Chapter 197 Breeding of Steel-toothed Rabbits
Xia Xiaoman sat on the wall, moved the ladder out, and let Wang Shijin climb up the ladder.
Wang Shijin climbed the ladder and said, "Why don't you build a door? It's so inconvenient to climb up and down like this."
"It's right that it's inconvenient. That's why it has to be inconvenient so that we can stop those who want to steal supplies."
Xia Xiaoman took Wang Shijin into the living room. Sun Qing, who was sitting on the kang, saw him coming and immediately put on a professional smile, "Brother Wang, long time no see, how have you been recently?"
Wang Shijin also put on a business smile, "That's it! I can't compare to you guys. I heard that you brought dozens of trucks of supplies here to exchange for rabbit skins some time ago. It seems that you have made a lot of money recently!"
Sun Qing said modestly, "No, I just need to support my family. I brought a lot of supplies and I have many brothers under me. Everyone gets a share, so what I get is only enough to make a living. Brother Wang is smart. He knew the environment was bad and stopped early."
Xia Xiaoman, who was standing by, almost rolled her eyes when she heard them boasting about their business. "Just say what you want to say, don't say that nonsense. Don't be too thirsty."
Wang Shijin shook his head in disdain, "So you are not cut out for business. You have too much of a temper." After that, he looked at Sun Qing and got to the point, "Are you planning to exchange the supplies you brought this time for rabbit skins?"
Sun Qing nodded. "Except for rabbit skins, other supplies are not urgently needed."
"Do we need tanned rabbit skins? Do you want skins and meat included?" Wang Shijin asked.
Sun Qing didn't rush to answer, "With skin and flesh? Is it alive or dead?"
"It doesn't matter if it's alive or dead, as long as the price is right, I'll give you the alive one if you want it alive, and I'll give you the dead one if you want it dead."
Xia Xiaoman heard this and asked, "What do you mean? Are you raising steel-toothed rabbits?" Apart from raising them at home, who else dares to say that they can get them alive? Catching steel-toothed rabbits alive is much more difficult than killing them.
Wang Shijin nodded. "My fellow farm workers and I raised a group of steel-toothed rabbits. We originally raised them for fun, but we didn't expect them to grow in number. Now we can't afford to keep them, so..."
Xia Xiaoman asked in confusion: "Aren't steel-toothed rabbits difficult to breed? The government has given up on breeding them. How did you breed them?"
"It's not that steel-toothed rabbits are difficult to raise. As long as you keep the rabbits separate except for mating and feed them well, they won't gnaw their cages and escape."
The steel-toothed rabbit is also an animal, and the intelligence of animals is not that high. As long as it is well fed and warmly housed, and occasionally accompanied by a beautiful rabbit, the steel-toothed rabbit will not escape from prison.
Xia Xiaoman was puzzled. "If it's so easy to raise, why don't the government raise them?"
Wang Shijin said, "I personally guess there are two possibilities. The first is that there may be no spacious place for breeding and not enough food to feed."
"We started with just five pairs of steel-toothed rabbits, which we kept hidden in the farm's warehouse, and fed them with discarded sweet potato vines every day."
"Later, the number of steel-toothed rabbits increased, and each one needed its own space, so we had to move them to an abandoned office building outside. We had to freeze ice bricks every day to build a small nest for them to live in."
"Besides that, the discarded sweet potato vines are not enough for the steel-toothed rabbits to eat. We also need to pick up some steel-toothed rabbit viscera that others don't want, or go outside to pick up corpses to feed the steel-toothed rabbits..."
"Picking up corpses to feed the steel-toothed rabbits?" Sun Qing widened her eyes in disbelief.
Wang Shijin nodded. "Steel-toothed rabbits are omnivores. They eat plants and corpses. We have no way to provide them with more plants, so we can only pick up corpses."
At first he felt a little uncomfortable, but after a while, he felt that it was just like that.
Even if the corpse is not eaten by the steel-toothed rabbit, it will be eaten by maggots or burned to ashes. In this case, it is better to feed it to the steel-toothed rabbit. At least it can bring some benefit to the world, right?
"We can feed the carcasses to the steel-toothed rabbits without batting an eyelid, but officials may not be able to do so. If they do, they may be condemned and attacked by the public."
"Without enough food, it's impossible to breed steel-toothed rabbits, so the government has given up breeding."
Wang Shijin paused and said, "Of course, there is a second possibility. The government deliberately does not breed them, so that it can have a reason to let citizens catch steel-toothed rabbits in the wild. In this way, the supplies can be delivered to the citizens in disguise, preventing the citizens from getting something for nothing."
However, the second one may be a bit idealistic. Relatively speaking, Wang Shijin believes that the government did not have enough food to feed the steel-toothed rabbits, so they gave up breeding.
Sun Qing asked, "How many steel-toothed rabbits do you have now?"
"There are more than 500 rabbits that can be sold at present. After we sell this batch of steel-tooth rabbits, we will not plan to raise them anymore."
Raising steel-toothed rabbits consumes too many corpses, so the first thing they do after work every day is to look for corpses everywhere. The places with the most corpses are near some gangs, and every time they drag corpses, they are terrified for fear of being involved in gang fights.
In addition, it is not pleasant to watch the corpse being gnawed into bones by the steel-toothed rabbits. I have to clean up the bones in the rabbit nest every day, and the psychological pressure is quite high.
Sun Qing thought for a moment and said, "I want these 500-plus rabbits. Help me kill them all. Also, help me catch 10 pairs of baby rabbits. I'll take them back to Yuancheng to see if I can raise them."
She didn't worry about having nothing to feed the rabbits. If that really didn't work, she would just go fishing a few more times so that she would not have nothing to feed them.
Wang Shijin immediately discussed the price with her. The two of them discussed back and forth for nearly an hour before they settled on the price.
Wang Shijin, who had set the price, was in a good mood. He took a sip of water and said, "Boss Sun Er, don't think the price I gave is too high. I have no choice. Some time ago, someone set a fire in the sewer, and the supplies of several of my co-workers were burned."
"If the supplies hadn't been burned, we wouldn't be in such a hurry to sell the rabbits to you."
Originally, they had agreed to catch some rabbits every once in a while, process them and sell them to trading points, so that the price would be higher.
However, because several workers' supplies were burned out and they were in urgent need of supplies to save their lives, they planned to sell all the rabbits at once and divide the proceeds equally among everyone.
When Xia Xiaoman heard him mention the fire, she asked, "Why did the fire happen that day? Do you know who set the fire?"
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