57: Chapter 57 Eating Mouse at (2)_1 57: Chapter 57 Eating Mouse at (2)_1 The plump body belonged to a bamboo rat, round and fat from its diet, it was digging a hole.
Noticing soone approaching, it promptly scurried away at great speed.
“Hey, hey!
Chase it!” San Ya shouted, lunging forward.
Pei Qin held her back, “It’s a bamboo rat, they can dig holes, it’s gone into a hole!
You won’t catch up with it!”
“What!?
Is it a mouse?” San Ya gasped, “Such a big mouse!”
“A mouse is nothing like it!
Its at is even more tender and fresh than rabbit!
Chase!” Pei Qin said as she quickly trotted along.
“Didn’t you say not to chase it anymore?” San Ya asked, pulling Pei Wendong along with her.
When Pei Qin said not to chase, it was because it could not be caught; when she talked about chasing, it was because she had already seen the bamboo rat enter a hole.
After searching for quite a while, they finally found the entrance to the hole.
Pei Qin threw the sack she had pilfered earlier on the ground and specifically looked for damp firewood.
She lit it at one entrance of the bamboo rat’s hole using a flint, “San Lang!
Guard the fire!
Rember to add wood and don’t let the smoke die out!”
“Okay!” Pei Wendong obediently crouched beside the fire.
Pei Qin, with a sack in hand, and San Ya waited at another hole, expecting the bamboo rat to deliver itself into their hands.
The smoke grew thicker, and occasionally it billowed out of this side of the hole.
Pei Qin, seeing there was still another hole, quickly moved a rock to block it.
“Ahhh!
Big Sister!
Big Sister!” Sothing darted into the sack, frightening San Ya into screaming.
“Hold tight!” Pei Qin leaped over quickly and pressed down on the sack.
San Ya was already crying out of fear; the creature that had jumped into the sack was causing chaos and squeaking frantically, thoroughly terrifying her.
Pei Qin waited a mont, and when there was no more movent, she gathered the sack’s opening and tied it tightly with a rope.
Seeing San Ya’s tears streaming down, she grinned sowhat mischievously and stroked her little face, “Little Hero!
Check how heavy the sack is!
With a few bamboo rats like these, we can sell them in the county for so silver!”
“Really!?” San Ya wiped away her tears and, still a bit afraid, looked at the restless creature in the sack.
Pei Qin lifted the sack slightly, “It should weigh around a hundred jin; it’s too heavy to carry!”
Hearing it was so heavy and could be sold for silver, San Ya’s eyes instantly brightened and she forgot to cry, “Then let’s hurry and sell them!”
“We’ll go to the county to sell them tomorrow!” Pei Qin thought for a mont and dragged the sack, also pulling it towards the little cave they had stayed in.
San Ya and Pei Wendong both ca over to help.
“You two bury the ashes from the fire!
Don’t leave any traces!” Pei Qin instructed.
“Oh!
Okay!” San Ya hurried over to kick the unburnt damp wood into the hole, covered it with earth, and then sealed it with bamboo leaves before the three of them dragged the sack together.
After much struggle, they reached the side of the cliff.
Pei Qin no longer wanted to keep the bamboo rats in the small cave.
Finding another crevice, she caught each bamboo rat, cut off their claws, left two young ones out, and put the four big ones back into the sack.
She tied it up, placed it in the crevice, and blocked the entrance with a stone, ensuring that even if they chewed through the sack, they could not escape.
Pei Qin, carrying the two young ones, said, “Let’s go!
Ho to stir-fry so at!”
“Go ho to eat…” San Ya looked at her confusedly.
The bird eggs they had found before were eaten outside before they went back.
“Only if we go ho to eat, can we have an excuse to go out all day tomorrow!” Pei Qin was teaching her to be more cunning.
San Ya nodded eagerly.
Pei Wendong, thinking of the stir-fried at, began to drool and licked his lips, but rembering Pei Qin told him he looked ugly, he quickly held it back.
Upon returning ho, Pei Wendong excitedly flung himself at Lady Fang, “Mother!
We caught big rats!
We can stir-fry so at tonight!”
Lady Zhu, seeing the two huge rats tied up with straw rope by Pei Qin, ca at her with a broom ready to strike Pei Qin’s hand, “I think you’ve been bewitched to have turned so wild and crazy.
Now even rats you would eat!”
The two young bamboo rats fell to the ground, unable to wriggle free because their legs were tied.
They squeaked in panic.
“Now that you’ve returned, let’s have the Sorceress take a look!” Lady Chen said darkly, her eyes fixed on Pei Qin.
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