Chapter 27 The first batch of wild animals
Chapter 27 The First Wild Animals
A less formal proposal.
Feng Yu did not refuse and agreed happily.
As for how to arrange a marriage, Jiang Ningke doesn't understand these customs.
Only my parents can take care of it.
After Qingming Festival, Zhang Yulan asked someone to choose a date.
It was scheduled for June 6th, which was said to be a good day and happened to be a weekend.
Jiang Ning did not object. These were all small matters and he just had to follow his parents' instructions.
I told Feng Yu about it and he didn't object.
As long as it's the weekend.
After Qingming Festival.
Jiang Ning found an excuse to clear all the construction teams out of the site.
Then it took one night to drill all thirty deep wells.
On the third day, the construction team entered the site and was surprised to see well water flowing everywhere.
Zhang Yuedong asked Jiang Ning: "Who did you ask to dig the well?"
Jiang Ning said: "A well-drilling team from another place."
Zhang Yuedong was puzzled: "I have seen the wellhead before. How was this well drilled? How could the diameter be so large? How big a drill bit was used? And the well wall is clearly soil. How could it be harder than concrete?"
“They use new technology!”
Jiang Ning said a few nonsense words and quickly changed the subject.
Don't want to say more about this.
This made his uncle very puzzled.
After going around a bit, I feel like I'm making good progress.
Several main roads have been built and land preparation and tree planting are in full swing.
The tree planting started in mid-March. Ten thousand mu of poplar seedlings have been planted in the planned economic forest area. The work was contracted to two contractors. They were paid three yuan for planting a tree, and they did not ask how much the contractors gave to their subordinates.
I heard it was about two dollars and fifty cents.
In any case, it must be peeled.
The farmers in Bei'an have not been farming for a long time, and all the land has been transferred and contracted to bosses.
After the Spring Festival, basically everyone goes out to work.
But it has been difficult to find a job in the past two years. Not only is there less work, but a considerable number of people in their 50s and 60s are not wanted by anyone. If they want to work near their homes, the contractors will lower the wages very low. There are many people willing to work for two hundred yuan a day.
By digging the holes manually, if the work is fast, one can plant a hundred saplings a day.
Those who work slowly are between sixty and eighty years old.
Digging a hole is physical work, and it has to be fifty centimeters deep.
Jiang Ning sent the accountant and the cashier to supervise the counting and calculate the money based on a certain actual amount every day.
You also have to keep an eye on the people who are working and not fool them.
Some workers were dishonest. They dug a hole of 50 centimeters instead of the required depth, and planted the saplings in it. The two contractors brought more than 20 people with them, and even the accountant and cashier couldn't keep them under control.
Jiang Ning then established a system and asked the accountants and cashiers to follow suit.
Whoever plants the sapling can be pulled out with just a slight lift.
That means they didn't dig the pit deep enough, so they will be directly fined.
Finally, the unhealthy trend was effectively curbed.
Behind the two tree-planting teams, there were two water trucks, pulling pipes to water the planted saplings in a timely manner.
The water truck was rented, and the cost for the truck and the person was 15,000 yuan a month.
I only had lunch and ate it at my uncle's construction site.
In the afternoon, the sky became cloudy.
It gradually became cloudy, and after the sun disappeared, the sky became gloomy.
It looked like it was going to rain, but it didn't rain until the evening.
As a result, it started to rain heavily in the middle of the night.
I didn't stop until I woke up the next day.
Jiang Ning felt that this was God's help, so he drove to the farm.
Drive the car to the middle of the farm and stop. This is a construction site.
The house he was building was a villa he planned.
If it hadn't been delayed by the rain, it would have probably been capped.
Jiang Ning stood on the cement wall of the second-floor building, looking down from above and painting casually.
When heavy rain falls, I will actively avoid him if I see him.
It was as if there was an invisible force diverting.
Rays of green light rained down onto the ground.
The newly emerged weeds began to grow rapidly, and more weeds were breaking through the soil.
Xigan has little rain and is dry, so even in summer, this barren land has only a faint layer of green.
At this moment, it turned green at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The green seedlings also began to sprout.
Without this rain, it would be difficult for him to cheat.
The rain came just in time.
Jiang Ning used all his strength and spent an entire morning watering the more than 30,000 acres of farm. By the time he left, the watered areas had become lush and green.
It was raining the next day and we couldn't start work.
The workers can only continue to rest for one day.
The rain stopped on the third day and Zhang Yuedong got up early and went to the farm.
I saw the green farm from a distance. After entering the south gate, I saw the lush greenery inside the farm. The vitality and green formed a sharp contrast with the half-yellow and half-green land outside the farm. My eyes almost popped out.
It's only rained for two days, how come there's such a big change?
When the migrant workers and tree planters came over, they were also in disbelief.
Zhang Yuedong studied it for a long time but still couldn't figure out what was going on.
So I called Jiang Ning and asked him to come over and take a look.
Jiang Ning drove over and pretended to be very surprised. Finally, he discussed it with his uncle and gave the credit to God. After all, there were many things in this world that were hard to understand, and this one was not a big deal. At most, it would only surprise people for a few days and then no one would care.
I went around a lot and it felt great.
There are many kinds of native weeds in the wilderness, some of which bloom and some do not, some grow tall and some do not. There are even many dandelions and wild vegetables that are not usually seen, and each one grows more lush than the other.
Taking advantage of the heavy rain, after absorbing the essence of Yi wood, they all competed to grow taller.
Some fast-growing weeds have already grown to the height of a palm.
The planted poplar seedlings also began to sprout.
It looks like leaves will grow in a few days.
Inside the farm and outside the farm are two different worlds. One side is full of life.
One side is drying up.
The difference is obvious.
But at most it will just arouse curiosity and there won't be any big problems.
When I wandered to the west, a rabbit suddenly jumped out of the grass.
"Where did the rabbit come from? Did it run out from the mountains?"
Jiang Ning was greatly surprised. There were many wild rabbits in the wilderness of Bei'an, but no matter how many there were, they could not stop the two-legged beasts from hunting them. This creature was not a protected animal in Bei'an and had been rarely seen in the past two years. He did not expect that wild rabbits would appear on the farm.
To the west of the farm is the endless Qilian Mountains.
Jiang Ning felt that the rabbit most likely ran out from the mountains.
Looking around, I soon spotted a few more.
Spring is a tough time for wild animals.
Although April is late spring, the climate in the northwest is cold and the earth has just begun to change. Most of the grass has not yet grown, and only some weeds with stronger vitality have just broken through the ground. There is really not much for animals to eat.
After enduring the long winter, the food stored by wild animals in the fall has probably been consumed long ago.
Now is probably the time when there is a shortage of food.
Only then did they run to his farm to find food.
Well done!
Just right for a snack!
Jiang Ning's eyes were burning. He hadn't eaten game for a long time.
Rabbit meat is quite delicious.
However, rabbits are very good at running, especially wild rabbits. If they didn't have the ability to escape, they would have become extinct long ago. Even if a world sprint champion came and wanted to compete with a wild rabbit in the 100-meter sprint, he would definitely be asking for trouble.
Two legs can never catch up with four legs.
Although the weeds on the farm are dense, they are not very tall.
A few wild rabbits were lying in the grass and could be seen at a glance.
However, these gray-headed guys were very alert. They lay in the grass and seemed to be eating grass, but as long as Jiang Ning approached within a safe distance, they would immediately jump up and run away. After they had distanced themselves from him, they would continue to lie down and eat grass.
Jiang Ning tried several times but couldn't get close.
You can hit it with a gun.
But this thing can't be used in my hometown.
It is possible to catch it by using the earth-trapping technique of the Five Elements.
But the casting distance must not exceed ten meters.
I looked around and there was no one around.
Jiang Ning immediately went underground and groped his way over.
Calculating the approximate distance, he sneaked out from behind a wild rabbit.
The earth-walking technique did not make any sound.
The wild rabbit was still lying in the grass eating grass.
It's just that the distance was calculated incorrectly, it's a bit far away.
It was estimated to be about fifteen or sixteen meters, which was beyond the range of the spell.
Jiang Ning just sank into the ground again and moved forward a distance.
That's enough this time.
The distance is about seven or eight meters.
"Where can you run to, you little bastard?"
Jiang Ning was greatly excited and immediately used the Earth Trap Technique.
This skill is actually a bit useless. Not only is the casting distance short, but the range is also very small. The effective diameter is less than one meter, making it basically useless. However, it is just right for catching rabbits.
As the ground sank, the wild rabbits that were eating grass felt the crisis.
I was about to jump up, but it was too late.
It sank along with the ground.
Then the ground closed in, trapping the rabbit.
Half of the head was still exposed on the ground.
Jiang Ning went over and pulled it out like pulling a carrot.
The hare had dark brown eyes and looked a little confused, probably not understanding how it was caught. It didn't start struggling hard until he pulled it out of the ground. It was quite strong and even wanted to bite people.
It just goes to show the old saying: Even a rabbit bites when it is angry!
Unfortunately, Jiang Ning grabbed his ears and lifted him up in the air, so he couldn't bite him even if he wanted to.
“No meat!”
Jiang Ning looked at it for a few times, then reached out and touched it twice.
This rabbit looks very thin and indeed doesn't have much meat on it.
I guess he lost weight because of hunger in the winter.
Winter in the Northwest is indeed not very friendly to wild animals.
There was nothing to eat.
But the rotten boat still has three nails!
No matter how thin it was, it was still an adult rabbit, enough for him to have a full meal.
Take it back and let Feng Xue chop it up, and eat the rabbit for lunch.
Jiang Ning knocked the rabbit unconscious, returned to the car and went to his uncle's construction site.
The construction site was right next to the house being built for him, and the fire room was a tent.
The conditions are a bit tough.
My aunt Wang Xia was responsible for cooking, but she couldn’t handle it alone, so she hired a cook to help.
Also a relative.
There are too many relatives on the construction site, and Jiang Ning has long lost interest in them.
Wang Xia was surprised to see him carrying a rabbit: "You can still catch rabbits, but there are many people on our construction site, and one rabbit is not enough for us to eat for a meal!"
Jiang Ning quickly stated: "It's not for the construction site. Aunt, please help me kill it. I want to take it back and let Feng Xue do it."
Wang Xia was not embarrassed. She laughed and went to kill a rabbit for him.
After a while, the slaughtered, cleaned and skinned rabbit was put into a big bag and given to him.
Jiang Ning weighed it and it seemed to be around four or five kilograms.
He drove away feeling satisfied.
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