Chapter 20 The Turtle Pond of the Villagers
In order to obtain the spirit essence, the animal needs to be raised until it reaches adulthood, or it has to go through the number of years from cub to adulthood.
For example, if this turtle wants to obtain the spirit marrow, it doesn't matter whether it is an egg-laying baby turtle or an adult turtle, it must be raised for about eight to ten years before it can obtain the spirit marrow from them.
Compared to chickens and pigs, turtles take too long to become adults.
However, Liu Cang's breeding ability is also convenient, and it is not necessary to kill the raised turtle to obtain the spiritual essence, which is somewhat similar to ingestion, and has no adverse effect on the turtle itself.
As long as it is a turtle that has been able to produce spiritual marrow, after a one-year cycle of breeding, it can collect spiritual essence from them again.
If you have the spiritual essence in your hand, it is also very convenient to improve the quality, just find a turtle and let it absorb and fuse.
Ten first-level spirit marrow can make a turtle upgrade to level two, but if you want it to produce second-level spirit marrow, it is best to use the turtle raised earlier to improve.
Because then you can often obtain the second-level spirit essence in the second year.
If you get a turtle that is not in the scope of breeding to the second level, if you want it to produce the second level of spiritual essence, you will have to raise it for another ten years.
This also led to Liu Cang's re-making of turtle soup, mostly to catch some wild turtles, the turtles stocked in the pond were not good by his baby, and the turtle pit originally dug in his own home also became a place for him to raise young turtles.
I have to say that although there are a lot of turtles, because of the problems of the growth period, there are only about 50 turtles that can stably produce spiritual essence for Liu Cang.
Liu Cang's confirmation of the effect of turtle meat was only a year ago, and now those turtles in his pond can produce less than ten second-level spirit marrow.
And as the 'brick' of Liu Cang's spirit animal, it is now also a second-level quality turtle.
Obviously, if Liu Cang wants to make a big fuss about his lifespan, I'm afraid he will have to hold it for a while.
In the past year or so, Liu Cang couldn't hold back, and got a few wild turtles to the second level of the pot, and his active age increased by three years, and there was no change in this aspect for the time being.
But the so-called concept of enhancing the ability to breathe was understood by Liu Cang. is now much stronger than ordinary people in his ability to hold his breath.
Similarly, it is these turtles that make Liu Cang have a lot of awe for the world.
His breeding ability is stable and controllable, but he is not the only one in the world who has high-quality animals.
It is also possible to give birth to this high-quality anomaly in nature, because of his care, he found a second-quality turtle in the river last year.
Since there are such wild aliens, the ghost knows what kind of strange characters will be raised in this world, which is the reason why Liu Cang is quite peaceful in front of the villagers.
This increase in the ability to breathe is not something that can be eaten, but also requires special exercise. His cheeks were flushed, and Liu Cang finally pulled a string of bamboo baskets to the surface.
After dragging the shore, start to organize the fish, shrimp and crabs in these bamboo baskets into a bamboo basket.
The finger-long river shrimp was specially singled out, and this thing was taken back to eat by himself.
Crabs are also singled out, and the villagers are not uncommon, but some people like to eat them raw as snacks.
And the boiled and steamed Liu Cang did not refuse, but he was not sensitive to the raw food of river fresh.
It took Liu Cang nearly half an hour to clean up the bamboo basket, and he crushed some half-sized fish and threw them into the bamboo basket, and Liu Cang sank them to the bottom of the river again.
With a heavy bamboo basket on his back, his clothes and hemp rope are still by the river, and he will come back to get pigweed in a while, Liu Cang wants to throw these fish and shrimp into his turtle pond first.
With a sturdy upper body bare-chested and a lower body wearing wet and close-fitting hemp pants, Liu Cang returned all the way back to the village.
At this time, there are already many people turning over the soil and weeding in the roadside fields, and the spring plowing has passed, but it is not busy.
Passing by the fields, there are occasional spicy women who come to him to tease and beg for fish and shrimp, but he is usually scolded by his own men.
Earlier, the villagers liked to take advantage of this, but after seeing Liu Cang for three or five days, they stopped asking for it.
If you want to hunt wild food, you need it. But people are serious about things, but they can't just talk about it.
Women who are scolded by men usually scold them back, and the status of women who can go to the ground is somewhat different from that of women who can't.
However, when men star, they usually stop talking back, and at the same time, they will no longer entangle Liu Cang.
And some women who don't have a man's scolding, Liu Cang will also divide some of the shrimp and crabs they prepare to eat.
This kind of woman is often spicy, but Liu Cang is not afraid, at least he is a boy who dares to touch the widow's door in the village at the age of twelve or thirteen, Liu Cang plays a hooligan, and this kind of woman also has to run away with face.
The main reason is that these women are usually not in a good family, either there is no strong labor in the family, or the men in the family do not work.
The adults in the village, especially the men with family affairs, avoided suspicion and did not dare to take care of them, but Liu Cang was unscrupulous in supporting them.
All the way back to the edge of the village, after the west trail, there is a pond.
The pond covers an area of about five or six acres, the water surface is paved with a layer and a half of lotus leaves, and the pond is surrounded by a thin soft bamboo fence.
Speaking of which, this pond village also had a lot of headaches, and even wanted to fill it in in the early years.
The water level of the pond is about one metre, but there is a live inlet and silt deposits under it. If a playful child gets stuck in the mud, it is easy to be dangerous.
The bamboo fence by the pool is not for thieves, but for warning.
At present, Liu Cang is not ready to pick lotus roots, he has put a lot of slate stones in the pond, the turtle villagers in the pond are not interested, and some people will throw the turtle back into the pond when they see the turtle lying down.
And if a child dares to come closer, he usually has to be beaten by a fat beating.
Broken legs, parents hit.
There are two shallow wells near the pond, where villagers usually pick vegetables and do laundry.
The water flowing into the pond has no effect, and now the laundry is either simply washed with water, or the pulp is washed with some starch to wash rice and so on.
Carrying a basket of fishy objects on his back, he walked to a well, and a bluestone stone formed a step by the well, and the lowest slope extended diagonally down to the pond.
"Da ram, can't you come later? Just two pieces of clothing, this airway is more pickled than unwashed. On the edge of the bluestone, Liu Cang put down the bamboo basket, and a woman no less than thirty years old shouted at Liu Cang.
Next to this woman, there were two younger daughters-in-law of the village, who saw Liu Cang shirtless, bowing her head and beating the clothes in her hands.
The women brought very few clothes, probably taking the time to wash, Liu Cang glanced at the yelling women, and tilted the big basket containing fish and shrimp onto the bluestone platform.
"What kind of airway, no matter how pickled the airway is, you can't smell it a lot." While picking up small fish and shrimp that were still alive and throwing them into the water, Liu Cang said to the yelling woman.
"Yo, you're not very old, you know a lot, which mother-in-law taught you?" The woman was stunned for a moment, then put down the clothes in her hand in a blink of an eye, pinched her waist and stood up, while the two women near her rubbed the clothes a little faster.
"Wash your clothes. Hurry up and go down to the ground to help, turn around and tire my eldest nephew, in case you flash your waist, no one will teach you if you want to. Picking fish and shrimp, Liu Cang piled the dead fish and shrimp on the bluestone on the shore.
Although the woman is older, Liu Cang's generation is older than her, and Liu Cang's eldest nephew is her man.
The woman casually scooped up a piece of rough wood from the well and was about to smash it, but she threw it to Liu Cang.
"No one teaches, teach you!" Accompanied by the throwing of rough wood, the woman has a strange cavity in her mouth.
"Tsk, I said that I have been raising this strength for a long time." Liu Cang raised his hand to catch the rough wood and shook his body deliberately.
"I'll go and touch a big eel and send it to you, you have nothing to do with my eldest nephew." In the strange tone, Liu Cang smashed the fish and shrimp on the bluestone with a rough log, and washed them into the pond with water, and the fishy smell immediately dispersed.
"Liu Datam, die. Dare to say anything, get out. Screamed.
Among the two women who were originally washing their heads, one of them couldn't bear it anymore, and he didn't forget to shave the middle-aged woman fiercely while scolding.
The daughter-in-law screamed and blushed, her apricot eyes were round, her arms trembled, and she didn't know whether she was angry or timid.
Liu Cang and the middle-aged woman glanced at each other, and the two of them invariably showed weird smiles on their faces, but they were no longer open-mouthed.
As Liu Cang washed the fish fragments with blood foam into the pond, the water surface in the pond was churning, and a large number of turtles floating on the surface of the water competed for food in a moment, causing a noise of water.
The screaming daughter-in-law was pulled twice by her companion next to her, and in the weak eyes of her companion, the woman shaved Liu Cang fiercely again.
The little daughter-in-law, raw melons and eggs, can't be provoked, and Liu Cang continued to smash the fish while pursing her lips.
"What are you doing with all these things? Fortune? And the middle-aged woman also communicated with Liu Cang normally at this time.