pasture leisure

Chapter 51
The machine is great, and the sound insulation is quite good. It sounds like a small tank outside, but when a person sits in the cab, the noise is almost shut out when the door is closed.

The vision of the cab is also very good, several sides are glass, you can see the surrounding conditions when you turn your head, and it is also equipped with air conditioning, and the seat is also air-pressure shock-absorbing, and it is soft when you sit up.

The tall green grass in the front is swallowed into the machine, and a bunch of square bales come out in the back, neatly stacked in two rows behind the machine.

At the beginning, Zhang Chi was still a little unaccustomed to it. It was easy to leave some grassy paths between the back and forth. This is because the distance of the harvester was not calculated well, and a little grass was missed in the middle. Re-cutting is unrealistic, because the machine will count. The area, after going back and forth a few times, gradually felt that it came up, and this kind of Taoism disappeared.

The tall pastures were cut off, revealing the color of the land that has not changed for a long time. The dark land, coupled with the grass stems with white roots, suddenly separated the pasture into two parts, one is green pasture, and the other is green. A piece of land is dark brown.

Because the pasture is so high, some small animals would appear in it from time to time, and some silly little things didn't know whether they were stupid and couldn't run away, or they didn't run away, and were crushed into the soil by the huge harvester.

Zhang Chi couldn't see it, because he was sitting very high now, almost two meters above the ground, and he really couldn't take care of these little things, even if he wanted to.

Zhang Chi drove the lawn mower rolling forward like the wheel of history, and the hay bales rolled behind him like poop pulled out by the lawn mower, galloping across the rolling pasture.

Just when Zhang Chi hit the fifth back and forth, two little birds landed on the engine cover in front of the driver. The two little creatures flapped their wings desperately and pecked at the engine cover with their small beaks.

"What are you doing!"

Zhang Chi looked at the two little guys and wondered if they were crazy.

After thinking about it, Zhang Chi probably understood what the two little guys were doing, so he stopped the machine, pushed open the door of the cab, and came to the front of the machine to take a look.

Sure enough, there was a small grass nest about [-] centimeters away from the lawn mower, with six or seven eggs in it.

Now the facts are clear. The two bird parents are having a quixotic competition with the huge lawn mower for their eggs.

Seeing the bird's nest, Zhang Chi squatted down, fiddled with it, picked up a bird's egg and shook it, and found that there was no baby bird in it, that is, it was still an egg that hadn't grown a baby bird, so he connected the bird's egg to the nest. The nest and the eggs are all in the hand.

The bird's parents became impatient when they saw it, and pecked at Zhang Chi.

Zhang Chi got into the cab with the bird's nest, and shut the two adult birds outside the cab. No matter how the two adult birds pecked, he didn't intend to open the door.

"Do you know that this is my site? On my site, you dare to have children if you have paid the tax? You two have paid the tax in this nest, and you can handle the rest yourself." Zhang Chi looked at the two adult thieves. With a laugh, he continued to drive the machine forward.

The two adult birds couldn't hear what Zhang Chi said. The two little things pecked around the big machine for a while, probably because they found that the bird's nest had fallen into the hands of thieves, leaving the green hills to be safe, so they flew together. gone.

After working for more than an hour, Zhang Chi found that there were several nests of eggs in the cab, and he got about twenty eggs.

The work is very mechanical and tiring, so Zhang Chi plans to take a break. Anyway, he collects money according to the land, and it is not short of dozens of minutes.

Once again received a place close to the house, Zhang Chi stopped the machine, put all the eggs into a nest, and returned to the house with a nest of eggs.

He went into the house and put the eggs into a basket, rinsed them in the water, and put them aside.

At this time, the door of the small bedroom opened, Zhang Wu yawned, scratched his stomach with one hand and walked out pulling his slippers.

"what!"

First he yawned, and then asked Zhang Chi, "I woke up so early."

"It's still early, it's almost time for lunch," Zhang Chi said to his cousin.

"Then let's cook." Zhang Wu patted his belly: "I'm really hungry when you mention it."

"What wool are you eating? I'm mowing the grass. Let's have lunch after two o'clock," Zhang Chi said.

After hearing this, Zhang Wu asked casually, "Did the machine come over?"

"I have to wait for you to deliver it. It's not that the daylilies are cold. When they are delivered, I have cut a large piece of grass," Zhang Chi said.

"Why do you still need to hire a manpower? It would be better to hire an automated one. Plan the area to be cut, and then the machine will cut it automatically. You don't need to worry about it at all," Zhang Wu said.

Zhang Chi was stunned for a moment: "Can you still play like this?"

Zhang Chi knew there was such a thing, but he didn't know that it could be rented nearby.

Zhang Wu looked at his cousin with the eyes of a fool: "It's so old, the car is going to use automatic driving, and you still work hard by yourself, what a fool!"

Hearing what his cousin said, Zhang Chi immediately called the machine company to ask. After this question, Zhang Chi put down the phone and began to scold his mother. The company has such machines, and the rent is not much more expensive than manpower. , but now that all the machines are rented out, only manpower is left.

Originally, I thought that the service was good, but I didn't expect that he would give him a bad message.

"Trickster!"

Zhang Chi jumped on his feet and cursed.

"You still have the nerve to blame others. You don't understand it yourself. I think you still hire someone. The whole ranch Xiaobai is going to play with the ranch. What do you think?"

Zhang Wu looked at his cousin and smiled.

Originally, Zhang Chi thought that he was doing a good job, and the rented machine was very good, but now he suddenly felt that this big machine was not good.

Zhang Chi was awakened by his cousin's words. He felt that he still had to hire an old cowboy to take care of his ranch, or else he would look like a blind man.

The main reason is that the cousin gave a sum of money, which was unexpected money by Zhang Chi, and it was enough to hire a cowboy for a year to a year and a half.

Thinking of hiring a cowboy, the first thing that popped up in Zhang Chi's mind was Cannon, and he was the most familiar with Cannon among all the cowboys.

After sitting down and thinking for a while, Zhang Chi revisited the account of the ranch in his mind. Zhang Chi finally made up his mind that he still wanted to hire a cowboy to work.

Taking out his mobile phone, Zhang Chi found Cannon's number and dialed it.

Cannon didn't answer, Zhang Chi called twice in a row, but Cannon didn't answer, so Zhang Chi guessed that Cannon was busy, or the phone was not with him.

Putting down his phone, Zhang Chi was ready to continue with his work.

At this time, Zhang Wu had already washed up, and with a bottle of beer in his hand, he walked to the sofa on the corridor and sat down.

Seeing Zhang Chi come out, he pointed at the lawn mower not far away with his finger holding the wine bottle: "This is the machine you rented?"

"Well, what's your opinion?" Zhang Chi asked.

"I have no opinion, I just feel a little old," Zhang Wu said.

"It's as if you know it," Zhang Chi said.

Zhang Wu was not happy when he heard it: "Not only do I know, I can drive it. I used to help others to earn some pocket money."

Surrounded by farms and pastures, most people can drive these agricultural machines, that is to say, Zhang Chi has no experience in delivering food.

Seeing that Zhang Chi didn't believe it, Zhang Wu quit immediately and said directly, "Brother, I'll show you something!"

So the two brothers came to the side of the lawn mower together, and Zhang Wu jumped on the lawn mower directly and sat in the driving position.

Zhang Chi also got into the cab, but sat beside him, leaning against the window and watching his cousin mow the grass.

The machine started smoothly and started working quickly.

Zhang Chi boasted to his cousin with a look of surprise: "So you really know it!"

Zhang Wu is not only good at it, but also quite good at it, at least much better than Zhang Chi. The roads that people’s machines walk out are almost flat along the terrain. For example, Zhang Chi must have a certain amount of reservation for the two adjacent roads cut out Because without this reserved amount, Zhang Chi would have to leave some grass uncut.

Zhang Wu has nothing to do with this at all, and has almost exhausted the reserved amount. The length of each cut is [-] to [-] centimeters longer than that of Zhang Chi.

A piece of pasture can at least save Zhang Chi the cost of one or two acres of land.

Zhang Wu said proudly: "You don't even look at who your brother is! Let me tell you that when I used to help my classmates with work at home to earn pocket money, you still delivered food."

Giving a thumbs up to his cousin, Zhang Chi had a sincere expression: "Otherwise, why are you a brother, I am a brother! You do it first, and I will cook for you. Today, I will eat noodles and stew. noodle!"

"You boy... I'll go, dare you be lazy yesterday" Zhang Wu said angrily.

"I didn't have time yesterday. If you work today, I will have time. In the afternoon, I will go to the supermarket and buy more things. I will give you boring pig's trotters. What else do you want to eat?" Zhang Chi asked.

Zhang Wudao: "Let's have cumin mutton, roast tripe with bean sprouts, and tomato and egg drop soup. If you can't make hoof flower soup, then forget it...".

Zhang Wu had six or seven dishes in one mouthful, and Zhang Chi responded with a smile.

"Okay, you are satisfied!" Zhang Chi replied with a smile.

Waiting for the lawn mower to approach the house again, Zhang Chi got off the machine and ran back like having fun.

Zhang Wu drove the lawn mower back and forth a few times before he realized it.

"I'm going, I'm being fooled by this little thief, isn't it obvious that I'm being used as free labor!"

Zhang Wu patted his thigh, thinking that his cousin is really a loyal and treacherous person with a simple face, and a smart person like himself will be caught by accident.

But after scolding his brother a few words, Zhang Wu still started to work honestly, mowing the pasture carefully.

Zhang Chi returned to the house and began to prepare lunch. Zhang Chi really didn't dare to fool this time. He knew that his cousin would react in a short time, so he made this meal with great care.

The marinade is made of beef mixed with pork. The pork is four parts fat and six parts lean. First cut the fat meat into small cubes and put it in the pot to stir in the water and fat. While stirring the fat, add some spices to remove the smell of lard. .

Then put diced beef and pork lean meat in the pot. The diced meat should be very finely chopped, so that it can be chewed so that it is not sticky to eat. After the diced meat is put into the pot, add various seasonings and spices.

Finally, add water, add diced potatoes and chopped onions, and simmer over low heat.

(End of this chapter)