The days when I pretended to be a cat in the Forbidden City[Comprehensive]

"A lot of blind dates?" Wei Liao, who was asked suddenly, looked at Lu An in surprise. Although he didn't understand why he suddenly asked about this matter, he said honestly, "It's not that I haven't looked for it..., but there are some problems."

While talking, he was holding a bristle brush to gently sweep the dust off the standing Dodoma's back. Following his movements, Lu An couldn't help but follow him, and finally landed on Wei. Lingering on a set of equipment on the side.

On a railing just to the side, there is a black leather bag, and a dozen brushes of different sizes and shapes are inserted into the bag with the logo of panda gnawing bamboo.These are horse brushes used by Duo Duo, they are really unique to him, there is also a pattern of Duo Duo's horse engraved on the brush handle by Wei Liao.

Although it is not obvious from the outside, Duoduo is actually a very particular and domineering horse. It hates sharing things with others very much and has a strong desire for monopoly.And in this regard, Wei Liao and Lu An also dote on him, basically all of his things are unique.

That's right, this whole set of brushes is all about brushing!

It is still a product of Shu County.

Just last year, because the pig farming business in Shu County was booming, the hair after slaughter quickly became a kind of garbage that was difficult to deal with.The locals chose to set fire to it at first, but it smelled too bad after it was burned, and a sudden puff of green smoke would cause others to misunderstand. There is a way.

So he experimented with using pig hairs in various positions to make brushes, which can be used to brush shoes and so on. It is also very useful when dealing with leather materials. In addition to selling pigs, pig hairs soon became an income.

But there are few people in Shu County, and there are few fine people who need to use brushes. In addition, the brushes themselves are durable and can be used for several years. Brushes made of pig hair will soon be surplus.

At this time Wei Liao appeared.

Wei Liao, who came to Shu County to "visit relatives", took this brush to brush Duoduo's bristles in his spare time, and Duoduo expressed his love for it. At that time, Lu An was very busy, so Wei Liao, who was also idle, collected various materials to make Horse brushes of different sizes into different sizes.

Duoduo is also very cooperative. I like this one and which one I don’t. If I get tired of this one, I need to change it. The old one is better.

In this way, due to various reasons, brushes made of different materials have accumulated a pile unconsciously.When Lu An came back to see it once, inspiration burst out. After getting Wei Liao's consent, Lu An asked someone to make a set according to the brushes recommended by Duoduo. That's right, it was a horse maintenance VIP set.

Not to mention whether it is easy to use or not, a whole pack of brushes of different sizes and shapes with different purposes and different applicable positions will also give people a very professional feeling.

And after using it once, in the eyes of the tired old Qin people, their horses have never been so good. The hair, eyes, and spirit are completely different!

Old Qin people are born with love for horses. They may not be willing to buy an expensive comb for themselves, but they must be willing to buy a brush for their horse.

If you can't afford a VIP set, you can also buy a dust removal brush.

The dust removal brush is the largest brush Wei Liao holds in his hand. It uses the hardest part of bristles on black-haired pigs, and it must be of a certain length, not short-haired ones.This kind of mane has been specially processed to maintain hardness and elasticity at the same time. It can effectively remove dirt and dust on the horse's body surface, and it also has the effect of shining hair.

Once the dust removal brush was launched, it was highly praised by horse lovers because of its high quality and low price.This is the basic model in the whole set of products.

Of course, since it is the basic model, there will naturally be an upgraded version.In addition to this brush, there are various versions of upgraded models in the cloth bag that Wei Liao hangs, the most extravagant of which is the brush made of suckling pig tail hair for picking out ears.

... Ahem, of course, people can use it too.Although it looks weird, this thing is selling really well.

And there is also a special opportunity for this product to appear.

The first place where pigs were raised in captivity in Shu County was the Taishou Mansion of Shu County.It is said to be the prefect's mansion. In fact, this place was originally the palace of the king of Shu. After the Qin Dynasty destroyed Shu, the palace could no longer exist.Although everyone doesn't say it, as far as it is concerned, the prefect's mansion in Shu County is the most luxurious and largest among the prefectures' mansions in various places.

Although it doesn't help.

It's fine that King Zhaoxiang sent a prince to live there before, and his identity is considered a match, but if he lives in this house after Li Bing comes, he will be suspected of trespassing.Li Bing didn't have much demand for housing. He circled a part of the site as an office area and put the rest of the site there.

When Lu An arrived, he turned around a few times and organized those places. The original garden area was all leveled for farming, and the vacant palace was built with drainage and water diversion facilities. The effect was very good.

This method can not only meet the daily needs of the two prefects of Shu County and their subordinates, but also give them a gift during the holidays.Almost all the animal breeding methods promoted in Shu County were accumulated after experiments in the backyard of the prefect's mansion.

The same is true for pigs in captivity. Lu An has a great obsession with pork. He was able to perform castration operations for boars proficiently when he was a child, let alone now.

The pigs in Shu County are different from those in Wei State. The pigs here are wilder, and the level of domestication is much lower than that in the Central Plains.Lu An thinks that this may be because the people of Shu County are not short of meat.

The natural conditions here are too rich. The Shu people basically have no shortage of food, and they are surrounded by deep mountains and old forests. There are many ferocious beasts. Large-scale domestication may attract ferocious beasts down the mountain during the snow season. To clash with the beast.

Before Lu An's proposal, at most, some chickens and ducks were raised here on a small scale, or the kind that would eat them all before winter came.

Large-scale farming is a new thing here, so Lu An is more cautious.

However, he has an advantage that ordinary Shu people do not have - the boss of a mountainous area around Chengdu where the prefect's mansion is located is his family's tiger son.

The little milk tigers have come into contact with too many humans during their growth, so they are not the same as ordinary tigers. To be more relatives, Lu An didn't plan to release them back to the forest.There are too many uncontrollable dangers like that. It is not a good thing whether his tigers hurt people or people hurt his tigers. However, when the three tigers were about to reach adulthood, an accident happened.

That year was the year when the grain shortage broke out in the Qin State. The climate was extremely abnormal, the monsoon was too weak, and the humid air on the ocean could not climb over the mountains to reach the inland areas. When water is needed, there is an unprecedented water shortage.And this weaker water vapor was blocked by the Qinling Mountains, and it was all stranded in the Bashu and Hanzhong Basins south of the Qinling Mountains.When there was a shortage of water in the area across the mountain, several heavy rainfalls broke out here.

The people living along the river received door-to-door notifications from the officials traveling in the rain on the second day after the heavy rainfall began, asking them to move away from areas where the river might appear.

Under such heavy rainfall, the dirt roads of the Shu Road were completely washed away, and the horses could not maintain their balance.These petty officials could only pull their horses and walk to inform the village households along the river.The coir raincoats on them couldn't stop the rain at all, and when they knocked on the doors of the villagers' houses, almost all of them had cold lips.But despite this, they still conveyed the order of the prefect's mansion to the households within two days.

On the fourth day, flash floods broke out.

At the end of the summer of this year, the heavy rainfall that lasted for five days finally made the Minjiang River exceed the load limit. The previously clear water of the Minjiang River roared down the mountain with a lot of mud and rocks, and rushed straight to Li Bing’s building. The Minjiang Estuary Water Conservancy Project that has been under construction for more than ten years.

At that time, almost everyone, including Li Bing himself, thought that the unfinished water conservancy project could not stop the catastrophic flood.Although in the spring and summer of this year, the two prefects who had a premonition of abnormal weather mobilized almost all the resources to strengthen the water defense project - dug sand and piled dikes to ensure that the water defense project faced this watery environment with the most perfect posture. Season, but the huge flash floods that erupted still exceeded their expectations.

Because the torrents were too huge, the rocks washed down far exceeded the maximum load of the rock and sand removal project they designed.The impact of this kind of stone is too great, and it is almost impossible for the Guanjiangkou Water Conservancy, which relies on stacking stones and bamboo baskets, to resist this impact.They had no doubt that what they would see after the flood receded would be a pile of scattered engineering wreckage.

After this project was washed away, it was undoubtedly a catastrophe for the Chengdu Plain.

However, no.

Until the rain was over and the weather cleared, the water of the Minjiang River that entered the Chengdu Plain was still within the carrying range of the river. Although there were small-scale embankments in some areas, the local Shu people quickly piled up the prepared bamboo baskets, and finally the It's under control.

Two days after the rain stopped, when the roaring Minjiang River became clear again, everyone found in disbelief that the Chengdu Plain was almost unscathed by this unprecedented flood.

The reason for saying almost is because some property losses are still unavoidable in such an environment, but this is simply a trivial matter for everyone in the Chengdu Plain.

After the water level gradually dropped, everyone saw the main body of the water defense project that had been completely submerged.In the past few years, two-thirds of the water division that Li Bing was building has been cut off, while the remaining one-third is still functioning to divide the water of the Minjiang River into four or six.It wasn't until they saw the situation here that the people in Shu County with tools didn't know what they had escaped.

The most eye-catching thing was a huge rock... If Lu An still had memory, he would have said it was the size of a pickup truck, but now even he couldn't describe how big the rock was.But what is certain is that this rock cannot be moved by manpower, it is completely a rock washed down by the raging water of the Minjiang River.

And because of the heavy weight of the stone, the slightly slower Waijiang River couldn't drive it at all, so it stopped in the Waijiang River, and was discovered by the patrolling Shu County officials.

The boulder, with most of its body buried in the sand, was like a watershed, dividing the outer river into two halves.After the crisis was over, the villagers were amazed. If the stone hit the Neijiang River, it would block most of the water inlet into the Chengdu Plain. It would not be easy for them to remove it. Fortunately, it was thrown away by the current. Get out, God bless you.

But Lu An knew that this was not God's blessing, but the result of hundreds of calculations and thousands of experiments by Li Bing and many hydraulic engineers.

The Minjiang Estuary Water Conservancy Project was selected by Li Bing at the bend of the Minjiang River. Due to the dynamics of the bend, heavy stones would be rushed to the inner side of the river bend, that is, the outer river that would not enter the Chengdu Plain.

In addition to the natural environment, Li Bing also dug the riverbed of the inner river into a depression under the water diversion project shaped like a fish mouth, while the riverbed of the outer river was piled with boulders. Bottom water with a lot of sediment will flow to the convex bank, while surface water with only light sediment will enter the Chengdu Plain.

The greater the current, the greater the effect of the circulation. This stone did not enter the outer river due to luck, but was "thrown" by the force of the circulation.

Although they didn't know the reason, the Shu people still chiseled a part of this stone and carved it into a statue of Li Bing.Li Bing refused to place the statue at the gate of the prefect's mansion, but buried it next to the water conservancy project at the mouth of the Minjiang River, and used this statue of himself as a water level indicator.

After this flood, the officials sent by the aliens also brought the decree of naming.Although the water conservancy project has not yet been completed, Yiren still gave the name first.

He respected Li Bing's wishes and did not name the water conservancy project after Li Bing, but named it Dujiangyan.

Yiren’s congratulations explained why he named it so. “Du” comes from “Chengdu”, but it also means “supervising and leading”. King Qin’s expectation for it is——

"I hope that with this Dujiangyan, the water of the Minjiang River will be stabilized from now on, from evil to good, and the people of Qin will be blessed."

Of course that's all for later.

The Chengdu Plain was not without losses in this catastrophe. Although the water from the Minjiang River did not flow in, the heavy rainfall and flash floods also brought some troubles. The three tigers at home are gone.

The Shu people who took care of the tigers at home said that the three tigers broke their ropes and ran away one after another after hearing the sound of flash floods.

At that time, there was no one on the street because of the heavy rain, but some witnesses said that they seemed to have seen a tiger rushing into the forest suddenly.

Lu An knew that animals have a special response to natural disasters, and he was able to pick up the three cubs because of mountain torrents, so the three cubs may have a stronger emergency response to the same environment, but they still couldn't stop Worry,

It wasn't until two months later, when Shu County entered autumn, that he heard the roar of a tiger while he was out on an inspection tour.

The three big tigers in the family came out leisurely from the mountain forest. Their coats were shiny and full of energy. The whole tiger had gained weight twice.But Lu An still found that there were signs of injury on their bodies.

Although they followed Lu An back home, they still went hunting in the forest from time to time.In the spring of the next year, the three tigers went into the forest and never came back.

Tigers are lone rangers, and they don't live in groups when they are not in estrus. However, the three of their family seem to have suffered losses because they fought alone, and they still act in groups after they are fully grown up.Relying on this kind of hooligan spirit that wants to grab the territory, they have to pick three out of one, and they also contracted all the mountainous areas around the Chengdu Plain.

The villagers in Shu County mainly focus on farming, because the arable land and output are enough to support themselves, and they rarely go into the forest unless necessary, and the people here will not take the initiative to confront the big cat unless necessary.After knowing that the three tigers of Juncheng's family had contracted all the surrounding mountains and chased away the foreign tigers, they even said that they would never go hunting tigers.

However, after thinking about it, Lu An was still worried, so he specifically asked the villagers to remain vigilant when they encountered tigers, because the three little ones had too much territory, and there was no way to guarantee that no other tigers would sneak in. The three little ones in the family must stay away from the crowd, keep a distance from the crowd, keep vigilant, and never challenge the good and evil of human nature.

Although there are a lot of things to worry about because of this, it also guarantees the safety of the breeding industry in Shu County to a certain extent-there are three tigers in the mountains watching the place.

It is also because of this that Lu An dared to increase the number of pigs.Later, Lu An discovered a strange phenomenon. The castrated pigs were indeed a lot more docile, but it may be that the density is higher than their habits and they are not used to living in pens. When they were bored, they began to appear small with each other. Violent activities, biting each other's ears when there is nothing to do, pushing each other a few times, etc.

These are all right, but the act of biting the tail is more troublesome.

The tail of a pig, like the tail of a horse, has the function of repelling mosquitoes and maintaining balance, but in captivity, these two are obviously not just needed, and the swaying tail can easily cause other pigs to bite.However, the place where the pig's tail is located is easy to get dirty, and it is not easy to observe. When it is found, it is usually already inflamed and festered, so it has no choice but to cut it off.

After cutting off the tail, everyone found that the loss of the tail did not affect the pig as much as imagined, and the few pigs that survived the surgery still ate and drank, so they took the first step to cut the tail to ensure safety.

Because everyone’s inherent thinking is that adult pigs have better resistance than cubs and recover faster, so the surgery was performed on sub-adult pigs at first, and then gradually found that the adaptation and recovery of tail docking, unexpectedly it is cubs Stronger, and the little boy doesn't remember things, and he won't hold grudges with a slash, unlike the young pig who has been hostile and vigilant when he sees people since then.

So, gradually, everyone started to attack the suckling pig.Suckling pigs have little tail meat and are of no use value.Later, someone discovered that the small ball of tail hair is good for scratching the ears, and it can bring out all the dirty things by turning it around. The key is that the lanugo hair is soft and very comfortable.

After starting to deal with pig hair, this kind of relatively unpopular ear pick was also stuffed into the set and sold in limited quantities.

Well, the reason for the limited number is mainly because of the small number, not every piglet will grow enough hair when the tail is docked.Of course, for commercial needs, although it is said to be suckling pig hair, there are also some other things... ahem, this is a commercial secret.

Duo Duo also likes to use this kind of brush to clean his ears. When Wei Liao raised his horse's ears, Duo Duo even narrowed his eyes.Wei Liao said to Lu An while picking up the small brush: "But what it likes, people don't like it, and what it likes, it doesn't want it."

Facing Lu An's shocked and puzzled expression, Wei Liao paused, and added: "He likes...all stallions."

This, what's going on here! ! ! !

Lu An was stunned. He looked at Dodoma in shock. Duoduo seemed to know that his father was talking about him. He looked back at Lu An and flicked his tail innocently.

Then he looked at Wei Liao again, and Wei Liao nodded to indicate that he was serious.

Lu An fell into deep thought after the shock passed. He wasn't sure if this was Dodoma's personal preference or if he had followed them badly. Could it be because of a barrier to gender awareness?Or does he simply not know how to woo a girlfriend?

There is indeed homosexuality among animals, but those are all individual behaviors outside of the estrous period.

Like human beings, before forming a family, everyone likes to stay with the same sex. After a long time, shy things will naturally happen, but this is not considered homosexuality, because they will still go to the opposite sex to have sex during the estrus period. Baby, wait until this time to find a good friend.

This is not scum, but a kind of reproductive instinct. After all, most animals still rely on instinct to survive, and they do not have the complex thinking ability of humans.

Duoduo may also be this kind.

He touched Dodoma's neck seriously, and suddenly felt sad.

In fact, Dad really doesn't care if Duoduo is gay or not, but what if Duoduo can't find a horse who is willing to have sex with him!