Arriving at the mountain where chickens and ducks are raised, villagers from Lijiaji can be seen digging for bamboo rats everywhere. From time to time, there are curses, and everyone has an angry look on their face.
The mountains and plains are full of chickens and ducklings looking for food. From time to time, several large groups shuttle through them to snatch the delicious food of these little guys.
The chickens and ducks forgot about the terrible killing last night and were all pecking away.
"Brother Xiaozhe." A seven or eight-year-old boy ran over with a small shovel, sniffed and said aggrievedly: "Brother Xiaozhe, my Xiaobai was bitten to death..."
Li Zhe looked at a dead duck in his basket, with its head missing. This should be the work of a weasel.
There was a circle of white fluff on the duck's neck. Li Zhe couldn't help but get angry after seeing it. He touched the little boy's head and said, "Don't be angry, Tiedan. My brother will avenge you."
"Yeah!" Tiedan said with red eyes, "I want to eat three bamboo rats today, my mother said so!"
This unique way of revenge was quite sharp. Li Zhe smiled slightly and watched Tiedan dig up bamboo rats with a small shovel and basket. He looked like he was digging up your family's ancestral graves.
"Damned beasts!" Uncle Gensheng was roaring. In front of him were dozens of chickens and ducks that had been bitten to death. Some were eaten and mutilated, and some were completely bitten to death by the beasts.
Several hundred died in one night, which is conservative.
"Xiao Zhe, look at it, isn't this a scourge? Damn it, I'll kill the big ones and eat them, but for such a small one, you deliberately kill so many of them and keep them!"
Uncle Gensheng was very angry. These were their wealth, and even such a small thing was being harmed. How could he not be angry? The people in the village are naturally very protective of their assets.
"Dig, dig it out and braise it!" The naughty boy following Uncle Gensheng was carrying a hoe with a serious look on his face.
"Are these bamboo rats and mountain rats crazy? Instead of eating some sweet potatoes, grass roots, bamboo roots, stealing some grain or seeds, how can they eat chickens and ducks?"
Li Jianjun saw Li Zhe coming and asked curiously what he didn't understand now. When he saw Li Zhe, he would ask. Li Zhe knew much more.
"This group of things should have been moved here in the winter. Our village is relatively warm. There are wind fences around these chickens and ducks, and we feed too much food. They can just eat whatever they want. They don't care about the big chickens and ducks. Dare to move, chickens and ducks don’t lay eggs in winter, and there are no eggs to eat. Now, I guess a batch of chickens and ducks are shipped here to give them a change of taste.”
Li Zhe explained briefly. In fact, he knew that this was not the case at all, but the spiritual spring. The spiritual spring attracted these beasts, the chickens and ducks that ate the food of the spiritual spring, making them very interested. .
It was like a great tonic, causing them to have a killing feast last night.
"A bunch of beasts!" Li Zhe was also furious. If Hai Dongqing were to catch them, they could catch some at night, but this place is too big.
"The big guy has escaped!" A villager suddenly yelled, and a gray shadow flashed into a hole. The villager holding a shovel swatted the shovel away.
"You idiot!" A woman next to him kicked the man angrily.
Li Zhe walked over, looked at the entrance of the hole, and cursed: "Such a big rat hole, these beasts are well fed here, bring me the shovel!"
It was obviously a mountain rat just now, but it was as big as a small rabbit. Although it was fast, it was not faster than Li Zhe's eyes.
"This is a mountain rat hole. I thought there were only two holes, but who knew this beast made three holes."
The villager who ran away from the mountain rat smiled and handed the shovel to Li Zhe and said: "Xiao Zhe, come and try it. The hole made by the mountain rat is only as deep as the size, and it usually digs in a straight line. The other two holes have just been blocked. One destroys the other, you can just dig this one down, you can’t escape.”
The villagers have a lot of experience with these beasts in the mountains.
In the past, when the older generation lacked food, they ate bark and dug roots. Naturally, the bamboo rats and mountain rats in the mountains were delicious. These things saved many people. Young and old, they all caught mountain rats and bamboo rats. Master.
Li Zhe nodded and said, "Uncle, keep an eye on it for me and I'll see if it's easy to dig."
"Woof woof woof!" As soon as Li Zhe moved his hand, the big yellow dog immediately ran over wagging its tail and stretched its head into the hole without hesitation.
"Go away, don't make trouble." Li Zhe kicked away this dog who liked to join in the fun. The big yellow dog was not angry and stared at it, wagging its tail.
Dahei and Baishi also came with them. Dahei used to be afraid of people in the village, but later he got used to it. Even if he touches the Tibetan Mastiff on weekdays, he doesn't have to worry about the Tibetan Mastiff rolling his eyes.
But the white lion was bigger than the Tibetan Mastiff. Uncle Gensheng couldn't help but stay away. He looked at the white lion and smacked his tongue and said, "Xiao Zhe has seen this lion more than ten times, and every time he sees it, he gets scared."
He was naturally panicked, and no one felt safe with something that looked like it could kill him with one bite.
"Stay away, don't scare people." Li Zhe reached out and patted the white lion that was approaching. The white lion was very docile. Hearing this, he waggled his tail and stepped back a few steps, then lay down to show that he was obedient.
After digging for more than a dozen times, he heard subtle rat noises, and found tiny bloody hairs of chicken cubs in the rat tunnel. Li Zhe couldn't help but get angry.
"Two, not one, are coming out!" Li Zhe heard the noise and raised his shovel. A gray shadow rushed out first. Just when Li Zhe was about to beat it to death, the big yellow dog pounced on it and pinned down the big mountain rat with one paw.
The other one screamed crazily and kept retreating, but its back was also blocked.
"Such a big mountain rat, beat it to death!" Li Jianjun picked up the shovel in his hand and slapped it down. The big mountain rat, which looked like a wild rabbit, was knocked over and struggled and twitched. Li Jianjun then slapped it down with a shovel and killed it.
"So much food, damn it!" Li Jianjun dragged it out with a shovel. When he saw the food inside, he cursed. Among the messy grass, there were all kinds of grains, grass roots, peanut shells, and a The remains of a little duck.
Dahei came up and turned over the dead mountain rat with his paws. He felt it was boring and then he pulled back.
"It's three pounds, why is it so big?" Uncle Gensheng was a little confused when he mentioned the mountain rats. The mountain rats and bamboo rats here were much larger than those they had seen before.
Li Zhe understood the reason, put down his shovel and said, "Jianjun, come with me, and you go and drive your car."
"Ah? Oh oh oh!" Li Jianjun dropped the shovel, wiped his hands and followed. Li Zhe just did whatever Li Zhe asked him to do, no need to think about it.
Li Jianjun's car was off-road and the mountain road was convenient. He arrived quickly and took Li Zhe straight to Baiyang Village.
Li Jiaji's name is now also famous in the surrounding villages. Li Zhe is even more famous. Many people envy Li Jiaji for being a capable man who led the village to wealth.
The threshold for young men in the village has been broken, and every household's minimum salary is more than one million yuan a year. Compared with others, how can tens of thousands of yuan a year be compared to working so hard?
It’s not enough for people to receive benefits.
Arriving at Baiyang Village, Li Jianjun took Li Zhe straight to the village branch team in Baiyang Village.
Baiyang Village is very poor. If you want to get rich, you must first build roads. But Baiyang Village can’t even build roads. How can you get rich? Stone walls and mud-brick houses from long ago can be seen everywhere in the village.
Seeing a car coming, everyone looked at it curiously.
The brigade is a group of private houses. It must have been built a few years ago and is still quite new. However, after Li Zhe entered, there were only a few people inside.
The old man sitting there cleaning his glasses saw Li Zhe, his eyes lit up and he said, "Isn't this Xiao Zhe from Lijiaji? Why are you here with us? Sit down."
The sixty-year-old village chief, whom only these backward villages could see, greeted him warmly.
The middle-aged woman who was collecting utility bills looked up and said curiously: "It's true."
Li Zhe and the old village chief were polite, sat down with a smile and said, "Are you busy?"
"What are you busy with?" The old village chief shook his head: "We charge electricity and water bills. Hey, it's not easy to charge even ten or eight yuan. In Baiyang Village, there are fewer and fewer people, and they all go out to start businesses and work."
Those who stay in the village are all farmers, and the young people have almost left. Many mountain villages are like this. If it weren't for Li Zhe, Lijiaji would not be much better than here.
"Hey, it's Li Zhe. What brings you to our Baiyang Village? I'm Qin Lingling's mother. I was your classmate when you were young."
The middle-aged woman who was paying the electricity bill asked enthusiastically when she heard it was Li Zhe.
Qin Lingling? Li Zhe thought of a little black girl and smiled: "Auntie, it's me. I'm looking for some people to help. Something happened in the village and I need to find someone."
Originally, the old village chief could have done this, but the old village chief was old and couldn't explain clearly, so Li Zhe simply went one by one.
"Looking for someone? Build a house? Can the one from my family work? You will start farming after a while. I will be idle during this period. If you want to find someone, Old Yang, you have to call the one from my family." Li Jiaji is too rich. Building houses and doing farm work are all done by people from nearby villages. Many people from Baiyang Village have done the work, so the money given to them is naturally quite large.
When I heard there was work, my ears pricked up.
"What's the matter?" Old Yangtou is the old village chief. He used to send people, so he was naturally energetic after hearing this.
Li Jianjun didn't know what Li Zhe wanted to do, and looked at Li Zhe curiously.
"Everyone in the village, regardless of age or sex, can go. The chickens and ducks in our village were harmed by bamboo rats and mountain rats yesterday. There are many bamboo rats and mountain rats there. If you have time, you can catch them. Now every household should have them. There is no work, and unless there is an accident, it won’t be a problem for one person to catch a few in a day.”
Seeing that everyone was in high spirits and waiting for what he would say next, Li Zhe naturally did not hesitate and stretched out his hand and said: "Eighty yuan a catty, whether mountain rat, bamboo rat, living one, eighty-one catty, dead, five It’s ten yuan a pound, I just caught two in fifteen minutes, two are about six pounds, at this price, it’s close to five hundred yuan, if you’re lucky, you can easily earn more than a thousand yuan a day.”
This is his estimate. In fact, some people get lucky in one day and it is not a problem to get more than ten or twenty pounds. However, it is not easy for one person to catch this kind of thing.
