Blue, Red and White Dark Abyss Cauldron

Chapter 230 Winter (3)

Chu Xiaomu shouted, "You all seem to be so comfortable, have you forgotten what we are here for?!"

Zhou Weide said, "What else can we do when we are ordered by the Zhou Zhongjun to herd horses?"

Wu Sheng interrupted and said, "I think he is not here to herd horses, but to suffer." But his voice was low and he did not dare to speak loudly.

Chu Xiaomu said: "You all know that we are here to herd horses. We have personally promised the horse officer that we will take good care of these military horses. That is a military order!"

Zhou Weide said: "I did issue a military order, you are right. But what does it have to do with this fire?"

Chu Xiaomu became angrier and angrier as he thought about it. He cursed, "You guys may be able to gather around the fire and not starve or freeze, but have you taken care of the horses we brought with us? There are a few newborn foals in there, and they can't stand the snow and cold!"

Wu Sheng muttered, "What can we do? We can't just freeze with them. That won't work."

Chu Xiaomu drew out the iron sword from his waist with a clang, shouted angrily, and said: "We, the soldiers of Bicheng, have horses and men together. If the horses are alive, the men are alive. If the horses die, the men die!"

Seeing that Chu Xiaomu was furious and Zhou Weide was somewhat confrontational, Zhang Hou hurriedly walked between the two and said, "Slow down, both of you calm down. You must not ruin the relationship when you are out." Ling Weidou couldn't help but chuckle when she heard what he said was funny.

Although Zhou Weide's life was saved by Shenma, it was also inseparable from Chu Xiaomu's help. However, he had a hot temper and forgot all these. He was about to quarrel loudly, but Zhou Weiyi hurriedly pulled him back, and he stopped talking angrily.

Lin Zhen said: "Xiao Mu, we don't think as much as you think. Just tell us what to do now, and we will listen to you." Yingdan, Su Mishun, Wangang and others also echoed.

Chu Xiaomu took a deep breath and shouted, "Horse herders, listen to my orders!"

"Here!" The other eight people except Zhou Weide shouted in unison.

"Find the one-month-old foal and bring it back to the camp!"

"Order!"

Although Chu Xiaomu is young, he is very opinionated and does things by himself. He is always the first to rush in no matter what danger or hardship he encounters. He was in the front row when Jiaoshan rebelled, he risked his life to save others when dealing with Tonghun, and he was willing to take the punishment when Zhongjingying was punished... It was because of him that everyone was able to escape from Jiaoshan and come to Bicheng, so they all admired him very much.

Even if they were as slick as Zhang Hou, as irritable as Zhou Weide, or as weird as Wu Sheng, they dared not disobey him. Seeing Chu Xiaomu, who usually talked and laughed, suddenly got angry, they were all worried, wondering what had happened.

Zhou Weide and Wu Sheng quarreled with him, but it was only due to their personalities and they did not dare to deliberately disobey his orders.

At this time, when they heard Chu Xiaomu asking everyone to bring the young ponies to the camp, they finally understood what he meant. They all cursed themselves in their hearts for only caring about their own comfort and forgetting about the safety of the horses.

Chu Xiaomu and eight other people carefully searched among the horses and found that the young foals were shivering with cold. If they didn't keep warm, it would be very difficult for them to survive this snowy winter. They took the foals out and brought them back to the camp. The mother horses seemed to know that they were helping them, so they didn't get angry and protected their calves.

At first, Zhou Wei De ignored the others' search for the foal, but after a while he obediently joined them, but kept silent.

They lit up the bonfire in the camp that had been trampled out, held the young horses around the fire to keep warm, and fed them with tender grass. The few horses that were too young to eat grass had to be fed with mare's milk.

The ponies were also very well-behaved and obedient, lying quietly beside the fire without making any noise. Chu Xiaomu roughly counted them and found that there were twelve foals in total, ten of which were wild horses. In autumn and winter, horses rarely give birth, so there are not many newborn foals.

It snowed heavily for two days in a row. Chu Xiaomu ran around the horses every day and found that the young horses, who were three or four months old, could not stand the cold. He had to bring them back to the camp to keep warm. But the camp was not spacious, and the number of young horses was increasing day by day. The firewood was getting less and less, and it would be used up in a few days. Chu Xiaomu was anxious, so he discussed with everyone and said, "This is not a solution. In a few days, I'm afraid that the adult horses will not be able to stand it."

Zhang Hou said: "What the captain said makes a lot of sense. I can't even bear it anymore, let alone the horses. I'm already half dead."

Lin Zhen looked at Zhang Hou, who was covered in crudely sewn animal skins, and couldn't help laughing: "You are the one wearing the most clothes here, and you have the nerve to say that you are half dead."

Zhang Hou shivered deliberately and said, "My physical body is not in good condition, my yang energy is depleted, and I feel like my spirit body is about to be frozen." Everyone couldn't help laughing.

Chu Xiaomu said sternly: "Everyone, think of a solution quickly. If this continues, I'm afraid that it will be just like what Brother Houer said, and we will all freeze to death on this grassland."

Wu Sheng said: "It's because someone said he wanted to light a fire to keep the horses warm. Horses are more valuable than people. They deserve to be frozen to death." Everyone knew that he always spoke like this, so they ignored him.

Chu Xiaomu sighed and said, "We have been ordered by Zhou Zhongjun to be the horse herders, so we naturally have to do our best to take good care of the horses. These horses are very human-like. Although they don't understand what we are saying, they still know whether we are good or bad to us. I also know that the cold weather is unbearable for everyone, but if we watch them freeze to death, I will feel guilty..." Although he was not very old, he suddenly said such mature words, and everyone couldn't help but feel touched.

Yingdan said, "In my opinion, we can't stay in this grassland any longer. We must find a place to hide from the wind and snow."

Zhou Weide said loudly, "Aren't you talking nonsense? Who doesn't want to find a place to hide from the wind and snow these days, but there is nowhere to hide on the grassland. To the south is the Beast Mountain. Do you dare to go there? I'm afraid that more than a thousand wild horses are not enough to fill the stomachs of the lions and tigers in the Beast Mountain."

Chu Xiaomu said: "As a last resort, we have no choice but to go to the Beast Mountain to avoid the wind and snow. With the protection of the divine horse, those lions and tigers probably won't dare to come and harm the horses."

Zhou Weide said: "What about the Shenma? Have you seen its shadow these days? It doesn't care about the lives of the horses anymore!"

Chu Xiaomu then remembered that he hadn't seen Shenma for several days. The last time he came back from collecting firewood, he wanted to look for him, but he forgot about it because he was constantly taking care of Xiaoma every day.

The god seemed to have suddenly disappeared from the air.