Seeing Jin Feng accept the rabbit, Zhang Liang breathed a sigh of relief obviously.
I happily went back with my family.
Walking to the end of the path, you can still hear his hearty laughter.
"Master, my cousin's life is so hard. Brother Liang managed to kill two rabbits. Isn't it inappropriate for us to take one away?"
Guan Xiaorou felt a little uncomfortable while carrying the hare.
"Sister Xiaorou, Brother Feng accepted the rabbit for the sake of Sister Yunfang."
Tang Dongdong said with a smile: "Brother Liang is a man of trust and justice. Since he said half of the prey should be taken from Brother Feng, if Brother Feng didn't accept it, he would definitely feel uncomfortable, and maybe he would have returned the crossbow to Brother Feng at that time.
"
"Dongdong is still smart."
Jin Feng smiled and rubbed Tang Dongdong's hair.
I regretted it after rubbing it.
Sure enough, Tang Dongdong's little face turned red all of a sudden, and even her neck turned rose red. With a cry, she covered her face and ran into the shed.
Guan Xiaorou looked at Jin Feng with a teasing expression.
"Xiaorou, I didn't mean it..."
Jin Feng was like a cat being caught on the spot, scratching his head and explaining: "I'm used to rubbing your hair."
"Head of the family, I am not a jealous woman,"
Guan Xiaorou covered her mouth and smiled and said: "Dongdong will be yours sooner or later. Even if the boss rubs other places, I don't have any objection. I don't think Dongdong has a problem either. If she has any objection, I will help the boss hold her down."
Jin Feng:……
What a good girl, she has learned so badly in just a few days.
"Okay, stop laughing, you'll lose your eyes if you smile again."
Jin Feng said angrily: "I'll clean up the rabbit later, stew it and send half of it to my cousin's house."
The Zhang family has lived a hard life for several years. The whole family has become so thin that they are almost out of shape, so they need to supplement their nutrition.
He can guarantee that the Zhang family will be reluctant to eat rabbits and will sell them in the town tomorrow in exchange for more coarse grains.
Therefore, it is better to accept the hare according to Zhang Liang's wishes. This will not only avoid Zhang Liang's embarrassment, but also achieve Jin Feng's purpose.
Jin Feng's guess was right. When he and Guan Xiaorou delivered rice and rabbit meat to Zhang's house, the whole family was gathering together to drink gruel.
There were only a few grains of millet and two black and green wild vegetables in a large bowl of gruel, and not even a drop of oil star seeds could be seen.
Even so, Zhang Xiaohua still drank with gusto.
"Brother Feng, Xiaorou, what are you..."
Zhang's wife stood up and asked.
"When we got married, my cousin gave me a gift, and we returned the gift."
Jin Feng smiled and took an empty bowl, filled it with a bowl of rice, poured a spoonful of broth and rabbit meat on it, and put it in front of Zhang Xiaohua with a smile: "Xiaohua, try and see if it tastes good."
After all, she was still a child, so Zhang Xiaohua immediately put the porridge bowl aside, hugged the rice and started eating like crazy.
Where can I even bother to answer?
"I'm determined."
Zhang Liang didn't understand what Jin Feng meant. It was just a return gift and it was inappropriate to refuse it, so he had to accept it.
Knowing that there was no prey in the back mountain, Zhang Liang didn't stop at all when passing by the back mountain the next day, and went straight into the old forest.
When I came back that night, I carried three hares, a fox and four pheasants on my back.
This time, Jin Feng took the initiative to take away all the pheasants without Zhang Liang's push.
The meat of hare is thick and far less delicious than that of pheasant.
Four pheasants are too much to finish, so it would be nice to make them into air-dried chicken.
In later generations, this stuff was used to protect animals and was generally not eaten.
From that day on, the Zhang family's life became completely better.
The eldest son goes into the mountains to hunt every day and rarely comes back empty-handed. The younger son learns blacksmithing at Jin Feng's house and has money to eat in the future.
Everyone in the village turned red with envy.
Everyone knows that the Zhang family's transformation is all due to Jin Feng.
Therefore, the women ran to Jin Feng's house more diligently. When they got close to Guan Xiaorou, they said they wanted to ask Jin Feng for help in making a crossbow. They were also willing to give Jin Feng half of the prey.
But this time Jin Feng refused due to lack of materials.
Although the prey in the mountains will never be exhausted, they will become less and less.
It doesn't matter if there are one or two more hunters in a village, but if there are more than a dozen or dozens of hunters at once, the wild beasts near Xihewan will be driven away unless they are all wiped out.
After all, the beast is not dead. After realizing the danger, it will migrate away from Xihewan.
This kind of behavior of fishing from the lake will not last long.
Besides, Jin Feng didn't lie to them.
There are not many woods suitable for making crossbows. If you use ordinary wood to make a crossbow, it will either have insufficient elasticity and low power, or it will not be tough enough and will break after being used a few times.
Zhang Mancang cut down all the usable jujube trees in the back mountain, but he could only make eleven or two more.
Guan Xiaorou and Lin Yunfang were relatives, and the Zhang family was almost in trouble. Jin Feng made a crossbow for Zhang Liang. Although the villagers were jealous, they couldn't say anything.
But if Jin Feng makes one for San Auntzi but not for other villagers, then other villagers will have objections.
After comprehensive consideration, Jin Feng decided not to make crossbows for other villagers except Zhang Liang for the time being.
However, the villagers' attitude of wanting to live a good life is what Jin Feng wants to see.
The cart of hemp leather that Tang Dongdong and Jin Feng ordered from the county government was delivered a few days ago.
The carpenter also delivered the parts for the ten spinning wheels yesterday. Zhang Mancang stayed up all night to assemble them all and put them neatly in the shed.
Next to the spinning wheel are piles of hemp leather.
Cotton has not yet reached Dakang, and hemp is one of the most important textile raw materials.
The processed linen is spun into thread, and then woven into cloth through a loom, and finally it can be made into clothes and bedding.
Linen clothes are the most commonly worn clothing by the people of Dakang.
Of course, in addition to linen clothes, there are also clothes made of silk, brocade, satin, animal skins, etc., but these basically have nothing to do with the common people.
Even with the little money Jin Feng had, he couldn't get involved in such an industry.
Now that we have the spinning wheel and raw materials, the next step is to recruit workers.
Jin Feng and Tang Dongdong discussed it and decided to hire twenty female workers in two shifts, each of whom would be paid one copper per day, plus two meals.
When the women heard the news, they immediately forgot about their crossbows and rushed to sign up.
After all, they also knew that Jin Feng could not make a crossbow for everyone. Even if he gave him a crossbow, he might not be able to catch prey in the mountains. If he encountered a tiger, leopard, wild boar, etc., he might even risk his life.
It is still the safest to spin thread.
Taking care of two meals a day and a copper coin, the reward was much better than they expected.
A copper coin can buy a meat bun in the town. If you buy millet or other whole grains, it can almost feed three people.
"Xiaorou, do you, the head of the household, keep your word? Do you really want to take care of the food for just one copper a day?"
"My boss is a scholar, so he will naturally not deny what he says."
"That's great. The eldest girl and I came here to spin yarn. The head of the house and the boy are left at home. The copper coins I earn are enough for them to eat, and the eldest girl earns enough to save."