After Yu Songyuan cleaned up the general thoroughly, he rinsed Zuihou with clean water. When the sun was blowing, the dormitory was under the embankment, and the front door was leeward and warm, and after a short time after drying, it was dry.

It's really a person who depends on clothes, and a dog who relies on bathing, which is not bad at all.

After taking a bath, the general has black hair all over his body from his back to both sides, only from his chin to below his belly, it turns yellowish-brown, and there is still a slip of white on his belly, which makes Yu Songyuan love it. He also used old tables and chairs to build a nest for it indoors, and covered it with old newspapers, old clothes, and torn cotton wool.

"General, go in and try."

Hearing the order, the general jumped in the air with an extremely beautiful leaping action, flipped directly into the nest, and lay down comfortably inside.

With the company of the general, even if he is alone in the "haunted house", Yu Songyuan's life is no longer lonely and lonely, but has become colorful and interesting. Sometimes, it even brings him unexpected surprises, and the quality of the diet improves.

At dinner that day, he took his lunch box back to the dormitory to eat. The general rushed out to meet him, and eagerly bit the corner of his trousers to let him indoors. On the ground was a fat gray hare, with its long ears drooping, lying there quietly. Obviously, the general left him to go to school and went out hunting for a while.

Yu Songyuan immediately smiled, the general is the king, follow him to eat bran vegetables, clear soup and little water, it wants to improve his life. It is a silent protest or a proposal to improve the quality of life.

After the evening self-study, Yu Songyuan hurried back, cleaned up the rabbit, washed the skin and hung it on a high place to dry. Then, set up a fire in the open space in front of the pool near the edge of the woods and start the barbecue. Soon, the smell of meat overflowed, and there were more than a dozen bright spots like green beans in the surrounding darkness, circling around the bonfire in the distance. All the wild cats and wild dogs in the river beach were brought in.

Yu Songyuan and the general returned to the room to start a delicious meal, and soon eliminated a rabbit. Then, the bones were thrown into the trees for the wild cats and dogs to continue to eat.

The next day is Saturday, and there are still teachers in the cram school to guide students who have not taken a break. But Yu Songyuan decided to go to the streets and buy some barley picks and dried potatoes for rations. In the past, the eldest brother regularly sent him rations, but now that he has the big belly of the general, the food is told in advance, so he has to find a way by himself.

After breakfast, he locked the door and went out with the general. He walked along the embankment, got on his bicycle, and the general jumped on the recoil, and walked together for about two or three kilometers before arriving at the confluence of the Tangxiang River and the Guan River. Yu Songyuan originally wanted to bypass the school from the other direction, and then go to the street, so as to take the general to walk more places and let it let off more air.

It is an alluvial plain, with lush reeds and shrubs, and even more desolate, bordered by rivers on either side and uninhabited for kilometers on the other side. Only a few kilometers away, there is an abandoned warehouse of the People's Liberation Army, on which several discarded green antennas are still erected.

Suddenly, the general "Wangwang" barked lightly twice, jumped out of the car, and rushed down the embankment. Yu Songyuan followed, walked more than 200 meters, and entered a deep bush. The general stopped next to a pile of half-human-tall brand-new floating soil, and when he saw Yu Songyuan walking over, he rushed over and bit the corner of Yu Songyuan's pants and dragged it forward to the floating soil.

Yu Songyuan took a closer look and suddenly realized.

When he was a child, the little master Yu Xinmin once took them to the wild to smoke badgers. The master used cigarettes to smoke a litter of four dog badgers out of the hole, the largest was more than 20 catties, and the smallest was 17 or 8 catties, so that several families had a good year. This thing is now difficult to see with the increase of people, but I didn't expect that there would be a trace of it in this desolate place.

The large pile of floating earth in front of him is obviously the new home of a dog badger or pig badger family. And, judging from the size of the floating mound, this must be a huge family, by no means more than three or five. This thing has a strong ability to drill holes, survives under the embankment, and has an immeasurable impact on the safety of the embankment.

Yu Songyuan put his index finger on his mouth and signaled the general not to make a sound. The general seemed to understand, clamped his tail tightly, and quietly followed Yu Songyuan. Yu Songyuan carefully checked the surroundings and determined that this badger cave was rather peculiar, it had three exits, and they were not close to each other, and they were extremely safe. Whether it is in the flood or attacked by people with smoke, badgers can easily escape from other exits.

He quietly left the place and rushed back to the school with the general. I went to the cafeteria first and wanted to borrow a few sacks. The result can be imagined, he was rejected by the school worker, and he was ridiculed by others. At that time, sacks were also in short supply, and you had to borrow a few from a poor student, which was too big.

Yu Songyuan didn't know anyone else, so he could only ask Teacher Zhang again.

Liu Gong and Teacher Zhang are both at home, Teacher Zhang is afraid of dogs, and when he saw Yu Songyuan coming in with a tall big black dog, he was startled, "You are a cram student, you don't work hard, what do you look like with a dog all day long?" ”

Yu Songyuan didn't explain, but said to the general: "General, you scared Teacher Zhang, quickly bow to Teacher Zhang and apologize." The general sat down in a proper manner, solemnly kowtowed to Teacher Zhang three times, and then, tilting his head, looked at her in a friendly manner. The meaning is clear: "Are you satisfied?" Not enough for me to come again. ”

"Wow,, this dog is so human."

Teacher Zhang's playfulness is particularly existing, seeing that the general is heroic, clean, and majestic, but so well-behaved and obedient, he tried to reach out and touch his head. Generally, you can't touch your head casually, but the general is different, it has a natural ability to distinguish the degree of danger.

Yu Songyuan said: "It's okay, Teacher Zhang, be bold." The general looked at Teacher Zhang obediently, and when she reached out to stroke its head, she squinted her eyes comfortably, and her tail shook from side to side, looking fascinated and enjoyed.

"Oh my God, so obedient." Teacher Zhang shouted in surprise and asked, "It can't understand people, right?" It seems to understand everything you say. ”

Yu Songyuan said: "Of course I can understand. I went to the library and found that it was supposed to be a pure-blooded German Shepherd, certainly more advanced than the police rank. It is good, controllable, aggressive, exceptionally intelligent, absolutely loyal, absolutely disciplined, and understands human language. Judging by its performance, it can only be a well-trained high-level military dog, and it will not be more than a year and a half years old. ”

Teacher Zhang and his wife asked in unison: "Military dog?!" ”

Yu Songyuan said: "Yes, it can only be a military dog." Mr. Zhang, I came today to ask for your help in an urgent matter. ”

Teacher Zhang said, what is the matter, you say. Yu Songyuan told Jihua who had found the badger hole and was about to borrow a sack to catch the badger.

"Really? Now there are people everywhere, and there is still a place where badgers stay, which disappeared more than ten years ago. If there is, I'll catch it with you. Liu Gong said in surprise.

Teacher Zhang's childlike heart was still alive, and he also cheered, "I'll go too, I've never seen a badger like before." Besides, with the help of one more person, the greater the hope of success. ”

Yu Songyuan also said: "You'd better not go, catching a badger is a long story, but when you catch and clean it up, it's actually very terrifying, very cruel, and very bloody, and it will scare you." ”

Teacher Zhang said: "You have to think like this, the risk of badgers causing potential damage to the embankment is very high, and if we don't catch it, we should report it to the Guanhe Flood Control Committee, and they will also hunt it down." As for the fear, aren't you two big men here? ”

Yu Songyuan couldn't tell her, so everyone had to go together.

Teacher Zhang went to borrow a sack, and Liu Gong and Yu Songyuan prepared items such as chili powder, fire paper, wood chips, sharp knives for cutting fruits, shovels, etc., and then under the leadership of the general, they rushed down the embankment to the bushes in the delta.

Yu Songyuan silenced everyone, and then looked closely, because it was daytime, he was sure that no badger had escaped. Then, each hole was dug with a shovel, and sacks were erected in each of the two holes at the heights and fixed with wooden sticks.

In the process of digging the hole, the shovel shovels into the metal objects in the soil from time to time, making a sharp sound. Yu Songyuan reached out and picked up a rusty oil mud ball in the dirt, and pinched it with his hand, which turned out to be an old bullet casing.

Liu Gong also found a few with his hands: "Heaven, someone once said that the river was an execution ground in the past, and it seems to be true. Teacher Zhang immediately looked around nervously and grabbed Liu Gong's clothes.

Yu Songyuan said: "How many years have passed, and in broad daylight, Liu Gong and I are both here." So saying, he dug a pit under the lower hole for the fire, and behind the pit he also propped up a sack with sticks. Then the division of labor, Liu Gong and Teacher Zhang are responsible for a hole above, the general is responsible for a hole, and he is responsible for lighting the fire.

In order to increase the tension and interest of their husband and wife, Yu Songyuan deliberately said, "Although the dog badger is small, it has a fierce personality and is extremely aggressive. Just let it flush into the sack and there will be no problem. ”

Teacher Zhang was immediately a little nervous, Liu Gong held a shovel in his hand and comforted him like a man, "Don't worry, don't be afraid, I'm here." ”

Everyone was in place, Yu Songyuan poured the sawdust into the pit, began to light the fire, and when the fire was lit, he immediately poured chili powder and continuously blew the smoke into the hole. After a few minutes, the badger couldn't help it, and an adult badger burst out of the hole, jumped over the fire pit, and plunged headlong into the sack.

Yu Songyuan continued to pour smoke into it.

At this time, Teacher Zhang screamed from time to time, and apparently more than one of them went into the sack. After a while, there was really no movement inside, and Yu Songyuan put out the fire. Carrying the sack to Mr. Zhang, I saw that Liu Gong was holding down the mouth of the bag, afraid that the badger would run back into the hole again, and Mr. Zhang was so excited that he screamed.

Yu Songyuan stepped forward and lifted the sack, three of them, adding up to sixty or seventy catties. It tied the mouth of the sack together and let Liu Gong carry it by hand.

Liu Gong didn't dare to mention it, Yu Songyuan told him: "The badger shili is naturally poor, there is no light in the sack, and through the sack, as long as it can't be seen, it thinks it is safe and will not attack." Liu Gong tentatively lifted the sack.

When I came to the entrance of the cave guarded by the general, I saw that the sack had accidentally fallen over, and the general sat quietly on the side, and the four huge badgers had already died. Yu Songyuan stepped forward to check, and the badgers were all intact, but there were two round fatal wounds in the same position below the neck. It was as if a sharp knife had been plunged deep into the throat from the neck and killed with one blow.

The three of them were amazed, and Mr. Zhang was even more praising the general. Yu Songyuan patted the general's head and praised: "Well done, it's amazing." The general did not get as excited as usual, but sat quietly, listening attentively.

Yu Songyuan hurriedly grabbed the hand of Teacher Zhang, who was jumping up with excitement, and Teacher Zhang and Liu Gong looked at him puzzled. Yu Songyuan pointed at the general, and at the same time put his index finger up on his mouth, signaling them not to make a sound.

What danger did it find? Everyone quickly quieted down, and they all stared nervously at the general.