At one o'clock, the biological clock naturally awakened. Zhang Chi opened his eyes and saw a ray of sunlight coming through the window crack, shining on his face, which made him feel a little unable to open his eyes for a while, so he blocked it with his hands.
After a while, I rested on the bed for a few more minutes, then lifted off the quilt and got out of bed.
Wearing slippers, I came to the living room and found that the coffee machine was already working. I was a little confused and didn't remember that Cannon was here, so I thought about whether there was a thief. After thinking about it for almost half a minute, I finally remembered that Cannon was officially here yesterday.
Moved into his own ranch.
Now that the coffee machine was on, Zhang Chi made himself a cup. He didn't use any coffee cup so coquettishly, he just used the cup he usually drinks water from, took a small cup in his hand and walked out of the room.
Standing under the corridor, I searched according to my previous habit, and found that the guy from Chiyanshan was not around today. I turned around and thought about it again. The horse I caught yesterday couldn't be ridden yet, and Cannon wanted to do it.
You still have to ride the Red Flame Mountain to survive.
"No wonder this guy didn't knock on my window today," Zhang Chi said.
Even after moving to a new house, Chi Yanshan still hasn't gotten rid of this old habit. He would knock on Zhang Chi's window at midnight to remind Zhang Chi to get up.
After standing under the porch for less than five seconds, Ergou came over.
Meow meow meow!
While shouting, he rubbed his body against Zhang Chi's legs. The tail on his butt was raised so high that it stood upright like a fluffy stick.
Every time Zhang Chi wakes up, Ergou comes over to ask for food. It is usually the time for Ergou to start eating.
"It's such a big cat, but it still drinks milk?" Zhang Chi lowered his head and looked at Ergou and said.
The two dogs didn't care about this and continued to circle around Zhang Chi's legs, shouting at the top of their lungs while beating.
Zhang Chi thought for a while and felt that there was still half a bag of milk powder at home, so he might as well wait until the milk powder was finished before weaning Ergou. So he turned back to the house, put down the cup in his hand, and made a bowl of milk for Ergou.
In addition to the two dogs, there were also Daniel and Erhu at home. Zhang Chi did not forget about them, so after preparing three portions of milk, Zhang Chi carried the milk basin to the porch.
"Daniu, Erhu!"
Zhang Chi shouted three or four times at the top of his lungs before Daniel and Erhu ran over. Erhu still had leaves hanging on his body. He didn't know where the two guys had gone to play early in the morning.
Danniu and Erhu were very excited to see the milk, but they did not get close to the milk. Instead, they sat one meter away from the milk basin, with their heads hanging down, and the flesh on their cheeks was squeezed into a thick piece of skin.
She looks like a scorned little daughter-in-law.
"Look at how useless you guys are. You couldn't beat Ergou when you were little, but now you are several times bigger than it, and you still can't beat it? You two useless things!"
Zhang Chi looked angry, because Danuo and Erhu were very afraid of Ergou. As long as Ergou was eating next to them, they would not dare to move forward even if they wanted to eat, for fear that Ergou would pull them away.
Zhang Chi wouldn't care about this. If you can't eat, you'll be hungry, so Zhang Chi quickly turned his attention from the two dogs to Cannon who was working over there.
Cannon was already driving the cattle north.
What Zhang Chi thought was very difficult seemed very easy in Cannon's hands. He saw Cannon riding a horse and turning a lasso in his hand, driving the calves out of the forest and gathering all the cattle.
Together, we walked toward the pastures to the north that had not been gnawed by cattle.
After looking at it for a while, Zhang Chi felt that the hundreds of dollars he spent this month were worth it.
As he kept watching Cannon drive the cows to the place, Zhang Chi hadn't finished drinking the coffee in his hand. He had no choice but to get so excited that he forgot to drink the coffee.
Zhang Chi didn't like the cold coffee very much, so he went back to the house and poured out the rest of the coffee, washed the cup and refilled it with fresh tea.
When I went out again, I happened to meet Cannon who had just returned.
Cannon dismounted and saw Zhang Chi coming out, so he smiled and said: "BOSS"
"It's pretty easy to see you driving cattle."
Cannon smiled and said: "They are all big cows. It will be a lot easier to catch up without the calf. It will be difficult to catch up with the calf next year because the calf is naughty. By the way, BOSS, I have made an appointment with the hoof trimmer.
When will it arrive?”
When he was on the road yesterday, Zhang Chi made an appointment with a hoof trimmer. He originally wanted to find a cheap hoof trimmer, but a cheap hoof trimmer would have a lot of work. Now the appointment has to be scheduled twenty days later, and the hoof trimmer available today is expensive.
, but it was expensive and there was no other way. Cannon was still waiting for a horse to ride, so Zhang Chi had no choice but to bite the bullet and make an appointment with a hoof trimmer who could start work today.
"I guess it will be almost noon no matter what."
With the way Americans work here, they usually don't go out until ten o'clock in the morning. Even the shops are open after ten o'clock. How could the hoof trimmer be early?
"It's so expensive and so slow!" Cannon said.
After saying that, he turned around and went into the house, took a small pot of coffee, and then returned to stand side by side with Zhang Chi outside the house.
"BOSS, it's time to collect the cut straw bales. I just took a look and found that the straw bales are almost dry. If you leave them like this, it will be troublesome if it rains."
Cannon saw the straw bales placed on the grass in the north of the pasture. He tried it and found that they were almost dry inside. There was no point in leaving them to dry in the sun. It was better to store the straw bales in the warehouse or stack them together.
"Okay, let's collect the straw bales together after the hoof trimming master finishes his work." Zhang Chi didn't know when the straw bales should be collected. He thought he had to wait until they were completely dry before collecting them. Who could
I thought I could close it now.
"Then you have to rent some vehicles in advance. Using a pickup truck is too inefficient," Cannon said.
Zhang Chi carried forward the spirit of asking if you don't understand and asked Cannon what kind of car he wanted to rent.
Cannon and Zhang Chi made gestures.
Zhang Chi felt that there was nothing wrong with this car. To put it bluntly, it was just a big flatbed truck. After thinking about it, Zhang Chi decided to ask Xiao Ma later. If the price was right, he would just buy one.
The two were chatting about collecting straw bales when the cell phone in the room rang.
Zhang Chi took Xiao ran into the house and took a look at his cell phone. He found that the hoof trimmer had already arrived at the gate of the ranch.
Putting down his cell phone, Zhang Chi muttered: Good guy, the sun is rising in the west.
After talking to Cannon, Zhang Chi saw a large pickup truck driving into the ranch before he finished speaking.
Seeing this guy, Zhang Chi was stunned for a moment and blurted out: "It takes such a big movement to repair a horse's hoof?"
As the car got closer, Zhang Chi realized that this was not the car he imagined a hoof trimmer should drive. It was directly a small RV. Behind the front of the F550 was a square box, and a 44 was towed behind it.
A small, square box.
A family of five or six would probably not make such a big noise when camping.
Hearing Zhang Chi's words, Cannon smiled and said: "This is a professional hoof trimming vehicle and it is quite expensive."
Zhang Chi must know that it's expensive. The money in his pocket is almost making him cry.
The car stopped at the foot of the slope, and Zhang Chi and Cannon went up to meet them. The hoof trimmers who came over were a father and a son. The father was about fifty years old, and the son was in his early twenties and less than thirty.
There was no politeness at all. They were here to make money, and Zhang Chi was waiting to use the horse. After a few words, the father and son started working.
Zhang Chi and Cannon stood nearby and watched.
I saw the father and son unloading the rear trailer, pressing a few buttons, and the vehicle unfolded. Inside was an iron frame with a frame. This thing and the trailer are integrated, and various joints can still move. You can tell at a glance
This is for fixing livestock. Looking at the size of the shelf, Zhang Chi guessed that this thing can not only hoof horses, but also cows.
The compartment of the pickup truck contained some tools, including a stove and so on.
The fire is not as gray as a common stove. There is a chrome-plated cover on the outside, which is shiny and does not look like a stove at all.
Anyway, Zhang Chi looked like a kaleidoscope. All kinds of horseshoes were hung on the walls of the carriage. There were probably hundreds of different sizes.
Everything inside is neatly arranged, and even if you have obsessive-compulsive disorder, you probably won't be able to find any problems when you see this carriage.
If Zhang Chi hadn't seen it with his own eyes, it would be hard for Zhang Chi to believe that this car was specially designed for hoof trimming. There are some tools that are easy to understand, and you can accept it if you keep it neat and tidy, but there are three or four computers in the damn car.
This made Zhang Chi wonder what to say. How about repairing your hooves and making it look like a video game show?
The father and son fiddled with it for almost five minutes, and after getting all the preliminary work ready, they signaled to bring the horse over.
Cannon immediately went to harness the horse.
After the horse was brought over, the father and son pushed the horse into the unfolded rack of the trailer.
Squeak!
The frame automatically expanded and retracted, directly fixing the horse tightly in the middle.
The young man picked up the computer, called up the software and started operating it.
Zhang Chi curiously stretched his head to take a look and found that the outline of the horse appeared on the computer screen, along with data such as shoulder height and weight.
After a few buttons, a mechanical arm lifted the front hoof, and then a sharp knife began to cut along the horse's hoof.
Zhang Chi looks a bit like a cook cutting potatoes, layer by layer, and each slice is the same thickness.
Looks like a little bit of a relief.
In just over a minute, the horse's hoof was trimmed to the right size.
The shoe data was immediately reflected on the screen. The young man called a number, and the old man found the shoe and threw it into the furnace to heat.
While the shoe was heating in the stove, the young man began to trim the other hoof.
Zhang Chi looked on as if he were watching a circus. He felt that this thing was too advanced. How could it be so high-tech to repair hoofs?
Next, nail the soles and apply hoof oil, and the whole set is done in one go. If it weren't for the excessive fees, Zhang Chi would have wanted to praise this machine, it's so advanced.
It took less than forty minutes for six horses to complete the process together. This speed directly beat manual hoof trimming by a long way.
After each horse's hoof was repaired, Cannon rode it and tried it. After each trial, Cannon would nod to Zhang Chi to express that he had done a good job.
If the work is done satisfactorily, it's time to give money. It's not given on the spot, but Zhang Chi signs it. A bill will be sent to Zhang Chi in two days. Then he can just go to the bank to settle the payment.
Already.
As soon as the matter was over, the father and son packed up their things and left the ranch to go to the next game.
Zhang Chi saw them off and looked at several horses that had new shoes and were happily playing on the grass.
"This is too advanced."
"It's expensive enough!" Cannon said.
Zhang Chi nodded: "Indeed, it's too expensive!"
If you use this thing to trim it once, you can almost hire a hoof trimmer to trim it four or five times.
But it’s right to think about it. Such an advanced thing must cost a lot of money. What if it’s more expensive if you don’t charge a fee?
First come first, but next time, Zhang Chi will definitely not choose this thing. He can wait for more than half an hour to repair a horse's hoof, but he is not willing to spend so much money just to save this little time.