Chapter 129: Catching Rats
Ye Gu Yuanli inserted the silver needle into the 'pillow', he really didn't want to be separated from Su Ruoshui. But he didn't have the final say in this prison, he only silently said in his heart, 'I hope I'm here to deliver food, not to separate us.'" ’。
After a while, the jailer approached, and sure enough, he had come to deliver food. As at noon, the jailer slipped the rice bowl and chopsticks through the wooden pillars, and then the man left.
Su Ruoshui buried the rice again, and Ye Gu Yuanli still didn't move.
"It's hard for you to still have the strength to dig a pit, I haven't eaten for a day, let's rest for a while." The third prince didn't have anything to take out for Su Ruoshui to eat, this prison meal was really hard to swallow, and Ye Gu Yuanli didn't want to eat this even if he starved to death.
"No, I have to let people know that I ate here." Although Su Ruoshui didn't test the poison with silverware, she was still very careful and didn't dare to really eat it.
She could be sure that the food was not highly toxic, but she couldn't be sure that the food would be fine. There are so many kinds of poisons that almost only arsenic can be detected in silverware.
In ancient times, arsenic was almost the only poison that could be deadly. After all, does not being fatal equal to safety?
About a quarter of an hour two jailers came and took the rice bowls, leaving no food for them both.
Both of them were hungry but there was nothing they could do, they were locked in cages and couldn't get out, the jailers barely came, and there were no living people nearby, and even if they did, they might not be cared for.
None of them wanted to eat the prison food, and the other did not dare to eat it. Do you really want to starve to death?
'Su Ruoshui, Su Ruoshui, are you starving to death? Su Ruoshui looked up at the dark roof, muttering in her heart, her stomach purring.
'Squeak~' Su Ruoshui was sitting quietly on the bed when he suddenly heard a mouse call. She quickly jumped out of bed, looked around, and finally found a big mouse squatting in the corner of the third prince's bed.
"Don't be afraid, don't move." Su Ruoshui half-squatted and quietly looked at the mouse.
"Huh?" Ye Gu Yuanli had never heard rats bark at all, nor had he ever seen mice, of course he had heard of mice.
So he didn't know that the sound was a rat barking, and he didn't notice that there was a rat next to his bed.
"Squeak~squeak~" Su Ruoshui couldn't get by, so he had to learn how to call a mouse to attract the attention of the mouse.
"Hehe, what are you doing?" Ye Guyuan saw Su Ruoshui half-squatting and screaming at his bedside, he was very puzzled, and looked back at her gaze. "Ahh The third prince was so frightened that his soul was about to fly, and he howled instinctively.
The rat is very timid, and when it hears the scream, it is really frightened and 'jumps' forward.
What does it mean to be fast? If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed it ten times after killing Ye Gu Yuanli.
Even if he saw it with his own eyes, he couldn't believe it, he couldn't believe that Su Ruoshui caught the rat who was desperately escaping.
Su Ruoshui twisted the mouse's neck very quickly, looking at her like a cat that lives on mice all year round.
How can a woman be so skilled at catching and killing a mouse? Ye Gu Yuanli's eyes were about to bulge out of their sockets.
The two things that Su Ruoshui craved most at this time were sabers and fire, if there was a saber that could easily cut rat meat, and if there was fire, it could be roasted and eaten.
But it doesn't matter, you can still rely on biting without a saber, but fortunately, the teeth are good. You can eat it raw without fire, but fortunately, I received field survival training for special forces back then.
The most satisfying thing is that there is no rat poison in this era, and the rat catcher always relies on cats, which makes the edible nature of mice greatly increased, and there is no need to consider the problem of strong rat poison.
Su Ruoshui excitedly pulled the rat's neck and held it up to Ye Gu Yuanli to see: "The wild mouse is so fat, there should be a rat nest nearby, we can't starve to death." ”
Ye Gu Yuanli couldn't get excited, he only felt creepy. He didn't understand how much information there was in Su Ruoshui's words.
Wild rats can be eaten with confidence, and there will be no plague. Having a rat nest nearby means that there will be enough rats to support them to survive, so they don't have to worry about starving to death.
Looking at Ye Gu Yuanli's pale face, Su Ruoshui also knew that he was scared, although Su Ruoshui was very hungry, he was not so hungry that he had to eat.
She put the big mouse under the 'pillow', and she knew that there was no chance of success in persuading the third prince to eat this now.
Su Ruoshui was really helpless, telling a story scared Ye Gu Yuanhong, catching a mouse scared Ye Gu Yuanli again, are the princes of the family so timid this day?
"It's okay, third brother, you see I don't have anything in my hands." Su Ruoshui stretched out his hands for him to see.
Ye Gu Yuanli's fear was written on his face, and he couldn't hide it at all.
"You" Ye Gu Yuanli couldn't tell what mood he was in now, he couldn't believe his eyes and ears, what did he see? What do you hear? "What did you just say?"
Ye Gu Yuanli wanted to confirm whether he really heard Su Ruoshui say that he wanted to eat the dead mouse.
"It's nothing, you come here." Su Ruoshui sat close to the wooden pillar, the two beds were actually connected, but there were wooden pillars in the middle.
Ye Gu Yuanli didn't dare to go over for some reason, he stood still and didn't move. Su Ruoshui smiled and nodded and waved at him vigorously before he moved.
"Come, take my hand." Su Ruoshui looked at him with a smile and encouraged him to get closer to him.
Handle? Her hands that just twisted a rat to death? Ye Gu Yuanli is by no means disgusted, but it is really a little strange, but he is a little afraid.
His hand trembled slightly, and Su Ruoshui grabbed his hand without hesitation. The hands of the two people were clasped tightly, and Ye Gu Yuanli's heart seemed to fall from his throat to his stomach all at once.
The real touch dispelled a large part of his fear, but he couldn't accept that Su Ruoshui could catch and twist a mouse to death for a while, let alone imagine how the mouse could be used to satisfy his hunger.
"Third brother, you have been pampered since you were a child. You don't have to stretch out your own hands for clothes, and you won't open your mouth at will. You pick the most noble ones to wear, and you pick the most palatable ones to eat. You don't know about the suffering of the people, and you don't know how many people can even do cannibalism in order to survive. ”
Su Ruoshui must slowly enlighten him, he must not eat indiscriminately here, even if it is a rat, it is better than prison food. Rats can satisfy their hunger without eating badly, and prison meals can satisfy hunger, but they don't know if they have a chance to eat the next meal after eating this meal.
"Are you from the folk? How can you? ”
"I am a general, I naturally know the hardships of the border soldiers, I have also walked through the barracks since I was a child, and I have also trained like those soldiers." Su Ruoshui admired herself, and she didn't blink her eyes when she lied.
"Someone's coming." Su Ruoshui withdrew his hand, and they sat a little farther away.
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