The herdsmen on the grassland regard eating roast rat meat as a common thing, but in the Xing'an Mountains mountainous area, there are many people who never eat rat meat, before liberation, people who are looking for gold veins in the mountains to open gold mines avoid eating rat meat, I once heard my grandfather say that the craftsmen who fight inverted, do not eat mice, and call rats "daughters-in-law", because all day long to make a living, are moving soil and making holes, no different from mice, belong to peers, and rats are also "Hu, yellow, white, willow, gray" one of the five "ash" home, every day with the soil cave, You must not offend the rats, or you may be buried alive in the thief's hole if you are not careful.

I didn't have the idea of robbing the tomb at that time, I didn't care about eating some "big-eyed thief" meat, Ding Sitian didn't really believe that what yellow skins, long worms, foxes, hedgehogs and mice and the like were immortals, but she believed that heaven was tolerant, and everything could not be done too absolutely, such as eating mice, in Ding Sitian's hometown, there was a famine before liberation, there were a lot of mice in the local area, although there was no food, but the mice were not seen at all, everyone caught mice to eat, and they didn't know that they ate hundreds of thousands of mice, and finally survived the famine. But the locals have developed the habit of eating rat meat, and when there is food, they still have to catch rats to eat, and they are eaten by every family, and everyone eats them, but one year there was a sudden outbreak of plague, and the number of dead people could not be counted.

The fat man said, "What is this called Heavenly Dao Yourong?" I think rats are the four pests, and if they are eliminated, there will be no plague, but have you ever heard that there are more rats than people in this world? It seems that after the Emperor Xiu rebellion is eliminated, we will start to exterminate the rats. As he spoke, he suddenly picked up his hunting gun, put the butt of his rifle upside down, and went to smash a big-eyed thief who was probing his brain into a nearby rat hole to spy on us.

The big-eyed thief was teased by the aroma of fish soup and roast rat meat, and poked his head in the rat hole, trying to find an opportunity to climb out and steal some fish to eat, and suddenly saw someone smashed with a stick, and quickly shrank back to the hole to dodge, the fat man just ate enough and wanted to take the opportunity to eliminate food, this time he made enough strength, and smashed the butt of a gun on the ground, but he did not hit the big-eyed thief, and smashed a large piece of the soil layer of the ground, the crust here is very brittle, and there are holes below, and he collapsed with the butt of the gun.

The reason why this forest is called "Hundred Eyes Cave" is that there may be many caves or holes underground, but over the years the natural environment and water and soil changes have made the deciduous grass cover these holes and form a layer of crust, so now it seems that it is difficult to find any caves directly, and this layer of crust has been dug up by the big-eyed thieves who dig earthworms underground and eat them, so the fat man collapsed with a smash of the butt of the gun, but it is not surprising.

But at that time, we didn't expect this to happen, the crust of the grass rumbled down a large piece, it was really unexpected, and what was even more surprising was that the big hole exposed was crowded with rats, and the fat man raised his hand and pointed: "Oh my grandma, why did so many big rats pop up?" ”

I followed his hand to see, but also the whole body shocked, see the scalp is numb, the hole is full of tree roots and mud, among which there is a huge "rat mountain", countless big-eyed thieves you hug me and pile together, a group of rats squirming and stacking, stacked up to a person high, but also not only big-eyed thieves, there are also gray squirrels and prairie dogs and rats jumping around nearby, as well as many fat wild mice that can't recognize the species at all, a large area of Wuyang and Wuyang, this huge mouse hole is too big to imagine.

Disturbed by the collapse of the cave entrance, the group of rats swarmed out with the tide of the embankment, because there were too many of them, the fire we lit was immediately extinguished, I and the fat man, Ding Sitian and the three of them hurriedly swept the knife and waved the stick to drive away the many giant rats that rushed to the side, these big rats were driven away, and they were even more chaotic camp, squeaking and squeezing around in the forest, one of the natural enemies of the wild mice is the worm, and the night is the time for the worms to feed, attracted by the wild rat group, only to see from the cracks in the stones, the grass hole, Large yellow-green worms emerged from the bushes and burrowed into the fleeing flock of wild rats to devour them.

The forest was chaotic like death, and the chaos bumped into these many natural enemies, the wild mice didn't know where to flee for a while, and the east hit one head, and the west hit one head in the forest in a circle, there are worms in all directions, the common grasshoppers in the grassland herdsmen are only about 20 centimeters, and nearly one meter are very rare, but we found that there are more than two meters long flower worms around the big worms, and the speckled worms on the body are more poisonous than the poisonous snakes. If we follow the group of rats out in this situation, we will definitely be bitten by the poisonous palate of the worm, and we will not be saved if we bite it, because there is no time to rescue it, and we will die of poison.

Thinking of the tragic situation of Ding Sitian's jujube red horse being bitten to death by a worm, it is really creepy, if there are a few mounts at this time, we can still gamble on luck and take the risk of riding out on horseback, but there is only an old horse around, and the horse is now also shocked, its reins are tied to the tree, neighing and struggling, so it has to keep picking up and kicking away the rats and worms that are close to it in the chaos.

I grabbed the kerosene gas lamp on the ground, shouted to the fat man and Ding Sitian to hold the unconscious old sheepskin, and fled to the mouse hole exposed by the collapse of a large hole, at this time most of the rats have jumped out of the huge rat hole, compared with the messy bite and devouring in the forest, only this dirty and smelly cave is the only place to retreat, the fat man and Ding Sitian immediately understood what I meant, the two of them half dragged and half shelf, and dragged the old sheepskin with a belly into the rat hole, I waved the "Kangxi treasure knife" and cut off the reins that tied the old military horse. The old horse was free, and hissed loudly, but did not immediately rush out of the encirclement, but circled around the rat hole, refusing to give up the master to escape, I pointed a knife at it outside the forest: "Escape by yourself." ”

The old horse seemed to be really spiritual, as if he saw that he could not get into the rat hole at his height, and saw that the masters had gone in to avoid danger, so he made a noise, turned around and rushed out of the forest. When I saw that the horse had run away, I immediately went into the rat hole, and as soon as I entered, a fishy stench choked my nostrils, and I quickly covered my nose with my sleeve.

The inside of the rat hole is very deep, the two sides are damp and narrow, it is like an artificial underground tunnel, raise the lamp, the deep black hole hole can not see the end, there are some large and small mice in the hole that have not escaped clean, from time to time from the surface of our feet swishing crawling, listening to the worm swallowing and swimming, and the miserable howl of the wild rat has reached the entrance of the hole, I thought to myself that this time I really entered the "Hundred Eyes Cave", now I can't think of it, I don't dare to slack off at the moment, and quickly pointed to the depths of the cave with a knife, and said to the fat man and Ding Sitian:" Turning to guerrilla warfare is the magic weapon of our army to defeat the enemy, and we should look for fighters to turn defeat into victory in a roundabout movement and retreat in great strides. "At that time, we three young people, with a "surplus of courage", bravely broke into a forbidden area, at first a little nervous at most, and did not think much about anything else, but at that time none of us expected that at the end of this rat hole, a huge nightmare was waiting for us.