pasture leisure

Chapter 6 Ranch
Needless to say, the gate of a general ranch has a lot of tricks, even if it is simple, there will be two logs on it, an arch or something, and some pasture will be written on it.

Now the gate of Zhangchi Ranch is extremely simple. It is directly a half-person-high wooden railing. The gate is two round wooden frames with thick arms. Wild animals run into it.

"arrive!"

Zhang Chi got out of the car and said to the uncle's family behind him.

After finishing speaking, he walked over and stretched out his hand to pull the door open. Yes, it was a pull. The two simple doors didn't even have a shaft, and all the doors had to be opened with the strength of both arms.

He drove his car in and waited for his uncle to drive the car into the ranch before Zhang Chi closed the gate again.

After entering the pasture, there are still big trees, towering big trees, with luxuriant branches and leaves, which can hardly see through the sunlight.

After about [-] meters, everyone's line of sight suddenly opened up, and a green and vibrant valley jumped into everyone's line of sight.

The valley is located between two mountains. The so-called mountain ridges are mountain ridges. The two mountains surround the pasture into a willow leaf shape.

The pasture is covered with green grass as far as the eye can see, and among the green grass, there are clumps of groves. These groves are not towering pines and cypresses, but mostly deciduous trees with different colors. Even green can be distinguished. There are different shades.

In the beginning of spring, the snow on the mountain began to melt, and the snow water formed two small rivers on the pasture, flowing down from the mountain, and then gathered into a river, like a Y shape, shining a little under the sunlight .

In the beginning of spring, the grass has grown, and some wild flowers are blooming at the same time. The purple wild flowers are like purple clouds inlaid on the greenery.

"Yo, this place is really nice!"

The aunt got out of the car, and when she saw the ranch, she said to Zhang Chi: "I didn't expect you to have a good eye, this ranch is worth buying."

Uncle has seen the world, and knows that this kind of pasture is full of wild flowers, that is to say, it looks good to a layman. The real irrigated pasture is full of pasture even if it is blooming. It is impossible to say that there is one here. One over there.It is even more impossible to say that it is colorful.

"The whole piece is yours?" Zhang Youliang asked.

Zhang Chi said: "No, the west side belongs to someone else, and the one in the southeast corner belongs to another ranch. Did you see the fence over there? From there to there, the one in the middle is mine like a willow leaf."

There are two ranches that are neighbors with Zhang Chi, one is separated from the original ranch, and the other is from the original, the dividing line is the two mountain networks, and the small road that came in.

"What kind of place is this? It's so out of the way! It's worse than a bird that doesn't lay eggs."

Zhang Wu saw that this was called a pasture, it was just wasteland.

As a native here, many of his classmates have ranches and farms. Zhang Wu naturally knows what kind of ranch is good and what kind of ranch is bad. The ranch bought by his cousin is actually the government. The level of its own grassland.In fact, it is an untended wasteland.

Zhang Chi didn't care, and opened his mouth and said: "If it's good, it won't be my turn. Besides, if this land has everything, the bank won't separate it. Although the conditions are a little worse now, But just wait until the cattle are raised.”

Zhang Wu curled his lips when he heard this, and opened his mouth to give his cousin a critical blow, but seeing his mother glaring at him, he swallowed the rest of the words.

"We need to take a good rest," Zhang Youliang said.

Although it is a dry restaurant, among the few friends he has made, there is a pasture. The pasture does not talk about architecture, but the grass in the pasture is the same kind. According to what he understands, such a pasture wants to To sort it out, that's no small project.

Not all grasses are suitable for feeding cows. Feeding cows in this era is not simply letting them out every day and letting them eat grass. Nowadays, good pastures are like alfalfa, ryegrass, barleygrass, etc. They are all specially cultivated, and the land my nephew bought is completely weeds.

"Slowly, while the weather is getting warmer and warmer, I want to solve the cattle problem first these few days, and then I am going to build a small house, and my house is going to be built there."

As he said that, Zhang Chi stretched out his finger to the small mound opposite. This mound is backed by the mountain, and the terrain is high. No matter how much snow on the mountain melts, it is impossible to flood it and build a house on it. From Zhang Chi's point of view, it's perfect.

Zhang Youliang said to his nephew, "Let's go and have a look."

With uncle's words, everyone got in the car again and drove towards the mound where Zhang Chi was going to build a house.

When he arrived at the place, Zhang Chi unloaded the towed caravan and put it in place. This will be his residence in the future at least until the house is built.

Zhang Youliang looked around and was full of worries about his nephew. He felt that based on his experience, it is impossible to make money for such a ranch without investing three to four hundred thousand.

Even if you save more and more, you can't save money by replanting the entire pasture with high-nutrition grass.

Not to mention all kinds of irrigation facilities. If you want to invest a million dollars in this thing, you can spend it all. For such a ranch, it is still far away from this step.

"Does the cow have any plans? What kind of cow do I mean?" Zhang Youliang asked.

There are many breeds of cattle in the United States, and some pastures directly raise cross-breed cattle, regardless of the breed.

Now Zhang Chi wants to choose a good breed of cattle, but the money in his pocket probably won’t agree, so his first goal is to raise cheap miscellaneous cattle. Zhang Chi doesn’t know what it is called, anyway, it looks like The yellow cattle in my hometown have yellowish fur and white spots on their bodies, and they can be used for milk or meat.

Generally speaking, this kind of cattle is not too big. When they are raised to [-] pounds, that is, they can be sold to fattening pastures in about a year.This is also the way cattle ranches operate in general.

There is a whole industrial chain here, and the ranch is only one link in this chain.

"It hasn't been decided yet. I think we should raise cheaper cattle first. To be honest, my little money is not enough to buy a few cows that are too expensive," Zhang Chi said.

"Well, this idea is considered reliable."

Zhang Wudao: "If you raise ordinary cattle, when will you be able to make money? At that time, don't spend a year artificially adding feed, plus veterinary fees, which will directly bankrupt you! Oh, Mom, you beat me again doing what?"

Zhang Wu held the back of his head.

The aunt said angrily: "Your brother's ranch hasn't opened yet, you talk about being bankrupt and keep saying you don't make money, you haven't been beaten, have you?"

Zhang Chi laughed and said: "Auntie, it's okay, I don't care about these."

The aunt said: "Some things can be said, some things can't be said, people who are in their early thirties don't understand these things?"

Zhang Wu muttered, "If he wasn't my younger brother, I wouldn't say anything."

"If you are short of money, tell us." Zhang Youliang is not optimistic about his nephew now, but he has not vented his anger on his nephew. Young people don't have difficulties. Sometimes setbacks are good for young people. Far better than being successful all the time.

"Ok!"

Zhang Chi nodded.

Zhang Chi himself is sure that raising a cow with a gourd in his hands is still a matter, but he can't show it.

The aunt doesn't care about what kind of cattle to raise, she cares about how her nephew lives here.

"You will live here in the future? How do you live without electricity and water?" Aunt asked.

Zhang Chi said: "Persist for a while. I have a gas tank here. I rely on it for food and other things. I just take water from the mountain. Filter it with a water purification device. Hold on for a while and wait for the house to be built. , install a solar power generation device, and get a backup generator can almost solve the house's electricity problem, and then find someone to dig a well, and the water problem will also be solved."

"What kind of life are you living?" Auntie was really worried.

"It's nothing to start a business, let alone suffering. I have contacted a construction team. They will come to see the land in two days, and then build a house. It will take about a month." matter," Zhang Chi said.

The two sons in Zhang Chi's pocket can't build any good houses, and Zhang Chi didn't think about what kind of house he would build as soon as he came up.

Now his family knows his family affairs, the house can only shelter from the wind and rain, and it is enough not to freeze himself to death in winter, so what he chatted with Li Qiao's friend on WeChat last night was the most common house.

A one-story wooden house, about [-] square meters, two bedrooms and a kitchen and bathroom solve the problem.

Now that money has to be spent wisely, Zhang Chi's sharp edge is the cowshed, the hay barn, and there must be a stable.

Originally Zhang Chi didn't intend to have this, but Li Qiao's friend suggested to build one, even if it was a shed directly.

They have repaired this thing, so they said that in winter, when it snows heavily in the ranch, the pickup truck is definitely not as practical as a horse. Even an all-terrain vehicle, sometimes it cannot replace a horse.

There is nothing to see in the place. If you go a little above the mound, you can have a panoramic view of the whole pasture. The pasture of [-] acres is not small, but it is not big. If you want to see a thousand miles, it is a thousand miles.

There is not even a place to drink, what did you show Zhang Youliang's family?

RV?The RV is as small as a capsule. Now I am afraid that only one bed is empty, and other places are stuffed.Guan Jian still belongs to others.

It seemed that there was nothing to see, so Zhang Chi moved out the small stool, and the four of them sat on the small stool, boiled hot water and chatted while drinking tea.

At noon, a few steaks were fried with the fire of a gas tank, and the four of them simply filled their stomachs, which was considered to be their lunch.

In the afternoon, the uncle's family of three said goodbye and went back to Folsom. Zhang Chi sent the uncle's family all the way to the small town, and then drove back to the ranch.

Although the ranch is dilapidated and desolate in the eyes of others, when Zhang Chi stays alone in the ranch, there is an indescribable peace in his heart, maybe he finally has a piece of land that is completely his own.

The land awareness rooted in his heart gave Zhang Chi an indescribable feeling about his pasture.

(End of this chapter)