The western suburbs of Lianhai City, Xinglong Snack Street.

In the early morning of late autumn, the sun is rising, and the snack street is lively very early.

Xinglong Snack Street, east-west, is a newly developed commercial street in the western suburbs of Lianhai City in recent years, most of which are small restaurants, and also wholesale and retail all kinds of agricultural food.

Because the snack street is surrounded by a large area of residential areas, there is also a processing factory, many workers, many households, and a wide range of customers, so the business of the snack street is very prosperous, early in the morning people come to buy breakfast, or people who go to work pass here to eat breakfast in various small restaurants.

Located at the east end of the snack street is a restaurant called "Everyday Snacks".

Outside the restaurant, there is a simple light box with four big red characters on it: "Snacks every day".

The glass doors and windows of the restaurant are pasted with small red letters "soy milk, fried dough sticks, steamed buns, cold skin, hemp balls, wontons, noodles", which are all common foods, and are the most common signboard advertisements in the entire Xinglong Snack Street.

The owners of Everyday Snacks are a middle-aged couple in their 40s.

As with countless mornings, the owner and his wife opened the shop early in the morning and prepared to open for business.

The buns are put on the steamer, the oil is hot, the fritters are out of the pot, everything is almost ready, and customers begin to enter the store one after another.

The hostess greets guests at the front and the boss is busy in the kitchen at the back.

"Boss, two more hemp balls!" A guest in the hall shouted into the back kitchen.

The proprietress recognized the guest who was about to add two more hemp balls, a young man in his twenties, a worker at a nearby processing factory, and a regular customer of the snack bar.

The hostess greeted the guests, "Right away!" Our hemp balls are freshly fried from the oil pan, crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, delicious to eat. ”

The young guest chewed the last bite of the hemp ball in his mouth, "Well, I just like the hemp ball and fritters that have just come out of the pot at your house, fragrant!" It's better than the rest of the food street, so I come every day. ”

was praised by the guests, the proprietress was full of joy, and couldn't help urging the back kitchen, "Boss, two hemp balls!" Hurry up! ”

In the back kitchen, instead of the boss's usual response, there was a slight "Huh?" ”

The proprietress felt that something was wrong and trotted to the back kitchen to see the situation.

I saw the boss squatting on the ground and taking out a plastic bag of white sesame seeds from the low cupboard.

However, there was a hole in the bottom of the plastic bag, and when I took it out of the cupboard, the white sesame seeds spilled all the way.

A few days ago, I just fried three catties of white sesame seeds, sealed it with a thick plastic bag, put it in the cupboard, and prepared to take it out and use a little bit every day, why did the bag break?

The proprietress was straightforward and scolded directly: "Who did it?" Wicked! ”

The boss reached into the cupboard and pulled out a pile of sesame seeds, mixed with a few black mouse droppings.

"It's a rat." The boss said helplessly, and at the same time, he picked out the mouse droppings, gathered the sesame seeds on the ground, and put them in a bowl.

The proprietress turned her head to look at the big yellow cat curled up in the corner of the wall and scolded: "I eat and sleep every day, sleep and eat, and raise you so fat, there are mice in the house, and I don't see you moving, from now on, there is no food for you." ”

was scolded by the owner, the big flower cat did not react, and still curled up in the corner to sleep.

The proprietress got angry and went up and kicked it.

The big cat was kicked and hurt, and with a "meow" sound, it ran out of the back kitchen, through the hall, and disappeared into the street.

The boss comforted the proprietress and said, "Don't be angry, a brute, eats fish and meat every day, how can you still have the heart to eat mice, don't feed so fat in the future, these sesame seeds can still be used, they don't get in the way, but these mice have to be caught." ”

The proprietress complained while cleaning up the sesame seeds scattered on the ground, "Where did the rats come from?" ”

"It's winter soon, and the rats in the wild are running to the house, and we are the easternmost part of the snack street.

"Annoying! Gotta find a way to catch these rats. ”

"Cats don't catch mice anymore, so you have to do the work on your own."

"I'm going to buy some rat boards."

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In the middle of the night, the day's business was over, and the proprietress took advantage of the time when the boss cleaned up the kitchen to go to the shop selling daily groceries on the next street to buy a rat board.

The owner of the grocery store is a 60-year-old man surnamed Li, who is a neighbor of the owner of "Everyday Snacks" and often goes to "Everyday Snacks" to buy breakfast.

"Uncle Li, I'll buy some rat boards."

Uncle Li was about to close, and when he saw that it was an acquaintance proprietress and the proprietress he knew, he couldn't help but ask a few more words, "Are there rats in the store?" ”

"Yes, not before, I just found rat droppings in the cupboard this morning, and I chewed several bags of sesame seeds and peanuts."

Uncle Li took out several different styles of rat plates, "There are many types of rat boards in my store, but now the rats are fine, and the rat boards generally don't work, I have special rodenticide here, do you want to take some?" ”

"Rodenticide? Or is it special effects? Does it really work? ”

"It works! I don't sell it on the market, it's called 'three-step pour', as long as the mouse touches, the three-step pour, the effect is fast, I think you are an acquaintance to sell it to you, and I don't take it out of others. ”

Uncle Li, the owner of the grocery store, dragged out a wooden box from under the iron shelf full of goods, opened the lock on the box, took out a small yellowed paper bag from it, handed it to the proprietress, and whispered: "That's it, the goods that have just been purchased are now strictly controlled and not allowed to be sold." ”

"Really three steps down?" The proprietress held the medicine bag in her hand and questioned.

"I promise to fall in three steps, so that I can do it, everyone is an acquaintance, and I don't sell you expensive, I mean, just ten yuan."

The proprietress bought rat poison and a rat board, paid twenty yuan, and went back to the store.

When I arrived at the door of the "Everyday Snack" store, the boss was preparing to close.

"Boss, wait a minute, I'll put the rat board in the back kitchen, maybe I'll catch the rat tonight."

"Okay, hurry up, it's going to rain, and the clothes hanging on the terrace at home have not been confiscated."

"Got it, just put it away and go."

While listening to the boss's urging, the proprietress put a piece of steamed bread stained with rat poison on the rat clip, and then put the rat clip and broken steamed bun together at the door of the cupboard.

After putting it away, the proprietress was about to leave, and turned her head to see half a bowl of white sesame seeds on the cupboard.

These sesame seeds were still eaten by rats in the morning and fell to the ground, and they were collected again, and now they can be used to poison rats.

Thinking of this, the proprietress poured all the remaining rat poison into the sesame bowl, mixed well, and placed the sesame bowl next to the mouse trap.

There are rat traps, poisonous steamed buns, poisonous sesame seeds, so many traps, rats will definitely be tricked.

Looking at her arrangement, the proprietress nodded with satisfaction.

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The next day, early in the morning, Xinglong Snack Street, "Everyday Snacks" store.

As usual, the shop opened on time and customers came for breakfast.

The proprietress is still greeting guests in the front, and the boss is frying fritters in the back kitchen.

Uncle Li, the owner of the grocery store on the next street, came to buy breakfast, carrying two fried dough sticks and four hemp balls that had just come out of the pot and ready to go back.

When he met the proprietress, Uncle Li approached and asked in a low voice, "Is the thing you gave you yesterday useful?" ”

The proprietress served soybean milk, buns, fritters, and hemp balls to the guests back and forth, and finally took advantage of her free time to respond to Uncle Li quietly, "When the store first opened in the morning, no dead rats were found, and there was no shortage of bait for mixing medicine." ”

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