People with diseases are sensitive, and despite the sweep of his eyes, the woman notices.

She immediately lowered her veil and explained: "Sorry for misunderstanding, the cheetah is the name of a German pastor we once raised, it is very well-behaved and handsome, just like, just like this child." ”

She stretched out her hand and touched Demu's head, and Demu stuck out his tongue without moving, polite and polite.

The woman led them to a spacious house, during which she introduced Barnes to his wife, Lia Karakaraka, who ran the small farm where Barnes was milking cows.

The scale of the small farm is even smaller than the small farm where Yang Shubao bought trees, and it may only be more than ten acres, which is almost a rectangular piece of land with a width of 300 meters and a vertical area of 200 meters.

So there are very few people who take care of the small farm, and only when the two of them need to pick fruit or kill cattle and sheep do they hire some people to help.

Although the farm is small, it has a high utilization rate, including corn fields, orchards, small pastures, and even a small pond with an area of just over 200 square meters.

The pond is surrounded on three sides by trees that Yang is familiar with, they are North American redwoods, and he now has a ring of these trees planted on his land.

Barnes didn't grow redwoods for sale or privacy, but for vines to climb, and these redwoods were wrapped around a climbing plant with thorny melons, spiny horns.

Liya warmly invited Yang Shubao into the house and sat down, and she said while entertaining: "I'm really sorry, Mr. Yang, it stands to reason that I should go to see you when you come to town, but I'm really sorry that I can't go out." ”

Yang Shubao said: "Madame is too polite. ”

Liya was not polite, she said seriously: "Your compatriot Ms. Tu Youyou once saved my life, the artemisinin she discovered, maybe you don't know, I am the first batch of clinical trial volunteers of natural artemisinin extraction in Africa, it was more than 30 years ago." ”

Yang Shubao was suddenly, no wonder Barnes immediately showed a good impression after learning that he was Chinese, and also mentioned Tu Youyou, it should be Liya who mentioned this past to him.

After welcoming him to sit down, Liya went to pick a thorny gourd, she cut the top of the gourd and picked out some pulps and seeds, then added ice cubes and honey to it, inserted a straw and handed it to Yang Shubao and said, "We don't have any good drinks at home, but the prickly gourd tastes very good, maybe you will like it?"

This is a very ripe spiny gourd, showing a full and firm golden yellow, the flesh inside is delicate and tender and juicy, but the taste is definitely not good, Lao Yang has drunk it, the juice of the spiny horn gourd tastes very strange, and it is not good without honey.

gave him a spiny horned melon, and Liya was going to call her husband back to entertain him.

Seeing this, Lao Yang stood up and said: "Madam, you are too polite, you go and get busy first, I know that milk needs to be kept fresh and stored as soon as possible, don't treat me as a guest, in fact, I am already very familiar with Barnes." ”

It is not easy for small farms to survive, and Barnes is not doing well economically, and pasture is an important source of income for them.

Seeing that his words were sincere, Liya hesitated for a moment and said, "Then I'll go get busy first?"

Yang Shubao said: "Okay, you tell Barnes that I'm not in a hurry, because I don't have anything to do today. ”

The couple were busy in the small pasture, and he sat at the door with a spiny gourd in his arms and rested in the shade.

Liya is a real person, and the prickly horned melon she picked for him is the largest of all melons.

There are ice cubes in the melon meat, and the juice sucked out by Yang Shubao is sweet and sour, which is completely different from what he used to drink, surprisingly delicious, and it is really refreshing to drink such a sip on a hot day.

And the flesh inside has the fragrance of a variety of fruits, the taste can't be described, anyway, it's very fresh, he hasn't eaten it before, it's a bit magical.

The small farm was well tied, the corn was growing well, the fruit trees were flourishing, and behind the house was a vegetable garden with large eggplants, snow peas, and large green peppers swaying in the wind.

They also raised some chickens and ducks, completely free-range, the old hen ran around the field with her chicks, a flock of ducks pecked at insects in the vegetable garden and jumped into the pond, one duck crawled ashore with a small tilapia in its mouth, and two ducks on the left and right to fight.

Yang Shubao was fascinated, Demu also looked seriously, it wanted to run out to chase chickens and ducks several times, but in the end it held back, and sat next to Lao Yang to enjoy the coolness.

About half an hour later, a sweaty Barnes walked over and asked lightly, "Aren't you busy today?"

Yang Shubao already understood his temper, so he didn't care about his attitude: "Finally busy, the main thing is to plant trees, you know, I'm working hard to plant trees on the grassland now to attract more birds and beasts to come." ”

Barnes shook his head and said, "Do you really want to build a nature reserve? ”

Yang Shubao smiled: "It should be regarded as protecting the earth." ”

Barnes shook his head again: "The earth is 4.6 billion years old, what hasn't it experienced? Protecting the environment is protecting human beings, not protecting the earth, and the earth does not need human protection, but she is protecting human beings." ”

With that, he went to open the refrigerator and took out a beer and asked, "Drink?"

Yang Shubao shook his head: "No, thank you." ”

Barnes said to himself, "I made it myself, it tastes good, maybe your dog will like it? Let it drink some to get hot? It's better not to take it out on the day now, it's too hot." ”

Speaking of this, Yang Shubao smiled: "This is a gift for you, for you." ”

Barnes looked at him in surprise, he shrugged his shoulders and said, "Don't refuse, you didn't refuse when you helped me transport the trees, and besides, you see, I have more than seventy dogs there." ”

As he spoke, he pointed at Barnes, and Demu immediately ran over to his feet and rubbed his head against his trouser leg.

Barnes looked down at the dog, who looked up at him.

Seeing this, he put down the beer and took out the ice cubes from it for the dog to lick, and said, "Eat slowly, this will help you cool down." ”

Lao Yang teased him: "I'm also quite hot." ”

Barnes took out the ice cube and handed it to him and asked, "Do you want to lick it too?"

Yang Shubao rolled his eyes: "I want another thorn melon!"

This thing is really cool and thirst-quenching baby after adding ice cubes, whoever eats it will be strong.