Ye Ming walked over with a hoe and asked. One of the middle-aged women wearing a headscarf pushed the bamboo basket in front of Ye Ming.
"Xiao Ming, look at it, these gastrodia elata are all bitten!"
Ye Ming picked up one and looked at it. The originally plump gastrodia was bitten to pieces, and the tooth marks on it were obviously left by rodents.
It shouldn't be rabbits, because rabbits eat the leaves above, and only mice dig up the soil and eat the roots.
Ye Ming looked at the other gastrodia elata, and they were all the same.
"And these medicinal materials have all been eaten!"
A woman next to her raised the bamboo basket in her hand. The medicinal materials inside were also ruined.
Ye Ming frowned, is the rat problem in Cuiwei Mountain so serious?
Aunt Li sighed: "Xiaoye, you have to think of a way. The medicinal materials are ripe. If this continues, I don't know how much medicinal materials will be wasted. This is all money!"
The harvest of medicinal materials is linked to their income. If they are severely damaged by rats, their hard work in the past few months will be in vain.
Ye Ming thought for a while and said, "Aunt Li, I'll talk to Sister Qing later and ask her to buy some mouse traps and rat poison."
Aunt Li said: "I've done all this before. The mouse traps couldn't catch the mice, the rat poison I put in didn't work, and several cats were killed by the poison!"
Ye Ming was stunned. Are rats so smart now? Mouse traps and rat poison no longer work?
"Woof woof! woof woof!"
The rapid barking of a dog came. Ye Ming turned around and saw Fugui digging the soil crazily.
There was originally a hole here, but it has been dug out by the wealthy.
"Whoosh!"
Suddenly a black shadow came out of the hole. Fugui had quick eyes and a quick mouth, so he took a bite.
"Squeak!"
The black shadow was a fat rat. It screamed in agony after being bitten. Fugui shook his head violently and killed the big rat in a few strokes.
"Woooo..."
Fugui was so proud that he ran to Ye Ming like a victorious general, put the mouse in his mouth at his feet, and wagged his tail as if to take credit, as if to say whether Fugui was powerful or not?
"Xiaoye, your dog is so powerful, it can even catch mice!"
"What a good dog, much more powerful than my family's wealth!"
Being praised by everyone, Fugui raised his head proudly and looked arrogant.
The mouse was not completely dead, and its limbs were still twitching. Ye Ming fiddled with it with a hoe, and his brows suddenly furrowed.
This mouse was bigger than a two-month-old kitten, its fur was shiny, and its two front teeth were extremely sharp. These were not things that puzzled Ye Ming. What puzzled Ye Ming was that this mouse had an aura about it.
"Could it be that after eating the medicinal materials that were watered by the spiritual energy pool, the body mutated?"
Fugui was baptized by the aura-rich water mist. After that, his intelligence became much higher than before, and his appearance also changed. It is not surprising that the mouse became like this after eating the aura-rich herbs.
Thinking of this, Ye Ming felt a little uneasy. If all the mice in Cuiwei Mountain mutated after eating spiritual herbs, it would be a disaster for his herb planting base!
You can imagine that a group of rats that have been greatly improved and have some intelligence are swarming. Mouse traps and rat poison are ineffective against them. Cats will retreat when they see them, and no grass will grow wherever they pass.
Must be saved in time!
Ye Ming looked at Fugui, touched the dog's head with his hand, and said with a smile: "Fugui, let me assign you a task!"
Fugui immediately pricked up his ears: "What mission? As long as there are sausages, Fugui will definitely complete it!"
Ye Ming pointed to the herbs all over Cuiwei Mountain and said: "Look at these herbs, they will be used to sell you money to buy sausages in the future. Now they are being destroyed by rats. If you can't harvest them, let alone sausages, you won't be able to eat shit."
Hot!"
Fugui suddenly became anxious and whined, "Fugui doesn't want to eat cold shit, Fugui wants to eat sausages!"
Ye Ming said: "I order you now to patrol the mountain every night and kill all the rats that harm the medicinal herbs. When the medicinal herbs are harvested, I will buy you a box... no, two boxes of sausages. You can eat whatever you want from now on."
eat!"
Facing the pie painted by Ye Ming, Fugui nodded excitedly and whined, promising to complete the task!
Aunt Li and others looked at each other in shock. Ye Ming actually talked to the dog. Could it be that his stupid disease has relapsed?
"Xiaoye, although your dog just caught a big rat, we still don't believe it can catch rats all over the mountains and plains. You should think of other ways. If the medicinal materials continue to be wasted like this, we will not plant it.
It’s a waste of effort and you won’t make any money in the end.”
Aunt Li and others began to back off, saying that a rat infestation that neither mousetraps nor rat poison could cure was just a dog.
Fugui immediately became unhappy when he was questioned, and whined at Aunt Li and others.
"You guys are long-haired but short-sighted village women. The rich man is an expert at catching rats. I think back on the snack street where the rich man was, there would be no room for rats to live!"
Aunt Li and the others couldn't understand what Fugui was barking at, so they all shook their heads and sighed, with lonely expressions on their faces.
Ye Ming didn't explain too much. Although Fugui only caught mice twice, judging from its swift movements and flexible reactions, it must be capable of the job. It's useless to talk more, so let's let actual actions prove it.
"Let's go back first. You can come over by yourself in the evening."
Ye Ming patted Fugui's head and walked down the mountain carrying the bamboo basket.
"Brother Monkey, come with me up the mountain to catch mice at night. I'm such a boring dog."
In the yard of Ye Ming's house, Fugui licked his dog's face and approached Xiao Hui and asked.
Xiao Hui tinkered with the electric baton and refused without raising his head.
"I'm a monkey and I can't catch mice, so go ahead and do it yourself!"
"Crack! Crack..."
After pressing it twice, the electric baton went out.
Xiao Hui knocked and pressed the switch, but still no response.
"This thing is rechargeable. It won't work when the battery runs out!"
Fugui is well-informed and has seen a security guard charging this thing in a snack street before.
"How?" Xiao Hui asked doubtfully.
Fugui pointed with his dog nose: "This place is plugged into the switch in the house."
"Hey, okay, I'll go there early and I won't be late."
Ye Ming opened the door while talking on the phone, and Xiao Hui and Fugui immediately got into the house through the crack in the door.
"Are you going out?"
Shen Miaoyin happened to come in. She was carrying a large box, which contained specimens collected from the mountain.
Ye Ming hung up the phone and said: "The driving school called and asked me to take the test early tomorrow morning. It's too late to go tomorrow morning. I have to go to the county seat now."
"Sister Qing, make one less portion for dinner!"
Shen Miaoyin shouted loudly towards the kitchen, and then went into the house minding her own business.
Ye Ming's mouth twitched and he went out to borrow an electric tricycle.
In the evening, Ye Jinxian, Liu Qing, and Shen Miaoyin went back to their houses to rest after dinner. Fugui went out after eating and drinking.
Fugui did not go directly to the mountain, but first went to Ajuan to admire the moon, and two hours later came to Cuiwei Mountain to catch mice.
It was late at night, and Ye Jinxian's thunderous snoring could be heard in the house. Xiao Hui was so disturbed that he couldn't sleep, so he opened the door and went to sleep outside.
Suddenly, Xiao Hui's ears twitched, and he opened his eyes and looked towards the courtyard door. Under the moonlight, several shadows flashed across the cracks in the door.