Little Life on An American Ranch

  Chapter 84 Loss

  The cattle were settled in the pasture, in a sparse grove closest to the house, and the whole task of driving the cattle was completed.

  Old Lynch saw that his affairs were over, so he rode on the horse, put his hands on the saddle bridge and bent over in a comfortable posture, and said to Jian Heng, "Find someone to take me home."

   "It's never too late to leave after dinner." Jian Heng immediately invited Old Lynch to have dinner together, which must have kept him busy for several hours.

  Old Lynch waved his hand and said, "Forget it, I will come to your ranch again if I have a chance, and I have to go to a ranch tonight, and the appointment time cannot be changed."

   "That's it!" Jian Heng immediately took out the wallet from his pocket, counted out some money, and handed it to Old Lynch: "You deserve it, the wages for driving cattle today."

Old Lynch didn't feel embarrassed when he heard what Jian Heng said. He reached out and took the money and put it in his pocket: "Then I'm leaving. By the way, it's okay for the cow to stay in the woods for a few days. There is a problem, and you know why!"

  Jian Heng likes the beauty of Lao Mei, and helps Su Gui to help, but when talking about money, he just talks about money, which is not as confusing as it is in China.

Hearing Old Lynch's reminder, Jian Heng nodded: "It's just a stopgap measure. The cowshed will be ready in a few days, and the cowshed will be finished in another week. Don't say it's raining by then, it won't matter even if it's winter." What's the problem?"

Jian Heng has been paying attention to the weather forecast. There will not be any thunderstorms in Montana this week. Jian Heng only needs a week, and as long as this week passes, wait for the cowshed to come together. Let alone rain, it will snow Jian Heng Not afraid anymore.

  Old Lynch remembered one more thing at this time: "Do you want to transfer this year? If you want to transfer to a winter pasture, it is best to apply to the county now. If you are slow, it may not be your turn."

The transfer is to transfer the cattle and sheep to another place. This is the Rocky Mountains, and the winter is quite long. If there are many animals or other plans, you can apply for grazing on the public pasture, and move the cattle and sheep from your own The pasture is rushed to the public pasture, or from the public pasture to the home pasture, which is called transition.

Some people think that the land in the United States is all privately owned. In fact, it is not true. The United States federally owns 32% of the land in the country. These lands are mainly concentrated in the west. They are all mountains and grasslands. At the same time, 10% of the land is owned by states and localities. Whether it is federal or state or county-owned public land, the grasslands that can be grazed are almost all public pastures, and private ranchers can apply to graze on them.

For example, Jian Heng's current pasture is almost all family pastures, and there are not many livestock. If there are a lot of livestock, for example, there are two to three thousand cows, or even tens of thousands of cows. Apply to spend the winter in the warmer valley public pastures. These pastures are usually surrounded by mountains. The cold wind in the Montana valley is much weaker than that in the plains, so the relatively warm weather is more suitable for cattle and sheep to spend the winter.

   "My herd can increase by 20 to 30 more cattle at most, so there is no need to switch fields. When the harvesting machine ordered by the pasture the day after tomorrow arrives, I will prepare for winter and silage."

  Jian Heng's plan is to eat all the cattle raised on the ranch in the future, and not to sell them outside. If the business of fitness is not good, he can go dig some diamonds to subsidize it.

   Raising too many cows and sheep is really tiring. Even if you don’t need to do the work yourself, just thinking about how much cow dung needs to be shoveled, Jian Heng’s head will get a little bigger.

  Old Lynch listened to Jian Heng's arrangement, and hummed: "If you need it, call me."

   "No problem!" Jian Heng smiled.

While chatting like this, the two rode towards the house on horseback. When they got there, Zhao Changshan took the initiative to drive Old Lynch home. The rest of them took a shower, changed into clean clothes, and sat around the table downstairs. Enjoy dinner together.

   "Why are you so old again?" Zhang Jialiang now walks with his legs crossed.

On the table are fried beef tenderloin with onions, dry-cut beef in sauce and beef stew with tomatoes, each of which is a pot, the kind of big soup pot in China, which is full at once, and the rest are two vegetarian dishes, one plate Stir-fried vegetables, tomatoes and scrambled eggs on a plate.

   "It's your fault to eat beef all day long." Jian Heng smiled and reached out to knock Zhang Jialiang on the head.

Picking up the bowl, he picked up a piece of beef from tomato stewed beef and put it in his mouth. After chewing on the rice for a few times, Jian Heng felt that it didn't taste that delicious, it wasn't that it was bad, but he really ate too much, so He said something to Zhao Wei.

"Xiaowei, remind your uncle tomorrow, tell him to change the taste, don't always be beef and beef, get some braised pork, sauerkraut and fish, whatever, you can't just fall into the cow's den all day long." Jian Heng Eat and talk.

  Beef is delicious, but I can’t bear it for a long time if I’ve been so happy.

Zhao Wei made a bitter face when he heard this: "Boss, it's not that my uncle can't come up with a new trick. You can go to our big refrigerator and see that there is beef in it. The last time you went out, good guy! Bring back a hundred There is no room for so many catties of beef in the freezer, and the freezer is also full, so what should I do if I don’t finish it, I can’t throw it away, right?”

   Tut!

  Jian Heng took a breath, only to realize that the source of the problem was himself. It's hard for Jian Heng to say, there are still two to three hundred catties of bison meat in his secret space.

   "Okay, let's finish eating first, but the main thing is beef, add something else, and get a fish from time to time, right?" Jian Heng said.

   "Okay, I'll tell my uncle when he comes back," Zhao Wei said.

Among the people at the table, Huang Xiaodong eats very happily, and enjoys eating with one chopstick after another. It's not like others mainly serve vegetarian dishes, and eat some beef from time to time. He mainly serves beef and rarely touches it. vegetarian dishes.

   "Hey, it's delicious to see Xiaodong eating here!" Jian Heng said with a smile, and took a few mouthfuls of rice.

When Huang Xiaodong heard Jian Heng talking about himself, he swallowed the food in his mouth, took a sip of vegetable soup, and then said: "If I tell my mother that I eat beef by the catty every day, I will Mom won't believe it! Brother Heng, you are so kind to us. Before I was with Uncle Zhao, I worked in other places. Whether it was in China or in the United States, the boss would put some vegetables on the two breads. Eating all of that stuff makes me almost grow hairy."

"Okay, you little sycophant, eat as much as you like, follow the boss, if he has a bite of meat, he can share half of it with us! Or do you think I will follow here from New York all the time? Zhang Jialiang said with a smile.

  Jian Heng heard what he said, and said with a smile: "Your little flatterer is also good at shooting ass, and you are good at it. What's the matter, doesn't your thigh hurt? Do you have the strength to speak?"

  Zhang Jialiang quickly shook his head: "It hurts, it really hurts!"

   "After dinner, I'll make some ointment for you. You can apply it when you go back tonight, and you'll feel better after you sleep," Jian Heng said.

   "What about the cow?"

Jian Heng said: "Do you think you can't do it without you? I'll take a look at it tonight. After the bullpen is ready, you will have to take care of these cows by yourself in the future. Wait for the horses to be bought. Add a helper to you, during this period you have to study hard, or wait for the cowboys to hire you to work so rough that you can't look at it, then your face will not look good."

  Zhang Jialiang immediately said: "Don't worry, brother, I will definitely concentrate on practicing, and I won't go back in the future, I will just live here!"

   "Live here? Where do you live?" Jian Heng paused and asked, "I'm not interested in sharing a room with someone! They are twins who cannot live without."

"Isn't there a small utility room? I'll fix it later, and I'll live there for a few days, so I don't have to run back and forth. Besides, the Datongpu house will be ready soon, and I'll sleep there then. That's it," Zhang Jialiang said.

  Jian Heng thought for a while: "As you wish!"

Living on the ranch is indeed beneficial for him to grow into a real cowboy. One hour a day is wasted on the way back, it is better to spend it on study. Zhang Jialiang thinks this is also a correct learning attitude. Thinking about it this way, Jian Heng will no longer What more to say.

After eating, Huang Xiaodong and Zhao Wei cleaned up the table, Jian Heng went upstairs to 'dispensing' Zhang Jialiang, and Zhang Jialiang slowly cleaned up the small room with his legs crossed, while the two sisters, Da Mai and Mai, rode on horses. , to see the situation of the herd.

Jian Heng's so-called dispensing here is nothing more than pounding a little melon paste and adding a few drops of secret realm water. It is impossible for the wound to recover completely with this amount. Jian Heng is not stupid enough to do this, but it is better than normal medicine. Much faster, that's for sure, Yunnan Baiyao has caught up with Jian Heng's melon paste.

  This medicine guarantees that Zhang Jialiang will take good use of it. At least tomorrow, he will not walk with his legs crossed like a split like he is now.

  He went downstairs with the medicine, and it was just handed over to Zhang Jialiang, when Jian Heng heard a shout from the door and didn't know whether it was barley or wheat.

   "Jane, Jane, something happened!"

  The voice is very impatient, it sounds like things are not small.

   When the two sisters were anxious, the first thing Jian Heng thought of was what happened to the cows, and he immediately took Xiao ran out of the house.

   "What's the matter?" Jian Heng saw Mai Mai looking at him anxiously, so he asked.

"Bull, bull, your pet cow is fighting with the breeder bull. It's so bad that my sister and I dare not go up to separate them. It looks like your pet cow wants to drive all the bulls out of the herd. "Wheat said panting.

   After hearing this, Jian Heng didn't say any more, and just shouted: "Go, go and have a look!"

  Then quickly saddle the horse tied in front of the house. This job is much easier for Jian Heng, as long as Jian Heng is given more than two minutes, Jian Heng can do it.

   "Come up! Let's go over quickly, when is the time, you still have to prepare the horse." Seeing that Jian Heng still wanted to prepare the horse at this time, Mai Mai urged him immediately.

Jian Heng didn't think too much at this time, and directly put the mat he picked up in his hand back on the wooden stand, trotted to the side of Mai Mai's horse, stretched out his hand to grab Mai Mai's hand, and then turned onto the horse with his strength, clinging to it behind wheat.

   "Hurry up!" Said Xiaomai and urged the horse.

Jian Heng subconsciously hugged Mai Mai's waist. The moment he grabbed Mai Mai's waist, a strange feeling came from his palms and buttocks. Catch the pile head of the front saddle bridge.

Jian Heng didn't know if Mai Mai felt anything, but he carefully moved his **** backwards so that as the horse's back rose and fell, his front crotch would not touch Mai Mai's plump round buttocks. ugly or something.

  Before reaching the forest, Jian Heng heard the cry of a cow, not one cow, but several cows. According to a cowboy's intuition, one of the cows must have been seriously injured.

When he met Barley next to the forest, Jian Heng found that things were far more difficult than what Mai said. The two bulls he just bought today are lying on the grass. One of the long horns has now been broken.

   The other one was slightly better but not much better.

  Although the remaining end was standing, a blood hole was poked out on the back near the stomach, and blood was oozing out.

  In contrast to this is the African bison, which is not injured at all. It is now holding its head high, and its body is between the bulls and the cows. Seeing Jian Heng approaching, he raised his head and mooed in Jian Heng's direction.

   I have to say that the sound was very rough, and it immediately covered the voices of the three bulls. Not only did it cover the three bulls, but all the bulls in the nearby pastures could hear it.

  Because of the secret environment, Jian Heng has a special connection with it. Hearing the voice, Jian Heng seems to understand that the African bison does not want other bulls to enter its herd.

   As for when this group of cows became its own, isn't this reason obvious, they are cruel, these three bulls are too useless to beat, and they don't want others.

   People can't stand firm if they are not ruthless, let alone bulls robbing cows!

   "Get to the vet!"

  Barley said helplessly.

  Jian Heng took a look at the three bulls, and sighed: "Don't go to the veterinarian, go to the slaughter company and ask them to send a slaughter truck."

   "I don't want that, I think the cow can still survive!" Wheat pointed to the standing bull.

   "What's the point of surviving? I can't integrate into the herd and want to sell it? You see, it's scared out of its wits, who would buy it? It's better to kill and eat the meat, and it's over," Jian Heng said with a bitter face.

  After hearing this, Damai felt that what Jian Heng said was right, so he nodded.

  When Mai Mai heard about eating meat, he immediately said, "Are you still eating?"

  Three big bulls get hundreds of catties of meat. This is the bare meat. How long will it take to eat.

  Jian Heng thought for a while and said, "Let's see what the price is, if you can, sell it!"

  Barley said: "At this time, the price can't be higher!"

  Now is almost the time to sell cattle, and it will not be too easy to sell at a good price.

  Whether it's for sale or food, now I have to find a slaughter company. After Jian Heng finished speaking, he took out his mobile phone to make a call, and the other person happened to have nothing to do, so he sent a car over after asking the address.

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