Suddenly, she exclaimed, but it was a big scalper, afraid that it would be more than six feet tall, a cut taller than a burly man like Qian Yichuan, with four hooves the size of a bowl, thick and well-proportioned bone joints, full of strength, no matter how you look at it, there is also a weight of about two thousand catties. This bully is very powerful, and Zheng serves it really well, fat and strong, shiny and shiny, and its yellow fur is very smooth and smooth, just like satin.

Such a bullock, I don't have fifteen taels of silver to take it down!

However, there is one case, this cow has a large physique, has the strength to work, and eats a lot, and other cattle are about 1,000 catties, and it is enough to eat seventy or eighty catties of hay a day, and it has to eat more than double!

Fortunately, Qian Yichuan went out with her and the two of them to collect a lot of hay before entering the barracks, and began to prepare after coming to Panshi Fort to divide the cattle, and the grass was not burned when plowing the ground, but was saved, and I was afraid that there were thousands of catties of grass before and after, otherwise, it was not enough to eat.

But hay alone is not enough, and if you don't eat something else, the cow won't survive this winter.

But in the blink of an eye, a large basin of water was drunk, and the so-called cow drink was nothing more than that. In order to digest these foods, ploughing cattle must secrete a large amount of digestive juices every day. At the same time, water is also inseparable from the circulation and nutrient transport in the body. The consequences of lack of water in ploughing cattle are often more serious than the lack of feed, and if there is not enough water, it will lead to indigestion, decreased appetite, metabolic disorders, and decreased obesity. Therefore, in winter, it is necessary to ensure that sufficient warm water is supplied to the cattle, and the temperature is based on the body temperature of the cattle, and the minimum temperature shall not be lower than 10 degrees.

Of course, Zheng didn't understand this, but her years of farming experience made her familiar with how to serve the cow, and she boiled water in a pot every day and warmed it before giving it to drink. Every once in a while, some of the ashes in the stove were pulled out and sprinkled in the barn.

Putting the basin aside, Zheng poured some water into the bowl that was placed by the door, and put a lot of hay in it, mixed it together, and served it to the cows. The black slimy stuff in this pot was made of ground corn flour mixed with a little grass root bark.

In addition to hay, ploughing cattle also eat concentrate. Especially during the wintering period, in addition to feeding hay, wheat straw, and corn straw, special attention should be paid to concentrate. Bran, cakes, cornmeal, etc. can be used. But Zheng didn't have these things in his hand, so he had to grit his teeth and take out a lot of corn - Qian Yichuan's military salary was polished rice, while what she issued was corn - grinded, boiled half-cooked, and there were fish bones and scales ground into powder in it, and the remaining ones after killing the fish went into the water, etc., and the regiment put the regiment together, which was the best concentrate feed.

When the wheat is harvested and the grain is threshed, the days will be better. I'm afraid that the bran that was beaten down will not be eaten by this cow every day.

After feeding the cows, Zheng brought the pot in front of the window, which was a frozen and solid ice mound, and a few fish could be faintly seen in the ice.

There is no refrigerator this year, but the common people have their own methods, such as the fish killed a few days ago, she was reluctant to eat, so she put the killed fish and water in the basin, and after a night it was frozen, and then put it in the cold ground of the backlight, and the ice would not melt. When you want to eat it, it melts and it is still fresh.

It is to turn the basin upside down, lean against the rim of the pot, and then knock on the bottom of the pot, carefully controlling the ice lump inside and causing it to slide into the pot. If you wait for it to melt away, you can't say how long you have to wait.

Qian Yichuan moved the grain to the back room, rubbed his hands and smiled: "Is there anything you can't do the rest of the heavy work?" When I came back, I did it in one go. ”

"What's the heavy work there? I can get the bullpen myself. Zheng looked at him and smiled: "If you work my mother, you will do heavy work, and I am reluctant to let you do other work." It's easy for you to rest for a day, then go back to sleep, and I'll call you when the meal is ready. ”

"Look at what you said." Qian Yichuan knew that she felt sorry for herself and couldn't bear to work by herself, so she smiled and said: "How can I be such a man, with a body weighing one hundred and seventy or eighty pounds, not working?" ”

One pound of five hundred and ninety-four .6 grams in the Ming Dynasty, one hundred and seventy or eighty pounds at this time, but it is equivalent to two hundred pounds in later generations, Qian Yichuan is indeed an extremely burly and majestic man, and the meat is strong enough, and it feels like a scale.

"I know you can do it...... Zheng glanced at him, his face was slightly red: "If you don't want to work, go outside and move two big stones to make a grinding disc, I can't move this thing." Now I want to give the cow to eat the flour of the fish bones, and I want to eat millet to grind the face, this grinding disc is very useful, if you don't come back, I really can't fix it. ”

Zheng is a very capable woman, the family has cleaned up inside and out, and all the work that can be done has been done, but this job is indeed beyond her ability.

"Cheng, I'll get it."

Qian Yichuan went out without saying a word.

There were many large and small stones in the fields around the rock fort, and the smaller ones were turned over when they were ploughed and thrown on the edge of the ridges, and some were a little more regular, and they were all used to build canals and ditches, and there were many stones on both sides. And some big rocks, which really can't be moved, are simply thrown there, and when it is too big to plow, they just go around. In fact, when farming, you are not afraid of such big stones, but you are afraid of endless small stones, and it is easy to break the plow.

Qian Yichuan went out for a walk, and soon found two suitable pieces. The diameter of the piece is about three feet, and it is generally oval in shape, half a foot thick, which is very suitable for grinding discs. The other was round, like an irregular stone ball.

After all, it's naturally generated, and it's not chiseled, so it's naturally not so standard, but you can't force too much, just make do with it.

These two stones are too big and heavy, and Qian Yichuan can't move them, but it's okay to push them over. He brought the stones home, and then brought a lot of smaller stones from outside, and built a three-foot-high platform, and put the big grinding disc on his head. After a lot of tidying up, it can be regarded as a little like it, and it can barely be used. Qian Yichuan was a little regretful, if he had tools such as chisels and hammers at hand, he could still use them better. It's a pity that none of these belongings are available, and even if they are borrowed, they don't go out to borrow. After finishing this, I could see that the fish in the pot had not yet melted, and it was almost noon at this time, and the sun was just right. Qian Yichuan went to the bullpen and took his big scalper out for a walk.

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