Chapter 607: Weaving a Rabbit Cage
The prince entered the courtyard without saying anything, Wang Laoqi led the way, crossed a small alley, and entered the backyard. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info It turns out that the stone courtyard wall, the stone house and the closed gate are to prevent the rabbit from escaping. Wow, an ocean of rabbits! In the huge yard, hundreds of rabbits, large and small, were raised together, old and young, trampling on each other, and from time to time there were screams of brawls.
"Wang Laoqi, what do you feed rabbits?" The prince asked.
"Back to the prince's words, the slave fed them cabbage and grass. When the female rabbit gives her calf, she is given some bean cakes. ”
The prince's thick eyebrows were furrowed, obviously dissatisfied with this Wang Laoqi's extensive breeding methods, but he couldn't be blamed, where did he know how to feed scientifically. It is not easy to grow rabbits to three or four hundred without making any infectious diseases.
Out of Wang Laoqi's house, the prince said to Zhuangtou: "Lao Feng, you find a dozen young and strong young men for this king, and when we finish the rabbit cage, let the personal soldiers and guards brought by this king put the rabbit into the cage." ”
"Hey, the minion remembered."
"Is there a carpenter in the village?" Yun'er asked.
"If you go back to your master, there is a carpenter."
"Do you have a bamboo sticker?"
"There are no bamboo sticks, there are bamboo purlins, which are whole bamboos."
"We don't produce bamboo in the north, how do you have bamboo purlins to build houses?"
"Oh, that's right. The slave's brother-in-law is the magistrate of this county, and he was transferred back from Jiangsu last year, bringing back a large number of whole bamboos, and wanted to build a few houses to settle in the town in front, but he was transferred to Shanxi within half a year of his return. The bamboo was not taken away, even if it was given to the minions. The minions are not used to using bamboo, so they keep it there, and it would be nice if you could use it. ”
The prince spoke: "Okay, just use your bamboo, and go back and tell the king the amount of money." ”
"Lord Wang! Don't be a minion, but a few bamboos, you can use them, and the minions still think they take up space. ”
"This king does not use personal things in vain, you name the number, and I will give you the silver when I turn around. Let's go, look at the bamboo to go. ”
Yun'er didn't expect the bamboo in this village to be so good, the thickness of the bowl mouth, strong, smooth, at first glance it is the kind called Nanzhu, very satisfied, and there are a lot of them, a lot of mountains. Zhuang Tou said that his brother-in-law used the canal to put it back. It's a pity to just use such a successful bamboo to build a rabbit nest. Yun'er suggested that the prince use these nanzhu as scaffolds, and he can also build two or three semi-underground windproof and cold-proof greenhouses, and he can also use such greenhouses to raise rabbits.
Even though the prince adopted Yun'er's opinion, he said that he would find Mr. Bai to show him the feng shui address when he went back. Now Mr. Bai has a specific errand and succeeds Ma Jiaming as Mr. Bookkeeper.
Yun'er also bought a box of electric rabbit fur clippers, some of which are not electric. What Yun'er brings can't be electric. It's the shape of a fader that gives a haircut, but it's bigger, and the rabbit fur is thicker than a human hair.
On the second day of Zhuangzi, the prince led the guards and soldiers to start making rabbit cages. According to the ratio of one male and three female robust adult rabbits in each rabbit cage, each person made four or five rabbits a day, and it took only two days to make one hundred and fifty rabbit cages, and nearly four hundred rabbits had homes. The upper cover of the rabbit cage is nailed with wooden planks and can be lifted, and the bottom is made of wooden slats, with a small gap, so that the rabbit's feet will not be pinched, and the rabbit's feces and urine can leak down.
Then, the prince told Tian Liang how to identify male and female, and Tian Liang taught it to his own soldiers. Robust adult rabbits are put into the cage according to the one male and three females, the old rabbit and the old rabbit are together, the half-big rabbit and the half-big rabbit are together, and the same is true for the small rabbit. In this way, the rabbits will be able to behave and manage. Tian Liang took the rabbit raising book to the newly designated rabbit raising professional households of Wang Ye for training. Wang Laoqi is not busy raising rabbits alone, and he wants to increase the number of people to raise rabbits professionally.
The breeding rabbits brought back from the exotic land are also long-haired rabbits, in order to reduce inbreeding, the exotic breeding rabbits are assigned to the Angora rabbit. In order to be easy to identify, the breeding rabbits that the prince bought from foreign lands are all brown and gray, so that uneducated rabbit farmers do not have to bother remembering which cage has a bad rabbit. The baby rabbits that will be born in the future will certainly not be pure white.
was about to cut the rabbit fur and go home, and the head of the village came to complain again. It was said that the neighbors near Wang Laoqi's house had complained, and the rabbits had gone to their yard to nibble on turnips. The head of the village still doesn't believe it, aren't the rabbits already in the cage? How can you still nibble on other people's turnips? The farmer who complained showed the rabbit he caught to the head of the village, and sure enough, it was the long-haired rabbit of Wang Laoqi's family, and the whole Zhuangzi raised rabbits with his family, and they were all long-haired. Look at the cage again, there is no one missing, and they can't run out at all, which is strange. The farmer who was gnawed on the radish said that the rabbit came out of the back of his water tank, and the head of the village suddenly realized: the rabbit can make holes! All of them have run away before, hidden in the ground, and may have been burrowed to give birth to cubs. But he did not dare to dig into the ground for fear of hurting the rabbits.
Wang Ye and Tian Lianghe had no choice but to continue to stay on Zhuangzi, weave rabbit cages, and place rabbits. He instructed Zhuang Tou to find a few meticulous clothed slaves, carefully dig the surface, and the rabbit hole was discovered. The rabbit is timid and quiet, and the place where Wang Laoqi's family raises rabbits is all land, so it is "dark Chen Cang". After careful searching, more than 30 female rabbits were "captured and brought to justice". There are also more than 200 newborn rabbits, the big ones are almost full moon, the furry ones are very cute, the half-sized ones are also hairy, and they are staggering, and the small ones are still newborns who don't open their eyes. Put the little rabbit and the mother rabbit in a cage, fortunately, there are still a lot of empty rabbit cages left, and the little rabbits are specially raised. Lord Belle is unusually fond of the little rabbit, Yun'er gently put his fat hand on the back of the little rabbit the size of the full moon, touched it, comforted the little rabbit and said: "Don't be afraid, baby rabbit, Lord Belle likes you, you are so cute." Minqi Gege didn't dare to touch it, and took her hand close to the little rabbit, and she pulled it back. Can't force it, I'm afraid she'll be scared. It's a girl in the end, and she's very squeamish.
When weaving the rabbit cage, Mang Ge liked it the most. Whistling while weaving. Tian Liang teased him and said: "Mangge big guard, don't be happy, put yourself in a cage." ”
The prince took the lead and laughed. Mang Ge laughed earth-shatteringly: "Our Tian Da manager can also tell jokes?" Lord Wang, how about these buttonholes made up by your subordinates? ”
"Not good, uneven size, grandparents and grandchildren."
"Isn't that a blow to people? I can't praise my subordinates for a few words. ”
"Yun'er, you tell me the joke of the sludge and praise him."
"Okay, I said that there was a junior apprentice in a foreign land who was learning to paste the shed, and he was not confident in his studies, so he always asked the master, pasted a piece of paper and asked once, 'Master, what do you think?' 'Very good', the master praised. After pasting one more, he asked, 'Master, do you think it's okay?' ’
"Okay, let's keep paste, don't keep asking."
The young man continued to paste, and after a while he called the master again: "Master......"
The master looked up: "Why is the young man's head gone, and no one can speak?" ”
"Master, I've stuck my head in the shed!"
"Hahaha......" Everyone laughed breathlessly, and recklessly laughed so much that they turned their backs to the sky.
Some of the people in the pro-soldiers had never seen Fang Fujin, and they guessed it when they heard the prince call "Yun'er". Now that the cloud master is in front of him, there is no need to peek. I never expected Master Yun to be so young, beautiful, and approachable, and dare to tell jokes in front of a group of big men.
After the rabbits were settled, Yun'er said to the prince: "Take advantage of the heat to cut the rabbits." Pregnant female rabbits are not cut to avoid frightening and pulling miscarriages". The prince was already prepared, and before coming to Zhuangzi, he asked Tian Liang and Nalan to find thirty-two large carriage tires and axles from the treasury, and installed eight tire carts, as well as sickles, ropes, rabbit fur shearing, sack tools for rabbit fur, and ropes for tying carts.
Long-haired rabbits are a bit stupid, and their reactions are not as sensitive as those of domestic rabbits and hares, and they are easy to catch. Press on the cage lid to shear directly. Mang Ge was very interested in the tools Tian Liang brought and liked them very much, and he was eager to use the "Gaden Gaden" family goods. It is more evenly cut than scissors, and the scissors are cut a pinch long and a pinch short, which is similar to that of a dog.
The rabbit cage is still placed in the backyard of Wang Laoqi's house, but the pro-soldiers and guards have built a few rows of shaded grass huts for the rabbits, and the rabbits are the most afraid of exposure to the sun, so the rabbit cage should be placed in a cool and ventilated place. Fix the rabbit cage, install the trough, water trough and trough for feces and urine, and then feed carefully. Tian Liang according to Yun'er to raise long-haired rabbit book, summarized several aspects of rabbit raising methods, first of all, to know its habits and hobbies, rabbits love to be clean, its stool is granular without smell, there is a peculiar smell of its urine. You can teach it to urinate in a fixed place, and it won't smell when you pour it out at any time. Rabbits like green vegetables are carrots, cucumbers, radish leaves, pumpkin, etc., before feeding the vegetables should be washed and drained before feeding; The grasses that I like to eat are shepherd's cabbage, plantain, dandelion, etc., and other foods include tofu residue. Avoid meat, oily, cold, spicy food, stale corn, peanuts.
It is not suitable to feed leeks, garlic and other irritating vegetables and dewy, rotten and spoiled, earthy, odorous, fecal pollution, poisonous, frozen, washed, and after rain; Rabbits should be fed cold boiled water, and the water should be kept clean, and it is best to wash and change the water every day. Rabbits should be fed with water in an appropriate amount according to the season and food amount; The rabbit is timid, so give it a quiet environment not to be frightened.
Avoid only carrying the rabbit's ears when catching it, as this will break the nerves and its ears will not stand up in the future. There are also some precautions and ways to prevent diseases, there are no difficult conditions for raising rabbits, as long as you are patient and careful. The prince designated eight farmers to raise long-haired rabbits, promising to give them a certain financial subsidy. The farmers said they were okay with it.
The prince led the soldiers and farmers to cut a stubble of rabbit hair. In addition, there were more than 400 rabbits with rabbit fur and more than 20 bulging bags of marijuana.
Yun'er asked the prince's corn husk and corn cob to go back to weave straw and make popcorn for Shizi Gege. All of them were adopted by the prince, and the rabbit fur and corn husk were loaded onto the cart, but fortunately, the prince brought nylon rope in advance, and there was so much labor, and the cart was tied strongly.
The corn husk is not corn leaves, but the layers of tender skin next to the corn cob, which are the best materials for straw weaving. The prince instructed the head of the village to get twenty sacks of pu stick velvet, reed flowers, and some reeds and lotus roots. Mighty back to the city.
Back at home, Yun'er began to find someone to clean rabbit fur and straw materials. Under Yun'er's guidance, more than a dozen washermen in the house put rabbit fur into the soaked soapy water. Wash the rabbit hair several times at a water temperature of 40 degrees until it is clean, and then add a little vinegar to clean the washed rabbit fur. In the process, you can only gently squeeze with your hands, and you can't rub, knead, or twist hard. Use a neutral detergent to wash the rabbit fur. Finally, it is placed on a woodworking board covered with leather flooring to dry thoroughly. The yard of the laundry is relatively ventilated and not bad, it dries out in two days and does not catch up with the rain.
Cleaned rabbit fur is white, soft, fluffy, and has long fibers. Yun'er asked Yu'er Shui'er, do you know which girl in the house can spin thread and spin very fine rabbit wool. Yu'er said that he would, and when he was a child, he had spun thread with his mother, and he should not have forgotten it, but there was no spinning wheel in the house.
The problem of spinning wheels is too easy to solve, there are many joiners in the house, can't they make spinning wheels? As soon as I asked, I asked them to make more than a dozen spinning wheels. Cui and Zhang, the two carpenter masters made the spinning wheel is quite beautiful, and it is also very easy to use, when Yun'er asked the girl who knows how to spin yarn in the house to protect herself and bravely sign up to spin rabbit wool, there are more than 20 people at once recommended themselves.
What I didn't expect was that Sister Peach could also spin, so she naturally became the captain of the spinning team. Yu'er was ordered to quit the spinning brigade when she was pregnant, and her belly was about to protrude soon, and sitting there spinning thread was very hindering to the development of the fetus. With such a teaching grandmother as Peaches leading, Yun'er is naturally relieved. The white rabbit fur was spun into uniform wool and wrapped into a ball of fluffy thread, Yun'er was so happy! Where in the exotic land is there such pure yarn? There is no blending, miscellaneous, or fake. Try to hook a shawl for Fu Jin, it's so beautiful! If it is in a foreign land, it will definitely be sold for thousands of dollars.
After the successful test, all the rabbit fur was cleaned, spun into fine threads, and stored in cardboard boxes for later use. The three hostesses and the seven teaching grandmothers each have a shawl. Mama Dong and the four Jingqi Mama also got it. There are also two little hostesses, each with a rabbit fur scarf and a rabbit fur hat. The rest is reserved for commercial use. The exotic Baidu website has a rabbit fur product price, and a rabbit fur collar costs more than 1,000 yuan. According to the price of the exotic land, Yun'er priced the rabbit fur shawl for five taels of silver. The five taels of the Great Qing Dynasty are not as large as the five taels of the exotic ones, because the Great Qing Dynasty is sixteen taels for one catty. Moreover, a rabbit hair shawl is more material than five rabbit fur collars, which is a crochet method that is not available in the Qing Dynasty, which is particularly noble and elegant. In terms of price, it is still not expensive. As soon as the rabbit fur shawl appeared in Ruiqian's cloth village, it became a fast commodity for the noble lady. However, each person can only buy one piece, and the supply is limited.
Fu Jin made a suggestion to Yun'er, just because the rabbit fur is too hot, can you mix a little other thread. Yun'er also felt it, the pure rabbit fur was not wrapped around the shoulder, and it felt very hot when she held it in her hand. With Tian Liang, Nalan and Shui'er, I found a few boxes of pure white cashmere noodles, added rabbit wool, and the hooked effect was better than pure rabbit hair! So a total of forty girls and grandmothers in Fujin Courtyard and Yun'er Courtyard were designated to specialize in the production of rabbit fur shawls. (To be continued.) )