Wang Fan looked at the drawings, and then said to Ju An and the other two, "Are we going to release the snakes first or what?" Wang Fan looked at the drawings a bit over the top, and the black and white drawings didn't look very interesting.
Leonard smiled after hearing this and said: "Let's go take a look at the plants I planted first. I have planted thousands of ferns in a few days. Now is not a good time to release snakes. The weather is too hot. Wait until
Put it away when the weather cools down.”
"Thick-rooted fern?" Ju An looked at Leonard and asked strangely. How many plants have names these days? But the name is really straightforward and has no technical content at all. It is a fern with thick roots.
Leonard smiled: "Newly cultivated plants must have a name, so I just named it after Fern. You don't have any objections, Ann. Logically speaking, I should let you name this."
, but Thomas and the others think you don’t care about fake things, so..."
After hearing this, Ju An immediately waved his hand and interrupted Leonard: "I have no objection, the name is good." As long as you don't waste your brain cells, I don't mind if you name the plant Obama, it's just the same thing.
It can be called Zhang San Li Si, and it is still a plant. The family is so lively and energetic, and now the right to name it falls on the daughter and son, let alone a plant.
"Then let's go take a look. It's not far! It's on the edge of the small lake." After saying that, Leonard took Ju An and Wang Fan out of the house.
Ju An and Wang Fan followed Leonard out of the house. They were greeted by a burst of heat, and the sun shone white all around. They quickly put on their sunglasses, then took out their hats from the car and put them on their heads.
Go up, if you wear a baseball cap at this time, you are a pretentious person. How much sun can be blocked by a hat brim? Standing next to Ju An is Comrade Wang Fan! It is also a light blue baseball cap.
As soon as he reached the lake, Wang Fan took off his hat, stuck the cowboy hat on Ju An's head on his head, and handed his baseball cap to Ju An: "You should lose weight and resist the heat. I will
I'm fatter than you and I'm afraid of the heat, so give me a cowboy hat."
Ju An grabbed the baseball cap stuck on his head and shook it like a small fan. He ignored Wang Fan and followed Leonard to look at the thick-rooted fern planted.
There are these dark green plants growing on the high slope next to a small depression where a lot of water has been stored. Their thick little leaves have shrunk into a ball and are squeezed together tightly, forming a few hundred meters square.
Big Green Blanket: "Why are they planted so densely? How about planting them separately?" Ju An saw the problem at a glance and said to Leonard.
Leonard smiled and explained: "My assistants and I planted a plant one meter apart. It has grown again. If you look closely, there are larger plants about one meter apart."
"After saying that, he pointed to the nearest big plant head for Ju An to see. Ju An looked at it carefully and it was really like this. I am not a professional after all. After thinking about it, I realized that even a plant layman like me would think so.
What can I remember if this old man has been dealing with plants all his life?
After thinking for a moment, he asked Leonard: "How do you make these plants expand now, or do you rely on manual work?".
"It's still done by hand now. My assistant and I plus a few cowboys chop off the plant heads. It'll be fine after the sheep arrive in two days. Then the cowboys will take turns driving the sheep to nibble once a day. As long as
If there is a water source, it will grow quickly. When it expands a little, we can get a sprinkler to water it every morning and evening. Once it reaches a large scale, it will not be necessary. By then, the ground will be able to store rainwater. They
The rhizomes absorb water very well," Leonard explained with a smile.
Wang Fan next to him stared at the plant at his feet and plucked the roots under the leaves: "No wonder it's called a thick-rooted fern. The roots look like a big radish." He followed up as soon as he finished speaking.
: "No, the radish is one piece." After saying that, I pulled hard, and the plant only loosened a little.
Leonard smiled and said: "It was just planted not long ago. If you can't pull it out in another month, I estimate that the main root of this plant will be more than one meter deep."
"That's a good thing. If it were planted in the desert, wouldn't it turn the desert into an oasis?" Wang Fan said with eyes wide open as he looked at the fern.
Ju An shook his head: "Where can you grow this in the desert? Didn't you hear Leonard say that you still need to water it?" Fortunately, this is just a plant outside. It has mutated slightly. If it grows all the time in the desert,
, Ju An is so scared that he wets his pants. Ju An is not a national leader, so he doesn’t have the energy to play a big game, such as controlling the desert.
After listening to Ju An's words, Leonard said: "Let's not mention the water situation. The plant died after being buried under the sand for a period of time without seeing the sun. Although the soil here is said to be larger in particle size, it is still still there after all.
Soil cannot be compared with desert."
Ju An didn't want to dwell on this topic and asked Leonard: "What kind of sheep are going to be raised here? Are they single or mixed?"
"Lyman suggested that we start by raising only meat sheep, Boer goats, and then mix them with alpacas when the plant area increases. This will not only produce meat but also wool. You can watch it when the cowboys drive the sheep back at night.
Here we are, now the first thousand Boer goats, mixed with a dozen alpacas," Leonard said to Ju An.
"There haven't been any threats from rattlesnakes during this time, right?" Ju An is most worried about this thing, but it is a highly venomous snake. As for alpacas being raised to produce wool in such a hot pasture, forget it! If they say they will, just give birth.
Leonard shook his head and said: "That's not true, but there should be a lot of rattlesnakes in this valley, and they still need to be driven away. If you don't drive them away, it will be troublesome one day. Another troublesome thing is the eagle on the mountain. For the little lamb,
The threat is also great. If there are not many sheep now, it is nothing. If there are more sheep, people will
It’s hard to guard against them, so I want to simply move Xiao Jin or Da Jin here.” Leonard also knew that these two golden eagles are famous for protecting their territory, and they are so big that they can’t lose even against vultures, and they are raised by humans.
Once it's cooked, you just need to feed it some food from time to time, which is enough to deal with the eagles on the mountain.
Ju An nodded after hearing this and said: "I think so too, but I just want to bring Da Jin and Xiao Jin's children over when they can come out of the nest. Then I can feed them some meat in the pasture." The good thing is that
Golden eagles prefer soft offal, and Americans don't eat these, so they complement each other perfectly. The two families of Ju'an Wang and Fan eat tripe, but every day there are dozens of cows, that is, dozens of tripes, and the two families lie on it.
I couldn't finish eating.
"That's okay. Anyway, just send the golden eagles over to occupy the sky of the ranch. The rest of the rattlesnakes should be hunted by cowboys, or if you want, release some king snakes, which will be a deterrent to many nasty things." Reiner
De said to Ju An.
Ju An listened to Leonard's words for a while, then walked to the small pond, touched the water that had just been pulled out of the ground, and suddenly felt a cold feeling, which spread to his body along his arms, making the heat dissipate immediately, and turned his head
He said to Wang Fan: "Come here and give it a try, the water is really cool."
After hearing Ju An's words, Wang Fan also came over, put his hand into the pond, and then patted his face with temari: "This is really comfortable." After speaking, he patted his arm.
Ju An also slapped some cold water on his face, then stood up and looked at his pasture. In addition to some simple houses, there were piles of wood, which were used to build cowboy dormitories. The current construction site
There was no one on board, only a few excavators were working. It was such a birdy weather, let alone working. It felt hot even standing outside. He turned to Leonard and said, "Take Wang Fan and I to our accommodation."
Well, I want to take a little rest."
Leonard nodded: "Okay, come with me." After saying that, he led Ju An and Wang Fan towards the simple room, walked to the one at the end, and opened the door: "Then you can rest first.
"If you need anything, tell me." After saying that, he closed the door and walked away.
There was no air conditioner in the room. Of course Wang Fan turned on the air conditioner immediately. The air conditioners in the simple house were all window-type. In addition, the space was small. After a while, the indoor temperature dropped.
Two beds were occupied, and Wang Fan and Ju An each occupied a bed and began to take a nap.
They slept until the sun was about to set. The two of them got up from the bed, went to the car, took out their own toiletries, put them in, and washed their faces a little.
When they arrived at Leonard's office, the cowboy Rand had already returned. He greeted Ju An and then told some about the current situation of the ranch. Ju An had no objection and nodded, then he saw Rand's arm.
A king snake with white and yellow patterns was wrapped around it and said with a smile: "You like king snakes very much?".
Rand explained with a smile: "It's not about whether you like it or not. I have been a cowboy for decades and I am familiar with these things. Compared with rattlesnakes and venomous lizards, king snakes are pretty good."
Ju An shook his head. The southwest part of the United States is not good at all. There are too many poisons. It is said that there are even many kinds of rattlesnakes, such as horned rattlesnakes and so on. It is really disturbing.
After Rand and Leonard talked about the ranch for a while, and seeing that the sun was about to set on the horizon, Ju An decided to let the snake out and start working while the weather was cool.
Rand kept the snake on his wrist and planned to place it around the house, just in time to catch annoying mice at night. Ju An put the remaining snakes in the car and planned to walk a while to release this one.
Of course, there were so few idle and boring things like this. Wang Fan, the two of them drove around the ranch.
To release a snake, Ju An took advantage of Wang Fan to get on the car first and threw another one from the space. After releasing a few snakes, the two stopped the car and prepared to release the snake. As soon as they caught the snake in their hands, they heard something not far away.
There was a rustling sound coming from somewhere, and Wang Fan saw that it was a rattlesnake hiding under a rock with nothing around it, spitting a message in the direction of the two of them.
Ju An was not afraid of the attack. He slowly took the king snake in his hand and walked four or five steps away and put the king snake down. He said: "Go! Go! Kill it, and dinner is ready."
Unexpectedly, as soon as he put down the king snake, it circled around Ju An's arm, and when he put it down again, the king snake swam toward the bushes next to him while spitting out its tongue.
"Damn it, you bastard! Come back to me?" Ju An suddenly became angry and ran away. Wang Fan looked at him from behind and said, "What you bought is a piece of trash."
"Look at this rattlesnake here. Brother, go get another one." Ju An walked towards the car. When he got to the car, he looked at Wang Fan staring at the rattlesnake. He flipped his hand and took out a red rattlesnake from the space.