Poor family mother and son

Chapter 142 Catch the Marmot

In the morning, Chu Qing was woken up by the sound outside.A herdsman's day begins with milking a cow.The women were already carrying barrels to the cowshed.

Chu Qing went to her special toilet.Yes, she has her own toilet.This time in Voss, she was the only woman in the whole team, so going to the bathroom became a problem.

When someone yelled, "Let the water go!", a bunch of boys went down, and she couldn't help herself.In the grassland, there are no tall plants that can cover it, and I am afraid of encountering wolves when I go far.

Chu Yuan is careful. The inconvenience caused by Chu Qing's shoulder injury last time gave him experience, and he thought about this problem before setting off this time.So a few extra pieces of oilcloth and wooden squares were prepared on the carriage, just for the boss to use as a toilet.

As long as he rested on the road, Chu Yuan would find a place and build a toilet with oilcloth and wooden squares.

With a caring Chu Yuan following her, Chu Qing was really relieved.

When coming out of the toilet, each yurt opened the curtain.The women were busy milking cows and cooking porridge, and the children also got up, yawning to milk goats and pick up cow and horse manure.

The men have gone to the horse farm, and they are going to let the horses go to the river to drink and graze.

It is clear that they are still in the habit of lighting a fire and cooking at home.But no firewood.This is the reason why the herdsmen go to pick up dung early in the morning.

For herdsmen, 90% of the most important living fuel in daily life comes from cow and horse manure. Therefore, one of the things that herdsmen living here must do every morning is to pick up manure.

The herdsmen in this village mainly make a living by herding horses for the nobles. There are not many cows in each household, and the largest family is only four. They not only provide milk, but also take care of moving, and of course they are also responsible for pooping.

There are a lot of horses here, as well as a lot of horse manure.As soon as the men let the horses go, the children went to collect manure in the stables.

The women sent a lot of dried cow and horse dung, otherwise Chu Qing really couldn't cook.

When Xiaobao saw it, he organized a caravan to collect the horse manure on his side, and then sent it to the herdsmen.Each of them has a dung stack, which is specially used to store dried cow and horse dung.When encountering rainy days, rescuing these feces is more important than anything else. I would rather move into a yurt and soak myself in the rain than let the feces get wet in the rain.

It's time for the herdsmen to have breakfast when all the work in the morning is almost done.A little coarse grain porridge, with a piece of ghee thrown into it, is breakfast.Only men who herd horses take a piece of buckwheat pancakes with them when they get up early.

This life is almost the same as that of farmers in Daxuan.But anyway, the farmers can go up the mountain to dig wild vegetables. In May, there are already a lot of edible wild vegetables on the mountain.

For so many days, Xiaobao has never complained of suffering.Chu Qing saw that the child's fingers were covered with skin, and the corners of his mouth were also slightly scratched. It looked like he was undernourished.

Chu Qing got a little angry.We are not from pastoral areas, so we are not used to living without food.None of the boys in the team complained, but Chu Qing could occasionally hear them teasing each other about not being able to poop.

After breakfast, Xiaobao and the children went to herd the sheep.Xiaobao worked hard to adapt to the life here, not letting Chu Qing worry about it.He came to see that Chu Qing wouldn't get hurt, he came to take care of his mother, and he didn't want to cause trouble for her.

Zhuo Yao has been following Xiao Bao.Herding sheep is not a painful thing.There are children of the shepherds. They know where to drive the sheep, and then rest or play on the spot. When the sheep are almost eaten, they will change places.

Chu Qing and Lao Yu also followed Xiaobao not too far away.Seeing Xiaobao having fun with the children, Chu Qing chatted with Lao Yu about the caravan.

No fuel for the fire, no vegetables for the meal, these are all problems, and those horses.

In the morning, the herdsmen drove out together to help herd the herds, but it was not a small expense to feed people and horses, and the herdsmen probably had a hard time.

In addition, everyone had more or less health problems, some had constipation, some had mouth blisters, and some had oral ulcers. Although no one complained about them, they were still happy every day, but Chu Qing felt uncomfortable looking at them.

Xiaobao listened to his friends about what they usually do, and followed them to learn where to find marmots.

At this time, the sun was already hanging high in the blue sky, very warm, but not hot.In order not to disturb Xiaobao, Zhuo Yao sat on a rock not far away, with a straw in his mouth, and wiped his combined eight-sided spear.

Because there is no need to fight, and for the convenience of carrying, they usually only carry the barrel of the gun on their backs, and the tip of the gun is inserted into the boot shaft as a dagger.

Under the guidance of the children, Xiaobao discovered a marmot hole.

"Xiaobao, look at the entrance of the cave. After a while, the marmots will come out to bask in the sun." Huayi said.

Little Treasure lay down in the grass and waited and watched.The presence of marmots destroys pastures, and their burrows often hurt horses' legs, so herders hate them.

However, the meat of the marmot is delicious, the oil can cure burns, and the fur is very valuable, so the herdsmen like them very much.The human mind is really complicated!

Xiaobao finally waited until the marmot came out of the hole.Knee-high grass grew at the mouth of the hole.Cattle, horses and sheep don't like to eat this kind of grass, it is hard and not nutritious.But these grasses hide the hole well.

Xiaobao widened his eyes and watched the marmot from the grass.This marmot is an adult, weighing more than ten catties, and looks about the same size as a village dog from a distance.

The color of the marmot's fur is similar to that of the earth, but the drab back hair is mixed with black bristles.

During the barbecue last night, Xiaobao tasted the deliciousness of marmot meat, and now he really wants to catch it.Little Treasure quietly crawled forward on the ground, approaching the target little by little.

Marmots are very vigilant animals, and will stand up to check if there is any movement.Little Treasure was very patient, lying on his stomach all the time, waiting for the sound of wind or birdsong before moving closer.

The marmot didn't notice Xiaobao on its left, nor did it notice that several wolves were staring at it in the long grass seven or eight meters away on its right.

Wolves usually don't bother crowds and flocks because people will yell, attracting more people to attack them.So seeing Xiaobao with the children, they ignored it.

The wolves had been lying there for a long time, and they were not as impatient as Xiaobao, because they knew that marmots would continue to come out of the cave in a while.

The marmot always sends a teammate to watch at the entrance of the cave, and only after making sure there is no danger will the teammate come out one after another.

Wolves are the most patient hunters.But today, the wolf's patience was interrupted by Xiaobao.Because the nearest wolf found that Xiaobao was approaching the target it wanted to hunt.

Xiaobao now looks less than two meters away from the marmot.He has quietly propped up his body, ready to squat up.

The wolf not far away was a little anxious.It straightened its neck uneasily.The children behind Xiaobao didn't notice the wolf in the long grass either.They all kindly kept silent, for fear of disturbing Xiaobao.

Xiaobao finally completed the posture change from prone to squatting.The marmot didn't see the enemy's situation, and was going to the hole below to call for his companions. Xiaobao jumped and rushed towards the marmot.

Xiaobao's legs are very powerful, and this leap is like leapfrog, and the powerful thighs immediately ejected Xiaobao.

At the same time, the wolf also jumped out suddenly, it couldn't let its prey be robbed by others!

The simultaneous jumping of the two sides made the marmot aware of the danger, but the simultaneous pincer attack on both sides made it a little stunned when it was caught off guard.

Zhuo Yao, who was ten meters away, had been wiping the tip of the gun while observing Xiaobao. The sudden appearance of the wolf made Zhuo Yao's heart stop beating. With a strong hand, the tip of the gun was thrown out with a "swish". !
The wolf's speed was still faster than Xiaobao's. In a blink of an eye, the wolf had rushed to the edge of the marmot, but Xiaobao was still in the air and hadn't landed. Xiaobao had no way out!
Zhuo Yao's spear tip flashed a silver light in the sun, and the other wolves also moved, rushing towards Xiaobao!Human pups, marmots, and sheep, it's all delicious food!
"Crack!" The spear pointed straight at the wolf's head, and the wolf shook his head in pain!The hard wolf head was not pierced, and the gun head flew away with such a flick!

Zhuo Yao's shout also came: "Little Treasure!"

　Xiaobao: What do you want, friends?My treat!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)