Chapter 109 Chicken Coop
The people who were delivering the supplies had already arrived. They had traveled a long way to get here, so they had to rest for two days before they would have the strength to return.
During these two days, Zhou Xu's work at the barren mountain camp, in addition to directing the reconstruction of the camp, was to have a good rest.
After all, after the transport team had rested, he would have to arrange for fifty prisoners of war to return with the transport team.
Before these prisoners of war set off, he needed to check all their panels.
On the one hand, it is to facilitate his subsequent arrangements, and on the other hand, it is to see if he can discover any talents, so as not to accidentally miss important talents.
To do this, he had to quickly recover the power of mantra that he had previously consumed.
The best way is to get enough rest.
It doesn't necessarily have to be sleeping. Zhou Xu discovered that as long as he emptied his mind and entered a state of complete relaxation, even if he was just daydreaming and distracted, he could achieve a similar effect.
Of course, when he had slept enough and daydreamed enough, Zhou Xu would still find something to do.
After all, he had been idle all the time, and he was feeling anxious.
On this day, while making adjustments to the camp's plan, Zhou Xu shifted his attention to the chicken coop that Wang Luchong had built earlier.
In this primitive era with simple conditions, Zhou Xu's tolerance to various harsh environments has improved a lot compared to the beginning.
However, this time, the moment he walked into Wang Luchong's chicken coop, he still couldn't help but almost vomited.
"Ugh. It stinks in here, doesn't it?"
After several dry heaves, Zhou Xu's face turned slightly pale.
"Are you doing your daily hygiene?"
During this time, Wang Chuan, who came with him, was also obviously heavily smoked, but his mind was still clear. After hearing Zhou Xu's question, he hurriedly said...
"We do it every day, but these pheasants poop so much that if you're not careful, they'll poop everywhere. And the chicken poop is wet and sticks to the ground, so it's hard to clean it up completely..."
Having said that, Wang Chuan didn't say anything else. Zhou Xu could roughly guess what would happen next.
If the chicken coop is not cleaned properly, it will become dirtier and smellier.
At the same time, when he entered just now, Zhou Xu could still clearly feel that the room was filled with all kinds of feathers and dust. The environment was not just smelly, but even breathing was disgusting and uncomfortable.
I feel like if I stay in this environment for a long time, I will get respiratory diseases.
"Have you ever thought of making it open-air?"
Faced with this question, Wang Chuan nodded quickly.
"I thought about it. At the beginning, I built a fence to keep the pheasants inside. But the pheasants just flapped their wings and flew out easily. It was useless to raise the fence. Later, I had no choice but to build a chicken coop like this."
Hearing this, Zhou Xu nodded, and he had a rough idea in his mind.
He had just overlooked one point, that is, the "domestic chickens" in his impression were the result of long-term domestication by humans, and even in modern society, some free-range chickens, or pheasants and partridges are better at flapping their wings than domestic chickens.
Today in this primitive era, pheasants have not yet been domesticated, and their athletic ability is undoubtedly stronger, and they even have the ability to fly short distances.
This forced Wang Luchong to build this chicken coop.
But to be honest, the conditions are too bad now. The sanitary conditions in the chicken coop are also terrible. Zhou Xu estimated that this situation cannot be solved by just cleaning it every day.
The fear is that this poor sanitary environment will breed some bacteria and viruses, which would be troublesome.
Instead of thinking about how to deal with bacteria and viruses, it is better to eliminate the problem fundamentally from the beginning to save effort.
Considering this point, open-air free-range farming is definitely the most convenient and reasonable.
On the one hand, it is a completely open space with smooth air circulation and is not prone to odor.
On the other hand, chickens always defecate everywhere. If they are kept in the chicken coop, the hygiene problem will be a headache. However, if they are left in the wild, the chicken excrement can directly become nutrients for the surrounding plants and degrade naturally, so they basically don’t need to worry about it.
But as Wang Chuan said, the biggest problem with free-range farming at present is that it is impossible to keep the pheasants contained. They will probably all run away in a blink of an eye.
Wang Luchong had no idea how to solve this problem and could only build a chicken coop and lock all the pheasants in it.
But for Zhou Xu, this problem is easy to solve.
"It's a simple matter. All we need to do is clip the wings of those pheasants."
“…”
Wang Chuan fell silent after hearing this.
He subconsciously imagined their new leader holding a stone axe, chopping off both wings of the pheasant with two clicks, and then turning to him with a smile and saying, "Look, now they can't fly away."
For a moment, Wang Chuan also broke out in a cold sweat.
Although he didn't say anything during this process, with Zhou Xu's keen sense, he undoubtedly realized that Wang Chuan might have imagined some strange scenes in his mind.
"Catch a pheasant and I'll show you how to do it."
After hearing this, although Wang Chuan felt a little awkward, he acted decisively and asked someone to catch a pheasant.
After all, if this matter really comes down to it, he wouldn't care even if their leader broke the wings of all the pheasants.
To them, these pheasants are essentially food and they have to be eaten in the end. It would be too pretentious to dwell on this matter.
After a lot of chaos, a tribe member came out holding a pheasant.
In order to facilitate control, Zhou Xu first asked them to tie a rope on the chicken's claws, and then asked one person to control the pheasant. After pressing the wings on a relatively flat stone slab, Zhou Xu picked up a stone dagger and began to scratch the tip of the pheasant's wings.
There was no other way. In that era, there were basically no sharp knives. If you wanted to cut something, you could only saw it like cutting meat with a blunt knife.
After taking quite a bit of effort and cutting the pheasant's wings until they looked like they had been gnawed by a dog, Zhou Xu let out a long sigh.
"Almost."
As he spoke, he signaled the tribesman who was controlling the pheasant to let it go.
Freed from its restraints, the pheasant immediately flew out, running wildly and flapping its wings vigorously.
This situation made Wang Chuan and others stunned.
They thought that the pheasant's wings must have been broken by their leader, but now it seems that it is completely fine.
However, because the rope had been tied in advance, Wang Chuan and his friends were not afraid that the pheasant would run away.
Along with the flapping of its wings, the pheasant suddenly jumped, as if preparing to take off on the spot.
Just when Wang Chuan and his friends thought that the pheasant was about to fly, something happened that was beyond their expectations.
After the pheasant jumped up, it just flapped its wings vigorously a few times in the air, and then dived to the ground in a very funny way.
Within two seconds, the head stood up straight again, and turned around to quickly look around. His eyes were full of wisdom, as if he had no idea how he fell down...
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