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693. Harvest Years in the Mouse Hole (2/5)

Li Du ran to the field to get a shovel. He had to use a round-headed shovel, but a square-headed shovel was inconvenient.

Carrying the shovel, he went to the mouse hole that Ah Miao found.

Godzilla and the others had just finished plowing the ground, and the mouse hole was blocked by the soil. Li Du swept it with his hands, swept off a layer of soil and found a hole the size of a child’s fist.

Hans put on a cotton coat and followed him, and asked enthusiastically: "What are you going to do?"

After working on farm work for a while, he was no longer cold and regained his reckless nature.

Li Du rubbed his hands and said, "You wait and see, I'll get you some food."

When he heard that there was something to eat, Godzilla, who was working hard, stopped, pressed the wooden frame with both hands and inserted the coulter deeply into the land, and asked, "Do you eat?"

"right."

In this way, he and Da Ao stopped working and surrounded Li Du to watch the fun.

Seeing the four people gathered together, Li's father, who was smoking on the ground, asked, "What are you doing? What's wrong?"

Li Du turned around and said, "I found a mouse hole and I want to dig it out, there is food inside."

Li's father shook his head and said, "Not necessarily, this place is too close to the county town. There is a garbage dump around. When rats are hungry, they go to the garbage dump to find food and can't store food."

"It's just that there is food inside. What's the use of digging it? Does anyone still lack food now?" Li Du, an uncle from his family, smiled.

"That's right, Xiao Du, you are still taking foreigners and taking them to dig mouse holes to get food? Will this make them think that China is still poor and backward?"

Li Du said: "I'm just for fun. I haven't paid off a rat nest since I was in high school. This rat nest must have food."

A person who watched the fun nodded and said, "Well, the farmlands are always growing. If mice are willing to store grain, they will probably include peanuts, corn, peas, sweet potatoes and potatoes."

Li Du estimated that there would be food in the mouse hole. The mouse Ah Miao caught was very fat, and the fur was not dirty but was shiny, which means that it had enough food and the place to forage was clean.

You can guess that the smooth fur of a mouse proves that it is not living in a garbage dump. Its fatness indicates that it is full of food and exercise less.

To sum up, this mouse hides a lot of food in the cave. It stays in the cave every day, so that it will be fat and clean.

Li Du used a shovel to dig a rat hole. The rat hole winds down and digs diagonally for more than one meter and has not dug the cave yet, but has found two forks.

Hans was stunned and said, "What's going on?"

Li Du said: "There is a word in our culture called "The cunning rabbit's three holes, and the same is true for rats. See if it comes to find its nest."

He did such a job for fun, so he didn't use the little flying insect to explore which of these two holes is the rat granary.

I dug down along a hole and dug half a meter away. At this time, the shovel dug some peanut skins and corn cob fragments.

Seeing this, Li Du was excited. Well, there was a chance, it was almost time to dig its nest.

Sure enough, digging down further is not a passage but a cave. At this time, he carefully used his hands to dig out the soil, expanded the cave, and then lifted the top of the cave, and the things inside appeared in front of them.

The cave is quite large and covers an area of ​​one square meter. The overall shape is irregular, and several small holes extend behind it.

There is food in each small hole, with the most peanuts, then corn, and a few sweet potatoes and potatoes. Some of them sprouted and the potatoes are well preserved.

In addition to this grain, there are actually a few bird eggs in this cave.

Li Du counted and found that there were five bird eggs in total. The shells were green, with a little uneven appearance, shining with a bright luster, and a smooth touch.

The five bird eggs are smaller than eggs and much larger than sparrow eggs and quail eggs.

The first time he saw this kind of bird egg, he picked up one and asked his father: "Dad, what kind of egg is this?"

Li’s father and others, who were chatting enthusiastically, looked up and saw someone’s eyes lit up and said, “Oh, pheasant egg? This is a serious pheasant egg.”

In many places, pheasant eggs are the nickname for mountain eggs. In Li Du’s hometown, pheasant eggs are eggs laid by pheasants. In the past, there were large wetlands around, and many pheasants had survived.

Later, the weather was drought and the amount of wetland water decreased. In the 1970s and 1980s, people were keen on surrounding lakes and building fields, and the wetlands were eventually destroyed.

By the time Li Du was born, the surrounding wetlands were almost gone, leaving only a few small lakes, large ponds, wild birds and pheasants, and they were caught and ran away, and they could not be seen.

Now the country has begun to pay attention to environmental protection. Some places in his hometown have begun to return fields to forests and lakes, and gradually wild birds are flying in.

Li Du had never eaten pheasant eggs, and Li's father said, "This thing is so delicious, where did you find it?"

"In the mouse hole," he said, "is these pheasant eggs? Can they still hatch? If they can hatch, they will stop eating them. Go home and get a hen to hatch them."

Li's father shook his head: "No, the weather is too cold. The mouse dragged the pheasant eggs into the hole. No hen hatched the hens, and the chicks inside were already finished."

There is nothing I can do about this, I can only eat it, otherwise it would be a waste.

Li Du and three people dug out all the food in the mouse hole. The mouse was very hardworking and stole a lot of food reserves in the hole.

There was a bag in the electric tricycle. Li Du put it in a while and actually put most of the bags.

He brought the grain to the other side of the field. He found some dry firewood and hay, and asked Dao to simply build a soil stove with soil and bricks, and said, "Come on, let's roast peanuts and roast sweet potatoes."

Hans was stunned and said, "Can you eat it? Didn't this be dug out of the rat's nest?"

Li Du said: "Yes, why can't you eat it? There is a saying in our hometown that it is called "a good harvest in a mouse hole, and listening to the sound of frogs, this is enjoyment."

"Will there be plague virus or something?" Hans asked worriedly.

Li Du said: "I can't say there will be."

Hans shook his head: "That can't be eaten, I will definitely not eat it."

Li Du laughed and said, "It's just right if you don't eat. If you don't open your mouth, we can eat more."

Dao made a fire, and Li Du used water and mud to paste the sweet potatoes on the surface, and then threw them into the fire with potatoes and peanuts.

Soon, as the flames burned, the peanuts became scorched.

Seeing this, Li Du used a stick to pick peanuts and greeted, "This is something you can eat, roasted peanuts are delicious."

Godzilla didn't care whether it was delicious or not, but only cared about whether it could be eaten. The peanuts he had pulled out were still hot, so he pushed them away and stuffed them into his mouth.

After chewing for a few bites, he nodded and said, "Yeah, it's delicious."

Da Ao also picked up the peanuts and peeled them. After eating one, he said, "It's really delicious."

Hans shook his head and refused to eat it. Li Du ignored him and opened the peanuts and ate it happily. A Miao smelled the fragrance and came up. Li Dusai gave it a piece, and it started eating happily.
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