After struggling to dig half a meter deep, the mouse hole began to move sideways. He dug along all the way, feeling very tired and a little discouraged.

He was gritting his teeth and persisting, when suddenly he heard what sounded like something coming from the vole hole.

He was overjoyed. It would be great if it was the vole just now. He just knocked it out. It looked like it weighed one or two kilograms, so it would be good to make a meal of vole meat. Although voles may carry germs or something, now they are all

I'm starving to death and can't care about that anymore.

He squatted aside with a medicine hoe and kept watch.

Suddenly, that thing came out, and it turned out to be a small snake! It was only as thick as a thumb, but relatively long, and its head was still shaking around after it came out.

Qiu Wuhen was startled, and without thinking about anything else, he smashed the medicine hoe down hard. In his panic, he smashed it empty.

The little snake turned to look at him, his eyes cold.

Qiu Wuhen went straight up and used the hoe several times, and finally chopped the little snake into several sections with the hoe.

He then flattened the snake's head with the back of his hoe. I heard that some venomous snakes can spit venom, but I don't know if this one has this ability, so I'll flatten it first.

After killing the little snake, Qiu Wuhen sat down on the grass and found that the back of his palms was covered in cold sweat. This was the first time he killed a snake. Many snakes are poisonous. I don't know if this one is there, so

It was actually quite dangerous just now.

After resting for a while, he stood up, picked up the snake's head with a hoe and threw it into the grass. Regardless of whether it was poisonous or not, the snake's head was not wanted. The snake's body was chopped into several sections. The snake skin can be used to make snake broth, and

It's a small gain.

He took the little snake body back and put it in his medicine box.

He turned around and looked at the hole where the vole hole was dug - how could the snake get out of the vole hole? Don't snakes eat voles?

However, this snake is too small. The vole just now is big. This snake cannot eat such a big vole, as long as it is not a venomous snake.

By the way, isn’t there an idiom called a nest of snakes and rats? It seems that voles can live in peace with mice. When neither voles nor snakes can kill each other and their power is balanced, it is possible to live in peace.

Wait! A thought occurred to Qiu Wuhen. A nest of snakes and rats? Yes, the field mice and this snake may live in the same nest. As long as you follow the traces of the snake, you may be able to find the nest where the field mice hide their food.

He became excited and squatted down to take a closer look. He found that the vole hole was very smooth and there were no traces visible to the naked eye. He was a little disappointed, but he did not give up. He touched the wall of the vole hole with his fingers.

At this time, a white gas came out of the traditional Chinese medicine gourd in my mind, flowing down the arm and fingers. A finger-wide mark appeared on the part where the fingers touched, and there were several patterns on it.

Could this be the trace of a snake crawling across it?

He quickly moved his fingers to other locations on the cave wall, but there were no similar marks in other locations.

He immediately determined that what just appeared was the trace left by the snake crawling over, and the traces actually showed up under the white gas of the brain medicine gourd.

If you dig along these traces, you may be able to touch where the voles hide their food.

He immediately raised a small medicine hoe and prepared to continue digging. However, he still stood up and looked around cautiously. After all, this was the road in and out of the village. If anyone saw it, it would be troublesome.

He immediately ran to the roadside and picked up his medicine box. He hid it in the grass. Then he felt relieved. He squatted down and started digging.

He was getting faster and faster, and the hope of digging for food made him even forget his fatigue. Not long after digging down, he found the forks of the rat hole. He touched the forks with his hand. One of the forks in the ground

It also showed the winding traces left by the snake's crawling. It was determined that this was the place where the snake crawled just now, and it probably led to the vole's nest.

He continued digging along the vole hole.

Fortunately, the vole hole did not go all the way down, but went sideways less than one meter down, so it was relatively easy for him.

After digging forward for a while, I found another fork.

After touching it, he once again confirmed that there were fresh traces of snakes crawling in a rat hole at the fork. He continued digging along. In this way, he did not know how many forks he encountered. Fortunately, he touched each fork with his fingers, and the medicine gourd

White smoke will emit and traces will appear through the fingers.

It seemed that the white smoke coming out of the gourd of traditional Chinese medicine in his mind had the function of showing traces. This made him very excited, because it would definitely be helpful in solving the case. If he had the opportunity to participate in solving the case in the future, he would use this skill.

He didn't know how long he had been digging. He was panting from exhaustion. Just when he felt like he was about to fall down, he finally dug out some rice with a hoe.

Qiu Wuhen was so excited that he held the rice in his hands and examined it carefully to confirm that it was indeed rice.

Only then did he realize that the light had dimmed. After concentrating on digging, it was already evening. He had been digging for a whole afternoon.

Looking back, I saw that we had left that mountain road long ago.

He stood up and took a look vigilantly to make sure there was no one, and then he carefully dug out the rat hole. His breathing almost stopped. The rat hole was huge and full of rice.

There is a nest next to it. I don't know if it belongs to a vole or a snake, but the plump vole has disappeared. Because there are several mouse holes in this vole nest, the vole must have escaped through other mouse holes.

He quickly took his medicine box, opened it, and poured out all the medicine and the snake. Then he held the rice in his hands and poured it into the medicine box. Until all the rice was put into the box, nearly half of it was filled.

A box looks like it weighs almost twenty kilograms.

This is great. At least I can eat white rice for several days in the future.

As long as you overcome the current difficulties and have this powerful medicine gourd in your head to help you, it should be easy to make money in the future.

He stopped after he was sure that there was no grain left. But what to do with the pile of medicine and the snake on the ground?

He took off his robe, put the medicine and the snake in it and rolled it up. He made a big bag and carried it on his back. Fortunately, he also had a set of moon-white clothes and pants, so he wouldn't be naked.

In fact, it's not a big problem even if you're naked, because it's already dark.

Qiu Wuhen walked back along the mountain road, going downhill all the way.

Suddenly, he heard a noise behind him. When he looked back, he saw someone holding a torch coming along the mountain path. He quickly stepped aside.

These people were carrying a stretcher. There was a person lying on the stretcher, covered with a quilt, groaning in pain. From the sound, he was probably sick or injured. The person carrying the stretcher was panting from exhaustion. Followed by a middle-aged woman

The man walked past him holding a crying child, looking very anxious.

Qiu Wuhen subconsciously wanted to ask if he wanted to help, but he stopped. After all, he had food on his back. What if the other party knew about it and had evil intentions? It is better to be careful.

He waited until the stretcher had passed and was far away before he continued walking forward.

Not long after, we arrived at a fork in the road and saw someone crying on the side of the road.

I walked in and saw the same people. The stretcher was placed on the roadside. The woman was holding the person on the stretcher and crying: "Father, you can't die. How will we, mother and son, live if we die? You

You can't die, wake up, woo woo woo..."

The man carrying the stretcher said: "Sister-in-law, I'm out of breath and can't reach the county seat. It's better to carry her home quickly to take care of the funeral."
Chapter completed!