The splendid pastoral of the fierce scholar

Chapter 184

"girl."

The old lady came out, and Chen Hua and Chen's second son who had been by the side also came over.

"I discussed it with the people in the clan. Originally, our pig was only used for New Year sacrifices. Since you want it, we don't want money, but just one thing."

Chen Yiyi: "What?"

"Salt, you give us a hundred catties of salt and I will give you a pig."

"this thing!"

Having said that, Chen Yiyi thought about it, this place is so hidden, and the people here usually don't understand the language, so shopping is very troublesome, and few people come here to sell things.

The rest of the things can be made by oneself, including clothes, which can be made by growing hemp grass by oneself.

But salt can't.

If you don't eat salt for three days, you will have no energy at all. Salt is a must.

And here it doesn't look like you can find salt ponds or salt in the soil, so people here can only go outside to buy if they want to live.

But there are very few people like this old woman who can speak the language of the people here, and most of them can only speak their own language.

The price of a hundred catties of salt for a pig is not very expensive.

However, the government has always strictly controlled salt. Salt, iron, and gunpowder are all businesses that ordinary people cannot do. If I buy a hundred catties of salt for my family, they will not sell it.

This is the land of Shu, and there are not as strict regulations as in the Central Plains, but the maximum amount of salt a family can buy at one time cannot exceed one hundred catties.

Except for some necessary needs, for example, the factory and shop that Chen Yiyi opened in the county town needed more salt, but they had to report how much they bought, and the distance was too far, so Chen Yiyi couldn't choose the salt there. I can only get salt in this small town.

One pig is definitely not enough, at least two pigs are needed, one male and one female.

At this time, Chen Laoer looked at Chen Yiyi, he must also know this.

"Yiyi, I'll buy a hundred catties in our family's name, and you can buy two pigs in your family's name if you buy another hundred catties."

"That's fine. I'll just give you the money to buy the salt, Second Uncle."

Chen Yiyi looked at the old woman: "Then can I buy two pigs? I'll give you two hundred catties of salt."

The old woman smiled: "Of course it is possible, but...you can only buy boars."

"boar!"

why!

Chen Yiyi: "Why can't you sell us sows?"

The old woman: "Because our sow is going to give birth to piglets, it has been raised for a long time, so of course we can't buy it lightly."

Not easy to buy.

Chen Yiyi: "Then, if we add more salt, can we buy it?"

clever.

The old woman didn't answer, but just nodded lightly.

"Then, I don't know, how much salt do you want to buy a sow?"

The old woman didn't say a word, she just stretched out her hand and spread five fingers.

"Five hundred catties!"

Both Chen Laoer and Chen Yiyi were surprised.

"Why are sows so much more expensive than boars?"

"That's natural." The old woman said, "Can boars give birth?"

Chen Yiyi nodded, that was the case, but she was in a hurry now and didn't bother to bargain.

"Then it's settled. I'll give you six hundred catties of salt, and you'll give me a pair of pigs when the time comes."

The old lady nodded: "It's only natural that we won't break our promise. However, there is one more thing, that is, only people like you can send salt today. If there are too many people, I won't sell it."

Chen Yiyi patted her chest: "I can guarantee this, no one else knows about this place, and no one else will come."

This is natural, I don't want to let others know about the pig I want to get rich, and expect to make a fortune first by relying on this novelty.

It's all said and done. Here, Fore and Kaye looked at Chen Yiyi, and they were clearly asking, that is, they should be taken to see that temple.

All right, all right, Chen Yiyi won't break her promise if she agrees to these two people, and it just so happens that she has to go out to buy salt first.

Hurrying back home, Chen Lao Er went to buy one hundred catties of salt, Chen Yiyi went to buy five hundred catties of salt, packed it up first, and sent the salt on the way tomorrow in the store owner’s carriage, otherwise six hundred catties of salt Well, if someone recites it, wouldn't it be dead?

At dawn on the second day, when Chen Yiyi arrived in the town, she met two people who stopped her.

Fore, "Little girl, didn't you say that you took us to the temple only if we showed you the way? And you just want to see such an expert."

Chen Yiyi: "..."

Why did I forget about this, and I don’t know if Feiwei is still there, anyway, it doesn’t matter, if you don’t see it, you won’t see it, and I didn’t say that if I go to someone’s house, I will definitely come out.

"Okay, you two follow me."

Taking the two of them to the temple, the appearance of the temple is no different from what they usually see inside.

Thinking that there must be more connotations inside, the two of them went in, but looking at these Buddha statues, they didn't see anything special.

"Little girl, you are not lying to us, are you? Is there anything different about this temple?"

Chen Yiyi: "Of course not. You have to look carefully at this, otherwise you won't be able to find it. What I said is that the masters here are very different. People are different. It doesn't matter what they look like."

"Oh."

The two of them seem to understand, but they are waiting for Chen Yiyi to find some kind of master, so that they can visit.

A young monk came over, and Chen Yiyi looked at Yan Sheng.

The little monk came over and bowed to Chen Yiyi and the others: "Are the benefactors here to ask for a lottery or a peace talisman to fulfill their wish?"

Chen Yiyi: "We are here to seek enlightenment from the master, no, these two are seeking enlightenment from the master, they want to see others as masters."

"It's not the master." The little monk looked at the two people who looked very different, and shook his head: "The master is in retreat now, and he doesn't meet people casually."

Ka also hurriedly said: "Then can you inform us?"

Foer looked at Chen Yiyi, wondering: "Didn't you say that you are the person that Master Feiwei wants to meet? When you say your name, will Master Feiwei come out?"

Chen Yiyi just smiled and said nothing.

The little monk shook his head again: "I don't know anything about it. We are not a master in this temple. The retreat is for a person to find a mountain for retreat. We can't disturb it, and no one knows the exact location. You can't report it either."

"That's it, then we..."

Both Fore and Kaye were disappointed for a while, and then looked at Chen Yiyi complaining.

"Little girl, what did you say at the beginning?"

"Well! I mean I'm the person Master Feiwei really wants to see, but I don't know if he went to retreat, so there's nothing I can do. If you want to blame it, you two are not very lucky. Now you can plan your next cloud tour again, come on!"

Showing a comforting smile at the two, now Chen Yiyi is about to leave the temple to busy herself with the salt-for-pig business.

There were only two people left who were deflated and speechless.

Haha, let the two of you not tell yourself that the old lady knows the language here, so that you can beg you, and now it’s all right, just as I didn’t tell you that there is such a thing as retreat, it’s even.

Later, I heard that these two people found other masters in the temple, and they also learned a lot of things, and they also talked about Buddhism and Taoism. They stayed for a long time before leaving, and got an amulet in vain.

But Chen Yiyi didn't care about these things. At that time, Chen Yiyi had already driven the carriage with Chen Laoer and Chen Hua to that place to exchange white pigs.

Chen Hua and Chen Lao Er began to know that without the guidance of these two foreigners, they were still worried about whether they could find the place if they couldn't remember the way. As a result, according to Chen Yiyi's command, they didn't miss any directions, and those who didn't go through detours had already arrived destination.

Chen Laoer was very surprised by Chen Yiyi's ability to remember the way, and repeatedly said that he could not remember the way at all. Compared with Chen Yiyi, he was a fool who knew the way. In front of him, he admitted that Zi is a road idiot, but who told him to cheat with the spirit stone.

Thinking that it was already agreed at the beginning, Chen Yiyi got a pair of white pigs without any difficulty later.

At that time, when I came here, it was almost a carriage, but now when I go back, Chen Yiyi is worried, how can I transport this tall white-skinned pig back!

There is such a little space above the carriage, if that person drives the pigs, how long will it take.

This Chen Hualai showed his hands, a small bamboo pole, and the two white-skinned pigs who had been running around without knowing the direction under Chen Yiyi's roar suddenly became very obedient, walking all the way without turning.

I really don't know, it's hidden.

When they got home, Chen Yiyi asked the Chen family's daughter-in-law, only to find out that someone from the Chen family's daughter-in-law's natal family was a pig butcher, who often took Chen Hua with her when driving pigs. I learned how to drive pigs, and then my family escaped when there was a drought. Today, after Chen Yiyi raised her spirits, the Chen family's daughter-in-law remembered it again.

This is no wonder, it turned out to be practiced since childhood.

However, putting these aside, Chen Yiyi is now going to immerse herself in her own research.

Lacking modern high-tech instrumental analysis, coupled with so fast two years, Chen Yiyi has already forgotten the knowledge she learned before, and she doesn't remember how to get the shape and genes of these pigs.

But I have Lingshi!

According to what is said in Lingshi, these pigs are similar to Mendel's pea hybrids. At the beginning, the hybrid area absorbed the best genes of the two pigs to express, but this is relative, not pure at all, as long as When the next generation crosses again, these will be mixed.

Fortunately, what Chen Yiyi wants is a pair of pigs. Let the boar and sow be crossbred separately, so that the first generation will be good, and then he will crossbreed this generation to produce the next generation. Homozygous hybridization is carried out on the piglets to be selected, and finally the best ones are screened out.

Pigs like this can be used as a seed source in the future, and there will be very few impure pigs in the future, which can be slowly changed.

According to preliminary estimates, it will only start this year. Chen Yiyi calculates that if the pigs can give birth to piglets for at least a year, that is... at least four years before they can finally get the piglets they want. If they want to produce them in batches, they have to wait. Piggy grows up...

That's a long wait!

But there is no other way.

Only when it starts to come slowly, I have to raise these pigs first, and the two of them will be raised together, and when the estrus comes in spring, they will be mated with a litter of cubs first.

That's it.

When Chen Hua drove the white pig and Chen Yiyi back to the village, Chen Yiyi suggested that they take a small path and don't meet anyone.

My own plan has only just begun, and I have to let these people know about it. I don’t want to look at my pigs like foreigners. If other people’s ideas are aroused, how can I get along with them to harm my pigs or covet them? What can I do with my pigs?

I'm not afraid, but now I only have two ends, and I bought it with six hundred catties of salt, so I can't make mistakes.

Fortunately, it was time to eat when I came back, everyone in the village was preparing meals at their own homes, and there were very few people outside, so Chen Yiyi and his party also hid there.

The two pigs went home and were fortunate to live in the newest pigsty of Chen Yiyi's family, instead of raising them with those black pigs in their own family.

The success of these two white skins aroused Wang's interest, and Wang's interest was very strong.

I haven't seen a white-skinned pig yet, but this pig looks really good-looking.

Holding the two children in his arms, he looked around the pigsty. He hated his own pigs for being smelly and dirty before, but this white-skinned pig is not that clean. Why don't you dislike it?
Chen Yiyi despises people like Wang who only care about appearance.

"Yiyi!"

Who is it at this time.

Chen Yiyi went out to see, it turned out to be Wang Xiaodie.

"Xiaodie, it's time to eat. Why did you come to me? Come to my house for dinner, but my house hasn't been prepared yet."

Wang Xiaodie waved her hand: "Call me when your family has finished eating. I'm not here to eat. I just saw something good."

"What good stuff?"

"It's a butterfly, look!"

Wang Xiaodie took out a small basket from behind her.

The dense, almost transparent blue bamboo basket, Chen Yiyi saw from the basket, it really was a butterfly inside, and it was quite unusual.

In the past, Chen Yiyi was playing with Wang Xiaodie, and would tell Wang Xiaodie things she didn’t know from time to time. On Wang Xiaodie’s birthday last year, Chen Yiyi gave a hand-carved butterfly by herself. Hongmu made it, and by the way, Chen Yiyi also popularized Wang Xiaodie's knowledge.

Although this butterfly is not particularly beautiful, but when I sculpted it, I borrowed the appearance of butterflies that are rarely seen in the world. ,
It was a butterfly called a ghost beauty.

This kind of butterfly has only been discovered in modern times. Why is it called a ghost beauty? It is because the wings of this butterfly, on the one hand, look like an angel and look like a beauty, and on the other hand, they are like the devil that people usually define. It looks like a terrifying monster.

The first people who started the butterfly thought there was a beauty on one side and a grimace on the other side, so they called this butterfly a ghost beauty, but no other similar butterflies were found, and this ghost beauty became out of print.

Later, it was made into a specimen, and it seems that the only thing is not so fun.

After telling Wang Xiaodie about this matter, Chen Yiyi didn't remember it either.

The butterfly in front of me now, with its two wings, is clearly the same as the ghost beauty that Chen Yiyi said before, this is a ghost beauty.

(End of this chapter)