Throwing the phone back on the bedside table, Zhang Chi smiled and said to Melika: "Continue."
After hearing this, Melika said: "Why do you look like an animal?"
"..." Zhang Chi was a little speechless.
"Who did you learn this from?" Zhang Chi asked.
Melika said: "This is to compliment you."
"I didn't hear it." Zhang Chi felt that his self-esteem was a bit hurt, but then he thought about what he wanted that thing for, so he directly pulled Melika and prepared to go into the house to enhance their relationship.
Who knows that it hasn't started yet, but Melika said: "Listen, there is something moving outside."
Zhang Chi stopped, pricked up his ears, and asked, "Where is the movement?"
Upon hearing this, I found that there was movement outside. The big white geese in my house were squawking non-stop. Because they were a little far away from the house, you really couldn't hear them if you weren't paying attention.
You may not be able to hear it if you move to another place. The main reason is that it is too quiet at night. If you live in the city, you may not hear the squawking of geese from such a long distance. You may not even hear the squawking of pigs.
Voice.
"Your ears are so sharp." Zhang Chi got out of bed and started to put on some clothes.
Melika also got out of bed, and the two of them got dressed, went out of the house, and stood under the porch, listening together with their ears.
Now the squawk of the goose became more obvious.
"Are the geese not penned at night?" Melica asked.
"There is no need to lock the geese in a pen at this time. Let's go and have a look," Zhang Chi said.
Melika followed Zhang Chi to the stable. As soon as she arrived at the door of the stable, she saw Cannon and Brian already roping their horses.
"BOSS, Miss Melika"
The two of them saw Zhang Chi and Melika coming over, so they said hello to them, but the movements of their hands did not stop.
It was obvious that the two of them also heard the squawking of geese and were going to take a look.
Now the two of them are crowded in the RV, one of them is occupying the bed, and the other one directly changes the chair into a temporary bed, making do with it.
"Have you heard the goose call?" Zhang Chi asked.
Cannon nodded: "Well, we are about to go take a look. It must be something special that can make a goose croak like this in the middle of the night."
Zhang Chi grunted and led Chi Yanshan out from the stable. Melika also led her mount out, and the couple began to saddle up.
During the process of preparing the saddle, the two little guys Bai Lao and Shiren were causing trouble again. Now these two little guys are like two children with ADHD, they pounce on anything interesting when they see it.
By the time they had everything ready, Cannon and Brian had already set off.
When Zhang Chi and Melika rushed to the lake, they found that the geese had stopped squawking. They were all sleeping peacefully in the pond with their heads under their feathers.
If everyone hadn't heard the squawk of the goose, Zhang Chi would have thought he was hallucinating.
At this moment, Brian and Cannon were holding flashlights and looking for clues along the edge of the pond.
"Did you find anything?" Zhang Chi got off his horse and asked Cannon.
Cannon shook his head: "I haven't found it yet, but the person who can make a goose squawk so loudly is definitely not a small thing, and must be at least about the same size as a goose."
The goose is quite ferocious, otherwise no one would jokingly call the goose one of the three tyrants in the village.
Seeing that Cannon didn't find any clues, Zhang Chi looked at the group of geese in the pond and began to count them in his mind.
There are quite a few geese on the lake at the moment, about seventeen or eight large and small. The main reason is that neither Zhang Chi nor Cannon eat much, and the goose eggs are too fishy, so the eggs laid by the geese are all laid by the geese.
He hatched his own gosling.
After counting, Zhang Chi finally realized that he didn't know how many geese he had at home, so he turned around and asked Cannon.
"By the way, how many geese are there now?"
"Seventeen," Cannon said.
"That's not right. Why are there three more?" Zhang Chi was a little confused: "Did I count wrongly?"
At this time, Melika said, "You counted correctly, it's twenty."
"What's going on? Someone's goose came to our place." Zhang Chi was a little surprised.
Brian looked towards the water at this time.
The moon tonight is very big and bright, and the surface of the lake it shines on is like a small mirror.
Brian soon discovered it and said to his boss: "BOSS, not all of them are our geese. There are also three wild ducks mixed in. Take a look over there."
Zhang Chi heard Brian's words and took a closer look. Sure enough, he found three unidentified guys mixing in the geese. Zhang Chi originally thought they were goslings, but did not expect them to be wild ducks.
This is easy to distinguish, because the geese in Zhang Chi's family are all domestic geese, unlike the American geese here, which are gray with gray feathers on their wings and look like a large gray duck.
Geese are all domesticated from wild geese. There are many varieties of geese in our country, but here the geese are generally gray with gray and white spots on their body feathers. Of course, they are still just as ferocious.
However, Zhang Chi felt that the taste was average and was not as good as our own domestic goose.
Just when Zhang Chi was wondering where these wild ducks came from, Cannon and Bryan had already patrolled for almost a circle. They walked around the pond separately until they met again.
"What is the reason?"
Cannon saw Brian and signaled with his eyes. Seeing Brian shake his head, he knew that Brian didn't find anything wrong.
"did not find?"
Zhang Chi asked.
Cannon said: "I haven't found any, but there are basically two choices. Either it is a coyote or a fox, otherwise it is impossible to make the goose call like this."
"Could it be a mountain lion?"
Zhang Chi had no reason to think of the mountain lion he hadn't killed last time. It had been so long. Maybe this guy had forgotten what happened before and came to his ranch again to look for food.
"That's possible," Cannon said immediately.
"However, if it is a mountain lion, we should be able to find footprints. The soil here is a bit soft. If this guy comes over, the footprints will be obvious." Cannon expressed his inference.
Zhang Chi thought for a while and felt that Cannon was right.
The four of them stood on the edge of the pond, waited for a while, and found that there was no movement around. The geese in the pond were motionless on the water, and they seemed to be sleeping soundly.
"Let's all go back," Zhang Chi said.
Everyone needs to go to bed at night, and Cannon and Brian have to work tomorrow, so we can't all just stay here.
So the four of them returned to the stables, unsaddled their horses and pushed them into the compartment.
Just after returning to the house, Zhang Chi heard his cell phone ringing.
I took it out and saw that it was my wife who called me.
So I immediately picked up the video.
"Da Chi!"
Zhang Chi took a closer look and couldn't help but feel happy, because he saw his grandparents sitting next to his mother, and his father was stretching his neck behind, looking like he couldn't squeeze in front of him.
The grandparents, including the mother, all seemed to have changed their clothes. Especially my grandfather, who was wearing a suit. I don’t know what era the suit was from. It looked a bit like the style of old photos.
"What kind of monster are you making trouble?" Zhang Chi asked with a smile.
"Your sister said you are getting married?" Zhang Chi's mother, Li Xiumei, was not in the mood to care about such a thing now. She only wanted to see her daughter-in-law.
After Zhang Chi left home and returned to the ranch, Li Xiumei continued to worry about her son's marriage. However, she was frustrated by the matchmaker in Siliba Village. Because of Zhang Chi's New Year blind date, Li Xiumei was directly blocked.
What Li Xiumei said, they just wouldn't introduce girls to Zhang Chi.
As for what Li Xiumei said about my son's land in the United States, many of these matchmakers didn't believe it. Even if they did, they shook their heads. They thought that of course they had to go to a big city to go to the United States. Here, they have lived in the countryside all their lives and are being raised by others.
If a girl comes out and remarries to become a farmer in the United States, isn't that two hundred and fifty?
In the minds of these people, being a farmer is not a good profession. If you become a farmer, even if you go to the city to work, you are not called a worker, you are called a migrant worker.
I used to work as a waiter in a restaurant, but now I am farming in the United States, and my quality has not improved much.
Without a matchmaker willing to introduce her, Li Touxiumei couldn't feel at ease at all. Apart from doing some work in the greenhouse to get some wages, all her time was spent on finding a partner for her son.
As a result, I came home at noon today and saw a call from my son, as well as a dozen calls from my daughter in the morning, so I answered one of my daughter's calls first.
When I heard from my daughter that my son was getting married, I immediately felt like a gold ingot had fallen from the sky and hit me on the forehead. I didn't know what to say with that kind of happiness.
This good news instantly made the four elders happy, so everyone tidied up before preparing to make a video call to Zhang Chi.
"Where's the wife?"
Li Xiumei was a little anxious. She had long been tired of seeing her son's face.
Zhang Chi said to Melika at the door: "Melika, come here."
Melika was about to change clothes when she heard Zhang Chi's words and came over: "What's the matter?"
"My father and mother want to meet you," Zhang Chi said.
Melika was not afraid, and she did not have the uneasiness of an ugly daughter-in-law who would eventually meet her parents-in-law. She walked up to Zhang Chi and said hello to everyone on the screen.
"Hello!"
Melika waved her hand towards the camera.
This "Hello" confused the four elders on the opposite side. They did not expect that Melika, the granddaughter-in-law, would come up and say "Hello" as if the leader was inspecting them.
I heard from my daughter that they are getting married. According to Chinese customs, you have to call me grandparents, uncle, aunt, etc.
But they quickly figured it out: I am an American, so maybe the United States doesn’t pay attention to these things.
So the four elders soon became happy again, immersed in the joy of having a granddaughter-in-law and a daughter-in-law.
"Hello, girl."
Grandpa Zhang Jiaren smiled and waved at Melika on behalf of everyone.