Chapter 183： Antler cutting

Chapter 183 Cutting antlers

In mid-May, the large fields and private plots are all planted.

The newly planted mallet seedlings have just been unearthed, and we have to wait a few more days for weeding, so there is no work for the time being.

In the woods, all kinds of wild vegetables grow just right, but at this time no one is picking them up to sell, and even if they sell them, no one will buy them.

At most, you can get something to eat, and you don’t have to go far. You can find it anywhere in the forest, just grab a few pieces.

Xu Shiyan began to miss the antler.

In this season, the antler on the stag's head just emerges from the second branch, more than 20 centimeters long, which is the best time to cut the antler.

So, early this morning, Xu Shiyan took his newly made bait with ingredients in it, and went to the second stubble forest.

After several months of observation, Xu Shiyan has figured out the situation of the deer herd.

There is a large herd of deer near here, with a total of thirty or forty deer, a dozen male deer, and the rest are female deer and young deer.

Xu Shiyan scattered about a dozen bait blocks on an open space. Special materials were added to the bait blocks, and the deer would fall asleep after eating the bait blocks.

After placing the bait, Xu Shiyan immediately retreated to the upper air outlet and blew the birch bark horn in his hand.

The herd of deer were in love with the bait that was fed from time to time, and refused to go too far.

After this period of guidance and training, the deer will know that there is something good to eat when they hear the sound, so the head deer will immediately run towards this side with the deer.

Sika deer are good at running in the mountains and forests, and they are extremely fast. Usually they can't catch up with dogs.

So not long after Xu Shiyan blew the horn, he saw a large herd of deer running wildly in the distance.

At this time, Xu Shiyan lit a tin can he brought.

Inside the tin can is a drug that Xu Shiyan concocted from medicinal materials such as Ziheche and Yangjinhua.

If people smell it after lighting it, they will quickly fall into a coma.

But this is in an open space, and the aroma will be diluted if you are far away, and the deer is big, so I can't guarantee the effect.

However, with the scent and the contents of the bait, it should be able to bring down this group of deer.

Xu Shiyan mainly didn't want the lives of these deer, he only wanted antlers, so he spent a lot of trouble.

Otherwise, just put medicine in the bait block, and the poison will kill it, it’s that simple.

Otherwise, you can throw bait and shoot the deer directly when it comes, without too much effort.

But if you kill a deer, you can only get antler once, and then it will be gone.

Using this method, one crop in spring can be harvested, and another crop can be harvested in autumn. As long as the deer herd is still there, he can continue to harvest next year and the next year.

After two years of waiting for the conditions to improve, he simply caught the deer and raised them in captivity, wouldn't it be better?

After lighting the incense, Xu Shiyan immediately retreated to a small hillside in the distance, and the cat watched from behind the bushes.

Then I saw a group of deer rushing to the Erchao forest. The stags didn’t care about their wives and children at this time, and rushed to eat the bait.

The bait pieces are fried and steamed thoroughly with bran, bean cakes, etc., mixed with salt and special materials, and then compacted and dried.

Although the grass has grown on the ground this season, how can the grass be delicious?

Especially the salt in it is the favorite of deer.

The female deer can't grab it, so they can only wander around, waiting for the male deer to eat almost, before picking up some leftovers.

A dozen or so stags each occupy a piece, bowing their heads and gnawing.

At this time, there was a faint scent of flowers in the air. The deer were in love with the bait, and ignored the scent at all, still lowering their heads to eat.

By the time they gnaw halfway through, the medicine in the bait has already exerted its effect.

Combined with the continuous fragrance, the stags began to shake, their legs became weak, and they couldn't get up when lying on the ground.

The doe and fawn didn't know what happened, and they also smelled the aroma, so they were a little confused at the moment.

Looking at the bait on the ground, they are reluctant to leave and want to eat some.

Xu Shiyan took advantage of this opportunity, extinguished the incense in the tin can, and quickly came to the herd of deer.

The doe and fawn were frightened, and fled away staggeringly.

But the bucks ate too much bait, and the medicine took effect. They were weak and their limbs were weak, and they couldn't get up after struggling a few times.

I saw Xu Shiyan stepping forward with a hacksaw, creaking it, and sawing off a piece of deer antler with a few strokes.

At this time, the deer antler has honeycomb holes inside and is loose in texture, so it is very easy to saw the velvet.

The antler was sawed off, and some blood came out from the cut.

Deer antler blood is a good thing, Xu Shiyan naturally refused to let it go.

He took out new cotton from his pocket, dipped the blood from the cut, and threw it into a small bottle he brought.

Wild animals are not human beings. They have particularly good resilience and strong resistance to drugs.

So Xu Shiyan had to hurry up and saw off all the antlers as soon as possible, and then collected the antler blood.

Apply some anti-inflammatory and hemostatic powder on the fracture of the velvet antler, and stick it with adhesive tape.

Xu Shiyan's movements were already very fast, even so, as soon as he finished treating the antlers and wounds of the dozen or so stags, that deer stood up danglingly, and the other stags also began to struggle to stand up.

Xu Shiyan saw it, and knew that the strength of the medicine would soon pass, so he ran away without saying a word, carrying his bag on his back.

If you are surrounded by those deer, I dare not say what will happen, so run away.

When Xu Shiyan ran to the top of the hill, he looked back and saw that the dozen or so stags could already stand up, but their legs were not very good, and they were shaking and trembling.

It is estimated that after a while, nothing will happen. The resilience of wild animals is really unacceptable.

No matter what, the velvet antlers are all in hand. The velvet antlers of a dozen or so stags filled a big bag.

These are all processed and sent to the purchase station, they can be sold for a lot of money.

Xu Shiyan no longer looked back at the herd of deer. He knew that the deer would be fine, so he hurried back.

After returning to the ginseng hut, quickly squeeze out the blood from the antler and clean the dirt and dust on the outside.

Use a glass shovel to scrape off the fluff outside the antler.

Traditional Chinese medicine is made with no copper and iron, so you can't use a knife, you have to use glass **** or bamboo sticks.

After that, tighten the saw edge with thread, sew it into a net shape, nail small nails on the top of the antler, and hang it on the shelf with a hemp rope.

Put it in boiling water and scald it three or four times until white foam appears at the fracture and stop when it smells like egg yolk, and dry the velvet antler.

The next day, it has to be ironed again, and then air-dried or oven-dried.

A piece of fresh velvet antler is about a catty. After processing and drying, there are only a few taels left, which is light and fluffy.

If you cut it into slices, you can see that the velvet antler has a red core, all of which are honeycomb eyes.

If you wait until another branch is grown, the quality will not be as good as it is now.

As for the cotton dipped in deer antler blood, Xu Shiyan had already thrown it into a barrel of high-grade liquor.

He bought it in advance and prepared to make deer blood wine.

Deer antler blood infused wine, that's a good thing, a gas station for men, I don't know how many people want it.

Waiting for the time to go down the mountain, I gave Lao Guo two bottles, and kept him happy to accept it.

(end of this chapter)