cultivating immortals and planting the fields

Chapter 36 Bamboo Rat
As for the bamboo rat, Zhang Wei really doesn't know what it is, but I heard from the old man that it mainly lives in the bamboo forest, and mainly eats bamboo shoots, bamboo roots, and other wild fruits. The bamboo rat looks like a mouse, However, it is much bigger than rats. Master Zhang said that adult bamboo rats are about the size of cats and taste very delicious. When there was a famine in the past, someone in the village would catch this thing and share it when they came back. This can resist work points.With this thing and bamboo chickens, many people in the village depend on them for survival.

Bamboo rat is not only delicious, but also very nutritious.According to Mr. Zhang, it may be because of the famine, the catch is too extreme. Only in recent years, some people have been able to catch one or two bamboo rats on the mountain from time to time, and they are not too big, weighing at most one catty. It's over.However, bamboo rats reproduce quickly, almost one litter per month.As long as a few pairs are left for breeding, after a few years there will be bamboo rats roaming the mountains again. Mr. Zhang estimates that the bamboo rats in the bamboo forest now come from other places. Yes, I can't even eat bamboo shoots, and almost bald people on the mountain, not to mention the bamboo rats that eat bamboo shoots and bamboo roots.

Now in Zhangwa Village, bamboo shoots are the home-cooked food of the villagers, so Zhang Wei will eat a few meals of fried bamboo shoots with fresh meat and fried green bamboo shoots every now and then.Therefore, Zhang Wei is not very surprised by the bamboo shoots everywhere.Bamboo shoots have a layer of black old skin on the outside, and when the old skin is peeled off, there are green and white bamboo shoots inside.Whether it is soup or fried, it is delicious.

Zhang Wei held a machete in his hand, and looked at the ground from time to time to see if he could see a bamboo rat's hole. Bamboo rats like quiet places with low light, so Zhang Wei just looked at places with weak light.

The bamboo grove rustled, and Zhang Wei carried a machete and swept through the village like a devil entering the village for half an hour, but he didn't see even a single bamboo rat.However, the snake saw two or three small snakes, all about one meter long, not worth eating at all. Zhang Wei kindly let them go, but he was praying in his heart, snake, snake, grow up quickly, I can only eat it when I grow up.

When Zhang Wei was releasing the snakes for fattening and killing them, it was also Zhang Wei who had good hearing, and actually heard the hiss of "squeak" amidst the rustling of bamboo leaves, and walked forward along the sound , there is a hole behind the thick bamboo trees in front, and a piebald snake with a thick arm is spitting out a letter, intimidating the prey in front of it, but this prey is exactly what Zhang Wei has been looking for for nearly an hour. Arrived bamboo rat.

The gray-brown bamboo rat's coat stands upright, its mouth is open to reveal its teeth nearly two centimeters long, staring at the piebald snake in front of it, and there are a few young bamboo rats restless in the grass nest behind the bamboo rat curled up in the nest, arching each other back and forth, screaming "squeaky", as if they also knew that a disaster was imminent.

Just now Zhang Wei thought that snakes can't make soup, and he searched for bamboo rats for a long time, but he was afraid of toil, but he couldn't stop them if he was lucky, so the two things came together.Not to mention, snakes are really the biggest natural enemy of wild bamboo rats. If Zhang Wei doesn't come, the nest of bamboo rats must be full of snake bellies.It seems that it is really a snake catching a bamboo mouse, and Zhang Wei benefits.

However, the snake and the bamboo rat apparently also noticed Zhang Wei's arrival.Originally, the piebald snake's tail swayed in Zhang Wei's direction, which was clearly a warning to Zhang Wei: This is my prey, don't interfere.

Zhang Weiniao didn't care about the piebald snake, he thrust the machete into the ground until the handle almost disappeared, which shows the sharpness of this knife.Following the method Master Zhang taught, Zhang Wei stretched out his right hand, anxious as lightning, and pinched the snake's seven inches at once. It seems that when Master Zhang said that the snake was fighting other prey, it would not consider the attack from behind at all.This is really true, pinching the snake's seven inches, Zhang Wei followed the method Zhang Ye said, grabbed the big piebald snake and flicked it, the whole snake became a straight line, Zhang Wei took the opportunity to use the other hand The head of the snake moved down towards the tail, then pinched the tail, released the hand holding Qicun, shook the hand holding the tail a few more times, and the whole snake immediately collapsed.Zhang Wei did it according to the method, and it really did.By the way, Zhang Wei knotted the softened snake and threw it on the ground. This snake will become soup in his bowl today.

After cleaning up the snake, there was only one big bamboo mouse left to fight against Zhang Wei. Of course, the final result was Zhang Wei's complete victory. He captured the big bamboo mouse, and also captured five small bamboo mice. The little bamboo mouse went back according to Zhang Wei's intention. Keep it up, and after two months, you can eat a few meals of bamboo rat meat again.

Zhang Wei was pulling the flatbed cart, with a limp snake hanging on the left side, and a fat bamboo rat tied to the side, and five small bamboo rats were trapped on it. Zhang Wei's raids were not small.Let the villagers I saw along the way say that Zhang Wei is a lucky guy, he can catch such a big bamboo rat, and there is also a piebald snake. The village chief Zhang Yourong is more direct. A young man came back from outside, Zhang Wei remembered that he seemed to be the nephew of the village head, called Zhang Shengli, he said he was a young man, but he was actually married and had two children, but Zhang was handsome and looked very young.Zhang Shengli saw the snakes and rats hanging on Zhang Wei's car, and he also said that he still had two gold bottles of the foolish fairy, and he would take them with him tonight to make up for the share.

Zhang Wei naturally responded with a smile, saying yes.Anyway, this snake and the bamboo rat can get almost meat together, and there are a lot of dishes in Zhang Wei’s backyard. In the past few days, a rack of beans in Master Zhang’s yard has also started to come down, and a few dishes, It's not bad for a few men to drink a few cups of liquor.In other words, Zhang Wei also wants to get in touch with the people in this village more, and then gradually integrate into the village. It is also best for everyone to think that he is also a person in this village, so that Zhang Wei can get along with everyone more happily.It is better to be happy alone than to be happy together. Zhang Wei knew this truth when he sold flat peaches in Tianting, otherwise he would not have worked so hard to help the village plan.

It’s like this in a small mountain village, whoever gets the delicious food, then you can order food, and I can order wine, and a few good friends sit at a table, eat delicious food and chat, if there is nothing red and white at ordinary times It's really not easy to sit together and drink a glass of wine.

For this Zhang Shengli, Zhang Wei can be regarded as an acquaintance.As soon as he came back from the outside, he ran to Zhang Ye's house with a gift to visit Zhang Ye, and also went to Zhang Wei's yard to chat with Zhang Wei for a while.Before leaving, Zhang Wei picked a few big cucumbers and a few big red tomatoes for him, and pulled out a pinch of small green vegetables, which filled a small bamboo basket.Zhang Shengli was not too polite, and in the next few days he would come to sit in Zhang Wei's small yard if he had nothing to do.

The cucumbers and watermelons in Zhang Wei’s yard are not less eaten. Of course, there are a lot of cucumbers and tomatoes. Zhang Wei's temper, Zhang Ye is also good to him, and the two of them are familiar with each other after going back and forth.

Speaking of which, Zhang Shengli is a poor man. His father died early. It is said that Zhang Shengli died when he was still in the spores. Zhang Shengli's mother brought him up. His uncle Zhang Yourong also took good care of his family and provided for Zhang Shengli. School to high school graduation.

After graduating from high school, the university he was admitted to was not bad according to Mr. Zhang, and his grades were comparable to those in the county. However, his uncle Zhang Yourong has provided him with education for so many years, and his mother has also suffered from illness. She has been in poor health in recent years. , So, without even reading the notice, I went south to go out to work.

Later, under the arrangement of his uncle, he married a housewife, and I heard that he was doing well outside. Anyway, he was either a manager or a supervisor or something. Zhang Wei had no gossip, and Zhang Shengli didn't say what he was doing outside.However, everyone said it was a pity for this baby. If he went to college, he would definitely be the first graduate student in the village.

There are also two college students in the village, and even a girl who was admitted to graduate school.When this girl was in graduate school, the village committee paid for a big drama from Taiwan.There are still a few college graduates in this village, but Zhang Wa Village is the only one who is going to graduate school.

(End of this chapter)