Chapter Seventy-One: The Donkey Trap

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Out of the courtyard gate, followed the grass carp towards Wang Dahe's house, the grass carp was quite able to speak, dancing and talking along the way.

My grandfather found out from his speech and demeanor that this child was a little hairy, in today's words, a little two hundred and five.

When I came to Wang Dahe's house, I really cooked my grandfather's meal. Wang Dahe's family has a lot of rules, once there are guests in the house, women and children can't go to the dinner table, Wang Dahe's wife and Wang Caoyu's younger brothers and sisters all served the rice bowls, ran to the yard to eat, and my grandfather was a little embarrassed.

While eating, my grandfather asked Wang Dahe what happened to the river monster yesterday, Wang Dahe said that the river monster disappeared after jumping out of the yard, and a group of people searched for most of the night and did not find it, and it is estimated that they ran back into the river again.

After Wang Dahe finished speaking, he asked my grandfather if there was any way to catch the river monster. When my grandfather heard it, why did it be the same as what his father Wang Boss asked yesterday, you asked me, I asked who to go, I wanted to repeat the words that prevaricated Wang Boss yesterday, but at this time, I saw Wang Dahe looking at him with a trusting face, his eyes were still full of expectation, and he was embarrassed to hurt Wang Dahe's feelings again.

My grandfather thought for a while and said, "I look at that thing, it doesn't have any big skills, it's just fast, it's not easy to catch." ”

"It's too fast, so what's the matter?" Wang Caoyu asked on the side.

"What should I do......" My grandfather bared his teeth and looked at Wang Dahe and his son, "or ...... Shall we give it a set? Trap that thing and catch it? Look, can we do that......"

My grandfather said a way, Wang Dahe and his son looked at each other speechlessly, this is catching river monsters, you should catch birds......

After breakfast, Wang Dahe found Boss Wang and told me how to tell my grandfather, Boss Wang shook his head when he heard it, and said, Stick to this child, too young, catch the river monster is such a big thing, why do you play with the child.

However, at this time, they have no good way, and these people in Sanwangzhuang can be said to have reached the point of exhaustion. In the end, Boss Wang slapped his thigh, and he could only let my grandfather mess around.

After obtaining the consent of his father, Wang Dahe, prepared to go according to the method my grandfather said, although it felt a little ridiculous.

At this time, my grandfather took Wang Caoyu back to the old house. Beside Wang Caoyu, there was also a black and fat man in his early thirties, with a thick-backed sharp knife pinned to his waist. This black fat man is a butcher in Sanwangzhuang Village, killing pigs and sheep and selling meat for a living.

The book says briefly. In the evening, Wang Dahe followed my grandfather's instructions and stopped all preparations.

At this time, my grandfather, Wang Caoyu, and more than a dozen strong young men in the village, each holding a large bowl and a pair of chopsticks, gathered around a large pot in the center of the village, gobbled up, and ate a meal of horse meat to their heart's content.

Then, put down the dishes and chopsticks, my grandfather led a donkey prepared for them by Wang Dahe, the dozen young men, including Wang grass carp, each pulled a cart full of rice stalks and wheat straw, and there were many lively villagers, who hugged the front and back, and dozens of people followed my grandfather to the bank of the river.

Not far from the bank of the river, my grandfather found a spacious and flat place, nailed a wooden wedge on the ground, tied the donkey to the wooden wedge, and asked the dozen young men to put the rice stalks and wheat straw on the cart around the donkey like a wall, about two zhang away from the donkey, the diameter is about ten meters, and the donkey is surrounded in the middle.

More than a dozen young men, including those villagers, dozens of people worked together, and in half an hour, they stacked a straw fence around the donkey that could be more than one person high.

Of course, the straw fence was not blocked, and there was still a two-foot-wide opening.

After doing this, half of the day had passed, and now the time was around eight o'clock in the evening.

At this time, the dozens of people, including my grandfather, all hid in a reed swing not far from the wall, dozens of pairs of eyes stared at the mouth of the straw wall, and no one dared to breathe.

As time passed, a group of cats waited in the reeds for a long time, but the river was dead and silent, and there was no movement at all.

My grandfather was a little out of breath at this time, and asked the grass carp next to him in a low voice, "The river monster didn't enter the village, right?" If we had allowed it to enter the village in advance, we would have waited here in vain. ”

Wang Caoyu said with a determined face: "What do you enter, what do you enter, those people who patrol the river today are all talking, and they still see the river monster, the river monster must still be in the water." After the grass carp finished speaking, he asked my grandfather, "Uncle Bingshou, do you think a Hei'er river monster will come today?" ”

"I don't know." My grandfather shook his head, and when he shook his head, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration and asked the grass carp, "Grass carp, is the donkey that your father brought to us a 'donkey' or a 'grass donkey'?" "It's called a donkey, that is, a male donkey, and a grass donkey is a female donkey, which is a local name for us here.

The grass carp didn't think about it, and replied directly, "Of course, it's a 'donkey', and the 'grass donkey' still has a cub pinch, this donkey is the most capable of screaming in our village. ”

My grandfather nodded, and said to the grass carp, "Otherwise, you can find a way to make this donkey bark twice, maybe the river monster will hear the donkey's bark and come over in a while." ”

"Medium!"

When Wang Caoyu heard this, he immediately agreed, ran out of the reed swing in a few steps, and got into the straw wall.

As soon as the king grass carp entered, the sound of a donkey barking immediately came from the wall.

At this time, several young people who heard the conversation between my grandfather and the grass carp just now laughed, laughing inexplicably at my grandfather. Before my grandfather could ask them why they were laughing, another donkey came from inside the straw fence.

How about two donkeys? My grandfather immediately understood, and laughed with them.

Friends who were born in the countryside and are born in the 70s may be no strangers to donkeys. Donkeys, that is, male donkeys, generally wear blindfolds, which can cover the vision on both sides of them, so that they can only look straight ahead, not left and right.

Some of the mules and horses also wear blindfolds, so that they are afraid that they will be startled by something unexpected around them, and their vision will be reduced. It is also said that these animals can see unclean things in the corner of their eyes, and wearing eye patches can reduce the chance of seeing these dirty things.

However, these words are ineffective against donkeys, and the purpose of giving them a blindfold is to prevent them from messing around. The male donkey is aggressive and impulsive, and will howl when he sees his own kind from a distance, and if two male donkeys meet, they will scream and rush together, fighting up and down.

These male donkeys, once they hear the call of their own kind, will also respond as soon as possible.

After singing and harmonizing with the donkey in the straw fence for a while, the king grass carp ran back to the reeds, and my grandfather praised him with a smile and praised him for doing a good job.

The donkey in the fence may have been caught up in the fire by the king grass fish, and the vultures barked endlessly, and the piercing sound could be heard for two miles, which was really annoying to listen to.

Everyone probably waited for a stick of incense in the reeds, and the sound of playing the second watch came from the village.

"Bang Bang, Bang Bang...... The second watch is bright, turn off the lights and go to bed. Bang Bang, Bang Bang ...... The second watch is good, turn off the lights and go to bed......"

Just as the sound of the second watch fell, there was movement in the river, and there was a series of "bang, bang, bang" water splitting sounds, from far and near, as if someone was wading through the river towards the shore.

Because of the dense reeds, everyone couldn't see what the thing in the river behind them was, but it felt like it was the river monster, because no one could go down the river at this time.

In a few moments, a white lightning bolt swept out of the river, and "swished" into the reserved opening of the straw fence, and the donkey tossed for a long time before it stopped calling, and then it might have seen the thing and barked again.

Seeing this, my grandfather hurriedly instructed the others to use the remaining straw to block the entrance of the wall later, and then set all the straw on fire.

After my grandfather led the dozen young men into the straw fence, the villagers outside quickly blocked the reserved opening of the straw fence and lit it with torches.

In the middle of the meeting, the entire fence was burned, and the river bank was on fire.

Inside the straw wall, the unlucky donkey who was used as bait was already lying on the ground, and no longer barked, and there was a bloody hole the size of a sea bowl on his belly, just like the horse before my grandfather, and he was dying at this time, and he couldn't survive.

My grandfather knew that the thing was in the donkey's belly at this time, so he asked the dozen or so young men to surround the donkey, and he himself rushed to the donkey, picked up the Liangyi Yin and Yang Sword in his hand, and poked it on the donkey's belly.

"Puff puff" poked more than a dozen times in one breath, and a child's cry came from the donkey's belly, and then, a bloody thing came out of the blood hole, and ran over with my wife's trouser leg.

Because it was so fast, even though it was so close, my grandfather still couldn't see what it was.

It feels like a big gecko, with a long flat body, a round head, and limbs, but the limbs are so short that it's hard to see if you don't pay attention, and the most conspicuous thing is a big tadpole-like tail.

My grandfather doesn't know what this thing is, it's visually scary.

After that thing came out of the donkey's belly, it wanted to escape, but the fire was all around, according to my grandfather's words, as long as it was something in the water, they were afraid of fire, and at this time more than a dozen young men were holding wooden forks and poking them randomly, although they didn't poke it, they might have scared it, and when they twisted their bodies, they wanted to turn back and get into the donkey's belly.

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