Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 59 The Legendary Rat Fight?

"Let's just leave, don't we leave some food for the mice?" Su Nana couldn't help asking when she saw that he was about to leave with the snakeskin bag on his back.

"Leave food for the mice, why?" Liu Junhao felt that he had heard another funny thing, and it seemed that his niece Suigu's words were true.

"I remember reading in a book that if the rats had been dug up for food, they would hang themselves from trees in winter if they had no food to eat."

A mouse hangs itself, unless the mouse has a brain problem. Liu Junhao naturally scoffed at her statement, but he didn't immediately refute, "You want to find the hanged mouse, right? Follow me, and I'll take you to a place where you hanged yourself There are quite a few of them, all of them have been done..."

"Is there really a hanged mouse?" Zhang Qian also became interested. Although she was skeptical about the saying that the mouse was hanged, she wanted to see what was going on.

"It's all superstition, how can there be such a rare thing?" Professor Zhao didn't believe anything. When he was young, he often wiped out the "four pests".

Liu Junhao led them to a not very tall elm tree, pointed to the branch and said, "Look, isn't there a mouse hanging itself there?"

"What... what's going on here?" Even Professor Zhao was surprised at this moment.

There are several shriveled mice hanging on the branches of the elm tree, and even the fur of a mouse can be seen on the lower branch, which is obviously just "hanged".

"Want to know the reason, I'll tell you now..." Liu Junhao suddenly pulled away and kicked the elm tree a few times, and the already dry branches of the elm tree fell to the ground with a clatter.

"Flapping!"

At this time, a big brown bird suddenly flew out from the tree hole, screaming "Gumi, Gumi", but it didn't bend down to attack everyone, it just hovered on the top of the tree for a while and then fell to the ground. Disappeared deep in the woods.

"Know what kind of bird this is, owl! The mice on this branch are the food that the owls have saved after eating. When there is no prey, they will eat the dried mice. This is the truth about the 'hanging' of the mouse. , To put it bluntly, it is worthless. The person who wrote the book you mentioned has either never been to the countryside, or it is a folk legend heard from hearsay. If rats can really hang themselves, they would have become extinct long ago.” Sometimes once it is uncovered The truth, that thing is simply unbelievable.

In fact, not only owls, but also many animals in the mountains have the habit of storing food. Let’s take the raccoons as an example. They will bury the prey they catch in winter after they can’t finish it, and come back to look for it when there is no food in the future. .

The grass raccoon has a very sensitive sense of smell, and can bury food deep in the ground. Other animals can't dig to this depth even if they smell it.

The grain dug from the rat hole is generally not eaten by the villagers, but used to feed the livestock at home.The chickens, ducks, rabbits, etc. in Liu Junhao's yard have been consuming a lot of food every day recently, and now they just use this food to feed them.

Seeing that it was still early, they found another mouse hole with great interest, but this time the harvest was very small, only less than [-] catties of grain dug.

The little girl's sympathy quickly disappeared. Under Su Nana's leadership, she picked a lot of mountain reds. She ate so much that her teeth ached, but she just couldn't stop talking. go back to eat.

When he arrived at the entrance of the village, he saw a group of brats shouting around. From a distance, Liu Junhao saw the hairy kids shouting the loudest, and kept beating them on the ground with a small bamboo pole. I didn't find it when I came to the front.

"What are you doing?" Zhang Qian raised her voice and asked.

"Teacher Zhang……!"

This group of brats immediately became honest, and each of them drooped their heads and dared not move. It seemed that Zhang Qian had a lot of prestige in front of this group of students.

"What did I think I was doing? It turned out to be fighting mice." Liu Junhao stretched his head over to look at the bucket, and he understood what was going on.I saw two mice squeaking at the bottom of the bucket, and one of them was obviously dying.The main reason for the adults to dig mouse holes is for food, but these brats followed with only one purpose, that is to catch mice and fight back.

"Rat fighting?" Zhang Qian opened her eyes wide. What kind of strange trick is this? She has heard of cock fighting, dog fighting, and cricket fighting before, but this is the first time she has heard of mouse fighting.

"Boys, let's show you Mr. Zhang a mouse fight, who still has mice?" Liu Junhao greeted them loudly when he saw that they were all interested.

"Okay!" Seeing that Zhang Qian didn't intend to blame, these brats became bold again.

"Use mine, use mine, mine was just dug this morning." Xiaowazi lifted up his clothes and took out a used flashlight with a mouse out of the autumn clothes. Zhang Qian came suddenly just now, and he was panicked. He hid it in his clothes.

The defeated mouse was already half-dead, and was beaten to death by the furry boy after it got out.

Xiaowazi's mouse was about the same size as the one in the bucket, and both were quite fat. After entering the bucket, it was obviously restless. Xiaowazi tapped the wall of the bucket a few times with a wooden stick, and it rushed up immediately.

Those brats also forgot that the teacher was by their side, and kept yelling, while Su Nana even waved her fists to cheer up, completely forgetting that she was still sympathizing with the mice just now.

Definitely a very violent woman, Liu Junhao slandered in his heart.

Two mice were biting each other back and forth in the bucket. The battle was so fierce that the people around were dazzled.Soon a mouse was exhausted and was killed in the bucket.

"Is this just the legendary mouse fight?" Su Nana's nonsensical words made Liu Junhao sweat again.

Zhang Qian also blushed and coughed twice, and immediately changed the subject: "How could they make mice fight? I remember the book said that mice live in groups..."

"I know, I know," before Liu Junhao could speak, the hairy boy shouted loudly: "Stuff soybeans into the mouse's ass"

These brats are also good at fighting mice. They dip soybeans in water and stuff them into the mouse's buttocks, because the soybeans will continue to expand in its body after being soaked in water, and the mice will go berserk and attack the same kind continuously.

The first stop they went back to the village was of course Liu Junhao's yard. When the girl arrived in the yard, she went crazy here like a bandit. As soon as the adults didn't pay attention, they heard her crying and screaming in the chicken coop. "Chicken shit".It turned out that the little girl saw the white eggs inside and went in to dig out, but she didn't expect to grab a piece of chicken droppings.

Su Nana hurriedly pulled her to the edge of the sink to wash it off, but in a blink of an eye she got mud on her legs again, and asked again if she went to the ditch to catch eels.

Liu Junhao used to think that Xiao Haoyu was solid enough, but he didn't expect this little girl to be even better. When she came here, she didn't recognize her life at all, and she was completely like her own family.

Su Nana was so annoyed that she had a headache, so she said a few words to her, but the little girl burst into tears, her crying was so loud that no one could persuade her.

"Don't cry, don't cry, I'll give my daughter dates to eat." Zhang Qian had a sudden idea, and went to Liu Junhao's side room to take out some hard reds.

The jujubes are still crunchy after being harvested in autumn, probably due to the evaporation of water, and they taste sweeter than before.When they first arrived, Liu Junhao wanted to take out the dates and share them with them, but Su Nana stopped him, saying that her daughter had eaten a lot of Shanlihong just now, so don't let her eat cold things.

Now that it was a critical moment, she couldn't care less about stopping it.

The child's attention was diverted again, and the chubby little hands took a few bright red dates and gnawed them, screaming delicious while gnawing.

Seeing that she finally stopped crying, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but after eating, Nannan opened her small hands and asked for jujubes.

Su Nana couldn't stay any longer, and hurriedly said no more, while dragging her out of Liu Junhao's yard.

But when she returned to Zhang Qian's residence, she forced her to question her buddy, why she went to Liu Junhao's place as casually as she went to her own home.

"How can I?" Zhang Qian hurriedly argued, "I didn't see my daughter crying too much just now, so I went directly into the house to get the dates when I was in a hurry."

She denied it in her mouth, but she was a little muttering in her heart, why do so many people think that something should happen between herself and Liu Junhao.But thinking about my unconscious actions when I took the dates just now, it seems that it was really too casual.

(End of this chapter)