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"Not really."

A slightly older man in the crowd spoke up: "We also eat rats over there. I ate one once and didn't get sick."

Of course, there are some lucky ones, such as mice in granaries or those specially raised, which can be eaten, but most of them are made into fertilizers or cat and dog food, and they are eaten very little by themselves.

So two factions formed in the village. One side believed Xu Wenyan and thought that rats were poisonous and could not be eaten. The other side thought that it was okay to eat them. No one would be willing to give up such a large piece of meat.

This naturally includes the man who caught the mouse. The man picked up a hoe and stepped on the mouse with his foot, killing the mouse in one go. Then he tied the mouse up with his trouser rope and continued searching in the field.

Seeing this scene, Xu Wenyan didn't say anything else. People are like this and will stick to their own opinions. It would be useless for Xu Wenyan to say more, and he might even be hated by these villagers and accused of being jealous.

Xu Wenyan understood it too well, and said silently in his heart, just eat it, and don't say a word.

"Captain Xu, this rat really can't be eaten." Zheng Liwei walked to Xu Wenyan, holding a dead rat in his hand. It was not as big as the one from the villager just now, but not small either.

"If you believe me, don't eat it. If you don't believe me, then eat it. Some mice can be eaten, but most cannot. Maybe this mouse can be eaten." This is indeed the case, but Xu Wenyan did not dare to make a guarantee.

Zheng Liwei just smiled innocently: "Believe me, Captain Xu, of course I believe you." Although he said this, Zheng Liwei had no intention of discarding the mouse.

He just followed Ermaizi and Xu Wenyan with the dead rat.

"You'd better wash your hands thoroughly when you go back." Zheng Liwei has a little daughter. The child's immunity is not strong and she can get sick easily if she is not careful.

"Hey, yes, yes."

Walking along the edge of the field, Xu Wenyan saw many holes, which were probably made by mice. The size of these holes were about the same as those made by wild rabbits.

Xu Wenyan didn't dare to reach out and dig it out directly. Not to mention that he might be bitten by a rat, this was not necessarily a rat hole. Many snakes would occupy existing holes.

If you take this out, you might get a surprise.

"Hey, Erma... Second Lieutenant, find me some long sticks."

Ermazi gritted his teeth slightly, then sighed softly and went to help Xu Wenyan find a long stick.

Xu Wenyan walked around for a long time and he felt that the mountain was about to be eaten by rats. It was a bit outrageous.

After that, several people inserted sticks into the entrances of the rat holes to mark them.

After completing these initial tasks, the villagers will stay here and continue catching mice. It doesn't matter whether they can catch them or not. They just need to stay here and prevent the mice from continuing to harm the crops.

"Please tell Wang Zeren. I need to look at some more bamboo tools."

"Whatever you want." Anyway, Wang Zeren would have no objection no matter how many times Xu Wenyan chopped.

So he carried two bamboos back and asked Chen Sanlin to help him weave them into bamboo cages. Chen Xingjie and Xiaoman also helped to make some more.

She went in again to get some hemp ropes, and together with Wang Dongmei, Chen Xiaohua and Rongrong, they weaved a net.

It is too unrealistic to want to catch a mouse with bare hands. The first rat extermination plan prepared by Xu Wenyan is to use this net. As long as it is fast, accurate and ruthless, it can catch any mouse easily.

Afterwards, Xu Wenyan burned some bamboo strips to make bamboo clips. It is best not to let your hands come into direct contact with the mouse.

After working for half an hour, I only made three nets. The linen was not easy to work with, and I couldn't waste all the linen I had at home.

"Okay, Xiaohu and Brother Chen stay with me, you guys continue to stay at home." Now the house is not even one third completed, and the most feared thing is rain.

This is mud brick, unlike red brick and green brick, it cannot be directly exposed to rain.

"Wow, Brother Xu, what's the scene here? There are so many people." Xiaohu put down the two bamboo cages and looked at the villagers running around with great curiosity.

Chen Sanlin put down his things and picked up his bow and arrow.

After distributing the other two net bags, Xu Wenyan brought Xiaohu and Chen Sanlin to the previously marked cave: "Zheng Liwei, what's going on?"

Zheng Liwei was left here by Xu Wenyan to observe the situation: "Captain Xu, not a single rat escaped."

"Okay." Xu Wenyan raised his head, took out a handful of mugwort and mixed it with some straw, lit it, and then smoked it towards the cave entrance.

The smoke was obedient and flowed into the cave.

"Huzi, Brother Chen, be careful, a big baby will come out soon."

Not long after the smoke entered, Xu Wenyan heard some rustling noises from inside: "Hey, here they come!"

He quickly withdrew his hand, only to see three or four mice rushing out of the hole. Xiaohu quickly went back to the net bag and caught two of them at once.

Chen Sanlin shot an arrow and the mouse died on the spot. He put the caught mouse into a bamboo cage. Zheng Liwei took a look and put the one he caught in there too.

"You guys are amazing. I caught one in half an hour, and you caught three in just a short time." This is how Zheng Liwei speaks. It is very comfortable to chat with him, and he praises people just right.

"Brother Zheng, you don't know this. It was not easier than this when we caught rabbits before." Xiaohu picked up the cage and followed Xu Wenyan to the next cave.

The other two teams that got the net bags also followed Xu Wenyan's example and caught every one of them accurately.

It was easy to get online at first, but after a while, the mice in the hole refused to come out, as if they had sensed the danger outside.

Rats are highly intelligent animals, with intelligence similar to that of a five or six-year-old child. Now they would rather choke to death in their holes than come out.

Despite this, the bamboo cage was still packed full, including some small mice brought out by the big mice, which seemed to have just grown hair.

"Brother Xu, how do we eat this mouse?" Although Xiaohu didn't like the mouse, they had already eaten what Xu Wenyan had caught before.

"Eat shit, it'll poison you to death." Xu Wenyan was speechless. Xiaohu's greedy habit had to be slightly changed: "Eating everything will only harm you, Huzi."

There was no more goods to be delivered later, and it was already late, so Xu Wenyan had to dismiss the crowd and go back first, but he arranged a shift, with a change of shifts every hour.

There are many people in the village, and each family only needs to patrol once or twice a week. It is not a hard work, just walking around in the fields with a torch.

As for the rat, Xu Wenyan took it away. It had to be dealt with together. Zheng Liwei wanted to help Xu Wenyan deal with it, but Xu Wenyan refused because he was a little worried.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t get sick, but don’t let the plague break out. If that happens, you will really have to stay in the mountains for another two years before you can go out.

As for the villagers, Xu Wenyan has already emphasized the harm of the plague to Ermazi.

With the military deployed, there shouldn't be any major problems.