Little Life on An American Ranch

Looking at a herd of deer mixed with cattle and sheep, Jim said to Jian Heng a little dissatisfied: "Can't you find a place here where you can hunt such a bigger prey? So far, it's all these little things!"

After hearing this, Jian Heng said: "Forget about the deer here. Those who either have fawns or are pregnant with fawns. Didn't you see that none of these deer have any antlers? They are all does. If you want to hunt, do it tomorrow, tomorrow morning." Let's pack it up, and I'll take you into the mountains to hunt!"

"Go into the mountains?" Jim's eyes lit up when he heard it.

Not only Jim, but even He Ye, who was playing with Xiaolu, raised his head: "It's good to enter the mountain. Where is the mountain? How many days can I go in? It would be even better if there is camping!"

"No matter what, it will take three or four days. Anyway, you are not in a hurry to leave. Let's go to the mountains to hunt. Going to the mountains is not about hunting these little things. You know, I have a hunting license here, and I can hunt and kill a few. The wolf has at most two bears!" Jian Heng said.

Jim was immediately happy when he heard this: "Why don't we set off today? I don't think there is anything interesting about your pasture. A white lion is cool, but it's not fun! Deer and this bison are also quite rare. , just can't play... ".

Speaking of which, Jim began to complain about Daniel and Qianlong again. Of course, the one Jim complained about the most was Denver. The little white lion is cute. Even if it is a little bigger now, it is still fluffy, and the mane on its neck has not yet When it grows up, it looks like a big white cat, with fat paws, a fat face, and a round belly, especially this guy's hair is smooth and shiny, everything is so pleasing, Jim naturally wants to go up Hold some or something.

It's a pity that he likes Denver, but Denver doesn't like him. Apart from being close to Jian Heng, barley and wheat, White Lion Denver is not so friendly to others. When touched or hugged, it will make a piercing cry, accompanied by violent body turns.

Its bark was sharp and sharp, and it was extremely ear-piercing. Because no one could bear it, the possibility of others hugging it was almost zero.

Daniu and Qianlong can be hugged, but with Jim alone, he can't hold either of them. Each of them is weighing hundreds of catties, which is so easy to hug.

He Ye said: "Just be content with it. It's good that the African bison can let you get close. It's notoriously violent. By the way, Jian Heng, is your African bison a hybrid?"

"Well, it's impossible?" Jian Heng glanced at He Ye, and thought: How did you see that there was a hybrid? This buddy brought it back from the wild in Africa himself.

"Look, this horn is obviously different from the African bison?" He said,

He Ye pointed to the bull's horn to show Jian Heng.

Jian Heng took a look here, and thought: I'm going to go! That's true.

It turns out that the horns of the African bison seem to grow from the top of the forehead, then sink to the sides, and then go up and tilt up. Now the bison is actually separated in the middle. The horn gap that used to be as wide as a finger is now separated by a palm width. , and the horns of the bull were slowly raised to the top of the forehead.

Looking at it this way, anyone who has seen a real African bison will think that this bison is a hybrid, because the horns of this cow obviously have a little wind of a domestic cow.

Jian Heng may have been used to watching it all along, and some subtle changes are not noticeable. Now that He Ye points it out, Jian Heng is a little speechless.

After hearing this, Jim looked at Jian Heng with a pitiful look, and said comfortingly: "It's okay, it's quite common to smuggle this kind of thing, once a pet owner spent money to buy a pet python, who knows The angry rock python shipped by the seller was kept by the buyer, and then the family pet was eaten, and the owner was almost strangled to death. Fortunately, the neighbor went to his house to borrow something that day and chopped it down with an axe. I got the python's head...".

Hearing Jim's words, Jian Heng didn't know what to say, he opened his mouth and asked, "Are you comforting me?"

"I may be inaccurate, but I really want to comfort you. And in my opinion, this cow is not bad. It's good for crossbreeding. You didn't see it grow so big. Didn't He just say that the pure African bison is too savage. , now you see how good it is!... ".

"Forget it, I don't want to talk to you about this." Jian Heng didn't know what to say to him.

Jim also had an expression that he could understand, and kept saying, "I understand, I understand!"

"You don't understand anything!" Jian Heng said to him angrily.

"It seems that you have spent a lot of money, right? Alas!" Jim shook his head, and said to Jian Heng sympathetically.

"This cow is not bad, let's skewer it. I think it's worth being a breeder. Let's not talk about the quality of the meat. Just look at the amount of meat produced by this body, so you don't need to ask." He Ye also helped.

Now both of them feel that Jian Heng was deceived by the 'seller', and no one would think that an African bison would undergo such a big change in appearance in such a short period of time.

Jian Heng doesn't know, but in fact, the African bison has changed to a different climate, and the body instinctively adapted to the old climate. If the bison has not undergone the baptism of space, it may take a long time for the bison to evolve into such an appearance. Several generations, hundreds of years, but now everything is done so easily.

Similarly, Jian Heng and the others did not realize that the fur on Daniel's body has become thicker and softer these days. At this time, Daniel has begun to prepare to adapt to the long and harsh winter in Montana.

"Qianlong!?" He Ye thought about the name of the deer in front of him, and couldn't help joking about Jian Heng: "If it was put in the Qing Dynasty, this name would be enough to copy your home!"

"So the Qing Dynasty is over, and everyone's braids have been cut off. Besides, my Qianlong head is much more beautiful than the one in history! Look, the big long horn alone is worth a hundred thousand in China. ?” Jian Heng joked with a smile.

He Ye looked at it and said, "Not only that, if you want to sell it, even the deer and antlers will cost 500,000 yuan, and I will invoice them immediately!"

"Can it be shipped back?" Jian Heng knew he was joking, so he asked.

He Ye said: "It's not your concern whether you're lucky or not, I'll ask you if you can sell it or not!"

"Not for sale!"

"If you don't sell it, why do you care if I ship it out?" He Ye said cheerfully.

At this moment, Jim raised his head, pointed into the distance and said, "Look!"

Following his hand, Jian Heng saw the three fathers of the old Walsh family, as well as Dominique and Carson, the helpers of the Anderson family. Five men rode horses, with dogs, and there seemed to be something on the back of an empty horse.

"Go and see?" Jim stretched his head, turned to look at Jian Heng and said expectantly.

Jian Heng was also curious, and there was no news about the matter of driving the cattle to the winter pasture that Walsh said last month. It just happened to meet today, and Jian Heng also planned to go to ask.

Because if we don’t rush, Jian Heng is planning to go home, and he won’t be able to come back in three to five days. In any case, he will spend two weeks at home. When he returns to Montana, it is estimated that here The snow is about to fall, so where is it suitable to drive the cattle again?

Jian Heng hummed, and then the four of them rode side by side and greeted Old Walsh the way he came from.

Old Walsh was walking on the road between the two ranches. Jian Heng saw Walsh and the others, and they naturally saw Jian Heng, so Old Walsh and the others reached out to greet Jian Heng.

Roaring at this distance is not enough, not only raising your hand but also having a good look in order to understand clearly.

Fortunately, Jian Heng's eyesight was excellent, and when he saw Walsh stretching out his hand, he also responded to him.

Seeing Jian Heng and his group approaching, Old Walsh and the others slowed down and approached Jian Heng.

As it got closer and closer, what was carried on the empty horse brought by Old Walsh and his gang gradually became clear. It was nothing but a huge gray wolf.

Originally, the North American gray wolf was the largest canine animal in the world. As far as the current male wolf is concerned, it has the weight of a grown man, about 160 kilograms. If it is alive, its shoulder height should be at least 75 To eighty centimeters, the North American gray wolf pack is actually the forest overlord in North America. Generally speaking, they are at the same level as brown bears and grizzly bears.

"What a big gray wolf!"

Across the fence of the pasture, Jian Heng said to Old Walsh who was three or four meters away.

Old Walsh reached out and patted the wolf's rump on the horse's back: "It's not that big, and it won't eat a few of my horses!"

"Wild horses are lost?" Jian Heng asked.

If the ranchers here have too many horses in the natural pasture, they cannot sell them, and they cannot afford them. Or in the dry season, when the water and grass in the pasture are tight, in order to keep the fodder for the cattle, the extra horses will be returned to the grasslands owned by the country or the state, so that they become wild horses.

Of course, these are said to be wild horses, but they actually have owners, because each horse has its own brand on its buttocks. In fact, to put it bluntly, these people are taking advantage of the government and grabbing the wool of the US government. If you bring back such a horse and you can't explain the origin, then you will be in trouble, so even if it becomes a wild horse, it is not easy to pull it home, and these old ranchers are not stupid Every spring, when the foals are born, they will go to mark the newborn foals of their own horse herd.

"Well, I lost three horses, which is still a small number for me. The old Wen Si's family over there lost eight horses, and they were all just about to grow up..." Old Walsh and Jian Heng began to talk like this .

During the conversation, Jian Heng saw the sleeping bag tied behind the old man's horse, and understood that this group of people must have spent the night in the wild in order to catch wolves. It is almost impossible to catch such a big wolf without two or three nights of squatting. possibly caught.

Just squatting and guarding two words cannot express the hard work involved. Not to mention others, Old Walsh still has a strange smell on his body.