This is undoubtedly a difficult decision for the goblins to understand.
In their opinion, those big hamsters are inedible, and feeding them would consume food that could supply almost half a village. Instead of domesticating them, it would be better to release them back into the forest.
"What did you use in your caravan trade with humans before?"
"There are various medicinal herbs and materials that contain magical power in the forest, as well as trophies obtained from the abyss caves." The old Goblin village chief replied with a wry smile, "But the products that contain magical power in the forest are extremely difficult to find, and many times they still have to be found.
People in the village take great risks to go into the caves..."
For this small village with no more than three hundred goblins, many of the necessities of life that cannot be self-sufficient can only be supplemented by caravans that occasionally come to this forest for trade.
Before Shi Junjun traveled to another world, the entire village had not collected materials that could be used to trade supplies with human caravans for more than a year. Otherwise, the old goblin village chief would not have let the better-skilled children of the younger generation.
Let's go to the Abyss Cave to try our luck.
As the leader of this small village that is almost isolated from the world, the old goblin village chief has always been cautious about contact with strange humans. Shi Junjun is the only exception, not only because she saved her only
child, and more because he felt a completely different and unfamiliar temperament from this young human girl than those treacherous human businessmen.
"What if taming those hamster monsters can help you obtain supplies to stabilize trade with human caravans?" Shi Junjun said with a smile.
As she spoke, she took out the clothing she had previously seized from the luggage of the nobleman from another world. It was a shirt of fine quality and exquisite workmanship. Judging from the previous storage method, it seemed that it was also a very treasured clothing by the previous owner.
"The material used in this dress is the same as the hair on those big hamsters." The girl picked up the shirt in one hand and picked up a fat hamster that was almost the size of a small dog in one hand. "And even for a noble like him,
It's not an ordinary item, that guy only has one piece of clothing made of this material in his carry-on luggage."
"Domesticate these big hamsters, trim and collect hair from them regularly, rough process it or sell the raw materials directly..."
"There is not so much food in the village..." Broccoli scratched her head and objected.
"I will take care of the food issue during this period." Shi Junjun replied helplessly, "When the harvest comes in a few months, you will almost have enough food to raise hamsters."
On the premise of not threatening the safety of the Goblin Village as much as possible, instead of letting these hamsters go back to the forest to eat at the buffet in the experimental field, it is better to keep them in captivity to develop animal husbandry for the village.
Broccoli raised her hands in approval after she stated the pros and cons. The old Goblin village chief nodded and approved the feasibility of this project, and no one else expressed objections among the other green dwarves.
The hair of these giant hamsters from another world grows very quickly. According to Goblin, the hair loss rate in the wild is about once every two months. Regular trimming will not harm their health.
After being kept in captivity, they did not show any discomfort or attempt to escape. As long as these hamsters are provided with enough food, they will be good people who only know how to eat and sleep.
But enough food is needed...
"We can't let our benefactor suffer like this all the time." The old Goblin village chief pondered for a moment and then took out a small cloth bag, "I think you humans will all like this...,..."
"So many?!" Shao Wei looked at the number sent by Shi Junjun on the screen and was stunned, "Are you raising hamsters or pigs?"
Each of the forty-three hamsters needs at least one kilogram of food per day. It is conservatively estimated that no less than fifty kilograms of grains must be prepared every day to feed these increasingly rounded golden meat balls.
"That pocket portal can only hold a little over a kilogram at most at a time, which means I have to transport feed to you at least dozens of times every day?"
Shao Wei, who had calculated the rough figures in his mind in a short time, twitched slightly at the corner of his mouth, "It's not a big deal if it's troublesome to transport dozens of times. If the demand is large, wholesale can be cheaper. It's just a matter of funds..."
He is now just a college student without much source of income. During this period of time, he has been traveling back and forth and has spent almost all the savings he had saved as a tutor. Unless he becomes the person he least wants to do, he will be left with the pitiful living expenses.
Instant noodles may not last until the end of the month.
"Look what's in your pocket." The girl sitting cross-legged on the hay mat blinked, showing a cunning look like a little fox.
"Is it something from another world? I'm afraid I may not be able to recognize it here." Shao Wei said as he put his hand into his coat pocket. When he saw the small piece of heavy gold in his palm, he stuttered instantly:
“This, this, this, this—”
"You read that right, it's gold." Shi Junjun sighed, "There's no more, the whole village only has this piece of it. It was originally used by them to exchange supplies with human caravans when they had no other choice.
, probably because we have done a lot of things for the village during this period, so we gave it to us."
Gold is also a common equivalent in other worlds. She had been really excited for a while when she saw the Goblin village chief taking out gold. After all, this isolated Goblin village actually had such a large piece of natural resources.
Gold, to a large extent may mean there is more gold or even veins nearby...
But then her inquiries with the goblins poured cold water on her head. The green dwarves who usually went out to collect had never noticed such a very conspicuous thing.
Unwilling to give up, Shi Junjun searched around the village for several hours, but was unable to find even a grain of gold dust until he was exhausted.
Judging from the current situation, it was a very small probability event for the goblin to obtain this piece of gold. She could only admit with frustration that there were two possibilities:
Either there is no gold in this forest at all, or it is a mineral deposit that cannot be mined with the current technological level of her and the village.
"It weighs about one kilogram." Shao Wei weighed the weight in his hand, "Based on the current price of gold, even if this piece contains one-fifth of the impurities, it would still be worth about the same..."
"Two hundred thousand."
Two hundred thousand.
Two hundred thousand.
Two hundred thousand.
This number, which seemed to have some kind of magic, made the two people in different worlds lose their minds for a long time. It was Shi Junjun who came back to his senses first and curled his lips:
"It won't take long after we graduate and start working. After selling the gold, you can only take what you spent before, and the rest still has to be spent on which village -"
"Yeah." After hesitating for a moment, Shao Wei finally said what was in his heart, "So since you already know that there is no way to come back to this village in another world, how long do you plan to stay?"
Shi Junjun pursed his lips and replied: "The village chief said that a large area to the north of the forest is the fiefdom of the perverted nobles of the other world. It is unreasonable to ask strangers for help. You have to wait at least three months.
There will be human caravans that have been here before passing by nearby."
"Are those people reliable?" Shao Wei frowned after hearing these words.
"According to the village chief, most of them are greedy guys." The girl shrugged, "I remember how much the glass you bought last time was, seven yuan or eight yuan? Just prepare another glass."
"Uh...ok."
"So now, hurry up and buy some food for the hamsters nearby." Shi Junjun stood up from the straw mat when he heard the noise not far away, "Please hurry up, those hamsters are going to rebel-"
It was indeed a rebellion. The old hamsters, who had enough to eat and drink and had nothing to worry about, finally couldn't bear it after being suddenly cut off for a long time. After screaming loudly in protest to no avail, they began to try to bite open the hardwood objects made by the goblins with their teeth.
Simple cage.
Fortunately, the green dwarfs who stayed nearby reacted in time. When the hamsters were about to bite off a section of the railing, they drove them away while using wooden nails, vines and branches to reinforce the damaged area.
However, this was only a temporary solution, not the root cause. The big hamsters who were pushed away by the cane quickly realized that the goblins did not dare to be cruel to them, so after a brief retreat, they squeezed back to the railing and continued their escape.
.
One is dismantling, the other is repairing, and no matter how fast the repair is, the dismantling is faster. It won't be long before these big hamsters can successfully escape from prison collectively and rush back to Shi Junjun's experimental field in another world to continue eating the buffet according to their recent memories.
Seeing that a hamster had already squeezed out half of its body, Broccoli, who was right next to it, quickly reached out to hold its head and push it back.
It pops up, pushes it back, pops up again, pushes it back again.
This cycle went on for countless times. When Broccoli's arms were almost exhausted and he was gritting his teeth to push the hamster's head back, Shi Junjun finally came over holding a wooden barrel that was so rough that even the bark had not been peeled off.
, and dumped all the contents into this giant hamster cage.
Faced with the huge amount of food falling from the sky, the hamsters, who had little interest in chewing on the hardwood railings, gave up the action and rushed to bury their heads in the pile of food poured in by the girl.
The surrounding green dwarfs quickly repaired the simple cage that had air leakage from all sides. The sturdiness is much worse than the original, but it is not harmful. As long as the men in the hamster cage can eat and drink enough, they will never be interested in freedom.
This superfluous attribute exists for any yearning.
Broccoli fell to the ground and gasped for air. Shi Junjun, who rushed over in a hurry, was no better.
The goblins who couldn't weave baskets used whole logs to make barrels, and only half of the volume was hollowed out. You can imagine how heavy it would be to use this thing to hold food.
Fortunately, we arrived in time, otherwise it would have taken a long time to catch these daring escaped prisoners one by one.
The green dwarves continued to be busy in the forest.