Da Zaojun

Chapter 35 Toilet Hamster Sigh
There are actually not many things you need to prepare. The fire-starting technique is enough to start a fire. You can bring a pot for cooking, and the pot can also be used as a shield.

Also, bring a lard can. It can be used for cooking and making torches.

Song Wuji even prepared torches wrapped in cloth strips in advance.

Another thing is that Song Wuji prepared leg wraps, which are convenient for walking. In this era, trekking through mountains and rivers is common. If you want to leave the city secretly, you can't ride a horse or take a car. This is to find a rat hole, not to go on vacation.

Next came various medicines, healing medicine, ghost-killing powder, masks soaked in plague-preventing soup and then dried, and some quick-to-eat foods.

So when Song Wuji appeared in front of Chen Xiu, he was already carrying a lot of bags.

On the contrary, Chen Xiu went into battle lightly, wearing soft cowhide armor, carrying a bow and quiver, a two-handed sword, and a dagger at his waist.

The cat catcher was even lighter, with nothing on him, just stretching lazily.

Chen Xiu frowned: "You brought so many things?"

Song Wuji was puzzled: "Isn't this too much? They are all necessary?"

"It's a bit easier. At least I don't have to carry a pot or hang a string of bacon around my neck. The food I bring is enough for two meals."

"We need to go and come back quickly, not to escape famine or disaster."

Song Wuji had no choice but to throw away most of these things, secretly thinking: "Who am I bringing these for? I have the magical power of taking food. I can survive by eating dirt and gnawing on wood. Can you?"

The two men secretly left the city at the hour of Yin, before dawn.

Song Wuji put Cat Constable down from his arms: "Cat Constable, Cat Constable, I know you can understand what we are saying. Is the meat cooked by Rat Demon Tail delicious today? We haven't finished it yet, the rest is here!"

Song Wuji fed a small piece of rat tail to the cat catcher: "Take us to find that evil big rat, I will cook cat food for you every day!"

Chen Xiu looked at Song Wuji mumbling and asked, "Can he really understand?"

"He's not an ordinary cat. He's a cat with temple duties, a cat that's been ordained by the emperor. He's sure he can understand!"

"Meow!" The cat detective rolled his eyes at Chen Xiu: You don't understand meow language yet, meow!
Then he turned lightly, walked onto the path and went into the bushes.

Song Wuji and Chen Xiu hurried to catch up. The cat catcher did not walk fast and would meow after a while to ask Song Wuji to catch up.

Although it was still dark, Song Wuji could still see, which was due to the "Bright Eyes Powder" he had taken. Not to mention Chen Xiu, who had already reached the Ninth Rank after completing the skull offering ceremony.

"call out!"

Vines suddenly sprouted from the bushes and wrapped around Song Wuji.

Chen Xiu immediately cut it off with his sword and said, "This is the most common monster seen after the great changes in heaven and earth, after leaving the official roads. It's probably a small bush demon, disguised as an ordinary plant. Although it can suddenly startle people, it's actually not dangerous."

Song Wuji pulled out the bush demon. The roots were like two legs, still flailing. Song Wuji cut them off directly: "You can take it back."

Chen Xiu said, "I've secretly gone out of the city to investigate several times before and brought back some information."

[Yi Wood Moon Dew]
Song Wuji threw away the roots of the shrub demon. As soon as he cut them off, the demon died and only a drop of transparent greenish substance was refined out.

Yi Wood Moon Dew: The grass and trees are called Yi Wood, and the moonlight and morning dew are called Moon Dew. It is dim at sunrise, and eating it can slightly restore life. It can also be used to make tea.

"Meow?"

The cat catcher turned around at some point and shouted in reproach: People with two legs are useless. They can actually be tripped by something like this!
Song Wuji continued to move forward. This time, the cat catcher took good care of them. He no longer went into the bushes, but tried to choose places that were easier to walk on.

Until he brought Song Wuji and Chen Xiu to a threshing ground in an abandoned village. At this time, the threshing ground was full of rats. With the extinction of humans, the rats were no longer afraid of being hunted down.

The cat catcher just let out a "meow", which immediately frightened the rats so much that they jumped up and down in panic, fled and disappeared.

The cat chased the mice, followed closely behind them, and also disappeared.

Chen Xiu was puzzled: "Why are they gone?"

"Could this be the secret demon realm that the City God mentioned?"

"It must be a trick. That must be the rat demon's lair, a demon cave or something like that, similar to a secret door or secret passage. They say rats can dig holes. Maybe it's underground. Even a cat can get in, so we can definitely get in too!"

Song Wuji thought about it and gave him a few pieces of the cooked giant rat tail: "County Lieutenant Chen, eating this can break the plague."

He then handed him a can of rat poison that Doctor Miao had prepared for him: "You must not eat this can of peanuts. They are full of rat poison. Doctor Miao said it was an heirloom rat poison. My ancestors made their fortune by selling this. They said that if the rats don't die, he will die."

"Just be careful, don't let the mice hear it, otherwise it won't work."

"Okay!" Chen Xiu said little as he put away his things. "Would you like to stay here and provide support, or come in with me?"

"Let's go together!"

"Okay, then be careful, I may not be able to take care of you."

Song Wuji walked around the gate and looked carefully inside the grain shop, and found some grains emitting white light.

So he climbed into the window and checked the grains, and found a small bag. These grains were just brought out by mice.

Blood Rice Seeds
Blood rice seeds: The rice is blood-colored and was originally rouge rice seeds. It was tribute to the emperor from Taichang County in successive dynasties. After the blood, tears and resentment, it was transformed into blood rice spiritual seeds. It needs to be watered with corpse water. Long-term consumption can increase the essence of the three treasures.

After picking up the rice, he saw a rat hole behind the rice. This rat hole seemed mysterious.

Song Wuji looked carefully, but saw a pair of blood-red rat eyes inside, and was immediately frightened!
Another trance.

It's like traveling through time and space.

I saw a village archway with a barrier [Cang China] on it.

There are couplets on the left and right.

[It is better to be a rat in a warehouse than a rat in a toilet]

Song Wuji broke through the barrier, which was like the world in the cave in Peach Blossom Spring.

But in the fields of this village, there were no farmers, only big rats in tattered clothes.

At the same time, there are many ordinary mice moving freely here.

But when these rats saw Song Wuji, they did not take the initiative to attack. Only the big rat working in the field had the name "toilet rat" on its head. When Song Wuji appeared, it was so frightened that it hugged its head, knelt in the field, and trembled.

Although Song Wuji knew that the name of this secret place was [Cang Zhongguo], and he also knew that it was the lair of the rat demon, but when he saw it now, he had some memories and remembered that this was an allusion - the hamster sighed in the toilet.

When Li Si, the prime minister of Qin, was a clerk in Shangcai when he was young, he was in charge of the granary. One day when he was going to the toilet, he saw that the rats in the toilet were thin and ugly, while the rats in the granary were plump and round, and were not afraid of people at all. So he sighed and said that he would rather be a hamster than a toilet rat in this life.

(End of this chapter)