Chapter 72 Rabbit
Lian Hua also wanted to earn some extra money, but she was too late and ended up grabbing three little rabbits.
When Lu Xing came to see her, he saw a small nest in her yard. There was a stone wall outside and rabbits were kept inside.
The house Lianhua lives in was built when she first got married. The soil in the yard was just compacted, and there was no money to lay floor tiles at that time.
"You just leave this rabbit there?"
Lianhua looked at the fence they had built overnight. The stones had all been found in the river, and she couldn't see anything wrong with it. "Where else can we put it if not here?"
Her family built a pigpen outside and a chicken coop in the yard.
Later, because Lianhua was in poor health, she could no longer raise pigs and chickens, so these two places became abandoned.
The current rabbit hutch is also modified from the original chicken coop.
"Rabbits are amazing at digging holes. They can even dig a hole with a piece of wood. If you leave your dirt lying around like that, your yard will be filled with holes."
"ah!"
After hearing what Lu Xing said, Lian Hua realized that she had underestimated the rabbit's ability to dig holes, and quickly ran to the rabbit's nest to see what was going on.
Chickens don't dig holes, so there was nothing done underneath the original chicken coop. I just laid a layer of straw.
The layer of straw had been gnawed into a mess by the little rabbits, and the soil had been dug out by them.
Fortunately, they didn't have time to dig a hole.
"I didn't expect this rabbit to start digging holes even though it's so young. It seems I need to put some gravel under the rabbit hole."
Lu Xing also went over to take a look. Several little rabbits were gathered together, rubbing their heads against each other in the nest. They looked very cute.
The system habitually scanned the rabbits and said, "Host, these are male rabbits. They tend to be a bit more aggressive than female rabbits."
Male rabbit?
Lu Xing looked at Lian Hua and asked, "Why do you only buy male rabbits?"
"What?" Lianhua widened her eyes and looked carefully at the rabbits she bought, but she couldn't tell the male and female from the white fur.
She didn't think too much about it at the time. There were only a few left, and she was lucky enough to get one. Who cared whether it was male or female?
"If you buy a male and a female, they'll have pups in two or three months. Old rabbits can give birth, and they can have several in a litter."
Lianhua has already calculated that rabbits give birth to one litter a month, with 5 to 8 babies in each litter. She can not only do business in rabbit fur, but also in rabbits.
So she asked Lu Xing, "Can you tell the difference between male and female rabbits?"
"Yes."
With the help of the system, Lu Xing answered confidently.
"I think raising rabbits can make money. Look at how many rabbits there are and how fast they grow. Their fur can be sold for meat. Do you want to try raising some together?"
She caught a rabbit and put it in Lu Xing's hand, letting her feel the rabbit's fur.
The rabbit was not panicked even after changing its environment. It held the grass with its two front paws and chewed it slowly without moving.
"Look how well behaved this rabbit is. It looks like it's easy to raise."
"Have you forgotten? The foxes in the back mountain come to my house from time to time. If I raise rabbits, they might get eaten by the foxes."
"Your chickens have been there for so long, haven't they been eaten?"
"My chicken is so fierce. If someone wants to take the eggs, it will take two bites. Even the fox can't beat it. Now the rabbit is in danger."
"Okay, okay, then can you help me see if anyone has extra female rabbits? I'll trade them for a male."
Lian Hua had just had a sudden idea, and after Lu Xing refused, she changed the subject and talked about rabbit breeding. It just so happened that Lu Xing could tell the difference between male and female rabbits, so she could ask her to help find a female rabbit.
The two of them walked around Xiaoshi Village and visited all the families who had bought rabbits, but no one had female rabbits.
This shows that the people who collected the rabbit fur brought only male rabbits because they were afraid that they would breed rabbits themselves.
This business caused him some losses.
Lianhua was so angry that she and several friends kept cursing each other for several hours without repeating the same words.
"This bastard is so cruel! He doesn't even have a single female rabbit. Doesn't that mean we can only buy them from him?"
"It's so unethical. What kind of business would do this? He sells rabbits like this. I don't think he'll do anything good when he collects the rabbit fur."
When everyone rushed to buy rabbits, Liu Hehua didn't join in. Now, seeing everyone anxiously cursing at her, she even had time to crack melon seeds and said, "If he were the only businessman in this area, wouldn't it be easy for him to do something fishy?"
"He can sell it for whatever price he wants, and you can't sell it to anyone else."
After hearing her words, Lianhua, who had been thinking about starting a rabbit business, became even more interested. "If there were another store nearby that bought rabbit fur, wouldn't the price be fairer?"
"Besides, he's the only one doing this around here, and there's no competition. He should be able to make a lot of money, right?"
"That's probably the case. It's hard to explain. No one here does this kind of work."
"Too."
Lian Hua didn't express her thoughts either. We have to wait and see whether this can be done.
She plans to go to the city in a couple of days to see if there are any female rabbits for sale.
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Lu Xing hadn't seen any foxes for several days. She didn't know if it was because too many people came to her house recently and scared them away.
I thought this incident scared the fox so much that it would never come back.
Unexpectedly, one night, when she opened the door, she saw three foxes playing in her yard, and two little foxes appeared behind the big fox.
Hearing the noise of her opening the door, the two little foxes were so scared that they hid behind the big fox, but they couldn't help their curiosity.
So Lu Xing saw two little foxes poking their heads out and then retracting them.
Lu Xing didn't go to see them for fear of scaring the little foxes.
Because there was only one bowl, Lu Xing put the food for the big fox and the little fox in the bowl and let them choose what to eat themselves.
After all, big foxes don’t eat meat and little foxes don’t eat vegetables, so they won’t fight even if they eat together.
After the big fox finished eating, it lay down near Lu Xing's feet, curled up into a ball holding its tail, and prepared to sleep.
Seeing that the big fox was so relaxed, the two little foxes also let down their guard and started to sniff around Lu Xing.
I don’t know if it’s because she’s been going to Lianhua’s house a lot recently, and the smell of rabbit on her body was noticed by the little foxes, so they whimpered and begged her for food.
But Lu Xing didn't have time to play with them because she still had pigs to feed.
The two black pigs grew bigger and bigger, their appetites became bigger and bigger, and they kept fighting, so Lu Xing had no choice but to raise them separately.
Whenever she didn't feed them enough, the two pigs would lie down on the fence and make grunting sounds.
She only had time to cook dinner for herself after she had fed all the animals in the house.
Maybe it’s because she’s seen too many rabbits lately, but she’s starting to crave rabbit meat.
She still remembered that when she was little, her father would set traps in the mountains and occasionally catch a few prey.
One day he brought back a hare.
There were no seasonings at that time. After simply processing the rabbit, I marinated it with salt and then roasted it directly on the fire.
The fire was too big and the surface of the rabbit was burnt.
Several people shared a small rabbit, and Lu Xing didn't get much meat at all, but that was still the most beautiful response Lu Xing had when he was a child.
When Lianhua asked her to go to the city to see rabbits the next day, she immediately agreed.
It just so happened that she was also craving rabbit meat.
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