During the period of the Republic of China, the small village in southern Gan was a corner of peace, but it was not affected by the war, and it was self-sufficient, but there were families in the village who did not know why, the fields were very small, very poor, and they couldn't even eat. It looks like a 5.6-year-old child, the house leaks and even rains, the parents don't know what strange disease they have, both passed away, leaving only the two dogs alone, at the beginning, the villagers pity him, and occasionally call him to the house to eat, so that the two dogs have a meal, the west family has a meal, although the food is not too full, but it is enough to maintain life. But as the two dogs gradually grew up, but at the age of 12.3 years old, they were neither big nor small, but they still couldn't support themselves, and the villagers would gradually give some eyes, after all, that year, the landlord's family had no surplus grain.

One year, the village suffered from a rat plague, the rats were very arrogant, swaggering in front of the people to gnaw the crops, and they couldn't drive away, resulting in almost no harvest for every household, after the two dogs went to a villager's house to eat as usual, because there was no harvest, the family themselves were not enough to eat, the hostess scolded the two dogs, "waste, will not farm their own fields to get food, every day like a dog begging for food, you are such a big person, have eaten in my house for several years, you will not be self-reliant?" "The two dogs are half the size of the child is in the strongest self-esteem of the time, when I heard this, there was no tears, after coming out a person ran to the back mountain, crying while running, unconsciously ran to a deserted temple in the mountains, the two dogs sat in the dilapidated temple, the more they thought about it, the more they felt pitiful, and felt that if their parents had not passed away, they would not beg for food everywhere like a lost dog, sitting there and taking pity on themselves, tears fell like rain for a while, crying and crying, and fell asleep unconsciously.

Just fell asleep, suddenly woken up by a noisy sound, opened his eyes and found himself sleeping on the street, got up and looked, found that the street was lined with shops, the twilight sunset afterglow faintly sprinkled on the red bricks and green tiles or the brightly colored pavilion cornices, it didn't look like a building in the Republic of China era, the two dogs were not only a little curious, the street was full of traffic, rubbing shoulders, the two dogs looked at the dress of the people on the street, it was a little like the Tang Dynasty people's score, the two dogs stepped forward and grabbed a person and asked, "Where is this?" The man was very surprised, and looked Ergouzi up and down, "Niu Guling, don't you know?" ”

"Niu Guling?" , Ergouzi wondered in his heart, Niuguling was barren and overgrown with weeds, how could there be such a bustling street.

"Where did you come from, and why did you come here?" The man's face suddenly became wary.

"I'm from XXX Village." Ergouzi replied, the man looked confused, it seemed that he didn't know where Ergouzi was talking at all, Ergouzi suddenly understood that he seemed to have gone to another world, remember to help the villagers herd cattle often to Niuguling, often see some broken bricks and gravel, remember the old man in the village said, there used to be a very prosperous village here, and then I don't know for what reason the whole village suddenly disappeared, it turned out that they did not disappear, behind the broken temple, after going back, you must tell the people in the village.

Ergouzi was very curious about everything on the street, looking east, touching west, walking, and accidentally walked into a small alley, there was nothing in the alley, and he was about to turn around and leave, when he suddenly heard an angry roar from a courtyard, "You bastards, have you stolen my rice?" The response was a group of "squeak" sounds, the two dogs heard that the "squeak" sound was like a mouse barking, I thought it was very strange, how could a person yell at the mouse, the mouse couldn't understand people, a little curious, so quietly the yard door pushed open a crack, looked inside, couldn't help but be startled, the hairs on the body stood up, the mice standing on the ground with a brush inside, dense, at least tens of thousands, the strange thing is that so many mice in the yard, they didn't make noise or run, trembling and lying on the ground, Listening to the man's lecture, I couldn't see the man's face clearly, only to see that his waving hand didn't seem to have a thumb, and the other four fingers were pointed and thin, and if you looked closely, it looked like the front paws of a mouse, and the two dogs were afraid of curiosity, so they held their breath to see what the person wanted to do, and after a while, the man suddenly became angry, "You don't admit to stealing my rice, right, see how I clean you up." ”

He drew a line with his finger on the ground, and as he drew it, he said to the mouse, "If you don't steal rice, go to the other side of the line, and if you don't want to die, you can go to the other side of the line." A group of rats crossed the other side of the line, and a few of them seemed to have just walked to the side of the line, and the line suddenly flashed a white light, like lightning slashing at the mice who wanted to cross the line, and the mice in pain "squeaked" and screamed, and the remaining group of mice seemed to be very afraid of the line, and the man laughed, "I don't know whether to live or die, you have the ability to cross over." Grab the rest of the mouse with a finger, the mouse's stomach cut, the strange thing is that there is no blood flowing down, but the mouse pain keeps struggling, the man's hand shakes, a few rice shakes out of the mouse's stomach, the person throws it, the mouse immediately ran to the other side of the line, and then the person grabbed the mouse on the ground according to the law, after a while, there was a lot of rice around the person, the second dog vaguely saw that the mouse seemed to be intact before the abdomen landed, I felt amazing, After a while, the man suddenly looked up at the door, and snorted coldly, "I've been watching outside for so long, I've seen enough, don't roll in yet." Ergouzi walked in hard, looked up at the one, and couldn't help but gasp, the person had a long sharp-beaked monkey plug, and a few beards on his chin, which actually looked a little like a mouse.

The man seemed taken aback when he saw the second dog dressed, looked up and down, his face was full of suspicion, and asked, "Where are you from?" ”

Ergouzi replied truthfully, the man pondered for a long time, and after a while said, "You met me, this is also fate, do you want to learn my craft?" Ergouzi nodded without thinking about it, thinking that if I learned to summon mice, it would be easy to make money to support myself, and that person seemed to see through Ergouzi and said with a serious face, "After learning this craft, you can't make money with this, you can't eat meat, otherwise you will be counterattacked, remember to remember!" ”

Ergou nodded, and the man said, "If you learn this method, you will suffer great pain physically, and your palms will be incomplete because of this, so you have to think about it." Ergou looked up at his appearance, gritted his teeth and nodded, and was about to kneel down to apprentice, the man stretched his hand to stop him and said, "I don't do your master, only teach you the art of rat control, don't teach anything else, you don't have enough blessings, you can't afford it", the man stared at the two dogs and laughed three times, grabbed a mouse from the ground and stuffed it into the mouth of the two dogs with lightning speed, the two dogs were frightened, desperately trying to spit it out, but it was already late, the mouse "whirred" the sound of the ground ran into the stomach, and the stomach instantly turned over the river and the sea, and the two dogs fainted in fright.

I don't know how long it took, the two dogs woke up slowly, woke up and found that their hands were in severe pain, they almost fainted, the thumbs of the two hands were bloody, and they seemed to have been bitten off by some animal, and suddenly there was a "squeak" sound under the soles of the feet, only to see two huge mice on the ground, what was in their mouths, the two dogs looked at it, this is not what the fingers are, the two mice seemed to be shaking their hands at the two dogs, and saw the two dogs wake up, and ran away without a trace.

Ergouzi got up and saw that he was still in the ruined temple, and the sky was almost dark, if it weren't for the sharp pain in his hands, he thought he had just had a dream.

The second dog returned home to endure his hunger, looked at the mice running around on the ground, and couldn't help but get bored and said casually, "It's annoying to run around, don't run." Suddenly, the mouse that was running suddenly stopped, and slowly fell to the feet of the second dog, "squeak" seemed to be begging for something, the second dog suddenly realized, why not try it after learning the rat technique, Yu Xia said to the mouse under his feet, "You help me find something to eat." The rat nodded, and disappeared at once, and it was not long before the rat came in with a swarm of rats carrying a sweet potato. The second dog was overjoyed, thinking that he could call the rats to help with the work in the future, the village was suffering from the rat plague, and he could take this opportunity to raise his eyebrows and show his skills, and no longer have to eat and drink other people's things for nothing.

The next day, as soon as the day dawned, the two dogs got up, ran to the village chief's house, and said to the village chief, "I have a way to solve the rat plague in the village." The village chief didn't believe it, Ergouzi insisted again and again, and the village chief was skeptical, but there was no other way to do the rat plague. ”

"You don't need to prepare anything, just dig a few big pits at the entrance of the village to bury mice."

"Really, how do you catch mice?" The village chief felt that the second dog was talking nonsense.

"You do as I say, and I'll make sure to catch all the rats in the village by 12 o'clock." The second dog said categorically.

Seeing that he was so sure, the village chief called all the young adults in the village and dug a few big pits at the entrance of the village.

I saw two dogs, and there were words in their mouths: "All the mice come out for me." After reading it a few times, there was no response, the second dog was a little embarrassed, and after a while there was still no response, the second dog was talking in his heart, how did it fail, and the crowd of onlookers also began to be restless, scolding the second dog for messing around.

Just when the two dogs were about to give up, suddenly there was a "rustle" sound coming, the crowd exclaimed, only to see that the mice were dense everywhere, a group of people ran towards the crowd, looking at the scalp numb, the crowd of onlookers unconsciously retreated, only to see a group of rats came to the front of the two dogs and fell to the ground, the two dogs pointed to a few big pits, and said to the rats, "Jump in." As if by magic, the rat jumped down one after another, and soon several large pits were about to be filled, and suddenly one of the rats in the rat group stopped, looking at the two dogs sadly, and seemed to beg the two dogs to spare his life, the two dogs softened, nodded, and the rat got amnesty, and ran away in a blink of an eye.

Ergouzi asked the villagers to have jumped into the pit to bury the rats with soil, the villagers tremblingly stepped forward to bury the mouses, after this time, the two dogs became famous, people from other counties drove to invite the two dogs to exterminate the rats, at the beginning the two dogs attitude was also very humble, every time he did not collect a penny, the people who asked him to do things at the beginning still insisted, but later saw that the two dogs resolutely did not collect money, and they no longer gave money, but they respected the two dogs very much "Daxian Daxian" called, and some places also gave the two dogs statues and temples.

After many years of praise by everyone, slowly the second dog's mind changed, feeling that he could not be single, he had to start a family, no longer satisfied with the praise in the mouth, and gradually asked for some return from the people who asked for help, sometimes he asked for some bricks, sometimes he wanted some wood, used to build a house, and planned to rebuild the house A house, when he first took these things, he was uneasy, for fear of retribution, after a long time, the two dogs also felt at ease, and felt that he had helped deal with the rat plague, and he should get some compensation, I didn't violate the master's words, I just collected some small things, and didn't collect people's money, and I was calm, and soon the house was good, and then I was introduced, and my wife also married home, and the child was born the next year, after the child was born, the cost of all aspects gradually increased, and the pressure on life became more and more, but the second dog only relied on receiving other people's physical returns was not enough to maintain the operation of the family, and the wife also blew the pillow wind every day, and persuaded the second dog to collect some money appropriately, But every time Ergouzi remembered the words of the teaching master, his heart trembled, and he didn't dare to take a step beyond the thunder pool.

But as time went by, the second child was also born, and the second dog's wife kept complaining about the poverty of life, and the second dog watched every family live better than their own lives.

Once, he mustered up the courage to ask the person who asked him for some money, and later found that the rich man's life was comfortable, so he slowly asked him for more remuneration, and later the family hired a nanny and bought a maid, a big family.

But the older elimination of the rat plague, the surrounding rats are basically eliminated, the second dog has no field at home, usually rely on the second dog to drive the rats for a living, "from thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift", this income can not maintain the huge Hu expenses at home, just when the two dogs are at a loss, his wife gave him an idea, the second dog just shook his head after listening, his wife was angry, took the two children back to his parents' house, left him a word, do not do this to earn some money will not come back.

Half a month later, the second dog couldn't stand it, so he could only listen to his wife's idea and drive the rat to the rich house to make trouble, and then the family would come to ask the second dog to drive the mouse, and the second dog would collect money from it.

At the beginning, the two dogs only drove the rats to the rich people's houses, and then they became more and more dissatisfied with this, after all, the rich people were so few, and the rats were also driven to the ordinary people's homes, and slowly the villagers knew what was going on, but they dared to be angry, and the two dogs were armed with strange arts, and the ordinary people fought him, and the villagers secretly scolded the two dogs for being white-eyed wolves, black-hearted, when they were children, they grew up eating hundreds of meals, but when they grew up, they were wolf-hearted, and the two dogs became more and more unscrupulous, and they took the villagers by force, and called the rats if they didn't give it. I thought I couldn't cure him.

But the bad guys have their own harvest, once the two dogs for some reason, in the town of the wine man drunk drunk, hobbling home, afraid of affecting the wife and children so run to the side room to fall asleep, sleep until the middle of the night feel thirsty, so loudly called the girl to bring tea and pour water, after a while a girl, with the tea came in, the two dogs looked a little Baisheng, but did not think much, thought it was the wife of the new maid, picked up the teacup and drank it all, to the tea to the stomach, only to react, just that cup there is tea, obviously is a bowl of chicken soup, shocked, "It's a bad thing, the master has repeatedly told me not to touch the meat." But it was too late, the soup was already in the stomach, and after a while, the abdominal pain was unbearable, and I couldn't help wailing loudly on the bed, and the two dogs were struggling, watching the girl's face slowly transform into the master, and was busy begging the master for help, and the master sneered, "Untouchables are untouchables, you can't seize the opportunity, the mud can't support the wall, you deserve it!" "Say goodbye and leave.

After a while, a mouse in the abdomen broke out of the abdomen and died, and a large group of rats broke into the door, fighting for its flesh, and the two dogs died without a full body.

The next day, after the wife of the second dog got up, she saw that the second dog died, took away the money of the family, sold the real estate, took the children and daughters, and returned to her parents' home.