The ox struggled to catch up, and the big rats had already scattered away.

The Fang family was surprised by the unanimous cheers of the old and the young, and they looked at the two of them in disbelief. However, Niu Zhan and Sour Lao Xi could not care about paying attention to them, but strode towards the grave, looked around the whole mound, and finally found a mouse hole in an inconspicuous place into which a hand could be reached.

"That's what happened, it's amazing, isn't it?" Niu struggled to look at the mouse hole, not to mention how incredible.

Sour Lao Xi also looked a little unexpected, and seemed to be a little confused.

"Could it be that Old Man Fang Li's behavior moved the heavens and the earth, and even the living beings fell for it?" Niu Struggle was also the first time he had seen this kind of thing, so he guessed.

Unexpectedly, Sour Lao Xi shook his head and said: "If his behavior really touches the world, how can it be possible to bring calamity to future generations?" ”

"What do you mean?" Niu Struggle realized that there was something in his words.

"I'll tell Ni afterwards Wow, it's not convenient now, but these burrowing rats, eighty percent have something to do with the people buried in the tomb, and they shouldn't have much to do with Fang Li, Ni asked the people in her family, didn't Ni listen to what her brother said just now, something was wrong?" Sour Lao Xi pondered for a moment and said.

After he reminded him like this, Niu Struggle realized that when Fang Mingde picked up stones to fight mice, what he said was very interesting: Okay, you beasts, how good my mother usually treats you, you still have to make a hole in my mother's grave!

This is strange, as the old saying goes, rats crossing the street make people shout and beat, people will have feelings for cats, dogs, pigs and sheep, but I have never heard of anyone who will have a soft spot for mice, rats are in people's hearts, full of pests, listen to Fang Mingde's meaning, his mother should be very concerned about mice, this is unreasonable.

So Niu Zhan turned his head and asked, "Brother Fang, what do you mean by what you just said, what do you mean that your mother is usually very good to these mice?" ”

Fang Mingde paused for a moment, wanting to say something, but his language organization skills were really not strong, and finally Fang Weixin's father took over and said: "Hey, this is a long story, decades ago, there were several years of natural disasters, and every household couldn't open the pot." At that time, Xiao Wei had just been born, and the family had already run out of food, and her mother was already weak after giving birth, and her health was even worse due to hunger. Xiao Wei has no milk to eat at all, and the rice jar at home is empty, everyone is the same, he can't borrow it, and he doesn't even have a rice paste.

Seeing that the mother and daughter were dying of hunger, it was a coincidence that her mother saw an abandoned mouse hole at the foot of the house, that year, the grass roots and bark were gnawed away, not to mention that there was still some meat on the mice, the rats were almost extinct, cleaner than when the four pests were eliminated, but the strange thing was that the hole was sprinkled with two grains of rice. She asked me to dig out the mouse hole, and she said that the old man said that rats have a habit of hiding food, which may be God's pity for them to deliberately let their family find out. Sure enough, after I dug the hole to the end, I really dug up a whole bag of food in the depths.

It was with that bag of grain that our family barely survived the disaster year. Her mother said that she and Xiao Wei's lives were saved by that nest of rats, and Xiao Wei happened to be a rat, so since then, our family has been grateful to the rats. Her mother, in particular, would stuff some food into it whenever she found a rat hole. When she was a child, Xiao Wei was very fond of cats, but her mother said that she would not let her raise anything, precisely for this reason.

When the four pests were eliminated that year, every family beat rats, but our family didn't do that kind of thing, and we were criticized for this. But you say it's strange, there are a lot of rats in our house, but they haven't harmed my family's grain. Hey, if it weren't for the holes they made in my lover's grave today, her brother wouldn't be so excited. ”

"So that's the case, Qi Ye, Miao Ye, it seems that the creatures of heaven and earth have good thoughts, and Mrs. Ni Jia knows how to repay her kindness, and she actually moved the rats that have been a scourge since ancient times, what a good person has a good reward!" After listening to this, Sour Laoxi sighed with emotion.

Niu Struggle was also shocked, but he seemed to understand the reason, Fang Weixin's mother, the behavior of stuffing food into the rat hole was actually similar to the worship of the gods, once there was a firm belief, a subtle spirituality would be established between humans and animals.

"Grandpa, do you mean to say that it's a good thing for rats to burrow in my mother's grave?" Fang Weixin asked suspiciously.

"We have been wondering why your mother was buried in it and didn't suffocate to death, but now we understand, so, this wave of rats may really be spirit mice. Your mother can live, on the one hand, it is stained with your grandfather's light, and on the other hand, your family has accumulated virtue by itself," Niu Struggle explained.

Only then did the family wake up, in fact, they also vaguely guessed, but they just couldn't believe it, after all, this kind of thing fell on any ordinary person, who would dare to believe it!

The next thing is to rise up, this is not only the most nervous time for the Fang family, but also the time when Niu Struggle and Sour Laoxi are the most panicked, they are confident in their own ability, but from a grave that has been sealed in the soil for nine days, a big living person who has been judged dead by the hospital is still more or less weak-hearted.

At first, Fang Mingde and his father were still working together, and while they were doing it, they called out to the underground, but unfortunately, the underground did not respond at all, and the confidence that the two people had barely established finally collapsed, and their bodies became heavy, and they didn't even have the strength to lift the shovel.

Niu Struggle was also a little panicked, it stands to reason that if the people in the coffin are alive and can hear the call, but the matter has come to this, even if the people inside are really dead, they have to dig it out and take a look, and we will talk about it later. So he took all the work on himself, a dozen cubic meters of soil, which may be a big job for others, but for him, it is really nothing.

In addition, he was anxious, and the shovel in his hand flew up and down, and soon, he heard a muffled sound, and the shovel had been shoveled onto the coffin board.

Hearing this muffled sound, the spirit of the Fang family was almost on the verge of collapse, and Niu Zhan hurriedly gave the sour old man Su Xianyi on the top of the tomb a look, signaling them to stabilize the family, don't make any trouble when this last trembling happens.

The two old men understood the meaning and quickly relieved.

Niu Zhan did not stop, he quickly removed the last layer of soil from the coffin, and a mouthful of freshly painted coffin was exposed to the sun, and as he expected, there was a hole in one corner of the coffin that had been gnawed out by rats. Seeing this hole, although there was still no movement in the coffin, he finally had confidence in his heart.

On the lid of the coffin, there were seven coffin nails, and the crowbar that had been prepared long ago was taken out and removed one by one.

Just as he was about to lift the lid of the coffin, Sour Lao Xi suddenly drank: "Wait a minute! ”

(End of chapter)