Every autumn, the village will deliver the year's rent and tax to the lord's castle. Dozens of villagers in the village have served for this purpose. From the villagers' stories full of fear, Dean knew very well that the situation in front of him What kind of hard work and danger is meant to complete a two-day journey in the seemingly monotonous and peaceful mountains.
Along the way, the benevolent messenger explained carefully, and put these hardships and dangers in front of Dean more clearly.
"There, you can't walk there... It's summer now, and the mountain may rain at any time, and it will be completely flooded there soon, and it's too late to run." Leading Dean around a long circle, sending a letter People looked at the valley below the mountain with lingering fear.
"Come on, work harder, hurry up, we must cross this mountain before the sun goes down... This is the path stepped by wild beasts and wolves. When night comes, wild wolves and even bears will come out to hunt..." A person on the mountainside On a rare stretch of flat road, the courier held Dean's shoulders and hurried forward.
"Pull the vines! Don't worry, pull hard! It will never break... Since my father's father, every time we pass here in summer, we will check these vines, and occasionally replant some..." The messenger threw A seed of a certain plant, explaining to Dean, who had slid down the cliff.
"Huh... finally here... just spend the night here, come on, you go pick some branches, I'll dig a hole... what are you doing? Put it down quickly! Yes, of course you can't directly light the bonfire, remember the old stonemason? He is Burned here." The messenger quickly threw away the stone he had used to dig the hole, and snatched the flint that Dean was about to use.
"Get up, go on the road... now drink some water, and eat dried fruit when the sun rises higher."
"No, did you see that? Below is poor Rock, yes, those few bones... Alas, poor Rock, broke his leg, and can still call us when he falls... But the cliff is too steep, We searched for a long time but couldn't find the way down... At the end? At the end... He must have died of starvation. It can't be our fault, even the wild beasts can't go down."
"This is the most dangerous place... But it's okay now, the danger is autumn. At that time, those damn thieves, the rats that usually hide, will crawl out of their dens and hide in the woods with sticks and hatchets." Next to it, when the village was carrying out the tax, they rushed out, robbed, and killed people... It seems that they haven't been here in the past few years, but who knows, maybe they will come out again someday... These dogs Babe, you can never die.” When passing through the canyon, the messenger looked around carefully, any slight movement would make him extremely vigilant.
Mountains, dense forests, wolves, bears, skeletons, flash floods, wildfires, thieves...
The endless dangers are densely covered in the difficult trekking road. If it were Dean a few days ago, as long as he heard about half of them, he would definitely never leave his village again.
However, with his father's analysis, he understood the pastor's request, enjoyed the envy of the villagers, and the obvious favor and care of the messenger.
No matter how tiring or dangerous this journey is, Dean, now a cowherd helper and future cattle handler, is always full of courage and desire in his chest.
After passing through the last canyon, the road became much easier, and the messenger relaxed, telling Dean that this was already near the village of Akeli, and there would be no more dangerous situations.
When the sun was at its highest, Dean turned over the last hill, and before his eyes appeared a large, slightly undulating, long stretch of plain, cut into pieces by several tortuous streams, next to the largest stream Among the black fertile soil exposed by the large plowed lord's land, there are wooden houses dotted here and there.
"Look, this is Akeli Village... here we are!"
When the messenger said this, Dean saw a thick black smoke rising from another hill not far away.
So, before Floran reached the foot of the hill, two police officers with sharpened wooden spears and four sturdy villagers with thick wooden sticks appeared in front of them.
Dean was not in a panic, not to mention that the messenger had already taken care of this on the way, even when he was in Floran Village, Dean had seen similar precautions several times.
"Outsiders... *&!)..." Standing still far away, the police officer walking in front shouted at the two.
Except for guessing and being confused, it seemed that he was calling "outlander" at first, but Dean couldn't understand the rest of the words at all. He could only watch the messenger beside him roll his tongue and use another accent awkwardly. All kinds of dancing and dancing gestures, barely communicate with the equally hard-working police officers.
Dean sighed softly, which was also an important reason why he was reluctant to come to help in the first place.
Floran Village and Aikeli Village are too far away.
It was a full two days away, full of hardships and dangerous roads, which firmly separated the two villages into two almost completely irrelevant worlds.
In the past hundred years or even longer, apart from the special roles of the horse-riding lords and the village messengers, the other villagers of the two villages have almost never had the opportunity to contact each other.
For such a long time, like other outsiders who have passed through the village of Floran, if there is no messenger to lead the way, if a stranger steps into a stranger's village, most of the end will be that he will never be able to leave again.
Thinking about living in this unfamiliar village for several years, even though he mustered up all his courage, Dean's heart still fluctuated.
Fortunately, the pastor was merciful and allowed the messenger to accompany him for three days. During these three days, he must learn quickly—at least he can guess correctly how a small number of people in Akeli village speak.
After a while, the police officer on the opposite side finally understood what the messenger meant, and turned around to tell a villager to leave.
After the same length of time, or even longer, when Dean felt his feet start to go numb, the villager who had left before finally led another person over.
Dean noticed that the messenger's expression relaxed a lot, "Pamela...￥#&*(..."
Pamela, the messenger from the village of Akeli—the face of this lucky messenger who just walked over was full of unconcealed joy—Dean understood why the fast legs of his village chanted "dog thing" so many times .
The addition of Pamela greatly facilitated the communication process.
Not long after, Parame walked in front, the messenger and Dean walked in the middle, two police officers carrying spears, and four villagers carrying thick sticks followed vigilantly at the end, and the group walked quickly into the village.
The master in charge of Akeli village was very busy. After listening to the message brought by Kuaileg from the village of Floran, the master in charge who was checking the farm tools in the village warehouse didn't say a word, and waved a few people away directly to the road.
The pastor in the village of Akeli had a little leisure time. After reading the parchment from Pastor Floran, the pastor Akeli raised his head and said a few words to Dean.
"Gant said you are the eldest son of a cowherd. You are a very good craftsman and a well-bred freeman. Please let me take care of you. I will take care of you-as long as Rose thinks you are as Gant said, you can stay. down, and get a share of wheat belonging to the cowherd's helper."
After listening to the double translation by Pamela and Kuaileg, Dean bowed deeply and thanked him.
As soon as the pastor raised his hand, the three who had received mercy walked out of the church slowly backwards.
At this point, the series of procedures for "outsiders" entering the village is completely over.
At this point, the police officer and the villagers who resisted the stick finally left together with their vigilance.
So far, only Pamela is left beside the "outlander"—as the guide of the two "outlanders" and the middleman when they talk to the villagers of Akeli.
The next destination is the lord's stable.
On the way, Pamela rolled her tongue and told the two of them: After the collective injury of the farm cattle last time, the whole family of the damned former cowherd was slightly or seriously injured. Get close to the herd.
As a result, the cattle herd in Akeli Village has not been taken care of by a real cowherd these days, and the Luos family can only lead a dozen serfs to work inside and out. Fortunately, nothing has gone wrong. Now, the real cowherd helper is here, so naturally he has to hurry over to have a look.
Saying "Fortunately" and "Hurry up", Pamela's expression was very relaxed, and her steps were leisurely, she didn't look worried at all.
Pamela's fierce self-confidence has few doubts in the real cowboy Dean.
"Fast Legs..." While passing the corner, Dean quietly stepped back a few steps, leaned close to "Fast Legs", and asked in a low voice, "Have you ever heard that the Ross family also takes care of the herds of cattle besides tending them?"
"No, I've never heard of it... probably not? Otherwise, why would you ask foreigners to help?"
"I thought so too, but Pamela didn't seem to be worried at all when there was no real cowherd to take care of her for several days. Could it be that he was so worried about Ross's skill in taking care of the herd?"
"Who knows..." The sender couldn't judge.
"I'll find out later, the way of raising a cow is so different from raising a herd of cows, I can tell at a glance!"
"Shh, keep your voice down!" The messenger hurriedly grabbed Dean: "If you see it, you will see it. Don't say it, you know?"
"Of course! Of course! I know!" Dean nodded vigorously.
Before the messenger reminded him, Dean had repeatedly warned himself not to point out Rose's faults just because he came from a genuine cowherd family.
Even, Dean secretly decided that if other people in the village saw Ross's mistakes, he must agree with Ross's approach from the perspective of a professional cowherd, and then stay quietly in the middle of the night, or catch up in the dark early in the morning. Come, help Ross make up for one or two, cover up the past.
When thinking of this, the destination has already appeared in Dean's eyes.
The barn of the lord of Akeli village is very large. There are a dozen of cowsheds mooing, and a dozen of sheep sheds are full of bleats. In the remaining ten or so sheds, chickens, geese, and cows are also bleating. Sing merrily myself.
One of the barns was buzzing with activity when the messengers and Dean arrived.
Pamela signaled the two to wait outside the cowshed, then walked into the cowshed and talked to the burly villager standing in the middle of the cowshed.
The Zhuangshuo villager nodded repeatedly, but his eyes never left the cowshed.
In the corner of the cowshed, several serfs moved bundles of fodder to the open space outside the cowshed.
Behind them, in the cowshed that had just been emptied, several other serfs brandished rakes to drive away the thorns, weeds, mice and bedbugs that had just lost their head coverings.
Chasing after these uninvited guests, several serfs each held a clay pot, and scattered the ashes of the burning plants in it all over the ground.
After finishing all this work, the last few serfs who had just been cleaned brought the cows they had just washed into the new cowshed.
"This..." The messenger who had never seen such a scene outside the cowshed asked Dean quietly: "Is this the way to raise a cow, or the way to raise a herd of cows? Nothing will go wrong, right?"
"This... I don't know... I haven't seen it before, but it shouldn't go wrong..." Of course, it is impossible for Dean to have seen the ultra-low configuration version of the barn cleaning steps from the earth, but Dean still looks after the cattle for more than ten years. Find out the benefits of these measures—at least, pull out the brambles and weeds, and drive away the rats and bugs, which will definitely make the cattle a little more comfortable.
be more comfortable...
Suddenly, an idea flashed in Dean's mind: This is not the way to raise a cow, nor is it a way to raise a herd of cattle... It seems to be... a way to treat cattle!
That's right, that's it!
Dean turned his attention to the cowshed that hadn't been tidied up in time, and found that the cattle in the "new cowshed" in front of him were more energetic than those in the surrounding "old cowsheds"!
Washed farm cattle, cleaned cowsheds, ashes of unknown plants... A farm cattle that have become more spiritual!
Dean thought it would be hard work and difficult, and he would have to work hard for the Ross family for several years before he could gradually come into contact with the secrets of cattle treatment.
In any case, he never imagined that on the first day of arriving in Akeli village, he was allowed to observe the tricks for treating farm cattle with such remarkable effects just after entering the livestock shed in Akeli village for the first time!
"Come, come here..." At this moment, the conversation with the Zhuangshuo villager ended, and Pamela beckoned the two of them to go over: "This is Idra/Moore, Rose's brother, he has been here for the past few days Taking care of the cattle. Dean, you are a cowherd, and you happened to come over to help herd the cattle... well, you'd better go with him, so that Dean can't understand the people here."
Hearing Pamela's words, Dean nodded vigorously, and "Fast Legs" next to him also had his eyes shining, and his nodding was no less than that of Dean.
So keep working.
Changing to another cowshed, Idra commanded, "Quick Legs" translated, Dean executed, walked into the cowshed and stretched out his hand, and easily led the four cattle out of the cowshed. The serfs who worked so hard in the bullpen all bulged their eyes, and Idra, who was watching, also nodded.
Standing outside the barn with the cattle, Dean clenched his fists and stared at the tight work in the barn with his eyes wide open: first move the pasture, then weeding, then burning the brambles, then driving out the bugs, and then stuffing the mice. Hole…
After finishing one cowshed, then to the next cowshed, and then to the next cowshed, Dean quickly pulled out the cattle each time, and then greedily listened to Idra's command, greedily memorizing every step, Greedily watching every movement of the serfs...
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