Chapter 24 man and mouse

April 27, 2004 Recently, there are a lot of rats in the board building, and they come out one after another at night, running around and screaming "Zhi Zhi", which makes people jump in fear.Xiaomeng's house is a haunt of rats. Whenever the lights are turned off to sleep, rats, big and small, descend from the beams like paratroopers.The plastic gauze on the kitchen cabinet that Xiao Meng bought was full of holes and scars from being bitten. After mending and biting, Xiao Meng had to replace it with iron gauze.The mice couldn't bite the wire gauze, so they attacked the wooden boards on the back of the cupboard. Several large rats took turns to attack, and even bit a hole, and then entered the cupboard to snatch food.

Rats were so rampant that it aroused the hatred of dozens of families in Banlou. Some bought rat poison, some put rat traps, and every family carried out rodent control.Xiao Meng bought a wire cage for catching mice. That night, he hooked a piece of fried dough sticks left over from breakfast on the iron hook in the cage, fastened the mechanism, and then put the wire cage next to the kitchen cabinet.When I woke up the next day, I saw a big mouse was caught alive.Xiao Meng clapped his hands and glared at the mouse in the cage: "You still have today! I will take care of you!" Xiaomeng lifted the rat in the cage to the open field in front of the board building to show the public.The men, women and children in the Banlou almost poured out of the building, watching and denouncing, very happy.Xiaomeng brought half a bucket of water from the kitchen and soaked the rat in the cage. After a while, he lifted it up. The rat in the cage squeaked twice and shook its wet fur as if nothing had happened.

Someone shouted: "Mice are not afraid of water, but electricity." Xiaomeng pulled out a wire from the board building, tied it under the bamboo pole, connected it to the live wire, and touched the end of the wire to the wire cage with the pole. Immediately, the rat in the cage screamed wildly and jumped up and down. Everyone clapped their hands and shouted: "Electricize it! Electrocute it!" Xiao Meng put away the wires and said, "You can't let it die so quickly! You have to torture it slowly so that it doesn't die like this." Everyone offered their ideas one after another.Xiao Wang at the east end of Banlou said: "Everyone make a big circle, then pour kerosene on the mouse's tail, light it on fire, let it out of the cage, and let it run in circles on the field, it's very beautiful!"

Everyone clapped their hands and applauded, and automatically stepped back to form a big circle.Xiao Meng went home and fetched a kerosene bottle and tweezers, grabbed the mouse's tail with the tweezers, and soaked it in the kerosene bottle.Then Xiao Wang lit the mouse's tail, and Xiao Meng pulled up the wire cage door.In an instant, the mouse jumped out of the wire cage with its fiery tail, screaming "Zhi Zhi", and ran wildly in the circle of people. The crowd clapped their hands and stomped their feet, cheering and shouting. Suddenly, the mouse rushed towards the crowd like lightning.The crowd burst into screams.I saw the mouse jumping between the feet, dragging its smoky fire tail, and jumping straight into the slab building.

Like throwing a string of incendiary bombs, the slab buildings burst into flames one after another, and after a while, a raging fire ignited. 1997