After saying that, Zhang Chi put down the phone, looked up at his wife and said, "We received a call from the auction house, informing us to arrive at the site on time at ten o'clock in the morning three days later."
The person who called Zhang Chi was the auction house, which was the company responsible for the auction of Nell's ranch. They called all the customers who paid deposits and once again confirmed the time of the auction with people like Zhang Chi.
, location, etc.
Melika nodded, indicating that she understood, and then said a little worriedly: "I don't know what the strength of the people participating in the photo session this time is."
Like Zhang Chi, Melika also really wants to get the two thousand acres of pasture owned by Nell's family. This is very important to the couple. Even if it is not connected to the current pasture, it is still so close and easy to take care of.
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But it's hard to say how to do auctions. If a powerful family wants it, the funds that Zhang Chi and his wife can mobilize now won't be enough to compete with them.
A few million dollars seems like a lot of money, and most people will never interact with such a figure in their lifetime, but when it comes to auction, it's a bit unsatisfying, let alone more than two thousand acres.
Ranch photo session.
But even so, Zhang Chi and his wife still made the decision to try to take over the Nell family's ranch.
Of course, this is a wish. As for whether the dream can come true, it depends on luck.
The two of them also wanted to know what kind of people participated in the auction, but the auction house also had auction house rules, and people could not reveal the customer's information to others.
Not to mention that there is now a telephone auction method, which means that the bidder is not present and has phone and video contact with the staff.
So now Zhang Chi doesn't know if his good neighbor will get involved.
If this guy got involved, Zhang Chi felt that he had to get the deposit back, so there would be no need to bother.
While the couple was chatting about the auction, the laptop that drove in next to Melica rang.
Melika looked at it and found that it was an email. When she opened it, she found various charts, and then she pushed it in front of Zhang Chi.
"The test data for the milk you asked for is here. There are seven samples in total. The test results are now here. Take your time and take a look."
Saying this, Mei Suika wanted to stand up while holding the tea cup.
Zhang Chi stretched his head and took a look, and found that he knew all the words, but he really didn't understand what they meant, and what the value of this was and what the value of that was.
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Zhang Chi thought to himself: Damn it, it looks like a ghost drawing a talisman. How can I understand this?
Indeed! There is too much data. I know a little about energy, protein, fat, cholesterol, etc., but what about thiamine, niacin, and Staphylococcus aureus.
Who wouldn't be dizzy looking at these things if they weren't professional technicians? What's more, Zhang Chi, a guy who hasn't studied for a few years, can be considered a diligent person if he can read. But when you look at these professional data,
It's obviously not enough.
So Zhang Chi grabbed Melika who was about to leave and directly brought her onto his lap.
"Come on, let me explain. I won't let you go until you understand."
After saying that, he stretched out his hand and patted his wife's buttocks a few times.
Melika knew that Zhang Chi couldn't understand. In fact, she couldn't understand most of them, but she still knew a little about some of the important ones, such as protein, fat, etc.
So Melika explained to Zhang Chi that the quality of the milk was very good, and even far exceeded American standards in some important items.
The only pity is that the output is too small, no matter how good it is, if there is no quantity, there will be no bargaining power.
The couple is a little less childish now. Zhang Chi is sitting on the sofa, and Melika is sitting on her husband's lap, which is a bit ambiguous.
But they are a certified couple, do you care?
It was also a coincidence that Cannon had just arrived at the door and saw that the door was open (the door of Zhang Chi's house was never closed except in winter. It was like this before and still is like this now).
So Cannon walked in. Seeing the appearance of his two bosses, Cannon was not embarrassed at all. Maybe it was because he had seen them a lot. South American girls have always been famous for their enthusiasm, even if they were just friends.
, you also have to kiss her on the face, pick her up and nibble on her.
It's a bit unhygienic, but it's really different from us Chinese.
"BOSS!"
Um!
Zhang Chi raised his head and looked at Cannon.
When Melika saw it, she stood up from Zhang Chi's lap generously and asked Cannon, "What's the matter?"
Cannon said: "The breast-sucking machine is installed, do you want to go over and take a look?"
"So fast?" Zhang Chi felt a little surprised.
The machine was just shipped this morning, and the seller sent someone to install it.
Let me mention here that the machine is not new, but second-hand. The original seller raised dairy cows. The milk market is not very good this year. They sold their pasture. The buyer is planning to do some tourism. The original dairy farmer
People only need one set of things, and the rest is taken care of.
As for how Zhang Chi found them, it's even simpler. They wanted to buy an automatic milking machine, so they called and asked, and their second-hand machine broker got the news.
After contacting Zhang Chi, the couple went to check out the goods and found that the machine was quite good. They used it at home and it was well protected. They had it cleaned by a professional team before selling it. Except that the outside looked a bit old.
Other than that, there are some bumps on the tank that holds the milk, but everything else is fine.
Melika liked it, and the price was right, less than half of the new machine, so they happily paid for it and ordered the machine.
Hearing what Cannon said, Zhang Chi and Melika followed Cannon towards the place where the milking machine was installed.
The place where the milking machine is installed is a warehouse. It was originally intended to store grains, but now it has been empty, so it was simply used as a milking room.
The place is a bit far away from the cowshed, but not far, about two to three hundred meters, so it can be used easily.
There are three machines.
What does this thing look like?
Everyone has seen a merry-go-round, right? This thing looks a bit like that thing.
It is almost a concentric circle, with iron partitions separating the cows from each other. There is a hook on the top of the machine, with a soft rubber tube hanging on the hook, and a breast pump head.
Drive the cows in, close the door, pull down the milk suction tube, and connect the breast pump head to the milk bottle, and you're done.
Cows can be milked and graze at the same time, and people can just let the cows go after seeing the completion message on their mobile phones.
In short, this thing is quite advanced, at least it frees up manpower.
By the time Cannon brought Zhang Chi and Melika to the machine, two of the three milk pumping machines were already full of cows. Each machine had about ten cows, and two machines had nearly thirty cows. They were eating happily.
forage.
The transparent container in the breast-feeding tube is slowly filled with milky white milk, and then the milk flows into several large metal milk buckets in the inner ring.
"So fast?"
Zhang Chi looked at the machine that was already running and said happily.
"The machine was almost shipped directly. It is naturally a little faster. After debugging, there is nothing wrong with it." Brian said and handed a file to Zhang Chi.
Zhang Chi took a look and found that it was an installation contract for the machine. It contained detailed installation steps, each of which was a process. Just looking at the chart, you can find that sometimes Americans do things according to standards.
It's quite strict.
However, Zhang Chi also knows that this standard is just a standard standard. It will not be troublesome for ordinary workers to install it for you.
Fortunately, cowboys don’t know how to fiddle with these things, and the structure is not complicated. Old Americans also have strong hands-on skills. This is really not nonsense. Forget about the younger generation, many middle-aged Americans can repair cars and have many levels of skills.
Better than our mainland car repair factory workers.
After taking the file, Zhang Chi checked it out to prove that these steps were completed, and then returned the file to the installer.
The installer didn't say much to Zhang Chi, took the signed documents, jumped into the car with his colleagues, and ran away in a flash, as if he was afraid that Zhang Chi would leave them to eat at the ranch.
All three machines started working. Cannon and Bryan began to act as milkers. Their main job was to clean the milk bottles, then connect the machines to the milk bottles, and then wait for the machine to squeeze out the set dose.
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Zhang Chi couldn't be idle, because there was no such person in the job quota, so Zhang Chi and Melika were discussing whether to hire one or two more people.
However, Merica thought it would be better to wait and see, wait until Nel's ranch is really taken down, and then we can find manpower together.
So Zhang Chi studied with Cannon how to milk cows and how to operate these milking machines.
Fortunately, Zhang Chi is not stupid, and the machine is simple. If it is too complicated, most cowboys with little education or workers in the West will not be able to use it.
Everyone thinks that Americans are quite knowledgeable and have a high cultural level. In fact, this is not the case. The number of Americans who are illiterate, or the number of people who cannot read a sentence in a book, is greater than the number of illiterate people in our country.
Just look at the population base and you will know how many illiterate people there are in the United States.
After learning the lesson, the work started, so after everyone milked a batch of cows, they went to drive the next batch of cows over for milking.
After working hard all morning, I went back to the house to have some food and continued working when I came back.
When the sun went down, all the cows with calves were milked.
After loading the milk into the truck, Zhang Chi had to send it to the dairy farm.
Originally, Zhang Chi expected others to come over to pull him over, but who knew that Merika was right. With the size of his ranch, they wouldn't send a car over to pull it over. If you want to give it away, they can take it away.
Don't care either.
Zhang Chi had no choice. There was so much milk, three to four hundred kilograms a day, and he couldn't drink it to death, so Zhang Chi had to deliver it to the milk company.
Three to four hundred kilograms of milk was exchanged for nothing more than a handful of money. Zhang Chi didn't know if it would be enough to pay for gas back and forth.
Milk is so cheap, cheaper than beef.
Zhang Chi, who was holding the money, was a little worried: Look, they didn't even bother to write the check, they just gave it in cash!