After walking around, Zhang Fan led Zhao Yuqing to walk back, and met bored tourists on the way.

They were actually helping the villagers catch mice, trying to get rid of the rats that had burrowed into the rat holes, and there were children next to them who were giving advice.

In addition, the monkey was also there, holding a small bamboo in his hand, and poking it into the mouse hole from time to time, which made the onlookers feel a pain in their eggs. In the village, the monkeys seem to have to intervene in big and small things, and they often help out. In some people's words, it's a cheap hand.

"What do you want to do if you don't throw it away?" Zhang Fan asked.

I saw that they tied the rats they caught with ropes, and there were already seven or eight of them, some of them were dead, some were still alive, but they were also dying, and there was no way to struggle.

"Throw it away? That's a waste. ”

"That's right, I don't know how to eat, rat meat is delicious!"

"Don't you even look at it, how fat is this vole?"

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Zhao Yuqing and Zhang Fan looked at each other speechlessly, a group of foodies! Are they really not afraid of the virus carried by rats? Rats are delicious, this is a fact. In the past, there were villagers in Zhangjiazhai who caught voles and mountain rats to stew black beans, and the taste was indeed amazing.

Although it is a bit scary to eat voles, the nutritional value and medicinal value of voles are still very high, and after processing, the meat of voles becomes crispy and fat, and the taste and texture are good.

At this time of the year, after the rice fields are harvested in autumn, the voles begin to grow fat and forage for food, and each of the voles caught at this time is relatively fat.

Some onlookers shook their heads: "You dare to eat anything, don't you say that rats have a lot of viruses? ”

Anyway, she doesn't dare to eat it no matter what, and no matter how delicious it is, it's hard to talk. Not to mention whether there is a virus, just thinking of the obscene appearance of the sharp head and tail of the rat thief, she didn't dare to eat it. It's like someone else eating snake meat, and it feels disgusting.

"Most house mice are dirty, and they really don't dare to eat them. But this is a pure vole, and they eat crops, and they don't know how clean they are, much cleaner than the loaches you usually eat. Someone "litigated" for the vole.

"I see house mice and voles are the same, how do you know that you caught a vole?"

As soon as these words came out, many people were speechless, knowing that voles could be eaten, but they couldn't tell the difference!

Zhang Fan could answer the question, and said with a smile: "It's not difficult to tell, the skin of voles is as thin as paper, and the skin of domestic rats is as thick as pork skin." At the same time, voles do not have the strong unpleasant smell of house mice, and the other is that the tail of the vole is longer than the body, and the tail of the house mouse is basically the same length as the body of the mouse. ”

Voles eat plants in the field and their fur is soft, while house mice have sparse fur and are very coarse.

Lingnan folk also spread the saying "eat one rat, be three chickens", describing the nutritional value of voles as higher than chicken.

Traditional Chinese medicine refers to vole meat can be used as medicine, which has the effect of replenishing deficiency and correcting qi and blood. Some people also believe that vole meat has the effect of nourishing yin and aphrodisiac and hair growth, and many people come here to grab the high price.

"The red stewed vole pot I ate at the restaurant last time, it! It's a pity that the prices of voles and bamboo rats are not cheap!" said another person, looking at that gluttonous look, which made people extremely speechless.

"Yes! Voles can still be eaten, and they are highly nutritious. My hometown would dry voles. ”

"I've heard that there are places where voles are eaten alive, and I don't know if it's true or not. ”

The more these people talked, the more outrageous it became, making Zhang Fan roll his eyes, eating rats alive? Who will eat one for me? Heavy reward!

"How is that possible? not such a perverted person. Someone immediately retorted.

Although southerners eat a lot of things, the recipes are varied, and the cooking methods are dazzling, but the Chinese are not like Koreans, who can eat anything raw.

In Guangzhou, Guangzhou, and Fujian, people in some places eat live voles in winter and dried voles in summer, because in winter voles are fat and suitable for eating alive; in summer, voles are thinner, so they become dried voles.

Zhang Fan said fairly: "Don't spread the word, the so-called live eating voles are actually fresh, that is, they are alive before they are put into the pot." ”

"It's not alive, is there anyone who eats dead mice?"

"Didn't someone dry the vole? Zhang Fan explained that as for eating voles raw, he really hadn't heard of them.

"Then it seems that catching voles and selling them can also make money!" someone said unintentionally.

However, the speaker has no intention, but the listener has a heart! Zhang Fan was stunned for a moment, and a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he was almost applauded. The voles that plague his village, he has a plan.

Anything, as long as it has a commercial use and a profit to be made, will not be overflowing, and it will even be caught and need to be artificially reproduced. For example, the invasive species crayfish, which was almost caught and extinct in the wild, is known as the most failed invasive species.

There are many Chinese, and Chinese chefs will always have a way to make pests into a delicacy.

"The best way to catch voles is to smoke them, plug up all the holes nearby, and then burn a small fire in the open hole and fan the smoke inside. It is best to add a net pocket in the back, after the vole is smoked, it will be pulled out in a panic, and it will crash into the net pocket. Zhang Fan gave them advice.

Then, he reminded them not to catch voles in front of and behind the house, and to keep away from the villagers' houses to keep them clean.

Actually, there are no rats in front of the house and behind the house. In rural areas, whether it is a cat or a dog, they are all good at catching mice. If the rats run into their territory, they will probably be killed.

At this time, I saw the monkey crouching down, and the monkey head was close to a mouse hole, and his eyes were looking inside.

After looking at it for a while, he put his hand into it, and the next moment it actually pulled out a mouse, which startled everyone, and the monkey was really a bold guy.

The monkey also screamed and shook his hands desperately.

Only then did everyone see that it was a rat biting the monkey's hand. It's a vole that is forced to be urgent, it's strange if it doesn't bite, and a rabbit will bite if it's urgent.

"You're cheap, this time it's cool, right?" someone joked.

After the vole was thrown out by the monkey, it ran away as fast as it could.

Looking at the vole in the distance, everyone was confused for a while, it couldn't have been a mouse on purpose, right?

If that were the case, the intelligence of the rats would be terrible.

"Rats are still very shrewd. ”

Among the many creatures, rats are undoubtedly one of the most intelligent creatures. They are quite clever, very nimble and cunning, fearful of people, sneaky in their activities, and crawl on the edge of the hole with their two front paws when they come out of the hole, looking left and right to make sure they are safe before exiting the hole.

In addition, they like to build their nests between food and water sources, and establish fixed routes to avoid danger; the slightest movement or change will immediately cause them to be alert, and they dare not move forward, and dare to move forward after repeated familiarization; rats have a strong memory and food resistance, and if they are attacked, they will avoid this place for a long time.