Catching voles, sweet potatoes, fish, birds, fruits, etc., have always been the favorite things for children in Caijia Village to do during the holidays.

It's just that there don't seem to be many people catching voles this year, because after only looking for a while, Cai Hongming found a vole hole with traces of voles walking.

Voles generally build their nests on ridges, which are the boundaries between fields and fields.

Catching voles is nothing more than several methods, one digging, two smoking, three frying, four calling five irrigation, that is, digging ridges with hoes, smoking, blowing with firecrackers, learning to meow, and irrigating with water. Among them, the speed of digging is the fastest, and it is also the most lacking in morality. And the way to learn cat meow is the stupidest, because some voles have never even heard of cat meows, let alone be afraid.

The ridges are made of soil and are easy to dig.

As long as the other holes dug by voles are plugged and dug along the holes that have been set aside, if there are voles in them, they can be dug 100%. However, the ridge is the field boundary, if you are seen digging the ridge to catch voles, then you are finished, and you will definitely be taught. Cai Hongming has been taught a lot of lessons when he did this immoral thing before.

With three cousins and cousins, Cai Hongming didn't need to make a move at all to catch voles.

Among the three people, Lu Qiaohong was the mainstay, so after seeing the traces of voles, she instructed Jiang Yuhan to find dry grass and asked her younger brother Lu Yimin to block the other holes of voles, leaving only the front and back two holes to enter and exit.

After the rice is harvested, the villagers will generally dry the straw and turn it into a haystack, and then there will be people who make mushrooms and straw mushrooms or build antique grass huts to buy them, which is another income in addition to rice. Although this is nothing for a small amount.

Jiang Yuhan quickly found the haystack and secretly smoked a handful of dry straw back, looking at his familiar appearance, this kind of thing must have been done.

When he brought the straw, Lu Qiaohong personally took a little straw and tied it into a small bundle and lit it and stuffed it into the hole. In an instant, a puff of white smoke rose up.

During the Chinese New Year, schools, factories, political offices and other places are closed. So the people in the village except go out to visit the door. There are people in almost every house. Someone is there, which means that there are mischievous and unlucky children. The smoke rising from the field immediately attracted the children's onlookers. The spirits ran home to get their things, and they followed them to catch voles. Soon, the vole catching gang changed from one team to two or three teams, and more and more people came to watch the excitement.

After a while, some of the people who did not catch the voles quickly gave up the great and arduous work and turned to the tribute sweet potato.

Someone saw it in the eye. I also went to the house to get a grill, cut something and barbecue it in the field.

Some girls are quieter, so they organize people to skip rope and kick shuttlecocks in the fields; Some children also found a bunch of people to play a game of catching people, regardless of the new clothes they were wearing.

For a time, the field was bustling with activity, and it became a large party.

Some adults, old people, and women who had nothing to do also came to join in the fun, and they didn't go over, so they stood on the side of the road and watched them play. Some people were annoyed when they saw the children who caught voles digging up the ridges. But he didn't teach them a lesson. The New Year is to be happy, and there is no need to make everyone feel bad for this little thing.

Cai Hongming, although they were the first to go down to the field to catch voles, they did not catch the most, and the one who caught the most was the fool Axi.

Today, Ah Xi didn't go to his father-in-law's side to be a son-in-law, and saw Cai Hongming catching voles, so he also went to get something to catch them. This guy is very neat in everything he does, and he is alone. Smoke, water, firecrackers, and a bunch of voles were caught in a short time. By the way, I also took out more than a dozen catties of rice.

Voles like to store food the most, and there are special holes dug in the hole to store food, and sometimes a vole nest can store more than a dozen catties of grain. In the old years when there was no food, people would dig vole holes to save their lives, because there was often food in the holes.

Seeing more and more people in the fields, catching voles here has become a luxury. Cai Hongming took a few cousins to transfer positions. Walk to the small col where he and Cai Zhengxian caught voles last year.

The murmuring water resounded in the quiet mountains.

The col is some distance from the village, so few people come to catch the voles, which allows them to thrive.

Soon, they found a vole nest. The stuff they brought was complete. There are buckets, there are hoes, there are lighters, and there are firecrackers. In order to prevent anyone from seeing the smoke coming from the smoked vole hole, Lu Qiaohong planned to use firecrackers to scare the voles inside. Although firecrackers explode with a sound, it is hardly audible in a vole hole.

She asked Jiang Yuhan to plug the extra vole holes, keep the front and back two, and the back one was covered with a snakeskin bag, if a vole was scared, it would run out from behind and fall directly into the bag.

After making it, Lu Yimin lit a firecracker and threw it into the hole, and then blocked the entrance of the hole.

In fact, this is not a firecracker, it is called a rubbing firecracker. There is gunpowder like a match at one end, and it will explode after a while, without ignition.

Shi Wan'er saw it and hurriedly blocked her daughter's ears, afraid that she would be frightened. But the little guy looked curious, how could he be a little frightened.

With a "bang", there was a dull cannon sound from the cave, and a puff of smoke came out. After a while, I saw movement in the snakeskin bag covering the hole behind me, and when I picked up the bag and looked at it, I saw two voles falling into the bag. Seeing that there was a harvest, Lu Qiaohong and his party worked harder to find the vole hole.

There is a small stream on the edge of the water field in the mountain pass, and there are mountain crabs in the stream. However, now the weather is getting colder, and most of the mountain crabs are hiding in their holes.

Cai Hongming was not afraid of the cold, so he specially caught a small mountain crab, then pulled a silk thread from his body and hung it, and dangled it in front of his daughter to tease her.

Although the mountain crab is small, it looks fierce with its teeth and claws. Xiao Chuchu was a little scared, and hugged her mother's neck tightly. It makes people laugh when they see that.

There are more voles in the col, and after a while, Lu Qiaohong and they caught several of them, plus the previous ones, they have already harvested a lot.

There was a "bang", and there was a dull sound. It's just that this time there was no vole coming from the hole in the back, and it was estimated that they had run away, so Lu Yimin pulled up the snakeskin bag covering the hole in the back. But he didn't expect that the vole in this hole was also very cunning, and when he picked up the snakeskin bag, he rushed out of the hole.

A bunch of people saw it, shouted, and grabbed it.

The vole was so frightened that it ran around without a head, and ran to Shi Wan'er's side, thinking it was a tree, so she climbed on it, and she screamed in fright.

Cai Hongming hurriedly went over to catch it, but saw an amazing scene, and Lu Qiaohong and the others were also stunned.

"What's wrong?" Shi Wan'er asked when she saw his expression.

"Look at your daughter."

Shi Wan'er turned her head to look and found that her daughter had reached out to grab the vole's neck at some point, and was looking at it curiously. The vole didn't know what was going on, and she didn't struggle at all when she caught it in her hand, and his head was drooping, with a helpless face. I don't know if I was amused by its expression, Xiao Chuchu giggled happily, grabbed the vole and shook it vigorously.

In an instant, Cai Hongming felt pity for this vole, and it was estimated that he was killed by his daughter before it was made into a Chinese meal.

Xiao Chuchu played with the vole for a while, and then handed it to Shi Wan'er, so frightened that Shi Wan'er hurriedly gave her to Cai Hongming to hug. She is not afraid of mice, but she is afraid that her daughter will put voles on herself.

After Xiao Chuchu was held in Cai Hongming's arms, he showed him the vole.

At this time, Cai Hongming realized that this vole seemed to be a little different. Voles have long ears and long tails. But this one is different, the ears are round, the tail is almost none, and it doesn't look like a vole at all, but a bit of a rabbit. I don't think there's a vole of this breed here!

But no matter what the breed is, it is meant to be eaten in the end.

When Xiao Chuchu got tired of playing, he put the vole, which was a little like a rabbit, into the bucket, intending to make a delicacy like the vole he caught.

But Xiao Chuchu looked at it, but he didn't follow it, and he cried loudly. There was no way, he had to use another cage to lock it up, and Xiao Chuchu laughed again. It is estimated that the little guy has taken this rabbit-like vole as his pet.

Lu Qiaohong and the others continued to look for voles, but this time they did not use firecrackers, because they were close to the side of the mountain, so they dug directly with hoes. This is not a ridge, not afraid of being scolded.

I don't know if it's lucky, they dug up a nest of little red rats that didn't open their eyes, and the pink is very cute.

But cuteness doesn't work, because these are pests.

Seeing that the voles had almost dug up, Cai Hongming asked them to pack the little red rats in bags, saying that they would bring them back to make delicious food.

Lu Qiaohong and Shi Wan'er looked incredulous, can this thing be eaten? It's disgusting. (To be continued......)