Dig the river first, and then build the road, otherwise the muck will not be able to be transported.

For the rest of August, more than two dozen excavators worked from the Cleveland Ranch to the Gold Ranch, two meters deep and four meters wide, more like a slightly larger ditch.

It's all dirt, so many machines work at the same time, and the speed is relatively fast.

The soil was trucked elsewhere, and a mine was willing to buy it to fill the pit, but the price was not high, and it was still a loss when the freight was included.

It was hot for a while at the beginning of September.

By mid-September, when the weather turns cooler, you even have to wear a coat in the morning and evening.

The cattle and sheep like the weather, and so does Zhang Xiaokai, as the color of the leaves in the redwood grove is changing, and several wild cherry trees are full of fruit, the largest of which grows behind his house, and will be ready to pick after a while.

The albatross, lonely old John, still lived alone on the cliff by the sea after his body recovered, and suddenly went to sea one day, and I don't know how long it would take to return.

Managing such a large ranch is always something happening every day.

Day after day, after being so busy that he didn't want to manage, Zhang Xiaokai went to sea with the fishing boat that day.

Daddy Zhang bought a medium-sized fishing boat.

It is 42 meters long from bow to stern, and the wharf on the fishing ground cannot be docked, so it is always docked at the freighter wharf on the north side for rent.

If you let it go, as long as you are lucky, you may be able to earn back the money you bought the boat in a year or two.

Unfortunately, the number of fish in the ocean is decreasing, and the number of fish caught is limited every year, some years are more, some years are less, mainly depending on the recovery of fish stocks, and marine biologists help to plan.

Over the years, life has not been easy for marine fishing practitioners, and it has been almost two years since the purchase of the fishing vessel called the "Super Cleveland", and even the cost of buying the boat has not been earned.

At that time, Daddy Zhang's head was hot and wanted to buy a big fishing boat, and after going to sea a few times, he lost interest, and now he still goes to sea from time to time, and he can make a little money after deducting labor and fuel costs, which is not as much as his own two small fishing boats.

I thought about selling it to the outside world, but no one wanted to buy it, so I just left it there and handed it over to a small team to help take care of it.

Zhang Xiaokai drove to the pier in the north, and soon after boarding the ship, he set sail, one nautical mile or two nautical miles...... Gradually, you can't see the land, and you can see the ocean all around, and you can see seabirds flying in the clear blue sky.

Little Patrick and his family came to the boat to play, while he and Nurse Logan were busy lighting a fire on the barbecue grill on the deck, waiting for the trawl behind the boat to be pulled out of the water, and then picking out some suitable ingredients for the barbecue.

The sailors on the Super Cleveland fishing boat are not familiar with Zhang Xiaokai, and Zhang Xiaokai does not have much contact with them, they are all fishermen who come to work later, and they do not live on the ranch.

The conversation was a little rusty, and at this moment Zhang Xiaokai walked into the captain's room and asked the middle-aged person in charge who was at the helm: "Mr. Lawrence, right, I'm Matt Zhang, how has the harvest of this ship been recently?"

"It's okay, big fish are rare, small fish can be encountered from time to time, do you smoke?"

"No pumping, thanks. ”

Zhang Xiaokai went to the fish detection radar to take a look, and there was nothing on it.

The reason for the richness of his fishing grounds is that he knows that it is now more than 20 nautical miles away from the coastline, and the golden bird cannot affect this side.

In the early years, there were too many fish, and the Newfoundland fishing grounds were almost gone, and the fishing boats went to sea to make less and less money.

He didn't care how much he could get, he was purely here for a vacation today.

After saying hello to the person in charge, I found a deck chair, wore sunglasses and lay on the deck to blow the sea breeze, and often took those two small fishing boats out to sea to fish, at this time there was no interest in continuing fishing, after all, even bluefin tuna had been caught, how could it be challenging.

Little Patrick's wife, Nurse Logan, has given birth to two children in recent years, a boy and a girl.

The eldest is five years old, and the youngest is three years old.

Zhang Xiaokai was lying there, looking at the sky in a daze, the morning sun shining on his body, warm, and gradually emerging sleepy.

At this time, his son ran over, sat next to Zhang Xiaokai, stretched out his hand and shook it, and said to Zhang Xiaokai: "Can we catch a shark today? ”

"No, sharks are ferocious, they bite. ”

"And what about whales? Maybe I can make a very, very big tank, like in an aquarium, and also jellyfish and other fish. The little girl followed closely and said in a milky voice.

It seems that on this fishing boat, these two little guys are quite excited.

Zhang Xiaokai pinched the girl's face and said with a smile: "Then you have to wait until you grow up, when you make money to buy an aquarium, you can raise any fish you want, now start raising small fish first, and when you go back, I will buy a goldfish for each of you." ”

The child's attention was difficult to concentrate, and when they heard that they could raise goldfish, the two immediately forgot about sharks and whales, trotted and chased and played, and went to their mother's side.

Little Patrick also moved a chair at this time, drank wine and smoked a cigar, and said in his mouth: "Matt, give you a piece of advice, when you get married in the future, if you haven't decided whether you want to have children or not, then it's better not to do it first." Their children are not like pet dogs and pet cats, if you don't want to raise them, you can give them away, they sometimes look cute, but most of the time they are hateful. ”

Zhang Xiaokai looked at him sideways: "I remember that you were very excited when you first had a child, I don't even have a girlfriend at the moment, and it's too early to tell me this." ”

"I'm just telling you in advance as a person who has come over, sometimes I feel really sorry for Logan, she has to take care of the children outside of work, and she takes on more. However, women seem to be born to be mothers, and there are still more than ten years before they can live independently, and it is desperate just to think about it. ”

Little Patrick's tone was tired, both children were at a very naughty age, and they were so energetic that they would never get tired from morning till night, but he would be a father.

Zhang Xiaokai didn't know much, and he was a little gloating at the moment, and said: "Isn't it okay to send the child to Logan's parents once in a while and let them help take care of it, I started to worry a little when I heard you say this, and it would be better to find a nanny to help and take care of the little guy." ”

"Yes, it should be better when you go to school, I mean sent to boarding school since childhood, but Logan she doesn't agree, the school you went to in the past is the school in San Francisco, how well do you teach?"

"Not bad, if you really have that idea, I can look it up for you. But your son is too young, and the boarding thing is better to wait a few years, and if you really go to school in San Francisco, I can lend you a helicopter. ”

"Matt, you're going to buy a helicopter?"

"Yes, I just placed an order and bought one from Amazon, so that I can manage the ranch in the future......"

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