Chapter 989: Breeding

Three pheasants, a big pot of soup, Ang Lee left a pheasant and one-third of the soup for the servants, so that they could also share the deliciousness, which can be regarded as a very preferential treatment for the servants, and this is also Ang Lee's consistent style, as for how much each of them can get, it depends on their own ability.

Theoretically, these servants were all equal in status, and they should share the delicacy equally, but those who are sharp and strong will certainly be able to share more of the delicacy, and the honest people who are not good at competing will be good to be able to drink a mouthful of soup.

For example, there are three birds in a bird's nest, and every time the mother bird comes back with food, the three birds will keep stretching out their beaks to grab food, and the birds that compete for the most fierce will always eat the most food, so that the faster they grow, and the stronger their bodies will be when they become adults, while the birds that can't compete for their companions will be thinner, and even, when there is a shortage of food, they will be starved to death.

Of course, there is a difference between humans and animals, in addition to animal instincts, people also have many things that animals do not have, such as compassion, kindness, wisdom, etc., as well as scheming and the like, such as wanting to capture and indulge, and obviously not fighting, in fact, can be obtained.

Li An pulled Tang Er and returned to the room in the inner courtyard, the dishes on the table were already full, eight dishes and two soups were ready, and the protagonist of this was naturally the local chicken soup made by Li An himself.

"Husband, this local chicken soup is so fragrant, then let's drink the local chicken soup first!"

Yan Ruyu opened her mouth to propose.

Li An naturally did not object, and said: "The local chicken soup is naturally delicious, but I am afraid that after drinking the local chicken soup, if you go to eat other food, you won't be able to eat it, haha!" ”

This is not what Ang Lee said, after a person eats very delicious food, it is generally difficult to eat food with average taste, because the taste has been raised, it is difficult to adapt to the food with worse taste, and even, he can't eat the previous taste at all.

For example, when people are hungry, eating steamed buns is very fragrant, but if you eat a beef bun halfway, and then continue to eat steamed buns, you will suddenly find that the steamed buns have no taste, which is much more unpalatable than before, this is because the buns eaten halfway raise people's mouths, so that people's mouths have no feeling for steamed buns in the future, and even feel that steamed buns are unpalatable.

"Husband, even so, then we still have to drink the local chicken soup first, it's so fragrant, we can't help it, haha!"

Yan Ruyu said, taking matters into small bowls, dividing two large bowls of local chicken soup into small bowls, and dividing some pheasant meat in each bowl, and the rest of the people also stood up to help.

"Wow, it smells so good! Drink well. ”

Tang Er was the first to drink the local chicken soup into his stomach and expressed his heartfelt admiration.

"The entrance is rich, full of umami, and a faint fragrance, which is the best in the food, as soon as the husband makes a move, what else can I say."

Yan Ruyu took a sip lightly, squinted her eyes and praised.

Li Hanlu, who was next to her, gently picked up the chopsticks, tore a small piece of the rotten pheasant meat that had already been cooked, and gently put it in her mouth.

"How's that, how does this pheasant taste like?"

Li An was not in a hurry to taste, he wanted to watch his ladies eat and drink well first.

Li Hanlu didn't say anything too literary, and said directly: "It's better than home-raised, and it tastes good." ”

In a concise sentence, the taste of pheasant meat is spoken.

"Husband, you should also try it."

Barbarian is intimate, and he personally tore off a piece of pheasant meat and put it in Ang Lee's bowl.

Ang Lee tasted it lightly, and it was indeed very delicious.

Before, Li An had also made local chicken soup in the house, but he used a domestic rooster, and the ingredients did not have Angelica sinensis, so it was naturally inferior in terms of materials, and the taste would naturally be lowered by a grade.

Before he started eating, the two large bowls of local chicken soup had already been divided up by a table of people, and even the bone marrow of the local chicken had been eaten clean, and the bone residue had not been spit out at all.

This is not an exaggeration at all, the bones of the pheasant are very small, and after cooking in the pot for more than half an hour, the bones have long been stewed soft, and they will be crushed into slag with a bite of the teeth, and because the taste of the soup has penetrated deep into the bone marrow, the bone slag is fragrant in the mouth, so it is naturally reluctant to spit it out.

After eliminating the two large bowls of local chicken soup, everyone's stomach is not full, such a delicious local chicken soup, only a little, naturally not enough to eat, but when everyone began to eat other dishes, they suddenly found that these dishes, which usually taste very delicious, have no taste at the moment.

"Look at Tang Er's frowns, this local chicken soup has really ruined everyone's appetite, and they don't want to eat anymore."

Yan Ruyu looked at the people in front of her who were unwilling to eat, and said with a smile.

"The husband wants to write down this dish, and in the future, we will eat it often."

The brute demanded.

Pheasants and fresh angelica, although they are relatively rare, but these are nothing at all for a family like Ang Lee, as long as they can afford it, they can be bought.

Of course, pheasants are wild animals after all, and as more and more rich people like to eat wild meat, pheasants will inevitably be overkilled, so that they can not see pheasants in the wild, and it is not so easy for rich people to eat pheasants.

At this time, in the suburbs of Chang'an City, the number of pheasants has dropped a lot, it is because there are too many people like Li An who like to eat wild meat, which eventually caused a significant decline in the number of pheasants, and to solve this problem, the best way is to artificially breed pheasants, only artificial intervention in breeding, it is possible to meet the needs of a large number of rich people.

Although the artificially bred pheasant, in the quality of chicken, is not as good as the pheasant that grows naturally in the wild, but the decline is limited, and the increase in production capacity is extremely high, in short, the cost performance is very high, in the population explosion of Chang'an City, the demand for pheasants is very large, relying on the pheasants grown in the wild environment such as Lishan outside the city, it is far from being able to meet the requirements, which leads to the high price of pheasants, and the high price has led to the frequent killing of wild pheasants, so that the pheasants in the wild are becoming less and less, There are fewer and fewer people who can eat this delicious food.

Li An this time, he happened to catch a few pheasants, if he still wants to eat pheasants in the future, he needs to spend a lot of money to buy, of course, he can also choose to take people to the mountains to catch them, but whether he can catch them depends on luck, after all, the overall number of pheasants has decreased a lot, not every time he goes to the mountains, he can catch them, at least this is the case in the mountains near Chang'an City.

And through the brutal request to eat pheasants, Li An felt that it was time to carry out artificial breeding, so that it would be easier to eat pheasants in the future.

However, breeding pheasants is required technology, and this breeding technology, is also to explore, in addition, the location of breeding is also particular, must be selected in the field with a better environment, and, as far as possible free-range, rather than with cage raising, otherwise, the quality of the pheasant bred will decline too much, in this way, the taste will completely lose the umami of the pheasant, the significance of breeding is not much.

Fortunately, in the era of Datang, the chickens, ducks and geese of ordinary people almost all adopted free-range methods, and few used cages to breed poultry, unless it was a professional farm that might do so.

However, if the pheasant is free-range, there are many thorny problems that must be solved as soon as possible, for example, the pheasant's flying ability is too strong, if it is free-range, it is very likely to fly away like a bird, so that the breeding trip will be in vain.

In order to solve this problem, it is necessary to come up with many ways to deal with it, for example, you can cut off the feathers on the wings of the pheasant, so that it is difficult for the pheasant to fly, or it cannot fly very high.

Alternatively, you can install a net over the forest to limit the pheasant's range of movement a little, so that the pheasant can move within a certain range, rather than going wherever it wants.

After all, the pheasant's personality is different from the pigeon, and many times, after the pigeon flies away, it will fly home, and the pheasant may not come back after flying away, which leads to the breeding of pheasants must be explored.

Ang Lee's industry is enough to make money, to be honest, there is really no need to engage in the pheasant breeding industry, however, Ang Lee does not breed himself, but he can provide an idea for others, especially the people with relatively poor families, choosing to breed pheasants is definitely a good way out.

But there is a good saying, everything is difficult at the beginning, raising pheasants may not be too difficult, but at the beginning, the difficulty is still not small, for example, first of all, you must have a healthy male pheasant and female pheasants, you must master the technology to let them reproduce, but also master the technology of hatching wild eggs, and how to be able to raise pheasant babies in a healthy way.

As long as you master these techniques and have breeding chickens, then the next thing will be easy to arrange, it is estimated that there will be many people who are willing to raise pheasants, so as to bring enough income for themselves, and Li An can use the technology to make money.

"Now the price of pheasants is not cheap, this is still secondary, the most important thing is that there are fewer and fewer pheasants on the market, sometimes they go late, they can't buy it at all, and it is getting harder and harder to buy."

Although Li Hanlu rarely goes to the market, she still knows these basic situations very well, and the servants will tell her what they encounter.

Li An smiled, looked at everyone, and said: "Now, our Chang'an City has a population of about two or three million, and there are more and more wealthy people, so many rich people gather in this small place in the capital, how many pheasants can be eaten, and many of the pheasants we buy in the market now are not necessarily from the nearby mountains, many of them are transported from afar by rail, they are not very fresh, and it is not too easy to eat the freshest pheasants!" ”

"Husband, according to your meaning, in a few years, we will no longer be able to eat pheasant meat, it would be a pity."

Yan Ruyu said.

Li An smiled and nodded: "What you said is not bad at all, according to the current trend, pheasants will not be eaten sooner or later, haven't you noticed?" The price of domestic chickens, for so many years, has never risen, but the price of pheasants has risen tenfold, and it will definitely continue to rise in the future, and money may not be able to buy it. ”

"So what to do? Can't you eat it in the future? ”

Li Ya'er pouted.

"If you want to be able to eat pheasant meat forever, we must adopt the method of breeding, a large number of breeding pheasants, so that it is not difficult to eat pheasants, however, as far as the current situation is concerned, the pheasants in the entire Chang'an City, none of them are artificially raised, all are captured from the wild, and the number is naturally unable to keep up."

Li An said.

"Husband, the reason why pheasants are called pheasants is because they are wild, and if they are artificially bred pheasants, is it still pheasants? Wouldn't that become a domestic chicken? ”

The brute said.

Li An smiled: "What are you talking about? As long as the breeding environment is well controlled, pheasants will always be pheasants, the taste and wild pheasants, the difference is almost negligible, I plan to do the experiment of breeding pheasants, as long as it is successful, the technology will be promoted, so that more people to breed pheasants, of course, pheasants are only one of the projects, wild boars and wild dogs and other wild delicacies, are can be farmed, the speed of breeding, must be far greater than the game caught from the wild. ”

"Is my father going to raise pheasants at home? Can I feed it? ”

Tang Er also interjected.

Li An pinched Tang'er's little face, and said with a smile: "Raise it at home, how can you do it, the family is too small, you have to go to Lishan to breed pheasants, the environment there is better, more suitable for breeding pheasants, only by breeding there, can you raise delicious pheasants that are the same as wild, if Tang'er likes to feed pheasants, you can go to the pheasant farm in Lishan in the future to see, go over to feed the pheasants in person, and see the scenery on the mountain." ”

"Okay! I want to raise pheasants, can I go tomorrow? Father. ”

Tang Er asked.

Li An flicked Tang Er's forehead and said with a smile: "You can go to Lishan tomorrow, but the pheasants may not be able to see it, and the pheasant farm has not been built yet?" After a month, it is estimated that you should be able to feed the pheasants. ”

"There are no pheasants, so what am I going to Lishan to do tomorrow? What's so much fun! ”

Tang Er asked.

Li An opened his mouth and said, "Tang'er! Tomorrow, my father will take many emperors and grandsons who are not a few years older than you to visit Lishan Mountain, see the scenery there, and look for game on the mountain when you are hungry, do you want to play? ”

After speaking, he threw a look at his son.