supernatural farm girl

Chapter 34 Chapter 035
Section 035 Hire a Cowherd
Anxiu walked around the entire bull market, looking here and there, but he didn't think any cow was eye-catching, either because he didn't like the mouth, or because he didn't like the hair. There was one cow that Anxiu thought was good, but the cattle dealer had a look on his face. Anxiu was taken aback by her wretched appearance.

There is another one that is not bad, but the cattle dealer asked for 15 taels of silver.Anxiu thinks that he thinks he is young, and He Shusheng and He Yuer are children, so he wants to make them happy.

In the end, after comparisons, this old farmer's cattle are more cost-effective: the price of the cattle market is generally the same as his price, but the quality is not as good as his.

"Old man, I bought this buffalo!" An Xiu stroked the buffalo's dark brown hair, liking it in his heart.The ox is strong and handsome, with straight hooves.

The old farmer was taken aback for a while, and then he held the dry pipe behind his back for a long time, and slowly got up: "Eight taels of silver, girl."

The old farmer was dressed in rags, he was about sixty years old, and his temples were pale. Anxiu thought that paying him back would save his life, so he simply gave him eight taels of silver.

The old farmer stretched out his hand, took the silver, wrapped it in a piece of cloth, put it in his arms carefully, and handed the rope of the cow to Anxiu: "Girl, this cow is yours! You have to treat it well, this cow is sensible." Mile, whoever treats it well, it can understand..."

Before he finished speaking, the old farmer choked up and couldn't make a sound, and the old man burst into tears.

Anxiu was stunned, she could tell that the old man raised the cow himself, not bought it.After staying with people for a long time, animals have feelings for each other, just like family members.Anxiu used to raise a cat, and then died of illness, she was sad for a long time.

Compassionately, Anxiu comforted the old farmer: "Old man, don't be sad, I will take good care of this cow when I buy it back, and promise not to let it be wronged."

The old man wiped away his tears with his sleeve, nodded heavily, stopped looking at the cow, turned around and walked back step by step.Looking at his stooped background, Anxiu felt a little heavy in her heart.Cattle are the most important tool for farmers. Without cattle, plowing the land and hiring others will cost an extra money.It's not that the family is in urgent need of money, which farmer would be willing to sell the cow?

Feeling helpless, Anxiu sighed in vain.Let He Yuer and He Shusheng ride on the back of the ox, and pull the ox by themselves, and go to the timber market to buy an ox cart.

The carpenter was a good man, and the price was fair. Anxiu bought a cart, and the carpenter gave him a pair of ropes to attach the cart to the cow.Anxiu was driving, and the two kids were happily playing in the car, and the three of them rushed home.

The sun is already westward, and it should be Shen time.It took about an hour for Wangji to leave Hejiazhuang by ox cart.There were quite a few pedestrians on the road, and Anxiu knew some of them, so she said hello and left.Anxiu didn't want to give them a ride at all.

She still had money on her body, and after what happened at the market just now, Anxiu became overwhelmed and became extremely sensitive.

He Shusheng hugged the cloth bag tightly in his arms, and He Yuer leaned beside him, the two little ghosts talked and laughed happily.It seems that I haven't been this happy for a long time. I bought new clothes and new shoes, and I am happier than New Year's.From then on, they will not be hungry or warm.

"Xiu, that old man..." In the distance, there is a hunched pale figure with a pipe behind him, pacing slowly. It is the old man who just sold cattle to them. He Shusheng has sharp eyes, and he saw it from a long distance away. Anxiu looked.

Anxiu snorted, is this old man also from the nearby village?

Passing by him, Anxiu stopped the ox cart and shouted loudly: "Old man, are you going home?"

The old farmer was taken aback, squinted his eyes to look at Anxiu, and then looked at the cow, only to recognize that it was the girl who just bought his own cart: "Oh, it's the girl!"

"Old man, we are from Hejiazhuang. Which Zhuangzi do you belong to? If you drop by, I will show you a ride." Anxiu smiled.

"I'm from Lijiazhuang." The old farmer said.

"Then you come up, we'll take you along, just on the way." There are two villages between Lijiazhuang and Hejiazhuang, the road is closer than Anxiu's and the others, it happens to be on the way, Anxiu wants to be a favor.Looking at this old farmer, An Xiu always felt that his eyes were full of pain.

"Hey, thank you, miss!" The old farmer didn't refuse, and climbed into the ox cart.

The four of them sat on the bullock cart and drove slowly.

"Old man, why are you selling this cow when it is in full strength?" Anxiu asked, but she had a guess in her heart, it was nothing more than a family member who was seriously ill and needed money urgently.I asked myself, because I felt that the old man must want to talk, and I could be an audience.

The old man was not very sorry, sighed, and told the story of his sons being unfilial, forcing him to sell the cattle, and then giving them the money, crying all the time: "They said they would support me, everyone Food is given monthly. But girl, maybe it will be given in the first three months. After that, they will definitely say that life is difficult and they don’t want to give it anymore. What should I live on? I used to have cattle, and I helped people plow the fields all year round. Land, to earn some rations, they still come and go from time to time to ask for some. I can’t count on them to make a living in the future, I will give them the money when I go home, and I will smash my head against my wife’s grave to death, completely clean!”

"Old man, don't think that way!" An Xiu hastily comforted him, "You really have no rations, how could the sons ignore you and watch you starve?"

"Girl, you don't know my sons!" The old man wiped away his tears and sighed.

Every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite, and Anxiu can't do anything about it.My own family affairs are a mess, how can I care about others?

Thinking of the old man's lack of food and clothing, Anxiu couldn't help feeling sympathetic.The days without enough food and clothing are really difficult, and she has a deep understanding.

Suddenly recalling her scruples about buying cattle back then, An Xiu paused, and looked at the old man: "Old man, in fact, I bought the cow back, and I don't have time to feed it. If you have nothing to do, why don't you help me raise the cow? I'll take care of it." Breakfast and lunch, one hundred Wen a month, what do you think?"

The market price of rice is eight Wen a catty, and one hundred Wen can buy more than ten catties of rice, which is enough for the old man to eat one meal at night for a month.Besides, they all eat white rice during the day, which can satisfy hunger. If the elderly want to save money, they can skip one meal at night, which is enough for life.

Besides, Lijiazhuang is not far from Hejiazhuang, about 10 minutes away.

When the old man heard this, his eyes lit up, and he couldn't believe it: "Girl, are you joking with the little old man?" Helping people plow the land, only three pennies a day, can earn forty or fifty pennies a month at most. As soon as the girl opened her mouth, it was one hundred Wen a month.The old man couldn't believe it, he thought the girl was joking

"I'm not joking!" Anxiu laughed, "Look, this is my man. He wants to go to school and has no time; my sister-in-law is not sensible, so I don't trust her to feed the cows. You are experienced, help me raise them. No matter where you take it during the day, just bring it back at night.”

(End of this chapter)