What kind of temper old Ronald was, the locals know.

Brookings is just a small town, especially after the old man won the lottery, and his reputation has long been lost.

But any cowboy with a little ambition and ideals will not choose to work under him, so the group of people who are now helping Ronald Sr. work on the Cleveland Ranch are actually not good people.

Either a scoundrel, or an industrious officer, or a person with a weak head, only such a person can not be affected by the old man's temper and work for a long time.

It's not that there are no young people who come to work before, and they are angry with the old man and run away, no salary increase, no bonus, and some are just endless hard work, such a large ranch, and there are also offshore fishing grounds, there are not enough manpower at all.

One to ten, ten to hundred, and no one wants to come to work, even if it's just a short-term job.

This is normal, the old Ronald is a self-centered old man who is always short-tempered, especially after winning the lottery and turning over, his mentality is a little floating.

No one loved him faithfully.

So, this time, the old man rarely left the ranch and went far away, so the four employees joined forces and planned how to increase their wages for themselves, and sold them by secretly catching Dungeness crabs and other seafood, and they were indeed not wronged, and the boat was indeed not broken.

If you are careful, old Ronald may not be able to find out that the fish, shrimp, crabs and shellfish in the sea live under the seawater, no one knows the specific number, how many have run and how many have died, they are all unknown, and they are easier to steal than cattle and sheep.

If you want to blame them, they are too dark-hearted, and after secretly selling the seafood caught these days, they also took a maintenance list totaling 30,000 US dollars, and asked the old man to pay for them.

is already blatantly treating the old man as a fool, and he doesn't even mean to hide it, and when he is detected at this moment, he only blames the guy who said that he wants to repair the ship, so that they are exposed......

Let this group of thieves send all the money over tomorrow, drive these people off the fishing boat, and let them get out, old Ronald was triumphant and amazed by his cleverness.

Back then, he was like this, conspiring with others to steal lobsters and sell "missing cattle and sheep", but now that he has turned over and become a rich man, he will naturally be more guarded.

Walking and walking, I suddenly found that after the dismissal of these four employees, there seemed to be only a pair of father and son left under his hands to call, and there were few short-term workers who could be used, wondering whether to go to a nearby town to recruit some more people, the price of crabs has been high recently, and his fishing grounds are rich in crabs, and the loss of time to miss the sale will be great.

When he thought of the bank loan he was carrying now, his head suddenly hurt, he didn't want other people's malice to come true, and finally the bank took away the ranch used as collateral.

In the old man's opinion, others only slander themselves out of envy, and they don't need to be like those poor people.

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I was going to go to the town tavern for a few drinks first.

Suddenly thinking that there was still a troublesome child at home, the elder Ronald sighed and drove home in a broken car.

Zhang Xiaokai became nervous when he heard the sound of the car, he didn't plan to tell the old man anything about the golden bird sculpture for the time being, he sat on the sofa and watched TV, and the wood in the fireplace next to him was still burning.

"What do you want to eat, how about an omelette, I'm usually very busy, you should learn to make some simple food by yourself, you can't always rely on me, or I'll send you to an orphanage, understand?"

Don't expect the open-mouthed old Ronald to say anything nice and comfort his own grandson.

Whether it is Zhang Xiaokai or his father who is about to be sent and becomes a vegetative person, it is a trouble in the eyes of the old man, he has long been used to living alone, and suddenly many people in the family make him feel troublesome.

As a thief, Zhang Xiaokai rarely answered: "Bread is fine, if there are materials, I can cook noodles, dumplings, or fried steak by myself." ”

“…… There's a lot of beef in the fridge, so you can try it on your own and take you to the town's supermarket when you have time to buy whatever you want. ”

After old Ronald finished speaking, he took off his coat and went to the kitchen, Zhang Xiaokai breathed a long sigh of relief, went out to tease the little bear cub, felt that it would not do anything to himself, and the cage was too small, so he returned to the living room to take an apple out, opened the cage and fed it to the little guy, and took the opportunity to touch its head.

The little white bear was already hungry, sleepy-eyed and opened its mouth to bite the food, and held the apple with its front paws to nibble.

After eating, I got out of the cage, solved my physiological problems, and walked slowly to the house, and finally chose to get close to the fireplace and find a warm place to lie on my stomach.

In winter, most of the bears hibernate, and the bears that are raised have enough food, and it is okay not to hibernate, but they will often be tired, and the little ones who have been in contact with people for a long time are not afraid of people, and they are not much wild.

Seeing that it didn't move, Zhang Xiaokai hurriedly went out and cleaned up its feces, worried that the old man would get angry when he saw it.

If your own home is gone, you will inevitably be cautious when you live in someone else's house.

The dining table is more like a decoration, usually the old man finishes cooking, he holds a plate and eats on the sofa, and does not change his habits with the arrival of Zhang Xiaokai, the sandwich with ham and thick fried egg tastes very good, it is hard to imagine that it comes from the hands of a sloppy old man.

Of course, it may also be because Zhang Xiaokai is hungry.

Seeing the little bear, the old man didn't throw it out, only said that if it was kept at home, Zhang Xiaokai would do the cleaning and everything, and he had the right to throw the bear out at any time.

The rancher next door raised a tiger, and the old Ronald didn't want to lose to the other party, and was thinking about raising it for a period of time if it could be domesticated, anyway, there was a space around it that could be moved, and if there was a wild one, throw it away, or put it in the sheepfold and cowshed.

Having worked with animals all their lives, bears are not uncommon in Oregon, a state that's more than 60 percent forested, making it a paradise for animals.

In winter, it gets dark early, after dinner, the old man drove out and walked around, Zhang Xiaokai stayed in the house alone, took out the treasure hidden in the wood carving and took a look, went to the study next to him to pick up a book, sat alone at the head of the bed and looked at it, or the book "The Old Man and the Sea", he was ready to take the time to read it.

The night passed like this, the heating was on, when the fireplace would go out, and when the old man would come back, Zhang Xiaokai didn't know.

The second day of arriving at the Cleveland Ranch was another sunny day.

I woke up early, just after seven o'clock, and when I went downstairs after washing, I could see sandwiches on the table, and half a bottle of leftover fresh milk, a big bucket and a gallon.

I used to think that ranchers drank their own milk, but now it seems that they are not.

I didn't know what to do, no one asked him to read his homework, no one familiar to talk to, and he was still very uncomfortable with everything here, so he sat on the sofa and stayed for a while, until the little bear walked up to him, and then decided to take the little one out for a walk.

Wearing a coat and holding food in his hand to lure the bear out, he walked around and saw a herd of cattle and sheep in the distance, bowing their heads and grazing on hay.

It's completely different from the city, except for the birds, you can't hear anything, it's quiet and lonely.

There are fish in the river, and the pike, which is quite large, chase its prey in the water, and after walking a short distance, you can also see the western turtle lying on the rocks basking in the sun, which is very large.

The bear was more well-behaved, and sometimes he would come back to him after running away, and he would walk around for more than an hour before returning to the house again.

The afterglow suddenly swept a touch of red, and when Zhang Xiaokai looked over, he was surprised to find that in the flowerbed with withered leaves, there were a few roses blooming.

The leaves are also green, and the surrounding withering and withering are incompatible, at first I thought it was a fake flower, but when I walked by, I found that in the cold of early February, there were really roses in full bloom.

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