Chapter 9: Horseback riding
Although there were 10 million reluctances, when it came out in real time, Zhao Liusi was still very happy.
The Liu family's horse farm in the suburbs is much bigger than she imagined, the horse farm is rich in water and grass, there is a river passing through, the ground on both sides of the river is planted with grass, the breeze blows, the grass dances, but there is a bit of the sky, the wilderness, the wind blows the grass to see the feeling of cattle and sheep.
"A lot of cattle and sheep." Zhao Liusi looked at the sheep on the other side of the river and sighed, she couldn't ride a horse, Liu Sheng found her a docile pony to ride, took the reins of the horse himself, and took her slowly forward, adapting to the feeling of riding a horse.
"yes, it's hard to imagine that there are so many cattle and sheep in this place right now." Liu Sheng looked over with her gaze and sighed sincerely.
"Now?" Zhao Liusi chewed on the word, and then looked around, "This ranch doesn't seem to have been formed in more than ten years. β
"The place has always been there, it just doesn't belong to us." Liu Sheng smiled, picked up the horsewhip and pointed to the distant mountains in the sky, "From here to there, it has been the territory of the Hu people for more than ten years." Thanks to the Battle of Chiyue Mountain, we drove the Hu people away, and we have this heaven-sent pasture. β
Zhao Liusi rode on the horse, a little taller than Liu Sheng, looked at the snow-covered mountains on the top of the mountain from a distance, and asked a little strangely, "Why don't I have any impression at all?" β
It's just that she doesn't know about it as an outsider, but the strange thing is that the second lady has no information in her head.
"Your stepmother is from Beijing, and she learns all the beautiful ways of everyone every day, and she makes people stupid." Liu Sheng pursed his lips, and he didn't think much of the Zheng family, "The battle of Chiyue Mountain happened around the time you were born, and you don't know how it should be." But this battle is very important to us, and the war has lasted for three years, and it is all in vain. Not only did they seize a large amount of gold, silver, jewelry, horses, cattle and sheep from the Hu people, but also laid a large territory and opened up the trade routes between the East and the West. After the war, except for the nobles of the imperial court who took a large piece of pasture, the smaller pastures were divided among the big families in the border counties, and our family took the largest piece, which was from there to there. β
Liu Sheng waved the horsewhip casually, Zhao Liusi sighed in his heart, "What a landlord", but asked, "This is still small, how big should it be?" β
"The pastures are not abundant, and the grazing has to be rotated every year, otherwise it will cause degradation. There is a need to supply horses, cattle and sheep from all over the country, and naturally the place cannot be small. It will take about a few days to get off the big horse. Liu Sheng gave Zhao Liusi common sense, "You have to remember this, if you go outside one day, you can't show jokes when you talk to people." β
"Okay." Zhao Liusi agreed with great interest, but after thinking about it, he realized that he was a young lady who couldn't go out, and he was suddenly a little frustrated, "Where do I have a chance to go out." β
"Uh," Liu Sheng was speechless for a while, he was used to traveling from south to north, but he didn't think that for most people in this era, especially women, they might never leave their county in their lifetime, let alone leave their homeland.
He has also seen some spicy women outside, businessmen don't care so much, female shopkeepers, and female hostesses are also some, but Liu Sheng knows how hard it is to kill a piece of the world in a man's world, and he is reluctant to suffer this hardship for his own young lady.
It's okay, just raising it in a mess, letting her be careless and willful in a small circle, although she is given a headache from time to time, but watching her make a fuss easily, I also feel that my hard work has meaning.
"Maybe there's a chance." Liu Sheng replied vaguely, and let out a sigh in his heart.
The opportunity to go out this year is nothing more than marrying far away, but the foundation of the Liu family is in the border city, and Zhao Liusi grew up here, he will never let her go out to endure hardship.
"Why don't you go out another day and take me to see and see?" Zhao Liusi suddenly had a whimsy, leaned down to talk to Liu Sheng, and rarely softened softly, "Uncle, you can take me to see, I promise not to get into trouble." β
"Okay."
Zhao Liusi originally thought that Liu Sheng would not agree, but she didn't expect Liu Sheng to agree very easily, just when she was speechless for a while, Liu Sheng took the opportunity to put forward conditions, "You learn to ride a horse, I will take you out." β
"No problem." Although Zhao Liusi was confused, it was almost instinctive to hit the snake with a stick, "You have to swear to take me out." β
She is not greedy, she just wants to go out and see the customs of this era.
"Okay." Liu Sheng raised his hand and swore seriously. Zhao Liusi saw that he was not coaxing himself to play, and suddenly became a hundred times more serious about learning to ride a horse.
The horse farm of this era is similar to the garage of later generations, if you change to a man and get a garage full of luxury cars, it must be a happy flower, and everyone who can't put it down has to try, but for most girls, the biggest meaning of the car is - whether it is worthy of the clothes I wear today.
The Liu family's horse farm is very large, and it is famous for its excellent breeding, when Zhao Liusi, accompanied by Liu Sheng, selected a horse of his own, the steward on the side of the explanation was full of pride.
"Although our horse farm is not the largest, it definitely has the most varieties, and other horse farms have to come to our house to borrow horses for breeding." The steward's eyes lit up and explained to the master his most proud work, "Look, this is a bloody horse, look at this eye, this neck, this hoof......"
"It's too high." Zhao Liusi cut off his idea of continuing to introduce in one sentence.
The person in charge was a little indignant, but when he looked down and saw that Zhao Liusi was only the height of his chest, he still swallowed his unwillingness silently.
Well, let the young lady ride such a horse, and one would fear that she would die under the horse's hooves.
"This horse is good, he once won a prize at the horse race in our county......"
"I'm scared if I run too fast."
"This horse is good, the blood is pure, it is ......"
"It's so ugly, I look at the diaphragm."
"This horse ......"
"The white one is too cheesy, don't."
"This ......"
"It's not good to match clothes, change one."
In the end, the steward's eyes straightened, and he, as a horse enthusiast, tasted in advance the helplessness of men in later generations when they introduced cars to womenβI tell you about performance, and you tell me about color. This horse is for riding, not for matching.
In the end, Liu Sheng understood Zhao Liusi's needs, and picked a dark horse with uniform bones, neither tall nor short, beautiful appearance, and gentle temperament, and then persuaded Zhao Liusi with one sentence, "It's a good match for your cat." β
"Seems to be." Zhao Liusi circled the horse twice, and then according to the teaching, fed the pony two pieces of candy, and happily named her "Da Hei", and then embarked on the road of learning to ride a horse with Liu Sheng.
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"Did you just deliberately find fault?" The two practiced for an afternoon, and after Zhao Liusi was used to being on the horse and could let Liu Sheng let go of the reins and walk by himself for a short while, Liu Sheng asked coldly.
"What's wrong?" Zhao Liusi looked confused.
"Okay." Liu Sheng knows that people tend to speak the truth when they are unguarded. At first, he was worried that Zhao Liusi was unhappy to be pulled by himself to learn to ride a horse and deliberately make things difficult, but now that he was sure that he had thought too much, he finally found that this bear child was a little easier to bring than he imagined.
Don't hold grudges, it's easy to coax.
In this case, it seems that some adjustments can be made to her education.
"I've been reviewing today," Liu Sheng saw that Zhao Liusi could ride a horse by herself, so he also rode a horse to accompany her and walked slowly, talking as he walked, "I haven't taken many children, and I don't know how to teach a girl's family, so it's really not appropriate to take you out." β
"So?" Zhao Liusi looked at him with blinking, "You want to send me back." β
"How is this possible?" Liu Sheng shook his head, and then said his plan, "I want to find you a serious teacher who will teach you to read and write." β
Hearing that he could learn to read and write openly, and he didn't have to be semi-illiterate, Zhao Liusi was a little happy, but he didn't show it on his face, he only remembered the nature of the second lady's scumbag, pretended to be not very happy, and nodded perfunctorily.
"Although it is said that a woman is virtuous if she is not talented, she can read and write, and it is not easy to be deceived. Besides, if you read books and be reasonable, the human world will be more open, so as not to be trapped in the trivialities of the back house fight, and you don't know how big the world is. Although Liu Sheng is a businessman, her brain is extremely good, and her views are not as pedantic as the mainstream ones.
However, if you don't know that the outside world is so exciting, you won't feel pain if you stay in a small circle. If you know that the world is vast, but you find that you can't see it, and you are an authentic caged bird, wouldn't it be more painful? Zhao Liusi took the opportunity to ask Liu Sheng.
Liu Sheng was slightly stunned, paused for a moment, and then nodded slowly, and then shook his head again.
"The world is there, and it doesn't exist if you don't blindfold it." Liu Sheng sighed, and found that he had taken it for granted, and finally replied, "Okay, when I talk about it here, I will prepare for you first, teacher, and it will be up to you to read it or not." β
"I'll think about it first." Zhao Liusi's heart blossomed, and his face remained reserved.
Liu Sheng stopped talking, but silently accompanied Zhao Liusi on a horse. Zhao Liusi saw his stunned appearance, and wanted to make him happy, and after thinking about it, he pointed to a little black moving over from the sky and said, "I think horseback riding is quite fun, and I should prepare a master to study seriously." You see, that guy is not bad, why don't you invite him to be my riding master. β
Liu Sheng didn't know why, and was very obsessed with letting her learn to ride a horse. So if he studies as he expects, he should be happier.
Liu Sheng followed her line of sight and saw that the small dot was gradually getting bigger, and it was too far away to see the human face, but from the posture of the horse, it was indeed good to ride and shoot.
"Well, let someone ask later, if there is nothing unclean about the roots, I will hire you to be the master." Liu Sheng has always been very open-minded in such irrelevant matters.
"Okay, we'll just wait here and see if he can't make it. If we take this path, it will prove that we are destined and should be my master. The rare episode made Zhao Liusi very happy, and she drove the clumsy pony in the direction of the comer.
Liu Sheng was accompanied by guards, and he was not afraid of being a thief, so he accompanied her to guard by the side.
The man rode the horse very fast, at first it looked like it was still in the sky, and after a short time, he arrived nearby, Zhao Liusi beckoned to say hello, and was worried about whether the person would stop, when he saw that the man had already walked towards them.
"How did you get here?" The person approached, tore off the towel covering his face and shouted, Liu Sheng saw the appearance of the person who came, and his angry face was almost crooked.
There are so many people in the world, why is it him?
"Yan Ran!" Zhao Liusi was the opposite of Liu Sheng, seeing that it was Yan Ran, who had not been seen for a few days, he raised his hand very excitedly and greeted, "Yan Ran, can you succeed as my master!" β