Zhang Chi looked at his brother-in-law who came over and asked with surprise: "You actually understand?"
Zhang Chi and Miller must have communicated in English. Miller doesn't know Chinese, not at all. How could Zhang Chi speak Chinese to him? That wouldn't be talking to a bully.
What makes Zhang Chi strange is that he and Miller talked about catching wild horses for two days, and his brother-in-law actually understood it.
Sun Yanping looked at his brother-in-law with a look of injustice on his face.
"I'm also a college graduate, okay? I don't even know about horse? I can't hear lasso or catch me? You don't know that there is listening in college English, right? Oh, I forgot, you kid doesn't know it at all
Didn’t go to college”.
Sun Yanping was speechless.
Zhang Chi: "...".
Sun Yanping didn't care. He came to Zhang Chi and asked in a low voice: "Did you guys say you are going to hitch a horse? Where should you hitch a horse?"
Zhang Chi didn't think much about it: "If you go to a public pasture to tether a wild horse, it's not actually a wild horse. They were originally domestic horses, but they were no longer wanted for various reasons and were abandoned. Over time, they became wild horses and they live in public pastures."
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"Wait, there are still people who don't want horses?"
Sun Yanping was a little confused. There were still people who didn't want the horse, which he couldn't accept.
Zhang Chi nodded and said: "Well, some people don't want them. If it's the dry season, many horses will be left directly in the wild. Sometimes thousands of wild horses can die here alone on a dry day."
"Isn't this all money! Americans are really prodigal," Sun Yanping said, "It would be great if it could be shipped back to China."
"Then don't think about it. It's not enough for the freight. The horses here are free, but if you want to transport them from here to China, the freight plus the time and energy spent on the road are simply not worth it," Zhang Chi laughed.
road.
My brother-in-law thinks things are too simple. Horses here are free of charge, but labor is expensive. Even if you ship it from Texas to the country, you will probably have to pay hundreds of dollars for a horse to the port of Los Angeles before shipping it.
After arriving in China, plus a month of eating, drinking, eating and drinking during the inspection and quarantine, and then passing customs and other messy things, the price of the horse has already been driven down. An ordinary horse here is more expensive than an ordinary horse in China. You
Tell me what you're doing with it.
Be a stud?
Then you are thinking too much. An ordinary horse has no possibility of becoming a stallion. Who would throw away any horse that can become a stallion?
"Hey, take me with you!" Sun Yanping said.
At this time, my aunt happened to be walking by. Gu Ying and Miller were also acquaintances, so they naturally smiled and said hello.
Miller then asked, "What did they say?"
Gu Yingdao: "He wants to follow you to catch horses."
"Then just follow along. It's not a confidential matter anyway. As long as he has time to play with me, I'm more than welcome to follow him," Miller said.
Gu Ying then translated the words to Sun Yanping.
When Sun Yanping heard this, he pushed Zhang Chi away and said to Miller with a smile: "I haven't seen a horse hunter before. Is it like in the movie, where a group of cowboys are riding together on a hill?
Looking at the tens of thousands of wild horses below...".
Gu Ying himself laughed while translating.
Miller was also amused by Sun Yanping, and he opened his mouth and said: "No, no, Sun, you are not chasing horses here, you are filming a Marlboro commercial. Horse hunting is not such a big scene nowadays. Generally speaking, horses are
There are only about a hundred or so horses. If there are too many horses together, they will compete for grass. But now is the early time of the year when the grass is good, so you may have a chance to see a larger herd of horses."
"I must go and see it." Sun Yanping suddenly had countless fantasies in his heart when he heard about the horse arrest.
Zhang Chi saw that it was impossible to take them with him now, so he said to Sun Yanping: "You'd better hurry up and take pictures. It will be a few days before we go to hunt wild horses."
Sun Yanping was resting here, and Miller was there again, so the lively people quickly gathered around.
Everyone heard that they were going to hunt horses, and immediately there were people like Sun Yanping. In addition to Zhang Chi's fun-loving sister Zhang Juan, there was also Zhang Youpeng.
I don’t know if these people were influenced by the grassland, the horses, and the song "The Man Who Tie-Down Horses" or something, which made them a little abnormal. As soon as they heard about horse roping, they all started to fantasize.
It didn't matter to Miller. The trouble these people wanted to go to was not his. He had Zhang Chi to deal with it, so it was a relief for Miller to agree.
Then the kid slipped away.
After rambling for another ten minutes, I continued taking photos.
Now Zhang Chi was bored again.
It's Zhang Chi's turn. Zhang Chi's role is similar to that of the black and white horse over there, almost like a background.
There are some pretty good ones, with Melica and as backgrounds for my parents, uncle and aunt.
When it was almost noon, the group photo was finally taken.
The background of the group photo is Zhang Chi’s house. A little further away is the hills, and even farther away is the top of the snow-capped mountains.
"This angle is good, this angle is good, Dachi, move the chairs to the east. This angle can take in the entire house, and also bring a corner of the snow-capped mountains. It's really great..." Sun Yanping directed
Zhang Chi moved the chair in the front row.
After waiting for the chairs to be arranged, Sun Yanping shouted to the elders: "Come in, everyone, and I will take a look."
"Do you still need to adjust? It's been a long time." Zhang Jiaren also wanted to go to the ranch to do his own work. It took almost half an hour to take a photo, and the good-tempered old man was a little overwhelmed.
"Come on, come on, grandpa, sit down and make some fine adjustments. We finally got together to take a family photo, but we have to get the angles right..." Sun Yanping explained while directing everyone to take their seats.
After everyone was seated, Sun Yanping took another look and fine-tuned everyone's positions to make the whole picture look more harmonious.
The front row is for the elders. Those in the middle must be the grandparents, the uncle and aunt are on the left, and Zhang Chi’s parents are on the right.
Standing in the back row are Zhang Chi and his wife, and Zhang Juan and his wife.
As for Xiaoxiao, his position is in the front, next to the great-grandfather and great-grandmother.
There are pets in front of them. Ink is favored by grandma, so it naturally approaches Miao Guifang, Shiren and Bai Lao, leaning in front of Gu Ying and Miao Guifang respectively.
In Li Xiumei's arms was a fat man with a dull face.
Zhiyu Maodou was holding Xiaoxiao's legs. It was probably the first time he had joined a family portrait, and he was a little scared. There was a bit of confusion in his little eyes.
Da Niu Er Hu and San Biao Zi are not here, but the other three are at work.
There were three dogs, but they were not interested in sitting around and taking pictures. As for their kittens, they had no idea where they were.
Feeling that it was almost done, Sun Yanping made some settings here, ran back to his position, then smiled on his face, kept his mouth still, and kept saying: "Pay attention, keep it tight, don't blink when you smile."
Then Zhang Chi saw a flash of light and breathed a sigh of relief.
Sun Yanping ran over, took a look at the effect, and then said: "Uncle, you blinked. It shows that you have your eyes closed. Take another picture!"
So everyone started to tense up again.
After the first picture was taken, someone else was blinded, so a third picture had to be taken.
In the end, five pictures were taken in a row, and by the sixth picture, everyone had their eyes open, and that was the end.
Sun Yanping said loudly: "OK, it's done!"
As soon as they finished speaking, Zhang Jiaren and Zhang Youpeng went to lead their horses and walked towards the stable with Zhang Youliang. They didn't know what the three of them were going to do.
Gu Ying, Miao Guifang, and Li Xiumei returned to the terrace together, chatting while cracking melon seeds.
Melika and Zhang Juan, one on the left and one on the right, surrounded Sun Yanping. They looked at the photo in his hand and didn't know what to say. Anyway, the three of them walked towards the room with smiles.
Only Zhang Chi and Xiao Xiao were left at the scene.
"Uncle, no one seems to notice us, we are so pitiful."
Xiaoxiao looked at Zhang Chi and felt that he had been ignored by the adults. He turned around and found that his uncle was also standing stupidly, and now he felt a little more balanced.
"They didn't notice you, why should I expect others to notice you?" Zhang Chi didn't feel embarrassed at all. Everyone said that no one said anything to him after the show, which was a bit excessive.
Squeak!
While Zhang Chi was talking to his nephew, Maodou squeaked at Xiaoxiao.
Hearing Maodou call him, Xiaoxiao was instantly happy and said to Zhang Chi: "Maodou called me, no one cares about you now, you are so pitiful."
"Is edamame considered a human being?"
Zhang Chi felt that his little nephew might not be a good person. He always found troubles and sprinkled salt flowers on other people's wounds. This seemed a bit like him. The nephew was more like his uncle, so it made sense.
Zhang Chi was about to leave when he heard Melika's voice coming from the door.
"Zhang Chi!"
"What's the matter?" Zhang Chi stopped.
Melika stretched out her hand and pointed: "Come here and help your brother-in-law print the photos."
"So fast?" Zhang Chi felt that this was too fast.
I followed my wife into the house and found my sister and brother-in-law standing at the top of the stairs, waiting for me.
"Xiaomei said there is a printer in your study," Sun Yanping said.
Zhang Chi looked at Melika, shrugged, and understood that his wife was afraid that others would enter her study and mess up her things, so she brought this trouble to herself.
"Oh, then go upstairs!"
Zhang Chi took his three sisters upstairs to his study room.
After turning on the computer and connecting the camera card, Sun Yanping saw the PS icon on the desktop and began to edit the photos himself.
Zhang Chi saw the photo of the finished product on the screen and was immediately impressed.
"The photo was really great." Zhang Chi reached out and patted his brother-in-law on the shoulder: "I didn't expect that. I still underestimated you a little."
Melika also nodded, expressing great affirmation of Sun Yanping's photography skills.
Originally, the small screen on the camera didn't look very good, but now it's put on a big thing like a display screen, and the effect is really impressive.
People, houses, forests and distant mountains are advanced layer by layer, heavy and light, main and auxiliary, very layered, and the background is quite beautiful.
The most important thing is the people. The expressions on everyone's faces have two words written on them: happy.
No one is as stiff as a typical family photo. Everyone is natural, but everyone seems to have a story, a story that only relatives can understand.
Anyway, Zhang Chi has never felt that a family portrait can actually make him feel filled with emotion when he looks at it. Maybe it’s because this is his family portrait. Everyone is a familiar person to him, so he can understand them and feel them.