Zhang Chi came to the stable, took Chiyanshan out of the stall, combed his hair, brushed the dust off his body with a soft brush, and finally began to saddle Chiyanshan.
Ride up the Red Flame Mountain and arrive at the door of the cowshed. By this time, Cannon has already driven the miscellaneous cows out of the cowshed.
At this moment, the sky outside was dimly bright, and the ridge to the east was now showing the color of fish belly. A herd of several hundred cows came out of the cowshed one by one, mooing.
You could see that they were very excited, maybe because they didn't want to stay in the cowshed and eat dry grass, so as soon as they came out, they rushed towards the grass at the door of the cowshed happily.
But neither Zhang Chi nor Cannon would let them get what they wanted. It was true that they were driven out to eat grass, but they were not allowed to take a shortcut to eat grass at the entrance of the cowshed.
"Yo! Drink!"
Cannon yelled loudly, Zhang Chi also brought the horse's head, and placed the Red Flame Mountain between the cattle and the grass. The Red Flame Mountain kept snoring and stepped on the ground with its front hooves.
It makes a dull clicking sound, frightening the cattle.
The cows saw that they couldn't eat the green grass there, so they turned their heads and jumped towards the north of the cowshed.
At this time, Cannon had already got on the horse, and Da Niu and Erhu were already standing on the left and right of the herd, all looking eagerly at Cannon, who had just got on the horse.
"Walk!"
Cannon uttered a sentence, took off the noose from the saddle, flicked it, and dropped it on the butt of the last cow.
This blow was very light, but it still frightened the cow. It mooed and took four hooves and started to trot.
Its two moos made the entire herd a little nervous. The leading cow didn't know what was happening behind it, but when it heard the screams of its companions, it instinctively trotted forward.
Woof! Woof!
Da Niu and Er Hu also ran with the cattle. The two dogs stared at the cattle on the left and right, so that all the cattle must be kept within a controllable range.
Most of the miscellaneous cattle are calves that were just bought this year. They are all newborn calves and are not afraid of tigers. The ones in front of them are running slowly with small steps. These guys will jump around and shoot around with their big eyes open.
Take a look.
Once they find a loophole, they will immediately leave the herd.
These guys are like middle school boys who want to show off their differences.
Generally speaking, what they encounter is either a big bull or two tigers. The two dogs are not trying to scare them, but they will actually bite them when they are disobedient, but most of these bites are bluffs.
Not to mention, any cow will be afraid when faced with the bloody mouths of the bull and the tiger. It will either run back honestly, or stand there and moo, hoping to find its mother to come and support it.
, it is a pity that only God knows where its mother is.
Today there was a calf that was unlucky and was stopped by Zhang Chi.
The little thing with a pair of cute big eyes is quite stubborn, and the long hair is one after another. Zhang Chi couldn't help but think of a song called "Dimples with Long Hair".
The little thing was stubborn. No matter how much Ren Zhangchi scolded him, he would not move. His hind legs straightened and the tip of his tail was raised.
This is not a pooping action, but the calf wants to go up against someone, that is, compete with Zhang Chi who is riding on the back of Red Flame Mountain.
Zhang Chi couldn't resist this trick. He had already picked up the noose in his hand and threw it directly onto the calf's back.
Moo!
No matter how stubborn you are, you know it hurts. As soon as the rope was put up, the calf turned its head honestly.
"Aren't you splattering bones? If you don't hit me, you won't know what's going to happen!"
Zhang Chi said to Mavericks.
The little guy was quite cunning. After being beaten, he still wanted to play hide and seek with Zhang Chi. He ran left and right sometimes, as if he was trying to hide and seek with Zhang Chi.
At this moment, Zhang Chi was not in the mood to play with it. After a few more ropes, the little guy became really honest now. He turned around and hid in the herd. It didn't become honest until it couldn't see Zhang Chi and Chi Yanshan.
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In fact, Zhang Chi had noticed that it was hiding next to a big cow, and it would look at him from time to time.
"BOSS, your cattle driving skills have improved again."
Seeing Zhang Chi's perfect interception this time, Cannon couldn't help but give Zhang Chi a thumbs up.
Zhang Chi smiled and said: "Forget it, please stop boasting."
Zhang Chi's family knows his own affairs, and although he has great abilities, he is still far behind compared to old cowboys like Cannon.
With more than one year of experience compared to someone else’s decades of experience, what do you think? Is your mind all muddled?
Let's put it this way, Zhang Chi had to detect the movement of the calf in order to catch up, and these old cowboys seemed to be able to tell what the cow was thinking at a glance. When the cow instantly made a move to break away from the herd, they had already adjusted their horses.
Cope with it.
If the horse is good, then if you take a closer look, you will find that the so-called unity of man and horse is not nonsense. They can let the horse know their intentions with almost undetectable movements and accurately execute orders.
Controlling the horse through subtle movements will naturally make the horse look like it knows what to do.
Zhang Chi is not yet able to do this. Although Chiyan Mountain is good, Zhang Chi is indeed a bit exhausted. However, if you practice this thing, you will get twice the result with half the effort. There is no time for cleaning and a lot of work and training.
There is no way you can do this.
As for Zhang Chi, a rancher who works purely for pleasure, he may never reach such heights in his life.
"No, no! Boss, I'm serious. For this year's town celebration, why don't you sign up for a calf bundle? I think you can win something back."
Cannon joked.
Small town celebrations are a very common thing in small towns in the United States. Every small town has its own founding day or something like that. Anyway, it’s similar to this kind of thing.
The town was established on this day. Of course, many of these things are just legends. It does not mean that all small towns do not know which year and day they were inhabited, or the specific day they were formed, but many small towns are
I really don’t understand, what is the population required to be considered a small town? How do you say this? The standards are different in different eras.
You can't just gather two families together and call it a town.
For example, Amber Town is like this.
There is no accurate timetable for its establishment in history. Fortunately, people here don't care. Anyway, just point out a day when everyone is not too busy, and that's it. From then on, this became the establishment of the town.
day.
Not many people really care about this thing, especially many small towns in the west, which were almost all built during the development of the west.
The Americans at that time, specifically referring to white Americans, came west with their families and belongings. They took a fancy to the land, left a mark, and then paid a small amount of money, and the U.S. government recognized the land as theirs.
As for whether there were any Indians up there, they didn't care. They could just drive them away or kill those who were unwilling to leave. In the eyes of white Americans at that time, the Indians were not even as good as their own livestock.
Take Thanksgiving, for example. Many people in the country still mess with this holiday.
But what is it actually? A group of European vagabonds came here on a boat. The small boats at that time were only a few hundred tons in size. From Europe to America, they were almost broken into pieces.
When they arrived here without food or water, they were about to die. The kind-hearted Indians gave these people food and water to help them settle down, so Thanksgiving Day came.
Then everyone knew what happened. These European whites were so grateful that they almost exterminated the Indians.
No one would mention this kind of nonsense. Many of the so-called founding days of small towns were actually the days when the nearby Indians were driven away and killed.
Fortunately, the establishment date of Amber Town is nonsense. No one knows which year or day Amber Town was established, but everyone else is celebrating the holiday, so we have to find a day to celebrate it.
So a group of people discussed it and picked a day from the calendar. They thought it was a good day, so we celebrated the festival on this day.
Almost a few decades later, this day has really taken root in the hearts of the people. People in Amber Town think that we were founded on this day.
Even Amber thought so at first, until one day, he saw that his feet were still a swamp a hundred years ago.
A swamp was inhabited two to three hundred years ago. Isn’t that nonsense?
It's nonsense, but the town's festival leader is still willing to join in the fun.
In fact, the festival is for everyone to take some time off, get together to eat, drink, play, and relax, and anything else is nonsense.
Despite its small population, people take festivals very seriously. Amber Town, which is not as big as a village in China, starts getting busy more than a month ago every year.
The founding day of Amber Town was in mid-June. The weather was very good at this time, around 20 degrees, which was the best time of the year. The work in the fields was not busy, and the pastures were full of grass and cattle.
Just let the sheep out to eat, and the farm is not busy. It will take a month for the crops to be harvested.
So every household focused on celebrating the festival.
How could Zhang Chi be in the mood to do these things last year? People in Amber Town didn't really approve of Zhang Chi.
But this year is different. Zhang Chi had to participate, otherwise he would seem a bit out of place and not consider himself an Amber.
Cannon also knew that, so he encouraged Zhang Chi to sign up for a project on his own. Traditional western sports such as cattle driving, bull riding, and barrel racing are held every year.
There are also prizes, but they are not worth much.
Usually they are belt buckles, or reins, riding whips, etc. Saddles are very rare because the budget for each prize is dozens of dollars, and any more will exceed the budget.
Holding hands with Cannon, the two drove the cattle to an empty field and let them graze.
The two of them still have to go back and drive Gascon out.
After the two batches of cattle were driven, the two of them went back to the house to eat, and then it was time for Cannon to shovel cow shit in the cowshed.
Zhang Chi also has something to do today. He has to water the grass.