Alpine pasture

Chapter 66 The Farm Guest ([-])

Ju An said with a smile: "There is still such a discount on Easter. I don't know about this. When I came to the United States before, it seemed that it was either May or September, and I basically never encountered any festivals."

The old man said: "That Easter is to let the children look for those colorful plastic eggs everywhere, and Halloween is to pretend to be a ghost to be scary. Every time at this time, Guangyuan and I are responsible for staying at home and giving candy to the children. They were all dressed up in weird ways, and my daughter-in-law, Dongna, took her little grandson out to ask for candy, and she posted a lot in one night, and the children could also ask for a lot, which was very interesting."

Then everyone talked about the festival of foreigners. After a while, Chang Dongna came to inform everyone that it was ready to eat. Ju An and Wang Fan followed them to the restaurant. As soon as they entered the restaurant, they saw a A Chinese-style round table was placed in the middle of the restaurant, and the dishes had already been placed on the table.

Everyone gathered around the round table to prepare, and Lu Guangyuan suggested, "Why don't everyone get some liquor and make it lively."After speaking, he stood up and took out a bottle of Moutai from the back cabinet and opened it.

Ju An shook his head to stop Lu Guangyuan, and explained, "There is no need for baijiu, we have to drive back later."

The old man waved his hand and said, "It's alright to stay here at night. The place is big, so I'll stay here for one night and go back tomorrow morning."

Wang Fan said: "There are still things in Ju'an's ranch. We really want to go back two nights. This time I'm here to bring two people to learn how to raise horses. After returning to China, I will open a horse ranch. There are still many things in hand. Yes, next time, next time I must have a drunken break."

The old man looked at it and said, "The hands of the farms here are busy, and Guangyuan is basically busy every day to build this farm, and the busyness is not over all year round, then I will not leave you, but alone. If you don’t drive, then the other person will accompany me, the old man, to have two drinks, drink less, it’s not easy to meet a fellow in this wilderness.”

Ju An then said to Wang Fan: "Then you can accompany the old man for two drinks, I'll just drive."

When Wang Fan heard this, he readily said to the old man, "Then I'll accompany you to drink two glasses. I'm not very good at drinking, so I can only drink less."

The old man was very happy when he heard it: "Like the man in our capital, feel free."

Wang Fan took the jug from Lu Guangyuan's hand, filled it for the old man, and then filled it with Lu Guangyuan and himself. Ju An and Chang Dongna took the juice and everyone had a drink.

Then the old man cheerfully called everyone to eat. Ju An tasted a few dishes and found them very delicious. Basically, the taste is relatively heavy. Ju An especially likes a stewed eggplant. Generally speaking, Ju An does not eat eggplant. , mainly because Ju An didn't like the taste of eggplants, but the eggplants made by Chang Dongna were very suitable for Ju An's appetite.

Wang Fan and Lu Guangyuan were drinking small wine. They paid more attention to meat dishes. The braised pork trotters, which are hard to be seen on the table in the United States, were happily nibbling on them in their hands. While chatting in the capital dialect.

Chang Dongna said to Ju An affectionately: "Xiaoju, try the large intestines I made. They are all pigs raised at home. The food is fed and the taste is very good."After he finished speaking, he put a piece into the small bowl in front of Ju An, and Ju An tasted it. Sure enough, there was no peculiar smell at all, and it was very chewy.

Then he smiled and praised: "You pigs raised in your own home, not only the meat is delicious, but also the intestines are so strong, absolutely."

Lu Guangyuan listened to it and said, "This taste is the same as when we were young, farm pigs, that kind of black pork. Now it is not easy to eat this kind of domestic pigs in China. They are all fattened pigs that are fed with feed, and black pigs are fed. It takes more effort, and it is not economical. We only fed a few pigs by ourselves. When we first came, we fed them at home. Later, the piglets were fed. Several foreign friends nearby who had eaten this kind of pork at home followed suit. I got it back and fed it, and now most of the pigs that we raise and eat in our own homes are this kind of pigs.”

Ju An said with a smile, "Oh, is there still anyone selling piglets? If there are, I'll get a few and feed them back. When the Chinese New Year comes, the family members will come over and they will be very lively."

Chang Dongna looked at Ju An and smiled: "You are only feeding the piglets now, you can't eat them during the Chinese New Year, this kind of black pig will take almost a year to grow up. Head, today you and our family will kill one and one half of the family."

Ju An said: "That's good, but I really want to get a few of this little piggy and go back and raise them."

Chang Dongna said: "No problem. When you left, there happened to be a few half-sized piglets in a nearby family. I heard that they were going to sell them a few days ago. I will ask them later."

"Then thank you, it just so happens that there are pigs in my ranch. It's alright. The cows, sheep, pigs, geese, ducks and chickens are all domestic. Except for cattle and sheep, they are all domestic products." Ju An said proudly. .

Lu Guangyuan said, "Do you still have domestic geese and turkeys? That's really a good thing. We tried to bring it a few times, but it was not easy to bring it. In the end, let it go."

Ju An said with a smile, "If you want to raise them, go to me and get a dozen or so. The geese in the pasture are just hatching their eggs. The chicks are about to come out of the second wave. If you want, go to me and catch them." .

Chang Dongna responded with a smile: "That's great, after a few days, let Lao Lu go to your place and catch a few geese and small chickens to raise. The big ocean chickens in the United States are really big. Now, it tastes much worse."

After everyone happily ate lunch, Lu Guangyuan took Ju An and Wang Fan to visit his farm.

Entering a large shed, Ju An saw rows of shelves filled with flowers. Lu Guangyuan introduced, "This is a flower house. We will plant some flowers for sale in spring and autumn, which is also a big source of money in spring."

Looking at the rows of pipes and sprinklers hanging from the top of the greenhouse, Wang Fan said with emotion: "Your greenhouse has advanced facilities, and there are automatic sprinklers. It is much better than the greenhouse in Ju'an."

Ju An glanced at Wang Fan and said, "My greenhouse also has a spray, but it's not as big and as big as Master Lu's. I just grow my own food. What do I need such a professional spray for?"

Lu Guangyuan said with a smile: "That's not to be so particular, it's not that my greenhouse is advanced, it's that the labor force here in the United States is too high, I want to ask but I can't afford it, even if I'm really busy, I can find two people to come over to help, and it will take a year. I have to hire someone to help me for two or three months, and the rest of my family will be busy here.”

Wang Fan said with a smile, "It's just the opposite of our country. We have cheap labor and expensive things. Here in Laomei, things are cheap and labor is expensive."

Lu Guangyuan smiled and nodded and said, "Yes, it's just the opposite of China."Ju An and Wang Fan followed after watching for a while and then went out of the greenhouse. Lu Guangyuan said, "All the greenhouses I have here are planting flowers in spring and out-of-season vegetables in winter."

Ju An asked, "Business should be good, right?"

"It's okay, anyway, I don't have to worry about food and drink throughout the year, and there are still some small balances. It's no problem to pay a few children to finish college. The boss is not ready to let us pay, and he is ready to apply for a loan to go to college. Anyway, there is basically no pressure and no big money, just the leftovers It's a joy." Lu Guangyuan said with a smile.

Next, the two of them took a look at the livestock they raised. The number of cows and sheep raised was not large. There were some cows and dozens of sheep. Ju An also saw a few donkeys in the pasture. , I don't know what a donkey can do. Is it killing a donkey to eat meat? After asking, I realized that it was his eldest son who brought it back to raise it for fun.

After looking around the livestock, Lu Guangyuan followed Ju An and Wang Fan to a large pumpkin patch, watching the green pumpkins forming under the green pumpkin seedlings.Ju An asked, "Can these pumpkins be sold, they don't look small."

Lu Guangyuan said with a smile: "These pumpkins are kept for Halloween and sold, when the pumpkin seedlings are removed, there will only be large orange pumpkins left on the ground, which will be good-looking, wait until then. Come and play, several of our farms here provide activities every year, which is a bit like the form of domestic farmhouse entertainment.”

Wang Fan asked happily when he heard the farmhouse, "What is the farmhouse like here in the United States? Is it a one-stop food and drink?".

Lu Guangyuan replied: "It's basically just a family out to play, you can buy some vegetables. At that time, we will draw a maze in the cornfield, a big maze in the whole piece, put some marks in the maze, you can find all the mazes. There will be a small reward on the mark, usually the whole family comes together, and by the way, buy pumpkins for Halloween, if you are interested, come to play with us in October this year.”

Later, he took Ju An and Wu Ming to visit a large cornfield, pointed to the large cornfield and said, "This year our maze is going to be drawn on this ground, and then we will find a plane to draw the pattern in the air. , just drive the harvester below to harvest the pattern.”

When Ju An heard about the plane, she came and asked, "Is this kind of plane expensive?"

Lu Guangyuan said: "What's the price? You can buy a pesticide spraying plane for tens of thousands of dollars. It's not a big deal. Many farms have their own planes, and some large pastures have hundreds of thousands of acres. , they are all driven by helicopters to drive cattle, if horses are used, it will take as many cows as many cows to drive tens of thousands of cows.”

Ju An asked, "Is it a good idea to get this aircraft license? If it's easy to get, I'm going to get one for fun."

Lu Guangyuan said: "Now I heard that this license is a little troublesome. In the past, it was all about spending money, but now it has to be reviewed and so on. Lao Mei was a little scared by 911, but it just took more time and more. If you go to class or something, you have to get $[-] after all the time.”

Ju An thought about it for a while, and it's really a bit tricky. After getting the license, it will be a super Spitfire fighter from World War II, Dorafeng.

(End of this chapter)