"Ouch... is this mouse really a spirit?" The crowd exclaimed. Even the waiter carrying the teapot in the teahouse stopped serving the guests and listened to the legend with his ears stretched out.
The storyteller likes this feeling. Everyone listens to his chattering like stars and stars. At this moment, he is the focus of the crowd.
"It's not that it's become a spirit! My cousin said that this mouse is just begging for mercy, begging the villagers to show their kindness and let the rats live, and begging the villagers not to take away all the food, but to leave some for this mouse's family!"
"To be honest, the people in this village are really hungry. The mouse holes are so clean. They are dug by hand along the holes bit by bit. All the caves where food is hidden have been dug out!"
"The entire mouse family's underground cave is as spacious as three large tile-roofed houses on a flat surface, and the depth is not included... How many rooms do you think it must be hidden in?"
"The lives of the people in this village have been completely wiped out for the whole mouse family!"
"What happened in the end? Tell me quickly..." People scratched their heads and urged.
"Hey...my cousin was really moved by his compassion and suggested that we let the little mice go. Many of the mice that were fainted were very young cubs!"
"As for food, he didn't dare to say anything...but the one who took the lead in digging mouse holes doesn't want to do it anymore. He doesn't agree to it to the death!"
"The villagers are really hungry. Hundreds of people starved to death in one winter. They are all frightened and stunned. Now they will not let go if they see a bite to eat!"
"All the food was taken away, and the rats were also taken back to barbecue. In the end, they threw dirt and rubbish at the five old rats!"
"No one expected that! When the five mice looked desperately at the whole family with no way to survive, they suddenly screamed a few times, then turned their heads...guess what happened?"
"Ouch... Oh my god, five old mice jumped off a cliff and fell to their death! When they were about to die, they stared at the whole village with such vicious hatred, it was scary!"
"My cousin has always been timid, and he doesn't dare to kill animals when he eats food and chants Buddha's name... If he can't persuade the villagers, he has no choice but not to eat! He dug some grass roots to help his family survive the drought!"
"Basically all the other villagers ate rat food and rat meat!"
"The retribution came so quickly... that night the north wind howled, and in the middle of the night suddenly everything outside the village was filled with screams!"
"If you're brave enough to go out and take a look, you'll be scared to death! There are eyes the size of green beans everywhere in the dark night, so densely packed that you can't even count them!"
"Rat! Thousands of rats surrounded the village..."
"As if some rat general gave the order, the swarms of rats rushed towards the village, and every household was looted!"
"Crazy rats, gnawing on everything they see. Every household has been robbed of every last morsel of food. You can't beat them!"
"You emptied out the cotton in the torn quilt on the kang and ate it. Only a few corn stalks left, which were intended to be used as fuel, were eaten clean!"
"The originally tattered window paper was smashed by mice, and the cold wind poured in desperately... The mice jumped up and down and threw all the pots, dishes and chopsticks in the house to the ground..."
"It makes a family that is not already wealthy even worse!"
"If these rats swarm, you really can't afford to offend them. If you have the courage to kill a few rats with a shovel, the rats behind them will attack him with red eyes!"
"When it pounces on the face, it gnaws and bites it. There are even mice that get into the crotch of the pants and cause mischief. The whole village screams and people have no choice but to flee outside while taking advantage of the chaos."
"My cousin's house has several big kang cabinets! There are also empty water tanks... He hid his family members in them, and he was so scared that he couldn't help praying for blessings!"
"It's strange to say that only a few mice came into my cousin's house. They walked around casually without damaging anything and then left!"
"My cousin's family hid all night, and they dared to come out the next day when it was bright. But when I looked at the village, everyone was wandering the streets like ghosts, and they didn't dare to go home!"
"Hey... the rat tide has receded, but the last bit of food in the village is gone. Even the landlord's house has been completely wiped out!"
"There is no other choice. My cousin can only take his family out to escape the famine... The key is that he doesn't have any dry food on the way to escape the famine, if he hadn't encountered a sentry post from the Xishan Camp on the way!"
"My cousin kowtowed and begged, so he got a few dry biscuits. Without these few dry biscuits, he would never have been able to come to the capital!"
"When my father saw his brother coming, he was so distressed that he burst into tears. He quickly asked the family to prepare fried noodles! My cousin ate four big bowls of noodles by himself. My brother and cousin were even more able to eat, and they ate five bowls of noodles each!"
At this point in the story, people were all sighing, and the elder sighed, "Your cousin is still a good man! If he also eats rats to save grain and eats rat meat, I'm afraid the family will also suffer!"
"On the way out of his home, why did he encounter kind-hearted outposts? Why didn't others encounter them? To put it bluntly, if he had good intentions in his heart, God would give him a chance to survive!"
"Amitabha...good intentions are rewarded!"
Someone also asked, "Is this rat infestation only in your place? Have you heard of it in other places?"
"Yes... not only Akagi, but also other disaster areas have heard about it, but none of them are as legendary as this old man said!" Someone said to the side.
"After this catastrophe, not only humans suffered, but animals also suffered! Rats and humans live together. What they eat is actually the food grown by humans, and what they steal is also the grain in the granary!"
"We all have nothing to eat. How can hungry and anxious rats not worry? In the past, rats would steal, but hungry and anxious rats will just rob!"
This is not wrong at all. When a famine comes, animals also suffer. It stands to reason that there will be a tide of rats competing with humans for food. This is not uncommon in history!
But this Year of Bing is no ordinary year. After the snow disaster, the rat infestation was particularly serious, and it has risen to the level of a rat plague!
Moreover, as the rat plague spread, many strange rumors and stories suddenly appeared among the people, all of which were very superstitious!
The story of Chicheng digging a mouse hole to eat mouse meat, causing the rats to take revenge, is not the most legendary. A few days after arriving, the capital received a new bizarre legend from Yixian.
They said that during the snowstorm, there would be thin old men in gray and yellow furs and rat beards in the university, borrowing food from the people who had been affected by the disaster!
Whichever village didn't lend it to us would have the most people starving to death in the end, and after the snow melted, the rat plague would be the worst!
These skinny old men are all transformed by rat spirits, choosing who should die and who can still have a way to survive in the human world!
Such bizarre legends are spreading more and more widely in the capital. It is a good story to scare children!
