Chapter 65: Taking out the badger
More than four hundred golden pheasants were sold for the money of a buffalo. Liu Cang had the money delivered to his home. He happened to have the manpower. Ten of them went to hunt pigweed, and ten of them followed Liu Cang up the mountain to dig out badger seeds.
More than 400 live chickens were packed in cages and occupied three carts. Lu Cheng did not stay in Lousang, fearing that the chickens would die, so the caravan set off for Jizhou and went there to find a big dealer to sell the chickens.
Liu Cang's eight thousand yuan left his family alone. Originally, when he sold livestock in the village, he should have paid a certain amount of money to the village. Even if the business tax was not included, it could also subsidize the villagers' miscellaneous taxes.
It is somewhat different from the thinking of modern people. Even if there was Cai Yong's platform, the Han Dynasty was not interested in eating everything. If the so-called aristocratic family did not even subsidize their relatives, it would not be long before this aristocratic family would not even be qualified to join a poor family.
The young men are at your disposal, the unmarried women are at your disposal, and they can help you fight for your life in case of a fight. However, the villagers' simplicity and slickness are not a joke. Fame and character are not just bragging. If you don't have some practical information, there will be no benefit.
, if I don’t tear you down, just have some fun.
The reason why Liu Cang didn't have to pay the village for selling livestock was because he never sold the eggs he produced on the mountain. Except for his own food, all of them were distributed to Lousang and Dongcun.
The beginning of the war is getting closer and closer, but if the villagers have extra money, they will either spend it on buying sundries for their own homes, or save it to build houses for their sons and daughters to get married.
Rather than letting them waste all their resources on those foreign things, it is better to let them eat more nutrients and gain more strength.
When war breaks out, no one can say what will happen. If you are involved in a war, you can be more energetic by killing people, and you can hope to become an elite soldier or something.
The so-called people's hearts are transparent, and the villagers naturally have a strong balance in their hearts. Knowing that Liu Cang is not a weak person who can be bullied, Liu Cang distributed all the eggs to the village. In gratitude for Liu Cang's care for the clan, the clan elders will naturally not want him again.
Money and food.
As for whether the eggs distributed to each family were eaten by them or exchanged for money, Liu Cang didn't care about this aspect. He couldn't control it and couldn't control it.
A group of ten people went to kill Dongshan. Speaking of which, they were already very tired of those badgers. Those guys liked to come out of their caves in the middle of the night and would touch the chicken coops whenever they could. When heroes got used to their smelly glands, they would sometimes bite them to death.
Two teeth were sacrificed, and the night watchman pretended not to see them.
Badgers There are so many wild areas in the mountains nowadays that it can almost be said that badgers are bound to be found in every mountain.
Because digging holes and digging holes will harm farmers, they are often regarded as pests, and their main value to people is probably their fur, which can be used as fur.
Although they have a strong temper and a fierce temper, for the people of the Han Dynasty, a young man could stab them with a stick and a fork in a matter of minutes. These badgers even dared to bar their teeth at wolves, but they were quite afraid of people.
Just when we arrived at the foot of the mountain, it happened that a shepherd boy was driving cattle and sheep here to graze. The yak's long hair rubbed against the goat's military counselor and wandered to Liu Cang's side. The military counselor nudged his butt and ran away, but he was afraid of growing up.
Mao kicked him until he was paralyzed, and bleated at Liu Cang from a distance.
The long hair has grown to the size of an ox, and it is now considered an adult bull. However, the remaining ten yaks are much smaller.
They are the second batch of yaks raised by Liu Cang. They will barely reach adulthood until later in the year. The earliest batch has been sold by Liu Cang.
Because Liu Cang has a kid to herd sheep, Liu Cang has now raised about 20 sheep. Liu Cang doesn't sell these sheep much. Compared with cattle and horses, their price is too low. They are currently Liu Cang's standing ration, including the carnivores in his family.
In later generations, mutton was more expensive than pork. The main reason was probably due to the feeding methods and feed.
In fact, dolphins in the Han Dynasty were much more expensive than sheep. The price of a small dolphin was about five to six hundred yuan, while a full-grown goat was the same price as a small dolphin.
The meat produced by goats is limited, and the Han people are not interested in goat milk and their internal organs. They can sell them, but they cannot sell them at a high price.
Liu Cang was not interested in advocating the delicacy of offal or the beauty of goat's milk. Apart from stuffing some sausages, he was more interested in fresh mutton.
Most of the viscera and semen were given to Hao Han and Da Ya. Jin Zi liked to hunt for himself and would bring back some birds and beasts to Liu Cang from time to time.
Nowadays, the Han people are actually more cautious about killing sheep than chickens, because it saves trouble to feed, and a hen that continues to lay eggs can actually create a lot of value for the family.
Therefore, the number of goats Liu Cang has raised in the past two years has increased and decreased, and they are usually consumed by himself. Now there are several ewes in the flock that are almost ready to give birth.
He pushed away the long hair that rubbed against him. Compared with other yaks, the long hair was quite clean. Liu Cang would take it to bathe in the river from time to time, and would also let the little boy who herds the cattle comb it. After all, it was his own spiritual animal.
It's too boring to save.
After waving and scolding, stamping their feet to drive them away, and gesticulating for a long time, Changmao and the military advisor finally understood what they meant. A cow and a sheep took their younger brothers to look for tender grass to eat and drink. The shepherd boy shouted, and occasionally there were eagles and dogs barking in the mountains.
Looking for tree branches to make wooden forks, a dozen people went around and picked up some dry grass and dead branches. They were very familiar with the nest of badgers on the east mountain. There were also heroes who searched for it on weekdays. The badger cave that extended in all directions had several exits and entrances. It had been long since
It was made clear to everyone.
When the smoke was put into the hole, the villagers screamed strangely, leaving an opening, and the dogs and badgers that sprang out one after another were thrown out by the villagers.
The inexperienced ones used wooden forks to press them, while the experienced ones directly pressed them with their hands. In less than half an hour, eight or nine large badgers, about half a meter tall, were tied and tied all over the ground, howling and screaming.
The pungent smell made several people frown. Badgers have odor glands and will 'fart' when in danger.
The hero also sprang out at some point and was currently circling around an untied badger.
There is still some difference between the reckless temperament of the giant dogs of later generations. Nowadays, giant dogs like Haohan tend to be in a semi-wild state, with full hunting habits. When faced with the charging badgers, Haohan dodges and runs like a wolf, but from time to time he dodges and runs away.
Turn around, bite it hard, and throw it away.
Seeing that there were so many people on the big dog's side, the badger had no intention of fighting the hero. The more he tried to escape, the more times he was bitten and thrown. Finally, he lay on the ground, shaking his head and baring his teeth, but was pressed down by a young man with a fork.
Stay, in exchange for the hero's dissatisfied growl and threats.
"Get out of here." The young man was afraid of the threat from the hero, so Liu Cang scolded the hero, only for him to wagging his tail and rub against Liu Cang's body.
The whining seemed to be describing his grievances, and Liu Cang couldn't laugh or cry. This kind of virtue was also the reason why Liu Cang found it difficult to raise dogs for meat.
"Sir, we should have taken them out a long time ago, but how do we keep these things?" Liu Sanzhao asked Liu Cang after all the big badgers were caught.
Everyone looked at Liu Cang silently. Zhang Kui from the East Village got a straw rope tied with a dead toad and was stuffing it into the badger's hole. He planned to see if there were any badger cubs in the hole.
They fish it out.
Many people have experience in catching badgers, but how do you raise badgers? These things can lean on walls and make holes, they can even make houses collapse, and the base of an iron cage must be made strong.
Liu Cang looked at the badgers all over the ground, baring their teeth and howling. He found one that looked familiar and squatted down to touch its head.
Although these guys made holes, they kept them clean and their fur was smooth. As a result, the badger struggled and turned towards Liu Cang's hand to bite him.
After avoiding the bites of the badgers, none of the badgers that were tied up on the ground were judged by the system as breeding objects. Liu Cang let the little wolverine in his arms poke its head out.
The little wolverine looked at the badger on the ground and squeaked a few times, only to be met with a burst of bites and struggles from the badger.
Liu Cang shook his head in disappointment. Although the spirit beast was promoted by the system to the leader of the breeding group, in the end it was still only for the breeding goal.
If the wolverine cubs were adults, they might be able to subdue the badger, but now, the wolverine cubs are not big enough to bite, so it obviously won't have any effect.
Liu Cang touched this one, touched that one, knocked it twice, kicked that one, and tried to please him with fat earthworms. After struggling for a long time, none of them were included in the breeding category. At this time, Zhang Kui
There is movement over there.
"Hey, sir, I have it, there are quite a few." Zhang Kui shouted, and he saw that he was holding a young badger that was one or two times larger than the little wolverine in his hand, and at the entrance of the badger's hole, another older badger lay out.
A smaller badger cub.
Looking at the young badgers, and then at the big badgers on the ground that refused to obey, Liu Cang frowned for a long time, and then tried stroking one by one, only to be bitten again.
"Sir, feed these big ones to the unfamiliar ones." Zhang Kui said to Liu Cang who was unwilling to give up as more than ten badger cubs were fished out of the hole one after another.
"Then let the big ones go first." Liu Cang thought about it and let them go first. When the wolverines grow up next year, he will come with his younger brothers to clean up their place.
"That won't work. These guys are more vengeful than wolves. We dug out their nests. They are really going to harm the chickens and poultry." Liu Sanze shook his head in opposition.
"Then let's divide it and sew me a waistcoat." Liu Cang didn't talk about it that much. In this case, let's keep the small one and kill the others to share the meat.
"Okay, my mother-in-law is familiar with it. If she adds some materials, she can sew a large cloak." Liu Sanzhi responded.
Chapter completed!