Hu Qian thought about it, so he took great care of the mother and son. He was not too worried about the male scalper, because people wanted to harm the male scalper. Unless he shot it to death with a shotgun, it would be difficult for ordinary people to get close to it. If it was not done well, there would be no If you catch it, you will get kicked by it or get kicked by it, so no one can easily harm it. But this pair of oxen mother and son were different. They were relatively docile to each other. It was easy to catch them while grazing in the forest at the foot of the mountain, and it was also easy to harm them. Therefore, Hu Qian was not worried about the safety of the oxen mother and son. When they were grazing outside, he was always watching over them or not far away.
One time, the village cadre asked him about something, so he went to the village. When he came back, he found that something had happened to a female cow tied with a long rope to let grass on the inner slope of the reservoir.
The cow was lying on the ground listlessly, her mouth was not moving, and she was unable to regurgitate the food in her stomach. When she saw Hu Qian coming, she met her eyes with melancholy, as if she had something unhappy to say to him. , and couldn’t say it.
Hu Qian always felt something was wrong when he approached the cow. A ray of hot wind could not shake the sweaty hair stuck to his forehead. He raised his hand to smooth away the hair and took a closer look at the cow. He found that its back had been chopped and there was bright red blood. He counted them one by one and found a total of 13 wounds. Blow flies flew in one after another and hung on them. The tail of the cow swung up from time to time to drive them away, but they could never be driven away. The bloodthirsty flies took advantage of the tail to fall and flew back up to the chin, a dense layer.
Hu Qian stepped forward, stretched out his two palms and slapped them in correspondence. He actually slapped one to death. Half of the fly fell from the left palm, because the other half of the dead fly was still stuck to the right palm. There was a faint hint of a star or two. Blood.
Hu Qian put his palm against the uninjured part of the cow's back and gently rubbed it. He was angrily wondering who was responsible for such a vicious attack. The cow was still in her confinement! If he knew who did it, he wouldn't be able to control it and would have to find someone to fight with.
Hu Qian thought of the calf. Where had the calf gone? He looked around anxiously, but there was no trace of him. Could it be that he had been killed, skinned, cut and cooked for a meal?
It turned out that the calf was not so bad. It had run far away, first into the woods, and then to avoid a man with a sinister face, and then desperately jumped out of the woods into a crowded wilderness. The wilderness was covered with green weeds, and there was no one to chase it. It did not run anymore, but slowly gnawed on the tender green grass stems, but it was still confused and afraid that the man would come, but in the end he did not come.
Why are you afraid of that man? When it was with its mother, the man suddenly appeared and raised a sharp kitchen knife to chop it. It immediately ran towards its mother, and the mother buried her head and raised her two horns to protect it from harm with a defensive posture. .
But the man became angry and stopped attacking the calf. Instead, he took a detour and slashed at the mother's back several times. The mother bounced in pain. Finally, she took off the rope tied to a stone and turned around to resist with a vengeance. The ferocious man then let out a long "moo" cry, and the calf understood the mother's meaning - child, run into the woods and hide, otherwise, this ferocious guy will kill you.
The calf glanced at its mother who was competing with the man, and ran towards the forest in fear. Looking back now, I still feel scared.
The calf is eating green grass for the first time and is still not used to it. He is still thinking about his mother's sweet milk. It chewed the slightly bitter grass shreds and couldn't swallow it for a long time. Sometimes it looked up at the jungle, imagining that its mother suddenly came out of the jungle and came to it, and it could suck the abundant milk like buds hanging from its mother's belly and eat happily. Now she can act like a baby to her heart's content, swinging her tail freely and walking around her mother. But now the joy of spending time with relatives is gone. From time to time, it looks towards the mountains and forests yearningly. In the end, its mother does not appear, but it looks forward to seeing it and its mother's owner, Hu Qian.
Hu Qian saw the calf and carefully looked at its body to see if there were any injured parts. When he was convinced that the calf's body was intact, a trace of relief appeared on his face. Little did he know that the calf survived because its mother risked her life to protect it.
At this time, Hu Qian walked around the calf and exposed the hand holding the bamboo branch hidden behind him. He shouted while driving the calf and said: Oh, I had a hard time looking for it. Why did you come here alone, you beast? ? I thought you had become a dish on other people's dining tables!
The newborn calf doesn't understand human language very well, but it feels that the owner uses bamboo branches as whips to drive it away, in order to let it go home. In this way, it does not need to be driven too much by the owner, but consciously walks through the jungle and goes straight to the mountain road home. It also wants to return to its mother as soon as possible and realize its wish to suck the breast. But when it happily ran to the grounds of its owner's house, its mother was nowhere to be seen. It mooed, but there was no reply.
Hu Qian knew that the calf was looking for its mother, so he said to himself: Your mother was stabbed by some unscrupulous villain. I'm afraid she will die soon.
He crossed the field and came around to a cattle shed behind the main house. The calf also ran to the cowshed and found its mother, a thin yellow cow with shaggy hair, lying in the wet cowshed that smelled of cow dung. The back where it had been stabbed was still soaked in blood, and the blood dripped on the ground, staining the pile of cow dung under its buttocks red. Flies were still swarming around the swollen and even rotten parts of the wound, just like a party at a feast, each taking his or her place to feast on this rare meal.
Hu Qian walked over and stretched out his hand, and they flew up in fright, like noisy notes, scattered in all directions of the cattle pen.
After Hu Qian relaxed for a while, they flew back without a meal and landed in a position where they could have a full meal.
Hu Qian didn't pay much attention to those pesky flies. He only paid attention to whether the cow's injury was getting better or worse. Seeing it hanging its neck on the ground, its eyes seemed to be frozen, and their luster was muddy. Hu Qian was worried that it would die. Hu Qian gently kicked it to see its reaction, but it showed no reaction and did not raise its neck.
At this moment, the calf also followed and mooed again. The cow had no other reaction. Hu Qian noticed that it only blinked slightly.
The calf walked over to it wanting to suck its milk, but looking at the way it looked now, it didn't even look like it wanted to be intimate with its mother, let alone suck the milk.
Hu Qian drove the calf out of the cowshed, and it mooed at the door, as if it was reluctant to leave its mother. A few hours later, when the calf was still circling around the cowshed, Hu Qian called several people, some with ropes and poles; some with sharpeners, wooden sticks, etc., to take the cow out of the cowshed. The ox was tied up properly and then taken out and placed in the field. It was already dead, with its eyes open but motionless.
The man with the knife began to skin the cow, starting from the lips, that is, using the knife to pass through its neck, chest and abdomen, to the middle of the roots of the two hind legs, forming a straight line. It has uses and can be processed to make cowhide drums, cowhide belts, and cowhide shoes.
From the perspective of karma, when a cow is alive, people do work for people, and when it is dead, people eat its meat, and its skin is still useful. The reason why these values belong to others for free is because in the past life, when the cow was a human, it owed too much. Debts that cannot be repaid must be repaid by turning into cattle in this life. This is also a way for humans and animals to eliminate karma in the mutual transformation of reincarnation.
The calf was very frightened at that moment, and the smell of the blood from the slaughtered cow made it retreat into the forest.
Hu Qian was worried that the calf had run away, so he left his job of skinning the calf and rushed into the forest in an attempt to retrieve the calf.
