Rats, with a wide variety.

In the sky, it is called a mouse, it is called a flying squirrel, it is called a water rat that can swim, it is called a sea rat in the sea (beaver, it is called a sea rat in southern Fujian), it is called a house rat in the home, it is called a hamster in charge of the warehouse, it is called a gopher who burrows in the ground, it is called a vole, it is called a tree mouse, it is called a mountain mouse in the mountains, it is called a money mouse if it likes money, and it is called a mickey mouse if it eats rice.

In Caijia Village, there are no more house mice, mountain mice, and voles.

Among them, mountain mice are the largest, voles are the fattest, and house mice are the dirtiest.

Earlier, someone in Caijia Village caught a mountain mouse in the mountains, which was half a meter long and weighed five or six kilograms. The man and Cai Hongming had a good time, so they cut some meat and gave it to him, Cai Hongming was fortunate to rub some to eat, and he can't forget the taste until now, it's so delicious. At that time, I didn't put MSG in cooking.

Verdant green hills, extraordinarily enchanting.

At the foot of the mountain, a small stream comes slowly from a distance, passes through a few small paddy fields in the mountains, and flows back and forth.

Cai Hongming took Hongsheng to the paddy field opened by the villagers, and carefully looked for mouse holes on the ridges of the paddy field. In the past two days, he is tired of eating seafood for dinner, and he plans to change his taste. After a while, he found a vole hole on the ridge. He looked at the entrance of the cave and noticed that there were traces of voles passing by recently, so he moved his hand.

Rabbits have three holes, and cunning voles will also dig several holes in their nests.

Cai Hongming found all the holes and plugged them, leaving only the front and back two, and then asked Hongsheng to stay at the back end, and he found some dry straw and put it at the entrance of the cave and lit a fire. Suddenly, he realized that he had forgotten to bring a fan, and now he did not have the tools to fan the smoke into the vole hole, so he had no choice but to use the bucket as a fan and send the smoke from the burning of dry straw into the hole.

There are four main ways to catch voles:

First, irrigate with water. This is very simple, it is to find all the holes dug by the vole, leave only one, and then plug all the remaining holes, and then fill them with water. If there is a vole in it, it will run out on its own if it can't stand it. However, there is a disadvantage, that is, sometimes the voles do not come out after being irrigated for half a day, because the water flows to other places, and half a day's work is in vain.

Second, it is smoked. After finding the hole dug by the vole, leave the front and back two, and then light the dry straw and fan the smoke into the hole, the vole can't stand it, and will run out from the other end, which works very well.

Third, it is also to find all the holes dug by the vole, set aside two, and then catch a non-venomous snake and put it in, and the voles in the hole will run out in fear when they see the snake. It's just that this method may not be effective sometimes, because some lazy snakes don't listen to the call at all, and if you let it drill into the hole, it won't go in, and will crawl out desperately; Sometimes the vole is not afraid when it goes in, but it is good with its brothers, which makes you angry and smoke.

The fourth method belongs to the scolding type, that is, directly with a hoe to dig on the ridge, which is seen by the owner of the field is still a trivial matter, some chicken women will also run to the house to find adults to complain, when the time is indispensable to a meal of fried shrimp with bamboo branches (shrimp powder is tender, also refers to children, fried shrimp with bamboo branches is self-evident, and the meaning of fried meat with bamboo slices is almost the same).

Of course, when Cai Hongming went home, he often ran away when he saw that the situation was wrong, so he had never been fired, and others, then he didn't know.

The smoke from the straw was fanned into the hole by Cai Hongming with a bucket, and the smoke came out from other places with the cave in, and the voles inside couldn't stand the smoke fumigation, and finally ran out of it, but instead of running to Hongsheng's side, they came out of the hole on Cai Hongming's side.

Cai Hongming took a look, picked up the bucket and chased after him.

Ahh

In the end, the vole that escaped was chased by his bucket and died.

Fortunately, the bucket is made of original plastic rice, which has high flexibility, and if it were replaced with the previous rigid plastic bucket, it is estimated that the corpse would have been lying down long ago. Cai Hongsheng, who was guarding the entrance of the cave behind, also ran out of a vole, and he hurriedly stepped on it with his feet. But the vole jumped left and right, running fast, he could not step on it, wanted to catch it with his hands, but he was afraid of being bitten by the vole, and finally could only watch the vole flee quickly into the distance.

Cai Hongming killed the vole and turned his head to see it, and immediately glared and shouted: "Hongsheng, are you here to make soy sauce?" ”

"No, brother, it's running too block, I can't step on it!" Cai Hongsheng said innocently.

"If you can't step on it, won't you catch it with your hands? I've never seen you so stupid, you didn't bring anything with you, you went back and got sticks and bags. ”

Cai Hongsheng listened, and ran away, so as not to suffer from the poisonous tongue of the elder brother here.

At this time, Cai Zhengxian walked over. Cai Hongming looked at it and said, "How do you know I'm here?" ”

"I went to your house, and Ah Gong said that you came out with a hoe, and then I saw smoke coming from here, I guess you came to catch voles again, so I came over to take a look. The result? ”

"I caught a small one, and the big one was let go by Hongsheng's kid."

Cai Hongsheng went and came back quickly, and came back from home with a bag and stick in an instant.

Cai Hongming looked at it, smacked his lips and didn't know what to say. Hey, catch a vole and take a baseball, do you want to use a vole as a ball? He glanced at Cai Zhengxian and was speechless for a while. He's used to it, too, this kid has always been a guy who eats and drinks behind his ass. As for letting him work, it's not impossible, but you have to be careful that he burns the house or the trees in the mountains.

The voles caught by Cai Hongming are very small, only a few taels, but they are better than nothing.

So, he put the dead vole in a bucket and found the vole's nest again.

In the past, when there was no food in disaster years, people would go to the fields to catch voles. Because vole holes often hide a lot of grain, the least of which is more than a catty. Now that life is better, the croppers don't care about these voles asking for food, and the living standards of voles have improved, and the speed of reproduction of offspring has become faster, so there are many voles in the field now. Even if Cai Hongming catches it every year, it is still every year.

Find the vole hole and plug the hole. Cai Hongming asked Cai Hongsheng to tie the bag he brought to the hole left behind, and there was no need to catch it now, just wait for the vole to run out and get into the bag when he couldn't stand the smoke.

After getting ready, Cai Hongming went to find straw to light and send the smoke into the hole.

Cai Hongsheng stood next to the bag, holding a baseball and aiming at it, eager to try. If he sees a vole, he will definitely deal a fatal blow to it. Cai Zhengxian, who was originally standing next to him, saw it and hurriedly walked to Cai Hongming's side. He was afraid that he would not be able to hold the baseball steadily or accidentally hit his head later, and he would really cry without crying.