The Best Small Farm

Lake Auram, with sparkling water, a few water birds passing by, catching small fish and filling their stomachs, the lake is surrounded by wooden bridges, small pavilions, rest, or fishing.

Not many tourists come here. After all, although this kind of scenery is good, you can see it all around, especially those from China, riding horses, watching cowboy shows, animal concerts, tasting food on trains, and viewing flower galleries.

The squirrel parade ceremony, etc. There are many other things, tourists prefer it, but some tourists are tired from playing, or come to the surrounding area for leisure fishing, horseback riding, and walking.

There are not many tourists, individual tourists in twos and threes, and teams rarely come here. "Hey, Han." "Nin, it's great to see you, how are you?" It was Li Han's former neighbor who now moved to live in the small town of Buton.

"It's not bad, buddy, it's really good here, I like the current Aurum Lake." Nin looked at the net in Han's hand. "No, Han, maybe you should sit down and learn to fish."

"No, Nien, I just want to catch crabs, fish and shrimps, and have a barbecue at noon. If you have time, I will treat you to a drink at noon." Li Han said that he went down into the water with the fishing net, put the bait, and clapped his hands.

"Barbecue, of course, in such a fine weather, not having a drink is not what Kemixing Cowboy should do." Nien said with a smile, picked up the bottle beside him, a bottle of whiskey, and showed it to Li Han.

"Okay, Nien, I should go. At noon, I'll treat you to a drink." After speaking, Li Han got up and went to the vineyard on the hillside.

After walking along the path for about ten minutes, I came to the fruit grove, and I could hear it from a distance, a few villains beeping, cheering and laughing, and Georgina and others screamed in surprise.

"Amazing."

"Yes, look how thick the skins are on the grapes. It's really sour, but the flesh is nice and sweet."

"It's the most amazing. The grape seeds are clustered here, it's really not small." Mira said. Li Han smiled. "Oh, Han, come here, I can't believe it, look at this grape."

"Oh, not bad, it's quite big."

Li Han said. Holding one, the grape looks like a small ping-pong ball, and stuffs it in the mouth. The grape skin is very thick, full of sour taste, with the sour taste of wine grapes, but it tastes sweet when you bite it.

"Wine and eat grapes."

Li Han shook his head slightly. Although the combination is good, it is impossible to make too good wine. Of course, unless you spend some effort, the pulp and peel will be separated, which is more difficult.

"Chinese.

Why, shake your head, the difficulty, this is not satisfactory to you, God does not like greedy people. said Georgina, eating a grape. "It's delicious. "

"Unfortunately, it's very difficult to make wine at the top."

Li Han said lightly.

"Oh. Han, you are too greedy. I think many people in Napa Valley don't think so." Mira said. "The skin of this kind of grape is very thick. The taste of the wine must not be bad, enough to make a good quality red wine.

Moreover, this kind of grape is big, and there is nothing wrong with it. At that time, the bunches were long, about one foot, and there were a lot of them, so the yield was absolutely high. I didn't see it, all the villains use hugs.

"Perhaps, there are too few baskets."

Li Han picked two bunches, which were too big, and a basket was already full with four to five bunches. I have to say, this fifty-jin basket was too small for such a large grape.

"That's right, Han, I think you should bring over more baskets, and of course you should have more people." Originally, Georgina and the others felt that the area was not enough, and a day of picking would be enough.

Looking at it now, it may not be possible to finish picking in two days. "That's right, Han, there are really too many here." Mira rubbed her wrists, damn it, these grapes are too big and heavy.

"Dinah, give Jem a call, hope there's someone available right now."

Originally, Li Han called for people to come over, but considering the construction of a patrol team, there are not enough people, and even if there is a cattle farm, there must be enough people for the cattle to avoid being attacked by wolves.

Dinah called, but fortunately there were still people in the cow farm, and two Chinese cowboys were sent over. Both of them were new faces, and it was the first time Li Han met. Newcomers, learn the skills and knowledge of cowboys, practice riding skills, and wait for a while before they can follow the cowboys to graze.

"This is Han, from Hank's farm."

Dinah introduced that Dinah knew the two of them, riding, and sometimes Dinah was in charge of teaching. "Chinese?"

"Yes, sir."

The two bent slightly, nodded, and spoke in somewhat blunt English.

"English needs to be practiced more, let's speak Chinese today."

Li Han said.

"Where is my hometown?"

"Wannan Pool City."

"Oh, come to the United States to study abroad?"

Li Han, I do know that many people will work for a while before studying abroad. "No, we brothers come to work."

"Work?"

Li Han paused for a moment, then understood. "Have you got your green card?" "Yes, just got it this year." "Congratulations." Li Han said, you know, getting a green card is definitely something worth celebrating when you come to the United States.

Chang Le and Chang Feng are tall, in their mid-twenties, two years older than Li Han. They have been in the United States for several years and sent home the money they earned. The two brothers originally planned to work for a few more years. Returning to China in 2010, who would have thought that applying for a green card would lead to a living.

After the brothers discussed it, raising horses in China is very profitable, while in the United States there are many things and the requirements are not high. The two brothers decided to learn horse riding and raise horses. It happened that they came to Hank Farm.

Coming to the vineyard, the two brothers stared wide-eyed. "What is this thing?" "Grapes, our task today is to pick grapes." Li Han said with a smile.

The two brothers nodded in a daze, it was the first time they had seen such a big grape. "Uncle, help Dudu move over there." Dudu, after picking the grapes and putting them in the basket, they couldn't even move them.

Xiao Hei Hei came to help and couldn't lift it, so the villain had to call two big uncles. "Okay." Chang Le hurried over, and was startled when he saw the little black bear carrying the basket. "raging."

"Uncle, Xiao Hei Hei is the most obedient, he doesn't bite people."

Dudu touched Xiao Heihei, Xiao Heihei rubbed Dudu's hand, and growled at Chang Le. "It's okay, this is Dudu's pet." Picking wine grapes, this job started with a few villains, and they were happy to do it, but after two hours, every villain couldn't do it.

"take a break."

Li Han was helpless, the wine grapes were too big, and it was very tiring for the two villains to work together to pick them. "Han, I want to make a call to Bella. Bella has brought a big team and may be interested in wine and grapes."

"That's a good idea."

Wine grapes, wine making, the quality will not be too high, eat too much at home. Li Han took out his phone and called Bella, describing the wine and grapes. Sure enough, Bella nodded without thinking.

Now that there are not many grapes to pick, Bella can imagine that the tourists will be very happy. "Chang Le, Chang Feng, let's move these grapes down the mountain, let's keep them here."

"Dudu, baby, let's collect the fishing net and grill the fish."

As soon as Li Han said, the little guys cheered, and threw the grape-picking tools into the basket one by one, and ran over. Picking big grapes was very tiring, and the little guys rubbed their little hands with sore wrists.

"Han, so fast."

Nien said with a smile.

"Yeah, not bad."

There's some good fish in the barrel of Nien.

Dudu, baby, Maria and other small people, come around. "Wow, so many fish."

"Grandpa, you are amazing."

Dudu's expression of admiration made Nien very proud.

"What a cute little angel."

"Dad, Wang Wang."

"Almost forgot."

Li Han went over, pulled up the fishing net, and as soon as he moved, there was a rattling sound in the water. "There are fish, there are fish." Several villains all ran over from the bucket and surrounded Li Han.

"There are really fish."

Georgina and the others also came over, and even Nien put down his fishing rod and walked over.

"Dad, hurry up and pull."

Dudu pulled Li Han's pants, full of little anxiety.

"Uncle, the fish is about to run away." Baobao pulled the other side, Maria, and Gina shouted to Uncle, pull the fish quickly.

Li Han smiled. "Hehe, if you come in, you can't run away, so you should retreat."

A few villains hurriedly ran to the back. "There are a lot of fish here." The splash of water was getting bigger and bigger, the villain blushed with excitement, clapped his little hands, and stood on tiptoe to watch.

Li Han pulled the fishing net and guessed that there were quite a lot of fish and shrimp in it, at least tens of catties. "Wow, so many dried shrimps."

Pulling a section of the net, there are quite a few prawns with long fingers, and a few villains rushed over, squatting down to pick the prawns, each prawn was alive and kicking. "Sister Baobao, hurry up and eat skewers." Dudu, Dengdeng ran to the side of the hillside, and after a while, Dengdeng ran back, holding a large handful of long grass roots in his hand.

"Um."

The baby covered the bouncing prawns in a low voice, and skewered them one by one with small grass roots. There are a bunch of them, and they look pretty good. Georgina came to help when she saw them.

It was unexpected that there were so many shrimps in a cage, but there were not too many fish, but two large grass carp were enough for grilling. "One string, two strings... twenty strings." Dudu clapped his little hands, and he had twenty strings.

There are 20 to 30 dried shrimps in a string, and the total number is nearly 600, at least 20 catties. "It's quite a lot." Li Han didn't expect it.

Nien looked surprised. There are so many dried shrimps. You must know that although Americans don't eat Asian carp, Americans like dried shrimps very much, and the price is not cheap. Auram has such a large area, I don’t know how many shrimps there are, and he has made a fortune. When Nien counted it up, it was a windfall. He couldn’t help but look at Li Han, he was so lucky.

"That's right, Georgina will help me take care of the children, can Dinah help me?" Li Han, who packed the fishing nets, cleaned them and put them aside to dry, and washed his hands, came over and said.

"no problem."

Dinah helped, and Li Han tidied up the oven, set it up, and lit the charcoal fire. There are several ovens by the Auram Lake, but they are rarely used.

"Grilled Shrimp Skewers."

Dudu and the villains ran over in groups with skewered dried shrimps. "Dad, Dudu will bake first." "Okay, you guys bake first, and Dad will pickle the fish."

Li Han smiled and said. (to be continued)