At noon, Andrew prepares lunch in the kitchen, while Salil and Sophia sit in front of the sun-drenched house and rub blades of grass to make hemp rope.

"Sariel!"

In the distance, Emma's voice could be heard, and the young wife who lived in the village slowly approached riding a domme sheep.

The speed of the dom sheep is not fast, and what is needed to get from the bottom of the mountain to the mountain is not speed and explosiveness, but endurance.

After running and stopping for half an hour, you can walk from the village at the foot of the mountain to the gentle terrain of the houses.

"Sariel, I brought the yarn."

Emma is a good friend of the Sarile family and a very good partner.

In addition to providing food to Sariel's family, some daily necessities will be provided from time to time.

On the other hand, Emma will ask Andrew for help when she is in trouble at home.

Sarriel sat on a wooden stool and looked up, and said happily, "I'm here, Emma!" ”

Emma dismounts from the Dom Sheep and holds the reins of the Dom Sheep in one hand and looks at Sariel, who is processing the Sword Leaf Grass.

"Sariel, what are you doing?"

"Lawrence is good at dealing with rats, and his traps can kill them, so we're going to have more grass ropes at his disposal," Sariel explained. ”

Lawrence didn't kill the rats, but he said he could.

For Andrew and Sariel, since Lawrence said so, they naturally believed that he really had this ability.

Humility is not a virtue in the North.

The most talked-about thing in the Winter Tavern is all kinds of bizarre things, punching giant beasts, fighting sea monsters, escaping from the hands of gods, and encountering witches and witches.

In mortal legends, warriors are often inseparable from arrogance.

Both men killed a rabbit.

One person said: I was lucky today, I caught a rabbit.

Another person said: Don't say it's a rabbit, even if it's a bear, I can kill it!

In other places, it is difficult to evaluate, but in a place like the north, where force is worshipped, people trust the latter more.

Lawrence says that he has a way to deal with rats, something that Andrew and Sariel can't do or can't do well, so he wins the trust of Sariel and Andrew.

Arrogance and self-confidence are hard currency in the North, and even in this era.

When there are too many things that cannot be done, too many things that cannot be understood, people tend to trust those who can do it and let them take the lead.

Managing accounts, writing names, presiding, and figuring out ways to find a way, this era of arrogance is modest in many ways, and people will choose to retreat when faced with unknown things that lack ability, and they are more withdrawn than modern people and dare not take risks.

Emma instantly thinks that Lawrence is an expert rat catcher, a wise sage!

"I also have a lot of rats in my house, and my shoes are all gnawed, can Mr. Lawrence go to my house and catch mice?"

Emma looked around, but there was no sign of Lawrence.

"We're going to be busy here for a few days, but it should be okay," Saliel said. ”

Emma said happily, "Good! Maybe I can help a little bit, I need the leaves of the sword leaf grass, right? ”

Sariel was busy dividing the long washed blades of grass into strands to dry, "Yes, wool thread will work too. ”

Emma quickly sat down to help, and in a few days the winter would arrive, and the things that needed to be done were almost done, and this time there was some time to sit and sit while the delivery was done.

Soon Emma and Salil started chatting, and while they were chatting, they didn't stop what was going on at hand.

On the other side, Lawrence had already found three rat holes in the house.

"A small number of rats do not come near humans, and the hiding place is closer to a few places such as boxes and corners."

"When there are more rats, they will get closer to humans, and judging from the fact that no rats have actively approached me in the past few days, there should not be many rats here."

"But once winter comes, the rats outside will gather in areas with abundant food, and now the house is a bread with the aroma and heat of food, and the rats within a dozen kilometers of the neighborhood will regard this place as their first target."

Rats can't be killed, and Lawrence knows he can't do that.

Even if you give yourself all the modern tools, as long as you live in the mountains, the rat will not die, and the same thing will be repeated every year.

Once you get used to it in a given year, then the rat colony will grow rapidly!

Fat rats crawl on the dirt walls of wooden houses, under beds and on beds, compete with cattle and sheep in livestock pens, bite and drag away chickens, and even eat sleeping pig ears.

Chicken coops, sheep sheds, and pigsty are all active areas for rats.

They can be found in roof beams, latrines, chimneys, iron pots, and even buckets.

What's even more terrifying is that even if people starve to death, they can't starve to death these rats.

Raising cats and dogs can't cure it, and the battle with rats must be a long-term thing.

Lawrence didn't have a lot of experience catching mice, so he simply found a rat hole and plugged it, or set a simple trap by catching birds.

Lawrence is no smarter than Andrew and Saliel, he just knows what the rats are for.

Keeping food can greatly reduce the number of rats.

Only if the rats can't eat here guarding the mountains of gold and silver, their numbers will decrease.

Of course, kill some rats too, both at the same time.

Lawrence spilled some dried pine nuts from his pocket and set up a colliding trap for the collapse of inclined sticks at the door of the rat hole.

It is a small wooden stick to support an inclined weight, which is very simple.

"I don't seem to have heard the cries of rats at night lately, and if I hear the continuous cries, it means that the mice have their cubs, and the little mice are screaming without knowing whether they are alive or dead."

"The average family is very tired at night, and it is not easy to find these mice, so they don't care about it and sleep on their own, missing the best time to find a rat nest."

Lawrence: Judging from the performances of Andrew and Sariel, there are no obvious signs of rat activity, at least until today, so it will be much easier to prevent rats.

"Andrew, in order to keep the rats from finding food in the kitchen, we need to make a cupboard dedicated to storing food."

Andrew was cooking, and when he heard it, he showed a puzzled look, "Cabinet? ”

"It's a wooden box for fresh meat, vegetables and things that have been cooked recently, so that rats can't get in, and you can add some ice to make the pieces fresher," Lawrence explains. ”

The high altitude here makes it possible to obtain ice all year round, but it usually takes a lot of time.

Andrew thought for a moment, "It's okay to use it directly when you eat, wouldn't it be troublesome to do that?" ”

Lawrence said, "No, I'm a good carpenter, I can help make cabinets, and I can make you a rack for weapons to store your weapons, but you need to provide me with wood." ”

Andrew's eyes quickly lit up, and the proposal for a weapon rack made him very happy.

"No problem, I haven't had anything to do in the last few days, maybe doing something will be good for everyone."

Eliminating rats requires mobilization, and a single person has no way to deal with the rat colony, so when he was in the farm, he could only solve the rats near his house because he was lonely, and could not affect the rats in the entire manor.

Lawrence went to clean the sheepfold and pigsty, thinking about how to protect his newly purchased chicks from the cold and rat infestation.

"Whew!!"

"Twitter——!" Sariel was laughing and chatting outside the house when she suddenly heard screaming in the house and quickly realized that it was the voice of a mouse!

"Lawrence!" Sarry shouted, "Come over Lawrence, there's a mouse!" ”

Instead of going straight in, she stood up and shouted at Lawrence, who was busy at the chicken coop.

Lawrence quickly came out of the house a few meters away and entered the house first, waiting for Sariel.

Andrew and Saliel had moved most of the furniture when they were looking for rats before, and this movement naturally frightened the rats in the burrow.

When the group goes out of the house, the rats will also come out to see the situation.

Lawrence uses this characteristic to set traps.

Most animals have two characteristics, the first is to burrow and squeeze into small places, and the second is to be curious.

When Andrew came over, Lawrence was showing off his trophy, a big fat rat that had been stoned.

Lawrence held the big mouse up: "If it's a few days late, we'll be able to hear the little mouse singing when we go to bed." ”