In the morning, before six o'clock, Zhang Chi was awakened from his sleep by a hurried call.
I vaguely picked up my phone, squinted at it, and found a video call from my sister.
He reached out and took it.
"Hey, sister!"
As soon as I was fed, I noticed a bunch of heads at the other end of the video, and I immediately sobered up a bit.
"Still asleep?"
Grandma's voice came over.
Zhang Chi suddenly became more energetic: "Well, we are here...".
After looking at the small alarm clock next to him, Zhang Chi continued: "It's only about 5:40 here, so I can't fall asleep."
"Oh, that's a bit early," grandma replied with a smile.
My elder sister, Zhang Juan, would not spoil her younger brother, so she opened her mouth and said: "Get up quickly, it won't be dark over there after five o'clock, right? I'm in my hometown, and now everyone is waiting to see your current...cattle farm
Woolen cloth".
This morning, Zhang Juan heard that her brother had given her such a big surprise. She couldn't bear it anymore and took her child back to her husband's house. She waited until now. She felt that it was almost dawn over her brother's side, so she couldn't wait.
I called my brother and wanted to see with my family what the ranch he mentioned was like.
"No, uncle, that's a pasture, a pasture!"
The little guy heard the mistake in his mother's words and immediately corrected his mother's uncle's home, which is a pasture, not a cattle farm.
"There are not many people but many things. Is it wrong to call a place where cattle are raised a cattle farm?"
Zhang Juan clearly knew that she was wrong, but she still spoke harshly.
"Get up, get up." Zhang Chi looked up and looked outside and found that it was already dawn.
It's summer now, so it gets bright early. Generally speaking, it starts to get bright at five o'clock. Unlike winter, it's still dark at seven o'clock.
There was no bed in the new house, so Zhang Chi took his old mattress and put it on the floor, making do with it. It wasn't cold now, so it didn't matter if he lived on the mattress.
"Why isn't there even a bed?"
Grandma saw her grandson sleeping directly on the ground, with only a thicker mat on the ground, so she asked aloud.
"The house has just been built. If you haven't arrived yet, you need to prepare the things in the house. Just wait until you have time to put these things back in a few days."
Zhang Chi stood up, pulled up his clothes, put on his riding boots, and walked to his bedroom to the living room with his cell phone.
"This is my house. It has two bedrooms and one living room, a small storage room and a small kitchen. Let me show you another house first..."
Zhang Chi took his cell phone and took a look around his house with his family.
“The house is not small, it’s okay!”
When her mother saw Zhang Chi's house, she nodded with a smile, thinking that the house was quite spacious.
"It's just that the kitchen is a bit small, and it's hard for anyone to turn around."
Then my mother said again.
Nowadays, the kitchens in my hometown are quite large, almost twenty square meters. When compared with Zhang Chi’s kitchen, Zhang Chi’s kitchen naturally seems a bit small.
"I don't have the money to buy a big kitchen now. Anyway, it's enough for me alone," Zhang Chi said with a smile.
"The house is quite nice. Let's take a look outside," grandma said.
After hearing this, Zhang Chi took his cell phone and walked out.
"There is a shelf at the door. What can this thing do? It is a waste of space. Why not wrap up the shelf and calculate the area inside the house?"
When Zhang Juan saw her younger brother's house, she saw that there was a huge eaves instead of outside the house. She immediately felt that such a large space was a bit of a waste. It was better to move the wall outwards. In that case, there would be more than ten or twenty square meters.
Come.
Zhang Chi smiled and explained: "This is a gallery frame. Generally, houses like mine have this kind of thing. It is produced in a factory with the same style. If you want to adjust it, it must be specially customized. It is not cost-effective."
Zhang Chi walked down the steps, turned around and took a photo of his house with his cell phone, so that his family could see what the front of his house looked like.
"This thing is pretty big."
People on the other end of the video expressed their opinions.
Zhang Chi said: "Generally speaking, there is a small table here and a sofa over there by the door. When you come back from work, you sit on the sofa and drink some beer or something. There is nothing here now. I am waiting for something.
Now that everything is arranged, it doesn’t look so empty anymore.”
For us Chinese, this thing doesn't mean much, but in rural America, many houses have terraces, which can be used for a family or to entertain friends for barbecues or something.
For example, Zhang Chi's house is relatively small, so the countertop is not very big. If the house were larger, a long table could be placed on this countertop, and it would be no problem for seven or eight people to have dinner together.
"Zoom the camera further away, and the little house looks quite beautiful from the outside."
Zhang Juan saw her younger brother's house, which had light blue walls, pure white window casings, and a black roof. She felt that this color combination was more beautiful than the small houses in China, so she wanted to see what the house looked like as a whole.
Upon hearing this, Zhang Chi took a few steps outside, letting the entire image of his house enter the screen.
"Hey, that's beautiful!"
The whole family over there sighed.
They have never seen a house with this kind of color matching, so they naturally find it novel when they first see it. There are not many domestic buildings with light blue walls, but here this kind of color is normal and is a popular product.
In addition, there is a small forest behind Zhang Chi's house. The forest is not a single tree species. Zhang Chi only knows three or four species. The colors of the leaves are also different, including purple, light yellow, and of course, at most, they are different shades.
green.
The colorful leaves serve as a background, making the color of the small house more vivid.
The most important thing is that the house has just been built, the white is pure white, and the blue is also bright. When you look at the house with the trees, it looks like a Western landscape painting.
If you look at this house at night for a few years, it won't look so good, because time will fade these colors, and there will no longer be the strong color contrast like when it was just built.
"Yo!"
Just when everyone was looking at the house, suddenly a big head stuck into the screen, which shocked everyone.
After taking a closer look, I discovered that it was a huge horse head.
The horse's head was naturally from Chiyan Mountain. Seeing that its owner Zhang Chi had gotten up so early today, it came over curiously and prepared to give Zhang Chi a kiss.
Seeing Zhang Chi holding something in his hand, he curiously put his big head over to take a look.
Looking at it wasn't enough, so he grinned and started to chew on the phone in Zhang Chi's hand.
"Go aside!"
Zhang Chi pushed away Chi Yanshan's big head and said to the screen: "This is my horse!"
"There really is a red horse. It seems that Master Guan Er's red rabbit is really that sexy." Dad Zhang saw Chi Yanshan's red forehead and immediately said with a smile.
"Big horse, big horse!"
The nephew became excited. The little guy had also seen horses on TV. Now suddenly a horse appeared, which made the little guy feel very excited.
Zhang Chi saw that everyone was curious about Chiyan Mountain, so he turned the camera to Chiyan Mountain.
"Is this horse so tall?"
When the camera turned, everyone was surprised to see that the horse's shoulders were almost as tall as Zhang Chi.
Generally speaking, in Zhang Chi's hometown, oxen were used to cultivate the land, and horses were not common. Even if there were horses, they were very short, with a shoulder height of only about 1.2 meters. A height of 1.3 meters at the shoulders would be considered a big horse.
"What a great ocean horse, so tall! But what's wrong with the color? It's half red and half white. What kind of horse is this?"
As soon as the camera glanced, everyone realized that Chiyanshan was white from chest to buttocks.
Almost all the horses you have seen are chestnut-colored, and they usually look gray and dirty, but Chiyan Mountain is different. Not only is it tall, but its coat is very bright, and under the sunlight,
, there was a pale golden light, looking a bit more vigorous than usual.
"The horses are of this color, with red and white flowers and black and white flowers," Zhang Chi and his family explained.
My family didn’t understand either, but after hearing what Zhang Chi said, they just nodded there.
After watching the horses, Zhang Chi turned the camera to the sheep forty or fifty meters away.
"This is my sheep."
"Why is it so small? I think the space is pretty big, so I just need to raise more."
The mother saw that the sheep were only so small, so she suggested that her son raise more. In her opinion, these are all money. Moreover, from the video, the sheep were almost submerged in the grass. It would be okay to raise more.
question.
"Take your time, the main thing now is to raise cattle." Zhang Chi did not explain to his mother that his main business was raising cattle, not raising cattle, and these were raised for his own consumption.
When it comes to selling, who would think of this sheep?
Domestic sheep taste good, but the meat yield is really not good. With the same effort, you can get half the profit from raising meat sheep, but the economic value is really not high.
"Where's the cow? Where's the cow?"
After looking at the sheep for a while, the family members asked to see the cows one after another.
Zhang Chi said: "Wait a minute, I'll put a saddle on the horse, and let's go see the cows again!"
After saying that, Zhang Chi found a place to put down his cell phone, and then began to carry the saddle for Chi Yanshan.
The mobile phone captured all the images of Zhang Chi saddling a horse and passed it on to his family back home.
"Hey, he's so handsome!" Zhang Juan watched her brother put on the sweat pad, swing the saddle, tie the girdle and everything else, and then turned over and got on the horse. She felt that her brother was so handsome after performing this set of actions.
Ascending on the horseback of Chiyan Mountain, Zhang Chi held the reins in one hand and his mobile phone in the other, and began to walk towards the cattle.
"The tree at my uncle's house is on fire. Look, it's smoking, it's smoking!"
Just as Zhang Chi was walking and chatting with his family, suddenly the little guy screamed.
Hearing this, Zhang Chi was startled. He quickly looked around to see where the fire was. After seeing clearly, Zhang Chi started to laugh.
"It's not fire, it's water vapor!"
Wisps of white mist rose over the woods at the entrance of the ranch. This was caused by the temperature difference caused by the rising sun in the woods.
At this moment, the camera lens is full of greenery, with wisps of white air hanging on the treetops and branches, extending along the mountain ridges and forest hills, making the camera lens feel like a fairyland.
"This place is so beautiful, and the sky is so blue!"
The family members over there looked at the scene on the screen and said in admiration.
Zhang Chi said: "When you guys come over and see it in person, it will be more beautiful than what you see on the screen."
Needless to say, the ecology here is really good. Except for a few special cities with some industries, the rest of the state is all agriculture and animal husbandry, so there is no pollution at all.
The blue sky and clear river here are blue sky and white clouds when you look up, green water and green mountains when you look down, the scenery is really beautiful.
Some people may feel bored after living here for a long time, but for another group of people, living here is where they feel at ease and where they feel they are their hometown.