pasture leisure

Chapter 31 The Mavericks Arrive
Ten minutes later, Zhang Chi poured the cow out, and found that the wound on the cow's buttocks had healed up, so he threw the cow back into the gourd again.

Just as I was about to continue sprinkling water, I suddenly heard the phone ring.

I took it out and found that it was Lao Xu calling.

"We're at the door."

After hearing this, Zhang Chi immediately stepped onto Chiyan Mountain, threw the drone aside and rushed to the door.

When I got to the door, I saw seven or eight pickup trucks lined up in front of my ranch.

Old Xu was sitting in the first car, and immediately got out of the car when he saw Zhang Chi.

Zhang Chi opened the door, reached out and shook hands with Lao Xu: "Why are there so many cars?"

Old Xu smiled and said: "We transport all by ourselves. It costs a lot of money to find a car. Every penny we save here is our own. We just need to work harder."

"That's good too," Zhang Chi said with a smile.

Of course, working outside is something you can do by yourself, so don’t hire someone. The truck charges here are too expensive. If you don’t live here for a while, you can’t think about how expensive it is to hire a driver here.

Opened the ranch gate and let the car in.

Old Xu beckoned, several cars entered the ranch one by one, and followed Zhang Chi to the side of the RV.

The next thing was to unload the truck, and Lao Xu and his gang didn't let Lao Xu do anything, everyone hurriedly started unloading the truck.

Zhang Chi watched the group of people unloading the car, and soon found a different person among the group of people. This is a middle-aged man, about sixty, wearing a pair of glasses, looking gentle. , was obviously different from the crowd next to him, with an obvious bookish air on his breath.

Zhang Chi was very curious to see this person, but he didn't ask.

These people unloaded the car very quickly, and when the unloading was almost finished, Lao Xu came to Zhang Chi's side.

"Tomorrow you remove the trailer, and we will start working as soon as we arrive. Tomorrow, we will first lay down a few piles to erect the foundation, and start building in the afternoon...".

"Can it be done in one morning?" Zhang Chi asked.

Old Xu said: "You can only do this here, it's too much to really dig something...".

The money given by Zhang Chi is too little. All the places that need to be saved have to be saved, including the foundation. If you follow the normal way, you have to dig the soil and pour cement or something, but now Zhang Chi’s little money is not enough at all. .

Now we can only lay down a few simple foundations, and then start to build a house on this foundation, but this is also good, that is, the house can be moved, and when you want to change the place, you can just use the car to move it.

"You guys are professional, do what you think is best," Zhang Chi said.

Old Xu said: "For the time being, maybe after two years you earn money and want to build a bigger house and hire people to help, then this house can be moved to another place and used as a dormitory for workers."

"I would like to borrow your auspicious words," Zhang Chi said with a smile.

"What auspicious words, that's for sure, but when you want to build a big house, you must find me again. If you don't find me, I will be sad." Old Xu is very flattering.

Zhang Chi said: "For sure, if I don't look for you, who would I go to, Lao Mo? I don't know them well, and we Chinese people can rely on us to live when we are away from home."

"That's right, that's right, but not all Chinese people can rely on them. Those people in the past were not so good," Old Xu added.

Everyone understood what Old Xu was talking about.

Zhang Chi glanced at this time, and saw the bookish middle-aged man again.

Lao Xu followed Zhang Chi's gaze and said, "Do you know Lao Chen?"

"I don't know him, I think this person is a bit special, he doesn't look like he works on a construction site," Zhang Chi said.

After hearing this, Lao Xu gave Zhang Chi a thumbs up: "Your vision is really poisonous."

Zhang Chi didn't have the nerve to say that I've been delivering food for more than ten years. If I don't have the skills to do this, then I'm still alive. I'll hang myself with a piece of noodles.

Old Xu said again: "If you want to say that this old Chen is also... tsk tsk! I used to work very well in China. A vice president of a university, who didn't know what was wrong, brought his family to the United States. Here, I thought it was heaven, who knew that no one wanted to find a teaching position.

The vice-principal of the university, there is no school here that I can see. In the end, I really had no choice.

When I went back to the country, I found that my former subordinates and classmates were all better than him. They were promoted, and they were in politics. They could also start a business and become a boss. What about him... …Hey!

So, this person has no unbearable hardships, only unbearable blessings."

Zhang Chi understood now, it turned out that this person is really a person who has read a lot of books.

Now there is a saying that it is double risk. What is double risk? It refers to people who come to the United States. There are two kinds of people who can get along better.

One is rich people, needless to say, if you are a rich man, you can live a very comfortable life here in the United States. This kind of comfort is unimaginable for people of Zhang Chi's level.

One is to do hard work in China, and if you can bear the hardships, you can drive a truck here, be an electrician or something, at least you can support your family and live a small life.

The last group of people who can’t come is the middle group. They have good jobs in China and their social status is good. If you come to the United States and want to live a decent life in China, it is generally impossible. Think about the benefits here. Position, a comfortable job can be your turn?
Even if Xiaobai doesn't do it, there is still politically correct Xiaohei, so it's Xiaohuang's turn.

It’s like the old Chen in Lao Xu’s mouth. Life is comfortable in China, but when I came to the United States, I found that the United States is not a paradise, but it is obviously a hell. I just want to face and have no face to go back. Even if I go back, the original seat It is impossible to wait for him, and can only endure in the United States.

Gossip less.

After Lao Xu had a few words with Zhang Chi, the car had already been unloaded.

Lao Xu didn't want to stay any longer, he had so many things on his hands, if he didn't hurry up to earn money now, he would suffer for building a house when the weather got colder in winter.

This group of people came and went quickly. If it weren't for the pile of wood not far from the caravan, Zhang Chi felt that they had never been here.

"broken!"

Zhang Chi sent Lao Xu and a group of people out, and then remembered that the cow was still in the gourd. He took the cow out and looked, and found that the cow had grown a lot, and it stood out among the cows.

The injury on the buttocks has healed, but the few marks are still a bit shocking.

But this is the end of the matter, don't say anything else, you can't kill this cow.

After thinking for a while, Zhang Chi decided to let it go.

"You will be called Scar Fart from now on."

Looking at the sturdy calf, Zhang Chi gave the calf a new name: scar fart, which means the butt with long scars, which is very suitable for the occasion, but it is still Zhang Chi's characteristic, without much literary talent.

After Lao Xu left, the water had to continue to be sprinkled.

Even when the sun was setting, Zhang Chi had no intention of calling it a day. Instead, he continued to work with something to eat, and continued to work until almost twelve o'clock, before washing up and going back to sleep in the RV.

The next day, after moving the RV to the side for [-] meters, I continued to work.

In the morning, Lao Xu brought a few people over to lay down the cement piles, and in the afternoon, another group of people came and started to put on airs.

The wooden houses here are not directly built on the ground. The ground of the house and the real ground are raised by about [-] centimeters.

The main load-bearing of the house is not the wall but the wooden frame. It has beams and columns, which is a bit like our ancient buildings, but without the mortise and tenon technology, this kind of house is much worse than our ancient buildings in terms of earthquake resistance.

No, the building of the house is not like building blocks, it is basically building blocks. The frame and various boards are all produced in the factory, and they can be shipped here and installed directly. Even if there is a little problem, old Xu The few woodworking machines that come with it can be easily solved.

That speed is so fast. In two days, the frame of the house was erected.

The framework here was erected, and Lao Xu on the other side divided up the manpower to build a fodder house and a cowshed for Zhang Chi, which made it easier.

Of course, the main reason is that Zhang Chi can't afford to let others do complicated tasks.

Don't bother Zhang Chi about everything. They even bring their own cooks, and they buy food and cook it themselves. Zhang Chi only needs to fill his stomach.

The cowshed frame came together, and the cheap cattle bought by Zhang Chi over there arrived.

The first batch.

Five heavy-duty trucks, and they were all Volvos, had already caused a commotion in the town before they arrived at the gate of Zhang Chi's ranch with the calves.

In a small town with bigger farts, farts from the east end can be smelled from the west end. If a long truck appears in the town, it must mean that someone is buying cattle, or someone is selling cattle.

A group of idle cowboys who were drinking in the small bar came out early, holding glasses and bottles in their hands, watching the excitement while drinking.

Seeing the calf on the car, the cowboys were so happy.

The betting market that fell directly to Zhang Chi fell like a dive. It's not that these cowboys are optimistic about Zhang Chi, but they are even less optimistic about him. They think that he can survive this year, which is all for Zhang Chi.

Who, as a cowboy, can't tell a good calf from a bad one?It's better to pick out the eyeballs and sell them for money.

Everyone recognized at a glance that this was a calf eliminated by a large ranch, because most of these calves had a bad stomach, that is, it was difficult to absorb no matter how much they ate. Now that the breeding system is in place, there is no need to raise this kind of calf before.

If you raise them up, it's better to save money on grass fodder.

"This guy named George is in trouble," a cowboy in his early thirties said with a smile to his partner next to him.

"The bottom of the pocket" echoed next to him.

The guy next to him also said with a smile at this time: "It's a big step closer to selling the ranch, but I don't know which ranch has been eliminated, but there are quite a few. There are probably more than [-] in this few cars." ".

At this time, the cowboy who just joined in said: "It was shipped from California. I heard that it was shipped from California Star Ranch. I don't know how this ranch is?"

“Great ranch”

……

Mason was also standing among the cowboys with a wine bottle at this time, and heard the group of cowboys discussing: "Star Ranch is not too big in California. Its main ranches are in Kentucky and New York State. The California ranch is mainly for training. Raising Thoroughbred Horses and Cattle Breeding Selection".

"Old Mason, you know?"

The cowboy next to him asked curiously.

"I used to work at Star Ranch"

"How's the treatment over there?"

Nosy cowboys asked.

Mason didn't answer, but just raised the wine bottle in his hand and took a sip of the wine lightly.

No one noticed Mason's expression, and the cowboys next to him were all elated, as if they had seen a small ranch go bankrupt.

(End of this chapter)