Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Rat-Infestation
The same panda, the honest guy is actually a Tibetan mastiff. Looking at the black and white double demons as big as a lion, he couldn't help but swallow his saliva and retreated to Cai Hongming's side, afraid that the black and white twin demons would rise up and pounce on him. There was a lot of talk on TV about the bite of the Tibetan mastiff, and he didn't want to be the next victim.
Fortunately, the black and white shuangsha did not make the next move, but just glanced at it dissatisfied, and then lay on the soft sand again.
Cai Hongming wanted to laugh when he saw his timid appearance, "What are you doing with it, you have nothing to do when you are full, right?" ”
"Where, Brother Hong, I want it to help catch mice."
"Catch mice?" Cai Hongming almost jumped up when he heard this, picked up the honest black and white double evil, held its head and glared at it, and said, "You let us black and white double evil, this wise and martial snow mountain mastiff, go and catch mice?" Are you crazy? ”
Seeing that Cai Hongming looked like he was going to eat people, Liu Chong hurriedly explained: "Brother Honghong, don't I make the best use of everything, besides, black and white have also caught mice before, and they are familiar with this matter." ”
"Did it catch mice?" Cai Hongming glanced at the black and white suspiciously.
"Really. The rat thief it caught that time was large, weighing several pounds. If it weren't for the hostess's dislike and refusal to let us eat it, we would have stewed that thing a long time ago, and finally had to throw it away, which is a pity. Liu Chong gestured at the mouse that was caught by the black and white double brake last time, and he still felt very sorry when he threw the mouse away.
Cai Hongming looked at him and looked at him, it was almost half a meter long, and it seemed that the mouse was really big.
"I didn't expect you to really catch mice, is this a dog meddling with a mouse?" Cai Hongming rubbed his black and white cheeky head and asked. The black and white shuangsha didn't know what he was talking about, thinking that he was praising it, he kept wagging his tail, and stretched out his tongue to lick him, but was pushed away by Cai Hongming's disgusted slap. It hurt its fragile heart.
"Even if there's a mouse, you don't have to look for it. Go buy a rat cage and just do it. ”
"Bought it, it didn't work. Those guys were so rampant that they ran out to eat during the day. A group of us chases after us, but we may not be able to catch up. ”
"A lot?"
"A lot."
"How come I haven't seen it."
"Those guys don't come out very often during the day, only a few are active."
"So rampant, go. Take me to see it. ”
So, Liu Chong took Cai Hongming out.
"How do you go outside, isn't it inside?"
"Inside, outside, mainly in the sweet potato fields and corn fields, there are rat holes everywhere, and there are so many dense ones."
When Cai Hongming heard this, this was really amazing, and he hurriedly sped up and walked out. Black and white look at it. I followed suit.
This year, because of the increase in yaks and ostriches, and because of the fact that he raised some chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep, Cai Hongming planted some sweet potatoes and corn to feed livestock, and the total number was about 700 acres. Nowadays, sweet potato vines are crawling everywhere in the sweet potato field, and they are very dense; The tall corn stalks in the cornfield stood upright, and the corn grew one by one, which looked very pleasant.
When he came to the sweet potato field, Cai Hongming saw Ji Dong with a bunch of people digging in the sweet potato field. Suddenly, something seemed to come out from underneath, causing an uproar.
The black and white pair that followed behind took a look. Ran quickly, but in a few moments, he came back with a mouse. Then put it in front of Cai Hongming, wagging his tail in a fart, wanting him to praise it. Cai Hongming rubbed its honest head to show encouragement, and then pushed it aside. Grab the mouse.
After looking at it, Cai Hongming frowned and asked Liu Chong, "Is there a lot of this thing in the field?" ”
"That's a lot to death. Our fields are full of rat holes, even on the road, if we don't find them in time and fill them in. Our yaks have stepped into the hole. There is a yak that stepped on a rat hole and broke its foot, and it is not well yet. ”
"Why hasn't anyone told me about this?"
"It's not a big deal, and besides, haven't you been busy lately."
Alas! Because of filming for a while, I really ignored the things on the farm. If this is not discovered in time, I am afraid that this year's sweet potato and corn harvests will be much reduced.
How would these guys know that this is not actually a rat at home, but a gerbil, whose full name is Meridian Gerbil.
Meridian gerbils inhabit mainly desert or semi-desert areas, and are sometimes found in non-zonal sandy and agricultural areas. Miscellaneous activities are the main food, and the stems, leaves and fruits of herbaceous plants, xerophytic shrubs, and small shrubs are the main food. Some thorny shrubs, such as Caragana narrow-leaved and Salan thorn, also feed on it. Sometimes there is no food, and I eat bugs. Stealing a variety of food crops, even raisins, watermelons, melons, sunflower seeds, and tree seedlings, is preyed on in agricultural areas. Eat almost anything.
These are not nothing, the main thing is that this thing is very good.
Meridian gerbils can give birth twice a year, some three times, a litter of at least four, and some as a dozen. Therefore, in deserts and grasslands, farmers and herders have always been most afraid of gerbils instead of bugs. For farmers on the edge of the desert, they have to fight to the death with meridian gerbils almost every year.
In the past, when Cai Hongming was still studying, he went with his friends to catch meridian gerbils on a farm that didn't want to kill rats with medicine.
It's not free, it's about collecting money, and it depends on how much you pay for catching one. Now there are people who specialize in this business, and a pound of meridian gerbil meat can be sold for five yuan.
In the past, Cai Hongming also bought gerbil meat to roast when he sold barbecue, which tasted good, and the soup was better if it was used to make soup.
He wondered, there were very few gerbils here before, why have they changed so much now? Looking up at the green sweet potatoes and corn fields, it is estimated that the sweet potatoes and corn are to blame. This is on the edge of the desert, close to the mountains and forests, and gerbils don't have much to eat, so it's no wonder that sweet potatoes and corn don't come to you. It is estimated that some of them also plan to settle down here, so that their rat son, rat grandson, rat great-grandson, will stutter when he is born, so as not to run around and be displaced.
This is not the way to go!
Cai Hongming thought bitterly, and he couldn't use medicine, after all, there were livestock here, and it was not advisable to use medicine to poison rats. It's useless to use a rat cage, at most you can only use it once, and if you use it again, those things don't dare to go in when they smell it, and the thief sees the rat cage walking around. Digging rat holes and smoking rat holes is not good. How long will these hundreds of acres of land go?
After thinking about it, his eyes suddenly lit up and he had an idea. How did you forget the white jade scorpion?
It is now the scorpion king of this desert, let it take its subordinates to sweep these gerbils at night, thinking, he hurriedly walked towards the hillside where the white jade scorpion was. The black and white sinister followed.
Liu Chong looked at Cai Hongming and the black and white shuangsha and left, and was speechless. These two masters are not reliable masters at all, and it seems that they have to do it themselves. After looking at the barbecue in his hand, he thought that if you don't eat me, he bit it wildly, ate it all in three times and two by dividing a handful of barbecue, and then ran to the next room to get a shovel and dug a gerbil hole in the sweet potato field. (To be continued......)