Ju An said with a smile: "There is such a discount event for Easter. I didn't know about it. When I came to the United States, it was either May or September, so I basically never encountered any festivals."
The old man said: "At Easter, we let the children look for those colorful plastic eggs. During Halloween, we pretended to be ghosts and came out to scare people. Every time at this time, Guangyuan and I were responsible for staying at home and giving out candies to the children.
They all dressed up in weird ways, so my daughter-in-law, Donna, took her grandson out to beg for sweets. They gave out a lot in one night, and the children also got a lot, which was very interesting."
Everyone then talked about foreigners' festivals. After a while, Chang Dongna came to inform everyone that it was ready to eat. Ju An and Wang Fan followed them to the restaurant. As soon as they entered the restaurant, they saw a
A Chinese-style round table was placed in the middle of the restaurant, and dishes were already placed on the table.
Everyone gathered around the round table to prepare, and Lu Guangyuan suggested: "Why don't we all make some liquor to make it lively?" After saying that, he stood up and took out a bottle of Maotai liquor from the cabinet at the back and opened it.
Ju An shook his head and tried to stop Lu Guangyuan, explaining: "There is no need for liquor, we have to drive back later."
The old man waved his hand and said, "Isn't it enough to just stay here for the night? There is a lot of space at home, so I will just stay here for one night and go back tomorrow morning."
Wang Fan said, "There is still something going on at the ranch in Ju'an. We really have to go back tonight. This time I am here to take two people to learn how to raise horses. After returning to China, we will open a horse farm. I still have a lot of things to do."
Yes, next time, I will definitely get drunk next time.”
The old man took a look and said: "The hands of those who run this farm here are busy. This farm in Guangyuan is busy every day. It is busy all year round. Then I won't keep you, but you are alone."
It’s not enough to just drive, but the other person will have a couple of drinks with me, an old man, and drink less. It’s not easy to meet a fellow villager in this wilderness.”
Ju An then said to Wang Fan: "Then you can have a couple of drinks with me, and I will drive."
When Wang Fan heard this, he said to the old man cheerfully: "Then I will drink two drinks with you. My drinking capacity is not very good, so I can only drink less."
The old man was happy when he heard it: "Like the men in our capital, it's refreshing."
Wang Fan took the jug from Lu Guangyuan's hand, filled it for the old man, and then filled it for Lu Guangyuan and himself. Ju An and Chang Dongna took the juice and everyone drank a glass.
Then the old man cheerfully asked everyone to eat. Ju An tasted a few dishes and found them very delicious. Most of them were on the heavy side. Ju An especially liked the dish of braised eggplant in oil. Generally speaking, Ju An does not eat eggplant.
, mainly because Ju An didn't like the taste of eggplant, but the eggplant made by Chang Dongna was very suitable to Ju An's appetite. He couldn't taste the strange taste of eggplant at all, so he ate a big bowl with white rice.
Wang Fan and Lu Guangyuan were drinking wine. They paid more attention to meat dishes. Braised pig's trotters, which is rarely seen on the table in the United States, were happily nibbling in their hands, while nibbling on them.
They were chatting about something in the capital dialect.
Chang Dongna said kindly to Ju An: "Xiao Ju, try the large intestine I made. They are pigs raised at home and fed with grain. It tastes very good." After saying that, she put a piece in front of Ju An.
It was in a small bowl and Ju An tasted it. Sure enough, it had no peculiar smell at all and was very chewy.
Then he smiled and praised: "The pigs you raise at home are not only delicious in meat, but their intestines are also so strong, it's amazing."
After hearing this, Lu Guangyuan said: "This tastes like the black pork from farm pigs when we were young. Now it is not easy to eat such native pigs in China. They are all fattened pigs fed with feed. Black pigs are better to eat."
It took more effort and was not economical. We only fed a few piglets for our own consumption. When we first came here, we fed them at home. Later, we gave birth to piglets. Several foreign friends nearby who had eaten this kind of pork at home also followed suit.
We took them back and fed them, and now most of the pigs we raise for food in our homes nearby are this kind of pigs.”
Ju An said with a smile: "Oh, is there anyone selling piglets now? If so, I will get a few to feed them. When the Chinese New Year comes, my family will come over and behead them too to make the scene lively."
Chang Dongna looked at Ju An and laughed: "You are just feeding the piglets now. You can't eat them during the New Year today. This kind of black pig grows very slowly and takes almost a year to mature. Our family kills them during the New Year."
Head, today you can kill one head and one half of the family together with our family.”
Ju An said: "That's good, but I really want to get a few of these little piglets and go back and raise them."
Chang Dongna said: "No problem. When you left, there happened to be a few half-grown piglets in a nearby house. I heard a few days ago that they were planning to sell them. I will ask about them later."
"Thank you then. I happen to have piglets in my pasture. Now that's good. All the cows, sheep, pigs, geese, ducks and chickens, except for the cattle and sheep, are all domestic products," Ju An said proudly.
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Lu Guangyuan said: "Do you still have domestic geese and native chickens? Those are really good things. We tried to bring them several times, but it was not easy, so we finally gave them up."
Ju An smiled and said: "If you want to raise them, go to my place and get a dozen of them. The geese in the pasture are just hatching eggs, and the second wave of chicks is about to come out. If you want, go to my place to catch them."
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Chang Dongna responded with a smile: "That's great. After a few days, I will ask Lao Lu to go to your place, catch some geese and small native chickens, and raise them back. The American chickens are really big.
It tastes much worse.”
After everyone finished lunch happily, Lu Guangyuan took Ju An and Wang Fan to visit his farm.
Entering a large shed, Ju An saw several rows of shelves in the shed, filled with flowers. Lu Guangyuan introduced: "This is a greenhouse. We grow flowers for sale in spring and autumn, which is also a big source of wealth in spring."
Looking at the rows of pipes and sprinkler heads hanging from the roof of the greenhouse, Wang Fan said with emotion: "The facilities in your greenhouse are quite advanced, including automatic sprinklers. It is much better than the greenhouse in Ju'an."
Ju An glanced at Wang Fan and said: "My greenhouse also has sprinklers, but it's just not as big and large as Master Lu's. I just grow some vegetables for my own food. Why do I need such a professional sprinkler?"
Lu Guangyuan said with a smile: "You don't need to be so particular. It's not that my greenhouse is advanced. It's because the labor here in the United States is too high. I can't afford it even if I want to. Even if I find two people to help me when I'm really busy, it won't take more than a year."
It only takes two or three months to hire help, and the rest of the family is busy.”
Wang Fan said with a smile: "It's just the opposite of our country, where labor is cheap and things are expensive. Here in the United States, things are cheap and labor is expensive."
Lu Guangyuan smiled and nodded and said: "Yes, it's just the opposite of what we have in China." Ju An and Wang Fan followed and watched for a while before leaving the greenhouse. Lu Guangyuan said: "All the greenhouses I have here are for planting flowers in spring, and in winter.
It’s time to get out-of-season vegetables.”
Ju An asked, "Business should be good, right?"
"It's not bad. Anyway, I don't have to worry about food and drink all year round. I still have a small balance. I can support several children through college. My boss is not ready to let us support it yet and is planning to apply for a loan to go to college. Anyway, there is basically no pressure and we don't have a lot of money. I just have some leftover."
It’s so fun,” Lu Guangyuan said with a smile.
Next, the two men took a look at the livestock they raised. They didn't raise many cows and sheep. Some of the cows were from some background, and there were about dozens of sheep. Ju An also saw a few donkeys in the pasture.
, he didn’t know what the donkeys could do. Could he kill the donkeys and eat their meat? After asking, he found out that his eldest son had brought them back and kept them for fun.
After looking around at the livestock, Lu Guangyuan followed Ju An and Wang Fan to a large pumpkin patch, looking at the green pumpkins growing under the green pumpkin seedlings. Ju An asked: "Can these pumpkins be sold?
Come on, he looks quite big."
Lu Guangyuan said with a smile: "These pumpkins are reserved for sale during Halloween. When the pumpkin seedlings are pulled out, there will be only big orange pumpkins left on the ground. They will look good. Wait until then."
When I come here to play, several of our farms here provide activities every year, which is a bit like the domestic farmhouse style."
When Wang Fan heard about the farmhouse, he happily asked: "What is the farmhouse like here in the United States? Is it also a one-stop shop for food and drink?".
Lu Guangyuan replied: "Basically, the family goes out to play and buy some vegetables. At that time, we will draw a maze in the cornfield, a big maze in the field, and put some markers in the maze. You can find all the mazes.
If you mark the mark, there will be a small reward. Usually the whole family comes together to buy Halloween pumpkins. If you are interested, come to us in October this year."
Later, he took Ju An and Wu Ming to visit a large cornfield. He pointed at the large cornfield and said: "This year our maze will be drawn on this land. Then we will find a plane to draw the pattern in the air."
, just drive the harvester below and harvest the patterns."
When Ju An heard about the airplane, he got excited and asked, "Is it expensive to hire an airplane like this?"
Lu Guangyuan said: "It's expensive. You can buy a pesticide-spreading airplane for tens of thousands of dollars. It's not a big deal. Many farms have their own airplanes. Some large pastures have hundreds of thousands of acres."
, all use helicopters to drive cattle. If horses are used, it will take as many cowboys as possible to drive tens of thousands of cattle."
Ju An then asked: "Is this airplane license easy to get? If it is easy to get, I will also get one for fun."
Lu Guangyuan said: "Now I heard that this license is a bit troublesome. In the past, it was enough to just spend money, but now it has to be reviewed and so on. The old Americans are a little scared of 911, but it just takes more time, and there are more
To go to class or something, no matter what, you have to get $20,000."
Ju An thought about it for a while and realized that he really had some ideas. After getting the license, he could build a Super Spitfire from World War II. It would be very exciting.
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