Chapter 13: Mount Alat

Chen Mo couldn't be ruthless after all.

The two dogs followed and ran out of the valley, and Chen Mo smiled bitterly and stepped on the brakes......

Ah Huang gasped, jumped into the car, squatted under the passenger seat and stuck out his tongue, revealing the simple and gentle smile characteristic of golden retrievers.

This made Chen Mo have no temper at all.

After waiting for a while, the little husky came, tired, and looked unconvinced, so he clumsily climbed into the car and called at Chen Mo twice.

"The gadgets have been playing for a long time, dare to yell at Lao Tzu, and I will stunned you. Chen Mo waved his fist twice threateningly, Xiao Erha was not afraid at all, and called out twice.

"I'm too lazy to pay attention to you......" Chen Mo gritted his teeth, stepped on the accelerator, and drove in the direction of the north.

It's a two-seater, four-wheel drive off-road with a pickup-like body at the back.

Four-wheel drive off-road has no doors, open-top, and is smaller, and the rest is similar to a car, but also the steering wheel and accelerator...... There is no clutch. Give the oil and run...... The top speed is only 56 mph.

There are three gears, slope, mountain, and road.

The road is the fastest, and the slope is the strongest.

This thing is very sensual to drive, Chen Mo drove it over the mountain before, and planned to take the time to go out and buy a gun and come back, and drive it to hunt in the woods.

Four-wheel drive off-road without a car door, carrying two dogs, Chen Mo didn't dare to drive too fast, and he was ......

At Vineyard 19 on the side of the road, Elson snorted a cigar under a large banyan tree next to the vineyard.

Under the influence of Stephen's cigar controller, not only Elson, but Chen Mo also liked the taste of cigars.

“Boss。 Elson saw Chen Mo from afar and beckoned and shouted.

Chen Mo also waved and drove the car over, but before it could stop, the two dogs jumped down, and the corners of Elson's eyes wrinkled with laughter when he saw it, and he picked up Ah Huang and hugged Ah Hua.

"These two dogs are so well-behaved, I want to raise a dog too. Elson laughed.

"Just raise it. There is no rule on the estate that dogs are not allowed. Chen Mo looked at the workers working in the vineyard, took the cigar handed by Elson, lit it and took a puff: "Are there many gray-eared rabbits found in the vineyard?"

"There have always been wild grey-eared rabbits in the mountains of Verde, and there are quite a few ......," Elson could finish his sentence, when a frightened gray-eared rabbit sprang out of the vineyard's machine. Huang reacted quickly and pounced on the rabbit with one paw, and Ah Hua didn't dare to go up when he looked at it, making a fox fake tiger roar.

Elson spread his hands and smiled bitterly: "You saw it." This year, there are a lot of gray-eared rabbits in the vineyard, and some have made their home in the vineyard. Elson pointed to the vineyard and took Chen Mo over to see the rabbit hole he had found......

Elson had previously discussed the gray-eared rabbit with Chen Mo, saying that it was a very annoying animal that liked to eat plant roots and would bite the roots of grape trees when building a nest in the vineyard.

If it is an ordinary farm, it is easy to encounter these gray-eared rabbits, and let them become fertilizer in the field. But in Napa, where there are very strict regulations on the use of pesticides and other drugs in the vineyards, the grapes sold are also inspected in great detail. And less than six kilometers from the manor gate, there is also a wildlife conservation organization......

It's okay to kill a few grey-eared rabbits. But if the gray-eared rabbit is exterminated in the 200-acre vineyard, Chen Mo has to suffer a lawsuit, this is Stephen's advice to Chen Mo.

Stephen, a well-known barrister, hated to contact the most people is wildlife conservationists, and he told Chen Mo from his own experience that he once took over a defense lawsuit from a wildlife conservation organization against a farmer for killing wild deer, and although he won the case as the farmer's defense lawyer, he almost ruined his reputation. There are a lot of wildlife conservationists in the United States, and some of them are crazy and sick...... The farmer won the case, and wildlife conservationists organized a protest of their own initiative, wandering around the farm for several days and besieging Stephen's former law office.

"Grey-eared rabbits reproduce quickly and like to live in groups. Often the first cave is discovered, and it doesn't take long for more caves to appear. But it's also easy to get rid of grey-eared rabbits, which are particularly timid...... Elson suggests training a few more sheepdogs and raising a few hundred bantams.

Sheep grazing in vineyards, especially in the mountains, is very common.

The cute bantam sheep don't have to worry about them stealing grapes in the vineyard, because they can't reach the short-legged sheep and can only eat the grass on the ground.

In addition to grazing sheep, chickens, ducks and geese can also be grazed in the vineyard.

Elson explained his plan, and Chen Mo readily agreed, and took out 500,000 yuan to set up a separate department to be responsible for the ecological planning of the manor, and at the same time could make use of some dilapidated houses in the manor.

The gray-eared rabbit that Ah Huang caught was already missing when Chen Mo came back, and Chen Mo still touched its head rewardingly: "Good job." ”

Ah Huang squinted comfortably, enjoying the forgetfulness. Chen Mo didn't notice when he got in the car, and when the sound of Chen Mo's clapping came, the little guy opened his eyes and hurriedly climbed into the car, as if he was afraid that Chen Mo didn't want it. Ah Hua shook her head and shook her tail, looking like an uncle, swallowing slowly, and after getting in the car, she received a big slap from Chen Mo......

The car drove up the dirt road, two kilometers, turned into an inconspicuous path, and zigzagged to Mount Alat. Mount Alat is a mountain peak in the Vid Mountains with an altitude of 559 meters......

On the side of Arat SX, the hills at the foot of the mountain used to be under the jurisdiction of Sonoma County, which is also the boundary of Canyon Estate. The mountain peaks with sparse vegetation have yellow sand and stone soil on the surface, and rare white mud more than one meter underground. Climbing to the top of the mountain requires a large bend from south to north......

Winding road, almost to the top of the hill, 4.6 acres of terraced vineyards.

This is the highest vineyard on Canyon Estate and the only terraced vineyard, 4.6 acres of Cabernet Sauvignon, number 46. There are also 36 acres of terraced fields that have been cultivated without grapes for unknown reasons, and are now empty, overgrown with weeds and thorny bushes.

Next to the vineyards, almost to the top of the hill, is a fine two-storey wooden house. The view of the hillside is wide, and there is no industrial polluted air, and the county seat of Sonoma is clearly visible.

Looking down from the height, Chen Mo's position is in a parallel straight line with the northern district of Sonoma. There is a concrete road to Sonoma, which is 7 kilometers away from the main city of Sonoma.

The chalet is a vineyard worker's house, and there is a modern wide-body villa at the top of the hill, with two floors, low shapes, white walls and plenty of floor-to-ceiling windows.

The building covers an area of 415 square meters, although it is not as large as the main house in the valley steppe style, but the architectural style and materials are more luxurious.

When you reach the top of the mountain, a closed carved iron gate blocks the way.

The house has not been inhabited for more than five years, and it has been almost a year since the last maintenance was in June last year. The iron gate is covered with unknown vines......

Chen Mo got out of the car, and the two dogs also jumped down, looking at the surroundings curiously.

If it weren't for the fact that Chen Mo had been here when Elson marked the vineyard with the number plate, he might not have been able to find this place.

Take out the key and open the door. Chen Mo didn't enter the house immediately, and cleaned up the vines on the gate first. These vines were very solid, and Chen Mo did not bring a sickle or other tools, and it took a lot of effort to clean the vines on the iron gate......