Leisurely Life: I Have Ten Thousand Acres of Grassland

Chapter 122 - 120: The Cat Realm’s Calico Goddess—Buying Cattle and Sheep at the Migration Site!

In the house, Jiang Feng started a livestream, showing the kittens at home.

Now the kittens have grown, become lively, and starting to be a headache.

Jiang Feng never allows animals into his bedroom, so the little guys play in the living room.

The Orange Cat watches the kittens running around and helplessly carries them back one by one.

But every time it carries one back and goes to get another, the kittens in the nest start scurrying around again.

Anxious, the Orange Cat meows loudly.

Jiang Feng watches the chaos with amusement and makes no move to help.

The viewers find this scene amusing.

[Master, have some insight, isn’t it time to help out!]

[The Orange Cat is going to be driven to tears by you!]

[These kittens are really beyond help!]

[Too lively, I empathize with the cat mother’s headache!]

The comments pour in continuously.

Jiang Feng laughed, "Kittens are now in their active phase, which is quite difficult to manage. Especially since the cats at my place aren’t afraid of humans, they climb around even more randomly."

"These little ones are getting a bit chubby now."

Just as he spoke, a kitten crawled up to Jiang Feng’s feet, climbing up his pant leg.

Jiang Feng reached out his hand and caught it.

Then, Jiang Feng went to grab the other two kittens back to the cat’s nest.

The Orange Cat happened to be carrying one kitten over, and finally, the five kittens were gathered together.

The Orange Cat rushed to the nest, placing the little ones together.

Then, it embraced one of the calico kittens and started licking vigorously.

The five kittens consist of two black tabbies, one black, one white, and one calico, with yellow, black, and white colors.

Seeing the Orange Cat’s happy expression, Jiang Feng said:

"Cat mothers usually favor calico cats, you could say, among their kind, calico cats are the epitome of beauty."

"So it feels its child is pretty and adores it immensely."

"Every day, the one it licks the most is the calico cat."

In the livestream, the calico kitten was being vigorously licked by the Orange Cat, its cute little meows adding to the adorable scene.

[It turns out cats are also beauty-oriented!]

[It’s obvious the mother cat really likes this little kitten!]

[Animals can also be biased towards their children!]

[Indeed, attractive children receive more parental affection, it’s the same everywhere!]

Comments kept flooding in.

Jiang Feng looked at the cats in the nest and continued:

"Calico cats aren’t limited to a specific breed; they’re determined by parental genes. If the mother cat’s color is dual-toned, there’s a chance to produce calico cats."

"Due to cats’ sex-linked genes, most calico cats are female."

"Even if a rare male calico cat appears, it won’t have fertility capabilities."

"Moreover, the distribution of the three colors - black, white, and orange - on calico cats varies, with no two calico cats being the same worldwide."

"They’re the goddesses of the cat realm, stray calico cats usually never lack male cat companionship."

"There are often many male cats fighting over a calico cat."

Upon hearing Jiang Feng’s explanation, viewers gained further understanding of calico cats.

[Turns out cats measure attractiveness based on coloration!]

[I’ve heard that white cats are often considered the ugliest among cats, lots of white cats aren’t appreciated!]

[I find white cats adorable!]

[In our eyes, all cats are cute, but that’s not the case for cats.]

Jiang Feng teased the kittens and then walked out to the courtyard, observing what the little ones were doing.

The weather outside was getting colder.

During this time, many pastoralists who make social media videos have posted their winter recordings.

In snowstorms, many herders can’t sleep all night, periodically getting up to check the cows and sheep, fearing they might be buried by snow.

Herders lead tough lives.

Or, like Jiang Feng, who has his own large pasture, barns and pens with heating, not needing to worry about wind or snow at all.

Therefore, Jiang Feng seems to live more leisurely.

"The weather is worsening, soon I will be procuring a batch of cows and sheep."

"The place I’ll be purchasing from is soon undergoing winter relocation."

"On the journey, there will be numerous challenges with the livestock the herders breed, prompting them to sell some calves and lambs in advance."

"Grazing is classified into fixed and nomadic. Like the pasture I’ve currently rented, its geographical proximity is advantageous, allowing fixed grazing."

"Many herders lead a nomadic life, moving according to water and grass."

"For instance, on the Hulunbei’er Grassland, annually over 400 households and approximately 350,000 livestock are relocated, presenting a grand scene."

"Herders close to the Tibetan Area also have to relocate; their climate is even colder, where many yaks and calves freeze to death during relocation and are abandoned along the way as food for wolves."

"In Xilingol, there’s also relocation occurring; after some time, the region’s temperature can drop to minus thirty degrees, making it nearly impossible to venture outdoors."

"They must rush to the winter pastures to overwinter."

Jiang Feng walked along the road of the ranch.

He occasionally stepped on some hard snow, creating a "crunch crunch" sound.

The street cats group at the ranch are now rarely seen around.

Little Pig Peppa has stopped breaking out, Golden Retriever Wangwang is staying in the nest with the children, with Lucky and Wealthy right beside him. Sometimes Wealthy even takes three or four Little Golden Retrievers to his own nest.

Cat Boss sometimes wanders around the haystack field, sometimes around the chicken coop.

Now, the little chicks have grown up, their feathers no longer yellow fluff, and they all look spirited.

Only Little Border Collie and Little White Wolf still follow at Jiang Feng’s feet.

Netizens, upon hearing Jiang Feng’s narration, were quite interested in the grassland’s winter migration.

[I thought everything was settled now, didn’t expect so many cattle and sheep still need to migrate!]

[For sure, migrating can better protect the grassland, now it’s all scientific grazing, allowing the grass to recover better!]

[Can Master Jiang go live-stream? We’d love to see it!]

[Indeed, now live-streaming popularity is consistently in the top fifty nationwide, definitely a big event!]

Seeing the bullet comments, Jiang Feng nodded and said:

"The migration will start in a couple of days, while the weather is still good."

"There’s nothing to fear about the migration, except for running into a blizzard, that’s truly a natural disaster."

"Actually, many migrations now use cars to transport directly, some remote areas where migration is really difficult will use the road method."

"It’s about a three-day journey."

"I do need to go see, if there’s a chance, I’ll join them."

"My ranch is relatively stable now, so I have time to look around outside."

Upon hearing Jiang Feng say this, everyone started to anticipate.

The next day, Jiang Feng drove with Yang Maolin and Niu Erhu to the area where the league’s herders need to migrate.

Herders here have village-organized migrations, or they can contact a few people to go together.

It’s incomparable to the Tibetan Area.

Tibetan herders’ winter migration will have large numbers of local armed police and defense troops coming out to help open the way and assist in protecting cattle and sheep.

Because the environment there is harsh, it’s quite tough.

Sometimes tourists passing through pastures can see yaks frozen to death by the roadside.

While conditions here in Xilingol are relatively better, they can still drive, many herders drive cattle and sheep over to save transport fees.

The price to transport cattle and sheep once is very high, it’s better to drive them over.

Jiang Feng drove an off-road vehicle to the pasture area, where many herders have already prepared their goods, packing up their yurts, starting to head south.

They all have pickups and off-road vehicles, heavy goods are loaded onto the cars.

Everyone rides a horse or a camel.

Accompanying them are some social media bloggers and journalists.

These grassland news and travel diaries get quite a number of likes.

Many netizens enjoy watching life outside.

Jiang Feng starts live-streaming.

The drone rises high.

He’s simply filming the pastoral scenes from afar, without close-ups of the herders.

The wind and snow are still whistling, a thin layer of snow covers the horses and camels.

Jiang Feng finds the village chief of this pasture area, inquires about buying cattle and sheep.

Which family wants to sell cattle and sheep, what the prices are, Jiang Feng asks in detail.

Most ewes in winter are pregnant, making migration inconvenient, but herders are reluctant to sell.

They’re all waiting for spring to give birth to lambs and make money.

Cattle are similar.

The village chief has already contacted surrounding villages for him.

Many households want to sell cattle and sheep, after calculating, there are a total of more than two hundred cattle and more than three hundred sheep.

Jiang Feng is truly a large ranch owner, considered relatively wealthy among the herders on the grassland.

So when he wants to buy, herders are very willing.

Then it’s about settling the price.

The cattle prices this year seem to be crashing.

By crashing, it means prices are somewhat lower, under normal circumstances, many herders wouldn’t sell cattle, raising them is fine.

It’s not that they don’t want to sell, raising involves costs too, but they can’t accept such low prices.

Jiang Feng offers a very fair price, as cattle and sheep in the pasture area are cheap anyway, being able to sell some makes herders happy too.

In the following time, Jiang Feng checks the quality of the cattle and sheep, any problematic ones, he doesn’t want them, everyone knows this rule.

Herders in places like this aren’t as cunning.

When word gets out that a large ranch owner is here to buy cattle and sheep, everyone is delighted.

Many social media bloggers even make videos about this, one blogger says in a video:

"Winter migration is about to start, since there are many cattle and sheep, herders’ migrations are quite tough."

"Now I see Master Jiang here buying cattle and sheep."

"Everyone knows Master Jiang, a large ranch owner in Xilingol, very kind and polite, also a celebrity on the grassland."

"The Ye He family I’m accompanying is discussing how many cattle and sheep to sell to him, Master Jiang’s purchases are indeed a great thing for herders here."

"It can reduce some of the difficulties of migration."

"Moreover, Master Jiang knows it’s tough for pregnant cows and ewes to migrate, and he’s willing to offer an additional price of a calf or lamb for those with longer pregnancy periods."

"This aspect is more welcomed by everyone, so herders mainly sell pregnant cattle and sheep."

The social media blogger focuses the camera on Jiang Feng in the distance.

Snow and wind ravage the screen, Jiang Feng and a few people walk in the snow, gesturing towards some cattle, discussing.

This scene evokes a somewhat heartfelt farewell feeling.