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Chapter 140 Raising Scorpions in Space

For Wang Manyin, Rhubarb's performance was also a surprise.It means that for a long time to come, the family will have an aboveboard source of income.

In fact, he doesn't care, the key is to make Lanhua stop worrying about money.

Of course, this kind of thing also has to be behind someone's back.

After thinking for a while, he urged: "When we come out in the afternoon, we will bring an earthen pot, and put some grass blades or something in it to cover it. This way, if other people encounter it, they won't be able to see how many scorpions they have caught."

Lan Hua naturally agrees with her husband's decision.

At this time, Rhubarb in front of him suddenly arched his body and pressed his limbs down.

Wang Manyin immediately made a gesture of silence, preventing the mother-in-law and aunt from going forward.

The next moment, there were a few hurried calls from the grass nearby, and a gray figure suddenly flapped its wings and flew out, fleeing towards the distance.

quail? !
Wang Manyin immediately saw the appearance of the prey clearly, his face was a little disappointed, he thought it was a rabbit at first.

Quail is also one of the common birds on the Loess Plateau. It flies to the south for the winter in late autumn and returns when the flowers bloom in spring.

They like to hatch their eggs in wheat fields or bushes. The nest is very simple. Just dig a shallow hole in the ground and spread some grass, branches and leaves.

Therefore, it is often devoured and hunted by animals such as snakes and weasels.

When people cut wheat, they can also meet quail.If you are lucky, you can also pick up a nest of unhatched quail eggs.Most of the time, two or three nests can be found in one field.

In addition, due to their size, these guys have poor flying ability, and are better at using complex environments to get rid of predators.

Under Wang Manyin's gaze, the quail flew 30 meters away, then suddenly fell into the grass and disappeared.

If it were an ordinary dog, it is estimated that he would have given up by now.But when he encountered rhubarb, he could only be considered unlucky.

Seeing the prey fall, the earth dog continued to rush forward.Within two seconds, the opponent was startled again.

After flying twice in a row, the speed of the quail slowed down significantly.

After the second fall, he could only keep running among the grass.

On the ground, it is no match for rhubarb.

After a few pounces, the native dog easily captured the prey and brought it back.

Then, Rhubarb let out a low growl to the grass again.Wang Manyin and Lanhua hurried forward, and unexpectedly found a quail nest in the hidden place of the grass roots, with a few earthy brown quail eggs lying in it.

Seeing that the quail was not completely dead, Wang Manyin twisted its neck.

To him, it's just a lump of meat.

However, when my predecessor was running around across the Yellow River to do business a few years ago, he had seen quail fighting set up a bet.

Just as people in the Loess Plateau like to buckle Mingbao, the locals also play tricks on quail fighting.Many idlers would rather starve themselves than raise a quail for a fight.

The price of a good quail is even higher than that of native chicken.

After packing up the quail eggs, they continued to follow rhubarb in search of scorpion nests.

In one morning, almost [-] scorpions, two quails, and more than ten quail eggs were caught, which can be regarded as a full harvest.

Lan Hua enjoyed the feeling of picking up money very much. She looked at noon, but she didn't feel the heat at all.

It was only under Wang Manyin's constant urging that he returned reluctantly.

When they got home, there were already more than a dozen broken babies waiting by the side of the field holding crock pots and small baskets.

"Uncle Man Yin, you caught this in the morning, isn't it too much?" After seeing the can in Wang Manyin's hand, Mao Dan immediately exclaimed.

"No, I also caught a lot of scorpions yesterday, and kept them in cans, but forgot to pour them out..." Wang Manyin responded calmly, easily fooling these broken children who were still peeing on the kang.

Well, most of the children nowadays are malnourished, and it is normal for them to pee on the bed in their teens.

There was a funny story in the commune next door. Someone married and wet the bed... Now that he is a father, the mother-in-law and aunt call the father and son to wake up every night.

Lan Hua went into the house to cook, and Wang Manyin began to weigh the things brought by the broken babies.

Peach kernels, almonds, scorpions, and various herbs, there are not many here and there.The highest selling price was more than three yuan, and one piece was sold for less.

This is obviously not earned by the children, it should be the result of the busy adults in the family.

Fearing that they would not be able to tell clearly when they went home, Wang Manyin would make a list with a note every time he did the calculations, and handed them along with the money.

After sending a dozen or so people away, Wang Manyin relaxed.

While his aunt was still cooking, he quickly selected more than a dozen relatively large scorpions from the big tank, dodged into the space, and raised them in the scorpion pool.

The scorpion pool was made earlier, about a hundred square meters in size.In order to simulate the natural environment as much as possible, Wang Manyin deliberately built several stone walls with a height of half a person inside for these guys to hide in.

There are more than 30 sweet potato seedlings planted on the remaining open space, and they are now growing very lushly.Many locusts can be seen among them, just enough to provide enough food for the scorpions.

In addition, in order to prevent the scorpions from escaping, he also dug a deep ditch around the periphery.

After pouring more than a dozen seed scorpions into it, Wang Manyin hurriedly returned to the outside world.

According to the plan, he will continue to put it in.

Theoretically, raising hundreds of scorpions in such a large area is definitely not a problem.

Scorpions have one litter a year, and each litter gives birth to about 50 young.Calculated to have at least two to three thousand young scorpions a year, a stable income of four to fifty yuan.

So for Wang Manyin, making money is really not a problem.

The key point is that he has money but no place to spend it, buying a bicycle or something, he has given up after thinking about it several times.Before Wang Mandun and others were not equipped with bicycles, he was determined not to take the risk.

After all, when the cadres of the commune go to the countryside, they just ride a bicycle.

Instead, after Lan Hua went to study in a tailor shop, she could find a chance to get a sewing machine.Of course, this is also a preliminary plan, and it depends on the situation.

He was planning, and Lan Hua had already called for dinner.

More than a dozen quail eggs are all boiled, and they are white and raw in the noodle bowl, which is very attractive.As for the two quails, they were roasted by Orchid under the stove, one was thrown to Rhubarb, the hero, and the other was divided into two halves to be fed to the cat.

When the two of them were about to finish eating, they saw Shaoan riding a bicycle on the dirt road.

Wang Manyin hurriedly greeted him with a big bowl: "Shao'an, why are you here at this time? Come in and sit down, let your sister spread some egg pancakes."

Lan Hua also put down the bowls and chopsticks, ready to go back to the house and live a busy life.

Shao'an hurriedly stopped him and said, "Sister, brother-in-law, don't be too busy. I came here after having dinner at the supply and marketing cooperative. I specially sent you photos, and Run Ye sent them back in a letter yesterday."

As he spoke, he took out an envelope from his yellow satchel.

"The photos we took in the county came out, show me how they look?" Lan Hua was full of excitement, and hurriedly reached out to take it.

This is the first time she has been photographed at such a big age.

After Wang Manyin poured a glass of water for his brother-in-law, he asked again: "Have you really eaten?"

"I've eaten it," Sun Shaoan nodded.He was afraid of trouble, so he specially sent the photos after dinner.

Although Lan Hua felt a little distressed about the money, when she saw the photo at the moment, her heart was filled with sweetness.There are two people in the photo, the male is tall and mighty, the female has a bright smile, they look like a perfect match.

"I'll go home again in the afternoon, and let our mother and the others take a look..." In Lan Hua's view, taking pictures is definitely a big deal, and she must share it with her family as soon as possible.

Wang Manyin leaned over to take a look, and couldn't help but praise her mother-in-law again.

Orchids are inherently beautiful, and black and white photos magnify this beauty.Suddenly, it looks like a female star in the 80s pictorial.

After seeing the photos, he became concerned about his brother-in-law again: "Shao'an, the promotion of bacterial fertilizer in various villages has been going well recently, right?"

Ever since he made his name in the second team of Guanzi Village, Sun Shaoan has completely become a busy man.Recently, he has been running back and forth between villages.

"After seeing the experimental fields in Guanzi Village, the villages are quite supportive. According to the mission of the commune, our two technicians will try to run all the dozen villages before the wheat is harvested."

When it comes to what he is doing now, Shaoan's words are a little more vigorous.

After running outside for a few months, his temperament is constantly changing.

"By the way, brother-in-law, I heard from Director Guo that except for our Shigejie Commune, the promotion of bacterial fertilizers in other places is not going well. The County Supply and Marketing Cooperative plans to call other technicians for a meeting in the near future, and let me give a promotion experience report."

"This is a good thing, it shows that you have left an impression in the county supply and marketing cooperative." Wang Manyin was very proud of his brother-in-law.Going down this road, it is estimated that it will turn positive soon.

Shaoan had other things to do, so after staying for half an hour, he hurried away by bicycle.

After Lan Hua washed the dishes, she was eager to take the photos back to her natal home.

It was Wang Manyin who felt that the sun was too poisonous, so he tried to persuade her to come down.

After three o'clock in the afternoon, the two locked the door and left.

This time, Wang Manyin took rhubarb and chose another cliff ditch to catch scorpions.

The harvest was still very gratifying, and when it got dark and returned, there were about two hundred more scorpions.

It's about the same as Lanhua's calculation. In one day, I can earn five yuan properly.

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Corn sorghum nests, cold shallots as a dish, plus a bowl of corn porridge... This is Wang Manyin's breakfast, simple, but he eats it deliciously standing on the sidelines.

When the two cats saw the owner holding the rice bowl, they rushed forward to beg for food.

Wang Manyin failed to drive them away several times, and simply twisted two pieces of nests and threw them over, only to get rid of the two little guys.They are also considered blessed, at least they have never been hungry in their own home.

The Huazhu next to him saw his master, and he also hummed and chirped.

But in a month or so, this guy has grown by a third, at least twenty catties of flesh.

This growth rate made many mothers-in-law and aunts in the village envious, and they kept asking them for their experience in raising pigs, and planned to try to raise earthworms with soil dung next.

Regarding this situation, Wang Manyin was delighted to hear about it, and he answered every question, and even specifically explained that the earthworms should be cooked before feeding.After all, there are many parasites in this thing, and fat pigs may cause problems if eaten raw.

However, he has some worries in his heart. The earthworms raised by himself have room to cheat the spring water. No matter their growth rate or nutritional value, they should be higher than ordinary earthworms outside.

So it remains to be seen how well other people feed pigs.

Of course, if this model can really succeed, I will definitely leave a strong mark on the pig breeding business in Guanzi Village.

(End of this chapter)