Wu Chao: Take the whole family to escape the famine

The short man said with a grimace: "I reported it to the official, but what's the use? The yamen sent people to guard for two nights, but they left after they couldn't catch anyone.

Shen Yuyu casually picked up a stick of dogtail grass and put it in his mouth and muttered.

"How can we catch the guard? This kind of case must be investigated. Whose melons are good, that person is the suspect." After speaking, he looked at the two uncles.

"Are there many people growing melons in the village? Are there any melon farmers whose own melons have not been damaged?"

The tall man pointed at the endless melon fields on both sides of the avenue.

"Everyone in our village grows melons. This large piece of land is our village's melon patch, and all the watermelons have been destroyed."

"Are there any races in other villages?" Shen Yue continued to ask. She seemed to have deep feelings about investigating the case.

If we don't investigate this kind of strange thing clearly, can she walk? Can she eat and sleep soundly?
Of course she couldn't, so she had to get to the bottom of this matter.

"Of course." The tall man replied, "To the east of Yanzhou, we grow a lot of watermelons. It is said that the watermelons in several villages next door have been destroyed."

"With such a large area of ​​cultivation, how good is the market for watermelons? Where are they sold?"

The tall man replied, "They are all sold to the south, to Lingzhou, and purchased by the Lingzhou branch of Tianxia Commercial Bank." After hearing this, Shen Yuyu suddenly felt that this matter was even more strange.

Tianxia Commercial Bank will never treat these farmers badly, so there is no possibility of malicious competition.

However, I still asked, "Is the purchase price offered by Tianxia Commercial Bank reasonable? How many years have we been cooperating with you?"

"It has been three years, and the price has always been very fair. I paid the deposit and everything in the first year."

Shen Yuyu pinched her chin in worry. She thought hard and couldn't think of anyone who was full and full. After all the effort to cause such destruction, her brain was broken?
At this time, the short man saw that the two girls were not afraid of the sun and were willing to chat with them, so he went down to the melon field to find an immature melon, picked it, picked it up, smashed it open, and asked Shen and Jiang Yu to eat it.

Shen Yuyu was not polite, picked up a piece and started eating it.

Unripe melons are quite sweet, but they should be even sweeter when ripe.

What a pity that so many melons were wasted like this!
After eating the melon, Shen Yuyu went down to the field again, picked a damaged melon and looked at it carefully.

The edges are jagged, not like rodent gnawing.

It always feels like it was cut out with scissors. The size of the holes is quite uniform, as big as a mouse hole, but it is definitely not gnawed out by mice.

To say it was done by humans, how boring do these people have to be? Holding scissors at night and cutting holes into ripe watermelons one by one under the moonlight?
This picture gives me a little rash just thinking about it.

No madman could do such a thing.

"Girl, you can't find out about this matter, so don't waste your time and leave quickly."

The two men wiped the sweat from their heads and stood up to leave.

Shen Yuyu really didn't believe in this evil. She remembered that Mr. Lu Xun's text mentioned that badgers like to eat watermelon. Maybe it was a good thing they did.

Thinking of this, Shen Yue also stood up and said with determination: "Uncle, I will stay here all night to see if I can catch this thief who did bad things.'

Seeing that Shen Yuyu was so interested, the two men let her go.

He said: "It's only noon now. If you really want to investigate this matter, you should go to our village for dinner first and come back in the evening."

Shen Yuyu didn't hesitate and wanted to visit their village.

Then he asked Jiang Yuyu to lead the horse and followed the man to the village.

After walking for several miles, a large river appeared in front of them. There was a pontoon bridge on the river. The group crossed the pontoon bridge and entered the village.

The village is called Hesha Village. The tall man's surname is Yuan and the short man's surname is Lin. We had lunch at Uncle Yuan's house.

The fire food is not bad, including fish, meat and hard rice.

It seems that they have made a lot of money growing watermelons in cooperation with Tianxia Trading Company over the years, and are much luckier than the cotton farmers in Texas who cooperated with Sihai Trading Company.

After the meal, Shen Yuyu called Uncle Yuan and Uncle Lin and asked them to divide their troops into two groups and go to the melon fields in two other nearby villages.

After seeing it, it was indeed as Uncle Yuan said, their melons were also damaged, and the holes were about the same size and shape.

If this was done by a human being, it was definitely a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

After returning from a nearby village, it was almost evening. As soon as they had eaten dinner, Shen Yue, Jiang Yue, Uncle Yuan and the others came to the trail near the melon field again with torches, preparing to squat and guard the 'melon destroyer'.

"Put out the torch, otherwise it will alert the saboteurs." Uncle Yuan said.

"Okay." Uncle Lin responded, then turned the torch down and put it out in the melon field. After that, the group waited silently.

At the beginning of the month, the moonlight was dim.

The wind was strong, making the leaves rustle.

In the dark night, the cries of the owl man were heard from time to time, which suddenly reminded Shen Yue of a movie he had seen before, in which a monster specializes in eating people's brains.

She stared at the looming moon in the sky, always feeling that a monster like a big bird would suddenly fly over there, land silently in the melon field, and start digging out the watermelon with its long and sharp nails.

This scene is a bit intoxicating.

But strangely enough, after she thought about it like this, she always felt that she heard a subtle clicking sound in her sensitive ears. Was it an illusion?
Shen Yuyu concentrated on scanning around. She was sure that her eyesight was extraordinary, but she didn't see anything!
In the melon field, watermelon leaves and vines were blown up by the wind, but they were definitely neither humans nor monsters.Shen Yuyu was thinking wildly while feeling the passage of time.

Soon the crescent moon hung on the treetops, and the night must have been spent in vain.

Whether it's a human or a badger, it's time to take action at this late hour, right?
After waiting patiently for a while, the wind stopped and the subtle clicking sound became more obvious.

This is not an illusion, absolutely not!
Shen Yuyu stood up and followed the sound to the melon field.

"Cousin, did you hear anything?" Jiang Yuyu hurriedly followed.

Her kung fu was not as good as hers, and her hearing was not as good as hers, but she didn't hear anything anyway.

"I don't know, look around." Shen Yuyu didn't know what to say, and his eyes were scanning like shooting stars.

The wind stopped, the moon became brighter, and the vision suddenly became brighter.

She followed the vague voice and came to a watermelon.

At this time, the clicking sound suddenly stopped. Could it be that there was something wrong with her ears? With doubts, Shen Yuyu turned the big watermelon in front of her over.

Looking at the moon, I vaguely felt that something was wrong with the watermelon rind. I quickly blew the fire to take a look, and I went, something cut me in half. If it had been a little later, this watermelon should have been taken out successfully. A hole comes.

There was no doubt about the sinking. The rustling sound just now must have been caused by some kind of animal.

what will it be
Shen Yuyu put the watermelon aside, raised the huozhe in a strange way, and opened the leaves covering the ground to take a closer look.

The watermelon pressed against the ground and made a circular mark. Inside the mark, the soil bulged into a big bag, and a little color was faintly revealed, which was light red.

This color and the strength of pinching watermelon rind made Shen Yuyu think of two animals.

Crabs, crayfish!
No matter which one they are, their pliers should not be underestimated.

Just as he was turning back to find a wooden stick, Jiang Yuyu reached out his hand without fear of death.

"What is this~~? It was just there picking out the watermelon. Ah, my hand hurts~~it hurts~~'
Just when Shen Yue wanted to stop him, Jiang Yue was already hit. He jumped three feet high, shaking his hands wildly in pain.

'It was a snake, I was bitten by a snake.'

In the dim moonlight, Jiang Yuyu thought it was a snake that bit her.

It was because she was caught off guard that she panicked like this. So what if she thought she was bitten by a snake? Her cousin could detoxify her at any time.

The main reason is that it hurts so much that I almost shed tears.

Uncle Yuan and the two heard the screams here and said it was a snake or something, so they came over in a panic.

"Snake? Where is the snake?"

"Don't be afraid, it's not a snake." Shen Yuyu grabbed Jiang Yuyu's hand and took a photo of it with the fire fold. A fist-sized crab clamped Jiang Yuyu's hand with its teeth and claws.

Those big pair of pliers looked scary.

"Mangling insects? So they are causing trouble?" Uncle Yuan's eyes widened, and he stretched out his hand to grab the crab lid, unable to pull it open.

One of the big crab's big pincers clamped Jiang Yuyu's finger tightly, and the other pincer was waving vigorously, which was extremely majestic.Jiang Yuyu was in pain so much that tears flowed out, and he was probably bleeding from the pinch.

"Set with fire." Shen Yuyu said, burning the crab's claws with a fire breaker several times before the big claws reluctantly let go.

Looking at Jiang Yuyu's hand, blood was already oozing out. Shen Yuyu hurriedly took out a bottle of medicinal powder and sprinkled it on her wound to stop the bleeding and reduce inflammation.

"This mangling insect is really a huge scourge." Uncle Yuan cursed hard and crushed it with one kick.

It was too late for Shen Yuyu to stop him, and his face was filled with regret.

How come such plump hairy crabs cost a hundred yuan a pound in modern times? What a pity.

But the watermelon field has been ruined by them. The crab army must be in the tens of thousands, right?
But what did the uncle just call a crab? A mangling insect?
"Uncle, don't you want to eat this mangling insect?" Shen Yuyu asked tentatively.

Judging from the hard kick that the uncle just gave me, it doesn't look like the attitude you should have towards a kind of delicious food.

Uncle Yuan said angrily, "Eat? This scourge will be trampled to death upon sight. Who would eat it?"

Shen Yuyu felt a pity for it again. This is a delicacy in modern times, but how to eat it hasn't been invented here yet?
Who is the first person to eat crabs?
No matter who it is, there is no doubt that she is Shen Yuyu here.

Thinking of this, Shen Yuyu said to Uncle Yuan and Uncle Lin: "Uncle, I will accept this. The price is based on the price of watermelon. How much is a pound of watermelon? How much is a pound of this mangling insect?"

"This? Miss Shen, are you kidding me? This thing is covered in shells and cannot be eaten. What are you doing with it?"

"Who said you can't eat it? The meat is so delicious." Shen Yue couldn't help but argue, and then explained hurriedly, "My mother has cooked it for me, but it's a pity that we don't have enough of it. If uncle doesn't believe it, I'll cook it for you tomorrow." Let’s try it, everyone.”

Everyone has said this, what else can Uncle Yuan and the others say?
After all, watermelons have been damaged by these pests. If they are really edible and can be sold for money, not to mention the same price as watermelons, they would be willing to catch them and sell them for half the price.

But it's too late tonight, everyone is asleep, and we will organize everyone to catch them tomorrow night.

Shen Yuyu was also full of questions at this moment. These crabs should live in the river. Why did they go to dry land to eat watermelons? Have they become sperms?