Chapter 15: Piercing the Cow's Nose
The two of them worked hard all the way to pull the ploughing ox and happily returned to the village when it was already more than four o'clock in the afternoon, this time is called Shen Shi, which is about equivalent to three o'clock in the afternoon to five o'clock, this is Cheng Wu only knew when he checked Baidu yesterday, the ancient time called Cheng Wu has not yet adapted to it, but he knows that an hour is equivalent to two hours, this Cheng Wu knows, as for what Ziyin Maosi, Cheng Wu just came over, and it is not clear for a while, anyway, Cheng Wu has a watch in his hand, Cheng Wu is still accustomed to the time name of his previous life, and he has been using it for more than 12 years, and he can't change it all of a sudden, anyway, he has a watch in his hand, so he doesn't have to bother with it.
When they saw a ploughing ox, several people were overjoyed, and the neighbors all came to see it and talked enviously.
They can't help but be unhappy, now in this year, cattle are more precious than people, and only Cheng Wu has the treatment that only when he returns from overseas, otherwise, the local people of the Central Plains of Datang themselves will not have this kind of treatment. This is also a policy that the imperial court had to come out of with a last resort for the early establishment of the Tang Dynasty and the desire to quickly encircle the population. From the wars of the former dynasties to the early establishment of the Tang Dynasty, many people moved abroad to escape the war, resulting in a decrease in the domestic population.
A cow is very important for a peasant family, people can not eat, but cattle are absolutely not good, even in the year of natural disasters, families with cattle at home, the family has left beans specially for cattle to raise fat, only cattle in the winter to raise fat, the next year in the spring to have the strength to plough the land.
Families that do not have ploughing oxen have to be replaced by people, who pull the plows.
This cow is still too thin, but Cheng Wu is still not too worried like Yang Bo, like he has a mobile phone online shopping system, how many beans do he want, and the better cowpeas on Taobao are 10 yuan a catty, Soybeans 5.9, cheaper mung beans are 2.5 yuan, are wholesale prices, if the quantity is more, it can be cheaper, anyway, there are 40,000 yuan on the account of their own account, as long as they save a little, it is enough, besides, it is not only for it to eat beans, most of the time to eat grass is still grass, if there is no grass in winter, make some reserves in the autumn. Otherwise, if you eat beans every day, Cheng Wu's forty percent of dollars won't have to do anything else.
Looking at the ploughing ox with a coaxing nose, the first thing Cheng Wu wants to do now is to put a hole in its nose, so that it can be easily controlled, otherwise Cheng Wu will be exhausted to death.
Just do it, Cheng Wu said to Yang Bo, Yang Bo and Yang Hu both expressed their objections, and explained to Cheng Wu that if the ploughing cattle were injured and disabled, the court would ask for the guilt. Cheng Wu didn't pay much attention to it. It's just a piercing, and you can't die, in the previous life, which family's adult farming cattle in the countryside were not pierced, and it is not said which family's cattle died due to piercing their noses.
Cheng Wu insisted on doing this, and the two had no choice but to follow Cheng Wu.
There is some preparation to be done before piercing. First of all, it is necessary to choose the cow nose ring used for wearing the cow's nose after piercing, some rural areas use metal rings, but most of the rural areas, the use of wooden rattan is made by themselves, and the wooden rattan used should basically have tough and soft attributes. In this way, it can not be broken during the long period of control and pulling of the cow.
The size of the rattan is the same as that of a young person's little finger, and it is best to have a rattan with roots like a screw head, and if you don't have one, you can find a T-shaped rattan. Sharpen and polish the wooden rattan at one end of the screw head, it is best to burn it with fire to burn off the excess wood chips, try to make the surface of the wooden rattan smooth, and do not cause unnecessary punctures to the cow's nose. After doing all this, slowly roast the vine over a fire from the end of the root, starting from about 4 centimeters long, and when the vine slowly softens, slowly twist the vine into a twisted shape that is about two knots in length, so that it can be knotted. In this way, after the cow's nose is pierced for a while, the wooden rattan will not break when the knot is knotted with the wooden rattan.
You must know that the nose of the cow is the most concentrated place of nerves in the whole body part, and it is this attribute that is mainly used to make a powerful ploughing cow obey your operation very regularly, telling it to go east and never west, and then a three-year-old child can easily pull out the fire to control it.
These jobs, in the previous life, every farmer would do it, of course, some lazy people want to be lazy and slippery, find a reason to say no, let others help his family wear a cow's nose, when others help him do it and complain that he can't do such an easy thing, he may be secretly happy in his heart, thinking: Who can't wear a cow's nose, the cow's nose is so stinky, it's just that he doesn't want to do it himself.
The cow's snot is smelly and slippery, and it is very dirty, it is a dirty and smelly job, and the smell of the cow's nose is very stinky, much more stinky than stinky tofu.
After Cheng Wu told Uncle Yang about his requirements, Uncle Yang soon found two wooden rattans for Cheng Wu to choose, and Cheng Wu chose a very suitable wooden rattan and began to make it. Cheng Wu has seen people in the countryside before, and Cheng Wu will probably understand the whole process, but this is the first time he has made it himself, which is a bit difficult.
Half an hour later, the cow's nose ring for the cow was ready, and Cheng Wu found a stiffer one about the size of his little finger, sharpened it, and used it to pierce the cow's nose for a while.
Because Cheng Wu and Yang Hu fought a tiger yesterday, and finally distributed it to the whole village, everyone got Cheng Wu's favor, and now everyone has a good impression of this young man who just came, and the older old people all advised Cheng Wu not to do this, hurting the ploughing cattle, the government will be guilty at that time, and Cheng Wu will be arrested at that time. Everyone didn't want Cheng Wu to be arrested, and they all persuaded Cheng Wu.
Cheng Wu was thinking about the matter of wearing the nose of the cow at this time, thinking that doing this would help him better control the cattle, and besides, the cow could not die if he wore the nose, and the government would not arrest him so unexplained.
So Cheng Wu didn't care too much.
Cheng Wu asked Yang Hu to tie the entire head of the cow to a tree as thick as a bucket, and prepare the wooden rattans he had just made and put them in a lian, which could be easily reached in a while.
Cheng Wu used a sharpened wooden stick to pierce the cow's nose with a sharpened wooden stick about three centimeters inside the cow's nose, and the wooden stick pierced the entire nose, and the cow struggled painfully, but the whole head was tied tightly just now, and it was futile to struggle.
Pull out the sharpened wooden stick, and then use the wooden rattan that has been made and put aside to pass through the wound that was originally pierced, tie two knots, and tie the rope at the knotted place, and the whole piercing is completed.
The rope is a nylon rope that Cheng Wu bought online, and it is seven or eight meters long.
When everything is done, untie the head of the cow tied to the tree, and after the cow is untied, it suddenly wants to run away from this terrible place of right and wrong, but it does not expect that its nose is pulled by the rope, and it immediately goes back to the tree where the rope is tied up. After a few trials, it finally understood that its nose hurt terribly as soon as this thing was pulled. From then on, Brother Niu had to listen to the words of this rope, and the rope had to go wherever it pulled. In fact, the cow's nose healed quickly in less than half a month.
Looking at the effect so good, a small wooden vine through the nose, can make an adult farming cow so obedient, the villagers who are watching are also very surprised, everyone has suffered from cattle when farming, knowing that this brings only convenience to farming, and more deeply makes the efficiency of cultivated land faster. However, some people like and some hate, and some people in the crowd are not used to Cheng Wu, a newcomer, with an arc at the corner of his mouth, a wicked expression, and a traitor-like appearance.
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