pasture leisure

Chapter 78
When Melika's eyes fell on the watch on her wrist, she was stunned, because the watch showed that it was nine o'clock in the morning.

After doing the math, Melika found that she had slept at least ten hours.

Melika hasn't slept so comfortably for a long time.

One is that Melika is busy with work, it is difficult to have time to sleep for ten hours, and two is that she also has a little sleep problem, even if she sleeps for four hours at most, she will wake up.

Sleeping for ten hours at a time, the sleep time was a bit too long, Melika's subconscious reaction was that the watch was broken, but she turned her head and looked out of the window, looking at the strong light, she knew that her watch was still running very fast. Accurate, as accurate as ever.

Melika, who came back to her senses, wondered if someone had drugged her, so she looked at her current state and found that it was not the case.

People, this is specifically referring to Zhang Chi. If you want to prescribe her medicine, you have to do something. Now her clothes are in good condition. Melika has a small problem. She can tie a bow. When playing, all the thread ends are required to be the same length, which is not noticed by ordinary people.

If someone has touched the bow on her trousers, Melika can tell it at a glance.

It was now evident that no one had touched the harness.

And she didn't believe that Zhang Chi would have such a meticulous thinking.

What's more, the door is still closed, the door bolt has been locked from the inside, and the windows are even more impossible. The windows that open up and down, and the bottom lock does not look like they have been opened at all.

After thinking about it for a while, Melika felt that her whole body was full of strength, and she slept for more than ten hours, and she still woke up until dawn. This long-lost feeling made Melika feel relaxed all at once. stand up.

After getting dressed again, Melika opened the door of the room.

Before going out, a strong fragrance rushed into his nose.

Melika knows this aroma, it is the aroma of pot stickers coming out of the pot.

As soon as Melika went out, Zhang Chi, who had just finished his work, saw her.

"Shout! You have really long legs. I just made breakfast here, and you got up. Did you get stuck a little bit?" Zhang Chi laughed.

Melika was in a really good mood at the moment, and said to Zhang Chi: "It's so fragrant."

Zhang Chi said: "This morning is pot stickers, served with soy milk."

"You made it early in the morning?" Melika looked at the fried golden pot stickers on the table and the white soy milk in the bowl in front of Cannon, and swallowed secretly.

It is not easy to find these in the United States. Of course, there may be places like Chinatown, but people like Melika have no time to find these.

"Have you brought your washing things?"

Zhang Chi heard that Melika was going to wash up and asked casually.

Melika said: "I have one."

These things are almost always carried by Melika, for the convenience of work.

After washing up, Melika sat down at the table.

At this time, Cannon said that he had finished eating, said a polite word to the two, and walked out of the room.

Melika sat down and picked up a potsticker. Before she could put it in her mouth, the aroma of rapeseed oil rushed into her nose.

"Cannon is not used to this taste," Zhang Chi said with a smile.

It was the first time for Cannon to eat pot stickers. The taste of rapeseed oil was a bit unacceptable, but when making pot stickers, it must be fried with rapeseed oil. It is best to use the traditional pressing method. Otherwise, the vegetables The taste of the seed oil is not strong enough, and it loses the taste of the pot stickers.

Anyway, for Zhang Chi, he would rather not eat pot stickers without rapeseed oil. If he uses other oils to fry, it is not called pot stickers but fried dumplings.

"Your craftsmanship is not bad." Melika looked at the potstickers on the chopsticks.

The skin of the pot stickers is the color of rapeseed oil, the bottom is burnt yellow, and there are ice edges around it. I have to say that from the appearance, it is almost the same as the pot stickers that Melika ate in China, or even better.

Bite down lightly, the bottom of the pot stickers is crunchy, but the skin is a little cottony, the aroma of rapeseed oil, paired with the beef juice bursting out of the pot stickers, the taste is really amazing.

Melika reached out to pick it up, and quickly took another napkin from the table, and tried the corner of her mouth.

"It's really...".

As he spoke, he gave Zhang Chi a thumbs up, and praised Zhang Chi for making authentic pot stickers.

Zhang Chi ignored her, took a sip of soy milk with his head down, then put a potsticker in his mouth, bit open a small opening, blew in, and waited for the soup inside to cool enough to be eaten. Take a bite.

When biting, you have to stretch your neck, and use the soybean milk bowl below to catch the exposed soup.

Melika was not interested in talking to Zhang Chi at this time, and slept for ten hours, which made Melika very energetic at the moment.

People without insomnia can't understand Melika's mood at this moment. She has been struggling with sleep for a long time, and as soon as she lays down on the bed, she starts to worry about whether she can fall asleep smoothly today. The more she thinks about it, the more difficult it is to fall asleep.

Suddenly after sleeping for so long, the nerves of the whole person suddenly relaxed, as if the strings that had been tense in the mind were suddenly loosened, and the whole body was indescribably relaxed.

The two of them didn't say a word until they both had their stomachs full.

Melika can eat a lot, four or five pot stickers with a large bowl of soy milk, not to mention Zhang Chi, a dozen or so pot stickers and two bowls of soy milk, the stomach is almost full.

Pushing away the bowl, Zhang Chi leaned against the back of the chair happily.

Melika stood up and got ready to go to work.

Melika just stood up when Zhang Chi's phone rang.

"Hey, auntie, bull head?... Forget it, I won't eat it. What's so delicious about bull head?"

Auntie called and told Zhang Chi to get the cow's head from her tomorrow. She and Zhang Youliang are going to marinate the cow's head and four cow's hooves that Zhang Chi gave yesterday. The couple can't eat it. The guests probably didn't have anything to eat, so they had to call their nephews to deal with the cow's head and hooves together.

Zhang Chi really has never eaten a cow's head, but when he thought about it, he was facing a cow's head, and then stretched out his own head to eat the cow's head.

Correct!
In fact, Zhang Chi didn't dare.

Upon hearing the braised ox head, Melika stopped in her tracks.

"Okay then, I'll go there tomorrow morning," Zhang Chi said.

Waiting for Zhang Chi to put down the phone, Melika asked Zhang Chi: "Your uncle can also stew the ox head? If the ox head is not well stewed, it will not taste good at all, but if it is well stewed, it tastes great, and the face will be bruised." It's live meat...".

Zhang Chi's saliva almost flowed out when he heard what Melika said, he was a little silly, this little girl still knows the term "living meat".

"Have you ever eaten this?"

Zhang Chi couldn't believe it.

Melika said: "Eat, when I was studying in China, I went to a friend's house in Northwest China as a guest, and his grandpa knew how to braise ox head. At first I thought it was too disgusting, but I couldn't stop after eating a bite of meat." ".

"Then if you don't dislike it, you can go to my aunt's place tomorrow morning if you have time."

Zhang Chi originally planned to pretend to get it back, and then feed the two dogs, or the bull and the two tigers, it depends on which of the three has a better chance.

But I didn't expect Melika to eat this.

"Look, if I have time, I will definitely go." Melika looked at her watch, turned her head out of the house and got on the car.

He didn't start it directly, but changed his clothes from yesterday in the car, put on a new set of clothes, and then drove the car out of the ranch.

Zhang Chi murmured behind his back: This little girl, is he Chinese or am I Chinese? He eats more food than I do!

After finishing his digestion, Zhang Chi put on a bridle and saddle for Chi Yanshan, and rode it around the pasture for a routine, checked the fence, looked at the situation of the pasture, returned home and took a rest, then Started to practice lasing and driving cattle.

The next morning, at ten o'clock, Zhang Chi drove to the city.

When I just got out of the fork, I saw that the open space next to the small bar was full of hay bales, and there was a truck unloading hay bales next to it.

There are also some people gathered around, all of them are nearby ranchers, and their neighbor Seriol is also among them.

"What are you doing?"

Zhang Chi stopped the car on the side of the road, and when he got off the car, he saw Serior beside him, so he asked aloud.

"Have you prepared the fodder for the winter?" Serior explained when he saw Zhang Chi approaching.

Winter is coming soon, and many pastures will buy winter forage. If there is hay, they also need some silage. It seems that the hay bought by Seriol's family and another family is shipped here today.

"How to unload it here?"

Zhang Chi was a little strange, why didn't he unload it in his own ranch, but unloaded it here instead.

"The seller only unloads here," Seriol said with a straight face.

The person next to him smiled at Zhang Chi and said, "It's all like this, did you buy fodder and unload it on the pasture?"

Zhang Chi has never bought fodder. He really doesn't know if the fodder is unloaded on the pasture, but how could it be unloaded here according to his thinking? It is only a short distance from here to the pasture. Do truck drivers pick it up like this?
"I'm joking with you, it's because Ed bought this batch of fodder."

Seeing Zhang Chi's serious face, an old rancher said with a smile.

After he finished speaking, everyone laughed, and Zhang Chi realized that the big guy was making fun of himself.

"I almost believed it."

Zhang Chi also became happy.

Seriol smiled and said, "Do you want to buy some from your ranch?"

"I still have some fodder in my ranch, and I'm going to wait and see if the price is so expensive now," Zhang Chi said.

Now the price of fodder is approaching [-] US dollars per ton. At this price, Zhang Chi wants to sell some of it for money, let alone buy it.

"Your family has a lot of fodder, but it may not be enough," Seriol reminded Zhang Chi.

We are all experienced ranchers. This is a good time to buy grass fodder. Although it is a bit more expensive, if the snow cannot melt in the first time in spring, the grass in the pasture will not be able to catch up. At that time, if you want to buy grass again, the price cannot be cheaper than it is now.

Not only is it not cheap, it is likely to be more expensive.

"I suggest buying some. Four or five years ago, the snow hadn't melted in mid-April, and the price of a bale of hay that year had risen to forty-five dollars. That was really fatal."

Someone persuaded Zhang Chi.

"Then I have to think about it when I go back. By the way, how is the quality of the pasture?" Zhang Chi didn't want to continue this topic, so he turned to the quality of pasture.

"These are secondary pastures that will be fed with a little corn when the snow comes down."

If pasture is expensive, other cheap things should be added. In the United States, the main function of corn is feed, and it is quite cheap feed.

(End of this chapter)