He got home too late yesterday, so he got up a little late in the morning.
During the day, we have to clean up the dead rabbits and deal with their fur.
Especially fur, which needs to be slightly nitrated with wood ash water, which is more labor-intensive.
After finishing all these, it was already afternoon.
Then he began to prepare the materials for making the cage without stopping.
But now, Shi Tou looked at this unfinished cage and remained silent for a while.
But then, Shitou still squatted down and continued hammering, preparing to finish the cage.
Just because you don’t need it now doesn’t mean you won’t need it in the future.
Even if he can't give it away in the end, he can use it to raise two chickens after the New Year.
At the Shen family’s side, after Shen Siyue sneaked into the house, she couldn’t wait to put the rabbit into the cage she made.
Looking at the frightened rabbit, it hid in the corner as soon as it entered the cage.
The hole left at the top had not yet been used to make a door, so Shen Siyue simply used a stone to hold it down.
Then he went to the yard and pulled some corn leaves and stuffed them into the cage.
There is no grass in the winter, and the only thing that can be fed to the rabbits is dried corn leaves.
If you want to feed them some food like in later generations, then that’s a no-brainer.
There isn’t enough food for people yet, how can we possibly feed it?
Shen Siyue hid nearby and stared at the shivering rabbit, with only the growing rabbit-raising business in her eyes and heart.
The more I think about it, the more excited I get.
Finally, when he felt his feet were numb, he let the poor rabbit go.
The cage was quiet at night.
The rabbit that had been "moving" frequently in the past two days was particularly obedient and didn't make any noise at all.
It was only in the morning that Shen Siyue heard the sound of crunching from the cage.
It looks like the rabbit is starting to eat.
This is a good sign.
Shen Siyue took another broken bowl, filled it with water and put it in the cage.
Now as long as no one came into her house, the rabbit was safe for the time being.
Just in case, Shen Siyue planned to collect some sorghum stalks, peel off the skin and weave a mat.
Then cover the cage so that people can't see the cage at first glance.
Although it is impossible to hide the cage perfectly, it can at least block some of the view!
In the following days, Shen Siyue secretly kept the rabbit in the house.
Since then, Shen Siyue has started to go out early and come back late again.
On the one hand, I have to scrape leaves for the rabbits, and on the other hand, I have to pour out the rabbit poop every day.
In order to avoid being discovered by other members of the Shen family, Shen Siyue secretly transported the poop to the vicinity of her house outside the village.
During the day she took great pains to dig a hole, poured the poop into it every day, and then covered it with firewood.
It can also be considered as saving some fertilizer for next year.
The rest of the time, I would follow Stone into the mountains to check traps.
For more than ten consecutive days, the two went into the mountains three times and harvested a few rabbits each time.
Except for being surprised at the beginning, Shitou is now very calm.
During this period, in order to verify, he secretly entered the mountain the day before he had agreed with Shen Siyue.
Sure enough, all the traps and contraptions were empty, just like before.
Then the next day, after he and Shen Siyue went into the mountains together, looking at the rabbit that had already died in the trap, Shitou silently turned his head to look at Shen Siyue who was extremely happy beside him.
Shitou tried this situation twice.
After that, he was extremely certain in his heart that he was able to catch the prey because of Shen Siyue.
As for the exact reason, Shitou had no idea.
It’s just that as long as you go into the mountains with Shen Siyue, you will always gain something.
There is almost no time to return empty-handed.
Shi Tou couldn’t help but wonder, could it be because Shen Siyue was particularly lucky?
This problem has been quietly bothering him for many days.
But no matter how confused he was, the rabbits in the mountains still scrambled to get into their traps.
Sometimes Shitou even wondered, if they continued like this, would they be able to trap all the rabbits in the mountains?
Thinking about the first time I gave Shen Siyue the money, I felt that I was helping her at first.
But now it seems that it is not certain who is taking advantage of whom?
Since then, Shitou has been going to town more and more frequently.
Every time he went to town, he would carry some rabbit meat.
Now Shitou has become Liu San's main rabbit meat supplier.
This also made Liu San the only person in the town who could continuously supply rabbit meat.
Liu San had already paid all the money from selling wild boar meat last time to Shitou.
Excluding the 10 yuan for booking the big iron pot, Shitou should still give Chen Siyue 17 yuan.
Up to now, Shen Siyue has 26 yuan in savings.
When thinking of this number, Shen Siyue would wake up with laughter at night.
This amount of money may be enough for a fast food meal in the 21st century.
But in this era of material scarcity, it was a huge sum of money.
And Shen Siyue’s rabbits have always been well raised.
The crunching sound of the rabbits eating leaves helps Shen Siyue fall asleep every night.
The only regret is that all the rabbits I trapped later died and I was never able to catch a single one alive.
Shen Siyue decided to go into the mountains again the day after setting the trap to see if he could be lucky enough to catch a live one.
Shitou had no objection to Shen Siyue's proposal.
Now he has found his position.
I am just a follower who does hard labor.
But he enjoyed this kind of hard labor.
Not only can you be with the person you love, but you can also make a lot of money.
The trap was set the day before, and the two men entered the mountains the next day.
Although there was no live rabbit in the trap, there was movement coming from the pit that had been dug previously.
Shitou identified the object by the sound, and his eyes lit up: "It's a roe deer!"
Shen Siyue had never seen a living roe deer so far, so naturally she couldn't tell whether this was the sound of a roe deer.
But seeing how happy Shitou was, it was clear that the old hunter would not make a mistake.
The reason why Shitou was so happy was that compared to wild boar meat which had a fishy smell, roe deer meat was more tender and could be eaten in more ways.
It can be roasted, boiled, stewed or even shabu-shabu.
As it tastes better, it is naturally more expensive.
On the black market, roe deer meat can be sold for 1.3 yuan per pound.
The two men walked quickly to the side of the trap and looked down. Sure enough, there was a stupid roe deer half-kneeling and half-standing at the bottom of the pit, wailing.
Both front legs were pierced by the sharp spikes at the bottom.
This roe deer is quite large, estimated to weigh more than 60 kilograms.
Shitou estimated that this should be a male roe deer.
He turned his head excitedly and looked at Shen Siyue: “You are loved by the Mountain God!”
Shen Siyue didn’t quite agree with this statement, but now there was a small fortune in front of her, and she couldn’t even keep a low profile and be happy.
After such a long period of hardship, I finally made it through!!!
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