The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

Chapter 222 Brothers in Suffering
Most military generals are straightforward and outspoken.

Praising someone can be very straightforward.

The barrage of compliments quickly overwhelmed Captain Gan.

Not only did they hand over the horses, but they also handed over the sheep.

They even gave the good reputation of giving away sheep and selling them at fair prices to the border troops.

of course.

She absolutely had to collect the money from selling the sheep.

She also solemnly proposed to Deputy Commander Xiong that she wanted to build a ranch on the western foothills of Junma Mountain and in the semi-desert area hundreds of miles beyond.

Who would refuse such a good thing that doesn't require increasing troop strength and even pushes the border hundreds of miles west?

Moreover.

Captain Gan also made a final promise:

"From now on, my West Slope Ranch will be dedicated to expanding the wild horse herd, and the last foals born to the mother wild horses will be sold to the cavalry at the price of warhorses!"

Mustang!

Those fifteen wild horses that looked like clumsy, thick-necked steeds?

Could you buy their next generation for the price of warhorses?
All the generals, including Xiong Zhen, were drooling.

In the past, "traveling a thousand miles a day" was an adjective describing the speed of a horse.

The sentry who had gone on business trips with Captain Gan had been boasting about it to his colleagues ever since he returned.

If it weren't for the fact that these wild horses are untamed and difficult to subdue, and that ordinary people simply couldn't control them, who wouldn't want such a dream horse!

But the wild horses are different.

How can feelings cultivated since childhood not lead to closeness with others?

If only we could form such a cavalry force, capable of traveling a thousand miles a day, raiding across the grasslands.
Just thinking about it makes me incredibly excited; I can't wait to help Captain Gan open the horse farm right away.

As for what Captain Gan said, it's perfectly normal to raise other livestock, such as cattle and sheep, while raising horses.

They are all loyal customers of Ganweixian!
Of course, this plan ultimately needs to be approved by General Zhao.

The border army camp moved very quickly.

Thousands of people were dispatched, and by that afternoon, most of the valley had been cleared.

All that was left for Gan Minglan and her son were two hundred grassland cattle and more than three thousand grassland sheep.

Too many strangers entered the valley, frightening the livestock.

"Puff puff"

"Puff puff"

"Puff puff"

The cow is a major manure producer. Its tail is held high, and it keeps pooping endlessly.

Fatty was so angry that he cried out: "We finally managed to move away the mountain of horse manure, when will we ever finish shoveling this hot cow manure?"
Big brother, big brother, come back quickly and save your little brother!
The little guy was crying in the valley pasture of Junma Mountain, unaware that his older brother's days hadn't been much better.

Those useless two-legged creatures are just too weak!
It had to send a few prairie rats every other day to try and scam them.

This leads these useless two-legged creatures to inadvertently find some edible wild vegetables or discover some caves during the hunt.

Cheating has gone this far.

When the useless two-legged creatures were digging in those holes, they would often scream in fright from the noises coming from inside.

Then, they watched helplessly as their prey, such as wild rabbits, snakes, and rats, escaped through another passage.

I've been busy for several days and haven't had a proper meat meal yet.

Not only that, they didn't even have urine to drink anymore.

Dehydration, hunger, and pain at the fracture sites of the limbs.

To make matters worse, we also experienced a sandstorm yesterday.

They almost died on yesterday next year.

In the end, it was thanks to the hard work of King Atu and his gang that these useless two-legged creatures were dug out of the sand.

The good-for-nothings are too weak, and King Atu has completely lost the joy of teasing them.

If its owner hadn't emphasized that these people would suffer for at least twenty days, it would have wanted to call it a day and go back to the city.

The work ethic is intense. My inner turmoil mirrors that of my younger brother, making us arguably the most unfortunate brothers of the month.

Three days later.

The quartermasters finally devised a strategy for delivering and selling sheep.

Once the policy was issued, the military households were even happier than if it were the Lunar New Year.

among them.

The happiness index of military dependents in Dingzhenbao is the highest.

Compared to Majiabao, where the village was massacred, Dingzhenbao was the main battlefield of the Tatar invasion that night.

Dingzhenbao was fortunate because the border troops arrived in time, and their losses were still within an acceptable range.

Unexpectedly, Dingzhenbao has reaped the benefits of the war today!

It was outside the gate of the poorest family's courtyard.

A kind-hearted auntie was shouting loudly:

"Ugly boy, ugly boy! Hurry up and take your family register to the centurion's house to register. Wasn't your grandfather seriously injured by the Tatars? Your family can get seven sheep! And they're free big sheep!"

The ten-year-old "ugly" child's features are actually not ugly at all.

These past few years have been tough at home. During my growing years, I didn't get enough nutritious food.

He was much shorter than his peers, but had a very large head.

The body proportions appear abnormally unbalanced.

The villagers don't remember his real name; they all call him Ugly Boy.

Ugly Baby's grandfather was a veteran soldier who lost an eye in a battle years ago, and his uncle took over the job.

His uncle died in battle, and then it was his father's turn.

In the same year (when Ugly Boy was six years old), his unfortunate father also followed in his older brother's footsteps and died on the battlefield.

My aunt remarried while she was in mourning.

His mother stayed by his side for at least three months before leaving.

There is nothing we can do.

Widows who are capable of bearing children are highly sought after in the border town.

They all wished they could marry her and have an heir.

These four years.

Ugly Boy, his one-eyed grandfather, his bedridden grandmother, his two cousins, his brother, and his sister—a family of seven—lived in Dingzhenbao.

Before last year.

His and his brothers' main daily work was herding sheep.

The family relied on the four brothers raising about ten sheep in the spring, which they would sell at the end of the year to earn money to support their family.

The initial investment was small; the profit from about ten sheep was only five or six taels of silver.

So far, not a single child in the family has starved to death, which is already considered quite capable.

Last winter was long and cold, and his family received much less grain from selling sheep than in previous years.

If it weren't for Jade-Faced Rakshasa and his men bringing back the 600,000 shi of grain in time, the General and his men would have been able to set a price that the military households could buy at a fair price.

Their whole family is destined to starve to death!
After the spring, the family's remaining savings were not enough to buy a lamb.

Disasters, however, seem to target only the poor.

Not long ago, when the Tatars invaded the Central Plains, his grandfather, who was blind in one eye, had to risk his life to protect his five young grandchildren.

After the battle ended, the old soldier was slashed hard on the left shoulder.

Although the soldiers who were wounded on the battlefield did not have to pay for their own medical treatment when they saw a doctor or got medicine.

However, for an elderly person who has suffered such a serious injury, it is impossible to recover completely.

The burdens of life weighed heavily on the two eldest sons, who were both ugly and miserable, and they were constantly frowning.

Unexpectedly, just now...

He seemed to have heard some incredible news.

(End of this chapter)