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When Yuan Ning woke up, there was no Zhang Xiuyan by his side.He had some regrets, but when he thought that he could make tea and read books with Zhang Xiuyan at Lingquan—or lie on the grass or rest on a big tree together, he suppressed the trace of regret.They are luckier than many people!They can see each other every day even when they are separated!

Yuan Ning got up full of energy and stretched his muscles and bones in the pasture.Luo Yuanliang got up earlier, and was instructing the ranch workers to plant the saplings around the house, which were the kind of wild fruit that Xiao Hei found in the mountains.After Mr. Lian's promotion, a product named "Jade Berry" was obtained. The seeds and seedlings of this fruit were extremely difficult to survive. Luo Yuanliang followed the experts of the Agricultural Research Institute for a long time before cultivating a batch.

Yuan Ning ran over to help, and quietly poured some spiritual spring water on the little trees.The young trees immediately erected their emerald green leaves, and happily swayed towards Yuan Ning with the wind.The land of this pasture is not fertile, but the young trees are trying to drill their roots down, showing Yuan Ning their determination to take root here.

The early morning sun jumped out of the horizon in the distance, big and red, and the grass in the distance became bright and shining.The air in the pasture is always mixed with the fragrance of soil and grass leaves, but the nights in the grassland are colder and the sun is stronger, which makes the grass grow stronger.

Nuo Min had already rode a horse around the ranch.The horse bypassed the half-human-high pasture, and poked its head out from the path in the grass. It had a long face with a bit of bitterness, and its eyes were moist with the characteristics of a kind animal like a horse.It neighed, raised its strong front hooves and stepped out, using its vigorous leg muscles to prove that it was not a gentle horse, but a solid horse.

The girl of eighteen or nineteen years old had a bright face and a permanent smile in her eyes. She turned over and got off the horse, took off the cloth bag tied to the horse's back, and walked over to show Yuan Ning what she had harvested early in the morning: "It's Shuizawa. I picked up a lot of wild bird eggs, and they are delicious!"

Yuan Ning had also seen that water marsh, and when he first arrived at Changcang, he also looked at the pasture carefully, and knew that it was a lake and swamp in the northeast of the pasture.

The swamp is not a small area, accounting for two-fifths of the ranch. This is why the ranch owner is eager to get rid of it, because the swamp cannot be cultivated and is very dangerous. People and animals are likely to sink into the swamp after entering it!Not to mention He Na Lake, although it has a good water source, it is surrounded by swamps, and it is not easy to get water at all.The daily water and irrigation water of the pasture are drawn from outside the pasture.

Yuan Ning glanced at the bulging cloth bag, moved his mouth, but didn't say anything after all.Some things can't be rushed, only slowly.

At this time, the old horse breeder who heard the sound of horseshoes came out frowned, with an angry look on his face, and shouted angrily: "You ran to Shuize again? I told you how dangerous that place is, so you couldn't listen to it, did you? That place They are cannibals!"

Nuo Min obediently lowered her head to listen to the training, but the corners of her lips twitched disapprovingly. She was raised by her grandfather as an heir!Why can't she just go to Mizusawa?

The old horse breeder knew his granddaughter's disposition, sighed, and took the wild bird's eggs to simmer for the new owner of the pasture to taste.Everyone sat around and had breakfast, and the old horse breeder began to teach Nuo Min which eggs can be taken and which eggs should not be taken. No more birds, these are the experiences left by our ancestors, we must follow them carefully.

Nuo Min nodded earnestly, and carefully peeled off the blue-colored bird's egg in front of her eyes, tasting the long-lost delicacy.She doesn't often dig out bird eggs, isn't it because the new owner of the ranch has come over!

Yuan Ning said: "That's right, more than 2000 years ago, the ancestors said, 'Will you not get something if you exhaust the lake? But next year there will be no fish; burn the land to burn the land, won't you get something? And there will be no beasts next year'." If you drain the fish and catch all the fish, you can get a harvest, but next year there will be no fish to catch; if you burn the forest to cultivate, you can get a harvest, but the wild beasts will have no place to rest, and next year there will be no wild beasts to hunt."

The old horse breeder gave Yuan Ning a thumbs up and boasted: "Children who have studied are different." He poured Yuan Ning a bowl of mare's milk, "Try it, it may not be as good as the milk you usually drink Drink, but this is a gift from the grassland, and it has a unique taste of the grassland, which cannot be tasted in other places!"

Yuan Ning took a big sip of the mare's milk with a smile before thanking the old horse breeder, "Thank you."

After breakfast, Yuan Ning asked Nuo Min to take him to see "Shui Ze".Nuo Min agreed to come down, but the old horse breeder was worried and went with him personally, and Luo Yuanliang naturally followed.Ai Yan and Enhe were fine, so they followed suit.So a group of people went to pick up horses and rode mightily towards Shuizawa.

Yuan Ning has always had a good relationship with animals, and Zai Lie's horses are very obedient in front of him. The old horse breeder and Nuo Min were surprised when they met.After walking a long way, a snow-white lamb jumped out from the side, bleating proudly, and followed Yuan Ning's horse gracefully, at a speed no slower than the horse.

Yuan Ning greeted Xiao Yang with a smile: "Good morning, Xiao Yang!"

"Wow!" Nuo Min's eyes lit up when he saw the lamb, "The little general is here too!"

"Little General?" Yuan Ning was surprised.

[She named it for me, I prefer to be called the General. 】Xiaoyang said to Yuan Ning dissatisfied.

Nuo Min said embarrassedly: "I gave it a name, but it has been refusing to answer me."

Yuan Ning conveyed the meaning of the lamb to Nuo Min: "Maybe it likes to be called the General! Children are like this. When they are young, they always look forward to growing up."

Nuo Min thought it made sense, and happily changed her words: "General!"

The lamb turned his head to look at Nuo Min, and bleated reluctantly.

Nuo Min was ecstatic: "Grandpa, look, the big general called me! So it doesn't like being a small general, but likes being a big general. If I had known about it, I would have changed my words earlier!"

With Nuo Min here, you will never worry about being too quiet. The group talked and laughed all the way, and arrived at the "Shui Ze" in Nuo Min's mouth after a while.There are no protective measures around the swamp, because people in the ranch know to stay away from it, and as long as the animals are "swallowed" by one or two, they will walk around it without warning.Parents like the old shepherd are not unique to humans, and animals will pass on some experiences from generation to generation.

Maybe it was a really heavy rain two days ago, the lake in the distance seems to have swelled a little, and some plants in the surrounding swamps have been submerged to the tip of their stems.The sky had already brightened up, but the lake was still full of mist. The water vapor, which seemed to be fog but not fog, seemed to have been floating on it for thousands of years, and it would never disperse.

Yuan Ning said, "It's really big."

Nuo Min introduced: "In fact, there is a road inside, but it's not easy to walk. You can only find out the situation by groping inside. And the seasons are different all year round. Now in spring, the snow has melted and there is a lot of rain, so the road can no longer be seen. But in spring, all the fish crowd into the swamp. Sometimes you can catch the backs of white fishes one after the other when you remove a clump of grass. But they lay eggs in the swamp. It is best Don't fish them, wait until they come back to swim."

Yuan Ning became interested, followed Nuo Min and walked in for a short distance, followed Nuo Min's guidance to push aside the dense grass, and sure enough, he saw a group of female fish with bulging bellies swimming forward with their mouths open. Next to the other, slowly swimming up the stream.Yuan Ning withdrew his hand, heard a strange noise in the wind, looked up, but saw a group of birds flying by in a row, and then one of them made a long cry, swooped down, and landed in the middle of the lake. When it flew up, it held a fish bigger than a thumb in its mouth.

After a quick and efficient predation action, the birds fluttered their wings and landed on the edge of the lake. They gracefully stopped in the mud with their long thin feet, enjoying the gentle pat of the lake water and holding their mouths. food.

Yuan Ning was fascinated by the beautiful water.Others may feel that such a large piece of land is wasted when they buy such a place, but Yuan Ning knows how precious this piece of water is.The reason why he bought both ranches and mainly operated this one ranch was because he fell in love with this place.Wetlands are a paradise for birds!

Yuan Ning reluctantly left the swamp, and discussed with Luo Yuanliang how to make the "little forest" on the side of the water swamp more lush.As long as the wetland is managed well, there is no need to worry about the failure of the pasture.

Luo Yuanliang wrote down Yuan Ning's thoughts one by one.

The lamb bit out a string of fruit out of nowhere, trotted over, raised his head and handed the fruit to Yuan Ning.

[To Xiao Hei. 】 said the lamb.

Yuan Ning was surprised.In just one night, Xiao Yang and Xiao Hei have established a fruit-giving friendship?

【It was eaten for me last night. ] Xiao Yang affirmed Yuan Ning's idea.

Yuan Ning didn't find it strange, since Xiao Hei and Zhao Fu could eat fruit, so could Xiao Yang.He nodded and said, "Okay, I'll give it to Xiao Hei for you."

The lamb went on an "adventure" to other places.

Yuan Ning happily put away the fruit under the surprised and envious eyes of Nuo Min and the others, and rode around the water for a week before stepping back to the residence with satisfaction.Unexpectedly, just before returning to the house, Yuan Ning saw a familiar figure: it was reporter Zhao whom he hadn't seen for a long time.

Reporter Zhao has always had a very good cooperative relationship with the Zhang family, and has a very good relationship with Yuan Ning.When Yuan Ning saw Reporter Zhao, he immediately stepped forward and shouted, "Brother Zhao, why are you here?"

Reporter Zhao sighed: "The two young apprentices went to follow the news by themselves, and followed up in the hospital. Didn't I come here to wipe their butts? I know you bought a ranch here, so come and have a look."

Yuan Ning frowned, and couldn't help asking: "What news?"

Reporter Zhao said: "One of my apprentices said that people in their area were sick. My two apprentices were impulsive, so they immediately went there with their cameras to follow up. I didn't expect to encounter difficulties. I was beaten into the hospital, and I can’t get out of bed yet. You should have been there not long ago, the northwest side of Changcang is not too far from the place where you are rebuilding the shelterbelt.” Reporter Zhao spread out and brought map, pointed to one of the places, "This is it."

Yuan Ning saw it and understood.

What they dug up was the same thing.

After fully understanding, Yuan Ning felt an unspeakable anger in his heart.It's fine if you don't know, but those people knew what the consequences of what they did would bring, but they still didn't stop in time, and instead injured the person who went to investigate? !