Chapter 146

As Fu Meng spoke, he took out his phone from his pocket and pushed someone to Shi Wen.

Shi Wen opened the business card, added the person casually, and then asked, "How's it going with the barbed wire fencing setup these past few days?"

"Smoothly," Fu Meng said with a smile. "In another ten days or so, the barbed wire should be completely finished, and then you can start managing the two hilltops."

Shi Wen 've been busy with the trade conference these past few days and haven't paid much attention to the barbed wire situation.

Hearing that the enclosure would be finished in about ten days, he was startled. "How can it be so fast?"

Fu Meng: "If you pay more, everyone will be more motivated. Besides, compared to before, it's much easier to fence off with wire mesh now. The manufacturers make them perfectly straight, and it only requires a little installation and fixing."

Shi Wen, "That's hard work. Once the barbed wire fence is up, I'll treat everyone to dinner—roast lamb."

Fu Meng: "Oh, it's settled then. I'll talk to them and boost their morale."

Chapter 146

The barbed wire fence will take a few more days to be erected, Shi Wen the work for the trade fair is finished, so I'm relatively free for a while.

He cut the last of the hay on the pasture before winter arrived.

The alfalfa, red clover, and sheepgrass he planted this year are all perennial herbaceous plants.

They will dry out in the fall, but will sprout again next spring, so you can just leave them there after cutting the hay without much care.

When the grass is being cut, a unique grassy aroma always wafts through the air. Although the quality of the grass in autumn is not as fresh as in spring and summer, it still attracts cattle and sheep to come over.

Whenever they try to come over, the dogs run over and bark loudly at them, telling them to go back.

The cattle and sheep would settle down for a while after being driven back, but they would soon run out again, and then the dogs would come over and bark at them, and the cycle would repeat itself.

Shi Wen sat on the lawnmower, watching these guys run around in the distance, and found it quite amusing, so he couldn't help but smile.

They cut too much grass this year, and their warehouse can't hold it all anymore. Some of it has to be piled up in the open and covered with plastic sheeting.

When piled up in the open, in addition to watching out for rain and snow on top, you also have to watch out for insects and damp ground below, so you have to make a separate frame to support it a little.

Shi Wen originally planned to make a wooden frame, but then thought that since they might need these hay racks every year, they might as well just order a steel frame.

Steel frames are sturdier and easier to store, unlike wooden frames which can mold and rot within two years.

He made all sorts of plans and wrote them down in a memo.

That day, while he was busy mowing the lawn, Qile Moge called him, "Brother Shi, do you need any breeding cattle?"

Shi Wen rolled down the car window and asked, "What breed of breeding cattle? What's the situation?"

Qile Moge: "A local brown cow, a particularly large brown cow, but with a rather bad temper."

Shi Wen curiously, "What's going on? How bad can a bad temper be?"

Qile Moge: "To put it simply, a few days ago a guy was driving a hay truck and accidentally bumped into a brown cow, making it fall over. It wasn't a big deal, but the brown cow holds a grudge against the truck and now it sneaks out of its house every day to ram it."

Shi Wen couldn't help but ask, "Such a hot-tempered brown ox, doesn't the owner tie it up?"

Qile Moge: "Of course we tether it! We used to tether it with a rope, but the brown cow bit through it, so the owner replaced it with a thin iron chain. But the thin chain broke just like that, so now we're using a medium-sized iron chain."

Speaking of this brown bull, Qile Moge was quite impressed. "It's wrecked people's cars several times, to the point that the owners are now too afraid to go home. It's also set its sights on people's houses, wrecking one of their warehouses. I've never seen such a persistent bull."

Shi Wen, "How long has this been going on?"

"It's been over a Qile Moge, and the compensation its owner has paid is enough to buy a new brown bull."

Qile Moge sighed, "Its owner originally wanted to sell it to the slaughterhouse, but later couldn't bear to part with the brown ox he had raised from a calf, so he asked me to ask if you wanted it. Aren't you the best at taming livestock? If you want it, I can sell it to you at a discount."

Shi Wen and asked, "Did the person who hit it apologize to it?"

"Huh?" Qile Moge was taken aback. "Really? Who would apologize to a cow?"

Shi Wen said, "That cow is so smart, maybe apologizing to it will solve the problem. You should have the owner try it. If nothing happens, then they probably don't need to sell it."

Qile Moge exclaimed excitedly, "There's such a thing? I'll go ask around!"

Shi Wen didn't take the matter to heart.

Two days later, the owner of the brown cow contacted him personally, asking him again if he wanted the brown cow.

Shi Wen wondered, "Was the apology ineffective?"

The owner of the brown cow said, "It worked. After I apologized, the cow really stopped bumping into houses and cars. But this cow is too intelligent; I don't dare keep it. I was wondering if you would like to keep it?"

Shi Wen, "Why can't we raise such intelligent animals?"

The owner of the brown cattle said, "These are all beef cattle. It's not good for it to watch these cattle suffer, and it's not good for me either, so I might as well stop raising them. If you want them, I'll transfer them to you. A 2,800-pound breeding cow, I'll only charge you 15,000 yuan."

Shi Wen Shi Wen of the local breeding cattle prices, and this price was indeed very reasonable.

He thought about it for a moment, and finally decided to go and see the cow.

Putting everything else aside, he was quite curious about what exactly was going on with this stubborn bull.

The two parties agreed on a time, Shi Wen drove over to see the cattle.

The cow was kept in a pen with a thick iron chain hanging from its nose.

The cow's owner Baha Ayi, said helplessly, "We didn't want to put a chain on it before, but we had no choice. It can bite through a rope, but a chain is a little better; at least it can't break free and hurt anyone."

Shi Wen understood. "That's true; you have to use unconventional methods to deal with unconventional cattle."