Chapter 76: Muntjac with Cubs (please collect and recommend)
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After coming out of the space, Zhang An carried the female muntjac back home.
Although after coming out of the space, as long as you call it, it will follow you.
But it was difficult to explain if someone saw him, and he didn’t bring a rope, so he couldn’t tie him up and lead him around, so Zhang An still carried him honestly.
Although this female muntjac with cubs weighs about eighty pounds, it is nothing to Zhang An now.
When I walked down the mountain to the river ditch at the entrance of the village, I met Wang Mazi from the village.
“Hey, Zhang An caught a four-eyed guy. He’s not a kid yet. Where did he set the trap?”
Wang Mazi stared at the female muntjac in Zhang An's hand and exclaimed.
The meat of muntjac is delicious, even better than pork. Anyone who has eaten it before will never forget it.
In the past, conditions in the mountains were not good, so we had to go up the mountain to hunt these wild animals. Basically, people visiting relatives would be very proud to bring muntjac meat.
It’s just that it’s hard to catch this thing now. Without skills and experience, you can’t even catch it with a trap.
Muntjacs are known to be timid and cautious by nature.
"Brother Ma, I didn't catch this with a trap, it was our little tiger that pounced on it."
Zhang An and Wang Mazi entered the village all the way, and the two started chatting.
“This head is not small, it can be sold for hundreds of dollars.”
Wang Mazi was full of envy. It would be great if he caught it by himself. At least half of the family’s crops could be harvested. Worth it.
The more people enter the village, the more people they meet. Everyone praises Zhang An for his greatness and Zhang An’s little tigers.
"Zhang An, when you kill someone for meat, be sure to ask us to taste it. I'll pay you twenty yuan to make a tie." He's an even guy, Huang Dabiao next to him joked.
Zhang Dazui is the head of Zhang An's family who came out of the fifth server. They are somewhat related. Huang Dabiao's name is Huang Zhengbiao, and he is the eldest son of Mr. Huang.
Both of them are famous old men in the village, and they are very greedy.
"Come on, open your mouth. You can eat pork for twenty yuan. Zhang An, I'll pay thirty, so be sure to call me."
"What if I pay twenty? It’s not like you, Da Biaozi, caught you. If you give thirty, I will give thirty-five.”
“You will give thirty-five, and I will give forty.”
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A group of people gathered all the way from the river ditch to the entrance of the village. The scene was so lively.
“Come on, you guys didn’t even ask Zhang An if he could kill you, you just want to fight each other. This four-eyed guy is alive. If you take it to the town and sell it, you can get hundreds of dollars. .”
Everyone wants to take a bite. They used to be seven or eight years old when they ate it, but now they are all thirty or forty years old.
But fortunately, Zhang An didn’t see anyone in the village who said he bought it from Zhang An for a few hundred yuan.
Nowadays, few people in Changqing Village dare to spend this much money. Even those with better family conditions are all under the control of their mothers-in-law.
"Uncle Big Mouth, Uncle Biaozi, I don't want to kill this thing for meat. I plan to raise it. Now that I have the cub, it would be unreasonable to kill it."
How many people The voices were getting louder and louder, which frightened the mother and made Zhang An feel his scalp numb.
"What, raise it? Oh, you have a cub, so don't kill it."
Listening to Zhang An talking about raising it, everyone was a little stunned. This thing is not good for feeding. He didn't grow meat, but when he heard that he was raising cubs, everyone gave up the idea of persuading Zhang An, because animals with cubs cannot be killed. This is a concept that everyone has received since childhood.
When we were almost home, everyone dispersed, but a group of children followed Zhang An.
Everyone came to see Four Eyes. These dolls like to come to Zhang An’s house now.
The tiger cubs are big and majestic, and there is Dahua and his family, and now there is this strange looking tiger, a proper country zoo where you can play with the animals.
"Dad, Mom, I'm back."
Zhang An carried the muntjac into the yard and saw that his father had returned from cutting wormwood, and his mother was washing bacon to make rice dumplings later.
"How did you catch this thing?" Zhang Jianguo saw Zhang An coming in with a big guy in his arms, so he got up and came over to take a look.
“This thing was gnawing corn in the corn field of my second uncle’s house. It was discovered by me and the little tiger. Finally, the little tiger pounced on it, so I planned to bring it home to raise it.”< br>
Zhang An explained to his father.
Wang Fang in the room heard the conversation between the two men and came out to take a look. She was still holding a kitchen knife in her hand.
“These are four eyes? Xiao An, it’s unlucky to keep this thing.”
Wang Fang obviously heard what the elders said.
“It’s either auspicious or unlucky. It’s all a coincidence. In the past, there were many four-eyes in the mountains, as well as green wolves and leopards. You could hear them barking every day. It happened that someone’s old man was gone and someone gave him a It's just spread out, it's not that mysterious. When I used to look at the woods in the forest farm, I heard their calls every day. These were all greedy old guys, or they wanted to make money by selling them. How could it be so evil? , it’s just that we have no room at home.”
Indeed, there is not much space left in Zhang An’s yard.
"It's okay, let him stay in the deer shed. This is a female muntjac with a calf. It seems to be about to give birth."
The deer shed in Zhang An's home does not have a door. The big flower family will not wander around.
Zhang Jianguo was worried that the mother muntjac would run away, so he tied him with a rope.
Zhang An let his father go, but the little guy had to be tied up for a few days.
After a few days, Zhang An would untie it, because it was difficult for Zhang An to explain that it would not run away.
The deer can still have an explanation. It can lead Zhang An to find ginseng. It is definitely not an ordinary spiritual being.
If you meet a wild muntjac in the mountains, you can't say anything about it. All good things can happen to you alone.
After that, Zhang An fed it some grass and left it alone. Instead, the kids were a little curious about this new guy and kept watching it by the deer shed, but they didn't dare to get close.
"Uncle An, what is it called? Why does it have four noses?"
The little glutinous rice balls are a bit cute and cute. After school, she ran over to play with the deer after eating.
Because her father is not at home, her grandparents don’t like her very much.
“It, it’s called a muntjac, also called four eyes. It’s called four eyes because it has four nostrils. Look at the two above and the two eyes, do they look like four eyes? Only the eyes are the same."
Zhang An was quite patient with Xiao Tang Yuan and explained to her slowly.
The children were playing nearby, and Zhang An was washing sorghum leaves by the water pipe.
These leaves will be soaked in water after washing, so that they can be used to make rice dumplings.
The three members of the family each performed their duties, while Zhang Jianguo tied up mugwort and tied it to both sides of the gate.
Wang Fang pounded the realgar he bought into pieces, mixed it with some white wine, and sprinkled it around the corners of his yard and in the vegetable garden.
And Wang Fang is very serious every year because she is very afraid of snakes.
Sprinkling realgar wine on the Dragon Boat Festival is itself a method used to drive away snakes in the mountains.
Because snakes are very afraid of realgar. The main reason is that snakes don't like the smell of realgar. It's not that they are afraid. They will walk around when they smell the smell of realgar.
The tile-roofed houses in rural areas are close to mountains or fields.
So snakes often get into the house. For example, when Zhang An's house was turning over tiles last year, two black-tipped snakes were found on the rafters.
There is a saying in rural areas that families with housekeepers at home will have better conditions.
This actually has a certain scientific basis. Generally speaking, house snakes are non-venomous species that specialize in eating things like mice and frogs.
As long as there is a lot of food in the house, there will be rats running rampant, so housekeeping snakes, as the upper level of the food chain, will come looking for the smell of rat flakes.
If there are too many mice, then the snake will definitely have a stable source and will not want to leave. Over time, it will become a domestic snake.
So most villagers will not hit domestic snakes when they see them.
But Wang Fang is very afraid of snakes. Although he does not chase them away, he is very serious about sprinkling realgar wine.
Although Zhang An’s home has done quite a good job in preventing rats, there are still a lot of rats in the house.
Zhang An is now thinking about when to wait to see whose cat in the village has given birth and wants one to come back and raise.
(End of this chapter)