Chapter Thirty-Nine: Diverting the Tiger from the Mountain

Khan, I knew I wouldn't ask, everyone knew.

"What the hell is making a fuss?" Professor Zhao stepped forward to ask, and he also saw that this "thief" should not be human.

"I don't know, it's too slow, I only saw a shadow running away from the waterway, it may be a weasel, it's Xiaopi who got into this thing, I'll get a cage tomorrow, I have to catch it, it's too rampant" Liu Junhao said uncertainly, he felt that the black shadow he saw was bigger than the weasel.

There are many weasels in the countryside, and they are found in any field and ravine, and some even have a home in the villagers' houses. This thing is particularly rampant, and it is a little demonized in the eyes of rural people, and the more it spreads, the more it becomes more and more divine, and finally it becomes Wong Tai Sin.

Weasels are very vindictive, and it's okay if you don't mess with them, but if you do, it's a big problem. The year before last, Liu Guangqun in the village found a big weasel in the firewood and grass pile when he was collecting firewood and grass in his yard, so he picked up a stick and chased after him.

The weasel was also clever, and escaped into the depths of the firewood and grass, but the next night their house was restless, the hens clucked, and the yard was noisy.

Several chickens at home were bitten to death one night, which made Liu Guangqun feel distressed. The next day, he gritted his teeth and borrowed a few cages from the village and put them next to the chicken coop, ready to kill all the weasels, but this group of guys was very clever and bit five or six chickens to death, but none of them were left behind.

In the end, he listened to the old man in the village, and picked up a dozen big white geese in the yard at the neighbor's house, so as to suppress the rampant weasels.

Don't look at the big white goose, which is usually very docile, but it is also notoriously unprovoked and very aggressive. People in the countryside know that they are good housekeepers, and people usually go to strangers' homes not to ask if you have a dog at home, but to ask if you have a goose.

Although the dog barks when it sees a living person, it usually does not rush up to bite it immediately, and it also listens to its owner. But the big white goose is different, it will stretch its neck and peck when it sees a living person, and as long as you move a little slowly, you will be pecked a large bruise on your body.

Although the geese are as blind as the chickens at night, they are very alert and can feel the slightest disturbance. And the size is relatively large, and they are not scared when they see weasels, and they often strike first, so weasels are very afraid of them, and weasels who have geese don't even dare to set foot in the yard.

Liu Junhao and they tossed all night, and when they got up the next day, they both had panda eyes, and in the morning he borrowed a cage from Liu Laosan's house early, and then took Xiaopi to the field to find a mouse hole.

Rats are also quite cunning animals, especially voles, and the law of survival of the fittest in nature has made them particularly capable in long-term evolution, even if people encounter them in the field, it is difficult to catch them, because chasing them will burrow into holes.

And the rat hole is a big project, countless times smarter than the tunnel in "Tunnel War", there are main holes, side holes, and fake holes, and the holes are connected, which is very conducive to escape.

Even if you know that there are rats in the holes, many times you can't dig them, because those side holes are very hidden, and it will quickly escape from the side holes as soon as it senses danger, so experienced people will carefully search the surrounding area before digging to plug all the holes that can be blocked.

There is a tradition of digging rat holes in autumn, and when the autumn harvest is over, men, women and children will walk around the fields with shovels to look for rat holes, and the crops in the field have been harvested, so it is okay to dig in the field.

Digging a mouse hole in autumn can be said to be a lot of benefits, at this time basically the mice have finished storing grain, the mouse barn is full of grain, what sorghum, bud grain, soybeans, mung beans, etc., as long as there is in the field, can be found in their barn. The smaller warehouse can dig more than a dozen catties of grain, and the larger one can reach dozens of catties, or even hundreds of catties, and it can be filled with a long insect skin cloth bag.

It's just that the rat warehouse is hard to find, and sometimes you dig the whole mouse hole, but you can't find the rat barn, and it's in vain to be busy for half a day.

However, Liu Junhao did not come to dig a rat hole today, he was going to irrigate it with water. Now there are crops planted in the fields, and there is no way to dig the mouse holes, even if the ditch can dig Liu Junhao does not want to exert his strength, because at this time there is generally no food in the mouse barn, but it is just to catch a few mice, and it is not so hard.

When he was on the road, he happened to meet a few hairy children catching fish in the ditch, he shouted at the top of his voice, and the group of bear children immediately ran over to keep up with the team.

There are many rat holes in the wild, they found one casually on the side of the road, and looked at the surrounding soil particles are very wet, this is a hole that has just been dug, and there must be mice hidden in it.

The first thing to do in the rat hole was to identify the main hole, and then the group of bear children looked around, looking for hidden side holes and killing them one by one. They are all masters of filling rat holes, so their eyes are very poisonous, and they have not let go of a side hole.

After wrapping the net bag on the main hole, a group of people took the basin and began to water, and poured several pots of water in a row, and the mouse hole was filled, only to see a small gray-black head sticking out its head in the hole, which should be unable to hold its breath.

Sure enough, as soon as the water stopped, the mouse ran out of the hole at a rapid speed and hit it in the net pocket, Liu Junhao put on gloves and reached out and threw it into the basket.

In this hole, three rats were caught, one large and one small, which were enough to be used in the cage at night, so I called it a day and went home, threw the rats into the cage, and waited to catch the weasel at night.

Guan cage is a kind of wooden box specially made in the countryside to catch weasels, more than one meter long, as wide as a brick, the wooden box is equipped with a spring arch, one end of which makes a small cage for putting mice, and the other end is hung with twine to hang a piece of polished green brick as the gate of the mechanism, the whole design is quite ingenious, it is enough to deal with a single weasel.

In the evening, he placed the cage at the base of the wall not far from the eye of the waterway, and waited for the weasel to take the bait. In order to let it come in with confidence, Liu Junhao also deliberately locked Xiaopi in the house.

But in the middle of the night Little Skin crowed again, and even the hen with the coop clucked. Liu Junhao heard that the voice was wrong, and hurriedly got up and opened the door. Xiao Pi, who had been waiting impatiently, went out for a long time.

This time Liu Junhao finally saw it clearly, but he didn't expect that his estimation was completely wrong, and it was a grass civet that came to steal the chicken, and the fiery red fur flashed in the eyes of the waterway.

"Did you catch it," Professor Zhao asked in the room at this time.

"No, it turned out that it wasn't a weasel, it was a grass civet" Liu Junhao suddenly remembered the grass civet caught by Xiaopi last time, could it be that he came to take revenge? Thinking of this, he already had a certain score in his heart.

The grass civet is more vindictive than the weasel, and the scourge is greater, the weasel usually takes a chicken and runs away when it enters the chicken coop, but the grass civet is different, they generally bite all the chicks to death when they enter the chicken coop, and finally only take one away, and even more do not eat one, and return empty-handed after biting the chick.

It is more difficult to deal with, it is very fast, small and nimble, and the average domestic dog simply cannot catch it. They will even take the dogs to the edge of the trap and lure them into the trap.

Liu Junhao knew that if he didn't catch it, he wouldn't think it would be a safe sleep tonight, so he opened the courtyard door so that Xiaopi could go out to catch up.

No matter how cunning this fox is, it shouldn't be able to fight the yellow-spotted skin, and the little skin is not an ordinary domestic dog, and the speed is no worse than that of a grass civet.

Sure enough, they waited in the house for almost an hour, and Xiaopi immediately became alarmed and quietly left the hall. Xiaopi doesn't scream when he touches his prey, and the last few times he screamed only because he was trapped in the yard and couldn't chase after him.

There happened to be a moon tonight, so Liu Junhao saw everything in the yard clearly, and the fox was also very clever, as soon as he smelled the smell of Xiaopi, he quickly ran to the root of the wall and drilled out of the waterway, and Xiaopi rushed out of the courtyard door to chase behind.

"Good guy, see how you escape this time" Liu Junhao is quite confident in Xiaopi.

But just as he was about to turn around and go back to the house, he saw another black shadow emerge from the eye of the waterway, and tiptoe towards the chicken coop.

Turning the tiger away from the mountain? Liu Junhao was stunned for a moment.