In 1985, I was lucky enough to buy a thoroughbred West German long-haired rabbit worth 50 marks from Tangyin

Since the eight-year-old brother used his savings of 40 cents in 1977 to buy a pair of one-month-old Angolan long-haired rabbits in Zhouying Street, by the time he moved, the family had grown to more than twenty. I couldn't help but sigh at the miraculous fecundity of the long-haired rabbit, just like a young locust sapling on the grave of the south polder in the village, which not only grew into a towering tree, but also gave birth to a forest, giving birth to countless delicious turtles; it was like sprinkling a small handful of peanut rice, and the edges grew into a large green and oily peanut field.

As early as the construction of the house and the courtyard, due to the large open space on the west side of the courtyard, Li Da and Li Niang bought back the cement prefabricated board from Nanchang Township that was enough to build a row and more than twenty rabbit nests. In fact, at that time, raising long-haired rabbits could not earn much money, and it could only be said that they were zero-savings and whole--because the family had a large mouthful of land, the sticks and wheat fed to the rabbits basically depended on buying; coupled with wild grasses, taro seedlings, peanut seedlings, and leaves that did not cost money, plus the sweat of the whole family, two or three months saved into a stubble of rabbit hair, replaced by whole money, cash money, and supplemented the family.

Moreover, the Angolan long-haired rabbit must be farmed on a large scale in order to see the benefits. If you keep three or five in the family, you will hardly see the money. This is why the eldest and the eldest and the youngest wanted to expand the number of Angora long-haired rabbits from twenty to sixty.

In addition, raising rabbits is relatively convenient, clean and quiet - every morning and evening, a handful of grass, a spoonful of grain, a bowl of water, it will be honestly divided as if it did not exist, unlike pigs, sheep, cattle, horses, mules, donkeys, every day screaming to pull the broken throat shouting, hungry shouting thirsty shouting full and screaming, is also a big lump, smoked people dare not breathe, will also attract dense flies.

Just when the family was breeding long-haired rabbits in large quantities, Wang Zhongshun, a junior high school classmate of Li Da in Zaozhuang No. 4 Middle School and a veterinarian at the Zhouying Veterinary Station who was rated as an advanced individual at the municipal level and an outstanding technician in a municipal township in 1980, came to his home to vaccinate the rabbits.

He provided a message to The University: The Tangyin Township Veterinary Station introduced five pairs of purebred West German long-haired rabbits from West Germany through foreign trade, and was ready to vigorously breed purebred rabbits at the same time, and then cross-breed with Angolan long-haired rabbits to engage in a "10,000 rabbit farm", but because the funds were not in place, the new township mayor was not optimistic about the prospects for the development of rabbit breeding, and the matter was not resolved.

Yesterday, when the manager of their veterinary station came to an exchange meeting, he said: Breeding rabbits are ready to be disposed of at a low price, and ask you who wants it? I think this is a good news, anyway, to breed more, it is better to raise excellent varieties - invest as much energy and feed, but can maximize the income!

Before leaving, I felt that I was not very sure to buy rabbits at the Tangyin Township Veterinary Station where I was not familiar with life. Therefore, he went to Sun Zhuang and called Sergeant Sun to accompany him. Sergeant Sun, a public teacher, Sun Caixia's eldest, about forty, medium stature, Chinese character face, black and red face, eyebrow heart a bean-sized purple-black fleshy fever. He worked with Li Da and Li Niang in the Houhan School for more than ten years, and also raised more than thirty Angolan long-haired rabbits.

It is said that he was fond of martial arts, good at long fists and nine whips. However, whether he went to my house to drink, or when he was my physical education in elementary school, painting in the first grade, or physical hygiene teacher in the third grade, I never saw him show his hands, and I don't know if it was true or not. However, looking at his solid body, the flexible and athletic figure on the upper and lower parallel bars and the basketball court, it should be true - the real person is exposed.

Sergeant Sun and Sergeant Sun set off on bicycles in the morning and returned home at the beginning of nightfall. Thirty miles, back and forth how not to use a whole day! After they rushed to the Tangyin Veterinary Station, they successfully met the Station Manager Qian and the West German Longhair Rabbit - the ears were upright, the eyes were pink and round like slippers, the coat color was pure and white, and the body was as big as two months of pig seedlings——

With the permission of the station manager, Li Da took out one from the spacious stainless steel cage and weighed it by hand, feeling that it weighed about two pounds more than the adult Angolan long-haired rabbit by experience. After turning over the belly and lifting the tail to identify it as a male rabbit, he opened the hair on the side of the rabbit's rib with five fingers and felt that the rabbit hair was slender, soft and smooth, like silk flowing through the fingers. Next, he breathed a long breath at the rabbit's flat and broad back, and the thick rabbit hair fell with the breath, but its pink skin was not visible. I turned around and secretly attached Sergeant Sun and said: The West German long-haired rabbit is indeed an excellent breed, and it can definitely cut three or two hairs more than the adult Angora rabbit we raised.

But when it came time to pay the money, I ran into trouble. Because these five pairs of long-haired rabbits were bought in German currency marks, one pair is eighty marks, but no one can figure out, how much yuan can be exchanged for one mark? Is the mark worth more than the renminbi, or is the renminbi worth more than the mark? Since the township government and the previous leader in charge of the veterinary station in charge of this matter were transferred, no one could be found to inquire for a while.

At this time, the village chief of Tangyin Second Village hurried to report that their village had just suddenly "sick" and killed two large yellow cattle, and they did not know what the situation was. Qian Station Manager's stomach seemed to be burned by a bright red soldering iron, "Teng" a sound, jumped up from the chair, hurriedly organized and led people down to check, to see if the cultivated cattle suffered from the terrible "foot-and-mouth disease", "mad cow disease" and other infectious diseases!

The station manager went for six hours, and only when the sun went down did he push the bicycle back with a dusty face, saying that someone had poisoned him and had been dealt with by the police station. For these six hours, Li Da and Sergeant Sun had been standing at the door of the Qian StationMaster's office, not even eating lunch, but drinking a full of water from the yellow rusty tap water spout at the veterinary station.

The station manager saw that the two of them were eager to buy rabbits, both were teachers, and they had a relationship with Wang Zhongshun, so they made a decision: a pair of eighty yuan - yuan. He paid fifty yuan and bought the male rabbit; Sergeant Sun bought the female rabbit. It wasn't until many years later that I learned that one mark would be exchanged for more than a dozen yuan. Therefore, together with Wang Zhongshun and Sergeant Sun, he bought a box of Lanling Daqu and two stone forest cigarettes to thank the station manager for money.