Chapter 4 Stability
Fresh horse manure emitted a hot and baking stench, mixed with the smell of fresh grass, which kept running into Chen Mo's nasal cavity.
Two soldiers are cooperating with each other, one pushing a cart and the other with a shovel, shoveling away the horse manure one by one.
More than ten war horses in the manger are fat and strong, and their fur is smooth and smooth, and they can be seen that the feeders are quite attentive.
When the head horse saw the official coming, he snorted happily, and his tail swept away and threw off two pieces of horse dung.
"Alas, good, good!" Seeing this, Officer Homa stepped forward and patted the neck of the horse affectionately.
"Seeing that you can't shovel manure like this, come with me, and I'll take you to make feed." He Maguan looked at Chen Mo's skinny body and said.
The two soldiers who shoveled dung looked at Chen Mo when they heard the sound, and their eyes showed a faint vigilance.
"Master, this is someone to help again." A sturdy soldier shoveling dung asked with a smile.
"Yes." He Maguan replied casually and took Chen Mo to a shack next to the stable.
In the shack, the stove and firewood are all available, just like a small kitchen.
"Do you know how to make a nest?" Officer Homer asked, bringing two bags of flour.
"Yes." Chen Mo nodded again and again, and couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
Being able to make a nest head means that he has the opportunity to steal a nest head.
"Twenty catties of white flour with seven catties of cornmeal, add seven taels of salt, two spoonfuls of oil, and fifteen eggs." He Ma Guan gave the general formula of the feed.
War horses are much more expensive than human gold, and they naturally eat better than people.
Chen Mo went straight to work, he had sold himself before, and he would do all these chores.
He Mian asked for a lot of strength, so Officer Homa directly started to help him.
"Where did you escape from?" He Ma skillfully pinched out a nest head and placed it on the drawer.
"Qingzhou and Anxian County." Chen Mo reported the only place name he knew.
"It was from the north, and I think I escaped from the north back then, and I was about the same age as you at that time."
Xu saw people in the same situation, and Homer became more talkative, talking about many things in the past.
Chen Mo had a response that didn't take a match, and most of his mind was on the nest in his hand.
If it weren't for the fact that He Ma Guan had been all the time, he would have wanted to eat two raw pads to cushion his stomach first.
The five cage drawers were quickly put on the stove, and He Ma Guan supported his waist and slowly stood up from the stool.
"This nest has to be steamed for a while, and when it is cooked, it can be taken out and cooled." He was about to walk out after explaining, but his steps suddenly stopped.
"Don't steal too much, be careful to die." He escaped the famine and knew what it was like to be hungry.
The reason why he deliberately left now was to give Chen Mo a chance to steal food and let him cushion his stomach first.
But he also understands that people who are overly hungry may really kill themselves when they eat for the first time.
"Thank you, Master He, I'm measured." Chen Mo thanked him seriously, and his heart was greatly moved, he knew that the other party was taking care of himself.
A bite of food may not be precious, but it is very important to me now.
He Ma said no more, and left the shack with his hands behind his back.
The smoke from the stove was steaming, and a thick white mist wafted out one after another.
Chen Mo waited anxiously on the side, only feeling that time passed extremely slowly.
After a long time, the nest head finally steamed seven or eight years to maturity.
Chen Mo didn't care about anything else, so he first took out two with chopsticks, put them in the well water in the basin to cool down, and then swallowed them all.
Wotou is so delicious!
Chen Mo took out two more and swallowed them in his stomach as he could.
The four heads of the nest were warmed up, Chen Mo seemed to be alive again, his mind was more flexible, and his mind was finally able to concentrate.
Raise two scoops of water to extinguish the fire, Chen Mo opened the cage drawer one by one and waited for the nest to cool.
In the process of waiting, he had to steal food, and a nest head weighed two or two.
Chen Mo ate twelve or thirteen more in a row, and did not stop until his stomach was round.
Although he could eat again, he was afraid of killing himself, so he didn't dare to eat again.
He could sense that as these foods were digested by himself, wisps of qi and blood power were slowly flowing into the Mortal Bead.
"When these nests are cold, you can go with me to feed the horses." He Ma Guan came over with a wheelbarrow for feeding horses, and when he saw that Chen Mo did not continue to eat the nest, his eyes couldn't help but show a little appreciation.
After starving for a long time, it is quite rare to be able to maintain self-control in the face of eating.
"Okay." Chen Mo responded, and took advantage of the time to dry the nest to clean the shack.
He Maguan lit the dry cigarette leisurely, looked at Chen Mo with a satisfied expression, and there were people with hard work and feet in his eyes, no matter where he went, it would not be annoying.
The shack was cleaned, the head of the shack had been cooled, and it was poured into the wheelbarrow one after another, and Chen Mo took the initiative to push the cart and walked towards the stable.
"This kind of refined food is usually fed twice a day, and you will be responsible for it in the future." Walking into the stable, Officer He explained carefully, and instructed Chen Mo to pour the nest head into the trough respectively.
"Don't be too bad when you pour them, or they'll be in a hurry." Officer Homa smiled and patted one of the horses on the head.
After feeding the horses, He Ma Guan arranged a place for Chen Mo to live again.
Sharing a barracks on the left side of the barn with another groom, although the smell was a little unpleasant, it was better than the other soldiers living in a large bunk with dozens of soldiers.
The beds and bedding are all ready-made, although I don't know who left them, but they are still clean.
Chen Mo didn't have anything to carry with him except for a few clothes, and He Maguan gave him a towel for washing, two hair towels, and a coarse porcelain bowl for eating and drinking.
He settled down for the time being.
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Half a month passed, and Chen Mo finally had more flesh on his body, and his complexion gradually became ruddy.
"I'll do it later, let's eat first." Ma Cai shouted with a pot of chowder and twenty mixed noodles.
When Chen Mo heard the voice, he hurriedly swung his hands in the drinking manger.
"What are you eating today?" He looked at Ma Cai and asked.
During this time, the two lived in the same house, and the relationship was not bad.
"Cabbage boiled with turnips." Ma Cai was a little helpless.
"Why the is this, I've been eating it for four or five days!" Another groom, Ding Bao, couldn't help but complain.
"The captain's family planted a lot of vegetables, so he sold them to the house." Ma Cai lowered his voice.
"Our captain, when will we be able to do some personnel!" Ding Bao scolded angrily.
Drinking the blood of soldiers has long been commonplace, and these big-headed soldiers can only complain in private.
"Don't say it, let people listen to it again." Chen Mo reminded cautiously.
There was no intrigue between the three of them, mainly that there was nothing to fight about.
Ma Cai has a strong physique, and he has some ways in the army, and coming to raise horses is only a temporary transition, and he will be transferred sooner or later.
Chen Mo only cares about eating, as long as he can eat enough, he can say anything.
Ding Bao has a straight personality and speaks with no brains, but he is not a bad person.
In addition, the age difference between the three is not much, so during this time, Chen Mo and the two of them have gotten along quite well.
The food was served separately, and the three of them waited together for Officer Homer to come.
"Eat them all." He Ma Guan carried a bowl of tea brewed with eggs and added a lot of sugar to it, and then sat down at the table and beckoned the three of them to eat.
This is his habit, he must eat a bowl of egg and sugar water every day, this treatment, even many small landlords may not be able to enjoy.
Chen Mo had already started eating, and to be honest, the taste of this meal and wotou was not as good as horse food.
But every time he eats an extra bite of food, he can accumulate an extra wisp of qi and blood, and as his physical condition gets better and better, the amount of qi and blood that can be accumulated every day also increases.
I don't know if it's because he's been hungry for too long and his body needs nutrition, or because of the Molten Pearl, he can eat a lot more now than before the crossing.
"You are also physically fit now, and tomorrow I will follow Ding Bao and them to shovel horse manure." Officer Homer commanded.
Feeding horses is the hardest work, which is tantamount to shoveling horse manure, a horse has to pull twenty or thirty pounds a day, and a dozen horses are nearly four hundred pounds of horse manure.
It's not a trivial task to shovel them up and transport them away.
Chen Mo was too thin to do when he first came.
Now that I've been raising it for half a month, it's not suitable to do it anymore.
"Okay." Chen Mo swallowed a little throat-pulling Wowotou and said.
Ding Bao and Ma Cai glanced at each other, obviously having something in their hearts, but it was difficult to speak now.