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Chapter 620 The Village Chief's Three Fires ([-])

Rat eradication is a protracted battle, and Qi Ke has no solution once and for all. There is plenty of food in the farmland, and the appearance of voles is inevitable.

There are also people who think that rat infestation is nothing to worry about, because it is all meat.

Qi Ke overheard someone saying that, she was quite speechless, she had issued a warning but some people still ignored it, so what else could she say?Just smile and walk away, the adults in the military station are still waiting for her.

In the military station, everyone had just had breakfast, and the village chiefs were there. Qi Ke thought that the two of them were also here to see him off, but the content of their chat was not far from the voles.

"Our deputy village chief is here. I heard that you just sent a message and found a field mouse." Before Qi Ke had time to salute, General Mou said first.

"Yes, my lords, my maid came to report that they found a pair of voles in the medicine field. They were a pair of young mice that had just formed a nest. There will be places, and you must not be careless, now is the most active period of the year for rats, pregnant and giving birth and wintering, which stimulates them to hoard food crazily." Qi Ke honestly saluted first, and then answered.

"Rats are more fertile than rabbits. Since voles have been found in Siliu Village, other villages will not be spared either. We must notify them immediately to pay attention to eradicating rats."

"The voles have just arrived, so there must not be many of them. We can spread rat poison." Old Ninth Master said, his eyes were on Qi Ke.

"It's not safe, children will pick up things from the ground to eat." Qi Ke shook his head, "The best way is to rely on cats, dogs, and mouse traps. You can sprinkle some medicine on warehouses and other places where children don't often go. It's coming, and the house mouse must be coming too."

"Rats are really pervasive. We used to have rats in our terribly poor place. There was little food, and a lot of it was dragged away by rats." Lu Chen shook his head helplessly as he recalled the past, and the others smiled wryly in empathy.

"I have to remind you that you must never eat mice. Since the ancestors did not domesticate mice into domestic animals, it means that this thing is not edible, so don't be greedy for that piece of meat."

"Your reminder is right, but..." All the men present shook their heads. Everyone understood the unfinished meaning of the words. People who have experienced hunger want to eat everything they see.

"Haven't you had an outbreak of plague before? Once this disease appears, a large number of people will die. If you get sick because of eating rats, I have no medicine."

"plague?!"

Qi Ke's words made everyone's faces change, and judging from their ugly faces, similar epidemics must have occurred before.

"Now that I think about it, it's hard to say whether those diseases are the plague, but it's true that a large number of people died. Many towns and villages that used to be populated have become dead places. And not only us, but also the barbarians. As long as one side gets sick, the border There will be continuous internal and external incidents, and then they will blame each other for giving the disease to their own people, and then there will be wars." General Mou Shen is old and has a high official position, and he knows a lot of things. history.

"Yes, I am so sick that I have no energy left, and I still have to pick up weapons to fight, and I will die on the battlefield if I don't die on the bed." Lu Chen echoed.

"If Uncle Chen has similar experience, it seems that there was a terrible epidemic not long ago?"

"This kind of disease is not common. The experience of Deputy Village Chief Lu should have been a long time ago. At least I haven't had this kind of disease in the years I have been there." Bai Qing said.

"No, no, Young Master Qing came to the General at such a young age. It was precisely because of the epidemic and war that happened before that there was a shortage of manpower from officers to soldiers. It happened that Young Master Qing was about the same age. At the request of the General You were sent here." General Mou Shen said, Bai Qing was silent, his eyes were far away, and he probably sank into the memories.

(End of this chapter)