Chapter 412 I'm sorry (three watches, around nine o'clock in the end.)

The two took turns driving the car, and in the afternoon... It took a long time to arrive at Kingman, driving the car in the direction of the valley, and met a big truck dragging a big head in front of him, and when he arrived at the intersection of the valley, the truck also turned, and it turned out to be to deliver wood to his pasture. ,!

Ju'an drove the car over the truck, along the foot of the mountain towards the center of the valley, didn't go far to see a few small gray spots exposed in front of him, thinking that it was the current temporary camp, he couldn't help but speed up the accelerator, and after two minutes of driving, Wang Fan sat in the co-pilot's seat and began to complain: "I said that you are in a hurry, you will be able to get to this kind of rotten land from time to time with two stones, it is really unbearable."

Ju An smiled when he heard this, and turned his head to laugh at Wang Fan: "Can't you treat it as if we were playing off-road, and complained after a few bumps."

"I'm not complaining about myself, but I'm scaring you stupid into the snakes in the box behind you, let's turn it upside down, it's dancing in the box" Wang Fan finished speaking and nodded at the plastic box behind him.

Ju An patted his head: "I was so excited that I forgot about it." As he spoke, he looked at the road as much as he could, looking for a slightly flat place.

After Wang Fan followed Ju An, he looked around at the surrounding environment: "This place is far worse than your ranch, look at this desolate, it is like going to the Great Gobi."

Hearing Wang Fan's words, Ju An smiled and said: "This land is cheap, and Leonard, the old professor, has new plants to plant, and in the future, goats will be specially fed here, and now it looks desolate, and you will come back in two years, it is sure to be a piece of verdant green, it is impossible to raise alfalfa grass, and the kind of plant with good drought resistance is good."

Wang Fan listened and asked, "Are you going to toss the sheep again?" Isn't there a new variety, good! Not bad! ”。 Wang Fan patted Ju An's shoulder: "In the future, there will be not only beef at home, but also new mutton to change the taste, by the way, I actually prefer to eat donkey meat, or you can also get some nourishment."

Ju An smiled and said: "Where are there so many new breeds, it is ordinary goats, at most a better meat goat, Professor Lehmann's advice in this regard." Now Hans Ranch is to raise sheep first, and raising donkeys is also a good choice, but you can't raise too much, Lao Mei doesn't eat this thing here, and there is no place to sell it if you raise too much, at most raise a hundred and ten heads and we will eat it ourselves." As soon as donkey meat was mentioned, Ju An's mouth began to flow, donkey meat under the dragon meat in the sky, Lao Mei didn't see many donkey meat sellers here, buddy raised himself to eat it.

"You have to pay attention to this matter, and strive to get it out as soon as possible, no one eats here in the United States, and there are many people who eat it in China, just export it to China, and then the horse farm in the south of the Gejiang River will have more main dishes" Wang Fan said with a smile at Ju An.

Ju An listened to Wang Fan's words and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, as soon as you mention eating, you will be energetic, I haven't raised this sheep yet, and besides, if you don't eat mutton, the more than 1,000 sheep raised in the pasture are not enough for you to eat, even if it is exported to the domestic tax, the domestic import tax is not low, or raise us to eat ourselves." Xishuihe Ranch Ju'an raised a flock of sheep as soon as he bought it, and now there are more than 1,000 heads, in addition to eating by himself, he has not sold it to the outside, it is supplied to Taylor's tourist ranch, basically the family eats it once or twice a month, and it is Thomas to prepare meat for the cowboys when he gives Ju'an some of it, if he lets himself go to slaughter, Ju'an is not interested, how can there be beef convenience now, and the packaging is torn directly into the pot.

The two foodies chatted about eating, and the time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye they arrived in front of the temporary building, Ju'an Wang Fan got out of the car, and heard the sound of the roaring excavator, not far away, several excavators began to dig a small lake on the pasture, and a black iron pipe more than 30 centimeters thick was erected on the ground not far away, spraying water outside.

Leonard saw the black Mercedes Benz coming over, and waited for Ju'an in front of the temporary building early, and saw Ju'an get out of the car and come over to Ju'an and said, "How is it, it's not bad."

Ju An looked at it and nodded: "This progress really makes me unable to speak, well done." Ju An looked at the old man Leonard, it had only been a long time, his face had been a little tanned, and now the old man was dressed as a cowboy, and at this time he was still wearing brown riding boots and a white shirt on his feet, and a big Mexican hat was stuck on his head, the brim of the hat was wider than the old man's shoulders, which was equivalent to carrying a parasol with him.

Leonard listened to Ju An's praise and said with a smile: "I'm a little busy, but I don't feel that I have more energy than when I was in Montana, I used to squat in the laboratory, but now I feel a lot better when I move outside." The old man showed his tanned furry arm to Ju An, gestured, and then said, "Let's go to the house to rest first or see the progress?" ”。

"Don't be busy with these things yet, I've brought a few king snakes over and put them here to catch rattlesnakes or something," Ju An said, opening the back door of the car and moving the plastic box out.

Leonard looked at the plastic box in Ju'an's hand and said, "This is really good, rattlesnake is careful, it's fine, but there are a lot of rats here, and now I can hear the sound of these things running around when I sleep at night, and it's much better to have this." After speaking, he motioned to Ju An and the two of them to follow him towards the house.

The so-called house is a common simple shed on our domestic construction site, the kind of white plastic wall, a few steel frames are put together, the door is the kind of transparent plexiglass door, as soon as it is opened, a cool breeze will come to the face, and the air conditioning is turned on.

Ju An walked in and looked, a simple table, a wooden bed in the corner not far away, some clothes hung on the wall, it seems that the old man also lives here at night, both an office and a dormitory, look around Ju An and said: "This condition is not very good." In fact, Ju'an is emotional, admitting the old man's work attitude, but he can't take it seriously when he talks about it, and the air-conditioned rooms are available, and this wilderness is good.

Leonard waved his hand and said, "It's nothing, when I went out to study plants at a young age, I was a sleeping bag at night in the tropical jungle, and I didn't come here yet." This old beauty is not good at all, everything is serious, Ju'an is just polite to the old man.

The old man brought coffee to Ju An and Wang Fan from the pot, and then said to Ju An: "I'll go and inform Rand to see if he's not there, and if he's there, let him come and meet you."

Juan listened and nodded, Rand is the new ranch management that Lawrence and Thomas are optimistic about, and has worked on the big ranch in California for more than 20 years, Thomas and Lawrence have taken a fancy to this person's experience, and it is not bad to know this person's personality through California cowboy friends, in Thomas's words: he is a good hand. was recommended by two old men to Ju An as the director of the new ranch, of course, it is still temporary, and if you want to sit in this position, you have to look at the performance in the future.

Why not transfer people from the existing ranch, as mentioned above, on the one hand, the cowboys in the ranch are too young now, and on the other hand, the cowboys in the Xishuihe ranch are not willing to come here.

Wang Fan stood at the door and looked outside while drinking coffee: "How big is your new ranch."

Ju An explained to Wang Fan the edge of his new pasture: "From the two sides to the foot of the mountain, up and down to the road, what is enclosed is the area of my pasture, more than 167,000 acres, which is roughly so much area."

"Damn! It is equivalent to doubling the area, there are 400,000, and now it can enter the top ten landlords" Wang Fan asked with a glare.

Ju An smiled and shook his head: "Early, it is possible to touch the side of the top ten landlords after doubling the estimate, I am not interested in ten and ten for the top ten, I want a profitable pasture, some of them cut down trees to sell, some people directly raise animals, most of them do not rely on the ranch to eat, I am different from them, I rely on the ranch to eat."

Before the words fell, Leonard pushed the door and walked in, seeing that no one followed behind him, probably because he didn't find Rand, the acting ranch manager.

Leonard shrugged his shoulders at Ju'an: "Rand is not here, I heard that the cowboy said that he went to patrol the fence with a few people, and he will probably come back in the evening."

waved his hand at Leonard: "It's okay, I don't plan to leave tonight anyway, arrange a room for me and Wang Fan."

"There's only one room now, so why don't you get an extra bed," Leonard said to Juan.

"Okay!" Ju An looked at Wang Fan, Wang Fan didn't care, several people had lived in the dormitory before, let alone two people with a partner. Then he asked Leonard: "I see that this groundwater has been pumped out, how long will it take for this small lake to be dug up?"

Leonard thought for a while and said: "The lake will take more than a month, and now the water is released into the low-lying area, and the two low-lying areas on both sides do not need to be dug much, just dig up the small high ground of more than 200 meters in the middle, and dig a more than 50-meter-wide area connecting the lake on both sides is a few acres larger than we pretended."

Ju An nodded and nodded that the size of the lake is not a problem at all, whether there is a lake or not is the biggest problem, and then asked: "When will the construction of the cowboys' dormitory start, I saw a truck delivering timber on the way here."

"Now it's here, it's unloading, the day after tomorrow the construction team can enter the site, and then the electricity of the power company can be passed, first build the houses by the lake, and then the houses at both ends on both sides" The old man Leonard took out the drawings and spread them out on the table, pointing with his fingers: "At the time of occupation, it is the lake area, and there are about thirty-five dormitories, and on both sides are twenty-six or seven cowboys, plus some of the rest of the personnel, and the ranch is fully operational, it will cost one hundred and fifty people, which is still less."

Wang Fan also stretched out his head to look at the drawings, Ju An glanced at it, and calculated in his heart: "Well, then follow the plan first." There are more ranch people who don't have automatic irrigation, but they can also make small moves in the name of new plants, thinking of this, looking at the old man staring at the drawings, he sighed in his heart: I'm sorry, Leonard! Dude is going to slowly open the golden finger again......

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