Hard times have room

Chapter 612 Killing Bamboo Rat
After dinner, Su Hongying and Wang Jiandang went to work again, while Paulin stayed at home to pick peanuts.

In addition to peanuts, those peanut vines should not be wasted. They are all good materials for burning fire. Put them aside, and after drying, pile them in the corner of the wall and keep them for burning slowly.

Nowadays, every household still burns fires, cooking rice every day, and sometimes hot water. Therefore, each household consumes a lot of firewood. Drill on the mountain to get firewood.

Even if the house is full, it will develop to the outside, near the wall, under the big tree in the yard, these places are good places to pile firewood.

I use some firewood every day, and a lot of firewood is needed for heating every winter. Therefore, no matter how much firewood is piled at home, it is not too much.

Wang Jiandang and Su Hongying took turns digging the ground outside, each digging a line, so they were not so tired because there were people who took over.

The family of three had a busy day, and only took a nap at noon, then went out again, and finally dug all the peanuts back before the sun went down.

After a busy day, my hands were sore, even a little trembling. They were all shaken by the hard ground. I could hold it once or twice, but if there were too many times, it wouldn't work.

Now the open space in front of their yard is full of peanuts, and looking at it makes people feel full of accomplishment.

The next day, I was busy digging up the sweet potatoes in the vegetable field in the back of my house. Those sweet potato vines were already withered and yellowed. It was better to put them in the bag and put them in the ground. It always felt unsafe.

The family has been busy for two days in a row, and finally they have all been dug back.

The sweet potato field at the back of the house was more than a circle bigger than the field outside, and most of them were almost as big as Wang Jiandang's fist.

However, their family didn't make it public, but silently collected these sweet potatoes, waited a day or two, rested, relaxed, and dealt with it again.

When the time comes, choose some of the dug up and worm-eyed ones, cut them up and dry them, and keep the good ones buried in the kitchen and eat them for several months.

This afternoon, after the family tried their best to dig out all the sweet potatoes, they all turned their attention to the bamboo rat's nest not far away.

Pauline was the first to leave the team and went home to boil water, leaving the remaining sweet potatoes to her parents.

After Wang Jiandang brought back the remaining basket of sweet potatoes, he washed the mud on his hands, and went straight to the bamboo rat den to catch the largest male rat, the one that was first caught by Bao Lin.

At this time, Su Hongying also walked to his side, looked at the bamboo rat struggling in his hand, and nodded with satisfaction: "This one looks pretty good, it's the biggest one, and it definitely tastes good."

Not knowing what to think, Su Hongying shook her head again and secretly swallowed a mouthful of saliva, it was really embarrassing!

"Yeah, this is just one of the three that Baolin caught. It's a male bamboo rat. I'll eat it this time. It's been raised for two years, and it's time to eat it."

"Besides it, there are five more, three females and two males. At the beginning, the two females gave birth to one litter, one of two, one male and one female, and one of them, which is the youngest one. The bamboo rat is a male, and it hasn't grown up yet!" Wang Jiandang pointed to the half-large bamboo rat huddled under the belly of a female rat, and said with a smile.

This bamboo rat was the smallest among the group of bamboo rats, and he recognized it at a glance.

These bamboo rats were fed by him before, so he could recognize them, and he was quite familiar with them. Therefore, when introducing these bamboo rats to Su Hongying, he held his head high and seemed very confident.

He was reluctant to eat those female mice. After all, it is possible for female mice to give birth. The two largest female mice had their stomachs a little bulging, maybe they were already pregnant.

He doesn't have this concern about the male rats at home, especially now that there are three male rats in the nest, it is natural to catch the fattest butcher.

"Uh, I can't tell the difference, but it doesn't matter, as long as you can eat meat, there are five bamboo rats at home, which is beautiful when you think about it." Su Hongying asked how the bamboo rat came from and who gave birth to it. I'm not interested in things, as long as I can eat it and it's delicious, that's fine.

Now there is Paulin in the house. If Paulin is not at home, there is also Wang Jiandang. She is only responsible for picking bamboo and visiting from time to time. It's fine.

"That's right, let's go, let's kill the rat now, do you know if the water that Bao Lin boiled is boiling?" After speaking, Wang Jiandang ignored the struggle of the bamboo rat in his hand, and just grabbed the back of the neck and walked away.

Su Hongying stayed on the spot and covered the bamboo rat's nest with wooden boards, as well as the thatch.

That is to say, there are no people around them. Behind their house is a small mountain wall, which is covered with gravel and thorn bushes.

At the beginning of the year, when her family first planted sweet potato seedlings, many people came to this place. At that time, the bamboo rats were carefully hidden in Baolin's house by their family, and put them in their own food boxes. Going back to guard the box, after such a one-stop operation, these bamboo rats were really concealed by them, and no one else has found them now.

Although it is not against the law to raise bamboo rats, the above does not say that it is not allowed to raise bamboo rats. Maybe their family is really poor and scared. No one can tell, for fear of being known by others, this thing is not their own.

No, this cover has been covered until now.

Originally last year, she was thinking about whether her family should raise chickens, but it was delayed, and besides her, the other two members of the family of three were opposed to it. Therefore, this matter will naturally be ignored. .

The big reason why Paulin and Wang Jiandang were against it was because there were already bamboo rats at home. If there was another chicken, I really didn't know where to put it.

In addition, there are few people in the family, and the family often goes out to work together, and there is no one in the family. It is hard to guarantee that those who know that her family has chickens will not be confused. I heard that chickens in the black market can be sold for seven or eight yuan. One, at this price, she was moved when she heard it. If there were chickens at home, maybe they would secretly sell them and exchange for money. After all, this money is really too much.

When Su Hongying packed up and went to the kitchen at home, Wang Jiandang had already started targeting the bamboo rat.

(End of this chapter)