Chapter 146 They are here for no good
She said that the person who came up with this method was very smart and must be the owner of the farm.
You see, the benefits of doing this are obvious. Letting others pick up the duck eggs frees yourself and you don’t have to bend down to pick up the eggs yourself.
This increased my income and gave me a market for my duck eggs. If that wasn't clever, what was it?
So she never went.
But today she realized that picking duck eggs is indeed stress-relieving.
When you see duck eggs, just bend down and pick them up, without thinking about anything else.
It was not until the sun set that Li Wanqing realized what she had done all day.
There is also Gu Yan. Gu Yan has not been idle for the past half day. I don’t know how many trips he has made.
"Gu Yan, Gu Yan, come out. It's time for us to go back. The bison and others should be back soon." Li Wanqing shouted while standing on the shore.
"Hey, here it comes." Gu Yan carried the wild duck out of the reed marsh.
Li Wanqing saw Gu Yan's hands full of wild ducks again and joked, "You didn't catch all the ducks, did you?"
"No, there are at least a few hundred wild ducks in the reed marsh, not counting the newly hatched ducklings this year. It's not easy to catch them all." Gu Yan said.
Li Wanqing thought so too. With so many duck eggs on the ground, there would be so many ducks hatching next year. There was no need to worry about catching all the ducks.
The two men returned to the place where they had dug the trap, and fortunately, neither the bison nor the wild sheep had returned yet.
Li Wanqing brought Gu Yan into the space again and took the opportunity to let him eat something to replenish his strength.
We will be busy soon, so take a break now.
As for herself, she had to clean up the wild ducks and wild duck eggs on the ground.
Li Wanqing just counted and found that Gu Yan caught a total of 123 wild ducks.
She picked up about a thousand wild duck eggs in total.
Li Wanqing gathered all the ducks together. There were more than a hundred ducks, like a small hill.
The duck eggs were also placed aside. Baskets, large basins, buckets and baskets were lined up in a row, all full of duck eggs, which looked quite spectacular.
Gu Yan finished his meal in a hurry and asked Li Wanqing to send him out.
Just then, some wild sheep came to drink water. Gu Yan whipped the flock hard with his whip, and the wild sheep ran around in panic.
Then I heard a few "thump, thump" sounds, and several wild sheep fell into the trap one after another.
The lambs couldn't run fast, so Gu Yan took advantage of the chaos in the flock and picked up six lambs for Li Wanqing.
This time they harvested a total of fifteen wild sheep and six lambs.
But for some reason today, the bison herd did not come back to drink water, and they waited for a long time but still couldn't get any.
There was no choice but to stay for another day. The next day, he captured three calves and a half-grown cow alive.
The trap with bamboo thorns also caught five big cows. Gu Yan killed them and bled them first, and then asked Li Wanqing to go down and collect them.
Because we stayed for one more day, we were able to catch quite a few pheasants, rabbits, ducks and sheep.
However, Gu Yan felt that it was still not enough, so he insisted on staying for two more days.
Finally, Li Wanqing took stock of the prey they had hunted this time.
There were fifteen sika deer and twenty-six bison, of which six calves and two half-grown cattle were captured alive and raised, and eighteen large cattle were killed for meat.
Forty-one wild sheep, including fifteen lambs, and twenty-six large sheep killed for meat.
Li Wanqing didn't count the pheasants and rabbits in detail, but there were definitely more than a hundred.
The most numerous were wild ducks, more than 200 in total, and there were still the same number of duck eggs. Li Wanqing did not pick any more for the next two days.
She was afraid that if she picked too many, the number of wild ducks would decrease next year. They come here every year, and she couldn't kill the chickens to get the eggs.
The rest were wild vegetables, and we dug up quite a few.
Then Gu Yan killed five more foxes, three red and two white.
The colors are very beautiful, and the pure fox fur is valuable. Li Wanqing doesn't plan to sell it. She wants to keep it in case it comes in handy in the future.
It took the two of them another twelve days to go back, otherwise it would have been ten days. On the way, Li Wanqing saw mushrooms and wanted to pick them, and she also wanted to dig herbs.
There are also various dried fruits, walnuts, chestnuts, and hazelnuts that you don’t want to miss.
Red dates are good things. Li Wanqing still felt a little weak after giving birth, so she found two more date trees.
So there was some delay on the way.
"Huh~, I'm finally home." After being away for nearly a month, Li Wanqing finally saw the door of her home and breathed a sigh of relief.
Once I got home, I couldn't rest yet. No one had lived in the house for almost a month, so I had to clean it up.
By the time everything was packed up, an hour had passed and it was already dark.
The two of them didn't cook in the evening. They just ate the rice and stir-fried vegetables stored in the space.
They still had to stay in the mountains for a few more days, one reason being that they had to prepare the prey for themselves.
The second reason is that I want to dig more medicinal herbs and bamboo shoots. I have already eaten all the ones I dried last year.
Although spring bamboo shoots are no longer available, winter bamboo shoots are just as delicious.
The next morning, Gu Yan and Li Wanqing arrived at the pond where they usually processed their prey. There was a small waterfall there and the water was also running.
"Wife, please bring me two cows. I think I can clean them up in the morning. Come over again at noon and put the cleaned beef into the space." When they arrived at the pond, Gu Yan found a place with a big rock.
"Okay, I'll go to the bamboo forest over there to dig winter bamboo shoots. I'll come to see you at noon and we'll go home together." Li Wanqing said.
"Okay, go ahead. Just stay in the bamboo forest and don't go anywhere else." Gu Yan agreed because he knew there were no large animals around the bamboo forest.
The next few days went on like this. Gu Yan went to the pond to process the prey, and Li Wanqing went to dig bamboo shoots and wild vegetables.
For the next two days, Gu Yan stayed at home to clean up pheasants and wild ducks, both of which required hot water to remove their feathers, so he did not go to the pond.
Li Wanqing pickled pheasants, rabbits and wild ducks at home to make cured chickens and ducks.
It’s the same today. Because there are too many wild ducks, Gu Yan has been cleaning them up for two days, but he should be able to finish them today.
"Hey, look, is that your second brother Gu Bei and Li Yingdi? Is that your mother behind? Why are they here?" Li Wanqing was massaging the wild ducks to make them more flavorful.
I looked up inadvertently and saw three people running towards my house.
Looking more closely, it was clearly Gu Bei and Li Yingdi in front, and there was an old lady following behind, who should be Gu Yan's mother, her mother-in-law Zhang Dahua.
"Huh? That's true. They're here for no good reason." Gu Yan was plucking the duck's feathers. He looked up when he heard Li Wanqing's words.
"Gu Bei must be up to something again. I'm telling you, no matter what Gu Bei says, you can't agree." Although she knew that Gu Yan and Gu Bei had no feelings for each other, Li Wanqing still gave him a worried reminder.
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