In the early morning of November 23, 1979, Qin Jun woke up from the cold again.
Looking at the dark, low, drafty house, Qin Jun vaguely remembered that this was his hometown decades ago.
It has been a long time since he was reborn, and he has already figured out why he was able to return to the age of fourteen.
According to what he remembers, he will either be working part-time or on the way to work in the rest of his life.
In the 1970s, I worked for the team, and in the 1980s and 1990s, I worked for private companies, self-employed individuals, and contractors.
Two thousand years later, screws were added to foreign-owned factories.
Later, we encountered an economic downturn, and even the opportunity to drive screws disappeared.
In a final act of cruelty, he went to a village on the border of India and Pakistan famous for making guns for a century to make money.
With extremely strong machining skills, he made money this time, and he made a lot of money easily.
However, after making one million, I still wanted to make two million. In the end, I decided to wash my hands of myself after earning ten million and go home to retire.
Unexpectedly, after walking too much at night, I encountered a ghost and was suddenly transported to the late 1970s.
It had been half a month since he was reborn in 2024, and he was still a little uncomfortable with the coldness of this era.
Hiding in bed, I looked at the sky through the window with only one glass. It should be three or four o'clock in the morning.
There is no way, in this era where communication basically relies on shouting, it is impossible for a fourteen-year-old child in the countryside to have a watch.
When he fully woke up, Qin Jun remembered that today was Xiaoxue, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
In order to wait for this solar term, Qin Jun had been preparing for half a month!
With a hint of excitement, Qin Jun began to fumble with his clothes.
After a night, the residual warmth of the fire bed has dissipated.
So no matter how Qin Jun wrapped himself in the quilt, he still couldn't feel a trace of warmth.
In fact, there was a reason for this, because the house he slept in was originally a woodshed, which was very ventilated, so it was strange that it wasn't cold.
If it hadn't been for the fire bed and the three brothers huddled together, this weather would have been even more unbearable.
If you continue to lie in bed, you won't be able to fall asleep at all. When you wake up, get up quickly!
Sleeping in is a no-brainer in this day and age.
In the future life, sleeping in is a pleasure, but now if you want to sleep in, you are suffering.
Not only cold, but also hungry!
When you wake up in the early morning, you will feel hungry soon.
Because this young body of seventy-nine years old is like a bottomless pit, and it can never be full no matter how much food it eats.
What's more, in this day and age, he doesn't get much to eat every night.
Not wanting to lie erect on the bed, Qin Jun carefully avoided his second brother and younger brother, and slowly fumbled to put on his clothes.
A worn cotton jacket and cotton trousers are finally better than a quilt.
It feels cold and stiff at first after putting it on, but after a while, it warms up.
I got out of bed carefully and put on my cotton shoes.
The cotton shoes are stuffed with cotton. They are thick, fat, and black. Although they feel a bit bulky, they are also quite warm.
After walking out of the room in the dark, Qin Jun couldn't help but shiver as soon as he opened the door.
The winters of the 1970s and 1980s were really cold. Unfortunately, all he had now was a pair of cold, worn-out cotton clothes and pants.
I stamped my feet and felt that my feet were numb. If I didn't move any more, they might freeze.
At this moment, a small breeze came.
Qin Jun suddenly felt that his face, ears, neck, and hands, as long as they were exposed, were all as painful as being cut with a knife!
The cold wind is like a knife. This was originally a metaphor, but now it is realistic.
That was not the end, because then he felt that the cold wind like knives was constantly drilling into his body through his trousers, hands and neck.
“It’s so cold during this period!”
Qin Jun felt a little emotional. If it wasn't for a bite to eat, he wouldn't have gone out early in the winter to look for trouble!
Knowing that he could not hold out for long, Qin Jun quickly moved around. With just a little movement, he reached the entrance of the courtyard.
After a little groping, Qin Jun found a sack that had been prepared long ago behind the gate.
Of course, he didn't forget to stuff a wood-chop ax wrapped in a sack into his lower back.
Carefully roll up the sack and stuff it into your armpit.
Slowly open the door and walk out of the yard.
Looking back at the dilapidated courtyard, Qin Jun couldn't help but sigh. This is really a family with only four walls!
After closing the door, Qin Jun quickly walked towards the east end of the village along the dark alley.
As he walked, he checked his surroundings.
The early morning in winter is the darkest and coldest time. Obviously, no one will go out at this time.
After taking a few steps, the sound came far away, but even so, there was no sound feedback.
In this era, there were not even dogs in the village, because there was no extra food to feed them, and even if they had, they would not be willing to part with them.
If there is food for dogs, it is better to feed one more pig.
When I walked out of the village, I immediately felt eerie because the surrounding vegetation was a bit lush!
I have to say that the ecology of rural areas in the 1970s and 1980s was maintained very well.
Except for some irregular patches of land, the rest of the land was covered with bushes.
For a place like this, if it were in the northeast, the Qin army would really not dare to come over early in the morning because there are too many wild animals.
The land of Qilu is different. Even now in the late 1970s, except for some deep mountains, carnivores are rarely seen.
Even if you see one, it is usually a wild wolf, and often it is not a pack of wild wolves, but a lone wolf.
The Qin army is really not afraid of the lone wolf.
Because he has been working on the team since he was twelve years old, and now he is fourteen years old and has already gained strength.
In addition, during the half month of his rebirth, he worked hard to take supplements to make his body better and stronger.
As the saying goes, if I am a grown man who eats me to death, he will definitely not be able to get enough if he only relies on the small rations at home.
Even if you occasionally get a rabbit from hunting and hunt for teeth, you go to bed too early at night, and you often wake up from cold and hunger at three or four in the morning.
This is why Qin Jun had to go out in the early morning and work hard to find food.
Unfortunately, it is cold winter and there are no animals moving in the wild.
There are definitely no ones that are too big. The most common ones are wild cats, weasels and rats. Even rabbits are very rare.
The wild cat and mouse can be ignored, because no matter how hungry he is, he can't eat this!
Therefore, the Qin army's target was the weasel, also commonly known as Wong Tai Sin.
The reason why they come out in the early morning is because small animals such as weasels and black-billed weasels only come out at dusk and early morning.
For weasels living near rural areas, it is obviously not suitable to hunt at dusk because humans are not sleeping yet.
Therefore, early morning is the best time for weasels to be active.
Unfortunately, in the eyes of hunters who understand their living habits, this is a fatal weakness.
Qin Jun just can't afford a gun now, otherwise, he must have made a fortune.
However, even if there is nothing, he can still get the first pot of gold for rebirth.
Because it is not difficult for him to catch the weasel just by relying on experience and traps.
Weasels are social animals, so as long as they are found in a place, it is much easier to catch them.
You must know that Qin Jun was reborn, and there are many ways to hunt weasels in his memory.
For example, the simplest is traps and traps, the more difficult is fumigation, and the most difficult is of course hunting with a gun.
It's not because he's not good at shooting, but because he has no money and can't afford a gun.
But, without a gun, wouldn’t he be able to make a trap?
After being reborn for half a month, he was already very sure that he didn't have a golden finger, not to mention the system, and he didn't even have a portable space.
Now, he can only turn the decades of memories from his past life into gold fingers.
With the memory of later generations, he remembered clearly that when his nephews and nieces who were born in the 1980s were in elementary school, there was a text on how to catch weasels in their textbooks.
Of course, the textbooks will definitely not teach it directly, but will tell how hunters capture weasels in order to make money.
It's very simple, just dig a deep pit, the diameter doesn't need to be big, but you need to pour water on it to freeze the walls of the pit, so that if the weasel jumps down, it won't be able to get up.
The Qin army planned to use this method instead of using traps.
Because he didn't have good materials to make a cover. You must know that the weasel's incisors are extremely hard and can easily bite through ordinary wire mesh.
Therefore, it is not easy to firmly control these clever little guys.
Last night, the Qin army put the bait into the trap, and now they went over to see if they had any harvest.
However, after leaving the village, he changed his direction slightly.
At this time, he was walking north, facing the northwest wind and going against the wind.
Although weasels are blind, their sense of smell is extremely sensitive.
Therefore, he also wanted to see if there were any weasels around. If there were, he could place traps on the routes that these weasels must pass.
This is how he has been looking for weasels in recent times, and he has become accustomed to moving against the wind.
In the past ten days, Qin Jun had roughly figured out the activity range of the weasel population around the village.
He has now targeted several groups, and only in this way can he selectively place traps around them and release bait.
The bait is a live-caught mouse, and the method of catching it is not difficult, nothing more than using a mousetrap and a mousetrap.
There is no shortage of rats in the countryside now, and it is not difficult to catch some.
Qin Jun captured some himself and asked his friends to help capture some, so he collected a lot.
The bait was already put down last night, and now all I have to do is go over and see if there are any harvests.
However, in the early morning in the wild, the sky was dark, and Qin Jun walked slowly without a flashlight.
Fortunately, he was only on the edge of the village, and the courtyard here was very flat. He could still see the surrounding situation clearly through the moonlight.
In addition, he marked each trap, so it was easy to locate the target in the dark.
Soon, he came to the nearest trap.
The trap group here is next to a narrow piece of granite. Next to this rock, the Qin army deployed three traps in succession.
Therefore, as long as there is a weasel moving around here, you will never be able to avoid the traps he sets.
Sure enough, after looking in the dark, Qin Jun found that there was prey in a trap.
This is located next to the farm yard to the east of the village. The yard next to it is very flat and is used by the village to thresh wheat. Now there are wheat straw piled up everywhere.
As for weasels, they often hide under firewood, rocks and cave walls.
A few days ago, Qin Jun discovered groups of weasels here.
Weasels are relatively timid and are afraid of many things.
It would never walk around in an open place like a courtyard.
Therefore, the ditches and ridges close to the yard are the best choice for them to walk invisibly.
And that long and narrow rock gave them fewer routes to choose from.
In other words, when they get here, they must choose to walk against the rocks, which gives the Qin army a chance.
Therefore, there is a harvest in the first trap in a perfect location.
Judging from the situation, the weasel in the trap is quite small.
Although there is no way to measure it, the size should be over forty centimeters. Such a big weasel can definitely be sold for fifty yuan.
Fifty yuan each! Didn’t you expect to get this?
Qin Jun felt relieved when he thought of Weasel's information.
This is the late 1970s, not two thousand years later.
In this era, there are very few commodities that can be exported in exchange for foreign exchange, and most of them are raw materials.
Weasel skin is a good currency exchange commodity.
Weasel skin has natural fine guard hairs, rich undervelvet, bright color and smooth luster, and is the best raw material for making fur.
Tail hair is water-drainable, wear-resistant, and has good elasticity. It is the raw material for making high-grade wolf hair brushes.
The most important thing is that many wealthy foreigners like it!
For example, Russian painters particularly like brushes made from weasel tail hair.
Rich people in Europe even like cloaks made of weasel fur!
Because of foreign demand, weasels have been hunted in large numbers in China since the 1950s and 1960s.
In the 1950s and 1960s, twelve weasel skins could be exchanged for one ton of oil, and twenty-five weasel skins could be exchanged for one ton of steel.
It is because of the high price that 90% of the weasel skins in the world come from our country.
In the 1970s, the price of a weasel skin was 25 yuan, which was a month's salary for a worker with a first-level technical level.
This was not the end, because by the early 1980s, the price of a weasel skin had reached fifty yuan.
Fifty yuan! The price is really high.
You know, in this era, only a few workers can get a monthly salary of fifty yuan.
And as long as you kill a weasel, you can easily get fifty yuan.
Qin Jun found that the hunting method recorded in the textbook was really easy to use. The first trap actually yielded a harvest.
Perhaps because he heard the noise, the weasel in the ice cave raised his head warily.
Looking at the green eyes in the trap, Qin Jun was startled at first.
In the dark night, the eyes are glowing green. Anyone who sees them will be startled, right?
However, he then realized that he had heard a long time ago that weasels have bright green eyes at night, right?
This is Wong Tai Sin. Unfortunately, it can't do anything now. It can't jump up, and it's even impossible to climb.
Falling into this kind of trap, both Wong Tai Sin and Wong Siu Sin can only wait for death.
