Chapter 371 Development Plan for the New Year
As the New Year approaches, every household is busy preparing for the New Year, and Yue Feng’s family is especially busier than in previous years.

Not to mention the various foods that had to be prepared in advance for the New Year, just getting to know the group of friends that Yue Feng had made in society and getting to know them in advance took up a lot of Yue Feng’s time.

Let’s not go into the details of these trivial interpersonal relationships for now, and just talk about what happened after Uncle Zhao returned to Yue Feng’s home to recuperate.

It is definitely inconvenient to stay in the city hospital for a long time, but it becomes much easier after returning home.

At Yue Feng’s house, Uncle Zhao and Yue Feng were not at all strangers. They ate and drank as usual, and when they had nothing to do, they could even chat with Yue Lei on the kang.

The old man was very open-minded. Since Yue Feng treated him as an elder and served him seriously, he just accepted it with peace of mind.

There is affection as the backup, people of the world, there is no such empty talk.

After Uncle Zhao’s condition stabilized, Yue Feng took the brothers to Woniu Mountain for the last time.

The belongings in the cellar are not important, as they are just trivial things for daily life. They can be left in the mountains and used occasionally when hunting.

Following Uncle Zhao’s request, Yue Feng took his men, horses, dogs and hunting rifles and went to the crime scene for a walk while maintaining absolute vigilance.

The bodies of the several red dogs were all gone, and the only thing brought back from the mountain was the barreled rifle that the old man had used for half his life.

A gun is a hunter’s livelihood tool. Yue Feng helped Uncle Zhao bring the gun back, and the old man finally felt relieved.

On the night of New Year’s Eve, several families celebrated the New Year together at Yue Feng’s home. Tables were set up in the three rooms, the east room, the west room and the central hall. Adults, children and men each sat at a table and celebrated a lively Spring Festival.

There were various meats and popular New Year goods supplied by the supply and marketing cooperatives on the table. The faces of the families whose lives had improved had satisfied smiles.

After eating and drinking and staying up past 12 o’clock, a few boys went to light up the firecrackers hanging in and outside the yard. The sound of the firecrackers added a bit of New Year atmosphere.

Uncle Zhao had external injuries and had to stay in bed most of the time to recuperate, but on New Year’s Eve, he still sat on the kang with a pile of quilts and chatted with everyone for a long time while eating and drinking.

The only drawback was that he couldn’t drink happily. Despite his strong request, Yue Feng only poured the bottom of the cup, about one or two ounces.

After eating and drinking to their heart’s content, the old man began to look tired, so Yue Feng helped him back to the kang in the west room.

“Uncle! Are you not sleepy yet? I have something I want to discuss with you!”

“Huh? What’s the need to be so serious?” The old man raised his eyelids, and there was no trace of sleepiness on his face.

“In fact, a few months ago, my parents, the brothers from the hunting team and I discussed your future!

I was injured by Big Claw this time, but luckily I survived. Now the Jackal Gang is gone, so I want to discuss something with you.

When you recover from your injury, can we stop living in the cellar on the mountain? I will take care of you in your old age! ! “

“How can that be possible?! Your aunt’s grave is still on the mountain!

I haven’t avenged that big claw yet. I, Zhao Dashan, have lived in the mountains all my life, and I cannot swallow this humiliation!”

After hearing what Yue Feng said, Uncle Zhao glared at him with his tiger eyes, looking intimidating without even getting angry.

“It’s okay for the grave to be on the mountain. We can just go and pay our respects during festivals!

It’s too dangerous for you to live alone in the mountains! If something happens, there will be no one to take care of you!”

“No, I have my own family and I won’t live in your house in my old age!” Uncle Zhao shook his head repeatedly, with no room for negotiation.

“I can understand your thoughts. You feel that you are not old yet, but you are also afraid of being a burden to us younger generations!

Can’t you just help me?
After the New Year and the beginning of spring when the ice thaws, I will plan to set up a deer farm and a sable farm. By then, I will definitely need to find someone who knows these things well and is knowledgeable about the business to look after them!

If you really don’t want to stay in the village, I will build the farm on the mountain, and you can go to the farm and help me look after it!”

Hearing Yue Feng’s words, Uncle Zhao, who had been shaking his head a second ago, was slightly stunned: “Do you think we can build a breeding farm on the mountain?”

“Yes! When I was traveling before the New Year, I learned about the relevant situation!

After the New Year and the beginning of spring, the village will implement the household contract responsibility system, and then the procedures for individual breeding can be processed.

I will ask the Forestry Bureau and the officials in town to help approve a piece of land so we can build a farm in the mountains!
If you want to go hunting or patrol the mountains every now and then, it is also very convenient. You just need to move your residence from the inconvenient Woniu Mountain to a more convenient place near Chaijidao Forest Farm!

I heard from my father-in-law that after the fields are divided, the tractors under the name of the village collective will be sold to the villagers at a price. Then we can buy the tractors, which will make it more convenient to go up and down the mountain every now and then.

If you still feel uncomfortable with my aunt’s grave, we brothers can find someone to pick an auspicious date and move the grave here! ! “

Now that things have come to this, Uncle Zhao can’t find any other reason to refuse.

Even if the three wounds on his chest recovered smoothly, the initial healing time would still take about two weeks, but this did not mean that they would be healed in half a month.

With this level of trauma, subsequent muscle strength and function recovery will take weeks or even months. It is definitely not a wise choice for the old man to live alone in a cellar.

Now Yue Feng really needs his help to take care of the farm, and he just moved the cellar to a new location, which is still within the radiation range of the forest farm’s Chaiji Road. Uncle Zhao has no objection to this alone. “Then… I’ll give it a try?
Regarding the breeding farm, how do you plan it? What will you raise? What is the scope and investment?”

After thinking for a while, Uncle Zhao asked for more details.

“We are currently in the project preparation stage. If everything goes well, I plan to try to set up a deer farm and sable, two types of breeding with relatively high economic value.

Since someone is investing money, the pressure on us is not that great!

If you have better ideas, you can also put them forward. If we have the conditions, we can give it a try! ”

Uncle Zhao nodded, squinting his eyes and thinking for a while: “I think your idea is very good. Didn’t I hear you say before that you have obtained a lot of sable seeds?”

“Well, there are sixteen sables at home that are likely to have cubs, and the first batch of cubs will be born in the spring!
As for deer, we currently have three at home, two blind does and a fawn, all of them can be fed and survived!

Before spring comes, I will take the hunting team to the mountains to see if we can catch some more cubs or doe!” Yue Feng added.

“Sable is an omnivorous animal. If you want to raise it well, various kinds of meat are indispensable. It is better in winter, but it will be inconvenient to go up the mountain to hunt after the spring thaw. How do you plan to solve this problem?” Uncle Zhao continued to ask.

“I’ve thought about this too. I’ll feed the minks a portion of their food with regular coarse grains and some fish caught in the river. As for the bulk, I’m going to feed it to various birds!”

“Birds?”

“Yes! The pine nuts season will begin at the end of April. By then, I will contact hunters from several surrounding villages who are willing to work together, and we will form a new falconry team led by Grandpa Chen.

In summer and autumn, we set up a fence to catch small eagles at your doorstep, and we provide a variety of small birds. We will buy them at a price of a few cents each, depending on the species and weight!

Apart from using a portion of these birds to supply the canteen, the rest can be gathered together and used as food for the sables!
If you want to keep a sable well, you can’t just feed it rough. If you feed it fish and birds regularly, the quality of its fur will be good!”

The main food source of sables in the wild is not as good as Yue Feng’s configuration. Rodents are their main source of meat protein, and the meat of this bird is much better than that of rodents.

So there is nothing wrong with Yue Feng’s idea logically.

Uncle Zhao nodded after listening to this. Yue Feng did not make the decision on impulse, but instead made a careful calculation and had figured out the key links.

“Okay! I think it’s reliable! As long as the official procedures are done, we can do it!

If you are willing to do it, I will help you!

By the way, if you want to start a breeding farm, there is also a kind of mountain livestock that you may want to consider!”

“What?”

“Musk deer!! I know there are several places where they can be found. If we can get a few and breed them, we can extract musk from the scent sacs of male musk deer and sell it for money in a long-term and stable manner!
Musk is a precious commodity! Musk deer eat all kinds of leaves and grass in the forest, and their sources are very wide! If you do it right, you may make more money than raising deer! “

When Yue Feng heard the name of the fragrant musk deer, his heart skipped a beat.

When he went to Uncle Chen’s house to ask for advice on fence-fencing, the old man also mentioned the musk deer to Yue Feng.

At that time, Yue Feng led people to hunt around the wild boar den. Yue Feng had never paid attention to the musk deer mentioned by the old man at Tiger Leaping Cliff.

Now Uncle Zhao has also mentioned the matter of raising musk deer, so I can give it a try if I have the chance.

In Changbai Mountain in Northeast China, the main type of musk produced is the Musk Deer. The wild population density of this thing is still good now, but with the intensification of hunting, the population will shrink sharply, causing the price of musk to rise sharply.

“After the fifteenth day of the lunar year, I will take people to the mountains to look for this thing. Raising musk deer to obtain fragrance is also a good suggestion!”

“Okay! There are a few more mountain fields. I’ll tell you when the time comes!”

……

After a night-long conversation, the father and son had preliminarily finalized the construction and development plan after the Chinese New Year.

Yue Feng helped the old man wash his feet, and then the two of them fell into a deep sleep on the kang in the west room.

In the next few days, the village was extremely lively. The streets were full of people walking around, every household was visiting relatives, and every family was entertaining guests. The village was filled with a joyous New Year atmosphere.

There are few relatives on Yue Feng’s side, but he also takes turns visiting his friends and his father-in-law’s side.

Starting from the second day of the Chinese New Year, my eldest brother and his wife also came back. Before the Chinese New Year, they came back and brought a lot of New Year goods.

During the Chinese New Year, as a grassroots leader, I had to be on duty at the unit, so I did not spend New Year’s Eve at home. My family was quite supportive.

……

Just when everyone thought that this New Year would pass by without any incident, a piece of news spread in the surrounding villages.

In Kaoshantun Village near Donghexia, a tiger broke into the village and dragged away the old ox raised by the village.

(End of this chapter)