Reborn in the fiery age, I am a salted fish in the mountains

Chapter 155 Reclaiming Wasteland and Farming

In the past few days, Aju and Zhou Min are responsible for taking care of chickens and ducklings, and cultivating corn and rape seedlings.

Vegetable seedlings include lettuce, beans, eggplant, pumpkin, garlic sprouts, potherb mustard and so on.

In addition, I also planted some side dishes such as shallots, coriander, and garlic.

Liu Hongdong and Zhou Jian helped continue to reclaim the wasteland. According to the plan of the Eighth Bureau, at least two acres of arable land could be reclaimed in the backyard.

A little bit further up, there is a slightly lower-lying area. Aju plans to reclaim it into a paddy field, plant rapeseed in winter, and plant a season of late rice in spring.

In this way, two crops can be harvested from one piece of land.

Everyone was busy, while Han Xiaokang went to the forest alone to cut wood.

The backyard area is huge and it would be a lot of work to fence it all off.

But I have to do it, otherwise, one is that many small animals will come to harm the crops, and it will be hard to guard against.

The more important point is that in the future, I may often go out to the mountains to do business. If I am not at home, Aju will always be a little uneasy to go to work in the fields in the backyard.

Although building a fence, it is inevitable that there will be omissions, and there may be holes dug out by some kind of wild beast.

But after all, with such a circle of fences, not to mention anything else, at least psychologically it will make people feel safer.

If you wait until the slack season in winter, take some time to transplant some black locusts, plant some roses, or thorny climbing plants such as roses.

In a few months, when these plants have grown up, the fence of the front yard and the backyard can be called impregnable, and it will take a long time for any beast to get into the yard.
Thus,
Those ferocious beasts who want to come to sneak attack will have a longer delay, and the chances of being discovered by the big tiger and the two tigers will be greatly increased.

So even if the amount of work to build the fence is larger, Han Xiaokang has to work desperately in order to complete this matter as soon as possible.

Only when the fence is completely repaired can I do other things with peace of mind.

For logging this time, Han Xiaokang chose mostly metasequoia, wild jujube, and Fujian cypress.

This tree has a high hardness and is stronger and more durable for fence posts.

It would not be easy to cut these trees with a machete, but fortunately, I have a chainsaw and enough gasoline.

Select the target and start the chainsaw.

After a few blows, a Fujian cypress fell down.

Then remove the branches, saw the cypress tree into a length of about 2.5 meters, and then divide it into two parts and then divide it into four parts.

Cutting down such a Fujian cypress can directly produce 12 wooden pillars.

Then put the wood on the small cart, and Han Xiaokang pushed these things back to the backyard of the hut under the scorching sun.

This morning, Han Xiaokang pushed 4 carts and returned with a total of 48 wooden pillars. After all, the land area of ​​the backyard is really too large, and it is estimated that at least 200 wooden pillars are needed.

Wooden posts are needed more, and more materials are used to build the fence.

Calculated in this way, the wire reward I got from the system last time seems to be not enough.

If there is really no other way, you can only fill it with small cypress and wild jujube with thick wrists.

The hardness and toughness of the two kinds of trees are high enough. Use them to build fences, supplemented by iron nails and iron wires. Unless you encounter big guys like bison who love to use brute force, otherwise, there is no need to worry about the strength of the fence. of.

This time, Han Xiaokang went out more openly.

The Luoyang shovels, hammers and nails, and wire vises used to dig out pile foundations for wooden pillars are all taken out and placed there openly, and they are open to work!
Although Zhou Min was puzzled by this, he didn't say anything.

It was because Han Xiaokang told Zhou Min during the online chat that he went out to sell things this time and met a person in charge of the supply and marketing department of a steel factory.

As for how deep is the friendship between them?
Han Xiaokang raised his nose and said he knew such a person, but he didn't talk about anything else at all.

For the rest, I can only rely on Zhou Min to figure it out on his own: Is the section chief a little unprincipled, and he randomly approved some steel indicators?
Or, did Han Xiaokang use some shady means to corrupt the other party?
Anyway, Han Xiaokang didn't elaborate.

This strategy is equivalent to some information reports for later generations: I said that the situation is just like this.

Its purpose: just to explain it to you. That's all.

Are you convinced?

Remember, we didn't ask you to believe it or not at all. The subtext is actually: Believe it or not, believe it or not, what else can you do?
So Zhou Min, who understood the mystery of it, naturally wouldn't make trouble for herself. Anyway, she just buried herself in her work and just ignored it.

The older sister dared not speak, and Zhou Jian, the younger brother, was even more afraid to ask questions.

And Liu Hongdong doesn't care about these things at all, he only has two things in his mind: raise pigs well, and raise pigs well.

As for other things, Liu Hongdong didn't care at all.

A group of people worked together to reclaim 7 or 8 points of land in one morning.

While everyone was busy with their work, the little macaque Zhizhi suddenly ran over and danced at Han Xiaokang, "Zhizhi—baa!"

"Have you found traces of blue sheep again?"

When Han Xiaokang saw Zhizhi put his two front paws on his own head, he immediately understood that it was a little macaque, and he found the traces of the blue sheep.

In fact, in the mountains, for animals like the little macaque, it is not so difficult to find blue sheep.

The places where these blue sheep like to move for a long time must meet several characteristics: there must be enough shrubs at the foot of the mountain, and the leaves of these shrubs are the source of food for blue sheep.

Have a water source nearby.

To be next to a steep cliff.

Blue sheep like to stay and multiply on cliffs after foraging.

Standing high and seeing far, only resting on the cliff can make blue sheep feel safe.

More importantly, the cliffs where blue sheep live are not randomly selected, but cliffs with high salt content.

If you have to choose between food and salt, blue sheep actually prefer to go to places with high salt content.

After all, if you want to find food, you can just drill into any ravine.

But in such a large area as Huangjinggou, there are only a few cliffs that can easily get salt.

The tricky little macaque that has already started to learn, as long as it finds that there are whitish salt crystals on the cliff.

Do a good job of searching around, and you will definitely find traces of blue sheep.
"Xiaokang, let's hunt sheep!"

Zhou Min was very excited, "When we find the blue sheep, we will block them one after the other on the cliff, and make sure none of them can escape!"

"how can that be possible?"

Han Xiaokang was a little surprised, "The blue sheep's climbing ability and jumping ability are among the best. How could it be blocked?"

Zhou Min giggled, "Yes! Since blue sheep like to move there, it means that the salt content in that cliff is very high, and these blue sheep will not give up that cliff easily.

We just need to collect more dead branches and leaves, and slowly block the two ends of the cliff a little in two days.

Then use gunpowder as a fuse to connect these dead branches."

At this point, Han Xiaokang suddenly realized: Zhou Min is planning to attack with fire.

Hunting usually has hunting methods such as patrolling, lying down, and siege hunting. What Zhou Min proposed now belongs to the category of "siege hunting".

And hunting is divided into "fire attack" and "drive away".

Generally speaking, if fire attack is used, it is mostly used during large-scale hunting in winter. It is a method of setting fire to the mountain and driving the prey in the direction of the ambush circle set by the hunters.

This hunting method requires a lot of manpower, and it also has geographical and terrain restrictions.

Because there are too many uncontrollable factors to set fire to the mountain, if the control is not good, it will easily lead to a big mistake.

It's only the end of summer and early autumn, and the forests are still lush and green, and the water content in the trees is high. Zhou Min plans to take the opposite approach and use human intervention in advance to hunt and kill blue sheep on a large scale.

See Han Xiaokang pondering.

Zhou Min gently pushed Han Xiaokang, "Why, are you worried that if I do this, countless mountains will be set on fire?"

Han Xiaokang shook his head, "There is so much rain now, how can you light it?"

"Then what are you worried about?"

Zhou Min patted his chest and said with a smile, "Don't worry, I understand the rules of hunting, don't hunt and kill lactating animals, don't worry, I won't shoot at those smaller wild sheep.

At that time, I will leave a few rams and ewes for this group of blue sheep so that they can continue to reproduce. "

"is it okay!"

Zhou Min began to act coquettishly, "This vast mountain has a radius of hundreds of miles, and there are more than two groups of blue sheep. After cleaning up this group, let's go find another place."

"It's not this question, but how to deal with these blue sheep that have been beaten back?"

Han Xiaokang replied, "If you got 7 or 8 big blue sheep at one time, it would weigh a full 1000 catties. What should you do with so many prey?"

Zhou Min smiled, "Get it in Yandu City, you can set up a stall and sell some of it, and I'll go to a mutton soup restaurant to buy some!

You know, those restaurants in the city, their digestion ability is not comparable to that of a small street in the revitalization district. "

Throughout the dynasties, the real rich lived in big cities.

There is no doubt that the consumption power of the residents in the city of Yan is many times greater than that of the residents in the revitalizing street.

But there is a question: how can I transport so many blue sheep to their destination in a timely and aboveboard manner?

It is understandable that Zhou Min is eager to make money.

If there is no money in a person's pocket, he will not even be able to straighten his back when walking.

Lack of confidence!
What's more, in Zhou Min's hometown, there is a nagging and delirious old lady who has been beaten. She needs Zhou Min's two siblings to bring her back some living expenses.

(End of this chapter)