pasture leisure

The heavy snow arrived as promised. On the last day of late October, the sky was gloomy. Although it was past one o'clock in the noon, it was like evening. The accumulated dark clouds in the sky spread across the sky like black curtains. extreme edge.

Today is not just the first snow, it has been a big drop in temperature since the early morning. In less than ten hours, the entire temperature dropped rapidly to minus seven or eight degrees.

Yesterday, you could go out and wander around with a towel and a thick coat, but if you wear it like this today, you will have to go home and take cold medicine after you go out.

The geographical location of North America is very superior, at least in terms of humanities, there are no powerful enemies around, and there are two oceans to the east and west.

In addition to the two oceans, there are two mountain ranges in the east and west, and the rest of the entire country is almost the Great Plains, which looks pretty good.

But the north and south directions are unobstructed, the warm and humid air mass in the south, and the cold air current in the north are unimpeded. The collision of the two air masses brings hurricanes, heavy rains and snowstorms to this land.

Zhang Chi and his wife looked out the window, both of them were sitting leisurely on the reclining chairs. The temperature in the house is around [-] degrees now, the oil-fired boiler has been turned on, and a well-shaped firewood is burning in the fireplace in the living room on the first floor. From time to time, there was a crackling sound, which was the sound of the oil festival burning the wood.

Beside their legs, Moji, Maodou, Shiren and Bailao were lying.

Several guys were a little listless, looking weak, especially Shiren and Bailao, who didn't seem to sleep too much at all. Although they looked listless, when the meal came, they immediately became the incarnations of vigor and vitality. Cooking General.

The ink is also lifeless, it is sticking to the edge of the fireplace wall, enjoying the warm breath from the bricks.

Maodou was sitting on the floor, with his head pressed against Shiren's neck, plucking Shiren's hair with his hands, and helping Shiren to groom his hair idly.

Fatty is the one that hasn't changed the most. It's now crowded in the corner between the house wall and the fireplace. The whole cat's body is curled up into a ball, curled up in the corner like a fur mat.

In terms of enjoyment, Big Fatty is really much better than its stupid brothers. Except for Big Fatty, all the kittens who stay at home, like their parents, two dogs and three dogs, are just forage I found a shelter from the wind and built a nest in the room.

Together with the kittens is the big tortoise at home, but at this time the big tortoise has entered a dormant state, with its head, hands and feet retracted into the tortoise shell, and the tortoise shell is deeply buried. in the haystack.

It’s not cold. The entire forage storehouse is filled with grass, and the surroundings are tightly blocked. How can it be cold without a little wind coming in.

It's not cold, and there are no annoying rats, so the tortoise hibernates very well.

The entire Zhangchi Ranch has entered the winter mode, and the cattle have naturally entered the cowshed. Now the main food for the cattle is hay, and some corn or other concentrates are added from time to time.

After the snow falls for about ten days, the yellow grass grown from the pasture should be edible. At that time, the cows can be let out, eat the yellow grass during the day, and drive into the cowshed to feed forage at night.

The insulation of the renovated cowshed is still good, but with so many cows together, it would be strange if the smell of the cowshed is good.

It's not that Zhang Chi doesn't pay attention, it's that everyone's cowshed is like this at this time, and when he enters, his nose is full of the smell of cow dung and cow urine.

This is inevitable, and it is impossible for Zhang Chi to hire two or three times as many cowboys to chase the cows and push the shit to collect urine all day long. The price of beef is so high that the ranch is not far from death.

In short, the living environment of cattle is not bad.

The cattle dogs on the ranch can finally have a good rest for a while. They only need to watch the cowshed at this moment, and no one cares about them at other times.

This is a rare leisure time for Daniel and Erhu.

Probably because of this, the two big cows and two tigers decided to have a second child for fun, and Erhu's stomach bulged again.

"Why hasn't the snow come down yet?"

Zhang Chi grabbed the teapot, put it to his mouth and took a sip. After uttering a sentence, he set up the teapot and started looking at his phone again.

Melika laughed and said, "Why, do you still have a bonus if you come early?"

"There is no bonus, but doing this makes people anxious," Zhang Chi said to his wife with a smile.

Melika said: "How can you care when it snows?"

"How can I care about this, I just said it casually, by the way, have we returned the fodder money we earned to the bank?"

Zhang Chi suddenly remembered something.

Melika said: "You still remember the money you owed all day long. If you owe hundreds of millions in the future, you will still have to sleep all day and all night?"

"I'm not used to owing people money," Zhang Chi scratched his head and said a little embarrassedly.

He also knows that it is impossible not to owe money if you want to expand your business. Sometimes you have to owe, not only owe but also owe a lot, because this is also a way to control the bank. Now how can the expansion of enterprises be separated from The escort of the bank.

Zhang Chi understands all these principles, but he is really not that kind of material, as the old saying goes, without a gourd, this guy is just a material for a lifetime salary.

"Okay, just leave it alone." Melika lowered her head and continued to look at her book.

Now that one of the couple is holding a mobile phone and the other is holding a book, it can be seen that their personalities are different. Melika likes the weight of books and the feeling of holding them in hands, while Zhang Chi... well, it's just to pass the time , He doesn't want to read books, it's much more interesting to watch short videos.

At this time the phone rang and Zhang Chi answered it.

"The arrangements have been made at the hospital, and we can just go there when the time comes," Zhang Chi said.

Melika nodded.

According to the expected date of delivery, Zhang Chi booked a room in the hospital for a week. Although it was very expensive to kill a small house in a few days, Zhang Chi didn't dare to leave it at home and wait for his wife to give birth before going to the hospital.

Not to mention Zhang Chi, even the parents and grandparents in China came to ask about the hospital from time to time during this period. The four of them were not at ease with Zhang Chi, thinking that their children and grandchildren were a bit unreliable, and it was best to go to the hospital.

"When will Zhao Yue and the others come over?" Zhang Chi asked again.

As a friend and classmate, Melika is going to have a baby, so how could Zhao Yue, Duan Shuyi and Zheng Hongbo not come? In Zhao Yue's words, unless there is a knife in the sky, they all have to come.

"Four or five days before the due date, you can live with us directly when the time comes," Melika said.

Zhang Chi nodded, this is expected, Melika has almost been assimilated into a Chinese, and friends come here to live directly at home, and almost never stay in a hotel or anything.

"Well, I'll tidy up the room then," Zhang Chi said.

Melika asked again: "Grandpa and grandma, when will mom and dad come?"

The grandparents and parents mentioned by Melika naturally refer to Zhang Chi's parents and grandparents.

Zhang Chi said: "Even if you come, you have to wait until the Chinese New Year is approaching to come. At this time, my sister has not had a holiday yet."

This year's Chinese New Year, Zhang Chi's family will definitely get together, and it's impossible not to get together, because the family will have a baby. As elders, how can Zhang Jiaren and Zhang Youpeng not come.

If there are no conditions, that's all. If they don't come now, they will definitely feel that it can't be justified.

Although everyone knows that it is a girl, but now at least in Zhang Chi's hometown in China, they don't mind much about men and women.

"Can't they come sooner?" Melika asked.

Zhang Chi said: "It's not that I can't, but I'm a little worried."

Melika nodded. Now that her belly is getting bigger day by day, Melika misses the lively atmosphere at home more and more.

Only Zhang Chi and Melika were at home, and they seldom talked, and what they did talk was about the ranch.

Although Melika doesn't talk much, she just misses Zhang Chi's mother and grandmother nagging all day long, and she doesn't know why the two of them talk so much, as if they can't finish talking all day .

This is a special experience for Melika, because she has been educated since she was a child to say as many mistakes as possible, and try not to say unnecessary nonsense.

"Why do I feel like you miss them?" Zhang Chi asked with a smile.

Melika laughed: "It's true, when they were here, they felt that the whole house was very lively. Now it's just the two of us, and even they don't have much energy."

Zhang Chi took a look at Shiren and them that Melika pointed at, and said with a smile: "I don't look energetic now, but you can look at it when you eat, one is worth several, I always feel that these guys are feeding every day now." It’s a good thing that we raise cattle here, otherwise we would be eaten by these guys.”

After speaking, he waited for Melika's next words, but found that there was no movement. He turned his head and found Melika looking out the window.

"Cannon is here!"

Melika said.

Zhang Chi saw it too, so he stood up from his chair.

Cannon came to the door at this moment, knocked on the door and saw Zhang Chi and Melika inside, so he opened the door and walked into the room.

Zhang Chi saw snowflakes falling on Cannon's shoulders, so he asked, "Is it falling?"

"It's down, it's not too big, but it's going to be big soon. When I came out, it didn't fall. When I got to the door, there was snowflakes on my shoulders." Cannon patted his shoulders and the snowflakes on the cowboy hat, and took off his coat hung up.

"If you have nothing to do, go home early," Zhang Chi said to Cannon.

Cannon said a little embarrassedly: "I just came to tell you about this."

Cannon’s family has arrived, and it’s been almost three or four days since they arrived, but it’s the time when the ranch is busy, so Cannon just took them over and put them in the house, and was busy in the ranch most of the time .

Now that the snow is falling and the work is almost done, Cannon wants to come over and tell Zhang Chi that he should go home early and take two days off to spend two days with his wife and children.

Zhang Chi naturally agreed to Cannon's request, not to mention anything else, but to talk about Cannon's work attitude after following Zhang Chi. Zhang Chi not only granted two days off, but also gave three days more.

Now the heaviest work on the ranch is feeding and shoveling excrement. These tasks seem to be quite big, but in fact the cowboys deal with them very easily.

With professional robot helpers, a lot of manpower is saved. The work that originally required three people can be basically solved in half the time by one person.

So Zhang Chi not only gave Cannon a vacation, but also asked Cannon to arrange everyone's work so that everyone could rest for a few days.