Why not hang yourself on the southeast tree

Chapter 211: Donkey: The Ride (3)

The next day, Aunt Li, whose face was paler than the day before, went to the door with a big gift bag of snacks to kidnap the child, but she unexpectedly found the door locked.

[Eh?! Why are you out so early? Doesn't Xiaobao sleep until 10 o'clock every day? ]

Well, there are really no secrets among the fellow villagers.

It turned out that last night, Tang Chao received a call from a cattle farm owner he knew.

Two of his cows suddenly fell down last night and haven't been able to stand up yet.

I consulted a veterinarian, who said it wasn't a bone problem but a rotten hoof and I needed to find a hoof trimmer.

So the boss thought of Tang Chao. His fame on the Internet was far less than that at the cattle and sheep market in the county.

It’s no exaggeration to say that you can travel the world with just a shovel.

Early in the morning before dawn, Tang Chao was picked up by a pickup truck. He was worried about Tang Xiaobao staying at home alone, and he was also uneasy about leaving him with the neighbors, so he simply wrapped him in a quilt and carried him directly into the car.

The cattle farm is on a hillside in the western suburbs of the county, which is a mountainous terrain.

This is my first time in Tang Dynasty, and I can't help but sigh, you can't judge a person by his appearance.

The boss's jacket was patched, but he had at least a hundred cows on his farm. A rough calculation showed that he was worth at least several million.

There were about ten workers working under the shed, some putting grain in, some laying straw, some shoveling manure, and some brushing the fur. Each of them had their own division of labor and they were all very busy.

[Boss, where is the sick cow? Aren’t they standing fine?! ]

Tang Chao looked around and saw that the cows in the shed were standing quietly and eating grass.

There were only a few suckling calves wandering around with their tails wagging, licking the iron railings and rooting under the belly of the big cow, looking very naughty.

(?w?)

A adorable little calf with a yellow-brown background and big white spots. It's not afraid of strangers. It comes over with its big eyes blinking, and its nostrils flaring, sniffing the stranger's hand.

Xiao Niu: Hmm, it smells like mutton buns.

Its eyes widened and it looked greedy. The smell was so delicious that it would kill the cow!

[Oh, I put those two in a separate shed. Sick cows need to be isolated. We have a big stall, so we have to be very careful!]

The boss's hands were red from the cold, so he simply put them into his sleeves.

Anyway, there are no buyers coming, so there is no need to worry about the image. It is enough as long as the cow is healthy and clean.

As soon as Tang Xiaobao got off the car, he was placed in the boss's office with his quilt. The heater was on high and it was warm.

After sleeping for only a short while, the little fat boy kicked the quilt with a red face, hummed twice in comfort, and without even opening his eyes to see where he was, he turned over and fell asleep again.

Children of this age should be able to eat and sleep, and it is the time for them to grow.

The two sick cows in the calf shed were not sleeping well. The one lying outside was a cow with a calf in her arms. Unfortunately, her two front legs were awkwardly tilted to one side and were visibly swollen.

[Is it that serious?! ]

Tang Chao took a quick look and his heart skipped a beat.

The market price for repairing a hoof is ten yuan. Many elderly people who are used to being frugal will only ask him to do the work when they can no longer put it off. I didn't expect that the owner of the cattle farm would actually...

He squatted down, and before he could get his hand close to the sick hoof, he was stared at by the cow's eyes as big as copper bells.

The boss slapped the cow on its huge head.

[Old man, take a look. The vet said that something sharp got stuck in the hoof and it got infected. Just giving an anti-inflammatory injection is only a temporary solution. You have to dig out the lesion! ]

The cow became obedient, blinked her big eyes twice, and shed two hot tears.

The tears were big and fell on the hay beneath its body. They flowed through the gaps in the grass to the ground and formed a dandelion-like flower.

Tang Chao put aside the tool bag hanging on his waist, picked up a hoof and looked at it carefully.

Well, I really wronged the boss at first glance. The cow's hoof clearly showed signs of having been trimmed, but it must have been more than half a year ago.

[You should have a weighing and fixing rack here, right? Please help push one over here. This hoof is so swollen that even if it can't stand up now, it will struggle hard in pain after getting stabbed. It's better to fix it, otherwise I can't hold it down with my old arms and legs!]

When the boss heard this, he knew that the old man was confident and would cooperate. He immediately shouted to a worker to go to the back and push the shelf over.

Fortunately, this cow is smart and can understand human language. It also knows that the old man with snow-white hair in front of it is here to help it solve its illness.

Only then did he stand up slowly and with difficulty, and was led up to the iron frame by the workers using a rope. He then obediently put his neck into the slot in front.

Its two front legs were trembling, and because the area below the knee joints was red and swollen, it was simply unable to bear its weight of several hundred pounds. The entire iron frame made a teeth-grinding creaking sound.

[Quick, tie up the right front leg with a rope and fold it up. I'll try to be as fast as possible.]

Tang Chao had already picked up a small, right-handed curved knife, which was in the shape of a 7 and very sharp. He had sharpened it repeatedly on a whetstone last night until it was smooth and shiny.

Cow hooves are too soft to be used with a large spatula.

If a novice who knows nothing were to use a shovel to cut the cow's hoof, the entire hoof would be destroyed.

The cow mooed twice, obviously frightened.

Tang Chao was already holding the hoof with one hand and starting to trim it with the other.

With one cut of the knife, a stream of yellow water with a strange smell gushed out.

The boss frowned, but didn't step back. Instead, he freed one hand to cover his nose, otherwise he would feel like vomiting.

It's like the smell of fermented kitchen waste that has been clogged in a sewer for more than ten days.

Tang Chao's face was expressionless. He held the knife with a steady hand, digging and scraping the black keratin into small pieces, revealing the inside -

Sure enough, there was a foreign object. After a lot of effort, they used pliers to pull it out. Only then did they find that it was a large iron nail more than ten centimeters long...

It was covered in rust and the holes were inflamed and festered, no wonder it was so swollen!

ヾ(?｀Д′?)

The worker's face darkened.

He had been responsible for taking care of the cow. If it was a rock, it would be fine. But an iron nail...

Well, the boss will definitely hold me accountable. I spent a lot of money on veterinary consultations, medicines and injections over the past two days.

The boss glared at the worker and said let's talk about this later.

It would be fine if the disease can be cured, but if it cannot be cured, the workers’ bonuses will be deducted completely.

The work details are explained at the weekly meeting -

All dangerous items such as iron wires, iron nails, iron sheets, etc. must be cleared out of the cowshed. You must know that once these things are swallowed, they will pierce the stomach and intestines and cause massive bleeding, with a high mortality rate.

A ten-centimeter nail could only have fallen from the iron railing. It was 100% a work error.