Zhuojun is dry, but there is no shortage of water systems. Several tributaries of the Bohai Sea pass through here, and there is even a section of coastline in Zhuojun.

Passing through a naturally grown willow forest, a river with duckweed on its banks appeared in front of Liu Cang.

The river is wide and the water is turbid. In a rocky area upstream, you can still faintly see a few women carrying water.

Looking down at the water surface, Liu Cang frowned slightly as the water line seemed to be a little lower. The water line had dropped too fast, and there might have been villages upstream digging canals to release water.

Nowadays, there are usually some villages cultivating land around rivers. Usually, everyone carries water to irrigate the fields. Although it is tiring, it will not have any adverse effects on the people on the front line of the river.

Let’s not talk about whether the diversion canal will cause flood hazards in the future due to its poor construction. If everyone tries to save the effort of carrying water, the originally predictable water and soil conditions will be full of variables.

Therefore, handicrafts flourished in the Han Dynasty, and the Mohist knowledge of mechanics still existed among the people, but those ditches and waterwheels were not just built randomly.

But what is happening now in Liu Cang is that the county and county officials have issued a notice stating that there may be a drought this year, but the private villages are rushing to get water to irrigate the fields, for fear that a sudden drought will delay farming and water storage.

In previous years, this kind of disaster prevention order was not unavailable, but at that time, the county and county offices would send people to dispatch, and the wealthy families in the countryside would also send people to help avoid chaos.

But I don’t know when it started, everyone seemed to have a life-threatening job to be busy with overnight, and they often only made public announcements about private arrangements and dealt with the matter.

A woman's laughter came to his ears, and when he looked up, someone seemed to be pointing at him in the distance. The laughter was cheerful and vigorous, which also made Liu Cang frown deeper.

Shaking his head heavily, Liu Cang seemed to want to get rid of the thoughts in his mind. It was useless for him to think about some things, and he was not qualified to intervene at all.

"Xiu~!" Putting his finger to his mouth, Liu Cang blew a loud whistle.

"Yo~yo~yo~yo~!" Liu Cang was heard screaming strangely at the woman's figure in the distance.

When he screamed strangely, Liu Cang also took off his clothes, moved his shoulders, and jumped into the water. A woman laughing and cursing could be heard in the distance.

In the early morning, the atmosphere along the river seemed to be more lively.

Putting aside feed and forage, pigs are actually not easy to feed. In comparison, preparing food for pigs is even more troublesome than preparing food for cows.

Cows are like a piece of weeds. Don't worry about whether they are raw, cooked or tender. Cut them home and throw them to them to eat.

Dolphins eat young but not old, sweet but not bitter, green but not dry, clean but not dirty, as long as you don't make them hungry, picky, and difficult to serve.

However, they eat meat and are also interested in things with strong smells. If they are starved several times and let them taste some unclean things, then they will no longer be so particular about it. But then, it will become

The pig is gone.

The duckweed floating along the river near the forest is mainly water hyacinth. This aquatic plant that reproduces very quickly has thick canes and is a good pig food.

There were a lot of water celery here earlier, but I don’t know who came to pick them in the past two days. Now only some young shoots are left.

Liu Cang came out to hunt pigweed. The water hyacinth here was his main target, but that was the last job. He had other things to be busy with now.

Liu Cang, who got into the river, sank to the bottom of the water in one breath. There was a wide and long bamboo basket on the sandy bottom. Liu Cang pulled up a cone tree fixed at the bottom of the river and swam toward the surface with the bamboo basket.

.

The bamboo baskets are long and numerous, and it is difficult to fix them on the river bank, so they can only be sunk to the bottom of the water.

There were many small finger-long fish in the bamboo basket, and it was rare to see fish larger than a palm. However, the river section was close to the two villages, and the large edible fish had long been wiped out by children playing around.

After struggling to drag the bamboo basket, what is surprising is that Liu Cang held his breath for nearly ten minutes. Although he was in the North, it must be said that Liu Cang's water resistance was unexpectedly strong.

Of course, this kind of power is not because he is naturally good at water, but because he has stewed many turtles that are regarded as longevity creatures...

Well, that’s right. If we say that the animal that Liu Cang has raised the most so far is not pigs or chickens, it is turtles.

Liu Cang's family originally had arable land, but the current arable land had been replaced by a mud pond by the village, and he had thrown many turtles into the mud pond.

People always have to have some dreams, such as longevity.

Well, in the beginning, Liu Cang's rivalry with Wu Gui was just his own whim. His golden-finger life was too grand, so how could he live without any fantasy?

Foods of flesh and blood can increase people's physique, including vegetables and fruits, but there is only a question of how fast or slowly.

Not only is meat the most efficient diet, Liu Cang also found that different meat diets have certain tendencies in improving physical fitness.

For example, pork and chicken are average in nature. After physical growth and exercise, the endurance will increase most obviously.

With the same training method, wild boar and wolf meat obviously have a boost in explosive power that pork does not.

After confirming that snake meat and eel significantly improved the toughness of joints and muscles, Liu Cang whimsically started collecting turtles while wearing crotchless pants.

Speaking of which, Liu Cang thought he was funny at first.

Taming tortoises is not difficult. Just dig a hole at home, lay some solid rocks, and throw them in. They can't run away anyway.

As he grew older, almost all the turtles Liu Cang caught in nature were of first-class quality. After eating a lot of them, they had no effect at all.

The maturation time of turtles is too long. Liu Cang has been raising the turtles at home for nearly ten years.

From time to time, I would pick up a few from the riverside pond and raise them without having to take care of them. They would eat all the smelly fish, rotten shrimps, sandworms and grasshoppers, and just change the water occasionally.

Seeing that Liu Cang had almost regarded those turtles as ornamental animals, he finally harvested the spiritual essence from the first batch of turtles.

Naturally, the spiritual essence of the turtle can only be used on the turtle. It was no surprise that Liu Cang picked four or five fat turtles and directly hit them to the second level.

Then?

Give it a try. If it doesn't work, you must get rid of them all. Mosquitoes attract mosquitoes, so who is wasting energy on them?

In order to laugh at himself, Liu Cang chopped up a turtle and prepared it for soup, but...

Turtle meat: Grade 2 quality. A small amount increases the eater's cell activity, a small amount improves the eater's metabolic function, and enhances the eater's breathing ability to a certain extent.

Well, the walking 'stones' that originally attracted mosquitoes in the courtyard became Liu Cang's treasure. He even directly discussed with the villagers and exchanged his own farmland for the mud pond in the village used to grow lotus vegetables.

But the villagers just thought that he had no intention of farming and only wanted to collect lotus, and they had no interest in the turtles he threw into the pond.
Chapter completed!