Zhang Wu took Ai Qiaoqiao over the mountain.

"I often set traps here to catch voles." Zhang Wu explained as he walked, "There are too many people in the village, and even if you catch voles, they will be stolen by the children in the village. ”

Ai Qiaoqiao pouted.

Sure enough, people are poor and short-minded, all for the food in their mouths.

"This side of the mountain has to pass through the cemetery, and the children in the village usually don't come here, they are timid, and they are afraid of ghosts." Zhang Wu was like an old hunter, and he was very experienced in pointing out the trap he had set to Ai Qiaoqiao.

A small rat trap with a fat vole on it, and when someone came over, the vole squeaked and struggled desperately.

"Are there more voles in the village than here?" Ai Qiaoqiao watched as Zhang Wu took the vole off the clip and put it into the bag he carried.

"Of course, there are fields near the village, and these little things are very greedy, and until the autumn harvest, they will be busy storing food in their holes, and in the winter, if they can find vole holes, they will dig out a lot of food from them."

Along the way, Zhang Wu's trap caught four or five voles.

Zhang Wu shook his head vigorously, "It's too little, it's still more in the village." ”

"Then let's set some traps in the village, so we can catch some on both sides." Ai Qiaoqiao proposed.

"It's useless, it's not just children in the village who will steal our prey, even adults are lazy to eat, we often lose things in the cave where we live, and then my father installed a door outside and locked it, so it stopped."

"We can catch voles in a different way, so they can't see them."

"Can't see it?" Zhang Wu looked dazed.

"We can dig traps and hide voles in the ground so that no one else can see them."

The more Zhang Wu listened, the more excited he became, and he picked up Ai Qiaoqiao and ran down the mountain.

Ai Qiaoqiao found a few places, dug a deep pit in the ground, almost as deep as her own arm, shaped like a bottle, with a large bottom and a small top, and then she put a flat stone on top of the hole, and supported it with two small stones below, so that the flat stone left some of the ground to form a secret hole.

Ai Qiaoqiao patted the dirt off his hands, "If the vole falls into it, it will never be able to climb out again, and then we just need to come over and catch them." ”

Zhang Wu looked at this trap carefully, and was amazed again and again.

"However, this kind of trap can also attract snakes, so you need to make sure the hole is safe before reaching in." Ai Qiaoqiao admonished.

Zhang Wu nodded in agreement, and suddenly caught a glimpse of the wound on Ai Qiaoqiao's arm.

Because of the previous drug withdrawal, the wound healed very badly.

Zhang Wu silently took out a medicine bottle from his arms and handed it over, "This is the medicine that my father prepared himself, it is very effective in treating external injuries, you can take it." ”

He didn't ask her what the injury was, nor did he say anything comforting.

However, Ai Qiaoqiao saw nervousness and uneasiness in his eyes, and he was afraid that she would refuse his kindness.

"Thank you, Brother Zhang Wu." Ai Qiaoqiao generously took the medicine bottle and thanked him.

Zhang Wu scratched his head, his expression became even more uneasy, "Thank you, it's not an outsider......"

In the next few days, Ai Qiaoqiao found an excuse to run out after helping the family do farm work, and followed Zhang Wu to catch voles.

In just a few days, they caught more than forty of them.

Zhang Wu skinned the vole and gutted it and hung it on the roof of the cave in the same way he had done with it.

If they want to make the kind of bacon that Ai Qiaoqiao said, they still lack a lot of spices in their hands, so they can only go to Huai'an City to buy it, but they don't have the money in their hands.

Zhang Wu generously took Zhang Er's wolf skin out, "We can exchange it for money, and then buy spices." ”

Ai Qiaoqiao was a little embarrassed, she wanted to make money, but she didn't want to take advantage of others.

They had already negotiated before, and after this batch of vole meat was sold, they would divide the income equally.

Zhang Wu didn't care about this, "If you often come to cook for me in the future, it will be regarded as me paying your wages first." ”

That morning, Ai Qiaoqiao brought the purple clothes that had been cleaned and died, and she wanted to go to Yicaotang when she wanted to enter the city and return the clothes.

Regardless of whether the night is dead or not, it is not good for her to leave this dress privately.

She briefly explained to her family and went out.

Zhang Wu waited halfway, and the two friends talked and laughed, all the way to Huai'an City.