Alpine pasture

Chapter 187 Pig Auction
After waiting for the mayor to give out the prize, Ju An was ready to get up and walk. Who knew that as soon as her butt left the seat, she turned her head and found that everyone had not left, so she had to sit down again.

I heard the mayor announce: "The next piggy auction is going to be held! Now let's announce the piglets who are willing to participate in the auction."Followed by the mayor, he read a series of lists, more than half of the thirty or so piglets were intended to be auctioned, and then began to auction off the piglets that did not win the prize, according to the size of the number, the same number was randomly selected, everyone also Not caring about the order, the mayor temporarily acted as an auctioneer, and the piglets that wanted to be auctioned were sent to a table in front of the mayor.

Ju An walked away a little, followed Dina next to him and said a word, and when he turned his face, he found that the mayor had an extra gavel in his hand: "Let's auction Miss Pig, Taylor is in a row. Oh! Oh my God, this Miss Pig is so pretty, with the little guitar on her body and the shiny costume, I think she's prettier than the real Tyler, honey, have you noticed this little pig."After speaking, she pointed to the mayor's wife under the stage, and following the direction of the mayor's finger, Ju An saw the mayor's family, the mayor's parents and wife sitting under the stage with their three children, and saw the mayor's family. Pointing here, his wife smiled and shook her head.

Seeing his wife's expression, the mayor smiled and said to everyone: "Okay, it seems that my hope of buying home has been shattered! Who wants to take this beautiful Miss Taylor home? As for whether she can Singing for you, oh my God, you still want to buy a real Taylor for a few dozen dollars, this beautiful Miss Taylor starts at $35, did you notice, $35 is not even enough to hear Miss Taylor’s concert tickets! Now For $35 you can actually own a Miss Taylor."There was a burst of laughter below, and then someone raised his hand.

After three or five price increases, only five or ten dollars each time, the mayor finally struck a small wooden hammer, and the transaction price of Miss Taylor was more than 50 dollars.

Seeing this, Ju An turned her head and asked Dinah, "Is everyone still enthusiastic, buy this little pig back as a pet? Or is it raised to eat meat?".

Dinah explained with a smile: "Some are bought back to be pets, and more are bought back by farmers for fattening and then sold. Generally speaking, the piglets that are ranked in the front are more likely to be pets, and the piglets in the back are generally more likely to be pets. It was bought by the farmer, why do you want to buy a pig as a pet, just for Teddy and a few guys."

After listening to Dina's words, Ju An shook his head: "It's better to be a pet, several guys in the family all eat meat, even Wu Song gets a meat stick from time to time to eat, this guy was very hungry the day they were raised together. Now, a few guys guess that the first thing they will eat is the pig." After saying that, I thought to myself: This family has a pig as a pet, it's so awkward to respond to people, and when it grows up, it will be a hundred or two hundred pounds. This is really true. No, there is no problem with raising and eating meat. The key point is that there are already a few big pigs in the family. I estimate that I can eat almost one a year. There is no way that the old American and old Chilean cowboys in the ranch eat the most. It is beef and mutton, not so fond of pork.

A dozen piglets were auctioned in a row, and the mayor in the middle made a gag to mobilize the atmosphere in the venue. Ju An looked down and thought: Hey!It's really not easy to be the mayor of Laomei. If you have something to do, you have to steal the limelight. If you don't show that you won't be elected next time, it's really hard to be responsible for entertaining the public.

There was a problem when one of the pigs was carried on the stage. The little guy took a fancy to the small gavel in the mayor's hand, took the mallet into his mouth while the mayor asked for the price, and gnawed on the stage. He got up, and when the mayor grabbed the mallet from the pig's mouth again, he took the mallet and waved his hand, meaning the saliva on the mallet was bitten by the pig.The audience below followed suit.

At the end of the auction, the first piglet was the most expensive pig, which was sold for more than 100 US dollars, and the rest were around tens of dollars. After the auction of the piglets, the town’s Pig Festival will be considered complete. Finish.

After getting back into the car and driving towards Dinah's family's farm, Ju An asked in the car, "Is the Pig Running Festival held today every year?".

Marcos smiled and turned his head to explain: "I don't know what is fixed today. It is held on the first Sunday in March every year. This is the fixed one. Why are you going to bring piglets from the pasture to the competition next year?".

Ju An shook his head and said with a smile: "My pigs haven't given birth to piglets yet, if there are suitable ones, I would like to come and play!".

"Actually, this game is just for fun. The most important thing is to train the piglet to know that there is something to eat at the end of the bar. We also train when we are free. Others train like this. The key is to see what is on the field. Luck, if the little pig is not caught by other things, it will usually win," Melina said with a smile.

"If no one informs him next year, maybe he won't remember such a running pig festival at all, and he missed the last groundhog festival on February [-]nd," Dinah said with a smile.

"And Groundhog Day." Ju An scratched his head: Why does this guy feel that the whole year is full of festivals, and this only knows that the groundhog who burrows in the ground still has a festival?

"Every February [-]nd, the mayor will take everyone to the ground to find a groundhog nest, and then dig out the groundhog to see if the groundhog is happy. If the groundhog is awakened It means spring is here. It’s also called the Spring Festival of the Groundhog.” Dinah smiled and explained to Ju An.

"Aren't you busy going back to China for the Spring Festival at that time, waiting to see it next year, anyway, every year, you can't run away," Ju An said with a smile.

After chatting like this, the four of them returned to Dina's farm, stopped the car, and Ju An followed into the house, had a cup of coffee, picked up Dina and drove in the direction of their ranch.

As soon as Dinah arrived at the ranch, she was warmly welcomed by the little ones. It seemed like a few years after being separated for two or three days. Teddy has grown up a lot since then, and now she can hug her when she stands up. Ju'an's thighs have grown, and the mountain lion brothers have grown into big cats. They are getting more and more mischievous. Now they climb up the trees and they are smooth, and when they are free, they climb around the trees in the front and back of the house to scare the little squirrels. As for the Fox family who sneaked under the steps when they saw someone, Dinah couldn’t get enough food no matter what, she ignored everyone except Ju An, Wu Song continued to be cool, didn’t she hold something , is dragging and following the twigs, always ready to educate a few little guys, and behaves like a strict elder brother.

As for the little wolf cubs in Ju'an's space, they have grown very tall. In the end, they were raised in the space and are now slightly shorter than the cattle dogs in the pasture, and they are not as long as the ordinary wolf legs observed by Ju'an. , The three little wolf cubs have particularly sturdy legs, and their heads are wider than the wolves outside, unlike the wolves in the mountains outside, with longer mouths and lighter bodies.The whole from the lower jaw to the upper part of the front legs is covered with thick fluff, which looks a bit funny, like wearing a thick scarf. Now the relationship between the three little guys and Ju An has also improved, and they don't even stretch to Ju An. Mouth, especially the youngest one, is very dependent on Ju An, and likes to circle around Ju An as soon as he sees Ju An.Now that the three little guys have eaten meat, because they wanted to put them back in the mountains, Ju An didn't feed them cooked meat like the rest of the ranch, and the three little wolf cubs only ate raw meat.Seeing that the three cubs were almost grown, Ju An was going to find an opportunity to put them in the mountains after feeding them for a few days.

Ju An put Dinah's small bag in the upstairs bedroom. Today the small bag is heavy to carry, and I don't know what Dinah put in it.

After dinner was over, they packed up and took care of the little ones, the two sat on the bed and found out that Dinah was carrying a few cello books in her bag, and watched Dinah put some books on the bed. At the head, Ju An asked, "Why do you still have this kind of book on the cello, what's the use of just having a book, you don't even have a piano".

"When I was in middle school, I used to learn the cello for a period of time at school. I liked it very much, but sitting down is too boring for a little girl like me who played English football when I was a child. I found it after sorting out my books a few days ago. It's interesting to think of the school's orchestra at that time," Dinah explained with a smile.

Ju An raised her eyebrows: "This is not good. I heard someone say this: that is, if a person always thinks about the past, he will be old. We are only in our 20s, and we are like flowers. What do you want to do at this age, it seems that the ranch has spent too much time doing nothing, let’s go on a trip in a while, your task now is to pick a place, wherever you want!”.After speaking, Ju An closed the book in Dinah's hand.

As soon as she heard about the trip, Dinah got excited: "Then let's go to Germany to see. The two countries I want to go to are China and Germany. When we find a time, we will travel to Germany. My father always said how beautiful the scenery was when my grandfather took my father to Germany. I have never been there before. There was a great man in my grandfather’s hometown, and you Chinese must know Karl Marx.”

"Oh! It turns out that we Dinah and Comrade Lao Ma are still from the same township, so I'm sorry!" Ju Anlong started to make a gesture of bowing, which made Dinah laugh out loud.Then I started a relationship with Ju An: "So I am also half a fellow of Comrade Ma, and I have a relationship with the revolutionary mentor."

Then he said to Dinah: "Okay! After a while, when the weather is not so cold, we will go to Germany to play a lap along with Paris, London, and also go for a walk."With a big hand, Ju An said imposingly.

(End of this chapter)