Taking a closer look under the starlight, the little thing below is all golden. Except for the fur on the mouth, which is partially black, the fur on the neck and abdomen are all the same golden color.
After seeing it clearly, Qin Jun breathed a sigh of relief. This was indeed a weasel, not a black-billed weasel or something else.
Such a weasel, caught in this season, is definitely first-class!
Qin Jun giggled for a while, then turned around and pulled out a wooden fork that had been prepared long ago from a pile of firewood.
This is the first stop for hunting, so the wooden fork is naturally the most suitable place.
The wooden fork directly stuck into the weasel, and then he bent down to pick up a fist-sized stone. He didn't aim carefully at all, and the stone landed accurately on the weasel's head.
There was a soft "touch" sound, and Wong Tai Sin, who had been struggling just now, stopped moving.
Qin Jun did not dare to use too much force for fear of damaging the fur on his head.
But just like that, the weasel in the trap also fell down.
After fiddling with it, I found that its body had become soft, and it seemed to be dead, or at least fainted.
However, the Qin army was not careless.
He first opened the sack to cover the ice hole, then inserted the wooden fork in his hand into the weasel's neck and slid up the ice hole.
In this way, the weasel's head is always fixed on the cave wall, and it cannot escape even if it pretends to be dead.
After the weasel was successfully put into the sack, Qin Jun breathed a sigh of relief. Now he was truly safe!
The first trap was harvested, which made Qin Jun full of confidence, and he was looking forward to the current ecological environment.
It seems that the biggest natural enemy of weasels nowadays is rat poison?
But weasels are not stupid either. If they suffer too much, they will not eat dead mice.
In this way, weasels in the wild have no natural enemies!
There are many weasels, and if you have never encountered a trap before, it is naturally easy to fall for it.
Therefore, when we came to the second trap group, we actually had something to gain.
"Fifty dollars again!"
Qin Jun was really feeling a little emotional. Isn't this the same as picking up money?
And it’s still fifty yuan per pick, which is more than a month’s salary for a third-level worker!
Qin Jun remembers very clearly that in the early 1980s, the salary of first-level workers in Qilu Enterprise was 35.5 yuan.
Even the second-level worker only has 41.5 yuan, the third-level worker is 48 yuan, and the fourth-level worker is 56.87 yuan.
In other words, for a fourth-level worker, one month's salary is only more than the value of a weasel.
But how many level four workers are there in today’s factories? What about Level 5 workers?
The salary of level five workers is 66.53 yuan, that of level six workers is 77.85 yuan, that of level seven workers is 90.08 yuan, and that of level eight workers is only 112.5 yuan.
At that time, eighth-level workers were very rare, and their wages were similar to those of deputy county magistrates, which is equivalent to today's craftsmen in major countries.
Eighth-level workers are only found in factories in big cities. In ordinary counties without enterprises, there are almost no eighth-level workers.
In other words, just for a short while, Qin Jun received almost a month's salary of an eighth-level worker.
This is the benefit of rebirth! Qin Jun was still very emotional when he thought about his miserable life before his rebirth.
Mr. Lu Xun said it well, if life could be repeated, perhaps anyone could become a saint!
After all, if you can predict the future, you can do anything one step ahead of time.
It turns out that his life has been slow and slow, but it is different now.
Returning to this era with clear memories, there were so many things he could do.
Of course, he was still a little confused in the first few days after his rebirth.
After all, it’s really not easy to get around when you suddenly return to an era where your pocket is cleaner than your face, and you still lack food and drink.
Because during this period, urban hukou is still the most popular. After all, urban residents eat food supplied by the state.
Old farmers like him can only earn work points in the team.
If you want to go out, you must have a letter of introduction, and you need various tickets to buy things.
It wasn't until the land was divided in 1981 that life became slightly easier.
But if you want to make money in business and become a household worth 10,000 yuan, you will have to wait until 1984 before you have the opportunity.
If you want to completely free your hands and feet, you have to wait until 1991, after the real reform.
Now we are about to enter the 1980s, and the land of Qilu where the Qin army is located has no land. He will still have to survive for a while.
However, if we go back to the 1980s, if we go down the same old path again, the Qin army might as well be killed, because the farmers of this era are really suffering.
I can’t eat well, and I have no money to buy things.
Breeding is not enough to generate income, and doing business is even more speculative!
It is important to mention here that speculation is a crime, which was a legal provision that was formally formed in 1979.
From this we can know that the social atmosphere at this time is actually not much different from the previous ten or twenty years.
If we really want to say that there has been a change, it is that people's minds have changed. At this time, society is on the eve of a major change!
Under such circumstances, it is best to remain silent.
However, staying put does not mean doing nothing.
Qin Jun racked his brains and finally decided on Wong Tai Sin.
Wong Tai Sin has great magical powers! No, Wong Tai Sin is useful, so it is valuable!
Now that he remembered this information, how could Qin Jun hold back?
Nowadays, doing business is speculation, but hunting is not, and selling home-caught game is not.
Weasels generally have the best fur in the cold winter months.
It is not valuable in the summer, and it is the skins produced during the heavy snow and light snow season after winter that are the most expensive.
Therefore, in the past half month, the Qin army was only preparing, but did not officially start the battle. It was just waiting for the time. It was lightly snowing today, which was a good time for hunting.
Two consecutive traps yielded results, which made Qin Jun excited.
However, when the third group of traps arrived, there were only three shivering rats inside.
Qin Jun looked at the surrounding environment. This place was a bit out of the way. Maybe weasels don't often come here?
It seems that even if there are a large number of weasels, not every trap will yield a harvest.
"No matter what you do, you have to focus on technique! The choice of location should be the most important."
When they came to the next trap group, the Qin army heard a scream before they even got close to the trap.
He saw a weasel, screamed at him, then turned and ran away.
Needless to say, this weasel must have been attracted by the mouse in the trap, but it has not yet made up its mind to go down and have a good meal.
If you withstand the temptation, you will escape.
However, the weasel just now was not big. Maybe it was because of this that it did not dare to jump into the ice cave?
If you are small, have little experience, are timid, and have no self-confidence, you will naturally not dare to jump into the ice cave casually.
This happened to save its life, but Qin Jun didn't care about these little weasels because they were worthless.
The price of weasel pelts is determined based on the size and quality of the pelts.
Weasel skins from the ninth generation, with a body length of more than 40cm, no damage, and shiny hair, are priced at 50 yuan per animal.
Above 30cm, only 35 yuan/piece.
Below 30cm, each price ranges from 3 to 8 yuan.
In this case, why would the Qin army use all their resources to catch fish?
The most important thing is that no one can compete with him in this era!
Therefore, no matter how big or small the weasels here are, they all belong to him.
There is nothing we can do about this, because the superstitious ideas of the Qilu people are no worse than those of the Northeastern people.
It is even said that those people in the Northeast who are superstitious about Wong Tai Sin are probably Qilu immigrants.
Of course, weasels are quite evil, mainly because they have "invincible" life-saving weapons.
Next to their anus, there is a pair of soybean-shaped odor glands attached, which can emit a smelly secretion when they escape.
The secretion is poisonous. If it is shot in the head and inhaled into the nose, it will cause dizziness, nausea and vomiting. In severe cases, hallucinations or coma may occur.
Therefore, the weasel has the nickname "Wong Tai Sin".
There are even rumors that weasels dig graves and take shelter in them.
In rural areas, many people have heard some legends, such as the rumor that if you offend Wong Tai Sin, you will be retaliated against, so no one dares to offend the weasel easily.
Because of this, it was not until two thousand years later that outsiders came here to lure local villagers to hunt weasels.
Originally, Qin Jun was busy working outside, so it was impossible for him to know this kind of information.
But who makes those people so smart?
In 2018, the weasel was considered a priceless animal in the fur market.
Therefore, at that time, weasel skins with a body length of more than 40 centimeters could be sold for 160 yuan.
As for those people who collect skins in the countryside, the prices vary depending on the size of the weasel.
Smaller weasels can be purchased for 10 yuan, while larger ones with shiny fur can be purchased in bulk for 50 yuan.
Compared to the high price of one hundred and sixty yuan, what they can earn is really too much.
It's a pity that they can't find a way to collect the yellow leather.
So as soon as we put it all together, we came up with a “good idea”.
They plan to teach local villagers in Qilu, Jiangsu and Zhejiang to catch weasels and then buy them from the villagers at a low price.
After a simple peeling process, they can be resold at a high price.
The group of people from other provinces played a big game, and they themselves gathered 21 people from the same village to form a gang.
After that, this group of people traveled across many provinces to commit crimes within two years, and eventually captured 12,000 weasels.
Unfortunately, it seems that since 2000, the weasel has become a rare animal, and the fine for illegally hunting one is not low.
It seems that the official appraisal price was 800 yuan per animal. In the end, the group of people were not only sentenced to prison terms, but also fined 9.6 million yuan for hunting 12,000 weasels.
It was because of this sky-high fine that Qin Jun realized that there was such a valuable thing at their doorstep.
It's a pity that it's useless to know it. At most, it just makes me realize it after reading it, and it will add some conversation topics.
Of course, when he heard the news unexpectedly, he also felt a little regretful.
If he had known this information earlier, why would he have gone out to work as a teenager?
Unexpectedly, he would one day return to the late 1970s.
And as long as we wait until the early 1980s, the purchase price of weasel skins will reach 50 yuan each.
It is now the end of November, and there is only one month left in 1979.
Maybe after he has been busy all winter, the purchase price of weasel skin will rise to fifty yuan!
Qin Jun is not in a hurry because he has no competitors at all.
After all, the reputation of the weasel Wong Tai Sin is now far-reaching, and most people dare not provoke him.
Of course, this thing doesn't have a good reputation. Even if someone knows that he specializes in hunting weasels, they won't care. At best, it means that he is stupid and bold.
You must know that weasels are carnivores. If they can't find food in the mountains, they will sneak into farmers' homes to eat chickens and ducks!
Especially in winter, sometimes they not only eat, but also cause harm to people. Every time they bite all the chickens and ducks in the chicken coop to death.
This makes people hate it. After all, in the 1970s and 1980s, chickens, ducks and geese were important assets of the family.
The Qin army was ruthless in hunting down these heinous things.
Unfortunately, there are few rewards in the subsequent traps.
From the time he came out at four o'clock in the morning until dawn at six o'clock in the morning, he inspected all the traps in two hours.
It was also at this time that he discovered that in the past two hours, he had actually covered the one square kilometer of mountains to the east of the village.
This area is a hilly area, with mountains and ravines everywhere.
However, because the land of Qilu is densely populated, there are villages around this mountain range.
It is also because of this that a large number of weasels have gathered here.
If there are people, there will be rats.
For weasels, there will be food and drink around.
Coupled with the absence of natural enemies, the population will naturally thrive.
Therefore, in real terms, the Qin Army did not gain much today.
Counting, there were only four adult weasels, but each of these weasels was over forty centimeters in size.
This was the final reward for him to give up a few little weasels.
Finally, he discovered that the hunting success rate was high in the yards, orchards, stone cloaks, wall holes and other places to the east of the village.
Nine of the traps in these places caught prey.
Therefore, it seems that the farther the trap is from the village, the less the harvest will be.
In the end, he only wanted four large adult weasels, and five of them were too small and worthless, so they could be released.
The four in hand now are all adult weasels with a body length of more than 40 centimeters, and only this kind can be sold at a high price.
Moreover, the backs of the heads of the four weasels were all blasted.
In this way, the integrity of the fur will not be damaged, and naturally it can be sold at the highest price.
"This is only two hundred yuan. The salary of an eighth-level worker at this time is only one hundred and twelve!"
From this we can also see how great the gains of the Qin army today were.
It can be said that the two weasels he hunts now are equivalent to one month's salary of an eighth-level worker!
In just one morning, he earned a month's salary equivalent to two eighth-level workers!
With this kind of gain, the Qin army can be considered a victory.
After inserting the wooden fork and reinserting the firewood pile into the pile of firewood, carrying the sack, Qin Jun quickly walked towards the village.
At this time, there were already many villagers activities outside the village.
Qin Jun didn't want to attract too much attention, so it was better to return to the village quickly.
However, no matter how careful he was, he still met someone at the entrance of the village.
Because the crops are like a flower, and the family relies entirely on dung.
During this period, some diligent people would get up early in the morning to pick up indescribable things, because these things can also be exchanged for work points.
You must know that this is an era of collective work and earning work points.
At this time, there were actually people getting up early in the morning to work.
Therefore, people are different. Even in this era of eating from a big pot, not everyone is messing around.
