Chapter 658 The fate of the sheep that caused the accident
After the work was completed, there were still some wooden boards moved from the old house, but there were not many, so Zhang An planned to put them in the wing and put them away, maybe in the future. There is a place where it can be used.
“Otherwise we won’t collect them anymore, and we’ll create a space in the pen to lock up the breeders.”
Zhang Jianguo looked at the sparse wooden boards on the ground and didn’t think about putting any more Put them away.
Their family has been raising sheep until now, and all the sheep are kept together.
This is also the reason why the number of their sheep flock has increased so quickly. After all, the breeding males and ewes are mixed together, and those ewes will definitely bring up babies at every turn.
In other sheep-raising households, male and female sheep are generally raised separately to prevent the male from constantly harassing the ewes.
"Then just use them all, I'm too lazy to collect them."
After listening to his father's words, Zhang An immediately nodded and agreed. There are not many wooden boards to put on. Entering the side room also takes up a space.
If you use them all, it will save a lot of things.
Moreover, his father's words also reminded him that there are already a lot of sheep in the family now, and they can no longer be mixed together like before, eating every day and thinking about having babies.
Anyway, it is not a troublesome thing to separate a separate area in the circle, it is just a fence.
After dinner in the evening, Zhang An spent some time to pull out the wires and arrange the lights.
In the sheep pen, electric lights are a must, not to facilitate feeding at night, because most of their ewes like to give birth at night.
If there are only one or two ewes alone, lighting with a flashlight is enough. However, as the number of sheep flocks increases, it is common for several ewes to give birth to babies at the same time in one night. thing.
After completing these, this spacious sheepfold is completely completed.
Although it was already dark, Zhang Jianguo and Wang Fang were restless people, so they took advantage of the night to move the sheep to a new pen.
Zhang Jianguo tied the two big horns of the first sheep with a rope and led it in front.
Although it was very dark at night, with the leader of the sheep, the other sheep basically followed it obediently.
But the forest is big, and there are all kinds of birds. Not all sheep are so honest, there are always a few independent sheep that are unconventional and have their own ideas.
But they didn't make any waves, because there was only a distance of two or three meters between the old sheepfold and the new sheepfold.
Xiaohu and the other big dogs, after receiving Zhang An's order, had already divided into two rows and stood guard on the left and right sides.
Looking at their appearance, if any disobedient guy wants to cause trouble, they will definitely pounce on it and give it a severe lesson.
Even little Siqi ran over with his small wooden sword to help maintain order, and kept shouting the sheep driving commands he learned from his grandfather.
Most of the sheep in the flock are afraid of these big dogs at home, because Zhang Jianguo often takes them as shepherd dogs when he goes out to herd sheep, which has long left a deep impression on the sheep. .
Although there are some guys who like to jump around, they will come back honestly after seeing the big dogs.
But even so, there are still guys who are not afraid of death.
While Xiao Siqi’s command was rising, a sheep competed with his companions and was squeezed outside. One of them accidentally knocked the little guy to the ground.
Little Siqi, who was sitting on the ground, was stunned for a moment. You must know that in this family, except for his old mother Su Ying, everyone else who sees him has to avoid him. , he didn’t expect that there would be such a desperate guy who dared to do this to him, so he sat on the ground and cried loudly.
When Wang Fang and Zhang Jianguo saw this, they quickly ran over to pick him up and check, for fear that their grandson would be hit. Something happened.
Fortunately, the little guy was far away, and the sheep was just squeezed over, so it just nudged him.
But the ground was a hardened cement floor. When Xiao Siqi sat down, her white and tender little butt felt a little bit uncomfortable.
He was crying because of the pain in his butt.
The two of them felt relieved when they saw that their grandson was fine, except that his buttocks were a little red.
No matter how Wang Fang coaxed him, the little guy was still in tears, looking like he had been greatly wronged.
"Don't cry, please. Grandpa, can you help you vent your anger? If it dares to hit you, we will kill it and eat its meat."
Looking at the two lines on the grandson's face Tears, Zhang Jianguo stared at the perpetrator and said fiercely.
"Okay, eat meat, eat meat."
After hearing this, Xiao Siqi, who had been crying just now, immediately sobbed.
Although he doesn’t know what it means to kill and eat meat, for a foodie, just hearing about it is enough.
Seeing that their grandson finally stopped crying, Zhang Jianguo and Wang Fang breathed a sigh of relief. They were now afraid of nothing but their grandson's tears.
After coaxing his grandson to behave, Zhang Jianguo walked towards the sheep that caused the accident. He never just said what he promised his grandson.
At this moment, the sheep that caused the accident still doesn’t know what fate awaits it.
It is also unlucky. There are so many people in the family, it is not good for it to hit anyone, but it wants to hit this young master.
Because after it squeezed Xiao Siqi down just now, Xiaohu who was standing next to him immediately pounced on him and knocked him down. He is still pinned to the ground until now.
This is a young ram that has just grown up. It is estimated to weigh eighty or ninety pounds. Although it has been jumping around with its hooves, the tall and powerful tiger cub is no different to it. It's a big mountain, no matter how hard it struggles, it's useless.
Zhang Jianguo rubbed Xiaohu's dog's head with satisfaction, then found a rope, tied up the offending sheep that could not move on the ground, and tied it next to it.
After all the sheep were put into the pen, the sheep that caused the incident were placed alone in the original big pen.
Because it was too late, it was not convenient to slaughter the sheep tonight, so the guy who caused the trouble was lucky enough to survive one more night.
The crowded and noisy residence in the past is now empty of sheep. This is probably the last peace it can enjoy. All it can see are the short-footed sheep on the other side.
Whether it is a black goat or a bantam sheep, although they are both sheep, Zhang An does not mix them together.
There is nothing we can do about this, because these two groups of bad things are not restless at all.
It would be fine if they were locked up alone, but if they were locked up together, they would be fighting all the time, so they had been separated a long time ago.
The reproductive capacity of bantam sheep is not as strong as that of black goats, and because the mutton does not taste as bad as mutton, people often buy it.
Therefore, in the past few years, the number of bantam sheep has remained at a stable level, and has not increased like the black goat.
So this time the sheep were transferred, Zhang Jianguo chose to drive the black goats, which were twice as many as the bantam sheep, to the new sheep pen.
The next morning, Zhang An just got up and saw his father leading a sheep to go out.
"Dad, whose family is here to buy sheep again?"
Zhang An was not present when the sheep were transferred last night, so he didn't know that the eldest young master was bullied by the sheep. matter.
I thought it was someone from the village who came over to buy a sheep, and my father was about to send it over.
"No one came to buy it, so I took it to Youde's place to kill it. This stubborn sheep knocked Qiqi last night, so I killed him and gave Qiqi meat to eat."
Last night He didn't say anything, so Zhang Jianguo told his son now.
Butchering sheep at home is very troublesome, as you have to light a fire, boil water, and prepare a desk.
So Zhang Jianguo naturally took whatever was convenient for him and took the sheep to Lin Youde to deal with it. It happened to be that early in the morning, Lin Youde was going to kill a pig, and the boiling water must have been boiled. If he took the sheep over, he could do it directly.
“Well, that’s not it.”
After listening, Zhang An couldn’t laugh or cry.
I just felt that this sheep was somewhat unjust. It just rubbed against my master and he had to pay for it with his life.
"It's nothing serious. We have so many sheep at home, but we just kill one for meat."
After Zhang Jianguo finished speaking, he led the sheep out and went out.
Hearing this, Zhang An was speechless.
He even thought that his father wanted to eat mutton, so he came up with this name.
But it doesn’t matter. There are many sheep at home anyway, so killing one from time to time is not a big deal.
Moreover, the ewes in the pen will soon give birth to many lambs. Today they only slaughtered one, and the number of sheep will not decrease but increase.
After washing his face with a basin of water, Zhang An also rushed over.
When he arrived at Lin Youde's house, he found that the sheep his father had brought had already met Lin Youde, the living king of hell.
At this moment, he was lying on the chopping board, enjoying the shower of ladle after ladle of boiling water from Lin Youde.
Lin Youde is an expert at killing pigs. A sheep weighing eighty or ninety pounds is nothing to him.
It only took half a minute to scrape the wool that had been scalded with boiling water clean, and then take out the internal organs.
"Uncle, do you want me to help you unload the meat?"
After handling the entire sheep, Lin Youde asked Zhang Jianguo.
"No, no, no, let's take it back and unload it ourselves. You are still busy killing pigs."
Zhang Jianguo arrived just in time. Lin Youde came just as he had boiled the water.
Because slaughtering a sheep does not take much time, Lin Youde thought of killing the sheep for his family first, and then killing the pigs.
So Chang Guo smiled and shook his head, rejecting Lin Youde's offer to help unload the meat.
And it’s just unloading the meat. They also have knives at home, so it’s not a troublesome thing.
"Here, Youde, this is the slaughter fee."
Finally, Zhang Jianguo took out fifteen yuan and handed it to Lin Youde.
In today's village, Lin Youde's small butchery is very popular. Not only do they slaughter pigs themselves, but anyone in the village who needs it will come to him.
The cost is not expensive. It costs 30 yuan to kill a pig. The price is half of the price for slaughtering a sheep, only 15 yuan. It is much more convenient than setting up a place at home.
"Uncle, what are you doing? Put it away quickly. How can I collect your money?"
Lin Youde quickly waved his hand and pushed back the money Zhang Jianguo handed over.
The pig-killer is quite generous in nature. Over the years, his family has received a lot of help from Zhang An, both overtly and covertly.
And last year, Zhang An ordered pork from him for such a long time, which made him make a lot of money. He remembered these personal favors in his heart.
So let alone slaughtering a sheep for Zhang An's family, even if it is ten sheep, he will not accept the money.
"Take it, Brother Youde, one code equals one code. If you don't accept our money, how can you accept their money when other people from the village come over?"
Zhang An Seeing this, he also spoke to persuade.
"You also said that one code is the same, you are you, they are them, it is my own business to accept the money, uncle, please put the money away quickly, otherwise I will not be here this year I went to your house to eat pig-killing rice.”
Lin Youde doesn’t care what Zhang An says, he won’t accept the money anyway.
Seeing that he was so determined, Zhang Jianguo no longer insisted on giving money.
Favors come and go, sometimes you can't make it too clear. Favors will always be there if they come and go.
Anyway, if you reach this level, you will definitely accept it if you know how to accept it, and you won’t accept it if you don’t know how to accept it.
"Dad, please go back first. I haven't pressed a pig for a long time. I am here to help Brother Youde. I will get this sheep back later."
Lin Youde The pigs are about to be slaughtered here, and Zhang An plans to stay here to hand over the job.
He is not very good at killing pigs, but he still has some strength.
Zhang Jianguo didn’t say anything, just carried the entrails into the water and went back first.
This thing was originally going to be given to Lin Youde to pay for the slaughtering fee, but the man didn't want it.
After clearing the desk, Lin Youde drove a fat pig weighing more than 200 kilograms out of the pig pen next to it.
This pig was not raised by their family, but was taken back by Lin Youde from another family.
When Lin Youde tied the four pig legs with ropes, Zhang An went over to help lift them onto the chopping board.
"Brother Youde, have you ever thought about building a bigger pigsty at home and raising more pigs, so that you don't have to go out to collect pigs so often."
While admiring Lin Youde's skillful killing of pigs During the technique, Zhang An suddenly made a suggestion.
In his memory, Lin Youde, a later generation, also set up his own meat stall a few years later, and then opened a pig farm, raising and killing pigs by himself, and the business was quite good.
“Hey, Zhang An, you are really amazing. I have been discussing this matter with your sister-in-law recently, but we haven’t decided yet because your sister-in-law is worried about the sudden outbreak of swine fever. , that’s all in vain.”
When you only raise one or two pigs, even if there is a swine fever, the most you can do is to spend some money on pigs and food.
But once you raise a large number of pigs and encounter swine fever, it will not be something that ordinary people can afford.
You know, today’s veterinary technology is completely helpless against swine fever, and being infected is a death sentence.
"Sister-in-law's worries are not unreasonable. I think there will be a solution in the future."
Zhang An can understand the worries of Lin Youde and his wife.
When Lin Youde slaughtered the pig, Zhang An cut off two pieces of meat.
The pig was not very fat, and the pork belly was very much to Zhang An's liking. This freshly slaughtered pork tastes great when fried.
The other piece is the second cut of pork butt. Zhang has not eaten white meat for a long time, and Zhang still misses it.
(End of this chapter)