Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 6445 Accompanying
At the foot of Sleeping Cow Mountain, the pasture.

The huge pasture, the grass and trees are withered and yellow, and it looks bleak from a distance.

"Hey, it's not good to raise cattle. You feed them with water and grass. It's easy to feed them in spring and summer in a year. In autumn and winter, it's exhausting to prepare forage every day."

Sun looked around and muttered softly.

Yang Ruoqing only cared about leading the way, and did not refute Sun's words.

Raising cattle, that’s how it was originally. In spring and summer, when the grass and trees are flourishing, the cattle are released from the pens, and they are allowed to eat, drink and play freely in the huge pasture.

In autumn and winter, when the vegetation outside withers, manpower is needed to feed.

Most of them take out the wheat straw, straw and bracts accumulated in spring and summer, and feed them to the cows every day, and let them go to the pasture to play and exercise their muscles and bones regularly.

"The nomads on the northern prairie, their ancestors lived for water and grass for generations, dragging their families, driving cattle and sheep, riding horses and dogs, and dragging their tents to move around. That is really hard work. Woolen cloth!"

Hearing Yang Ruoqing talk about the nomadic life, Sun was startled.

"It's really one side of water and soil that raises one side's children, and their ancestors have been used to the kind of life without a fixed place for generations. If it were me, I couldn't let go of the piece of land under my feet and the sky above my head." Sun came to a conclusion.

Yang Ruoqing nodded with a smile, "Our village is the gathering point here. The big guys have lived in the same village for generations, so they know the basics, and they come here just by calling out for anything."

"It's different over there. Sometimes there is only one family in a radius of tens of miles." She said again.

"Then why don't they live closer like us?" Sun was puzzled.

Yang Ruoqing was overjoyed, "Their livelihood depends on the cattle and sheep. The cattle and sheep need to eat grass. If they gather together, they will not be able to eat enough, and the grass roots will not be left. So they have to spread out to chase the pasture and grass. It is their fate to live in the water source, and to live without a fixed place."

It took Sun a while to recover from the shock, and then looked at the desolate pasture in front of her, the small houses standing behind the pasture, and the clothes of adults and children hanging on the clothes rail in front of the small houses. When she was wearing clothes, Sun's mood was not so sad, but a kind of luck.

Fortunately, Duo'er and the others settled here, not like the kind of herdsmen who migrated around, and would have to travel dozens of miles or even farther to have a look.

It's fine in front of your eyes, it's fine.

As soon as he entered the yard, he heard tender cries from the hut.

Yang Ruoqing and Mrs. Sun looked at each other, and quickly stepped into the house.

In the dim hut, Duo'er was coaxing Jiaojiao to get up and put on clothes by the bed. There was a bowl on the stool next to the bed, which contained medicine soup, and the room was filled with the faint bitter smell of medicine.

"What's wrong with Jiaojiao? Why is she sick again?" Sun exclaimed and rushed to the bedside, helping to persuade her.

Duo'er turned her head and saw that Mother and sister were coming, and she was relieved.

Seeing Yang Ruoqing picking up the medicine bowl and looking over there, Duo'er explained: "It's Baohe soup, last night her stomach was so cold again, she vomited and diarrhea, and tossed for most of the night..."

"This child's spleen and stomach are too weak." Yang Ruoqing put down the medicine bowl and said.

Xiaoduo frowned, "Isn't that what it is? It's not good if you're full, and you'll be noisy if you eat too little. You don't know how to feed yourself when you're cold or hot. I complained to Shengnan, and I said I shouldn't It shouldn't be called Jiaojiao, it's just a poor choice of the word Jiao!"

Yang Ruoqing smiled helplessly, "This does not conflict with the name, don't think about it."

While speaking, she also came to the bedside, and took out a cricket made of thatch from her pocket to tease Jiaojiao. Although Jiaojiao was still sobbing, she didn't struggle anymore.

Sun and Xiaoduo took the opportunity to put her clothes on. Earlier, she resisted the medicine and soiled a set of clothes. When Yang Ruoqing and Sun entered the room just in time for Xiaoduo to change the clothes for Jiaojiao, Jiaojiao strongly resisted. .

After changing her clothes, Mrs. Sun stayed in the room and hugged Jiaojiao, Jiaojiao was holding the thatch cricket in her two thin and small hands, watching with her mouth pouted.

Xiaoduo took the opportunity to warm up the medicine, and reluctantly fed Jiaojiao a few mouthfuls.

"Drinking medicine alone is not enough, you have to eat something when your stomach is empty." Sun looked at the thin body of her granddaughter in her arms, feeling very distressed.

Xiaoduo was a little dazed: "I'm afraid she will vomit after eating."

Yang Ruoqing also said: "I don't recommend giving her food at this time. No matter how hungry you are, wait until noon and then make some rice soup in moderation."

It was windy outside, and Mrs. Sun played with Jiaojiao in the house.

Not to mention, although this house is a temporary hut built on the pasture, Xiaoduo and Xiang Shengnan really love this child, and the little cradle is full of all kinds of delicate toys.

Some of these toys were bought by the couple, and some were prepared by Aunt Yang Ruoqing and cousin Luo Baobao for Jiaojiao.

The little cradle was filled with bright colors, but fortunately Jiaojiao is over a year old now, so she doesn't need to sleep in the cradle anymore.

"Mother, I made tea for you and sister, where should I put it?" Xiaoduo came in from the door carrying two bowls of tea.

Mrs. Sun was supporting Jiaojiao to play by the cradle, she didn't have time to turn her head to look at it, she just said: "I'm not thirsty, you put it higher, put it where Jiaojiao can't touch it."

Yang Ruoqing pointed to the window sill next to her: "It's best to put it there."

After Xiaoduo put away the tea, she went to look for vegetables to leave them here for lunch, but was stopped by Yang Ruoqing.

"My mother and I came here, on the one hand, to help you take care of the child, and on the other hand, we heard about Niu Duzi, and wanted to see what's going on."

Xiaoduo couldn't laugh no matter whether it was mentioning the child or the calf.

"Hey, if you're unlucky, you'll get stuffed between your teeth when you drink cold water." Xiaoduo drooped her head, and the sweet and lively girl in the past has been tempered like an old woman by life in just two or three years.

But back then, with so many dowries, it stands to reason that she should have no worries about food and clothing.

But they don't want to sit and eat, and want to rely on the dowry as capital to start a career, so they have this pasture.

It was good to want to start a business at the beginning, but the road of starting a business was not as easy as imagined.

That's why he became so haggard and tired.

"Don't be too bored, farming, how can it be so smooth." Yang Ruoqing put her hand on Xiaoduo's shoulder and said.

"Take me to see the calf." She said again.

Xiaoduo nodded, got up and took Yang Ruoqing to the cowshed, and talked to Yang Ruoqing about the current situation on the way.

"Uncle and Dad went to the mountains to call for a veterinarian. Katsunan and Dad stayed in the cowshed to guard the calves. Eight of the ten calves are now running noses, and the most serious one is rolling its eyes and foaming at the mouth. They all said that the foaming head might not survive..."

(End of this chapter)