305 Preparing for expansion
The clean sky allows Montana people to enjoy the brilliant starry sky as long as it is not cloudy or rainy, the ethereal and indifferent Tianhe lies across the sky, the silver-white river cleanses everyone's heart, quietly finds a home, and is peaceful and tranquil, and the pickup under Zeng Gong's seat has slowed down unconsciously.
"Doodoo..." Zeng Gong jumped off the pickup and knocked on Sanders' door.
"Zeng, why are you here?" asked Sanders a little strangely, he had been on the phone with Alice on the phone before, Alice was cooking at Zeng's villa, according to the time, it was just time to eat.
"Hehe, I'm a little annoyed in my heart, I came to you for a meal, I don't know if the drink is welcome. Zeng Gong smiled a little far-fetched, ready to go to Sanders to fight the autumn wind.
Sanders smiled and let Zeng Gong into the house, because Alice didn't come back, the old cowboy worked in the ranch for a day, he was very tired, ready to make a meal, pointed to a corner of the kitchen and said: I haven't cooked yet, I'm going to make a sandwich to make do with a meal, I'm too lazy to cook alone." ”
Well, Zeng Gong smiled embarrassedly, cooking is still his own, before he came, Zeng Gong didn't expect these rude cowboys to make any food, he said to Sanders, "Call Davis and Jason over, let's discuss the matter of recruiting cowboys at the ranch." ”
Sanders withdrew from the kitchen with a smile, and let Zeng Gong play by himself, but the lack of ingredients made Zeng Gong himself a little stretched, according to Montana's customary habits, the ranch provided meat, and some vegetables and fruits needed to be purchased by the cowboys themselves, probably because the price of vegetables and fruits in the United States was relatively high, and some ranchers formed a habit in order to save costs, but Zeng Gong took on all the ingredients of the ranch cowboys.
Black-eyed peas, potatoes, lettuce, olive leaf greens, okra. Basically, it is a necessary ingredient in the life of cowboys, and they can't make any food with their scarce brain cells, and as for fruits, Zeng Gong eats whatever cowboys eat, and he will go to Livingston or Bozeman once a week to buy them.
Zeng Gong smiled bitterly when he saw these ingredients, it seems that the people he recruited were a group of idiots who cooked. Mrs. Mary's kitchen chicken cutlets, sandwiches, and hot dogs are basically the main theme, and they are almost the same as the cowboys' recipes, so forget what you can do and do what.
So I made a vegetable and fruit salad with lettuce and apples, beef stew with tomatoes, beef cumin, beef with halal sauce, boiled beef balls, pan-fried steak, and finally okra soup.
"Wow, it didn't smell like that. Davis walked into Sanders' apartment. Smelling the aroma wafting from the kitchen exaggeratedly, he said excitedly.
There's nothing more comfortable than enjoying a good day, drinking with friends, and bragging, and Davis gets excited as soon as he walks in the door.
"How can beef make so many tricks?" Jason, who arrived later, couldn't help but be stunned when he saw the dishes already on the table, which made their little imagination feel incredible.
"Hmph. Sandwiches all day long, hot dogs, you can't imagine these delicacies. I'm going to set up a small canteen for our cowboys, you old guys still don't agree, don't you regret it now?" Zeng Gong glared at Jason, who proposed to build a small canteen in the ranch at that time, and he was the one who opposed it the most.
Jason touched his nose and said with a smile, "Isn't the small cafeteria a nuisance. For example, if I am hungry in the middle of the night, do I still have to go to the small cafeteria for supper, who will be on duty at that time? ”
"You guys all have irregular lives, and you have stomach problems in the future, and I don't think you are still nervous. Zeng Gong was also helpless with these old guys. They don't like to bring lunch at noon, but grill steak or catch a few salmon or tilapia in a stream or small lake and eat it grilled.
"Zeng, come and try the rum my friend gave me. Davis looked at the two of them, and knew that if they didn't stop it, they would definitely fight again, so he hurried over to play the round.
Davis's Cuban friend used to work as a cowboy in Livingston before returning to Cuba for family reasons, but the two have been in touch ever since, and the rum was sent from Cuba by the friend.
Rum is a sugar juice squeezed from sugar cane, and then fermented and distilled, also known as sugar wine, sweet taste, rich and fragrant, originated in Cuba, and Cuban coffee, Cuban cigars have become Cuba's world-famous three major products. It is said that his friend's family has been making rum for generations.
Seeing this, the two of them sat down at the table again, and let Davis pour everyone full of rum, and it was now dinner time, and it was no point in arguing about such meaningless things.
"Zeng, I heard you're going to recruit cowboys again?" Davis asked first, almost finished.
Nowadays in Livingston many cowboys envy their work, not to mention, it is much harder than their hard work, although the ranch has not been productive, but the rapid expansion of the ranch makes the cowboys look forward to the hope that one day the ranch will recruit cowboys, especially recently, cowboys have not been less harassing them.
Zeng Gong nodded, after a few months of expansion of the pasture, it will tend to stabilize in the future, thousands of Angus cattle are not his goal, before the Piflo cattle have not formed a scale, the scale of Angus cattle still needs to be expanded, and the other Yushan sheep, Arabian sheep, yellow sheep, China's Uzhumuqin sheep, Hailar big tail sheep, etc., will become the direction of ranch expansion, not only that, but agriculture will also be developed in the pasture, which requires a large number of manpower.
"How much are we going to recruit, we have a lot of good resources right now. Jason has a headache now, his youngest son John is unemployed, and he is worried that he has no job, and he wants to ask Zeng Gong Ranch if he still needs cowboys in a few days, and his youngest son is also a good hand.
"What do you think?" Zeng Gong is not good at calculating, and professional things have to be handed over to professional people.
"Now there are 18,000 cattle in the pasture, except for a few Piflo cattle, the rest are Angus cattle, 5,000 Arabian sheep, 300 yellow sheep, and 2,000 new breeds of sheep, and of course those Chinese pigs, but they basically don't need to be managed, except for the three of us, Crawford, Mark, David, Johnny, Diana, and they are just right, and I don't know how much you are going to expand the size of the ranch. Sanders explained the situation of the ranch in detail, because he is the director of the cowboys, and he knows the Qinglian Ranch well.
"How about doubling it?" Zeng Gong secretly speculated about his funds and said hesitantly. (To be continued.) )