Alpine pasture

Chapter 48 Rodeo (End)

The fierce competition is thrilling. Ju An and Wu Ming commented while watching, um, this player is not bad, the posture is good and he stayed for a long time, ouch!This guy is so unlucky, he was thrown off without being stunned for two seconds, ah, so hanging, this cowboy almost fell to the ground.

As soon as the saddled wild horses were over, the radio announced that the morning race was over and everyone had an hour to rest.

Everyone came out of the arena one after another and went to the simple store outside to buy something to eat. There were basically no seats. Since many of them are sent out by the whole family, you can see them everywhere outside the venue, walking with food while nibbling on foreigners holding their sons or riding their daughters on their shoulders.

This group of people from Ju An also followed the local customs, queuing up for each person to get a hot dog or hamburger, a drink, hold it in their hand, and eat it up, a group of people would eat and walk. Smart people, this family brought a large cloth, spread it on the grass outside the field, and also brought a picnic basket. The cloth was covered with several plastic boxes of different sizes, and the inside was colorful, and the family was outside. Have a picnic.Looking at the sausages, steaks, and looking at the hamburgers in my hands, I am very annoyed. I knew that I should bring a lunch to eat, so I don't need to eat hamburgers, even if I bring a few roujiamo. .

Before Ju An could finish feeling annoyed, a sentence in Chinese came from the side, "I took a photo all morning, hey, I didn't even take a look at the game, it's a loss." Ju An took a look and noticed it in the morning. Brother cameraman, he laughed after thinking about it.

Seeing Ju An smirking, Wu Ming bit his hamburger and asked, "Why are you smirking, why did you see *** running?".Of course, it was in Chinese, and the three Yanmar girls next to her couldn't understand it.

Ju An explained in English that the cameraman in the morning looked a lot and found that he was taking pictures.Now complaining about not seeing the game, the three Yanmar classmates also laughed.

After eating the hamburger in hand, I chatted with Yanmar for a while, and Reese and Dinah said that they were going to prepare for the afternoon game, so they couldn't chat with you.

Wu Ming was interested, and expressed his desire to visit their horse-carrying car.Wu Ming said: "If it is convenient, can you take us to see your horse-carrying car? I want to visit it."

Dinah and Reese happily agreed.Ju An had to ask Mom and Dad to keep an eye on the four skin monkeys so that they wouldn't get lost.They followed Wu Ming and three Yanmar students to see the car.

On the road, seeing the three Yanma classmates come to the front, Ju An secretly said in Chinese: "Be serious, boy, don't embarrass the people of the motherland, don't be ashamed if you want to chase the Yangma, let's also look at the carriage, don't I have one at home?" .

Wu Ming rolled his eyes: "Your uncle, buddy is a good four-year-old young man whose mind is crooked by your dirty mind, buddy is just curious to see."

When a few people walked to Dinah and Reese's trailer, Wu Ming praised it. It looked a little old on the outside, but it was well maintained. It was half longer than Ju An's trailer, and the wheels were also longer than Ju An's trailer. There were two more people in An's family. When I got in the car and saw it, Ju An also praised it, and there really was a double bed inside.There are also hanging cabinets and even a simple kitchen and bathroom, which are better than the house that Ju An rented in Jiangnan.

Reese said: "This car was used by my dad in the previous races and has been kept."

When a few people got out of the car, Old Jason also came over, ready to help the two girls with some preparatory activities.

Since the horses for the competition were all placed in the fence, where there was a special supply of forage, old Jason went to lead the horses first, while the two Yanma girls took the saddles, water reins and other things out of the trailer.

When the two girls took out their saddles, Ju An and Wu Ming had a good eye-opening experience. Both saddles were brown, but the color was different. The patterns on them were exquisite. Carved with unnamed small flowers, the small flowers are wrapped around the saddle with flower vines, and the carving is a kind of woven mat pattern that resembles the sleeping pattern of the Chinese people. The two saddles are decorated with shiny silver ornaments and silver ornaments. The sides are very beautiful. Even the reins and chest straps are decorated with small silver flowers. Reese told the two that these are all handmade in silver.

Seeing that others were busy, and the two of them couldn't help much, Ju An took Wu Ming to say goodbye. On the way, Wu Ming was envious: "I have a chance to buy a saddle like this, it's so beautiful."

The thief Ju An smiled: "I support you, watching you ride a horse with this kind of saddle, I don't look at anyone, I thought it was a girl riding a horse, you are a big man's saddle full of flowers, I think about every hair on the saddle. stand up."

Wu Ming touched his head and was speechless for a while.

When I found the big team, it was almost the time for the start of the game, so I followed in. As soon as I found a seat in the morning and sat down, the broadcast announced the start of the afternoon game.

The first project I heard about was cowboy poker, Wu Ming asked Ju An what it was, and Ju An shook his head and said, "I don't know what project this is, let's see first."

After a while, there were four cowboys sitting face to face at a square table, posing as if they were playing poker. When the cowboys took their poses, the fence door opened, and inside appeared a robust bull with its head on top. With its big black sharp horns, I saw the bull dig its hooves twice at the fence, and then rushed towards the four cowboys in the middle of the arena. Only then did the cowboy leave the table in a hurry. It turns out that this competition is about the psychology and luck of the cowboys. The cowboy who left the table at the end is the winner. When he reached his throat, and then saw several cowboys escape the bull's sharp horns one after another, he breathed a sigh of relief, very nervous and exciting.

Then there were several waves of cowboys playing "poker" a few times, and Ju An's heart went up and down, and she was extremely nervous.

After the cowboy poker game was over, the clown showed off his equestrian skills on the field, riding backwards, hiding in the pedals, pulling the ponytail, a series of funny movements, making the audience laugh hahaha, inadvertently, the nervousness just now also disappeared. Calm down.

It was followed by riding a wild horse without a saddle. Every aspect of riding a wild bull is thrilling and memorable. Ju An observed that riding a wild bull is more exciting than riding a wild horse. The cowboy riding the wild bull wears a helmet, and then follows the cow tossing. For a while the body is forward, and the body thrown by the cow is backward for a while, giving Ju An the feeling that someone is holding your feet.Then toss your sensation back and forth forward and then back.

Many cowboys have not been able to last until the qualified time, and the host will sometimes say that this young man is too unlucky, and so on.After 8 seconds, a cowboy will come over on a horse, rescue the cowboy on the horse's back, and then land on the horse, even if the score is scored.Rodeo luck is as important as skill.

Under the bison riding event is the horse-drawn carriage. The horse-drawn carriage of the cowboys is not the current rubber wheel, but an old-fashioned four-wheeled wooden carriage. Each carriage is driven by four horses. Each race is two carriages. The two driving cowboys swayed the reins and drank loudly: Huha, driving the carriage to run fast, the rear of the car brought up the wet soil on the field, and then it went around the two oil drums, which was a bit of a surprise. The feel of a cowboy drive-by shootout in a Western movie.

Next, there is the women's barrel round competition, which is the competition that Reese and Dinah participated in, but it was not them who appeared first, but another cowgirl who did not know. At the beginning, the cowgirls were racing at full speed. Rush to the first oil barrel, then slow down suddenly, the horse's hind legs don't move, the horse's front legs go around the oil barrel, continue to the next oil barrel, and after passing three oil barrels, the cowgirl pulls with the reins The horse's neck, slammed into the horse's legs, and rushed to the finish line at full speed, the cowboy who finished the fastest was the champion.

After waiting for a few cowgirl games, I heard a report on the radio that the next contestant was Reese.

Ju An was still a little nervous when Reese rode a chestnut white star and rushed to the first bucket. Maybe it was because of her acquaintance, she just hoped she could finish it quickly.Reese's movements are very standard, but the time is a little longer, not as good as the previous cowgirls.

It was Dinah's turn to wait until the third one below. Dinah rode a black quart, and immediately urged the horse to rush to the first oil drum when the order sounded. I saw Dinah's long black hair flying in the air, holding the stigma with both hands, keeping her balance, the horse and the ground formed an angle, it was really heroic, after bypassing the three oil drums, she rushed to the end, let Ju Ann was a little regretful that the two girls she knew were not fast, and they didn't get a trophy or something.

The next calf fall with bare hands was two cowboys riding a horse side by side with the calf sandwiched between them. Then one cowboy jumped off the horse quickly when he saw the opportunity. Before landing, he grabbed the horns with both hands and fell the calf to the ground.It reflects the direct contest between man and cow.In the game, some cowboys finished very well, and some unlucky cowboys either caught the back of the cow or landed first, shook their heads regretfully and walked off the field.

Knowing that the whole game was over, it was almost four o'clock in the afternoon, and everyone was watching nervous and exciting, making everyone feel that although the modern cowboys no longer need to work as hard as the older generation of cowboys, but The courage and spirit of the older generation of cowboys are still passed down through rodeo. Many rodeo sports are summed up from actual life. Perhaps we are talking about life and higher than life. summed up.

When everyone got in the car and drove out of Great Falls, they were still talking about the wonderful race with great interest. On the way back, there was another big trailer in the team. Old Jason drove the car with three girls and followed him. After Ann's car, go back together.

(End of this chapter)