Development of productivity started in 1981

Chapter 256: Changes in Hometown and Muntjac Breeding (Change Map)
The Chinese New Year of 1985 was at the end of February. A few days before the New Year, Wang Jiankun took time off from his busy construction work and returned to his hometown.

The clone who had previously replaced him in BJ was temporarily hiding in the Wuyuan County base.

At this time, the appearance of my hometown has changed a lot. On the way home from Wuyuan, I saw dozens of motorcycles.

Those riding the motorcycles were all young men, and their work clothes showed that they were workers at the county motorcycle factory.

The economic development zone in my hometown has completed 80% of the infrastructure construction.

The door construction of several buildings used for the production of optical lenses has been completed, and they are working overtime to carry out the interior and exterior decoration work.

Because it will be used to produce precision optical lenses in the future, the decoration work still requires very high skills.

The person in charge of the construction team was Chen Xingdong, who was specially transferred from Hong Kong by Wang Jiankun.

It is an experienced dust-free factory construction team.

Several wafer production plants have been built for the Star Group.

Although sending them there was a bit of a waste of their talents, Wang Jiankun did it anyway. The development of his hometown still ranked very high in Wang Jiankun's heart.

My father had been the leader of the economic development zone for more than half a year at this time, and he was becoming more and more capable.

I spend very little time at home every day. Most of my time is spent at construction sites in development zones or in the countryside.

By the way, at this time, the Wuyuan area had completed the grassroots organization reform, and the original communes had been changed into townships or towns.

The production teams below were changed into villages, and the village committee was generally placed in what was originally the largest team in a certain area. Some villages with hundreds of households or more would still have some small village teams corresponding to the original production groups.

My grandfather had retired at this time. After all, the Wangjia Production Team had been incorporated into the Zhejiangyuan Economic Development Zone, and the direct superior of Wangjia Village became the leader of the economic development zone.

If he doesn't retire, grandpa will have to report to father in the future, which will make everyone uncomfortable.

After retirement, my grandfather couldn't sit idle and started thinking about doing something.

Previously, he had learned from the army how to set up traps to catch muntjacs using ropes and wooden boards.

When I was the production team leader, I was very busy and private individuals were not allowed to go up the mountain to catch rabbits, so I rarely went up the mountain in those years. I only installed traps in the fields to catch rabbits and pheasants.

Now retired, he started going up the mountain every now and then to install traps in the fall of 84.

When Wang Jiankun returned, there were already more than 20 suede skins hanging in the old house. Those suede skins were nailed to the wooden boards one by one by his grandfather. Each one was half a person's height when stretched out.

According to my grandfather, those suede skins have already been reserved by people in the village who often go to Wenzhou, Zhejiang to sell goods. At that time, each third-grade skin can be sold for 3 yuan, and each second-grade skin can be sold for 20 yuan.

As for first-class skin, it would cost more than 50 yuan, but it would take a big male muntjac weighing 30 kilograms to peel off such a piece.

This kind of large male muntjac is rarely seen in the surrounding mountains now, and most of them weigh around 25 kilograms.

There are more than 10 dried muntjac hind legs hanging in the kitchen of the new house, waiting to be eaten slowly during the New Year and other festivals.

Wang Jiankun didn't want his grandfather to go hiking. After all, he would go out early and come back late. The terrain in the mountains was very complicated. It would be troublesome if he fell.

So after he returned home, he suggested to his grandfather that if they could catch a live, uninjured muntjac, they should keep it and raise it. Then they could slowly tame these wild muntjacs and build a farm on the back mountain to raise them.

Now the domestic economy is developing better and better, especially in Wuyuan and Raozhou areas.

Those who become wealthy first will become more and more particular about what they eat.

If we can successfully raise muntjacs, it will be another special industry for our family and village in the future.

At this time, wild deer meat is sold to some large restaurants in the county and Dexing. The price of fresh meat is no less than 5 yuan per catty, which is more than 4 times the price of pork.

After listening to Wang Jiankun's suggestion, my grandfather accepted it very quickly.

He knew this was the best method, as the number of wild fish in the mountains would decrease as they were caught more and more.

People in several surrounding villages have already followed my grandfather's method and set traps in the mountains.

As more and more people go up the mountain, the number of wild muntjacs will decrease rapidly.

Although he did not make a living by selling deer meat and leather, others did not.

So during the Chinese New Year period he began to shorten the time between his trips up the mountain and always prepared a bag every time he went up the mountain.

This will increase the probability of encountering a live muntjac.

In addition, wild muntjacs are very timid animals. After taking them out of the trap, it is best to put them in an opaque cloth bag and carry them home.

On the morning of the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Wang Jiankun followed his grandfather up the mountain.

In the mountain forest after the snow, everything was silent except for the sound of the grandfather and grandson's feet stepping on the dead branches and leaves.

After entering the forest, Wang Jiankun used his superpowers to project the ground within a range of 300 meters into his mind.

Maybe he was lucky, because after walking more than 100 meters up in the tea forest on the front mountain, he found a living female muntjac.

It was suspended in the air by the bouncing sticks and ropes.

Because the trap was stepped on by its hind legs, after being hung up, its front legs only slightly touched the ground, so the muntjac had little strength to struggle.

Wang Jiankun followed his grandfather and slowly approached. The muntjac, which had been hanging in the air for who knows how long, was tapping the soft soil with its front paws.

It was obviously very afraid of people approaching.

"Grandpa, a live female muntjac." said Wang Jiankun.

"Well, looking at its belly, it is very likely that it is pregnant." Grandpa said after observing for a while from 3 meters away.

Wang Jiankun didn't pay attention to the internal condition of the muntjac just now.

Now, with the reminder from my grandfather, the old hunter, he used his superpowers to take a closer look and found that there was indeed a baby muntjac in the belly of the female muntjac.

It seems that although grandpa hasn't caught muntjacs for many years, he still hasn't forgotten what he learned before.

"Then quickly untie it and take it home to raise. If it can give birth successfully, it will be easier to expand the population in the future."

"Well, you stand over there and help. I'll cover it with a cloth bag first and then untie it. Try to be gentle as not to hurt it." Grandpa began to instruct Wang Jiankun on how to safely remove the almost uninjured female muntjac with her cub from the trap.

Wang Jiankun then followed his grandfather's instructions step by step.

During the entire process, the two of them communicated in low voices, trying not to make loud noises.

In less than 5 minutes, Wang Jiankun and his grandfather safely put the muntjac into a cloth bag.

Then the grandfather and grandson quickly rushed home without checking other traps for the time being.

"Grandpa, big brother, did you catch a live muntjac?" Sister Xiangxiang was playing at the door of the house. When she saw the two men carrying cloth bags back home, she shouted.

"Keep your voice down, don't scare the muntjac to death. This kind of creature is very timid, and you can't keep it alive if you scare it." Wang Jiankun hurriedly asked his sister to speak more quietly, and not to ask or say anything if cooperation was not necessary, and to wait until the living muntjac was settled before talking.

My younger sister is very obedient. She knows that live muntjacs are very rare, and we may raise them on a large scale at home in the future.

So she just followed along, not saying a word, but her eyes were fixed on the cloth bag that moved from time to time.

Wang Jiankun and his grandfather did not enter the house, but went directly to a half-built temporary breeding farm in the back mountain.

Three wooden houses have been built inside using purchased wood, each of which is about 3 square meters.

A wooden house of this specification can house 2 to 4 large muntjacs. If the breeding goes well in the future, this temporary farm can build a total of about 30 wooden houses of this type and house about a hundred muntjacs.

After arriving at the temporary breeding farm, the two men put the cloth bags on the ground first.

I asked my sister to get the prepared drinking water trough, pour some salt into it, and then pour some warm water to dissolve the salt grains.

After the water was ready, the two carefully released the female muntjac.

As soon as it came out of the bag, the muntjac stood up immediately and jumped into the darkest corner of the wooden house.

After discovering that the road ahead was blocked, he turned around and jumped back.

Then I found it was brighter ahead, so I turned around and jumped in. I jumped back and forth like this 7 or 8 times before I finally hid in the innermost corner and didn't move.

At this time, the grandfather and his two grandchildren were more than 3 meters away from the wooden house, leaving enough space for the muntjac to feel safe.

"Let's go. Don't watch it here. It's very scared now. If we stay here, it will not eat or drink until it starves to death." Grandpa whispered to Wang Jiankun and his sister.

"Sister, come on, wait until the fish are fully grown, then come back and see them. Now try not to come here." Wang Jiankun pulled his sister, who was unwilling to leave and wanted to continue seeing the curio, towards the exit of the farm.

"Can I help feed the grass?" my sister asked after we walked out of the farm.

"We can do that only after it's well-trained. Now the muntjac will be easily frightened. I will be the only one feeding it during this period. You can help cut the grass before school starts." Grandpa said, touching my sister's head.

"Okay, then Grandpa, you must let me go see the muntjac when the time comes!" said my sister with a little regret.

"Okay, if this muntjac doesn't die in the next two days and can eat grass normally, it will give birth to a baby muntjac soon. You can watch it from a distance then." Grandpa said to my sister as they walked.

"Really? It will give birth to babies?" my sister asked happily while grabbing grandpa's hand.

"Really? But it depends on whether it eats the grass and water I put in the next two days. If it doesn't eat the grass, then there's nothing we can do. It won't survive."

"Is there any way to make it eat it?"

"Just now I asked you to put some salt in the water. This is a method. It is difficult for wild animals to eat salt in the wild. If it tastes the water and finds it salty, it will probably drink it. Tomorrow I will cut some grass that it likes to eat. If it eats the grass, it will definitely survive." Grandpa said.

Wang Jiankun actually has a way to ensure that the muntjac survives, but he doesn't want to use his superpowers for the time being, so he lets his grandfather try his method first.

After all, in the future, it will still be up to my grandfather to ensure the survival of the muntjacs he catches.

The next morning, my grandfather went to the foot of the mountain early in the morning to cut some grass that deer like to eat, and then went to the temporary breeding farm to see the captured deer.

In fact, Wang Jiankun used his supernatural powers to observe from a distance the previous afternoon that the muntjac had already drunk a lot of salt water.

The grass in the stomach has been almost digested, and the beating of the heart has calmed down. I must have accepted the environment I am in.

When my grandfather went to feed the grass in the morning, he also found that the water was much less. After excluding the amount that evaporated, he knew that the muntjacs had started drinking water.

So I came back and told my sister the good news, and asked her to start cutting grass the next morning or the day after tomorrow. Then after four or five days, she could go to the farm to take a closer look.

In the next few days, Wang Jiankun followed his grandfather up the mountain every day to check the traps that had been set up previously.

Unfortunately, my luck is not very good.

There were two days when we went up the mountain to check the traps but there were no muntjacs in them. But on three days, there was a muntjac in each trap.

But when they were discovered, two of the muntjacs had been dead for quite some time.

One of them was hung by its front legs, which were not in a good position, and its hind legs were very close to the ground. The muntjac struggled so hard that the bone of the leg that was in the noose was broken.

We caught it and took it to a temporary breeding farm, and tamed it using the same method as the previous muntjac. In addition, my grandfather fixed the broken bone of its front leg with branches.

But the muntjac must have been too frightened, as it kept jumping around in the wooden house of the temporary breeding farm.

The next morning, when my grandfather went to check, he found that the muntjac was dead.

After following his grandfather up the mountain for a few days, Wang Jiankun learned his grandfather's general methods of setting traps and the tricks of finding their locations.

Because muntjacs are timid animals, they usually follow a fixed route when walking in the mountains and rarely walk around aimlessly.

Therefore, you can find the path that the muntjacs walk on, and then place traps at the places where they are sure to land. In order to increase the probability of catching muntjacs moving on a certain route, usually 3 to 5 traps are placed on the muntjac trail.

It is very difficult to find the paths that muntjacs often travel in the mountains. My grandfather only found more than 10 muntjacs and set more than 50 traps throughout last autumn.

These traps are distributed on the hillsides of the front and back mountains. It takes at least 4 to 5 days to check all the traps.

Although my grandfather is in good health, he is old after all, so after watching the whole thing, he has to rest for two days before he can continue to climb the mountain.

In addition, you cannot go up the mountain when it rains or snows in winter because the mountain road is too slippery and it is easy to fall.

Therefore, the muntjacs caught before the Spring Festival are already dead or half-dead.

After the Spring Festival, when Wang Jiankun accompanied them to catch the fish, only two were found alive, and one of them had to be kept alive because it was seriously injured.

Wang Jiankun knew that if he continued like this, it would take him a long time to catch enough muntjacs to expand the population.

So he asked Tomoko to design a small alarm.

This alarm can be connected to the rope on the trap.

When a muntjac or other animal falls into the trap, the rope moves and the alarm is triggered.

It then transmits a radio signal to a special receiver.

Each alarm has a corresponding number.

As long as you remember where a numbered alarm is placed on a certain hillside during installation, you will be able to know at the first moment that prey has fallen into the trap.

This way, grandpa doesn't have to climb the mountain to check the traps every day.

Just look at the receiver at home to see which number of the alarm signal is coming back, and then quickly set off to your destination.

In this way, grandpa can arrive within 2 hours after the muntjac falls into the trap and catch the living muntjac home.

Wang Jiankun did what he thought and made more than 50 alarms and a receiver that day using some elements left at home.

He gave the equipment to his grandfather, and then went up the mountain with his grandfather to install the alarms on the traps on the mountain one by one.

Originally, after the Spring Festival, grandpa planned to collect the traps one by one.

After all, spring is the best time for muntjacs to reproduce. The female muntjacs must give birth to baby muntjacs smoothly so that there will be a steady supply of wild muntjacs to catch in the future.

But now the thinking has changed. We have to catch enough muntjacs as soon as possible for breeding and training.

The electronic alarm provided by Wang Jiankun looked very reliable, so my grandfather was not in a hurry to retrieve the trap he had set before.

In just three days after the alarm was installed, it sounded four times.

Wang Jiankun accompanied his grandfather up the mountain in the spring rain and successfully caught three live muntjacs. As for why there were three and not four, it was because one of them broke free from the rope and escaped before they arrived. It was probably because the rope was not tightened properly and was not held firmly.

Among the three live muntjacs, there was a large male muntjac, which weighed nearly 3 kilograms.

Under normal circumstances, if there were no alarm, a large male muntjac of this size would die in less than 20 hours after being caught in a trap because it struggled so hard.

Now with the alarm, we can capture it alive before it gets seriously injured.

"Jiankun, this thing is really useful. I have to build other wooden houses as soon as possible, otherwise there will be no place to put these newly caught muntjacs in a few days." Grandpa said with a smile after catching the big male muntjac.

"As long as it works, it's fine. But you have to keep it secret and don't let anyone else know. Even if they do, we can't let them use it. After all, we have to do this to expand the breeding population. Next year, the number of muntjacs in the mountains near us will drop sharply, and it will take several years to recover.

If other people use this method, no muntjacs will survive in our mountain, and they will have to catch them all.” Wang Jiankun said.

Because if an alarm is used, hunters can save the time of going up the mountain to check the traps every day, and they will have more time to set more traps.

Moreover, the scope of setting traps can be expanded many times, and people will set traps in mountains that were rarely visited before.

"Okay, grandpa will keep it a secret. We should be able to catch 2 to 3 live muntjacs this spring, which will be enough for reproduction. I won't go up the mountain in autumn, and I will put away this electronic alarm." Grandpa said.

The Spring Festival of 1985 passed quickly.

Wang Jiankun had a fulfilling life at home, and it also helped his grandfather find a good way to pass the time.

After the Lantern Festival, he said goodbye to his family and pretended to report to BJ.

Then he secretly let his clone go to BJ instead of him.

He himself flew to Myanmar to continue providing support for the construction there.

(End of this chapter)