Little Life on An American Ranch

As soon as there were no cowboys chasing after them, the horses stopped quickly and began to graze leisurely with their heads down. At this time, Jian Heng happened to be less than 40 meters away from the nearest horse of the group.

Originally, Jian Heng decided to drive the horses back to the company's ranch after eating the trotters, but now that he saw the horse in front of him, Jian Heng had a new plan in his heart.

These horses are pretty good. At first glance, they are standard quarter horses. Whether it is in terms of body structure or running posture, they are all high-quality quarter horses. They may not have any pedigree certificates, but as a ranch If you use a horse, it must be enough.

And everyone also knows how many horses there are in Jian Heng's ranch now, a total of seventeen or eighteen horses. This is still including the barley and wheat horses, which cannot meet Jian Heng's plan at all!

Jian Heng now puts his mind on this group of horses, not all the horses, but the beautiful fillies among them who are already pregnant.

At this time of year, it can be said that almost all the mares that can conceive are already pregnant, just waiting for the spring of the next year, and each foal will be born.

Jian Heng's idea is very simple. He directly picks out some good mares and throws them into his own space. After they give birth to their foals, he can 'legally' take them as his own.

Why is it legal, because legally, although these horses are wild horses, they should belong to the people who need them. That said, an unowned wild pony can belong to anyone.

However, it is more troublesome to operate in reality, because there is another paradox in this, that is, within a certain period of time, the horses and their foals "abandoned" by the owner on the public ranch still belong to the owner.

This is easy to explain. Take the house as an example. I don’t live in this house. If I don’t live in it after a few years, then the house will no longer belong to me. American law stipulates that if you don’t live in a house, it won’t belong to me after a few years. You, because you don't need it. After you lose ownership, whoever moves in to live in the house will belong to him.

But within these legal years, if you move in for two months and then move out, then the time of losing ownership will be recalculated from the time you move in.

This thing is also applicable to the horses. These horse owners have seized this point and come to the public pastures where the horses were abandoned every year to "exercise" their sovereignty, so that the ownership of these horses will automatically continue for another year. .

When the foal is born and branded, it automatically has an owner. Horse owners come every spring to brand the newborn foals of their mares for this reason, to keep the wild horses legally theirs.

Generally speaking, it is to collect the public wool of the United States and raise its own horses.

Having made up his mind, Jian Heng threw away the pig's trotters in his hand, got out from the hiding place with the black beans, and approached the horses.

Sensing someone approaching, the horses immediately stopped eating and looked up in the direction of the sound.

When they found that Jian Heng was the only one riding, they didn't seem too flustered. Many of the horses even continued to lower their heads and gnaw on the pasture.

Only Ma Wang was very nervous, turned around and kept snorting at Heidou, seemingly full of hostility towards a big stallion like Heidou.

Sigh!

The sorrel horse king was now looking directly at Heidou, jumping forward from time to time, hoping to scare the opponent away by showing his strength.

It's just that the black bean at this time is no longer the black bean of the past. After seeing so many horse girls, and the owner is still on his back, Heidou decided not to have the same knowledge as the chestnut dwarf for the time being, but to appreciate the horse girls with his own master First!

"This one is not bad!" Jian Heng stood beside the horses and looked around, and found a green mare that was not bad, so he raised his hand, and the mare entered the space.

"Hey! This horse is not bad!"

Just as he put down his hand, Jian Heng found another sorrel mare, so he raised his hand again, and the mare disappeared into the herd.

Just like that, in less than fifteen minutes, a total of fifty mares were missing from the original herd of four or five hundred horses, and they were still the best mares.

There are only four to five hundred horses in total, and even a fool can see the difference if fifty horses are missing all of a sudden. Unfortunately, this is not something Jian Heng has to consider. He only knows that he has won five horses today. Ten mares, and when these mares give birth to foals, they will be named Jane as soon as the foals are stamped.

After catching the horses, Jian Heng turned his head and walked away with the black beans. The whole group of horses was a little dumbfounded now, as if they had been tapped on the Dingshen acupuncture points collectively. They didn't understand that their companions were still there just a moment ago Grazing grass next to me, how could it disappear in the next second?

It took a long time for the horses to come back to their senses, but after they came back to their senses, they didn't react much and continued to eat grass.

After picking up someone else's horse, Jian Heng left here and continued to find a hidden place, where he and Heidou hid in to eat the trotters hidden in his own space.

One plus most of the previous ones, Jian Heng was satisfied with a full stomach, stretched out his hand to wipe the grease on his fingers, took out a tissue to wipe it, and then rinsed it with water from the space, feeling that he was After erasing the traces of gnawing on the pig's trotters, he slipped out again from where the black beans were hiding.

After running for a short time, Jian Heng discovered that Old Walsh's group was confronting the people from the Edwin Harrison Marcus Ranch.

"What's the matter?" Jian Heng pretended not to understand anything, and asked in Chinese in a low voice to He Ye, who was riding a horse and standing in the back row, among the crowd.

He Ye turned his head and said in a low voice, "Old Walsh wanted to drive away the herd of wild horses, but the people over there refused to let Old Walsh drive the herd of horses away, not only did they not let him, they also said that Old Walsh stole their wild horses. Mare……".

With He Ye's explanation, Jian Heng understood.

The Edwin Harrison-Marcus Ranch is also in a hurry now. Half of the entire horse herd are their horses, that is, about two hundred horses, and about half of them are mares, that is, about a hundred horses. In less than an hour now, fifty of the best mares are gone. At least these mares are worth 30,000 to 40,000 dollars. How can these people not be angry?

But they didn't believe that old Walsh stole their mares, because it was useless for old Walsh to have these horses, and besides, he had fifty mares in his place?

Don't be ridiculous, this winter will not be over for their family after raising these mares. It would be pretty good to sell the pants and pay the bank account next year.

It's nothing more than a quarrel, the public says the public is right, and the mother-in-law argues that the mother-in-law is polite.

After listening for a while, Jian Heng started to yawn, because it was so boring to be so noisy.

The vocabulary of American curses is far less extensive and profound than that of the Chinese. Just a single action can have expressions such as dry, fuck, sun, and top. They were either Fake this or Fake that, and at most they added Beech, Sheter and the like. After listening to it for five or six minutes, the smell was so overwhelming that it made my teeth hurt.

"Why does it smell like roasted pig's trotters?" He Ye sniffed his nose twice, then turned to look at Jian Heng.

Jian Heng immediately closed his mouth, then straightened his face, and denied it: "You want to eat Chinese food, don't you think it's silly, where does the smell of roasted pig's feet come from?"

He Ye was a little skeptical when he heard Jian Heng's denial, so he sniffed the air again, feeling that the alluring smell seemed to disappear all of a sudden.

So he smiled wryly and continued to whisper to Jian Heng in Chinese: "It seems to be true! Never mind, call Lao Zhao when I get back and have a signal, and ask him to give me three pig's knuckles, one in each hand and one in a bowl. Put one...".

"As for it!" Jian Heng rolled his eyes, completely disregarding the fact that he had just gnawed on a half-pig knuckle and said: "Isn't it just eating barbecue for a few days, look, I'm the one who boiled you!"

Old Walsh can stand and quarrel with everyone, but the Edwin Harrison Marcus Ranch Company can't do it all here. Dozens of mares are lost at once, and no one can be dispatched. Looking for wow?

So while the supervisor over there was arguing with Old Walsh, he arranged for people to start searching around.

Not to mention the executives of the company, even all the cowboys present did not think that someone could steal fifty mares directly in this way, and transport fifty mares away at once. That's the problem.

Old Walsh doesn't believe that there are a lot of stallions in a herd of horses, but only fifty good mares are missing. In the old man's view, the little bitches from the ranch company are completely insulting his IQ, so the old man From the beginning to the end, he put on a silly look, staring at the people in front of him with a contemptuous stare.

The confrontation between the two groups of people soon attracted several groups of cowboys nearby.

The cowboys at the family ranch were all on Old Walsh's side, victims of the intensification and modernization of Special Farms.

Because the production efficiency and cost of the ranch company are lower than that of the family ranch, the old farm owners believe that it is the use of the ranch company that keeps the price of American beef from strengthening.

This is the most essential reason why the old ranchers hate the ranch company, so the family ranchers will naturally side with the old Walsh, which is a matter of class position.

What's more, the Edwin Harrison Marcus Ranch Company also gave such a weird reason that the mares in the fifty horse herd disappeared, but the horse herd was still there.

As for the other ranch companies, they would not be biased towards any side, and quietly watched the excitement.

For other ranch companies, Edwin Harrison-Marcus Ranch is an opponent, and they must not be able to stand with their opponents at any time, but the relationship with family ranchers is not good, and they don’t like it too much I started a family workshop-style ranch, so watching a play quietly is the right way.

After grinding their teeth in boredom for another hour and a half, everyone went home after the show, and in the end they didn't come to a conclusion.