Back to the small fishing village in 1982

Chapter 1140 The mute eats Coptis chinensis

He kicked the sack, and after hearing louder noises coming from inside, he quickly retracted his foot, shuddered, and followed the sack into the main room.

I leave rice in the pot on purpose, so it doesn’t matter what the vegetables are. You don’t have to eat hot food in the hot summer.

Ye Yaodong looked at Xiao Wu wolfing down the food and asked, "There looks to be quite a lot of food here. It feels like more than 100 kilograms."

"More than that, because they caught too many. They went out with their entire families. If the village I randomly found wasn't small and in a remote countryside, plus everyone seemed a little unconvinced, most people wouldn't have moved. Otherwise, they would have caught hundreds of kilograms."

"Fortunately, I said at the beginning that I only wanted about 100 kilograms at most. If it was more than 100 kilograms, I would not have the money to pay. Later, I gave priority to collecting snakes and mice, and only asked for toads after I had collected these."

"Then, because toads are so easy to catch, even children can catch them, so people caught a lot of them. Later, those who made money simply gave me the extra ones. After all, they also thought that these things were too disgusting and useless."

"And I told them that old snakes were 5 cents per pound, mice were cents, and toads were cent. I gave priority to snakes and mice. In fact, only a few poor families took action."

Ye Yaodong nodded. "No wonder. I was wondering why there were so many. The money given was not enough at all."

The whole family only lives in a small space of 20 to 30 square meters, so weighing several hundred kilograms is too much.

"They all thought I was a liar. No one paid any attention to me at first, but some people were so poor that they kept asking me for confirmation. I said that my hometown likes to eat old snake stew, dried rats, and toads. I explained everything according to what you said, Brother Dong."

"Yeah, good job."

"Brother Dong, is what you said true? I know about old snake soup, and we eat it, but isn't rat jerky too weird? Are you crazy because you're poor and haven't eaten meat in several lifetimes, so you eat rats? And toads... Who eats these two disgusting things? I wanted to ask this this morning, but I was in a hurry and you urged me."

Ye Yaodong laughed and started chatting with him, "You're right, there's a place in western Fujian in our province where people specialize in eating rats. But they don't eat the disgusting rats at home, they eat field mice in the fields."

"This dried rat is also known as one of the eight major dried vegetables in western Fujian. I heard it's delicious, but I haven't eaten it."

"I want to vomit. The mice in the field are still mice... How can I eat them? And that toad, this is even more disgusting..."

He just coughed and said, "What can be eaten is bullfrogs, not toads, but they look similar. Frogs look similar to them, and they were also one family about 500 years ago. Anyway, they don't understand. You say yours and they listen to theirs. Anyway, as long as you have a reasonable reason, it's fine."

"People who can eat these two things are really out of food."

"In places with a lot of mountains and forests, it's impossible to farm to fill your stomach, so you can only find ways to get food."

"I'd rather die than eat it."

"When you have nothing to eat, or when you have too much to eat and get tired of it, you'll start thinking about eating these weird and fresh things."

“Am I too full?”

"You know what, that bullfrog might really be like that, that's why it was studied and eaten."

Ye Yaodong was just talking casually. He heard that it was introduced from abroad. Anyway, Chinese people eat everything, so they want to try anything they haven't eaten before.

Things that are rampant in foreign countries become edible delicacies in China.

He sat for a while and then sat back down at the door, listening to the guy bragging to his neighbors.

He was the one who heard the noise from Xiaowu's back door just now. The others were bragging to him so enthusiastically that even though their Mandarin was awkward, it did not stop them from communicating with the neighbors through gestures.

As soon as he came out, the old lady next door pulled him and said exaggeratedly: "So you came here to be an official? You are so powerful?"

"What do you manage?"

Father Ye took over the conversation with a rosy face, "He is in charge of the sea. Didn't a lot of people die while fishing for jellyfish in the next town some time ago? Now a new unit has been set up to specifically manage this..."

He kept talking non-stop, and others also took the opportunity to talk, which surprised all the neighbors and they looked at him with bright eyes.

Their neighbor turned out to be an official. If they told others about it, they would be proud of it. If they have any difficulties in the future, they might be able to ask for help...

Ye Yaodong felt a little awkward after sitting there for a long time. The person involved was not suitable to listen to these things. He was only suitable to listen to others praising him behind his back.

Although it was very pleasant to hear it in person, it was a bit awkward, and everyone asked him directly, so he felt uncomfortable bragging about himself. One should be humble, and only others can brag about him.

He smiled and said a few words before going into the house. He packed up some things for tomorrow's trip to the sea and went to the backyard to check on the living creatures.

After some hesitation, I still poked two small holes with a branch. It would take several hours to get there in the middle of the night. It didn't matter if a few died, but they couldn't all die.

After finishing all this, he sat in the yard to enjoy the cool air. After everyone else came in, he told them to send two or three people to go with him to deliver the waste at 11 o'clock at night.

They had found out the address during the day, and when the time came, they carried their things on a shoulder pole to their destination.

I didn't expect to do anything to anyone. As long as I could disgust them and scare them a little, that would be enough. In the end, they were only disgusted a little this morning.

Not everyone is not afraid of snakes, rats, toads. After all, city dwellers living in the city don't see as many of them, so most of them are afraid of them, especially snakes. When there are too many of them, no one will not feel a tingling sensation on their scalp, even snake catchers.

Moreover, when there are too many of these things, cleaning them up is never easy. City people cannot compare with country people, and cleaning these things is definitely not as easy as cleaning feces.

But his actions were not malicious, they were purely disgusting and were meant to teach people a lesson. Otherwise, he would not have taken any action. They still thought that he was a foreigner who would not dare to do anything and could only seek help from the police.

This kind of disgusting thing, the police come to the door every day, and some people will think that the other party is easy to bully if they are not taught a lesson. They will become more and more aggressive and come to dump manure every day. Should he just sit there and wait for the cleanup every day?

Even if they guessed that he did it and wanted to go to his house again to argue and cause trouble, after hearing that he was an official, they would probably have doubts in their hearts, thinking about how he had been in and out with Zeng Weimin during the day, and would be too timid to do anything to him.

Even if the couple who occupied his house were sentenced, they would not dare to do anything to him.

In the eyes of the masses, even insignificant officials can take people's lives. "The people should not fight against the officials" is a saying that has been passed down from ancient times to the present day.

Ye Yaodong and his companions walked for an hour or so before they arrived at a place similar to a village in the city. In fact, it was much more dilapidated than Chengdong Village. It was full of small houses. Each house was only 20 to 30 square meters, and there was no yard, so they could not grow anything.

"Which one is it? There are so many houses, and they all look similar." Da asked in a low voice.

"This way, we need to go further inside."

The few of them continued forward and then stopped in front of a house.

"That's it. After I followed them here this afternoon, I piled up a few small stones at the corner of the wall as a mark."

Everyone shone their flashlights over there, and there really was a pile of rubble at the base of the house.

Ye Yaodong gave a thumbs up, "Smart."

"Hurry up and find a window to pour it in. Otherwise, these things will keep chirping there. If they stay there for too long, they might be discovered directly. If they don't stay there for too long, people might think it's just mice or frogs chirping, or they might think it's just a dream."

"Oh, oh, oh, their windows have iron bars, and it's so hot in summer and they don't open the windows..."

"Shhhhhh... don't say anything and just do it."

Since they were standing stealthily in front of a window, they lifted the sack and put the opening into the window.

When everything was ready, they untied the rope that tied the hole.

These snakes, rats, toads had been stuck in the sack for a whole day, and as soon as they were poured out, they ran all over the floor excitedly.

The three people who had just arrived were also excited.

"nailed it……"

Ye Yaodong waved at them and stood a little further away, about four or five meters away. He planned to listen to their reaction first and then run away.

After doing something bad, you always have to look at other people's reactions, otherwise how can you feel a sense of accomplishment?
When they stood about four or five meters away, they could still hear the constant croaking of toads coming from the house. They could not hear the sounds of old snakes and mice because there were too many toads.

After a while, there were several noisy sounds and cursing voices coming from the room.

"Where does the frog sound come from..."

"Damn, why is it so noisy in the middle of the night..."

"what sound……"

The moment the lights in the room came on, several screams were heard.

"what!!!!!"

Ye Yaodong waved his hand and said, "Go, go, go, leave quickly. Don't stay and watch. Otherwise, everyone nearby will be woken up and turn on the lights, and we will be exposed."

"I just listened to a few clips, what a pity!!"

"Let's go, just listen to it, don't get caught."

The screams became louder, and even the surrounding residents were affected and started cursing.

Everyone crouched down, passed under the windows of each household, and then quickly ran out of the alley.

By the time they ran out, more than a dozen lights were on in the alley, and they could still hear the screams while standing outside the alley.

"Oh my, that's so loud!"

"You can scream louder!"

"The louder the better, right?"

"Hahahaha, why do I feel like you're making a dirty joke..."

"I can't scare them to death. They actually dared to come to our house and throw feces. It's not good to go to their house and beat them up, but I can give them an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth." Xiao Wu said excitedly with a gleam in his eyes.

Ye Yaodong was satisfied. "Let's go back to sleep. We have to go out to sea tomorrow."

"If we all go out to sea tomorrow, what if they come to make trouble?"

"Just have two people watching. No matter how they come to the door and make trouble, it will alarm the neighbors. The neighbors will try to persuade them to stop making trouble and persuade them to go back. What's more, they have no evidence."

Seeing that they seemed to understand but not quite, he explained it again.

"Didn't you guys help me brag about my position as an official tonight? Who would dare to fight an official? They would definitely leave in disgrace after knowing that."

In an era when a family with many brothers can run rampant, even small officials can crush people to death.

Everyone looked at him in surprise.

"Gao! You are amazing. You thought of this in advance? That's why you asked us to brag to the neighbors at night."

"Adong is really amazing, he has a very active mind, not only can he make money but also can play tricks on people, and he can even trick people so hard that they are speechless and can only suffer this loss in silence."

"It's really amazing. People say that you should look three steps ahead before you take one step. This is amazing. This has been planned long ago. It's amazing."

Ye Yaodong was very happy to be praised by everyone, but he pretended to be calm on the surface, "It's nothing, I just want to scare them, otherwise, such disgusting things will happen again in the future. Let's go, go quickly."

"It's just a bit regretful. I can't bear to see that family in such a mess."

"You can imagine what would happen if there were snakes, rats, toads and other creatures running around in the house. There would be so many of them that they would probably want to hang themselves from the beams."

"It's no use climbing up to the beams. Rats and snakes can also climb up to the roof."

"That's right. That's enough for them to drink a pot."

Ye Yaodong said with a smile: "By then, the neighbors will hate them so much that they will scold them for ten days or half a month. With so many snakes, rats, toads, and toads, they will surely run around everywhere and spread to the surrounding residents. Everyone will have to buy insect repellent to spray their houses tomorrow."

But the situation is definitely not that serious for the surrounding residents. At most, a few will run around in their homes and they can be caught. Houses like this are bound to be infested with rats and cockroaches anyway.

Toads are particularly easy to catch. Apart from the fact that their large numbers can make people feel disgusted, they are not harmful. It is the rat snake that scares most city dwellers.

However, they are all non-toxic and cannot harm people. At most, you can pick up the snake with a branch and throw it into the jungle. If someone is brave enough to eat it, they can just put it in the pot and get a bargain.

Once we were away from that circle, everyone slowed down their pace and talked and laughed as they walked.

"Now I feel relieved. I had to clean the door this morning."

"I've been carrying water back and forth, and now they're bumping into me..."

　It's gone at night. I'll take the bus home tomorrow. Tomorrow's update will be before 12 o'clock tomorrow night.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)