Badgers are nocturnal animals, only coming out to forage at night.
Therefore, Sheng Xiping did not stay in Houdadi and went straight back to the forest farm, intending to discuss with Wang Jianshe and others about going to Houdadi to see the greenery.
As soon as he arrived near the farm headquarters, he ran into Wang Jiachuan, who called him into his office and they chatted for a while.
Afterwards, Sheng Xiping went to the broadcasting room and used a loudspeaker to call out to the educated youth in the field to come to the club for a meeting.
"After discussing with the family team, the farm decided to clean up a few houses at the other end of the back field and use them as collective households for the educated youth."
I've discussed it with the farm. We don't have much work lately, so we can repair and expand the buildings during the day and take turns watching over the crops at night.
Once the houses are repaired, the farm requires us all to move into the collective household registration area.”
Next to the land, there is a row of houses, which used to be the seed and material warehouse and storage for the agricultural team.
Logically, educated youth who went to the countryside should be registered in collective households.
That is, their household registration was placed in the forest farm agricultural team, and then they lived together in a centralized location.
However, there were no other educated youths in Qianchuan Forest Farm before, and Sheng Xiping and others all lived in their own homes.
Sun Yunpeng and his group came last winter. It was so cold that they couldn't build houses, so they stayed at the homes of the forest farm workers.
But these people are really too troublesome. Even when they're staying at other people's houses, they don't stay quiet. Many employees have complained to the management.
After careful consideration, the management decided to vacate and renovate the row of houses next to the back of the farm, so that the educated youth could live there and be managed centrally.
The forest farm is busy building a club and staff housing this year, so it really doesn't have time to take care of the educated youth.
So the staff discussed with Sheng Xiping and let the educated youth team take matters into their own hands and clean up the house.
In September, there were no production plans at the forest farm, and the educated youth were all working in the agricultural team, mainly taking care of the forest.
The first half of the month is for observing the greenery, and the second half of the month is for gradually starting to collect grains and vegetables, which is basically finished by the beginning of October.
Therefore, the forest farm suggested that, while the weather is dry in September, these educated youth should take matters into their own hands and clean up the houses in Houdadi.
When the time comes, all the educated youth will live in collective households, which will make management easier.
They are all young people in their late teens or early twenties, and many of them don't like being controlled at home.
Therefore, most of the educated youth were very happy when they heard that houses were to be built and collective households were to be established.
Only a few people were lazy and didn't really want to put in the effort.
However, considering the inconvenience of always staying at other people's homes, these people reluctantly agreed.
"Since no one has any objections, let's start cleaning the house tomorrow morning."
In addition, the sweet potatoes in Houdadi were damaged by badgers.
I reckon wild boars and bears will be coming down from the mountains to wreak havoc on the crops soon, so starting tonight, we'll take turns keeping watch.
Hunting at night by lying in wait in the fields, setting traps or snares, or patrolling.
As long as the crops and vegetable gardens aren't damaged again, it's fine.
The meeting only had these two requirements. Sheng Xiping was too lazy to waste words, so he was concise and clear, and that was it.
After saying all that, they began to divide into groups.
Currently, there are more than sixty educated youth in the forest farm, including both men and women.
After deducting about ten female educated youth, there were forty-six or forty-seven male educated youth left.
Female educated youth could not participate in the evening youth protection operation, so the male educated youth had to be divided into three groups.
A group of about ten people, divided into the first and second halves of the night, is enough.
Given that the locals and the people from Songjianghe did not get along, in order to avoid conflict, Sheng Xiping directly separated the two groups.
Sun Yunpeng and Du Jiabin led a group of about ten educated youths from Songjianghe, Sheng Xiping was in another group with Wang Jianshe, Gao Haining, Chen Weiguo and others who were on good terms with him, and Guo Yongping, an educated youth from Qianchuan, led the third group.
The three groups work in shifts, with shifts changing at 7:30 every morning.
If the crops are damaged, the group on duty will be held responsible.
As for the shift order, it will be decided by drawing lots to avoid any complaints about unfairness.
The three group leaders drew lots: Guo Yongping's group was assigned to day one, Sun Yunpeng's group to day two, and Sheng Xiping's group to day three.
After the previous rollover accident, Sun Yunpeng and his group kept quiet for a while.
Now that they can't work in the forest farm, they rely on the agricultural team to earn some money.
So I have no objection to this decision.
"Alright, since no one has any objections, let's adjourn the meeting." Sheng Xiping waved his hand, signaling everyone to leave.
"Xiping, how do you plan to deal with those badgers? Set traps or snares?"
By the way, should we go to the field and apply for a few guns?
"What if there are wild boars or bears? Relying solely on the snare might not be enough, right?"
Once outside the club, Wang Jianshe and the others surrounded Sheng Xiping.
Among these young people, Sheng Xiping has the most hunting experience, so of course we have to follow Sheng Xiping's arrangements.
"You don't usually need a gun to catch badgers, and snares won't work either. Badgers have sharp teeth and claws, so they'll just bite through the snare."
The best course of action is to lead a dog and patrol the fields at night. Alternatively, you could find the badger's den and try to destroy it.
Sheng Xiping shook his head. Badgers are cunning creatures; they only come out at night.
Nighttime visibility is poor, which places extremely high demands on the hunter's eyesight and marksmanship.
Sheng Xiping has decent night vision, but the others don't; if they're not careful, they could easily injure someone.
Badgers have an extremely keen sense of smell; if they sense something is wrong, they will go around it.
In the past, Sheng Xiping tried to snare the badger's hole by twisting several strands of thin iron wire together and placing it there, but he failed to snare it even after a week.
Each time, the condom is pushed out a long way.
Later, Sheng Xiping used mugwort to wipe the entire wire sheath to mask the smell of the wire.
When they went to check on it the next day, the condom had been bitten through.
It probably didn't know where it had snagged, but badgers have such powerful teeth that they can even bite through wire.
"Don't borrow guns yet. We're on the third day of the queue. Let those two groups try it out first and see how it goes."
If they can't handle the badgers, then it's our turn. I'll bring my dog; my dog knows how to catch badgers.
Ordinary dogs can catch badgers, not to mention the Erlang Shen and Black General of the Sheng family, they are experts at catching badgers.
Of course, the best way is to find the badger's burrow, find a way to get the badger out of the burrow, and kill it directly.
This thing is a real menace to farmland; it eats everything, including corn, potatoes, and peanuts.
If it sets its sights on a piece of land, that land is basically doomed.
"Okay, we'll follow Brother Xiping's arrangements. Whatever you say, we'll do."
These people have a very close relationship with Sheng Xiping. They all know Sheng Xiping's abilities, so they never question what he says.
And so, everyone went home to rest peacefully and recharge for work the next day.
Guo Yongping's group, after dinner, took a lot of tools and went directly to Hou Dadi.
Even if children from the mountains aren't very good at hunting, they still know a little about things like traps.
Besides, these people have spent a lot of time with Sheng Xiping and have heard him say a lot.
So, along the path from the woods to the sweet potato field, they set many traps and snares.
Then they made a small hut out of dry grass, and planned to ambush the badger at night.
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