Chapter 183: Cutting Deer Antlers
By mid-May, both the fields and the plots were planted.
The newly planted mallet seedlings have just been unearthed, and the grass has to wait for a few more days, and there is no work for the time being.
In the forest, all kinds of wild vegetables grow just right, but at this time, no one sells them, and even if they do, no one buys them.
At most, you can get some back to eat, you don't have to go far, you can go anywhere in the forest, just a few piers.
Xu Shiyan began to worry about deer antlers.
At this time, the antler velvet on the head of the buck has just come out of the second branch, which is more than 20 centimeters long, which is the best time to cut the antler.
So, early this morning, Xu Shiyan took his newly made bait with added material and went to the second crop forest.
After several months of observation, Xu Shiyan has figured out the situation of the deer herd.
There was a large herd of deer in the vicinity, thirty or forty in total, a dozen or so males, and the rest were females and young deer.
Xu Shiyan scattered a dozen bait blocks into an open space, and special materials were added to the bait, and the deer would fall asleep after eating the bait.
After putting the bait, Xu Shiyan immediately retreated to the upwind outlet and blew the birch bark horn in his hand.
The group of deer was in love with the bait that was fed from time to time, and refused to go far.
And after this period of guidance and training, as soon as the deer herd heard the movement, they knew that there was something good to eat here, so the first deer would immediately run towards this side with the deer.
Sika deer are good at running in the mountains and forests, and their speed is extremely fast, and they usually beat dogs, but they can't catch up at all.
So not long after Xu Shiyan blew the horn, he saw a large group of deer running wildly in the distance.
At this time, Xu Shiyan lit a tin canned food box he brought.
Inside the tin canned food box was a kind of psychedelic prepared by Xu Shiyan with medicinal materials such as purple river carts and goldenrod.
If a person smells it after igniting it, they will quickly fall into a coma.
But this is in an open space, far away, the aroma will be diluted, and the deer is too large to guarantee the effect.
However, with the scent and the contents of the bait, it should be able to bring down the deer.
Xu Shiyan mainly didn't want the lives of this group of deer, he only wanted deer antlers, so he took a lot of trouble.
Otherwise, just drugged the bait and poison it and it's over, it's that simple.
Otherwise, put the bait and wait for the deer to come, and you can shoot it directly, without too much effort.
But if you kill the deer, you can only get deer antler once, and then it will be gone.
With this method, he can cut a stubble in the spring, and he can also cut a stubble in the autumn, and as long as the deer herd is still there, he can continue to cut next year and the year after.
After two years, when the conditions are good, he simply caught the deer and raised them directly, isn't it better?
After lighting the incense, Xu Shiyan immediately retreated to a small hillside in the distance, and the cat observed behind the bushes.
I saw a group of deer rushing to the second forest, and the bucks didn't care about their daughter-in-law and children at this time, and rushed to eat the bait.
The bait is fried and steamed with bran, bean cake and other things, stirred with salt, and special materials, and then compacted and dried.
Although the grass has grown on the ground this season, how can the grass have bait to taste?
The salt inside, in particular, is a favorite of deer.
The hind can't grab it, so she can only wander around and wait for the stag to eat almost enough to pick up some leftovers.
A dozen or so stags each occupy a piece, and they bow their heads to gnaw.
At this time, there was a faint smell of flowers in the air, and the deer were in love with the bait, ignoring the aroma at all, and still bowing their heads to eat.
By the time they were halfway through their bite, the medicine in the bait had already taken effect.
Coupled with the constant flow of aroma, the stags began to shake, their legs were weak, and they couldn't get up when they lay on the ground.
The females and fawns didn't know what was going on, and they smelled the aroma, and it was a bit of a fog at this point.
Looking at the bait on the ground, they are reluctant to leave, and they also want to nibble on something.
Xu Shiyan took this opportunity to extinguish the incense in the canned box and quickly came to the deer.
The female and fawn were frightened and staggered and fled.
But the bucks ate too much bait, and the medicine worked, and they were weak and weak, and they couldn't get up after a few struggles.
I saw Xu Shiyan step forward with a hacksaw, crunched, and sawed off a deer antler in a few clicks.
At this time, the deer antler velvet is full of honeycomb eyes and has a loose texture, so it is very easy to see it.
The antler velvet was sawn off, and some blood came out of the fracture.
Deer antler blood is a good thing, and Xu Shiyan naturally refuses to let it go.
He took out the new cotton from his pocket, dipped the blood from the broken wound, and threw it into a small bottle he had brought.
Wild animals are not humans, are particularly resilient, and are resistant to drugs.
Therefore, Xu Shiyan had to hurry up and saw off all the antler velvets as soon as possible, and then collected the antler blood.
At the fracture of the antler velvet, apply some anti-inflammatory and hemostatic powder, and paste the adhesive tape.
Xu Shiyan was already moving very fast, Rao was so, as soon as he finished treating the antlers and wounds of the dozen or so bucks, the deer had already wobbled to stand up, and the other bucks also began to struggle to stand up.
Xu Shiyan saw it and knew that the strength of the medicine would soon pass, so he didn't say a word, and ran away with his pocket on his back.
"I Have a Catalogue of Ghosts and Gods"
If you let that group of deer surround you, you don't dare to say what will happen, so run.
When Xu Shiyan ran to the top of the hillside, he looked back and saw that the dozen or so bucks could already stand up, but their legs were not very good, and they were shaking and trembling.
It is estimated that after a while, there will be nothing to do, and the resilience of wild animals is indeed unacceptable.
Anyway, the antler velvet was in hand, and the antler velvet of a dozen bucks was packed with a big bag.
These are all concocted and sent to the acquisition station, which can be sold for a lot of money.
Xu Shiyan didn't look back at the deer, he knew that the deer would be fine, so he hurriedly walked back.
After returning to the ginseng hut, quickly squeeze out the blood from the deer antler velvet and wash the dirt and dust on the outside.
Then use a glass ballast to shave off the fluff on the outside of the antler.
Traditional Chinese medicine is not made of copper and iron, so you can't use a knife, you have to use a glass ballast or bamboo stick.
After that, the saw edge is tightened with thread, sewn into a net, and small nails are nailed to the top of the antler velvet, and hemp rope is hung on the shelf.
Put it in boiling water and blanch it three or four times repeatedly until it foams at the fracture, stop when it smells of egg yolk, and dry the antler velvet.
The next day, it has to be scalded again and then air-dried or baked.
A fresh deer antler velvet is about a catty, and after it is dried, there will be three taels left, which is light and fluttering.
If you cut it into slices, you can see that the inside of the antler velvet is a red core, and it is all honeycomb eyes.
If you wait until the time for another sprig to grow, the quality will not be as good as it is now.
As for the cotton dipped in the blood of deer antler velvet, it had already been thrown into a barrel of high-grade liquor by Xu Shiyan.
He bought it back in advance, and he was going to soak in deer blood wine.
Deer antler blood soaked wine, that's a good thing, a man's gas station, I don't know how many people want it.
Waiting for him to go down the mountain when he was free, he gave Lao Guo two bottles, and kept him happily accepting them.