Chapter 279 Live Wild Boar
Wen Zhenyi took a look at the noodle machine made by Xiong Lu. Using yellow mud instead of dough, it was able to smoothly squeeze out noodles of uniform thickness.
"Uncle Xiong, I think there's no problem. We can make it and try it out."
Xiong Lu was very happy: "Okay, I'll start now."
He thought for a moment and then asked, "Miss, can you tell me more about the shock-absorbing thing you mentioned earlier?"
Wen Zhenyi explained it to him in detail again, but he didn't expect him to be able to do it, he just wanted to give him an idea.
Xiong Lu listened carefully and began to think.
Wen Zhenyi told Xiong Lu everything she knew. As for the other things she didn't know, she could only let him explore and discover them on his own.
She stood up and checked the smoked beef. It was now half-dried and could be placed in a cool and ventilated place.
If eaten directly, it might need to be baked for a while, so she saved some and prepared to make lemon shredded cheese in the afternoon.
Ah Xiang helped hang the beef in a ventilated place: "Master, are you going to sell these?"
"I'm going to sell it, but I'm going to taste it and see if it needs any adjustments."
"How much do you want this for?"
Wen Zhenyi was also considering this issue. Beef jerky will shrink after baking and its weight will be reduced. Combined with various seasonings and processes, the price will not be cheap.
"Axiang, what do you think is a suitable price?"
"You ask me?" A Xiang looked at her uncertainly.
"I'll take your advice."
"Master, in fact, when we went on missions before, we brought dried meat in addition to dry food. However, the dried meat we brought was just simple dried meat, and it didn't have such a complicated process."
"Did you buy it too?"
"We roast it ourselves. We simply rub some salt on it and bake it dry. No one sells it outside. Occasionally, we come across hunters who roast some leftover meat."
Wen Zhen nodded slightly. Hunters would dry the meat they couldn't eat after hunting in order to preserve it. This way, they would also take the meat to the market to sell.
During her time in the town, she didn't see any hunters selling dried meat, but there were some fresh game, the biggest of which was a wild boar.
However, they usually do not sell them in pieces, but sell them as a whole, which is much more expensive than domestic pigs. Ordinary people can rarely afford them, and usually such prey is purchased by restaurants and wealthy families.
"Ah Xiang, can you catch a wild boar alive?"
Ah Xiang frowned and thought for a moment: "It's difficult. It's not easy to catch an adult wild boar. Most of them live in groups, so it's not easy to catch one alone."
If Wen Zhenyi wanted to catch an adult wild boar, it would take a lot of time and he would have to set traps.
Ah Xiang looked at her strangely: "Master, you don't want to catch a live wild boar, do you?"
Wen Zhenyi smiled brightly: "I have this idea."
"If it's a young wild boar, it's okay, but an adult wild boar is a bit too risky."
Wen Zhenyi is thinking about the feasibility of this. You know, the pork produced by hybridizing wild boars and domestic pigs is also called "special wild boar."
Such pigs are not only sociable and not picky about food, but also have much better disease resistance than domestic pigs.
After the pig disease incident, Wen Zhenyi also discovered many disadvantages of pig farming today. There are no high-tech medicines here, and she does not have a powerful golden finger, so she cannot avoid such things.
The only way to reduce pig diseases now is to raise special wild boars.
Although it is not foolproof, it can greatly reduce the incidence of pig diseases.
"Axiang, I'm going to the pig farm."
Before Axiang could say anything, she had already left.
Old Mrs. Wen and Old Man Wen are checking the situation in the pigpen. These pregnant sows are very important to them now.
They dare not relax for a moment. As long as they don't eat or sleep well, they will be very troubled.
Wen Chengwen looked at the big pigs that were busy eating and said, "Mom, these pigs have been eating well recently."
Old Lady Wen looked at it and nodded: "The more this is the case, the more careful we must be. We can't be careless."
"Grandpa, grandma."
Old Man Wen turned around and saw Wen Zhenyi coming over: "Yiyi, come and see."
Wen Zhenyi walked over to them and saw that the pigs in the pigpen had grown a lot fatter and the pigpen was very clean.
They even sprinkled some lime powder around the pigpen for disinfection.
Aunt Ding and the others were feeding the pigs. When they saw her coming, they all smiled and said, "Yi Yi, why don't you come to our house and sit for a while when you come back?"
"It's not too late."
Aunt Yin smiled and joked, "You don't know how troublesome she is."
Wen Zhenyi smiled and said, "Wait until I'm done with this busy period."
"That's fine. Have you not been going to town recently?"
“I will go, but I don’t go often.”
"Okay, you have to come to our house when you are free."
"good."
The two of them went to feed the other pigs and clean the pigsty.
Ma Yinghe took off the hat on her head and put it on her head: "It's so sunny, and you don't even wear a hat when you go out."
"I forgot."
Old Lady Wen looked at her and asked, "What's the matter that has you come here in such a hurry?"
"Grandma still understands me."
"Stop talking to us and tell us what's going on."
Wen Zhenyi told them about his plan to catch a live wild boar.
Old Man Wen frowned and said, "It's not easy to catch a live wild boar. Even hunters can't guarantee that they can catch one alive."
Mrs. Wen also disagreed: "Yes, the risk is not low."
Ma Yinghe looked at her and said, "Yiyi, although this can reduce pig diseases, catching wild boars is not something that ordinary people can do."
Wen Chengwen didn't say anything, but thought for a moment: "Dad, there's a famous hunter in a village with good farmland. Maybe he can catch it."
Wen Zhenyi didn't dare to say that she was going. If she did, everyone in her family would get angry with her: "Dad, are you serious?"
"I also heard about it last time when I went to help you check the fertile land. But this person has a strange personality. He lives alone at the end of the village and usually doesn't contact the villagers."
"Hasn't he got any family?"
"I just listened to it at the time and didn't take it too seriously."
"That village?"
"Dongshan Village."
Wen Zhenyi thought about it and realized that Dongshan Village was on the left side of their village. It took an hour and a half to get there by ox cart. She had thirty acres of fertile land there.
Seeing her like this, Old Lady Wen knew that she was going to go and take a look: "If you want to go, ask your father to accompany you to take a look. If it works, let him help you catch it. If not, give up this idea as soon as possible."
Wen Zhen smiled and said, "Okay, I'll go ask. I know there are risks."
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