Farming in space: the struggle of peasant girls

Chapter 104 Chapter 104
It is exciting to receive broth to drink now, and raising livestock so that there will be meat in the future makes people full of hope for the future.

Everyone is looking forward to the imaginary beautiful life, so now they will work harder to live and work.

Mu Yu came to Yang Erlang with the broth with a piece of rabbit meat in it, sat down and talked with him while drinking the soup.

"Now there is a cow, a chicken, and a dozen hares in Taoyuan Village, which can be regarded as a small scale.

The farm work will not be busy for the next month, so we can think about how to let them lay as many eggs as possible. "

Mu Yu raised his head and imagined the beautiful scene of chickens and rabbits in the village, and finally heaved a sigh and said,
"It's a pity that it's a bull. It's a pity that we don't have any cows, otherwise it would be good to raise a few more calves."

Now there is only one cow in the village, but it is so precious that the villagers are reluctant to let it pull the plow, for fear that it will not be able to pull the cart after bumping into it.

"There will be in the future."

Mu Yu glanced at Yang Erlang who said that, this sounds a bit like painting a big cake.

"We have four big rabbits, two males and two females, and the three and a half big rabbits will grow up in a month or two.

A female rabbit can give birth to a litter of rabbits a month, and there are five or six in a litter.

It takes only four months for the little rabbits to grow up and start giving birth to little rabbits.

We will have lots of bunnies soon. "

It would be much better to say that, but Mu Yu felt that something was wrong, the number of hares would explode soon.

Now there are two adult female rabbits, two more adult female rabbits will be added after two months, and three adult female rabbits will be added after four months, assuming that each female rabbit gives birth to five pups at a time.

Now there are fourteen hares, in one month there will be twenty-four, in two months there will be thirty-four, in three months there will be fifty-four, in four months there will be seventy-four, in five months there will be one hundred and nine Only……

That is to say, by next spring, there will be three hares in the village?

That's not possible, so as long as there are only two or three hares in an ancient village, can everyone have hares?
But that is certainly not the case.

She thought carefully.

First of all, wild rabbits may get sick and die. Although the probability is not too high, for small households who only raise two, three, three or five rabbits, it is difficult to cope with them.

Secondly, wild rabbits need to be fed and cared for. It is not enough to only eat grass, but also to feed some food, which is a burden for poor families, especially when the number of wild rabbits increases.

Then there may be some tax policy factors that make this kind of business impossible.

However, these factors have little impact on them. They have food and there are no rules and restrictions. Even if they have minor illnesses and disasters, they will not suffer heavy losses.

Even if there is no expected ideal in the coming spring, the situation will not be bad, and it should not be a problem to want to eat meat once in a while.

Just as she wanted to understand this point, she heard Yang Erlang say again,

"There is also good news, that wild pheasant is a female and can lay eggs to eat.

And if we have a chance, we can go outside again, maybe we can catch more pheasants, and letting them hatch eggs and give birth to chicks is also a way out. "

Mu Yu nodded, with such a calculation, the future of raising rabbits and pheasants is indeed promising.

It's just that it takes a lot of food to calculate carefully, which makes people feel distressed. In addition to that cow, it is simply a black hole of food.

But thinking about the hundreds of acres of millet that is about to mature around the village, it is not unacceptable.

In short, eating meat is important, and it is natural to bring some livestock when there is food.

Mu Yu strengthened his belief and handed over the task of raising livestock to Yang Erlang, hoping to harvest as many hares and pheasants as possible in the coming year.

Yang Erlang nodded and agreed, expressing that he would try his best to do this well.

Just like that, another half month passed, and at the beginning of November, when the millet in the first batch of foundation fields showed signs of maturity, the hares gave birth to the first litter of bunnies.

It turned out that one of the female rabbits was pregnant when she was caught, and now she has given birth to eight cubs at full term.

Early in the morning, Mu Yu was encouraged by Tao Hua to watch the little rabbit together.

After finally seeing her, Taohua was so excited that she left her and rushed to the little rabbit's nest without moving, and ignored everyone except the little rabbit.

Mu Yu was also happy about it, but he didn't get carried away by it, just read it.

She looked at Yang Erlang who was also neglected, walked over to talk to him for a while, and then left for the fields.

In addition to the happy event of the mother rabbit giving birth to cubs, there is also the great event of the imminent harvest of millet.

The millets in the field were already full of ears at this time, and they could be harvested in a few days.

Mu Yu walked onto the path in the field, and there were many people standing in the field, chatting or staring blankly.

"It's only been planted for two months, and it's ripening really fast!"

"This is handled by the ancient method. Dry land can grow, so it's nothing to mature for a while!"

"Look at the heavy ears of grain, this is a great harvest!"

……

Mu Yu stood in a corner of the field, beside him stood the old man Qi Shun with white hair and walking on crutches. He was Qi Shun's grandfather, a generous elder, and won the love and affection of many villagers.

The old man Qi has a grandson named Qi Shun, a boy Mu Yu is very optimistic about.

"When I was in the ruined temple earlier, old man, I didn't plan to live anymore, I just felt sorry for my grandson.

If I die too, he will have no relatives at such a young age, so I can't worry about him.

The world is in such chaos, how can he survive as a teenager? "

Mu Yu glanced at the old man beside him, but didn't make a sound, and asked the old man to continue talking.

"Later, Mu girl, you said that you would take us away from the famine, and you also took away all the people I found in the ruined temple that I planned to entrust.

Your statement is unreliable. I didn't want to respond to it. It's just that my grandson believes that he is too young after all.

In this way, I thought about it, there is no way out anyway, I might as well go out and fight with you, even if I lose, it won't be too bad. "

The old man Qi looked at Mu Yu, feeling very emotional,
"Just a few days after I left, I knew I had chosen the right person, and I thought I could entrust my grandson to you.

It is better to follow you than to stay in the ruined temple in Huangsha City.

When I ran out of food on the road, I thought, if I really want to run out of food, I will stop eating this old bone.

I didn't expect to be able to come here, nor did I expect that there would be food that could grow in drought years.

It's like a dream right now..."

Listening to Old Man Qi's words, Mu Yu was also very emotional. Not to mention that Old Man Qi had doubts along the way, she had also thought about various ways to deal with failures.

But fortunately, now that everything is over and things are on the right track, there is no need to worry about that anymore.

"Don't worry, the old man. We have survived such difficult days, and we will get better and better in the future."

Old Man Qi nodded,
"I know there will be better days ahead.

I just want to remind you that this ancient law must not be leaked out, it is not good for us, nor is it good for outsiders. "

(End of this chapter)