Zhang Chi yawned and didn't bother to look around. With Erhu by his side, he took out a piece of cloth from the gourd, spread it on the ground, and sat down cross-legged.
At this moment, Er Hu was sitting next to Zhang Chi, holding a rifle in his arms and yawning from time to time, exactly like a defeated soldier escaping from the battlefield.
A little regretful!
What do you regret? I regret that I did this a little too early. If I had known that everyone would have to watch the cattle here, Zhang Chi would have been so late in letting the cattle out.
But it was too late to say anything now. Zhang Chi couldn't put the cow back into the gourd in front of Cannon and Brian, so he had to carry it when it was time to carry it.
Zhang Chi reached out and gently stroked Erhu's long, soft fur, looking at the cattle behind him.
These guys are not eating grass now. They are standing one by one but their mouths are moving very happily. At a glance, you can tell that these cows are emptying out the food they have eaten before and digesting it again.
He didn't know whether the weeds were not delicious enough, or whether these guys were full, but Zhang Chi didn't find any more cows eating grass.
"BOSS!"
Just when Zhang Chi was thinking wildly, Cannon's voice came to his ears.
Zhang Chi stood up, stretched his head and looked in the direction of the sound, and shouted back: "Here he is!"
"How are you doing there?" Cannon asked.
Zhang Chi replied: "Everything is fine, how are you doing there?"
"It's fine here," Cannon replied.
After that, the two of them had nothing to say, and each continued to hold their guns and wait for dawn.
The sky is getting darker and darker next, which also means that it will be light soon. This is the darkest moment before dawn.
Are you particularly touched by this statement? Many domestic films have such hints.
It's just that Zhang Chi doesn't feel that deeply about this now, and he doesn't have any symbolic methods. He simply hopes that the sky will light up soon so that he can quickly drive the cattle back to his pasture.
Unlike Zhang Chi, both Cannon and Bryan are very excited now. Because it is dark, they are not sure how many cattle there are in front of them, but based on their experience, this herd of cattle is definitely better than before.
They had heard that the herds found by those men were larger.
At this moment, the two of them were not even a little bit sleepy. They looked around energetically, looking back at the cows from time to time.
Both of them felt that the appearance of these cows was so perfect. The lines of muscles all over the body were so obvious. Not to mention the appearance of the bull, just talking about the cow, they could feel the power of the muscles through the cortex.
Both of them have seen the new breed of cattle. Although they haven't named it yet, Cannon and Brian have both seen the group of cattle that Lao Xu picked up.
That group of cows was already very good, but the group of cows behind me now is even better. Not only are their bodies stronger, but many of the cows are carrying half-grown calves.
As a cowboy, I like calves very much, because these guys are not only the hope of the ranch, providing their own food and clothing, but they are also cute, and I don’t know what’s inside their fluffy little heads.
Just like now, a calf that was probably only a month old at most came up behind Cannon.
He didn't do anything, and he didn't mean to support Cannon. He just leaned against Cannon, motionless, neither leaving nor getting close to Cannon.
Cannon didn't notice it at first because it was dark and he was focused on his surroundings, guarding against anyone coming to snatch the cattle.
But when he heard a cow not far away calling for her child, he discovered a calf standing next to him.
Cannon wanted to reach out and touch it, but the calf ran away quickly.
Cannon continued to look around cautiously, for fear of any sudden danger.
No matter when, money always touches people's hearts. Sometimes, it's not that people are bad from the beginning, but that a specific time and a specific environment suddenly make people malicious, which may eventually lead to tragedy.
Cannon had no other thoughts in his mind right now. What he wanted most was to drive the cattle back to the pasture safely and soundly.
Other things are not important to Cannon now.
Brian's thoughts were a little different. He was thinking about how much bonus his BOSS could give him after driving back the herd of cows. Although he knew that his boss would not be stingy, he also knew that actually finding this herd of cows would be a big win for him.
It doesn't matter much.
But Brian couldn't help but think about it, and he felt happy when he thought about it.
Brian also knows that, let alone words like how close it is, no matter how close it is, it will still be discovered by the BOSS, and Brian being the first to discover it is completely different.
For Americans, this matter is very clear. The first person to discover it is the first owner. Not to mention the time difference, even if it is three or five steps behind, this thing cannot be owned by you.
Well, people suddenly feel that there is a possibility of money in their pockets and don't think about it much, so Brian is just an ordinary cowboy.
Bryan is different from Cannon. Cannon was favored by Zhang Chi, so Cannon devoted himself to the pasture, while Bryan was mostly devoted to himself.
This is understandable, they are here to work and make money, not to work for Zhang Chi.
These days, work has one price, and making people sell their lives has another price. More lives are not for sale.
In this situation, I don’t know if the three of them have their own thoughts and concerns.
The three of them are always staying up until dawn, taking a good inventory of the cattle, and at the same time sending a signal to the ranch. The three of them can drive back with the big cows and two tigers, but the closer they get to the ranch, they encounter
The possibility of others being caught is also greater. For safety reasons, the ranch still has to send people over to pick them up.
Time goes by little by little.
The night turned from dark to gray, and then a little fish belly white appeared on the mountain crest in the east.
Then this piece of white fish belly grew bigger and bigger until it illuminated the entire sky again, and at this time the sun slightly showed its little face.
It was already dawn, and Zhang Chi and Brian began to work under Cannon's help.
The first priority is to take another photo of this group. The photo may not be used, and it is unlikely to be used as evidence. But you can't skip this, because if, if this happens, you will regret it.
Why didn't you do this? When others can produce evidence that is earlier than yours, you may lose your property just because you are lazy.
Cannon is not lazy!
So as soon as it dawned, he started working.
Bryan and Zhang Chi are not lazy. Yes, Zhang Chi likes to enjoy life in small ways, but that doesn't mean he is lazy.
Counting the calves made Zhang Chi feel dizzy, because when he was in the gourd, Zhang Chi wanted to try to count the number of cattle. Unfortunately, every time he counted the cattle, he ended up in chaos. After counting several times, he failed.
There is no relatively reliable number.
When they got outside, Zhang Chi's eyes immediately started to glow with stars as soon as he heard about the number of cows.
However, Cannon and Bryan didn't care about this. They thought in their hearts that the BOSS couldn't do it. If they could count cows, wouldn't they be cowboys?
Everyone has his or her own destiny. If you are a cowboy, count your cows honestly.
Zhang Chi himself doesn't count, but he is now observing the numbers of Brian and Cannon.
Now the two of them were standing quite high. Cannon was standing on the slope next to the cattle, while Brian was more straightforward and went directly to a tree as thick as a bowl next to him. He hugged the trunk of the tree, sandwiched his legs, and stretched out
Start pulling.
While pulling and pulling, his mouth kept moving.
Zhang Chi didn't know how they counted, but judging from their appearance, they must have counted clearly.
Americans are obviously not bad at counting. Cowboys cannot be bad at counting. If you don't understand this, think about the consequences of letting these people herd cattle.
On the first day, I drove a thousand cows out, and when I came back, I was left with nine hundred. Because there were not many cows, and no one knew about it, I lost another hundred on the second day.
Good guy, I waited until the American cowboys could count them clearly, and found that there were not many cattle left.
The above is just a hypothesis, so there are not many cowboys who can't count cows.
Cannon and Brian not only knew how to count, they also counted quickly.
For such a large herd of cows, the two of them counted them in less than three minutes, and each of them counted them more than once.
"Two thousand one hundred and ten." Brian slid down the tree and reported the number to Cannon.
Cannon also said: "I counted two thousand and seventy."
There is a slight difference in the figures between the two, but this is quite normal, because it is impossible to be too accurate now.
The main reason is that there are calves in the herd. Some calves are just born and are hidden under the bellies of larger cows. They are not easily discovered, so there must be some discrepancies in the numbers.
Zhang Chi was a little dumbfounded when he heard this number.
He really didn't expect to get so many in one hand. He just wanted to get a thousand. Who knew that he realized that he was not literate in the first place.
There is a big difference between more than a thousand heads and two thousand heads!
"Are...there are so many?"
Zhang Chi was a little suspicious, so he opened his mouth and asked Cannon and Brian.
Cannon smiled and replied: "It doesn't look like much, but almost one-third of the animals here are calves, and the number will vary from ten to twenty, but in general, it should be between two thousand five hundred and sixty."
This number, anywhere from fifty to sixty, is considered normal. After all, we are in the wild now. If we return to the ranch, we can go through this number accurately again."
Cannon said that's right, Zhang Chi didn't have any good ideas, just two thousand.
Two thousand cows?
Zhang Chi felt that Naoren was a bit big. It was more than one thousand. He could still sell some cattle here and send some to pastures in other places. But suddenly there were more than two thousand, so how to sell them?
Some people will say that if you sell more than one thousand, you can still sell it if you sell more than two thousand.
These people don't quite understand that Zhang Chi's pasture is now dominated by cows. The cattle sold in the pasture are beef cattle, not cows that can give birth to calves. Isn't that just selling out?
With these cows, calves will be born next year. If you get a bunch of bulls and sell them all in one year, what will you do? Are you going to stare at the little ones?
So the cow has to be kept.
Now the cows in Zhangchi Ranch are all good, the gray cattle and cross-bred cattle are fat and strong, but these new cattle are obviously stronger than the cattle in the pasture.
This is a problem. Even if all the mixed cattle and Gascon are removed, the current 500 acres of Zhangchi Ranch cannot support 2,000 cattle.
Even if the grass were not sold, it would probably not be enough to feed the two thousand cows.
Suddenly there was a group of cows, which actually made Zhang Chi feel that happiness gave him a headache. If he said this, he would be beaten to death.