Super Zoo

Chapter 246 Return to Yangchuan

Having one less testicle actually doesn't affect wild boar mating; on the contrary, Suming felt that it could even focus their efforts, potentially increasing the success rate!

Yangchuan City Zoo doesn't have holidays over the New Year, but generally, if employees are not on duty, they would take leave or time off to return to work around the sixth or seventh day of the first lunar month. Clearly, Suming was not a regular employee... which is why he shamelessly took his leave up until the twenty-second day of the first lunar month, probably setting a record for the longest Chinese New Year holiday given by the Yangchuan City Zoo, apart from those who got married over the holiday period.

In Sun Town during this time, Suming spent most of his days sitting on the hillside, watching the wild boars mating with great interest. It's said that stones from other hills may serve to polish the jade; after watching such scenes for some time, one would definitely learn a thing or two. Wild boars only used the rear-entry position, but this simple posture was explored with countless variations; the details determined success or failure, the details determined quality...

In the town, Wu set about recruiting workers. Out of the eighty positions available, more than one hundred people applied, and eventually, just over thirty were filtered out. By now, Suming had essentially become the 'boss' of most families in Sun Town. The townspeople greeted him with such excessive enthusiasm that Suming felt extremely embarrassed.

Just around the Chinese New Year, it was also the mating season for wild boars. Big Brother Two and Pig Number Two mated so frequently from dawn till dusk that it was highly likely that nearly all the sows in the town were pregnant by now. At this point, the two boars were purely indulging themselves under the guise of public service.

The more Suming watched, the more he felt these two had frighteningly good stamina. Even for wild boars, such vigor was unheard of. They started their efforts from before dawn and didn't stop until it went dark. After a few days, any animal would be overwhelmed; it was too exaggerated, even for them who had grown up eating Lingzhi mushrooms and morels from a young age.

Indeed, by the eighth day of the lunar year, the two exhausted beasts started to show signs of fatigue: walking unsteadily, gasping for breath just a few steps in, unable to wag their tails or keep their ears perked up. They were no longer excited at the sight of the sows, opting to walk a wide berth around them instead.

Behind every beautiful sow was a boar that had mated to the point of feeling sick!

The word "tragic" was the only way to describe it. These two didn't die at the hands of humans, nor in the jaws of a giant snake, nor did their missing testicle stop them from living strongly, but they almost met their demise in bed.

"Our future tasks will be very challenging. Now we only have six sows, but in less than a month, there will be dozens. You'll both be very busy then, and you must take care of yourselves for the cause of the future revolution. You must not fall! I'm telling you, this is a political task that must be accomplished!" Suming earnestly said to Big Brother Two and Pig Number Two. Discover more stories at empire

"Grunt grunt..." They were clearly frightened as they grunted and shook their heads incessantly, the hard bristles on their head flattening out, and their tiny eyes spinning round and round.

In the mountains, there were countless wild pigs' favorite Chinese herbs and berries that grew back as soon as they were eaten, with no end in sight.

Upon Suming's suggestion, the hilltop chosen for raising wild pigs in Sun Town was located right behind the town. Raising the wild pigs there was not only convenient for human care but also, in the future, large groups of hybrid wild pigs, under the leadership of their "Second Brother", would form a natural barrier. With them there, ferocious predators would not approach Sun Town, and not even venomous snakes would be present.

By the fifteenth of the first lunar month, right after they finished eating sweet dumplings, news came from Liang Shi. He had discussed with Professor Chu and decided to send two agricultural college graduates specializing in animal husbandry to Sun Town to help raise wild pigs, provide technical support, and also to do internships. This arrangement was beneficial for both parties, and moreover, Suming had dug into his own pocket to pay them a six months' salary.

Chu, through Liang Shi, expressed his gratitude to Suming. It was not easy for students from the Agricultural College to find internship placements, and within half a year, Suming had solved the internship problems for three students, all with decent pay.

"Give lectures? Me, give lectures to the agricultural college graduates?" Chu's way of expressing gratitude was indeed unexpected, inviting Suming to give lectures at the Agricultural College to undergraduate and graduate students whenever he had time.

Was he to teach them how to breed wild pigs? It seems my malicious claws will soon stretch into the campus, corrupting the innocent university students. Just thinking about it made him feel a little excited...

Everything was going rather smoothly, and on the last few days of the vacation, Suming lazed at home, spending all day chatting with his mother, eating his fill and then sleeping, waking only to eat again. He also took time to visit the wild pigs' home once more, dug up the remaining sheep-stomach mushrooms by their roots, and left the mountains with the reticulated python and over eighty snakes.

On the twentieth day of the first lunar month, Mr. Dong arrived with a small animal transport container truck from the Yangchuan City Zoo,

"So many snakes?" Mr. Dong's scalp tingled at the sight of such a large group of snakes. Although Suming had bought dozens of metal cages from a chicken farm in the county to prevent any extraordinary shock, the sight of hundreds of rare venomous snakes was still quite staggering.

Dong's eyes widened and he gulped, thinking that Suming, this youngster, had he been catching snakes every single day during his New Year visit home?

When he saw a reticulated python five or six meters long coiled around Suming's shoulder, Dong's legs went weak, and he nearly fainted from fright.

"Mr. Dong, you used to be a special forces soldier, how can you be afraid of snakes?" Suming, carrying the large python, said with disdain.