Chapter 364 Playing Mahjong
Rats are cunning, sparrows are bad, flies and mosquitoes are like **, they suck human blood, bring diseases, steal people's happiness and cause destruction. Thousands of households, take action quickly, beat the drums and sound the gongs to [eliminate the four pests].

The next day, the neighbors all got up early.

After breakfast, He Yuzhu stuck the scarecrow he made into the vegetable patch in the middle of the front yard.

However, cloth was scarce these days, so He Yuzhu's scarecrow was made only of dry straw, bare as a whole, without any cloth strips, plastic or the like.

at the same time,

The neighbors in the courtyard also went home with hoes, shovels and other tools.

Under the leadership of Yi Zhonghai, He Daqing and several other managers, they searched for rat holes inside and outside the house, in front of and behind the house.

The younger ones, such as Xu Damao and Liu Guangqi, took the children in the yard and ran around the courtyard with slingshots. The brave ones even climbed onto the roof.

After He Yuzhu put up the scarecrow, he returned to the house and saw Lou Xiao'e and He Yushui moving the cabinets in the house to look for a mouse hole.
He Yingze took the fly swatter he made and tapped it on the table.

Looking at his son knocking on the table and mumbling something, He Yuzhu said with a smile,
"Let's go, son. Dad will take you to catch sparrows."

When He Ying heard that He Yuzhu wanted to take him to catch sparrows, his eyes lit up immediately, and he dropped his fly swatter and ran over.

"Okay, Dad, take me to catch sparrows."

He Yuzhu first picked up a wooden stick from the firewood pile beside the stove, and then took out the unused fishing line from the drawer.

After tying it up,
He filled the bowl with some cornmeal, took a dustpan and left the house again.

He propped up the dustpan with a wooden stick, sprinkled some cornmeal underneath, and returned to the door of his house with the fishing line.
"Come on, son, let's hide at home.
When the sparrows go to eat the cornmeal, we pull the rope and catch them.

like this. "

After saying that, He Yuzhu pulled the fishing line in his hand, and as the wooden stick fell to the ground, the winnowing basket directly covered it.

He Ying was young and didn't know anything.

Seeing He Yuzhu's demonstration, he immediately became very excited, not caring whether he could catch sparrows or not.
After He Yuzhu propped up the wooden stick, he squatted beside him obediently.
His eyes were fixed on the dustpan.

Seeing his son squatting there obediently, He Yuzhu put the fishing line on the ground and brought a small stool over.

"Come on son, sit and wait."

"okay!"

While speaking, He Ying's eyes were fixed on the winnowing basket in the distance.

Seeing this, He Yuzhu left him sitting alone at the door and went back to the front yard to help Lou Xiao'e and He Yushui find the rat hole.

Not long after, Yan Jiedi, a 4-year-old girl next door, saw He Ying sitting in front of her house with his head hunched, staring straight out of the door, and ran over with some curiosity.

"He Ying, what are you doing!"

Hearing Yan Jiedi's question, He Ying looked up at her, then pointed at the dustpan outside.
"Aunt Jie Di, my father said this can help with sparrows."

Hearing this, Yan Jiedi looked at the trap set by He Yuzhu, and then said in surprise,

"Really? Can you catch sparrows like this?"

"Well, that's what Dad said."

"Then I'll go back and ask my dad to get me one, and we'll compete to see who can catch the most sparrows, okay?"

"Okay, Aunt Jie Di." Seeing He Ying agreed, Yan Jie Di immediately ran back home to find Yan Bugui and his wife and Yan Jiecheng who were also rummaging through drawers looking for rat holes.

When He Yuzhu searched the whole house and couldn't find the rat hole, he went out to the middle courtyard.
Then I saw that there was a trap set up next door.

When He Ying talked about his match with Yan Jiedi, He Yuzhu asked He Yushui to stay in the front yard.
“Yushui, then you stay with He Ying in the front yard. If they really catch sparrows, he definitely can’t catch them all by himself.”

He Yushui was also very interested in the trap set by his brother and originally wanted to stay.
Hearing He Yuzhu's request at this time was something he could only wish for.
"Okay, brother. Then I'll take He Ying with me to catch sparrows in the front yard. I won't go with you guys."

As soon as He Yuzhu and his wife went out, they saw Xu Damao and Liu Guangqi standing on the roof of the Chuihua Gate, aiming a slingshot here and there, occasionally shooting a stone.
As soon as I entered the middle courtyard, I saw a group of excited children, shooting things with slingshots.

"I say you better be careful, don't shoot anyone with this thing, or the adults at home will beat your ass to a pulp."

"I know, Brother Zhuzi/Uncle Zhuzi, we will definitely not play around, just play Mahjong."

"That's right, uncle and aunt, we just shot sparrows, but these sparrows fly too fast and we can't hit them no matter how hard we try."

Seeing the distressed faces of these children, He Yuzhu shook his head unhappily and said,

"You've only been playing with slingshots for a few days, and you can't even hit a stationary target, yet you want to hit a moving target. Are moving targets that easy to hit?"

Hearing He Yuzhu's words, a group of half-grown children gathered around.
"Then what should we do? We haven't been able to catch a single bird after hunting for a long time. We are getting really anxious."

"Uncle Zhuzi, you are good at shooting, how about you teach us how to shoot with a slingshot?"

"Yes, yes, Brother Zhuzi, please teach us."

Seeing a group of children surrounding him and asking him to teach them how to use a slingshot, He Yuzhu didn't have the time to be the leader of the children.

Then he pointed at Xu Damao on top of the Chuihua Gate.

"Don't look for me. My husband and I still have to go to the backyard to help the old lady find a rat hole.

Go find your brother Damao, he has plenty of free time right now."

After hearing what He Yuzhu said, before the kids below could say anything, Xu Damao above them had already rejected it without hesitation.

"I'm going to go to your pillar. Do you think I'm idle or something? Which eye of yours is watching me have free time?

I'm so busy playing mahjong that I don't have the time to teach them.

You have to teach yourself, I don’t have time.”

Seeing Xu Damao being so unkind, He Yuzhu was not surprised at all. He could only look at the little guy beside him and spread his hands.

"Well, since Xu Damao is unwilling to teach you, then I have no choice but to play by yourself.

Just practice while you play, and you will get it after playing for a while."

After that, He Yuzhu took Lou Xiaoe to the deaf old lady in the backyard.
As soon as I turned into the backyard, I saw Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu digging the corner of their house with hoes under the guidance of Liu Haizhong.

"Hey, Uncle, what are you doing? If you let them dig like this, aren't you afraid that the wall will collapse?"

Liu Haizhong hasn't spoken yet.
The neighbors who lived in the backyard laughed and joked,

"Zhu Zi, you don't know that Lao Liu and his friends searched for a long time at home and finally found a rat hole like this. We must take it down.
It doesn't matter if the wall collapses, at worst we can just tear it down and start over again!"

"Hahaha!"

(End of this chapter)