Lucky husband

The Li family had been bustling in the first half of the year, but in the second half of the year, there were no such weddings.

However, when July came, Li Mingxia, who had been married for two or three months, made a small event—the first batch of rabbits she raised gave birth to cubs.

Half a month after marrying into the Zheng family, Li Mingxia asked Zheng Shan to go to the mountain to help her catch a litter of rabbits as she had imagined before she got married.

Zheng Shan didn't ask Li Mingxia why he asked him to catch rabbits, thinking that his wife was greedy for rabbit meat, so he went up the mountain with a bow and arrow, and brought back a dead rabbit in a basket for Li Mingxia.

In order to make Li Mingxia eat more meat, Zheng Shan specially selected fat and big male rabbits, and bled them all. After taking them back, they peeled their skins and guts before cooking.

But the problem is, what Li Mingxia wanted was a live rabbit. She looked at the dead rabbit in a basket, and saw Zheng Shan looking at her begging for praise. In the end, she could only hold her nose and go into the kitchen to make several dishes of rabbit meat. vegetable.

Some of the remaining rabbit meat Li Mingxia sent back to her natal family, and some were salted and hung under the eaves to dry before eating.

Then, Li Mingxia told Zheng Shan completely about her request and plan, explaining that what she wanted was live rabbits, preferably with a litter of males, females, big and small, so that she could Good to try how to raise rabbits.

Zheng Shan, who understood Li Mingxia's meaning, was very embarrassed, and went up the mountain with a basket on his back early the next morning.

This season is the time when rabbits give birth, and there are many rabbits all over the mountains and plains. In order to make up for his "fault", Li Mingxia caught two litters of rabbits from the mountain, and there were 26 rabbits in total.

26 rabbits are enough, Li Mingxia began to try to raise them according to what she wrote before, after all, she has no experience, some rabbits are still small, and many died in the first month.

In the second month, Li Mingxia, who gradually figured out the rules of raising rabbits, stopped raising rabbits to death. Not only did the rabbits caught earlier grow up, but several of the female rabbits also had baby rabbits in their stomachs.

Raising wild rabbits until they are pregnant with cubs is more than half the success of raising rabbits. It is another hurdle to take care of the newborn rabbits after the female rabbit gives birth.

I don't know if it's not suitable for human raising, or if Limingxia didn't do a good job in something, one of the female rabbits who gave birth to the baby rabbits died, and seven of the baby rabbits died.

Many rabbits died, but more rabbits survived. Now there are 45 big rabbits and [-] small rabbits in Limingxia's rabbit cage.

After the batch of surviving little rabbits grew up, Li Mingxia finally breathed a sigh of relief. She succeeded, successfully raising the rabbits!

I have never heard of any village in the vicinity that has raised rabbits. This is the first time in Limingxia. In the future, Zheng Shan and his father will not have to risk their lives to go hunting in the deep mountains. They can raise rabbits at home, and their hands are itchy. If you want to hunt, just go for a walk around the hill near the village.

The relationship between the Zheng family and the villagers was mediocre, and few people would visit the Zheng family. It was not until Li Mingxia raised the first batch of rabbits that everyone heard the news, and the villagers had different opinions on this.

No matter what the villagers think, anyway, Li Mingxia led the Zheng family to increase the number of rabbits little by little.

There is a lot of grass in summer, and the rabbits have enough grass to eat, and litters of little rabbits are born quickly, which makes the Zheng family very busy, even more tiring than the villagers when they are busy with the autumn harvest in August and September.

But the income is also very considerable. In the three months of July, August, and September, they raised hundreds of rabbits weighing five to six catties, hundreds of rabbits weighing three to four catties, and more than 100 rabbits weighing one to six catties. A two-pound rabbit.

Rabbits weighing five or six catties are already big enough to be bought, and Li Mingxia found that after reaching this weight, the rabbits don’t gain much meat even if they eat grass, so basically the rabbits that grow to more than five catties are no longer fed at home.

The hundred or so rabbits were sold one after another. The Zheng family had connections. The rabbit meat was sold to restaurants, and the skins were processed and sold to garment shops and cloth shops.

After a rabbit is skinned and gutted, the rabbit meat is only three or four catties. Because rabbit meat is more rare than pork, rabbit meat is a little more expensive. Two hundred texts.

Although rabbit skins are no better than fox skins, wolf skins, or tiger skins, the price of rabbit skins that are complete and not mixed in color is not bad.

When Zheng Shan was catching rabbits, he specially selected pure fur-colored rabbits. Such a rabbit skin can be sold for three hundred cash, which is much more than selling rabbit meat. One hundred rabbit skins cost 30 taels of silver.

This is just the beginning, the following rabbits will be raised one after another, and the money will flow into the Zheng family continuously.

The Zheng family finally had a stable income earning business. Both Zheng Orion and his husband Shi Shi didn't know how to thank Li Mingxia.

Don't think that hunters can sell a lot of money once they catch the prey, but the premise is that the prey is caught, and the game is more valuable than the leather. The leather is easily damaged when hunting, and it cannot be sold at a good price.

Besides, sometimes you are unlucky and return empty-handed after several trips up the mountain, not to mention the danger on the mountain.

And there are rules for those who specialize in hunters. There are restrictions on when they can go to the mountains, what they can hunt, and how many they can hunt.

Take rabbits as an example, you can only hunt more in spring and summer, and you can’t hunt casually in other seasons. Otherwise, if there are no rabbits, other beasts that eat rabbits may go down the mountain without eating, affecting the safety of the villagers.

The rabbits I raise don’t have this problem. The number of wild rabbits on the mountain has not changed, and they can sell as many rabbits as they raise.

People in the village didn’t know that raising rabbits could earn so much money, and it happened to be a busy season. Everyone knew that the Zheng family didn’t pay much attention to raising rabbits. When everyone knew that raising rabbits could make money, the Zheng family had completely mastered raising them Rabbit tricks.

September is not only a busy season for the Zheng family, but also for the Li family, because there are two pregnant women in the Li family who are going to give birth in September, one is the eldest grandson's daughter-in-law Bai Ting, and the other is the married Li Mingchun.

For the sake of Bai Ting and the child, Bai Xiuhe left the rice noodle shop half a month in advance and went to Fucheng to take care of Bai Ting's delivery and confinement.

On Li Mingchun's side, Mrs. Li, Jiang Zhiyun and Li Mingxia took care of her.

Normally, it is enough for Li Mingchun to give birth and confinement with Mrs. Li and Bai Chen to take care of her, but Li Mingchun's pregnancy is a bit unusual, the belly is much bigger than normal pregnant women, after Xing Langzhong and Li Qiusheng After the diagnosis, it was determined that she was carrying twins.

Under such a premise, although Li Mingxia was married, she still came back.

Because of raising rabbits, she can speak up in her husband's family, and the Zheng family is not a troublesome family. Her own sister is about to give birth to a girl and go back to take care of her for a while. The Zheng family has no objection.

Despite Li Mingxia, Jiang Zhiyun came back from the county seat and helped Mrs. Li take care of Li Mingchun.

Of course Li Mingjin was also with him. It stands to reason that his unmarried younger brother would not be of much help when Li Mingchun gave birth, but Li Mingjin has a special place--dreams of prophecy.

I brought him with me because if he had any dream related to Li Mingchun, everyone would know about it earlier.

When Li Mingchun gave birth to Niu Niu, she almost stepped on a stone on the road, wrestled and gave birth to a dystocia. This time she is a twin, and she must not be taken lightly, and there must be no mistakes.

As a result, on the first night back in the village, Li Mingjin had a dream. The content of the dream had nothing to do with Limingchun, but had something to do with Limingxia.

In September, the weather starts to turn cold, with one autumn rain and one cold, people can wear thick clothes to keep warm, but rabbits have no choice but to rely on their fur.

The Zheng family raised a lot of rabbits. Once it rained, they did not cover the rabbit cages with oilcloth in time. Some rabbits felt uncomfortable after being exposed to the rain. The Zheng family only regarded the rabbits as common diseases, and caught the uncomfortable rabbits alone. Raised in a cage.

However, the condition of these rabbits was worse than they expected. They couldn't eat and kept pulling, and died within two days.

Rabbits that had been in the same cage as the other rabbits began to behave like the dead rabbits, and soon after, the rabbits that were not caged together also became ill.

At this time, it was too late, and the Zheng family could only helplessly watch the rabbits they took care of die one by one.

Li Mingjin woke up with a frown. Could it be that these rabbits got the plague after being exposed to the rain?

But when the weather was hot, the fourth sister raised the rabbits very well. Now that the weather has turned cold, the rabbits may have problems because they are not used to it. How can we prevent these rabbits from having accidents?

Li Mingjin thought that since he was sick, he might as well ask Li Qiusheng, his cousin is a doctor who can treat people, and I don't know if he has any research on rabbit diseases.

After getting up and tidying up, Li Mingjin went straight to Li Qiusheng and Xiang Yiyu's yard: "Cousin, I want to ask you something."

Li Qiusheng was processing the herbs that he and Xiang Yi had just dug back, and found that a few plants that had not yet grown up were brought back together, and it was a pity that they were thrown away, because if they were made into medicines, they would not be effective enough, so he was in the yard I found a corner with soil and planted the herbs to see if they could grow again.

"Let me tell you a story. There was a large pig farmer who raised a group of pigs. At the beginning, two pigs got sick in the rain. The big pig farmer didn't care, but the sick pigs died within a few days. The important thing is that before I used to be locked up with sick pigs, but then the healthy pigs that were kept separately were also infected with the disease one after another, and finally all the pigs in the big pig farmer got sick and died. Cousin, do you think these pigs have the plague or the cold?" Li Ming It's not easy for Jin to say the rabbit, so he replaced it with the pig, which is a bit nondescript.

"Swine fever?" Li Qiusheng frowned and said two words, "Brother Jin, tell me carefully."

Author's gossip: Xixi finally finished writing about the marriage of her brother and sister older than Mingjin, and the next step is him and Comrade Xiaobai, let's spread flowers~/(≧▽≦)/~