Liu Ben looked at Zhao Weiguang again and said readily, "I'll buy all the cows."
Zhao Weiguang was surprised. He hadn't expected the young man to be so decisive. He rolled his eyes and seized the opportunity to ask, "I have eight pregnant cows. They'll be able to produce milk after they give birth. What do you think?"
Liu Ben: “Buy!”
Zhao Weiguang was excited: "The calves born to my cows are all very healthy. After raising them for another year, they can be bred..."
Liu Ben: “Buy, buy, buy!”
"No way," Liu Zhu said anxiously, not even bothering to whisper, "You have no experience at all, why would you raise so many?!"
Liu Ben said as a matter of course: "I will learn it."
Liu Zhu was speechless. Although he didn't know where Aben got so much money, he couldn't let Aben spend money in vain while he was here.
Liu Ben was very calm. Liu Zhu wanted to persuade him, but unexpectedly, it was Zhao Weiguang who hesitated at this time.
"You have no experience?" Zhao Weiguang looked at Liu Ben in surprise. "Raising dairy cows requires a lot of attention. The environment they live in, the water they drink, the daily cleaning... none of these can be neglected. Otherwise, why don't you take me to see where your cattle are raised?"
Liu Ben: ...
Zhao Weiguang noticed Liu Ben's silence and asked in disbelief, "You didn't even prepare a cowshed?"
Liu Ben looked up at the sky: "I'll circle it when I get it back..."
"That won't do!" Zhao Weiguang waved his hand hurriedly: "You really are not prepared at all! If you don't care about the money, I care about the cows!"
Liu Zhu was also at a loss for words: "Aben, you've been telling me you want to raise cattle for over a month now, and you haven't even prepared a cattle pen?"
Liu Ben was embarrassed. He had been thinking about raising the cattle in a free-range manner, but he ignored the fact that even if the cattle were raised in a free-range manner, they would still have to return home.
Liu Ben looked at Zhao Weiguang and said sincerely, "I really want to raise dairy cows."
Zhao Weiguang was helpless: "It really can't be done. Cows need constant care. You don't even have a pen, let alone a breeder. There's definitely no way, right?"
Liu Ben: "How about you introduce one to me?"
"I..." Zhao Weiguang couldn't help laughing. "I'm the same. I worked on the grassland for more than ten years and just came back. To be honest, I haven't met anyone like me in this area."
Liu Ben: "Actually, I can really learn."
Zhao Weiguang just shook his head: "This won't work."
Liu Zhu also advised Liu Ben: "You should go back and think about it again and ask your family for advice."
Liu Ben thought about it and realized that with so many cows, and they were not wild cows that could just live in the mountains, they had to have a cowshed.
But he was afraid that the cows would be bought by someone else when he looked for a place to raise them.
Liu Ben took out his phone and said, "Mr. Zhao, how about you add me on WeChat and keep the cow for me? I can pay the deposit, but you don't have to refund me if I don't pay the balance within a certain period of time?"
Zhao Weiguang hesitated. He really wanted to sell the cows, but he had no experience...
But there may not be anyone with experience in this city.
Zhao Weiguang added Liu Ben’s WeChat account, but he still needed to wait and see whether to sell the cows.
As for the deposit, Zhao Weiguang refused.
Zhao Weiguang: "There's no need. The chances of someone buying it within a certain period of time are very small."
"Aren't you in urgent need of money?" Liu Ben glanced at him.
“Ahaha…it’s not particularly urgent…” Now it was Zhao Weiguang’s turn to have a wandering look.
Liu Ben didn't like to procrastinate, so he went home quickly and discussed the matter with his family.
Today his second and third uncles went out to work, and his second aunt was also on duty, so only his grandparents and third aunt were at home.
"How many do you plan to raise?" Liu Yibiao was shocked. He thought Liu Ben only wanted to buy one or two.
"Although water shield and kelp will be on the shelves soon, there are only two or three items in the store. It would be nice to have milk, right?" said Liu Ben.
"There are so many cows..." Wang Fengjing was also worried.
He Mei said: "Some people in my mother's family raise cattle, but they are just beef cattle. They have a special cattle farm, and they need to prepare houses and various facilities."
"I looked up some information online," Liu Ben said, flipping through his phone. "It's actually not that difficult. It mainly involves issues like hygiene, diet, and the temperature and humidity of the environment. All you need to do is find a large, clean, and well-ventilated workshop, set up the necessary supplies for raising cattle, and then just keep an eye on the cattle."
"That's easy for you to say," Liu Yibiao scoffed. "Cows can't talk, and their expressions aren't obvious. If you really noticed, it would be a big deal, and it might be too late to see a doctor!"
Liu Ben waved mysteriously and moved closer to them, as if he wanted to whisper something to them.
Liu Yibiao: "Just say whatever you want to say!"
Liu Ben had no choice but to sit up straight and said, "I'll tell you a secret. I was born in the Year of the Ox, so I've been able to communicate with cows since I was a child."
Liu Yibiao, Wang Fengjing, He Mei: "..."
Liu Ben looked at their speechless expressions and emphasized seriously: "Really!"
"You are talking nonsense. There are so many people born in the Year of the Ox in our village. I was born in the Year of the Ox too. How can I not be able to do it?" Liu Yibiao said with a smile.
Wang Fengjing shook her head, thinking he was just talking nonsense: "Okay, okay, if you really want to raise cattle, go to where other people raise cattle and see how they usually raise cattle."
Liu Yibiao also said: "When you feel that you can really raise cattle, it won't be too late to find a factory in our village to use as a cattle farm."
There are many cement factories built in the village in the early years, as well as brick factories, wood factories, etc., which have been abandoned for several years, but the houses are still quite sturdy and usable. When the time comes, he can make some connections and buy one for Liu Ben at a cheaper price.
"Yes, you still need to learn from more people," said He Mei.
All right. Liu Ben thought, he really didn't know what raising cattle was like in this world, and just looking at the theoretical knowledge on the computer wasn't enough.
Maybe cows are just very fragile?
Liu Ben immediately contacted Zhao Weiguang and expressed his desire to learn how to raise cattle from him for a while and then buy his cattle.
Zhao Weiguang was also impressed by Liu Ben's stubbornness. In addition, no one else was willing to buy a cow today. Although Liu Ben was unreliable, he was the only possibility. So he actually agreed to Liu Ben's idea of participating in some life experience activity.
It was almost evening when Liu Ben drove to the store to pick up his third brother's wife.
"Business is great today! We sold a lot of rice, and also a lot of rice, porridge, and rice milk!" Liu Lei said excitedly.
Liu Rui smiled and said, "Some customers say that the food in our store is a bit monotonous, but I tell them, 'The food we sell is just for experience, and our main selling point is our rice.' They think we are a high-end store, haha~"
Liu Sen also seemed very happy: "Indeed, when customers first saw our prices they thought we were a rip-off, but after trying them they said it was a good deal."
Even though porridge and rice milk do not contain sugar, the original rice will naturally have a rich aroma and a light sweetness after being cooked for a period of time, and the taste is different from that of cooked rice.
Liu Ben smiled and said, "You seem to be adapting quite well."
The three of them nodded. It was indeed not difficult. The store did not accept bargaining, the food was simple, and packing and weighing the rice was even easier. The three young people were always busy.
Liu Rui was carrying a lot of bags and said embarrassedly, "I just didn't estimate the quantity well when I got off work. I made too much and had to bring it back."
Liu Lei said, "Shall we leave it there later?"
"What?" Liu Rui and Sen didn't understand.
"You can put the leftover food on the grass beside the woods east of the village. Small animals will come to eat it!" Liu Lei remembered that Liu Ben put it there yesterday.
"Yes, let's put it there." Liu Ben said.
The car soon arrived at the destination and Liu Ben got out of the car carrying the things.
Liu Rui was quite curious, so the three of them simply followed Liu Ben to see.
Liu Ben walked to the hidden place he had been in before, started to search his pockets, and prepared to put some toilet paper on the ground to put the food in.
Unexpectedly, just as he spread the toilet paper, a ball of hair suddenly fell out from the grass.
"Huh!" Liu Rui exclaimed.
The fur ball struggled to stand up, and the four people could see clearly that it was actually a little orange kitten.
The little kitten was really small, and its legs were shaking when it stood, but it was very brave. The four people looked at it without being afraid. It just meowed at the bag of porridge, as if it smelled the thin fragrance of the cold porridge and must be very hungry.
The porridge was served in a disposable plastic bowl, but the cat was not even as tall as the bowl.
Liu Ben opened the lid and poured some porridge on it. The kitten immediately pounced on it and began to lick the porridge with a "tsk tsk tsk tsk" sound.
"It eats so deliciously!" Liu Rui said in a low voice.
Liu Sen: "Maybe it hasn't eaten for a long time. I don't know where the hell it went."
Liu Lei: "I heard from my classmates that big cats are not reliable. Some of them don't even raise their own cubs."
Liu Rui was puzzled: "Why?"
"Who knows?"
"Swish~" The grass leaves next to them moved slightly, and the four of them turned their heads to look.
I saw one, two,... seven little heads popping out from the not-so-deep grass, all of them were kittens of different colors!
The little kittens may have seen that the little orange cat had already started eating, and were afraid that they would miss out, so they all stumbled over here.
"Wow~" Liu Rui covered her mouth, but couldn't suppress the joy in her eyes: "So cute!"
There was still a lot of porridge left, but it was not enough for so many cats. Liu Ben opened the rice and rice milk and mixed them with the porridge, so that it would be enough for them to eat without being too dry.
But there were not so many lids, so the four of them poured the porridge onto the lids little by little. The eight kittens gathered around one lid, pushing and shoving each other, fighting for a spot to eat.
"Are these kittens born from the same cat?" Liu Sen asked uncertainly.
"No way? There are so many cats, and they have different patterns and colors. It must be a lot of cats." Liu Lei didn't quite understand.
Liu Ben: "Some cats are very fertile, and not all litters are from the same male cat."
“…but it doesn’t raise any.”
"Yeah..." Liu Rui finally couldn't help it, stretched out a finger and gently poked one of the kittens' faces.
"You can't touch it. If its mother smells human scent, she won't want it anymore!" Liu Sen hurriedly stopped them.
"Ah? Really?" Liu Rui looked at the kitten in panic and self-blame, but the kitten didn't react at all. It was so absorbed in eating that it was swayed around by the squeeze. Suddenly, it dived into the porridge in a hurry.
“…” Now the kitten’s face was full of the smell of porridge.
"I think their mother doesn't want them anymore. Why don't we take them back?" Liu Sen suggested. Although he was a boy, he had no resistance to these fluffy little cubs.
Liu Lei and Liu Rui were also very moved, and the three of them looked at Liu Ben together.
Liu Ben thought for a moment and said, "Their mother may not necessarily abandon them. She may have encountered something that delayed her. When she returns and finds the kittens missing, she will be very anxious."
"Oh yeah..." This is very embarrassing.
Liu Ben made the decision: "We'll feed them today and come back tomorrow. If they still appear tomorrow, we'll take them home to raise."
These kittens are not particularly small, so it is possible that the mother cat let them out of the nest early.
And it's still summer now, so there's no need to worry about these well-fed kittens getting cold.
The four of them took some time to feed the kittens until they were full, then they tidied up, got back into the car, and continued driving home.
Behind them, a big cat appeared quietly, stared at the receding car of Liu Ben and his companions for a while, then slowly walked to the side of the little kittens. The little kittens ran over and called out to it in sweet voices.
The big cat looked down and first licked the little kitten whose face was covered with porridge, and then its eyes widened.
The big cat licked the little kitten's face clean in a few bites, then immediately and ruthlessly left the little kittens behind and ran to the half bowl of porridge left by Liu Ben and the others, and began to eat it with big mouthfuls of relish...
The author has something to say:
Cat Mom: Children, look, the long-term meal ticket has appeared (stare——)
Thank you to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution for me~
Feibai irrigated 10 bowls of rice
The lazy minister poured 5 bowls of porridge
Haimi irrigated 1 bowl of rice milk
Thank you very much for your support. I will continue to work hard!
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