While they were talking, the two sisters came to the cattle pen.
The cattle pen is on the other side of the pasture, located downwind of the house where they live. There are a row of five or six cattle pens, which are well arranged inside. It is obvious that they have put their heart and soul into raising cattle well.
At this time, several adult cattle that were already there were left out on the pasture to forage for food on their own, chewing grass roots, swaying their tails and looking at the sky, quite carefree.
The ten newly purchased calves were kept in a large cattle pen. The fodder and water in the cattle pen were fully prepared.
The calves, in groups of three and five, put their heads together, standing or sitting, just like people, and their relationships are also divided into distances and small groups. The sense of small groups is very strong.
It's just that most of them have two strips of snot hanging under their noses, which looks a little funny and distressing at the same time.
"Katsuo, my mother and sister are here."
At the gate of the cattle pen, Xiaoduo took the lead in greeting the people inside.
Xiang's father was standing with a cane, Xiang Shengnan was squatting on the ground, and a calf was lying on its side on the ground in front of the father and son.
Hearing Xiaoduo's voice, the father and son looked at the door together. Father Xiang grinned and smiled at Yang Ruoqing, "Her aunt is here? Where is her mother-in-law?"
"My mother is staying with Jiaojiao in the house." Yang Ruoqing said.
Father Xiang nodded.
Xiang Shengnan stood up and walked to the door, speaking to Yang Ruoqing: "Sister."
Yang Ruoqing looked at Xiang Shengnan. The once handsome young man was now haggard and haggard, his eyes were bloodshot, and his hair was coated with oil. I guess he hadn't washed his hair in seven or eight days, right?
Yang Ruoqing couldn't help but turn her head and glance at Xiaoduo next to her, and could only sigh.
This 'suffering' couple!
However, even if he is embarrassed and exhausted, his fighting spirit is still worthy of praise and encouragement.
When you are young, you find the right path and work hard. When you are older and achieve financial freedom, you can naturally enjoy life.
When you are young, you are lazy and drifting with the flow. When you get older and pressure from all aspects comes, it will be like when the polder gate breaks and the flood comes from all directions, but you have nowhere to escape, and you can't even catch a floating board. The situation is almost the same...
"How is Niu Xiaozi doing now?" Yang Ruoqing asked.
Xiang Shengnan smiled bitterly and turned aside to make way for Yang Ruoqing to see.
On the ground, the calf lying on the ground was ruminating continuously, its eyelids were puffing up, and its legs and feet were twitching from time to time.
"Hey, I can't live. I can't live. Six taels of silver have been wasted..." Xiang's father stood there with his hands on crutches, shaking his head and sighing.
This made Xiang Shengnan and Xiaoduo even more annoyed.
"Dad, I haven't completely died yet, can you not say it? How many times have you said it from yesterday to today?" Xiang Shengnan couldn't help but say a few words to Xiang's father.
Father Xiang said with a long face, "I'm telling the truth..."
"Can you keep your truth in mind? It's useless to talk about it all the time. It only causes trouble for others!"
"What are you talking about? Aren't I worried? Why should I say a few more words if I'm worried? Am I provoking you?"
Perhaps when he saw Xiang Shengnan criticizing his father like this in front of Yang Ruoqing and Xiaoduo, Xiang's father couldn't help but roared at the top of his voice.
Xiang Shengnan also had no place to vent his pent-up anger, so he yelled back: "Do you really feel sorry for those six taels of silver? What are your intentions in your mind? Do you really think I don't know? Yesterday you said You want to kill the calf, skin it and eat the meat before it dies. What you are worried about is not the money we lost, what you are worried about is that bite of spicy stir-fried yellow beef!"
Father Xiang originally wanted to reply a few words, but a loud swallowing sound revealed his true colors.
"Look, I just mentioned the stir-fried yellow beef and you couldn't help but swallow your saliva. Come on, come on, don't just stand here. Go wherever you need to go!"
Xiang Shengnan waved his hand, turned around and put his hands on his hips, not wanting to look at Father Xiang anymore.
Father Xiang also felt that his old face was dull. He muttered and walked out of the cattle pen with a cane and went to the pasture to look for cattle.
"Katsuo, please stop arguing with your father-in-law. My mother and sister are here."
Xiaoduo came to Xiang Shengnan, tugged on his clothes, and whispered.
Xiang Shengnan was stunned for a moment, then turned around and explained apologetically to Yang Ruoqing: "Sister, I..."
Yang Ruoqing smiled understandingly and raised her hand to interrupt him: "It's okay, I understand. Anyone who is involved in this kind of thing will be upset."
Xiang Shengnan nodded, and his eyes circled around the calves in the cattle pen, and finally fell on the calf lying on the ground. He sighed again: "If you say something bad, I can't wait to replace it." Get ill."
Yang Ruoqing and Xiaoduo looked at each other, both sisters couldn't laugh or cry.
Xiaoduo pinched him even more, "What are you talking about? You are just a kid after all. You are the backbone of our family. If we have problems, we will solve them. Don't say stupid things."
Yang Ruoqing also touched her forehead with her hand, looked around the bullpen, then turned to Xiang Shengnan and said, "I have a proposal for you to adopt."
Xiang Shengnan immediately stood up straight and looked at Yang Ruoqing with bright eyes.
Yang Ruoqing pointed to the two calves that were still munching on the grass: "The two healthy calves will be kept separately, and the other ones with less serious conditions will also be kept separately to prevent them from being cross-infected."
The word "cross-infection" is no longer unfamiliar to Xiaoduo and Xiang Shengnan, because during the great plague that occurred after the flood, Yang Ruoqing and others had already called out the new word "cross-infection".
"Sister, what you said makes sense. I didn't think so carefully when I was looking after this calf who was seriously ill. I'll do it now!" Xiang Shengnan patted his head and acted quickly.
"Duo'er, please go and help me, let me watch this calf here." Yang Ruoqing ordered again.
Xiaoduo nodded, and the young couple quickly went to isolate the other cows.
Yang Ruoqing came to the calf lying on the ground and squatted down to look at it carefully.
During this period, the young couple came in and out several times, and each time they came, they found that Yang Ruoqing's squatting position had changed.
When she came in for the first time, she squatted next to Niu Duzi's head and was looking at Niu Duzi's eyelids.
When she came in for the second time, she squatted near the calf's tail, holding a branch in her hand to pull the dung under the calf's tail.
For the third time, I squatted on my belly and gently rubbed the calf’s belly with both hands...
"Duo'er, what is your sister doing?"
After coming out, Xiang Shengnan asked quietly.
As soon as he opened his mouth, he noticed Xiaoduo staring at him with a worried look on his face.
"What's wrong? Why are you staring at me like that?" Xiang Shengnan was confused.
"Whose sister?" Xiaoduo asked.
Xiang Shengnan was stunned for a moment, then immediately changed his words with a smile: "My sister, my sister."
