Chapter 158 Arrogant at the front and respectful at the back
After everything was relatively satisfactory, Zhang Chi asked Brian to be careful not to let Langdon and the others pour too much water, and he returned to the temporary dormitory to rest.
Less than an hour later, Zhang Chi appeared on the pasture again and got off an extra horse. Astride the horse, Zhang Chi saw that the cowboys had planted a large area.
"There is a distance of nine to ten feet in the middle. The grass will soon cover this distance. There is no need to plant it specially," Zhang Chi said to Langdon.
Langdon nodded, then called the cowboy and told him that there should be a distance of three meters between the blocks. The cowboy didn't ask, and after hearing the request, he left a distance of three meters.
I turned my head and looked elsewhere. As far as I could see, some tractors were pulling plows, while others were hanging natural gas tanks. They were scorching the earth with blue flames and using high temperatures.
Take the original alfalfa in the ground and kill it with other plants.
All the cowboys in the entire ranch were moving, and it was a lively scene.
But Zhang Chi knew that most of these people were probably cursing themselves in their hearts. The reason was very simple. It turned out that there was no need to expend so much effort, but with just a word from him, all the alfalfa here was being shoveled away and planted with giant beard grass that they didn't know about.
.If I were in the same position, I might scold him even more harshly than they did.
Does Zhang Chi care?
You don't care if you want to. After all, these cowboys are from the Melika Ranch, not from his Zhangchi Ranch.
Looking at the endless pasture and the cowboys working above, Zhang Chi couldn't help but sigh.
"What a wonderful pasture, what a pity, what a pity."
Zhang Chi thinks this pasture is very good, but the only pity is that such a pasture is not his own.
When he thought that the ranch was not his, Zhang Chi began to think blindly, wondering if he could hack this ranch.
But then I thought about it, it seemed a bit impossible to pull the teeth out of the little girl's tiger.
"Forget it, we are friends after all. We have always been good young men with a conscience, and we would never do such a thing." After thinking about it for a while, he felt that he was just thinking nonsense, so Zhang Chi comforted himself.
"What's more, this time the little girl has a conscience and gave me 50% of the profit." Zhang Chi was happy again when he thought of this.
Even though Zhang Chi wanted 70% to 80% at the beginning, he also knew in his heart that this was impossible. Not to mention a shrewd girl like Melika, it was impossible for him to agree to it.
Why?
If it were you, would you be willing to use your own land to do business with others, and then only get 20 to 30%? It's something that even a fool can't do, let alone someone as smart as Melika.
Even if he was given 50%, Zhang Chi actually didn't expect it.
If you think about such a large piece of land, you need to change the grass, water, etc., and you will definitely need manpower and machinery, and these all cost money. Don't look at the hundreds of thousands in Zhang Chi's hands, which seems to be quite a lot, but
This piece of pasture spread to Merica is nothing. It covers an area of more than 4,000 acres, and covers more than 20,000 acres of land in the country. It cost more than two million yuan. Do you think it is a big deal?
What's more, Melika will solve the cattle problem by then, which is another big expense. Don't ask Melika whether she will transport the calves culled from the family ranch. Cows are cows!
If Zhang Chi had not raised the ability to cull calves, Melika would have lost her mind and gone crazy. She would use the land to get cattle to do this business with Zhang Chi, and she would also give half of the net profit to Zhang Chi.
Although Melika has made more money than before, few businessmen are willing to split the money with Zhang Chi 50-50, because on the surface, it is obviously not equal, Melika
The cost paid by others is high, but the cost paid by Zhang Chi is small.
So when it comes to this collaboration, Zhang Chi doesn't show it on the surface, but he is still a little touched by Melika in his heart. Of course, there is a small touch, but it's hard to say how much.
None of the cowboys in the ranch wanted to talk to Zhang Chi, and of course there was Brian, but Brian was a man of few words and he didn't care. It was even less likely that Zhang Chi would care. He was only thinking about money now.
After the first hundred acres of land were planted and almost watered, Zhang Chi left here and returned to his family's pasture.
When I came here again, I brought another batch of grass seeds.
On average, one acre of land requires nearly 30 pounds of grass seeds, and more than 4,000 acres of land requires a lot of seeds.
After transporting all the seeds, Zhang Chi threw the seeds directly into the warehouse here. The only thing left to do was to wait for the cowboys to water the seeds and then add gourd pulp.
Therefore, Zhang Chi would 'check' the water source every time he watered.
Zhang Chi's place to live here is not big, the cowboys don't like him, and Melika doesn't have any special instructions, so if Eric can arrange for Zhang Chi to stay in the big room, he will be a ghost.
So Zhang Chi shared a room with Brian and didn't care that they were there, and they lived quite happily.
Eric got up early in the morning, washed up, and stood in front of the mirror to carefully trim his beard. Most old cowboys like to grow beards and are particularly concerned about their beards. This level of care even exceeds the pursuit of personal hygiene.
, it seems that with a unique beard on his face, he can eat two more bowls of food.
"Eric! Eric!"
Just as Eric was carefully taking care of his beard, there was an urgent knock on the door.
Eric put down the small scissors in his hand, came to the door, opened it, and said to the cowboy in the door: "What's so impatient?"
"It's sprouted, it's sprouted!"
The cowboy said to Eric with a surprised look on his face.
Eric didn't quite understand, so he asked, "What sprouted?"
"Forage, the grass we just planted has sprouted," the cowboy said happily to Eric.
"Has it sprouted?" Eric suddenly understood and immediately turned to the cowboy in front of the door to confirm.
The cowboy nodded: "Well, it has already emerged from the ground. The buds are so high. They have grown so high overnight."
As he spoke, the cowboy gestured with his hands.
At this time, Eric was still in the mood to take care of his beautiful beard, so he immediately went out: "Let's go and have a look!"
The two of them left Eric's dormitory one after another and went directly to the ranch.
There were already five or six cowboys on the nearest pasture. They were all standing on the edge of the field, looking at the seedlings that had just sprouted on the ground with expressions of surprise.
Eric came next to these people, squatted down and looked at the young sprouts that had just sprouted on the ground, his face full of joy.
"It sprouted so quickly." Eric found it a bit incredible.
"Is the temperature getting warmer quickly?"
A cowboy replied: "No, there are no buds in other pastures yet. How many days have we been planting here?"
The young grass sprouts in the ground are yellow-green, and you can tell at a glance that they have just emerged from the ground and have not really turned into emerald green yet. This proves what the cowboys said, that these young grass sprouts will grow soon after they emerge from the ground.
It has grown into what it is now.
In other words, these little grass sprouts prove that Zhang Chi is not a liar. The new grass he provides does grow much faster than the original alfalfa.
"Is this all like this?" Eric asked again.
"It's all like this, the grass seedlings are almost the same height," a cowboy replied.
"Let's go and have a look."
Although Eric believed that his cowboy wouldn't lie, he had to see it for himself to feel reassured.
So Eric started to measure the originally planted land with his own feet. Just as the cowboy said, all the grass in this land was the same as what he had just seen.
"Where is our original alfalfa? Has it sprouted?" Eric asked again.
The cowboys shook their heads.
Eric mounted his horse uneasily and took a look, but what he saw was not the faint green that had emerged from the soil, but a barren landscape, with no green at all on the original ground.
The whole ranch suddenly became lively, and the cowboys who originally had indifferent or even dissatisfied expressions on their faces changed to happy expressions.
Zhang Chi had just gotten up at this time. He only got here last night, so he got up a little late today. As soon as he got up, he heard the chaos outside.
After doing a good job of personal hygiene, Zhang Chi opened the door and prepared to go out, when he met Brian with a smile on his face in the aisle.
"What are you so happy about? Did you find a gold nugget?" Zhang Chi and Brian joked.
Brian smiled and said: "No, no, it's the grass that was planted that sprouted."
"What's so happy about this?" Zhang Chi was a little speechless. Didn't he already say this? Why are a bunch of people still so happy?
Bah! How ignorant.
Brian said: "They don't believe it. They always think that we are liars. If Miss Melika hadn't agreed, we might have been beaten to death by these people here."
"Beat to death? Who do they think they are?" Zhang Chi curled his lips and said disdainfully.
Brian laughed a few times.
"Let's go take a look." Zhang Chi waved his hand and led Brian outside.
Just arrived on the road.
"Good morning, Mr. George"
"Good morning, Mr. George."
In the past, none of the cowboys liked to talk to Zhang Chi. Now, whenever they see Zhang Chi, they start greeting him from about ten meters away.
Well!
Is it so realistic?
Zhang Chi and these people said good morning to each other, and then murmured in his heart.
The cowboys were nothing, but Zhang Chi met Eric who had just come back from the fields. The old guy who originally had a dead face, now saw the wrinkles on Zhang Chi's face spread out instantly.
"George! You look really good today."
Zhang Chi smiled and said: "You are not bad either."
But he said in his heart: Yes, sir, I have been here several times. You old boy showed up for the first time today. I couldn't see you when the grass didn't grow. Now that the grass has sprouted, you old boy has also sprouted up. What's the matter?
Are you green too?
"I didn't expect the grass to sprout," Eric said happily.
Zhang Chi said: "This place is about to enter the rapid growth period. In addition, you should seize the time to plant the remaining land. I don't have time to spend more time here."
Eric smiled and said: "We will try to complete the remaining planting plan as soon as possible. No, we will work overtime from today on."
Looking at Eric, Zhang Chi thought to himself: These people are so realistic!