The man looked in the direction she pointed and immediately lost his energy: "There are old, weak, sick and disabled horses over there. If you two bought them to hitch a carriage, those horses won't be used."
"I don't have much money, so I just want to buy a cheap horse." Qiao Chu waved his hand and walked over there.
As he got closer, Qiao Chu realized that this horse was very tall, but upright. The key was that one of its front legs seemed to be lame and had not landed. However, there was still a look of unruliness in its eyes. If the horses around it got closer, they would appear.
It will attack the opponent.
Chen Qingshan, who had been silent all this time, narrowed his eyes slightly when he saw the mark on the horse's butt clearly: This is a military horse!
Military horses will be uniformly branded on the horse's butt to facilitate management and identification.
It's a pity that he is lame.
"I've fallen in love with this horse. How much does it cost?" Qiao Chu pointed directly at the horse and asked.
"This horse? It's so cheap!" The owner of the horse seller was instantly excited: Someone can see this scourge? That's great!
The boss had sharp eyes and could see that this was a good horse that had been eliminated from the army, but its foot was injured.
I thought I could sell it for a big price after being cured, but who knew that after the doctor checked, he said that the horse's front left hamstring had been broken in half by someone and it couldn't be cured.
Boss Ma was immediately dumbfounded: the hamstring in the horse's leg was partially injured. Even if it was cured on the surface, it seemed easy to walk slowly at ordinary times, but if it went a little faster, it would become lame and want to gallop.
That is impossible!
This business is a loss!
That's all, this horse has a bad temper: he won't eat ordinary forage! He won't let other horses get close to him, and in just a few days, he has already kicked and injured several horses!
I thought that such a horse could not be sold, and I was ready to kill it immediately after waiting for two days. Who knew that two country people came and fell in love with this horse at first sight.
A lame man goes well with a blind man.
It was too late to say, but it was soon. Qiao Chu was impatient and asked directly: "How much is it?"
"Twenty...fifteen taels..." Boss Ma hesitated to quote.
"I'm already lame. Why fifteen taels? It seems that the boss is reluctant to sell it. I'd better look at something else." After Qiao Chu said this, he turned around and left.
Boss Ma immediately stopped Qiao Chu: "No! Don't leave! Those ten taels! Ten taels!"
"It's already like this, still ten taels?" Qiao Chu asked again in a very contemptuous tone.
"I spent twenty taels to buy it, and I've lost half of it. No matter how expensive it is, I won't sell the meat even if I kill it!" Boss Ma's heart was bleeding.
"Does it still have meat?" Qiao Chu asked with a strange expression.
Boss Ma looked at the crippled horse: "...How about eight taels? That's enough, right?"
"Six liang, I'll take it away." Qiao Chu counterattacked decisively, speaking firmly.
Boss Ma: "..." If it had been two days earlier, he could have evicted them directly!
But now, I see that deceptive lame horse occupying a stable, while the horses next to it are crowded and leaning against another stable...
"Deal!" Boss Ma gritted his teeth and stamped his feet, and uttered two words. After thinking about it, he added another sentence, "Pay the money first! No refunds or exchanges!"
The lame horse won't let anyone get close to it. If you don't give money, and you later find that you can't get close to it at all, you'll lose it again!
Qiao Chu gave the money and walked towards the black horse. The black horse was a little anxious, and the look in its eyes was even more unruly. It even made an attack posture and snorted to warn Qiao Chu.
Spiritual power poured into the palm of his hand, and Qiao Chu's hand slowly approached its forehead.
When the dark horse was about to attack, he felt the presence of spiritual power: the feeling was so comfortable that it couldn't help but want to get closer. The dark horse hesitated: Should he attack or not?
With just such a moment of hesitation, Qiao Chu put his hand on the black horse's forehead.
With the spiritual power poured into it, Black Horse snorted softly and immediately put away his attacking stance.
Boss Ma and the middle-aged man were stunned: This...is being touched?!
Could it be that this black horse is only allowed to be touched by women?
Is this a perverted horse?!
"Come back with me, and I'll find a way to treat your injury." Qiao Chu whispered into the black horse's ear.
The black horse snorted twice more, and even rubbed Qiao Chu's face with its long and narrow horse face.
Everyone: "..."
"Can we still leave?" Qiao Chu lowered his head and looked at the dark horse.
The dark horse actually nodded humanely and took two steps forward: It seems that walking slowly is not a problem.
"Okay, let's go." Qiao Chu said, pulling the reins and walking away.
Chen Qingshan carrying the burden: So I bought a horse, but it can’t be used to carry things? Instead, it needs to be taken back to be treated first?!
"Buy another cart, put your things on the cart, wait until it's ready, and then just put it on a cart to make shopping easier." Qiao Chu turned around and told Chen Qingshan.
Chen Qingshan made a "hmm" sound in his nose to express his agreement.
Although he didn't think that the dark horse would be willing to pull the cart in the future, he had a gut feeling that Qiao Chu could cure the horse.
In his heart, he strongly supported Qiao Chu in buying this dark horse: a war horse on the battlefield should not spend his last days in such a dirty place.
On the way back to Qiaojiacun, the strange division of labor between Chen Qingshan and his wife and the black horse made passers-by look at them with suspicion: Chen Qingshan, all dressed in tendons, was pulling the cart smoothly, while Qiao Chu next to him was walking with a black horse.
"Why do we need to buy horses when we don't need horses to pull this cart?" A passing child couldn't figure it out and asked the adults next to him.
"This horse is so thin, and it will fall down if it pulls the carriage again!" The adult looked at the horse with pity, and then looked at Qiao Chu with some accusations: To torture the horse like this, this kind of master has such a dark heart!
Qiao Chu, who was inexplicably hostile: "..."
The two of them rode home. When the villagers learned that Qiao Chu had bought a horse, they all came to see the fun. When they saw the skinny, lame black horse, they all sighed: This horse doesn't even have two kilograms of meat after killing it, and it can't do any work.
If you can't plant the land, let alone pull a cart, why buy it?
Sure enough, you are still young and don't know how to live...
The villagers sighed and left.
Qiao Chu didn't care, and asked the children to cut the grass. At the same time, he took out the soybeans that had been stored at home and cooked two kilograms of them to feed the horses.
The dark horse refused to eat, and turned his head to the other side arrogantly, snoring in disgust: I used to eat the best food! How can I eat this crap?
Qiao Chu sighed and patted the black horse's face: "Liu Liang, if you don't eat anymore, you will starve to death, and it will be useless for me to heal your legs."
Chen Qingshan, who was holding the freshly cut grass in his arms, stumbled: Six Liang? This horse's new name?
……Good name!
"Okay! If you don't want to eat, then you won't eat. I'll heal your legs first. After they are healed, if you die, you will still have a whole body." Qiao Chu said, his hands covered with spiritual power, and he reached out.
Touch the injured horse's leg.
The horse's leg was cut open with a sharp blade, and it was half a centimeter long, and the inside was filled with pus.
Maybe this is the direct reason why this horse was eliminated.
Qiao Chu asked Chen Qingshan to boil herbal water and come over to clean its wound. Because of the spiritual power, it moisturized it from time to time, but it didn't hurt too much. The black horse also felt Qiao Chu's kindness and did not resist, leaving Qiao Chu to do it.
After a while, the injured area was cleaned, Qiao Chu sewed it up directly with catgut, and then bandaged it with a clean cloth. She used her spiritual power to repair the injured area again, and then she stopped.