Chapter 275: Catching a Vole and Being Kissed by a Snake
"Hehe, good luck today." Liu Yi said softly in his mouth, the vole he found didn't seem to be hungry in winter, and it seemed to be about half a catty.
Don't get me wrong, this vole is not a house mouse or a city mouse. As we all know, rats are synonymous with dirty and sloppy and spreading diseases.
In Liu Yi's hometown, voles look similar to rabbits, but they are much smaller, but the food they eat is more mixed, whether it is all kinds of crops, roots, plants and fruits in the field, even all kinds of small insects cannot escape their clutches.
Because they have their own ecological environment and food chain, they do not carry germs and diseases, and they are still delicious on the table of each villager. During the turbulent years in China, Liu Yi heard from the elders of his family that many hungry and cold villagers relied on finding some edible animals and plants in the mountains in the wild to get through that difficult time, among which voles were listed in the recipe.
Not to mention, this thing was really rare when Liu Yi was young, at that time, the land in the countryside was particularly expensive, and every household was well cared for, not to mention that voles or hares could be said to be rare to see one, and now I think about it, these lands are barren, and many animals that were almost extinct have sprung up again.
Voles are quite delicious when they are done, and the meat is delicate, not to mention that his meat also contains various nutrients, many of which are not found in ordinary poultry. Liu Yi was fortunate enough to eat it once when he was a child, and he still drools when he thinks about it until now.
Now that the season is official, when voles come out to forage after hibernation, the one Liu Yi found was holding a piece of plant rhizome in his mouth. Apparently it wanted to go back to the lair.
It is said that rats are short-sighted, which is to describe people's short-sightedness, but most of the rats' visual power is indeed very amblyopia, like house mice, their effective visual power is within 10 meters, this is also a moving object, they also have severe color blindness, and they can't distinguish several colors.
Voles are slightly better than house mice, but they are also very limited, Liu Yi held his breath and used his internal force to stand there all the time, he wanted to see if this vole was nesting nearby, ready to catch them.
As expected, the vole ran in one direction less than 2 meters before stopping. He looked around beside a bush. It may be that he didn't find any movement, so he dug through the grass and got in.
"Good fellow, this vole is really cautious, and its nest is quite hidden! If I hadn't been idle today, I wouldn't have found out. Liu Yi thought. Just find the cave. Liu Yi went to the palm tree and cut some palm leaves. These things will be of great use.
Tear off the palm leaves one by one according to their veins. Then pull up the rope buckles one by one, Liu Yi took the same materials and braided the palm leaves into several impermeable thin nets, and placed the thin nets around the vole hole with a relatively strong plant stem. Budget the path he likes to take the most, in fact, you don't need a budget, just follow the path it takes back to the hole.
The rest of the things are complicated and very simple, Liu Yi found some semi-dry weeds, lit them with a lighter and stuffed them into the hole of the vole, because the grass is not very dry, it will release a lot of smoke when it burns, so it is a fire attack on the vole.
At this time, you must pay attention to the fact that some voles have more than one exit, if you see a smoking position in other places, immediately go over to block it or prepare a few more nets to close the hole.
Fortunately, Liu Yi didn't see smoke anywhere else after the fire attack, and only heard the sound of voles "chirping, chirping" from inside the cave.
"Wait for you to scream and see how long you can last!" Liu Yi thought fiercely, he was sure to eat this vole meat at night.
Sure enough, but after a while, a black shadow burst out of the hole, and immediately fell into the fine net that Liu Yi had prepared for a long time, constantly struggling. "Still want to run out? I prepared for so long just to catch you. Liu Yi immediately took the lawn mower and knocked it on the head of the struggling vole with the back of the knife, and the vole in the net quieted down suddenly, apparently knocking it out.
But just as Liu Yi was happy, another black shadow in the cave rushed out.
"Damn, this vole also gave Lao Tzu a blow, and the handsome man lost the car, but he must not let the other one run away."
But at the entrance of this cave, Liu Yi pressed a thin net, but now he can't take care of it, I saw Liu Yi pick up a dense net that had been prepared in advance, and quickly pounced on the panicked vole, and was dodged by the vole for the first time, but who is Liu Yi, and immediately rushed to the front position of the vole running again, and this time he just put the vole into the dense net, and took the knife again and stabbed it back, and moved? After another slash on the back, it was finally quiet.
Weighing the two voles that fainted in his hand, Liu Yi estimated that it was about a catty, but when the time came, he would have to remove the fur, which was not enough for him to eat alone, not to mention that there were so many people in the family, it seemed that he would have to continue to work hard.
Take the voles out of the dense net, or tie their legs with palm leaves, in order to prevent them from waking up and biting the rope, Liu Yi also specially used palm leaves to wrap their mouths around them.
Next, Liu Yi used this trick to keep looking for the vole's burrow back and forth in this wasteland, and if he didn't find a cave, he didn't care if there were voles in it, and he stuffed a fire into it first, and placed it in different directions with one or two dense nets, and waited for two minutes, if the vole didn't come out, he would then find the next cave.
After an hour, Liu Yi really found at least 20 caves, but nearly half of them did not have voles, a few of them had voles but there was more than one cave entrance, and two or three were released, and after the most of them, a hole could basically catch close to two, and a total of 21 voles were caught in more than 10 holes, and the harvest was good.
Look at the sky and look at the phone, "Damn, it's almost 5 o'clock now, time flies so fast!" ”
He hasn't had enough fun catching so many voles today, it seems that Liu Yi is planning to bring dogs over next time, and all the ones that escaped just now will be caught by dogs.
Looking at the things in front of him, Liu Yi simply called the fourth brother Liu Yong, and asked him to bring a container to bring the voles back, there were more than 20 voles hanging on a few palm leaves, and now many voles have woken up and are constantly struggling, in case they accidentally let them go, they won't be able to row, or call the fourth brother to come over and get them back to slaughter the code as soon as possible, and he has to go over to call a few girls home!
"Fourth brother, why did you come here so soon?" In less than 10 minutes, Brother Liu came over in a hurry, holding a plastic bucket in his hand with a bucket lid on it!
"I was on the other side of the reservoir in the afternoon, and there were a few people fishing, so if you call me, I will immediately grab the bucket that is ready to fill the fish for tourists."
"Well, let's bring back all those voles and shepherd's cabbage! The vole killed the code flavor, and the shepherd's cabbage was handed over to my mother! Liu Yi Nunu's mouth began to be a shopkeeper.
"Wow, you just told me to come and get the vole back, and you're here this afternoon?" The fourth brother said excitedly, he was a good hand at game when he was a child, whether it was rabbits, voles, pheasants and ducks, they couldn't escape his hunting.
"Now the land is much more barren, and there are a lot of these things, and there are still many places in this land that I haven't looked for for more than an hour!"
"Yes, we'll come back to him again in two days, let's go back together!" The fourth brother picked up the vole and put it in the bucket, and after loading it, he saw Liu Yi still standing here: "What, you still want to get it?" ”
"No, you go back first, I'm going to pick up a few girls, they're playing in the ravine and stream, and they'll be back in a while."
"Oh, alright, I'll go back and take care of it first." After speaking, he walked back with a bucket in one hand and a shepherd's cabbage in the other.
Liu Yi stood in this mountain bag just now, looking at what a beautiful pastoral scene the scenery here is.
In the evening in the mountain village, many people's chimneys are emitting smoke, and the surrounding scenery is the fresh green of spring, the fields with rape flowers in different colors, which are particularly conspicuous, and the trees on the edge of the cliffs sway with the breeze, as if beckoning to the dying sunset.
How long can this pristine rural scene be maintained, and hopefully it will not be ruined by the ever-expanding land acquisition?
Retracting his thoughts, Liu Yi thought boredly: These girls are really, if you don't tell them, you won't go back by yourself, or are you attracted by the primitive mountains inside?
Liu Yi put his hands behind his back, humming a small tune in his mouth, and walked slowly towards the direction of the ravine, which was not far away, and it was more than enough to call them at such a speed, and go home for dinner.
"Brother Liu, you're here, let's see how this Yuan Feifei is!" Just as Liu Yi turned a forest and could face the stream, he heard Zeng Liyang's anxious shout.
"What's wrong, what's going on?" Liu Yi hurriedly ran towards their position.
The girls saw Liu Yi coming over and walking away sensibly with tears on their faces, or Wang Jingqian said eagerly: "Look at Fei Fei, we have been here for so long and you haven't come in, so you plan to go back by yourself, but when Fei Fei went over to put on her shoes, I heard her scream, and immediately covered her ankles......"
Without waiting for Wang Jingqian to finish speaking, Liu Yi roughly understood what was going on: "Okay, don't say it, you take it away, cover it, what's the use!" ”
Yuan Feifei obediently took away the hand covering her ankle when she heard Liu Yi's words, and Liu Yi could now clearly see that there were two obvious tooth marks on Yuan Feifei's calf close to her ankle, and blood flowed out along the tooth marks.
"Hey, what I was worried about in my heart still happened, but fortunately, it was a non-venomous snake that bit her!"
Thinking of this, Liu Yi said comfortingly: "It's okay, it's just a snake bite, but you can rest assured that this is a non-venomous snake, just go back and smear the wound with alcohol to reduce inflammation, and at most take some anti-inflammatory drugs." (To be continued......)