Chapter 43: Cows

Zhu Miaomiao, always a man of action, said he was going to do it and did it right away. He drew water from the Lu Qingjiu well and put it into a bottle and sent it back to his colleague by courier, telling him to wash his hair with the water beforehand and to drink it if it didn't work. The colleague said yes.

Lu Qingjiu asked Zhu Miaomiao when she was going back, and Zhu Miaomiao replied that she was in no hurry, and that it would not be too late for her to return to the office when her colleagues gave her news.

About two days later, a colleague who had received the delivery called Zhu Miaomiao.

Zhu Miaomiao was helping Lu Qingjiu feed the pigs, and I must say that even the pigs at Lu Qingjiu's house were much healthier than many people, with fresh vegetables and meat stewed together.

Before she could say anything, she heard the person on the other end of the line yell, "Miao Miao, Miao Miao, you're like a parent to me".

Zhu Miaomiao said, "What?"

I'm growing my hair, I'm growing my hair," he shouted, in a shaky voice that could be heard even from a distant phone.

Lu Qingjiu was feeding Xiao Hua and the others when he heard the sound and stopped moving.

"Calm down, speak slowly." Zhu Miaomiao's brain hurt from his yelling.

The colleague said, "Do you want to see me now?"

Zhu Miaomiao said, "The video line."

Zhu Miaomiao picked up the video invitation and was stunned to see her Mediterranean-haired colleague with a ponytail, fluttering in front of the phone camera and proudly showing off her hair: "Am I beautiful, do I look good?

Lu Qingjiu: ""It's a bit irritating for a man with a beer belly to ask that question.

Zhu Miaomiao's reaction was similar to Lu Qingjiu's, her expression twisted for a moment, but she had a good relationship with this colleague, so she scolded her in a straightforward manner: "Beautiful, my ass, why do you have such a hairstyle, can't you go to the barber shop first to get a cut?"

My colleague said angrily, "Just kidding, I'm having a hard time growing out my hair you're asking me to cut it you're asking for my life."

Zhu Miaomiao: ""She actually couldn't argue with that.

The colleague walked around in front of the video and described in detail the exact process of how he grew his hair. He received the bottle of water from Zhu Miaomiao, and after showering and dressing, he put the bottle of water on his head as Zhu Miaomiao had told him.

Zhu Miaomiao listened to his colleague's description and thought: "Then you should try the rest of the water on other people too, I want to see if it works on other people too."

"Sure." The colleague said, "I'll try it tomorrow for Xiao Huang... hey, where are you now"

Zhu Miaomiao said, "I'm out playing, I'll go back in a couple of days."

The colleague nodded and Zhu Miaomiao asked him to give her feedback on the results of the water after he had used it on other colleagues before hanging up the phone.

"Great, I didn't expect the well water to work so well." Zhu Miaomiao was pleasantly surprised, rubbing his fist in front of Lu Qingjiu, "I can already see a path to money beckoning you."

Lu Qingjiu laughed, "How about this, you help me with the Tao Bao shop and I'll give you a cut."

Zhu Miaomiao knew what Lu Qingjiu meant, she just wanted to bring her along to make money, but she refused, after all, she wanted to make Lu Qingjiu's life easier in the first place, Lu Qingjiu's family had so many mouths to feed. The water is different from other things, it doesn't need to be transported, you can just find a courier company to work with, but you must remember to pack the water."

Lu Qingjiu said: "What kind of packaging?"

Zhu Miaomiao said, "The more high-end the better, and each bottle of water should not put more than one person, it is best to use only one person, I think ah, why not I design a packaging bottle for you?"

Lu Qingjiu laughed, "Then I'll have to pay you a salary."

Zhu Miaomiao laughs out loud.

Lu Qingjiu is in charge of operations and Zhu Miaomiao is in charge of design. Of course, although their work is different, they still lose their hair in the same way, after all, as long as the counterparts are not satisfied, they have to rework and redo the work.

Zhu Miaomiao took out his iad and started designing the plans, and planned to go to the glass factory in the city with Lu Qingjiu tomorrow to talk about making the bottles.

To treat Zhu Miaomiao, Lu Qingjiu cooked a big meal, asking Bai Yuehu to slaughter a fighting chicken from the yard and taking the beef out of the freezer to defrost it.

Inside the fighting chickens are one cockerel and nine hens, and the hens lay one egg a day, which is much larger than the eggs you usually see in Lu Qingjiu, and most importantly, almost all of them have double yolks inside. The colour of the yolk is particularly good, a beautiful bright yellow, and the scrambled eggs or tomato-egg soup made from them are very tasty and completely incomparable to ordinary eggs.

Of course, if the eggs taste good, the chicken must not taste any worse.

Lu Qingjiu stewed the mushrooms he had picked and dried on the mountain with the chicken, and before they were cooked, the room was filled with the rich, inviting aroma of chicken soup.

Lu Qingjiu was amused by the scent of the fox, but the funniest thing was the fox's concubine, who was riding on the fox's neck, and was now using the fox's fur as her nest, cowering inside and poking her head out. Lu Qingjiu knew she was hungry, so he went to get a candy and stuffed it into her arms, which she took and then carefully hugged and disappeared back into the fox's fur.

After feeding the little fox a piece of chicken to satisfy his craving, Lu Qingjiu made beef stew with potatoes and shredded beef with pickled pepper, and in his mind he was thinking of buying two kimchi jars when he went to town tomorrow.

The chicken soup was as good as Lu Qingjiu had imagined it would be, but this time it was a little too small for everyone's liking, but Lu Qingjiu planned to bring out some eggs for them to hatch chicks and then slaughter two more to eat.

"That's cruel." Zhu Miaomiao said after hearing this, "Can you send me one when you're done with it?"

Lu Qingjiu: ""You are so fickle.

In the evening, Bai Yuehu went out and came back asking Lu Qingjiu if he wanted some milk.

Lu Qingjiu was puzzled: "Why the sudden mention of milk?" But Bai Yuehu's comment was a reminder to Lu Qingjiu that the family could indeed buy a cow and milk it. Although you can buy milk in boxes in town, it is not as fresh as freshly milked milk.

"My friend gave me a cow." Bai Yuehu said, "I'll claim it back if you want it."

Lu Qingjiu looked at Bai Yuehu with suspicion: "It's really a cow and not some other animal."

Bai Yuehu was silent for a moment: "The milk is similar to cow's milk anyway, so it's okay to make do with it."

Lu Qingjiu was amused by Bai Yuehu's comment and nodded, "Sure, we're short of cows, so it's fine to keep them, except that they eat grass like cows."

Bai Yuehu said, "Just give it grass to eat." This obviously meant that the animal could get by on grass, so Lu Qingjiu didn't have to bother too much.

The next day Bai Yuehu came back from the door with a strange-looking cow, black in colour but with only one huge eye on its face and long eyelashes, just as he had said.

Zhu Miaomiao, who happened to be in the house, saw the cow and froze: "Why does this cow have only one eye?"

Bai Yuehu said from the side, "It's disabled."

Cow: ""

Zhu Miaomiao: "Disability and this kind of disability"

Bai Yuehu: "If I say it's disabled, it's disabled."

Faced with Bai Yuehu's unkind eyes, Zhu Miaomiao's desire to survive made her give up on pursuing the matter and say, "Okay."

Lu Qingjiu laughed beside him, "You don't care what it looks like, just as long as the milk tastes good."

Zhu Miaomiao said, "That's right."

After taking the cow home, Lu Qingjiu told Yin Xun to feed her, and then he and Zhu Miaomiao went to the glass factory in the city to order a batch of glass bottles.

The process of ordering the glass bottles went quite smoothly. After giving the owner the drawings and telling him some of my requirements, I was told that I would be able to collect the goods within a month after placing the deposit.

After ordering the glass bottles, Zhu Miaomiao asked Lu Qingjiu to remember to choose some high-end boxes online, preferably from a manufacturer. After the initial preparations were made, the two discussed pricing, Lu Qingjiu was still more pro-people and said how about 300 per bottle, but Zhu Miaomiao slapped him on the shoulder and said, "We have to do it right, 300 per bottle is too low a profit. " She made a five with her finger.

"Five hundred," Lu Qingjiu asks.

"Five thousand," Zhu Miaomiao says, "you make it clear when you sell it that you'll get a full refund if your hair doesn't grow and that you'll only sell a hundred bottles a month, with a limit of one bottle per account."

Lu Qingjiu said, "Five thousand is too dark."

Zhu Miaomiao shook his head, "Where's the blackness, don't you ask how much a hair transplant costs, and it's not even guaranteed to be 100% successful, 5,000 gives a bald person a head of thick hair, people can't wait to grab it."

Zhu Miaomiao did have a point, and Lu Qingjiu didn't want to spend too much on Tao Bao, he came back to Shuifu Village because he wanted to slow down his life a bit, so it would be more than worth it if he got too busy. So in the end Lu Qingjiu agreed to Zhu Miaomiao's proposal and decided to set the price at 4,999, a dollar short of 5,000.

With the help of Zhu Miaomiao, Lu Qingjiu's Tao Bao shop was opened without a hitch.

Lu Qingjiu asked her if she had any plans for the National Day, and Zhu Miaomiao said with a bitter smile that she would definitely have to work overtime on the National Day, and that the next time she came back would probably be on New Year's Day.

Lu Qingjiu put her on the train before returning home, only to see Yin Xun sitting in the courtyard, sulking. Unlike Bai Yuehu, he was never in the mood for anything, and when he heard Lu Qingjiu's voice coming home, he called out, "I'm afraid I can't serve that cow anymore."

Lu Qingjiu said, "What's wrong?"

Yin Xun said, "He won't eat anything I feed him."

Lu Qingjiu said, "No," remembering that Bai Yuehu seemed to have said that it would be fine to feed the grass, "What about Bai Yuehu?"

"I don't know." Yin Xun rubbed his nose, "He seems to have been called out by someone just now."

Lu Qingjiu said, "Since he won't eat grass, feed him something else."

Yin Xun says: "Feed what?"

Lu Qingjiu thought: "I remember that cows and other things like fruit, don't we have apples at home?

Yin Xun said, "Damn, feeding it apples, so extravagant."

Lu Qingjiu said, "The apples are so sour, you don't like to eat them, do you?" The apples were bought from the town a few days ago, and unlike the ones grown at home, they looked red, but they tasted bland and tasteless.

Yin Xun and Lu Qingjiu took the apples to the cowshed, which was next to the pigsty. It was a good thing that Xiao Hei and Xiao Hua were asleep at the moment, otherwise they would have been upset if they saw Lu Qingjiu feeding the cows with their apples.

Lu Qingjiu fed the apple to Cow's mouth. Cow took one look at the apple and opened her mouth to bite into it, chewing it up in two bites and swallowing it with a click.

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Sake simply put it all on the ground in front of him and watched him happily nibble away, the only big eyes on his face curving up in a curved arc, and with those long eyelashes, he looked really cute.

Yin Xun stood by and watched Cow nibble on an apple, sighing mournfully, "You can't be single for long, you can't even look at a cow if you're single for long."

Lu Qingjiu: ""Still a cow.

When Cow had eaten his fill, he burped and flopped down in the bull pen, looking tired and wanting to rest.

Lu Qingjiu then also turned to Yin Xun and said, "Come on, let's go back and rest too."

Yin Xun nods.

Bai Yuehu did not know what he was doing and did not return until the next morning when Lu Qingjiu saw him pushing in from outside the courtyard at around six o'clock.

Lu Qingjiu, who was wrapping the dumplings for this morning's meal, greeted him, "You're back."

"Hmm." Bai Yuehu said, "Is there any food?"

"Yes." Lu Qingjiu said, "Get some fruit for your stomach first, the dumplings will be waiting for a while."

Bai Yuehu said yes.

After Lu Qingjiu had finished cooking the dumplings, he took the basin to the cow's pen and prepared to milk the cow, who was very good and stood still while Lu Qingjiu milked her. Nowadays, milk in the market looks thinner because it has been broken down and sterilised, but this is not a problem with our own milk. Lu Qingjiu remembers drinking the freshest kind of milk when he was a child, which had a thick skin after boiling and tasted like milk in his mouth.

Lu Qingjiu has not had this milk since he left for the city and now that he has seen it again, he misses it a little.

When he was milking the cow, Lu Qingjiu felt that the milk had a different aroma from ordinary milk. At first Lu Qingjiu thought he was wrong, but when he returned to the house with the milk, Yin Xun, who had just arrived, said, "This milk smells so good, why does it smell like apples?"

"It's really there I thought I was smelling it wrong." Lu Qingjiu was also a little surprised.

Bai Yuehu didn't react much and asked, "Did you feed him apples yesterday?"

"Yeah." Yin Xun said, "He wouldn't eat the grass, so we fed him some apples."

Bai Yuehu said, "That's normal."

Lu Qingjiu also got the impression that this Cow was really different, as she gave milk of whatever flavour she ate, and Yin Xun, too, understood and tried to feed Cow some chocolate, but Lu Qingjiu stopped him mercilessly.

After all, chocolate is poisonous to many animals, so what if something happened if you just fed it?

When the milk is cooked, it has no fishy taste at all, it's all rich and creamy. Some people are not used to milk because it has a fishy taste, but the milk from the Cow has a rich but not cloying flavour, with a fragrance of apples, which is delicious.

So the day was improved for everyone in the family, not much, but each person and each animal received a glass of apple-flavoured milk.

Lu Qingjiu took the opportunity to check out what to look for in a cow, but the more he looked into it, the weirder it seemed, and he looked up and asked Yin Xun: "Wait a minute, are our cows male or female?"

Yin Xun replied, "The male."

Lu Qingjiu: "It's really a male"

Yin Xun couldn't get the taste of milk out of his mind and didn't notice the difference in Lu Qingjiu's face: "Of course it's a male, I saw his xx, it's long."

Lu Qingjiu: ""What the fuck are you looking at all day long, aren't you afraid of getting a needle's eye.

Although Yin Xun had seen cows before, the cows in the village were all used for ploughing and rarely for milk production, so he hadn't seen many.

Lu Qingjiu said, "He didn't say anything as he stared at the search results on his phone for half a day.

Yin Xun didn't understand what was going on and came over to take a look. The more he looked, the wider his mouth opened, and finally his jaw looked like it was about to drop: "Crap, crap, what the hell is this?"

It was explained in great detail that there was no such thing as a male cow, and that all cows that could produce milk were females in lactation, so as long as they were male they could not be cows.

Lu Qingjiu and Yin Xun looked at each other, both feeling the taste of milk in their mouths become subtle. Lu Qingjiu did not dwell on himself any further, but silently walked to the courtyard and sat down beside Bai Yuehu who was resting and said, " Bai Yuehu ah."

Bai Yuehu looks at Lu Qingjiu with open eyes: "Hmmm"

Lu Qingjiu said, "That's our family's cow, is it a male or a female?"

Bai Yuehu: "The male, ah." He spoke frankly, as if there was nothing wrong with it.

Lu Qingjiu said with difficulty, "That male, he can still produce milk."

Bai Yuehu blinked, as if he did not understand what Lu Qingjiu meant by his words.

Lu Qingjiu could only say, "Isn't it always the cows that produce the milk?"

Bai Yuehu said, "Not necessarily."

Lu Qingjiu :""

Bai Yuehu said, "Who says you need a female to produce milk?

Lu Qingjiu's expression twisted at this, and he hurriedly waved his hand and said no, no, he was just asking.

Bai Yuehu said, "The cows are male, but they all produce milk, and the quality of the milk is very good, so they are quite popular.

Lu Qingjiu is still reeling from the shock of being able to produce milk herself.

Bai Yuehu seemed to have misunderstood Lu Qingjiu's meaning and winked, "If you don't like it, let's kill it and eat the meat, although the meat is rather ordinary, it doesn't need to take up space at home."

Lu Qingjiu said, "No, no, no, his milk is quite tasty, and Yin Xun and I like it too, so we don't need to kill it for meat."

Bai Yuehu said, "All right, as long as you like it." He obviously didn't understand Lu Qingjiu's shock; to him, it was perfectly normal for males to produce milk, so he didn't understand what Lu Qingjiu was shocked about from start to finish.

Lu Qingjiu went to the bull pen, lost in thought, to see Yin Xun pouting and happily feeding Cow chocolate, who was also eating it with gusto, his short tail wagging happily like a dog.

Yin Xun heard Lu Qingjiu's footsteps and said happily, "Wine, we can have chocolate milk now."

Lu Qingjiu :""

Yin Xun said, "What, did you ask if he was a bull or a cow?"

Lu Qingjiu said, "The bull."

Yin Xun said, "Oh."

Lu Qingjiu thought he was going to say something else, but after Yin Xun's oohs and aahs he returned his attention to his beloved Cow, and Lu Qingjiu finally relented and said, "Don't you want to ask why bulls can produce milk too?"

Yin Xun said, "Not really."

Lu Qingjiu is curious: "Why don't you want to?"

Yin Xun said, "Because ever since I came back from the dead, I've realised that some things can't be explained by scientific logic, and that a milk-producing bull is nothing special compared to my body."

Lu Qingjiu laughed at Yin Xun's comment, realising that he had overreacted a little.

Yin Xun says: "And it doesn't matter if it's a bull or a cow, if it can produce milk, it's a good cow."

Lu Qingjiu rolled up his sleeves, "Fine, let me milk it and we'll have crispy fresh milk for afternoon tea."

Yin Xun showed his cute tiger teeth happily and said, "You go and cook, I'll do the milking, and it'll be a while before the chocolate is ready."

Lu Qingjiu said, "Yes, but remember to be gentle, the cow will hurt if you push too hard."

Yin Xun: "Don't worry, I'll be gentle."

As Lu Qingjiu listened to Yin Xun's words, he felt, inexplicably, that the content of their conversation seemed a little subtle.

Forget it, let's go and cook, Lu Qingjiu turned away before he had an even stranger thought.

What the author has to say: Bai Yuehu looks at the cow and smiles at Lu Qingjiu.

Lu Qingjiu shuddered inexplicably