Chapter Forty-Nine: Does a Hare Dig a Hole?

Chain mouth is a local improvisational allegro on the Loess Plateau, which is also a variant of the lotus fall. It pays attention to popular rhyme and conciseness.

Some artists who say that they have a chain mouth often have a strong ability to improvise, and they can make up what they see and export it.

In Wang Manyin's view, Wang Qingming also belongs to the wrong era, and it is a pity that he has a skill. If you live in the afterlife, you will definitely be able to be an Internet celebrity or something.

Wang Lianshun saw that the people were almost there, cleared his throat and said, "Okay, okay, everyone don't make trouble." Let's leave early, try to get a few more rabbits in the morning, and also get a few more pieces of meat for the broken babies at home. ”

"Uncle Lian Shun, where to start first?" Someone immediately asked.

"Let's go to the old grave behind the village, I took a look yesterday, and there is a flock of pheasants hiding in the woods......"

Wang Lianshun thought about it and responded.

The old grave he said refers to the old ancestral grave under the cliff behind the village.

The ancestors of Jar Village have a history of one or two hundred years when they moved to this place, and seventy or eighty people were buried one after another, densely packed with a large area, occupying almost two or three acres of Sichuan land.

I don't know which generation planted more than a dozen cypress trees in the cemetery, and there are also some years, all of which have thick bowls. When the steel was being smelted, the upper side tried to cut down these cypress trees, but was stopped by the villagers.

In addition, there are many miscellaneous trees and shrubs growing around the cemetery, and it is rare to form a small forest.

Now in this kind of ghost weather, it is easy for hares and pheasants to hide inside.

As soon as a group of people came out of the village with the earth dogs, they saw a team of captains, Wang Manjun, followed by dozens of laborers, walking in this direction.

Obviously, they also targeted the old grave behind the village.

The two captains met and discussed, and simply the number one hundred and ten people gathered together to surround the old grave, catch the prey and divide it equally.

This snow is big, and everyone catches hares much easier, and there is no need to bother setting up rabbit nets at all.

Only seventy or eighty people were divided to surround the whole old grave, and the rest of the people took earth dogs and beat them with wooden sticks on the snow nest bushes.

They had barely knocked for a moment when they heard a fluttering sound coming from a bush. Immediately, several pheasants flapped their wings and staggered forward.

These guys only fly half a tree high, and they are much slower than usual.

And as soon as they flew more than ten meters away, they fell from the sky one after another like planes that had been hit, and plunged straight into the snow nest.

Several waiting earth dogs immediately swarmed up, scrambling to bite them.

"Brother Wang, what's the situation? Why don't these pheasants fly away? Liu Xiangyang next to him couldn't help but ask. Several other intellectuals also had doubts on their faces.

None of them expected that catching pheasants would be so easy, as if they were picked up casually.

Even without the use of earth dogs, people can catch up directly.

"Hungry, it snowed so hard that the grass seeds and sprouts were buried in the ground, and there was no food to be found outside. They haven't eaten for two or three days, and they don't have the strength to fly at all. In a few more days of snow, you can still pick up frozen pheasants......" Wang Manyin is very clear about this.

In the year of Ruixue mega harvest, heavy snow can not only freeze the pests in the soil, but also freeze the pheasants and hares to death. Therefore, when the snow melts, many people in the village will go to the cliff to look for it.

If you're lucky, you can pick up hares and pheasants.

As for "don't pick up chickens in spring and rabbits in winter", it's not easy to do on the Loess Plateau.

Soon, the people drove three hares from the old grave.

Their fate was the same as that of pheasants, and before they could run far, they were surrounded and hunted by the dogs.

6 pheasants and 3 hares are a good start for everyone.

But that's the end of it.

It's a bit of a waste for the 100 people to get together, and they can't show each other before.

After the entire grave was searched, the two teams separated again.

Except for a few educated youths who joined in the fun, the rest of the strong men were all rural people. They naturally know how to look for hares, and they keep their heads down when they walk, and their eyes scan the snow nests around them at any time.

When he saw a hole in the snow on the ground, he immediately took a shovel and slapped it.

If there is one, let's shoot it first.

As long as the hare is driven out of the snow den, there are earth dogs guarding it, and it hardly runs.

Liu Xiangyang looked at it for a while, and doubts rose in his heart again.

He said to Wang Qiusheng next to him: "The book says that there are three holes for cunning rabbits, why are the hares not digging holes in such a cold day?" ”

He had just seen clearly that several of the captured hares were hiding in the snow and had not found any burrows.

"This, I don't know," Wang Qiusheng scratched his head and said, "The rabbits I've seen don't dig holes, at most they dig a shallow pit in the soil, and people will run ...... as soon as they pull it."

Seeing that the other party couldn't say why, Liu Xiangyang had no choice but to change the object of questioning: "Brother Wang, do you know?" ”

The answer to this question is not clear to the average person.

But Wang Manyin really knows...... He had argued with others because of this in his later life, so he deliberately looked up relevant information on the Internet.

"There are many kinds of hares. The name of our country's hare is actually grass hare, with long ears, powerful hind legs, and good at using speed to avoid predators. The rabbits that make holes are called cave rabbits, which grow in foreign countries and generally gather in groups, and there are no wild ones in our country. The white rabbits raised in your city were domesticated from burrowing rabbits. As for the three caves of the cunning rabbit, it should be translated as three hiding nests, not hiding caves......"

"I see," Liu Xiangyang nodded again and again.

Everywhere is knowledge, and it is the first time he knows that there are so many things about the hare.

In fact, these days when they go to the countryside to cut the queue, the educated youth can also feel the careful thinking of the villagers.

Although they are warm and respectful to everyone, they are a little alienated in them, as if they are automatically divided into two categories.

Wang Manyin feels different to these educated youths, he seems to have a unique temperament, and he also regards everyone as an equal object of communication every day.

In addition, Wang Manyin seems to know a lot, and he can say one, two, three, four.

By the time everyone had searched the nearby hills, more than a dozen hares had been harvested. Counting the catch of one team, at least thirty rabbits were wiped out today.

But no one worries about whether the hare will be caught...... This is completely unfounded.

Hare breed four or five litters a year, each with six or seven nests, and can produce the next generation at six months of age. So as long as a few female rabbits survive in the nearby hills, next autumn will be full of rabbits.

In later generations, hares became protected animals mostly due to the use of pesticides. Many grain seeds are mixed with pesticides before they are planted in the ground...... It takes a long time to spray pesticides several times from planting to harvesting, which will naturally cause a devastating blow to wild animals.

In later generations, not to mention hares, even voles were rarely seen.

After the hare is skinned, it is still in the hands of the slanted eye Wang Shouchang.

This time there are a few more pheasants, and the flavor is even richer.

The rules are the same as last time, each family has a big bowl, and they should prepare for the New Year in advance.

Wang Manyin originally thought that he had divided the rabbit meat, but today's matter came to an end for the time being, but he didn't expect that Wang Lianshun would have a follow-up show on his side.

He stopped the men who were about to leave and said, "Don't go, everyone, I'll make an announcement." It's not a few days before the New Year, a few days ago, someone muttered and asked when the dividends would be, let's take advantage of today's free time to take stock of the year-end settlement of the production team. Everyone gathered in the breeding room after eating, and brought their work books with them when they came. ”

As soon as they heard that the settlement was going to be settled, everyone in the venue immediately became excited.

Of course, this does not include Wang Manyin. He didn't expect anything from it.

I worked for more than ten days in total, and one work was calculated as five cents, and I earned a maximum of 7 yuan for ten days. He also borrowed 50 yuan from the production team before, so he still has to pay back the debt.

In fact, a few days ago, Wang Lianshun secretly greeted him in private, saying that he could give him some care work, so that he could keep quiet when the time came.

After Wang Manyin found out, he directly rejected it.