Happy Life in Siheyuan

Chapter 232 Big Green Horse

Chile River, under the Yin Mountain;
The sky is like a dome, covering the four fields;
The sky is gray and wild;
The wind blows the grass and sees the cattle and sheep.

It was early spring at this time, although the scenes depicted in Chilege could not be seen, Xu Lingjun still felt a kind of tender grass buds emerging from the grassland, as well as the clear sky and winding mountains. Rugged beauty.

He stood at the door, withdrew his gaze from looking into the distance, and began to look around.

The place where he lives now is a small hill next to the stables, and the house is a simple mud house built after he was taken in by the herdsmen of the ranch.

When he was in reeducation through labor, he lived directly in the stables.

At that time, let alone a house, it was considered good to have a bite to eat.

The mud house is about 20 square meters in size, which is a bit more spacious than when he was in the courtyard house, but the roof is compacted with thatch, and it is easy to leak in rainy days.

Moreover, the four walls are not decorated at all, and the soil is directly exposed, full of primitive and simple atmosphere.

One of the highlights may be the antique wooden window by the door.

In addition, in the simple yard surrounded by some rotten wood, there are some adobes left over from the previous house construction.

In addition, there are some tools for putting horses in the yard, as well as some firewood and sundries, which look extremely dilapidated.

This is simply a typical house with four walls!
He sighed secretly, then looked to the left of the yard, and what came into view was a row of long stables.

The main body of the stable is an [-]-centimeter earth wall, plus many large logs to support the thatched roof, and there is a row of mangers in front, which is somewhat similar to the pigsty in the previous life.

It's just that the manger in the stable is for fodder, while the trough in the pigsty is for pig food.

Apart from herding the horses, his main job is to feed the horses with fodder regularly every day.

Basically, every household in the ranch is responsible for grazing and feeding a group of horses, which is regarded as a work indicator, and each has a row of stables.

The number of horses is more or less, and it is allocated according to the labor force of each household.

If he remembers correctly, he now has 18 horses under his name, all locked in the stables.

And at this moment, he was going to drive these horses to the Qilian Mountains to graze.

According to past experience, it usually takes ten days and a half a month to go once. Sometimes it is possible to stay on the mountain for a month when the grass condition is not good.

However, he had just seen a layer of tender yellow and green grass sprouts on the grassland in the distance just now, and it is estimated that this time he only needs to go up the mountain and stay for about ten days.

Looking to the left from the stables, you can see rows of stone and tile houses.

These houses are made of blue bricks, stones, gray tiles, wood, and silt. Although they are not very good, compared with his mud houses, they are completely different from each other, and there is no comparison at all. .

There is no way, he is a person who has made mistakes, and it is impossible for him to have a shelter from the wind and rain like other herdsmen. It is considered that the herdsmen have treated him very well.

After looking at the surrounding environment, and carefully comparing it with the memory of his predecessor, just when he was about to pick up the grazing tools and go to the stable to release the horses, he suddenly realized that he still doesn't know how to herd horses?

Although he has the memory of his previous life, he is not his previous life after all. Just like watching those teaching videos on the Internet in his previous life, it is one thing to understand it, but another thing to learn it.

Fortunately, he was prepared when he was in the courtyard, and he spent an extra [-] happy coins, otherwise, this would be really revealing.

He quickly opened the system's magical store and used the search function to find the master-level horseman skill card.

Afterwards, he spent 10000 happy coins and a moment of time, and soon transformed himself into a glorious master-level horseman.

Then, he skillfully picked up all kinds of equipment for horses, and after a brief trimming, he strode towards the stables.

In a pastoral area, it does not mean that a group of dozens or hundreds of horses can be called a herd.

Strictly speaking, a horse group in the true sense should be a "family" composed of a stallion and its wives, concubines and children.

Usually in a pastoral area, a large horse herd consisting of hundreds of horses is composed of many male horse herds in such a "family" unit.

As a stallion, it can not only have a group of wives and concubines, but also have many children.

Moreover, it will take very strict care of the horses in its own herd, and will never allow them to go to other horses.

If horses from other herds ran into its herd, it would kick and bite to drive the other horses out of the herd.

Therefore, in fact, the male horse is the natural herder of the horse herd. As long as the male horse is still alive, there will be no fewer horses in his herd.

Since male horses have the ability to herd their own herds, there is generally no need for horse herders to follow the horses all day long to graze horses.

The horse herders only need to ride to the herd every morning, drive together the herds of stallions that are too scattered, and then ride back home. The day's grazing work is over.

However, when it snows in winter, because the wolves cannot catch small animals to eat, the wolves will start to attack the ponies in the herd at night.

From this time on, the horse herders need to watch over the horses every night until dawn, so as to ensure that the horses can safely survive the cold winter and the infestation of wild wolves until the spring when the ice and snow melt.

When spring comes, everything recovers, and small animals such as hares and wild foxes also crawl out of their caves one after another. The wild wolves will rarely attack the horses since they have something to eat.

"咴咴~"

As soon as Xu Lingjun walked to the front of the stable, there was a sound of horses in the stable.

He took a closer look, and immediately saw a tall and handsome white horse standing in the stable with its head held high.

This should be the big green horse in the play!
He was a little curious why this horse with white hair and black mane was called a big green horse?
From the memory of his previous life, he only knew that this horse was originally raised by Uncle Dong, but now that Uncle Dong was getting older, he distributed the horses he was in charge of to other herdsmen.

And the big green horse is one of the horses he received, one of the male horses that has just grown up.

The lifespan of a horse is about one-third of that of a human, and it can generally live to be thirty to thirty-five years old.

Compared with human age, a one-year-old horse is equivalent to 12 human years, a two-year-old horse is equivalent to human years, and each subsequent year is equivalent to approximately three human years.

Generally speaking, the physical maturity of mares is generally 3 and a half to 5 years old. The appropriate age for the first mating is 3 years old and when the body weight reaches 90.00%, while the stallion is generally not officially mated until 4 years old.

Therefore, Daqingma still needs to wait a year before he can marry a wife and have children.

However, this does not affect it to show its handsome and elegant figure now.

Xu Lingjun smiled slightly, pushed open the wooden door of the stable and walked in, hugged the big green horse's head, scratched its neck, and skillfully installed the saddle and stirrups.

Then he went to open the stable door and drive the stallions out of the herd.

"Kick-kick~tap~"

The group of horses followed his leader and ran out of the stables. He quickly turned back, grabbed the reins, stepped on the stirrups and turned on the horses, and then slammed the whip hard.

"Snapped!"

"咴咴~"

The big green horse neighed, its front hooves jumped high, and then it stepped down hard, and galloped towards the grass in front of the stable.

(End of this chapter)