Chapter 59: The Legendary Rat Fights?
"We're just leaving, leaving no food for the rats?" Sunana saw that he was about to leave with the snakeskin bag on his back, and couldn't help but ask.
"Leave food for the rats, why?" Liu Junhao felt that he had heard something funny again, it seems that his niece Suigu's words are really right.
"I remember reading in a book that when rats were dug up of food, they would hang themselves from trees in the winter when they had no food to eat."
The mouse hanged himself, unless the mouse had something wrong with his brain, Liu Junhao naturally scoffed at her statement, but he didn't immediately refute it, "You want to find the mouse who hanged you, follow me, I'll take you to a place to see." There are quite a few hanged people there, and they are all dry......"
"Is there a really hanged mouse?" Zhang Qian was also interested, although she was skeptical of the statement that the mouse hanged herself, but she also wanted to see what was going on.
"It's all superstition, how can there be such a strange thing" Professor Zhao said that he didn't believe anything, and he often eliminated the "four evils" when he was young.
Liu Junhao led them to a not very tall elm tree, pointed to the branch and said, "Look, aren't there rats hanging there?" ”
"This ...... What's going on? Even Professor Zhao was surprised.
There were a few shriveled rats hanging from the branches of the elm tree, and even the lower branches could see that the fur of a mouse was quite fresh, apparently just "hanged".
"Do you want to know the reason, I'll tell you now......" Liu Junhao suddenly pulled out and kicked the elm tree a few times, and the branches of the elm tree that had already dried up fell to the ground with a clatter.
"Fluttering!"
At this moment, a big brown bird suddenly flew out of the hollow of the tree, and it couldn't stop screaming "Goo, Goo", but it did not bend down to attack everyone, but only circled on the top of the tree for a while and then fell into the depths of the woods and disappeared.
"Know what kind of bird this is, owl! The mice on the branches are the food that the owls have left when they have eaten their fill, and when there is no prey, they will eat the dried mice. This is the truth about the 'hanging' of rats, which is worthless to put it bluntly. The person you mentioned writing the book either hasn't been to the countryside or is a folk legend told by hearsay. If the rats do hang themselves, they will not be extinct long ago. "Sometimes once the truth is revealed, it's unbelievable.
In fact, not only owls, but also many animals in the mountains have the habit of storing food, take the civet civet as an example, they will bury the prey they catch in winter after they can't eat it, and then come back to look for it when there is a shortage of food in the future.
Grass civets have a very sensitive sense of smell and can bury their food deep in the ground, so that other animals can't dig deep even if they smell it.
The food dug out of the rat holes is not usually eaten by the villagers, but is used to feed the family's livestock. The chickens, ducks, rabbits, etc. in Liu Junhao's yard have been consuming a lot of food every day recently, and now they are just using this food to feed them.
When they saw that it was still early, they looked for a mouse hole with great interest, but this time the harvest was very small, and they only dug up less than thirty catties of grain.
The sympathy of the little girl also disappeared quickly, and under the leadership of Sun Nana, she picked a lot of mountain red, and ate straight sore teeth, but she just didn't stop eating, and she also said that she would take it back to eat when her pocket was full.
When he arrived at the entrance of the village, he saw a group of bear children shouting around there, Liu Junhao saw the furry children shouting the most fiercely, and they couldn't stop beating on the ground with a small bamboo pole, and they didn't even notice that a few of them walked to the front.
"What are you doing?" Zhang Qian raised her voice and asked.
"Teacher Zhang......!"
This group of bear children immediately became honest, and they drooped their heads one by one and didn't dare to move, it seems that Zhang Qian's prestige in front of this group of students is not small.
"What should I be doing, it turned out to be a rat fight" Liu Junhao stretched his head over and looked at the bucket, and understood what was going on. I saw two rats squeaking at the bottom of the bucket, and one of them was obviously dead. The adults went to dig rat holes mainly for food, and these bear children went with only one purpose, that is, to catch mice and come back to fight.
"Fighting rats?" Zhang Qian's eyes widened, what kind of strange trick is this, she has heard of cockfighting, dog fighting, and cricket fighting, but it is the first time she has heard of mouse fighting.
"Bear children, perform a mouse fight for you Teacher Zhang, who still has mice?" Liu Junhao saw that they were all interested, so he greeted loudly.
"Yay!" Seeing that Zhang Qian didn't mean to blame, these bear children became bold again.
"Use mine, use mine, mine was just dug in the morning." The little baby lifted his clothes and took out a waste flashlight containing a mouse from his autumn clothes, Zhang Qian came suddenly just now, and he hid it in his clothes in a panic.
The defeated mouse was already half dead, and when it came out, it was knocked to death by the hairy boy with a stick.
The little baby mouse was about the same size as the one in the bucket, and they were quite fat, and after entering the bucket, it was obviously impatient, and the little baby struck the wall of the bucket with a wooden stick a few times, and it immediately rushed up.
Those bear children also forgot that the teacher was by their side, and kept yelling, and Sunana even waved her fist to cheer, completely forgetting that she was still sympathizing with the mouse just now.
Definitely a rather violent woman, Liu Junhao slandered in his heart.
The two rats were biting back and forth in the bucket, and the battle was very fierce, so that several people on the side were dazzled. Soon a mouse was exhausted and was bitten to death in a bucket.
"Is this the legendary rat fight?" Su Nana's brainless words made Liu Junhao sweat again.
Zhang Qian also coughed twice with a red face, and immediately changed the topic: "How can they let rats fight, I remember that the book said that rats are social animals......"
"I know, I know," Before Liu Junhao could speak, the hairy boy shouted: "Stuff soybeans into the rat's butt"
These bear children are also very good at fighting mice, and they dip soybeans in water and stuff them into the rat's buttocks, because after the soybeans are dipped in water, they will continue to expand in their bodies, and the rats will go crazy and constantly attack their own kind.
Their first stop back to the village was naturally Liu Junhao's yard, where she went crazy like a bandit, and the adults heard her crying in the chicken coop as soon as they didn't pay attention, and she was still screaming "". It turned out that this little girl saw the white eggs inside and went in to dig them, but she didn't expect to grab a piece of chicken manure.
Sunana hurriedly pulled her to the edge of the pool to wash up, but in a blink of an eye, she made mud on her legs, and then asked if she had caught a yellow eel by the ditch.
Liu Junhao used to think that Xiao Haoyu was solid enough, but he didn't expect this little girl to be even better, and when she came here, she didn't recognize her life at all, and she was completely like her own family.
Su Nana was annoyed and had a headache, so she said a few words to her, but the little girl actually cried "wow", the cry shook the earth, and no one could persuade her.
"Don't cry, don't cry, I'll bring dates for Nan Nan to eat." Zhang Qian suddenly had an idea, and went to Liu Junhao's side house and took out a few hard reds.
After harvesting in autumn, the dates are still crispy and hard, probably because of the evaporation of water, and they taste sweeter than before. When they first came, Liu Junhao wanted to take out the dates and share them with them, but was stopped by Su Nana, saying that Nannan had eaten a lot of mountain red just now, so don't let her eat cold things again.
Now that the critical moment came, she couldn't care less about stopping it.
The child's attention was diverted again, and the chubby little hand held a few red dates and nibbled them, screaming delicious while nibbling.
Seeing that she finally stopped crying, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but after eating, Nan Nan asked for jujube with her little hands open.
Su Nana couldn't stay any longer, and hurriedly said that there was no more, and dragged her out of Liu Junhao's yard.
However, when she returned to Zhang Qian's residence, she forced her to ask about this old friend, and asked her why she went to Liu Junhao as casually as she went to her own home.
"Where do I have?" Zhang Qian hurriedly quibbled, "I didn't see the girl crying too much just now, so I went directly into the house to get dates in a hurry."
She denied it in her mouth, but she muttered a little in her heart, why do so many people think that something should happen between herself and Liu Junhao. But thinking about my unconscious actions when I took the dates just now, it seems that it is really too casual.