pasture leisure

Chapter 58 On the Right Track
This is all gossip, and it is still a little far away from Zhang Chi's life.

"I'll send it back to you in the evening."

Zhang Chi helped Cannon to hang the trailer's hook on his pickup truck. Once the connecting cable was connected, he tried the lights and everything was fine, so he said to Burris who was also helping.

Burris said: "It can be delivered tomorrow. Oh, by the way, George, do you have time next weekend?"

Zhang Chi was a little strange. Boris asked what this meant, but he still replied: "There should be nothing wrong. Do you need help?"

Burris replied with a smile: "No, I'm going to hold a small party. There are only a few old guys. If you have time, you might as well come and play."

Zhang Chi didn't expect Boris to invite him.

The old guys that Burris said were having fun, it was actually a small gathering of ranchers, everyone chatting together, drinking and drinking is a common social activity here, but all the participants are ranchers and farmers , and generally no cowboys participated.

"Okay, I will definitely go when I have time."

Hearing Boris' invitation, Zhang Chi was still very happy. Such an invitation from others proved that they had begun to accept him.

It can be said that Zhang Chi grew up in Folsom. Although he has never participated in such a gathering, he also knows that this kind of gathering is not a simple gathering, but a way for big guys to connect with each other.

Zhang Chi is not going to bury his head in his life. This way is outdated, and the old Chinese don't do it anymore. How can Zhang Chi just keep his head on the ranch.

"Then say so." Boris understood that Zhang Chi had accepted his invitation.

After hooking up the trailer, Cannon drove, Zhang Chi sat in the co-pilot, and the two left Burris' ranch together, and ran all the way in the direction of the small town of Merck.

There is nothing to mention along the way. I met four cars and didn’t know five cars. When everyone passed by, they said hello. exciting thing.

In addition to humans, there are animals. There are really many of these guys. In addition to the common deer and bison, Zhang Chi also met a female bear with a cub this time.

The mother and son were obviously not afraid of cars. They walked across the road slowly, shaking their heads, not paying attention to Zhang Chi's big pickup truck at all.

I stopped the car and waited for the pair of bear mother and son to cross the road. Before driving a few hundred meters, another group of coyotes appeared on the road. These guys were very noisy.

This thing is not pleasant, here you don't need to apply for a hunting license to shoot them at will.

Because there are too many of them, although these guys do not threaten human life, there are not many reports of them attacking humans in the United States for a year.

However, the American people believe that they may pose a threat to their children and livestock, so a large number of coyotes will be hunted and killed throughout the United States in a year.

To say that the business force of this thing is also tenacious, even if it is hunting, these guys have expanded their territory by 40%.

"Hey, get out of here!"

These guys didn't wink at all, their stomachs were full, and they just started playing on the road like this, without treating themselves as outsiders at all.

Cannon stopped the car for almost five minutes. He couldn't take it anymore. He stuck his head out and yelled at the coyotes, then honked the horn to tell them to get out.

The sharp car horn sounded suddenly, startling the group of coyotes, and then took Xiao ran into the nearby woods.

The car continued to move forward.

The rest of the road is much smoother, only occasionally encountering a hare, or a fox or something.

Arriving at the ranch smoothly, Zhang Chi contacted the protection organization. Originally, he was thinking that he would come over or something, but who knew that he just said that you can just go in and set it up yourself, so he sent Zhang Chi away.

If so, go in!
The two opened the gate of the ranch and drove the car in.

He brought all the lasso and came near the horses. Zhang Chi stopped the car, and Cannon took out the lasso from the back compartment and walked towards the horses.

The group of horses that were originally gathered together immediately became nervous when they saw the stranger approaching, and all of them stared at Cannon who was walking towards them.

When Cannon approached them for about ten meters, the horses started to move, and the fast horses immediately moved away from Cannon.

However, there were two horses that couldn't run fast, not only because they couldn't run fast, but they still walked with a limp.

Seeing this, Cannon threw out his lasso, and the lasso completely drew an arc in the air, and landed accurately on the neck of the last horse.

Without any struggle, the horse stopped.

Cannon slowly approached the horse while taking in the rope, muttering in his mouth as he approached.

"easy! boy! easy, boy!"

I don't know whether it was Cannon's appeasement that worked, or because the horse itself couldn't run anymore, so Cannon quickly came to the horse.

"boss!"

Hearing Cannon's greeting, Zhang Chi led Xiao Pao to his side.

"Is there something wrong with this horse?" Zhang Chi asked.

Cannon said: "There is no major problem, but the horseshoe has not been repaired for a long time."

Zhang Chi also saw at this moment that the horse's hoof was starting to roll forward. It seemed that the last time the horse's hoof was repaired was at least a year ago, otherwise the horse's hoof would not have grown like this.

"It's not a problem, just wait for a farrier to come and fix it tomorrow."

If you save the money to buy a horse, then you won’t be able to save the money. Zhang Chi knows that as long as the horse has no problems, and it’s not a diseased horse or a sick horse, he can accept it.

Hearing what Zhang Chi said, Cannon pulled the horse and walked towards the trailer.

Ma'er was very honest, obediently followed Kan Min into the trailer, and when he closed the back door of the trailer, Ma'er snorted.

Big horses are easy to catch, and it’s no big deal for Fei Zhangchi and Cannon. After all, these horses have been trained before, and they are not as unruly as wild horses. The most important thing is that these horses are either geldings or Mares are not as violent as stallions.

All six big horses were locked into the trailer, and Zhang Chi wanted to catch those little ponies.

Originally Zhang Chi thought that the pony was not easy to catch, but who knew that the reality gave Zhang Chi a loud slap in the face, and several pony horses could run one by one.

Zhang Chi and Cannon haven't brought their horses yet, and Chiyanshan is still in their ranch. As for the current few big horses, there is no way to saddle them, because the horseshoes are not normal and they all need to be repaired. Re-nailing the palms, at least for now, it is impossible to ride them, let alone ride them on a pony.

"How about we come back tomorrow?"

After trying a few times, the caught pony jumped and kicked. Cannon couldn’t get close at all. Zhang Chi couldn’t help at all. He couldn’t even shake off the lasso now. How could he help? Cannon goes to harness Grumpy Horse.

Don't look at the small ponies, if they are kicked by them, it will be a pain. Cannon didn't dare to approach them with a lasso without a horse.

It's strange to say that every one of the big horses has long toenails, but the ponies are all in good condition. I don't know if they run too much or someone fixes them. Call it a joy.

"forget it!"

Looking at these little ponies, Zhang Chi thought about it for a while, and felt that these things are actually not very useful, even if they are used for children to ride in the future, they are a bit big, let alone for adults, they are too short.

If it was easy to catch him, he wouldn't care about it, but now they all looked like they had been shot, so Zhang Chi decided to give up.

"Let's go back, these little ponies are gone," Zhang Chi said.

It doesn’t matter to Cannon. Raising big horses on the ranch can work, but raising ponies is just for fun. If there is fodder to feed these ponies, it’s better to sell straw bales directly and earn some money back.

With a few big horses, Zhang Chi and Cannon left the ranch, closed the door of the house again, and Zhang Chi and the two returned to the ranch with the captured horses.

When we arrived at the pasture to put down our horses, it was already dark.

Zhang Chi drove the trailer to Burris. Of course, he couldn't return it empty-handed. Instead, he brought Burris a bottle of domestic liquor.

It is very common to give red wine or something. For Laomei, red wine is like our casual white. Giving a bottle of Chinese wine is like giving a foreign sparkling wine when you are a guest. Although the money is spent There are not many, but people find it novel.

Back home, Cannon has already started cooking. The burritos and burritos that everyone knows here, and Cannon’s level is good, and the burritos he makes are similar to those sold on the street. .

After eating, Cannon started to work again, while Zhang Chi himself sat under the porch, holding a bottle of small beer in his hand, drinking the small wine while admiring the night of his pasture.

Almost half an hour later, Cannon rode Chiyan Mountain back.

Zhang Chi brought Cannon a bottle of beer, and the two sat under the shelf.

Cannon drank beer and said to Zhang Chi that the ranch is still missing something.

"We need to make a branding mark. Now that the cows have grown up, the remaining cows must be branded. Now the branding at home is not good. The temperature of the iron is not good enough. The branding is not clear and the cows still suffer. This thing has to be customized, and there is There must be a fence, this thing can be fenced by yourself, just buy some materials when you have time, and the cowshed should be hardened if possible, otherwise in winter, when the cows step on it, they will shit and pee. That’s not good, unhygienic cows are easy to get sick... ".

As soon as Cannon sat down, he spoke a dozen or so eloquently, each of which turned into a word before Zhang Chi's eyes.

--money!

"The matter of hardening the cowshed will wait until the cattle are sold. I really don't have any money now. If you let me say, I still want to build another cowshed. As for the other things, there are no major problems. You can make a list and I will buy what you need." Zhang Chi said directly.

Zhang Chi has no experience in raising cattle, and Cannon is an expert, so Zhang Chi will accept any suggestion he thinks is reasonable.

In addition to hardening the ground of the cowshed, the rest of the money is not much, and the fences are only made of wood, which is probably not as expensive as the custom-made branding.

"That's all right, I'll go to bed first if it's okay." Cannon didn't think about chatting with the boss, he must go to bed early, because he has a lot of work on hand tomorrow.

Zhang Chi didn't know what work to do, but as an old cowboy, Cannon saw plenty of work in his eyes.

With the old cowboy Cannon, plus the missing cows and white-ticketed horses, Zhang Chi's ranch is developing towards a normal ranch.

(End of this chapter)