Herders on the grassland regard eating roasted rat meat as a common occurrence, but in the Xing'anling Mountains, many people never eat rat meat. Before liberation, people who search for gold veins in the mountains avoided eating rat meat. I once heard from my grandfather that the craftsmen who fought back did not eat rats, but called rats "daughter-in-law". Because the business he did all day was to move soil and dig holes, which was no different from rats. It was a peer of the same kind as rats. Moreover, rats were also one of the five "Hu, Huang, White, Willow, and Gray". If you deal with earth caves every day, you must not offend rats, otherwise you might be buried alive in the thief caves if you are not careful.

I had no idea of ​​robbing the tomb at that time. I didn't care about eating some "big-eyed thief" meat. Ding Sitian didn't really believe that yellow-skinned, insects, foxes, hedgehogs and rats were immortals, but she firmly believed that the way of heaven was tolerant and that everything could not be done too well. For example, eating rats, in Ding Sitian's hometown, there were famines before liberation. There were a lot of rats in the local area. Although there was no food, there were no fewer rats. In order to survive, everyone caught mice and ate hundreds of thousands of rats. Finally, they survived the famine. However, the locals had developed the habit of eating rat meat. When there was food, they still had to catch mice and eat them. Every family ate them, and everyone ate them. As a result, one year, there was a sudden plague and the number of deaths could not be counted. After the epidemic, some whole villages died to only two vegetarians.

The fat man said, "What is the tolerance of the way of heaven? I think rats are the four evils. If they are eliminated, they will not cause plague. But have you heard of it? Some people say that there are more rats in this world than people? It seems that after the imperial cultivator has completely eliminated it, we will start to suppress the rats." As he said that, he suddenly picked up his hunting gun, stood up his butt and pointed it down, and went to pound a big-eyed thief who was protruding his head and peeking at us in a nearby rat hole.

The big-eyed thief was so irritated by the aroma of fish soup and roasted rat meat that she was restless. She poked her head in the rat hole, hoping to find an opportunity to crawl out and steal some fish. Suddenly, someone hit the stick and quickly shrank back into the hole to dodge. The fat man had just eaten his fill and wanted to take the opportunity to dissolve the food. This made him pound a full spear and pound it to the ground. Unexpectedly, the big-eyed thief collapsed a large piece of soil on the ground. The soil shell here was very crisp and there was a hole below. He pounded it with the butt and it sank it.

The reason why this forest is called "Hundred-eyed Cave" may be that there may be many caves or holes underground. However, over the years, the natural environment and soil and water changes have caused the fallen leaves and weeds to cover these holes, forming a layer of earth crust. So now it seems that it is difficult to find any holes directly. This layer of earth crust was dug by the big-eyed thief who was digging earthworms to eat underground, so it is not surprising that the fat man collapsed with a buttstock.

But at that time we didn't expect this to happen. A large piece of the soil shell from the grass collapsed. It was really unexpected. What was even more surprising was that the exposed hole was filled with mice. The fat man raised his hand and pointed: "Oh, my grandma, why are so many big mice coming out?"

When I looked along his hand, my whole body was shocked, and my scalp was numb. The hole was filled with the roots and mud of trees. There was a huge "rat mountain" among them. Countless big-eyed thieves were crowded together. The rats were squirming and pressing, and they were more than one person tall. There were not only big-eyed thieves, but also gray squirrels, grassland dogs and rats jumping everywhere nearby, as well as many fat wild rats that could not recognize at all. A large area of ​​Wuyang Wuyang, this huge rat hole was beyond imagination.

Affected by the landslide at the entrance of the cave, the group of rats flocked out like a tide that broke the dike. Due to the large number, the fire we lit was immediately extinguished. Fatty, Ding Sitian, and I quickly swung our swords and sticks to drive away the many giant rats around us. As soon as these big rats were driven away, they even became messy and rushed around the forest. One of the natural enemies of wild rats was the wild rats. At night, it was the time for wild rats to feed. Attracted by the wild rats, they saw large yellow-green wild rats drilling out of the cracks of the stones, grass nests, and into the fleeing wild rats swallowing and biting them.

The forest, which was originally dead and silent, was chaotic, and encountered many natural enemies. The wild rats didn't know where to escape. They bumped into one end and hit the other end and circled in the forest. There were windings everywhere. On the grassland, the common windings of herders were only about twenty centimeters, and nearly one meter were very rare. But we found that there were even more than two meters of flower-shaped windings around. The spotted windings on the body were so toxic that they were even more powerful than poisonous snakes. If we followed the group of rats outwards in this situation, we would definitely be bitten by the winding poisonous palate. There was no help when we bite it, because we would die of poisonous death without any time to rescue.

It was really creepy to think of Ding Sitian's jujube-red horse being bitten to death by the snail. If we had a few mounts at this time, we could still bet on our luck and ventured to rush out, but there was only an old horse around us. The horse was shocked now. Its reins were tied to the tree, and it was neighing and struggling, so we had to keep kicking away the rats and snails that were approaching it in the chaos.

I grabbed the kerosene gas lamp on the ground, called Fatty and Ding Sitian to hold the unconscious old sheepskin, and escaped into the mouse hole that had collapsed a large hole and exposed it. At this time, most of the rat group had already jumped out of the huge rat cave. Compared with the chaotic neighing and swallowing in the forest, this dirty and smelly cave was the only place to retreat. Fatty and Ding Sitian immediately understood what I meant. The two of them half-dragged and half-stuck, dragged the old sheepskin with their belly into the rat cave. I waved the "Kangxi sword" and cut off the reins that tied the old military horse with one knife. The old horse was free and neighed for a long time, but did not immediately break out of the encirclement, but instead circled around the rat cave and refused to give up their master to escape. I pointed at it with a knife and pointed it outside the forest: "Escape by yourself."

The old horse seemed to be really spiritual, as if it could not get into the rat cave at its height. When I saw the owners go in to take refuge, I then sniffled and turned around and rushed out of the forest. When I saw the horse running, I immediately got into the rat cave. As soon as I entered, a stinking smell choked into my nostrils. I quickly covered my nose with my sleeves.

The rat cave is very deep, and the sides are wet and narrow, like an artificial underground tunnel. When I raised the lamp, I couldn't see the end of the black hole in the depths. There were still some mice that had not escaped cleanly. From time to time, I heard the winding and slept through our feet, and the tragic howling of wild rats had reached the entrance of the cave. I thought that this time I had really entered the "Hundred Eyes Cave". Now I couldn't even think about it. I didn't dare to neglect it now, so I quickly pointed to the depths of the cave with a knife. I was fat.
Chapter completed!