The casual life of the flat space

The shed was already small, and after cutting off some space here and there, the mare could only stay in the only slightly cleaner place. But it was only slightly cleaner. The mare's body was covered with a layer of "scales" formed by dried feces, and her mane and tail were no longer visible. The only clean place was her belly.

Maybe it was because she hadn't eaten much for seven days. The mare was lying there with her bones clearly visible. Bai Tieying guessed that she hadn't eaten anything before. The situation in the shed was not caused by a single day.

Gou San'er was beaten so badly by Boss Xing that he couldn't even beg for mercy. He could only groan when Boss Xing kicked him. He looked very pitiful, but could he be as pitiful as this mare? Bai Tieying suppressed his anger and said:

"Uncle Xing, could you please help me see if this horse can be saved?"

"Humph, can I beat him up if there's a way to save him? If I don't beat the shit out of this wicked guy today, I won't be named Xing!"

"Uncle Xing, you... don't want to solve the problem. Is there really no way? I beg you, even if there is really no way to save it, you can't just watch this horse die here!"

"Hey! You are a kind-hearted girl, but I, Xing Nanguang, have been in the cattle and horse market for more than 30 years. I have seen more cattle and horses with my eyes than there are green bean flies in this shed!

Just now I thought it was sick, maybe it was horse plague, so I came to take a look. If it can be cured, I will do it for the sake of the horse. But the horse obviously didn't want to live. If it had been a few days ago, I would have had a 50% chance of success, but now... Hey! It's all because of this bastard!" Boss Xing said angrily, and kicked Gou San'er to vent his anger.

Bai Tieying understood and felt bad. In her previous life, her family had a wolf dog when she was a child. She named it Senbei. At that time, they lived in a bungalow. Senbei would send her to school every day and pick her up after school every day... Until one day, Senbei didn't come to pick her up. When she got home, she found out that the dog thief had drugged her...

When the veterinarian said that the dog could not be saved, Bai Tieying burst into tears and shouted in the veterinarian's house, as if this would call Senbei back, and thus reduce her guilt towards Senbei, and thus make those dog stealers die a miserable death!

Her parents brought Senbei home, and she hugged Senbei and cried and begged, and spent all her pocket money to buy Senbei, which she and Senbei loved the most. But Senbei kept twitching, and his mouth didn't open. Only his eyes kept looking at her, as if saying, "I will never be greedy again, I will never eat food given by others again, I want to live so much, save me, save me..."

The night that Xianbei left, he finally slept in Bai Tieying's room, which his mother usually didn't let him enter. The kang was warm, but Xianbei's body slowly became stiff, then cold, and slowly... he stopped breathing...

Bai Tieying looked at the mare curled up in a corner of the shed, and somehow he thought of the rice crackers that had been buried in his memory for a long time. "Huh!" Bai Tieying let out a long breath, looked up for a while, and said to Boss Xing in a deep voice: "Uncle Xing, please ask him how much he is willing to sell this horse to me."

"What?" Boss Xing responded subconsciously. After realizing what was happening, he advised, "Little girl, uncle knows you have a kind heart, but it's really unnecessary. Let this horse reincarnate as soon as possible, and let Gou Saner serve it like a cow and a horse in the next life!"

"Uncle Xing, even if I let it go, I don't want it to stay here, in the hands of this scumbag." Bai Tieying exhaled again, his voice slightly changed, "Uncle Xing, please!"

When Boss Xing saw Bai Tieying like this, he thought he couldn't persuade her, so he asked Bai Tieying's parents. Bai Tieying said she could make the decision. She came here to buy horses, and she thought it was fate that she encountered this matter, so she asked Boss Xing to just ask the price.

Boss Xing thought about it and realized that the girl had indeed asked about a horse before. If he had one, he would have persuaded her to change it. But there was no horse in the cattle and horse market at that time, and she was still so stubborn. "Forget it, I'll just give her some less silver!" Boss Xing thought to himself.

"Get up and answer!" Boss Xing kicked Gou Saner again, but Gou Saner really couldn't get up. He felt pain all over his body, and he didn't know if his bones were broken. He kept twitching and it hurt so much.

"Five, fifty taels..." Gou Saner managed to finish his words.

"Go away with your fifty taels! Even if I sell you you won't get more than fifty taels!" Boss Xing looked down on Gou Saner even more and kicked him again.

"Xing, Boss Xing, it can't be any less. I bought it for sixty taels." Gou Saner was frightened by the kick with increased force. Fearing that Boss Xing would want to kill him, he didn't dare to lie on the ground and pretend to be dead.

"Look at what's happened to this horse? Will it last another day? Can it live another day? Don't refuse my offer!"

"Boss Xing, I was also deceived by Big Beard! If I had known that she was already pregnant, I would not have bought her. At that time, Big Beard said she was three years old, and I just thought she was fat. Who knew that when I came back, I found that she was already five years old, and the cubs were four months old. Pregnant and giving birth, plus a winter, people here are not willing to keep her for more than a year for nothing, and I can't return it. Isn't it a waste of money for me?

If I just kept it, I would accept it. I could cheat more and sell it later. I could even get a foal. Maybe it was a mare, so I would have made a profit. But who knew it was a picky eater. It wouldn't eat ordinary horse feed, but only concentrated feed. It also stole eggs from my house. Could I afford to feed it? I asked around and found out that this was a horse raised by a wealthy family, so it must have been stolen by the bearded man!

Besides, most horses have a bit of temper and will listen to taming. I locked it up here to tame it. But it is a stubborn breed. Apart from concentrated feed, it only eats a few mouthfuls a day. I am really convinced, but I really don’t have the money to keep it!”

"Then why don't you ask among us?"

"I did ask. I've asked so many times. I started asking when I found out in the spring! But you all..."

"Haha, you are a lazy guy, and you blame us for not trusting you, right?" After hearing what he said, Boss Xing really remembered that he had heard someone say that Gou San'er wanted to sell a mare with a calf. But who in the cattle and horse market doesn't know what Gou San'er is? They believe that the cat will marry the mouse, and they don't believe a word of Gou San'er!

"Boss Xing, I really can't afford it anymore. My mother's condition and the money for her medicine in a month can only leave us brothers with rice soup. And we have to support such a living ancestor. Just look at that," Gou Saner said as he raised his left hand, only to find that he was missing two fingers.

"No wonder he has his hands in his pockets in the middle of summer." Bai Tieying thought to himself after seeing this.