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When this group of buffaloes entered the village, many villagers gathered to watch. Some people said that Luo Meng was a man of great achievements, and no matter what he did, the whole movement was bigger than others.After hearing this, the old man Luo snorted, and just raised a herd of cattle, which is a big deal. If this is considered to be good, any landlord and rich man in the old society is more prosperous than him.

Romon really has the idea of ​​becoming the owner of the whole land, but the matter of enclosing the land is relatively big, and he is just thinking about it in his own mind at the moment, and hasn't communicated with his family yet.

After some expansion, their cowshed has become much more spacious and bright, with more than a dozen buffaloes staying in it, it doesn't look too crowded.People from the village came to their house to watch the fun. The village chief Luo Quanshun stood outside his cowshed for a long time and said enviously, "You don't have to worry about the cow dung in your fertile land from now on."

"That's right. Twelve buffaloes will grow old in a day." Romon also stood outside his cowshed to watch. Not to mention, all twelve buffaloes stayed in the cowshed, either lying or standing. It's a little bit spectacular.

There is a long water tank in the cowshed, and Romon filled it with spiritual spring water, which the cows love to drink. He found that sometimes livestock are more spiritual than humans. Recently, Romon and his family have been eating The spring water of Lingquan, no one said that this water is particularly delicious.

Luo Hongfeng quickly settled on the store. The store she bought was originally a bookstore, facing the entrance of the central primary school in the town, which is considered the center of Buffalo Town.In the early years, Romon bought books there, but with the popularity of electronic products these years, the business of the bookstore has become more and more bleak, and now it has finally closed down.

As for the name of the store, the family discussed it and decided to call it "Big Buffalo Dairy" instead of anything fancy.In addition to selling fresh milk and yogurt, the store also makes some milk steamed buns and custard buns for breakfast every morning.

Luo Meng doesn't go to the store to help, he just takes care of the cattle at home, Luo Hongfeng and Liu Chunlan are enough for the store.

In addition to these dozen or so cows, there are two small dolls at home. The two sisters, Meihui and Meiling, are now taken by the old man Luo. Don't look at the old man Luo who always talks to Luo Meng with a straight face. It's not like that at all, basically it's just obedience and giving what you want.

Herding cattle is not a heavy job. Although the buffaloes are big, they are very docile. In addition, Romon feeds them spiritual spring water every day, and they are cooked within a few days.

Romon drives the cattle to the hills every day, and finds a place with a lot of weeds to tie the cattle rope, so he can go on a errand, find a piece of dry and soft grass to take a nap, or go for a stroll or something.Luo Meng wanted to find a piece of land near the village, or even a small hill. When the time came, he would pick it up and organize it into his own small land, and he could live and work in peace and contentment in the next few decades.

On this day, Luo Meng went out for a walk again, but got nothing. He lay down on the haystack with a straw hat on his face and prepared to go to sleep. Before he fell asleep, he heard a rustling sound, as if somewhere The ox shook the small tree on which the ox rope was tied.

Luo Meng turned around and saw that the calf he bought first, named Erlang, was biting the knot on the tree and pulling it.He remembered that when he came back from other places the day before, Erlang's cattle rope was also loose, but seeing that it didn't go far, Romon didn't pay much attention to it, and thought he didn't fasten the rope, so it was the guy himself. To solve.

Anyway, it was idle, so Romon simply kept his face, to see what it was going to do in a while.After about ten minutes, the knot on the small tree was pulled looser and looser, and finally it was torn apart.

Luo Meng saw Erlang waving his tail and slowly descending the hill, crossing a small stream and passing through several paddy fields that had not yet been plowed, and came to the edge of a field with a half-person-high plastic film shed, with a lot of water vapor sticking to the film , you can vaguely see that the crops inside are growing green fruits, and there are quite a lot of them.

Erlang stomped his front hooves, kicked away a few pieces of soil, lifted a corner of the film with his mouth, and stuck his head in...

"Crack!" The bamboo stick in Luo Meng's hand slapped Erlang's high buttocks.

"?" Erlang was a little confused about the situation. He took two steps back, retracted his head from the shed, and turned around to look behind him. He was still chewing on a green tomato.

"What are you doing here?" Romon raised his chin.

"Moo!" The cowboy ran away with four legs, like a big dog, running briskly, and reached several terraced fields in a few strokes.

"Get down for me!" Romon shouted.

"Moo!" Erlang stood on the ridge and looked at Luo Meng without moving.

"Can't you get down?"

"Moo!"

"If you have the guts, don't come down, and don't go back at night. At that time, someone will take you home and send you to the slaughterhouse after a few years of breeding." Luo Meng didn't chase after him either. He sat down on the ridge of the field, talking to the The first calf was wasted.

"Moo..." Erlang yelled loudly and jumped down a terraced field.

"Do you know what mistake you made? How dare you steal like others at such a young age. No one in our old Luo family has done such a shameful thing in generations." Luo Meng continued his criticism and education.

"Moo..." Erlang yelled again, looking down at a terraced field below, hesitating whether to jump down or not.

"This is not Romon, what are you doing in my field?" At this time, another old man came over there.

"Uncle Changtie, are you the one who planted these tomatoes?" The old man looks to be 80 to [-] years old, but he has the same surname as Luo Meng's family and the same generation as the old man Luo, so Luo Meng calls him Uncle.

"No, I heard people say that with this plastic film, you can grow tomatoes in winter. Why don't I give it a try?"

"Then why don't you pick it?" Luo Meng also saw it just now, the tomatoes in the shed are bearing fruit well, and they are all growing well, and they are all big.

"Why pick it, isn't this not popular yet?" Luo Changtie didn't know why.

"Hey, you're still waiting for it to turn red. The weather isn't warm enough to turn red. The ones sold in the market are all made red by hormones." Romon lifted the plastic film, picked a tomato from a branch, and took a bite. The flesh is very crisp, the juice is sweet and sour, and the taste is not bad: "That's it, you can pick it."

"What are you going to do when you pick them back?" Picking unripe tomatoes back home, it is reasonable to say that even if you don't move them, they will turn red after a while, but the tomatoes will not be fresh after a long time, and they will not taste good.

"You pick it home, spread it out, spray some Laobaigan, cover it with some straw rags or something, and it should be red in a night or two."

"Can this be done?" The old man was dubious.

"If you're worried, pick a few and go back and try." Luo Meng said with a smile, "You grow these tomatoes well, how much do you plan to sell for a catty?"

"The vegetable market sells two yuan and five or three yuan, so let's just sell two yuan." Luo Changtie hooked his back, carefully lifted a piece of plastic film, picked a few tomatoes from the branches, and gently stacked them on the field. In the ditch, it seems that he is planning to try the method that Romon told him.

"It's so affordable, then you can weigh me twenty catties first." Luo Meng glanced at the cow boy in Shangkan, who was still standing there, stretching his neck and watching him talking to Luo Changtie.

"What do you want so much for?"

"Several cows in our family are producing milk. Give them better food."

Everyone in the village knows that Romon and his family opened a store in the town to sell someone's milk, but they are not too optimistic. Many people in their area have raised buffaloes, and they all know that buffaloes produce less milk.

"And that cowboy just gnawed a few too, how much I will give you back then." Romon added.

"You scolded it for this just now?" Luo Changtie also straightened up and looked at Kan's calf.

"No, I happened to be caught by me today, and I don't know how many times I've come here." This is all familiar, and it's definitely not the first time. To tell the truth.

Luo Changtie waved his hand and said, "This little calf looks good, just eat a few, as long as it doesn't spoil it."

"Where can it be?"

"This calf is thin, it must be because the mother's milk is insufficient. This calf is just like our doll. If it is not nourished when it is young, it will be very greedy. If you eat a few tomatoes, you will eat them. It is ten months old. What do you know, son of a bitch?"

"Hey, that's right." When Romon saw the old man say that, he stopped insisting. If he wanted to say anything else, it would appear that he was being mean to livestock. Most old people were soft-hearted and didn't like that.

Luo Meng grew up in the village, so he naturally knew Luo Changtie. This old man is a good man, and he is kind to everyone. I heard that several children in the family have bought houses in the town and county. There are two old men and old ladies left.

Considering how old he is, it’s not easy to grow this patch of tomatoes. He tends them carefully on weekdays, but because he doesn’t know how to make money, he missed the best days of making money at the end of the year, and now Erlang has eaten a lot of them. , Romon felt a little sorry.

Seeing that Luo Changtie was only concentrating on picking tomatoes, he sprinkled some spiritual spring water into the field when he was not paying attention.It is still the first month of the month, and the prices of vegetables are not bad. If Luo Changtie can grow more tomatoes in this field, he will pick them up and sell them in the town every day.

In the evening of that day, all the buffaloes in Luo Meng's family were given a few crisp and delicious tomatoes, except Erlang.All the women in the room sympathized with this little calf, but the old man Luo stood on Luo Meng's side, thinking that cheating was something he couldn't get used to.

"After a while, put a nose ring on it, and it will be honest." Old man Luo has raised cattle and has experience.

"Wait a little longer, isn't this still young?"

In fact, it is not too small. Most of the buffaloes in the village wear nose rings when they are about one year old. I can work.

But now Luo Meng doesn't point to Erlang to pull the plow and grind the mill. As a buffalo, that is, the past two years of childhood, he should be happy, and it doesn't hurt to let it go wild for a while.

But after waiting for a while, Erlang's status in the village will be different.

Earlier when Luo Meng told the story of Erlang saving his mother in the village, the villagers were a little skeptical, thinking that it might just be a coincidence that a blind cat hit a dead mouse.

This time, Luo Changtie said in the village that Erlang of Luo Meng's family gnawed a few tomatoes at his house, and sprinkled some cow urine. The tomatoes at home are growing rapidly, and the ones that hang fruit are called hardworking. He has been planting for so many years, but he has never seen such a thing.