pasture leisure

Chapter 163 Hunter Charles

Zhang Chi really didn't expect the condition of the grazing farm to be so simple. He thought that there must be a wooden house or something, which is very popular among Americans. If you find a corner, you will build one for vacation or What.

According to Zhang Chi's idea, if he had time to build a wooden house by the small lake in the forest, he had to build a serious house in the pasture, no matter how small it was, it had to be a house.

Who knew that when I looked here, there were several prefabricated houses.

Yes, the weather here is a bit warmer than Amber's, but it's not that warm. Melika's ranch is above freezing, and there is still snow here. How can I live like this? The house, isn't it freezing and starving? I don't know how these people survived this winter.

Several pickups arrived at the door, stopped the car, Zhang Chi got out of the car, and suddenly felt a gust of cold wind blowing towards his face.

"welcome!"

At this time, an old man came out of the house, wrapped in a very thick leather jacket, he didn't look like a cowboy, he looked a bit like an Eskimo, wearing a fur coat.

"This is Nell's father, Charles".

Miller next to him reminded Zhang Chi in a low voice.

It was the first time Zhang Chi saw Nell's father. At first, he thought that Nell's family had no elders. Who knew that a biological father suddenly appeared, which made Zhang Chi a little suspicious.

And the father's name is Charles, and the son's name is Nelson. The family seems to have fallen into the nest of Anglo-Sunxons.

But after a closer look, I found that the old man's appearance was five or six points similar to Nell's.

The old man is really in good spirits, with a ruddy complexion and a full-bodied voice. Whether he walks or thinks like an old man in his sixties or seventies, he looks like he is in his fifties.

Nell introduced the people who came, of course, they are all acquaintances, mainly to introduce Zhang Chi, a new face.

"I heard that your cattle are very good, and you are an excellent rancher." Charles extended his hand and shook Zhang Chi heartily, and then introduced himself: "My name is Charles, and I am also a rancher, but I am retired now." , the job is obviously a rabbit hunter".

Rabbit hunter?Zhang Chi was a little confused.

Charles didn't pay attention either, and hurriedly greeted everyone to enter the house.

After entering the house, Zhang Chi looked around and felt that it was quite compatible. When he saw the outside and then looked at the inside, his ability to accept it became stronger.

There is a stove in the house, which burns firewood. The stove is not only used for heating but also for cooking, so there are still pots and shelves next to the stove.

In a corner of the room, Zhang Chi found something new. There was a shelf, a wooden shelf, with a rope wrapped around it. On the top pole stood a sturdy eagle with a gray beak and a yellow beak. The mouth looks very strong.

The eagle was also looking at the people in the room at this moment, it seemed a little uneasy, walking around on the horizontal pole with its wings half spread.

"Jimmy!"

Charles said something to the eagle, but it was a pity that the eagle was still walking around.

As soon as Zhang Chi heard Charles calling Jimmy, he immediately added the last sentence in his mind.

'Jimmy, come on, Jimmy, come on, come on'.

I forgot what the song was. I only remember that I had this tape at home when I was a child. My old man sometimes listened to this song, and it was quite contagious. mind in general.

"This is my Eagle Jimmy," the old man said with a smile.

Nell said to Charles at this time: "How about dinner tonight?"

Charles said: "Let's divide it into several places as before. The main course tonight is roast beef with mashed potatoes and vegetable salad...".

Zhang Chi wasn't interested in any of the dishes Charles mentioned. He just looked at the eagle in the corner of the room and thought it was too exciting.

Leading the yellow on the left, Qingcang on the right, and rolling up the hills with thousands of riders, what an aura this is. Now that I have a dog and a horse, what is missing is an eagle!

He was staring at the eagle in a daze, when he suddenly felt someone touch him, and turned his head to find Miller winking at him.

Zhang Chi didn't know what he meant.

"Let's go"

So Zhang Chi went out with Miller, went to the house on the far side, opened the door and walked in.

"doing what?"

"Get ready to cook," Miller said.

Zhang Chi wondered, "Do it yourself?"

Miller said with a smile: "Otherwise, the cowboys here have left now, of course we have to do it ourselves. I'll go back with some firewood and light the fire first. The two of us will live in this room tonight."

Zhang Chi was quite surprised, why should he cook by himself?But thinking about the small pot in Charles' room, it's obviously not enough for people like me to eat.

Even if you use a big pot, because the stove is so big, if you put a big pot on it, you can turn the pot even if you move it a little.

Zhang Chi couldn't just sit still, so he got up and went to the firewood pile outside with Miller and came back with a pile of firewood.

I turned on the stove, and slowly there was a little warmth in the room.

Miller came back with a basin. There were two pieces of beef in the basin, as well as some vegetables, potatoes, tomatoes, and a green leafy vegetable. Zhang Chi didn’t know its name. He only knew that he didn’t like the taste of this dish. .

With the fire and the beef, the next thing is simple, put some salt and ingredients on the beef, put it aside and wait for a while to marinate, and Miller starts to cut vegetables.

Seeing Miller's appearance, Zhang Chi couldn't take it anymore, took the knife and began to cut, clang clang clang, three strokes and five cuts, Zhang Chi cut the vegetables.

Miller has eaten the dishes made by Zhang Chi, so it is not surprising that Zhang Chi's knife skills are obvious. When Zhang Chi is all right, Miller unscrews the bottle of salad dressing, pours some sauce into the vegetables, mixes After a while, put it not far from the stove, so that the hot food will not be so cold when eating.

After a while, I started to fry the beef. There is nothing to say about this thing. It doesn’t need any skills to turn it over and fry it. You can eat it when both sides are slightly browned.

"Charles is a hunter? Hunts with a hawk?"

Zhang Chi asked Miller while eating.

Miller replied: "Well, he specializes in catching rabbits. In addition to this eagle, Charles also has two minks. When hunting, put the mink into the rabbit hole. Luckily, the rabbit that is not dead will run out, and the eagle will send it to you." It came in handy. Your ranch is not needed, and your two dogs are good at catching rabbits, by the way, when will the puppy be born?".

"How do I know this, but according to the time, it should be soon. By the way, how is Charles's business?" Zhang Chi thinks this is interesting.

Miller said with a smile: "I can't support myself with this. For Charles, this kind of work is just a play. Even if he doesn't have to do anything, he may live comfortably.

You may not know that he used to have oil fields on his farm, and now those few oil wells can bring him a net income of more than [-] yuan a month.

It is this time every year, he is busy when he is helping Nell around the field, and most of the other time, he is not basking in the sun on the beach in Miami, or enjoying the sunshine and delicious food on a small Caribbean island. It's quite moist."

"So that's how it is." Zhang Chi was a little envious when he heard it.

Drilling an oil well on the ground of one's own house is almost a legend, a legend of getting rich overnight.In many states, if you buy land, everything underground is yours, even if oil is produced, it is yours.

Of course, some states are different, and each state is different from state to state.

Anyway, here, as long as you drill an oil well on your ground, what comes out is not oil but dollars. You don't need to do anything, just wait for the money to be collected.

As for why Charles lived so chicly, but Nell, as his son, struggled to raise cattle, I don't know.

Sometimes Americans divide money very clearly, mine is mine and yours is yours. Even though you are a son, you can’t say that my money is yours. If the old man doesn’t give it to you, it’s still the old man’s.

Hearing Zhang Chi mention this, Miller smiled and said, "Charles' life is enviable. Last year, I heard that he found a girlfriend. He was [-] or [-]. She was a model. I don't know if this year Have you changed it?"

"I understand what people are saying," Zhang Chi said with a smile.

With a net income of US$[-] a month, is it too much to have a model girlfriend in her twenties?

It's not too much, besides, Charles is so old, and he still has a few years to live, if you don't hurry up and enjoy the fun of life, is it possible that the money has not been spent yet?
However, Zhang Chi is not very interested in the old man's love history, and the little crabapple in his twenties pressed by an old pear flower. What he is interested in now is the eagle in the old man's house.

"Is it troublesome to raise an eagle?" Zhang Chi asked.

Now Zhang Chi is just curious, and if he didn't ask anyway, then ask.

"You only need a license. Eagles are bred by others through legal procedures. Of course, if you raise them in your own ranch, no one cares. As long as you don't leave your ranch, there is no problem. Why, do you want to raise eagles?" ? I advise you not to raise it, it is quite troublesome," Miller said.

"I just asked casually, I think it's quite interesting," Zhang Chi said.

Miller laughed and said: "There are many interesting things. Except for a few animals that cannot be kept privately in our state, it seems that all others can be kept."

"What can't be raised?" Zhang Chi asked.

"I don't remember anything else, but you can check it online. I remember that it is impossible to raise a Komodo dragon."

After Zhang Chi heard this, he couldn't help saying: I'm sorry!

Komodo dragons are raised privately?Isn't his brain broken? This guy is a reptile, and his mouth is full of bacteria. If he takes a bite, the whole village may have a feast the next day.

"Tigers and lions are okay too?" Zhang Chi shook out the terrifying image of the Komodo dragon from his mind.

Miller asked with a smile: "Do you know where the most tigers are kept in the world?"

"Russia?" Zhang Chi felt that Lao Maozi's choice was likely to be right.

Miller shook his head and said, "No, it's Texas. According to statistics, thousands of tigers in Texas are kept as pets by private individuals."

"Where did this thing come from?" Zhang Chi was a little suspicious.

Miller said: "This is the United States, where money can buy anything, tigers, lions, elephants, and even all kinds of poisonous snakes, you only need to worry about your own pockets."

(End of this chapter)