"Huh? Let me take a look."

The old man glanced at the deer head, frowned, took it into his hand and looked through it carefully.

"It really doesn't look like a deer's head, but more like a muntjac's head."

"But the muntjac is not that big. Look at the horns on its head, which are almost as big as my hand."

The size of a normal muntjac is not much different from that of a newly grown deer calf. This deer head is obviously not from a muntjac.

Wang Cunye pondered for a while, then suddenly remembered something, scratched his head and said, "Maybe it's the rhubarb muntjac? But the rhubarb muntjak is not a thing here, it couldn't have come from the flood, right?"

Yellow muntjac, also known as red muntjac and black-footed muntjac, is more common south of the Yangtze River.

"Oh, big yellow muntjac? It's the red muntjac. If it's this thing, then I know."

"Whether there is a flood or not, it is normal for this thing to come to the Qinling Mountains."

Chen Ling grabbed the head and looked at the setting sun twice. The fur on the head was a bit fiery red, and there was a high chance that it was a muntjac.

This thing is migratory, and in some years it will migrate from the south of the Yangtze River to the Qinling Mountains. If there are few natural enemies encountered on the way, it can even cross the Qinling Mountains, go straight to the north, and reach the border of Inner Mongolia.

It has the same nature as local wild animals that migrate south in winter in search of places with abundant food.

"Hey, now I can add something new to my hunting equipment room."

Chen Ling happily shook his hands and stuffed the deer's head back into the basket.

But it's a pity that I didn't get the bark of the barking deer.

According to Shanmao, the fur of the barking deer is fiery red, shiny and smooth, has no mottled colors, and is quite beautiful.

Of course, selling such things is not worth the money, they are mainly for collection.

It's a pity that the local leopards don't know where they took their fur. They didn't see it anyway.

Originally, Chen Ling was still wondering whether he had secretly gone to the mountains to look for it while his father-in-law was not paying attention.

But when he got home and worked hard for two days, cutting and drying the medicine, and nailing a few snake boxes to put the snakes in place, he completely forgot about it.

Moreover, Ruirui has been restless in the past two days. After following Chen Ling into the cave, he was a little too energetic. He went to bed later and later at night, and he was not honest when he fell asleep. He wanted to drink milk when he was hungry, and had diarrhea the next.

If you pee, you need to change your diaper.

This little troublemaker really makes people miserable.

It doesn't look like a little baby of about two months old at all.

"Attention, fellow villagers of Chenwangzhuang, please come to the brigade if your family has raised pigs this year. If any of you has raised pigs this year, please come to the brigade immediately."

While Chen Ling was worrying about his troublesome baby, the sound of a loudspeaker in the village came from afar.

Although the village was quite far away from the farm, the wind was blowing from the southeast, and since his hearing was much better than ordinary people, it was not a problem to hear what was being said clearly.

It was around nine o'clock in the morning. My father-in-law was drying medicine in the yard in front of the bamboo house. My mother-in-law was helping to take care of the baby, while Wang Susu took advantage of this time to sleep upstairs.

At this time, the two elders could also hear some sounds.

Chen Ling then made a listening gesture, and then said to the two of them: "The brigade doesn't know what they are shouting. I will go to the village to see if there is anything we can do."

Before having a baby, he had been looking forward to it for a long time, but he never thought that raising a baby would be tiring at times.

Little did I know that after only two or three days of struggling with my baby, I felt tired.

Especially after not sleeping well for two or three days in a row, he felt a little bored and wanted to go out for a walk.

"Go ahead, don't forget that we agreed last year that you won't have to pay the public food this year, and now you have to pay it again."

Gao Xiulan hugged Ruirui, who was sleeping soundly after half a night of tossing, and said with a frown.

Chen Ling shook his head: "That's not possible. This is all agreed upon, not just one village or one household."

Last year there was a disaster, all the crops were destroyed, and the people suffered a lot of losses. It is a right thing to exempt public grain and agricultural taxes for one year.

How can you regret it easily?

So I walked to the village alone.

Halfway through the walk, I saw Wang Zhenzhen leading a group of kids looking for cicada shells everywhere with bamboo poles.

Catching scorpions and looking for cicada shells are two things country kids must do after summer vacation. They can play around and save pocket money.

These little monkeys were very excited when they found these two things.

"Brother-in-law, what are you doing?"

From a distance, Wang Zhenzhen stepped on the wall of a house near a village and waved to him.

"I heard the brigade's loudspeaker call, I'm going to the village to have a look."

Chen Ling answered and glared at her: "Climb on someone's wall again, be careful to step on the wall and get beaten."

"Don't be afraid. This is the third aunt's house. The third aunt is very nice. She said that we can crawl wherever we want."

The little girl stood on the wall and shouted loudly.

Then, the people inside the wall also laughed loudly.

"You are rich, right? What are you going to do?"

"Brother Lihui, I'm going to go around the village and see what the brigade's loudspeaker is shouting."

"Ah, um, it's a pig farmer's business. You have to go to the brigade to register. I heard from my brother that someone came to the village below to collect pigs."

People in the courtyard shouted, and a man's head popped up from the wall and smiled at Chen Ling. It was Wang Lihui, Wang Lixian's cousin, who used to run a tailor shop in the village.

Most people who work as tailors are quite clean.

Just like Wang Lihui, his appearance is similar to Wang Lishan. They are both lean men, not tall, but their temperament is far different.

One is sloppy and the other is neat and tidy.

If you don't stand together, you won't be able to tell that the two are brothers.

"Is there someone coming to the village to collect pigs? I'll take a look."

There was no shouting from the loudspeaker, but Chen Ling was a little interested when he heard it, thinking that someone came to collect the pigs. I wonder if they were affected by the surrounding floods and came to resell them to make a profit.

After all, prices in disaster-stricken areas are generally higher.

If so, ask them if they accept eggs.

If the price is right, you don't have to go to the market to sell it yourself.

My son has been very noisy recently, so it's not a problem to ask my father-in-law to help him sell it.

"Wait a minute, Fugui, I'll go with you."

Seeing this, Wang Lihui waved to him, then jumped down from the wall and ran to find him.

"Really, you guys are not allowed to run up the mountain, do you understand?"

"I know, we definitely won't go up the mountain."

The little baby can't find enough cicada shells. Sometimes the more he searches, the more dissatisfied he becomes. If he gathers together to discuss, he will easily run up the mountain.

The mountain is not clean during this season, so adults should be very careful when going up the mountain.

Chen Ling gave them instructions, and then he and Wang Lihui walked towards the direction of the brigade.

After arriving at the brigade, there was a motorcycle parked at the door, and an old man and a young man were standing in the yard.

This is the person who came to collect the pigs.

Chen Ling walked in and saw that he actually knew him.

"Good guy, I'm an old acquaintance. Why don't you sell grain this year and harvest pigs instead?"

The old man among these two people was the same old guy who took away Chen Ling's peanuts and soybeans last year.

"Oh, it's you, the young one."

When the old man saw it was him, he immediately beamed and said, "Your family is also raising pigs this year? No, your family was raising wild boar cubs last year. Are they grown?"

"Haha, what's the point of growing up? This greedy kid should have been killed and eaten."

Wang Laishun said with a smile beside him, "Except for dogs and cows, he raises everything else in his family just to eat meat."

The old man was dumbfounded.

Wang Lihui couldn't stop laughing.

Chen Ling suddenly wondered: "Apart from dogs and big livestock, don't you kill everything else for food?"

"Nonsense, we still have to sell money. Who knows how to eat every day like your child?" Wang Laishun got angry when he said this. His boss asked this greedy child to take care of him. Last year, he killed two sheep in the family.

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Two sheep, just for food. How much will they cost to raise until the end of the year? Thinking about it makes me heartbroken.

The second child had an awkward quarrel with the elder couple for a long time because of this matter.

"Hey, young man, have you killed all five wild boars in your family?" the old man who came to collect the pigs asked with a smile.

"Of course not. I gave two ends to my father-in-law and one to relatives and friends. We will kill two ends at the end of the year."
To be continued...