Chapter 345: Natural Horse Farm
The other horses on the sandbar were swept in by the water after the herd had dispersed. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info they saw that the king of horses was on the sandbar, and rushed to get close. In order to curry favor with Wang Chuan, King Ma drove them to get close to Wang Chuan. Now the king of horses himself did not dare to raise his head, and he naturally did not allow other horses to stand with their heads up. The horses seem to be extremely docile.
At this time, the water temperature was very low, Wang Chuan soaked in the water for a long time, tired and hungry, and when he saw everyone coming, he asked half of them to bridle the other horses, and half of them looked around for firewood, and made a fire on the spot to roast food. There are a lot of horse carcasses in the river, and one of them is enough for a dozen people and three tigers to eat.
Everyone had a full meal, and Wang Chuan asked the others to go back first with a few wild horses sent to the door. Go back and build stables, prepare forage, etc. He planned to take the king of horses back to the north shore, and rely on the king of horses to subdue some more wild horses to return to the Yiren tribe to be domesticated.
Ke worried: "It's so cold now, and there is no tent, how can you spend the night alone?" ”
Zhuang Niu said: "Give him a shovel, and he can live better than most of us." ”
In the end, he was afraid that Wang Chuan would not be safe, so the tiger driver and the three tigers stayed with Wang Chuan, and the others went back first.
Wang Chuan and the tiger exorcist returned to the north shore on a large raft. Wang Chuan untied the reins of the king of horses behind the raft, and without paying attention, the king of horses ran away like a girl. The baby elephant was a few steps behind, did not catch up, and came back to complain to Wang Chuan dissatisfied.
Wang Chuan hated it so much that he whistled and asked the little eagle to chase the horse king. Although the king of horses can still move, the bridle on his mouth has not been removed, and he is less biting, and his speed is inferior to that of the eaglet, and he was soon grabbed by the eaglet on the back and chased back with a pecking ass.
The baby elephant, as a simple type, dislikes such cunning species the most, and when he comes back, he hits the king of horses several times like a leather ball. After Wang Chuan whipped it hard, he was afraid that it would run again, so he simply tied it to the baby elephant and let the baby elephant watch it from time to time.
The baby elephant naturally has a good impression of the grazing animals, and after teaching the horse king, he leads the child to take the horse king to graze. The king of horses was covered in injuries, and he couldn't help the baby elephant, showing his faceless from time to time, and eating grass was tasteless.
The king of horses is in hand, and wild horses come close from time to time without much action. Wang Chuan stayed on the north bank for two days, and then drove more than 200 wild horses back to the south bank, and he could get more, but the pole grass of millet was almost burned out on the old village, and it was really impossible to feed him if he got too much. Wang Chuan had no choice but to regret abandoning the other wild horses.
But this result is already more than ten times more than Wang Chuan expected before. Before, more than two dozen people went out, thinking that it was a victory for one person to get back a wild horse.
More than 200 wild horses are enough to keep people busy. After Wang Chuan returned, the Yi people who were busy with construction turned to mowing grass. The stables couldn't be repaired so much, so they found a sheltered valley and set up a wooden village to keep in captivity. Wild horses are also unlikely to run around in heavy snow in winter, and may also find some leeward valleys to spend the winter. Therefore, after driving into the valley, these wild horses did not flee in all directions, but were very experienced in eating the dead grass and lichen and even the bark of trees on the ground.
The horse did not change until he died of old age, and the horse king Wang Chuan did not dare to put it into the valley and close it with other wild horses. Instead, they are kept in a village where they are often tied to baby elephants or rhinoceros.
This is the king of horses, and a standard scoundrel. When you keep it closed, you don't eat good forage, and you don't drink clean water. I didn't wear a chew, and I tore the reins at every turn. Tied to the baby elephant and the little rhinoceros, he always pulls the baby elephant and the little rhinoceros around the village. Kicking people and jumping, long hissing and scary people are commonplace. Stealing sake lees and millet and snatching pasta from people's bowls is extremely easy. If Wang Chuan hadn't guarded against it all the time, it was estimated that just one horse would have been able to turn the Yiren village upside down.
The first snow of the year seems to have come a few days later than usual. After the snow, the Taihe River froze, and the king of horses also led a collective escape of captive wild horses.
Without the experience of keeping more than 200 horses in captivity, the forage prepared by everyone for the winter is still less, and as soon as the snow falls, it is difficult for wild horses to gnaw on the vegetation on the ground. But the forage they had prepared was limited and could not be increased, and while they were considering slaughtering the horses, the king kicked the stables and fled.
At first, everyone thought that it was just a joy, and they couldn't get out of the village anyway, so they asked people to close the gate of the village and run with it. But I didn't expect the king of horses to go up the wall, and he jumped out of the wall. At that time, Wang Chuan was giving a lesson to the leader and children of the Yiren, and when he heard the movement, he rushed out, and the king of horses had already left the village.
Then Wang Chuan rode the baby elephant to chase over, and saw the horse king commanding the captive wild horses to break through the fence of the horse pen and run north.
Wang Chuan used the eaglet to chase after him, but the king of horses had already learned to be obedient, and before the eaglet could chase him, he had obediently returned to Wang Chuan and waited for punishment. But for the distant herd, it had no intention of stopping them.
Wang Chuan threw down the whip, but thought that the king of horses took the initiative to come back this time and admit his mistake and did not throw it on it. King Ma was startled, found that it was a false alarm, and hurriedly spewed out a rough breath to lick Wang Chuan's hand.
Wang Chuan said: "You want to tell me that there is forage for them in the north to eat, so that they will not be hungry?" ”
When Wang Chuan and the others first arrived on the north shore, they did not see the shadow of horses for a month, but when it was about to snow, these horses appeared on such a large scale. This could not help but make Wang Chuan suspect that there was a suitable pasture for winter somewhere in the north, and it would not be too far away. Otherwise, Wang Chuan would not have encountered this herd of horses by the Taihe River.
The king of horses is actually very scheming, these two hundred horses stay on the side of the Yiren, and they will not all starve to death in a winter, if they are released into the wild and have nowhere to forage, it is estimated that it will be difficult to survive this winter. There were also a few horses that had been tamed in the stockade. The horses were given preferential treatment because they were already able to ride, and they were not hungry. The king of horses escaped from prison and did not pay attention to the horses, but released the wild horses in the stable, apparently there was a place for these horses to forage. Moreover, these horses went directly north after leaving the circle, not in other directions, which is also in line with Wang Chuan's guess.
Thinking about these clearly, Wang Chuan beckoned the strong bull to drive the tiger and the others, rode the little rhinoceros tiger and a few horses that had been tamed before, brought tents and other things, and said to the king of horses: "Lead the way, otherwise, I will castrate you when I come back." ”
A small hope rose in Wang Chuan's heart, if there really was such a place, his horse farm would be there immediately.
Seeing that Wang Chuan did not punish it, King Ma immediately hissed and led the way in front. It ran as fast as the wind, and there was no beast that could catch up with it. Traveling thousands of miles a day or something, Wang Chuan thinks it's very possible. It ran fast, and after a while it would stop and wait for the crowd.
The crowd did not walk fast, crossed the frozen Taihe River, and walked for two days to a mountain range. King Ma familiarly led everyone from a valley to the inside, and after walking for more than half a day, everyone actually felt that the more they walked, the warmer it became. Slowly, the ice and snow on the ground actually melted, and green grass and countless horseshoe prints appeared on the ground.
After walking a little further, it suddenly became clear to me that it was a huge mountain flat, and the surrounding mountains and rivers blocked the wind and snow. The flat ground is hot, the grass is green, and countless wild horses and wild asses are running and chasing in the mountains.
The king of horses rushed to a high ground, and the people stood up, and with a long neigh, the sound was like a dragon's groan, and countless horses from far and near neighed in response.
"Earned. Earned! Wang Chuan looked at the countless places where smoke came out of the flat ground and began to mumble to himself.