As soon as I flattened my seat, I heard someone knocking on my car window. I straightened up and found Cannon standing next to my window with a smile.
Sit up and press the window.
"Is everything done?" Zhang Chi asked Cannon.
Cannon nodded: "Everything is sold, now only the handover is left. What about you, have you seen a suitable calf?"
Zhang Chi motioned for Cannon to get in the car, but Cannon waved his hand directly and continued chatting with Zhang Chi through the car window.
"I saw Mavericks, but I just don't know if I can buy it," Zhang Chi said.
After walking around in the morning, Zhang Chi saw some satisfied calves. However, the sellers brought quite a lot of calves, at least two to three hundred. Zhang Chi thought that the competitiveness of his own pocket might not be enough.
"Buying cattle is a matter of chance. Sometimes you can buy good cattle for a small amount of money, and sometimes you can't buy a satisfactory cattle even if you have money in your pocket. This is just a common habit. The main thing is to buy more
Go to these kind of auctions," Cannon said with a smile.
"That's what I think too. Go shopping more and buy some if the price is right. If the price is not right, just come here and learn more," Zhang Chi said cheerfully.
"Sorry about last time, I have to work overtime at the temporary ranch." Cannon said about the last dinner date.
Zhang Chi said: "It's okay. Let's get together again later."
"I'm afraid there won't be time during this period, and it won't be until two weeks at the earliest," Cannon said.
"Oh, are you still so busy now?"
Zhang Chi is a little strange. Logically speaking, he should not be busy at this time of spring, because in the winter, the cattle need to add feed and other things. There is no grass in the pasture, so the stored hay is fed to the cattle, and the cowboys have to transport the feed to the cowshed.
, this may not sound like much, but if you have five or six thousand cows on your pasture, then this is not an easy job.
The cowboy could hardly stop feeding grass and shoveling cow dung all day long.
Especially at the ranch where Cannon works, the main business is grazing cattle, rather than raising cattle in pens, so the workload of the cowboys is quite heavy.
"We are busy with breeding now, and our big boss is coming over in the next few days, so...".
At this point, Cannon flipped his hands, thinking that you know what it means in our country.
Superficial work is also very common here. When we were in China, we felt that when the leaders came, it was a busy job in various places, such as cleaning the streets, tidying up, etc., which felt a bit fake. But the same here, if it is the No. 1 BOSS Laifu
Folsom, I guess the mayor of Folsom could go through all of Folsom.
This is also the case in the ranch. Generally speaking, the big BOSS rarely lives in the ranch. The ranch manager takes care of it every day. So when the big BOSS comes, the manager has to be stunned for a while. If the manager is stunned, then the cowboys under him will be stunned.
I'm so busy that I lose my soul.
After talking to Kan Min about this matter for more than half an hour, Zhang Chi was happy to hear about such a big ranch, as if he were listening to a novel. It was new to Zhang Chi. How could a boy who used to deliver food know about a big ranch?
Those messy things.
"It's almost time. Come on in. The photo session will start soon. I'll go back here. If I have time, I'll go to the auction site to find you and help you look at the calf." After Cannon finished speaking, he patted Zhang Chi's hand.
He turned around and walked away.
Zhang Chi locked the car door and headed towards the auction venue.
When I arrived at the auction site, I found that there were more people in the afternoon than in the morning. It felt crowded. When I came in in the morning, I could find a seat at will. Now, any good place is occupied by people.
After all, there are still a lot of poor people in the world, so there would only be so many people if the afternoon session was open.
I finally found a spot, but it was still in the corner. The auctioneer couldn't see it unless he turned his head.
As soon as the buttocks were seated, the auction started. The auctioneer didn't waste much nonsense. After a few words of introduction, he introduced the first batch of calves.
The first batch of calves are breed cattle, but their shape is not very good, and calves that are too outstanding will not be used as warm-up shots in the afternoon.
Before Zhang Chi could even raise his voice, someone's price exceeded the ceiling set by Zhang Chi's pocket.
Yes! Just watch.
The first two or three rounds did not allow Zhang Chi to shout. When the fourth round came, when ten Simmental cattle rushed into the center of the auction house, Zhang Chi had no chance to speak.
Although these calves were not expensive and the final transaction price was reasonable, Zhang Chi still couldn't afford them.
More than an hour later, Zhang Chi finally waited until Pingniu showed up.
This time Zhang Chi was able to shout once or twice, but Zhang Chi's bid was soon surpassed by others.
However, Zhang Chi's luck soon came. A batch of twenty calves came out. The auctioneer called out the reserve price. Zhang Chi thought there were still people bidding, but after waiting for a while, he found that this batch of calves was not wanted, so he
He raised his hand.
"Two hundred and ten, this gentleman is offering two hundred and ten per head." The auctioneer saw Zhang Chi and was a little excited. He shouted to the audience if anyone had offered a higher price than this.
Zhang Chi also didn't expect that no one would bid.
The quality of this batch of calves is average, and so is the overall level. A calf weighing three to four hundred pounds is OK, but that's it. If it's not OK, it's OK.
This situation makes some experienced ranchers and brokers hesitate. For them, such calves are too ordinary, and the reserve price is not low.
It's a bit useless, just bid yourself. The price is not very cost-effective, so even if the auctioneer shouted for almost a minute, no one could cover the price shouted by Zhang Chi.
Zhang Chi never thought that he would be able to auction off this batch of calves. When he heard the auctioneer's hammer knocking on the small wooden board on the stage, Zhang Chi knew that his ranch already had the first batch of calves.
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After receiving the first batch of calves, Zhang Chi felt that he was suddenly stunned, and he was refreshed and prepared to continue to win three or four more batches.
However, the ideal is very full and the reality is very skinny. Then Zhang Chi just opened his mouth.
When the entire auction ended, Zhang Chi still had twenty calves in his hands, unchanged at all.
The next thing is simple. Zhang Chi goes to swipe his card, and the auction house prepares the cattle's information. The buyer and the seller sign, and waits for the money in Zhang Chi's bank to arrive in the auction house's account, and then the transaction is officially completed.
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With the settlement documents from the auction house in hand, Zhang Chi went to the designated place to pull the cattle.
Only then did Zhang Chi realize that the trailer he rented seemed a bit small and could only haul ten cows at most, but he bought twenty cows.
It was the first time I bought a cow. Zhang Chi did something wrong. He was quite lackluster and underestimated his own behavior. If he were an old rancher, he would definitely not make such a mistake.
Before coming here, I had already planned how many cows I wanted to buy, and the trailer I brought must have room for it.
What about Zhang Chi? It was hard to rent a car, just thinking about saving money, but now that I have bought cattle, I feel a little bit dumbfounded. I found that the trailer cannot transport so many cattle.
As a livestock auction, it will definitely provide services of one kind or another. Zhang Chi has not considered it, but they have considered it very carefully. The only trouble is that Zhang Chi has to pay for it.
Qian Zhangchi really couldn't escape, so he had to find a passerby and ask where he could rent a car, and then he ran away.
"Zhang Chi!"
I hurried to the place, for fear that I would be late and no one would be there, so the cattle I bought would be a bit troublesome. Who knew that before I got to the place where I rented a car, I heard someone calling me.
I followed the voice and realized it was an acquaintance.
"Phil!"
The man named Zhang Chi is a white man, about forty-five or sixty-six years old, tall and strong, dressed like a farmer, wearing a gray long-brimmed baseball cap on his head, his clothes and pants are the same color, and on his feet are a pair of
Brown half-high boots.
Phil's daughter-in-law is friends with Zhang Chi's aunt, a strange woman who married from the Northeast and came to the United States.
Why do we talk about a strange woman? This matter has already been said. It is said that Phil, who was in his twenties at the time, met this northeastern girl and thought she was pretty. She had a very pretty smile and she looked like an extremely gentle woman.
At that time, Phil was relatively simple and believed in the social legends about Chinese girls, that they were gentle and lovely and obedient at home.
This is just like the current view of Chinese netizens on RB girls. They think that RB girls are the kind of soft-spoken girls. When they see you come home, they will immediately bend down and say: You are back or something like that.
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In fact, this is not the case at all. Who lives like this all day long, and what age is it?
Having said that, Phil was also infected by the Internet. He felt that American girls were a bit too self-centered and difficult to control. Oriental girls were better. They had soft figures and good skin. They didn’t have any hair on their bodies and didn’t need to remove their hair from time to time. Anyway, they were all good.
So he fell in love with the current Aunt Phil, and they felt very good when they met, so the two got married smoothly.
Once they got married, good guys, Aunt Phil's true nature was exposed, and the two started fighting. Even though Phil was tall and strong, Aunt Phil was so ruthless when they started fighting, she was just relying on herself.
The little man of 1.6 meters pushed Phil, who was 1.8 meters tall, back step by step.
After several defeats, Phil finally became honest. Originally, Phil was not a strong-willed person, but he was gradually trained by Aunt Phil to become a Chinese husband. All the money earned by the family was handed over, and he had to write in writing to buy a pack of cigarettes.
The kind that applies.
But Aunt Phil is also a good housekeeper. She not only trains her husband well, but also manages everything in the house neatly.
As a beautiful lady, everyone knows that it is normal to spend today's money and tomorrow's money, but when Aunt Phil took charge of the family, Phil found that the family that had been living well had actually saved money.
During the financial crisis a few years ago, other families were struggling to survive, but under the management of Aunt Phil, their family used the money they saved to expand their farm several times.
Anyway, it is in line with the old saying: Listen to your wife and you will have food.
Seeing this person, Zhang Chi asked with a smile: "Are you coming to buy cattle too?"
Phil smiled and said: "We are here to sell pigs."
As he pointed to the side, Zhang Chi noticed that Aunt Phil was talking to a few people. Seeing Zhang Chi looking towards him, he said a few words to the people next to him and walked to Zhang Chi's side.
"Da Chizi, I heard that you bought a ranch? You moved to a new home without telling your aunt," Aunt Phil asked cheerfully.
Zhang Chi said: "Aunt, please don't make fun of me. How can I move to a new house in this corner of my house? Besides, there is nothing in it, not even a place to stay. For the time being, I can borrow my uncle's house.
I’m living in an RV.”
"I heard what your aunt said, but after all, you have a place to stay. As long as you work hard, life will get better. I think it wasn't just a small farm when I married this guy." Fei
Aunt Er said with a smile.
Aunt Phil used Chinese, and Zhang Chi used English. Because Phil doesn't understand Chinese, it would be rude if Zhang Chi used Chinese. The three of you are standing here chatting, and there is someone standing next to you who doesn't understand at all.