pasture leisure

Chapter 71
A few days later, Zhang Chi got the money and called Lao Xu, informing him that he could enter the site if he had time, but the project on Lao Xu's side had not been completely completed, so the matter had to be postponed.

The cattle had been sold, and Zhang Chi also had some spare money, so Zhang Chi gave Cannon a little bonus, which made Cannon more motivated.

Zhang Chi decided to slaughter a cow. In addition to eating it himself, he would also give a part to his uncle’s family. Of course, Li Qiao and Aunt Phil, who had helped him, would also send a share. Anyway, the cow would be enough Divided.

Kill as you say, Zhang Chi and Cannon got up early in the morning and went to pick cattle from the herd together.

The two rode on their respective horses and came to the herd of cattle. Standing next to Zhang Chi were Daniel and Erhu. After almost a week of training, Daniel and Erhu looked good driving the cattle now. The appearance of the two dogs also made the cattle a lot more honest.

Like in the past, sometimes this group of cows could bully Zhang Chi when the cows got angry, but now this will not happen again.

Cannon looked at the herd of cattle, turned to Zhang Chi and said, "Boss, let's pick a small one, I think that one is good."

Speaking of which, Cannon pointed to a medium-sized bull in the herd of miscellaneous cattle. This bull was not tall in the herd, but it was not the smallest either.

Cannon, who had just received the bonus, not only worked hard, but also considered the ranch. I have to say that the power of money is great. Originally, Cannon also thought that Zhang Chi might give him a little reward, but he didn't think that his family The young BOSS is so generous, one and a half month's salary is paid, and the most bonus he got before was only three or four hundred yuan.

Just three or four hundred yuan can make Cannon enjoy himself for several days, let alone now.

Zhang Chi is not a stingy person. In his thinking, if you want the horse to run, you have to feed the horse. If you want the horse to run but not let the horse eat, it doesn’t matter how you look at it. Reliable, if you want to gain the loyalty of employees, then you should take care of them. They come out to work to make money to support their families, not to contribute to themselves.

Anyone who only asks you to contribute without mentioning obligations is a hooligan in Zhang Chi's view.

"Big ones, except for a few bulls that are good for breeding, you can choose. Don't choose mixed cattle. Choose Gascony. I haven't tasted the taste of Gascony cattle. Let's You have to taste it first if you raise it," Zhang Chi said with a smile.

"It's more than a thousand dollars for you to taste it," Cannon said with a smile.

"Money is a bastard. If you don't have it, you can make it again. If you keep staring at a thousand dollars, how can you make ten thousand or one hundred thousand dollars?" Zhang Chi replied to Cannon.

Cannon listened and smiled: "You are the BOSS!"

"Oh, by the way, Cannon, how long has it been since you went home?" Zhang Chi asked casually.

Cannon said: "More than a year."

"Do you want to go home and have a look?" Zhang Chi felt that there were not many things to do in the ranch now, and Cannon really worked hard here, so he thought about giving some more benefits.

Cannon shook his head: "It's not easy to go back, forget it, let's send money back."

Cannon's return home is not as easy as Zhang Chi's. He is working illegally here, while Zhang Chi is flying. He is crossing the border and risking danger.

After hearing this, Zhang Chi stopped talking.

"Boss, what do you think of that one?" Cannon pointed to another cow and asked Zhang Chi.

Zhang Chi took a look at the cow, and was still a little dissatisfied. The frame is not small but the body is a bit thin. I am a grass-fed cow here. The fat is more delicious, and the fat is too thin, and the meat is not fragrant. up.

"That one?" Zhang Chi pointed at another bull in the herd.

Cannon glanced at it, nodded and said, "On that end?!"

Seeing Zhang Chi nodded, Cannon called out to Daniel and Erhu: "Daniu, Erhu!"

The name is pronounced with an authentic Chinese accent.

When Daniel and Erhu heard this, they immediately followed Cannon.

Zhang Chi also urged Chi Yanshan to walk towards the target bull.

Zhang Chi is still doing the original work, but after these days of practice, he is no longer in the rush of the first time. Although it is not satisfactory, his kung fu for cutting cattle has shown a little bit of skill.

Cannon's is much more comfortable than before. The big bull and the two tigers can already initially control the herd. With the cooperation of the two and the two dogs, they quickly drove out the bull in Zhang Chixiang's eyes. .

After driving the bull to the side of the house, Cannon put a noose around the neck of the bull and led it to the wooden stand where the bull was branded.

This frame was made by Cannon, and Zhang Chi helped, and the branding of the ranch has now been re-branded, but these two people are busy buying cattle and harvesting grass, and they have never branded the cattle on the ranch.

Killing the cow here is very simple. You don't need any knife at all, just take a gun and shoot the cow's forehead, and it's over.

But Zhang Chi doesn't want to waste the cow's blood. These Americans don't want to eat it, but it doesn't mean that Zhang Chi thinks it's useless. Even if he thinks it's useless, his uncle and aunt will want it.

So Zhang Chi specially prepared a basin here to catch the cow's blood later.

Of course, Zhang Chi will do the shooting, but Cannon will definitely have to do the job of cutting the neck of the cow and draining the blood later.

The cow got into the wooden frame, and the whole body was fixed by the wooden frame, so it couldn't do big activities.

The wooden frame mentioned, in fact, the wood is thick. Each piece of wood is as thick as the mouth of a bowl. In order to prevent the cow from struggling at the joint, there are iron bolts to fix it. Let alone the cow is trapped, just let a bull get rid of it. Even if it is made, its strength can't do anything to the wooden frame.

This thing has to be solid, otherwise when you brand the bull, the bull will jump out, and the danger of a mad bull is beyond ordinary people's imagination.

Zhang Chi came out with his own gun, and Cannon next to him was also ready to put a sharp knife, and there was a stainless steel metal basin at his feet.

"Are you ready?" Zhang Chi loaded the bullet and asked Cannon.

Cannon said, "I have no problem!"

Hearing what Cannon said, Zhang Chi aimed his gun at Niu's forehead, hesitantly did not pull the trigger directly.

boom!
With a gunshot, the cow didn't even resist at all, and directly collapsed in the wooden frame. However, because the body was fixed by the frame, all the cows did not lie down, but directly knelt in the frame.

There was no struggle at all, and the cow walked without much pain.

Cannon waited for the cow to kneel, and immediately put the basin under the cow's neck. The sharp knife in his hand easily opened the cow's neck, and a stream of cow blood immediately sprayed into the basin.

After a while, the cow's blood was drained, almost a whole pot of cow's blood.

Before slaughtering the cow, Zhang Chi had already prepared the dissolved salt water. He poured the salt water into the cow's blood and stirred it, allowing the salt water to fully blend with the blood, and put it aside to wait for the blood to coagulate.

The next thing is to skin the cow. Zhang Chi can do this kind of thing, but Cannon has taken on this task with all his strength.

It is also impossible to skin and viscera the cow in a wooden rack, and the cow has to be dragged out.

Cannon tied the other end of the noose around the cow's neck directly to his horse, and urged the horse to easily drag the cow out of the rack.

The cows dragged out are not easy to skin, and the cows have to be hung up. This job is not difficult, just find a strong fork on a nearby tree, tie the neck of the cow and hang the cow up.

Of course, this step also requires the help of horses, or how to say that horses are good helpers on the ranch.

After the cow was hung on the tree, Zhang Chi helped Cannon build a ladder, which can be found in any ranch, and there is no shortage of ladders. There are really too many places to use, and it is a basic preparation.

"Why don't you take the internal organs first?" Zhang Chi looked at Cannon and said to Cannon when he saw that Cannon directly and surely started his hands from the cow's neck.

Cannon thought for a while and replied: "Let's peel the skin first."

Zhang Chi didn't want to argue with him, anyway, he was the one who peeled the skin, and he didn't have to do it himself, so he nodded.

Cannon didn't care about Zhang Chi either. He directly used the knife in his hand to pull the skin off the cow's neck until it reached the cow's chest, and then began to peel the cow's hide carefully.

"You send the skin that will be peeled off to the denim store in the city. They can help you process it into a whole piece of cowhide. Of course, you can sell it, but let's not sell it this time. After they process it, I'll make you a saddle, your saddle is too big for you"

Cannon said.

The saddle that Zhang Chi is using now is a bit too big for Zhang Chi, because it is a machine-made saddle, and they are all made according to the American figure. Zhang Chi is not tall, so the ordinary saddle is a bit too big for him It's big, and it's definitely not as comfortable as a custom saddle to sit on.

Cannon felt that the boss Zhang Chi was so kind to him, so now he just used cowhide to help the boss make a suitable saddle. Anyway, it was just a waste of time for him, and it was also an expression of his heart.

"How can I have time to make saddles when I'm so busy"

"It doesn't take much effort. This is the most basic job for cowboys. On larger ranches, cowboys have to repair saddles and weave leather straps in their spare time," Cannon said.

Zhang Chi didn't think too much, seeing that Cannon wanted to do it, let him do it, so he opened his mouth and said, "That's fine!"

Cannon's skinning skills are very good, much faster than Zhang Chi's. Even though Zhang Chi is a cook, he doesn't have much skinning experience. On the contrary, Cannon has worked on the ranch for so many years and has practiced a good skill at skinning. craft.

Cannon peeled the skin, and Zhang Chi was not idle, waiting for the blood clot to be fixed by the cow's blood, and then separated the blood clot with a knife.

Boil water in the big iron pot I got back from Brother Ma, about [-] degrees. When it is about to boil, slide the blood clots into the pot one by one, and simmer slowly for about half an hour on a low heat.

After the blood clot changes color, from blood red to maroon, and the inside also changes color, you can take the beef blood clot out of the pot and put it directly into cold water to cool it down.

In this way, the ox blood is ready.

Of course, these are just ingredients. If you want to eat it in your mouth, you have to spend extra effort, or cook tofu, or eat hot pot. Anyway, it is impossible for us chefs in Greater China to waste this stuff.

Zhang Chi didn't plan to eat it today, and he didn't plan to keep it all. He would ask his uncle if Li Qiao wanted it later.

(End of this chapter)