Chapter 488

If Wang An hadn't saved them, they might not even have had the chance to meet Wang An.

And after saving them, if Wang An didn't go to visit them, the relationship would naturally fade away.

Therefore, the relationship with Wu Dong and Zhang Shuya was entirely maintained by Wang An's own efforts, and it could be said that it had nothing to do with "good fate."

Wang An directly changed the subject and asked Wang Dazhu:

"Dad, how much deer blood have you drawn? That should be enough, right? If you take too much, the deer won't be able to stand it, right?"

Wang Dazhu looked at the canned food jar and replied: "Almost, it will be done in a few minutes. By the way, what do you want to do with those three horses?"

Hearing this, Wang An said without hesitation:

"We already have enough horses at home, and having so many is useless. Let's sell them, it'll be less worry."

Wang Dazhu thought for a moment before saying hesitantly:

"I see that among those three horses, two are mares; it would be a waste to sell them."

Wang An blinked, thought for a moment, and said: "Then let's sell the mule and the gelding. We have to sell two anyway; we can't keep them all."

This time, Wang Dazhu considered for a long time before saying: "Why don't we keep them all? It saves us from having nothing to use when they are all pregnant."

When Wang An heard this, he was instantly stunned.

Mainly because managing 7 horses is really not an easy task.

Many people might say that raising horses is just feeding them grass and fodder and giving them water; what a simple thing.

If you think so, you are very wrong.

For example, giving one horse water only requires drawing 2 buckets of water, but giving 7 horses water requires drawing 14 buckets of water.

In this era, drawing water requires using a windlass to turn it circle by circle.

To tell the truth, drawing 14 buckets of water in a row is really not a light job.

Furthermore, fodder is also a big deal! In the countryside, horses that don't work will be fed a little less fodder, two or three jin a day is enough, but grass must be provided in sufficient quantity.

But even so, the dry grass a horse eats in a day must be at least 15 to 20 jin.

Of course, Wang An's family is not short of money, and these can all be solved with money.

However, the family members have no idle time; they have to work every day, and there is endless work every day.

Feeding horses, drawing water for horses, cutting grass, grinding cornmeal, cleaning horse manure, etc., but these are only about the horses.

Sheep, silly roe deer, and deer also need to be managed.

If you are tied down by these things, can you still be "free and easy"? What happiness is there to speak of?

You must know that Wang An would absolutely not do this kind of farming himself; hiring people is Wang An's idea.

But in the short term, hiring people is completely unrealistic; mainly because the policy doesn't allow it! Actually, the most critical problem is that the main purpose of raising horses is to use them, to use them to work and create value.

The economic benefit of this thing is very low; if you rely on raising horses to make money, you will lose everything.

Therefore, Wang An said very firmly and lied:

"Dad, that's definitely not possible. These horses themselves were not obtained through proper channels. No one cares if there are a few more or less, but if we have so many and one day we are targeted, it's not worth it."

Wang An's words started to make Wang Dazhu struggle; mainly because Wang An's statement seemed to have some truth to it.

Just at this moment, Wang An discovered that the deer blood in the canned food jar was already more than half full, so he hurriedly asked: "Dad, is this deer blood almost done? It seems to have reached the amount."

Drawing deer blood has a quantitative limit. Normally, you can only draw 2 jin at a time, and at most twice a year.

This is still for adult sika deer; if it's a small sika deer, drawing one jin at a time is quite a lot. Wang Dazhu put away his thoughts, looked at the canned food jar, and then slowly pulled out the needle.

After pulling out the needle, Wang Dazhu rubbed the spot where the needle was on the deer's neck and said:

"Xiao An, did you bring salt in your pocket?"

Wang An nodded hurriedly and said: "I brought it, I brought it, I'll feed it some right now."

Wang Dazhu said: "It's getting dark, let's talk about the other deer tomorrow. I'm going back to the house first."

As Wang Dazhu spoke, he held the needle in his left hand and the canned food jar containing the deer blood in his right hand, and turned to leave the sheep pen.

Wang An replied casually and took out the salt particles from his pocket.

Perhaps because this bloodletting didn't hurt the deer much, this doe accepted Wang An's goodwill very readily.

The regenerative ability of deer may be the most powerful among all mammals on land.

So this small wound from the needle prick might only take a few hours to heal completely.

To tell the truth, this doe was truly unlucky today, running into a pig-like player like Wang An, and was pricked three times for no reason.

Fortunately, Wang An fed it the salt it loved most, which could be considered compensation.

When Wang An returned to the house, dinner was already prepared, and the two little sisters had returned to the house as soon as Wang Dazhu and Wang An were drawing blood from the deer.

Of course, Wang Yi had also returned from school.

At dinner, the whole family discussed the horse matter again. Mu Xueqing didn't express any opinion throughout, and finally, Liu Guilan made the final decision.

That is to listen to Wang Dazhu and not sell them!!

To tell the truth, Wang An seriously suspected that the old couple had already discussed it in advance.

When Wang An brought up the reason he had told Wang Dazhu earlier, Liu Guilan's answer was:

"If anyone dares to look for trouble, I'll go find my eldest daughter Xiao Ya, hmph, I don't believe that."

Wang An, feeling helpless, started to calculate the economic accounts for the couple, but was pushed back by Liu Guilan again.

Liu Guilan's statement was: "The money from selling a horse foal when it grows up is enough to buy any amount of fodder."

When Wang An told the couple about the problem of feeding grass.

Liu Guilan rolled her eyes at Wang An and said righteously: "What money does grass cost? It's all over the mountains and plains. If we cut more grass in the autumn, it will be enough to feed them. Besides, there's also straw."

When Wang An mentioned the problem that people would be very tired.

After hearing this, Liu Guilan's posture was almost as if she was going to get up and beat Wang An. Although she held back, she said very angrily:

"Are farmers afraid of being tired? Doing a little work scares you like this. We don't need you; your father and I can take care of these livestock. You're good for nothing."

Wang An sadly discovered that the old couple really couldn't get enough of being tired and didn't know how to enjoy life at all.

Actually, this is also a common problem among farmers. In farmers' cognition, as long as it is a matter related to their own family, labor is worthless, and they will never consider the problem of "labor cost."

Therefore, Wang An, unwilling to give up, said earnestly: "Mom, is our family short of money? What's the use of you working so hard? Why did I get so much money? Isn't it to let you work less? Why is it that nothing works?"

Wang An's words stunned Wang Dazhu and Liu Guilan at the same time.

It could be seen that the couple was genuinely moved by this sentence.

(End of chapter)