021 The First Battle with Rats 1
The mountains of the Agama Mountains are beautiful and quiet.
Lawrence sat on the hillside where he was looking into the distance, his eyelids stinging and his limbs tempted to stop by the thin air and the tiredness of intense exertion.
"Oops, there's something wrong with your body."
With his hands on his knees, Lawrence hunched over and hugged his legs, trying to calm his pounding heart.
Behind him was a freshly dug soil pit, and just now he had dug a small pit one meter wide and half a meter deep on this hillside more than thirty meters high.
It was not easy, and two large stones that had been pried up by sticks could break a lot of branches.
Lawrence was reluctant to put on farm tools to deal with these big guys, and he was reluctant to touch these hard guys with an axe and hoe.
After resting for more than ten minutes, Lawrence's body gradually stabilized.
"You can't exercise at a high intensity here." Lawrence told himself that he had to remember the lesson, "You have to keep your strength in the mountains, I've only been here for a few days and I'm not getting used to it. ”
"Alas!" Lawrence sighed and continued to sit on the edge of the pit looking at the forest and grassy slopes below.
It was in the morning that Lawrence gathered some berries that a domme sheep could eat.
These berries don't taste good, they aren't sweet at all, and they're full of grass seeds.
Most of the wild plants are not tasty, otherwise the animals will visit them.
Although it can be eaten, and Lawrence has collected a lot, but now Lawrence regrets it.
"I shouldn't be collecting these things, my body wants to be fed with these wild fruits, so I have to keep collecting them, like an animal, and spend most of my time foraging for food."
"Now that you have a temporary source of food, you shouldn't waste your energy on foods that don't fill your stomach."
Lawrence reflected the mistakes he had made.
"Eat well, sleep well, play well, and now the problem of eating can be solved at Andrew's house."
"It's a bit unseemly, but I shouldn't be in such a hurry, and if I'm in a hurry, I'll make a lot of mistakes."
"The priority is to solve the problem of sleeping, there is nothing wrong with me building a house here, and the physical problem is because I am not used to this place and cannot give up."
Owning his own home, as well as a comfortable cottage, was Lawrence's obsession for two lifetimes, and while satisfying basic safety and survival concerns, Lawrence put all his mind on the residence.
As long as there is a house, food can be temporarily provided by animal husbandry, and the purchase of pigs and chickens, as well as the replenishment of flora and fauna in the mountain forest, can solve this problem.
Andrew's family is also a stable ally, but perhaps he should do something to deepen his alliance with Andrew's family.
After making sure that there was nothing wrong with his body, Lawrence began to pack his tools and pull the Dom sheep down the hill with him.
Most of the time in the mountains is spent on the road, and Lawrence, like Andrew, tries not to burden the domes with an extra burden.
This physical problem also made Lawrence realize the importance of the dom sheep, and how important it is to have a dom sheep that can work hard in some areas with a bad environment.
You shouldn't do it yourself to carry wood up the mountain, because it's dangerous.
After washing his face by the river, Lawrence collected another basket of sword-leaved grass with a dagger, and only after crossing the last hill did he begin to ride the dom sheep.
The last few hundred metres were not a problem for the Dom sheep, who had already seen the location of the sheepfold and trotted all the way to the gate of the yard at about the speed of a bicycle.
Lawrence tightened the reins and stopped at the side of the house.
"Master!"
Sophia, with her blond hair in a bun, came out of the house, and when she saw Lawrence, she ran over happily and took the reins.
Lawrence dismounted from the sheep's back and took a basket of sword-leaved grass.
The axe and hoe were placed on the mountain, and they were not brought down until they continued their work tomorrow.
"Sophia, bring it in."
Sophia quickly said, "Okay, master! ”
Sophia quickly pulled the Domme sheep into the sheep shed and removed the mats and reins from the domme sheep to prevent friction.
Lawrence walked into the room on his own, and when he entered, he found that Sariel and Andrew were turning the room upside down, and the tables, chairs, chests, sacks, and other things in the room had been moved to their original positions.
"What is this?" Lawrence didn't feel like he was moving.
Andrew said angrily: "It's time to check on the rats, and Saril saw the rats in the house, which is not a good thing!" ”
Salil said with a grim face: "We must find all the rats hiding here before winter, otherwise we will lose sleep in the squeaky night this winter!" ”
Andrew adds: "Kitchen potatoes and dried fish will also get a chunk of it gnawed off, as well as a lot of rat droppings!" ”
Sariel was very, very concerned about this matter, and said solemnly to Lawrence, who was not very demanding: "Lawrence, you don't want those things to climb on your feet, you better come and help!" ”
The problem with rats that Lawrence realized seemed to be a big problem here, and it was a very annoying kind.
"Oh." Lawrence was planning to deepen his relationship with Andrew's family, so naturally he would not shirk it, "I used to have rats in my house, but with my wisdom, guess what happened to those rats?" ”
Andrew had been battling wits with rats all morning, and his temper was much more grumpy, "I guess those rats have gained weight." ”
Lawrence laughed, "Of course not, although there were still rats until I left, but at least there were many, many fewer than at the beginning." ”
Sariel put down what she was doing and looked at Lawrence, "Lawrence, do you have any way to catch the rat?" ”
Lawrence said very easily: "I make a few traps, I used to be able to catch mice with children who had nothing to do, but now there are not many people, and I can't go to trouble mice all day long, maybe the effect is not good." ”
Sarriel quickly said, "No problem! If you can get rid of all the rats in the house, I can help you for half a month! ”
Andrew added: "I can too, those rats will appear in your ears like crazy in the winter. ”
The rat is not easy to deal with, it can multiply and grow tenaciously under thousands of years of wits and courage, even in the modern society with complete props, it is still a stubborn existence.
As long as there is food at home, rats in the fields outside will continue to invade and quickly breed rats out of the human population.
These disgusting things, which destroy food, clothing, and farm tools, appeared earlier and in greater quantities than humans.
Lawrence's inability to eradicate rats at home was not only due to the large number of rats and the seclusion of the manor's field houses, but also because of the lack of cooperation from the rest of the population.
Everyone has something to be busy with, except for the children who will catch mice with him, the rest of them have long been accustomed to the presence of mice, and will not waste time working with him to catch mice.
Accustomed and unaccustomed, like Andrew and Sariel, who are used to life in the mountains, and Lawrence, who is not used to crowded rooms and no privacy.
People who are accustomed to the presence of rats will certainly not be able to get rid of rats.
People who are not used to rats have enough motivation to change and get rid of rats!
The problem of eating is also very important, and most people who are used to rats can't change anything.
They don't have enough motivation to change this, they need to prioritize their own food and life problems, and once they rest to catch mice, they will be considered by the rulers of the family as wanting to be lazy, and they will be whipped when the time comes.
Andrew and Saliel have plenty of motivation to get rid of the rats, and they are lucky enough to meet Lawrence, who has various ways to deal with them.
"Come on, first we're going to make traps." Lawrence patted the straw basket beside him, which contained all sword leaf grass.