pasture leisure

Chapter 304 busy
Zhang Chi muttered softly: The guys who collect money are always so active.

Towards the direction of the crowd, Zhang Chi walked slowly. When he was halfway there, he met a cowboy returning from a Colorado ranch. Zhang Chi knew him but was not familiar with it. But now, he is quite familiar with it.

"What's going on over there, who is it?" Zhang Chi asked.

The cowboy replied: "People from the Internal Revenue Service, except for them, came here with their noses smelling of money. This time, they said that all the cattle found in the mountains should be unified at the current market price. Collect taxes. These people are really poor and crazy.”

Zhang Chi didn't quite understand it, but anyway, he knew that his herd of cattle was picked up, but a bunch of dogs didn't spend any effort, but wanted to take a large part of his hard earned.

Don't think that just give some money and you're done. If this thing doesn't charge you more than [-] points, it won't be called US taxation.

reluctant!
But what if you can't bear it?People have big fists, so they have to listen to them.

Continue to walk towards the crowd, and when they arrive, Zhang Chi stands beside Melika.

Melika was looking at the tax bureau staff who were counting the cattle with Cannon and others. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a person standing beside her, so she turned her head and took a look.

Finding it was Zhang Chi, he smiled and said, "Are you awake?"

Zhang Chi nodded and hummed, and then asked Melika, "Why did these guys come so early? It would be great if they could come so soon when my ranch loses something."

Zhang Chi, who was talking sarcasticly, kept looking at the staff.

Melika chuckled twice, without saying a word, and continued to look at the staff, as if she was afraid that they would blackmail one of her calves.

The counting of the cows here is a bit slow. I don’t know whether Cannon did it on purpose or how. In short, one cow is passed by one cow, and they have to be tagged. It takes a lot of time for each cow. You must know that there are two thousand cows here. Bulls, even if half of the cows are ear tagged and branded with the ranch's mark, how long will it take in total?

Anyway, Cannon is not in a hurry, and the cowboys at Zhangchi Ranch are not in a hurry. What is in a hurry is this group of staff. Since they want to collect first-hand data, they have to wait honestly, or they will end up on their own number.

The ability of these numbers is probably not as good as that of Zhang Chi. There may be professionals such as accountants among them, but their profession obviously does not help the numbers.

The staff actually saw that the cowboys at Zhangchi Ranch didn't like them very much. In fact, they also knew that they were not welcome, and they probably got used to it.

At this time, they were not as righteous as those shown in the TV series. They were tall and handsome, and the women were either beautiful or temperamental.

Now this group of people is standing in front of Zhang Chi, most of them are ordinary people, and there are two crooked melons and bad dates mixed in, which looks a bit painful.

Zhang Chi didn't want to see these people, so he recruited Brian.

Brian came over and opened his mouth to ask, "Boss, what's the matter?"

Zhang Chi stretched out his hand and nodded: "Tell Cannon not to torment them, quickly count the numbers, and let them get out of my ranch."

How can Zhang Chi, the branch chief, talk about it, build relationships, a bunch of small soldiers who are counting cattle, Zhang Chi is not willing to chat with them.

Brian laughed and said, "Okay, I'll go over and tell him that everyone sees these guys as dissatisfied, and find a way to rectify them. Since you said so, let's not bother with them."

Hearing what Brian said, Zhang Chi couldn't help turning his head to look at Melika.

Seeing Zhang Chi looking at her, Melika smiled, and Zhang Chi didn't know if it was Melika's intention.

Cannon and the others are not afraid of retaliation when they make trouble for these people, because as long as you don’t break the law, they can’t do anything about it.

Of course, there are such things as jacking up tanks and being tortured into tricks, but these two tricks are not used by people like Zhang Chi Ranch. Generally speaking, such tricks are used on people with no relatives, no background, and no money. Generally speaking, ranchers like Zhang Chi don't have nothing to do.

Brian went over to speak to Cannon.

Cannon asked everyone to count first, that is, count the number of cows, and at the same time classify big cows and small cows. The price of big cows and small cows is different.

With Zhang Chi's words, everyone moved too fast. In less than [-] minutes, the number of cattle was counted out, and a total of [-] cattle were brought back, including [-] cows. There were seventy-nine bulls, and all the rest were calves.

Melika already knew the number of cows. In fact, people like Cannon had counted them in the morning, and now they are counting again here, just for fun.

"Have you thought about what to do with these cows now?" Melika asked.

Zhang Chi really thought about it, and opened his mouth and said: "Transport a batch to the ranch in Colorado. The density of that ranch is too small. I think it can be loaded with more than [-] heads?"

But Melika shook her head: "I can't fit so many cows, you forgot, there is still fodder for the horse farm in China."

"How much food can a horse eat!"

Zhang Chi felt that the horse farm he had seen was indeed quite big, but no matter how big the horse farm was, there were only a few hundred horses in it. Melika had thousands of acres in the pasture, and her big beard grass had already been planted. Come on, are you afraid you won’t be able to raise so many cows?

"There are quite a few, I think so, let's put all this batch of cattle on the pasture here, and transport the original Gascony cattle to the pasture in Colorado, and sell all the offal cattle," Melika said.

Hearing Melika's words, Zhang Chi thought for a while, and there was nothing he could do for a while. This was a trouble of happiness. There were more cows at home, but there was not enough land for the pasture. You said it was caused by this.

"I still want to buy a ranch," Zhang Chi said with a long sigh, looking at the cattle.

Melika also nodded, and said in agreement: "I'm going to buy it. I didn't make it last time. Let's be more cautious this time."

"Pick and choose, anyway, we have money in our hands," Zhang Chi said.

When Melika heard what Zhang Chi said, she couldn't help being happy, and said with a smile: "You seem to be quite good at it."

"No, no, you are much better at this than I am. You operate, and I... will cover you from behind," Zhang Chi said with a laugh.

Now the entire ranch is full of cows as far as the eye can see. The density was a bit high in the past, but now it’s alright, and the cows are almost squeezed.

Although it seems that our Chinese mu is more than [-] mu, and there are more than [-] cows, and one cow can almost be placed on one mu of land.

It looks like it’s quite big, but it’s actually not that big. There are still woods on the Zhangchi Ranch, and the water in the creek is not dry yet. Once the messy area is reduced, don’t you think it’s all Niu, what else can there be.

After counting the numbers, the group left with the data.

Zhang Chi rolled up his sleeves and started working with Cannon and others.

The job is simple to say, but it is a bit time-consuming, and it is not a heavy job. It is to brand the cow with the mark of the pasture, and by the way, put a label on the cow's ears, with the basic information of the cow written on it, that is, the height and weight.

If you want to find out your height and weight, you must have a scale, which Zhangchi Ranch does not have. The scales you are using now must be rented.

As for what to borrow, Americans seem to be unaccustomed to it, unlike our good neighbors, who can borrow even a bag of salt. Everything can be rented.

"This thing is well done!"

Zhang Chi saw the newly made column and couldn't help but praise it.

This thing looks quite simple, there is a bell mouth, through which the herd of cattle enters, and at the end of the horn eye, only one cow can pass through.

If it is a cow with a calf, usually the calf passes first, and the cow follows the calf and it is easy to pass.

The trumpet eye is followed by an aisle of two or three meters. Under the aisle, there is a scale, and no matter whether it is a calf or a big cow, it must pass through this scale.

When you pass by, you can’t run, because there are fences at the front and back of the scale. After the previous cow passes, the fence will be closed, and when the cow enters, the fence behind will also be closed, so that a cow is trapped here. In the middle of a fence.

In this way, the cow can only stand on the scale.

Honestly waited until the weight was finished and the shoulder height was measured before being released by the cowboy.

After it was released, it was still a passage with fences on both sides, and an iron fixed fence at the end.

This thing has been around for a long time. The same Cannon designed it. The two of them took the welding machine and ordered it by themselves. Where it needs to be reinforced, it is directly attached to the iron bolt. The cross flower has a three-way plug head, which can be connected directly.

There are two tasks to be completed in the fixed column, the same is to label the cow’s ears, the height and weight recorded just now have been recorded, and together with the number of the cow, they are entered into the label, and then passed through the labeling machine, Punch into the cow's ear.

Since then, the cow has a fixed account.

As for the matter of branding, needless to say, Zhang Chi took a lot of detours, until Cannon joined in, and the matter of branding was officially settled.

The current brand of Zhangchi Ranch, that is, the imprint of the ranch, is still a zhang character, with a circle hanging outside the Chinese character zhang, which is quite common for us Chinese, but for Americans, this logo is a bit trendy.

It’s like in China, if you make an English design, everyone thinks that even if it’s tasteless, it still has a bit of foreign style. If you mix Chinese characters with English in every country, many people will think it’s very Internet. Nashen NO.

Not only for the current ranch, but starting this year, the imprint of the Colorado ranch has also been replaced with a zigzag pattern. After all, Melika is also surnamed Zhang now.

Melika Mary Zhang, this is not covered, it is written on legal documents.

The current Zhangchi Ranch uses dry ice, and the branding head is thrown into the dry ice tank, and it is taken out to be branded on the hind leg of the cow in the fixed fence, and it will be ready after waiting for dozens of seconds.

(End of this chapter)