The days that followed were dull. They went to the fields to farm during the day and came back to teach in the evening. Fortunately, the crops in the fields were harvested in a few days. They were not the turn of the educated youth to do the planting. After all, food is related to the lives of the villagers. These people from the city have never planted the land. If they can't handle it properly, the villagers will firmly disagree.

Zhou Zekai felt that such a life also had a different kind of comfort. Of course, the most important thing is that Uncle Zhang made iron really good! He got a very sharp knife from Uncle Zhang and there was something similar to a long insert. After Zhou Zekai fixed it on a wooden stick, he planned to go to the back mountain to see. The villagers always said that there were wolves in the back mountain, but Zhou Zekai believed that there must be other animals inside. He had eaten vegetarian food recently, and birds were about to fade out of his mouth. He decided to make a secret food for himself.

Another night, after Zhou Zekai taught the children, he watched the children home with a flashlight. Then he saw Yang Yuehua, who had not left yet. After spending time together, he already knew that this girl was an extremely sensible girl.

"Will aunt come to pick you up later?"

Recently, Yang's mother always comes over. Zhou Zekai saw that the "classroom" had been cleaned up, so naturally this problem occurred. Yang Yuehua shook her head after hearing this.

"My mother won't come today. She and my uncle are back to my grandmother's house. I'll go back by myself later."

When Zhou Zekai heard this, he felt that someone would help him go up the mountain later. He has been exercising recently, just to see if he meets a beast when he goes up the mountain, and now he sees Yang Yuehua not leaving, he asked.

"If you don't go to work tomorrow, do you have something to do?"

Yang Yuehua looked up and looked at Zhou Zekai. Although she didn't know what the other party wanted to do, she still shook her head.

"fine."

Originally, Zhou Zekai wanted to go alone at night, but considering the other party's safety, he decided to go with Yang Yuehua tomorrow.

"I plan to go up the mountain tomorrow to see you. Do you want to be with me?"

Zhou Zekai felt that Yang Yuehua seemed to have lost weight recently and planned to kill her prey this time to replenish her body.

"Going the mountain?" Looking at Zhou Zekai in surprise, Yang Yuehua frowned, a little surprised, "I heard from my dad that the mountain is not peaceful, it seems that there is a wolf. What do you want to go up the mountain?"

No one in their village dared to go up the mountain privately, and Yang Yuehua was very worried.

When Zhou Zekai heard this, he felt that it was indeed dangerous and asked a girl to accompany him up the mountain, so he said.

"It's okay, I'll ask. I originally wanted to go around and see it. If there were wolves, I wouldn't go."

He planned to go explore the road by himself and then check the time, but it was getting late.

"I'll take you home, I don't feel at ease if you're alone."

Although it is from the same village, the other party is a little girl. The house she lives in is still a little far from Yang Yuehua's house. Yang Yuehua felt a little embarrassed, but she accepted it and was sent home by Zhou Zekai.

Village Chief Yang was so happy to see Zhou Zekai send his daughter back. He originally wanted to keep Zhou Zekai for a drink, but Zhou Zekai refused.

When he got home, Zhou Zekai picked up the flashlight and the dagger and fork that Uncle Zhang had made, and headed towards the back mountain.

In fact, the mountains are not too scary these days. Such mountain roads are not a problem for Zhou Zekai. As he walked along the way, Zhou Zekai also used a fork to dig out several traps. He would not stop eating meat in the future. He could also make some wild game.

The back mountain is very big. After Zhou Zekai entered the mountain, he felt that there must be animals in the mountain. However, the animals were not found, and he actually found the bamboo forest in the back mountain. Seeing the bamboo, Zhou Zekai was happy. He saw that there were bamboo shoots. He put the flashlight aside and started digging bamboo shoots. As he digged, he actually dug something different...

Looking at the animal that was like a mouse looking down at the bamboo shoots, Zhou Zekai smiled and thought to himself that he had finally eaten meat!

That's right, this animal is a type of rat that loves to eat bamboo. It is called bamboo rat. The meat is delicious. Zhou Zekai reached out and caught the bamboo rat. It looked like more than three pounds, and at least it could make a plate of dishes.

He took out the prepared basket, put the bamboo rat in, and then continued to dig bamboo shoots. Unexpectedly, he was lucky. I don’t know if he had encountered the time for the bamboo rats to eat, but he actually encountered four or five bamboo rats, one of which was bigger than the other! Zhou Zekai was not greedy either, so he caught two of them in a total of them and put them in the basket. The back mountain was full of treasures, so he would come more in the future.

After the bamboo shoots filled the bamboo basket, the bamboo rat was also carried by Zhou Zekai in a burlap bag, and then he started to go down the mountain. There was no place to cook at home, so he still had to make this thing for Yuehua.

When he got home, Zhou Zekai slept comfortably that night. It was half past ten. It was a shame that he didn't have to work today, otherwise someone would have called him.

After getting up, Zhou Zekai finished washing up, picked out the bamboo shoots, and then put the bamboo rats inside. He was afraid that the villagers would ask about it. After all, I don’t know if the villagers had eaten this thing. It was hard to tell the villagers about what he went up the mountain last night.

Carrying the things, Zhou Zekai went to the village chief's house. Along the way, he met many villagers and greeted each other. The educated youth probably rested in the yard today. Zhou Zekai didn't walk that road, but he didn't meet any of them.

When he arrived outside the village chief Yang's house, Zhou Zekai shouted a few times, and Yang Yuehua came out of it.

"Brother Zhou, why are you here? Are you looking for my dad?"

Today, Village Chief Yang was not at home and led the villagers to the field outside to check and sow seeds. Yang Yuehua's mother has not come back yet, so she is at home alone to organize housework.

"No, I'll come to you to make it easier for me to go in? I want you to see the things."

Zhou Zekai didn't know if everyone had eaten this bamboo rat, so he was afraid that he would scare Yang Yuehua.

"Yeah, come in."

He opened the door and asked Zhou Zekai to come in. Then he saw what Zhou Zekai was holding and rushed over to help. But suddenly he saw something moving in the basket, which scared Yang Yuehua.

"This is a bamboo shoot. I dug it from the mountain and can be fried and eaten. It tastes very delicious."

He took out the bamboo shoots first, and Zhou Zekai said, but Yang Yuehua next to him suddenly grabbed his arm.

"Brother Zhou, did you go to the back mountain? When did you go?"

This nervous look made Zhou Zekai stunned, but when he thought that the other party was worried about him, he still hid it for a while.

"I had nothing to do when I woke up in the morning, so I went up and took a look. Don't worry, I didn't go inside, I just found some bamboo shoots and thought I could make something delicious."

"There are really wolves on the mountain. Believe me, don't go up the mountain anymore. It's very dangerous." Yang Yuehua was anxious and looked at Zhou Zekai worriedly. Then she found that her movements seemed not good. She immediately withdrew her hand, but it was even more cute in Zhou Zekai's eyes.

"Yuehua, don't worry, I'm in good health, there's no problem going up the mountain, and I won't encounter a wolf if I don't go inside. Look, what is this?"

Zhou Zekai knew Yang Yuehua's concerns. It was precisely because of this that he didn't want the other party to worry too much, so he opened the basket and asked Yang Yuehua to look inside.

"Ah! Mouse!"

When he leaned over, he saw Yang Yuehua was simply shocked by the rat inside. Such a big rat! It was the first time Yang Yuehua saw him, and his voice trembled. He couldn't help but stand behind Zhou Zekai, his face turned pale.

Girls are probably afraid of these things, such as snakes, rats, cockroaches, etc.

"Yuehua, don't be afraid. Look, although it looks like a mouse, its name is bamboo rat. It does not steal food, but only eats bamboo, so it can grow so big, and its meat is delicious and the dishes are very delicious."

Covering the basket, Zhou Zekai also understood that Yang Yuehua was afraid and explained.

Yang Yuehua, with a white face, did not expect that such a big mouse would want to eat! He refused at this moment and shook his head and said.

"Brother Zhou, how can this mouse be eaten? Although it has grown so big, this meat will not be poisonous after eating it, right?"

It's true. Yang Yuehua has never seen anyone who wants to eat a mouse when she grows up. Moreover, the mouse is too big and looks so scary...

"Yuehua, you have to believe me. I have seen this before and there are information in the book. This is called a bamboo rat. This animal can only be found in large bamboo forests. It is not an ordinary mouse, and it will not get sick even if it is eaten."

Zhou Zekai explained to Yang Yuehua that, finally, Yang Yuehua could not refuse the request of the person she liked, so she took Zhou Zekai a kitchen knife, prepared water, and asked Zhou Zekai to kill the bamboo rat...

Of course, she didn't dare to see at all. Although Zhou Zekai killed bamboo rats for the first time, he had killed other animals. The two bamboo rats were quickly killed and peeled, and then chopped into pieces of meat. These two were the fattest ones that Zhou Zekai chose. The two were almost eight kilograms of... So even after peeling, the meat and bones were more than six kilograms, and they could eat for a day or two.

"I've done it, Yuehua, don't be afraid, take a look."

Zhou Zekai brought the processed meat to Yang Yuehua. Yang Yuehua finally dared to open his eyes and found that the meat really looked no different from pork, mutton and beef... Then he became less afraid.

“It seems that it doesn’t look different from pork…”

"It's not that different. Its meat tastes a bit sweet. After you finish cooking the soup, you will find that it is completely different from pork. After eating it, it can be beneficial to the circulation of blood vessels and delay aging. In fact, the elderly eat it better..."

Zhou Zekai still knows a little about this thing, saying that Yang Yuehua is confused. Anyway, he agreed to make this bamboo rat for Zhou Zekai, although he was still worried that this thing would be poisonous.

By the time it was ready, it was almost noon. He brought a small bowl and came out first. Yang Yuehua didn't dare to taste it.

"Look, is that true?"

Looking at the bamboo shoots stewed in the bowl, Zhou Zekai picked up the chopsticks and ate them. Yang Yuehua couldn't stop him. He got into his mouth with one bite of the meat. It was indeed very sweet, and the meat tasted very delicious.

"tasty!"

He raised his thumbs up and gave Yang Yuehua a thumbs up. Before Yang Yuehua could be happy, he heard his father's voice.
Chapter completed!