In the countryside and fields, the moon shines like water.
Xue Yuantong raised his head and looked into the distance. The lights of the river dam in the distance were like stars, dim and twinkling, and vendors and tourists coexisted.
And here she was, quiet and deep.
Xue Yuantong carried a lantern and continued to play the role of watchman. Her voice was crisp and clear: "The world is bright and peaceful."
Xue Chuchu silently reminded: "Aren't we catching bamboo rats?"
Xue Yuantong glanced at her sideways, criticizing in his heart, young people nowadays are so impatient, she hasn't finished speaking yet!
Then, Xue Yuantong said: "Only evil rats bring harm to the world. Today, you will do justice for heaven!"
"Go, Jiang Ning!" She waved her little hand.
Jiang Ning: "I'm too lazy to care."
There was no other way, so Xue Yuantong and Xue Chuchu worked together to search for wild bamboo rats.
Looking for bamboo rats is a technical job. In such a huge land, it is as difficult as climbing to the sky to find a bamboo rat huddled in a hole.
Xue Yuantong pretended to be an old hunter and talked eloquently: "Bamboo rats like to eat miscanthus roots, thatch roots, and bamboo. Look at the small bamboo forest over there."
Today, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the moonlight is exceptionally bright. In the dim fields, you can vaguely see the bamboo forest in the distance.
"Let's go to the destination!" Xue Yuantong led the team and walked to the bamboo forest.
There was a small dry ditch nearby, which was densely covered with bamboos and weeds. Xue Yuantong flew into it, but luckily he didn't fall down, otherwise Xue Chuchu might not have been able to find her.
Xue Yuantong swam in the grass for a while, shaking his head repeatedly: "Withered grass, all dead grass, no bamboo rats!"
Xue Chuchu: "Do you need fresh grass?"
"Not only fresh grass, but also fresh soil!" Xue Yuantong said.
When Xue Chuchu heard this, she felt it made sense, so she turned on a flashlight and searched the small bamboo forest.
Although Xue Chuchu is now clear and cold, with smooth and tender skin, as if she is not a human being, she is still a little girl from the village at heart.
She had done farm work in her childhood, often running around in the fields catching grasshoppers and butterflies, so she was quite good at this.
After searching for a while, Xue Chuchu illuminated a bamboo with a flashlight and called out: "Tongtong, come here quickly."
Xue Yuantong ran to the side, stuck out his little face, and was surprised: "The bite marks are really bamboo rats!"
Xue Chuchu was also inspired, and the two little girls continued to look for traces of bamboo rat holes.
Jiang Ning saw that the two of them were in high spirits, so he didn't interfere too much. He simply acted as a hands-off shopkeeper.
He has been in Heba for more than a year, destroying black chemical plants, regulating water systems, banning farmers who throw pesticides indiscriminately, and often burning garbage, etc... The natural environment within a radius of more than ten miles is in a benign dynamic balance, with bamboo
The rat was exactly as he expected.
If the two of them can really catch the bamboo rat, they will definitely have a stronger sense of accomplishment than Jiang Ning did.
"If there's anything you don't know, you can ask me." Jiang Ning said.
Xue Yuantong secretly curled his lips: "It's a shame."
Jiang Ning: "I will only give you twenty minutes, and then I will take over the bamboo forest."
Xue Yuantong continues to look for the cute bamboo rat.
Jiang Ning had nothing to do, so she took out her mobile phone and opened the chess APP.
He originally wanted to randomly match players. After thinking for a while, he returned to WeChat and chatted privately: "What are you doing? Let's play chess."
…
Huqi Mountain, villa area.
On the second floor, in the spacious kitchen, Ding Shuyan wore an apron around her waist. She held a spoon in her hand, her flexible waist slightly bent, and tasted the soup gently.
Lin Han sat at the dining table, doubtful: "Can it be eaten?"
She wanted to go out for dinner tonight, but her niece claimed that she made soup. Lin Han was shocked.
Ding Shuyan nodded slightly: "I can drink it."
"Have you blanched your ribs? Are they fishy?" Lin Han was worried.
Ding Shuyan was not offended at all. Her rules were clear: "Soak the ribs for an hour, wash them with flour, and then blanch them in a pot. There will be no fishy smell."
She looked at the floating oil on the soup noodles, filled a small bowl, and brought it to Lin Han.
Lin Han lowered his head and took a look. The pork ribs and corn soup had yam, carrots, and red dates added to it. It looked really good.
She was in the mood to test the poison, took a sip, and was immediately surprised: "You are good at your craft."
Ding Shuyan, who used to be quiet in the past, raised the corners of her mouth slightly, but then turned them away again. She was calm and rational:
"There is no difficulty in cooking. Once the process is clarified, it is much simpler than math problems. I really don't understand why some people think cooking is difficult?"
Lin Han felt that her niece was like the yin and yang of herself, but because the soup tasted delicious, she temporarily forgave her.
Ding Shuyan took off her apron, and the aura around her body changed accordingly, and she regained her innate sense of control over everything.
Then she looked at the desktop and found that the screen of her phone was lit up.
Ding Shuyan checked it calmly and found that it was Jiang Ning's message.
She immediately replied: "I'm ready to eat, and I can play."
Jiang Ning was very generous. He sent a message: "Then you should eat first. Food is the most important thing for the people."
The corners of Ding Shuyan's mouth unconsciously curved in an evil way: "No, I put you first."
Until Lin Han's gaze struck her, Ding Shuyan quickly suppressed her smile.
Lin Han stared.
Ding Shuyan looked at her calmly, and only after forcing Lin Han back did she return to the bedroom lightly.
Chess is a game of logic, and Ding Shuyan is a master at it. She originally planned to give up to Jiang Ning, but then when the fighting was fierce, she deliberately let go and let Jiang Ning win a big victory.
However, as it rained, Ding Shuyan found that they were evenly matched, and even had a slight tendency to lose.
She was not a pedantic person, so she opened her iPad, moved her fingers like butterflies, and quickly restored the endgame. She chose to let the master computer help play the game, and she played the game according to the master's steps.
Gradually, Jiang Ning began to lose.
Ding Shuyan smiled lightly. She did not deny the scientific and technological development of mankind from ancient times to the present because of her extraordinary power. She only chose things that were beneficial to her.
From this moment on, Ding Shuyan transforms into a technological warrior.
Just as she was preparing to secretly ask Jiang Ning to move, she suddenly noticed that Jiang Ning's chess pieces were changing strangely, and her murderous aura was strong.
Ding Shuyan's expression gradually solidified, and his master-level computer began to fail.
In the end, she tried her best but still lost the chess game.
Ding Shuyan looked at the screen and was speechless for a long time. Unspeakable emotions appeared on that outstanding face.
It was a master-level computer. She had played countless games with it, but had never won a game. She also didn't see anyone around her who could win.
now…
Did she overestimate technology and underestimate transcendence?
At the same time, Jiang Ning took back her mobile phone from Tongtong, touched her soft hair, and praised her without hesitation: "As expected of you."
Xue Yuantong snorted: "You don't even know who I am?"
Then he said: "I'm hungry. Please help me find bamboo rats."
Jiang Ning: "Okay."
…
Before Jiang Ning could take action, Xue Chuchu stood in the dry ditch, looking at the loose soil on the slope.
"I seem to have found a bamboo rat hole," she said.
Xue Yuantong hurriedly jumped over. She used a small wooden stick to pull twice, and sure enough, a black rumbling mud hole was revealed.
"It belongs to bamboo rats. Bamboo rats will block the entrance of the hole with soil!" Xue Yuantong concluded.
Xue Chuchu shined a flashlight into the bamboo rat hole, then found another branch and poked it in.
"Only the measurable part is at least one meter deep. How can we grasp it?" Xue Chuchu was in trouble.
This is not a crayfish hole. You can just dig it out with your hands. A bamboo rat hole is impossible. Not to mention whether you can touch it or not, you may get bitten on your hand.
"Water!"
"Smoke!"
Chu Chu and Tongtong blurted out.
Jiang Ning's spiritual consciousness extended, like X-rays with countless times higher definition, penetrating the heavy soil and revealing everything about the bamboo rat's cave.
A gray bamboo rat was hiding in a dark corner.
According to Jiang Ning's estimation, there is not much hope in watering and setting off smoke, and it is also time-consuming, unless the bamboo rat burrows are completely dug. Many people who catch bamboo rats rely on digging, which often takes several hours.
Jiang Ning was too lazy to bother, so he took out a small firework.
When Xue Yuantong saw it, he shouted: "Ground rat!"
Gophers are small rotating fireworks that fly all over the ground like tops after being lit. Tongtong played with them when he was a child and almost burned his firewood pile.
Jiang Ning didn't even take out the lighter. With a pinch of his fingers, the flame started and instantly ignited the gopher. He threw it into the bamboo rat hole.
Xue Chuchu witnessed it with his own eyes and was puzzled. How did Jiang Ning create fire?
After Jiang Ning lost the ground mouse, it was of course difficult to scare the bamboo rat out with the ground mouse alone. His trump card was behind him.
Jiang Ning activated her magic power and turned it into an invisible spiritual hand, which penetrated into the bamboo rat hole and grabbed the frightened bamboo rat.
Xue Yuantong squatted on the ground and saw the 'ground mice' running around unscrupulously at the entrance of the cave. She shouted excitedly: "The mice are coming out to celebrate the festival!"
The bamboo rat, whose throat was strangled, was forcibly pulled out of its nest. In order to simulate a real escape effect, the small spiritual hand separated several tentacles to control the four legs of the bamboo rat to crawl.
Then, what appeared in front of the three people was the scene of bamboo rats running away like crazy.
"Catch it quickly!" Xue Chuchu couldn't control her nervousness, fearing that the bamboo rat would run away and all her efforts would be wasted.
At this time, Jiang Ning, who was guarding the slope, put away his spiritual power.
He stretched out his hand to pinch the tail of the bamboo rat and lifted it up. An upside-down bamboo rat appeared in front of the three of them.
"Wow wow wow!" Xue Yuantong was so excited that his excited movements were wider than the captured bamboo rat.
The bamboo rat opened its mouth, showing its sharp teeth, and kept making a hissing sound, which was somewhat ferocious as a wild animal.
"Be careful, it will bite." Xue Chuchu reminded.
Jiang Ning straightened his arms, lifted the bamboo rat, and said with a smile: "It's okay, it's too fat, it can't turn over and bite me."
Xue Yuantong said from the side: "I watched TV and people caught bamboo rats by the back of their necks."
The rat had a fluffy appearance, which made her want to scratch it.
Xue Chuchu: "No, it will flip over and bite you."
The three men looked at the fierce bamboo rat for a while. Jiang Ning said, "Almost three pounds."
Xue Yuantong: "Not too young."
Xue Chuchu: "What should be fried with it?"
Jiang Ning: "Bamboo shoots, I still have some bamboo shoots at home."
The taste of wild bamboo rats is quite good, and when he adds the fresh bamboo shoots he brought from Huqi Mountain, stir-fries them with onion, ginger, garlic and cooking wine in an earthen pot, and then sprinkles them with spices, the taste can be improved by several levels.
Xue Yuantong almost drooled just thinking about it and ordered to go back home.
…
The journey home was beautiful and the moon seemed brighter.
They passed by the farmhouse when they came, and when they returned, they still passed by the farmhouse. The difference was that Jiang Ning had a chubby bamboo rat in his hand.
"Holding the grass, did you really catch it?" Lin Zida was dumbfounded.
His words attracted the attention of his companions in front of the campfire. They all looked over and discovered the bamboo rat in Jiang Ning's hand.
"Just caught?" Zhuang Jianhui asked.
Jiang Ning shook the bamboo rat and the fresh soil fell down: "Yes."
Wang Yong, who was counting among the crowd, said with envy: "You are so lucky, there are very few wild ones now."
Some of the other strangers were sizing up the bamboo rat, some were sizing up Xue Chuchu, and some were sizing up Jiang Ning.
Wei Zishan leaned closer. She liked raising snakes, so when she saw the hissing bamboo rat, she didn't feel scared at all. She was even curious: "Is it a male or a female?"
While speaking, she flicked the bamboo rat with her fingers, but was kicked by the bamboo rat.
Wei Zishan immediately put it on, extremely delicate: "Ah, I was caught by a bamboo rat, I'm done, I'm infected with a virus~"
Xue Yuantong was secretly dissatisfied.
Xue Chuchu didn't show off and paid attention to Jiang Ning from the corner of his eye.
Jiang Ning: "Then you have to go to the hospital quickly. If you go there too late, you will be cured."
Lin Zida laughed out loud.
Wei Zishan suddenly couldn't continue acting.
Jiang Ning didn't stay long, turned around and left, going home to deal with the bamboo rats. Tongtong and Chuchu hadn't had dinner yet.
Teacher Qian was shocked when he saw the rat in their hands: "Did you really catch it?"
Xue Yuantong: "Fake, fake, hallucination!"
Teacher Qian was dismissive and thought I was blind?
However, he had already eaten, and since tonight was the Lantern Festival, he was now in the state of a poet, so he immediately suggested: "Hey, on this beautiful occasion of the Lantern Festival, how can we not guess lantern riddles?"
Before he finished speaking, Xue Yuantong followed Jiang Ning into the house.
Teacher Qian: “…”
Lonely, lonely, so lonely!
Suddenly, a car came from the east. It turned out to be Xingxing, who had not yet returned home. He pulled a four-wheeled carriage and came to the west to pick up guests from the farmhouse.
The lonely teacher Qian couldn't express his talent. He took out two pieces of beef jerky and shouted: "Xingzi, eat something."
Xingxing drove here.
Teacher Qian then said: "Let me test you, 'Although the phoenix feather is beautiful, what will it become when it lands?' Guess the two-character lantern riddle, if you can guess..."
Xingxing, who was severely oppressed by life, had already lost hope. He didn't even listen to the answer and just said the next sentence:
"Guess the chicken feathers!"
Teacher Qian was greatly shocked. He held down Xingxing's shoulders and said in a trembling tone: "Genius, you are simply a genius!"
Xingxing looked at the crazy teacher Qian and was so scared that it was so scary! He really wanted to go home!
…
Next to the campfire at the farmhouse.
"Bamboo rat, it's okay. It tastes like rabbit meat, not as bad as rabbit meat." The man's tone was light and he didn't take it seriously.
Wang Yong was slightly excited when he learned that this boy would enter Class 8 in the future. His grandfather often said, 'The three pillars of life are that we have shouldered a gun together, been in the same class together, and...'
Class 8 is divided into different factions, and there is still one and a half years left in high school. By then, this kid will definitely make friends with him, and he will probably be more helpful to Wang Yong than Zhuang Jianhui.
Wang Yong immediately agreed: "Yes, I asked Boss Yang to stew native chicken today. It is definitely a different flavor!"
The man said again: "It's a pity that Shu Yan is not here."
Mentioning her name, Zhuang Jianhui sounded melancholy: "Maybe she doesn't like Heba."