A few catties of rabbit meat earn ten points, which attracts the envy of many people.

However, for Wang Manyin, talking is better than nothing, and he doesn't care much about it at all.

However, Wang Qingming next to him moved his mind and immediately asked out loud, "Brother Lian Shun, as long as you get meat, you can process it?"

"What do you mean, you can get rabbit meat too?" Seeing the appearance of the chain mouth, Wang Lianshun asked in surprise.

Someone next to him thought that Wang Qingming was also planning to take the earth dog to catch the hare, so he hurriedly persuaded, "Uncle Qingming, don't think about eating chicken fart. As for your black dog, it's hard to catch up with the rabbit."

The terrain of the Loess Plateau is complex, and the speed of the earth dog cannot be exerted at all. Apart from rhubarb, there are very few earth dogs in the village that can catch hares on a regular basis.

"It's not a rabbit, can it be a squirrel?" If I can pay for the work, I'll dig at noon. Let's talk about it first, and the weasel skin will be mine when the time comes......" Wang Qingming's eyes shone with a cunning light.

"Now digging weasels, this thing has only been out for a few days, isn't it a little early? It's hard to find."

Wang Lianshun hesitated to speak.

"Don't you care, just say whether to give or not to give work?" Wang Qing was obviously very confident.

"Okay, four catties of yellow rats for ten cents." Wang Lianshun nodded and agreed.

Wasel meat is also meat, as long as you can let the laborers on the construction site eat some oil and water, and add a few points, it is nothing. Especially the yellow squirrels in spring, chubby and fat, can boil half a catty of oil.

Of course, fatter before hibernation.

"Brother Wang, what is a weasel...... Weasels, are you talking about eating weasels?" Hearing this, Liu Xiangyang, who was waiting to load the soil next to him, asked in surprise.

"No, it's a rat in the ground. It is also called the big-eyed thief and the bean rat. This thing looks very much like a hare, but the ears are very short, about a pound small, and can weigh up to two pounds. In the summer, they come out in droves to steal alfalfa. If left unchecked, an acre of land can be destroyed in a few days. After autumn, they will steal other crops, especially corn, millet, and soybean fields, and you can often see squirrel holes......

When it comes to yellow rats, Wang Manyin knows very well. The scientific name of this thing is the Daurian weasel, and it is also one of the few meat that farmers on the Loess Plateau can eat freely, and it is easier to catch than hares.

Generally, in summer and autumn, farmers in Shili and Eight Villages will wander the mountains to find squirrel holes. In summer, it is directly irrigated with water, and in autumn and winter, it is dug with a shovel and rake, and by the way, you can get a lot of food.

Luckily, a yellow squirrel nest can dig more than ten catties. Digging four or five squirrel holes a day is dozens of catties of grain.

For today's farmers, it is naturally a good income.

Of course, it is limited to the weasel holes on the edge of the farmland, and those caves in the middle of nowhere, there is very little food in them, and most of them are stored in various wild grass and shrub seeds.

In the early years of famine, the yellow rats near the village of Jars were almost wiped out.

However, this thing reproduces very quickly, and can produce seven or eight cubs in a litter. Therefore, they have not been really eradicated, and they have tenaciously provided humans with a source of meat.

"Rats, can you really eat this thing?" Liu Xiangyang only felt a little nauseous in his throat, and immediately thought of the dirty guys he met in the cave.

"Of course you can eat it, the Loess Plateau has a tradition of eating yellow rats since ancient times. In ancient times, this thing was also used as a tribute to the emperor. To this end, local agencies have been set up to catch squirrels for tribute." ….

The intellectuals in the vicinity all had suspicions on their faces.

Wang Licheng shook his head again and again: "It's really fake, bragging, I don't believe it!?"

"If you don't believe me, I have the opportunity to take you outside the original Xixian County to have a look, where there are several ancient stone tablets, and this is recorded on them. However, a few years earlier, the monument was smashed, and the text was still recognizable......

Wang Manyin did not tell a lie, for a long time in ancient times, yellow rats were regarded as a precious meat.

During the Liao and Yuan dynasties, this thing has always been a tribute.

What's even more exaggerated is that there are also yellow rats in the mid-autumn offerings of the Yuan Dynasty Zongmiao. In order to exclusively use it for the royal family, it was also ordered to set up a protected area, "where officials are to be guarded, and no one is allowed to take it without permission".

In the Ming Dynasty, it was also sought after by dignitaries, and many people ate it

The weasel is proud and is known as "Shi Zhen". Ming Chengzu celebrated the birthday of the eldest princess of Ningguo, and gave 50,000 banknotes and 1,000 yellow rats......

When the capital was at its most expensive, a yellow squirrel could be sold for a penny. At that price, it was possible to buy an adult's ration for one month.

Even now in the Shibi Festival pigeon market, there are also yellow squirrels for sale, and the price is not low.

The reason why Wang Manyin knows so much about the weasel is that on the one hand, it is the memory of his predecessor, and on the other hand, he has eaten it in later generations.

When I was in college, I had a friend from the Northwest who lived in a rented house outside. At the end of the winter vacation one year, the other party said that he brought a special product from his hometown for him to taste.

When Wang Manyin arrived at the rental office, his friend had already prepared the dishes and braised a large plate of meat. Wang Manyin thought it was hare meat at the time, and he didn't ask too much, but he felt that the taste was very fragrant and special.

When the two of them finished a plate, his friend asked him if he knew what kind of meat he had just eaten.

Wang Manyin guessed wrong several times, and when the other party revealed that the answer was weasel meat, he almost spit it out, so he deliberately checked it on the Internet.

Only then did I know that the yellow squirrel was actually not a mouse, but should belong to a kind of ground squirrel. In some places, people have been eating, and they sell for more than 80 yuan a catty.

It's already in the stomach, and it's impossible to really spit it out.

Wang Manyin could only comfort himself, this thing was equivalent to a bamboo rat in the south. The difference is that one eats the tender grass of the crops, and the other eats the bamboo roots.

Of course, later generations of experts have always emphasized that things that are not raised cannot be eaten.

In this regard, Wang Manyin didn't know what to say.

Especially in this era, food safety is too vague for farmers who can't even fill their stomachs.

It's like some experts say that "instant noodles are unhealthy", and many netizens scoff at it, they are so poor that they are so poor that they still care about their health.

For voles, of course...... Wang Manyin has always stayed away from it, and he can't pass the psychological level.

This kind of proper double standard can only be made by him.

"I'll go over and see ...... when I'm waiting for the yellow rat."

It is rare to have a lively scene, Liu Xiangyang naturally does not plan to miss it, and deliberately explains that he will call himself when the time comes.

With a hare as a base, the midday meal was much more hearty than usual.

Wang Manyin served a large bowl of vegetables as usual, plus a few black nests.

He was just about to find a place to eat, but was pulled to a place where no one was by Wang Lianshun and Wang Yanqiang.

"Man Yin, Xiang Yang told us about going to Yuandong County, the sheep in the northern grassland are really so cheap?" Wang Lianshun took a pair of rabbit meat with chopsticks and asked in a low voice. ….

Buy back a sheep, kill and eat dozens of catties of meat, and finally make money. Of course he was tempted by this kind of good thing.

Next to him, Wang Yanqiang was also full of expectation.

"Uncle Lian Shun, it must be true. The key distance is too far, there must be someone along the way to check, I'm afraid it won't be good luck to come back, if the village opens a certificate, it shouldn't be much of a problem......" Wang Manyin replied.

At present, all localities practice strict unified purchasing and marketing, and agricultural and sideline products cannot flow across regions, still less can they be traded privately.

If a private person goes to the grassland to buy sheep, he will definitely make a mistake. And to buy it in a walk-behind tractor, some of it is too blatant.

Therefore, if this matter is to be done, a letter of introduction can only be issued at the village level.

Even so, it is not necessarily guaranteed.

"I'll go back and tell Manho that he'll definitely agree. If we can buy dozens of sheep, our pig task this year will be easy...... Even five sheep for one pig is worth it."

On the side of the Stone Ridge Festival, handing over the task pig has always been a difficult problem. Last year, because of the swine fever, the tasks in each village were not satisfactory.

In desperation, the commune opened an opening and allowed the production teams to replace them with sheep.

Depending on the size of the sheep, it is generally worth four to one pig.

For this reason, more than half of the sheep in Jarzi Village were sold last year, and they were not even willing to kill the sheep during the New Year. Shuangshui Village is even worse, it is said that the sheep were almost wiped out.

According to the price given by the food station to buy live pigs, the worst C-class pigs can be sold for more than 40 yuan each. Sheep were bought from the steppe, and four were cai

Twenty-five pieces.

If it is used to offset the task pig, it is too cost-effective. Wang Lianshun calculated this account very clearly.

Raising pigs every year is tossed, many families are reluctant, and Wang Lianshun has to say good things back and forth. If this can be done, the task of the second team will definitely be successfully completed this year, and maybe you can get the reward of the commune.

"Uncle Lian Shun, what do you think, how can there be such a good thing. You think the people in the commune are stupid, I don't know if there is swine fever in the villages. Besides, if there are pigs in our village that don't pay, Zhao Jianhai alone won't be able to pass that level."

"This white was beaten lightly," Wang Yanqiang scolded again.

"But it's okay for us to buy some breeding sheep," Wang Manyin repeated the previous rhetoric.

"Okay, I'll talk to Manhoard for the past two days. If it happens, you and Xiangyang will run again,"

Wang Manyin nodded.

Let other people go to the grassland, and I don't feel at ease.

With this friend of Wu Enqi, buying sheep can give birth to a lot of things.

After the three of them finished talking, they ate in a leeward place.

There are a few more pieces of rabbit meat in the bowl, and it tastes exceptionally delicious. In particular, Wang Shouchang's cooking is generally salty and salty, which is very in line with the appetite of the workers.

After eating, there was almost an hour's break. Wang Manyin was just about to find someone to kill time, but was stopped by Wang Qingming again.

"Man Yin, I'm going to fill the yellow squirrel and want to use your dog...... When the time comes, I'll give you a piece of sasel skin, what's going on?"

Weasels also burrow to live, and the structure of the burrow is much more complex than that of rat holes. In addition to the caves where they actually live, they also dig a lot of ecstasy caves, also known as fake holes.

There are as few as two or three ecstasy caves, and as many as a dozen.

If you don't have experience, you will be busy digging all the ecstasy holes for half a day, and there is nothing in them, which is pure waste.

Even if you find a real hole, it's not so easy to catch a squirrel. The cave of this thing can be one or two meters deep, four or five meters long, and there are forks in the road.

If you are not careful when digging, you will be blocked in the real hole.

But if you water it, it's not that much.

As long as you prevent the rats from escaping, this is where rhubarb comes in handy.

"Okay, Uncle Qingming, since you found the squirrel hole, I don't want it, just go up and see the fun."

The weasel skin supply and marketing cooperatives have purchases, and a piece of skin is eight cents in autumn and winter. It's not the season now, it's only five cents a piece, and Wang Manyin can't see it at all.

Mountain farmer