The afternoon sun is excellent, perfect for sunbathing.
The large and small courtyards in Huagou Village are surrounded by giant mushroom-shaped stacks of wheat. Some people stand on them and use pitchforks to push the wheat straw down to form a wheat field.
The old ox was dragging a heavy roller behind it and was being driven around in circles in the threshing floor to thresh the wheat. A child followed with a sieve in his hand, ready to collect the cow dung at any time.
The women used wooden forks to turn over the threshed wheat straw and waited for the second threshing. After threshing it several times, they used the forks to gently push away the threshed wheat straw and picked it aside, revealing a thin layer of peeled wheat grains and bran.
Over and over again, every yard is busy under the bright sunshine.
Some people also harvested corn in the cornfield, cut the dried corn stalks, and transported the corn stalks to the team's breeding room as feed.
In the entire Huagou Village, except for the elderly who cannot move their legs and feet, the babies who are still breastfeeding, and the lazy men and women, everyone else, regardless of gender, age or status, is busy working in the fields and yards.
Jiang He was a young man with short legs, and he walked very fast with his head down, panting.
She overslept!
The weather was so nice today, with a gentle breeze and some sunshine, making her sleep soundly without realizing it.
There was no one to be seen on the road; even the village dogs were out catching mice.
Jiang Henian held her forehead guiltily. She had to go to work in Dachangyuan in the afternoon. Ding Guangsheng was also there, so she definitely couldn't avoid the scolding.
Jiang Henian's scalp tingled when he thought of the long-drawn-out "Nian girl——". He was too talkative.
While looking at the road, he walked very fast.
Jiang Henian heard the mooing of a cow calf, but he didn't pay attention to it at first. But after a burst of soft mooing, there was suddenly no movement.
She turned her head and looked at the cowshed about ten meters ahead. Through the wooden fence, she seemed to see a figure walking inside.
Is Chen Dahu feeding the calf?
As the distance got closer, Jiang Henian finally saw two people hiding in the cowshed.
She even remembered the fat guy wearing a one-eyed eye patch who turned into a turtle!
This Chen Laitou was lucky enough to survive. What was he doing sneaking around in the cowshed with a stranger?
Jiang Henian dodged and hid behind a tree to peek.
"Fuck! Give me a fucking hand!"
Li Heidan was holding a struggling calf weighing over 40 kilograms and was tying ropes around its mouth and hooves when he nearly stumbled and fell on the cow dung. He gritted his teeth and cursed:
"Didn't you say Wang Gou was coming? Why is a worthless person like you here?"
"Stop wasting your time and put it in!"
Chen Laitou grabbed a large sack and stretched it open. He looked around nervously and urged in a low voice: "Hurry up! Chen Dahu will come back and beat you to death!"
The two men crammed two calves in, sweating profusely, with lewd smiles on their faces, "Let's go!"
Before I could stand up, I heard a very loud and crisp shout from somewhere.
"Someone is stealing cows!!! Someone, come! There's a bastard stealing cows!!!"
The two men looked at each other in horror and shouted "Grass, grass, grass" in unison. They picked up the sack and tried to get out of the cowshed. The frightened calf tripped and fell with a thud, making him smelly. He got up again, slipping and running out of the cowshed, dragging the sack.
"Fuck! Hurry up!"
Jiang Henian, who was hiding behind a tree and watching, was holding a small loudspeaker that he had taken out from space. When he saw the two people running out, he shouted even louder and jumped around in a hurry.
"Brother Dahu!! Someone stole your cow!"
"Uncle Wang! Aunt Guihong! Uncle Ding! Someone is coming to the village to steal the cows! Come quickly!"
"Help! Someone is stealing the cows!"
The whole Huagou Village was filled with the girl's crisp, loud, and anxious voice.
After a while, a strong and angry roar was heard.
"Who the hell is stealing my cow!!!"
Chen Dahu, a breeder from Huagou Village Brigade, ran out from somewhere with a hoe in his hand, took a stride from the edge of the field, ran onto the road, and rushed over.
"Who?! Which bastard dares to steal the cow?"
People came running from all directions holding sickles and wooden pitchforks.
Jiang Henian raised the corner of his mouth, put the small loudspeaker given by the supermarket when he was shopping back into the space, replaced it with a crutch and rushed out.
Before the others arrived, one of them jumped up and gave Chen Lai Tou, who was trying to escape into the woods with his head in his hands, a blow to the head.
"Beat you to death, you cattle thief!"
“Ugh—!”
Chen Laitou covered his head and howled loudly, his one eye wide open as he stared at the person in front of him in disbelief, "You!"
"Go, die."
Jiang Henian grinned and spoke to him silently. He raised his wrist-thick crutch with both hands and hit him again. He used all his strength to hit him so hard that the fat on his face trembled and he fell to the ground.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Heidan wanted to abandon Chen Laitou and run away, but Chen Laitou reached out and grabbed his trouser leg tightly with a grin.
"Don't even think about leaving me behind!"
The two men fell into a ball. Just as they were about to join forces to deal with Jiang Henian, Chen Dahu, who had arrived, hit them with a hoe, making them cry for their parents. Then people who came from all directions joined forces to pin the two men to the ground to death.
Chen Dahu threw down his hoe and untied the sack in a panic. When he saw that the calf he had been caring for so carefully had its mouth tied and the calf was looking at him with tears in its eyes, his eyes immediately turned red and he almost beat Chen Laitou to death on the spot.
Team leader Wang Jianping and others also rushed over, and the two cattle thieves were tied up immediately.
The crowd surrounded the two men with sticks and knives, their faces filled with anger.
Cows are the treasure of the village, the common property of the entire production team, and the most important production tool.
On a daily basis, pulling carts, transporting goods, plowing the fields, and threshing the land, which one doesn’t require cows?
The breeder Chen Dahu treated these cows like his own sons and would get up at night to check on them. No one would have thought that people from the village would team up with outsiders to steal the cows!
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