Chapter 32 hundred eyes cave (next)

Grassland herders to eat roasted rat meat as a common meal, but in the Xing’anling mountainous area, there are many people never eat rat meat, before liberation, looking for gold veins in the mountains to open up gold mines, people avoid eating rat meat, I once heard my grandfather say that the craftsmen of the inverted bucket, do not eat rats, and called the rat for the “daughter-in-law”, because all day long to do the business, are moving the soil to hit the hole, and the rat is no different from the hook, belongs to the peer, and the rat is also “Hu, yellow, white, willow, gray” which is one of the five major The hooks, and rats are no different, belonging to the same, and rats are also “Hu, yellow, white, willow, gray,” which is one of the five “gray” family, every day with the dirt hole to deal with, you can never offend the rats, or maybe which time not paying attention, will be buried alive in the robberies. I didn’t even think about stealing.

I had no intention of robbing graves at that time, and I didn’t care about eating the meat of some “big-eyed thieves”, and Dinsitian didn’t believe that yellow skins, long worms, foxes, hedgehogs and rats were immortal, but she was convinced that there was tolerance in heaven, and that we couldn’t do too much of anything, such as eating rats, and that rats were especially plentiful in Dinsitian’s old hometown, where there was a famine before the liberation of the People’s Republic of China. Especially much, although no food, but the rats did not see less, people in order to live, they catch rats to eat, I do not know to eat hundreds of thousands of rats, finally the famine over, but the locals have developed the habit of eating rat meat, there are still food time to catch rats to eat, and is eaten at home, everyone eats, the result is that one year suddenly started the bubonic plague, the deaths of the number of people can not be counted, the epidemic after some of the After the epidemic, some of the whole village, dead only two living people who ate all the veggies left.

The fat man said: “What is this called the way of heaven has tolerance? I see that rats are the four evils, give them to wipe out the clean will not have a plague, but have you heard, someone said that the world’s rats are more than people? It seems that after we wipe out the Imperial Cultivation Countermeasures, we’ll have to start fighting the rats.” As he said that, he suddenly copied the hunting cannon and put it upside down with the butt facing downward to pound a big-eyed thief who was probing and spying on us in a nearby rat hole.

The big-eyed thief was fish soup and roasted rat meat aroma, provoking the restlessness, in the rat hole, looking for an opportunity to climb out to steal some fish to eat, suddenly saw someone round stick to smash, quickly shrink back to the hole to avoid, fat man just ate enough to take the opportunity to eat, this time to make the strength of the full, a gun butt hard on the ground, unexpectedly did not smash the big-eyed thief, but to the ground layer of the earth collapsed a large piece of the earth shell is very brittle, and there are holes underneath, so that it is easy for the big-eyed thief, and the big-eyed thief, but it is easy for the big-eyed thief, and it is not hard for him. The soil shell here is very brittle, and there are holes underneath, with the butt of the gun a pounding on the spoiled down.

The reason why this forest is called “Hundred Eyes Cave”, there may be many underground caves or holes in the ground, but over the years the natural environment and soil and water changes, so that the fallen leaves and grasses cover these holes, forming a layer of soil crust, so now it seems that it is difficult to directly find what the grottoes, this layer of soil crust and the big-eyed thieves in the underground digging earthworms and food digging a thousand holes, so the fat man with the earth shell is very brittle. Thousands of holes, so the fat man with the butt of the gun collapsed, but it is not surprising.

But at that time we did not expect this to happen, the grass from the earth shell rumbled down a large piece, is really unexpected, more surprising is that the exposed hole is crowded with rats, fat man raised his hand to point: “Aigoo my grandma, how to come out of so many big rats?”

I followed his hand to see, is also a whole body shock, see the scalp is numb, that hole inside the root diameter of trees and mud, there is a huge “rat mountain”, countless big-eyed thieves you embrace me crowded heaped together, the group of rats wriggling stacked, yards up to more than one person high, and not only the big-eyed thieves, the vicinity of the gray rats that jumped around, and prairie dog rats, as well as many fat wild rats that could not be recognized at all, a huge swath of Wuzhang Wuzhang, this huge rat hole is too big to be imagined.

By the cave collapse of the disturbance, the group of rats with the tide of the dike general swarmed out, due to the number of too much, even the fire we lit up to the immediate pressure out, I and Fatty, Ding Sisiang three people hurriedly swung a knife and waved a stick to chase away rushed to the side of the many giant rats, these rats were chased away, but also messed up the camp, squeaking and screaming in the forest all over the place jumping around, one of the natural enemies of wild rats is centipedes, and at night it is centipedes feeding time, by the wild rat group of The night is the centipede’s feeding time, attracted by the wild rat group, only to see from the stone cracks, grass nests, bushes drilled out a big yellow-green centipede, drilling into the scattered wild rat group to devour.

The original dead silence of the forest was in a mess, in the midst of the chaos, the wild rats did not know which way to escape, and crashed head to head, head to head in the forest in circles in all directions, centipede infestation, in the grassland herdsmen common centipede is only about 20 centimeters, nearly a meter are very rare, but we found that there are more than two meters long centipede, the big centipede of Flower Echinochloa, with spots on its body. There are spots on the body of the centipede toxicity of fierce, more than the poisonous snakes, if we follow the group of rats in this case to break out, will certainly be centipede’s poisonous palate bites, bites on the hopeless, because it is too late to save, will be poisoned to death.

Thinking of Ding Sisiang’s date red horse was centipede bites the tragic situation, is really creepy, if there are a few mounts at this time, we can still gamble on luck, take the risk of riding out, but there is only an old horse, the horse is now also scared, its reins are tied to a tree, hissed and struggled not to get rid of, but only constantly kicked up pouting to kick away in the chaos of the group of rats and centipedes close to it.

I grabbed the kerosene lamp on the ground, shouted to Fatty and Dinsi sweet frame unconscious old sheepskin, to collapse a large hole and exposed the rat hole to escape, most of the rats have already leaped out of the huge rat hole, and the forest that chaos into a hissing and devouring compared to the dirty and smelly hole is the only place to retreat, Fatty and Dinsi sweet immediately understood my meaning, the two of them half-dragged and half-framed, put quite a belly! The belly of the old sheepskin dragged into the rat cave, I waved the “Kangxi sword”, a knife cut off the reins of the old military horse, the old horse body to be free, long neighing, but did not immediately rushed out of the encirclement, but circled around the rat cave, refused to give up the main escape, I pointed to it with the knife outside of the forest: “Escape on your own. ”

That old horse seems to be really spiritual, as if it can see to its height can not drill into the rat hole, and see the masters to go in to avoid danger, this only sound snorting, back to the forest outside rushed out. I saw the horse ran away, immediately into the rat hole, once inside is a burst of fishy odor choking into the nostrils, I hurriedly body with the sleeve to cover the nose.

Mouse cave inside very deep, both sides are damp and narrow, like an artificially constructed underground tunnels, lifting a light, the depths of the black hole can not be seen at the end of the hole, the hole is still some did not escape from the clean size of the rats, from time to time from the top of our feet whooshing and crawling, listening to the centipede swallowing and biting and swimming, as well as the sound of wild rats howling miserably has been to the cave entrance, I think this time it is considered to be a real into the “100 eyes cave! “, now is not want to go in can not be, now do not dare to slow down, hurriedly with the knife pointed to the depths of the cave, to the fat man and Ding Sistern said: “turn the war guerrilla is our army’s victory over the enemy’s magic weapon, we should be in the circuitous movement and stride in the retreat in search of opportunities to turn defeat into victory, and now the first to the retreat inside, be careful with the soles of the feet. ” When we three young people, with a cavity of “leftover courage” ventured into a forbidden area, at first at most some nervousness and anxiety, and other things did not think much about, but at that time, none of us did not expect, at the end of the rat hole, a huge nightmare is waiting for our arrival.