Chapter 601. Addicted to You (2/2)
”How is it? Snow Scar, are you used to living here? Is there enough fodder to eat every day?” Yu Xiaocao inspected several stalls, said hello to a few familiar wild horses, and then started chatting with the white horse.
Snow Scar was still unfamiliar with its name, but it saw that, when the human girl was talking, she looked in its direction. After a few times, it recognized the designation she had given it, just like that dark little guy was called 'Black Whirlwind'.
The white horse didn't reject its new name and followed the girl, swishing its tail. It looked at her examining its herd members that were too sick to stand up, listening to her nagging like a chatterbox.
”Hiss——” Snow Scar gave a low sound and the little divine stone helped to translate, [It asked if you can cure its herd members!]
”No problem! It's just a common spasmodic hernia. It's caused by the cold or drinking a lot of cold water after running and sweating.” From her medicine box, Yu Xiaocao took out the herbs she needed, ground them into powder, and mixed the powder with warm water that had mystic water added in before pouring the resulting mixture down the throat of the sick horse.
The sick horse, that was so thin that it seemed like it was only bone, acted as if it knew that she was curing it. It was very cooperative when she opened its mouth for examination and didn’t fuss when she poured the bitter medicine.
”Alright! If there is nothing unexpected, you should be able to jump around tomorrow! Snow Scar, let all the sick horses go into one area. It will take too much time for me to go check them one by one!” She didn't care if the white horse understood or not. After all, there was a translator named the little divine stone, so she didn’t need to worry.
Little Divine Stone thought resentfully, ‘I'm a divine stone. I don't know how to speak horse, ok?’ However, it still could convey the meaning of Xiaocao's words through mind to mind contact.
Xiaocao cleaned an empty stable and brought over the wild horse that had just drunk the medicine. Soon Snow Scar came with a dozen horses to join her. Fortunately, the sick horses all had common diseases that were caused by cold weather, gastrointestinal diseases, or injuries.
She examined more than a dozen horses and gave them medicine according to their symptoms. Some of them were cooperative, while some of them, at most, restlessly turned under the pressure of their leader, and some of the younger horses refused to open their mouths faced with the bitter medicine. Xiaocao spent a lot of strength, even coaxed and cheated, and gave them some sugar cubes. She finally poured the medicine down their throats after working up a full body of sweat.
”Ok! Let them stay here and I will let some people bring specialized feed over. Snow Scar, you're in charge of supervising the other horses so they don't come over to steal food!” Yu Xiaocao took water from the water trough to wash her hands. After thinking about it, she added a drop of mystic-stone water to all the water troughs.
The white horse, who had been following her around, noticed the spirit energy of the porcelain bottle in her hand and immediately became restless. Intuition told it that even a drop of that liquid was better for its body than a sugar cube.
Noticing its covetous gaze, Xiaocao took out a sugar cube, dripped a drop of mystic-stone water onto it, and rewarded it to Snow Scar. She believed that as long as they made unremitting efforts, the horse herd headed by the white horse would gradually be assimilated, adding strong reinforcements to their horse farm.
”No! Only one drop today!” Yu Xiaocao saw that Snow Scar was still coveting the mystic-stone water in hand and refused firmly. ”I'll come again tomorrow to assess the recovery of the other horses. If anything goes wrong, go over to the courtyard over there to find me! If you don't know the way you can have Black Whirlwind take you!”
Although it didn't want to see the big fellow who always stole its nightly snack, Black Whirlwind and Snow Scar still gradually became familiar with each other. The white horse also knew which stable Black Whirlwind was in, so Xiaocao said it like this!
”You and your herd can settle down here without any worries. None of the staff at the stud farm will harm you!” Yu Xiaocao told the white horse not to harm the staff of the horse farm as she was walking out. After all, there were people who came to deliver feed and water every day, as well as those who cleaned the stables.
After coming out, she looked up to see a tall and straight figure standing in the wind and snow, like a god standing between heaven and earth. The white horse also noticed Zhu Junyang's scent. It looked up at him once and then calmly returned to the stable. That human's scent, although powerful, wasn't threatening. What's more, the scent coming from him was the same as that of the human girl, so he shouldn't be a bad person!
Zhu Junyang didn't know that he benefited from the lass and was given a good person card by the white horse. He only had eyes for his lass. She was walking against the snow and wind, which was blowing harder and harder, to come towards him.
Zhu Junyang went up and helped the lass to tighten the clothes wrapped around her body. He picked her up again and quickly went back. Their speed going back was obviously faster than the way coming out! This was because Zhu Junyang found out that Xiaocao’s face was as cold as ice when he was helping her wear her snowcap earlier.
The sooner they got back, the less his lass would have to endure in the cold. He didn't know if those maids were ready with the ginger soup to expel the cold, whether the kang bed was heated up hot enough... Zhu Junyang rotated his inner energy and lightened his body without a trace of effort. Xiaocao buried her face in his chest and put her arms around the man's neck. The curve of her smile couldn't be hidden...