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See Chen Sanlin coming back with a bamboo cage full of rats.

Xiaoman was surprised and said, "You guys went to catch mice."

"Yeah, I'm so tired." Xu Wenyan picked up the bamboo tube and drank a glass of water, then sat on the chair.

Then Xiaoman also caught a mouse: "We caught one at home, too."

Xu Wenyan sat up from his chair. It seemed that the range of these mice's activities was quite large. Originally, Xu Wenyan just thought that these mice had set their eyes on the crops in the fields.

I never thought that there was one at home too. It seems necessary to go to other villagers' homes tomorrow to take a look.

If the whole village is full of rats, it will be a big deal.

Afterwards, he told Chen Sanlin to go to a farther place, dig a hole, burn all the rats to death, and then bury them directly after burning.

He disinfected Xiaoman, Chen Sanlin and Xiaohu's hands thoroughly before going to bed.

The next morning.

Lu family shack.

“Um...ah....” Several children of the Lu family in the shack cried heartbreakingly.

"Oh, what a sin I have committed." Cui's face was covered with tears. She hugged Lu Dagang who was still in pain and cried together with him.

The family was sleeping soundly, but when they woke up in the morning, the children started crying. At first, the adults were puzzled.

It was not until I saw half of Lu Daniu's face was stained with blood that I took a closer look and discovered that half of Lu Daniu's ear had been eaten.

The other children had signs of being bitten on their fingers or toes.

It is highly likely that it was rats that gnawed them. Yesterday, the Lu family beat and scolded them, especially Cui, who said that she would exterminate the entire clan of rats. Rats are vengeful creatures, so they came to take revenge.

But it’s strange that the child didn’t cry even though his body was bitten by rats. He only felt the pain when he woke up in the morning.

"Stop crying, take the child to see a doctor." Lu Dagang urged his wife, who had already gone out holding Lu Ergang and carrying the third child on his back.

The villagers all knew that there was a doctor in the military tent, so they could only hurry over to find Doctor Zhao.

"Who are you looking for?" Boss Han was on duty this morning. Most of the village knew what the Lu family did to commit suicide.

Boss Han naturally wouldn't be polite to them.

"Sir, my child is sick. I would like to ask a doctor to take a look." Lu Dagang was also anxious. His son in his arms kept crying and shouting in pain. Listening to his son's heart-wrenching voice, he gradually felt uncomfortable.

Boss Han took a look at the child and saw that the situation was indeed serious. "Doctor Zhao goes to collect herbs every morning. He is not here now. You can either wait or go to the southwest to find Brother Xu."

"Brother Xu? Who is this Brother Xu? Is he the village doctor?"

"Xu Wenyan, besides Doctor Zhao, he is the only one in the village who knows medical skills."

After hearing what Boss Han said, Lu Dagang felt confused. Isn't this a coincidence? He just offended someone a few days ago, and today he has to ask him to treat his illness.

Although Lu Dagang was very reluctant, he finally put aside his pride after hearing his son crying.

Ran to Xu Wenyan's house.

"Doctor Xu, help me."

"Hey, who are you? Just run to my house." Xiaohu stopped several people from the Lu family who wanted to rush into the yard.

Lu Dagang also cried out of distress: "I am taking my child to see a doctor, please let me in."

Half a minute later, Lv Dagang cried and said to Xu Wenyan in front of him: "Doctor Xu, please save my child."

"No, I'm a poor guy who can only afford to eat wild vegetables. How can I know any medical skills? You are such a joke." Xu Wenyan took a sip of the bamboo tube in his hand.

As for Lu Dashan's heart-wrenching voice, Xu Wenyan felt nothing. If it was a child from an ordinary family, Xu Wenyan would naturally not ignore it.

Human nature is evil, Xu Wenyan thought so. Some children are born bad, there is no doubt about that.

"Bam—"

I saw Lu Dagang kneeling heavily on the ground and begging Xu Wenyan: "Doctor Xu, it was our family that was wrong before. I am sorry for you. Please, please save my Dashan."

It has to be said that the Lu family is really uncompromising when it comes to their own people. They are willing to do anything for them.

Since the eldest brother of the Lu family knelt down, the others naturally followed suit.

Xu Wenyan sat down and said, "Okay, the consultation fee is thirty cents."

Lu Dagang hurriedly took out money from his pocket and handed a handful of money to Xu Wenyan without counting it carefully.

After taking a look at the child's injuries, he found that his ear was gnawed by a rat. Xu Wenyan was just about to go back to the house to get some disinfectant and hemostatic medicine when he saw Miao running in hurriedly.

"Brother, why are you here? Doctor Zhao is back."

When Lu Dagang heard the news, he stood up and looked at Xu Wenyan fiercely: "Just wait for me."

Xu Wenyan was speechless about this family's outrageous behavior. They were really sick.

Anyway, the consultation fee has been collected, so just leave.

Today they have to continue their battle of wits and courage with these rats. Before leaving, Xu Wenyan asked Xiaohu to take the bucket from home, and then carry a sack of limestone on his back and continue to go to the field towards the net bag.

Villagers also caught a few of them during their patrol last night. After yesterday's capture operation, there were obviously very few signs of the land being dug up.

He still wanted to use smoke, although the effect was not good, it was the most energy-saving method. No matter how fast Xiaohu returned to the house with the net bag or Chen Sanlin's accuracy, almost all the mice that ran out had nowhere to escape.

After a lot of trouble, they only caught seven or eight mice. Xu Wenyan said that he wanted to completely clean out all the mice in a hole before it would count, because mice reproduce very quickly.

Basically, they can give birth to 6-8 babies at a time, and several times a year.

"Hu Zi, give me the bucket." The bucket was already full of water. Xu Wenyan sprinkled limestone into the water, and many bubbles began to emerge from the water.

When the water was almost heated, Xu Wenyan poured the water in two buckets in a row. The mice in the cave could no longer bear it and ran out of the cave.

As long as the rat showed its head, it would be caught. After that, Xu Wenyan called a few villagers to help fetch water. On average, only two buckets of water were needed to force the rats out of a hole.

Throughout the whole morning, Xu Wenyan caught more mice than yesterday. Afterwards, he arranged for the villagers to fill up the hole, as it would be bad if other animals moved in.

We naturally spent the afternoon building the house together. The house has been basically built, the bricks of the wall have also been laid, and now the only thing left is the roof.

When building the house today, Xu Wenyan also found a mouse at home. He hit it with a brick and the mouse was immediately cut into pieces.

In order to find out whether there were any other households in the village, Xu Wenyan decided to go to the military tent first.