Chapter 142： ambition

Mu Yangling led them all the way into the mountain, some rabbits ran past them not far away, Qi Haoran jumped up to catch them without even thinking about it, and finally caught one with his left and right hands, and looked at Mu Yangling ostentatiously, "How is it? , you are amazing."

Mu Yangling asked him, "You didn't find anything along the way?"

Fan Zijin said: "There are a lot of rabbits."

Qi Haoran frowned slightly, looked left and right, and finally looked down at the grass beside his feet. Fan Zijin followed his gaze and frowned slightly.

At this time, it was the time when all things recovered, but most of the grass on the ground was eaten up, and some even the stems of the grass were dug up.

The    brothers looked at each other and asked Mu Yangling together, "What's going on?"

"That's what you saw. You've heard of the plague of locusts, but you must have never heard of the plague of rabbits, right? This is the plague of rabbits."

Qi Haoran and Fan Zijin's eyes widened, "Can rabbits be a disaster?"

"There are too many things, and if it exceeds the limit of the environment, it is a disaster. My father and I had a hunch as early as before the winter, so we brought people from Linshan Village into the mountains to hunt, but we didn't expect the situation to be better than we imagined. It's even more serious. Now that the spring has just started, the rabbits in the woods have already gnawed at the periphery, and in a month or two, there will be no grass to eat in the woods, and the rabbits can only go down the mountain, and below the mountain are our crops."

When it comes to military rations, Qi Haoran and Fan Zijin immediately became serious.

Mu Yangling added: "And the flood of wild rabbits in the forest will definitely affect other animals. I am worried that the food chain in Chushan will be destroyed. This is a major event for Xingzhou Prefecture that will affect future generations."

Qi Haoran asked, "What is the food chain?"

"The big fish eat the small fish, the small fish eat the shrimp, and in the forest, the beasts eat the small beasts, the small beasts eat the herbivores, and the herbivores eat the grass. Now all the grass is eaten by the rabbits, and the other herbivores must not survive. Space, carnivores can now eat rabbits, but once the rabbit disaster is over, how many rabbits will tigers have to catch to fill their stomachs? And deer, wild boars and other herbivores may have died in this disaster, and their numbers have plummeted..."

Fan Zijin nodded, "I understand, it is the bottom layer that affects the top layer, and this impact will become more serious over time."

Mu Yangling nodded.

Qi Haoran waved his hand and said, "That's not easy, just catch all the rabbits?" Qi Haoran said with saliva, "I like to eat rabbit meat whether it is stewed, braised or roasted. "

Fan Zijin and Mu Yangling had black lines on their faces, and the two looked at him and said, "Can you catch so many rabbits?"

Mu Yangling took Qi Haoran to see how many rabbits were in the forest.

"Actually, rabbits are nocturnal animals. There are still very few rabbits out now. Maybe because there is not enough grass, there are so many rabbits in the daytime recently. I used to catch rabbits by digging holes or setting traps. Come to harvest the next day, because of the traps set during the day, when the rabbits come out at night, they can catch some of them.”

Mu Yangling carefully led the two of them to move in the woods, watched several groups of rabbits, and finally said: "Now you understand? If you can catch half of the rabbits, I admire you very much."

Mu Yangling squatted on the grass and said worriedly, "Let's go, what should we do with the rabbit? We can't eat so much by ourselves. Even if we pull it to Fucheng and several nearby counties, they won't be able to consume it. It's okay to say rabbit skin. Keep it, but now that the weather is getting warmer, the rabbit meat can't be kept.

Fan Zijin's eyes flashed brightly, he looked at the two and said, "If you have a way to hold the rabbit, I will be able to get rid of the rabbit meat and skin." Fan Zijin looked at Qi Haoran seriously and said, "Don't you still owe it? Do the Sun and Zhao families have a lot of money and food? We have to find a way to pay them back, right?"

Qi Haoran and Mu Yangling were startled, and shouted in unison, "You won't be so unscrupulous, will you take rabbit meat and rabbit skin?"

Fan Zijin rolled his eyes at the two of them and said, "I think so, but do you think they are so stupid?"

Fan Zijin saw that there were only the three of them and countless rabbits in the dark, so he said, "Haoran, do you remember that on the way to find our cousin, we met a kind peasant woman who gave us a package of jerky?"

Qi Haoran nodded again and again, "Remember, she is the only good person besides Mu Yangling, but the amount of jerky she gave was too little, not enough to fit my teeth, and finally gave us the wrong way. …”

Fan Zijin's head was full of black lines, "Okay, just remember it, I mean that jerky is rabbit jerky, even you and I think it's delicious, you think others will not think it's delicious, and it's easy to keep , I have long felt that we should not put all our hopes on the harvest of the fields. As Mu Yangling said, farming depends on the face of God. If God does not give face this year, will we not live? Now? You can force the Sun family and the Zhao family to borrow food once, but can you always force them to pay? So we have to find other ways."

Fan Zijin's eyes glowed like stars, and he clenched his fists and said, "Mu Yangling, you think this is a disaster, but I think this is an opportunity given to us by God. The timid, the foolhardy, the cunning, the crippled, the old, and even those who entered the barracks under the age of twelve, aren't you worried about the poor placement of the old, infirm, and infirm? By handing them over to me, not only will I be able to settle them well, but I will also make you no longer have to worry about the debts of the Sun and Zhao families."

Qi Haoran and Mu Yangling looked at him dumbfounded, and finally Qi Haoran jumped up and hugged him, shouting: "Good brother, how many people do you want, I'll give you all, tell me what you want to do, I I'll do it for you."

Mu Yangling stammered: "You, why don't you do market research or something?"

Qi Haoran looked at her with contempt, "Zijin said that he can't do anything he said, so what market research do you need to do? By the way, what is market research?"

Mu Yangling: "..."

Mu Yangling ignored Qi Haoran and asked Fan Zijin seriously, "Then what do you think I can do?" Regardless of whether their things could be sold in the end, anyway, if the rabbit was caught, the crops in the field were saved.

Fan Zijin looked at Qi Haoran and said, "We are not familiar with hunting, and most of the soldiers below are from farmers."

"There are also many hunters in Xingzhou Prefecture, my father is," Mu Yangling said after a pause, "However, it seems that all the hunters have been picked to other camps, and my father is the hunter in the five camps."

Qi Haoran's face was black and he said angrily: "I will go to Big Brother tomorrow and ask him to send me the soldiers who were hunters before."

Neither Fan Zijin nor Mu Yangling objected this time, they nodded in unison, and Mu Yangling even said, "The general loves you so much, if you stick with him for a while, he will definitely agree."