Just when everyone was at a loss, the village chief put forward an idea, since people dare not venture deeper, they can only choose other things, and there is only one kind of animal that can escape from burrowing, and that is mice. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"We can connect the ropes, and then tie them to the hind legs of the rats, and let them go into those branch holes to explore, we just want to know whether the demon is in the hole and the length of the hole, etc., now the general has arranged for the sergeant to guard the entrance of the cave, if there is a few days, it is estimated that the demon will be hungry if he is blocked inside, we pull out the rope, if the mouse is abnormal, it proves that he is still hiding inside, and then use fireworks to put the hole in the branch, and keep adding firewood, in our experience, these holes are often connected to each other, Even if it's a separate place, we can smoke it out. ”

"Good idea, I'll send someone to prepare the rope now, and the chief is strong enough, but the village chief has to work hard for this matter of catching mice."

The village chief's face turned red, and he shyly arched his hand, asking for something.

"General, we have barren land here, every family is saving money, if you donate food to catch mice, it will definitely outweigh the losses, first, the food is scarce, I am afraid it is not enough, and secondly, it delays the matter and finally sleeps the villagers, please think twice!"

"Well, this general also knows the situation in the Shishan area, these stones are noisy, I was born in a peasant family, and I know the importance of food, so since the entrance to the cave has been controlled, the monster definitely does not dare to venture out, I led the team to come today just to bring some rations, looking at the situation in front of me, it is estimated that it will be stationed for a few days, and I can't squeeze out the local people, so I will send my subordinates to transport some food, and allocate some from it, and other tools will be taken from local materials."

"The old people of the village are grateful to the general, but there is still one thing to ask for."

Zhang Fengcheng frowned when he heard this, and his temper immediately rose.

"Why are you so troubled little old man, one left and one right, say it quickly, it's really annoying!"

"Please allow the old man to tie the rope for the mouse, and the rest of the people must not pass it."

The eyes of the two Taoist priests lit up, and they quickly stood up and bowed deeply to the village chief, and said to Zhang Fengcheng with emotion in their eyes.

"General, this village chief Ji is really a virtuous person, presumably the old man must be afraid that the disease on the rat may spread to the villagers and us, so he hopes to take the danger alone."

The village chief smiled helplessly.

"In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the epidemic in Shunde Mansion and Hejian Mansion, in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, the epidemic in Changping Prefecture and Baoding Prefecture, there were countless deaths and injuries, and rats died everywhere. The ancestor was an official in Baoding Mansion at that time, and he knew that the epidemic was spread by rats. Now in order to kill demons, rats are needed, and the old decay has passed the age of ear shun this year, and there is no hindrance. ”

This remark made Zhang Fengcheng's face flush, and he was really convinced by the old man in front of him, and immediately got up and saluted.

"Old man, Zhang was arrogant before, please atone for the old man, but, how can the old man bear such a big risk alone, firstly, the men in our army will not lose, and secondly, we will not allow time, the situation in the cave is unknown, but this demon must die to see the corpse, and live to see the person. The old man is noble, Zhang admires, there will be a brave man under the heavy reward, I promise, all the people who participate in the rope tie are isolated and do not contact with others. ”

"We are willing to follow the old man!"

The village chief nodded to the two Taoist priests, and after everyone divided the work, they began to prepare.

The village chief has calculated, the side branch cave in the Longmen Cave can accommodate people through no more than five in the impression, if the side branch cave has a hole, it is estimated that there will be fewer people through, so rough calculation, there should be twenty or thirty rats enough, but after all, the cave is deep, the more the merrier is the best, and those who can't be used should be eliminated for the people.

It's just that this mouse is abnormally smart, whether it will follow back and miss some holes in the side branch holes, or bite off the rope and escape, then it can only be left to fate, and it will not be easy to get a few more times. Fortunately, the villagers have been exploring the caves for generations and have found that many of the holes are actually connected to each other, so let the rats panic and let them run around inside.

There is also the fact that even if this rat is huge, it must consider the strength after all, if the rope is too thick to run far, it will not be able to pull, so the village chief told you to choose a tough thin rope.

In the end, he mobilized a carpenter to make a large wooden box out of wooden planks, which is all because of the saying that there are "three mice and a basket" among the three monsters in Hainan, due to the warm climate on the island and abundant food, the rats are all big, many even exceed the size of cats.

Looking at the wooden box, the two Taoist priests and Zhang Fengcheng shook their heads again and again, if they want to lure the rats in, they must open an opening, and once the rats come in, it is impossible to install a door that closes automatically, how can this trap the rats that come and go freely? Zhang Fengcheng simply proposed, it was better to use the method of catching sparrows in that basket.

But the village chief explained with a smile that how to simply trap the rat is indeed the biggest difficulty, if it is the method of catching sparrows, that is, the structure of the small stick basket is not advisable, the rat is naturally alert, if the stick is connected to the rope and then extended to the person's hand, the rope should not be too long, and the second is required to have a wide field of vision and the land is flat, otherwise it is not possible to see or the rope is stuck by the stones along the way, and the rats here burrow quickly, if they are frightened by the outside, they will dig down violently, if the person quickly goes over to catch it, it will inevitably disturb other mice, After going back and forth, I don't think there will be any more rats.

Therefore, the village chief simply borrowed the wisdom of the Shishan people and applied the structure of the sheepfold to the rat catch.

Black goats are abundant in Stone Mountain, but the people here seem to have an easy way to raise sheep, open the sheepfold in the morning and let them out, then lock the door and ignore it, and go back to count the sheep in the evening. This is all due to the fact that a unique kind of sheepfold was created from the use of stones.

First of all, the sheepfold also has a tall stone wall and a wooden door, but there is a hole on the side of the wall that allows a sheep to be drilled into, but it is very high, and there are stone steps under the outside of the wall to lead to the hole, but there are no steps on the inside of the wall. In this way, at night the first sheep will carry the sheep into the hole from the outer steps of the wall, but because there are no steps inside, it is impossible for them to jump out of the hole.

After listening to the thoughts, the two Taoist priests nodded violently, the wisdom of this mountain man should not be underestimated. Then the chief of the village set up the highest side of the big wooden box, which was half a man high, and then made a hole in the top, and made a step with a wooden strip under the hole on the outside of the plank, and pressed the stones on the periphery and the top of the cage with stones to fix it, and nodded with satisfaction, and everyone sprinkled the grain grains on the steps and the bottom of the box, and then placed them not far from the entrance of the village, and decided to verify it at night.

Sure enough, when they looked at it the next day, everyone laughed evilly, and in one night's work, three or four rats were trapped here, and they were seen tossing and turning in it, but they could not climb the planks to get out of the hole, and they were fixed with stones on the left and right, and the tall boxes would not tip over at all.

So, in two days, the village made more than a dozen such wooden boxes, and Zhang Fengcheng's army also sent food over, there is a way that power does not have to expire and be invalid, the village chief's great virtue made him admire, so, under the banner of special affairs, he transported a lot of more grain over, divided a few bags for rat catching, and the rest was temporarily stored, and the army was handed over to the village as soon as it left.

Soon, these dozen large boxes were placed in farmland, rocky areas and outside the village where these rats were not alert, and overnight, a few rats were drilled into each box, which made the number of nearly a hundred, and it was definitely enough to estimate it.

However, from now on, the village chief, the two Taoist priests and the warriors in the army will complete the final tie ropes, which will be isolated, and the village chief will bid farewell to his family and villagers, and prepare for work in the thatched hut that has been erected in the rocky area.

After all, he was of northernal descent, and gloves were already popular at that time, but most of them were used to keep warm, and now, in order to avoid rat scratches and bites, he asked the tailor to make a pair of gloves for each person out of several layers of thick cloth, and then put on thick clothes, even wrapping his head.

At the end of summer, Hainan has the crisp autumn weather in the north, and the sweat is immediately in the scorching heat, but the time is tight and dangerous, and everyone does not dare to delay, so they take the rope sent and start working. The big rat is really powerful and fierce, but fortunately, people are smart after all, Zhang Fengcheng has long thought about how to help these warriors who don't care about life and death, so he simply brought a high degree of liquor and poured it on the rats in the box, and sure enough, in less than half an hour, these guys fell asleep one by one like dead corpses.

Now, the efficiency has improved a lot, half a day's effort, the hind legs of nearly a hundred mice are tied to the rope, and then everyone put the mice back into the box and isolate them, Zhang Fengcheng came with the army, the two carried the box, and the rest carried the rope bundle and walked towards the Longmen Cave.

The people who are most familiar with the Longmen Cave in the village act as guides, and the sergeants in front are divided into three teams, one team holds torches and holds steel knives, one team holds short crossbows to follow, and the last team carries a rat box rope.

After half an hour, these sergeants all felt that this cave was really bottomless, and the further back they went, the more claustrophobic they felt, Zhang Fengcheng simply asked the sergeants behind to insert torches along the road, and finally, everyone found that the field of vision suddenly widened, and they came to a wide cave.

Sure enough, there were five branch caves in this cave that could accommodate adults to enter and exit, and the third team of sergeants set up the boxes and ropes, and the village chief came in with the Taoist priests and all the warriors.

They divided the drunken rats equally in each hole, and then sprinkled grain into them, and then withdrew from the cave, and the sergeants planted torches at each hole, and then one team guarded the hole with steel knives, and the other team was on standby with short crossbows, and the two teams were regularly replaced.

After the deployment, Zhang Fengcheng simply sat in the middle generously, he wanted to see who this monster was. Two hours passed, there was nothing abnormal in the cave, the team rotated several waves, and the rats finally woke up, one by one they were frightened by the sound of the sergeants' gongs and drums and rushed to drill into the hole, Zhang Fengcheng was fully prepared this time, and those ropes were connected and tied into bundles It was really spectacular.

The ropes were rapidly decreasing, and the sergeants were becoming more and more vigilant. Zhang Fengcheng was worried that the rat would bite the rope off, so he saw that the rope no longer moved and was frightened again, the hole was twisted and deep, and the sound would increase the transmission power several times, and finally, except for the rope in one hole, the rope in the rest of the hole was finally quiet.

After all, Zhang Fengcheng is a battle-hardened person, and that sensitivity has long been experienced, and the last strength in one of the holes is definitely not a mouse, it must be some kind of animal with much greater strength.

So after waiting for a while, and seeing that the other ropes in the hole were obviously moving inward, Zhang Fengcheng sneered, and ordered the team to be on guard and ordered to pull the ropes!

Sure enough, except for the hole, many rats in the other four holes were pulled out as they were, but a few ropes could not be dragged alive, probably wrapped around the stones inside, but the ropes pulled out of the hole actually carried a few rat hind legs.

That's right, the main owner of this cave has eaten rats.

"The soldiers listened to the order, and now it is already certain that nine times out of ten, our opponent is in this hole, but it is not known to anyone or demon, so I have put the tricks on me, and I have estimated the length of the rope, in fact, the place where he is is not far away. One person went out to give an order, ordered to send more torches outside the cave, and then threw them all into the cave for me, remember, Lao Tzu don't live, once you show your head, don't kill! Do you understand?! ”

"Yes!"

After a while, the sergeant outside the cave came in with torches in both hands, and threw them into the five holes with force in turn, and suddenly the fire inside was bright, but the air flow in the cave was obviously surging inward, and the smoke from the shaking fire ball rushed to the hole. Zhang Fengcheng narrowed his eyes and stared at it, waiting for the monster to rush out of it.

Sure enough, after adding firewood a few times, when the torches were extinguished, I heard an angry roar of "oh" inside, and everyone's nervous hairs stood up to see what was about to appear.