Geng Dalin plopped down onto the field ridge. He looked at the field mouse in the wicker basket, then at the sack brimming with grain, and muttered, "Good heavens, such a mountain of grain! How on earth did this field mouse manage to hoard all this?"
"Field mice are clever creatures," Yuanchun replied.
Yuanchun directed Geng Dalin to dig up another mouse den. The field mouse they unearthed this time was even larger than the last, though its hoard was slightly smaller—still, it amounted to over thirty pounds.
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