"It's not far, only two miles, so just use a donkey cart." Maimaiti borrowed Ahaqi's donkey cart.

"Is your horse docile? I want to experience it." Li Wen asked with a smile.

"So you want to ride a horse." Maimaiti looked embarrassed after hearing Li Wen's request.

"It really doesn't work, forget it. I haven't ridden a horse for a long time, and I saw that my hands were a little itchy today." Li Wen looked at Maimaiti and said with a look of embarrassment on his face.

"Have you ever ridden a horse?" Maimaiti asked Li Wen.

Li Wen smiled and nodded.

"Here at our place, we generally don't let foreign guests ride horses.

Horses are not easily frightened like oxen, and it will be bad if they fall into someone. Since Comrade Li, you have ridden a horse before, give it a try!" Ahaqi said with a smile.

The horse Maimaiti rides is a Kazakh horse, which is relatively large. The horse his son rides is a Mongolian horse, which is smaller.

Finally, Maimaiti let Li Wen ride his son's Mongolian horse, which was more docile.

I wonder what boy doesn’t like riding horses!

In ancient times, owning a horse was equivalent to owning a sports car. Even in the 1960s, a good horse was quite valuable.

Li Wen walked towards the horse excitedly, took out a handful of fried soybeans from his bag, and prepared to bribe him first.

The smell of soybeans stimulated the horse, and he sniffed his nose and walked towards Li Wen.

This horse may have never eaten such delicious food. It was finished with a roll of tongue, and it kept nudging Li Wen with its head after eating.

Ahaqi on the side saw Li Wen feeding soybeans to the horse, and his eyes lit up instantly.

"Comrade Li, you don't know how important soybeans are in the grassland. This horse is lucky today." Ahaqi stepped forward and said with a smile, and Maimaiti nodded in agreement.

"Oh! Why is this?" Li Wen only knew that it was better for horses to eat beans, but he didn't know the details.

"Beans are a good thing, and they are the best feed for horses here.

Horses that regularly eat beans are physically strong, strong, and have strong endurance, and they will breed better offspring.

During the reign of the former Dragon Emperor, our place was the royal horse farm, and we cultivated many good horses through beans." Ahaqi said with a smile.

"We no longer fight on horseback. Life has been difficult these past few years. Why do you still feed beans to the horses?" Li Wen wondered.

“There are fewer places to use horses now, but they are still our good partners.

Every year during the breeding season, good stallions must eat soybean feed, otherwise they will lose weight seriously and be easily scrapped.

So we will save rations and feed good stallions soybeans," Ahaqi explained.

"So that's it!"

Li Wen used to only know that soybeans are a strategic material of the country, and that horses eat beans to gain weight. He didn't expect that raising horses well is not easy. He originally thought that horses can just eat grass.

"Let's go!"

The horse ate fried soybeans and became very friendly to Li Wen. Li Wen jumped on the horse and galloped outside.

Maimaiti rode his horse and chased behind Li Wen, leaving only the miserable Ahaqi and Maimaiti's son.

The two men drove the donkey cart behind them silently, moving forward slowly.

I rode the horse and ran wildly for several hundred meters. Finally, I was worried that the horse was tired and the speed slowed down.

"It's fun to ride a horse without paying any money! In the previous life, the racecourse owner paid 50 yuan for a two-hundred-meter lap. He was really bad at horseback riding." Li Wen slowed down and cursed the racecourse owner in the previous life.

"Comrade Li, you are very brave! Your skills are also good." At this time, Maimai followed on horseback.

"Haha! Just so so."

When Li Wen heard Maimaiti praising his riding skills, his resentment toward the owner of the racecourse disappeared.

"Comrade Li, the melon field in front is the melon field of our tribe." Maimaiti said, pointing to the dozens of acres of land in front.

The two rode horses to the edge of the field, and dozens of acres of cantaloupe, muskmelon, and watermelon came into view.

It is already late June, and all kinds of melons have begun to mature. At this time, there are more than a dozen people in the field pulling weeds and picking melons.

"Captain Alang!" Maimaiti rode up to a man in his fifties and shouted in Uyghur.

(Alang is a tribute to elders)

"It's you Maimaiti! If you don't graze, what are you doing here?" the captain, who was loading melons into the car at the end of the field, asked with a frown.

"A guest from the tribe asked for the cantaloupe at my house, so I brought him over." Maimaiti explained and pointed to Li Wen who was riding a horse in the distance.

"I've said it many times, use the Timur team, not the tribe, do you hear me?

Also, where did this customer come from, and does he have a purchase certificate?" the captain asked loudly.

"I know Captain Alang. This guest is from the distant Chang'an. He has a purchase certificate." Maimaiti didn't dare to talk back to the captain despite his strong appearance.

"As long as you have the purchase certificate, let's go! Let's meet the guests together." The captain straightened his clothes and walked towards Li Wen.

When Li Wen saw Maimaiti approaching with an old man, he quickly jumped off the horse. It was too impolite to talk to people while sitting on the horse.

"Distinguished guests from Chang'an, welcome to Team Timur. I am Amanda, the leader of this team."

Still five or six meters away from Li Wen, Captain Amanda laughed and performed the Uighur greeting ceremony.

"Hello, Captain Amanda." Li Wen performed some Uighur etiquette.

He also wanted to be more official when meeting with officials. Li Wen shook hands with Captain Oman again.

"Comrade Li, do you want to buy cantaloupes from Ti's family? His family only has two acres of land and doesn't have many melons.

If you need it in large quantities, our Timur team can provide you with some." Amanda stated her purpose.

"Captain Amanda, I need at most three to four hundred kilograms of cantaloupe. This time we came to New Zealand to purchase meat, sheepskin, and dairy products.

If the Timur tribe can provide it, we can purchase it in large quantities and exchange it with soybeans and daily necessities."

When Li Wen saw that he had met the real owner, yes! He did not hide it and directly stated his purpose.

"Captain Alang, Comrade Li really has soybeans, and he even fed them to the horses just now.

Our tribe, ah no, is the brigade. Our brigade still has a few old cows, which can be exchanged for Comrade Li." Maimaiti reminded Amanda in Uyghur.

When Amanda heard that Li Wen could actually provide bean ingredients, she immediately made some calculations in her mind.

In recent months, it has been the stallion's estrus season. The stallion's physical strength has been severely exhausted and it is in urgent need of high-quality feed supplements.

The Timur tribe has also tightened their belts in recent years. Not to mention beans, corn is not enough for horses.

The arrival of Li Wen's soybeans is undoubtedly a timely help to the Timur tribe. They can exchange hundreds of kilograms of soybeans to ensure the health of the stallion. Amanda thinks it is still necessary.

"Comrade Li, we also have beef and mutton here. I would like to exchange it for three hundred pounds of black beans or soybeans," Amanda said.

"No problem at all, we brought several thousand kilograms of beans here this time, three hundred kilograms is nothing." Li Wen said grandly.

"Comrade Li, it's settled. I'll go back and arrange for the slaughter of cattle and sheep. You guys should pretend first." Amanda said excitedly.
Chapter completed!