In front of everyone's eyes, the watermelon was still shaking slightly, and everyone present felt a little overwhelmed for a while.

Just when everyone didn't know what to do, the shaking watermelon suddenly made a whirring sound.

"It's really a watermelon baby!" Shi Jie said loudly.

Canghai couldn't help but glance at this nonsense kid when he heard this, then picked up the shovel on the car, and cautiously walked towards the moving watermelon.

When Hu Shijie and the others saw it, they also copied the guy in their hands, and surrounded the watermelon with Canghai.

Almost a meter away from the watermelon, the watermelon suddenly stopped moving, and seemed to be alert to the actions of the people in Canghai.

Waiting for Canghai and the others to stand next to the watermelon, when Canghai took the shovel and pestle to the watermelon, suddenly the watermelon began to shake more violently from side to side.

"There's something in there!"

Hu Shijie roared.

Not only Hu Shijie, but the people around the watermelon heard it, there was a noise in the watermelon, a bit like a pig's humming, but it was obviously not a pig, there was something hidden in the stomach of the big watermelon!

Knowing that there was something hidden in the watermelon, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Everyone saw a watermelon dangling, plus Yan Li and Shi Jie were talking nonsense about watermelon babies, and they were a little uneasy, the villagers were superstitious, Canghai was because of the relationship between space, and they thought that space existed, in case there was really such a nonsense thing as a watermelon baby.

Although Canghai didn't show it on his face, he was still a little uneasy in his heart.

Hu Shijie is not as old as Bai Sheng, heard the movement in the watermelon, and immediately said: "What is it to steal the watermelon, it seems that he is trapped in this watermelon, the big guy carefully turns over the melon, maybe the hole in the watermelon is under the melon."

Everyone heard the truth, so they gathered around and carefully pestled the guy in their hands to the melon.

"Wen Kui, you hold a shovel, and when you see something running out, you will smash it directly on the head!" Hu Shijie said to Wei Wenkui.

Wei Wenkui took the shovel, held it in his hands and raised the shovel high, just waiting for everyone to turn over the watermelon and rush to the thing that ran out.

"Wait!" Wei Wenkui saw the watermelon move, and immediately opened his mouth and said.

Li Licheng smiled and said, "You kid can't be afraid, right? Why are you as timid as a mother-in-law?"

"What if, I said, what if a Huang Daxian comes out of it?" Wei Wenkui asked cautiously.

Hu Shijie was directly happy when he heard it: "You are stupid, your Wong Tai Sin eats watermelon, that Wong Tai Sin eats meat, what kind of watermelon is this, Wong Tai Sin gnaws on the melon skin for a night, has nothing to do Wong Tai Sin gnaw on the melon skin and plays?

"Wong Tai Sin's small body can shake such a big watermelon, definitely not!" Li Lida said.

When Wei Wenkui heard this, he said: That's right, Wong Tai Sin eats meat, and I haven't heard that Wong Tai Sin is still a vegetarian. Besides, how big Wong Tai Sin is, it's really impossible to shake a watermelon that big.

"Attention everyone!"

Hu Shijie spoke, and then exerted his strength with both hands, and at the same time raised his hand to greet everyone.

As soon as the four men exerted their strength, the watermelon slowly began to turn over steadily.

"Stop!"

With Hu Shijie's order, about a third of the watermelon stopped.

Although only a third of the way was turned, a hole appeared in front of everyone. As soon as the entrance of the cave appeared, the humming sound of the watermelon's stomach immediately reached everyone's ears very clearly.

"Wen Kui, pay attention!"

Hu Shijie spoke, beckoning everyone to force violently at the same time, and the entire watermelon turned over completely, and a hole about the size of a large sea bowl immediately appeared on the waist of the watermelon.

At the moment when the watermelon turned over, a hairy head poked out of the hole, and Wei Wenkui immediately slapped the shovel in his hand against the head of the thing when he saw it.

This thing is also clever, and when it heard the sound of the shovel, it immediately shrank its head into the watermelon and hid in the watermelon.

"What is this?" Wei Wenkui, who had taken a blank shot, asked the people next to him while staring at the mouth of the watermelon cave.

Although the face pocket of the watermelon was almost flashing, everyone around saw it clearly, with a pig's nose on its head, three white paths on its face, and a long face like a big mouse.

"Wild boar?" Li Lida said his judgment uncertainly.

Wei Wenkui shook his head and said, "No, the wild boar's hair is yellow, and even if there is a way, it is not this color!"

"None of you have seen this thing?" asked Canghai at Li Licheng and the others.

"Whoever has ever seen this thing, there was no food in the village before, and no one grew watermelons, where have they ever seen this thing," Li Licheng said.

Hu Shijie frowned and thought for a while: "This is a pig badger!"

"Badger?"

Wei Wenkui and Li Licheng, Li Lida and the others were a little stunned, they had heard of the badger, but no one had really seen it.

Or the reason for poverty, Sijiaping Village is so poor that they can't even eat, and this piece of land is barren to death, the vegetation is not good, where is the environment for badgers to live, the most common wild thing in the wild sea near here is voles, even rabbits are rare, not to mention badgers.

Hu Shijie nodded and said: "It's a pig badger, not a wild boar, I also saw this thing when I was very young, not in our village, but in my uncle's house in Hedong Province." But how did this thing come to us, and it is estimated that there is no such thing within a radius of hundreds of miles around here."

"I said Brother Jie, what are you talking about so much, now do you catch or kill, you give a letter, don't delay, the sun is about to set in the west, we are going to transport watermelons three times today" Li Lida said a little impatiently.

Hu Shijie smiled when he heard this: "Catch it alive as much as possible, this thing oil can cure scalds, and meat can also be eaten!"

When everyone heard this, they immediately hummed and prepared to start capturing the badger alive hidden in the belly of the watermelon.

Li Lida grabbed a pocket on the cart, opened the pocket and wanted to put it on the hole, just when Li Lida's pocket was put on the watermelon hole, the badger in the watermelon's stomach suddenly jumped out, and the sudden surprise startled the onlookers.

In the leisure of this jump, in everyone's stunned effort, the badger in the watermelon actually jumped out and ran away.

By the time everyone reacted, the thing had already escaped from everyone's encirclement.

At this time, the dog that followed immediately barked happily and chased after the badger who had fled into the wilderness.

But it's a pity that these two dogs are not hunting dogs, and the tiger head was left at home by Canghai at this time, and only two earth dogs wanted to catch a pig badger who escaped for his life, which was really a fool's dream.

It was only a bell before and after, and the badger ran away, and the two earth dogs also shrugged their ears and returned to the side of the cart.

"Ouch, let this thing get away!"

When the thing ran away, Shi Jie, a timid boy like a mouse, trotted over, looked at a big hole that was gnawed out of the watermelon, looked left and right curiously, and no one paid attention to him.

Hu Shijie said to Canghai: "Come and see the melon field tonight."

Seeing Canghai's puzzled eyes, Hu Shijie said: "The pig badger just now is just a small badger, and the adult pig badger is much bigger than this.

Canghai listened and nodded, now that there is such a thing, Canghai must be careful, otherwise his own watermelon field will be in trouble during this harvest season, and he won't be able to cry in a good tone.

Hu Shijie opened his mouth and said: "Let's move! Be careful, if you have been bitten by a badger, don't pick the melon first."

"Be careful, see if there are any badgers hidden in the watermelon!" Li Licheng said.

Hu Shijie listened and said: "This thing is generally nocturnal, and it won't come out in broad daylight, this little badger looks like it's trapped in a watermelon, otherwise it will run away at dawn."

Although there are Hu Shijie's words as a foundation, most of the people here have never seen badgers, so they are naturally a little worried, especially a few mothers-in-law, when picking watermelons, they always have to step on the watermelon with their feet first, and shake it from side to side, and when they feel that the watermelon is heavy enough, they will pick the melon.

It is said that it is actually cut to pick melons, the melon vines are very strong, if it is difficult to pick the watermelons from the vine with only hands, it is much more convenient to use a knife, at this time the watermelons in the melon field are almost not distinguished, Canghai and Hu Shijie took almost an acre of land, only one and a half large small watermelons are not ripe, and the others are all ripe.

Several mothers-in-law are responsible for chopping melons, and the men are carrying the watermelons up the cart, and after lifting them on the cart, they are stacked on the cart with one end to the front and one end backwards, first on the cart with a flat yard, and then between the two melons, a cart is seven or eight watermelons, and then the watermelons are fixed on the cart with a bundle of ropes.

There are not many watermelons in a cart, because each watermelon is heavy enough, and six or seven melons are also three or four hundred catties.

In just about 20 minutes, several carts were loaded with watermelons, Hu Shijie led a group of old men to drive the cart back, and a group of women stayed in place to rest, waiting for the old men to come back and pick melons.

Back in the village, the sun in the west has set on the mountain beams, and there is only a little residual sun, dyeing the western sky red. When the watermelons on the car were unloaded, the big guy put these pots of vegetables on the cart, loaded a bucket of white rice, took the dishes and chopsticks or something, and then turned back to Fenghuanggou, leaving only Liu Aifen and a dog in the village to watch.

As soon as Li Liren heard that a badger was found in the watermelon field in Canghai, and ran away, he immediately patted his thigh and said pity, as a cook, he knew much more about badgers than Hu Shijie, and when he arrived at Fenghuanggou, he was eating with a bowl, and at the same time looked back and forth at the big watermelon that was gnawed by the badger, sometimes shaking his head and sometimes nodding and not knowing what to mutter.

Ping'an held the bowl, his big mouth stuck on the edge of the bowl, he glanced at Li Liren stupidly, turned his head to Shi Wei and asked, "Sister Shi Wei, is Grandpa Liren sick?"

Ping'an really didn't understand why the old man Li Liren shook his head and nodded.

Shi Wei smiled and whispered: "No, he may be thinking about how to burn badger meat."

Listening to badger meat, Ping An couldn't help swallowing a little saliva, although I don't know if badger meat is delicious, but as long as it is meat that has not been eaten, Ping An has an interest in tasting it, and this interest is still very strong.

Li Liren turned his head at this time, and said to everyone very dissatisfied: "So many of you can't catch a badger, it's a shame!"

Hu Shijie said: "Many people don't know what this thing is, and they miss it when they don't know what it is, and they won't let it run away next time!"

Li Liren pouted when he heard this: "Find someone to watch the melon field with me tonight, if this thing comes back tonight, I will let it go and never return!"

"Will you come tonight?" asked Cang Hai, a little uncertain.

Li Lixu nodded: "As long as there is food, this thing will definitely come, leave a few more dogs, and the tiger head will play a role tonight."