Lu Li stood up, he was originally going to put his luggage on the second floor first, but after standing up, he looked left and right, but he couldn't find his luggage at all, and then realized that his luggage was still in the car, and he didn't have time to move it down, and then he came in with Cole.

Spreading his hands, Lu Li shrugged his shoulders, "Pack light." Let's go!" beckoned Cole, and the two men left the main house, Cole untied the noose, and the two of them walked together in the direction of the stable.

looked around, but Lu Li didn't find the other friends in the ranch. However, it is not uncommon for the afternoon to be at its busiest, and everyone has their own work, and even if they have to be idle, they will not be near the main house, but on horseback, by the flock, and under the trellis.

In the distance, through the beech forest, you can see the busy scene on the other side of the creek, and in the clearing where the organic farm faces the south, the horses gallop and the dust is flying, and the figures of Brandon, Adam and Scarlett are mixed in, seemingly incomparably small, as if they could be swallowed up and drowned at any moment, but they seem to be in control of the waves.

Lu Li was now accustomed to the existence of this beech forest, and it seemed that the whole world was sitting behind them, divided and staggered, quiet and far away. In the middle of it, it seems that even the sound of the wind passing through it has become different.

All the way to the stable, Lu Li greeted the old man Chestnut, and then rode Chestnut and Cole towards the south one after the other.

Relatively speaking, Lu Li's main range of activities is in the north, because the south area is mainly used to herd horses, which is a large endless open space, which is the area controlled by Brandon, and Lu Li only passes through when he is riding a horse.

After leaving the stables, continue for about three or four kilometers, and you can faintly feel the undulations of the horizon, gentle and soft, with a fence dividing this large plain from the cloud pastures on one side and the black pine forest pastures on the other. It's just that Lu Li has never really taken a good look.

Pulling the reins slightly, chestnut's pace slowed down. Cole turned over and dismounted, stepped forward, and pushed open the movable fence on the border, and Lu Li let the chestnut stop in place, looking into the distance, it was only an open space, a large open space, and the open space of the border could not be seen. This is very different from Cloud Top Ranch.

Even in the former beech pastures, the entire horizon is undulating, with cornfields, vineyards, beech groves, lavender fields...... The vegetation of the entire pasture stretches out, dividing the eye into tofu blocks of different sizes, which are decorated with different colors, becoming complex and colorful.

But the black pine forest pasture is flat, you can see different fences divide the pasture into different areas, but on the whole, this is a plain, even the undulating ups and downs of the land can not be seen, just flat land, you can't see the horizon, but you can see the mountains on the edge of the sky, the dark distant mountains are light and dashing along the arc of the sky, all the way to the direction of the cloud top pasture, endless, boundless.

Because the distance was so far away, the mountains were only covered in large black shadows, and it was difficult to see what they looked like. What the burned black pine forest looks like now is just a blurry black shadow.

"XIV. Cole pushed the fence open, shouted in greeting, and rode forward first.

Lu Li stayed where he was, raised his chin high, and tried to see the end, but in the end he failed, so he gently tugged on the reins, drove the chestnut forward, and followed Cole into the confines of the Black Pine Forest Pasture, "Cole, are you sure this is legal? Aren't we intruding into private territory now?"

"Yes. The wind sent Cole's affirmative answer. Lu Li was stunned, since the answer was yes, then what are they doing now? This sense of absurdity made Lu Li laugh directly, "But if you think about it carefully, you have been here for so long, have you ever seen any figure here?"

Cole slowed down, and gradually stood side by side with Lu Li, "If someone visits the Cloud Peak Ranch without consent, then you can carry a rifle and expel them." The same goes for black pine forest pastures. But the problem is that no one knows about our visit. It's a no-man's land. ”

Lu Li nodded in understanding, "So we are now back to the western era in the movie, lawless, and the strong are respected." So, are we robbers? or are we bounty hunters?"

"Whew, why can't it be Indiana Jones?" Cole's rhetorical question made Lu Li laugh again. Americans have a special affection for Indiana Jones, and it seems that when it comes to adventure stories, he is the first thing that comes to mind. But in fact, in the setting of "Raiders of the Lost Ark", Indiana Jones is a professor.

"If you're handsome enough. Lu Li replied seriously, Ke Er couldn't help but be stunned, and then the two of them both laughed dumbly.

The black pine forest ranch is indeed vast, his width is basically the same as the cloud peak ranch, but the length is full of twice the cloud peak ranch, the two of them rode around for a while, and they can see the black log cabin in front of the left in their sight, but the distance has never been narrowed, how to advance, how to get closer, still can't reach the destination, which makes Lu Li can't help but joke, "mirage", which made Cole laugh happily.

The black pine forest pasture is really boring, it's just a barren plain. Walking to the side of the fence, the jagged weeds drowned the calves of the horses, and it did not look like a pasture at all, but more like a wilderness, and the scenery in sight was monotonous and uninteresting, and there was not even any change, even the grass was not as rich and varied as the forest, and it was impossible to ride the horses, because there were many fences between the weeds, and if you sprinted, the result would be unimaginable.

Not only is it untended, it's completely deserted. Lu Li thought that if he re-managed the land, it would take a lot of time, manpower and material resources just to clean up the land; worse, it was impossible to determine what the soil under the weeds was, whether it was nutritious enough, whether it was fertile enough, and whether there was enough grassland if it was raised with cattle and sheep.

Now Lu Li has gradually become accustomed to the size of the Cloud Peak Ranch, the 1,500 acres of rectangle, it seems that every inch of land is extremely familiar, but when he comes to the Black Pine Forest Ranch, the sense of space suddenly becomes blurred, it is only twice the size, but there is an illusion that he can't go out.

However, the illusion is an illusion after all, and the wooden house far away in the sky has finally arrived.

Chestnut's pace slowed down, looking at the wooden house in front of him, purely from the outside, it seems that there is not much difference from the main house of Cloud Peak Ranch, such cabins are countless in Texas, and even make people wonder if it is a standard design, there is no mind at all, but when you get closer, you can see the desolate and desolate appearance, cobwebs entangled, dust accumulation, and even straw piles such as birds' nests and dog kennels, and even the appearance of the wood seems to gradually turn dark brown......

"That's what the haunted house in the movie looks like. Before he could get closer, the musty smell in the air made his nose itch, and he couldn't help the urge to sneeze, "Jonathan's nephew shouldn't be a businessman, right?

"He wanted to take care of it, but he didn't have enough money. After that financial crisis, everything was even more difficult, and he didn't have the energy to invest more here. Cole said simply, pulling the reins, mobilizing the horse's head, and walking around the house, the large row of sheepfolds and cattle pens behind the main house, and the magnificence of the whole building, made the Cloud Ranch look like a play house.

Lu Li walked towards the mountains at the far end.

Standing close enough, you can see the dark hillside, the decaying ash and fallen leaves have merged with the soil, layer after layer, burying all the life underneath, and there are a few broken stumps, but they are all rotten, as if in the last few years, they have grown, and then decayed, and so on, and so on, until finally only one piece of decay remains.

Far away, Lu Li could feel the aura of destruction that was far away.

Lu Li tried to depict the magnificent scene of the black pine forest in those years, tried to depict the busy scene of this pasture back then, and tried to depict Jonathan's efforts in this land, but he failed. The ubiquitous and unfamiliar scenes left my mind blank, and I couldn't imagine the vitality of the past.

This is his neighbor, the quiet and strange, the frightened and distant neighbor, the neighbor who has never known or even existed, as if all life has been completely extinguished and turned into a place of nothingness. That's pretty much the end of the world – for Jonathan, for Black Pine Ranch, it's the aftermath of the apocalypse.

Exhaling lightly, Lu Li rode chestnuts and slowly paced among the grass, trying to paint a picture of all the weeds being cleared, trying to depict the scene of thousands of sheep and thousands of cattle walking leisurely, trying to depict the scene of a dead foothill rejuvenated. This time, he succeeded.

It's like when he first took over the beech ranch.

At that time, the beech pasture was not a barren place, and it was well organized under the care of Cole, but it did fall into a deep sleep, as if the whole pasture was covered with a layer of gray, waiting for the sun to shine, fade away the gray fog, and renew again.

The same is true of the black pine forest pasture in front of you, the appearance of a hundred ruins waiting to be rebuilt, hiding death and containing destruction, but it is pregnant with life.

This is the most amazing thing about nature, where death and rebirth are always interdependent. The black pine forest pasture has been silent for so long that it seems that even nature has forgotten its existence, but hidden under this dead silence and destruction is a powerful vitality waiting to sprout, grow, and grow.

All this land needs is a chance.