Little Life on An American Ranch

  Chapter 88 Life is hard

   What made Heidou embarrassing was that, as a tall horse, it didn't start fast. Maybe it's not that it's unhappy, but that the Quarter Horse, which is not in its prime, started faster. Seeing the horses and men chasing each other getting closer, Heidou played smart again, and suddenly made a sharp turn, almost turned A nearly ninety-degree bend.

   Unfortunately it is wrong again!

  Jian Heng was 'inserted' on the horse's back like a needle and remained motionless, and the Quarter Horse, which had adapted to Jian Heng, was able to give full play to its racial advantages. At the same time, it made a sharp turn and ran towards Heidou obliquely at a closer angle.

  Hei Dou saw that he did not dodge the pursuers, and suddenly seemed a little anxious, and began to shake from side to side, trying to move away from the position.

But all its actions are in vain. Although Jian Heng said that he has not stayed in the pasture for several years, and has not harnessed a horse for several years, his consciousness is still there, and he still has no idea how to deal with a young pony that has not yet fully grown. what's the problem.

  Jian Heng visually estimated that he had almost reached the appropriate distance, tied one end of the rope to the pile head, held the other end in his hand, and began to swing it.

  As Jian Heng's arm moves more and more, the lasso is thrown up, and the loop of the noose is getting bigger and bigger at the top of Jian Heng's head.

Finally, Jian Heng found the right opportunity, and instantly threw the lasso out of his hand with the help of the horsepower and the inertia of the rope itself. The original elliptical rope loop immediately stretched in the air, and the farthest end flew towards Heidou's head. past.

  Suddenly, Black Dou swung his head, dodged the noose, and then made a sharp turn and threw the rope behind his head.

   "Yo! Yes!"

  Jian Heng never thought that Heidou would be a little smart enough to escape this catastrophe!

  However, this matter cannot be entirely blamed on Heidou's cleverness. Jian Heng's own hands are also a little raw, and his accuracy is a little lacking.

  Because lasing horses is not lasing oxen, the speed of horses is much faster than that of oxen.

  Retracting the lasso, Jian Heng once again sat firmly on the horse, waiting for the best opportunity to make a move.

After a few minutes, Jian Heng was a little dumbfounded now. Although the Quarter Horse is in its prime, it must have an extra saddle on its back, and there is an extra person on its back. Heidou's starting speed is not fast, but Heidou's current speed But Jian Heng was surprised. As a late-adult horse, it is performing very well now, but its speed is faster than Quart. Excellent.

   Just like that, Heidou ran more and more easily, while Kuat was pulled away by Heidou.

Heidou seemed to be very happy, and seemed to have a little Shangsi teasing Jian Heng. He was more than five meters away from Jian Heng, running with four hooves like this is a joy, and he made a sharp turn from time to time. Let's sprint, in short, it's called a vigorous effort.

   While urging the horse to follow closely, Jian Heng paid attention to Heidou's movements, trying to find out some rules. Let's put it this way, a horse is a horse after all, it is just an animal, and it cannot be smarter than a human.

  So, Jian Heng quickly found a pattern from Heidou's movements.

  Deliberately slowing down the speed of the horse, Jian Heng tried to push Heidou towards the cows.

  As a horse, it needs a group in its bones. If there is no group of horses, then the group of cattle may be able to make do with it, so Black Bean may not be subjective, but subconsciously wants to be closer to the group of cattle.

  When the black beans arrived not far from the herd of cattle, Jian Heng finally showed a smile on his mouth, and let out a yell! The Quarter Horse under his crotch exploded instantly with his greatest strength.

As soon as the horse under the crotch was lifted up, the lasso in Jian Heng's hand was also thrown up at the same time. There was a herd of cows blocking the front, and Jian Heng came directly from the oblique side. This time, Heidou's luck finally ran out. .

  Xi Law!

  Heidou rolled his big eyes, watching a rope fall from the sky. When the hood came, he let out a hissing sound instantly, and it was too late to turn around.

The well-trained Quarter Horse instantly felt the strength on the rope, so it stopped suddenly, its four hooves leaned forward at the same time, and the four hooves plowed four shallow furrows on the grass. Tighten the rope.

Quarter stopped, but Black Bean didn't stop. At the moment it was caught by the rope, it was still thinking about how to get rid of the annoying thing on its neck, but before it could think, it suddenly felt a tightness around its neck, and then the whole body The body staggered and almost fell to the ground.

  Quat stopped firmly, and Heidou also stopped. After standing still, he couldn't help snorting anxiously.

   "Little boy! I can't cure you anymore!" Jian Heng was very satisfied with his results, and while talking with a smile, he rolled over and got off the horse.

  The trained Quarter will not move at this time, it will hold the quilt horse tightly, unless the master has other orders to convey to it.

   Just as Jian Heng was about to approach Heidou, suddenly there was a burst of applause behind him.

   "That's great, boss!"

   Zhang Jialiang, who was riding on a horse, clapped his hands enthusiastically.

Damai and Maimai also applauded cheerfully. The two of them are people who know the goods. They know how much effort Jian Heng needs to do this seemingly simple effort. The two sisters never thought that Jian Heng would still have such a thing. Trick, they thought that was the case with Jian Heng's jeans.

   "You're a real cowboy!" Wheat clapped her hands in praise.

  Jian Heng said confidently: "I have always been".

   "Brother Heng, teach me, teach me" Zhang Jialiang immediately raised his hands high, like elementary school students rushing to answer the teacher's questions.

   Jian Heng looked at him and asked, "Want to learn?"

   "Well, so handsome!" Zhang Jialiang nodded and said.

  Jian Heng said: "I'll look for it when I get back to see if the things I practiced before are still there. If they are there, it's just right. If they're not, I'll make one for you."

   "Okay!" Zhang Jialiang quickly agreed.

Now in his heart, he is completely dreaming that after he has learned it, he can also chase after a horse like Jian Heng today, and after a fast pursuit, he will win the horse back. Soar up.

   While speaking, Jian Heng had already walked to Heidou's side and wanted to communicate with Heidou.

  Heidou was very resistant to Jian Heng, snorted unceasingly, and then tried to turn around, preparing to give Jian Heng such a blow with his powerful heel.

  Jian Heng stretched out his hand, facing Heidou with his palm, and stood still at first, showing that he had no malice towards it, then seeing that Heidou calmed down, he took half a step forward cautiously.

   Who knew that it was only half a step, but Heidou reacted instantly, neighing unceasingly, and kept raising his head at the same time, trying to throw the rope out of his neck.

   "You still have a bad temper!" Jian Heng took another step back.

  Even if Jian Heng took a step back, Heidou continued to resist, raised his front hooves, and stood up amidst a long hiss, fully experiencing the **** temper of a stallion.

Jian Heng made some estimates. It seemed that he wanted to talk to Heidou today in a few hours, so he stretched out his hand and shook the noose, summoned the Quarter Horse, waited for the noose to loosen, and then shook it like this With one touch, the cover around Heidou's neck was easily shaken off.

  Balley asked very puzzled: "What's the matter, I still want to watch you train horses!"

   "Yes, yes, brother, I haven't seen anyone train a horse yet," Zhang Jialiang also booed.

   Jian Heng glared at him directly: "Why are you joining in the fun! I want to watch the horse training, and I will talk about it when I have time."

  Now there are no fences around, how about horse training? That's a joke. If I put my foot on my side and the horse turns around and runs away, that's not embarrassing enough.

What Jian Heng learns is natural horse training, not subduing horses through violence, like in some domestic novels, when he finds a god-like wild horse king, the protagonist jumps on the horse's back and hugs the horse's neck tightly, then fights hard with the horse, and finally The horse can't run anymore, so the horse surrenders to you.

  This story is just a story, and it is also a very nonsense thing. In reality, whoever wants to run with a stallion like this is still the king of holding horses. I believe that horses will definitely throw people out of shit.

  Training a horse is not that simple. Violence and intimidation will not make a horse your companion. Now all the horse training masters in the world don't play this trick anymore.

  Now everyone pays attention to the use of the horse's nature and the horse's desire to establish a companionship.

  For Jian Heng, he is not in a hurry to train Black Dou now, take his time, he has plenty of time to spend with this little black horse.

  Retracting the lasso, Jian Heng mounted the horse again, turned the horse's head and prepared to go back.

   "Where are you going?" Jian Heng saw that barley and wheat had no roots, so he reined in the horse, turned his head and asked loudly.

  Barley and Wheat said at the same time: "We are going to run around, do you want to come together?"

   "Forget it, you guys run away, I'll teach this guy how to use a lasso!" After Jian Heng finished speaking, he reached out and waved at the sisters, and then took Zhang Jialiang back to the house.

   Came to Xiaoyuan’s small warehouse, Jian Heng went in to look for it, and sure enough, he found the tool for practicing lasso that old Anders had bought for him before.

   "What is this?" Zhang Jialiang was a little speechless when he saw what Jian Heng dragged out.

Because this thing looks like a giant ugly version of a Trojan horse, why is it called a giant version, because it is a round wooden pier supported by a few arms thick wood, and a horse is nailed to one end of the wooden pier in a very rough way. Its head is not a horse's head, and a donkey's head is not a donkey's head. What's more rough is that there is also a bunch of ugly 'horsetails' nailed on the back.

"Ride on!" Jian Heng put the ugly wooden horse in front of the house, and then put a log block two or three meters away from the wooden horse, which is actually a log for chopping firewood, and then motioned Zhang Jialiang to ride to the ugly wooden horse with a lasso back up.

   Zhang Jialiang didn’t want to ride this ugly thing at all when he saw it, so he opened his mouth and said to Jian Heng: “Brother, can I not ride that, just stand and ride?”

Zhang Jialiang didn't want to ride because he didn't want to be seen by Huang Xiaodong and Zhao Wei, not to mention being seen by others, even if he thought about it himself, he would feel ashamed. For such a big man, riding such a thing would embarrass him exhausted.

Jian Heng said to him: "Do you think I'm making fun of you? Be honest and get on it quickly. Do you know that when I practiced this thing, I rode it for a month and spent a few hours on it every day?" Hours. You are still practicing standing up, you still use me to teach you if you have the ability?"

   It's really not that Jian Heng is playing with Zhang Jialiang, Jian Heng really got into this riding skill when he was practicing before.

Let's put it this way, all the cowboys here, no matter men, women, old or young, have ridden this thing. Jian Heng doesn't know about it in other places, but the cowboys in this area can be said to have always practiced lasso in this way. From set dead objects to set calf, everyone has come here like this.

  Is this thing ugly? It's really ugly.

  Jian Heng also admits this, but this thing doesn't have to look good. A qualified rancher won't waste money on such completely unnecessary things. For them, saving money is the best.

  Zhang Jialiang rode on the back of the 'Ugly Trojan Horse' with a bitter face, watched Jian Heng demonstrate several times, explained the essentials, and then began to swing the noose.

  For the first time, Zhang Jialiang yanked himself with a rope.

  The second time, Zhang Jialiang's rope hit his face.

   In just a few minutes, Zhang Jialiang couldn’t slap his own face because his arms were so sore that he couldn’t lift them up.

   "How is it? Is ranch life as poetic as you think?" Jian Heng asked him with a smile.

  Zhang Jialiang said with a bitter face: "Boss, I see that you can easily throw the rope out of a circle, why can't I always shake it?"

"Do you know how long it took me to skillfully throw the rope out of a circular circle? When I was practicing, my arms hurt so much that I couldn't fall asleep every night. Even so, I had to get up at five o'clock to drive the cattle. Eat every minute, and patrol the pasture non-stop until it gets dark, and drive the cows back to the cowshed. If a cow gets lost that day, Old Anders and I will ride horses and keep looking for it until it gets dark. Only when you find it can you come back to rest, no matter whether it is raining or snowing that day, you must find the cow, whether it is a live cow or a dead cow.”

  While talking to Zhang Jialiang, Jian Heng's thoughts seemed to return to the past, when he and old man Anders worked hard day and night to maintain the operation of the entire ranch.

   Now recalling the scene at that time in my heart, and thinking of Anders who has passed away, I suddenly feel a sense of vicissitudes.

  (end of this chapter)