Cheng Chumo finished drinking a jar, Gao Han hurriedly instructed the servant to bring another jar to Cheng Chumo, while the others used wine bottles, step by step, and slowly tasted it. At the wine table, when talking about the rat infestation, Gao Han sighed, his face was full of sadness, he was born as a literati, but he was full of swearing, and greeted the eighteenth generation of the ancestors of rats. Wei Hong thought to himself, it is also a rat infestation, if there is a locust plague, do you take the king of heaven and Lao Tzu with him and scold him?

According to Gao Han, the rat infestation has now become out of control, and several neighboring counties have been destroyed by rats, with 20,000 loads of grain and heavy losses. Liuzhou City has a lot of business and few farming, even if it is so, it is enough to lose nearly a thousand quintals. The yield of crops in ancient times was terrifyingly low, but now that so much grain has been destroyed by rats, the loss is unprecedented, and it is by no means something that people of this era can afford.

Seeing that Gao Han was worried, Fang Yi opened up directly: "Lord Gao, you don't need to worry, Mr. Wei came here to solve this crisis, and he will do his best to help Liuzhou tide over the difficulties." ”

"Yes, yes, then there is Lao Weigongzi." Gao Han hurriedly thanked him, and then raised his glass to toast Wei Hong.

Wei Hong drank it all, and after putting down the wine glass, he snatched Cheng Chumo's wine jar down, and said angrily: "Do you have to be drunk to give up?" Ming said that there are still serious things to do, but don't drink and make mistakes! After that, he put the wine jar aside, poured a small glass for Cheng Chumo, and asked him to slowly accompany everyone to drink.

Cheng Chumo is unwilling, when he is at home, he is in charge of Lao Cheng, and when he drinks, he has to drink in a big bowl before he drinks happily. Now Wei Hong let him drink in a small cup, and he didn't drink it at all, and he was embarrassed to death. But the business was important, and he had to endure it.

After three rounds of wine, five flavors of food, the banquet ended in a hurry, and everyone returned to the wing room to rest for a day. The next morning, Wei Hong and others kicked open Cheng Chumo's door, tore Cheng Chumo from the bed in a hangover, and asked Zhou Dali and Yu Chi Baolin to carry him out. When he came to the outside of the house, he threw Cheng Chumo into the carriage prepared in advance, and headed for a pond outside the city. After a bumpy ride, Cheng Chumo's alcohol strength subsided slightly, rubbed his dry eyes, yawned and said, "Mr. Wei, where are we going?" ”

"Catch crabs!" Wei Hong replied casually.

As soon as he heard this, Cheng Chumo, who was listless just now, suddenly sat up, leaned to Wei Hong's side, and said excitedly: "Catch crabs? That's what you said yesterday? If you had said it earlier, I would have drunk less. "In Cheng Chumo's view, catching crabs can be equated with 'playing'. The egg pain in the capital, come to Liuzhou to have a good time.

Fang Yizhi next to him said with a puzzled face: "Mr. Wei, what does it have to do with catching crabs and rats?" ”

Before Wei Hong could speak, Du He interjected: "After the crab shell is dried, it is pounded into minced pieces, mixed with raw lacquer, and burned with fire to lure mice and play an anesthetic role. It can be said that crab shells are a necessary magic weapon to solve the rat infestation in Liuzhou! "When Wei Hong explained the strategy in Guozijian, Du He heard it all, and now he is learning and selling.

Hearing this, Fang Yizhi suddenly realized: "I never thought that the crab shell still has such a function." ”

After a short time, the carriage reached the edge of the pond, Wei Hong gave an order, and the ten servants who accompanied him rushed down the pond first. The impatient Cheng Chumo stripped off the clothes on his body and rushed in with the servants. Fang Yizhi and Du He didn't plan to go down, but found a shady place and continued to study and discuss sketches. Seeing that Wei Hong did not move, Wei Chi Baolin thought that Wei Hong did not plan to go down to arrest him personally, so he no longer cared about Wei Hong and began to take off his clothes.

"Mr. Wei, on this hot day, even if you don't catch crabs, it's good to go down and take a shower, why don't you go down?" Yu Chi Baolin asked as he undressed.

In this era, there was no pollution, even the stagnant ditch was cleaner than the swimming pool of later generations, and some children in the countryside pointed to the water in the ditch to bathe every summer. Wei Hong didn't move for a long time, not because he was afraid that the water in the pond would not be clean, but because he had other thoughts. Catching crabs is a technical job, in the water, crabs can be more flexible than people, only with both hands, if you want to catch enough crabs, you don't know that it will be the year of the monkey, maybe the crabs are not caught, and the grain in Liuzhou is about to be stolen by mice. Therefore, Wei Hong had already said hello to a local old man who was good at catching crabs before he came, and he could only officially start when the old man came. As for letting the servants go into the water now, just to cool them down, after all, it's too hot on the shore.

"You go down first, I'll go down later." Wei Hong said lightly.

After waiting for Yu Chi Baolin to jump into the water naked, Wei Hong turned his head and asked Zhou Dali: "You don't go down?" ”

Zhou Dali shook his head: "When the prince goes down, I will go down." Fang Gongzi and Du Gongzi have been in trouble for the past two days, and they only have sketches in their hearts, and they don't care about Gongzi. Vigorously talk to Childe on the shore. ”

Hearing this, Wei Hong began to recall that when he recruited Zhou Dali, he only spent about ten taels of silver. Ten taels of silver in exchange for such a loyal brother, this transaction is the most cost-effective one Wei Hong has ever made! As soon as he thought that he had made a good deal, Wei Hong's mood was extremely happy, and he took Zhou Dali to sit under the carriage and chat.

Suddenly, Cheng Chumo in the pond screamed: "Oh, it's not good, it's not good, it's clamping me, it's clamping me!" ”

Wei Hong hurriedly looked over, but saw Cheng Chumo crawling out of the pond with his bare buttocks, and a crab the size of a bowl was sticking to the root of Cheng Chumo's thigh. The sharp claw penetrated into Cheng Chumo's sturdy thighs, fortunately, the crab was inaccurate, otherwise it would have allowed Cheng Chumo to cut off his children and grandchildren.

After Cheng Chumo jumped ashore, he tore the crab off his thigh, threw it to the ground, and stepped on it. vented his anger and said: "Let you clip Lao Tzu!" ”

Yu Chi Baolin laughed in the water: "What do you have to do with it, if it is caught by you, its life will be gone." If you want someone's life, don't you allow someone to resist to the death? It's also overbearing! After all, you have to thank the crab's men for their mercy, if it is caught in your work, you will have no place to cry. ”

Cheng Chumo stretched out his hand to pick up the crab that had been trampled on, threw it at Yu Chi Baolin angrily, and scolded: "your grandma, Lao Tzu was almost pinched off, you still have leisure to entertain Lao Tzu!" ”

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