Chapter 76: Muntjac with cubs (please collect and recommend)
Author: Han Ming
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 it, and he didn't bring a rope, so he couldn't tie it up and lead him around, so Zhang An just carried him away 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 man with four eyes. He's not a baby yet. Where did he set the trap?"
Wang Mazi stared at the female muntjac in Zhang An's hand and exclaimed in surprise.
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 could only go up to the mountains to hunt these wild animals. Basically, if we were visiting relatives, it would be very honorable to bring muntjac meat with us.
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 notoriously 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 walked into the village and started chatting.
"This head is not small. It can be sold for several hundred yuan."
Wang Mazi's eyes were full of envy. It would be great if he caught it himself. At least half of his family's crops would be enough to make it worth it.
The more we entered the village, the more people we met, and everyone was praising 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 20 yuan to make a tie with you."
Huang Dabiao next to him joked when he heard Zhang Dazuo say that he could fight for 20 yuan.
Zhang Dazui is the head of Zhang An's family who produced the fifth server. They are somewhat related. Huang Dabiao's name is Huang Zhengbiao, and he is the eldest son of Mr. Huang.
These two people are both well-known old men in the village and are very greedy.
"Come on, open your mouth. You can eat pork for twenty yuan. Zhang An, I'll give you thirty yuan, so be sure to remember to call me."
"What's wrong with me paying twenty? It's not like you, the big guy, caught you. If you pay thirty, I pay thirty-five."
"You pay thirty-five, and I pay forty."
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Along the way from the river ditch to the entrance of the village, a group of people gathered around us. The scene was so lively.
"Come on, you guys didn't even ask Zhang An if he could kill him, you just wanted to fight him to a draw. This guy is really alive. If you take him to the town and sell him, 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.
Fortunately, Zhang An didn't see anyone in the village who said he bought it with Zhang An for a few hundred yuan.
Nowadays, few people in Changqing Village dare to spend this much money. Even those whose families have better conditions are all under the control of their mothers-in-law.
"Uncle Big Mouth, Uncle Biao, 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."
The voices of several people were getting louder than the last, which frightened the mother and made Zhang An feel his scalp numb.
"What, raise it? Oh, it's a cub, so don't kill it."
Listening to Zhang An talking about raising them, everyone was a little stunned. This thing will not grow meat if it is not fed well. But when they heard that it was raising cubs, everyone gave up the idea of persuading Zhang An, because animals with cubs cannot be killed. This is what everyone said.
Concepts received since childhood.
When they were almost home, everyone dispersed, but a group of children followed Zhang An.
Everyone came to see Four Eyes. These dolls now like to come to Zhang An's house.
The tiger cubs are big and majestic, and there is a big flower 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 mugwort 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. I planned to bring it home to raise it."
Zhang An explained to his father.
Wang Fang, who was 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 these things."
Wang Fang obviously heard it from the elders.
"It's either auspicious or unlucky. It's all a coincidence. In the past, there were a lot of four-eyes in the mountains, as well as green wolves and leopards. You could hear them barking every day. It happened that an old man passed away and someone spread the news. Where?
It's so 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 sell them for money. How could they be so evil? Our family no longer has any
What a place."
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 at Zhang An's house does not have a door, so the big flower family in the house 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.
Zhang An would untie it after a few days, because Zhang An couldn't explain that it wouldn't 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 just explain it. All good things can happen to you alone.
Then Zhang An fed it some grass and ignored it. 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's its name? 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'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?"
Zhang An was quite patient with the dumplings 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 washed and soaked in water later, 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 she bought into pieces, mixed it with some white wine, and sprinkled it on the corners of her yard and in the vegetable garden.
And Wang Fang is very serious about it every year because she is very afraid of snakes.
Sprinkling realgar wine on the Dragon Boat Festival is itself a method used in the mountains to drive away snakes.
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 located near mountains or fields.
Therefore, snakes often get into the house. For example, when Zhang An's house was demolishing the tiles last year, two black-tipped snakes were found on the rafters.
There is a saying in rural areas that families with housekeeper snakes 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 plenty of food in the house, there will be rats running rampant, so house snakes, as the upper level of the food chain, will come looking for the smell of rat flakes.
If there are too many rats, then the snake will definitely have a stable source and will not want to leave. Over time, it will become a domestic snake.
Therefore, most people in the village will not hit domestic snakes when they see them.
But Wang Fang is very afraid of snakes. Although he doesn't chase them away, he is very serious about sprinkling realgar wine.
Although Zhang An's house 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.