I'M THE FARMGIRL YOU CAN'T MESS WITH

Chapter 141: Cooperation

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“My father is very familiar with the forest. If we get him to lead a team to teach everyone how to set up traps, we will definitely be able to catch a lot of rabbits,” Mu Yangling said. “Besides, setting up traps or digging up rabbit nests don’t take up too much time. You just have to go and pick up the prey in the traps the next morning. Since there are already so many rabbits out in the day, I’m sure there are as many rabbits out at night as there are people on the streets during the Lantern Festival. The traps set up will definitely be useful.”

Qi Haoran widened his eyes. “You’ve been here at night?”

Mu Yangling shook her head. “Although I’ve never been here at night, I can tell from the traces on the ground. Actually, although there were many rabbits before winter last year, there were never so many of them. I didn’t expect them to reproduce so many descendants in just one winter.”

Rabbits could breed at three months of age, and each litter contained at least four to five babies. Going by this calculation, the number of newly added rabbits was quite sizable.

However, Fan Zijin asked curiously, “Since rabbits grow so quickly, why have people never thought of raising rabbits? Instead, people usually raise chickens and ducks? Isn’t rabbit meat more expensive than chicken and duck meat?”

Lowering her head, Mu Yangling fell into deep thought. After a while, she said, “Rabbits are difficult to raise because they tend to run away when given a chance. Moreover, rabbits are more difficult to sell. After all, most farmers raise chickens and ducks for their own consumption now. Very few people specially raise them for the purpose of selling.”

However, Qi Haoran said, “We rarely get to eat rabbit meat in the restaurants and eateries when in Lin’an Prefecture. If we want to eat it, we either ask our servants to buy it or hunt it ourselves. If there are many rabbits, the restaurants and eateries can sell dishes made using rabbit meat, like here. The customers will naturally be willing to spend.”

Fan Zijin looked at him in admiration. “That’s true. Selling northern goods in the south is a profitable business.” Fan Zijin tried to tempt Mu Yangling. “Miss Mu, why don’t we cooperate? You’ll raise rabbits, and I’ll be in charge of selling rabbits to the south. We’ll split the profits 30-70.”

Mu Yangling’s eyes lit up. “70% for me and 30% for you?”

Fan Zijin looked at her strangely and said, “Of course it’s 70% for me and 30% for you.”

Feeling that he was being too unfair, Mu Yangling asked, “Who’s in charge of the baby rabbits—you or I?”

“Of course it’s you,” Fan Zijin said matter-of-factly. “I’m only in charge of selling them. The work of raising rabbits is all yours.”

This time, Qi Haoran also felt that Fan Zijin was being too unfair to Mu Yangling. Both of them being his good friends, he felt conflicted before deciding to handle this fairly. He pulled Fan Zijin back and said, “This is too disadvantageous to Mu Yangling.”

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