrassed look: "You don't know this, right? There are many kinds of rats. The rats you caught are field rats, which are edible and not poisonous. There happens to be a field nearby, which belongs to Xiakuo Village. Otherwise, where did the food in these rat holes come from? Don't worry, we catch fat rats while working in the fields and stew them at home. They taste delicious, just like chicken."

Mingdai suddenly realized, yes, there is not so much food in the mountains.

Mrs. Huang was somewhat excited. These days, even starving people dared not touch a grain of rice from the public fields, but rats dared to steal and enrich the whole family. How could they complain?

Must get it!

Ming Dai was still a little hesitant. After all, in her mind, rats were just a mobile reservoir of bacteria. The only rats she had ever come into contact with were little white mice and the big black rats that occasionally appeared in the sewers on the street! !

However, thinking that the rats she saw in the mountains were very different from the rats that drilled into the sewers in her impression, she might as well give it a try. After all, the life experience of the locals is the most reliable.

"Okay! Sister-in-law, let's go there this afternoon and call Accountant Liu."

Mrs. Huang nodded repeatedly: "I think it's okay!"

It was settled. Mingdai was even more looking forward to digging rat holes in the afternoon.

She didn't do it for food, but simply for the excitement of treasure hunting.

In my previous life, I liked to go into the mountains to collect herbs, go to the rivers to catch fish, and occasionally go fishing in the sea. I didn’t seek much in return, but mainly enjoyed the process.

Even if I can't go, I can still watch videos of people going into the mountains and rushing into the sea at home to satisfy my craving.

Mrs. Huang put out the fire in the stove, watched Zhou Sinian being called away by Mingdai to fetch firewood, then went out to find Liu Guoqiang, who had survived the disaster, and told him what had happened.

Liu Guoqiang was still young and was fascinated by this kind of activity. He was overjoyed when he heard it: "Sister-in-law, is it true?!"

Mrs. Huang looked at him with a smile. He was indeed a young man. "What the educated youth Xiao Ming said could be true. Free up some time in the afternoon and I'll take you to dig out the rat holes!"

Liu Guoqiang agreed with a smile.

Mingdai was also coaxing Zhou Sinian to cover her and lead the team to dig out the rat hole.

Zhou Sinian took the opportunity to ask to eat mutton again. He still could not forget the taste of the mutton soup last time. He couldn't wait for the lamb to grow up and give birth to another lamb. He wanted to eat it now!

Mingdai thought that there was a big lamb leg in the space that was a reward from the village last time, and she also wanted some roasted lamb leg, so she nodded in agreement.

The bell for the end of work rang, and Mingdai's hot ginger tea was ready.

We lined up first and each person got a cup of hot ginger tea. Then the villagers saw a large bowl of cold radish and a large bowl of dry rice, and they were all very excited.

You may not be able to eat dry rice at home!

Although it is still mixed-grain rice, it is also dry. They can only eat a bowl of dry rice during the busy farming season!

After dinner, the four of them divided the work, quickly packed up and ran towards the mountain.

When they arrived at the place, Mingdai signaled with her eyes, Zhou Sinian took the lead in digging, Liu Guoqiang waited with a shovel, and Huang Saozi took a sack and prepared to block the area.

Zhou Sinian was very strong and had an accurate sense of location. After a few shovels he dug into the hole. Soon the voles inside were frightened and started running away in all directions.

Zhou Sinian killed several large field mice that escaped one by one with his hoe, leaving Liu Guoqiang and Mrs. Huang with no chance of success.

Huang smiled and held up a fat rat with a smashed head: "I can tell at a glance that it has been stealing a lot! It's almost as fat as a bamboo rat!"

Bamboo rat?

Mingdai's eyes lit up. She had never eaten field mice, but she had eaten bamboo rats!

Crunchy smell!

You'll have to ask about this later!

After putting the dead field mice together, Mingdai and the other three began to count the loot.

Peanuts, soybeans, wheat ears, sweet potato tubers and some dried fruits, a variety of things, weighing more than ten kilograms!

Mrs. Huang was so angry that her teeth were itching, especially when she saw the good food being bitten all over the place, she felt even more distressed.

"Damn you! I'm going to rob your entire family!"

After saying that, he shoveled the pink little mice in the nest into pieces.

Mingdai looked at it with disgust, but she understood very well the farmers' hatred for the rats that wasted their food.

"Okay, let's move on to the next place. Zhou Sinian said there are a lot of rat holes on this hill!"

Mrs. Huang immediately regained her smile: "Okay, okay! Keep going!"

Then the four of them started the vole house-raiding mode, searching the entire mountain without missing a single vole hole.

At the beginning, Zhou Sinian had to ask Mingdai to remind him of the specific location of the vole hole, but later he could locate it directly, and his speed was no slower than Mingdai's, which made Mingdai wonder again what this guy did in the past.

In the end, in one afternoon, the four of them dug a total of 44 rat holes and harvested nearly 300 kilograms of food!

(This is something the author has personally experienced. When I was a kid, my uncle took me to various fields in the village to dig rat holes. There was really a lot of food in the holes, but we basically didn’t eat it ourselves. We fed it all to the chickens at home.)

Except Zhou Sinian, the other three were all paralyzed from exhaustion.

But looking at the two sacks of food, they felt particularly satisfied. With these food, they had hope of having dry rice!

After looking at the sky, Mingdai waved and went down the mountain!

Zhou Sinian hadn't had enough fun yet and thought he could play the vole-digging game again.

In a good mood, he picked up the two bags of food and left. The remaining three people followed him at a trot, holding a series of rat tails.

So, the people who were building the reservoir at the construction site soon saw a smiling madman wearing a red headscarf, carrying a large sack on one shoulder, and walking towards the shed area with his head held high.

The three people behind were jogging to catch up, holding something in their hands.

The people in Liujiawan have already recognized that they are Xiaoming, the educated youth from their village, Mrs. Huang, and Accountant Liu.

But when I saw what they were holding, I was still surprised!

Oh my! Voles! Big, fat voles!

Each person must carry 20 or 30 of them! How many would three people have to carry?

It’s rich!

The villagers of Liujiawan looked at each other and immediately started working desperately, hoping to finish work early and go home to eat!

The old educated youth were also very happy, but the new educated youth were confused and didn't know what was going on.

The people in other villages were in a state of panic!

They also recognized that the person in front was a madman, and naturally guessed that the person behind was from Liujiawan.

Where did the people in Liujiawan get so many voles? !

Just think about it, how much food would that cost!

No, I have to go and see!