"Hehe~ Divine Messenger, look!"

It didn't take long for Shui Er to walk out with the tails of the two rats and show them to Song Xuan.

"Look inside the house and see if there's anything left!"

"Hey, hey, you're looking at it......"

Song Xuan didn't think he was so lucky, just two of them were bumped into by him.

Sure enough, after a while, someone caught another one inside, these three big rats, each of which was half a catty up, and the size was really not small.

Song Xuan was also rejoicing, fortunately, he came over today and found them in advance, otherwise they would have to be allowed to eat them, this small jar of rice is really not enough for them to spoil.

"Divine envoy, this has also found a hole, I don't know if there is one in it!"

Listening to the sound coming from inside the house, Song Xuan hurriedly walked inside, the outside had already turned around several times, and no obvious holes were found.

Looking at the big hole in the corner, I don't know where this hole leads.

Song Xuan didn't care if there were any rats in it, and when he thought of the rice that had been ruined by them, he gritted his teeth and said:

"Come on, fill the water!"

"Fill the hot water!"

In this weather, there will also be hot water in the tribe, so soon Shui Er brought people to bring two pots.

It's always boiling, and the heat is going up.

Song Xuan didn't pretend to borrow the hands of others, he personally took the pottery spoon he brought, and poured hot water into it spoonful by spoonful, not to mention that this hole is really not small, at least now it has been poured into a small half pot, and there is no sign of it being full.

Fortunately, there was only this one mouse hole in the whole house, and after most of the pot of water was poured down, it finally overflowed out of the hole.

This pot of hot water goes down, and even if there are still alive in it, it will be dead now.

"Hey, Wangcai, what's in your mouth!"

Listening to the sound coming from outside, Song Xuan was just about to go out to have a look, but Wangcai had already stepped in one step ahead, and there was still a black thing in his mouth.

When he came to Song Xuan, his mouth loosened, and another big black mouse fell.

"Wangcai, where did you catch this!"

"Whew~"

Although it was unlikely that he could understand what Song Xuan was saying, Wang Cai still understood the general meaning, rubbed Song Xuan, and took the lead to run out, Song Xuan followed, walked around the back of the house, and saw Wang Zai rushing towards a stone without taking two steps.

Sure enough, Song Xuan squatted down and saw that there was a small hole at the edge of the stone, thinking that this was the hole of this nest of rats, and at this time the hole was also steaming, and it seemed that this was also connected to the inside.

It is estimated that he was just about to run out, but he was discovered by Wangcai who was squatting on the side.

Song Xuan asked someone to bring out the hot water, and added two scoops to it, and then stopped.

Although the hole was already filled with hot water, it was unlikely that there would be rats in it, but Song Xuan still had to block the entrance of the cave, who knew if there would be rats crawling into the house along the hole.

Now there is no extra house in the tribe, so these rice seeds still have to be placed here, although the jar was opened by these mice, but Song Xuan thought carefully, thinking that he should not have built it last time, otherwise it would not be easy for them to open it.

Song Xuan was weighing heavy objects on every jar at that time, and with these mice alone, it was still a little difficult to open it.

Otherwise, it wouldn't be the only one that had a problem, and the others were all well placed, and there was no trace of being opened.

But the rice seeds eaten by these rats are basically irretrievable, and Song Xuan roughly visually measured that there should be about two catties.

So much can be planted on a small half acre of land, and when he thought of this, Song Xuan also felt a pain in his flesh.

In addition to blocking the entrance of the cave, Song Xuan also set off a rat eradication campaign among the tribe, striving not to leave the slightest thing in the tribe that could threaten these rice seeds.

This check really made everyone find a few mouse holes, most of which are in the place where food is stored, but the place where the most mouse holes are found is the main house, and three of the four corners are found alone, which is also usually not noticed.

In one day, he caught more than a dozen mice, and they were not small, and Song Xuan asked everyone to concoct each mouse hole in the same way and fill it with hot water.

Song Xuan was a little surprised that Wangcai seemed to be more interested in catching mice, and as soon as he saw a rat hole, he surrounded it with everyone.

This made Song Xuan feel very funny, they all said that dogs take mice, although Wangcai is not a dog, but the role is almost the same.

With more and more types of food in the tribe, it is not a problem to get rid of rats and just let people get them, after all, it is impossible to let everyone do such a large-scale inventory of the tribe for a while.

At the same time, they can't be allowed to develop, especially this year, hundreds of acres of rice will be planted in the tribe, and the preservation of these rice will also be a troublesome matter.

Put it in the jar relatively speaking, the sealing is still relatively good, as long as you are cautious, basically there will be no big problem, but there are more of them, but you can't save them like this, and there will naturally be more loopholes at that time.

Song Xuan didn't have a clue after thinking about it, until he saw Shi Meng and them come back, he had a general idea.

"What? The oracle, the beast that catches rats? ”

Shi Meng and the others were all stunned when they heard Song Xuan's words, they really didn't know what animals could be used to eat mice.

If it really wants to be counted, then the tribe's Wangcai can be counted as one, and when they came back, they heard about Wangcai's deeds of catching mice.

"Isn't it okay to be prosperous, I heard that he caught several of them this time!"

"yes, why don't we get a few more and raise them, it's pretty fun!"

…………

Although Wangcai can catch mice, he is obviously not professional, and he is more likely to have fun with everyone.

Wangcai generally takes advantage of everyone to drive the rats out, he guards the entrance of the cave just to pounce, and there will be a failure, but fortunately, the ability to find the mouse hole is much higher than the average person, and several caves are found by Wangcai.

But Song Xuan's task to Wangcai is not used to catch mice, not to mention that his related skills are not proficient, Wangcai is used to open the door and protect the courtyard, and he can be regarded as relatively competent at present, at least when people from other tribes come, they can be noticed at the first time.

The nearest Xiong tribe and Yangyang came over, and Wangcai made moves, and after seeing that Teng Snake was accompanied by someone, he shrank back again.

As for the original idea of following the hunt, Song Xuan has no idea for the time being, it is not easy to go out to hunt, and it is full of threats, especially after having a bow and arrow, everyone is more willing to take risks, Wangcai has not fully grown up yet, and the risk is still too great if he goes out.

As for whether there is such a possibility in the future, we can only observe and observe, but even if it is just to look at the door, it is enough.

As for everyone happily discussing whether to catch a few more and come back, Song Xuan was not interested.

"Is there a stuffed animal that is about the same age as Wangcai when he was a child, and an animal that looks like a fox?"

Song Xuan tried his best to describe the appearance of the cat to Shi Meng, but to his disappointment, everyone shook their heads, although there were similar animals, they were not specifically here to eat mice.

"Why don't we get two snakes back, I've seen this!"

Just when Song Xuan continued to think about what else could eat mice, Shi Yong suddenly said.

The tribe is still quite in awe of snakes, after all, there is basically no big difference between the totem and the snake outside, but there is an extra cloud under the body.

In addition to this is everyone's belief, Song Xuan still feels a little numb for snakes, and it is more difficult to raise snakes in the tribe, and he does not have any experience in raising snakes for this kind of animal, although Song Xuan also knows that he can catch mice, but it was not in his consideration from the beginning.

Although Song Xuan also knew that animals such as weasels and owls would also eat mice, they were relatively difficult to catch, and the most important thing was that they were not easy to domesticate.

Now they are being said right by Shi Meng, and they are choosing to choose, and in the end, Wangcai is the most reliable.

But there is no need for a few more wolves for the tribe now. One is enough, and Song Xuan can only find a way to retrain and train Wangcai to see if he can play a more role.

Fortunately, most of them can still be prevented, and as for the small number of fish that have slipped through the net, they can only be searched for a period of time like now, as long as you pay attention to them, I think most of them can be found in the early stage.

If you really wait until the autumn harvest, you can't think of a good way, so you can only pay more attention to this aspect, and try not to let the rats eat the food in the tribe as much as possible.

At the same time, Song Xuan also instructed Shi Meng and them to pay more attention to the animals that can catch mice in the wild, of course, they need to pay attention to whether they can be fed well.

Song Xuan did not refuse their proposal to catch a few more wolves back, but he made a request, that is, they must start from the dolls, and those wolves that have grown up have no need to catch them back.

It is said that the white-eyed wolf, this is not completely unreasonable, in fact, no matter what kind of animal it is, it is relatively difficult to domesticate it when it matures in the wild, especially these carnivores, which are inherently ferocious, so that they are voluntarily kept in captivity, it is basically difficult to achieve.

It's not difficult to catch wolves, there are not a lot of jackals in the surrounding mountains and forests, but it's not so easy to catch the kind that hasn't been born for a long time, this kind of basically only exists in the wolf's den, and it's very difficult to find it, so Song Xuan didn't let everyone deliberately look for it, which will affect the progress of the hunt, if you can find it, try to bring it back, and it won't have much impact if you can't find it.

Although the rats in the tribe have been basically cleaned up, Song Xuan has developed the habit of often patrolling the tribe, and the focus is naturally on the warehouse where food and rice seeds are stored, these foods are the lifeblood of the tribe, not the little meat on the rats can be exchanged.

Although the weather is not very warm yet, spring has arrived, and the banks of the river are full of greenery and weeds are growing.

The most happy thing about all this is that these animals raised by the tribe finally don't have to eat hay anymore, Shi Yan and Shui Wu will lead this group of animals around every day to find grass to eat.

However, the number is still relatively small, and the grass is only four or five centimeters long, and it can only be given to sheep and rabbits to barely deal with it, and as for the two cows in the tribe, they are still hay to eat.

Although Uncle Deer and they also eat grass, they basically don't have to worry about Shi Yan, and they will take their wives and children to the wild early in the morning to find grass to eat.

Song Xuan also discovered that bamboo shoots had begun to emerge around the tribe, although it was a little difficult to find the bamboo shoots that were still hidden in the land, but for those that had already appeared, Song Xuan was still very interested.

Especially there is a large bamboo forest not far from the tribe, Song Xuan has always been a little regretful for not noticing this matter last year, after all, bamboo shoots are also very rich in ways to eat, whether it is fried and stewed, the taste is quite good, and the most important thing is that it can be preserved.

After digging it back, you only need to boil it and dry it, so you can eat it for a long time.

Although there are still a lot of tree roots in the field waiting for Song Xuan to deal with, compared with bamboo shoots, Song Xuan feels that digging bamboo shoots is also very important at present, after all, there will be no more after this time.

Despite the shortage of manpower, Song Xuan still drew twenty people to go to the bamboo forest with him to find bamboo shoots to dig.

Now the roots of the big trees in the field have basically been cleared, the big trees here are more than half a meter, as for the finer ones, most of them have been cleaned up, but the next face is still the kind of ordinary small trees, especially the kind with thick arms and thighs, although the area covered by the tree heel is not large, but the number is the largest, and it is relatively troublesome to deal with.

If you burn too much, but you don't want to be a little finer, you can just warp it out.

Fortunately, twenty people are not too many, Song Xuan regarded them as Yangyang and they did not join, since they had this idea in their hearts, Song Xuan was also trying to find out.

The tools used to dig bamboo shoots are still the best in the tribe, who said that this is the only one in the tribe that is the best to use, the bamboo forest is very close to the mountain behind the tribe, and Song Xuan saw a lot of small bumps around him as soon as he got close.

If you want to eat it, it is naturally the best taste of this deep underground and at the same time the most tender.

But the problem is that it is too troublesome to dig up, and there are not many of them, just with these tools in everyone's hands, they can't dig much in a day, and it is estimated that after peeling the shell, thirty or forty catties will come to an end, although it looks like more, but if it is really dried, there will not be much.

Pointing to a very obvious dirt bag, Song Xuan said:

"Look, that's it, those that grow only need to be tender."

Facing the bamboo shoots that had grown twenty or thirty centimeters not far away, Song Xuan stepped on them, and then picked them up and demonstrated them.

After peeling the shell, the color is still relatively obvious, the tender bamboo shoots are white, and the older ones have begun to turn yellow, and at the same time, you can clearly feel it by pinching it with your hands.

With Song Xuan's demonstration, everyone also took direct action, and the twenty people selected by Song Xuan were mainly members of the collection team.

Of course, there are not many people left in the tribe in the hunting team now, except for Yangyang and them, there are only about a dozen people.

This is still the result of Song Xuan's hard work, otherwise according to Shi Meng's coming, all the population would have been taken out by him, and Song Xuan also picked five people from the hunting team, mainly focusing on their strength.

The amount of bamboo shoots in a basket is not light, especially the bamboo shoots do not occupy a place after drying, but the fresh ones are large and heavy, obviously they have to be transported back and forth, after all, there are not so many baskets in the tribe, and they will be transported back in a unified manner when everyone digs until the evening.

With these people, this kind of work can be directly handed over to them.

However, it was obvious that he hadn't even understood what Song Xuan meant, and at this time, he and Shihua and the others dug up the bamboo shoots hidden in the ground.

"Divine Messenger, is this delicious......"

As soon as he finished digging, Shi Hua secretly tasted it, and at this time, he also put on a pain mask and said to Song Xuan.

Bamboo shoots that are not blanched do not taste good, they still taste a little astringent, and eating raw bamboo shoots directly will also cause stomach discomfort.

Song Xuan forgot to tell everyone about this, and at this time he also re-instructed.

However, I still emphasized with everyone that bamboo shoots must be edible, at least in Song Xuan's memory, the taste is quite good, and even the current materials of Teng Snake should be able to exert its flavor of eighty or ninety, after all, the production method is not difficult.

Dig and dig in the big bamboo forest, and take all the bamboo shoots you dig home.

Looking at the basket that had already been half filled, Song Xuan said to the hunting team:

"Shishan, you guys carry these back first!"

"Huh?!"

Shishan and the others thought that Song Xuan had asked them to dig bamboo shoots, but it turned out that they had been asked to serve as coolies, but this was also the work they should do, so they didn't complain, and directly picked up the basket and left the tribe, but the heavy basket still caught them off guard.

I didn't expect that the bamboo shoots that didn't sink when digging together did have a good weight when stacked together.

However, although it is a little heavy, it is not uncomfortable, and it is not too much of a problem, especially since the distance is not too far, and the return to the tribe from here is mainly downhill.

When I came back, it was uphill, but the basket was already empty.

Although there were only twenty people, and they still had to move back and forth on the stone mountain, everyone's speed was not slow, and they moved back six or seven boxes after a while.

There is no need to rush to deal with these dug bamboo shoots, and when everyone comes back in the evening, they can get it together, and there will be more people at that time, and they will be peeled quickly, and I believe it will not take long to clean them up.

However, it is still very necessary to let everyone taste it at night, although everyone is working harder now, but this is mainly because this matter was brought up by Song Xuan, out of trust in the divine envoy, everyone will naturally not be lazy in their work.

Just like planting rice, everyone can appreciate the taste and be more energetic when they work.

Although there is no way to fry the clay pot in the tribe, even when cooking the soup, it will taste good to put some of it, especially the dried bamboo shoots, which have a unique flavor.

"Oracle, oracle, look what it is!"

Some hurried shouts not far away interrupted Song Xuan's train of thought, and Song Xuan hurriedly dropped the bamboo shoots he was digging and ran over quickly.

Although this time around the tribe, there will also be wild beasts, although everyone has experience in dealing with wild beasts, but if there are too many or more ferocious beasts, it will be very troublesome to deal with, after all, except for a few people in Shishan, the others are not professional.

Looking at the stone mountain that had already come, Song Xuan also hurriedly greeted, they went over together, although everyone came to dig bamboo shoots, but in the habit of still bringing some weapons, at least everyone would bring their own stone axes.

At this time, everyone who heard the shouts also dropped their hands and gathered in the direction of the stone flower, and they all clutched the stone axes one by one.

However, when everyone arrived at Shihua, they didn't find anything abnormal, and Shihua and the others also stood there calmly, looking into the distance.

"Shihua, what's wrong?"

Seeing Song Xuan, who looked nervous, Shi Hua pointed to the distance with some embarrassment and said:

"Oracle, what do you see that?"

Following the direction of Shi Hua's finger, Song Xuan really didn't notice anything at once, and he was unusually puzzled and glanced at Shi Hua.

"There, oracle, you see, there's a black, black and white, like a bear!"

After the positioning of the stone flower, Song Xuan finally found the animal in the distance, but the distance was really a little far, and he could only see the bamboo shaking through the gap in the bamboo forest.

Obviously, the exclamation just now also had an effect on the animal.

Listening to Shihua's statement, it seems that it is still a bear, and in the face of the bear, although there are more than 20 people, the danger is still very great.

Especially now that everyone doesn't have any weapons in their hands, whether it's a spear or a bow and arrow, it's much better than the current stone axe.

"Huh! Black and White Bear! ”

"Divine Messenger, it's a black and white bear!"

It may be that it is in the relationship of angles, but it is the stone mountain next to it that was the first to discover, and he also saw the type.

Song Xuan leaned over and saw clearly at once, isn't this a panda!

This discovery suddenly made Song Xuan happy, and there were still some plots for Song Xuan, a panda who was a national treasure in later generations, especially in the face of his cute appearance, few people could not fall for it.

At this time, I was even more excited to find that there were also traces of pandas around the tribe.

But happy to be happy, Song Xuan knew that this was also something that could only be watched from a distance and could not be played with, although it looked cute on the outside, but the panda was still a bear after all, and the combat power was not covered, these twenty people were really not sure that they could deal with him, of course, the most important thing was that they were subject to other plots, and Song Xuan did not have the idea of attacking him.

"Divine envoy, do you want to catch it back, black and white bears are rare!"

Obviously, the panda is not a common animal around here, and it also has a simpler name, but Song Xuan didn't have the idea of hunting, so he refused, but told everyone not to get too close to him as much as possible.

Although it is unlikely that a conflict will break out directly, it is better to minimize this possibility, but Song Xuan still began to find bamboo shoots on the spot, which is far away from the panda, but he can also see it clearly, although he doesn't want to catch him, but it is rare to meet him once, and he must take a few more looks.

Others were also very interested in this rare animal, and they all found bamboo shoots around and dug a few times to take a look.