mtl008 Chapter 196 Waiting for news, smoking rats
Chapter 196 Waiting for news, smoking rats
"Husband, do you think they will inform the police?" After Yanan left the city, she could finally relax. She began to secretly speculate on how the situation would develop.
"Maybe!" Nanchen lay down with his legs crossed, swinging back and forth. For him, this kind of mission was too easy.
"Aren't you nervous at all?" Yanan couldn't bear to see him being leisurely, so she said it on purpose.
"Why should I be nervous? Shouldn't the bad guys be nervous?!" Nanchen asked back with a smile.
"That's right! So do we need to speed up or take it slow?" Yanan asked again.
"Just go at normal speed, not too fast or too slow." Nanchen's confident look made people hate him.
"Tell me, what did you do last night?" Yanan asked again.
"Of course I'm going to scout the place and look for evidence. Otherwise, what do you think I'm going to do? Date a young lady?!" Nanchen smiled like a gangster.
"There's a young lady? Take me with you next time, I want to go see her too!" Yanan looked more excited than the men, which confused Nanchen. What should he do? Take his wife with him to find the young lady? This was outrageous.
"I'm going to go out and drive, and let Laowu take a rest. He has important things to do in Mianzhou!" Nanchen was about to slip away if he couldn't argue, but was stopped by Yanan.
"Call him in, you both need to take a rest, you've been staying up late too!" Yanan didn't care about the verbal fight, she really cared about their health.
"Old Five, Anan asked you to get in the car and have a rest. The convoy can move at normal speed. We are not in a hurry. As long as we can get there before dark, it will be fine." Nanchen stuck his head out and said to Hua Heng who was riding a horse.
"Okay, let's go a little further. There is a river ahead. We will stop by the river to rest and give the horses water and food before we continue walking," Hua Heng agreed readily.
"Oh, is there a river? I feel that the terrain here is quite flat, and the fields are connected together, right? I also want to go down and take a look." Yanan leaned on the car window and looked out hard. The scenery she could see in the moving carriage was really limited.
"Well, if you want to play, let's play later." Nanchen said lovingly.
The convoy stopped on the flat land near the other side of the river, and the horses were freed and started to frolic in the field with only hay left. A group of men also scattered around. Some set up pots to boil water, some stared at the river in anticipation of the river fish, some roasted dried meat and baked cold and hard cakes... The picture of the curling smoke was so beautiful that it was easy to misunderstand that they were a group of people out for fun.
Yanan and Nanchen walked along the edge of the field to observe the rat holes in the field. After discovering several holes in a row, Yanan came to Nanchen and whispered a few words. Then everyone saw the tall and mighty Second Young Master blocking rat holes everywhere with hay, blocking all rat holes within a radius of three meters. Then he took the fire starter, lit a hole at the wind outlet, and then quietly waited for the fireworks to fill the hole. Sure enough, after a while, he found a wisp of light smoke coming out of the hole that was blocked with hay before.
"Go, guard those cave entrances, and take action if you see any rats crawling out." Nanchen ordered the guards to disperse and guard the cave entrances, while he continued to increase the fire here and wait for the rats to be unable to bear it and to crawl out. As long as they saw any movement in the hay, they could catch them.
"Hey! We caught it!" A guard suddenly squatted down and pressed down the hay. After some operations, he caught the rat together with the hay. He excitedly lifted it up for everyone to see clearly.
"Wow, this rat is fat, let's smoke some too!" The rest of the guards joined in the fumigation. Suddenly, there were cries of surprise from everywhere in the field. It was true that a group of people smoked out twelve rats, not counting those that escaped. This relaxing experience made the crowd laugh from time to time, and also attracted a few people to look in from time to time.
Yanan and Nanchen stopped trying after they smoked out the first rat. It was good to have experienced this once. After that, they watched the guards knock the rats unconscious and throw them into the fire to burn their fur. The fire was strong enough that soon twelve charred rats with burnt fur appeared. The air was filled with the smell of burnt fur.
Then they took all the charred rats to the river, scraped off the skin, removed the head, tail and internal organs, rinsed everything, and then used wooden sticks to pierce the rat meat and spread it out, smearing salt on both sides. Then they put it on the charcoal fire and roasted it. The twelve rats surrounded the fire in a circle. The water evaporated visibly, and then the oil began to sizzle and fell into the fire to make the fire burn even more! The aroma of the barbecue also spread at this time...
"Alas, voles are small but still meat, why doesn't anyone catch them? I decided to tell someone how to catch them if they pass by later!" Yanan just saw someone looking over here from a distance, and then everyone approached. Are these people so scary? !
"You're just worrying too much. Everyone can catch mice, but you probably don't know how to cook them. If the food isn't tasty, then you have no motivation!" Nanchen teased her for worrying too much.
"I heard that in some places, rat meat can be made into bacon and dried and stored!" Yanan explained without any panic, but she couldn't remember exactly where.
"Well, let's go. Let's go to the carriage to eat something. Lao Wu bought a bag of grapefruit. Have you seen it? It is said that this grapefruit tastes good, juicy and sweet!" Nanchen pulled her away from the crowd. He also had selfish motives. He didn't want his wife to be seen by too many people, even by his own guards.
"Yuzu? I like it. Shall we open one?" When Yanan heard the word yuzu, he immediately became happy and wanted to try it immediately.
"It's okay to open two. I'm telling you in secret. Don't be surprised. The fourth one will probably catch up with us in no time!" Nanchen lowered his voice and said mysteriously.
"So, it's over there?" Yanan also said quietly, pointing to the way they came.
"Well, the people involved in the case can't run away, and it will take time to clean up the mess. If these people are not tried, there will be civil unrest. They pretended to be in the military service to make money. Being thrown rotten vegetable leaves is the lightest punishment. I guess many people will just throw stones. It's a pity that the mastermind behind the scenes can't be shaken!" Nanchen estimated that by now, they had to succeed in their action, otherwise it would be a waste of the sleep he, the fourth brother, and the guards lost last night.
"That's great. By defeating a bunch of parasites, we can give peace to the people. So, are we staying here just to wait for Awen?" Yanan asked.
"About that. I also wanted to be closer in case I needed support." Nanchen answered her while peeling a pomelo with his bare hands.
"This kind of thing may not only happen in one place, it is very likely that there are other accomplices..." Yanan became worried again.
"Well, so we have to be very careful on the rest of the trip! Watch out for retaliation from our accomplices. Also be careful that they hide too deeply and cannot be discovered. Here, try it!" Nanchen said without moving his hands, and just broke it open.
"The flesh is plump and juicy. I'll eat a piece first and let you try it later." After Yanan said this, he broke off the flesh and stuffed it into his mouth. When he chewed it, he felt the juice bursting out of his mouth. It was sweet and juicy, and it was his favorite fruit.
"Husband, ah!" After finishing one piece in a row, she opened one piece for Nanchen to feed him. He took it as soon as he opened his mouth, and almost bit her fingers that were pinching the flesh.
This guy must have done it on purpose! Turning away from him, I realized that everyone was looking back the way they came, and there was a carriage coming from afar.
"Don't stare at it, be alert!" Hua Heng whispered, and everyone came back to their senses and did what they should do, but they all looked for opportunities to look at it openly. It's getting closer, closer! The guards have been replaced, but the carriage is still the same, but no one knows who is inside. There are more people pretending to be busy, and their eyes are always looking towards the carriage.
"Second brother, Old Five" It was indeed Shen Wen, his voice came out before he got out of the car.
"I was right, wasn't I?" Nanchen raised his eyebrows at Yanan.
"..." Yanan rolled her eyes at him. What kind of person is that? He was clearly involved in it, but he said it was his guess.
"Sir, can you tell us what the scene was like?" As soon as Shen Wen stood firm, everyone came up to him and kept asking questions, expressing their regret that they could not be part of it.
"Okay! Let me tell you, why do I smell burnt meat?" Shen Wen's interruption made everyone jump up instantly. Ah, their roasted rat meat... They all ran to the fire and turned it over. It was roasted till a bright brown color, and just looking at it made them hungry. Suddenly, gossip and other things were no longer interesting.
"Share it when it's ready. We're ready to set off." Nanchen felt relieved when he saw Shen Wen catching up. He now shouted to everyone to eat quickly so that they could continue on their journey.
"Yes!" Everyone shared the barbecue, and Hua Heng also brought one over for Yanan, Nanchen, and Shen Wen to try!
"Rat legs, thank you!" Yanan looked at the roasted rat meat that was dry, fragrant and charred, and she wanted to try it!
"Rat legs, thank you!" Nanchen imitated.
"Rat Legs, thank you!" Shen Wen followed.
"..."Hua Heng discovered that after tearing off three legs of the roasted rat, only one leg was left to eat, and the rest was just bones and burnt skin, with not much meat!