Traveling through troubled times to escape famine and cultivate crops as a grain merchant

Chapter 244: Bull that bullies the weak and fears the strong

After walking from one end of the ground to the other, I finally found a ditch.

The cows, the plowshares, the stones in the ground, the tree roots and the grass roots, everything in sight was threatened.

"Whoa~" When she finished the trip, beads of sweat rolled down her forehead. She was sweating all over, but she didn't have time to care about it.

He pulled the reins to the left and back, cracked the whip downwards, imitated what he remembered, and yelled, "Turn around!!"

Maybe the instructions for the cows to plow the fields this time were different from what she heard when she was a child. After shouting for a long time, the cow in front of her just tilted its head, looked at her with disdain with its bulging eyes, blinked, and turned away again.

I shouted a few more times, but he didn't move at all, not even his head tilted.

Why does this cow still bully people?

She narrowed her eyes, stretched out her left hand and pulled the reins hard to the left and back. With some skill, the cow's nose had to follow. Then she stretched out her right hand and pushed hard on the cow's butt, "Turn around!!"

The cow's hoof, motionless and steady as a mountain, finally took a step forward with its left leg...

Successfully turned around.

The three people behind stared at this scene in amazement and were deeply shocked!

Zhou Mi shook his head and sighed, "My eyes have been opened. I've opened my eyes. It turns out this is possible!"

Zhou Mai: "What a great strength!"

Zhou Xing: "It turns out that being strong can accomplish anything, even plowing the land!"

I don’t know if the cow in front was frightened by Zhou Guo’s strength, or if I had some skills, but this trip was much better than the last one.

At least it's not crooked anymore. Although it's still deep and shallow, it feels much smoother to plow. Not only are the oxen in front much more obedient, but even the plows under my hands are much easier to use.

At the end of the trip, she was thinking about whether to do it again, but she just pulled the reins from behind, turned around and shouted, and the cow took a step obediently.

She turned around smoothly with the plow handle in her hand.

Zhou Mai and the other two opened their mouths wide, "So the beast also knows how to bully the weak and fear the strong!"

By the third time, not only were the furrows no longer crooked, but we also had a certain control over the depth. Although we couldn't make the depth consistent, the difference was not as big as at the beginning.

By the fifth trip she was already able to do two things at once. The dark grey earth beneath her feet, pushed by the plowshare, rolled up from both sides like waves and then receded. The black mud was like surging waves, and the plowshare pushed through it, leaving dark brown mud furrows behind.

As he watched, his restless heart slowly calmed down, and he cooperated better and better with the ox. By the sixth time, he could plow the field properly. If he saw a part that was not plowed, he could turn the plow head left or right and plow the field however he wanted.

Zhou Mi and the other two were surprised and amazed to see that she could plow the field properly after only six trips.

Although it is not as good as the old masters, it is definitely enough for their own family. At most, they can just plow the land a few more times. Otherwise, there are few people in their family who can drive cattle to plow the land, so they may have to ask others for help.

Zhou Mai said: "We can't just sit there and do nothing. Go in and pick out the stones and tree roots inside."

Several people followed him down to the ground.

There are four people and one cow. Each person and the cow plow the land, and the three people pick up tree roots and stones.

an afternoon.

More than three acres of land were cultivated.

Zhou Guo felt a little unsatisfied, but the cow in front had obviously slowed down. He had worked it too hard, without much rest for the entire afternoon, and it still couldn't be used like this.

He took the tank off the cow's neck, patted its neck, touched its forehead, and planned to lead it to drink water and eat grass.

Zhou Xing and the other two had picked up the trash from almost an acre of land, but it was not clean yet, so they had to pick it up a second time.

The sun was already setting, Zhou Mi pulled out the sickle from behind and said, "I see there are several clumps of fresh green grass up there, I'll go cut them down."

Zhou Mai said: "I'll go with you."

Zhou Guo, holding the ox in one hand and the plow in the other, turned around and found that Zhou Xing was the only one left. He looked around but saw no one. "Where are the second and third brothers?"

Zhou Xing pointed upwards and said, "They said they were going to cut grass. Don't worry about them. Let's go first and wash the plowshare by the river."

Zhou Guo was walking slowly behind carrying a plow. After walking for a distance, he happened to meet other people carrying firewood coming out of the mountain. He saw two sisters, one leading a cow and the other carrying a plow.

Curious, he asked Zhou Guo, "Where are you two sisters from? What are you doing with the plow?"

Zhou Guo patted the plow on his shoulder and said, "Uncle, I just came back from the field, plowing the land. I saw that your land has been plowed for a long time."

When they heard about plowing, they looked around and saw no one else. "Who did you ask to plow your fields?"

The Zhou family does not have a single strong laborer, although there is an old man. But Mr. Zhao does not look like someone who can plow the land, and oxen cannot be used casually. If they are not used properly, the oxen may get sick from exhaustion.

Zhou Dacang and Zhou Gu probably wouldn't know how to do it. When they were in the village, they had their two older brothers to support them. At worst, they still had Old Man Zhou. When they had cows, this guy never plowed the fields. Now that there were no cows, he was even less capable of doing it. He had never even pulled a plow.

Zhou Guo patted himself and said, "I plowed it myself."

"What?"

"what?"

"Did you plow it yourself?"

Several people suspected that they had heard it wrongly.

Zhou Guo nodded and said, "I plowed it myself. I didn't do it well. I just managed to plow out a piece of land."

Several people obviously didn't believe it. "You can plow the land by yourself? Come on, how old are you? You can plow the land just by raising the plow handle."

If they want to use oxen to plow the fields, they have to find an old master to learn from them. How can this child do it on his own without anyone teaching him?

Seeing that they didn't believe him, Zhou Guo didn't say much. He just said goodbye and left, and had to quickly take the cow to drink water.

The few people left there looked at the two men and the cow as they walked away, still somewhat dazed.

"Do you think what she said is true?"

"You'll know after you've guessed here and seen what's going on."

A few people put down the firewood and hurried back to the field. It would be impossible not to take a look.

Zhou Guo turned around and saw the backs of several people hurriedly going to the fields. He laughed. It was really interesting.

When I was almost home, I met some women who were doing needlework at home. In front of me, I saw Zhou Xing leading a cow and greeted her with a smile. Then I saw Zhou Guo carrying a plow.

There was mud on his feet and trouser legs, on his face and body, and the plow on his shoulder was also covered in mud.

He slowly opened his mouth, looked her up and down, wanting to ask something but didn't say anything.

Seeing their reactions, Zhou Guo took the initiative to smile and greet them one by one.

"...Guoguo, you, you just came back from the fields?"

Zhou Guo nodded, "Yes, aunts, are you going back?"

"Yes, yes, we have been sitting here for most of the day, but you were the one carrying the plow...did you plow the field?"