pasture leisure

Chapter 42
Cannon's praise made Zhang Chi very useful, and his face was filled with a kind of silly joy of getting cheap and being good-looking.

At this time, Aunt Lu came over, holding a plate in her hand, and there were some dead dough pancakes on the plate.

"It's delicious to dip the pancake in the soup."

Aunt Lu smiled at Cannon and said.

"Thank you" Cannon said some thanks, picked up a pancake from the plate, rolled it into a roll, soaked it in the beef offal soup, took it out, and put it in his mouth to chew.

"Well, it tastes great".

Aunt Lu was a little speechless, she meant to dip it in fish soup, but who knew that the cowboy went straight to the beef offal pot full of red oil.

But seeing that he wasn't too spicy at all, she smiled and turned back to her own kitchen cart.

Cannon looked at Aunt Lu's back and said, "This lady doesn't look like a chef, but looks like a university professor."

Zhang Chi didn't answer his question.

The two continued to chat about the ranch while eating. It was obvious that Cannon watched a lot according to his professional habits when he entered the ranch, and he was talking to Zhang Chi about what to pay attention to.

As a novice rancher, Zhang Chi naturally listened to other people's opinions with an open mind. Anyway, he just listened to them, no matter what they had.

Snapped!
Zhang Chi patted it casually, because a mosquito was lying on his arm sucking blood.

"You should put on long sleeves," Cannon said with a smile when he saw Zhang Chi's appearance.

Zhang Chi replied: "It's a bit hot to drink and eat pot."

He said so, but he couldn't help but subconsciously said to the gourd floating in the air: Drive these nasty bastards away!

The mosquitoes here are really annoying. They are big and brainy. They are accurate when you shoot them, but when you shoot them, there is a pool of blood on the palm of your hand, which is annoying to watch.

After killing the desperate mosquito, Zhang Chi and Cannon continued to eat.

The two dishes on the table are big, and the two of them have been eating for a long time, so the dishes will naturally get cold, but the two are chatting enthusiastically, and there is no reason to stop.

Besides, Cannon doesn't have much work tomorrow, so the two of them will heat up the dishes as soon as they get cold, and continue to chat while eating.

In this way, we drank until late at night, directly from sunset.

The workers are all asleep, and the two are still chatting.

A large pot of beef offal, plus a seven or eight catty fish, was consumed by the two within a few hours. Besides these, there were more than a dozen empty beer bottles beside the table.

"I can't drink any more. If I drink any more, I won't be able to leave tomorrow." Cannon's rationality finally came back, and he reached out to stop Zhang Chi when he saw that he was about to drink.

"Okay, let's stop here today and drink when we have time."

Zhang Chi was also a little dizzy from drinking. Seeing what Cannon said, he went down the donkey.

"Don't drive, stay here for one night today."

Looking at Cannon's appearance, Zhang Chi felt that he might not be able to drive now, so he invited him to stay directly.

Cannon also knew that he drank a little too much, so he nodded.

"Then bother you, just give me a sofa. Oh, no, I'll just sleep there like them." Cannon was about to talk about sleeping on the sofa when he remembered that Zhang Chi's house hadn't been built yet , where is there a sofa for him to sleep on.

But when he turned his face, he found that in the half-built house, some workers were lying under the almost completed porch.

It's not winter now, so it's not a problem to sleep anywhere, not to mention that for a cowboy, it's nothing new to eat and sleep in the open when the host's house changes.

Zhang Chi didn't say much either. It was impossible for him to give up his RV to Cannon and go to sleep on the porch by himself.

Fortunately, Cannon’s guys brought everything with them. Cannon, who was a little fuzzy, was still rational. He took his own bag and went to find an empty space under the shelf, put down his sleeping bag, and got into the sleeping bag After a while, he fell asleep.

Zhang Chi also drank a lot. As for packing things, he didn't have such thoughts now, so he got into the RV and cooked pig's head.

When I opened my eyes again, the sun outside was already high.

Woke up, pushed open the car door, and found that Chi Yanshan was standing at his door, with big nostrils one by one.

"I'm sorry, I drank a little too much, and I didn't hear you knocking on the window."

Zhang Chi scratched his head, walked up to Chiyan Mountain, and reached out to pat the bridge of its nose.

"Hey! No, why do you care about me like a horse? I gave you face, didn't I?"

He said so, but he was still not willing to hit Chi Yanshan when he reached out, he raised his hand high and just patted Chi Yanshan's neck.

Turning his gaze, Zhang Chi found that the table was clean, and the messy things from yesterday were gone, even the beer bottles under the table had disappeared.

No need to ask, Zhang Chi knew who helped him, and walked to the side of Aunt Lu's small kitchen cart, first thanked Aunt Lu who was choosing dishes.

"It's okay, it's all about taking care of your hands. You drank a little too much yesterday. Later, I'll serve you a bowl of porridge. After drinking, eat some of this to nourish your stomach."

Aunt Lu put down her work, turned around and came to Zhang Chi to serve a bowl of porridge, red bean and rice porridge, which was so badly cooked that the rice grains were almost sticking together.

"Do you want some pickles?"

"No, no, it's fine."

Zhang Chi took the porridge and didn't find a place to sit, so he just sucked up.

The red bean and rice porridge is really delicious. I don’t know whether it’s because I drank wine yesterday or Aunt Lu’s craftsmanship is good. Anyway, Zhang Chi drank two big bowls beautifully. He didn’t put down the bowl until he scraped the bottom of the pot. I wiped my mouth.

"Shall I help you choose dishes?"

Zhang Chi felt a little embarrassed.

Aunt Lu said: "You can't let you do this job, or else when Boss Xu comes, he will talk about me again. I have nothing to do here, so you can go to your own business."

"Where's Cannon?"

Only then did Zhang Chi think of Cannon as a guest.

"Leaving early in the morning, he got up much earlier than you. I haven't prepared breakfast yet, and he has already left. Before leaving, he told me to say thank you to you."

"Oh!"

Zhang Chi saw that Aunt Lu had no work for him to do, so he rode on Chiyan Mountain and began to inspect his pasture.

With Cannon's words yesterday, Zhang Chi looked at the grass more carefully.

After looking at it, I realized that almost all the pasture grass in my pasture has been unified into big beard grass, and the grass has grown taller. It used to only reach the calf, but now most of these pastures have reached the knee.

The colorful flowers and the like are completely gone. Except for some trees, the whole pasture is green.

When the breeze from the valley blows in from the mouth of the valley, the pasture grass in the whole pasture begins to turn green waves, layer by layer, roll by roll, until it is out of sight.

Walking along the fence, there is nothing wrong with the fence, there is nothing for the beast to take advantage of.

Zhang Chi reined in the reins, stood on the small slope at the foot of the mountain, and looked at his pasture from north to south, feeling quite different from the previous days.

The sky-high greenery stretched out in my eyes, groups of cows in the distance, like small patterns on the green carpet, the pasture, the calf and the sky seemed to all merge into one.

This kind of scene made Zhang Chi feel his heart widened and his breathing became smoother.

Sitting happily on the horseback and admiring it for more than half an hour, Zhang Chi returned to his small caravan and began to prepare for lunch.

Just as Zhang Chi was thinking about what to eat for lunch today, he suddenly heard a creaking sound.

As soon as he heard the voice, he knew it belonged to a mouse, so Zhang Chi followed the voice and came to the corner of the caravan, wanting to see what kind of mouse was so bold and came to steal things from him in broad daylight.

When Zhang Chi saw the mouse, he couldn't help being happy.

Because at this moment, the small Ergou was biting the mouse's neck.

The mouse is quite big, a circle bigger than Er Gou, a kitten, but now that Er Gou bit its neck, it probably has no choice but to squeak, and I don't know whether it is begging for mercy or Call your companions.

It was the first time for Zhang Chi to see a kitten with milky hair on its forehead catching a mouse, and it was such a big mouse.

Rats are field mice, that is, voles. This thing is not a good thing for the ranch. It is completely a pest. It is not just a problem of stealing food, these things will also make holes all over the ground.

If there are too many of these things, the pasture will be full of mouse holes, and the grass will not grow well, not only because the grass will not grow well, but if you ride a horse, the horse will fall directly into the ground if you step on the ground, and the horse's leg will break, and the worst will be People go west.

It's just that Zhang Chi hasn't thought about this question yet, he is watching Ergou catch the mouse with relish.

The second dog with a head of milk fur didn't say a word, just bit the mouse's neck like that, with two small paws resting on the mouse's back, because of the difference in size, the second dog looked like it was hanging on the mouse's body Same.

The gray mouse carried a little raccoon cat on its back. Zhang Chi didn't know how many people had seen this kind of thing, but now he was quite interested in watching it.

"Kill it to death, Ergou come on!"

Zhang Chi encouraged Ergou.

If Ergou knew how to speak, it is estimated that he would have greeted Zhang Chi's eight generations of ancestors by now.

Woohoo!

Ergou whimpered.

Zhang Chi continued to encourage Ergou.

"Oh, such a small cat can catch mice."

Zhang Chi was startled by the sound, turned around and found that he didn't know when Lao Xu appeared behind him.

"You don't make any noise when you walk?" Zhang Chi asked.

Old Xu didn't care at all, and said directly: "Your kitten is really vicious, it's really a good cat, by the way, is it our raccoon cat?"

"What do you think?"

"That must be true. The gang of cats raised by the Americans probably have to run with their backpacks when they see a mouse, let alone catch it." Old Xu looked at Ergou with a twinkle in his eyes.

Zhang Chi understood the meaning of Lao Xu. If it wasn't for today's incident, Zhang Chi might have given the second dog to Lao Xu, but now there is no reason to give it to the teacher, such a young cat who can catch mice , Isn't it delicious to stay in the ranch by yourself?

"Don't even think about it, the second dog will not give it away." Zhang Chi immediately dismissed Lao Xu's thoughts.

Old Xu smiled awkwardly: "Is that kind of person?"

Zhang Chi glanced at him, meaning: Aren't you?

The two have been together for a long time, and their conversations are naturally casual.

(End of this chapter)