The fairy of space also farms

"I've already signed the signature, and we've settled the money. The sheepfold and the sheep are yours. That's right?" A man in his 50s with a weathered face was holding a thick stack of bright red sheep. Money, the smile lines at the corners of his eyes deepened unconsciously, he said cautiously to the young man wearing thick glasses in front of him, his small eyes fixed on him, for fear that he would have a regretful expression.

"Of course, the contract is clearly written in black and white, and the money and the goods are clear." The young man with glasses nodded solemnly, carefully and neatly folded the transfer contract that had been signed and fingerprinted, and folded into four squares, without any asymmetry. Tucked it into his file bag.

"Oh, oh, good. Then I can go?" The other party was so excited that even the beard at the corner of his mouth trembled a little.

"Wait." The young man stopped the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, his face turned pale in an instant, and the corners of his mouth twitched: "What else is there?"

The young man said blankly, "I didn't give you the key."

"Oh, yes, yes, yes. The key, here you are the key." The middle-aged man looked at it, then quickly stuffed the money into a greasy and black satchel, then took out the key and handed it to the young man.

The young man nodded, and the middle-aged man saw that everything was explained clearly, so he ran away, but he was blocked by people coming up the slope after running a few steps: "Wait, don't go, and speak clearly. Ning Wazi , are you kidding me, do you really want to buy his sheep?"

It turned out that the person who bought the sheep was Xu Ning who had returned to the countryside from the city a few days ago, and the person who spoke was Xu Ning's uncle Xu Jingshan.

Xu Ning looked up at his uncle, and said lightly, "Well, I've already bought it, signed the contract, and gave him the money."

Xu Jingshan let go of the shepherd, and rushed over to grab Xu Ning's arm: "My dear, are you right? What are you buying this sheep for? You know how to raise sheep, and you won't go back to school to teach?"

"I know how to raise sheep. I won't go back to school, so I will raise sheep here." Xu Ning raised his eyes and looked at the surrounding scenery. He hasn't returned to his hometown for many years. The scenery has become familiar and strange, but the air is still so kind , Xu Ning took a deep breath, no exhaust, no dust, pure and clear.Although it is already November of the lunar calendar, the mountains and forests are still lush and lush. There are many evergreen trees, and many grasses on the ground are still green, so that the sheep will not be without grass in winter.Dealing with livestock, there is no intrigue, no intrigue, no matter how much you pay, you will get back as much as you give, a very simple life, suitable for him now.

Xu Jingshan was anxious and angry, his eyes swelled: "You are a child, you know what a fart, you think this is a play? These sheep are bought for tens of thousands of dollars, you just use the money for nothing?" While the uncle and nephew were talking, the shepherd slipped away quietly, without even packing up his belongings, for fear that Xu Ning would ask for the money back.

"Uncle, don't worry. I know how to raise sheep, that's what I learned in school." Xu Ning majored in animal medicine in college, commonly known as veterinary medicine, and later specialized in animal genetics after taking the postgraduate entrance examination.

"You know what a fart!" Xu Jingshan really didn't understand this nephew, who had such a good life in the city, but ran to the countryside to raise sheep, isn't he crazy?These few days my nephew came back quietly, thinking that he was just in a bad mood and came back to relax, but he didn't expect to come here to buy sheep.He said earnestly again: "Do you know why people are so eager to sell sheep? It's almost Chinese New Year, and you only need to wait a few more months before you can slaughter sheep and sell them for money. Why did he pick up such a good deal for you?" ?”

Xu Ning looked up at his uncle, expressing that he also wanted to know the reason.

The uncle glanced at the sheepfold behind him, and took his nephew down the slope. After walking for a long time, he lowered his voice and said to him: "There are strange things in this sheepfold! This old man has lost several sheep this year. , There are more when you come back at night, but less when you release it in the morning.”

Xu Ning said flatly, "It must have been stolen."

"It was stolen, but it may not be stolen by someone." Xu Jingshan's face was a bit mysterious, "The old man has been guarding for several nights, but he didn't find anyone coming, but there are still few sheep. Are you surprised? ?”

After hearing this, Xu Ning didn't say anything. He just felt that people were making too much fuss. He never believed in strange things.

Xu Jingshan grabbed Xu Ning's hand: "Hurry up and get the money back, this sheep can't be bought!" It was tens of thousands, and he couldn't watch his nephew spend the money in vain.

Xu Ning shook his head: "It's okay, Uncle, nothing will happen. Besides, I signed a contract with him, so I won't come back."

Xu Jingshan waved his fingers, but he didn't know what to say. He had a feeling that he hated iron and steel. Why is this kid so obstinate? He is exactly the same as his dead father. Nine cows can't pull back what has been decided. , if his parents weren't here, I wouldn't bother to take care of it. "Well, you can make troubles if you like. You grew up here too, don't you know that this is a mountain temple, and there are so many weird things here!"

The location where the sheepfold is located is the starting point of a hillside, backed by a stretch of hillside land, and a vast field under the slope. It used to be a mountain temple, 300 meters away from the village. Later, the mountain temple was destroyed. When it was destroyed, the village built a row of houses here, as the brigade stronghold of several nearby natural villages, and often held large and small meetings here.After the abolition of the brigade, the house served as a village primary school for two years. It was rumored that it was not very peaceful at the time, but no one was killed. Later, several village primary schools merged, and the place was withdrawn.

When Xu Ning left his hometown to go to school, the house had been vacant.When he came back this time, he stumbled here by accident, only to find that he had been rented by a foreigner to raise sheep and changed it into a sheep pen. Buying the other party's sheep, I didn't expect that as soon as I thought about it, I couldn't stop.The lawsuit over the ownership of the doctoral project is still going on, and I don’t know when it will come to fruition. The school job has also been lost, and his fiancée has followed his enemy. .

"I think it's okay. It's okay, don't worry, uncle." Xu Ning was going to herd the sheep.

This house has a total of five large tile-roofed houses, facing south from the north. Fengshui is actually quite good. The Fengshui master said that the stretching hillside is a dragon vein, and the head of the slope is the dragon's head. People dare to come here to build houses, but everyone just cultivates wasteland on the hillside, planting day lilies and soybeans.The first room on the right is where the old shepherd lives, and the second room is specially prepared for the ewes giving birth. There are no ewes giving birth, so it is still empty. The old shepherd told him that there are already more than 20 ewes. The sheep is pregnant, and the baby boom will be here soon, so it looks like this room will come in handy soon.

The third and fourth rooms are used to keep sheep, and the one on the far side is not used to keep sheep, and is used to pile up some sundries and feed for sheep, such as hay, corn, chaff, bean curd and the like.The house where the sheep are held has been remodeled. Wooden boards are laid at a height of more than half a meter from the ground. There are some gaps between the boards, so that the sheep manure can roll from the boards to the ground, and there is no need to clean the sheepfold every day. Just clean it up regularly.When Xu Ning opened the door of the sheepfold, he was so stimulated by the ammonia gas that he almost fainted. The old shepherd probably had no intention of raising sheep, so he hadn't cleaned up sheep manure for a long time.

Xu Jingshan followed Xu Ning, and was so smoked that he almost stumbled: "It's so stinky, you are a doctoral student here to do this job, aren't you just asking for it?" Xu Ning is the pride of their old Xu family. The best agricultural university, and a doctoral student, working as a professor at the university, it is such a face-saving thing to say, why do you want to come back to raise sheep?

Xu Ning took a deep breath and opened the door of the sheep pen, which was divided into many small rooms by wooden fences.Xu Ning went up again and opened all the small doors. Suddenly, the sheep gates swarmed out and squeezed out of the door. Several big rams rushed forward, almost knocking Xu Ning to the ground.It can be seen that not only people, but even animals themselves cannot bear this foreign crime.The yard outside the sheepfold was surrounded by a wooden fence, more than one meter high, and when they didn't go out to graze the sheep, they would feed the sheep here. These old shepherds had told Xu Ning.

After opening all the gates, Xu Ning quickly ran out of the sheepfold, let out a sigh of relief, and almost suffocated in just 2 minutes.Xu Jingshan stood in the yard and shook his head helplessly: "Now you know the difficulties of doing farm work, right? This is just the beginning."

Xu Ning breathed the fresh air and felt alive again: "It's okay, everything is difficult at the beginning, I will adapt. I will clear all the sheep dung in the sheep pen this afternoon."

Xu Jingshan: "..."

Although he couldn't persuade the stubborn Xu Ning, Xu Jingshan still took the initiative to stay and help his nephew. Otherwise, he is a frail scholar who has never done farm work. How can he clean up the sheep dung in the two houses.Even so, the uncle and nephew were busy until it was almost dark before cleaning up the sheep manure.The sheep in the yard hadn't eaten grass all day, they were so hungry that they bleated and gnawed on the fence door. Some naughty sheep had already jumped outside the fence and went to look for food by themselves.

Xu Ning disassembled the movable plank, and stood in the pile of sheep manure wearing rubber shoes to shovel sheep manure. Xu Jingshan helped him pick it up in a basket. The uncle and nephew worked all afternoon to clear the sheep manure.Xu Ning put the movable plank back again, turned around and saw the flock of famished sheep in the yard, and slapped his head: "Too bad, the sheep haven't been fed yet."

Of course Xu Jingshan had noticed this a long time ago, but his nephew's temperament was that he was completely absorbed in doing things as soon as he started, and he didn't think about the things around him at all. retreat.

Xu Ning looked at the sky: "Isn't it too late to feed the sheep? Why don't you feed them today and go to feed them tomorrow morning."

"Cough!" Xu Jingshan couldn't stand it anymore, "Go and see if there is any feed left, and mix it up for the sheep. How can anyone feed the sheep in the morning? Sheep can't eat grass with dew. He also said that he can herd sheep. Well, with your raising method, you can slaughter all the sheep and sell them as soon as possible." Although slaughtering and selling all of them will definitely lose money, at least it can reduce the loss.

Xu Ning shook his head like a rattle: "No, it will be fine when I get used to it."

Xu Jingshan looked at his nephew, stomped his feet, turned around and left, no oil or salt, he was too lazy to help you, let you go through the hardships yourself.The reason why he left was also very simple, because he didn't want to stay in this sheepfold at night at all, because it would be haunted at night.

Xu Ning didn't care about this matter, not to mention that he didn't believe in ghosts, even if there were ghosts, no one was afraid of them.He frivolously moved the feed out from the utility room, and all the sheep flocked towards him frantically, a few breeder rams rushed the fastest, and almost knocked Xu Ning, who was holding sweet potato vines, to the ground .Xu Ning was so frightened that he threw the potato vines away in a hurry and jumped aside.

In the end, something went wrong again. He didn’t push the potato vines away, and they all piled up together. The fast-running sheep huddled together to eat, and the weak sheep could not squeeze in behind the other sheep’s buttocks, so they could only bleat. Calling, the screaming is miserable, like a mourning concubine.Seeing this, Xu Ning quickly brought out another bundle, so that the rest of the sheep could be settled.

He didn't know, he let it go so happily, those two bundles of sweet potato vines were bought by the old shepherd with the cheek to go to the village, and they were prepared for the sheep when it rained in winter, those two bundles of sweet potato vines, At least three or four days.As for sheep, the stomach pouch is also a bottomless pit. You can eat as much as you have, and you are not full when you are not full.So when raising sheep, of course, feed them as much as possible, so that they will grow fat.However, in rainy days or in winter when there is a lack of food, it is impossible to feed them enough if the shepherds prepare their own food for them, so it is generally best to feed them as much as possible to ensure that they do not lose weight. food.

Xu Ning brought in two or three sheep that were scattered outside. Fortunately, sheep are home-loving animals. At night, they knew they wanted to go home and didn't run around. Otherwise, it would be dark. Where would you go to find the sheep? Two days later, I am afraid that it has already become free meat on people's tables.

After taking care of the group of bleating guys, Xu Ning went to his uncle's house for dinner in the dark.The eldest aunt also expressed deep incomprehension to his impulsive behavior, and babbled for a long time, but Xu Ning didn't say anything, just buried her head in silently picking up the food, then took her luggage, took a flashlight from the uncle's house, Back to the sheepfold.

That night, Xu Ning slept very soundly on the unclean bed of the old shepherd. The busy day made his body extremely tired, and his sleep was unprecedentedly deep. This was the most solid sleep he had in more than a month, or rather It was the steadiest sleep he had felt in years.So I didn't notice the strange signs in the house.A group of black things came in through the crack of the door, stood on the bedside and made all kinds of strange changes, and made the household items rattle and rattle, but Xu Ning remained motionless and snored softly , The black shadow was finally discouraged, turned into a strong wind, hula la swept across the house, then slipped out the door and left.