Little Life on An American Ranch

While humming, he suddenly heard the voice of old man Yao coming from behind: "What are you doing, kid?"\u00261t;/p\u003e

Jian Heng turned his head and saw that Mr. Yao was riding his big white horse flirtatiously, and he was standing behind him to a distance of five or six meters. It seemed that the old man wanted to come up, but the horse was a bit timid, so he couldn't help it. Ken set foot on the pier that Jian Heng had just finished. \u00261t;/p\u003e

"The pier is being built, you didn't see it, I got the yacht out, how does it look good?" Jian Heng pointed out and pointed at the yacht parked in the lake. \u00261t;/p\u003e

Mr. Yao glanced at it, and praised him twice: "That's right, it's very beautiful, you young people really know how to waste money and spend so much money on such a thing." \u00261t;/p\u003e

"What's the matter with you?" Jian Heng didn't want to talk to the old man about this anymore, so he asked the old man what's the matter. \u00261t;/p\u003e

Mr. Yao said: "My two apprentices are able to start practicing now, do you think it's time for them to start working now?"\u00261t;/p\u003e

After hearing this, Jian Heng didn't agree, but instead asked: "Old man, the current guest, forget it, let me put it bluntly, the current guest is not a good subject to use for experiments, so let's do it, let you The two apprentices will press the hands of the people in the ranch first, let Toby, Zhang Jialiang, Huang Xiaodong, and Zhao Changshan try it out, and they feel that the effect is good, and the service is no problem before they press it for the guests, okay?"\u00261t;/ p\u003e

Mr. Yao thought for a while and said, "That's fine, then I'll go back and inform them, but now you have to pay according to the salary of the intern, they are all big and big...". \u00261t;/p\u003e

Before the old man finished speaking, Jian Heng raised his hand to stop the old man from continuing to speak: "I see, I will notify the accountant about this later, and I will try it myself in a few days, if their standards are not good enough , I still have to follow the rules." \u00261t;/p\u003e

"Of course." Old Master Yao nodded solemnly. He has confidence in the two apprentices. \u00261t;/p\u003e

After talking about the master, he urged the horse and was about to leave. Jian Heng immediately stopped the old man when he saw it. \u00261t;/p\u003e

"Grandpa, don't go, I'll go back to get snails later, and I'll try something new before leaving!"\u00261t;/p\u003e

Mr. Yao heard about the snails, so he turned the rein and said, "You mean snails? The snails haven't really grown up yet, they're still thin, and it's not long since the beginning of spring." \u00261t;/p\u003e

"Big snails, each one is so big, I don't know if it's delicious, but it looks pretty good with its size and meat." Jian Heng stretched out his hand and gestured. \u00261t;/p\u003e

Hearing this, old man Yao turned over and got off the horse, tied the side rein of his mount to a nearby tree, extended the rein by more than five meters, rolled up his sleeves and walked onto the pier. \u00261t;/p\u003e

When he lifted his foot onto the pier, he stomped on it vigorously. After trying it out, he found that the board under his feet did not move at all. He opened his mouth and praised Jian Heng: "You boy can do it, this small pier is well-made. !" \u00261t;/p\u003e

Walking to Jian Heng's side, he looked up and saw two large round wooden pillars in the water, stretched out his hand to pat it, then buckled the material with his fingers, then sighed, looked at Jian Heng and said, "Your boy, this is a luxury. I’m used to it, you use this kind of wood to make a pile? This one can buy a dozen cement piles.” \u00261t;/p\u003e

"The cement thing pollutes my place. How wonderful is this thing that it's not polluting." Jian Heng is sitting on the shelf now,

With two iron nails in his mouth, he stretched out his hand to pick up one, pressed it on the head of the wooden board, and then swung the hammer, only to hear a few clangs, and Jian Heng nailed the one-finger-long iron nail into it. in the plank. \u00261t;/p\u003e

Mr. Yao and Jian Heng sat down face to face, and asked with their mouths open, "Do you still have the hammer?"\u00261t;/p\u003e

Jian Heng stretched out his hand to touch it from behind, pulled out a claw hammer, and threw it directly to Mr. Yao. \u00261t;/p\u003e

The old man took the hammer here, stretched out his hand and grabbed a few iron nails from the nail box, took one in his hand like Jian Heng, and held three in his mouth, and began to swing the hammer head to knock the other end of the wooden board. Nailed to a wooden shelf. \u00261t;/p\u003e

It's much faster when the two of them are left and right. \u00261t;/p\u003e

After working for a while, Mr. Yao said to Jian Heng: "Xiao Jian, I want to go back to my hometown after a while." \u00261t;/p\u003e

"Back to my hometown? What is this?" Jian Heng was a little strange, thinking that the old man had other ideas and didn't want to do it here. \u00261t;/p\u003e

Seeing the expression on Jian Heng's face, Mr. Yao said with a smile, "I don't mean to never go back, but I'm a little homesick. The old man is just promising." \u00261t;/p\u003e

Jian Heng understands the psychology of the old man, just like his own old man, he will miss his hometown wherever he lives, this kind of homesickness is obvious in the older generation, no matter how good the outside world is, it is not his hometown. \u00261t;/p\u003e

"When are you going to leave?" Jian Heng asked. \u00261t;/p\u003e

Mr. Yao said: "After a while, wait until the two apprentices can officially take over. By the way, there is one more thing I want to tell you about this. I am going to accept a female apprentice." \u00261t;/p\u003e

Jian Heng listened and asked: "Female apprentice?"\u00261t;/p\u003e

After thinking about it for a while, he nodded, "As long as you are optimistic about it, it happens that there are more female customers, and it doesn't look good just to have a male masseur." \u00261t;/p\u003e

"Then I'll ask her to come and see you later," said Mr. Yao, with a mocking smile on his face. \u00261t;/p\u003e

Jian Heng didn't notice it at this time, and now Jian Heng is concentrating on dealing with the last few boards on the pier, when he heard the old man say this, he hummed casually twice: "Okay, just let her come to me in a while ". \u00261t;/p\u003e

"Okay, it's finally finished, old man, just wait here, I'll drive the boat over." Jian Heng put down the hammer, stretched, and ran towards the yacht. \u00261t;/p\u003e

Stepped on the water and got on the yacht, Jian Heng drove the boat to the pier, tied the cable to the pile head, sat on the pier, stretched his feet into his hands, and said to the old man while washing, "Would you like to try it? This thing is so fast." \u00261t;/p\u003e

Mr. Yao waved his hand and said, "Forget it, I'm old here, how can I be as exciting as you young people, I still don't try." \u00261t;/p\u003e

The good old man helped Jian Heng put away the tools and put them all in the toolbox. \u00261t;/p\u003e

After washing his feet, Jian Hengkong dried up the water and put on his shoes and socks again. Then he took the toolbox in the hands of Mr. Yao and his son and went back to the house. He put it in the toolbox. The snails changed the water. \u00261t;/p\u003e

"How is it? Is it still dirty? I've changed the water twice already." Jian Heng asked. \u00261t;/p\u003e

Mr. Yao nodded and said: "There is nothing dirty, the basin of water just now is quite clean, there should be no sediment, you can knock your tail." \u00261t;/p\u003e

Mr. Yao said that by knocking the tail, he wanted to get rid of the shell of the tail of the snail. This way is good for the taste, and it is also good for further washing the dirt in the shell of the snail. \u00261t;/p\u003e

As soon as Jian Heng heard that he could tap the tail, he immediately turned around and found a pair of pliers and the old man each, moved two small benches, sat down and began to clamp the snail tail shell with the pliers. When he exerted force with both hands, he only heard a click. With a sound, a small part of the shell behind the snail broke, exposing the snail meat and a section of snail sausage inside. After tugging and rinsing it in the water, the snail was thrown into another basin filled with clean water. \u00261t;/p\u003e

Mr. Yao worked very fast, and he was one and a half times as fast as Jian Heng. I saw that he was moving like flying. Jian Heng hadn't clamped one yet, and the second one had already started on the old man's side. \u00261t;/p\u003e

"Okay, old man, grow old and strong!" Jian Heng praised him. \u00261t;/p\u003e

Mr. Yao said with a smile: "I used to eat this every year, and I got used to picking it up quickly. It's not the fastest time yet. I used to be the fastest small field ginseng snail. I can get a big basket out of it by sitting here for fifteen minutes. It's a pity, now the lake in my hometown is seriously polluted, even if it is a small ditch, there are not so many fish, shrimps and snails in the stream!"\u00261t;/p\u003e

"You're so good at it, will I or you be the one to fry it later?" Jian Heng asked. \u00261t;/p\u003e

Master Yao smiled and said, "Let me do it. I'm afraid that your fried rice won't taste good enough. The most important thing about this food is salty, fresh and spicy. Without these three things, fried rice snails won't taste good." \u00261t;/p\u003e

"Succeed, since your old skills are so high, let me do it." Jian Heng said with a smile. \u00261t;/p\u003e

After the old man and the young man picked up all the snails in the basket, Jian Heng prepared a series of ingredients such as pepper, star anise, dried red pepper, scallion, etc. according to the old man's instructions, and put them all on the table for the old man. \u00261t;/p\u003e

Not to mention, Master Yao's posture here is really good, with a white towel hanging on his shoulder, a frying pan in one hand, and a large spoon in the other, he looks like a chef. \u00261t;/p\u003e

The snails hadn't been put into the pot yet, just the smell from the old man's ingredients made Jian Heng gulp and spit. \u00261t;/p\u003e

Waiting for the snails to come out of the pot, Jian Heng picked up one and put it in his mouth to suck the juice of the snails. Suddenly, he felt his mouth full of saliva, and couldn't help giving the old man a thumbs up. \u00261t;/p\u003e

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