"With your good advice, I'm really going to go into the mountains in two days to try my luck and see if I can get some sheep back," Zhang Chi said with a smile.
Lao Xu immediately said happily: "Go, you have to go!"
"You really don't want to go?" Zhang Chi said with a smile, "How about you go with me?"
Zhang Chi just said the next words casually. After saying this, Zhang Chi felt a little regretful and thought to himself, what would he do if this old boy really went with him?
However, Lao Xu shook his head directly and continued: "As mentioned above, if I go in, I will be a burden. You can let me build some houses. If I go into the old forest, I will be a waste who doesn't understand anything. That's not light.
You should divide the money, forget it, God has dropped the pie on me once, how can you keep dropping it on my head?"
Lao Xu also thought clearly and saw clearly.
Zhang Chi felt that he really admired Lao Xu now. How could ordinary people endure it? He got hundreds of thousands of dollars for nothing. It would be strange if he didn't feel that his luck was invincible. But Lao Xu is such a weirdo.
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As he continued drinking, Lao Xu asked Zhang Chi what he was planning.
Zhang Chi said: "I'm going to take people into the mountains, taking Cannon and Brian with me. Anyway, the ranch doesn't need anyone to manage it at this time. I'll go there for three or four days and come back if there's really no movement."
You must bring someone with you, otherwise Zhang Chi would have picked up thousands of cows and how would he have rushed them back? Zhang Chi alone did not have such ability.
"How about you keep Cannon and I ask Colorado to send two cowboys to help temporarily?" Merica said.
Melika was not interested in going into the mountains to find any cows, and she had no hope that Zhang Chi could find the cows. But since Zhang Chi wanted to do this, as his wife, she was not willing to speak out to stop him.
I don't want to hold him back.
Although she doesn't support it, Melika still wants her husband to be happy when he goes out to play and not have to worry about the situation on the ranch.
Yes!
In Melica's mind, her husband was out for fun, and looking for cows was just an excuse to play.
She didn't say anything because she felt that if you said something, it would mean that you have low emotional intelligence. Between people, even the best couple can't support you and ruin it.
The smart Melika did not think about controlling Zhang Chi. She felt that she should give Zhang Chi enough space. As long as what Zhang Chi wanted to do was not wrong, she would encourage him instead of trying to undermine him behind the scenes.
The three of them drank and chatted until about nine o'clock. Another bottle of wine came out of Zhang Chi's house, and then Lao Xu drank it.
The drink was so good that Lao Xu lay motionless on the table, snoring loudly.
Zhang Chi didn't drink much. He only drank three or three of the first bottle, and that was all he drank from beginning to end.
Melika drank a lot, but Melika felt that her drinking capacity had increased these days. After one or two kilograms of white wine, she walked a little swaying, but nothing else happened.
Zhang Chi drove Lao Xu to his car and put him directly into the car.
Zhang Chi doesn't want Lao Xu sleeping in his house. If this kid vomits, he won't be able to clean it. When he gets into his car, he can vomit as much as he wants. It has nothing to do with Lao Zhang.
After sending Lao Xu into his car, Zhang Chi passed by the construction site. At this moment, the workers had not finished work yet and were building several cowboy dormitories.
The cowboy dormitory is very simple. It is similar to the domestic prefabricated houses. It is square in shape with square heads and square brains. Of course, it needs to be more insulated than the prefabricated houses. Otherwise, people can freeze to death in the winter on the ranch.
Now the workers are insulating the walls with foam, which is like paste. When it is punched out, it adheres to the wooden boards. After a while, a layer of foam formed and filled the entire wooden lattice.
"Boss Zhang".
When the workers saw Zhang Chi, they all smiled and greeted Zhang Chi.
Everyone was very enthusiastic when they saw Zhang Chi. As I said before, everyone ate the beef given by Zhang Chi. It was a different way to eat beef. There was no such treatment on the construction site before.
If they see that Zhang Chi is not enthusiastic, do they still have a conscience?
"Go to bed early, everyone has worked hard this night."
Zhang Chi said in a fake tone.
Who doesn't know that what Zhang Chi said doesn't work? Workers work so hard not just to make more money. They don't calculate money by the day, but by the workload. Overall, everyone increases
Let's get a share together, that is, how much money is spent on this project, and after everyone completes it, a certain proportion of the money will be shared among everyone.
Are you saying that workers can't be motivated to do this kind of work? Isn't that nonsense? Everyone is here to make money. Could it be that they are really doing it to eat the boss's pie?
There is no way at home, but here in the United States, who will eat your big pie? The labor unions are very powerful, and they will not be merciful in dealing with some unscrupulous bosses.
"It's okay, that's all I can live on."
A worker who was applying foaming agent smiled at Zhang Chi and said.
"Is the dormitory here almost ready?" Zhang Chi asked.
The worker said: "There are only a few days of work left. It's time to go up the wall when it's sealed. It won't take a day. Just put it up and fix it. The wind here isn't very strong, so it's okay."
There’s no such thing as a tornado, there’s no need for complicated methods outside, as long as the snow can slide down smoothly.”
This is a mountainous area. Except for heavy snow and heavy rain, extreme weather such as tornadoes and typhoons really cannot affect this place.
The terrain of the United States is flat, and the arable area is larger than that of China. However, the disadvantage is that the northern part of the United States is unobstructed. The Rocky Mountains are in the west and the Appalachian Mountains are in the east. Both of them run north-south.
So it can't block the airflow at all.
In this way, the cold air formed in the Arctic can be swept directly into the United States, and the warm air from the Gulf of Mexico can also be directly directed towards the United States. This cold and warm collision on the United States does not know how many times it comes every year, and it can happen every time.
Tornadoes are produced, so the central Great Plains of the United States are also called tornado corridors.
Of course, this has nothing to do with Zhangchi Ranch. It is located in the Rocky Mountains, and tornadoes cannot roll up. Only blizzards can visit here.
"Okay, make sure you rest," Zhang Chi said with a smile.
After walking around the construction site for a while, Zhang Chi turned to his new house. The foundation of the new big house was being prepared. This time it was not just cement columns, but grouting, so that the whole house could be strong. The small house and
The foundation of a big house cannot be the same.
Now the foundation part is almost completed. Not only that, but there is also space reserved next to it. If you want to add a new building in the future, you can just start the construction directly.
Under Melika's plan, this house can be expanded into a large house with ten bedrooms, and if more are added, it can be expanded to fifteen bedrooms.
Zhang Chi doesn't think it's necessary. He and his wife don't come here very often. With so many rooms, is it possible that they really want to create a football team?
That's not a joke.
With so many little ones in the house, is the house still a home? It has ceased to be a vegetable market, and there is no hope of living in peace for a moment.
Now the first wooden planks are being laid on the foundation. They are really thick. Each one is about 20 centimeters thick, and they are all treated with anti-corrosion. The connections are still metal.
of pins and bolts.
As an outsider like Zhang Chi, I feel that the house is much stronger than the first time I built it.
This house will not be filled with foaming agent, but will be made of wood directly. The thick wood is grooved and fastened together. Natural caulking agent is used between the seams, mixed with twine and squeezed into the seams. Let alone wind.
Yes, even if the typhoon blows against me, there will be no feeling in the house.
Melika was very attentive to the house and used solid wood for a large area of the walls. Of course, this also doubled the cost of the house.
But Zhang Chi didn't care, and neither did Melika. The money the couple had on hand could fully support such a project. The most critical thing was that the new ranch they wanted to buy was not completed.
He looked here and there, and finally Zhang Chi returned to the house.
Melika was lying on the bed flipping through videos. When she saw Zhang Chi coming back, she asked, "Where have you been?"
"After looking at the construction site, I found that the construction was quite fast," Zhang Chi said with a smile.
Melika looked at Zhang Chi and said: "What you asked for must be completed in July. If others don't do this, how can it be completed?"
"My fault, my fault," Zhang Chi said with a smile.
After saying that, Zhang Chi went into the bathroom, took a shower, and then lay down on the bed.
Melika looked at the tablet for a while, turned around and saw Zhang Chi lying next to her in a daze, so she put down the tablet in her hand: "What are you thinking about?"
"I'm thinking about things in the past. I used to think about making money to take over my parents. I originally thought it would take a long time to complete, but who knew it would come true so quickly," Zhang Chi said with emotion.
"Do they like living here?" Melika asked.
Having never gotten along with Zhang Chi's parents, Melika was a little worried. She felt that there was nothing wrong with her, but there were some things that she didn't think would be a problem.
There are thousands of kinds of people in this world, and some of them cannot even be called human beings. Although Zhang Chi's parents are not unreasonable, standing in Melika's position, they are definitely worried.
You have to be happy when your mother-in-law and father-in-law come to live in your home, which is probably not possible in a normal country today.
"I really want them to stay a little longer, but it's impossible for them to like it here. Being without any relatives here is almost like going to jail. Let alone this, they don't even want to go to the county seat," Zhang Chi said with a smile.
For the elderly, it is not for nothing that it is difficult to leave their homeland.
In the past, Zhang Chi's sister said that everyone should move to the county town, so that she could be nearby to take care of her. But the old man didn't agree at all, and the grandparents were even more stubborn that they would die in their hometown even if they died.
Buried in the nearest ancestral grave.
Melika doesn't quite understand this kind of hometown plot, because it seems that Westerners don't care about this. Wherever they go, it becomes their hometown, but this does not prevent Melika from breathing a sigh of relief in her heart.