pasture leisure

Chapter 17 Aunt Phil

As soon as the seat was flattened, he heard someone knocking on his car window. He straightened up and saw Cannon standing beside his window with a smile.

Sit up and press the window.

"Is everything done?" Zhang Chi asked Cannon.

Cannon nodded: "It's all sold, and now only the handover is left. How about you, how about you, have you seen a suitable calf?"

Zhang Chi signaled Cannon to get in the car, but Cannon waved his hand directly and continued chatting with Zhang Chi through the car window.

"The Mavericks saw it, but they just don't know if they can buy it," Zhang Chi said.

Walking around in the morning, Zhang Chi saw some satisfied calves, but the sellers brought a lot of calves, at least two or three hundred. Zhang Chi thought that the competitiveness of his own pocket might not be enough.

"Buying cattle is a matter of chance. Sometimes you can buy good cattle with less money, and sometimes you can't match the satisfactory cattle with money in your pocket. This is a common habit. The main thing is to buy more cattle. Visit this type of auction," Cannon said with a smile.

"I think so too. Shop around more, buy some if the price is right, and if the price is not right, come here and learn more," Zhang Chi said cheerfully.

"I'm sorry about the last time, I have to work overtime in the temporary ranch," Cannon said about the last dinner appointment.

Zhang Chi said: "It's okay, let's get together again at some time."

"I'm afraid there will be no time during this period, and it will be two weeks at the earliest," Cannon said.

"Oh, are you still this busy?"

Zhang Chi is a little strange. It stands to reason that spring should not be busy at this time, because in winter, the cattle need to add feed and so on. There is no grass in the pasture, so the stored hay is fed to the cows, and the cowboys have to transport the forage to the cowshed. , This may sound like nothing, but if your pasture has five or six thousand cows going up, then this is not an easy job.

Feeding grass and shoveling cow dung, the cowboy can't stop for almost a day.

Especially the ranch where Cannon works, the main business is grazing cattle rather than captive breeding, and the workload of the cowboys is quite heavy.

"I'm busy with breeding now, and our big boss is coming over in a few days, so...".

Speaking of this, Cannon turned his hands, which means that you understand it in our country.

Superficial skills are also very common here. When we were in China, we felt that when the leader came, it was called a busy job everywhere, such as cleaning the streets, tidying up, and so on, which felt a bit fake.But here is the same, if the No. [-] boss comes to Folsom, the mayor of Folsom is estimated to be able to turn over the whole Folsom.

This is also the case in the ranch. Generally speaking, the big boss rarely lives in the ranch, and the ranch manager takes care of it every day, so when the big boss comes, the manager has to be stunned for a while. If the manager is stunned, the cowboys under him will have to I'm so busy.

After discussing this matter with Kan Min for more than half an hour, Zhang Chi was also willing to listen to such a ranch, as if he was listening to a novel.It's new to Zhang Chi, a kid who used to deliver food doesn't know the messy things in the ranch.

"It's almost time, let's go in, the auction will start soon, I'll go back here, if I have time, I will go to the auction site to ask you to look at the calf for you." Cannon said and patted Zhang Chi's window, turned and walked away.

Zhang Chi locked the car door and headed for the auction.

When I arrived at the auction site, I found that there were more people in the afternoon than in the morning, and it felt crowded. When I came in in the morning, I could find a place at will. Now, as long as it is a good place, it is occupied by people.

After all, there are still many poor people in this world, and there are only so many people if the afternoon show does not open.

After finally finding a place, it was still in a corner, and the auctioneer couldn't see it unless he turned his head.

As soon as the buttocks sat on the seat, the auction began. The auctioneer didn't talk too much nonsense, and after a few opening sentences, he introduced the first batch of calves.

The first batch of calves are breed cattle, but the body shape is not very good, and calves that are too good will not be used as warm-up shots at the opening of the afternoon.

Before Zhang Chi yelled, someone's price had already exceeded the ceiling set by Zhang Chi's pocket.

have to!Just watch it.

In the first two or three dials, Zhang Chi didn't let Zhang Chi shout. When the fourth dial came, when ten Simmental cattle drove into the center of the auction, Zhang Chi didn't have a chance to speak.

Although these calves were not expensive and the final transaction price was fair, Zhang Chi still couldn't afford it.

After more than an hour, Zhang Chi finally waited until Ping Niu appeared.

This time Zhang Chi could shout one or two times, but Zhang Chi's bid was soon overtaken.

However, soon Zhang Chi's luck came. The auctioneer called out the reserve price for a batch of twenty calves. I raised my hand.

"Two hundred and ten, this gentleman offered two hundred and ten per head." The auctioneer was a little excited when he saw Zhang Chi, and shouted to the audience if anyone had paid more than this price.

Zhang Chi didn't expect that no one would bid.

The quality of this batch of calves is average, and the overall level is also average. For three or four hundred pounds of calves, it's okay, that's it, or it's okay, it's okay.

This situation made some experienced ranchers and managers a little hesitant. For them, such calves are too common, and the reserve price is not low.

It's a bit tasteless, so let's bid by yourself. This price is a bit uneconomical, so the auctioneer called for almost a minute, but no one covered the price Zhang Chi shouted.

Zhang Chi never thought that he would take pictures of this batch of calves. He heard the auctioneer's small hammer hit the small wooden board on the stage, and Zhang Chi knew that his pasture had already had the first batch of calves. .

After getting the first batch of calves, Zhang Chi felt that he was stunned all of a sudden, and he was ready to continue to win the next three or four batches.

But the ideal is very full, the reality is very skinny, and then Zhang Chi just opened his mouth,

At the end of the whole auction, Zhang Chi still had twenty calves in his hands, nothing changed.

The next thing is simple, Zhang Chi goes to swipe the card, the auctioneer prepares the materials for the cow, the buyer and the seller sign, and waits for the money in Zhang Chi's bank to be credited to the auctioneer's account, then the transaction will be officially completed up.

Holding the bank settlement receipt, Zhang Chi went to the designated place to pull the cattle.

Only then did Zhang Chi realize that the trailer he rented seemed to be a bit small, it could only pull ten cows at most, but he bought twenty.

It was the first time Zhang Chi bought a cow. His head was not his head, his butt was not his butt. He was not forward-looking. He underestimated his own behavior. If he was an old rancher, he would definitely not make such a mistake. How many cows to buy before coming here, I have already planned, and the trailer I brought must have a margin.

What about Zhang Chi?I rented a car and was just thinking about saving money, but now that I bought a cow, I was a little dumbfounded.It was found that the trailer could not transport so many cattle.

As a livestock auction, it will definitely provide such services. People who Zhang Chi didn't consider are quite considerate. The only trouble is that Zhang Chi has to pay for it.

Qian Zhangchi really couldn't escape, so he had to find a passerby to ask where the car was rented, and then ran away.

"Zhang Chi!"

Hurrying to the place, I was afraid that there would be no one there if it was too late, and the cows I bought would be a little troublesome. Who knew that before I arrived at the place where I rented a car, I heard someone calling me.

Following the voice, I found that it was an acquaintance.

"Phil!"

The person calling Zhang Chi was a white man, about forty-five or sixteen, tall and strong, dressed like a year-round farmer, wearing a gray long-brimmed baseball cap on his head, clothes and trousers of the same color, and a pair of feet on his feet. Brown half-height boots.

Phil's daughter-in-law and Zhang Chi's aunt are friends, a strange woman who married to the United States from the Northeast.

Why do you talk about strange women? There are plenty of stories about this. It is said that Phil, who was in his twenties at the time, met this northeastern girl and thought she was pretty.

At that time, Phil was relatively simple, and believed in the legends about Chinese girls in the society, such as being gentle and pleasant, and obedient at home.

This is like how Chinese netizens view RB girls on the Internet. They think that RB girls are the kind of soft-spoken girls. When they see you coming home, they immediately bend over and say: You are back or something. .

In fact, this is not the case at all. Who lives like this all day long, let alone what age it is.

Having said that, Phil has also been poisoned by the Internet. He feels that American girls are a bit too egotistical and difficult to grasp. Oriental girls are better, with soft bodies, good skin and no hair on their bodies. There is no need to remove hair from time to time.

So he fell in love with the current Aunt Phil, and it felt good when they met, so the two got married smoothly.

After getting married, good guy, Aunt Phil's true nature was exposed, and the two started fighting. Don't look at Phil as a tall man, but Aunt Phil was so ruthless when she fought, she was stunned by herself The [-]-meter-tall man retreated steadily from the [-]-meter-long Felgan.

After several defeats, Phil finally became honest. Phil was not a strong character at first, but he was gradually trained by Aunt Phil to become a Chinese husband. The kind of application.

But Aunt Phil is also a good housekeeper. Not only does she train her husband well, she also manages everything in the house neatly.

Well, everyone knows that it is common to spend money today, but when Aunt Phil is in charge of the house, Phil finds out that the family, which was so full of moonlight, is actually saving money.

During the financial crisis a few years ago, other families were living on their own fingers. Under the management of Aunt Phil, their family expanded their farm several times with the money they saved.

Anyway, it is in response to the old saying: Listen to your wife and you will have food.

Seeing this, Zhang Chi asked with a smile, "Are you also here to buy cattle?"

Phil laughed and said, "We're here to sell pigs."

While talking, pointing to the side, Zhang Chi found that Aunt Phil was talking to a few people. Seeing Zhang Chi looking towards him, he talked to the people next to him and walked to Zhang Chi.

"Da Chizi, I heard that you bought a ranch? You didn't tell your aunt when you moved to a new house." Aunt Phil asked straightforwardly.

Zhang Chi said: "Auntie, don't make fun of me. My corner place can still be called a new house? Besides, there is nothing in it, not even a place to stay. I will borrow it from my uncle's mother's house for the time being." The RV lives."

"I heard what your aunt said, but no matter what you say, you have a place to stay. As long as you work hard, your life will get better. I think it wasn't just a small farm when I married this guy." Fei Aunt Er said with a smile.

Aunt Phil uses Chinese, and Zhang Chi uses English. Because Phil doesn’t understand Chinese, it would be impolite for Zhang Chi to use Chinese. The three of you are standing here chatting with the two of you standing next to someone who doesn’t understand at all. , what is that called.

(End of this chapter)