pasture leisure

Chapter 500 A Busy Day

Just as he was about to slaughter the horse, Zhang Chi suddenly felt something in the corner of his eyes. He turned his head and took a look, and found that the tortoise had swept away the appearance just now. Not as sluggish as before.

"My pussy!"

Zhang Chi found that the tortoise taught himself another lesson.

Zhang Chi has never seen any tortoises before, but Wang Ba has seen a few. At first he thought that tortoises are similar to tortoises, and they both crawl very slowly. It’s like when everyone mentions tortoises, a word pops out subconsciously, that is slow.

The story of the tortoise and the hare has taken root in people's hearts.

But now Zhang Chi found that there was a little problem with his cognition. The turtle in front of him was not crawling slowly, at least it was much faster than he thought.

So Zhang Chi held a sharp knife in one hand, and the sharp knife was still aimed at the horse's neck, ready to stab it, but it didn't look like it was stabbed yet.

At this moment, Zhang Chi's eyes fell on the tortoise, watching the tortoise crawling around there, looking for pasture with grass seeds to eat, and after eating up one piece, it turned to another piece.

If it encounters a cow, the tortoise will know how to get out of the way, and hide in a place where there are no cows to pick up grass seeds to eat.

I stared foolishly for a while, and when Zhang Chi came back to his senses, it was almost half an hour, and all this time was spent looking at the tortoise.

"I go!"

Zhang Chi felt that the time had passed too long, so he shouldn't waste his time here, anyway, the cow was also killed, and as for the horse, it would not be too late to kill tomorrow.

So he packed up his things, Zhang Chi got out of the gourd, and when he was about to go back, he thought for a while and threw the tortoise and the horse out of the gourd.

Without looking at it, Zhang Chi went back to the house.

After entering the room, he found that Melika was still asleep, so Zhang Chi quietly slipped into bed.

When I opened my eyes again, the sky was already dark.

Get up and do it the same way. Zhang Chi changed into his clothes and rode on Chiyan Mountain to inspect the ranch. There was no problem here, but he bumped to the west pasture again. He didn’t inspect the ranch, but just asked about the situation of the ranch.

When I turned around and got home, I started making breakfast.

Waiting for Melika to come down, the couple sat at the table and had breakfast. Zhang Chi said that he was going to buy some beef, and by the way, he would also get some for his uncle's family.

Although Melika is clever, she doesn't have the mood to care about such things. She has cattle herself, but there are not many cattle suitable for eating now, so she has to buy this beef from time to time.

As for how to buy and what price, ordinary housewives may care about it, but Melika doesn't care at all. She is not a housewife, and she won't pay attention to such trivial matters. In fact, it is also true. A woman like Melika didn't know how many cows she earned back.

So after dinner, Zhang Chi was about to set off, when he remembered that his pickup had been stolen, and he had been driving his wife's SUV all this time.

Zhang Chi returned to the house: "Daughter-in-law, give me some money, I'll buy a second-hand pickup."

Melika put down the account book in her hand and looked at Zhang Chi: "I said you have been silent."

"I forgot, there are too many bad things during this time," Zhang Chi said.

It’s not that there is no money in Zhang Chi’s gourd, there is still some money, but there is no need to use it to buy a car for himself. His money is for emergency, and this matter is obviously not urgent now, so the money for buying a car Really have to ask Melika.

It's not that Zhang Chi is not in charge of the family, but that Zhang Chi really doesn't like doing these things.

The United States is not like China. After you get your salary and pay taxes, you can spend the money as you like. As long as you don’t spend it riskily, you can do anything.

But it doesn’t work here. Many things have to be accounted for. It is said that it is a family, but in fact it is a small tax pool. How much tax can be reduced by how much money is spent. Each level is different. In the past, Zhang Chi had less money. It's pathetic, and they're all running in debt.

But starting today, these things will become complicated, to the point that Zhang Chi doesn't really want to understand, so almost all the family's expenses are in the hands of Melika.

How else can I say that Zhang Chi's daughter-in-law is worth it? She is not only a military adviser in business, but also an accountant in life, and a manager of a ranch. Now he has directly become the hands-off shopkeeper, and he has become a big master abruptly.

Melika went upstairs, and then took out a card and handed it to Zhang Chi: "There is almost 6 yuan here, if it is not enough, you can tell me."

"Enough, second-hand cars, the condition of the car is just fine."

There is no discrimination against second-hand cars here, nor does it say that buying a second-hand car means that you have no money or anything. The American car culture is developed. Many children’s first car is a second-hand car. In addition, the supervision is also strict, even if it is a scam. , and nothing too outrageous will happen. It is impossible to say that the money you spend on buying a second-hand car is more expensive than a first-hand car, so everyone is not disgusted with choosing a second-hand car and dealing with second-hand car dealers.
China's second-hand car dealer is naturally Li Qiao, who else can be besides him?

So I said it was less than 6 yuan, and left the rest to Li Qiao.

Zhang Chi stayed in the town for a while, asking who was going to Folsom, but luck was not very good today. After waiting for almost an hour, he met a farmer who went to Folsom, and he took a ride with him. Zhang Chi arrived in Folsom, and then went to Li Qiao's car dealership.

When I arrived at the car dealership, I found that Li Qiao was busy, receiving a customer.

Li Qiao also saw Zhang Chi, raised his head to say hello to Zhang Chi, and pointed to the sofa not far away.

Zhang Chi understood and sat down.

Li Qiao finished his business, and it was already ten minutes later.

"I'm sorry, I'm a little busy today," Li Qiao said with a smile.

Zhang Chi said: "Business is good."

"You really caught up. I don't know how. I'm very busy today," Li Qiao said.

"Why, I want to buy a pickup truck again, who will I drive it for?"

Zhang Chi said, "Didn't I tell you that I lost my last pickup truck?"

"When did it happen?" Li Qiao really didn't know about it.

Zhang Chi said briefly.

Li Qiao said with a wry smile: "Hey, there is no way. Losing a car here is like losing a bicycle in our country."

"Don't talk nonsense, what kind of bicycle in China costs tens of thousands of dollars, if you choose it, if you choose it, take me to see it, if you don't choose it, take me to choose it," Zhang Chi said with a smile.

Li Qiao nodded and stood up: "Let's go, I picked one for you. It's a bit old, but it's in good condition. It's run [-] to [-] miles...".

Li Qiao said as he walked, Zhang Chi listened with pricked ears.

The two soon came to the car.

The car is an old Dodge pickup truck, and it must have been at least eleven or twelve years ago when it left the factory, but the car is well protected. According to Li Qiao's introduction, most of the paint on the car is the original paint, which means ten years ago. In the coming year, there were no major accidents.

"What's wrong with this car?"

Zhang Chi felt a little dissatisfied, not because the car looked a bit old, but because he felt that the displacement of the engine of this car was not large enough. With a displacement of four o’clock, it was only a few tenths of a displacement used on the ranch in China. Like a car.

Apart from looking like a car, there is nothing else to do.

"This is what it means for you to know me, let's go and take you to see good things."

Li Qiao proudly pulled Zhang Chi to a place that was a bit off.

Zhang Chi was a little dumbfounded when he found himself standing next to a broken car.

"I said what do you mean by that?"

Li Qiao smiled and said, "You still don't understand what this means? Although the car was crashed, the engine is still intact, and this engine has only run less than 5.7 miles, [-] liters...".

"I'm sorry, I'm here to buy a ready-made real car, and you got me two for me to fight?" Zhang Chi felt that his brain had grown a lot.

Li Qiao said: "Do you think other people can share this good thing? If you don't often send me some beef or something, I won't take care of you. Who would you say doesn't want this good thing? It's just a matter of trouble, and it can save more than 1 in vain If you don't want to save this money, I'll show you another one.

You have to understand, don’t look at the car being hit like this, it was hit from the rear, the front face hit a tree, and it didn’t take much force, it’s your luck, the only engine left in this car can be used up".

Zhang Chi thought about it for a while, and felt that this made sense. An original 5.7 Dodge with less than [-] miles on it really cost more than that.

Now that Li Qiao said so, Zhang Chi nodded and bought an old car with an engine and started saving the car.

After paying the money, Zhang Chi drove the old car to the scrapped car. Someone helped him use a tripod and an iron hoist to install the dismantled engine into the compartment of the old pickup.

Li Qiao introduced a repair shop to Zhang Chi. It was not in Folsom, but an hour's drive away. It was a repair shop run by a Chinese. The price was reasonable and the workmanship was good.

Driving over, I thought it would take a day or two to do the job, but who knew that as soon as Zhang Chi arrived, they would start working there.

After more than two hours of welding and sawing, the new engine was replaced.

Zhang Chi's money was not collected, and the replaced engine was considered to be worth the labor cost.The price is already quite favorable. As for the craftsmanship, you can see it now. You have to drive the car for a while to know.

Just like that, Zhang Chi drove back in the new car he had saved up.

On the way, Zhang Chi took out the beef. According to the order of the road, he first came to Li Qiao's house and delivered about [-] catties of beef. When he arrived at Li Qiao's house, Li Qiao hadn't come back yet. It was Li Qin who was doing business. , Seeing Zhang Chi coming, he insisted on pulling Zhang Chi to have dinner at home.

To put it bluntly, he came out of Li Qiao's house, turned around and went to Auntie and Uncle's house, and also gave away about twenty catties of beef. As for the offal of the cow, of course all of them were given to Auntie.

My aunt left Zhang Chi for dinner, but Zhang Chi had no choice but to push, so he helped out in the restaurant for a while, and after the meal, he took some washed beef offal, such as beef intestines, beef heart, tripe, etc. .

When I returned to Amber, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening.

Look at the busy day, it's all work.

(End of this chapter)