Carrying a Jurassic on me
Chapter 369 - 82: Our Father is not a Corrupt Criminal_1

Chapter 369: Chapter 82: Our Father is not a Corrupt Criminal_1

In the dinosaur world, somewhere within a valley.

No.1 Coolie and No.2 Coolie were sleeping when a muffled sound rang outside. The two men woke up reassuredly, feeling their heart skipping a beat.

Almost immediately, both of them quietly crawled out of their beds, exchanged glances, and cautiously approached the cave entrance to peek through the gaps between the branches blocking the cave entrance.

Just one glance, and their legs felt slightly weak.

In fact, most people of their time did not even know what a dinosaur was, let alone heard of it. As for things like time travel and fantasy, it was all nonsense to them.

Ever since No.1 Coolie and No.2 Coolie entered this strange world, they were petrified every day. Looking at the entrance of their cave, it was okay during the day. But at night, the entire entrance was blocked by rocks, leaving a tiny hole that barely allowed one person to crawl through, and even that had to be obscured by branches.

This was truly horrifying. They ended up in this world full of monsters. Although they hadn’t seen many land-based dinosaurs, they had seen plenty of devil-like flying Pterosaurs. During the day, they would normally do work outside while wearing hats made of twigs and leaves as a camouflage.

And now, seeing a huge monster appear at the entrance of their cave, they could not even clearly see its complete appearance from the inside of the cave. This truly scared them to the point of nearly losing control of their bodily functions.

Only when they heard Yan Fei’s voice outside did they feel a little relieved: "If you two are awake, come out and see if this crocodile skin can be tanned. I think it’s thick and might be useful later!"

No.1 and No.2 Coolie finally courageously crawled out of the cave, and finally saw the entire skin of the Sarcosuchus king.

It was indeed quite big. The whole intact skin laid on the ground, even without considering the head and tail, just the torso alone was big enough to cover two rooms.

When the two men came near the skin of the Sarcosuchus king, their footsteps felt as if they were walking on cotton. They stretched out their hands a few times, but still didn’t dare to touch the skin.

It wasn’t until Yan Fei reminded them: "Check it out. The skin of this crocodile is a bit thick and could be hard to work with. Don’t worry, touch it. It’s been dead for a few days now, and I’ve eaten some of its flesh."

The two men thought for a moment, and suddenly they weren’t scared anymore. What did they have to fear from a big monster? The most powerful one was by their side. Didn’t he say that he had eaten some of its meat?

Only then did they muster the courage to inspect the Sarcosuchus king’s skin.

No.2 Coolie even dared to speak, "This really is a crocodile, it’s just too big. I didn’t recognize it."

The statement was true, if they didn’t step back to appreciate the whole picture, who could tell it was a crocodile?

The two men walked around the Sarcosuchus skin, looking at it for a while before No.1 Coolie finally wiped off the cold sweat from his forehead and talked to Yan Fei: "I think we can handle the soft skin on its belly. As for the scaly part on its back, I can only try my best. I’m not sure it will work. It’s too thick and difficult to separate. Even if we manage to split it, our strength might be insufficient to handle it. Besides the skin on the belly, I’m thinking we could try to process it in other ways."

Yan Fei nodded: "It doesn’t matter, go ahead and try it out. Consider it as a toy to play with. Although this is a rare size, but there are plenty of smaller ones, don’t worry about spoiling it."

Seeing the two continue their research on the skin, Yan Fei looked at the hour and said, "Alright, you two should go back to sleep. You can deal with it tomorrow, there’s no rush. I just happened to have finished processing it, so I brought it here for you two to take a look. Tomorrow during the day, I won’t be coming over here as I have something else to do. You can mess around with it however you want, don’t worry about breaking it, it’s not a rare item. If it works, it works, if it doesn’t, just forget it."

When Yan Fei said he was busy, he was really busy.

He went to the cattle farm before dawn, woke up Heizi and started preparing the stuff.

Vegetables, eggs, the sweet potatoes, and salted vegetables that were given to him by the folks from the nearby village – he loaded two big baskets full of these things.

Once Heizi and the young man from Huangtuwa woke up and casually ate something, two baskets were picked up by two wooden sticks and placed on the cow’s back. These three people then departed.

It was alright in summer as the sky would have been brightened by now, but it was still dark at this time of the year. There was no way around it, cows walked too slow. To arrive at the cattle market sooner, they had to set off earlier.

On the way, Yan Fei got to know the name of the young man from Huangtuwa. His name was Tian Dafu.

Huangtuwa and Heap Hillock only had two family names: One was Tian, and the other was Hu.

Tian Dafu was only 15 years old. Due to some kind of family event, he wasn’t very talkative, only responding when asked. Most of what he said was about promising Yan Fei he would raise the cattle well and told him not to worry. His words were filled with admiration for Yan Fei and others.

Heizi was delighted to have found someone who admired him. He chimed in recklessly, "Don’t worry, there are other benefits besides raising cattle well. You were curious about why we were dealing with those earthworms yesterday, right? That’s because..."

Halfway through his rant, he turned back to Yan Fei and asked, "Brother Fei, it’s alright if I tell him about this, right?"

Yan Fei helplessly nodded, thinking to himself, you’re only asking me after you’ve already blurted it all out? But it didn’t really matter to him at this point. He planned to finish the business of selling and buying cows in the next few days and then head to the provincial city, bringing along some earthworms to see what kind of price he could get for them. If he could make a profit, then he wouldn’t mind others knowing about it.

In fact, he was now quite confident that this project could make money, after all, the investment was small. Cow dung didn’t cost anything, and it didn’t require much manpower or effort. Besides, the current cost of hiring labor was so cheap compared to the potential earnings that he wasn’t worried about making a loss at all.

Seeing Yan Fei nod, Heizi continued his boasting, "This is a high-tech technique that Brother Fei learned from the provincial city. If you end up raising a lot of cows in the future, it’s not impossible for us to teach you this technique, right Brother Fei? Then you can raise them at home without wasting the cow dung. When all’s said and done, Brother Fei will be the one to purchase it, and you won’t be at a loss!"

Did I ever say that?

Yan Fei couldn’t remember if he ever mentioned this to Heizi. But it was too early to talk about it now, let him ramble on. If the earthworms turned out to be valuable, this idea wasn’t bad at all!

There were many households raising cows in Sancha River village, and there was plenty of cow dung. If everyone was able to raise earthworms, he could collect them and sell them in the provincial city, and even a small markup could generate a decent amount of money.

Even if he didn’t make much money in the end, wouldn’t it feel like an accomplishment to have so many people working with him?

He would have to consider the issue of where to get earthworms for farming. According to the information he had on hand and what Wang Jiuming had emphasized to him repeatedly, they should avoid digging up wild ones as much as possible. After all, even an abundant natural supply couldn’t sustain a mass digging effort.

That’s right, he could raise some earthworms in the dinosaur world where the climate was excellent. Once the earthworms grew a bit larger, he could say they were specially bred worms. Anyone who wanted to raise earthworms would have to buy the breed from him, and he wasn’t worried about people being able to distinguish what variety of earthworms they were.

But he’d have to be careful not to accidentally breed monsters. There were also earthworms in the dinosaur world, he didn’t pay much attention to the small ones, but he had seen some that were one to two meters long and looked like snakes. If he brought those out, it would be quite terrifying.

As he was musing over these thoughts, they arrived at the edge of the county. Yan Fei unloaded the two baskets from the cow’s back, instructing Heizi to take Tian Dafu to the cattle market first, while he carried the baskets to bring the vegetables to his parents.

It was still very early by the time he arrived at the family members’ yard of the fertilizer factory. Everyone was only just beginning to prepare breakfast.

When Yanfei’s mom saw Yan Fei lugging in so many vegetables, she complained, "Why bring so much at once? Isn’t it tiring carrying all this?"

Yan Fei explained, "Now that the weather’s cold, these veggies will last a few more days, so I brought more. Also, I didn’t carry them all the way, I let the cow carry them when I came to sell it. I only started carrying them when we reached the intersection and sent them off to the cattle market."

Yanfei’s mom was very busy, and after his explanation, she gestured for him to sit and went in to wake Yan Chao.

After only a few words, the sound of Yan Chao crying and making a fuss came from the room. Amid his cries, one sentence made Yan Fei tense up, and he glanced at Yanfei’s father whose expression was somewhat grim. Yan Fei hurried inside to see what was going on.

The moment Yan Chao saw him, he cried out, "Big brother, you tell them, our dad isn’t a corrupt official! I don’t want to go to school, they say our dad is a corrupt official..."

Yanfei’s mom was furious, raising her hand as if to smack him, "You little brat, stop talking nonsense! Who said your dad is a corrupt official? Can’t you come up with a better excuse not to go to school..."

After seeing Yanfei’s father’s expression looking not too good outside and now Yanfei’s mom’s reaction, even if Yan Fei was slow he knew something wasn’t right. He stepped forward to block Yanfei’s mom’s hand from hitting Yan Chao, saying to Yan Chao, "Xiaochao, don’t cry. Tell big brother what happened."

Yan Chao was only a few years old, he couldn’t articulate clearly, he just kept crying and saying his dad wasn’t a corrupt official.

Yanfei’s mom, her face a mask of discomfort, said, "Xiao Fei, don’t ask any more, it’s not a big deal with your dad, it’s not as severe as Xiaochao is making it out to be."

"What’s going on? I still don’t understand! What happened to my dad? Are we short of money? Why are you hiding things from me? Is there anything you can’t tell me?"

Hearing Yan Fei’s consecutive questions, Lin Xiumei looked distressed, struggling with whether she should tell Yan Fei the truth.

The rooms here didn’t offer much soundproofing, Yan Wenhai outside had long heard the conversation between the mother and son inside. He called out, "Hurry up and get Xiaochao dressed! Xiao Fei, you come out too. What can’t be said? It’s just a small matter."

Upon hearing their father’s voice, the three inside all fell silent. Xiaochao, who had been fussing for a while now, obediently allowed himself to be dressed.

Once they all emerged, Yan Wenhai casually said to Yan Fei, "It’s nothing serious. Your mother and I just advanced our wages for two months. It’s a perfectly normal thing to do, it’s just happens that a position opened up at the factory and someone is competing with me for it, and they brought up this wage advance issue."

Hearing this, Yan Fei was relieved. As long as it wasn’t a matter of going to prison, it was fine.

Still, he asked, "When did this happen? If you were short on money, why didn’t you tell me? What happened that you needed to advance your wages?"