The heavens from Bailuyuan

Chapter 27 Mountain Eggs

He was very euphemistic.

It's not that I don't want to marry your sister, but that my poor family has no fertile land, and marrying me will definitely suffer. Why don't we talk about it after I find a Marquis and have a family business and fame.

The allusion of seeking Fenghou belongs to Ban Chao.

But at this moment, it is also okay to say that the champion is a marquis, and the champion is a marquis, which is the pride of a young man.

"Brother Bai is right, it's my fault..."

Zhou Yuan's flushed face softened, although he wanted Bai Gui to be his sister-in-law.But just now, I made a bit of a slip of the tongue. I said how much dowry to give, and I regretted it after I finished speaking.

He was afraid that Bai Gui would take it seriously, so he couldn't go back and confess.

Of course, if Bai Gui really became his sister-in-law, the dowry he would give would definitely be quite a lot, not to mention the big talk of ten miles of red makeup, but it would still be several times higher than the dowry that ordinary rich men would pay for their daughters.

Young people are rich and generous!
But I am also afraid of being unfilial and disobeying the elders in the family.

"It's a pity! It's a pity..." Bai Xiaowu who was on the side sighed, "It's a pity that Lingling baby of the Er family has just been born."

As soon as the joke came out, the cold scene just now dissipated.

Bai Ling is young now, less than one year old.Therefore, what you say is not afraid of ruining the reputation of the girl's family.If you are eleven or twelve years old, you need to pay attention.

"What are you talking about, the age difference is so big..."

Lu Zhaohai rolled his eyes.

The few people were blowing the warm breeze on the mountain, and they couldn't help feeling much more refreshed and comfortable.I don't know who suggested it, how about touching the bird's nest, hunting some pheasants, and having a picnic after returning home.

Even if the children in the countryside have read poetry and books, they are still villagers in their bones.

Some birds are protected animals in later generations, but in the countryside, they are things that harm crops.In leisure time, catching birds and sparrows is also a way to ensure a good harvest.

Relying on mountains to eat mountains, relying on water to draft water.

The villagers on the edge of the Qinling Mountains have poor land and heavy taxes, and some mountain people barely survive by hunting.

"Eh, but I have eaten braised pork made by pandas. Pandas are fat, and I don't know how to eat bamboo to make them so fat... On that day, Eh was still studying. My dad saw the pandas brought back by the hunters and bought a pair of them. A large piece of meat, made into braised pork, not to mention how delicious it is..."

Zhou Yuan swallowed, his chubby face looked at Qin Ling full of longing.

"Pandas are deep in the mountains, so they don't dare to enter indiscriminately."

A few people are hungry.

"Is it really that fragrant?"

Bai Gui's eyelids twitched. Pandas and bears are protected animals in future generations.Pandas are also giant pandas. Killing giant pandas is a violation of the law.But at the end of the Qing Dynasty, giant pandas were still a delicacy on the dining table.

There are also giant pandas in Qinling Mountains, which is a subspecies of giant pandas.Compared with the giant pandas in Shu Province, the giant pandas in Qinling Mountains have rounder faces, more like cats than bears, hence the name panda bear. ,

"What are you doing lying to you!"

Zhou Yuan lifted his chin high and said disdainfully.

"Then I'll ask Papa to buy some panda meat from the mountain people the next time he goes to Panlong Town to buy herbs." Bai Xiaowen wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth.

In the mountains close to Bailuyuan, there is also a town, about thirty miles away, called Panlong Town.

The Bai family has been in the medicinal materials business since Grandpa Bai Jiaxuan's generation, and there is a lithographic book of Qindi medicinal materials hidden in the house.Only with this book can I go to the mountains to buy medicinal materials and open a medicinal material shop in Panlong Town.

The biological mother of the Bai brothers, the Bai Wu family, is a mountain dweller. His father, shopkeeper Wu, was an apprentice in a pharmacy with Grandpa Bai Jiaxuan at first, and later gave the shop to shopkeeper Wu. The Bai family gets dividends every year...

After talking, several people entered the willow forest by the river.

This willow grove is not big, and it is impossible for any dangerous beasts such as wolves and tigers to exist in an area of ​​tens of acres.But there are many small wild animals such as hares, pheasants, and badgers running back and forth.

As soon as I entered the willow forest, I saw a gray mixed-haired rabbit running into the woods.

Everyone chased after him.

"Look, this is a pile of wild eggs. It seems that we have found the egg-laying ground of the group of pheasants." Bai Gui walked to a remote place in the willow forest, pointing to a piece of eggs among the weeds Said.

There are about thirty eggs, quite a lot.

"Let's bake these eggs and eat them..."

Bai Xiaowu, who was ready to move, suggested.As he said that, he was about to pick up the eggs and prepare to light a fire and roast them.

"These are pheasant eggs, which can hatch small pheasants. Who knows how many days they have been hatched, they may be hairy eggs..."

Bai Gui thought for a while and said.

"What? Hairy eggs?"

Several people quickly put down the eggs in their hands.

Thinking of the horror of hairy eggs, they have no desire to eat them.

"The widow in the country in "Mencius King Hui of Liang" said: "If you don't violate the farming season, you can't eat the grains; you can't eat the fish and turtles if you don't enter the pond; you can't eat the fish and turtles; In the mountains and forests, there are too many timbers to use.'”

"Now you and I eat these eggs that are about to hatch, how can we bear it?"

Without hesitation, Bai Gui recited the chapters of Mencius, one of the Four Books.

This kind of preaching is useless to ordinary rural children, but it can be dissuasive to students who are familiar with the scriptures.

Regardless of whether you are benevolent or not, you can turn a blind eye to the sage's teachings after hearing this sage's teachings. Once it is spread, it will have a great impact on your own reputation...

Confucian benevolence and etiquette not only restrain the low-level people, but also Confucian scholars themselves.

""Liang Huiwang Chapter [-]" also said: A gentleman stays away from the kitchen." Lu Zhaopeng also began to show off his achievements eloquently, and he recited softly: "He said: 'There is no injury, it is the art of benevolence. I haven’t seen a sheep. A gentleman is like a beast. He sees its life, but he can’t bear to see it die. Hearing its sound, he can’t bear to eat its meat. That’s why a gentleman stays away from the kitchen.’”

The horror rendered by hairy eggs is also supported by the theory of scriptures.

Several people put the eggs back in place one after another.

"No! Haven't you heard the story that once you meet a rabbit's nest and catch a rabbit, you can't put it back? Rabbits can smell human beings, and this pheasant is the same. If we find that these eggs have been touched by us, they will definitely peck them Broke the shell and pecked the little pheasant to death."

Bai Gui stopped them again. He deliberately entered the forest just now and put it here when no one was looking. These eggs are all white-feathered chicken eggs, which can hatch white-feathered chickens.

Extremely precious in this day and age!
Regardless of the fact that white-feathered chickens are not as nutritious as old hens in later generations, white-feathered chickens are a good breed that has been mated. They are bred quickly, have a high meat yield, and are easy to survive.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, white-feathered chickens were no less expensive than domestic chickens. After small-scale breeding, they were like luxury goods and could be sold at high prices.

The reason why I didn't raise it before was because I couldn't keep it!
In the Lu family, once discovered, it becomes the Lu family's own.Even if the Lu family sticks to benevolence and righteousness and does not rob, there will be another family.But now it is different, he has a certain position, although this position is not very firm, a bit vain...

But in another two months, he is confident that he will get in the county examination, not to mention the friendship with his classmates, no one will take it by force, and the petty profit of small-scale breeding, the white deer two The family will not turn their faces.

When it comes to large-scale breeding, he is confident that he will keep this property.

(End of this chapter)