Chapter 47 It’s not like a family doesn’t enter the same house
“I’m already 21. I’ve finished my work in the fields. I can’t just sit around at home doing nothing the rest of the time, can I? If I keep going like this, when will I be able to get married?
If I could train an eagle and catch pheasants and cats in the mountains, even if I could make 50 cents a day, I would still have 15 yuan a month!”

Zhu Erhai tried his best to exaggerate the income, but he didn’t dare to exaggerate it any higher. In his eyes, earning fifteen yuan a month was already a sky-high price that he could not even think about.

quiet!
Quiet!

Zhu Jianshe and his wife both had a bit of a brain freeze. It seemed that there was no logical problem with their son’s idea today, as he was always lazy and incompetent and never satisfied with his food.

“Can we really sell the pheasants and rabbits caught by eagles in the city for money?” Niu Jianshe asked again with some uncertainty.

“My younger brother, Sanhai, heard it with his own ears yesterday from the secretary’s youngest son, Wang Mingyu!” Zhu Erhai argued.

“Where’s Sanxiao’er? Go call your brother back!”

“We can’t open the door, the eagle is still on top of the kang!” Zhu Erhai said, pointing at the eagle on the kang.

“Give me your trouser legs!” Zhu Jianshe took the cotton trouser legs from his son’s hand, took off his shoes and got on the kang, then suddenly pounced and grabbed the two legs of the eagle tied to his waist.

Seeing that the big eagle was under control of his father again, Zhu Erhai went out to look for his younger brother.

After a while, Zhu Sanhai also came back.

Xiao Sanzi told his father all the information he heard from Wang Jianguo’s son.

Now, Niu Jianshe also became more interested.

Did he really wrongly blame his second son this time? He immediately decided to go out and find out what was going on.

If this is true, then training a big eagle to go hunting in the mountains is also a good choice in autumn and winter.

Ordinary villagers dare not go deep into the mountains. Villagers who grew up at the foot of the mountains have had enough respect for the deep mountains and old forests since childhood.

Using eagles to hunt small prey does not require going deep into the Changbai Mountains like hunting wild boars and roe deer. Pheasants, rabbits and other prey can be caught on the mountain ridges near home.

In the village gathering area at the foot of the mountain, there are seldom large wild beasts because of the year-round human activities. Except for the occasional years when the mountain harvest is poor and the large mountain livestock come down the mountain in autumn to damage the corn fields, there is almost no danger in the hills around the house.

In this way, the matter of Zhu Erhai raising an eagle was temporarily settled at home. However, he couldn’t get rid of the fried pork slices with his mother’s broom. She was beaten, and nothing happened. The mother apologized to her son afterwards.

The happiest person in the entire Zhu family is probably the third child, Zhu.

My brother brought back a big eagle from outside. Judging from its size, it is much bigger than the eagle that Yue Feng and his friends brought up the mountain.

From what my parents and brother said during their conversation, an eagle this big can catch pheasants and rabbits in the mountains. It is much better than the two boys from the Yue family who can only catch sand chickens.

Zhu Sanhai, who hadn’t had lunch yet, felt a little uncomfortable staying at home. If he wasn’t afraid of being beaten, he would have wanted to go out and tell his friends that he had also raised a big eagle at home.

The matter of raising eagles at the Zhu family’s side has calmed down temporarily, but at the back of the village, there is still another storm at the home of Old Man Zhu that has not been settled.

At noon, the geese that were let out returned home on time, but after a count, the goose that laid the most eggs was missing.

Old Zhu and his wife wandered around the place where the goose usually ate grass and bathed, but they didn’t find any clues. So the old man’s wife, Ma Pozi, didn’t even bother to eat lunch, walked to the street with her hands on her hips, and started talking. “Who the hell stole our goose!
If you eat my goose, I guarantee you will get sores on your mouth and hemorrhoids on your buttocks! ! “

“You damned goose thief, I curse you to be infertile for the rest of your life. I hope your wife will give birth to eight sons for you!”

“You weedy goose thief, I’ll fuck your bloody mother!”

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It is said that people from the same family tend to marry alike, and this is really true in the Zhu family.

The Zhu family is considered an old family in the village, but since my great-grandfather’s generation, they have had a very bad reputation in the village. Old Zhu doesn’t interact with his neighbors and won’t even say hello if he bumps into someone on the street.

Old Man Zhu’s wife, Mrs. Ma, is the best at street cursing among the old women in the village. If anyone provokes her, she will curse at them in the street under the scorching sun for a whole afternoon without repeating herself!
If someone else had lost a goose at home, the neighbors would definitely help to look for it everywhere, but the neighbors of Old Man Zhu kept silent and no one was willing to come near.

Who would want to offend someone? Not to mention that they didn’t see it, even if the villagers saw Zhu Erhai carrying the goose out of the village, most of them would rather avoid trouble and not cause trouble for themselves.

Ma Pozi kept scolding from noon until after two in the afternoon, but there was no response. Ma Pozi felt that she had not performed well, so she tiptoed to the home of Wang Jianguo, the brigade secretary.

As the village secretary, Wang Jianguo also had a headache facing Mrs. Ma. She was so old and had seniority, so he couldn’t speak too harshly to her. When she came to him with problems, he couldn’t just ignore it.

So Wang Jianguo used the village loudspeaker to repeat the call several times and promised to tell her as soon as he had any news. This was enough to coax Ma Po back home.

For the next few days, the whole village was peaceful.

Yue Feng and several members of the falconry team would go up the mountain together at dawn every day, and then each of them would choose a hilltop to work with their hawks. At 4:30 in the afternoon, they would gather at home on time and hand in all their catches for the day. Yue Feng would be responsible for summarizing the catch, and then they would pull the sled to deliver the goods to the second canteen of the coal mine.

After several days of intensive fieldwork, the five sparrowhawks in the house, even the softest one assigned to Xiaowu, are now safely put down.

Apart from the big blue kite in Yue Feng’s hands, the other four people’s average daily harvest is more than 25 chicks, and they can provide the second canteen with a stable supply of about a hundred pheasants every day.

During these few days, Yue Feng went up the mountain every day and wandered around the red pine forests in his memory. He accumulated more than thirty greyhound skins.

A stable supply of fresh game means a stable cash income. After this period of accumulation, the cash in Yue Feng’s hands successfully broke through the 241 yuan mark, reaching an astonishing yuan.

This is because the leather at home has not been dried and sold yet, otherwise I could get a few hundred more dollars.

After receiving payment for another delivery, Yue Feng saved enough money to buy a bicycle and became more active.

It’s time to go to the ghost market again early in the morning. After such a long time, Brother Hu should have managed to get a bicycle ticket.

Every morning Yue Feng goes up the mountain, and in the afternoon after returning home he has to pull the sled into the city. Not counting the road in the mountains, just the round trip into the city is forty or fifty miles.

This kind of life of traveling on foot is not a life for human beings. Once you have saved enough money, the first thing you do is to solve the transportation problem.

Chapter 2, there will be another chapter at 8pm

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