Chapter 776: Tossing and Turning for Food

Xiaohua and her sister are silent, they have never seen their father since they were born, and they don't know what their father is like, and of course they don't have any feelings, and they don't know them. In the animal world, the husband of this kind of mole only cares about breeding with his wife, and then he doesn't care about anything else, and the burden of childbirth and raising is borne by the female mole squirrel, and the female mole squirrel has no resentment, even if the husband leaves and finds a second wife, it also ignores it, as if this is a natural thing. In the case of the mole family, the females have a great devotional character, while the males appear excessively selfish and detached, as if they are optimists of the mole race, seeking only personal possession without taking any responsibility.

After a while, the three moles slipped out of the grass again, climbed over a mountain, and to the west of the mountain, they found a peanut field, and the air was filled with the fragrance of peanut grass leaves. Again, the mother mole took the lead, and the two children followed. They came to a peanut field and craned their necks to see the movement, but there was no movement, but they found a grass hut on the side of the peanut field, bulging like a small hill. The mole mother slipped close to the mountain bag, but heard the snoring sound coming from inside, obviously someone was guarding, the mole mother thief, knowing that people sleep as if they were dead, and there will not be too much danger. Then he led the two children to the peanut field far away from the grass hut, where they quietly pulled out the peanut plants one by one, greedily chewed the peanut rhizomes, chewed the peanut tender fruits attached to the rhizomes, and spit out a layer of white and tender peanut shells on the ground.

At this moment, a pillar of light lit up in the grass hut that was still in the dark night, and the pillar of light turned around, like a bright sword, piercing the night sky quickly. At this time, the three moles were not alert, and were still eating peanuts pulled out of the soil with relish. Suddenly, the pillar of light fell on the peanut field, and it was bright. Xiaohua, who was plucking the peanut plant, immediately stopped moving, deflected away from the body of the flesh Qiu, and was about to slip away, when the pillar of light flashed away from it again.

Suddenly, the sound of chirping came from the side of the straw shed, and Xiaohua came to her mother alertly, saying that she had discovered the situation. The old mole said that it was clear, and also explained: just now the keeper of the shed woke up and came out to relieve his hands, and the pillar of light was shot by him with a flashlight, and the sound was the urine he threw on the grass like a thread, so there is no need to be afraid. If he goes back to sleep, there will be nothing tonight, if he ...... Before the old mole could finish speaking, he stopped, and turned around and fled from the peanut field, and of course Xiaohua and her sister followed suit. That's because after the shack keeper untied his hands, he walked towards the peanut field and used a flashlight to search. The keeper of the shed was a tall man, fine, and his ears were smart enough, and he seemed to faintly hear a sound of chewing peanuts or something, but he couldn't hear it really, like a conjecture, he would rather believe it, so he walked into the peanut field, and only walked around with a flashlight, and found that many peanut plants were uprooted, and piles of tender peanut shells were rubbing against his feet from time to time. He thought angrily: Is this worth it? The people were kept in the sheds, and the peanut fields were violated. He was convinced that it was a new infest, and remembered that he had inspected the peanut field a few hours earlier, and not a single peanut had been uprooted from the soil.

Since then, farmers in this area have been highly vigilant, patrolling the dry land with sweet potatoes, peanuts, beans and other crops at least three times a night, most of them setting up sheds next to the ground to guard them, and some families have also called their dogs to the grass huts to guard them together. Although ordinary domestic dogs do not bite wild animals, their sense of smell is sensitive, and they bark when they smell something strange, so that even if the people in the grass shed fall asleep, they will suddenly wake up to check the situation, so the general wild animals do not dare to come rashly to infringe.

These days, the hunters in the village are also very sensitive, and when they hear that there is a beast damage in the crops on the side of the mountain, they sneak into the foothills to wait, so that they can eliminate the pest, and second, the harvest is hopeful. But the hunters waited separately for a long time, and did not hunt a four-legged wild thing, which made the pheasant on the mountain miserable, and the pheasant loved to crow, and when he crowed, he exposed himself. The hunter cries and hides in the bushes, and if they find a pheasant, they will cleverly throw a stone at the target, and the pheasant is frightened, fearing that it will not be able to escape from the ground, and will not be able to win, so it jumps up and flies out of the thorn bush, and the wings with its colorful feathers and its heavy body leap into the air, and the hunter's shotgun fires. It is said that it is a shotgun, it is not accurate enough, in fact, it is a homemade earthen gun made by the villagers, the gun tube is full of explosives with a large number of bullets, and when you see the target, as long as you pull the button, it will catch fire, you see at this moment, the "whoosh" is fired out of a spark, and the bullet out of the gun tube will fly in the shape of a trumpet, there are countless ones, there will always be one or more pheasants that hit the take-off, and generally lose less. As soon as the gun is released, a pheasant will fall in mid-air......

After the old mole had fled with the two children that night, they had come again the next two nights, and they had not come here, but had approached the peanut fields of other farmers, but when they had only come to the edge, they had been frightened away. Because it was found by a hunting dog or a dirt dog, and with bright green eyes, it barked while chasing. The keeper then came out of the hut, carrying a stick or something, and followed the direction led by the dog.

By this time, the old mole had fled to safety, rested for a while, and discussed with the child where to forage for food. Xiaohua crawled to her mother's side and said that now that the farmer has discovered us, we can't go to any grass hut where someone is waiting with a dog, and going there is tantamount to scaring the grass and startling the snake. So where to forage? I think it's better to go to the peanut, sweet potato, and bean fields by the hut without dog guards, as it will always be safer. Although the caretakers sometimes patrol, there is always a time when they fall asleep.

The old mole felt that this opinion was good, so he said to try it.

So, that night they went around many times, and there were eight mounds of peanuts and other crops in this area, but there were six dogs squatting in front of the grass hut, and before they could get closer, they were discovered, and then they ran away in fear, but fortunately the dogs barked a few times, and did not chase after them, so that the environment in which they avoided was quite relaxed. There are only two plots of land without dogs to guard them, one planted with sweet potatoes and one with peanuts, which naturally become the target of the sneak attack. Now they are in the vicinity of the house where a straw hut has been built next to the peanut field, and they are ready to take action.

Xiaohua was passing her mother and sister and slipping into the peanut field, when suddenly her mother gave a signal - there was a situation to evacuate quickly. Xiaohua withdrew with her tail between her legs, looked back, and the lights in the grass shed were turned on again, and a tall man walked towards the peanut field. Xiaohua didn't dare to look any further, and walked behind her mother for a while, and came to another sweet potato field that she had already familiarized, and they looked around, only here was quiet, and there was no grass hut next to it, which proved that it was unguarded.

They continued to hunt for sweet potato rhizomes, but there were not many of them, and the owner dug them up, which may be the reason why there was no one to guard them. But the old mole squirrel and his two children searched repeatedly, and they were still able to find some sweet potato rhizomes, but it took a little more effort.

To their delight, some of the caves left in the soil were undamaged and could still be hidden, but the few damaged ones in the ground were no longer useful. They didn't think much of this at the moment, and they only foraged for food because of hunger.