Ju An smiled and said, "I fed that leader when he was a little younger, and now he is very close to me and Dinah, and he will come around to greet us when he sees us."

Taylor nodded and said: "I know, I said it when the tour group came back last time, you are really bold, okay, just say here, I'm going back, don't forget to choose two decent cowboys in the ranch this Saturday, don't lose ugly when the time comes, I won't be merciful."

"Don't worry, we'll be conservative when the time comes, and we won't let you lose too ugly," Ju An said to Old Taylor's back. If you get along with these old cowboys for a long time, you will find that their surnames are clear about love and hate, and many of them love to joke, which is a bit of the boldness of the northerners in China.

Giving the meat to the wolves, Ju An turned the horse's head directly, rode the bean grass in the direction of the cow, and found two or three calves to catch Thomas, and when he saw Thomas's figure, he immediately urged the bean grass to catch up: "Thomas, old Taylor just came to the ranch and invited me to participate in a competition, that is, two cowboys and the rancher were selected in the ranch, a total of three people, and the competition had three events."

Before Juan could finish speaking, Thomas smiled and said, "Is it archery, axe throwing and marksmanship?"

Juan smiled and said to Thomas, "Have you participated? That would be great."

Thomas shrugged his shoulders: "If the rancher must participate, it can only be this, it can't be a calf, riding a wild horse or something."

After listening to Thomas, Ju An was slightly stunned and figured it out, many ranchers are not young, such as Taylor, who has old arms and legs to go to the wild horse to set calves, in case something goes wrong, who is responsible, archery, the important surname of the three project experience is more than physical fitness, and the amount of exercise is also very small, which is very suitable for some older ranchers.

Ju An followed and said: "I can still survive with this marksmanship, I really don't know anything about archery, and throwing an axe is also a black eye."

After listening to Thomas, he said: "The axe is still relatively simple, it is to order a playing card or a rope circle on the tree, as long as you throw the axe out and nail it into the playing card or rope circle, it is considered a win, otherwise it is considered a loss, the distance is ten steps away, you can find a tree to take a few steps back and practice, this archery is a bit troublesome, but even if you can't win, it's nothing, everyone is mainly to get together to talk about the relationship."

Ju An nodded and said, "Well, I know this situation, but I can't behave too badly, I still have to find a chance to practice archery and axe throwing."

Thomas looked at Ju An and shook his head and said: "Throwing an axe is actually not too difficult, just master the skills, archery is not something that can be practiced in a week or two, when the time comes, Lawrence and I will go with you to participate, if you have time, prepare a compound bow and a small axe, and I will teach you at noon."

Ju An nodded and turned the horse's head, ran towards the house, and when he arrived at the ranch, Ju An was busy looking for things, Dinah saw that Ju An was busy looking for things, so she asked Ju An curiously: "An, what are you looking for?"

Juan pinned a small hand axe to his waist, a rope in his hand, and his revolver in his pocket: "Taylor came in the morning and invited me to participate in the rancher's competition, I am going to practice archery and axe throwing, and then Thomas will teach me a few tricks, so that I will not lose too ugly."

After hearing this, Dinah smiled and said, "Let's go, I'll teach you first."

"You're going to do the same? You can't do it, don't teach it then, it's better not to teach," Ju An said, looking at Dinah.

"I had participated in these games with my dad a few times before I was in middle school, and if they hadn't let the girls participate, maybe my dad and I would have won a lot of people," Dinah said proudly, waving her hand, and motioned for Juan to follow.

Walking to a tree at the back of the house, Dinah put a small sleeve of the rope in Ju'an's hand, and then hung the nail on the trunk with a nail, and gently knocked the small nail into the trunk with an axe, so that the fist-sized rope leaned against the trunk, and Dinah took a few steps from the tree, and said to Juan: "Give me the axe, you see I throw it first." After saying that, he took the handle of the axe and raised it over his shoulder, tried a few times, and threw it out.

Well! The wife did not brag about the front horn of the axe blade inserted into the trunk of the tree, just in the middle of the rope sleeve, and followed Dinah to the front and pulled the axe off: "Still pay attention to the axe, the forearm should be centered on the elbow, and the wrist should not shake, and then throw the axe out, you can try it."

Juan took the axe from Dinah's hand, and waited for Dinah to stand on the side, Juan could nail the axe to the tree after a few attempts, and it was not too far from the rope loop, Dinah looked at it and said, "You haven't played with axe throwing before, although this is not very good, but it doesn't look like you haven't thrown it once."

Ju An said proudly: "Your husband and I are a genius in sports, and a little axe throwing is not a problem." As soon as the words fell, the axe in his hand flew out against the trunk of the tree, and he didn't even touch the bark, and Dinah laughed as she watched Juan run to pick up the axe.

Dinah watched Ju An throw a few times and then turned back to the house, leaving Ju An alone to practice next to the tree, after a while, the big tree was scarred, Ju An saw that it would not be possible to go on like this, and if he continued to practice, he had to practice the bark of this tree, so he took off the rope and nails on the trunk, found a new tree, replaced two trees, and Thomas went to the back of the house with a bow and five arrows: "You threw this axe well, you have a decent appearance."

Ju An pursed his lips and threw the axe in his hand intently: "Dinah taught me once just now, I am practicing, since you are here, we will learn the bow and arrow first."

After hearing this, Thomas demonstrated how to shoot an arrow, and then handed the bow into Ju'an's hand, and then taught Juan how to draw the bow, what pace, how to aim, this compound bow also has two small wheels, which is more labor-saving to pull, and five arrows of different colors are stuck in the bow.

Looking at Ju'an's posture is no problem, Thomas let Ju'an shoot an arrow, this guy shot, if it weren't for the arrow shaft is colored, it is estimated that it is not easy to find, followed by the trunk is simply a cut of the boss, and the side yo yo flew out, from drawing the bow to releasing the arrow more than ten times in a row, in Thomas's eyes it was finally in the right posture.

After two more rounds of practice with Thomas, it was time to eat at noon, as soon as he finished eating, Ju An drove to the town and bought a bow with small wheels, directly equipped with ten arrows, and then buried himself in the back of the house to practice for a night, the progress was very obvious, one afternoon Ju An was able to shoot the trunk of the tree, as for the deviation to the top or to the bottom, when the arrow shot on the trunk, Ju An himself did not know. This kind of progress made Dinah shake her head in amazement: "Honey, if you go to the competition on Saturday with this level of archery, you can directly make those old cowboys cry, and you can deviate up and down by almost two feet at only five or six paces."

Ju An laughed while pulling the arrow on the trunk of the tree haha: "You don't know my tactics at all, I have prepared a huge room for improvement for myself, so that I can feel every time I improve, so that my interest will be greater, unlike others, although it seems to be fast at first, in fact, the whole process is moving at a uniform speed, I am accelerating, the speed is zero at the beginning, but it is getting faster and faster, until the end there is no shadow of the uniform speed."

Dinah listened to Ju'an's words and stared at it for a few moments, then sighed and said, "Okay! Let's practice again tomorrow, I just hope you don't lose too much shame on your performance in archery on Saturday." Juan then packed up his bow and axe and followed Dinah back to the house. He locked everything in his hand in the gun cabinet in front of the door.

After a few days of practice, Ju'an's axe throwing is getting more and more accurate, and archery has made great progress, if the target center is the ten rings, Ju'an's arrows are always dangling in the four, five or six rings, if it is close to the eight rings, it is an accident. Dinah's evaluation is that Ju'an's archery skills are basically watchable, and Ju'an has practiced for five days, which is already gloriously close to the level of a novice archery novice for two days.

Not only Dinah but also Thomas was strange, Ju An had good axes and marksmanship, only the bow and arrow were very off. Thomas took Lawrence to watch Juan shoot a few arrows, and Thomas said to Juan: "Prepare fifty dollars, anyway, our chances of winning the championship are slim."

Waiting for the day of the race, Juan and Thomas Lawrence waited until about three o'clock in the afternoon before riding their horses from the pasture and walking towards the camp at the foot of the mountain. The three of them were all dressed as cowboys, cowboy hats, shirts, dark scarves and jeans with brown holsters, half-height riding boots with shiny spurs, revolvers tied around their waists, and bows and arrows tied to the back of the saddle.

When I arrived at the foot of the mountain, I found that there were more than a dozen people, everyone was dressed up in the same way, basically all came on horseback, only one person drove a pickup truck over, but there were several boxes of beer dragged behind, and a small golden trophy, and there was no place to sit, that is, everyone brought blankets to sit on the ground, and if you need it, you can go to the pickup truck to get beer and drink.

When the old Taylor rode a horse and took two cowboys in their forties to the foot of the mountain, they greeted everyone, and then introduced each other, and introduced the three ranchers with new faces to Ju An one by one, and the location of the three of them was to the west of Taylor and Thornton.

(To be continued)