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Chapter 351: Chapter 354 Invaluable Treasure_1
"Fat Fat, Fatty, lick him!"
Qiao Duo’er commanded the two fat dogs, and the little ones pounced on Tan Zhenghong. They could already understand simple commands and only listened to Qiao Duo’er.
Watching Tan Zhenghong’s helpless expression, Qiao Duo’er proudly shook her head and then went out to feed the mountain muntjac.
Competing with her, Tan Zhenghong was still far behind!
Tan Zhenghong finally suppressed the rebellious little ones and couldn’t help saying, "Little White-eyed Wolf, I’m your owner too!"
Why would they only listen to the female owner and not the male owner?
Fat Fat and Fatty tilted their heads and then chased after Qiao Duo’er together.
Tan Zhenghong was speechless about the little ones and then also went to Sun Erhu’s courtyard. The mountain muntjac had always been Qiao Duo’er’s responsibility to feed, and his to clean up after.
"Do you think it would be alright if I took the mountain muntjac out for a walk?"
Qiao Duo’er stroked the mountain muntjac’s head, already very familiar with it.
Tan Zhenghong pondered and said, "It has been tamed, so there should be no problem, but you still have to be careful."
"Then I’ll take it into the mountains, maybe it can even lure a few female mountain muntjacs back for me."
Tan Zhenghong looked at Qiao Duo’er with a strange expression. His wife was usually clever, so why wasn’t she up to par now?
Could it be that she, too, had fallen for him?
It must be so, for fools are lovers in love.
A twitch formed at the corner of Qiao Duo’er’s eye. She admitted that the idea was really stupid, but her attention was quickly diverted.
"Look here, it seems like there’s something," Qiao Duo’er pointed to a spot on the front of the mountain muntjac.
"Don’t peek randomly," Tan Zhenghong said sourly.
Although this mountain muntjac was just a beast, it was a male, and it shouldn’t be ogled.
Qiao Duo’er rolled her eyes at Tan Zhenghong, "Stop joking, come here and look, do you think it could be a musk deer?"
Those with fragrance are musk deer, and the musk they produce is known as musk.
Even after the production of synthetic musk, natural musk is still more precious than gold.
"I’ve heard that musk is very valuable, a small piece can sell for Ten Gold..."
Qiao Duo’er quickly covered Tan Zhenghong’s mouth, "Shh, it would be trouble if someone heard us."
Tan Zhenghong nodded his head; he knew that wealth shouldn’t be flaunted!
But Qiao Duo’er dared not get too happy too soon; what if she was wrong? That would be a false celebration. Better to find out for sure first.
Besides, if they had to kill the mountain muntjac to get the musk, then she didn’t want the silver.
Tan Zhenghong pondered and finally decided to consult Academician Zhou.
Academician Zhou had been a scholar in a private school, so he was more knowledgeable than others. Tan Zhenghong successfully got the answer he was seeking.
Musk deer are smaller than other deer species, with fragrance at the navel, beginning to produce musk in summer, enjoying eating snakes and insects, and by winter, their fragrance pouches are full. After some time, the musk solidifies, and in spring, the musk deer will dig out the musk pouch themselves.
The musk dug out by the musk deer themselves is known as mature musk, which is more valuable than the musk obtained by killing the animal.
Musk is used not only in medicine but also as a precious fragrance ingredient.
Qiao Duo’er had another concern, which was seeing in palace drama series that smelling a bit of musk could cause miscarriage and even infertility, which made her a little worried. 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝒑𝙪𝒃.𝒄𝒐𝙢
However, she decided to ask Bai Yifan about the specifics.
"My dear, we’re lucky you decided to keep it back then," Tan Zhenghong gave a thumbs-up.
Qiao Duo’er said uncomfortably, "I just thought it was small and that it would be pitiful for someone to kill it for meat."
Regardless of the original intention, the result was that they kept an invaluable treasure.
