Chapter 322: Population Matching and Crossbreeding
It must be said that television is very attractive.
That night, until it was almost twelve o'clock in the night, there was no TV program, and the family reluctantly left.
During this period, even Chen Ling slowly followed his family and watched with great concentration.
Don’t look at the TV series at this time. Some parts were fake and the special effects were rough, but they were much better than those filmed later.
Especially Journey to the West is a classic among classics.
No matter which episode or section it is played in, you can still watch it, without affecting the continuity at all and making people feel abrupt.
It’s night.
My father-in-law and the others went back to the village.
After Wang Susu and her son fell asleep, Chen Ling entered the cave to sort out what he had learned from his trip to Tiannan City.
Before tidying up, he first went to take a look at the tailed leopard.
This guy has been eating and drinking well in the cave recently. Chen Ling also built him a mountain that is neither high nor short, leaving a spacious cave for his nest. It can be said that it is very comfortable.
And in order to prevent it from losing its wild nature, Chen Ling gradually stopped feeding it.
A stream of water was drawn not far from Leopard Mountain, and some fish were released into the stream.
In the forest where it lives, there are also some birds and small animals.
When it's hungry, just let it hunt on its own.
Although leopards eat a lot, what Chen Ling is not afraid of the most is its large appetite.
Whether it’s fish or other meat, you can get whatever you want. There is no need to worry about this problem if you are guarding the mountains.
"Why does it feel like seeing a wildlife sanctuary."
Chen Ling glanced at the tailless leopard looking at him warily and fearfully at the entrance of the cave, and a feeling arose in his heart. A strange feeling.
"Not to mention, it feels good to divide the free area into pieces of protective land."
"It's just that the current area inside the cave is a bit too small. There are currently too many large beasts. They can’t move either.”
After thinking about it for a while, he found that the cave was only over a hundred acres in size, so Chen Ling had to give up the idea first.
Then he walked to the cave, controlled the leopard to prevent it from moving, and stroked it hard.
Experienced the pleasure of stroking a big cat.
Only then did he duck away under the horrified and angry gaze of the cut-tailed leopard.
……
In front of the thatched house, there are red flowers, green willows, and green bamboo forests. It is still a beautiful scene like spring all year round.
Chen Ling took the lead and came to a large water tank. In this water tank were several sturgeon seedlings.
When Chen Ling just bought them, they were still half-dead, looking like they were about to die at any moment, but they have recovered a long time ago.
He patted the water tank twice, and they were so frightened that they began to swim wildly, stirring the water tank and causing splashes of water.
“This thing is fierce, it must be kept in a big river.”
Chen Ling has now confirmed that the giant strange fish in the reservoir is a huge Chinese sturgeon, but it is just a relative Compared with the few sturgeon larvae he bought, the strange fish in the reservoir has a more ferocious appearance. Its body surface is very hard, and its dorsal fin is angular, like the back of a dinosaur, with jagged depressions and bulges.
On the night when he discovered the strange fish in the reservoir, he touched its body surface. It was as hard as if it was covered with a layer of scales made of hard bones.
This feels right.
Because the Chinese sturgeon is a bony fish, the larger it grows, the rougher and harder its body surface becomes.
And while Chen Ling was still chatting, he asked several ornamental fish bosses about Chinese sturgeons.
He also bought some books about fish and looked through them.
I later learned that this kind of fish existed in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and was active not only in the Yangtze River, but also in other large rivers such as the Yellow River, the Pearl River, and even some large rivers in the northeast and southwest.
However, in modern times, their numbers have dropped sharply, and they have become extinct in various water systems.
"Come on, let's keep them in the cave first. When the place becomes bigger, we will open a big river for you."
The fish pond and turtle pond behind the hut have been merged into a large lake by Chen Ling.
Goldfish, koi and other ornamental fish cannot be put inside.
Because it will be eaten.
Of course, sturgeon seedlings cannot be put inside.
Chen Ling was too lazy to open up a new place to raise fish, so he put them in the lotus pond under the stone arch bridge.
Sturgeons are on the left side of the bridge and ornamental fish are on the right side of the bridge.
Other gadgets such as small salamanders were thrown into the small ditches in front and behind the hut.
Anyway, now that his control over the cave is gradually increasing, he has no longer had to fetch water from the lotus pond for a long time. He can fill a large tank of water with just a thought.
“Well, it won’t work this way, we need to refine it a little more.”
Chen Ling stood by the lotus pond, smelling the fragrance of lotus flowers, and suddenly realized that throwing them in so roughly and waiting for them to reproduce and mutate on their own seemed a bit passive.
“Koi is an ornamental fish cultivated from carp, so I will put a few of them in the koi group. The carp in Dongtian have been raised for a long time, so they must be excellent varieties, and they are the same as koi. If carps are bred together, the probability of good seedlings will be higher.”
“In the same way, goldfish are ornamental fish that are mutated and cultured from crucian carp, so I will put a few fish in the goldfish. Crucian carp, this combination may be more reasonable, and good fish will appear faster.”
His idea is 100% feasible.
From time to time, carp and crucian carp of ordinary colors appear among the goldfish and koi groups. This is a phenomenon of atavism.
The hybrid high-yielding crucian carp and high-backed crucian carp are also bred through this kind of mutual matching method.
Whatever he wanted to do, Chen Ling waved his hand to attract some carp and crucian carp from the distant lake and threw them into the lotus pond.
"Let's keep the goldfish and koi together first. When mutations occur, we can divide the areas and focus on cultivating them."
After finishing the fish, we invited the parrots over to take a look. I looked around and saw them jumping around and looking for a place to make a nest. Chen Ling stopped taking care of it.
I am thinking of raising it in the cave for a while and then finding a suitable time to take it out.
This parrot is not expected to do anything. It is simply kept for Wang Susu and her children to play with.
……
It’s the first day of the tenth lunar month just a few days after returning home from the city.
This day is the memorial day of Chen Ling’s father, Chen Juncai.
The Chen Ling family’s precious son is now four months old.
The little thing was very happy all day long.
In late autumn, there was still a bit of fog in the morning, so Chen Ling and his wife put on cotton-padded clothes for their son early and went to the mountain with a basket to burn paper.
Nowadays, the life of Chen Ling's family is getting better and better, and the brat Ruirui is getting older day by day.
Chen Juncai will be satisfied even if he has knowledge.
After burning the paper and going down the mountain, there are already two or three families in the open fields starting to plant wheat. The time to plant wheat must be chosen well, and the land must be plowed well.
Farming is not just about planting seeds and waiting for them to come out.
The ground is dry, or you are too lazy to plow the land, so the ground is hard.
Often there are few seedlings.
Moreover, the roots are not deep, and it is cold in the morning and night on the mountain, which will freeze the wheat seedlings to death.
So everyone has to be busy for a few days during this period.
"Fugui got up very early. When will I buy the tractor? I've watched it on TV. When will I buy the tractor?"
When I arrived at Er Donkey's land, Er Donkey The old couple and their three sons were discussing matters in the field with farm tools. When they saw Chen Ling, they smiled and said hello.
"Don't rush to buy it. I just came back from the city. I have to stay at home with my baby and rest for a few days."
Chen Ling stopped while holding her son in her arms. He was holding a basket and talking to the woman with two donkeys.
"Uncle, grandpa, I caught so many big grasshoppers, you can take them back and roast them for Ruirui."
A little baby ran from a distance, this is the grandson of the Ermao Donkey family, holding a A bunch of grasshoppers were jumping around in front of Chen Ling to please him.
"Rui Rui has just grown his teeth. He can't eat this. You can take it and eat it."
Chen Ling smiled and touched his head. These little devils are very smart and know I have a TV at home, so in order to watch TV at home, I try my best to please everyone, and I will give him things to flatter him when I see him.
Some even stole eggs and duck eggs from home and gave them to him, making him dumbfounded.
It's like not letting them see it if you don't give it to them.
Actually, he also knew that this was a warning from their parents, telling them not to go to Chen Ling Farm all the time to watch TV. The electricity bill was so expensive, which made these children feel embarrassed.
I just bought the TV two days ago. These children ran to Chen Ling's house after school. They didn't go back to eat when it was time to eat. When it was time to eat, the parents grabbed their ears and pinched their necks and took them back.
Otherwise there would be wonderful TV to watch and they would be reluctant to leave.
"Uncle Fugui, will you go hiking in the mountains soon? There are a lot of wild things in the mountains recently, and it's a good time to catch them. We photographed a lot of squirrels and green squirrels, and Uncle Lixian almost caught them. To the fox.”
Ermao Donkey's youngest son also came over and asked.
"Let's talk about it. We have to plant wheat anyway. Let's get through this period of time."
After Chen Ling knocked out three groups of wild boars, he was not in a hurry to go to the mountains. Ran away.
The main reason was that he wanted to wait for the female leopard to appear again.
Otherwise, if you always take the dog around in the mountains, the leopard will easily be frightened and will not dare to come back.
The two donkeys heard what they were talking about about running in the mountains, so they joined in the fun and said, "Didn't Fugui catch a lot of wild boars? With just the money from the wild boars, you can buy a tractor, right?"
"That's not enough. Six pigs are not enough to buy a tractor. Nowadays, a tractor costs at least five to six thousand yuan. We need to add some money. "
"As Bai Wa said, even if you add money, you can still make money. How much, no one else can beat you, you can kill six pigs at once, you make money so fast, others are very angry.”
Chen Wangzhuang didn’t even beat wild boars this year. He knew the price of a wild boar when it was sold to the slaughterhouse. Chen Ling didn't need to go out and make any noise, so there would naturally be people who were free to settle the bill for him.
"With you in front, everyone has decided that when winter comes this year and it snows, they will go to the mountains to set traps and hunt pigs. There have been a lot of pigs in the past two years."
"Okay then, count me in then."
The proliferation of wild boars in the past two years is not actually the result of Chen Ling draining the spiritual water from the cave.
Is there any reason for this? There certainly is, but it only accounts for a small part.
The main reason is that since more than ten years ago, the number of local hunters has gradually decreased, and fewer people have gone into the mountains to hunt, as well as the frequent mining in Wangba City in the past few years, which scared away large beasts such as jackals and leopards. .
For various reasons, wild boars have fewer natural enemies.
So naturally, there is the current proliferation.
Wild boars usually roam around in the mountains, and they don’t look eye-catching.
I bump into a herd of wild boars from time to time, but I don’t think it’s anything, as if there aren’t many wild boars.
But in fact, when they appear frequently near villages and in front of people's eyes.
The number of wild boars in the mountains has long been beyond imagination.
That is to say, this thing is not worth cultivating. There is no market for second-generation wild boars and the like, otherwise Chen Ling would have to do it anyway.
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"Rui Rui is getting a little older. My parents will be going home soon. It would be better if you run less into the mountains."
< br>On the way home, Wang Susu clung to him, held his arm, and whispered.
The two elders have been taking care of them here for more than half a year, how can they always let them live in the home of their daughter and son-in-law.
Those who didn't know better thought that the two brothers Wang Qingwen didn't care about the old man, so they sent him to his daughter's house.
It’s not good to spread the word.
Chen Ling has no objection to this. Although it is said that it is better for the health of the father-in-law and his family to live here, some things in life are not that simple.
"Okay, if you say you won't go, then you won't go. I will stay with you and Ruirui at home."
What Wang Susu said was that she didn't want him to run into the mountains. It's been a few days, which makes people feel uneasy.
Chen Ling also understood it very well.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t go to the mountains. It would be nice to just make wine, raise fish, and make some birdcages at home.
Go to the mule and horse market later and buy some animals.
While talking to Wang Susu, I suddenly felt that my son in my arms became energetic, blinking his little eyes and looking in one direction.
Chen Ling took a look and saw two red-crowned cranes walking slowly over from the village.
"Hey, big man, you came out to take your wife for dinner again?"
Chen Ling walked over with a smile, grabbed the big man's wings and led him home: "Come on, come on, we haven't seen you for a long time. Come to my house for dinner today."
Seeing him like this, Wang Susu also picked up the wings of the other red-crowned crane, "Don't you always chase them away? Why do you want to take them home again? They went home. But I always think about stealing fish.”
“It’s getting cold, so I guess they will fly away soon. I just bought a camera and I have to take it back to our house to take a picture. Otherwise, I will fly away. Let’s go, I don’t know if I’ll come next year.”
Wang Susu thought the same thing when Chen Ling said it.
Just at this time, the little guy Ruirui saw his parents and the red-crowned cranes playing and petting each other, and he stretched out his little hands and hummed to touch the two big birds.
Wang Susu hugged him over, grabbed his little hand and touched the feathers of the two red-crowned cranes and the red bald skulls on their heads, and said with a smile: "Ruirui, tell them , remember to come back next year, the worst I can do is let you eat some fish.”
The little guy didn’t know what his mother was talking about. Listening to the cry of the red-crowned cranes and seeing them keep hiding away, he became more and more excited. He shouted with a smile and scratched his little hands to pull. I don't know where the baby who was still nursing got the strength, but he pulled off two feathers of the big red-crowned crane. It was so frightened that it strode its long legs, spread its wings and screamed. Running around wildly.
However, these two big birds are also greedy ghosts. They are thinking about the fish on the farm. They were hurt by the little guy grabbing their feathers, but they were not scared enough to run far, so they did not dare to go over.
Chen Ling used the fish to seduce them a little and then they came over obediently and took photos with the family honestly.
(End of this chapter)