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Catching field mice, tribute sweet potatoes, catching fish, catching birds, picking fruits, etc. have always been the favorite things for children in Caijia Village during holidays.￥f, oh dear

However, there seem to be not many people catching voles this year, because after only searching for a while, Cai Hongming found a voles cave with traces of voles walking.

Field mice usually build nests on the ridges of the field, which are the field boundaries between the fields of every household.

There are only a few ways to catch field mice. One dig, two smoke, three fry, four is called five irrigation, that is, digging the ridges with hoes, smoke, firecrackers, learn to meow, and irrigation with water. Among them, digging is the fastest and most unethical. The method of learning to meow is the stupidest, because some field mice have never even heard the meow, let alone be afraid.

The ridges of the field are piled up with field soil and are easy to dig.

As long as you block the other holes dug by the field mouse and dig them along the holes left, if there are field mice inside, you can dig them 100%. However, the ridges are in the field. If someone sees you dig the ridges and catch the field mice, you will be finished and you will definitely be taught a lesson. Cai Hongming has been taught a lot when he did this unethical thing before.

With three cousins, Cai Hongming didn't need to take action to catch the field mice.

Among the three, Lu Qiaohong was the main one, so after seeing traces of field mice, she directed Jiang Yuhan to find the kudzu and asked her younger brother Lu Yimin to block other holes of field mice, leaving only the front and back two holes in and out.

After the rice is harvested, the villagers usually dry the straw into haystacks. At that time, people who make mushrooms, straw mushrooms or build antique thatched houses will come to buy them, which is another income besides rice. Although this amount of money is nothing.

Jiang Yuhan soon found the hay pile and secretly sucked the dry straw back. Seeing his familiarity, he must have done a lot of such things.

When he brought the straw, Lu Qiaohong personally took a little straw and tied it into a small bundle and lit it into the hole. In an instant, a burst of white smoke rose up.

During the Chinese New Year, schools, factories, government and other places were on holidays. So, except for those who went out to visit, there were almost everyone in every household. Someone was there, which meant that there were naughty and unlucky children. The smoke rising in the fields immediately attracted the attention of these children. The smart ones ran home to get things and followed the catching field mice. Soon, the gang of catching field mice changed from one team to two teams and three teams. More and more people came to watch the fun.

After a while, some people who did not catch the field quickly gave up this great and arduous work and turned to the sweet potato.

Someone was lit up and went to his house to get the grill, cut some things and barbecued them in the fields.

Some girls are quieter and organize people to jump rope and kick shuttlecock in the fields; some children don’t care about wearing new clothes, and they also find a bunch of people to play catch-up games.

For a moment, the fields were very lively and became a large gathering.

Some adults, elderly and women who had nothing to do after eating, followed them to join in the fun, and they didn't go there. They just stood on the side of the road and watched them play. Some people were angry when they saw the children catching field mice digging the ridges, but they didn't go over to teach them a lesson. During the Chinese New Year, they just had to be happy. There was no need to make everyone feel bad about this little thing.

Although Cai Hongming and the others were the first to go to the fields to catch field mice, they were not the ones who caught the most. The fool Axi was the one who caught the most.

Today, Axi did not go to his father-in-law to be his son-in-law. When he saw Cai Hongming and the others catching field mice, he also went to get things to catch them. This guy was very skillful in everything he did, and he was alone, smoked, irrigated water, and firecrackers. In a short while, he caught a bunch of field mice and also took out more than a dozen kilograms of rice.

Voles like to store grain the most. There are holes that store grain in the cave. Sometimes a field mouse nest can store more than ten kilograms of grain. In the past, when there was no food, people would dig the field mouse hole to help their lives because there was often food to eat in the cave.

Seeing that more and more people were in the fields, catching field mice here became a luxury. Cai Hongming took a few cousins ​​to transfer positions and walked to the small valley where he and Cai Zhengxian caught field mice last year.

The flowing water resounds in the quiet mountains.

This valley is a distance from the village, so few people come to catch voles, and they can allow these voles to reproduce and survive.

Soon, they found a voles nest. The things they brought were complete, including buckets, hoes, lighters, and firecrackers. In order to avoid anyone seeing the smoke coming from the smoked voles hole, Lu Qiaohong planned to use firecrackers to scare the voles inside. Although the firecracker explosion sounded, it was basically impossible to hear in the voles hole.

She asked Jiang Yuhan to block the excess field mouse hole, keep the two in front and back, and cover the one behind with a snakeskin bag. If a field mouse is scared, it will run out from behind and fall directly into the bag.

After finishing it, Lu Yimin lit a firecracker and threw it into the hole, and then blocked the hole.

In fact, this is not a firecracker, it is called a wiping gun. There is gunpowder like a match on one end, and it will explode in a while without ignition.

Shi Wan'er looked at it and quickly blocked her daughter's ears, afraid that she would be scared. But the little guy looked curious and didn't look scared at all.

With a "bang", a dull cannon sound came from the hole, and a smoke came out. After a while, there was a movement from the snakeskin bag covering the hole behind. When I picked up the bag, I saw two field mice falling into the bag. Seeing that there was a harvest, Lu Qiaohong and his group worked harder to find the field mouse cave.

There is a stream beside the paddy fields in the valley, and there are mountain crabs in the stream. However, the weather is getting colder now, and most of the mountain crabs are hidden in caves.

Cai Hongming was not afraid of the cold, so he specially caught a small mountain crab, then pulled a silk thread from his body and hung it, and took it in front of his daughter to sway her to play with it.

Although the mountain crab is small, it looks fierce with its teeth and tiger claws. Xiao Chuchu is a little scared and hugged her mother's neck tightly. She looks like that, making people laugh.

There were many field mice in the valley. After a while, Lu Qiaohong and the others caught several, and the ones in front were already full of harvest.

With a "bang", there was another dull noise. However, this time no field mice came from the hole behind, so they probably ran away, so Lu Yimin pulled up the snakeskin bag that was covering the hole behind. However, he didn't expect that the field mice in the hole were also very cunning. When he picked up the snakeskin bag, he rushed out of the hole.

A bunch of people saw it, shouted and caught it.

The field mouse was so scared that she ran around without any thoughts. She ran to Shi Wan'er and thought it was a tree, so she climbed up, which scared her to scream.

Cai Hongming hurriedly went over to catch him, but saw a shocking scene, and Lu Qiaohong and others were also shocked.

"What's wrong?" Shi Wan'er asked when she saw his expression.

"Look at your daughter."

Shi Wan'er turned her head and found that her daughter had reached out to grab the volleyball's neck at some point, and was looking at it curiously. The volleyball was not a problem, but she grabbed the volleyball in her hand and didn't struggle at all. She drooped her head and looked helpless. I don't know if it was funny by its expression, but Xiao Chuchu was so happy that she giggled and grabbed the volleyball and shook it hard.

In an instant, Cai Hongming felt pitiful for the field mouse. He probably was killed by his daughter before he could be made into a meal on the plate.

Xiao Chuchu played with the field mouse for a while, then handed it to Shi Wan'er. Shi Wan'er was so scared that she hurriedly hugged her to Cai Hongming. She was not afraid of mice, but was afraid that her daughter would put the field mouse on her body.

After Xiao Chuchu was held in Cai Hongming's arms, she took the field mouse to show him.

At this time, Cai Hongming discovered that this field mouse seemed a bit different. The field mouse had long ears and its tail. But this one was different. The ears were round and had almost no tail. It didn't look like a field mouse at all, but it had a bit of a rabbit. It seemed that there was no field mouse of this kind in his home.

But no matter what kind of variety it is, it is used to eat it in the end.

When Xiao Chuchu was tired of playing, he put the field mouse that looked like a rabbit into the bucket, intending to make a delicacy like the field mouse he caught.

But when Xiao Chuchu saw it, she stopped resigning and burst into tears. There was no way, so he had to lock it in another cage. Xiao Chuchu then laughed again. It was probably because the little guy regarded this rabbit-like field mouse as his pet.

Lu Qiaohong and others continued to look for field mice, but this time they did not use firecrackers. Because they were close to the edge of the mountain, they dig directly with hoes. This is not a ridge of the field, so they are not afraid of people scolding them.

I don’t know if it’s because of my good luck, but they actually dug up a nest of little red mice that were not open. They were so pink and cute.

But cuteness is useless, because these are all pests.

Seeing that the field mice had been digging almost the same, Cai Hongming asked them to pack the little red mouse in a bag, saying that they would take it back and make it delicious for them.

Lu Qiaohong and the other two and Shi Wan'er looked disbelief. Can this thing be eaten so disgusting? To be continued
Chapter completed!