694. 693. The Rat Hole Says Good Years (2/5)

Chapter 694 693. The Rat Hole Says Good Years (25)

Li Du ran to the field to get a shovel, a round-headed shovel was needed for this work, and a square-headed shovel was inconvenient.

Holding the shovel, he went to the mouse hole that Ah Meow found.

Godzilla and the two had just finished plowing the field, and the mouse hole was blocked by mud. Li Du swept it with his hands, and after sweeping away a layer of mud, he found a hole the size of a child's fist.

Hans put on a cotton coat and followed, and asked excitedly, "What are you doing?"

After doing farm work for a while, he is not cold now, and has regained his jumping temperament.

Li Du rubbed his hands and said, "Just wait and see, I'll get you something to eat."

Hearing that there was food, Godzilla, who was in full swing, stopped, pressed the wooden frame with both hands and inserted the coulter deeply into the ground, and asked, "Eat?"

"right."

In this way, he and Da Ao stopped working and gathered around Li Du's side to watch the fun.

Seeing the four of them gathered together, Father Li, who was smoking on the ground, asked, "What are you doing? What's the matter?"

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

Father Li shook his head and said, "Not necessarily, it's too close to the county seat, and there is a garbage dump nearby. When the mice are hungry, they go to the garbage dump to find food, and they won't be able to store food."

"There is food in it, so what's the use of digging it? Is there any shortage of food now?" Li Du, an uncle of the same family, laughed.

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

Li Du said: "I did it for fun. I haven't dug out a rat's nest since I was in high school. There must be food in this rat's nest."

A spectator nodded and said: "Well, the farmland here has been growing crops. If the mice are willing to store food, there must be peanuts, corn, peas, sweet potatoes and so on."

Li Du reckoned that there would be food in the mouse hole. The mouse caught by Ah Meow was very fat, and its fur was not dirty but shiny, indicating that it had enough food and the place where it foraged was clean.

It can be guessed that the smooth fur of the mouse proves that it is not living in the garbage dump, and that it grows fat means that there is plenty of food and less exercise.

To sum up, the mouse hid a lot of food in the hole, and it lived in the hole every day, so that it would be fat and clean.

Li Du dug the mouse hole with a shovel, and the mouse hole meandered down, and he dug down more than one meter obliquely. He didn't dig the hole, but found two forks.

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

Li Du said: "There is a word in our culture called the three caves of the cunning rabbit. The same is true for mice. Look at me, let me find out its old nest."

This kind of work is just for fun, so he didn't use the little flying insects to find out which of the two holes was the mouse granary.

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

Seeing this, Li Du's spirits perked up, um, there's something interesting, it's almost dug into its lair.

Sure enough, digging further down was not a passage but a cave. At this time, he carefully dug out the soil with his hands to expand the cave, and then lifted the roof of the cave, and the things inside appeared in front of them.

This cave is quite large, covering an area of ​​one square meter. The overall shape is irregular, and there are several small holes extending back inside.

There are grains in each small hole, most of which are peanuts, then corn, and a few sweet potatoes and potatoes, some of which have germinated, and the potatoes are well preserved.

In addition to these grains, there are actually several bird eggs in the cave.

Li Du counted, and there were five bird eggs in total. The eggshells were green, with some bumps on the outside, shining brightly, and smooth to the touch.

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

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

Father Li and the others who were chatting enthusiastically looked up, and someone's eyes lit up, and said, "Hey, wild eggs? This is a serious wild egg."

Wild eggs are another name for mountain eggs in many places. In Li Du’s hometown, wild eggs are eggs laid by serious pheasants. There used to be a large wetland around and many pheasants lived there.

Later, the weather was dry and the amount of water in the wetland decreased. In addition, in the 1970s and 1980s, people were keen to reclaim land from the lake, and finally the wetland was destroyed.

When Li Du was born, the surrounding wetlands almost disappeared, only a few small lakes and large ponds remained, and wild birds and pheasants were caught and ran away, but they were no longer seen.

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

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

"In the mouse hole," he said, "these are wild eggs? Will they still hatch? If they can hatch, they won't eat them. Go home and get a hen to hatch them."

Father Li shook his head: "No, it's too cold, the mouse dragged these wild eggs into the hole, there is no hen to hatch, and the chicks inside have already finished their eggs."

There is no other way but to eat it, otherwise it would be too wasteful.

Li Du led three people to dig out all the grain in the mouse's hole. The mouse was very hardworking and stole a lot of grain and stored it in the hole.

There was a bag in the electric tricycle, and Li Du filled it, and even half of the bag was filled.

Taking the food to the other side of the field, he found some dry firewood and hay, and asked Da'ao to build a simple earthen stove with mud and bricks, and said, "Come, let's roast peanuts and sweet potatoes."

Hans was taken aback, and said, "Can it be eaten? Isn't this dug out of a mouse's nest?"

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

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

Li Du said: "Maybe there will be."

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

Li Du giggled and said: "It's fine if you don't eat, and if you have one less mouth to open, we can eat more."

Da Ao lit the fire, and Li Du was beside him to paste the surface of sweet potatoes with water and mud, and then throw them into the fire together with potatoes and peanuts.

Soon, as the flames burned, the peanuts were charred on the outside.

Seeing this, Li Du pulled the peanuts out with a stick, and greeted: "You can eat this, roasted peanuts are delicious."

Godzilla doesn't care whether it's delicious or not, he only cares about whether it's edible. The peanuts pulled out are still hot, so he pushes them aside and stuffs them into his mouth.

After chewing two mouthfuls, he nodded and said, "Well, it's delicious."

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

Hans looked disgusted and shook his head and refused to eat it. Li Du ignored him, and he picked up the peanuts and ate them happily. Ah Meow smelled the aroma, and Li Dussey gave it one, and it also happily ate it.