Chapter 23: I Have a Zoo
The decoration in the small castle is quite old, but it is still clean and has a strong historical charm.
After the death of Mr. Ross Sr., Mrs. Ross often came over for vacation, and there is still a housekeeper and a maid living in it, plus the cowboys usually come to help, there is no lack of popularity, even if the room has not been lived in for a long time, it is clean.
Katie, led by an old butler named Berkshire, moved into the master bedroom that had originally belonged to Mrs. Rose.
The large room was spacious and bright, with sunlight pouring in, and the view of the pastures from the windows on both sides, the smell of alfalfa grass in the air, and the machines harvesting the pastures, stockpiling them for the autumn and winter to be used as livestock rations.
A red-bellied, green-winged Australian king parrot was standing on the edge of the balcony, perhaps having suffered under the hands of a cat before, and the moment it saw the pudding, it spread its wings and made a threatening gesture, and said something in its mouth.
The Berkshire butler took a few quick steps to help close the window after driving the Australian king parrot away.
With a smile on his face, he said to Katie: "Sorry, beautiful young lady, after receiving the news that you will bring pudding today, I asked people to clean up the room, thinking that opening the window can ventilate, but forgetting the existence of these parrots, they will leave feces in the room, and it is usually best to close the window." ”
Katie didn't mind at all, she wasn't afraid of the big birds, but was very interested in them, and asked, "I just saw a couple of parrots on the ranch railing, and they are ranch pets?"
"Sort of, there used to be a parrot zoo in the zoo, but then the cage broke down, and hundreds of parrots all ran out.
Some of them don't know where they went, and some of them stayed, and since they didn't plan to leave, we didn't try to catch them, and we put food in a fixed place every day, and it has become a favorite spot for tourists. ”
The good-natured Berkshire butler laughed that he had been working at Elk Ranch for more than thirty years.
After checking the room and finding no embarrassing guano, he relieved himself and continued: "Then you can rest for a while, and if you are interested, I can take you to visit the ranch." ”
"It's okay sir, I can take the pudding around by myself, thank you......"
Katie sent the old butler away, opened the suitcase and put her things away, originally thinking of staying for two or three days and then going back, but the elk ranch made her feel comfortable, and she couldn't help but feel that she should stay here for a few more days.
As a result, she had less to bring, but luckily there was a town not far away, not too far from the city of London, so she could easily buy anything she wanted.
After tidying up, she stood by the window, took pictures of the ranch with her phone, and then said to Pudding, "Let's go out, it's really fun here, isn't it? Now you're the owner of this ranch, and there's even a zoo!"
Du Yu is terrible, he obviously prefers this place to live in the city of London, lively, comfortable, and herds of cattle and sheep and green pastures, all of which he never dared to think of before, but now he has these unexpectedly.
I haven't recovered from the impact, and my brain is still dizzy.
Downstairs from the gate to leave, look back again, although the dark red exterior wall of the castle is smaller, the shape is absolutely classical and beautiful, a casual shot is the kind of wallpaper.
There are also pigeons and parrots on the roof, the color is colorful and green, divided into many kinds, Du Yu can recognize only macaws, they are huge, the color is also special, many merchants in London put them at the door to solicit business, once he met one, scolded people to be particularly slippery, there is no clean word in the mouth.
Thinking about it this way, he would rather be a parrot than this fat cat with a difficult movement and a face bigger than a small pot, because a parrot can talk, fly, and live for sixty or seventy years.
And after becoming a fat cat, he only dares to deceive the little boy Jerry, the only advantage is probably that he has money, and he can use an iPad for his palms, but not for parrot paws......
Riding their bikes along the country lanes, Pudding squatted in the back baby chairs, and the old Berkshire butler had a cart and chair specially prepared for them.
More than 1,000 acres of pasture are not big or small.
Whether it is the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States, Canada and other countries, there are large pastures with an area of tens of thousands of acres, which is the real "China", and ranchers can take care of them at will.
The elk ranch covers an area of about 6.4 square kilometers, with nearly 2,500 cattle and 1,000 sheep distributed among them.
Pudding was crouching in the baby chair, and Katie was riding her bike, heading in the direction of the zoo, green on both sides, with cattle and sheep scattered among them, and most of them were in the woods when the sun was shining today.
The trees here are a bit old, mainly beech trees, which are common in England, with a dense canopy, and the leaves are still green at the beginning of August, and the leaves are yellow and red in autumn.
Through the Berkshire housekeeper, Du Yu realized that this ranch was the private property of Mrs. Ross Sr., and her father gave it to her back then.
It can be said that this pasture is full of the ideas of her English girl, and it is very beautifully kept, and the roadside is full of Damascus moons, and there are Louis XIV roses, the charm of pink, the depth of purple, and perhaps the scenery here is what Madame Ross cared about during her lifetime.
In the room just now, Du Yu saw a photo of her when she was young, she was indeed a very charming beauty, no wonder the Berkshire housekeeper liked her for so many years when she was young, and stayed wholeheartedly to help take care of this ranch......
A wall of stones is piled up, and on one side is the road and on the other side is the clear water of the lake, which is surrounded by trees and inhabited by elk and deer.
In this London suburb, there are no wild beasts to be found, so Katie is reassured.
If she were in the city of London, she would like to play with her mobile phone like any other girl, but when she came to such a place and only wanted to enjoy the view, a herd of elk made her feel like a little girl.
Well, it's true that Katie isn't that old now.
As soon as she stopped, Pudding was subjected to an "air raid", and there was a nasty budgie that might have overestimated its strength, and actually flew to try to bite it, but was slapped away by Du Yu's paws.
Sitting in a baby chair and fastening a seat belt has made him quite unhappy.
On the road again and soon after at the zoo.
Seeing the rusty gates and railings, and the grassy stone path, it seems that there are really not many people coming to play......