pasture leisure

Chapter 367
When we arrived at the newly bought ranch, it was almost dark. Zhang Chi and Melika first settled the cowboy wages for the help.

After a few temporary cowboys left the ranch with their wages.

Zhang Chi said to Cannon and the others: "Go back and rest, I will be on duty tonight."

Cannon said: "Boss, it's worth it for me. You have been busy for several days, and I sleep lightly...".

Zhang Chi waved his hand and said: "Don't push this way, I'll come tonight, you all go back and take a good bath and rest, tomorrow morning you have to brand the cow or something, some are busy. Let's all go back."

As he spoke, Zhang Chi waved his hands at Cannon and the others.

Suddenly remembered something, and said: "Tonight is a rest, and you have to eat a good meal before going to bed. Don't just think about sleeping. There are plenty of things in the refrigerator in the office. As for vegetables and so on, I have them in my small vegetable garden. They just pick up whatever they want to eat."

"Good boss!"

A group of cowboys responded one after another, then rode out of the ranch, and returned to Zhang Chi Ranch along the horse trail.

Waiting for only Zhang Chi and Melika to be left in the ranch, the two chatted for a while, and Melika started to fry the steak. When the steak was ready, Melika was going to call Zhang Chi in the living room. After leaving the kitchen door, I found that my husband was already lying on the sofa, snoring loudly.

Melika knew that Zhang Chi was tired. During the journey for almost a week, it was strange that he was not tired from eating and sleeping in the open air. But at this moment, she couldn't let Zhang Chi sleep like this. She hadn't eaten anything for almost a day, so she had to wake up and eat enough. sleep again?
"Hey, wake up, eat something before going to sleep."

Melika gently pushed her husband up.

Zhang Chi opened his eyes and sat up in a daze, waiting for Melika to serve the fried and sliced ​​steak, Zhang Chi couldn't open his eyes again.

At first I was sleepy, but I could persist. Now that I slept for a while, not only did it not relieve the sleepiness, but it was even more sleepy than before. I was so sleepy that I couldn't lift my eyelids.

Melika took a fork and put the beef into Zhang Chi's mouth, and started to feed Zhang Chi.

"Go to sleep after eating, and leave it to me to watch the cows tonight," Melika said while feeding Zhang Chi a steak.

Zhang Chi shook his head instinctively: "No, I'll do it myself, you're pregnant."

Seeing her husband in a daze, still caring about her pregnant self, reluctant to let her work, an indescribable feeling suddenly surged in her heart.

Zhang Chi ate a few pieces of steak indiscriminately, and then lay down again.

When sleepiness hit, Zhang Chi fell asleep all of a sudden.

Melika tidied up the tableware, and brought Daniel and Erhu to the side of the cattle herd.

Zhang Chi fell asleep here, but subconsciously always felt that there was something lingering in his heart. After thinking about it carefully in his dream, he couldn't remember what it was, so Zhang Chi became anxious. Chi opened his eyes.

At this moment, most of the drowsiness is gone.

Zhang Chi took out his mobile phone and looked at it, and found that it was already two and a half in the morning, and he had slept for about six and a half hours.

Getting up, Zhang Chi stood at the door of the house where Nell lived, and looked in the direction of the pasture.

call out!
Zhang Chi whistled, and Chi Yanshan, who was grazing and almost recovered a little strength, ran over immediately when he heard the master's call.

Zhang Chi reached out and stroked Chi Yanshan's bridge of nose: "Old man, let's hold on a little longer, and we can have a good rest after dawn."

Howling!
I don't know if Chi Yanshan understood, snorted, shook his head, and rubbed Zhang Chi's shoulder affectionately.

The original saddle was on the railing in front of the house, Zhang Chi grabbed it casually, put the saddle on Chiyan Mountain, and Zhang Chi rode the horse and ran towards the cattle.

Coming to the side of the herd, Zhang Chi heard Melika's voice.

"wake up?"

Zhang Chi looked strange: "Why are you here? I didn't let you go home to rest?"

Melika smiled and said, "No!"

Zhang Chi said this, but Melika didn't listen, and now she said there was no such thing.

It was late at night, and Zhang Chi couldn't see the weird smile on his wife's face. He thought he hadn't said anything, so he said, "Then go home now... don't go home, go back to the house Go get a good night's sleep. Fortunately, the house was not demolished immediately, or there would be no place to sleep now."

"Let me come, you go back and sleep for a while," Melika said.

Zhang Chi said: "Okay, you go to rest, if you don't think about yourself, you have to think about my daughter, be obedient."

Speaking of which, Zhang Chi came to Melika's side and found that she was not riding a horse, so he got off the horse first and motioned for Melika to ride his Chiyan Mountain.

Melika had no choice, she also knew that sometimes Zhang Chi was stubborn, so she honestly rode up Chiyan Mountain, just like this Zhang Chi led the horse, Melika rode on the horseback, and the couple faced each other. The direction of the house went over.

While walking and chatting, Melika felt sleepy after a while. After all, she was not in a normal state, and now her body did not allow her to be aggressive.

When she got to the house, Melika lay down directly on the sofa where Zhang Chi used to sleep, and covered it with the blanket that Zhang Chi had just covered.

"Go to bed and sleep, the sofa is uncomfortable to sleep on," Zhang Chi said.

Melika shook her head: "Forget it, I may not be able to sleep on the bed, let's stay here."

After Zhang Chi heard this, he stopped persuading him. He knew his daughter-in-law's weirdness, so he helped her pull the blanket, and after waiting for Melika to breathe evenly, he left the room and closed the door carefully. He rode on Chiyan Mountain and returned to the cattle herd.

At this moment, the herd of cattle also has no energy to make a fuss, not to mention the big ones, even the young ones, many of them are obediently sleeping on the grass.

Looking at the herd of cattle, Zhang Chi began to think about his current wealth.

Not too bad, the more I think about it, the more uncomfortable I feel, because I still owe the bank six to seven million dollars, and the money will be paid off within five years. The pressure is not small, although Zhang Chi and Melika are now There is no pressure to pay off the income within five years, but Zhang Chi doesn't like to be in debt, and he feels a little uncomfortable when he thinks that he still owes others money.

In other words, there is pressure. If I don’t pay back the money, I always feel that something is pressing on my heart every day.

This temperament predestined that if Zhang Chi didn’t have a gourd, he would never be rich in his life. Which rich person doesn’t owe a lot of debt to the company, and he gets a high salary on his side. The thick-skinned one is a bit wider than the city wall?

Thinking about the debts owed, and thinking that the cattle that I originally planned to release had not been fully released, so I found a place that most people could hardly see, that is, started to sprinkle cattle outside in the woods.

I sprinkled a hundred or so heads first, and felt that it was a little too little. It would be better not to sprinkle it with wine, so I got out more than two hundred heads.

Then I thought about it again, since there are more than two hundred heads, then another two hundred heads is not a big deal.

"I still owe the bank five or six million dollars, and it's still in US dollars. I'm not too much for two or three hundred more, right?"

Zhang Chi found a reason for himself, so he took out more than two hundred cows.

The cow was taken out, and Zhang Chi thought of another point.

"I still have to pay taxes so frankly, it doesn't seem too much to get some to subsidize the taxes!"

So Zhang Chi took out hundreds more.

Now Zhang Chi's brain is a little short-circuited. He walked through the woods for a few days and drove the cattle for a few days. Although he slept for more than six hours, how could he have this time? He didn't leave, and in a daze, he just did what he thought in his heart but didn't do it.

Subconsciously, he felt that he could no longer carry it up, and there was no way to carry it out. Now he had already carried the original Amber cattle in the gourd.

If it is spilled, it must be a transitional cow. This thing is now sold as a miscellaneous cow, that is, the price is the same as that of a miscellaneous cow. Zhang Chi is really not very interested. Most of them are cows, and they look different from Amber cattle.

Only then did Zhang Chi give up.

I kept my eyelids open until dawn, and at around seven o'clock, Cannon, Brian, and the Xavier brothers came here, ready to imprint the cowboys.

Once the small branding is done, then this herd of cattle officially belongs to the private property of Zhangchi Ranch.

Of course, Zhang Chi still has to pay taxes.

When he was in China, Zhang Chi felt that the U.S. government was the best government in the world, and he always thought of the people. The American people always begged the U.S. government to collect money. After arriving here, he realized that the U.S. government is thinking about it every day. No way to collect your money.

In the past, this kind of profit tax was the same as other taxes, and it would be fine to report it before March of the next year. At that time, there might be a tax refund or something, but now, this shit has to be paid at that time , if you don't pay, they will really take your cattle for tax credit.

Looking at it this way, it is not greedy for Zhang Chi to get more cattle.

"BOSS, BOSS! We're coming to change shifts."

Zhang Chi heard Cannon's shout, so he turned on Chi Yanshan's back and ran towards the house.

"How are you?" Zhang Chi cared about his employees.

Cannon smiled: "No problem."

These guys started sleeping at eight o'clock last night and slept until more than six o'clock in the morning. Even if they haven't recovered to [-] strength after more than ten hours of sleep, they should have [-]% of their strength after all, and today's work It's not too heavy, just branding the cow.

"Okay, we're going back."

Zhang Chi doesn't have the energy to be polite to Cannon and the others now. After handing over this to Cannon and the others, he rides a horse himself, while Melika drives a car, one from the main road and the other from the horse road Returned to the paddock.

After returning to the ranch, Zhang Chi took a shower and lay down on his big bed. It was so beautiful. He hugged the quilt and sniffed a few times before falling asleep happily.

At this moment, Cannon, Brian, and the Xavier brothers were a little dumbfounded looking at the cows in front of them.

Cannon was a little uncertain, and turned to the rest of the people and asked, "Did we drive so many cattle back?"

Xavier is young, and his mind is not focused enough, so he asked: "It's not us who came back, but someone else came back?"

Xavier has a bit of a bad temper. Although he works honestly, he doesn't care about these details at all, so he doesn't feel any changes in the herd from yesterday.

As soon as Xavier confirmed it, Cannon, Brian, and Dominic all felt that they might have thought too much. There should be so many cows in the original herd. They thought that there must be so many that they must be exhausted and had hallucinations.

Zhang Chi was confused, and Cannon and the others were also skeptical, so the extra cows in the herd became everyone's default that they were driven back.

Since this is the case, there is nothing to talk about. Let's work and brand thousands of cows. Although the calves can be branded, even half of them are not a small project.

So Cannon took the three of them to start setting up, and when Zarick and Kevin finished their work there, when they arrived at the ranch, the four of them had already started branding the cows.

The four of them worked together in a division of labor. At this moment, everyone did not count the weight of the cattle, let alone the pedigree of the cattle. First, they did not have the technology, and second, they did not have the need.

Because after reporting on my own side, the guys from the Ministry of Agriculture will come over and register the number of breeds of cattle, and then the ranch can use their data to determine the patrilineal relationship.

(End of this chapter)