Burris and others talked a lot, but Zhang Chi didn't hear it at all. He was just thinking about one thing in his mind, could he get a thoroughbred horse by himself?
If it works, then you will make a lot of money, but if it doesn’t work? Then you will lose everything!
With Zhang Chi's character, he would definitely not take a big gamble and just buy an outstanding thoroughbred horse and go to the racetrack to try his luck.
It's not that he doesn't want to, but how can such a horse be cheap, with good pedigree, well-proportioned body, and fast speed? It's Zhang Chi's turn to take advantage of it?
As soon as this kind of horse is born, I don’t know how many pairs of eyes are staring at it. The three melons and two dates in Zhang Chi’s pocket are not enough to buy a watch on someone else’s wrist. Why should he compete with others?
So Zhang Chi feels that he needs a pathfinder horse. If the gourd is effective, then Zhang Chi will have to buy a good horse and go to the track to make money. If it doesn't work, then Zhang Chi doesn't have anything. The losses amounted to thousands of dollars, but for Zhang Chi, it was only a small amount of money.
Needless to say, this pathfinder horse is pointed at Mason's horse farm.
Spending a small amount of money to do big things makes Zhang Chi feel that he is really smart.
I was feeling beautiful in my heart when I felt someone patted me. I turned around and saw that it was Nell.
Nell said: "Gone".
Only then did Zhang Chi realize that everyone in the room had stood up and walked towards the door. Some people close to the door had already begun to put on their coats.
Zhang Chi followed Nel and Serriol to the door.
"George, are you free in the spring?" Nell asked.
Zhang Chi thought for a moment: "I don't know, but most of the time nothing happens."
Nell said: "If nothing happens, please do me a favor. It may take you two or three days to drive my animals back from the winter pasture."
Zhang Chi understood that this and the Nell family's cattle were about to move from the winter pasture back to the current pasture.
"Okay, if nothing big happens then, I will definitely go," Zhang Chi said.
Nell nodded: "When the time comes, the wages will be calculated as the cowboy's, okay?"
"We'll talk about wages and stuff later."
Americans generally give you money when they ask you to do work. The difference is whether others want it or not. Good friends will also accept payment. Whether they accept payment or not has little to do with the two of them. Accepting it will not affect the two of them. In relationships with people, if you don't accept the favor, they will think about when to return the favor.
Zhang Chi wants to experience the old ranch management method of Zhuanzhang. It doesn’t matter whether it’s money or not, and Nell has a good relationship with him. They are good friends. If a friend asks for help, Zhang Chi will naturally not refuse. .
Putting on his coat and hat, Zhang Chi rode up Chiyan Mountain and said goodbye to Nell and others at the gate of the ranch. Zhang Chi took the horse trail, while most of the others came by car, so they all came on different roads.
After returning to the ranch smoothly, Zhang Chi put Chiyanshan into the stable.
"BOSS, you spent a long time drinking today, what happened?"
Cannon, who was working, saw Zhang Chi coming back, so he asked with a shovel in hand.
Generally speaking, Zhang Chi doesn't go to the bar for too long. If he goes to the bar for a long time, something must have happened. Cannon knows this clearly.
Zhang Chi said: "Old Mason's ranch is going bankrupt, and everyone is discussing how to give him a hand."
Cannon said: "Even if it happened this time, what about next time?"
Cannon has been working here for more than ten years. How could he not understand the character of old Mason and tell the key factors in one sentence?
Zhang Chi didn't know what to say. There was really nothing anyone else could do to help except himself.
"Forget it, I'm going to buy some horses," Zhang Chi said.
Cannon was surprised and asked: "Boss, we have a lot of horses in the pasture, and there are five horses kept in the stables. I don't think we should add more horses."
There are already seven horses in the ranch. Who can ride another horse? It would be okay if it was also a tourist ranch, but now we only have two horses, so why buy so many horses?
Even if you need it, you can just buy it when the time comes. Everything in the United States may be expensive, but horses cannot be expensive. There are tens of thousands of abandoned horses in the wild. When is it wrong to buy a horse?
Zhang Chi can't say it. I think Cannon's equestrian training is just average. When my grandparents come over in the summer and want to ride a horse, it would be dangerous to ride a horse trained by Chu. I feel more at ease riding a horse trained by Mason.
He had to say: "Buy more, and when the pasture expands, we will use our own horses here."
Cannon didn't know what BOSS was like, and this reason seemed a bit nonsense to him, but BOSS decided, and he stopped talking.
"Then I'll go with you." Cannon was afraid that his boss was not discerning enough and would buy some bad horses.
Zhang Chi said: "That's natural. The day after tomorrow. Let's go together the day after tomorrow. Then you can see what we can use at Mason Racecourse and buy it together if the price is right."
Cannon said: "There is really nothing needed in the pasture. We also have farm machinery here. Although it is not many, it is enough. As for the other things, I can't think of anything missing."
The farm machinery Zhang Chi bought has arrived, including a tractor, a trailer for watering, and a trailer for harvesting grass. The others are not commonly used. You can rent them when you want to use them. It is not economical to buy them yourself and only use them a few times a year.
"We'll see then. You go to bed early and I'll go back to the house first," Zhang Chi said.
"Okay, BOSS" Cannon said he understood, lowered his head and continued working.
After returning home, he fed Mo Zhi first, and Zhang Chi went to take a bath. When Zhang Chi came out, he found Sanjo lying down not far from Mo Zhi's food bowl, looking at Mo Zhi eagerly as he was eating.
Zhang Chi didn't even feed two dogs, so how could he feed three now?
If you want to survive in Zhangchi, Santiao must learn to make enough food and clothing by yourself. If you don't catch mice, you have to catch birds. In short, there are many things to catch in the pasture. If you want to eat, you have to be diligent. If you want to be lazy, then?
impossible.
As for why Mo Xiu has something to eat, it’s because Mo Xiu is still a child weighing several kilograms, not to mention that now Mo Xiu is no longer a cat, but a black mountain lion.
Which man doesn’t have the dream of raising wild beasts? Zhang Chi also has it, so it’s certain that Mo Zhi will be loved.
He squatted down and knocked twice on Santiao's forehead: "Catch mice, what are you doing by looking at other people's bowls? It's really impossible to catch rabbits. When the second dog was as old as you, the birds didn't dare to fall wherever they walked. Look.
You're such a coward."
After cursing two or three words, Zhang Chi came to Mo Zi's side and stretched out his hand to stroke Mo Zi's hair: "Be good, eat slowly."
Sanjou glanced at Zhang Chi, stood up, meowed a few times, and walked towards the door cursing.
When I got into bed, I turned on the electric blanket. The bed was warm. I slipped in and happily checked my phone for a while. Then Zhang Chi got ready to go to sleep.
After sleeping for a while, I always felt something moving in my ears. When I opened my eyes, I found that the ink was lying next to my head. This guy was snoring a lot while sleeping, and it was directly directed towards my ears.
"Go aside!"
Zhang Chi picked up Mo Zhi's neck and lifted Mo Zhi away from his head.
During the whole process, the ink did not open its eyes, and it was like a boneless leather strip that was carried to the toes by Zhang Chi.
Keep sleeping.
When he opened his eyes in the morning, Zhang Chi found that there was a plush head next to his neck. He didn't know when the ink came over again, and he was sleeping with his arms spread out.
I got up and worked to make breakfast, and the rest of the day passed by just like that.
When they got up early this morning, Zhang Chi and Cannon finished the work on the ranch, had breakfast, then drove the cattle out of the cowshed and cleaned the cowshed.
They set off from the ranch at ten o'clock in the morning. They both rode horses and did not drive. Because Zhang Chi decided to buy some horses today, they thought it would be more convenient to drive the horses back then than to drive.
Originally, the two of them thought that since they arrived earlier, there wouldn't be many talented people at Mason Racecourse. Who would have thought that Mason Racecourse is now bustling with traffic.
There were a lot of people I didn't know, and there were more than twenty cars parked at the gate of the ranch alone.
This is a trivial matter in China, but in the small town of Amber, it is considered a big event. Except for various festivals, it is rare for so many cars to come together.
"Why is she here?"
Seeing a car, Zhang Chi couldn't help but frowned.
Cannon followed his boss's gaze and saw a large off-road vehicle. What was it if it wasn't the car that Melika often drove?
"Miss Melika is here too" Cannon laughed.
"This little girl, she's really there wherever there's an advantage," Zhang Chi muttered.
Zhang Chi's guess was indeed correct. Melika really came here to take advantage. She knew that Mason's reputation had declined significantly over the years, but an outstanding horse trainer would always get more attention.
Melika came here just to see if there were any leaks that could be picked up. As the saying goes, if there is no profit, you can’t start early. The possible benefits made Merika show up at the Mason Racecourse early in the morning.
Zhang Chi and Cannon were at the door, tied up their horses, and walked into the racecourse together.
Now all the riding horses in the racecourse have been driven out. It is understandable that if they don't come out, they can't let the thoroughbreds and purebred horses come out.
There are not many people who want to buy these horses, so there are not many people beside the fence. The five or six people who are sparse are far less crowded than the people in the stables over there.
Cannon then asked Zhang Chi: "BOSS, how many horses should we buy?"
"Four horses, four horses," Zhang Chi said.
Cannon nodded and began to look around the fence.
Zhang Chi chatted with the guy watching the fence here. There were so many people here today, and Mason alone couldn't greet them. So there are still some volunteers at the racecourse, that is, they work for free without being paid.
The living people were all nearby, so Zhang Chi naturally knew them, so when Cannon was choosing a horse, Zhang Chi was talking nonsense with these people.
"Why are there so many people here?" Zhang Chi asked.
"Everyone wants to come over and see what they can pick up. Mason's horse training level is very famous throughout Folsom. Now that I heard that Mason Racecourse is going bankrupt, these people naturally want to come over and take a look."
Just when Zhang Chi was chatting with others, Melika's voice came to his ears: "Why did you come back? When did you come back?"
Zhang Chi turned around and found that Melika was glaring at him, as if he shouldn't have come back.