Chapter 38: Horseback riding

"Taught you a lesson?" Seeing that Tang Cheng seemed to be a little sullen, Lao Xu turned his head to look at Tang Cheng while driving the carriage, but the latter just shook his head but did not speak. Liu Goat did not scold or teach Tang Cheng a lesson just now, his silence was only because of the discomfort in his heart, if they stayed in Mengcheng at the beginning to treat their injuries, but it has been more than a month, and their injuries have long been healed, Tang Cheng doesn't know what they want to do in Mengcheng.

Tang Cheng's silence was all seen by Lao Xu, even if the two of them went to Lao Niu's roast chicken shop to eat and drink, Tang Cheng didn't seem to be very happy. "This kid is idle, it's easy to be cranky when he is idle, he has to find something that is not idle, otherwise he will be able to stand it if he sees the sky like this." was dragged and nagged by Lao Xu for a while, and the bitter-faced Liu Goat was pacing in the yard with his hands behind his back, and his mouth was still talking to himself, and no one knew what he was talking about.

Early the next morning, Tang Cheng, who was exercising as usual, was stopped by Liu Goat, "Your kid's injury is almost healed, let Jiujin teach you to ride a horse if you have nothing to do, there are mountain roads all the way to Sichuan, and riding a horse is more comfortable than riding a car." After breakfast, the dazed Tang Cheng was driven by Liu Goat to follow Jiujin to take care of those horses, and the beautiful name is to mix with the horses before riding, and they were thrown off their backs when they rode the horses. Tang Cheng has ridden pigs, sheep, dogs, and donkeys so big, but he has never ridden a horse, and in the face of horses that are several heads taller than him, Tang Cheng's heart can't help but feel a little apprehensive, which is different from riding a donkey.

There were originally a few families in the village where Jiujin's family was located, and Jiujin, who grew up eating hundreds of meals, did not cut grass for those who raised horses, so Jiujin had the convenience and experience of riding horses since he was a child, although his riding skills were not very good in Tang Cheng's opinion, but among the four of them, he was second only to Liu Goat. "Don't avoid it, touch it gently, touch it slowly, and your hands should be light." When Tang Cheng went to the backyard stable to look for Jiujin, Jiujin was brushing the horses.

Putting down the brush in his hand, Jiujin demonstrated to Tang Cheng how to deal with horses, pulled out a chestnut mare from the stable, Jiujin picked up a brush and handed it to Tang Cheng, who didn't know what to do. "Brush them with a brush first, pay attention to brush them in circles with a brush, only a brush in circles can brush off the dirt and dirt in the horsehair, it takes some force, but don't push too hard, it will hurt them, like me." Jiujin picked up another brush and showed Tang Cheng how to clean the horses with the brush as he spoke.

Tang Cheng only tried the brush for a while, and then he felt that his body was sweating, and he secretly sighed in his heart that brushing the bristles of the horse was not an easy job. "It won't bite you, what are you doing hiding so far, your body is too stiff and too far away, it's not good to exert force. If you want to be like me, yes, it's like this, just do it a few more times in the future, you won't be able to raise your hand tomorrow if you brush the horse like this. Looking at Tang Cheng, who had a stiff face, stretched out his arm to brush the horse, and Jiujin was happy standing next to him.

Tang Cheng, who had a serious face, stood aside and nodded from time to time like a primary school student, and under the teaching of Jiujin almost hand-in-hand, Tang Cheng spent twice as long as Jiujin to finally finish brushing a horse. Circle brush, circle brush, Tang Cheng's mouth kept muttering the tips of Jiujin just now, and then held the horse's neck with one hand, and held the brush in the other, carefully brushing the hair on the neck of the cyan horse. A burst of warmth blew through, Tang Cheng suddenly felt a slight itch on his back, and when he turned his head, he saw Da Qingma looking at him silently with big eyes.

Tang Cheng and the big green horse were stunned at the same time, Tang Cheng's sudden turn of head made the big green horse want to dodge a little, and the panting Tang Cheng was also frightened by the big eyes that suddenly appeared in front of his face. Just when Tang Cheng was at a loss, Da Qingma's head suddenly stretched forward and gently rubbed Tang Cheng's shoulder, his eyes flashed with intimacy, and at that moment, Tang Cheng was defeated by Da Qingma's eyes. Tang Cheng was full of soreness and was gone, turned around and gently hugged Da Qingma's neck, Tang Cheng gently patted Da Qingma's thick front legs with his palm, and the hot air from the horse's nose made Tang Cheng's back feel warm.

"It likes you" I don't know when Jiujin has arrived next to Tang Cheng, Jiujin reached out and gently stroked the bridge of Da Qingma's nose: "If you are good to it, it can feel it, just now it gently rubbed your back, which means that it also likes you." Once this horse has made friends with you, it will not throw you off your back in the middle of the road, and you can ride it to where you want to go. After listening to Jiujin's words, the more Tang Cheng looked at the big green horse that was intimate with him, the more pleasing it was to the eye, and he couldn't wait to ride it in the yard for two laps immediately.

By the time Tang Cheng finished brushing the big green horse, Jiujin had already brushed the remaining three horses, "Let's go, I'll teach you to ride a horse." "This is a mare, I picked it up in the morning, and if you don't come to me, I'm going to ride it out for a walk after brushing it." ”

"You come and saddle it" Tang Cheng and Jiujin both led the horse out of the stable, Jiujin pointed to the saddle hanging on the railing, patted the back of the big green horse and said to Tang Cheng. After learning the movements of nine catties, Tang Cheng first took the mat from the railing and put it on the back of the big green horse. "The mat should be as close to the front as possible, or it will be laborious when the back is adjusted, and the saddle should be as far forward as possible, because it will be more laborious to pull forward at that time" Looking at the mat placed by Tang Cheng, Jiujin came over and helped him make some adjustments.

Putting on the saddle and strangling the front belly belt step by step, Tang Cheng was repeating the movements of nine catties during the whole process, but fortunately, he looked carefully, and there were no mistakes in the actions behind. led the saddled big green horse into the front yard, Tang Cheng just wanted to get on the horse with the saddle, but was stopped by the nine catties following behind, "Before getting on the horse, you need to remember the position of the horse's front legs, when the horse's two front legs stand one after the other, it means that it has maintained its balance, and this is the time to get on the horse." Jiujin gently poked Da Qingma's stomach with his hand, and Da Qingma's left front leg really moved forward a small step.

"Don't put the whole foot in when you get on the horse, just put some in the forefoot, so that even if the horse is suddenly frightened, you can pull your foot out at any time, and the whole ball of the foot is easy to be dragged by the horse, so it is dangerous, and it should be like this when dismounting." With the demonstration of nine catties, Tang Cheng finally sat on the back of the big green horse smoothly. Learning from the appearance of nine catties, Tang Cheng gently knocked the belly of the big green horse with his foot, and the docile big green horse followed the nine-jin flower horse and walked slowly towards the gate of the barracks.

"When riding a horse, keep your body vertical, don't be so tight, the horse can feel your nervousness, if you are nervous the horse will also be nervous, which will make your horse feel scared, and it is likely to startle the horse." Tang Cheng, who was sitting on horseback, sat straight with his chest and stomach closed, he thought that his movements were correct, but he attracted a burst of preaching from nine catties. "You don't have to sit so upright to ride a horse, just clamp your legs, and then don't pull the reins too hard."

Jiujin, who had left the barracks, gently shook the reins in his hand, and as soon as his legs clamped the horse's belly, the flower horse trotted up, while Tang Cheng, who was sitting straight in the saddle, continued to stiffen his body. Fortunately, the big green horse did not feel irritated by the trotting of his companions, but walked slowly and methodically as usual, Tang Cheng simply loosened the reins in his hand, and let the big green horse walk leisurely with him, and walked around the barracks several times with one man and one horse, so that the regiment guarding the gate of the barracks looked at himself and was surprised.

"Riding on a horse must be careful to let it feel you, don't let the horse bully you, each horse's temper and personality are different, ride on the horse your attitude must be resolute, give the horse instructions to be clear, and at the same time pay attention to the surroundings, sometimes a very small stone may startle the horse. In addition, when you run, don't get too close to other horses, some horses don't want other horses to run in front of them, and they can't catch up, so they often kick and bite, which is especially easy to hurt people.

Jiujin, who taught by word and deed, turned over and got on the horse, and then trotted up on the horse, Tang Cheng, who was standing in the yard, watched Jiujin's movements attentively, and Jiujin on the horseback also slowed down the horse's speed and his own movements, trying to give Tang Cheng a chance to observe his movements. After more than half a day of contact, the big green horse gradually adapted to Tang Cheng's movements, before dinner, Tang Cheng began to feel more and more relaxed, and the big green horse became more and more cooperative with himself, and even sometimes Tang Cheng felt that this green horse was simply specially prepared for himself.

After dinner, Jiujin picked a more docile mare for Tang Cheng, and under the escort of Jiujin, before dark, Tang Cheng was finally able to use the reins to control the mare under his crotch and jog up with small steps. Excitement and extreme nervousness, this is all Tang Cheng has gained from the whole day today, from the extreme nervousness of the first contact with the big green horse in the morning to the excitement brought by the mare jogging before dark, Tang Cheng has experienced a cycle from hell to heaven. Tang Cheng, who was lying on the bed after washing, rarely did not light the oil lamp to study Xie Bo's notebook, because he was already very tired, and he just wanted to sleep when he was lying on the bed.

"Little rabbit, I can't kill you when I'm tired." Listening to Tang Cheng's breathing slowly stabilizing outside the door, the smug Liu Goat stretched out his hand to Lao Xu, who took out two packs of cigarettes from his pocket and handed them to Liu Goat. Tang Cheng, who had already fallen asleep, didn't know that the big green horse that Lu Dao Jiujin had chosen for him was a stallion that had not yet been instigated, even if it was nine catties, he couldn't really control it, Liu Goat just wanted to use the big green horse to exhaust Tang Cheng's tossing, until he didn't have the strength to think nonsense.