Chapter 11: The Secret of Daqingshan
"It's back, it's back!"
"I actually hit so many prey!"
"What are your three boys and Wang Erhu carrying? Oh my God, it's a deer! ”
As the hunting team walked out of Daqing Mountain, the entire Elm Bay was boiling!
Compared with the hare pheasant, the two deer that were carried back by the team members with a crossbar are the stars in everyone's eyes!
The same thought flashed in everyone's heads, this time Zhao Hengyi and Wu Lao Liu are going to make a fortune!
A hare can be exchanged for more than ten catties of fine rice in the county seat of Dangyang County, and a pheasant can be exchanged for twenty catties!
So how much grain can a deer get in exchange?
There are shrewd people who have already calculated the results in their hearts, and the harvest from entering the mountain this time is enough for Zhao Hengyi and Wu Laoliu to lie comfortably at home until the New Year!
The wealth that has never been seen before hits the nerves of everyone in the entire Elm Bay, which is exactly what Zhao Hengyi wants to see.
In front of the village chief and everyone in the village, Zhao Hengyi announced that he and Wu Laoliu each accounted for 30% of the harvest from entering the mountain this time, and the remaining 40% was distributed according to the performance of the hunting team members in the past three days!
Everyone was stunned by Zhao Hengyi's generosity!
Everyone inexplicably remembered Zhao Hengyi's nickname, Silly Hengyi.
Even if they think that Zhao Hengyi is too stupid, everyone will squeeze their heads and participate enthusiastically the next time Zhao Hengyi implements a certain plan!
In the face of various discussions, Zhao Hengyi did not explain much, but smiled and hugged the seventh sister Miao Xiaofang who was waiting in the crowd in his arms, which attracted the envy of the other five younger sisters.
Miao Xiaoyu, who was accompanied by the sixth aunt and Sun Xiuying, looked at Zhao Hengyi, who was covered in dust and tired, and couldn't help but have red eyes.
In the past three days, even if someone accompanies her, even if she guards her six younger sisters, Miao Xiaoyu has not slept a single peaceful night.
From the moment her husband stepped out of the door, her heart was taken away!
Now that she saw her husband return safely, not only did she harvest a lot, but she even caught two deer, Miao Xiaoyu only felt as if happiness was about to overflow from her chest!
The noisy crowd, the excited faces, the gossiping sisters-in-law and aunts around him, noisy and unreal, Miao Xiaoyu seemed to be in a dream, everything became blurry, only the husband who was grinning with the seventh sister was particularly clear.
Inexplicably, she still ate a little vinegar from the seventh sister, and Miao Xiaoyu blushed with her thoughts.
Zhao Hengyi's thatched house, which has no walls, once again ushered in unprecedented liveliness.
Those who have descendants in their families who have joined the hunting team have expressed their gratitude, for fear that the quota will be replaced by others.
And those who did not join the hunting team naturally wanted to climb the relationship, and also stuffed their brothers or children into the hunting team.
Everything in front of him had already been expected by Zhao Hengyi, and he put the decision on the village chief and a group of elders, and stated that he would not go into the mountains to hunt again in the near future.
After all, being able to catch so much prey this time is completely due to the fact that there is no crossbow before, and it is difficult to have such abundant prey next time you enter the mountain.
This time he went into the mountains to harvest so much, even far beyond Zhao Hengyi's expectations, but his mind was not on these prey.
Because Zhao Hengyi found another wealth in the process of entering the mountain this time, a wealth that is so big that he dare not touch it now!
There is salt in Daqingshan, mineral salt!
This is no secret among the hunters near Dangyang County, and there are even many people who take advantage of the wild animals in the mountains to lick and eat the exposed mineral salts to hunt, and occasionally harvest large animals such as goats or deer.
Everyone knows that mineral salt is poisonous, and it doesn't matter if the wild animals eat it, people will die very badly if they eat it.
For Zhao Hengyi, it is very simple to extract edible salt from mineral salt!
According to Zhao Hengyi's observation, the reserves of mineral salt in Daqingshan will be an astronomical amount, and if these mineral salts can really be safely realized, it is not unimaginable that the rich can rival the country!
It's just that in this Great Yan country, which has rotted to the bones, the Miao family, the largest cloth merchant in Dangyang County, ended up with a ruined family just because they invented a loom that increased the output by half.
If the mineral salt in this Daqing Mountain is known to the outside world that it can be turned into crystal clear salt, I'm afraid that even the government and even the imperial court will be tempted to snatch it, right?
Zhao Hengyi, who is a human being in two lifetimes, will never dare to underestimate the greed of human beings, and until the time is ripe, he will never touch the secrets in Daqing Mountain!
However, with the rich income from entering the mountain this time, Zhao Hengyi can do new things.
Now in Yushu Bay, Zhao Hengyi's prestige can even be compared to that of the old village chief, and what he wants to do is extremely smooth.
Raise chickens, build a chicken farm, and build a chicken farm where the elderly and children who can't do heavy work in Elm Bay can have an income!
Naturally, there were people in the village who raised chickens before, but in this big Yan country where wild vegetables and grass seeds can be used as staple food, chickens are all free-range, how big they can grow, how many eggs they can lay, it all depends on luck.
Even because of its proximity to Daqing Mountain, domestic chickens are often taken away by wild animals that run out of the mountains, so that there are very few people who are willing to raise chickens in Yushu Bay.
The chicken farm that Zhao Hengyi wants to build is completely different, he wants to keep them in captivity.
From the perspective of modern people, raising chickens does not need to waste food at all, digging some earthworms in the mountains, using those rotten leaves and grass roots as raw materials, and establishing an earthworm pond for raising earthworms, you can get a steady stream of feed.
Even after the conditions are sufficient, you can build a greenhouse and raise maggots.
Although it is somewhat disgusting, it is actually far easier to get adequate chicken feed by raising maggots than earthworms.
The chickens that feed the earthworms and feed the maggots have strong disease resistance, high nutritional value, and the egg production rate is not low.
Everything is difficult at the beginning, and Zhao Hengyi doesn't plan to do it in one step, just to find a way to live for those children and the elderly who can't do heavy work.
Chicken farms can be artificially hatched to continuously obtain chicks, and once the scale is raised, this envisioned chicken farm alone will be enough to feed everyone in Elm Bay!
These thoughts were all discussed separately by Zhao Hengyi, the village chief and several elders after everyone dispersed.
Although the village chief and elders are like a fantasy, the rich rewards they have received from entering the mountain several times have made them have great trust in Zhao Hengyi.
And the chicken farm is built little by little, the initial investment is not large, and all the people in the village need to pay if they want to participate is to dig more earthworms in the mountains in their spare time.
After some deliberation, a rudimentary earthworm pond was excavated.