Chapter 175: Plans for obtaining musk and raising forest musk deer
After putting the newly captured male forest musk deer away, Lin Heng put the compound bow back into the bow bag and dismantled the trap.
Then he led the female musk deer back. The female musk deer had been well taken care of and had no stress response.
Holding a flashlight and leading it, this guy walked forward slowly.
Lin Heng liked it more and more. He was a little unhappy when he caught it half a year ago and wanted a male one.
Now it seems that females are better. Not only can they give birth to puppies, but they can also seduce males.
It's really a lucrative business.
Lin Heng shook his head and sighed: "Lust is like a knife hanging over your head."
It seems that even Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu couldn't resist the beauty trap, let alone this stupid musk deer.
Fortunately, he only likes Xiulan and will not be tempted by other girls.
Lin Heng walked down a short distance when he saw a flashlight. It was his elder brother Lin Yue and Li Shiwei running up.
Lin Yue asked from a distance: "Brother, what happened? Why did you suddenly stop making any sound? Could the musk deer have run away?"
"Keep the noise down and don't scare the musk deer I just caught!" Lin Heng reminded in a low voice.
"Newly caught?"
The two looked at each other and were both stunned.
Then they all rushed up at the same time and soon came to Lin Heng and saw the female musk deer he was leading.
"What about the other one?" Lin Yue asked excitedly in a low voice.
Lin Heng turned his back and let them take a look.
Li Shiwei opened his mouth wide: "Oh my god, he really caught him alive, why does it feel so easy!!"
Lin Yue's face was also full of surprise: "Damn, you made it, brother!!"
If you capture it alive, it won't be fifteen hundred yuan. If you just keep it and don't let it die, that's fifteen hundred yuan per year.
In this era, in this poor and backward mountainous area, this is an astonishing number.
Moreover, Lin Heng already has a pair. They give birth to two cubs every year. In a few years, they will have a flock. What a huge fortune that will be!
For a moment, both of them couldn't help but swallow, not knowing what to say.
"It's okay."
Lin Heng laughed and said to his elder brother, "Brother, bring the backpack and carry this female musk deer back."
"Okay." Lin Yue nodded, still very excited as he walked back.
"Your luck is really unbeatable." Li Shiwei sighed.
"This is not luck, this is strength." Lin Heng smiled.
He was in a very good mood today. He thought it would take several days to complete the task, but he unexpectedly succeeded in just one day.
Even though it was freezing cold, he felt warm and happy.
Walking downstairs, Lin Yue took out the backpack and put the female musk deer in it, then extinguished the fire, and the three of them walked back with flashlights.
Halfway through the journey, perhaps due to the bumps, the male musk deer started howling and even urinated on Lin Hengyi's back.
"Damn it, if you weren't valuable, I would have killed you and eaten your meat." Lin Heng was speechless. The urine was so smelly.
"Haha, you should just bear the consequences, otherwise this wealth would come too easily." Li Shiwei laughed.
He was happy for Lin Heng and also extremely envious.
But he also knew that this was not luck, but skill.
Being able to catch a female musk deer takes a certain amount of luck, but catching a male musk deer requires all the skills.
Even if you don't succeed today, you will definitely succeed in a few days.
"Okay, okay, I was thinking of giving you two musk deer when there were more in a few years, but now there are none." Lin Heng said deliberately.
"Brother, big brother, I was wrong, let's not do this." Li Shiwei quickly flattered.
"Hahaha..." Lin Yue laughed.
The three of them walked back, talking and laughing, joking along the way.
Lin Heng will definitely not limit himself to the musk deer breeding project. When the scale is increased, both the eldest brother and Li Shiwei will benefit from it.
When they were almost home, the musk deer in Lin Heng's backpack finally got tired and stopped roaring.
The three of them returned home quietly. It was already past nine o'clock, almost ten o'clock. Except for the occasional barking of dogs, most people in the village were resting.
Lin Heng knocked on the door, and soon Xiulan ran out with Xiaoxia and opened the door.
Xiulan looked at Lin Heng first, then asked curiously, "Did it succeed?"
"Of course, you see."
Lin Heng turned around and let her look at the musk deer in the basket.
“It really worked, awesome!”
Xiulan was stunned. This news seemed a little unreal to her.
One thousand five hundred yuan. Under normal circumstances, a family might need six or seven years to save that much.
"Let's talk inside."
Lin Heng grinned and pulled Xiaoxia into the house.
Putting the musk deer on the ground, this guy is tired and is not struggling anymore.
Everyone looked at it again and still felt it was a little unreal.
"What should we do? Where should we put it tonight?" Xiulan asked Lin Heng.
Lin Heng spread his hands: "I can only use the wooden frame from before to frame it in the house. There is no way to make a circle for it in the middle of the night."
It is not suitable to keep male and female musk deer together after mating.
Lin Heng took the female musk deer and put it in the pen built for it in the back mountain. The male musk deer was locked in the house. There was nothing they could do about it even if it urinated, so they could only deal with it tomorrow.
After finishing, Lin Yue and Li Shiwei went straight back, and Xiulan brought them the pies that were made in the house.
"Find me some clothes. I want to take a shower."
Lin Heng said something to Xiulan and went into the fire room with the wooden basin.
After a while, Xiulan brought him a set of clothes and said, "You should buy another cotton-padded jacket. I don't think you can wear this one anymore."
"Well, let's go down town and buy it together next time." Lin Heng nodded, washed and put on his clothes. The navy blue cotton jacket that Xiulan took was indeed broken.
Lin Heng remembered that this was the clothes he wore when he was fifteen years old. It was at least five years old and was covered with small patches.
"Not bad." Lin Heng laughed.
Xiulan rolled her eyes at him and handed him the pie she had made that afternoon, which had been warming by the stove.
“It’s delicious.”
Lin Heng ate while chatting with Xiulan and fed Xiaoxia a little from time to time. Xiongba lay beside the stove, watching eagerly, and Jinbao squatted on a chair to warm himself by the fire.
Lin Heng ignored Xiongba. Xiulan had already fed this guy.
"Can you extract musk from this living musk deer?" Xiulan was a little curious about this question.
Lin Heng nodded: "Of course, it's not difficult."
He was a breeder in his previous life and knew a lot about related industries. He naturally knew how to extract musk from musk deer after watching others do it.
Then he briefly told Xiulan about the feeding methods of forest musk deer. The most feared thing in breeding is disease, so prevention is the only way to deal with it.
First of all, you must ensure that the musk deer eats and drinks healthily, and do not feed it anything that may be spoiled.
Secondly, make sure the place where it lives is clean and sanitary, and disinfect it with lime regularly.
Generally speaking, as long as the prevention work is done well, 90% of the safety hazards can be eliminated, and the rest are uncontrollable factors.
The only way to deal with uncontrollable factors is to detect them early and isolate and treat them early.
Lin Heng looked at his wife and told her about his plan: "I plan to build a musk deer breeding plant directly in Hongfeng Mountain for small-scale musk deer breeding. When the number increases in the future, I will build a special musk deer breeding farm."
If you want to raise fish well, you must first have a good closed environment.
The main battlefield in the future will also be at Hongfeng Mountain. After the New Year, he plans to buy two big wolfhounds and tie them up at Hongfeng Mountain. He also plans to fence off and close off Hongfeng Mountain for management.
Xiulan nodded: "Okay, I suggest that we don't tell this secret to anyone for the time being. Otherwise, such a huge fortune will definitely give other people ideas and cause some unnecessary things."
Lin Heng held his wife's hand and said with a smile, "We really have the same thoughts. I think so too. For the time being, we will keep this male forest musk deer next to the grape trellis in the backyard and not tell anyone about it."
"Dad, tell me a story."
Xiaoxia yawned and said she was very sleepy.
"Okay, okay, let's go to bed."
Lin Heng kissed his daughter, buried the fire with ashes, and the three of them went to bed to rest. He put her in the middle, blew out the candle, and told her a story in the dark.
Xiaoxia lay in Lin Heng's arms and fell asleep after listening for a while.
The next morning, there was no snow outside, but the ground was covered with white frost and the weather seemed a little gloomy.
The first thing Lin Heng did after getting up was to check the musk deer he had caught yesterday. He felt relieved when he saw that it was still alive.
After lighting the fire, the three were about to wash their faces when there was a knock on the door.
Lin Heng walked over and opened the door. His parents, uncle and others were all outside.
"Where is the musk deer? Let's take a look." Li Baiquan said with a smile.
Lin Heng knew this would happen, so he nodded and said, "Keep your voices down, this thing just came back and is very scary."
After locking the door, Lin Heng took them into the house and told them to keep the secret and not tell anyone about it.
Everyone understood this and nodded repeatedly.
When they saw the forest musk deer, everyone fell silent. This creature was not very good-looking, with a gray body and two vertical white stripes on its chest, no horns, and canine teeth growing backwards at the corners of its mouth.
But everyone felt that it was like an elf in the mountains, and they could smell a musky scent from afar.
Retreating to the courtyard, Father Lin shook his head and sighed: "Don't tell me, Lin Heng just has an idea."
"My second brother has always had a lot of ideas since he was young." Caiyun said with a smile.
Li Baiquan also said with emotion: "Yes, most people can't think of this method, no wonder he can become a millionaire."
He has now decided to cling to his nephew's thighs and follow in his footsteps. Even if he only drinks a little soup, his family will become rich.
Liu Juan also has the same idea.
Lin Heng laughed out loud, not feeling embarrassed at all.
Mother Lin said, "Tell me if you need any fodder in the future, and we will take good care of it."
"I've told Xiulan everything, so you don't have to worry, Mom." Lin Heng smiled slightly.
Father Lin asked, "You plan to raise them in the backyard, so you need to make a pen. Do you need my help?"
"Of course." Lin Heng nodded.
"This won't take long, let's start now." Father Lin nodded, went home to get some tools and wooden boards, and several people spent 40 minutes making a small rectangular circle for keeping musk deer.
A hollow cover is added on top of this small circle, which is connected when enclosing the grass and is usually covered.
"Do we need to choose a date for the installation?" asked Father Lin.
"It's not necessary. It's too troublesome." Lin Heng shook his head.
Then he brought a box of small transparent glass bottles from the house and said, "You help hold down the musk deer while I get the musk."
He bought this glass bottle specifically to store musk. Hunting forest musk deer has always been his goal, and he must have prepared all the relevant tools.
"Okay!" His uncle Li Baiquan was the first to agree and was very interested in this matter.
“Ahhh!!”
With miserable howls, the male musk deer was pinned to the ground by two men, and it was frightened again.
The musk deer's scent sac is just in front of the reproductive organs under the abdomen. Lin Heng reached in with a small iron spoon and took it out bit by bit.
Musk is brown in color and looks a bit like soil. Because the fragrance is too strong, it smells a bit stinky and makes people dizzy.
Lin Heng stopped when he had almost finished taking out all the musk. It is impossible to scrape off the musk from a living musk deer without leaving any at all.
After taking the musk, Lin Heng put the rubber stopper on the glass bottle, carefully placed it on the cabinet, then comforted the male musk deer and put it into the pen.
"Eat and grow!"
Lin Heng touched its head and gave it a blessing.
“Ahhh~~”
The male musk deer hid in the corner and looked at Lin Heng tremblingly. Humans are too scary.
Xiulan brought a basin of water and put it in. She took a look and then closed the lid. She didn't feed it for the time being and waited for it to recover.
"I'm afraid there's less than one or two ounces of musk here?" Father Lin said as he looked at the musk he had taken out.
"Definitely not. If all of it is scraped off, there should be about one or two grams. This is probably about thirty or forty grams." Lin Heng said, looking at the glass bottle.
Musk costs about 30 yuan per gram, so these will definitely not be sold for more than 1,500 yuan. But no matter who chooses, they will definitely want a live musk deer.
"That's enough." Father Lin nodded.
"Once they are mature, you can harvest them a few times a year and get one or two ounces," said Lin Heng.
After a few words, the meal was ready. After eating sauerkraut noodles, Lin Heng's father and his friends went to Hongfeng Mountain to check out the situation.
After looking at this place for a while, he went back. He had a lot of things to do recently and didn't have time to stay here.
On the way back, he met Tian Baishun who was walking towards him. He looked at Lin Heng and said, "I heard that you went to Ge Tenggou yesterday. Did you gain anything?"
Lin Heng shook his head: "I was freezing to death. I waited until seven o'clock in the evening and there was no movement."
Hearing this, Tian Baishun immediately laughed happily: "Haha, this is normal. I don't know how many times I have failed. Musk deer are not that easy to beat."
Lin Heng smiled bitterly, chatted for a few minutes and then went home, feeling secretly happy.
The sun came out at noon, and Lin's mother was drying sweet potato flour, preparing to make sweet potato vermicelli in a few days.
Recently, the sweet jujubes piled up at home need to be made into wine, but I haven’t had the time.
Father Lin planned to wait until the first batch of fish ponds were dug, and then he would take two days of free time to make some wine.
After returning to the house, Lin Heng said something to Xiulan and rode his horse to the town.
Riding a horse in the summer is very majestic, but riding a horse in the winter is completely torture, but it is still better than walking.
On the way to the town, you can see that some electric poles have been planted, and some are digging holes, and the speed is quite fast.
Because it was cold, Lin Heng walked slowly and it took him a full half hour to reach the town.
Today is the 21st day of the 10th lunar month. It is not a market day in town and it is quite quiet.
There will be another chapter later
(End of this chapter)
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