Back to 78: My Leisurely Country Life

"Qiang, your pony can't be led anymore, you'd better come over."

He Liang said with an embarrassed look on his face.

He Qiang was a little slow to react.

The mare was well tamed, and he had never heard of it being disobedient before.

Seeing that He Qiang looked sleepy, He Liang continued to explain:"The hay you left at home was eaten up, and then your father and I went to get it some hay, but it didn't eat much, and it didn't want to move when working in the afternoon."

He Qiang came to his senses when he heard it.

Good man, this should be because the mare has become picky about food. Now it is unwilling to work without"irrigated" hay as food.

What's going on?

He Qiang didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"Maybe she is not used to the grass fodder. I will take her to the mountain to get some first."

He Qiang rubbed his eyes and sat up.

He Liang said with an embarrassed look:"Okay, I'll have to trouble you for this."

He Qiang waved his hand:"Brothers, let's not talk about that." He just took the mare to carry some grass fodder back home, so even if he left now, it would not be too late to get home.

The sun sets late in summer, and as long as he takes the mare, with He Qiang's speed, he can definitely get back before the sun sets.

Besides, he also bought a headlamp, so it doesn't matter if he walks at night.

Moreover, evening is the time when wild animals are most active, maybe we can get a lot when we go down the mountain today.

After packing up, He Qiang went to He Liang's house and led the mare to the mountain.

The new beehive of the little bees has now taken shape. He Qiang estimated that in half a month, he can even get honey.

The linden forest is relatively single. Ecology, except for the family of golden monkeys, no new residents have moved in.

On the contrary, the berry forest not far away has become more active because of the rich ecological chain.

He Qiang covered the grass on the slope beside the berry forest and released irrigation again to expand the area of the berry forest.

This time, the irrigated area reached a radius of 100 meters.

This is an area of nearly 50 acres.

Although it is still just an insignificant drop in the ocean for the natural environment, it has greatly alleviated the crowded space in the berry forest.

Recently, some carnivores have appeared in the berry forest again.

However, they are all small animals and are not in the category of ferocious beasts.

"I still have to be careful and make sure I have plants to use at any time."

Large open areas are not conducive to He Qiang's ability to play. If he encounters a wild beast by chance, it will be dangerous for He Qiang.

Of course, wild beasts like bears are not very fast. With He Qiang's perception limit of 50 meters, he just needs to run quickly to the vicinity of the trees after discovering them.

He is mainly on guard against the agile leopards and the fast-bursting tigers.

In this era, rare wild animals such as those in later generations have not yet become extinct.

Even in the next few years, some areas have entered the mountains to hunt under the call of the government...

The 2.0 upgrade project of the berry forest is imminent.

While waiting for the mare to eat grass, He Qiang began to choose today's dinner. The incoming berry forest is occupied by a large number of small animals and various insects.

The most numerous of them are various rodents.

There haven't been many slightly larger predators migrating here yet. But He Qiang knows that with these"delicacies", it won't be long before larger animals appear here.

Having eaten a lot of rabbits last time, He Qiang didn't attack the rabbits this time, but instead targeted the voles sleeping soundly in the caves.

These guys are fat and plump, and you can tell at a glance that their meat is firm!

He Qiang used his ability to control the plants and drilled into their caves. Although these guys were somewhat alert to the movements of the plants, they did not run away.

In line with the principle of sustainability, He Qiang tied up more than a dozen of them directly from the cave, each weighing at least two kilograms.

Even if the hair and internal organs are plucked out, there will be more than ten kilograms of meat in total.

"Why are there still mice? Bad luck!"

He Qiang found that there were actually three rats among the batch of voles he caught.

Rats are different from voles. Voles have smaller eyes, short and thick bodies, and short tails.

In fact, the rodents in the mountains are not as dirty as those in the city, but He Qiang thought about it and killed them and threw them away.

After all, he was reborn, and He Qiang was still a little tired of mice. Although voles are also mice, they are indeed hamsters.

There is still a difference between them and mice.

In Fujian, people roast mice, not the ones that run around in the city and crawl in the sewers, but voles.

After the filly finished eating and He Qiang prepared food for it at night, He Qiang took the filly and her son. The two went down the mountain.

However, they had not walked far today when the filly seemed a little restless.

He Qiang stopped when he saw this, and continued to stroke the hair on her neck to calm the filly down.

He Qiang did not find anything unusual within the perception range.

But for some reason, the filly seemed a little restless.

After a long while, He Qiang continued to lead the filly on the road.

But after only walking a few dozen meters, He Qiang, who had been concentrating on perception, also discovered the situation.

At the farthest point of perception, an area of grass collapsed as if it had been crushed.

This is a situation that only occurs when large animals pass through.

But judging from the direction, this guy is planning to go up the mountain.

"Did they miss each other?"

He Qiang had a vigilant look on his face, and he thought to himself that it was a close call.

Thinking of this, He Qiang felt that he needed to be prepared.

He could almost predict that the destination of this large predator was the berry forest.

Although he could easily kill the beast in the berry forest by using the terrain, as a mountain herder who had only carried a knife into the mountains for a long time, if he killed a beast and brought it down the mountain, I'm afraid the villagers would not dare to get along with him.

Wouldn't he be regarded as a contemporary Wu Song?

He Qiang didn't want to be rumored to be such a macho man.

"I'll have to get a shotgun later."

He Qiang decided to buy himself insurance.

As long as he had a weapon, many things would become reasonable.

But he would not use the shotgun left by his grandfather. He was really afraid that the thing would explode and take him away.

He didn't want to reunite with Grandpa He in the underworld too early in this life.

"Is it a tiger, a bear? Or something else?"

Full of doubts, He Qiang quickly went down the mountain with the mare.

He didn't stop along the way. When he got home, it was already dark.

Wu Shuhua stood at the gate of the yard, like a stone statue waiting for her husband. It was not until the infinitely tall figure appeared at the end of her vision that the worry in her eyes disappeared.

In the distance, under the warm light of dusk, He Qiang's shadow was stretched very long. He led the horse and walked towards his wife who was waiting for him to reminisce with a lot of spoils.

"I'm back."

He Qiang's voice was gentle and his face was full of smiles.

Wu Shuhua felt as if he was bathed in the spring sunshine, warm, comfortable and peaceful.