Little Life on An American Ranch

In the early morning of the next day, Jian Heng came together, and directly took Zhang Jialiang, who was sleepy and blurred, to ride out to get used to driving the cattle. Who knew that when the two rode to the grove where the cattle lived, the cattle had disappeared.

Following the traces of the cattle, they were soon found in a new pasture. The two of them counted all the cattle, not only the cattle, but also the sheep and deer. Grazing in the knee-deep pasture, some cattle and sheep even lie down on the grass, lying down and eating, looking very comfortable.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Jian Heng turned to Zhang Jialiang and said, "You cowboy may be out of a job!"

"Then do I still have to practice my lasso?" Zhang Jialiang reached out and took up his wide-brimmed cowboy hat, stretched out his hand and scratched his head, and then asked, "That means I don't have to get up so early every morning? "

Jian Heng glanced at him and said: "Look at you, you may not have to drive the cows in the future, but don't clean up the cow dung in the cowshed. The horse manure and horse urine in the stables can't just be left alone. Well, if you don't want to do these jobs, do you want me to do them?"

"How much cattle and horses can be pulled in one night, the work is easy!" Zhang Jialiang had no concept of this aspect at all, and said directly indifferently.

Jian Heng didn't want to explain it to him, he would have a deep understanding of this thing in a few days.

Everything is fine now, Jian Heng took the reins and was ready to turn around and go back to the house, because there are a lot of things to do today, not only to prepare to cut grass for silage, but also to take Denver to stretch the strings for a group of slackers in the engineering team.

Just as Jian Heng was about to leave, he heard Xilulu's horse neighing not far away. He stopped the horse and looked sideways, and found that Heidou was happily running towards him.

However, it didn't approach Jian Heng. It seemed to be wary of Zhang Jialiang next to Jian Heng. It just snorted about seven or eight meters away from Jian Heng. While seeing Jian Heng's joyful mood.

"Go to the side, don't scare Heidou!" Jian Heng signaled Zhang Jialiang to take two steps to the side, letting Heidou come over.

Zhang Jialiang held the horse's belly lightly and walked towards Jian Heng ten meters away, while muttering incessantly: "When did you establish a relationship with Heidou? This is too weird!"

Jian Heng's ears were not reciting, so he heard his words clearly, and he said without answering: "Just when you were sleeping like a pig yesterday, I couldn't sleep and just came out for a walk, and happened to meet Heidou , and then communicated with it."

"You don't take me either, I really want to learn how to train horses." Zhang Jialiang saw that Heidou walked towards Jian Heng as soon as he left,

Said a little enviously.

Jian Heng replied directly: "You should first practice horse riding and harnessing. When you can master and understand how to become a real ranch cowboy, you can learn how to train horses. If you can't walk, you will want to run away." , tell you that you are still one step away from this now."

Bending down, using the horse's body to block Zhang Jialiang's sight, he reached into the pasture to feel it. It seemed that he had pulled some pasture, but in fact what he took out was space grass.

Heidou smelled a familiar smell, and immediately came over, stretched his neck to eat the grass in Jian Heng's hand.

When Jian Heng found that the grass in his hand was gone, he reached out to touch the bridge of Heidou's nose, but unfortunately, Heidou paused and stepped back, but he couldn't touch it. Much better.

"Okay, let's go back." Jian Heng was not in a hurry, anyway, Black Bean couldn't go anywhere in the ranch, and one day he would become his own mount.

Taking Zhang Jialiang back to the front of the house, Zhao Wei and Huang Xiaodong had already arrived, and of course the engineering team for the ranch construction also came. The whole ranch suddenly seemed to be a large construction site again, with a constant flow of people coming and going.

Jian Heng also has a lot of things at hand, mainly cutting pastures for silage.

Under Jian Heng's arrangement, Zhao Wei and Zhang Jialiang took turns driving the tractor to mow the pasture and baling the grass with a baler. Huang Xiaodong was in charge of transportation, and Jian Heng led the two sisters, Barley and Wheat, to cut and bag the grass.

In short, everyone is very busy, so busy that we have to go to the small restaurant in the town to order two meals.

After coming here for several days, seeing more and more silage wrapped in plastic bags in the warehouse, Jian Heng's heart became more and more at ease.

beep! beep! beep!

While Jian Heng was busy laying silage into the warehouse, he suddenly heard the sound of a horn, and wanted to go out to see what was going on, but before he walked out of the warehouse door, he heard the sound of wheat.

"Zhao is back, Zhao is back!"

If you don't know, Jian Hengguang might think that Mai Mai has taken a fancy to Zhao Changshan after listening to this voice.

When Jian Heng walked out of the warehouse door, he found not only Zhao Changshan, but also a young man he didn't know, about 20 years old, and a middle-aged man in his 40s was walking with the young man. From the man's figure, he could tell that he was doing physical labor, and his body exuded a kind of robustness like a farmer's.

Zhao Changshan was chatting with the two of them at this time, when he saw Jian Heng coming out, he laughed loudly and said, "Boss, it's a good luck!"

After finishing speaking, he proudly stretched out his hand and patted the small van behind him, and a few pig squawks came from the van.

Jian Heng saw that the license plate of the truck was still from New York, so he knew that he had driven through several states all the way, so he said repeatedly: "Hard work, hard work!"

Just about to ask Zhao Changshan who this is, who knows that the young man opened his mouth and asked first.

"Are you Henry Jean?" There was something strange in the young man's eyes, as if he didn't like the man he was looking at.

Jian Heng felt it, but didn't take it seriously.

Because Jian Heng also looked down on this kid.

Look at how this kid is dressed! The smallest clothes are estimated to be two sizes too big, the crotch of the trousers hangs directly to the knees, the whole person can hardly see the legs, the head is full of dreadlocks, and the whole body shakes with the tone when he speaks. You can tell what hip-hop style is at a glance.

You can say that he has personality, but this does not prevent Jian Heng from not liking him, not to mention that Jian Heng estimates that all the cowboys here would not like such a person.

In Jian Heng's view, it is impolite if your whole body shakes when you talk to someone. Taking impoliteness as your personality is simply a sign of lack of tutoring, and it has nothing to do with your personality.

For Jian Heng, a person who trembles all over when talking to him, and leans his body to face himself is a person who lacks the most basic courtesy to himself, and Jian Heng will naturally have no good face for someone who is rude to him. give him.

There is a saying that face is given by others, but face is lost by oneself, that's what it means!

You can talk like this with people you know well, but you shouldn't talk like this to a stranger. Jian Heng would not consider whether he was hired by Zhao Changshan, or who it was.

"I'm Henry Jean! Where did you come from? Now, I don't care who you are, get out of my ranch!" Jian Heng pointed at the door and said unceremoniously.

Jian Heng's words stunned the young man: "You asked me to leave?"

"If I have a gun in my hand now, instead of leaving, you'd better zigzag and get out of my ranch with your head in your arms!" Jian Heng said: "Now, get out of here and figure out how to be polite when talking to others Come back later!"

"Jane, Jane! This is my younger brother!" Da Mai just came out at this moment, and said hastily after seeing this scene.

Jian Heng frowned and glanced at Damai, and said in disbelief, "Your brother?"

He said so on the lips, but he thought in his heart: How could you have such a ghost brother? Didn't your father get pissed off by him?

It's hard for Jian Heng to imagine what would happen if an old-fashioned farmer had such a son in Montana's family. He was probably kicked out of the house, or locked in a barn for self-reflection.

Maybe the farmers on the Iowa side are a little more open?

Jian Heng was a little uncertain.

"It's not like it?" the young man said immediately.

"If you stand in my house and want to talk to me, just stand there, at least like I'm talking to you!" Jian Heng looked at him and said.

For some reason, the young man was a little unconvinced. He raised his head and looked at Jian Heng's gaze. Just for a moment, he suddenly felt his heart jump. He felt that the man in front of him would really be in front of his sister. Beat yourself up, no joke.

Shrugging, the young man took two steps back.

Barley was not angry, and walked to Jian Heng's side and said, "My brother Matthew, this is Gene, my boss. Gene, this is Donald, Derek Donald, an assistant on my father's farm."

"Hello, Mr. Tang Gede, welcome to the Quiet Lake Ranch." Jian Heng politely extended his hand to the middle-aged man, without the arrogance he had just now.

The middle-aged man stood straight and shook hands firmly: "Hi, Mr. Jean! I'm here to send Miss McAvoy a horse."

After speaking, he stretched out his finger to the small pickup truck behind him, and behind the pickup truck was dragging a carriage.

Jian Heng became a little curious, turned to Zhao Changshan and asked, "How did you meet together?"

Zhao Changshan said: "We have known each other since Chamberlain in South Dakota. It was a coincidence that we stopped at the same restaurant. Because there were so many people there, we shared a table together. After chatting, we found out that they also came to Montana. , When we arrived in Montana, we found that we were walking the same way, and after talking again, we actually ended up at the same ranch, do you think this is a coincidence?"

Hearing what Zhao Changshan said, Jian Heng was also quite surprised. I really don't know what to say to such a probability.

"What a coincidence," Jian Heng said casually.

"Jane, let me show you our horses." Damai didn't care about her brother's displeasure at all. She respected her brother's appearance, but she didn't think Jian Heng was wrong. Politeness is indeed relative. Respect others, and others will naturally not respect you.

Damai didn't think about it at all. When he saw the carriage, he happily showed Jian Hengxian his horse.

Jian Heng was also quite curious. The two sisters had been full of praise for their horses, so they followed Barley a few steps and stood beside the carriage.

Through the ventilation window, Jian Heng saw a part of a horse. Based on what he saw, Jian Heng felt that the horse should be good.

bang!

Damai stretched out his hand and unlocked the door bolt of the rear compartment of the carriage, and opened the door. When the two horses appeared in front of Jian Heng, Jian Heng realized that what the two sisters said was true.

The whole head of the horse in front of me looks a little smaller, the skeleton of the front chest is huge, the muscles are also very strong, and the rear hips are very wide. You can tell that it is full of strength at first glance, but the whole body looks very well-proportioned.

Not only is it long, but it is also well groomed. All the mane on the neck has been carefully groomed, tied into a dozen small braids, and even the tail is tied into a bundle.

There is no need to look at the bloodlines, Jian Heng felt that the friendship price of the horse breed mentioned by the two sisters last time was really a friendship price.

"What a horse!" Jian Heng praised.

The young man followed up and said, "Of course!"

Damai saw his younger brother interrupted again, and said, "Matthew, this is not a big city. If you go out dressed like this and speak in such a tone, you will be beaten!"

Cowboys have never been very personable gentlemen, they are not pleasing to the eye, and after two drinks, they will definitely have to say a few words like Matthew McAvoy showing up in a bar and dressing a bit 'sissy' people.

Let's put it this way, as far as Matthew's attire is concerned, there is no problem at all in the city, and it may be fashionable in New York, Los Angeles or even fashion.

But if you go to the small bar in the town where Zhang Jialiang often goes, it will not end with a few jokes. If he is beaten for sure, there is almost no possibility of escaping.

Interrupted by this troublesome boy, Jian Heng forgot about the carp.

No matter how good the horse is, it still belongs to other people's barley and wheat. Jian Heng feels that it has little to do with him. I used to think about breeding, but now Jian Heng doesn't think about it anymore. First, it's not easy to take advantage of others. Second, such a good horse is really not suitable for working in the ranch. From this, you can tell that it is a race-level horse and can't do it. menial work!