Ghost Blowing Lamp II

Chapter 34 Hundred Eyes Cave (Part [-])
Herdsmen on the prairie regard eating roasted rat meat as a daily routine, but in the Xing’an Mountains, many people never eat rat meat. I once heard my grandfather say that the craftsmen of Daodou do not eat rats, but call them "wifes", because the whole day's work is to move soil and dig holes, which is no different from rats, and they belong to the same industry. The mouse is also the "gray" family of one of the five families of "Hu, Huang, Bai, Liu, and Hui". When dealing with Tudongzi every day, you must not offend the mouse, otherwise you may be buried alive in the In the hole.

At that time, I never thought of robbing the tomb at all, and I didn't care about eating the meat of "big-eyed thieves". Ding Sitian didn't really believe that yellow skins, long worms, foxes, hedgehogs, and mice were fairies, but she I firmly believe that the law of heaven is tolerant, and I can't do anything too extreme, such as eating mice. In Ding Sitian's hometown, there was a famine before liberation. There were a lot of local mice. Although there was no food, there were no fewer mice. Rats eat, I don’t know, they ate hundreds of thousands of rats, and finally survived the famine, but the local people have formed the habit of eating rat meat. When there is food, they still catch rats and eat them, and every family eats them. Everyone ate it, but one year a plague broke out suddenly, and the number of people who died was uncountable. After the epidemic, some entire villages died so that only two living people who ate vegetarians remained.

The fat man said: "What kind of grace is this called? I think rats are the four pests. If they are wiped out, there will be no plague. But have you ever heard that there are more rats than people in this world? Look." After the Emperor Xiu rebels are wiped out, we will start to suppress the rats." As he spoke, he suddenly picked up the hunting gun, turned the gun upside down, and went to shoot a mouse that was poking around in the nearby mouse hole to spy on us. Big Eyed Thief.

The big-eyed thief was disturbed by the aroma of fish soup and roasted rat meat. He poked his head in the rat hole, looking for an opportunity to crawl out and steal some fish to eat. He dodged the hole, the fat man just had a full meal and wanted to take the opportunity to digest his food, so he used all his strength and hit the ground with a gun butt, but he missed the big-eyed thief and collapsed the soil layer on the ground It was a big piece, the soil crust here was very brittle, and there were holes underneath, and it sank when you smashed it with the butt of a gun.

The reason why this forest is called "Hundred Eye Caves" is that there may be many caves or ground holes in the ground, but over the years the natural environment and water and soil changes have caused fallen leaves and weeds to cover these holes, forming a layer of soil crust, so now it seems , it was difficult to find any burrows directly, and this layer of soil crust was dug full of holes by big-eyed thieves who dug earthworms underground to eat them, so it was not surprising that the fat man collapsed when he smashed it with the butt of his gun.

But we didn't expect this kind of thing to happen at the time. It was really unexpected that a large piece of grass fell from the soil shell, and what was even more surprising was that the big hole that was exposed was full of rats. The fat man raised his hand and pointed : "Oh my grandma, why are there so many big mice?"

I followed his hand to look, and my whole body was shocked, and my scalp was numb. The hole was full of tree roots and mud, and there was a huge "rat mountain" in it, with countless big-eyed thieves holding you. I huddled together, and the group of rats squirmed and piled on top of each other, as tall as a person, and there were not only big-eyed thieves, but also squirrels, prairie dogs, and many unrecognizable species. Fat voles, a large piece of Wuyang Wuyang, this huge mouse hole is beyond imagination.

Disturbed by the landslide at the entrance of the cave, a group of rats swarmed out like the tide that broke the embankment. Due to the large number, the fire we lit was immediately extinguished. Fatty, Ding Sitian and I hurriedly swung Swinging a knife and a stick to drive away many giant rats rushing to the side. After being driven away, these big rats became even more chaotic, squeaking and screaming all over the forest. One of the natural enemies of wild rats is gnats, and at night, It was the time when the gnats were looking for food. Attracted by the swarm of wild rats, I saw big yellow-green gnats emerge from the crevices of the stones, the grass nests, and the bushes, and burrowed into the fleeing swarm of wild rats and devoured them wantonly.

The originally deathly silent forest became a mess, bumped into so many natural enemies in the chaos, the voles didn't know where to escape for a while, bumped into one end, bumped into the other and circled in the forest, There are gnats in all directions. The common gnats of the herdsmen on the grassland are only about [-] centimeters, and the ones of nearly one meter are very rare. However, we found that there are also large gnats that are more than two meters long and have spots on their bodies. The gnats are extremely poisonous, even more poisonous than poisonous snakes. If we follow the group of rats to rush out in this situation, we will definitely be bitten by the venomous jaws of the gnats. Died of poison.

Thinking of the tragic situation of Ding Sitian's bay red horse being bitten to death by gnats, it is really creepy. If we can have a few mounts at this time, we can still gamble on our luck and ride out on a risky horse, but there is only one old horse beside us. The horse was also startled now, its rein was tied to the tree, neighing and struggling, and it could only keep kicking away the rats and gnats that approached it in the confusion.

I grabbed the kerosene lamp on the ground and told Fatty and Ding Sitian to support the unconscious old sheepskin and escape into the mouse hole exposed by the collapse of a large hole. At this time, most of the rats had already escaped. The huge rat den, compared with the chaotic biting and devouring in the forest, only this dirty and smelly cave is the only place to retreat. Fatty and Ding Sitian immediately understood what I meant, and the two dragged each other Half-stretched, I dragged the old sheepskin with its belly up into the mouse den. I swung the "Kangxi Precious Sword" and cut off the reins that tied the old army horse. The old horse was free and neighed, but it didn't immediately I rushed out of the encirclement, but circled around the rat's den, refusing to let the owner escape, so I pointed my knife at it outside the forest: "Escape by yourself."

The old horse seemed to be really spiritual, as if it saw that it couldn't get into the rat's den with its height, and saw its owners go in to avoid danger, so it snorted, turned around and rushed out of the forest.Seeing the horse run away, I immediately burrowed into the mouse den, and when I entered, a stench choked into my nostrils, so I quickly covered my nose with my sleeve.

The inside of the rat den is very deep, and the two sides are damp and narrow. It looks like an artificially built underground tunnel. When we hold up a lamp, we can see no end to the dark hole in the depths. Crawling up, I heard the gnats gnawing away, and the miserable howling of wild rats had reached the entrance of the cave. I thought to myself that this time I really entered the "Hundred Eyes Cave". Not daring to be negligent at the moment, he quickly pointed to the depths of the cave with a knife, and said to Fatty and Ding Sitian: "The magic weapon for our army to defeat the enemy is to switch to guerrilla warfare. Now retreat inside first, and be careful under your feet." Back then, the three of us three young men rushed into a restricted area with "remnant courage". But at that time, none of us expected that at the end of this rat hole, a huge nightmare was waiting for our arrival.

(End of this chapter)