After cleaning up the little girl, Tian Cai sent her back to the cowshed.
That’s right, the bullpen.
Although Zhang Defa did not want to treat these people harshly, with so many people in the commune watching them, he could not allocate normal houses to them. He had to let them stay in the cowshed for the time being, and the others could wait until the ice thawed.
It is called a cowshed, but in fact it is just two idle houses. It was built for cows to live in, but not long after, several families around it refused to live there. The cowshed is in the southwest corner of the village, not far from the river. If the cow dung is not handled in time, it will easily be washed into the river when it rains.
The villagers still wash clothes in this river. The water mixed with cow dung is unusable, and several villages downstream also refuse to use it.
Besides, there was only one cow in the village, which had always been taken care of by Old Chen. Zhang Defa simply decided to build a shed in his backyard for the cow and donkey to live in, and the cowshed here became completely idle.
Zhang Defa decided to place the group of people released by the commune here after discussing with Li Tiegang. He also temporarily found men from the village to help build up the half-complete wall of the house until it was completely sealed.
Zhang Defa thought that the winter here was cold, so he asked someone to build a kang for them. He only cleaned it up and let them live in it when Tian Cai and his group went into the mountains to hunt.
So the six of them lived here. Although the two rooms were a bit small, they were barely enough. There was not much work in the team in winter, and most people stayed at home, so they had more time to tidy up their living environment.
Thinking of the patient with a broken arm that day, Tian Cai brought the medicine box with him when he sent Tingting over. He saw that they had built a thatched shed outside the original two rooms, and Qu Wenxue was directing them to build a stove.
Tingting has gone out several times these days, but she hasn't yet recognized all the families living around. This time, Sister Tian took her around a corner and she saw her grandfather and others.
Tingting quickly ran to the old man and hugged his arm, "Grandpa, I'm back!"
Old Master Ju was very anxious. Tingting had been out for a while and had not come back yet. The child was unfamiliar with the village and they had such a sensitive identity. Thinking of how Tingting had been bullied by the neighbor's children before, he felt uneasy.
Seeing his granddaughter come back in one piece, and looking even neater than before she left, Grandpa Ju was about to ask, when he heard his granddaughter say, "It was Sister Tian who treated us that day who brought me back. Sister Tian also washed my face and combed my hair."
When Mr. Ju looked over, he saw her talking to Team Leader Qu who came to help repair the stove.
It wasn't really Tian Cai who took the initiative to talk to Qu Wenxue. He looked rather serious and had only one eye. When he talked to people, his serious expression made people feel very pressured. But there was nothing he could do. He was Qu Ting's father. Tian Cai played with Qu Ting, so he always had to deal with her family.
She called the middle-aged man over, changed the dressing on his arm, and put on the splint. "I know you'll be busy these days, but don't use force with this arm. If you dislocate the bone, I can't guarantee I can put it back in place."
The middle-aged man smiled embarrassedly. He couldn't help but put his arm down and it hurt so much that he broke out in a cold sweat.
While several people were talking, Tian Cai turned his head and saw a familiar figure rushing down the hillside.
Thinking of the project she had been training for these days, she simply put her index finger and thumb to her mouth and blew a loud whistle.
The figure running down quickly jumped up, and when it heard the sound, it turned around in mid-air and ran towards this side.
Tian Cai put his hand down and couldn't help laughing. Qu Wenxue saw this and was secretly envious. Bobcats are naturally intelligent creatures, and you can only develop feelings for them if you start raising them when they are still cubs.
However, these cats give birth to only a few kittens at a time, so the mother cat keeps a very close eye on her kittens. She usually won't let them go until she's sure they have the ability to hunt, which is at least a year later.
At that time, given their wariness towards humans, it would have been even more impossible to tame them.
It just so happened that Tian Cai picked up a cub in the mountains and raised it. At first, they were not too envious, after all, this animal also needs to eat, and there is not much food at home, and they still have to raise an animal. But the turning point happened during this hunting trip.
The bobcat single-handedly made the whole team envious. It was said that half of the prey killed in the mountains this time was due to its contribution, which showed that it hunted a lot in normal times.
Everyone guessed that since Tian Cai raised it, he must eat meat every day!
Mimi ran all the way, without walking on the bridge. She stepped on the big rocks by the river and jumped a few times, and reached the river bank.
It didn't even look at anyone else, but ran straight to Tian Cai, howled twice, and began to rub her hand with its head.
When Tian Cai looked up, he saw that the people in the cowshed looked like they were facing a great enemy. He felt a little embarrassed. He was about to say that Mimi doesn't bite people when he saw Yu Xuelin running over in a hurry.
"Doctor Tian, hurry up, someone from Qingshan Village is coming to see a doctor!"
When Tian Cai heard this, he hurriedly picked up the medicine box and followed him home, and Mimi also trotted to catch up.
After her figure disappeared, several people withdrew their gaze and couldn't help but want to ask Qu Wenxue, but seeing his serious face, they gave up.
After seeing the mountain cat, Mr. Ju had a better impression of Tian Cai. In his opinion, the fact that such a smart little thing was willing to stay with her showed that this girl was a kind-hearted person.
Tian Cai jogged along and when she turned the corner she saw two men with sullen faces waiting at her door, carrying a door panel with a person covered with a quilt lying on it.
After the two sides greeted each other, Tian Cai opened the door and let the two in. He still placed the person on the door panel on the examination bed. Tian Cai rubbed his hands before reaching out to lift the quilt.
It was at this time that the face of the woman on the bed was revealed. Most of her face was swollen, with obvious bruises on her cheekbones and corners of her mouth, and even a trace of blood at the corner of her mouth.
Tian Cai pushed her collar down, revealing a bruise on her collarbone.
The two men's faces turned even darker when they saw this scene.
The tall man, Yang Weiguo, was so angry that he kicked the nearby fire wall. "You bastard, you shouldn't have stopped me and let me beat this bastard to death. He treated my sister like this when she got married!"
Tian Cai looked up at the kicked wall of fire, but didn't say anything because he felt sorry for his sister.
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