Chapter 772 Request from Larel 3
This Arabian purebred horse named Unicorn is the offspring of two old horses given to the manor.
Unicorns are born reversely, that is, the legs emerge from the mother's body first. This makes the mare's birth process very tragic. The mare is exhausted from all her blood. After giving birth to the unicorn, she whines and even wants to stick out her tongue to lick her own.
The baby will die if he can't do it.
Jerome felt very unhappy.
As soon as he took over the manor, he lost a horse.
In war-torn times, horses were a very precious means of transportation. In this era, owning a six-seat luxury carriage was definitely a symbol of status. Basically, it was not much different from driving a Rolls-Royce in modern times.
But a foal that has lost its mother just after birth, how can it survive in such war-torn times when people don’t have enough to eat?
In this era, the people of the country had already opened up their taboos on eating marrow and began to eat horse meat. However, Jerome's country still listed horse meat as a taboo in the diet.
Therefore, not only will the dead mare not bring any economic benefits, but how to bury and dispose of it is still a problem.
Jerome encountered such a depressing thing when he just bought the manor. He waved his hand to the servant responsible for feeding the two horses and said: "You should deal with it according to the rules here before."
"Dear Sir, what should I do with the little pony?"
Mom is dead, who is still in the mood to deal with this little kid who looks so skinny?
Jerome shook his hat impatiently: "Whatever."
In the following days, Jerome wandered around every day, attending dances held by the nearby squire residents, hoping to find his own opportunity by making some friends.
A week later, Jerome returned from hunting with several squires who were also looking for business opportunities. When he sent his old horse to the stable, he found a light gray colt shaking its head next to the stable.
Running back and forth in the open space.
Jerome was stunned.
He didn't expect this young horse to survive.
The person standing next to him with a smile on his face as he watched the pony run back and forth like a toddler learning to walk was not the servant who fed the horse before, but a stranger with a new face.
"Did you feed this pony to life?"
The servant came over and bowed humbly, but said nothing.
"Let me ask you, did you feed this pony to life?"
The servant raised his head and glanced quietly at his master, then quickly lowered his head and nodded.
Jerome suddenly remembered that the former owner of the manor once said when he left that there was a man who would never speak again because he witnessed a brutal murder, but he had no hearing problems at all.
Seeing this servant coming, the horse that was running back and forth also ran to the servant obediently, rubbing against each other, as if they were very intimate.
Jerome asked again: "How did you keep it alive?"
The mute gestured to the house about three miles away in the side direction, indicating that their master was from the country F and liked to eat horse meat, so he exchanged a hundred pounds of hay and a dead horse for a milk-producing goat.
The pony is fed with goat's milk, and now the little guy can survive on goat's milk and a small amount of fodder.
The mute gestured in fear. A pony can be exchanged for three hundred kilograms of hay. In addition, the master was too busy to see anyone in those days, so he boldly used the hay stored in the stable. If the owner really blamed him for his boldness, then
You can sell the pony and get three hundred pounds of hay.
Then he begged the master with red eyes not to do that. The pony was already alive and he could raise it.
Equestrian was a very elegant activity for the nobles at that time, just like golf today, so Jerome was also fortunate to learn some basics. With his rudimentary knowledge of horses, the bones of this pony are very good, although it is still very poor now.
He is thin, but his starting speed already shows that he is a good hot-blooded horse.
He suddenly remembered what others had said when they laughed at his old horse when he was hunting: "Mr. Jerome's riding skills look very good. If you had known this horse ten years earlier, you could have ridden it to participate in the June Lotus."
Competition, maybe you can become famous in one battle, and gain both fame and fortune."
The June Lotus Competition is an equestrian competition held every six months to determine the ownership of territory.
How could Jerome not hear it when the other party laughed at his horse for being too old?
It was just a fleeting thought in his mind at that time, but now it jumped out again. Maybe, he could really give it a try?
Jerome then found a new and strong physiognomist.
The conclusion reached is that this is definitely a good horse that can be trained into a racehorse.
Jerome was overjoyed and ordered the servant who had fed the horse to come over and take over the care of the young horse.
What I didn't expect was that the pony seemed to have a nestling feeling towards Larel. It followed Larel every step of the way, and followed him wherever he went. Once he was forcibly pulled away, he would keep whining and whining.
Continuously.
Jerome didn't want Larel to feed the pony, firstly because Larel was mute, and secondly because the previous servant's main job was to focus on feeding and driving, and he was relatively experienced, but as a racing horse, generally
It needs to be cultivated from an early age, mainly to increase the degree of compatibility with the master's mind.
It went against the pony's wishes too much, so that the cub, which had just been born without its mother, now only recognizes Larel, especially since the cub is a purebred Arabian horse, which is fast in movement and has great endurance.
He has a strong temper, so if he is separated forcibly, he may become irritable and unsuitable for control when he is young.
So Jerome simply ordered Larel to take charge of the two horses in the stable, especially the little horse.
In the past two years, while Jerome worked hard to make friends with the upper class as much as possible, he also enslaved two other servants in the manor to grow more corn and potatoes, barter or exchange for some coins, and at the same time, he could use them to eat horses and people.
Chewable rations.
Because a section of cartilage of about three centimeters grew on the horse's forehead, Jerome named the horse Unicorn.
In short, Jerome spent the past two years improving his riding skills while looking for help in training the horse. When the unicorn was three years old and old enough to participate in competitions, Jerome took it to a friendly competition.
Normally, this kind of so-called friendly competition will also have a certain bonus. Of course, this kind of reward is just a drop in the bucket compared to June Lotus. However, because of the Unicorn's outstanding performance, the bonuses it usually gets from participating in some small-scale competitions have begun to pay off.
Jerome could no longer make ends meet and was worried that the estate would not be able to survive.
Chapter completed!