The Mongolian Gazelle, also known as the yellow antelope, Mongolian goitered gazelle, Mongolian antelope, and other names, was not actually a sheep.
At first, Li Long had thought it was much like a wild mountain goat. Only later had he learned that it was a kind of antelope.
Since it was an antelope, its horns had all sorts of medicinal uses. In later years, these wild animals were all protected species, and their horns could not be used. If he could put away a few horns now, surely they might come in handy at a critical moment.
Mongolian Gazelle horns had the same effects as antelope horns: reducing fever and relieving convulsions. Families with children ought to know how important they could be at a critical moment.
They had no rhinoceros horns here, nor did they have hairy-eared, long-horned antelopes, but they did have these.
So Li Long decided that he had to come back before the New Year and get two Mongolian Gazelles with horns!
That settled it. Once they had loaded the cart and drunk two bowls of piping-hot milk tea, Li Long and Tao Daqiang hurried back in the horse cart.
"Brother Long, are we staying in the County Seat tonight or going back to the team?"
"Back to the team," Li Long said. "We have to return the cart. Number 76 needs a proper rest at the Stable. He can't live on grass alone; he needs grain feed. We don't have much of that to feed him here."
Once the year turned, Number 76 would belong to their family. He needed to take good care of him.
They said nothing along the way. By the time they drove the cart back to the Li Family home, it had been dark for over an hour. Hearing the