After deciding the matter of Daman and Qingzhu, Xiaohu talked to his grandfather about hiring his youngest son Wang Shoucang to help him go back and forth to the grassland to get milk powder.

Grandpa was excited and uneasy, and after being nervous for a while, he finally gritted his teeth and said to Xiaohu: "Nephew, I have something to tell you, after you listen to it, can you make a decision?" ”

Xiaohu looked at his grandfather in surprise, and he really couldn't understand what he meant? However, he still nodded and said, "Okay!" Grandpa De, you say! ”

Grandpa said with some embarrassment: "Actually, I told Uncle Sixth that I have been looking for your rooms, which is a bit unrealistic. When my father and the others first returned to their ancestral land, they did send people to the south to look for you. It was only later that my family filed a lawsuit with the person who occupied my family's land and ancestral house, and some of the family money brought back from the south was completely ruined, and the field and ancestral house were not able to be returned. Later, a family was forced to become homeless people to open up the wasteland, and at that time, my grandfather and uncle were angry and hateful, so they became ill. When I arrived there, I didn't know people, and I couldn't borrow money if I wanted to, so the government arranged free doctors to see a doctor, but there was no money to buy medicine, so I could only watch my grandfather and uncle die of illness. After Grandpa and Uncle died, the search for your rooms stopped.

We grew up in the south, so we don't know how to grow the land here. Those who are in charge don't care, they just give you seeds and farm tools, and they don't care. People have been able to eat enough, and we are still begging our father and mother to borrow food to keep us alive! It wasn't until my son's generation that our family's situation was finally able to eat enough and wear warm clothes because the children had grown up, more and more wasteland was cultivated, and the experience of growing dry grain was gained. I just started sending my little son out. Keep looking for your two heads. It's just that our family doesn't have much money in stock, and my youngest son said that he was going out to do business and find people at the same time. In fact, he followed the back of the caravan to help people with chores and be a porter. He hasn't run a single independent path of his own, and now you have to leave such a big thing to him. I'm not sure, I'm scared! ”

Xiaohu finally understood what his grandfather meant, this family is at least kind. He was afraid that his youngest son would not have any real skills to mess up other people's affairs, but Xiaohu didn't care about this, after all, it was impossible for him to let Wang Shoucang do it independently in the first few trips. He said: "Grandpa De, I understand what you mean, wait until I go back and arrange for an experienced one to run with our little cousin." ”

Wang Bende heard this meaning that Xiaohu still wanted to use his own son, and he was excited and glad that he told the truth to this nephew, otherwise he didn't know when he would be at ease.

Because he knew that Xiaohu and they had eaten dinner, they were used to eating and wanted to eat. So he was also talking to him, and at this time he felt that the time for him to eat was almost up, so he took the initiative to stand up and go into the house, and let Daman take Xiaohu to wash and rest. Other people, goods, carriages and horses have been arranged and cleaned up by Wang Shoucang with people, so there is no need to be full of trouble.

Early the next morning, only the children who followed Xiaohu and Peng Yunjiang brothers and sisters came over to Xiaohu's side to have breakfast with Xiaohu at his grandfather's house, and the coachman and they were still waiting quietly in the arranged house.

After breakfast, Xiaohu wanted Daman to take him to see the livestock that their family had just delivered. Daman has been here for a long time, but once this place is covered by heavy snow. He didn't know which one was where, so he finally called Wang Shoucang and another cousin to take them over.

The terrain here is not like a grassland, and when it snows heavily, it is white everywhere, and it is the same everywhere. It's easy to get lost. But not here, although there are many mountains here, most of them are solitary mountains, and they have different shapes. Even though it is somewhat obscured by heavy snow, it is very recognizable. There is also high and low terrain, so it is easy to recognize where it is. As long as you have lived in the local area for a long time, you will not be unable to move an inch in the case of heavy snow and road closures. Of course! It's hard to say if you catch waist-deep snow. Still, heavy snow like today's calf-down still can't stop the locals.

Leaving the children to Wang Duojin and they helped take care of them, Xiaohu and Daman followed Wang Shoucang and them to the sheepfold, cattle pen, and horse pen in the northwest to check the situation. From a long distance, I saw several haystacks like a hill, and Daman pointed to the haystacks with a thick layer of snow hats and said to Xiaohu: "Those haystacks are all dried and piled up by me with people, and I don't know how the army horse farm near here heard that we have so much forage, so I asked the town to buy it from me." And the price is not low, almost up to the salary we have hired. I really admire my brother and sister, I thought it would be better to burn it as fertilizer at the beginning, how do I know that there is a more cost-effective deal here! However, because my brother and sister said before that they would bring in a lot of livestock, this forage should be kept for their own use and not sold! The people who didn't buy it were upset when they heard about it! ”

Xiaohu looked at the few piles of grass that were not small, and then counted his own livestock, and asked with some worry: "I haven't raised livestock either, these forages look a lot, but we also have a lot of livestock, and I don't know if we can survive this winter!" ”

Daman affirmed: "Yes! I asked the herders we had invited to herd the herders, and they said that the animals had little appetite in winter, and that the forage was sufficient. And the wranglers who had just arrived, and they also said that based on the number of horses at present, only the two largest haystacks on the edge were enough. According to their calculations, I think we have only a lot more forage. ”

As they spoke, they went to the nearest sheepfold, where thousands of sheep were divided into more than fifty blockades. The lower half of the sheepfold is a half-man-high solid wall made of adobe, the upper half is empty, and the top is a steep straw hut with sharp points, so that the snow will not accumulate too much, so as not to crush the shed and hurt the sheep. Xiaohu is still more than a foot away, he can smell the strong smell of feces and urine in the sheepfold, Xiaohu frowned and walked to him, stretched out his head to look at the health situation in the sheepfold, and was annoyed when he saw it.

Li Daxing in Liujialing also has more than 100 sheep and goats, but his sheepfold is always clean, and although there is a smell of feces and urine, it can't be approached like here. It's not like this sheepfold, where there is dung and urine all over the ground. Even the original snow-white wool has turned gray-black.

The more he looked at it, the more angry he became, so he asked Daman firmly: "Where did these sheep managers come from?" Will you herd sheep in the end? ”

Daman was also angry when he saw this. He brought the sheep and gave them to them, and he came to see them in the first two days. They drove the sheep out in the morning and back in the evening. When the sheep went into the sheepfold, they would take a few sheaves of hay and put them in, and he thought it was okay, so he didn't come back. Where did you think that these people would not clean up the sheepfold and let it be buried like this? Not to mention that Xiaohu is angry, even if he sees it, he is angry, not to mention that the sheepfold is a pigsty, and it is not so dirty.

He angrily walked to the side of the hut specially built for the shepherds, pushed open the door and said angrily to the shepherds who were baking around the stove: "You all come out, have something to say!" ”

Several shepherds hurriedly put on sheepskin jackets and sheepskin hats and followed Daman to Xiaohu who was standing on the edge of the sheepfold.

Xiaohu saw them all coming, and he didn't want to waste his tongue on scolding or training people. And these ones look a lot bigger than themselves. He suppressed his anger and said in a calm voice: "The hygiene of your sheepfold is so poor, I look at you as if you have never taken care of it. This is absolutely not possible, in this case, the sheep will get sick easily. I won't say anything to embarrass you this time, but if you are still so careless and indifferent in the future, then you have to change to someone who is serious and responsible! At that time, don't say we won't give you a chance! ”

These shepherds are really good at raising sheep, but they all raise sheep in the north. I've never heard of a sheepfold to be cleaned. But since the owner asks for it, then they can only follow the owner's conditions, unless they don't want to do the job. If they are asked to give up this job, they will be even more uncomfortable, 700 yuan a month. At the end of each year, a corresponding proportion of rewards will be given according to the growth of sheep, which is a good condition that you can't think of anywhere. They are reluctant to give up this job, so they can only work harder. Clean the sheepfold every day.

They asked Daman for tools to clean the sheepfold from the other side, and they were going to start working on it today. Daman also had to go with Xiaohu to see the cattle pen and the horse pen. Just let them wait and get it when they come back.

When they went to the cattle pen not far away, it was very clean, and Xiaohu and Daman were very satisfied. It can be seen from the piles of cow dung scattered outside the cattle pen that the cattle herders drove the cattle out to poop and pee on time, so as not to let them get dirty in the nest. The nest was also covered with thick hay, and the big cattle were lazily half-lying on the hay, chewing the hay in their mouths slowly.

Upwind of the cowshed are the dwellings of several cattle breeders, the same with mud walls made of yellow mud, and the roof of the shed made of sorghum stalks and hay. Such a house is not in use, it can be used for up to three years, but it is warm in winter and cool in summer, and it is most suitable for temporary shacks.

Xiaohu and Daman were very satisfied, so they didn't bother the long-term work of herding cattle, and hurried to the horse pen. Because the horse needs to run long distances frequently to enhance its flexibility, flexibility, endurance, strength, etc., it is destined that the territory of the horse farm is large and far.

A few of them really walked for most of the day to the place of the horse circle, Xiaohu didn't see the forage, so he asked Daman very suspiciously, "Why isn't there a pile of forage here?" If they need to feed the horses, they have to move them over one by one, how much trouble it will be! ”

Daman replied amusedly: "I had the same idea as you at the beginning, when they built yì and said that they wanted to build a horse farm here. I asked why it got so far? They told me that the horse farm itself should be bigger, and if more and more horses are raised in the future, the territory will be bigger, and if it is mixed with cattle and sheep, it will definitely be affected. I think that's the reason. Later, when the haystacks were harvested, I arranged for people to pile up a few piles of hay here. They laughed at me again, saying that when the horses were fed, they just drove the horses to a place where there was fodder and fed them, and fed them two or three times a day. You can't just keep it in front of you and eat it when they want to eat like a cow, because the horse has to run every day, and if you do it like a cow, then you will be in ruins! ”

Xiaohu and Erya learn from each other with a very thick skin, and they will never be embarrassed because they don't understand how to be laughed at. He smiled and nodded, admitting that he was short-sighted, and said with a smile: "Brother Da Man doesn't know, we don't have horses at home to let the horses out for a few steps when we have time, if we don't have time, it's the same as raising cattle!" No wonder my daughter-in-law is always against me breeding those horses! ”

They were in a good mood when they looked at the clean stables and the horses that were still in good spirits as they snuggled up and down in the cold, and the annoyance caused by the burial of the sheepfold had disappeared. The wranglers who had worked hard to get over had already seen the little tigers and big men grinning beside the horse ring, so they hurriedly ran out of the mud and straw hut that had become warmer because of the burning of the stove, and greeted the little tigers and his party with excitement. (To be continued......)