gourmet food

Chapter 92 The legendary Silky Chicken

Seeing Chu Yunfeng's dumbfounded look, Yang Ming felt extremely proud of what he had done.

"Don't you know? After eating mango, the meat of this chicken will become more tender and sweeter. I also discovered it accidentally."

Yang Ming was very proud of his discovery, and he smiled like a happy child.

"Luxury, so luxurious." Chu Yunfeng sighed, who would have thought that Yang Ming would raise chickens like this.

Chu Yunfeng clearly remembered that he once saw PZH mangoes at the Ito-Yokado Supermarket on Chunxi Road. The price was 30 yuan per pound.

It is said that it is not the most expensive breed. You can imagine how expensive it is to raise!

"Did you buy all the medicinal materials?" Chu Yunfeng wanted to settle the accounts for Yang Ming. This person's idea was quite good, but the cost of such an investment was too high.

"Yes, except for mangoes, vegetables and corn, I bought everything else." Yang Ming was also quite helpless. Just when Chu Yunfeng was about to say something, Yang Ming stopped him.

"I know what you want to say, but you need to listen to me tell you from the beginning." Yang Ming began to tell his story...

It turned out that Yang Ming and his wife both majored in breeding and decided to start their own business after graduation. Considering the cultural environment in their hometown, they thought it should be pretty good, so they came back together.

When they first came back, the two told their families about their ideas, but their families didn't understand and wanted them to go to a big city to develop.

However, the stubborn Yang Ming felt that starting a business and breeding was the way out, so regardless of his family's objections, he and his wife built a house on the mountain and began their pastoral life.

The opposition from her family made it difficult for both of them, especially Xiaoyu's family. After several attempts to persuade her, they failed to make her change her mind. In the end, they completely severed ties with her and stopped communicating with her.

For this matter, Yang Ming also knew that he owed his wife a lot. It was not easy for the two of them to be together. In addition to planting trees, the two planned to start raising chickens.

But breed selection is a big problem. If the chicken breed is not selected well, the quality of chicken and eggs will be much worse.

After many chicken breeds were introduced, either the mortality rate was too high because they were not adapted to the environment, or the quality of the chicken was too poor.

But where to find chicken breeds suitable for growing in this area?

Finally, I heard from a centenarian in the village that in the early years, when every household did not raise the current hybrid chickens, a pheasant was domesticated from the wild, and after crossing with domestic chickens, a new chicken breed was formed.

This type of chicken is called silky chicken by the locals. It is not the kind of silky chicken with white feathers.

The feathers of this kind of silky chicken are black and gray, not only the bones are black, but also the chicken skin is black. It is said that it has extremely high medicinal value.

But later, for some unknown reason, they all disappeared. Speaking of which, the old man still missed them a little.

Pheasant?Yang Ming remembered that when he was a child, he heard an old man say when he went to herd cattle in the mountains that there were some pheasants deep in the local Dahei Mountains.

In the early years, some people brought some back, and it is said that they were all used for medicinal purposes.

After hearing the news, Yang Ming's heart became hot. If he didn't do it, he wouldn't do it. If he wanted to do it, he would do it best.

So Yang Ming discussed it with his wife, and regardless of her objections, he brought dry food and water and headed to the Dahei Mountains alone to see if he could find the legendary pheasant.

After a day's journey, Yang Ming stumbled to the boundary of Dahei Mountain. After arriving, he became a little scared. It was still too dangerous to come here alone.

But after coming, there was nothing he could do. At night, when he heard the howling of wolves in the distance, Yang Ming lit the fire so brightly that he didn't dare to sleep all night.

The first time I wandered around in the mountains for two days, I ran out of dry food and had to go back home.

After returning, Yang Ming did not give up at all. After bringing some more dry food, he came to Daheishan again.

Perhaps it was Yang Ming's efforts that moved the heavens. In the early morning of the third day, Yang Ming heard the sound of a rooster crowing.

This discovery made him excited, and he slowly moved closer to see if it was the pheasant he was looking for.

Just when Yang Ming was about to get close, he accidentally slipped a stone and was discovered by Pheasant.

When Yang Ming ran over immediately, he only saw a long tail disappearing from sight, and then found two feathers on the ground.

This discovery made Yang Ming very happy, and he guessed that this must be the pheasant that the old man said, with its iconic long tail.

Although he did not see the whole picture, Yang Ming did not give up. After returning home and replenishing dry food, he came to Daheishan again, making sure to find out the movement patterns of pheasants.

Hard work paid off, and within a month, Yang Ming gradually figured out the pheasant's movement trajectory.

It was also discovered that there were three pheasants in this mountain, one rooster and two hens, and finally even their old nests were found.

After making the discovery, Yang Ming went back and started to prepare.
I bought a lot of materials and went home, made several large and very practical traps, and set them up in Daheishan.

Two days later, Yang Ming successfully caught the three chickens and brought them all home.

I should have been happy after returning home, but Yang Ming was in trouble again.

This pheasant was wild and difficult to train. If it was put together with an ordinary hen, it would be pecked to death in less than a few minutes. Yang Ming scolded it for not knowing anything about style.

The same goes for the two female pheasants. If they are placed together with ordinary roosters, the roosters will not dare to come close.

For a moment, Yang Ming was in trouble and he didn't know what to do. Did he have to give him some aphrodisiac?

He had the idea, but he was afraid of killing the precious pheasant. Later, Yang Ming consulted the professors at the school and found a way.

After finally selecting several excellent breeds of chickens and crossing them with pheasants, Yang Ming screened them again, and it took him a year to cultivate the current breed.

They were the silky chickens that the old man had mentioned, and the pheasants may have suffered from depression due to being locked up for too long. In the end, these three died one after another, interrupting Yang Ming's plan to continue cultivating new varieties.

Since the old man said that this silky chicken has medicinal value, if he feeds it some medicinal materials, will its bones and meat be more medicinal?
With this idea in mind, Yang Ming just went ahead and started a farming journey that he never looked back on.

Originally, the two of them had borrowed money from their classmates to plant this forest, but Yang Ming increased the cost of raising it, making their lives increasingly difficult.

But fortunately, with the income from mangoes, the two of them can still survive.

However, after investing in medicinal materials, raising costs increased, and they raised more and more chickens, their income began to fail to make ends meet.

To make matters worse, due to the high cost of feeding, the pricing of the products seems to be sky-high in the eyes of others, resulting in things that cannot be sold.

At this moment, Yang Ming fell into the hole he dug for himself, unable to get up even if he wanted to...

(End of this chapter)