Alpine pasture

Chapter 478
Following Ju An's gaze, everyone was also fascinated by the scenery in front of them, watching in silence, the whole world was left with only the fragrance of flowers, the sea of ​​flowers and the blue sky. It was all warm, except for the horse under its crotch snorting from time to time, stretching its head out to nibble on the watery leaves of the thick root fern.

"咴~~~!" The Kuat horse under his crotch neighed, pulling Ju An and the others back from the beautiful scenery. The Kuat under Ju An's crotch was a little irritable, knocking on the ground from time to time, shaking The mane on the head and neck, which was cut into the length of a palm, rolled along with the horse's neck, gently patted the horse's neck, comforted the mount, followed the direction of the horse's head, and saw a The bright red King Snake on it was coiled into a ball, facing the direction of the horse, slightly raising its head and sticking out its tongue.

Ju An recognized the snake when he saw it. He had raised it in the space before, turned over and got off the horse, walked to the side of the stone, and stretched out his hand to the king snake.

"Be careful! This snake is very big, it's dangerous not to be wrapped around your neck by him," Dinah said to Ju An.

Ju An stretched out his hand, and the King Snake sensed Ju An's breath, and immediately wrapped his hand around Ju An's arm, forming a ball around Ju An's arm. Head, smiled at Dinah and said: "I bought these snakes. Originally, there were rattlesnakes in the pasture, so I came up with the idea of ​​these snakes. I don't know if there are any rattlesnakes in the pasture now." How much is left."

Dinah grew up in the countryside, and Cora was a policewoman. The two women looked at the king snake on Ju An's forearm and didn't say anything, but Miles, a big man, saw the fiery red king snake on his face. Ju An said: "Quickly let this thing go! I have been afraid of this thing since I was a child. Whenever I see these snakes swimming up and down in the water or in the grass, I get hairs on my back!".

"Haha!" Ju An laughed twice, walked forward about ten steps, walked to another big rock and wanted to put the king snake on it, unfolded the fiery red king snake, and put it on the stone. Ann discovered that the fiery red king snake had grown to nearly one and a half meters long.As soon as the King Snake got on the stone, he stuck out his tongue in the direction of Ju An, and swam away along the smooth stone.

The four people who were watching the scenery were interrupted by the king snake and started running again on horseback. After running for ten minutes, a herd of cows appeared not far away, but it was not the gray or white that Ju An used to see. , now it is black and white.Next to the herd, there are a few cowboys on horseback looking at the herd.

Seeing Ju An and his party approaching, one of the cowboys gave him a light hand: "Hello! BOSS!".The two cowboys next to him were stunned, and then nodded to Ju An: "BOSS!".

Probably the two cowboys next to him were hired from behind. If it weren't for seeing an Asian man riding a horse and running wildly in the pasture, he would know that it was Ju An's.It is too difficult for these cowboys to expect them to remember an Asian face at a time, just as we look at foreigners at first glance, and foreigners look at us the same way.

"Hello everyone!" Ju An waved to the cowboys, then pointed to Dinah and said, "This is my wife, and these two are my friends."

Dinah nodded to the three cowboys.

Ju An looked at the herd of cows on horseback, and found that some of the cows were lying on the ground and grazing directly with their heads tilted. He was surprised at once. The energy of this cow was very similar to that of his buddies, and it was okay to be lazy.Pointing to the lying cow, he asked several cowboys, "Is it okay for cows to eat thick root fern now?"

"Well, now these little cows have adapted to the taste of the thick root fern, and gradually like it, and they will know when these cows start to produce milk next year. Anyway, the female professor I heard said that it is ours. The thick root fern can already provide enough nutrition for the cows," the first cowboy who greeted Ju An said to Ju An with a smile.

"Miss Jennifer has also arrived at the ranch?" Juan asked the cowboy.Jennifer is the dairy expert invited here. Regardless of her age, as long as she is not married, Lao Mei will call her Miss here. Anyway, no matter how old she is without a ring, it is always right to call her Miss. It is not like Miss China. The term has already specifically referred to women who have lost their feet. This advanced way of addressing has not yet spread to Laomei. As for whether they can come to Ju'an in the future, I don't know.

The cowboy nodded and said, "Miss Jennifer has been here for a month. She has been here since the cows were shipped in, and she should have gone back to Montana by now."

Ju An was a little ashamed when he heard that, he basically hadn't been to Hans Ranch this holiday season, if Leonard hadn't asked Ju An to see the flowers, Ju An wouldn't have planned to come.It's really unreasonable that my boss is not as diligent as other people's dairy cows, and then I thought: no, the boss should be like a buddy, if someone else does everything, then the boss is.

Then I thought of a buddy who made architectural display drawings when I was in China. Ju An praised him for his good drawings.At that time, Ju An was very envious of seeing people with more than 1 yuan a month. Now that I think about it, what this buddy said is the truth.

After adjusting her mood and smiling, Dinah next to her asked the cowboys, "Are all the cows in the pasture here? Didn't they say thousands of cows? It's estimated that there are only more than 1000 cows?"

"Well! Now there are more than 5000 ferns, which are divided into several points for stocking. We have more than 1000 here, and there are four other points for stocking. Now the area of ​​the thick-root fern accounts for less than half of the pasture, but it does not expand now. It started to be so cumbersome. Professor Leonard talked with us. It is estimated that the whole pasture will be covered with thick root ferns by March next year at the latest. If you come back in September this year, you can see cows everywhere. said the cowboy, smiling at Dinah.It can be seen that these cowboys are still looking forward to the cows covering the entire pasture.

After chatting with the cowboys for a while, the four of Ju An rode horses towards the ranch house.When I got to the house in the ranch, I got off the horse, tied the rein directly to the pile head, and let the horse graze everywhere.

Dinah said to Ju'an: "I slept a little short on the plane, and I'm a little sleepy now, let Leonard take us to the room to rest."

Ju An looked at Dinah, the daughter-in-law was a bit tired, just now when they were looking at the flowers, several people were very excited and couldn't tell, but now there was an obvious tiredness on their faces, it was the same when looking at Cora, look again Miles probably didn't sleep much on the plane, and now he's almost dozed off.

"Then you guys wait here, I'll ask where Leonard's room is." After speaking, he walked towards Leonard's office and dormitory.

I knocked on the door a few times, but no one answered inside. I stretched my head and looked through the window, and there was no one inside!Just as he was about to take out his mobile phone to call the old man, a cowboy came over on a horse and said to Ju An, "BOSS! Professor Leonard went to observe the expansion of the root fern, and asked me to call him Are you coming back?"

"No, I'll just make a phone call." Ju An smiled at the cowboy, shaking the phone in his hand: "I just want to ask him, where are we staying tonight, my wife and two friends are a little tired" .

"Your room is in the back three rooms." The cowboy sat on the horseback and pointed to his back and said to Ju An: "See the blue five characters painted on the door, that's the room, and then follow the three rooms This is the room Mr. Rand prepared for you!".

Ju An stretched his head and took a look to understand. He put the phone back into his trouser pocket, said thank you to the cowboy, then turned his head and waved to Dinah and the others: "Come this way!".

Leading a few people to open the door, looking at the luggage next to the door, you can tell who is in whose room. Dinah and the others are resting in the room. No, of course I am not interested in sleeping anymore. I was riding a horse and saw the cowboy who gave Ju'an Road just now asked where Leonard was, and ran towards the direction of the cowboy's finger.

It took about ten minutes to find Leonard and the others. Now the old man was chatting with the supervisor of the ranch, Rand, when he saw Ju An galloping over on horseback, he stopped and smiled at Ju An.

When he reached the side of the old man and Rand, he kicked off his horse.Wrap the rein on the saddle casually, and after two turns, a standard buckle appears on the saddle stud.

"Don't take a break after sitting on the plane for so long?" Leonard asked Ju An with a smile.

After hearing this, Ju An waved his hands, then looked up at the situation, the current thick root fern has grown here, a crooked line, one side is full of flowering thick root fern and the other is bare wasteland with shrubs, It can also be said that one side is the future of the ranch and the other is the past of the ranch, and the two are clearly distinct.

"I don't think there are many such shrubs in the pasture. Why have they been cleaned up or how?" Ju An asked Leonard, pointing to a shrub that was half a man tall not far away.

Leonard said with a smile: "I didn't clean it up, it's because the thick root fern grows too aggressively, and the roots absorb water too much. As long as it grows next to these shrubs, it will occupy the water source of these shrubs. It won't take a few months for these plants to It's dead, and we don't need to clean it up."

Ju An nodded with a smile, and said in his heart: This has completely inherited the characteristics of space. Space grass is so domineering. As long as it grows where it grows, it is really difficult for ordinary plants to grow. .

Looking at the bushes not far away, Ju An remembered something, pointed to the distance and said to Leonard and Rand: "Now the owner of the land over there is going to sell it, and I have already let Ji Lun talked to him. He asked for 10,000 million yuan. The highest price I can accept is 1000 million yuan. I estimate that the possibility of buying it is half to half. If we can buy it, it will be ours from here to Lake Mead place."

"The price of 800 million is still too high," Rand said to Ju An after thinking for a while.

(End of this chapter)