Chapter 163 Weasel

Li Baisong's eyes lit up as Qin Fangci spoke, and his chest was filled with surging blood. It turned out that his mother had thought so much without him knowing.

"When I go back this time, I will draw all the blueprints for Mom, and then I will ask my second brother to build it for Mom according to the blueprints."

"I have the blueprints. What else are you going to build? Are you going to build our new house?"

This time it was Li Laoer's turn to have bright eyes. He saw his mother and younger brother talking on the hillside from a distance, so he hurried over and finally heard some useful whispers.

"After building the workshop, the family will have no money left, but it's not enough to build a new house." Qin Fangci said this with a mixture of truth and lies.

Li Laoer nodded repeatedly, "We definitely don't have enough money. Mom, you built such a big workshop. We have to pay for it as we earn money. But once the workshop is built, our business will grow bigger, and we shouldn't have to wait until next year to build a new house. After the autumn harvest, everyone will have some free time, so it's the perfect time to build it. We can also make some money for the New Year, and we can move into the new house and celebrate the New Year..."

Li Laoer said to himself that he was very happy, as if he had already lived in a big house and it was very grand.

Qin Fangci: "I'll buy a few servants then."

Li Laoer came back to his senses in a second, "No, no, Mom. Look, the well digger has almost finished digging the well. Later, we can use our own water and do all the work ourselves."

Qin Fangci suppressed the smile on her face and said, "Okay, we'll see when the time comes. It's getting late, let's get everyone back to eat."

"Hey, Mom, wait a moment. I'll take my younger brother for a walk. He's often not at home, so I probably don't recognize him in the village anymore."

Well, just to show off.

The county magistrate’s junior brother, his biological brother!

It was half an hour later that the three of them returned home, and the children were waiting anxiously.

"Uncle, uncle."

They all rushed towards Li Baisong. Li Laoer was frightened and opened his arms like a hen calling her cubs, "What are you doing? Be careful... Ouch..."

Li Laoer was ruthlessly pushed away by his eldest son, and Dadan and Erdan grabbed Li Baisong and ran away.

Dadaner: "Uncle, uncle, there's a weasel in our house!"

Erdan: "He stole one of our chickens!"

He was smiling and dancing with joy, and I thought his family had made a fortune.

"Oh my, you two losers! A weasel broke into the house and the chickens were stolen, and you're still happy! What the hell are you happy about!"

No one wants to pay attention to Dadaner and Erdaner's biological father.

Erdan'er: "Uncle, we found the hole the weasel dug. Do you think the weasel will come back?"

Dadaner: "Uncle, if we catch a weasel, can we eat it? Is it better fried or stewed?"

Erdan's mind had already jumped from eating to making money. "Uncle, would people in the city like to raise weasels? If we use our chickens as bait to catch weasels, and then take the weasels to the city to sell, can we buy two chickens for one weasel? That way we'd also make a chicken."

hiss!

The disciple is better than the master, and this is exactly what Erdan is like.

"Tsk tsk," Li Lao Er touched Erdan's little head with admiration, "You're worthy of being my son. Your brain is really quick! You even thought of such a shady trick as using chickens to catch weasels to make money."

Erdan laughed, "Dad, don't worry about whether he's weird or not, just tell me what I said is right, right?"

Li Lao Er slapped him lightly and said, "Whether it's right or wrong depends on your uncle. Your father and I have no say."

Zheng Qiaozi and Zhang Xiaosi, who were following behind Li Laosan, both had their eyes lit up.

Can we still do this?

Lu Yang frowned and thought. His family had been hunters since his great-grandfather's generation, and he had heard that weasel fur could be sold.

But this thing is not easy to catch. It can dig holes and fart to attack people.

Some people were a little unlucky and were hit by the weasel's fart, causing them to lose their balance and fall, and some even died.

"Uncle, uncle, please speak quickly."

Little Si Ya repeated in a baby voice, pinching her waist, "Uncle, say it!"

Li Bosong was so happy that he picked up the little girl.

"Oh, don't lift her. She has a stomachache today."

As soon as Yuan finished speaking, the giggles and farts of little Si Ya entered Li Bosong's ears and nose.

Dadan and Erdan jumped backwards like frightened grasshoppers.

Li Baisong, who was holding up Little Si Ya to prove that his strength had indeed increased, said: "..."

"Oh my God." Yuan hurriedly took Si Ya from Li Bosong's hands, "It's okay, it's okay, uncle, she just farted, she didn't poop."

Li Baisong: “…”

Sure enough, there are risks in raising children.

After this commotion, Li Baisong had a response in mind.

He gathered the children together and patiently explained to them that weasels are actually good things.

"It is said that a weasel can catch tens of thousands of mice a year. Where there are weasels, rat infestations are less likely to occur."

"Wow!" The children's eyes lit up when they heard this. It was the first time they heard such a statement.

"Weasel fur can certainly be profitable, but if we catch all the weasels for this little money, and a plague breaks out, our crops won't survive, and we'll also get the plague from rat bites... Rats roam everywhere, carrying a lot of dirt on their bodies, and if they bite people, they'll pass it on to us... If an epidemic breaks out and we become sick, the government will round us up, and if we die, they'll burn us to ashes to prevent the plague from spreading from our bodies elsewhere."

The courtyard was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. A chill ran down everyone's back, and the scene in their minds became clear.

"Uncle, please stop talking. I'm scared." Dadan shook his arms and hugged himself tightly. "I definitely won't catch weasels anymore. I'll give it all my chickens to eat. Let it catch all the mice!"

"Uh..." He seemed to be frightened by the details, "There's no need to do that. The weasel can catch mice on its own and it will be full. We can feed it the chicken. What if it's full of chicken and can't eat mice anymore? We can reinforce the chicken coop and seal up the holes so weasels won't be attracted anymore."

By autumn, the toy workshop he and his husband had set up together should be able to earn a lot of money. His husband said that he would have someone take the money to the provincial capital, where there were many rich people and talents.

When the time comes, there will be more people at home, and the small villa and the cattle pen will be built together. The cattle pen will be built with blue bricks and stones, and there will be no more weasels coming to steal chickens in the future.

Lu Yang looked at Li Baisong quietly several times and felt that this kid from the Li family was more pleasing to the eye than the scholar in their village.

Li Baisong noticed that there was no malice in Lu Yang's eyes. Li Baisong smiled back at Lu Yang and said, "You must be the second brother Lu, right? I heard from my family that the second brother Lu is very strong and capable."