The fairy of space also farms

In the bamboo forest in the back mountain, there are indeed many bamboo shoots breaking through the ground. The dark brown pointed shoots look very gratifying, and the number is not too many.Here, the peak season for bamboo shoots to be unearthed will be around Qingming, and the current bamboo shoots are still very small.However, new bamboo shoots also have the benefits of new bamboo shoots, that is, they are tender.

Xun Xu put down the hoe: "How to dig?"

Xu Ning took a look: "Dig the ones on the side, don't go through the middle, so as not to step on the newly sprouted bamboo shoots. Pick a place with a lot of bamboo and dig." If the new bamboo shoots want to compete with bamboo for living space, they probably won't be able to grow. big.

Xunxu is where Xu Ning directs the digging, so he digs whichever one. Although two bamboo shoots were damaged at the beginning, he quickly mastered the trick. The two dug all the way by the edge of the bamboo forest, and soon dug a basket. , quite a sense of accomplishment.I didn't notice that Ah Xuan and Xiaobao had disappeared since entering the bamboo forest.

Xun Xu saw that the basket was full: "Still digging?"

Xu Ning said: "It's almost there. Let's eat some for ourselves, mainly for the mountain mice. We can go back. Where are Axuan and Xiaobao?" Xu Ning looked around, but found no two cats.

Xun Xu took a look: "It seems to have gone into the forest."

"Ah Xuan, Xiao Bao, let's go, go home!" Xu Ning shouted into the forest.

Then he heard Ah Xuan meow loudly, followed by the little leopard's neighing, Xu Ning looked at Xun Xu: "Did you hear that? They seem to be in danger."

Xun Xu nodded: "Yes, let's go."

When the two were in a hurry, they didn't care whether they stepped on the bamboo shoots or not. They dropped their things and ran deep into the bamboo forest.Xiaobao's cry became more and more intense, Xu Ning was very anxious when he heard it, Xun Xu said, "Over there."

Xu Ning looked in the direction guided by Xunxu, and saw that Ah Xuan was fighting with a gray animal that was about the same size as him, while the little leopard was jumping around, not knowing what to do.Compared with that guy, Ah Xuan still had a slight advantage.It bit the guy's neck tightly, but the guy was very strong, he refused to let it go, and kept rolling on the ground, even with Ah Xuan.

The arrival of Xun Xu and Xu Ning ended the stalemate. Xun Xun knocked the guy with a dead tree branch, and it stopped moving.A Xuansong opened his mouth, and licked his tongue at Xun Xu and Xu Ning. Seeing that the guy was not moving, Xiao Bao rushed over, meowed fiercely, and then meowed softly at A Xuan , that voice was extremely flattering.Ah Xuan stretched out his paws to wash his face, and looked at Xiao Bao expressionlessly, he was like a teammate of pigs, who only shouted and cheered when he saw himself fighting.

Xu Ning took the stick from Xun Xu's hand, and pulled the guy: "What is it? A mouse? A mouse this big?" This guy's hair and appearance looked like a mouse, but his body was smaller than normal. The mouse is more than several times bigger, at least four or five catties in weight, a mutated mouse?He found that they were out of the moso bamboo forest, on the edge of a thin bamboo forest.

Xun Xu said, "I don't know."

Xu Ning went over to take a closer look at the guy. Although he looked like a mouse, his nose was a bit like a pig's nose. Xu Ning looked familiar, as if the bamboo mouse he saw on the Internet last time looked like this. He had a flash of inspiration : "Is this a bamboo rat?"

Xun Xu looked left and right, then shook his head: "I haven't seen it before."

"Ah Xuan, is this a bamboo rat?" Xu Ning asked Ah Xuan.

Ah Xuan continued to lick its paw, ignoring Xu Ning.Xu Ning lifted the guy up excitedly, and it was quite heavy in his hand: "Come on, let's go back, I'll ask my uncle. It's strange, I haven't heard of bamboo rats here in my hometown."

Seeing him pick up the bamboo rat, Ah Xuan yelled, which meant that I caught it.Xun Xu turned his head and said, "I didn't help beat him to death."

Two people and two cats walked through the moso bamboo forest, took a basket and a hoe, Xu Ning called Xu Jingshan and told him that the cat at home had caught a strange mouse with a nose like a pig.Xu Jingshan asked: "Caught in the back mountain forest?"

"Yes, we wanted to dig some bamboo shoots, and found this thing."

Xu Jingshan said: "That may be a pig mouse. The nose and mouth are a bit like a pig, right?"

Xu Ning said, "Is the scientific name called bamboo rat?"

Xu Jingshan said: "I don't know about it. I'll come to your house to see later."

Not long after Xu Ning arrived home, Xu Jingshan arrived. Looking at the guy on the ground, he picked it up and looked at it: "It's really a pig mouse. Oh, there are pig mice in the back mountain. I haven't seen it for many years. This thing It tastes better than mutton and beef. We used to have a lot of it here. When I was young, people often went to the mountains to kill pigs and mice to eat. Later, it gradually disappeared, at least for 30 to [-] years. "

No wonder Xu Ning had never heard of it, since he was not born at that time. "Uncle, do they grow up in the bamboo forest and eat bamboo?"

"Yes, pig mice like to eat bamboo shoots and bamboo, like thin bamboo, and love to make holes in bamboo forests. We used to catch pig mice, with straw handles and bags, to find the pig mouse's hole, first find its back hole, They are all blocked, leaving only one opening, and then they start to burn and smoke. The pig mice will crawl out of the hole when they can't stand the smoke, and they will be sure. Or they can be dug with a hoe, but in autumn and winter, the holes of pig mice It's very deep, it's hard to dig, and it's better to use smoke." Xu Jingshan told his previous stories with great interest.

"That is to say, we now have bamboo rats again?" Xu Ning asked.

Xu Jingshan said: "It looks like it is. Someday I will go to hunt bamboo rats to eat, but now the back hill is full of trees, so it is not safe to light a fire." Xu Jingshan touched his chin.

Xu Ning said: "Uncle will have dinner at my house tonight, and call my aunt, nephew and niece to taste the taste of bamboo rats."

Xu Jingshan said: "Yes, let's go to the back mountain forest tomorrow to have a look."

Digging bamboo shoots accidentally caught a bamboo rat, which is really an unexpected harvest.Xu Jingshan offered to help clean up the bamboo rats. He asked Xu Ning to boil a pot of boiling water, then threw the bamboo rats in and scalded them for 3-[-] minutes, and began to pluck their hairs. , but I was bitten by cats a lot, so I didn’t peel the skin, and went straight to the hair. At that time, pig and mouse skins with good quality could be sold for [-] cents a piece. In those days, think about it. It must be more expensive now. It's worth it."

Xun Xu asked, "What is this skin used for?"

Xu Ning said: "It is probably used to make furs, hats, shoes and so on. This hair can also be used to make brushes, but there are fewer brushes now."

"In the past when we caught live pigs and rats, we would first fill them with white wine, make them drunk, and then kill them and let them bleed." Xu Jingshan neatly removed the hair, and then cleaned off the head and internal organs, and threw them all to Ah Xuan and Xiao. Leopard, Ah Xuan is the hero who caught the bamboo rat today, Xu Jingshan sighed, "Your cat is better than a dog."

Xu Ning just laughed: "That's right, he can watch the house and catch mice." Last time Liu Xiaohei came to steal sheep, this guy was still reporting outside.

Xu Jingshan said: "The wolf dog in my in-law's house has given birth to a puppy, and it's almost full moon, do you want any more puppies?"

"Yes, why not." Xu Ning was still waiting for German Shepherd to herd sheep for him.

Ah Xuan was lowering his head to eat the internal organs of the bamboo rat. Hearing their conversation, he raised his head and gave Xu Ning a very deep look, but Xu Ning was watching Xu Jingshan handle the bamboo rat, so he didn't see its eyes.Little Leopard's face was full of innocence, and he lowered his head to eat the delicious food. Of course, the delicious food seemed a little disgusting to humans.

Not long after, Zhang Xiuzhi also came with two grandchildren. Hearing that there were bamboo rats, she volunteered to cook. I scrambled an egg and mixed with lettuce.Zhang Xiuzhi said: "Ning baby, do you want to raise chickens here? It's good to raise some chickens to lay eggs, and you can also eat chicken." In the eyes of rural people, it is not a home without chickens.

Xu Ning said: "Okay, actually I want to raise some ducks, geese and so on."

"How many are you going to raise? If you raise less, I'll help you hatch the chicks. There just happens to be a hen at home." Zhang Xiuzhi said.

Xu Ning smiled: "Then I'm going to trouble my aunt. I want to raise more. You can see if there are hens in the village who want to hatch eggs. Let's help me hatch together. I will give you money according to the market. Buy it at a low price." Xu Ning decided to raise more, but the chickens he bought at the chicken farm were definitely not local chickens, but various foreign chickens. If he wanted to raise them, he should raise the best ones.

"Well, there should be a lot of people who can hatch at home, and everyone wants to hatch chickens every year. It's just that these years the chickens are not easy to raise, and they die when they are raised. There are a lot of medicines. Although the chickens are raised at home, they are all fed with medicines." Zhang Xiuzhi sighed.

"By the way, Auntie, tell everyone to hatch with native eggs at home instead of buying foreign eggs." Xu Ning told Zhang Xiuzhi, thinking in her heart that when her family raised chickens, she would never get injections or medicine, and feed them some. Spatial water is guaranteed to be alive and kicking, and all bird flu and chicken plague will be sidelined.

Zhang Xiuzhi said: "Okay, just use native eggs to hatch, I'm sure you can't go wrong."

The food that night was delicious. A bamboo mouse weighing four to five catties was eaten clean by six people and two cats.Xu Jingshan smacked his lips and said: "This taste is exactly the same as that of the past, it is simply too pleasing."

Xun Xu didn't talk very much, and when others talked, he ate with his head buried in the bowl. The two picky eaters saw him eating with gusto, so they couldn't help but eat two bowls. meal.Zhang Xiuzhi was so happy that crow's feet appeared at the corners of her eyes: "From now on, Fengfeng and Jingjing will have dinner at my uncle's house, and I will compete with Uncle Xun to see who eats faster."

Xu Xiaojing touched the little leopard in her arms: "Okay." She really likes kittens, and every time she comes here, she would hold the little leopard to play with. In fact, she wanted to hug Ah Xuan more, but Ah Xuan was very arrogant. No one can get close to Xunxu, so the little girl had no choice but to give up.Fortunately, Xiaobao is quite good at being coquettish and cute, and likes to play with people. Every time he comes, he will obediently let the little girl hug him, and Ah Xuan will show a very contemptuous look.

After dinner, Xu Jingshan was still thinking about going to the back mountain to catch bamboo rats, so he made an appointment with Xu Ning to catch bamboo rats in the back mountain early tomorrow morning.

When Xu Jingshan and his wife left, the little girl Xiaojing was still holding Xiaobao in her arms: "Uncle, can I take Xiaobao to my house to play, and bring it back to you tomorrow."

As a result, before everyone could make a sound, Ah Xuan became upset and meowed fiercely at Xiaojing, and then everyone was attracted by Ah Xuan.Xu Ning smiled and said, "Quiet, Ah Xuan doesn't agree with you taking Little Leopard away."

Xu Xiaojing pouted: "Why?"

Xu Ning said: "Little Leopard is Ah Xuan's good friend. If you take Xiaobao away, there will be no one to play with."

Xu Xiaojing looked at Ah Xuan, then at the little leopard in her arms, a little bit reluctant.Ah Xuan stared at Xiaobao for a while with his eyes like torches, then turned around and walked out.Seeing Ah Xuan leaving, Xiaobao quickly struggled off Xiaojing and caught up with Ah Xuan's footsteps.He leaned over to get close to Ah Xuan, but Ah Xuan ignored it. The little guy seemed to sense Ah Xuan's indifference, and pressed his head against Ah Xuan's neck. After pushing it several times, Ah Xuan licked it on the face. , expressing that he forgave it.Then he took the little leopard into the night.

Xu Xiaojing asked: "Where is Ah Xuan going with Little Leopard?"

Xu Ning said: "They went out to play, and they will come back at night."

Zhang Xiuzhi took her granddaughter's hand: "Let's go home."

Xu Xiaojing said with some regret: "I didn't eat strawberries today."

Today's strawberries were eaten by the students who planted trees. Xu Ning felt a little apologetic and said, "My uncle will save it for you tomorrow, come and eat it tomorrow."

"Okay, let's go, Fengfeng, Jingjing, say goodbye to uncle." Zhang Xiuzhi said.

Both children waved their hands: "Goodbye, uncle!"

Xu Jingshan said: "I'll go back first, and I'll come to see you tomorrow morning."

"Okay." Even if Xu Jingshan doesn't go, Xu Ning is going to catch bamboo rats. He is going to catch a few live ones and bring them back to raise. In this way, he will not only have mountain rats, but also bamboo rats. come.Now that Xu Jingshan, an experienced veteran, is leading the team, wouldn't it be easier to catch the mountain mouse?

In the evening, Xun Xu and Xu Ning practiced together for another round, and then he was satisfied and went to sleep.That night Ah Xuan and Xiaobao didn't come back, he led Xiaobao to sleep in his nest on the plane tree.

Early the next morning, when Xu Ning woke up, Xu Jingshan came over, holding a sharpened hatchet and a bag of rice grains in his hand, and said that if he saw a bamboo rat hole, he would clear out the surrounding area, and dig it like this. When they go down, they won't take advantage of the chaos and escape.

So a few of them went up the mountain without eating. Xu Ning carried a hoe and a bag, Xun Xu carried a bundle of hay and a bag of corn, and Xu Jingshan carried a hatchet. The three entered the forest.Ah Xuan and Xiao Bao got down from the sycamore tree and followed behind them, walking quietly.

The fog in the mountains and forests in the early morning has not yet dissipated, and there are melodious and crisp birdsong in the mountains and forests. The birds sing melodiously, which is very beautiful.After entering the forest, Xu Jingshan said to Xu Ning: "In fact, there are many good things in this mountain, but now the mountain is too dense, no one dares to come in."

Xu Ning was a little surprised: "What's in this mountain?"

"For example, we went to catch pigs and mice, not to mention hares and pheasants. There used to be wild boars and mountain leopards. There are many mushrooms and wild vegetables in the mountains, as well as many herbs. Unfortunately, we don't know herbs. There used to be a The old man often came here to collect medicines, but it was estimated that the old man was gone, and he hadn't seen him for many years." Xu Jingshan said.

Xu Ning was a little surprised: "There are mountain leopards and wild boars in the mountains?" He knew that mountain leopards were leopard cats, and they were national second-class protected animals. Probably the back mountain forest was connected to the mountain in the north, and wild boars and mountain leopards came from the mountain. Migrated here.

"Isn't that right? In the past, there were people growing corn and soybeans in the back mountains, and wild boars often came to attack him. The guy had rough skin and thick flesh, and bullets couldn't pierce it. He scared everyone to death. Everyone beat with gongs desperately to drive them away. It." Xu Jingshan said.

Xun Xu, who had been silent all this time, asked, "Why didn't you call to eat?"

Xu Ning almost didn't laugh, but his foodie nature was revealed as soon as he opened his mouth.

Xu Jingshan said: "That guy is too strong, and one or two people are not its opponents at all, and they will be injured, so usually they scare it away when they see it. Sometimes there are many people, and they beat it to death once or twice. Everyone eats the meat separately, the wild pork is really fragrant, it is fragrant and tender, it is very fresh, it is much more delicious than domestic pork."

Listening to Xun Xu, he couldn't help swallowing.

Xu Ning suppressed a smile: "Then there are still wild boars?"

"I don't know now. I haven't seen it for many years." Xu Jingshan shook his head.

While they were talking, they had already left the moso bamboo forest and arrived at the edge of a thin bamboo forest. Xu Ning told Xu Jingshan where they found the bamboo rat yesterday.Ah Xuan and Xiao Bao seemed to know what they were looking for, and ran away as soon as they entered the bamboo forest.Here Xu Jingshan was still looking for traces of bamboo rats with Xu Ning and Xun Xu, while Ah Xuan cried out over there.

Xu Ning and the others hurried over and saw Ah Xuan and Xiao Bao guarding the edge of a dense clump of bamboo. There was a hole at the root of the bamboo, and there was some fresh soil beside the hole.Xu Jingshan was overjoyed: "It's really a bamboo mouse hole, your cat is so good, it can even catch up with the hunting dog!"

Xu Ning was also very happy: "Then how to catch it now?"

"Look for other openings first, and I'll clean up this side." Xu Jingshan said with a hoe and began to clean up the surrounding bamboo and weeds.

After a while Xu Ning found another cave entrance, and according to Xu Jingshan's instructions, blocked the cave entrance.Then a fire was lit at the entrance of the cave here, not an open fire, but mainly to burn grains so that there would be smoke.Xu Ning looked at the thick smoke curling up, and wondered if someone saw it, would they think it was a fire on the mountain.

Xu Jingshan fanned the flames and said: "In fact, water attack is not bad, but it is too difficult to fetch water here."

After about a quarter of an hour, Ah Xuan, who was squatting aside, straightened up, and Xu Ning saw Ah Xuan's movement: "Uncle, is the bamboo rat coming out soon?"

Xu Jingshan said, "Get your bags and get them ready."

Sure enough, after a while, a bamboo mouse slowly crawled to the entrance of the cave, poked its head out, and then retracted back, but it couldn't bear the smoke, so it had to crawl out again. As soon as the bag was manipulated, the thing was pocketed.

Xu Ning shouted excitedly: "I got it! I got it!"

Xu Jingshan stopped fanning and said, "Bring it here and let me have a look."

Xun Xu handed him the bag, and Xu Jingshan picked it up and looked at it. This bamboo rat probably weighed three or four catties, with sparse hair on its stomach, and its nipples were all exposed, so he said, "It's a female, give birth to a baby." Yes, there should be little mice in the hole."

"Will the little mouse crawl out by itself?" Xu Ning asked.

Xu Jingshan said: "It's hard to say. If they were too small, they would probably choke to death inside. Even if they didn't choke to death, they would probably starve to death. No one will feed them."

Xu Ning said, "Then let's dig it out. I want a little bamboo mouse."

Xu Jingshan knew that his nephew raised mountain rats: "Do you want to raise bamboo rats?"

Xu Ning nodded: "Yes, bamboo rats and mountain rats are about the same price, but bamboo rats are much bigger than mountain rats, so it's more cost-effective to raise them. Xunxu, bring a hoe and we'll dig the hole , and catch the little bamboo mouse."

Xun Xu obeyed Xu Ning: "Okay."

Seeing that his nephew was focused on digging, Xu Jingshan didn't object, but put out the fire.

Xun Xu waved his hoe and began to dig down.The ground is full of bamboo whips, the roots are intertwined, and it is not easy to dig. Fortunately, Xun Xu is strong, and a few hoes can dig up the bamboo roots and open up the land.Ah Xuanze and Xiaobao squatted aside to watch, Xu Jingshan didn't watch them dig, and went to find another cave by himself.

Not long after, Ah Xuan yelled, and Xu Ning said, "It should be coming soon. You dig slowly, find the sequence, and I'll take a look first." As he spoke, he began to scrape the soil in the cave with his hands.

Xun Xu stopped, and Xu Ning pawed for a while: "I see, there really is a little bamboo mouse, right below."

Xun Xu took a look: "Get out of the way, I will dig again."

Not long after, Xu Ning picked up three little bamboo mice, with sparse gray-brown hair on their bodies, they were very small, and their bodies were as big as a one-yuan coin.I don't know if it was smoked or for some other reason, but the little bamboo rats are not very lively. Xu Ning packed them in a plastic bag that he carried with him, and handed them to the mother rat when he was going back. Feed some space water to each little bamboo mouse, just in case.

Another bamboo mouse hole was found on Xu Jingshan's side, and they quickly moved there. Xu Ning swept all the ashes from the fire just now into the bamboo mouse hole and covered it with soil to prevent fire.

This morning, they harvested four big bamboo rats and seven small bamboo rats.Xu Jingshan gave all the bamboo rats to his nephew and asked him to raise them.Xu Ning was very embarrassed: "I asked my uncle to work for me all morning, and I didn't eat bamboo rat meat."

Xu Jingshan said with a smile: "I don't want to eat meat, I just want to dig bamboo rats to find some fun in the past. Besides, if you raise them, can you still lose to me in the future?"

"That's right. When the bamboo rats here grow to a large scale, uncle can eat as much as he wants." Xu Ning laughed.

"I know you are a filial boy, take good care of him, I'll wait." Xu Jingshan said he wanted to go back, Xu Ning quickly milked the goat's milk and picked cucumbers for him to take back.

Xu Ning also locked the bamboo rats in an iron cage. These were originally prepared for the mountain rats, but they didn't expect to come in handy so soon.Those new guys just arrived in the new place, and they were still very noisy. Xu Ning fed them some bamboo shoots and some space water, so that those guys were all honest.Xu Ning looked at the mountain mice and bamboo mice in the room, and felt very happy. Now his mountain mice have given birth to two litters, and there are more than [-] big mountain mice. Isn't it just around the corner to grow up?It's just that there are still a few cages, and I will make a few more tomorrow.

Xu Ning felt that the house at home was too narrow, and soon it would not be enough. Not only the goat and bamboo rats, but also the sheep pen urgently needed to be expanded.Xu Ning knows that what he lacks most now is money, how can he make a fortune.