pasture leisure

Chapter 450

Zhang Chi looked at the brother-in-law who came over, and asked with a look of surprise: "You actually understand?"

Zhang Chi and Miller must communicate in English. Miller doesn’t know Chinese, not at all. How can Zhang Chi speak Chinese with him?

What surprised Zhang Chi was that he and Miller had talked about catching wild horses for two days, but his brother-in-law could understand.

Sun Yanping looked at his brother-in-law with an aggrieved expression.

"I also graduated from college, okay? I don't even know about horse? I can't hear lasso even if I catch it? You don't know that there is listening comprehension in college English, right? Oh, I forgot. Didn't go to college."

Sun Yanping was quite speechless.

Zhang Chi: "...".

Sun Yanping didn't care too much, and approached Zhang Chi and asked in a low voice, "Did you guys say you're going to tie the horses, where are you going to tie the horses?"

Zhang Chi didn't think too much about it: "Going to the public ranch to get wild horses, they are not actually wild horses. They were originally domestic horses, but they were abandoned for various reasons and were discarded. After a long time, they became wild horses. They live in the public ranch. ".

"Wait, there are still people who don't want horses?"

Sun Yanping couldn't figure it out, there were people who didn't want horses, which made him a little bit unacceptable.

Zhang Chi nodded and said: "Well, some people don't want it. If it is the dry season, many horses will be thrown into the wild directly. Sometimes thousands of wild horses will die here alone in a drought."

"Isn't it all money! Americans are really prodigals." Sun Yanping said: "It would be great if it could be shipped back to China."

"Then don't think about it, it's not enough for the freight. The horses here don't cost money, but if you want to transport them from here to China, the freight plus the time and energy spent on the road is not worth it at all." Zhang Chi smiled road.

My brother-in-law thinks things are too simple. The horses here don’t cost money, but the labor is expensive. Even if you ship it from Texas to China, it will cost you hundreds of dollars to ship a horse to the port of Los Angeles. Going to the country, plus eating and drinking for a month on the inspection and quarantine road, and then going through customs and other messes, the price of the horse has already been blown away. An ordinary horse here is more expensive than an ordinary domestic horse. Say what you do with it.

To be a stallion?
Then you are thinking too much, ordinary horses have no possibility of being a stallion at all, whoever can be a stallion, who will throw it away.

"Hey, bring me one!" Sun Yanping said.

At this time, my aunt happened to pass by, Gu Ying and Miller were also acquaintances, so they naturally smiled and greeted each other.

Miller then asked, "What did they say?"

Gu Yingdao: "He wants to follow you to catch horses."

"Then just play with it. It's not a confidential matter anyway. I welcome him as long as he has time to play with him," Miller said.

Gu Ying then translated the words to Sun Yanping.

When Sun Yanping heard this, he pushed Zhang Chi away, and said to Miller with a smile: "I haven't seen a horse trap yet, is it like in the movie, a group of cowboys riding side by side on a small hill, Looking at the tens of thousands of wild horses below... ".

Gu Ying translated and laughed to herself.

Miller was also amused by Sun Yanping, and he opened his mouth and said: "No, no, Sun, you are not a horse hunter. You are shooting a Marlboro advertisement. There is not such a big scene in China now. Generally speaking, a group of horses There are only a hundred or so horses, if there are too many, we will grab the grass, but now is the time of the year when the pasture is good, and you may have the opportunity to see a larger herd of horses."

"I must go and see it." When Sun Yanping heard about the horse trap, countless fantasies arose in his heart.

Zhang Chi saw that he couldn't do without them now, so he said to Sun Yanping, "Hurry up and take pictures, it will take a few days to catch wild horses."

Here Sun Yanping rested, and Miller was there, so the lively people quickly surrounded him.

There was a lot of chatter when they heard that they were going to hunt horses, and immediately there were people like Sun Yanping, except for Zhang Chi's lively sister Zhang Juan, and Zhang Youpeng.

I don't know if these people have been affected by the grasslands, horse herds, and the song "The Man Who Trapped Horses" or something. When they heard that they were going to trap horses, they all fantasized.

It doesn't matter to Miller. It's not his fault that these people want to go to the trouble. Zhang Chi will deal with it, so Miller's agreement is refreshing.

Then the kid slipped away.

After talking for another ten minutes, I continued to take pictures.

Now Zhang Chi is bored again.

When it was Zhang Chi's turn, Zhang Chi's role was similar to that of the black-and-white horse over there, almost equal to the background.

There are a few of them that are quite good, together with Melika, for parents, uncle and aunt as the background.

When it was almost noon, the group photo was finally about to be taken.

The background of the group photo is the house of Zhang Chi’s family, a little further away is the hill, and a little further away is the peak of the snowy mountain.

"This angle is good, this angle is good, Da Chi, move the chairs to the east, this angle can take pictures of the whole house, and it can also bring a corner of the snow-capped mountains, it's really great..." Sun Yanping directed Zhang Chi moved the chair in the front row.

Waiting for the chairs to be lined up, Sun Yanping shouted at the elders: "Sit in, I'll take a look."

"Do you want to adjust it? It's been a long time." Zhang Jiaren also wanted to go to the ranch to do his own work. It took more than half an hour to take a photo, and the good-tempered old man couldn't take it anymore.

"It's coming soon, Grandpa, please sit down and make some fine adjustments. Everyone managed to get together to take a family portrait, but the angles must be correct..." Sun Yanping explained and directed everyone to sit down.

After everyone was seated, Sun Yanping took another look and adjusted everyone's positions slightly to make the whole picture look more harmonious.

The front row is for the elders, the middle must be the grandparents, the uncle and aunt are on the left, and Zhang Chi's parents are on the right.

Standing in the back row are Zhang Chi and his wife, and Zhang Juan and his wife.

As for Xiao Xiao, he was in the front, next to the grandpa and grandma.

In front of them are my pets. Ink is favored by my grandma, so it naturally approaches Miao Guifang, Shiren and Bailao, and leans in front of Gu Ying and Miao Guifang respectively.

In Li Xiumei's arms was a fat man with a dull face.

Zhi Yu Maodou was holding Xiaoxiao's leg, it might be the first time he joined the family portrait, he was a little scared, his small eyes were a little bit at a loss.

Da Niu Erhu and San Biaozi are not here, and the three of them are working.

There are three of the two dogs, but they are not interested in taking pictures honestly. As for their kittens, they don't know where they got into.

Feeling that it was almost done, Sun Yanping set it up here, ran back to his position, then smiled on his face, kept his mouth still, and kept saying: "Attention, hold on, smile and don't blink."

Then Zhang Chi heaved a sigh of relief when he saw the flashing light.

Sun Yanping ran over, looked at the effect, and then said: "Uncle, you blinked, and you took the picture with your eyes closed. Let's take another picture!"

So everyone started to get excited again.

After the first photo was taken, some people were blinded, so the third photo had to be taken.

In the end, I took five pictures in a row, and when it was the sixth picture, everyone kept their eyes open, and that was the end.

Sun Yanping said loudly: "OK, it's done!"

As soon as the words fell, Zhang Jiaren and Zhang Youpeng went to lead their horses, and walked towards the stable with Zhang Youliang, not knowing what the three of them were going to do.

Gu Ying, Miao Guifang, and Li Xiumei returned to the terrace together, chatting while kneading melon seeds.

Melika and Zhang Juan surrounded Sun Yanping on one left and one on the right, looking at the photo in his hand, they didn't know what to say, anyway, the three of them walked into the room with smiles.

Only Zhang Chi was left at the scene, and Xiao Xiao who was beside Zhang Chi.

"Uncle, no one seems to notice us, we are so pitiful."

Looking at Zhang Chi, Xiao Xiao felt that he was ignored by the adults, and when he turned around, he found that his uncle was also standing there stupidly, so he felt a little more balanced.

"They didn't notice you, should I use someone else to notice?" Zhang Chi didn't feel embarrassed at all. Everyone said that no one paid attention to him at the end of the show, which had to be said a bit too much.

Squeak!
While Zhang Chi was talking to his nephew, Maodou yelled at Xiaoxiao.

Hearing Maodou calling himself, Xiaoxiao was instantly happy, and said to Zhang Chi: "Modou called me, now no one cares about you, you are so pitiful."

"Madou is also considered a human being?"

Zhang Chi felt that the little nephew might not be a good thing, always looking for someone to sprinkle salt on people's wounds, this seems to be a bit like himself, and the nephew is more like an uncle, and it makes sense.

Zhang Chi was about to leave when he heard Melika's voice coming from the door.

"Zhang Chi!"

"What's the matter?" Zhang Chi stopped in his tracks.

Melika stretched out her finger: "Come here, help my brother-in-law print photos."

"So fast?" Zhang Chi thought it was too fast.

I followed my daughter-in-law into the house, and found that my sister and brother-in-law were standing at the stairs, waiting for me.

"Xiaomei said you have a printer in your study," Sun Yanping said.

Zhang Chi looked at Melika, shrugged his shoulders, and understood that his daughter-in-law was afraid that others would enter her study and mess up her things, so she brought the disaster on herself.

"Oh, then go upstairs!"

Zhang Chi took the three of his sisters upstairs to his study.

Turning on the computer and connecting the camera card, Sun Yanping saw the PS icon on the desktop and edited the photos by himself.

Zhang Chi saw the photo of the finished product on the screen and was immediately impressed.

"It's a great shot." Zhang Chi stretched out his hand and patted his brother-in-law's shoulder: "I didn't expect that, I still underestimated you a little bit."

Melika also nodded, expressing great affirmation of Sun Yanping's photography skills.

Originally, the small screen on the camera didn't look very good, but now it's placed on the big monitor, the effect is really awesome.

People, houses, forests and distant mountains are advanced layer by layer, heavy and light, main and auxiliary, very layered, and the background is quite beautiful.

The most important thing is people. The expressions on everyone's faces have two words: happy.

No one is as stiff as a general family portrait, everyone is natural, but everyone seems to have a story, a story that only relatives can understand.

Anyway, Zhang Chi has never felt that a family portrait can make him feel a lot of emotion when he looks at it. It may also be because this is his own family portrait. Everyone is familiar to him, and he can read and understand them. They endowed themselves with love and affection.

(End of this chapter)