pasture leisure

Chapter 503 Isn't This Grass Yellow

The protest was over, and Zhang Chi didn't know whether it was a complete victory or an incomplete victory.

The rights and interests of the land are preserved, but the tax is still collected, but it is not collected from the farmers and ranchers, but from the production enterprises. It seems that the tax is the same here. It is still the old saying that the wool comes from the sheep. Well, how can the production enterprises not make money, they want to make money, and in the end the cost will naturally have to be spread to the citizens or the source.

It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t end, and it’s going to be winter, and now there’s a lot of work in every family, those who have grass need to be mowed, those who don’t have grass to buy, and the cowsheds need to be maintained.

In short, before the heavy snow falls, almost all the pastures have entered the busiest time.

Zhangchi Ranch is also busy, but not as busy as other homes. The last stubble of grass has been harvested, and when the sun is good, it is tied into small bundles and thrown on the ground to dry.

It is not very important whether the cattle shed is maintained or not, because the cattle shed in Zhangchi Ranch is almost equal to a newly built one, and there is really no need for maintenance if it is ten or eight years old.

But the cowshed on the west ranch must be maintained, because the cowshed over there has been used for a long time, and some places have been repaired and repaired. Small repairs are piled up with large patches, and patches are patched. It hinders Zhang Chi's eyes.

So I asked the accountant Melika for maintenance funds and bought materials. Zhang Chi and Cannon took a group of cowboys and spent four or five days to repair the cowshed on the west ranch.

What should be replaced, what should be stripped and re-done, after four or five days of completion, the entire cowshed will be sufficient to cope with the coming cold winter.

The work on the ranch was done step by step, and Zhang Chi soon couldn't get involved, so Zhang Chi began to think about his small vegetable box.

Once the temperature is low, if it is still planted in the open air like this, there must be no hairs growing.

grocery shopping?Yes, there are, but winter vegetables, especially in such a snowy place, if you want to eat fresh vegetables, you will naturally have to pay a price.

Aunt Phil's house has a greenhouse, and people like Zhang Chi to use it, but you can't be like this, if you can't take advantage of it, how can it be done.

So Zhang Chi decided to tidy up his small vegetable garden now.

The idea is also very simple: make a greenhouse!

It doesn’t need to be more advanced. In places that are not that big, if you add automatic temperature control, automatic curtains, etc., it will be a pain in the ass, or there will be too much money and nowhere to spend it.

Zhang Chi wouldn't do that, he still owed a penny to the bank. Although the tax was only a few o'clock, but owed money was owed money.

Zhang Chi in the greenhouse has never done it, but have you never eaten pork or seen a pig running?What's more, Aunt Phil's house is a greenhouse, so I don't know how to refer to it. Ask my aunt what's not good about the greenhouse, and I can change it if I can. If this is the case, there will be a greenhouse?

Once the design is done, the next step is to prepare the materials.

A dozen or so thick steel pipes need to be prepared, and all of them are bent into a semicircle by the machine, and each pipe needs to be welded with an assembly port, so that it can be easily connected with the beams of the shed.

As for how to get these steel pipe ribs to the ground, Zhang Chi's method is also very simple, just put a one-meter-square stainless steel plate foot at the end of each pipe, and the problem will be solved.

The rest is to lay plastic film, which is not difficult, Zhang Chi's greenhouse is not big, so just buy a medium thick film.

After all the materials were finished, Zhang Chi started to work.

All the components were laid out in order, spread out on the ground, the stainless steel feet of each rib were roughly placed in place, and Zhang Chi began to connect the beams.

In the beginning, Zhang Chi didn't connect to the middle, but to the beam on the side of the rib.

At the beginning, the two wires were easy to connect, but it was a bit difficult when the third wire was connected, because you had to support the connected wires and align them with the ones to be connected. It was too busy for one person.

It’s not good to ask Melika to help, because now Melika’s belly looks like a big ball, let alone let her come to help, Zhang Chi sometimes feels that his wife’s belly can directly It exploded, and a big watermelon rolled out of it.

This idea is a bit out of tune, but Zhang Chi really thinks so.

But fortunately, Zhang Chi soon caught someone. Kevin, a guy who happened to be off work, came here to see his boss build a greenhouse, and was caught by Zhang Chi.

"Kevin, help me hold that."

Zhang Chi gave Kevin a job with a smile.

Kevin didn't say anything, and reached out to support the three pipe ribs that had been connected.

"Boss, you only have one foot. You have to place a stake. Otherwise, the strong wind in winter will blow this thing over. By then, the whole winter's hard work will be over..."

Kevin feels that his boss's work is rough, what kind of wind and snow can he resist with just an iron plate as a foot?Isn't this a fool, if you work for others to fool you, it's fine, but if you work for yourself, you can fool yourself, Kevin met today.

Zhang Chi couldn't help but rolled his eyes when he heard Kevin's words, and thought: This American is really stubborn!
Most areas in the state are prone to snowstorms. Not to mention nine years of disasters in ten years, there will always be disasters in seven or eight years. If you do this in plains and open land, you will naturally have to lay piles, and the shallow ones will not work. How to say It also needs a concrete pile of one or two meters, so that it can withstand a normal snowstorm.

But where is this place? The small town of Amber is in the mountains, surrounded by mountains, and the raging snowstorm is also relieved by the layers of mountains. Therefore, the most feared thing in Amber in winter is not the blizzard, but the suddenness. Rapid cooling caused by cold snaps.

The wind is not strong, so naturally there is no need to lay down stakes or anything. Does anyone understand this truth?

But Americans don't think so. Almost as long as they make greenhouses at home, they will stay in the plains, honestly, it will not be troublesome at all.

It's hard for Zhang Chi to say whether this is an advantage or a disadvantage. In short, it feels a bit brain-dead.

"We don't have any wind here, and if we go down to the village, the grass will be destroyed, so I won't go down. If it is blown by the wind and collapses, then let's collapse." Zhang Chi replied to Kevin easily.

Hearing what Zhang Chi said, Kevin didn't say much. He helped Zhang Chi to support the iron frame, and Zhang Chi added parts to the frame.

The two started to set up a shelf on one side quickly.

The rest of the work is even simpler, install the pipe ribs on the other side to the iron feet, and then install the bottom beam in place.

There is no need for two people to do the remaining work. One person installs the remaining beams, and then adds a few stay beams to prevent the deformation of the frame.

Although it is enough to work alone, Kevin did not leave and continued to work here with Zhang Chi.

It is indeed more convenient for two people to spread the plastic film than one person. The two people pull one side, and carefully pull the two sides from the beginning to the end, and the whole plastic film is covered on the frame.

The next step is to dig a hole, dig a hole about [-] to [-] centimeters, and then press the feet of the plastic mold into the hole, so as to prevent cold and wind, and also help to maintain the temperature in the shed in winter.

After finishing these, Zhang Chi's winter greenhouse has been officially built. Although it is a bit rudimentary and the cost is not high, Zhang Chi believes that there is no problem in providing fresh vegetables for his pasture in this greenhouse for a winter.

After the project was completed, Zhang Chi asked Kevin to have dinner with him. After helping for such a long time, it would not be good if he didn't ask him to have a meal. Although Kevin would eat Zhang Chi when he went back, he still got the meaning.

Kevin is not very polite, Zhang Chi opened his mouth, and he responded, Kevin is not stupid, he looks like a bird cooking by himself, he knows Zhang Chi's cooking skills very well, so Zhang Chi As soon as the invitation was issued, Kevin nodded.

"Boss, grow some yellow vegetables this year," Kevin said to Zhang Chi.

Suddenly Zhang Chi was a little confused.

"What yellow vegetables?"

Kevin even gestured and said, which made Zhang Chi understand that Kevin said it was garlic and chives, and he didn't know which one he liked, but it must be one of them.

"It's not easy to handle, I...".

Zhang Chi was talking here, when suddenly a thought popped up, and he felt as if some light flashed in his mind.

Snapped!
Zhang Chi patted his thigh: "How the hell did I forget this?".

Zhang Chi's actions startled Kevin, and asked repeatedly: "Boss, what happened?"

What Zhang Chi blurted out must be his mother tongue, so Kevin didn't know what Zhang Chi said, but Kevin knew the f*cking stuff.

How can I say that it's not easy to learn well, and I tremble when I learn badly. I have been with the Chinese boss for almost a year. I haven't learned any Chinese, and I just learned a few swear words.

"Oh, I'm really stupid enough, isn't that what leeks mean?" Zhang Chi's heart brightened, and it shone into his heart like a torch.

What did Zhang Chi think of? He thought of his own pasture in winter. Last year, the pasture snowed and the pasture was covered thickly. As soon as the temperature inside rose, the big beard began to germinate. Isn't this grass yellow?
Since I let the cattle out in winter to eat them, why didn't I just cut the pasture to the end before the snow fell, so that some grass would not rot directly under the snow.

I figured it out, Zhang Chi didn't tell Kevin, because he couldn't talk to him, so he led Kevin into the house, fried a small stir-fried beef, and made two vegetarian dishes, one of which was Kevin's favorite tomato scrambled eggs , plus a bowl of seaweed soup, it can be regarded as a solution for lunch.

After dinner, Zhang Chi called Cannon over and told Cannon what he just thought of.

Cannon felt that this operation seemed to be possible, so he accepted the task and rearranged the cowboys to re-mow the big grass on both sides.

The hay is ready, and some green corn has been purchased before the heavy snowfall. The entire Zhangchi Ranch is ready for the winter, and is just waiting for the first snowfall of this year.

(End of this chapter)