Mountain driving career since 1982

Chapter 199

"I used to be a horse herder in the Sauron Ranch in Inner Mongolia, and I just saw a lot."

Jin Jiabao grinned, revealing a mouthful of yellow and black teeth from frequent smoking.

The Sauron Ranch is a land of military reclamation, also known as the Sauron Army Horse Farm.

I used to be a horse herder in that kind of place, and I often had contact with horses, including many military horses, so I naturally had a very high awareness of the quality of horses.

Jin Jiabao's words are undoubtedly an affirmation of Zhuifeng.

"It's this horse, too skinny, didn't take care of it?" Jin Jiabao sighed and said, "If it's taken care of, it will be so beautiful."

"It's better now. There are corn and bean cakes every day. When I first bought them, they were skinny."

These days, Lu Lu has paid a lot of attention to chasing the wind, and he has fed a lot of corn and bean cakes.

Horses have no night grass and no fat!

Horses have a lot of activity, and without sufficient forage supply, it is difficult to grow strong, and Lu Lu knows this well.

In order to let Zhuifeng get stronger earlier, he also took great pains.

"Where did you buy it? How much did you pay for it?" Jin Jiabao asked curiously.

"I bought it when I was going to the market in the district. It cost 130 yuan, and it has been more than half a month since I bought it." Lu Lu said truthfully.

"It's good luck. 130 yuan is still in the district. You have found a treasure."

Jin Jiabao looked envious: "It's rare to come across such a good horse, today I will take good care of it for you."

As he said that, he reached for Zhuifeng's left premise with his hand. Before he could touch Zhuifeng, Zhuifeng had already neighed and jumped to the side, kicking his hooves continuously, not allowing him to get close at all.

Jin Jiabao followed and circled back, Lu Lu hurriedly reminded: "Master, be careful, this horse will kick people!"

Jin Jiabao nodded, stretched out his hand tentatively, jumped up immediately after chasing the wind, kicked with his left rear foot, followed by his right rear foot, and finally kicked with both hind feet at the same time.

This is the second time Lu Lu has seen the signature triple kick. This movement is extremely fast, and its power cannot be underestimated.

Jin Jiabao had been on guard for a long time, and when he saw Zhuifeng making a move, he quickly jumped aside and laughed: "This temper is outrageous!"

"If you don't have a temper, you can't be a good horse!" Lu Lu laughed.

"That's right... won't you kick it if you touch it?" Jin Jiabao turned his head to look at Lu Lu.

Lu Lu stretched out his hand to grab Zhuifeng's front hoof, but Zhuifeng didn't jump, after Lu Lu exerted a little force, Zhui Feng obediently lifted his front hoof.

After putting down his front hoof, Lu Lu went around behind Zhuifeng again, this time he didn't dare to be careless, he was really worried that Zhuifeng would kick him, but when his hand touched Zhuifeng's heel, Zhuifeng just shook, He took a small step and didn't resist. When Lu Lu grabbed its left hind foot and exerted a little force, he also lifted it up.

"Tsk tsk..." Jin Jiabao smacked his lips, amazed again and again: "This horse has indeed been tamed by you, and you have accepted the owner... Today, you have to nail the horseshoe yourself."

"Ah..." Lu Lu froze for a moment.

"This horse has a strong temper. He only listens to you. Outsiders can't get close to him. Only you are the most suitable. If you tie Ma Shengsheng up, I believe you don't want to see that kind of situation either!"

"But, I won't!"

"No, I can teach you. Anyway, you will inevitably have to serve this horse in the future. It doesn't matter if you learn more."

Hearing what Jin Jiabao said, Lu Lu thought about it and thought it was true.

This horse is destined to accompany him for a long time, so he can't always lead Zhuifeng to Jin Jiabao.

Jin Jiabao is also getting older, so he might not be able to withstand it.

Horseshoeing is also a technical job, and there is nothing wrong with learning it.

What's more, it is also a rare opportunity to have a master give special guidance.

"Then I'll do it!" Lu Lu nodded immediately.

Jin Jiabao quickly returned to the house, and found out a flat spatula for repairing horseshoes, a spatula for grinding horseshoes, a small hammer for nailing nails, and a series of artificially forged four-sided horseshoes.

Under Jin Jiabao's guidance, Lu Lu raised Zhuifeng's left front hoof first, pulled out the old horseshoe, and carefully trimmed the horseshoe bit by bit with a flat-bladed spatula.

For the first time, he didn't dare to use too much force, for fear of cutting the new meat wrapped in Zhuifeng's hoof, and also for fear of shoveling too hard and leaving an irreparable gap.

After a while, a horseshoe was finally repaired, and Lu Lu was also sweating.

It was smoothed with a file, compared with the size of the horseshoe handed by Jin Jiabao, and the suitable one was selected, nailed on, and the excess part protruding from the hoof shell was cut off and polished, and finally a horseshoe was completed.

In the same way, with the experience of the first hoof, Lu Lu felt a lot easier in the next step. It took Lu Lu almost an hour to complete the four horseshoes.

Fortunately, during the whole process, Zhuifeng was very cooperative.

Snorting, Zhuifeng took small steps on the ground, getting used to the new horseshoe, and even jumped a few times, looking very excited.

"You kid is smart..."

Jin Jiabao walked around Zhuifeng and nodded with satisfaction: "Although I am a beginner, I can understand a little bit, which is better than many people who have raised horses for many years."

"You still have good advice!" Lu Lu said modestly: "Master, can you sell me your shovel?"

When he was using it just now, Lu Lu had a deep understanding of the sharpness of the flat spatula.

It doesn't take too much effort to cut the hard cuticle on the horse's hoof, and it can be easily cut off, which is a good thing.

"You kid... You have learned how to shoehorn a horse, and you want to take away my fellow who eats too." Jin Jiabao stared at Lu Lu and said.

"My lord, don't get me wrong. I just thought that in the future I will need to use it frequently for repairing horseshoes myself. I want to prepare a handy tool for myself. This is a good knife!" Lu Lu quickly explained, for fear of offending the old man.

"Okay, let me tease you."

Jin Jiabao smiled and said: "I'm getting old, and I don't have the energy to do these things anymore. These are the good things I used in the Sauron Ranch. The materials are all top-quality. If you want, you can take them away. Well... ten dollars!"

Just when Lu Lu thought that the Jin Jiabao was going to be given to him, he suddenly changed the topic and got hooked on money... Lu Lu couldn't help being slightly stunned.

It's only ten yuan, and the things are easy to use, so Lu Lu is willing to do so.

Without saying a word, he immediately took out a big union card from his pocket and handed it to Jin Jiabao.

Seeing that he was so happy, Jin Jiabao suddenly stopped taking the money, and just sighed: "The thing that has been with me for many years, in this life, I'm afraid it will be difficult to meet such a good horse again, so I will give it to you!"

As Jin Jiabao said, he carefully wrapped the shovel with cloth and put it in a bag, and took out a pair of horseshoes he made himself and some nails for nailing the horseshoe, put them in the bag together, and handed them to Lu Lu.

Lu Lu took it with his hand: "Thank you, sir!"

He himself was old, and he knew that old people always like to miss the past.

People or things around you, as long as you see them, you can always think of some of your past.

Just like him, after living a new life, he obviously has more choices, but he still misses Chen Xiuyu and wants to return to this deep mountain. This is his hard-to-let go emotion and the most precious thing.

Some emotions are not something that can be lost if you want to lose it, let alone something that can be measured by money.

For Jin Jiabao, this shovel is like this.

He should be thinking that Lu Lu can continue to make good use of this shovel and use it on nailing the hoof of the good horse.

This old man, when he was at the Sauron Ranch, there must be many things that he will never forget.

Leading the horse and leaving Huilongtun, Zhuifeng followed behind him, stepping on the dirt road with all four hooves, kicking loudly, very lightly.

After returning to Caodianzi, Lu Lu put the saddle on it, Zhuifeng didn't resist, and let Lulu fasten his girdle, he stepped on the stirrup with his teeth gritted, turned over and sat on the saddle, flicked the reins lightly, and Zhuifeng began to ride in Caodianzi. trot up.

These thighs, this ass, lack of abuse.

You have to abuse your calluses!
(End of this chapter)