Coming out of his mother-in-law's house, Zhang Ze continued to drive Zhang Wu to Lotus Mountain. As for the two nephews, they didn't come with him, so they waited for his fishing rod at home.

Lotus Mountain, the main peak is composed of seven mountain bags, like a budding lotus flower.

And because there are springs under each mountain, the locals call it Qilian Well.

The water drunk in the village is actually mountain spring water, which is much sweeter and better than the well water that Zhang Ze used to drink in Qinghe Village.

Zhang Ze winds up from the village road, and what he sees is a large bamboo forest, as far as the eye can see, and the mottled shadows of the sun falling through the bamboo leaves are simply beautiful.

He heard Jin Sanbao say that as long as it is winter, the villagers will go into the mountains to dig winter bamboo shoots, and they can dig about 100 catties a day, and selling winter bamboo shoots alone in winter can make their families have a good year.

But it's not easy to save money by making money on this, after all, all you earn is a small amount of money.

Zhang Ze knew that there was a big bamboo forest here, but he didn't expect the scale to be so exaggerated.

With this resource, the villagers can live a good life just by relying on the mountains and eating the mountains.

In another month or two, it is estimated that the mountains will be full of wild mushrooms, and when he has time, he can pick some mushrooms with the villagers.

Red umbrella umbrella white pole, eat a sleeping board, if you don't follow the villagers, he is afraid that his family will be wiped out directly.

When he came to the place, Zhang Ze parked the tricycle in an empty seat at the foot of the mountain.

locked the car, then picked up the firewood knife to choose bamboo, and Zhang Wu also got out of the car and came over.

The bamboos in Lotus Mountain are both thin and thick, Zhang Ze chose three thin bamboos as thick as a dollar coin, cut them diagonally with a firewood knife, and then scraped off all the thin branches.

Regardless of the thickness of the bamboo, it has to be cut diagonally.

I took the bamboo in my hand and shook it, and I felt that the toughness was not bad.

Freshly cut bamboo is naturally not as tough as drying, but it is certainly no problem to fish in the creek not far away.

Putting the bamboo on the tricycle, he was about to call Zhang Wu, who was looking around next to him, to go back, but he heard him suddenly shout: "Wow, what a big mouse!" ”

"Mouse?" Zhang Ze was stunned for a moment, and quickly turned his head to look in the direction he pointed, but only saw a fat ass and a short tail.

His eyes suddenly lit up, what kind of mouse is this, it is clearly a bamboo rat with fat flesh!

It is said on the Internet that bamboo rats are delicious, and Zhang Ze doesn't know whether it's true or not, but he must be interested in this thing.

"Ah Wu, this is a bamboo rat, more than a mouse, I heard that the taste is very good, do you want to try it?"

"Really? It's better than the vole you caught before, brother? Zhang Wu was immediately interested.

In the past, there were voles in farming, and the village would organize people to catch voles. The caught voles will not be disposed of directly, but the people who want to eat them will take them home and cook them themselves.

It's meat, and although it's not as fat as pork, it can also satisfy cravings.

At that time, the family could basically eat some meat during the New Year, and voles were also a rare meat for Zhang Wu, and he naturally remembered it vividly.

"I don't know if it's better than voles, so I'll know if I catch two and try them back!" Zhang Ze said and went to open the tricycle cushion, pretending to take out the slingshot made in Wenshui City from inside, but it was actually taken out from the small space.

Putting a handful of marbles in his trouser pocket, he said, "Let's go, let's go to the bamboo forest and have a look." ”

With such a large bamboo forest, Zhang Ze estimates that there should be a lot of bamboo rats.

Other beasts may also appear, but they will be fine if they go around the base of the mountain.

It's summer now, and the food is plentiful, and if there are really fierce beasts in Lotus Mountain, they won't run to the side.

And Zhang Ze also heard Jin Sanbao say that the beasts in the mountains were almost beaten by people from several villages at the foot of the mountain in the past few years, so he dared to take Zhang Wu into the bamboo forest to find bamboo rats.

When the two walked into the bamboo forest, they both subconsciously lowered their footsteps, looking around for the bamboo rats that ran out of the cave.

After walking in for a while, Zhang Wu suddenly paused, and then hurriedly patted him on the arm.

Zhang Ze turned his head to look and found a fat bamboo rat digging on the ground.

The distance was about twenty meters, and he picked up the slingshot and gestured at it, even if the actual power of the slingshot was quite large, this distance could not handle the bamboo rat.

Therefore, he made a silent gesture to Zhang Wubi, told him to stay where he was, and slowly touched it over there.

But after only two steps, the bamboo rat raised its head vigilantly and looked around, Zhang Zedun didn't dare to come out of the atmosphere in place, for fear that a heavy breath would scare it away.

After standing for a while, sweat was already running down his head because of the hot weather, but he didn't dare to wipe it.

Fortunately, at this time, the bamboo rat seemed to feel safe, so it continued to dig the pit, and Zhang Ze continued to approach slowly.

Perhaps because his head had been buried in the pit, the bamboo rat's alertness had decreased significantly, allowing him to get three or four meters closer.

However, even if he didn't notice his approach, the bamboo rat would suddenly raise its head and continue to look around to see if there was any danger.

Zhang Ze stopped the moment it looked up, and breathed slowly, waiting for it to dig the pit again.

After repeating it twice, Zhang Ze came to the position of the bamboo rat ten meters away, and hid his body behind a few bamboos.

This distance is considered the limit, because the next two bamboo rats looked up to observe for a much longer time, and even stared in his direction for a long time for the last time.

Zhang Ze picked up the slingshot and began to aim at the bamboo rat's sideways position, because the head was buried in the pit and could not be hit.

Secondly, it is difficult to cause fatal injuries in the butt here, and he is not sure to hit the opponent's cow.

With the power of a slingshot, hitting the side is likely to break bones and cause serious injuries such as rupture of internal organs.

Zhang Ze pulled the slingshot to the fullest, let go after aiming, and the marbles suddenly flew out. The next moment, there was a dull sound of "bang".

The bamboo rat in the distance suddenly jumped up, he thought the bamboo rat would run, but it was lying on its side, its limbs swinging quickly and struggling, and it couldn't even get up.

The power of this slingshot was a bit unexpected by Zhang Ze, but he didn't expect to directly ask for half a life for the bamboo rat, so that it didn't even have a chance to escape.

But he reacted quickly, and hurriedly ran over and picked up the back of the bamboo rat's neck.

The bamboo rat opened its mouth and bared its teeth, but blood flowed down its mouth.

This scene made him understand why the bamboo rat couldn't escape, it turned out that he was hit with a marble and suffered a very serious internal injury, and the bamboo rat's defense was worse than he imagined.

"Ah Wu, come, take it!" Zhang Ze walked back and handed the bamboo rat to Zhang Wu, who was full of excitement.

"It turns out that this is a bamboo rat, brother, this bamboo rat is more than a vole, such a one is enough for us to eat!"

"Enough is enough, but since you're here, I'll shoot a few more."

Zhang Ze turned around and continued to look for it, he was going to fight a few more, and then the mother-in-law and the surrounding neighbors could also share some.

The neighbors accepted his benefits, and the mother-in-law and sisters-in-law could live a better life in the village in the future.

Zhang Ze has a good relationship with his neighbors, but it is more for his family.

He doesn't care about himself, it's a big deal to go to sea every day to be busy, and when he comes back, he eats and sleeps, so he doesn't have much time to contact his neighbors, but his family can't.

Perhaps because it was too hot in the afternoon, there were very few bamboo rats running out of the bamboo forest. In addition, Zhang Ze can't hit every time, and even two of them ran away before they got close.

As a result, it took more than an hour, and he just hit the one he first hit.

"Brother, these bamboo rats react too quickly. I'm so hot, why don't you go back first? Zhang Wu was sweating profusely, and he was already out of breath carrying the dead bamboo rat.

Zhang Ze himself was also dry-mouthed, since the marbles couldn't be handled, then he changed the way, so he took Zhang Wu back home on a tricycle first.

"Mom, what do you see here?" After arriving at home, Zhang Wu immediately climbed out of the car and carried the bamboo rat into the house to show off.

"Yo, where did you get such a big mouse?" Zhang Huihong was surprised when she saw the bamboo rat in her youngest son's hand.

"Hehe, this is called a bamboo rat, we found it in the bamboo forest, and I was killed by my brother's slingshot."

At this time, Zhang Ze also walked into the house: "Mom, you have dealt with this bamboo rat, drink wine at night and add a meat dish." I continued to go around the bamboo forest, and if I could hit a few more, I would send two to Shu Yao's mother. ”

Zhang Huihong hesitated to take the bamboo rat, looked at it and said, "What kind of bamboo rat is this, delicious?" ”

"I haven't eaten it, but Sanbao said that the meat of bamboo rats is no worse than that of voles, so it shouldn't be bad!"

Hearing what the eldest son said, Zhang Huihong had no doubts, and if it was not delicious, she would eat it by herself and not take it out to entertain.

When Zhang Ze came back, he prepared the tools.

Since they are all in the cave, try to catch them in other ways.

Zhang Ze found a wooden board in the courtyard, about 80 centimeters long and more than 20 centimeters wide.

The end is then sharpened with a hatchet knife to make it easier to insert into the soil.

A wooden board, and found a wooden stick nearly a meter long and arm-thick, to catch bamboo rats, just have these two.

Picking up the basket and riding the tricycle back to the bamboo forest, he took the two pieces of wood he found, and then cut a bamboo, Zhang Ze began to look for the burrow of the bamboo rat.

Soon he saw the burrow of the bamboo rat on a small slope, because the soil at the mouth of the burrow was so loose that it could be seen at a glance.

Zhang Ze poked a thin bamboo into the cave to determine the depth of the cave.

Then the sharp side of the plank is inserted into the cave to measure the deepest point, and then the freshly cut bamboo is slowly placed at the entrance of the cave, and a firewood knife is used to make a few scratches in the position of the hand.

Then use your thumb to pick at these scratches, and the bamboo pole will constantly make a harsh sound, which makes people's scalp tingle when they listen to it.

But this sound is a signal of courtship to the bamboo rat, just as a man is as excited as he is to see a beautiful woman wearing a high silk for himself.

This time I was lucky, there was a bamboo rat in the cave that had been single for ten years, and it didn't resist the temptation, and its little head kept poking out.

Zhang Ze looked down when he saw that the soil was loose, and when he saw that the bamboo rat had come to the mouth of the cave, he immediately picked up a thick wooden stick and knocked it on the wooden board.

The wooden board suddenly became a big shortener, directly cutting off the back path of the bamboo rat.

The bamboo rat was immediately frightened and let out a panicked cry, and kept retreating, but the retreat had been blocked.

Zhang Ze dug the hole with bamboo, and every time he dug it, the bamboo rat made a cry of "ha~", which seemed to be murdering him.

Digging open the mouth of the burrow, when half of the bamboo rat's body was exposed, he pressed the bamboo rat's neck and grabbed the back of its fateful neck, and then forcefully lifted it out of the burrow.

The bamboo rat has its head tilted, its short limbs spread, and it looks quite cute.

But don't look at its cuteness, it's quite strong, and Zhang Ze has to hold it hard when he struggles.

"It's so cute, it's delicious at first glance!"

Zhang Ze smiled, then picked up the wooden stick and aimed it at the bridge of its nose, and with a "bang", the bamboo rat's limbs twitched, blood rushed out of its mouth and nose, and it quickly lost its reaction, and then put it into the back basket behind it.

With a knock on the bridge of the nose, no animal can live.

And his method of catching bamboo rats is really easy to use, he also saw it when he watched the video in his previous life, but he didn't expect to use it one day.

Then Zhang Ze continued to catch bamboo rats, and then found that this method was not 100% able to catch bamboo rats, maybe he was unlucky, and the caves he found were all females.

After another two hours in the bamboo forest, he successfully caught six bamboo rats, plus the family caught a total of seven today, all of which were male.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Zhang Ze went back with a basket of bamboo rats.

"Aze, what are you doing here?" Seeing that his son-in-law was covered with a lot of mud, Lu Man wondered.

"Didn't I go to the bamboo forest to get a few bamboos to make fishing rods, but I didn't expect that there were a lot of bamboo rats in it, so I caught some by the way." Zhang Ze said as he took out two bamboo rats from the basket and handed them to his mother-in-law, "Mom, these two are for you, I heard the people in the village say that bamboo rats are rare and delicious." ”

Lu Man looked at the bamboo rat handed over, and hurriedly refused: "Hey, hey, you keep it and take it home, Mom has no shortage of food here." ”

"I've got a lot of them here!" Zhang Ze showed her the bamboo rat in the back basket, and she saw so much, so she accepted it.

"It's still Aze who has the ability, and he can get good things wherever he goes." Tong Yuanhang's daughter-in-law smiled when she saw this, and the other two sisters-in-law also echoed.

Bamboo rats, some people in later generations may not dare to eat them, but in this era, there is a shortage of meat, and women and voles eat bamboo rats, not to mention bamboo rats, they will not be hypocritical.

So even though the bamboo rats are a little cute on the outside, they still go to their mouths.

Leaving from his mother-in-law's house, Zhang Ze went to Jin Fan, Chen Xudong and Jin Sanbao's house respectively, and each of the three families gave a bamboo rat and asked them to remember to come over for a drink at night.

Jin Sanbao and the three of them were surprised that he had caught so many bamboo rats, there was no good way to catch this thing, it was actually very difficult to catch it, and Zhang Ze caught so many of them.

After sending the bamboo rat, he took the last one home and continued to ride to the market to sell meat.

I bought some pork, I bought some cooked food, and I had to get some peanuts for the wine.

Zhang Ze didn't buy the wine, because when he gave Jin Fan a bamboo rat, he moved out the rice wine he brewed at home and asked Zhang Ze to take it home in a tricycle first.

When I got home after buying things, the napping Tong Shuyao and Zhang Qian had already gotten up and were helping Zhang's mother deal with the ingredients.

The bamboo rat's hair only needs to be scalded in boiling water for one minute, and they have already cleaned both of them.

After removing the hair, the bamboo rat is white and tender, and it looks more appetizing, just like the vole.

Mother Zhang would pick up one of them and roast it on the fire, and roast the fluff on the bamboo rat's body.

She has handled voles before, so she is also very comfortable with bamboo rats.

(End of chapter)