The Story of Elvis (2)
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We smoked bacon and hung it next to the barn.
The next morning, I went to open the door and found Lihua lying on the ground, half asleep, with three mice scattered under his feet, one big and two small, about the length of his little finger.
My uncle said that the small mice were mice that specialized in stealing meat.
Yes, mice in the countryside are different.
The mice that eat grain are larger.
There is a kind of mouse that only steals meat. It is very small, as long as a little finger, and is very clever. It can understand human language, is very difficult to catch, and can bite people. According to my uncle, many people were bitten on their big toes and noses while sleeping before liberation.
I was very happy to see Lihua catch a mouse.
I gave it some fat pork as a reward.
But it didn’t eat.
It just stood up and bowed cautiously, then jumped onto the beam.
It didn’t come down until my uncle came. It ate some lard-soaked rice with some pig liver in it, which it ate very deliciously.
Then Gagong let it out. Before letting it out, he told the tabby cat that there were mice to be caught here, and you should come back to catch mice at night.
I don’t know if the little tabby cat understood.
I saw it trotting and jumping out, and quickly disappeared in the mountains and forests.
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At night, we were watching the fire in the yard and emptying the bacon, but we saw it swiftly rushing into the house and then went straight into the barn.
I told my cousin (my second uncle’s child) that the cat came back to catch mice.
My cousin said, “This cat is very good at catching mice.”
I nodded and said yes. At that time, I liked to pet cats and dogs very much. I got up and went into the house to catch the cat.
But I saw the cat squatting by the barn, with its ears erected, staring at a corner intently.
I looked towards that corner.
I found that the corner of the old house had been punched by mice at some point, and there was a sound of giggling inside.
A mouse head poked its head out.
You can see the mouse’s whiskers.
This mouse is undoubtedly the one I saw on the first day in the barn.
I was surprised and said, “Oh, there are mice.”
The mouse shrank its head in an instant and disappeared.
The tabby cat glanced at me speechlessly.
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Really, just like a person, it glanced at me speechlessly, then it stretched and lay on the side of the barn, stretched its body, exposed its belly, squinted its eyes and pretended to sleep, but its eyes were fixed on the mouse hole.
Seeing this, I thought this cat was very smart.
So I decided to observe secretly, so I moved a bench and sat at the door of the barn and observed secretly.
As a result, I found a shocking scene. A
cunning mouse that can understand human language and a clever hunter tabby cat, a scene of wits and courage!
City people may rarely see meat mice.
This kind of mouse is very small, only about seven or eight centimeters, but very clever, with cunning eyes. The hair is also different from that of ordinary mice, which is black and gray.
They have two black and bright eyeballs, which can look left and right and turn their eyeballs.
The rats in the rat hole are meat rats.
My grandfather said that this kind of rat likes to eat meat and likes to steal meat. The old people said that before liberation, this kind of meat rat would secretly gnaw on the nose and face of children. There
was more than one rat in the hole.
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At first, there was a meat rat. It came out and looked around. It had a small head and huge eyes. After staring at the tabby cat for a while, it secretly shrank back.
Then there was another rat.
This kind of rat is an ordinary mouse.
They look much dumber.
Not only is it big, but its hair is also black and gray. One of them came out with a grin, stood up half-upright at the entrance of the hole, tilted its head, and observed the direction of the tabby cat.
It sniffed with its nose, then moved its whiskers and stared at that direction.
I don’t know if the mouse can see like this, but in my subconscious, the mouse should also use its sense of smell to identify the direction of the cat.
Seeing that the mouse is so intelligent and so smart.
To be honest, I was shocked at the time.
I leaned sideways, leaving only half of my head exposed, and peeked in. I saw a tabby cat lying on the edge of the barn, covering its head with its paws and purring.
It was the sound of a cat sleeping.
It slept soundly.
I thought it was really asleep.
The big rats in the mouse hole seemed to believe it, and one of them came out and crept forward, moving quickly from the corner under the barn to the wing where the bacon was hung.
After one, there was a second, a third…
a total of four big rats.
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