Following Ju An's gaze, everyone was mesmerized by the scenery in front of them. They watched silently. The whole world was filled with only the fragrance of flowers, the sea of flowers, and the blue sky. The warm spring sunshine shone on them, making their whole bodies feel relaxed.
It was all warm, except for the horse snorting from time to time, stretching its head to eat the leaves of the thick-rooted fern that had become full of moisture.
"Eh~~~!" The Quarter Horse under his crotch neighed, pulling Ju An and the others back from the beautiful scenery. The Quarter Horse under Ju An's crotch was a little irritable, tapping the ground and shaking from time to time.
The mane on the head and neck was cut into a palm length and followed the horse.
The neck shook and rolled, and I patted the horse's neck gently to comfort the mount. Following the direction of the horse's head, I saw a bright red king snake coiled on a stone, coiled into a ball, facing the horse.
He slightly raised his head in the direction of the horse and stuck out his tongue.
When Ju An saw this snake, he recognized it. He had raised it in space before. He got off his horse, walked to the stone, and stretched out his hand to the king snake.
"Be careful! This snake is very big. Don't let it wrap around your neck. It will be dangerous," Dinah said to Ju An.
Ju An stretched out his hand. King Snake sensed Ju An's aura and immediately wrapped it around Ju An's hand, forming a ball on Ju An's arm. Ju An gently touched King Snake's with his fingers.
He turned his head and smiled at Dinah and said: "I bought these snakes. Originally there were rattlesnakes in the pasture, so I came up with the idea of these snakes. I don't know if there are still rattlesnakes in the pasture now.
How much is left?"
Dinah grew up in the country, and Cora was a policewoman. The two women looked at the king snake on Ju An's forearm and said nothing, but Miles, a big man, saw his face change a little when he saw the red king snake.
He said to Ju An: "Let this thing go quickly! I have been afraid of this thing since I was a child. Whenever I see these snakes swimming around in the water or on the grass, I get hairs on my spine!".
"Haha!" Ju An laughed twice and walked forward for about ten steps. He walked to another big stone and wanted to put the king snake on it. He unfolded the fiery red king snake and put it on the stone. With this unfolding, Ju An
An then discovered that the fiery red king snake had grown to almost one and a half meters long. As soon as the king snake reached the stone, it stuck out its tongue in the direction of Ju An and swam away along the smooth stone.
The four people who were interrupted by the king snake to look at the scenery simply rode on their horses and started running again. After running and stopping for about ten minutes, a herd of cattle appeared not far away, but it was not the gray or white that was common in Ju'an before.
, now it’s black and white. There are a few cowboys riding horses next to the cattle, looking at the cattle.
Seeing Ju An and the others walking over, one of the cowboys gave him a light finger: "Hello! Boss!". The two cowboys next to him were stunned for a moment, and then nodded to Ju An: "Boss!"
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The two cowboys next to me were probably hired from behind. If I hadn't seen an Asian man riding a horse and running wildly in the pasture, I would have known that he was from Ju'an. It's very difficult for these cowboys to remember an Asian face at a time.
Just like how we look to foreigners at first glance, foreigners also look the same to us.
"Hello everyone!" Ju An waved to the cowboys, then pointed at Dinah and said: "This is my wife, these two are my friends."
Dinah nodded to the three cowboys.
Ju An was riding a horse and looking at the herd of cows. He found that some of the cows actually lay down on the ground and ate grass with their heads tilted. He was suddenly surprised. The energy of these cows was very similar to that of their brothers. They were lazy enough. He pointed to lying down.
The sitting cow asked some cowboys: "Is it okay for cows to eat bracken now?"
"Well, now these little cows have adapted to the taste of bracken and gradually like it. You will know when these cows start to produce milk next year. Anyway, the female professor I heard said that they are ours
The fern can already provide enough nutrition for the cows." The first cowboy to greet Ju An said to Ju An with a smile.
"Miss Jennifer has also arrived at the ranch?" Ju An asked the cowboy. Jennifer is the dairy expert invited. Even though she is so old, as long as she is not married, Americans here will call her "Miss."
Anyway, no matter how old you are if you don’t have a ring on your hand, it’s right to call them “Miss”. It’s not like the word “Miss” in China has been used to specifically refer to women who have lost their feet. This advanced way of calling has not spread to the United States yet. As for the
I don’t know if I can come here to stay in Ju’an in the future.
The cowboy nodded after hearing this: "Miss Jennifer stayed for a month and came here when the cows were transported. She should have gone back to Montana now."
Ju An felt a little ashamed after hearing this. He had hardly been to Hans Ranch during the holidays. If Leonard hadn't asked Ju An to see the flowers, Ju An wouldn't have planned to come over. Actually, as a boss, he is not as good as someone who works with dairy cows.
Diligence really doesn't make sense, and then I thought: That's not right, the boss should be like a buddy. Only someone else does everything is the boss.
Then I remembered that when I was in China, I had a buddy who was making architectural display drawings. Ju An praised him for his good drawings. This buddy replied to Ju An: He is good at drawing pictures, and he will have to beg for food until he is old! At that time, Ju An saw that his drawings were done once a month.
Wan Duo was extremely envious, but now I think about it, what this guy said is the truth.
After adjusting her mood, with a smile on her face, Dinah next to her asked the cowboys: "Are all the cows in the pasture here? Didn't they say thousands? This is probably only more than a thousand, right?".
"Well! Now there are more than 5,000 ferns, divided into several spots for grazing. We have more than 1,000 here, and there are four more spots for grazing. Now the area of Rhizoma fern only accounts for less than half of the pasture, but now
Expanding is not as cumbersome as it was in the beginning, Professor Leonard talked to us
"It is estimated that the entire pasture will be covered with ferns by March next year at the latest. If you come back to see it in September this year, you can see cows everywhere." The cowboy said with a smile to Dinah. It can be seen that
These cowboys are looking forward to seeing cows filling the entire ranch.
After chatting with the cowboys for a while, the four of them, Ju An, rode towards the ranch house. When they got to the ranch house, they dismounted their horses, tied the reins directly to the piles, and let the horses graze anywhere.
Dinah said to Ju An: "I didn't sleep for a short time on the plane, and now I'm feeling sleepy. Let Leonard take us to the room to have a rest."
Ju An looked at Dinah. His daughter-in-law was a little tired. When they were looking at the flowers just now, several people were so excited that you couldn't tell it. Now there was an obvious tiredness on their faces. He looked at Cora and it was the same.
Looking at Miles, he probably didn't get much sleep on the plane, and now he's almost dozing off.
"Then you guys wait here, I'll ask Leonard where his room is." After saying that, he walked towards Leonard's office and dormitory.
I knocked on the door a few times, but no one answered. I stretched my head and looked through the window, but there was no one inside! Just as I was about to take out my mobile phone and call the old man, a cowboy came over on horseback and faced me.
Ju An said: "Boss! Professor Leonard went to observe the expansion of the fern. Do you want me to call him back?".
"No, I'll just make a call." Ju An smiled at the cowboy and shook the phone in his hand: "I just want to ask him where we will stay tonight. My wife and two friends are a little tired."
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"Your rooms are in the three rooms at the back." The cowboy sat on the horse and pointed behind his back and said to Ju An: "If you see the blue five characters painted on the door, that's the room, and then follow the three rooms
This is the room Mr. Rand prepared for you!".
Ju An stretched his head and took a look and understood. He put the phone back in his trouser pocket, said thank you to the cowboy, then turned to Dinah and waved to them: "This way!".
I pushed open the door with a few people, and I could tell who was in whose room by looking at the luggage placed beside the door. Dinah and the others were resting in the room. They slept well and were not sleepy at all now.
No, of course I had no interest in sleeping. I saw the cowboy who had given me the road to peace just now while riding my horse and asked where Leonard was, then I rode in the direction pointed by the cowboy.
It took about ten minutes of running to find Leonard and the others. Now the old man was chatting with Rand, the director of the ranch. When he saw Ju An running over on horseback, he stopped and smiled at Ju An.
When he got to the side of the old man and Rand, he dismounted his horse and casually wrapped the reins around the saddle. After wrapping it twice, a standard rope buckle appeared on the saddle's head.
"You've been on a plane for so long without taking a break?" Leonard asked Ju An with a smile.
Ju An waved his hand after hearing this, and then raised his head to look at the situation. The thick root fern has grown here now, a crooked line, with flowering thick root fern on one side and bare wasteland with shrubs on the other.
It can also be said that one side is the future of the ranch and the other is the past of the ranch. The two are clearly distinct.
"I see there aren't many shrubs like this in the pasture anymore. How come they were all cleared away or how they were removed?" Ju An pointed to a shrub not far away that was too tall for a person and asked Leonard.
Leonard smiled and said, "We haven't even cleaned it yet. The thick-rooted fern has grown too overbearingly, and its roots absorb water too much. As long as it grows next to these shrubs, it will occupy the water sources of these shrubs. These plants will not be used for a few months."
It will wither and die, and we don’t need to clean it up.”
Ju An smiled and nodded, thinking to himself: This has completely inherited the characteristics of space. Space grass is so domineering. As long as it grows in the place where it grows, it will be really difficult for ordinary plants to grow.
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Looking at the bushes not far away, Ju An remembered something. He pointed to the distance and said to Leonard and Rand: "Now the owner of the land over there is ready to sell it. I have given over 300,000 acres to him.
Gillen talked with him, and he offered a price of 10 million. The highest price I could accept in the end was 8 million. I estimate that the probability of buying it is 50-50. If I can buy it, I can buy it all the way from here to Lake Mead.
This is our place.”
"The price of eight million is still too high," Rand thought for a moment and said to Ju An. (To be continued)