Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 545 Turning stone into gold

After we raise rabbits, their feces can be used as fertilizer, and in the future, we will have fertilizer to use in our farm. This is a great idea, I will ask my brother as soon as I get back." Uncle Dingsheng said in a series of words.

Hualei nodded and said, "Okay, if you are sure you can buy breeding rabbits, you can find someone to repair the house. It doesn't need to be perfect, but at least it can't leak.

Oh, make sure it is stable, it won’t collapse easily when winter comes. Also, help me find someone to make some rabbit cages.” Hualei instructed.

"I understand, Madam. Don't worry, I will make arrangements." Uncle Dingsheng assured.

"By the way, Uncle Dingsheng, I looked at the wasteland next to the house from afar and saw a lot of weeds growing there, including a lot of foxtail grass. Am I seeing things right?" Hua Lei recalled the scene she saw when she got off the carriage.

"Yes, there are a lot. The most common ones here are weeds. If the young lady wants to reclaim some land, she can just start a fire to get rid of them and also maintain the land." Uncle Dingsheng replied.

"No, Uncle Dingsheng, don't burn it. When the time comes, have someone harvest all these weeds, dry them, and put them in the yard. When winter comes, you can feed them to the rabbits so that they don't run out of food.

In addition, collect the seeds of foxtail grass separately." Hualei rejected Uncle Dingsheng's suggestion to burn the wasteland and said.

Uncle Dingsheng nodded quickly in response.

"By the way, when renovating the house, clear the chimneys in the rooms and build one in the rooms without kangs. You can take care of the arrangements then." Hua Lei turned around and said.

The house is so old, I wonder if the kang in the room can still be used. Because it is located in Mobei, almost every room has a kang.

"Yes, I understand. I will find someone to do it immediately. Madam, the general is right. Madam has the ability to turn stones into gold." Uncle Dingsheng laughed.

Hualei also smiled, and the group returned to the town. Hualei went directly to the study, took out a few books from the bookshelf, and slowly flipped through them.

Since she decided to come to Mobei with Rong Jin, Hua Lei has been thinking about what to do after coming to Mobei. She reviewed her growth process over the past few years. In addition to her own efforts, there was also a lot of luck involved.

She felt that the biggest unexpected success was that after she bought Yuanying Manor, she started raising chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, etc. The subsequent series of positive chain effects were also brought about by chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs.

Originally, she also wanted to find a suitable place to continue raising chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, etc. after arriving in Mobei. However, it still takes a long time for these poultry to grow from chicks to market.

I can stay in Mobei for a maximum of three years. If I raise chickens, ducks and geese, not only will the results be slow, but Mobei is not as convenient as the capital, where I can go to a special department to buy cubs.

But rabbits are different. They have very strong reproductive capacity and reach sexual maturity early, generally within three to four months, and can reproduce all year round.

Moreover, the gestation period of female rabbits is very short, usually about one month, and each litter can give birth to six to ten cubs, and some can even give birth to more than 15. This is the primary condition for Hualei to quickly expand the scale of rabbit breeding.

In addition, rabbits grow quickly and can reach sexual maturity in five to six months and begin to reproduce again.

In some cases, it can even lead to explosive growth in the population. In this case, if the rabbits do not reproduce, they can be sent to restaurants to sell rabbit meat, and the rabbit skins can be sold. This is the main reason why Hualei chose rabbit breeding here.

Seeing that it was getting late, Hualei returned to her house. Because breakfast was in the middle of the morning, Hualei just asked Qingqi to make her a bowl of noodles to fill her stomach.

After taking a tour around the house, Hualei was very satisfied. Qingqi and Qinghua had already arranged all the items and bought everything needed in the house.

I heard that the chimneys of the fire-beds had been completely cleaned, the sewers had been completely cleared, and the accommodation for the maids, servants, grooms and guards had also been arranged.

Qinghong and Qinglu bought a screen of the right size and placed it in the bedroom of themselves and Rong Jin. This was quite good, as it provided a certain degree of privacy.

Looking at the time, Hua Lei estimated that Rong Jin would be back in a while, so she went into the study and started writing and drawing.

The next day, Uncle Dingsheng sent Hualei a message, saying that in Mobei Town, there were no farmers raising many rabbits. However, in Xiyun County, west of Leyang Prefecture, there were several farmers raising rabbits, and the number was not small.

If flower buds are needed, someone can be sent to buy them immediately.

After hearing this, Hua Lei discussed it with Rong Jin and decided to start raising rabbits.

So, Uncle Dingsheng sent a few of his men to Xiyun County, Leyang Prefecture, and found some people to start repairing houses, harvesting weeds, and repairing walls.

Pei Jingyang was still worried about not having enough manpower, so he personally instructed the people in the lumber shop to help Hualei make a rabbit cage according to the pattern she drew.

Half a month later, the house was completely repaired, and the surroundings were all tidy. The rabbit cages were all put into the house, and Hualei carefully laid soft hay at the bottom of the cages.

A few days later, the first batch of rabbits came into the cages, 58 male rabbits and 235 female rabbits. Most of the female rabbits were adult rabbits about six or seven months old.

We originally bought 300 rabbits, but a few of them couldn't adapt to the long journey and died suddenly along the way.

Because they had been on the road for eight or nine days in a row, Hua Lei was worried that the rabbits would be frightened and unable to adapt all of a sudden, so she temporarily separated the male and female rabbits and put them in cages.

After a few days, when the rabbits have adapted to the environment in the house, we put the male and female rabbits together in the same cage and let them mate naturally.

Courtship is a very natural behavior in the animal kingdom. Plus, it was the female rabbit's estrus period, so Hualei soon discovered that the female rabbits that had mated had a greatly increased appetite and a much larger waistline.

It seems that the pregnancy rate is good. Hualei was very happy. After temporarily handing the matter over to Uncle Dingsheng, she went back to her own business.

More than a month later, all the pregnant rabbits successfully became mothers, and there were many more little rabbits. Hualei was very happy, and she also asked her subordinates to work more attentively.

Because several mother rabbits were not paying attention when giving birth and were frightened, the angry mother rabbits bit several baby rabbits to death or maimed them. Some baby rabbits were abandoned by their mothers after being touched by people and starved to death.