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Chapter 9 Natural Enemies
Wu Ji didn't reply on the phone again.

He came straight to the door.

"You really didn't hear anything last night? My parents live downstairs with you, and mice gnawed at the screen all night!"

Wu Ji wears two big dark circles under his eyes, and his spirit is apathetic.

Chatting on the mobile phone, I still felt that Feng Yi was talking nonsense. Now, looking at it, Feng Yi's state didn't look like he was noisy at night.

Feng Yi replied: "I didn't see any mice until I came back last night, or maybe I slept too deeply at night and didn't hear anything. If you didn't tell me, I almost forgot about it, and I didn't throw the takeaway garbage into the processor. , I just cleaned it up this morning. Didn't the property management organization invite a rodent eradication company to come over, but it didn't work?"

"It works!" Wu Ji said angrily, "It is said that several underground nests were copied, and then the mice ran up. During the daytime, some people saw mice running upstairs from downstairs along the outer wall. Not only our community , the rat disturbances in the surrounding communities have rebounded. It's so annoying!"

Wu Ji took a bottle of pure water handed over by Feng Yi, opened it and took two sips, and continued: "I don't think it's a big deal for rats to steal food. In the past two days, because of the rat's backlash, everyone is a little nervous and has a bad temper. He also became impatient, and the group could quarrel after chatting about something.

"However, the person in charge of the community said that the next step is complete removal, and professionals will be sent to the door to deal with it, but some services have to be paid for. I have already reported the room numbers of my parents and I, and waited in line to get rid of the rodents at the door. If you need it, you can go directly to the person in charge of the property and register it."

"Go to the door to get rid of rats?" Feng Yi asked.

"Just come to the door to show you where your house is not blocked so that the mice can take advantage of it. The house next to me had someone come to the door by myself last week. Exhaust pipes, air conditioning holes, and various holes are all places for mice to enter.

"Because of the material of the outer wall, some holes are troublesome to seal. The price is about 80 to 100 yuan, which is the price of sealing one hole. It is about 500 if you find a hole. One family in the group asked someone to come and seal seven holes. , One thousand two, 500 hole search fee plus 700 hole sealing fee. But I think, if it can be done once and for all, the money is still worth it. I heard that this kind of private rodent control company has increased the price again, but the community is looking for it. People should be cheaper. Group buying.

"If you're not sure, ask a professional to come and have a look. You don't usually pay attention to the owner group and you don't know. In a building with a small difference, an owner asked a master to come to clean the air conditioner. The summer was approaching and the air conditioner was washed and spared in advance. The master came to the door, opened the air outlet and found a pile of mouse feces... I'll go!"

Wu Ji looked at the air outlet of the central air conditioner in Fengyi's house, "If you are free, you can also make an appointment to come and clean the air conditioner."

Speaking of which, Wu Ji's face collapsed, he pointed to his dark circles, raised another finger, and pointed to the top of his head: "Have you ever felt the dance on the ceiling at 3 in the morning?"

"No." Feng Yi said.

"Rats now don't know what they eat to grow so big, they don't know how much tonnage they are, and they don't know where to get into the ceiling. You chase me and jump right and left. I later wore earplugs to sleep and woke up in the morning. At a glance, the antique Zen-like carved ceiling that my dad especially likes is cracked!"

Feng Yi said: "You don't have pets or children in your house, so you can use rat poison."

Wu Ji waved his hand, "You underestimate them too much. Now there are some variants that are resistant to commonly used rodenticides. Strong rat poisons are strictly controlled, and most of them are banned. I am now counting on rodent killing robots. listed."

"Didn't you go to Qian Feiyang to borrow a cat?" Feng Yi asked.

Qian Feiyang is their college classmate. He rented a house in the same community. He didn't live here at first. Because he liked photography, he took up some retouching work before graduation. After graduation, he did it as a meal job. I started a small photography studio and rented a large apartment in their community.Three months ago, the community arrested and concentrated stray cats. Qian Feiyang, like many people in the nearby community, went to adopt one.

Wu Ji: "He doesn't borrow it! He said his cat doesn't catch mice now!"

Speaking of this Wu Ji, he got angry, "How could a cat from a stray cat not catch mice! Someone in the owner group gave him an idea, 'If you starve it for two meals, it will catch it on its own', Qian Feiyang will return the goods." That's what I thought too'. Within two days, Qian Feiyang said, 'No, as soon as it called me, I forgot what I was thinking about'. I can't understand it!"

Wu Ji sighed, "So, I'm still looking forward to a rat-killing robot."

Feng Yi took out a tea can and handed it over, "Others sent two cans, and you and Qian Feiyang share this can."

"What kind of tea is this?" Wu Ji was interested.

His shop at the entrance of the community is called "Lucky Tea Garden".Young people like to drink afternoon tea, or find a clean place to work.Elderly people drink tea and play chess and chat nonsense, and they can also go to his place.There are tea and private rooms, which do not interfere with each other.

As soon as Feng Yi's tea pot was taken out, Wu Ji couldn't care about the mess of the mouse.

"Some kind of...unknown farm tea?" Feng Yi didn't know tea, and Uncle Du didn't say what kind of tea it was.

When Feng Yi had breakfast in the morning, he took a small amount of tea and tried it. It was strangely sweet and very refreshing.Otherwise, I didn't feel anything.He is not a tea lover.

Wu Ji took it with both hands and looked at it, much more serious than when he took the bottle of pure water.

The tea jar is divided into several layers, only the top layer is the tea leaves, and the contents on the lower layers are unknown, some are powder, some are granules, Wu Ji guessed that it is probably to "remove the fire" for the newly made tea.

"Could it be some secret homemade tea?" Wu Ji said.

"I don't know. The whole process will take about two hours." Feng Yi said.

"It will be completed in two hours?" Wu Ji thought: It sounds a bit rough.

However, Wu Ji likes all kinds of novel tea-making methods. I smelled it just now, and I feel that the tea here is not inferior.

"The people who fry the tea say that it will be soaked for two days before drinking it." Feng Yi said.

"I know, I understand. I'll give Qian Feiyang's share to him when the time comes." Wu Ji kept it carefully.

"By the way, Qian Feiyang and I have made an appointment to go fishing this weekend. Would you like to go? Several uncle Liu from the fishing group in our community mentioned it when they went to my shop for tea yesterday. There is an ecological reserve not far from Rongcheng. You know, there is a farmhouse outside the reserve. Uncle Liu said that the weekends there are very cool. I plan to take my parents there for two days to play. It’s too annoying recently. Qian Feiyang said that he wanted to take photos and gather together. Are you going? My parents and my parents are not interested in picking vegetables, the three of us can go fishing!"

Feng Yi recalled the experience of being pulled to go fishing before: "Fishing? The kind of fishing that can't catch a fish after a hundred times of tossing the rod?"

"Hey, it's definitely not this time! Uncle Liu said that fishing there is very cool!" Wu Ji opened a video for Feng Yi to watch.

In the video, the fishing group in the community has indeed gained a lot and the atmosphere is hot.

Considering the situation on his side, Feng Yi said: "If there is nothing to do on the weekend, add me as well. Do you want to bring your own fishing rod?"

"If you have it, take it with you, if you don't have it, go and rent a rod. We just went to play this time, unlike Uncle Liu and the others who often go there, so we can just rent it directly. There are a full set of fishing tools and bait for rent there. Sell."

"Row."

After Wu Ji left, Feng Yi checked several air conditioner vents in the house and saw no signs of mice.Looking at the owner group, the queue for appointments for door-to-door rodent eradication has been lined up until next week.

Feng Yi searched the Internet and found that the rodent control companies were very busy, and they all had to make appointments, and they didn't know when they would be lined up.

Temporarily give up looking for a rodent control company to come to the door.

After a while, Feng Yi searched on his mobile phone: "natural enemies of mice"

Search shows:

【Cat, Snake, Eagle, Weasel, Human, etc.】

Feng Yi searched again: "The natural enemy of snakes"

Search shows:

【Eagle, Honey Badger, Meerkat, Human, etc.】

Feng Yi touched his chin: "Humans really are at the top of the food chain!"

Suddenly there is a sense of peace in my heart.

I am a human and not a snake, the existence at the top of the food chain!What am I afraid of! !

Putting those aside, Feng Yi intends to drive to the supermarket to stock up on goods.Since the old housekeeper said that there will be some small changes in the next period of time, it is better for him to go out less in the past two days. If the changes are too big, he will not participate in Wu Ji's weekend farmhouse fun.

Wear a mask and the elevator goes directly to the underground parking lot.

I haven't been home for the past two days, and the car has not been used.

Unlocking the door to get into the car, Feng Yi suddenly stopped.

Close the door, open the trunk, and take out an enhanced long-handled clip-on extractor.It's been two years since I bought it, and it's only been used less than five times in the trunk.

After thinking about it, he took out a pair of gloves from the box where they were placed and put them on.

He walked to the right front wheel of the car, took two steps back, stomped his feet suddenly, and at the same time, the hand holding the long-handled clip quickly stuck out!
"squeak!"

(End of this chapter)