Although badgers look stupid, they look like little piggies. They are naive and harmless to humans and animals, but they are actually quite ferocious.

Although the ferocity is not as exaggerated as that of wild boars, if you encounter them alone in the wild, you should try to avoid them.

The main reason is that this thing has a bad temper. Once it feels threatened, it will attack people like crazy. Its teeth and claws are extremely powerful. If it bites hard, it can bite through a shovel. Ordinary people can't resist it.

Ordinary native dogs cannot stop their bites.

When we arrived at Wang Lixian's earthen greenhouse, it was almost noon. The little kids like Liu Ni'er had also finished school. They were standing by the greenhouse one by one, holding bamboo poles and wooden sticks, looking towards the earthen wall outside the shed.

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When they saw Chen Ling coming with the dog, their eyes lit up, and they jumped around and surrounded Heiwa and the little yellow dog. They waved the sticks in their hands and shouted: "Hit the badger, beat the badger."

"What are you yelling about? Let's go home and eat."

Wang Lixian frowned and scolded these monkeys.

Chen Ling didn't care about the commotion of these monkeys. When he walked outside the earth wall and took a look, he couldn't help but be surprised: "Good guy, this badger's hole is so big that even a skinny adult can get in."

When you look closer, this badger hole looks straight up and down, like an earthen well, but when you get to the bottom it becomes horizontal.

Moreover, the soil dug out by the badgers in the earthen shed was like mountains of earth, which shows how big the hole was.

"Well, this is a pig badger's hole. It's much bigger than a dog badger's hole. A maximum of twenty or thirty badgers can live in one hole..."

Wang Lixian spat, pulled off the pole of the rice field, and pointed to the things inside.

It turns out that there is another mystery here. Under the cover of the lush grass and grain poles, this is a hole that is deeper than the earthen shed.

"This hole is horizontal, and the hole on the other side of the shed is vertical..."

Chen Ling took a closer look and saw that there was a lot of black feces in the grass nearby, "Is this the badger's back hole?"

Badgers also like to be clean. They will not poop or urinate in the cave they live in. If there is poop or urine, they will poop outside the cave, usually in the back cave.

Just like the huts some people build in their backyards.

This can not only ensure the hygiene of the cave, but also declare the territory to other wild animals.

"Yes, it's the back hole. I'll let Heiwa keep an eye on this side later."

Wang Lixian gritted his teeth and said: "This bitch almost caused the shed to collapse for me. I must teach him a lesson."

While the two of them were talking, the little yellow dog became restless, sniffing and sniffing everywhere, wagging its tail wildly, and wanted to bark, but Heiwa stopped it.

The little yellow dog was watching Chen Ling at the entrance of Badger's Cave as he kept wagging his tail, standing up and squatting down, looking restless.

Badgers have a nasty odor that humans can't smell, but dogs have good noses and can smell it.

Therefore, the little yellow dog was restless and wanted to immediately get into the hole and capture the prey.

It's a pity that Chen Ling didn't give orders, and Hei Wa didn't let him act rashly. He just waited anxiously.

"Hei Wa, quickly take your little brother and wait aside. You are not needed now."

Chen Ling was annoyed by the little yellow dog's barking, so he said to Hei Wa.

As long as Heiwa uses it for serious purposes, it is still very reliable, especially after smelling the scent of prey, it will not bark randomly.

And at this time, Chen Ling was most obedient to Chen Ling's orders. He quickly left with the little yellow dog and stood with Liu Nier and other little kids, watching from a distance.

"Heiba ​​can't get into this hole, and Xiao Jin can't get in, but the little yellow dog can get in, but this guy has never hunted before, so it's unreliable. If there are too many badgers living in it, I'm afraid it won't survive.

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Chen Ling smacked his lips. Badgers are fierce. Those claws dig holes. They can be called excavators in the biological world. They are hard and sharp. Unless they are hunting dogs, they will not be able to beat them if they meet outside the holes.

Both contain lakes.

"But looking at the soil here and these two big holes, I guess they are not new holes dug recently. I don't know what badgers have dug inside. If the holes below are deep and numerous, it will take a lot of time to use smoke.

My old nose is strong, I don’t know how long it will last.”

In the past, there were old men in the village who went up the mountain to stop badgers. In those days, when there was a shortage of oil and water, the badgers were fat and full of meat, which was very greedy.

But catching badgers is not easy. If you encounter a badger hole, a new hole is fine. Badgers are afraid of smoke, and smoke can force badgers out. If it is an old hole, badgers have occupied it for a long time, and they don’t know how to dig it out.

There are so many burrows, and sometimes there is no movement despite the smoke for an hour or two.

This is something that someone has actually tested, and it is not a lie. I have been busy for a long time and got nothing.

"Yeah, that's true."

Wang Lixian nodded and looked at him, "Then what do you think we should do? If there is no good way, let's have lunch first and dig up this place for him in the afternoon. By then, we will give up all the badgers."

It’s served.”

"Brother Xian, don't worry, I've figured out a way, let's try it first."

Chen Ling waved his hand to stop Wang Lixian's words, turned around and told Hei Wa: "You two go catch some mice and bring them alive."

After saying that, he said to Liu Nier and the little kids: "Liu Nier, go back and get kerosene."

"The rest, Hei Wa and the others have caught the mouse. You guys can help carry it away."

"I know, Uncle Fugui."

As soon as the little kids heard that someone needed their help, they immediately got excited and scattered in all directions.

Wang Lixian is considered an old hunter. After hearing Chen Ling's arrangement, he thought about it carefully and said, "Fugui, you are setting fire to the mouse's hole."

"Hehe, Brother Xian, you are right. The hole dug by the badger is deep, and there are many holes underneath, extending in all directions. If it is filled with smoke and water, it will be too laborious, and it may not be possible to force the badger out. It would be worse than that.

Let’s dig up this land.”

Chen Ling clapped his hands and smiled: "The fire mouse saves trouble, and we don't have to exert any effort. We don't have to let the dog into the hole. I don't believe that the badger in the hole won't come out."

Badgers make nests underground. In order to live comfortably, they like to take hay, cotton and feathers.

Setting fire to rats, that guy, just thinking about it is exciting enough.

Wang Lixian gave a thumbs up: "Okay, this is a great move."

There are rules in the mountains: no hunting in summer and early autumn, because this is the time when wild animals reproduce.

But if wild animals hurt people and enter the village to destroy other people's things, there is no way to deal with it. At worst, they will be driven away, and at worst, they will be thrown into a soup pot and lose their lives.

Since the earthen shed was destroyed and almost hit someone, Wang Lixian couldn't take too much care.

We can only find ways to force them away and teach them a lesson, otherwise they will not give up such a good hole easily.

So when Liu Nier and the others ran back with kerosene bottles, mice and dogs, Chen Ling asked Wang Lixian to go to the earth shed to fill the vertical holes with soil, while he wrapped the

On the other side of the rice field, a group of kids came with them and poured some kerosene on each of the squeaking mice.

Then he struck a match and threw it at the mouse. When the fire started, Chen Ling shouted, "Let go."

The little kids quickly put the mouse into the hole.

All of a sudden, rats all on fire ran into the hole, squeaking and screaming.

All the boys laughed excitedly when they saw this.

"No wonder my grandfather said that in the past, Uncle Fugui, you were the most trouble-making, but we have never played with this fire rat."

"Ahem, I don't have much else to do, so I just came up with this bad trick. Don't play around in the future. It's a trivial matter to get beaten up if it catches fire. But if the mice run around and start a mountain fire, the mountain will be burned.

If you burn the crops and burn people to death, it will be a serious matter."

"I know, we know that besides being afraid of water, we people in the mountains are most afraid of fire. If there is a fire, we can't even run away."

While Chen Ling was talking to the little kids, Wang Lixian simply blocked the entrance to the vertical front cave with earth and rocks, then walked over, inserted the shovel into the ground, and waited quietly.

At the same time, Chen Ling repeated what Chen Ling had said before to Liu Nier and others. In short, he repeatedly warned him not to think that the fire rat was fun and just go mess around. There would be no regrets if something happened.

He also told the story of how Er Donkey's youngest son went into the mountains to smoke a honeycomb last year. Er Donkey's youngest son was also in his early twenties and had just gotten married. Just like that, Er Donkey even beat him hard with his belt.

Not to mention these ignorant bears.

Wang Lixian warned and threatened, but Chen Ling's mind had already drifted to the mountains, wondering if he should go to the mountains to dig out some honeycombs and collect some honey in a while?

If that doesn't work, if you don't mind the trouble, you can also take out some of the honey produced by the bumblebees in the cave.

That honey is a very good thing. Let’s try it first to see if it has any special effects.

Chen Ling was walking like this, and after a while, an anxious and panicked howling sound came from the cave, just like the cry when killing a pig, and Chen Ling's keen sense of smell also smelled it from the cave

There was a trace of smoke. This was not the smell of kerosene burning on mice, but the smell of something like hay being set alight.

"Something's wrong."

Chen Ling suddenly heard noisy sounds inside the cave.

Wang Lixian also felt something strange. The main reason was that Heiwa suddenly stood up and became alert, with fluffy hair on his body and a low roar coming from his mouth, like a black lion.

He immediately felt a little creepy and quickly grabbed Chen Ling's wrist: "Fugui, let's stay away."

"Liu Ni'er, please run away quickly and stop standing around here."

Wang Lixian remembered that Heiwa and Xiaojin both had this scary look last year when they encountered jackals, wolves and other ferocious beasts.

At this time, they didn't look like two dogs, but ferocious beasts with fangs exposed.

Chen Ling first relied on his own instincts and intuition to sense something was wrong. Now when he saw Hei Wa's appearance, he felt a little angry and hurriedly followed Wang Lixian back.
To be continued...