Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 497 Ranch construction and eating Hong Kong students

In the United States, let alone the 60s, even after the new century, there are basically very few people in the big cities.

When the car entered the ranch, I heard Chu Xiangqian say that the land starting from the pastures and mountains to the farthest canyon with a height of tens of meters was all his own.

Suddenly he started chattering excitedly and asking questions.

Xue Jinglan, Hong Kong students and the master's wife who were sitting and listening were also very excited.

If this were the Celestial Dynasty of the old society, Chu Xiangqian would definitely be one of the top landowners in the country.

Xu Jie, the first assistant during the Jiajing period, retired and returned to his hometown, allowing his children to run rampant and occupy an area of ​​only 24 acres.

But Chu Xiangqian's pasture covers an area of ​​1 acres, which is roughly equivalent to more than 40 acres of land.

It is no exaggeration to say that he was one of the top landowners in the old Chinese society.

But when they heard Chu Xiangqian say that there was a combined agricultural and animal husbandry farm over there in Texas, covering an area of ​​52 acres, spanning six counties in Texas, equivalent to 20.7 hectares, they all said in shock. Speechless.

The third ring road in Beijing is now only 159 square kilometers, equivalent to 1.59 hectares.

In other words, a farm is equivalent to 13 capitals. Just thinking about it makes the master and master and the others go numb.

However, as they drove deeper and deeper into the ranch, everyone gradually felt that the ranch Chu Xiangqian owned was equally astonishingly large.

Otherwise, after driving for more than 20 minutes, we still haven’t reached the entrance of the ranch.

After entering the ranch and looking at the endless grasslands, mountains, woods and wastelands, everyone once again realized how big this ranch is.

When passing by the canal under construction, Simon said to Chu Qianqian, "BOSS, according to the construction team, it will probably take about 40 days to complete the canal.

At that time, there is no need to worry about water resources for cattle and sheep drinking water and the pastures around the canals.

However, if the nearly 1500 acres of newly reclaimed farms are to be fully developed, it is best to build new water diversion equipment. "

Chu nodded forward, having previously let the chickadees fly around in the sky to survey the farm land.

The people at Solvang Construction Company were naturally eager to build an automated irrigation system on the ranch, but Chu Xiangqian had carefully calculated that the automated irrigation system would save manpower.

But maintenance is very troublesome. The electricity consumed every year is actually quite large. Plus the labor costs required for maintenance, it is better to hire more cowboys.

It can be said that a cowboy is an all-rounder on the ranch.

When not busy, cowboys can do things like maintaining fences, repairing ranch equipment, harvesting grass, and repairing cattle and sheep pens.

In other words, as long as they only work about 10 hours a day and hold a few more barbecues and beer parties, the cowboys won't have any complaints.

So Chu Xiangqian planned to build small ditches on the farm.

Let Cowboy perform maintenance every six months and build 2 more pump rooms to meet the water needs of the entire farm.

As for the automated irrigation system that saves more water, I spend $1 a year to buy new water rights.
Coupled with the pasture’s pre-existing water rights, the ranch doesn’t need to worry about water at all.

In this case, a fool would spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to build an irrigation system that can only meet the needs of the farm.

If the town did not allow the construction of small power plants, Chu Qianqian would have planned to block the water and raise the two rivers that ran through half of the pasture, raising the water level and allowing the water to irrigate the entire farm.

At the same time, it generates electricity to meet all the electricity consumption of the ranch, and sells some electricity to the small town of Solvang.

Unfortunately, even if I lobby the town's top officials, the farmers and ranchers downstream of the ranch will definitely worry about using the dam to control their water sources.

This is not a big problem in wet years, but in drought years, just because the dams block water, farmers and ranchers downstream will subjectively think that their water is less because of the dams.

If this thing doesn't go well, you'll have to start a fuss and even come to the door with a gun to demand an explanation.

"Help me make an appointment with Max from the construction company to come to the ranch tomorrow morning to discuss the farm's supporting water canal project."

A farm of 1500 acres may seem large, but in fact the small water canals that need to be built are not that large and can be completed for at most US$10,000+.

Moreover, when the wasteland where the farm is located is leveled, the project clearly stipulates that crisscrossing ditches must be dug on the wasteland.

At the end of the project, the main ditches on the farm were reinforced with cement. Once the water flows in, the earthen ditches will make it easier to store water in the land.

During the winter, water is poured into the farm, and in the spring, the wasteland can be reclaimed and cultivated.

After all, that wasteland is not saline-alkali land and does not require irrigation for several years before it can be cultivated.

Before Christmas, all the 600 cows raised on the pasture were sold. In addition, cattle and sheep will be sold every month in the future. If the pasture is renovated in the future, Chu Xiangqian will not need to pay.

In the evening, everyone who packed their luggage and rooms gathered for a barbecue party on the grass of the ranch manor.

Every cowboy who came to the banquet made some desserts, and Chu Xiangqian just provided beef and mutton and enough beer and red wine.

The mistress took Xue Jinglan, Hong Kong students and Ai Yuan to cook a lot of northern desserts, which immediately attracted praises from the cowboys and children on the ranch.

If it weren't for the different languages, one of the cowgirls would definitely ask for advice on how to make sweet and sour pork.

To put it bluntly, Americans just like food that is a little sour but very sweet.

When Yi Xiantian was in Lanyi Club, he learned English and even the island Mandarin.

I have lived in Hong Kong Island for many years, and although I rarely use English, I have not forgotten it.

So although I was a bit unfamiliar when communicating with the cowboys on the ranch, and my spoken pronunciation was a bit awkward, communication was not a big problem.

This guy is most active when the barbecue party starts.

Either chatting with the cowboys about the ranch and the town, or teaching the children in the ranch who had learned basic kung fu stances from Zhang Tianzhi before.

Chu Xiangqian knew that this old man was accustomed to taking the initiative to understand and integrate into the new environment.

When he heard that he could carry guns at will as long as he was within the ranch, Yixian Tian immediately approached a young cowboy and asked him to teach him how to shoot. This already showed that the old man was preparing for a rainy day.

No matter how powerful Yi Xian Tian's kung fu is, he can't withstand an automatic rifle.

Moreover, fists and feet, not to mention firearms, are actually at a disadvantage when the opponent is holding a knife.

Lao Jiang's technique of charging up a knife with one hand and splitting a two-and-a-half-meter-high wooden stick from bottom to top is even more attractive.

Although there was definitely no energy in the knife, when the knife reached about 2 meters, the tip of the knife did not touch the top of the wooden stick.

From the perspective of an expert, it was just that when the wooden stick was split from bottom to top, the splitting force of the wooden stick caused the top to explode.

But to an outsider, it looks like the invisible sword energy split the top of the stick.

All of a sudden, not only the children were surrounding Lao Jiang, but the young male and female cowboys were also excitedly surrounding Lao Jiang and asking questions.

Little Simon simply knelt down in front of Lao Jiang and kept shouting, "Master" which sounded awkward.

Foreigners don't attach much importance to kneeling, because as long as they believe in religion, they have long been accustomed to kneeling to God.

Moreover, foreigners are more realistic. If they can learn real kung fu by just kneeling down, they will do so without any hesitation.

This time Lao Jiang was in trouble, and since he didn't speak English, he could only look at Chu Qianqian, who was chatting about the ranch with Simon, Hans, and Horner.After Chu Xiangqian was reminded by Simon, he shrugged and walked over and said, "Uncle Jiang, just teach them to practice swordsmanship for an hour every day. If they want to reach your level.

It was just a dream in the next 30 years, so just treat it as having nothing to do and have fun. "

Lao Jiang came to his senses and realized that he would go to see his ancestors 30 to [-] years later.

And in his mind, let alone 30 to 40 years, even [-] to [-] years, these American guys might not be able to reach his level.

After all, I was the executioner who was responsible for beheading back then. In the first 20 years, I didn't know how many evil people were sent to see the King of Hell.

Only then did he accumulate experience and skills in using knives.

Later, he was rescued by Gong Baosen. During his many years in the Gong family, he also received Gong Baosen's guidance, and then he refined and improved his strength with a knife.

Seeing that Chu Qianqian made it clear that he was letting him teach casually, rather than really teaching him true skills, he smiled and nodded.

But the problem came again, the language barrier.

In the end, little Simon and others were forced to continue learning Chinese.

And even though you won’t be exhausted after a day’s work on the ranch, the workload is indeed very heavy.

Experienced cowboys know how to conserve their energy during the day, and by maintaining this workload all year round, they have long adapted to ranch work.

But at the end of the day for a newbie, he will definitely want to go straight to bed after get off work.

Only young men like little Simon, who are not yet considered official cowboys on the ranch, have the energy to learn kung fu.

However, after years of accumulation, your fighting ability will definitely improve a lot.

In the evening, after the barbecue party, the cowgirls and children volunteered to help pack up.

After that, everyone went back to Ge's house. Master, Master, and Ehime also went back to their rooms in the main building to rest early.

After all, I had been flying for a day, and because I was older and drank some wine, I was already sleepy.

Chu Qianqian held the little hands of Xue Jinglan and Hong Kong Sheng, who were still a little excited, and took Da Zhuang and Hong Niu to sit on the viewing platform outside the manor in the middle of the mountain. He looked at the pasture under the moonlight and muttered. Let’s chat first.

Xue Jinglan leaned directly into Chu Qianqian's arms. Hong Kong Sheng was a little shy, but she also sat tightly next to Chu Qianqian.

But after a while, Chu Qianqian's hand started to make trouble on her waist.

Hong Kong Sheng hurriedly held Chu Qianqian's hand, but not long after, he felt that his peak was being held down by Wuzhishan.

If it weren't for the fact that it was night, the red-faced Hong Kong student would have been so embarrassed that he could only run back to his room.

He secretly glanced at Chu Qianqian, who was as if nothing had happened, and secretly thought that the senior brother was really bad.

But I didn't feel angry at all.

And Xue Jinglan had long regarded Hong Kong Sheng as her helper, and didn't care about the little moves she and Chu Qianqian made.

While we were just chatting, there were faint sounds of howling wolves coming from the mountains about ten kilometers away and five or six kilometers east of the town.

Although the sound was not loud, it frightened Xue Jinglan and Hong Kong Sheng, and they subconsciously hugged Chu Qianqian's arm tightly.

A normal wolf howl can be heard for five or six kilometers, but if the wolf is on a high mountain and in the middle of the night, it can indeed be heard for more than ten kilometers.

Chu Qianqian smiled and said, "Don't worry, it's still far away from the pasture over there, and even if the wolves come down the mountain, it will be the pasture east of the town that suffers.

Because we are close to the Grand Canyon that stretches for several kilometers to the north, the wolves basically cannot come down from the canyon.

Moreover, two sections of wooden fences were erected in that section of the canyon. Even if the wolves came from that way, they would not be able to enter the pasture. "

But Xue Jinglan and Hong Kong Sheng were still a little scared. Xue Jinglan shook Chu Qianqian's arm and said, "Brother Qianqian, we'd better go back to the house."

Chu shrugged forward. It was normal for women to be afraid of wolves and tigers.

The three of them returned to the main room. Hong Kong Sheng hesitated and wanted to sleep with Xue Jinglan, but was embarrassed to say it.

And the little girl knew very well that Chu Qianqian would do something to her at night if she didn't keep her safe.

Chu Xiangqian really has this in mind. This is California, and one can get married at the age of 16.

A place where one can get married even at the age of 15 after applying to the court.

If you have a relationship with a 16-year-old Hong Kong student, let alone the law, ordinary people will not have any objections.

As for whether Chu Xiangqian is married, if polygamy is allowed on Hong Kong Island, not only will Americans have nothing to do with him, but they will be jealous to death.

Seeing that Hong Kong Sheng was hesitant, Chu Xiangqian simply pulled her and Xue Jinglan into the master bedroom.

Xue Jinglan rolled her eyes at Chu Qianqian, but she didn't have a bad look towards Hong Kong students.

Instead, he took her to wash up with him.

Early the next morning, Chu Xiangqian got up early and greeted his master and his wife for breakfast.

Ehime asked a little strangely, "Brother, are you waiting for sister-in-law and Ah Sheng?"

Chu Qianqian smiled awkwardly and said, "No, your sister-in-law and Asheng must be too tired from the flight yesterday. Let them sleep more."

The master's wife and Gong Er were stunned for a moment, then looked at Chu Qianqian with a smile. Seeing his embarrassed silent nose, they immediately guessed what must have happened last night.

The two old ladies finished breakfast early and made an excuse to go upstairs.

Seeing that Hong Kong student was not in his room, he immediately knew that his guess was correct.

However, the two of them did not go to Chu Qianqian's bedroom. Instead, one of them went downstairs to accompany the mistress and watched her cooking red date and deer glue soup in the kitchen.

After all the ingredients were put into the pot, Gong Er said with a smile, "God bless, we should be able to have a grandchild by this time next year."

The master's wife nodded, "It's best to have two grandsons. When the time comes, each of us will hold one, and it will be complete."

Gong Er smiled and agreed, but in her heart, she was closer to the Hong Kong student she had hugged when she was a child.

On the contrary, the mistress now truly treats Chu Qianqian as a son, and Xue Jinglan's attitude is not only much better than before.

She was still thinking faintly in her heart that she couldn't let Hong Kong students become arrogant just because she was her aunt and the teacher's wife who went forward.

And the mistress also knew that Chu Xiangqian actually liked Xue Jinglan more.

Coupled with the status of the Xue family, Xue Jinglan is sweet-tongued and knows how to respect and honor the old men and women.

Therefore, Master Chen Shenglan, unconsciously, has slowly turned towards Xue Jinglan.

It would be good for everyone if Xue Jinglan was pregnant with the Chu family's eldest son first.

(End of this chapter)