Ju An drove the car towards Teddy Ranch, while Wang Fan put his feet next to the front glass of the car, tilted his head with a hat stuck on his head and was sleeping, snoring softly.
Seeing the shadow of Red Lodge slowly appearing not far away, Ju An pushed Wang Fan, who was sleeping, with his hand: "Wake up! We are about to arrive at Teddy Ranch!".
"Huh?!" Wang Fan rubbed his eyes, took his feet off the front, and looked at the front of the car: "We're here so soon!".
"You've been asleep for almost two hours," Ju An said to Wang Fan.
"I just thought about it for a while." Wang Fan looked out the car window. There was a vast expanse of white snow all around, shining silver in the sun. After looking at it twice, Wang Fan took out the sunglasses holder from his pocket.
On the bridge of the nose.
After driving for about ten minutes, a fence appeared on the side of Ju'an. Some of the wooden posts were still brand new, and there were signs hanging on them from time to time, "Private property! Don't break in!" There was also a bear head sign next to it, "Ju'an"
I know this is my Teddy Ranch. But now it is just the outskirts of the ranch, and the gate of the ranch is not far from Red Lodge.
Wang Fan also saw the sign, pointed and said with a smile: "Hey! This is your pasture. You said you wouldn't open a gate here, but you have to take a detour!".
"So what if we open a door here?" Ju An glared at Wang Fan: "Do you like driving in the pasture? Even if there is no heavy snow, the knee-high pasture is so easy for a car to drive? It's not as convenient as this kind of road.
Woolen cloth".
Wang Fan looked at the pasture on the other side of Ju'an. The entire pasture was vast and empty, with only scattered woods. On the other side of the pasture, patches of vibrant green were revealed among the white snow on the mountainside halfway up the pasture.
Ju An drove for a while and arrived at the gate of Teddy Ranch. The gate was now renovated. There were four rough wooden shelves of 40 to 50 centimeters across and a large wooden sign that read Teddy Ranch.
The big round Teddy's head pattern makes the sign look like an arch. There are five-layer brown wooden fences on both sides of the gate more than ten meters away, which looks quite good.
When Ju An drove the car into the pasture, Wang Fan smiled at Ju An and said, "This gate is well made, much better than the gate in Xishuihe."
"The gate of Xishui River has been changed, you just didn't look at it!" Ju An glanced at Wang Fan and said.
Wang Fan looked at Ju An: "Have you changed it? You finally entered through the gate of Xishuihe Ranch. What did it look like?"
"It's very good! It's better than this one. You'll know when you go and see it," Ju An said to Wang Fan. Ju An couldn't even describe Ju An. Why? Ju An himself has never seen it. He has been working all day now.
They are all from helicopters, and the gate is almost at the end of the ranch. Ju An's residence is still a little east from the center of the ranch, so he has no chance to see the new gate of the ranch.
I drove the car into the ranch and drove for nearly five minutes before arriving at the ranch building. Since the ranch had not been officially opened yet, there were not many people. Mark, the manager of the ranch, heard the sound of the car and came to the door.
Ju An stopped the car, walked out, and greeted Mark: "Mark! How are you?".
"I'm fine! Boss!" Mark said with a smile to Ju An. Then he saw Wang Fan jump out of the car, and Ju An quickly introduced: "This is my friend, come here to play, you can call me
He's Fan!". Then he introduced to Wang Fan: "This is Mark, the manager of Teddy Ranch."
After Mark and Ju An and Wang Fan finished greetings, they walked towards the ranch's office with the two of them. After entering the office, Ju An looked around for a while. Ju An would not stay here permanently, so the ranch was not as good as before.
Instead of preparing a two-story building like that, we built a large square building with a large conference table in the middle that serves as both a living room and a conference room.
Mark said to Ju An: "There are four bedrooms in this house. I have already sorted out one. I will sort out another one soon and everyone can live in it." After that, he led Ju An to one side and pushed away.
opened the door.
Ju An and Wang Fan walked in. There was nothing much to say around them. The wooden walls had original wood grains, and they could even clearly see the dark scars on the trees on the wall. To the right of the door was a double-open door.
The cabinet is reserved for hanging clothes, not far away
There is a double wooden bed, which is now equipped with blankets and pillows. Next to it is a window. About two meters away on one side of the bed is a frosted glass sliding door, which is probably the bathroom. Next to the sliding door is a small desk.
There is also a desk lamp.
"Mr. Thomas said that you won't live here often, so your room is a little simpler. The other three rooms are roughly the same," Mark explained to Ju An.
Ju An smiled and nodded after hearing this: "That's pretty good." Then he asked Mark: "Was the snowstorm in the past two days very damaging to the ranch?".
"It doesn't have much influence. We happen to have mountains blocking us on both sides, and the snowstorm is already very weak here." Mark explained to Ju An: "Fortunately, we have built a new house now. If the previous buildings are still there, these will be weakened."
The strong winds can easily blow off the roof, and the house previously suggested cannot withstand this snowstorm."
"So how much has the ranch been completed now? Take me to see it tomorrow morning." Ju An glanced at Wang Fan and said to Mark. Wang Fan was sitting on the edge of the big bed, trying to press the mattress and feeling the comfort of the bed.
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Mark nodded: "Now we have made a progress sandbox, you can take a look at it."
Progress sand table? Ju An suddenly became interested: "Take me to see it." Wang Fan stood up from the bed when he heard that there was a sand table.
Mark took Ju An to the room where the sand table was placed. The room was not large. There was a desk and two chairs. There was a sand table opposite the table and against the wall. He looked at the photos on the desk.
, Ju An knew this was Mark’s ranch manager’s office.
Ju An stood in front of the sand table. It was indeed intuitive. The entire long pasture was surrounded by a thin fence as thick as a match pole. It was more beautiful than the real pasture fence. There were now two groups of buildings on the pasture, with the middle of the two groups of buildings
It is a long artificial pond.
Mark pointed to the house on the model and explained: "This is our current building. The building on the other side will not start construction until spring. The big lake in the center has been completely dug, but it is now frozen and covered with heavy snow. Look.
Less than”.
Ju An saw that there were several large square warehouses next to each cowboy housing area. Ju An saw it as soon as he got close to it in the car, pointed at it and asked: "This is the fodder storage warehouse of the ranch, right?"
This is really big enough.”
Mark smiled and nodded and said: "After the cattle come in, they have to transport green fodder from Xishuihe Ranch every winter. There must be a warehouse." It is not a small number to feed more than 90,000 cattle for several months.
"The first batch of cattle will be shipped in the spring. How are you preparing for it?" Ju An, as the owner of the ranch, finally asked a sideways question.
"There is nothing going on now. I discussed it with Mr. Thomas. The cowboys take turns to rest. One person comes to the ranch for a week and then rests for a week to take care of the hundreds of sheep in the ranch. Regarding the issue of the first batch of cattle, Mr. Thomas considered the first batch of nine
There are more than a thousand cows that can be taken care of by more than a dozen people on the ranch. In the spring, the ranch will hire another group of cowboys. While getting used to the ranch, they are waiting for the second batch of cows to arrive." Marco glanced at Ju An, as if he was not prepared to work for a week.
Leaving it for a week was a little scary.
Ju An didn't care about this, and he had nothing to do. Why did he tie the cowboys to the pasture? When these cowboys were free, they just drank and fought with each other. What else could they get into? He just put them back and said to Mark: "
You know that cattle stealing happened in Xishuihe Ranch, right? You must pay attention to this situation when cattle come in the future, otherwise you won’t even know that the cattle have been stolen. In addition, some security guards will come by then, and the house will be ready, right?"
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"Here!" Mark pointed to an open space near the mainland on the edge of the pasture and said: "When spring begins, I will arrange to build the security camp as soon as possible. It should be almost ready as soon as the cattle arrive at the camp. The first few
There is no problem with the security check-in. I already know about the cattle stealing, and I am going to do as Mr. Thomas said, and the cowboys will be armed with guns when grazing, so that those bastards will know that we cowboys are not easy to mess with!"
Seeing that more than half of the sand table was covered with green, Ju An asked: "Is this the case that half of the pasture's water supply has been automated?".
"Yeah!" Mark nodded and said with a happy smile: "About three-fifths of the area has been completed now, and the pipes are all underground. Then only two or three administrators can carry out irrigation operations for the entire pasture through the computer system.
, now the surrounding pastures are not as advanced as our irrigation. If we wait until spring, the boss sometimes
You can take a look at it. The whole pasture is so beautifully irrigated, with light mist everywhere you look.” Mark became happier and happier when he mentioned the irrigation system: “In the past, our cowboys envied the irrigation of the pasture next to them, but now others
They are envious of us, and now some cowboys in the town are starting to ask when our ranch will be hiring again!"
After listening to Mark's words, Ju An also nodded with satisfaction. The tens of millions of dollars spent have actually seen results. The irrigation system of more than 90,000 acres has taken more than ten million US dollars from Ju An's pocket, which is more than originally planned.
It's much higher. On the one hand, it's Ju'an's great success, and on the other hand, it's because of Ju'an's success.
On the one hand, it just can’t stop Ju An from having so much cash in his pocket, and Ju An doesn’t feel bad if it is spent on his ranch. In the words of his old father-in-law, Marcos, Ju An is a typical prodigal son who never plans to get a bank loan.
Things that only talented people can do.
Ju An laughed every time he heard it. Why don't you spend it and let the government collect taxes? Then you might as well invest it in your own pasture. It will improve the efficiency of the pasture and save a lot of income tax, killing two birds with one stone.
After listening to Mark, the manager of the ranch, talk for a while, it was time to eat. The ranch was nothing but onions and lamb chops raised by himself. The ranch hired a chef to cook, of course not a chef or anything like that, just
An ordinary housewife living in Red Lodge, from now on
The daily task is to take care of the cattle dogs in the pasture, and eat the food of the cattle dog chef. It sounds a bit awkward, but the craftsmanship is really good. The lamb chops are grilled tender and delicious. Of course, the sheep are transported from the Xishui River and cultivated.
The meat quality of several generations of sheep is not comparable to that of ordinary sheep.