Chapter 23: Mother's Reprimand

What I get is my luck, what I lose is my fate!

Constantly comforting himself, he dragged the sika deer and the earth leopard onto the sled, drove the big stallion, and went home!

Suddenly he thought, the medicinal value of the earth leopard's gallbladder seems to be very high too!

But the gallbladder is something that will slowly disperse after the animal dies. After a long time, there won't be much left!

He dragged the earth leopard off the sled again, gutted it, and took the leopard gallbladder first.

He kept the heart, liver, and lungs, and hung the intestines on a tree branch.

Wang An didn't know why the intestines had to be hung on a tree branch!

Anyway, when listening to those hunters bragging, there was such a part, saying it was to pay respect to the Mountain God.

Whether the Mountain God exists or not, Wang An didn't know!

Anyway, just hang the intestines on the tree!

This thing, a carnivorous animal, isn't as delicious as wild boar intestines, so if they say hang it, we hang it. We're not stubborn!

He stuffed the heart, liver, and lungs back into the belly filled with snow. Then dragged it onto the sled.

Time had passed for more than 20 minutes, almost half an hour!

This gutting work isn't suitable for him to do! According to his brother-in-law, he knows how to gut, he has plenty of strength, he can study it in the future!

This tossing, it was almost ten o'clock!

He drove the sled home immediately. It wasn't that Wang An didn't want to hunt wild boars, but there are all kinds of beasts in the mountains!

There are too many unpredictable things! The value of the sika deer and the earth leopard is too high. If the earth leopard is left there and the fur has even a little damage, that's all money lost!!

The money from selling this earth leopard that Wang An hunted today is the hunting harvest of many hunters for several years!

Not to mention there's a sika deer, deer penis, deer antlers, deer hooves, deer tail, deer skin, deer tendons, deer heart, deer kidneys, deer bones, these are all valuable things!

Even the deer meat, which is the most on the deer, is a good thing for nourishing qi and blood, much more expensive than the fat pork raised at home!

Besides, these two things together are almost 300 jin, plus his own weight, the sled is already pulling about 450 jin!

Although for a big stallion, it's like pulling nothing!

And today's harvest is quite good! Lots of meat, and high value! Being too greedy is not good!

Driving the sled, he arrived home at almost 12 o'clock.

Stretching his neck and shouting, the whole family ran out again.

I don't know if it's because Mu Xueqing married over, but none of the three little ones went out to play.

Ignoring the family's exclamations and noise, he untied the big stallion from the sled and tied it to the shed.

He scooped a pointed bowl of corn kernels for the big stallion, and a flat bowl for the idle mare!

These corn kernels are called feed! Feed in the grass feed, actually, it's grain.

Grinding the grain into powder to feed is actually the best!

Because mules, horses, and donkeys are straight-gut animals and don't chew the cud!

After swallowing, not much nutrition is absorbed, and there are grain particles in the horse manure, so the grain is wasted.

Cattle and sheep chew the cud!

Chewing the cud is rumination, which is swallowing the food first, fermenting it in the stomach, and when there's nothing to do, returning it to the mouth to chew, and then swallowing it again!

The best horse feed is soybeans, black beans, soybean meal, followed by corn, sorghum, and millet.

Of course, other grains are also completely fine, it just depends on whether you can bear to!

Feed should be fed a little every day, otherwise, the weight loss will be very fast!

Large livestock like mules, horses, donkeys, and cattle must be fed feed; if they aren't fed feed, they can't work! They will get thinner and thinner!

And salt, must be fed! Just knock the dirty big salt blocks into pieces!

No need to feed every day, just grab a handful every three or five days!

Today the big stallion put in a lot of effort, running back and forth for almost 80 li! Feeding a little more feed is no problem!

This is also why Liu Guilan and Wang Dazhu were full of worry when Wang An rode the two horses back!

Grass is easy to handle, corn stalks, sorghum stalks, rice straw, etc., are all easy to get!

But this feed must be pure grain! And it must be fed every day! In this era, what family can afford it??

After feeding the two horses, Wang An found that several people had already carried the earth leopard and the sika deer to the outer room!

He didn't hear the happy discussion of several people either. Wang An entered the west room by himself, took out the money and tickets he had picked up yesterday from the kang cabinet, and counted them carefully.

Fine grain tickets, 84 jin, quite good.

Coarse grain tickets, 236 jin, not bad.

Sugar tickets, 11.3 jin, very good.

Biscuit tickets, 17.5 jin, also quite good!

Bicycle ticket, 1, awesome.

Refined salt tickets, 13 jin (the salt eaten in the countryside is all coarse salt that doesn't need tickets, or dirty salt blocks that need to be washed with water before eating).

Cloth tickets, 2 bolts, this is awesome, one bolt of cloth is about 33 meters, how many clothes and pants can 66 meters of cloth make??

Meat tickets, 16.2 jin, this thing is useless to Wang An, unless he goes to a state-run restaurant to eat, or exchanges it for other tickets, or sells it!

He counted the money again, including the 300 he took to Mu Xueqing's house yesterday, the four people had a total of 546.4 yuan.

Looking at it, these things were all the stolen goods of these four people!

The tickets and such also had those from other cities. Fortunately, they all belonged to Heilongjiang, otherwise, they couldn't be used within Heilongjiang at all!

These four guys were really stealing or robbing a lot!! Cheap for me, hehehehe.

Adding those from the three beasts, plus the money from selling the roe deer, then subtracting the money for buying things at the supply and marketing cooperative, plus buying the dogs, subtracting the 10 yuan for Dad!

He still had 360 yuan and a few small bills in his pocket. He counted the money, and it matched the account!

He still has to continue making money! Go into the mountains! Hunt! Can't let the money be just these few coins!

Anyway, he won't do business anymore, he won't do business even if he dies!!

After a few years, when everything is opened up, animal husbandry is a pretty good way to make a living!

For example, raising sika deer, this thing is full of treasures!! Silly roe deer are also good, the tuft of white hair on the butt is still very fun!

Still have to raise some hazel grouse, this thing is delicious and valuable! Such a small thing, weighing more than half a jin, seven or eight taels, is 5 yuan each at the market!

He was just pondering a beautiful future! When he heard his old mother shouting for him in the outer room!

Just as he walked to the outer room, Liu Guilan scolded Wang An with a barrage of abuse.

"You little brat, you even dare to hunt an earth leopard, do you not want to live anymore?"

"Before you came back, I was still thinking that you were injured by some beast and picked up a bargain!"

"This damn earth leopard, there's only one hole in its head! You reckless ghost, you just want to scare your old mother to death!"

"What did I tell you? Huh? Did I tell you not to provoke this thing? Let you stay far away from this thing?"

"What? Do you want to try it if you run into a big claw?"

"Are you awesome now? Are you very fierce now?"

"You bastard, I should just beat you to death with a fire poker! To save you from being kicked by mountain beasts!"

Wang An didn't say a word, listening quietly to his mother's scolding!

He was quite moved in his heart. Although every sentence didn't sound good, they were all full of care, worry, and lingering fear!

His old mother, although she is just an ordinary rural woman who is a little greedy for money.

But her love for her children is earth-shaking and incomparable!!

Wang Dazhu and Mu Xueqing also lost their previous joy and silently skinned and butchered the earth leopard.

Day after day, he forgot his old mother! He only cared about thinking that this thing was valuable!

Sigh!!

Old talk, no hiding!

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(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 24 =====