Chapter 180： farming

Chapter 180 Breeding

Successfully caught a pair of otters, which gave Xu Shiyan a little more confidence in the future of breeding.

Of course, it also added a lot of things to his career as a reference. Every day he had to go to the river to catch fish and shrimps, and come back to feed the two otters.

Xu Shiyan only caught this pair of otters, and didn't catch any more after that.

The main reason is that he doesn't have much confidence in the breeding of otters. Everything is in the process of exploring the rules, so he can only try to raise two first.

If there are too many at once, he can't take care of them, and it would be a pity to raise them to death.

A few days later, Xu Shiyan went for a walk on the mountain, and accidentally caught another sable.

It happens to be a male, and there can only be a couple with the one at home.

But this thing is timid, and it takes a long time to recover after being frightened.

Besides, sables usually live alone, so Xu Shiyan didn't dare to put two sables in one cage rashly, so he had to lock them up separately and put the two cages next to each other.

Suddenly there are several small animals, and it seems that the ginseng house is not suitable for breeding.

No way, Xu Shiyan cleaned up the warehouse and reserved it as a place for breeding.

For the time being, he can only do this, and after a while the weather gets warmer, and he will find another way to resettle the animals.

Since the addition of these animals, Xu Shiyan's daily workload has also increased.

Not only to catch fish and shrimps, but also to set traps and traps to get some meat for the two sables to eat.

Sables are omnivores, and their food is mainly small birds and animals, as well as some pine nuts, berries, and insects.

In order to raise them, Xu Shiyan also spent a lot of brainpower, and specially made a batch of mouse traps to catch mice to feed the sables.

In addition to these, Xu Shiyan also went to the south of the Xiaohei River in a forest that had just been felled for a few years, shoveling snow and laying bait.

The bait is specially prepared for deer, it contains a lot of salt, and there are also some bran and bean cakes, all of which are prepared according to the deer's favorite taste.

Deer like to eat bark, branches and leaves.

In the forest after felling, some branches will re-emerge from the roots of the tree, which is the favorite of deer.

Xu Shiyan had hunted deer here before, but now, he came up with another way.

Put the bait in the snow, then blow the horn made of birch bark, and gradually, the deer will be attracted.

The herd of deer will hang around here from time to time when they find salty and delicious bait.

From now on, every time Xu Shiyan puts bait, he will blow the horn to call the deer, come and go, those deer are used to it, and run this way when they hear the sound.

Nowadays, the most valuable thing about deer is antler.

Others such as deer heart, deer blood, deer tendon, deer fetus, etc., are not accepted by the buying station, and can only be kept for home use or given away.

The velvet antler should wait until after the beginning of spring to grow to two short branches, before the bone becomes ossified, the quality is the best.

So Xu Shiyan didn't intend to kill the deer any more. He had to find a way to attract the deer, and at that time, he would use medicine to stun the deer and cut the antler.

The resources in the mountains are gifts from nature, but they are by no means inexhaustible.

If it cannot be used rationally and blindly kills, it will only be exhausted and the resources will be exhausted in the end.

Hunting is not just to eat the meat, but more importantly, to create economic value.

Deer antlers are valuable, but killing a deer for two antlers, after cutting off the antlers, the meat can only be eaten, which is obviously a bit wasteful.

It may be a better way to cut the antlers and sell them for money without harming the lives of the deer.

Of course, these are all Xu Shiyan’s wishful thinking, and it is much more difficult to implement them in practice, but he is willing to try, what if it succeeds?

Busy and busy, the first month will pass soon, and the weather will gradually warm up. The young people of the second brigade have all gone up to the mountain to work.

Sun Xiaofeng, Huang Shengli, and the others brought Xu Shiyan some food every now and then, and Su Anying entrusted them to bring them here, for fear that Xu Shiyan would not be able to eat well and suffer on the mountain.

On this day, Xu Shiyan went to the second crop forest early in the morning to throw bait to attract deer.

As soon as I came back, I saw the carriage of the team approaching, and a group of people jumped out of the carriage.

"Brother Xu, my uncle Xu has come up the mountain." Feng Chao was the first to jump out of the car and shouted at the top of his voice.

Xu Shiyan was stunned when he heard it, and hurried over. At this time, Sun Xiaofeng and Huang Shengli helped Xu Chenghou out of the carriage.

"Father, why did you come up the mountain?" The field work is done by strong guys, why is this old man still up here?

Xu Chenghou glanced at the third son, didn't say anything, just handed him the bag in his hand.

"Come on, let's go into the house and talk about it." At first glance, there is something wrong.

Xu Shiyan's heart skipped a beat, what happened at home? Surprised his father to come up the mountain?

Xu Shiyan didn't dare to ask, and followed behind his father, and the two of them went into the small room.

As soon as he entered the room, the old man turned his head and glared at his son.

"Clean up and go home for two days. I'll watch over the club for you on the mountain." Xu Chenghou suddenly said these two words.

"Huh? I'll go back, you watch for me? What?"

Xu Shiyan was immediately stunned, what happened at home, the father is not fair, and he needs to go down the mountain?

"What? What are you talking about? You don't know what you did when you went home during the Chinese New Year?

Yuanyuan is only eleven months old, and before weaning, your wife is pregnant again.

What kind of **** are you, can't you hide a little bit? "

Xu Chenghou saw his son's masked expression, and became even more angry. He raised his leg and kicked Xu Shiyan.

This **** bastard left his grandson without milk, so he deserves a beating.

"Huh? Yingzi is pregnant again?" Xu Shiyan was dumbfounded, no way? When did it happen?

My God, my daughter-in-law's place is really good, it's really good food.

But this is too frequent, right? The eldest is only eleven months old, no, he went up the mountain on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, and the eldest was only ten months old at that time.

Pregnant with the second child so early, can the daughter-in-law's body bear it?

"Father, help me watch on the mountain for a day, I'll go home and have a look."

How can Xu Shiyan hold his breath right now? He had to go home quickly to see his wife and take her to the hospital for a physical examination.

Women are not good. Pregnant too often, it hurts the body.

"Nonsense, what am I doing here? Isn't it just to read the reference for you? You bastard, you can make you mad every day."

Xu Chenghou rolled his eyes, feeling that his son was stupid as hell.

It’s not to help his son to see the reference, he is so old, what is he doing all over the mountain?

"By the way, Dad, come here, I have to tell you something."

Fortunately, Xu Shiyan was not so dazed that he couldn't remember anything, so he quickly dragged Xu Chenghou to the warehouse, and showed Xu Chenghou the otters and sables.

"Father, I caught this, and I plan to raise it myself, and these open-mouthed beasts have to be fed.

Did you see it? The fish in this bucket are fed to otters, and the pheasants, chickadees, and rats here are fed to sables.

There’s nothing I can do now, I’ll think about it after a while, and feed them the whole thing. "

(end of this chapter)