Alpine pasture

Chapter 401

Wang Fan looked at the drawing, and then said to Ju An and the two, "Are we going to release the snake first or what should we say?"Wang Fan's head was a bit big when he looked at the drawings, but the black and white drawings didn't look very interesting.

Leonard listened with a smile and said, "Let's go and see the plants I planted. I have planted thousands of ferns in a few days. Now is not a good time to put snakes. The weather is too hot. Let the weather cool down."

"Rough-rooted fern?" Ju An asked curiously, looking at Leonard. Has the plant had a name since it hasn't been seen for a few days?However, the name is really straightforward and has no technical content at all, a thick-rooted fern.

Leonard smiled: "A newly cultivated plant always has a name, so I'll just call it a rough-rooted fern. You have no problem with it, Ann, it stands to reason that I should let you name it. , but Thomas thinks that you don't care about the fictitious things, so..."

After hearing this, Ju An immediately waved his hand to interrupt Leonard's words: "I have no opinion, the name is good."As long as you don't waste your buddy's brain cells, I don't mind if you give a plant a ***, you can call it Zhang San Li Si, and it's still a plant.The gangsters in the family are alive and kicking. Now the right to name them all falls to the daughter and son, not to mention the grass.

"Then let's go and have a look, it's not far! It's on the edge of the small lake." Leonard took Ju An and Wang Fan out of the house.

Ju An and Wang Fan followed Leonard out of the house. There was a burst of heat coming from the front. The sun shone white all around. The two quickly snapped their sunglasses, then took out their hats from the car and put them on their heads. Come on, wearing a baseball cap at this time is a B-type character. How much sun can a hat brim block? There is one standing next to Ju An, Comrade Wang Fan!Or a light blue baseball cap.

As soon as he got to the lake, Wang Fan took off his hat, stuck the cowboy hat on Ju An's head on his head, and handed his baseball cap to Ju An: "You thin, resist the heat, I I'm fatter than you and afraid of heat, so give me a cowboy hat."

Ju An grabbed the baseball cap stuck on her head and shook it like a small fan, ignoring Wang Fan, and followed Leonard to watch the fern that was planted.

On the high slope next to a small depression that has stored a lot of water, these dark green plants are stretched. Big green blanket: "Why are they so densely planted, it's better to plant them separately".Ju An saw the problem at a glance and said to Leonard.

Leonard explained with a smile: "My assistants and I planted a plant one meter apart, and it regrown. If you pay attention, there are large plants about one meter apart. ".After finishing speaking, he pointed at the nearest large plant head and showed it to Ju An. Ju An carefully looked at it and it was true. He was unprofessional. After thinking about it, he knew that even a layman would think of himself as a plant. The old man has been dealing with plants all his life, can he still remember?
After thinking about it, he asked Leonard, "Then how do you expand these plants now, or do you rely on manual work?".

"It's still manual work. It's me and my assistant and a few cowboys to chop off the heads of the plants. It will be fine after two days to herd the sheep. At that time, a few cowboys will take turns driving the sheep to nibble once a day, as long as If there is a water source, it will still be full and fast. Wait for it to expand a bit. We can get a sprinkler to water it every morning and evening. After the scale is reached, it is not necessary. At that time, the rainwater will be stored on the ground. The rhizomes still absorb water very well," Leonard explained with a smile.

Wang Fan next to him listened and stared at the plant at his feet and plucked the roots under the leaves: "No wonder it's called a thick-rooted fern, it looks like the root is like a big radish."As soon as he finished speaking, he followed up: "No, the radish is one."After saying that, I pulled it hard, but the plant just loosened.

Leonard said with a smile: "It's just planted, if you can't pull it for another month, I estimate that the taproot of this plant can be more than one meter deep."

"That's a good thing. If this is planted in the desert, wouldn't the desert turn into an oasis?" Wang Fan stared at the thick root fern and said.

Ju An shook his head: "Where can I grow this in the desert, didn't I hear Leonard say that I need to water it?"Fortunately, this is just a plant outside. It has changed a little. If it grows in the desert, Ju An will be scared to pee his pants. Ju An is not a leader of the country, but he has no energy to play a big game. Governing the desert or something.

Leonard listened to Ju An's words and said: "Let's not mention the water situation, that is, the plant died after being buried under the sand for a period of time without seeing sunlight. Although the soil here is said to be larger, it is still Soil is incomparable to desert."

Ju An didn't want to talk more about this topic and asked Leonard: "What kind of sheep are going to be raised here, whether it is single or mixed."

"Lehmann suggested that we start with single-breeding, mutton sheep, Boer goats, and mixed alpaca when the area of ​​the plants grows, so that not only meat but also wool can be produced. You can watch the cowboys drive the sheep back at night. It's here, now it's a thousand boer goats in the early stage, mixed with a dozen alpacas," Leonard said to Ju An.

"Isn't it threatened by rattlesnakes during this time?" Ju An is most worried about this thing, but it is a highly venomous snake. As for this pasture being so hot to raise alpacas to produce wool, forget it!They say give birth then give birth.

Leonard shook his head and said, "That's not true, but there should be quite a few rattlesnakes in this valley, and they still have to be driven away. If you don't drive them away accidentally, it will be troublesome. The other troubles are the eagles on the mountain. The threat is also very big. Now there are not many sheep and nothing, and if there are too many people, it will be hard to guard against. I want to simply move Xiaojin or Dajin over.”Leonard also knows that these two golden eagles are famous for defending the territory, and their bodies are large. Eagle is still enough.

Ju An nodded and said, "I thought so too, but I thought I would bring Dajin and Xiaojin's children when they came out of the nest, and then I would just feed some meat to the pasture."The good thing is that the golden eagle prefers soft internal organs, but the old beauty does not eat them, which is complementary. The two families of Ju'an Wangfan eat tripe, but dozens of cows every day are dozens of tripe. You can't finish eating even if you lie down on it.

"That's fine, anyway, just send the golden eagle over to occupy the sky of the ranch, and the rest of the rattlesnakes still need the cowboys to see and kill some or you want to release some king snakes, which is a deterrent to many nasty things."Leonard said to Ju An.

After listening to Leonard talking for a while, Ju An walked to the small pond and touched the water that had just been tapped from the ground. Suddenly, she felt a chill, and it spread to her body along her arm. He said to Wang Fan, "Come and try it, this water is really cool."

Wang Fan came over after hearing Ju An's words, put his hand into the pond, and then slapped his face with his hand: "This is really comfortable."After saying that, he patted his arm.

Ju An also patted some cold water on his face, and then stood up and looked at his ranch. Now, apart from some simple houses, there are piles of wood. Those are all used to build cowboy dormitories. Now the construction site There was no one on board, only a few excavators were working, let alone work in this birdy weather, standing outside felt hot and turned to Leonard and said, "Take me and Wang Fan to our place of accommodation. Well, I want to rest a little."

Leonard nodded: "Okay, come with me." After that, he led Ju An and Wang Fan towards the simple room, walked to the farthest one, and pushed open the door: "Then you can rest first. , tell me if you need anything." After that, he took the door and walked away.

The air conditioner was not turned on in the room. Of course, Wang Fan turned on the air conditioner immediately. The air conditioners in the simple house are all window-type, and the space is small. After taking two beds, Wang Fan and Ju An each occupied a bed and started to take a nap.

This night, they slept until the sun was about to set, and the two got up from the bed, took out their own toiletries in the car, put them in, and washed their faces a little.

When he arrived at Leonard's office, Cowboy Rand had returned, and he said hello to Ju An, and then talked about the current situation of the ranch. Ju An had no objection, nodded, and saw Rand's arm. The king snake wrapped in a white and yellow pattern smiled and said, "Do you like king snakes very much?".

Rand explained with a smile: "I can't say whether I like it or not. Cowboys have been familiar with these things for decades. Compared with rattlesnakes and poisonous lizards, king snakes are not bad."

Ju An shook his head. This is not good in the southwestern United States. There are too many poisons. It is said that there are many kinds of rattlesnakes.

Following Rand and Leonard talking about the ranch for a while, seeing that the sun was about to set on the horizon, Ju An decided to release the snake and start work while the weather was cool.

Rand kept the snake on his wrist and planned to put it around the house, just in time to catch the annoying mice at night, while Ju An put all the remaining snakes in the car, and was going to leave this one for a while. Of course, there are few such idle and boring things, Wang Fan, and the two drove around the pasture in a car.

Putting a snake, Ju An took advantage of Wang Fan to get in the car first and then dropped one from the space. After putting a few snakes away, the two stopped the car to release the snake. As soon as they grabbed the snake in their hands, they heard it not far away. There was a rustling sound from the place, and when Wang Fan saw it, it was a rattlesnake hiding under a stone, and there was nothing around it, spitting letters in the direction of the two.

Ju An was not afraid of attack, and slowly took the king snake in his hand, moved four or five steps away, and put the king snake down, saying, "Go! Go! Kill it, dinner is ready."Unexpectedly, as soon as the king snake was put down, it wrapped around Ju An's arm, and when it was put down again, the king snake spit out a letter and swam into the bushes beside it.

"Your sister, bastard! Come back for me?" Ju An was so angry that she escaped.Wang Fan looked at it from the back and said, "What you bought is a piece of junk."

"Look at this rattlesnake here, buddy, go get another one." Ju An raised his feet and walked towards the car. When he got to the car, he watched Wang Fan staring at the rattlesnake. He flipped his hand and took out a red Wang Fan from the space. Snake, walked over.

(End of this chapter)