Chapter 5: Life in the Stables
Early the next morning, after eating, Uncle Liang took himself and Tongniu on a routine tour of the stable.
"Horses should be fed four times a day, in addition to forage, but also in the manger to add two handfuls of soybeans, soybeans to be soaked overnight, can be added to the manger, horse manure to clean once a day, which can greatly reduce the occurrence of horse diseases, in addition, when raising horses, but also pay attention to observe whether the horses have abnormal behavior, and, when cleaning the manure, pay attention to check the clumping of horse manure, because each abnormal situation, is likely to indicate the occurrence of various diseases of horses, such as ......"
While inspecting, Uncle Liang patiently explained the skills of raising horses to himself.
After the inspection is completed, it is the link of cutting grass and preparing materials, next to the horse house, several stacks of forage are piled up, and the links of cutting grass and preparing materials are usually done by Tongniu, and now seeing the arrival of Ye Xianglun's deputy, Tongniu is very consciously standing aside and commanding Ye Xianglun.
"Cut the hay so wide, who are you going to eat!
"Who told you to cut so many at once, the guillotine belongs to yours, what can you do if it is broken!"
After Uncle Liang left, Tongniu lay on his back on the haystack, holding a straw in his mouth, and carefully "taught" Ye Xianglun the essentials of cutting grass.
Seeing Tongniu's appearance of a scoundrel, Ye Xianglun didn't care, his family background was not good, and he often helped his mother do housework when he returned home, these jobs were nothing to him, and soon cut the prepared forage according to Tongniu's requirements, and saw that the work he had given himself was completed so easily, Tongniu was very unhappy in his heart, and after drinking Ye Xianglun after feeding the forage, he instructed him to wash the horses.
In the face of the young man's difficulties, Ye Xianglun scolded in his heart: "**Cub, don't fall into the hands of Lao Tzu in the future!"
A month has passed in the blink of an eye.
Ye Xianglun seems to have been accustomed to the simple life of the horse house, in the early days, Ye Xianglun still prayed every day that the pit forced Kun to connect with him, or that one day Miss Qing would bring herself to General Cai, then he could rely on his "outstanding" military insights to make a name for himself in the general's mansion, and in the face of the pit forced Kun who had no news, and had already left himself out of the clouds, now he no longer has any expectations for these things.
During this period of time, Ye Xianglun basically understood the situation and personnel composition of the General's Mansion from Uncle Liang.
And there is a question that has always plagued Ye Xianglun, that is, his own life experience, unknown identity has always been a haunting hidden danger for him, not to mention that it is in the important place of the General's Mansion, Ye Xianglun plans, no matter what, he will also make up a reasonable identity for himself, and he is not very familiar with the terroir and place names here, and it is not good to ask Uncle Liang directly.
It just so happened that on this day, Uncle Liang sat next to the haystack of the stable, and talked to himself about the past of Uncle Liang's early war.
Ye Xianglun knew that the opportunity was coming, and immediately made a very interested look, Uncle Liang finally opened the chatterbox, and said a lot of place names and people and landscapes in one breath, Ye Xianglun quietly wrote down some, and in his heart he had already calculated his "life experience".
It turns out that this is really the country of Luoqiu, and it is also a small vassal state in the East Pill Empire, the country of Luoqiu is located in the southeast of the empire, and Nanxiang and Lingyue are adjacent to each other, the country of Luoqiu is rich in coconut chestnut fruit and black ore, coconut chestnut is also the favorite fruit of the East Pill Monarch, most of the fresh coconut chestnuts required in the court of the East Pill Monarch are all paid tribute by the King of Luoqiu, and the King of Luoqiu has also received the "weight" of the East Pill Monarch, and the large number of rewards that the East Pill Monarch gives back every year also makes the life of the King of Luoqiu ordinary.
After calculating his life experience, Ye Xianglun finally settled a matter on his mind, and his life in the horse stall gradually became enjoyable.
Ye Xianglun is a clever person, and more than ten years of social experience has made him know the truth that the old man is respected, so he rushes to do the daily chores of the horse stall by himself, and Ye Xianglun is gradually accustomed to the difficulties of the copper bull everywhere.
Although he has a lot more strength than Tongniu in work, what he gets is that Uncle Liang likes him more and more, compared to a capable young man, the teenager who is in the same township as Uncle Liang gets more and more neglect, seeing that he is being neglected day by day, the young man hates Ye Xianglun more and more, and begins to create some small trouble for Ye Xianglun.
Tongniu used to be a big family in the town, because of the small body is strong, it has long been used to being rampant and domineering in the town, although after the relationship between the relationship and the Cai Mansion, the temper has improved, but the inferiority is difficult to eradicate after all.
On this day, when the people in the house brought lunch, Tongniu uncharacteristically rushed to bring the lunch back to the kitchen, usually these errands were instructed by Tongniu to Ye Xianglun to do, but this time he was surprisingly attentive, Ye Xianglun felt that there was something wrong, so he quietly followed behind Tongniu, wanting to see what the hell he was doing. It turned out that the copper bull had broken the horse manure that had been prepared in advance, and quietly put it into a bowl, snickering while covering his nose and stirring.
Tongniu will not be stupid enough to eat it with horse manure, let alone offend his top boss Uncle Liang, so this bowl of rice is undoubtedly for Ye Xianglun to eat.
Usually make trouble for Lao Tzu everywhere, forget it, you stunned boy still dare Lao Tzu to be so bad! Ye Xianglun felt a burst of atmosphere in his heart, and almost grabbed this kid and beat him violently, just about to step into the threshold, his heart moved, and he thought of a clever plan, so he retracted his steps and quietly hid on the side of the kitchen.
Ye Xianglun is a person who understands, he knows what things don't have to be taken care of, what things must be taken care of, this matter, Ye Xianglun must return the color!
Ye Xianglun, who was hiding on the side, saw that after the copper bull finished moving, he walked out of the kitchen with satisfaction, and after the copper bull walked away, Ye Xianglun flashed into the kitchen, quickly changed the position of the two bowls quietly, and walked out of the kitchen as if nothing happened.
After Ye Xianglun walked out of the kitchen, sure enough, Tongniu called Uncle Liang from the backyard to eat as usual, and Ye Xianglun pretended to come out of the toilet, although everything that was going to happen next, Ye Xianglun was like a mirror, but he deliberately pretended to know everything, and he silently observed the progress of the situation.
Sure enough, as Ye Xianglun expected, Tongniu picked up the two "clean" bowls in the kitchen and gave them to Uncle Liang and himself respectively, and the one left on the table was "mixed with horse manure by him" The bowl was obviously served by Ye Xianglun himself, but he never expected that the order of this bowl had already been secretly dropped by Ye Xianglun, and the bowl used by the copper cow was the bowl he put in the horse manure himself, Ye Xianglun looked calm, picked up the bowl on the table and ate it with his head bored, the copper cow looked at Ye Xianglun's happy eating appearance and secretly smiled, but he himself took the bowl with horse manure and sent it to his mouth.
Ye Xianglun said in his heart: "You are so happy eating horse manure, you are also a talent!"
It's called self-inflicted!
"Poofโโ! this bowl of rice tastes weird. While he was eating merrily, the bronze ox picked out half of the unmelted horse manure from his bowl and screamed.
"This bowl of rice is not ......" Tongniu swallowed back halfway through his words, and then walked quickly to Ye Xianglun, and looked at Ye Xianglun's bowl for a long time, without saying a word, and walked back silently.
"It's really strange!" Tongniu's bowl of rice never touched again, but he couldn't figure out how this horse manure could get into his bowl.
Seeing that Tongniu was deflated, and there was an indescribable appearance of bitterness, Ye Xianglun finally became a little stingy about Tongniu's difficulties for himself during this time.