pasture leisure

Chapter 205
Zhang Chi came to the stable, took Chiyanshan out of the cubicle, combed his hair, brushed the dust off his body with a soft brush, and finally began to saddle Chiyanshan.

Riding on Chiyan Mountain to the gate of the cowshed, Cannon had already driven the miscellaneous cows out of the cowshed.

At this moment, the sky outside was already hazy and bright, and the ridge to the east was already showing a fish belly. A herd of hundreds of cows came out of the cowshed one by one, lowing.

It can be seen that they are very excited, maybe they don't want to stay in the cowshed and eat dry grass, so as soon as they come out, these guys rush to the piece of green grass at the entrance of the cowshed, happily running over.

But neither Zhang Chi nor Cannon will let them do what they want. It is true to drive them out to eat grass, but it is not to let them take a shortcut to eat the grass at the gate of the cowshed.

"Yo! Drink!"

Cannon yelled loudly, Zhang Chi also took the horse's head, and put Chiyan Mountain between the cattle and the grass, Chiyanshan kept snorting, stepped on the ground with his front hoof, Make a dull rattling sound, threatening the herd.

The cows saw that the green grass over there was too much to eat, so they turned their heads and ran towards the north side of the cowshed.

At this time, Cannon was already on the horseback, and the bull and the two tigers were already standing on the left and right sides of the herd, all staring at Cannon who had just got on the horseback.

"go!"

Cannon spit out a word from his mouth, took off the noose on the saddle, flicked it lightly, and landed on the buttocks of the last cow.

This blow was very light, but it still frightened the cow, mooed and started trotting with four hooves.

Its two moos made the whole herd a little nervous. The cow in the head didn't know what was going on behind, but when it heard the screams of its companions, it instinctively trotted forward.

Wang!Wang!
Daniu and Erhu also ran along with the herd, and the two dogs stared at the herd from left to right, so that all the cattle must be kept within a controllable range.

This group of miscellaneous cows are mostly calves just bought this year, and all of them are newborn calves who are not afraid of tigers, and the scarred farts in front of them are walking slowly with small steps. take a look.

Once they find a loophole, they will immediately leave the herd.

These guys are like sophomores, and they really want to show that they are different.

Generally speaking, what they encounter are either big bulls or two tigers, and the two dogs are not trying to scare them, but will really open their mouths to bite when they are disobedient, but this kind of bite is mostly a bluff.

Not to mention, any cow will feel fearful when facing the bloody mouth of a big bull and two tigers. It will either run back dishonestly, or just stand there and moo, wanting to ask its mother to come and support it Unfortunately, where its mother is, only God knows.

Today, a calf was unlucky and was stopped by Zhang Chi.

A pair of cute and big-eyed little things are quite stubborn, and the long Jiemao is one by one, which reminds Zhang Chi of a song called "Longjiemao Dimple".

No matter how much Ren Zhangchi yelled at the little thing, he didn't move, his hind legs stretched out, and the tip of his tail lifted.

This is not a pooping action, but Maverick wants to stand up to others, that is, to compete with Zhang Chi who is riding on the back of Chiyan Mountain.

Zhang Chi didn't like it, the lasso he had picked up a long time ago was thrown directly onto the calf's back.

Moo!
No matter how stubborn he is, he still knows it hurts. When he climbed up the rope, Maverick turned his head obediently.

"Isn't it splashing bones? If you don't hit, you don't know what's good!"

Zhang Chi said to Mavericks.

The little guy was quite cunning, he wanted to run around with Zhang Chi even after being hit, sometimes he ran left and sometimes right, as if he wanted to play hide-and-seek with Zhang Chi.

How could Zhang Chi be in the mood to play with it at this moment, and it went up a few times, the little guy was really honest now, turned his head and drilled into the cows, until he couldn't see Zhang Chi and Chi Yanshan, then he became honest .

In fact, Zhang Chi had already noticed that it was hiding next to a big cow, and it still aimed its eyes at him from time to time.

"Boss, your cattle driving skills have improved again."

Cannon couldn't help giving Zhang Chi a thumbs up when he saw Zhang Chi's perfect interception this time.

Zhang Chi said with a smile: "Forget it, don't boast."

Zhang Chi knows his own family affairs. Although he is growing, he is still far behind an old cowboy like Cannon.

With more than a year and decades of experience compared to others, what do you think, is your mind full of muddleheadedness?

Let's put it this way, Zhang Chi has to find the calf's movements to catch up, and these old cowboys seem to be able to see what the cow is thinking at a glance. coped.

If the horse is good, then if you take a closer look, you will find that the so-called unity of man and horse is not nonsense.With almost imperceptible movements, they can let the horse know their intentions and carry out orders accurately.

Controlling the horse through subtle movements naturally makes the horse look like it knows what to do.

Zhang Chi can’t do this yet. Although Chiyan Mountain is good, Zhang Chi is indeed a little bit broken, but if you practice this thing again, you will get twice the result with half the effort. There is no time to clean it, and a lot of work. You can't do this step.

And Zhang Chi, a rancher whose work depends entirely on happiness, may not be able to reach this height in his life.

"No, no! Boss, I'm serious, this year's town celebration, why don't you sign up for a bundle of calves, I think you can win something back."

Cannon joked.

Small town celebrations are a common thing in small towns in the United States. Every small town has its own founding day and the like. Anyway, it's similar to this kind of thing.

The town was established on this day. Of course, many of these things are just legends. It doesn’t mean that all small towns don’t know the year and day when they were inhabited, or the specific day when they were formed, but many small towns are I really don't understand how many people can count as a small town?How do you say this thing, different eras have different standards.

You can't get together with two families and say this is a town.

This is the case in the small town of Amber, for example.

There is no accurate timetable for its establishment in history. Fortunately, the people here don't care about anything. Anyway, they randomly point out a day when everyone is not too busy, so let it be. From then on, this has become the establishment of the town. day.

Not many people really care about this thing, especially many small towns in the west were almost all established during the great development of the west.

Americans at that time, specifically referring to white Americans who came all the way west with their families and belongings. They took a fancy to the land, left a mark, and then paid a small amount of money for the land to be recognized by the U.S. government as theirs.

As for whether there were Indians on the ground, they didn't care. If they were driven away, they just killed those who were unwilling to leave. In the eyes of white Americans at that time, the Indians were not even as good as their own livestock.

For example, Thanksgiving, this holiday is still disturbed by many people in China.

But what is it actually?A group of European vagabonds came here by boat. At that time, the boats were only so big, weighing several hundred tons, and they were almost broken into pieces when they traveled from Europe to America.

When they got here, they didn't eat or drink, and they were about to die. The kind Indians gave these people food and drink, and helped them settle down, so Thanksgiving came like this.

After that, everyone will know that these European whites are really grateful, and they almost wiped out the Indians.

No one will mention this kind of shit. Many so-called town establishment days are actually the days when the nearby Indians were driven away and killed.

Fortunately, the establishment date of Amber Town is nonsense. No one knows what year and day Amber Town was established, but everyone else celebrates the festival, so we have to find a day to live it.

So a group of people discussed it and picked a day from the calendar. They thought it was a good day, so we celebrated the holiday on this day.

After almost a few decades, this day is really deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. People in Amber Town feel that we were established on this day.

Even Amber thought so at the beginning, until one day, he saw that his foot was still a swamp a hundred years ago.

A swamp was inhabited two or three hundred years ago. Isn’t that nonsense?
Nonsense is nonsense, but Zhang Chi is still willing to join in the excitement of the town's festival.

In fact, the festival is when everyone is free, eats, drinks, fights and fights together, mainly to relax, and everything else is nonsense.

Regardless of the small population, people are very serious about the holidays. In Amber Town, which is not as big as a village in China, everyone starts working more than a month ago every year.

The founding day of Amber Township was in the middle of June. The weather was very good at this time, around [-] degrees. Just let the sheep go out to eat, and the farm is not busy, and it will take a month for the crops to be harvested.

So every family rushed to celebrate the festival.

How could Zhang Chi be in the mood to do these things last year? People in Amber Town didn't approve of Zhang Chi.

But this year is different. Zhang Chi had to participate, otherwise he would appear to be a bit out of the group, and would not regard himself as an Amber person.

Cannon also knew that, so he encouraged Zhang Chi to apply for a project by himself, traditional western projects such as driving cattle, riding cattle, and winding barrels. There are prizes, but they won't be worth much.

Usually it's a belt buckle, or a rein and whip, and saddles are rare, because the budget for each prize is dozens of yuan, and any more will exceed the budget.

Chatting with Cannon, the two drove the cattle to an empty field where they grazed.

The two had to go back and drive Gascony out.

After the two batches of cows were finished, the two went back to the house for dinner, and then it was time for Cannon to shovel cow dung in the cowshed.

Zhang Chi also has something to do today, he has to water the pasture.

(End of this chapter)