Shennong Sequence

Chapter 13: Horse Farm, Horses Eat Better Than Humans
Old Man Sun walked in front and told Zhao Yun:
"The warhorse raised by our No. 14 horse supervisor is a steed-level wind-chasing horse. It can gallop about 1000 miles a day, and we only have 40 wind-chasing horses in this stable."

"Originally, there were three people raising horses. Later, two of them thought it was too tiring to raise horses, so I was kind enough to let them go to serve in the front. This made me raise more than 40 horses in the past ten days. I was so tired that my back and waist ached."

"It's pretty good today. You and the last person who came here brought two people to me, which can be regarded as lightening my burden. I will take you to see the other person later."

Zhao Yun followed Old Man Sun through another corridor. When they passed by the door of a warehouse, they saw a lot of good things such as beans, eggs, and flour piled up inside.

If you continue walking forward, you can see a big stove.

As we walked further, there was a peculiar smell, which was not stinky but very strange, which hit us in the face, and at the same time we could hear the neighing of war horses.

Walking into the stable, Zhao Yun's eyes focused. His eyesight was particularly good now, and he immediately saw that the butcher Liu, whom he met on the way to the playground in the morning, was also here to clean the horse manure behind the stable.

It is true that we meet each other everywhere in life, and we are all poor and miserable people.

"The one inside is called Liu Neng. He has been here for a while. You will follow him to clean up the horse manure in the back, and then carry it out through the back door together."

"Remember, horse manure can also be sold for money, so we can't let those who collect manure take advantage of it for free. Then when you come back, take a shower and we'll have lunch."

"I'll tell you how to feed horses this afternoon..."

After Old Man Sun finished giving the instructions, he asked Zhao Yun to go over and help the butcher Liu to shovel the shit.

Old man Sun was pushing fodder and cooked food in front, feeding each horse.

Zhao Yun endured the smell of the dung pile, took a shovel, pushed a cart, and started shoveling dung behind the horses.

Puff~!
Zhao Yun had just shoveled manure from behind a horse when it started to poop again.

It seems like it's specifically against you.

There was no choice but to go back and shovel.

Old man Sun, who was feeding the horses in front, saw Zhao Yun's actions and reminded him:
"Xiao Zhao, each of these horses will poop out a pile of manure every one or two hours. They can poop 8 to 12 piles a day. You don't have to keep looking back when you're doing something. Just shovel out the manure in front of you first..."

"it is good."

Zhao Yun listened to the advice of his predecessors and took a few steps forward. Another group of them appeared on the clean road behind him.

Anyone with a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder would feel that it is not perfect...

Moreover, behind each horse, there were several piles of manure. Zhao Yun shoveled for a while. At first he could get used to it, but then he found that this was also a hard and tiring job that required bending over, and was no easier than farming.

Plus, he hadn't had breakfast yet, so his stomach was empty. If he did any more work now, he'd feel a little dazed due to hunger.

The only good news was that Butcher Liu had already done a lot of work in the front. Not long after Zhao Yun started, the two of them had shoveled away all the horse manure behind the 40 horses in the entire stable.

Then the two men pushed the manure cart out of the back door of the stable and pushed the manure to the person who was responsible for collecting the manure at the back.

In addition, horses are large in size and eat a lot. Plus, their digestion and absorption efficiency is not very high. A horse needs to eat more than 10 kilograms of grass every day, as well as extra nutrients such as beans, grains, and eggs.

But the feces excreted by horses are quite heavy, weighing about thirty to forty kilograms a day.

Of course, the reason why you poop more than you eat is mainly because about 3/4 of horse manure is water!

So feces will appear particularly heavy.

Therefore, these 40 war horses excrete at least 1200 kilograms of feces a day!
A person can only excrete three to four hundred grams a day.

Think again about the past when thieves made money by not collecting dung at night.

So the price of horse manure is not low... a cart of horse manure costs about 40 cents.

Just now, the two men pushed out two carts of horse manure, which equals 80 coins.

There were two carts of horse manure in the stable.

After two trips, it costs 160 coins.

Zhao Yun looked at the 160 coins in the bag. This money was so easy to earn!

"Brother Liu, did this old man Sun tell you whether the money from selling horse manure is ours or needs to be handed over?"

Butcher Liu thought for a moment and said, "Since we sold it privately, it's ours. But old man Sun is the supervisor, so he will definitely take the lion's share. Let's go back and take a shower, and we'll know the difference when we eat."

"Okay, take a shower and go eat."

Zhao Yun touched his hungry stomach and went into the bathhouse built behind the stable with Liu the Butcher.

When I went in, I found that it was a bit like the switches, spray pipes and other pipes of modern shower equipment!

The other thing was that two grown men were bathing together, which reminded Zhao Yun of the bad scene he had with Captain Niu in the morning...

Zhao Yun now had some stress reaction when he saw the fat man.

"What are you doing here, kid?
Take off your clothes and take a shower quickly!

I heard from Old Man Sun that horse manure contains many parasites and other small things. If we accidentally get it in our mouths, hands, or bodies, and then it enters our stomachs through eating, we will be the ones who suffer. "

Butcher Liu urged Zhao Yun to take a bath quickly.

Zhao Yun nodded. He also thought that Butcher Liu was right, so he had to take off his clothes and take a bath.

After taking a shower, the two men walked along the aisle on the stable side and came to the small courtyard in front.

At this moment, old man Sun had already brought back the meals for the three people from the cafeteria in front.

A dozen solid white flour buns, two large bowls of meat and vegetables, and three bowls of vegetable and pork noodle soup...

This food,
Zhao Yun and Liu the Butcher were both stunned!

It's really too good!

It’s better than what those soldiers eat!

When Old Man Sun saw the expressions on the two men's faces, he found that they were exactly the same as the ones he had when he entered the horse prison. This brought back some memories.

Then he said:
"Don't be surprised, this is the normal food standard of our horse station."

"Come, sit down first, and I'll tell you about the other rules of the stable."

When Zhao Yun and Butcher Liu sat down at the table, Old Man Sun continued his lecture:
"People who work in the stable have three meals a day, and every meal has meat. They are all prepared by the kitchen in front. They will cook as much as you can eat, and you will never be left hungry..."

"But such good treatment is conditional. I believe you have also seen the other foods I added to the horses' feed before? Ginseng, deer antlers, beans, eggs, white flour... Those things are better than what most people in the city eat!"

"So, you need to pay special attention. After you have eaten your fill in the cafeteria in front, you are not allowed to run over here to steal the horse food!"

(End of this chapter)