A total of more than 20 people arrived after the saddle was unloaded, and the horses were driven to the surrounding grass to graze, some sat directly on the saddle, and some simply did not even lay the stall and sat directly on the ground drinking beer and chatting in groups, Ju An waited for a long time and drank two or three bottles of beer, and put water in the woods twice There was no sign of starting, a group of cowboys gathered together to talk about their pastures or cattle and sheep or something, and several ranchers followed Ju An to talk mostly about naughty bags, since the Triple Crown competitionFrom time to time, Naughty Bag will go to all over the United States to participate in one or two games, constantly refreshing his winning streak, and at the same time spitting small bills for Ju An, of course, the prize money cannot be compared with the Triple Crown game, each game is more than 100,000 200,000. Basically, Ju An is following this group of old cows to chat about the naughty bag situation they know, and after chatting, they found that half of the ranchers came with their sons, and some of them were father and son, and directly turned the game into a parent-child activity, saying that it was a bit exaggerated to say that it was a parent-child activity, and the old cowboys in their fifties and sixties were at least thirty years old to compete together.

After almost an hour, when a large group of cowboys estimated that they had drunk it, old Taylor stood up and slapped his hands on the top of his head a few times: "Guys! Guys! It's almost time, everyone is ready to start the competition, this competition starts with archery, then throws axes, and finally revolver shooting, three archers per person, one axe thrower per person, five bullets per person in the pistol competition, the old tradition, anyway, Ann is a newcomer, I won't say much, this time I don't understand that he will know next year". After saying that, he smiled and looked at Ju An, and the rest of the cowboys laughed as well, and Ju An also raised the beer bottle in his hand and gestured to Old Taylor.

As soon as Taylor's words were finished, two cowboys lifted the arrow target to the side, saying that it was the arrow target rather than a cutting board, which was similar to the common old cutting board in our country, and directly cut a round five or six centimeter thick piece from a big tree, and even the circle of the target did not need to be drawn, and it was directly represented by the annual rings of the tree.

As soon as the target was placed, the cowboys all gathered in front of the target almost ten meters away, old Taylor was the first to pick up the bow and arrow, after the three arrows were shot, the three arrows were hit by the bull's-eye, and an old cowboy on the side laughed and joked Taylor after seeing it: "It's a lot better than last year, is it a year that the husband and wife have not practiced in their night life." After saying that, it caused a burst of laughter from the old cowboys who were watching next to him.

Old Taylor waited for the scorer to write down the results, handed the bow and arrows to the old cowboy on his ranch and said: "Old Charlie, shut your mouth, last year when the old Zach was not there, let you win the championship, this year our team is strong and strong, and the championship is booked by us." After speaking, he patted a Zach next to him.

The archery skills of these old cowboys are really not covered, basically everyone is ** not far from ten, the three people of Ju'an Ranch are the last wave of archery, the first to appear is Ju'an, waiting for Ju'an to shoot the first arrow, almost missed the target, waiting for Ju'an to shoot all three arrows, the cowboys next to him laughed, and someone in the crowd smiled and said: "Ann!" Your archery skills are nowhere near as fast as the Naughty Bag."

Ju An smiled and snorted: "I was only informed by Taylor a week ago, I don't have much time to practice, and I'll let you know when I wait for next year." Before he finished speaking, the cowboys next to him laughed and started laughing.

Thomas and Lawrence both of them are in the middle of the heart, archery results come out, several ranch cowboy results are not too big a gap, the last to the second and the first is a difference of one or two rings, this is not a regular game, this group of old cowboys count to the decimal point, and so the results came out Ju'an only to find that the original gang of old cowboys divided the ten annual rings into a ring, the entire trunk is only five rings, Ju'an's three arrows are shot in the outermost circle, to the final result is naturally Ju'an this group at the bottom.

When it was time to throw the axe game, the target was ordered in the middle of the playing card, and the one who threw the playing card was a score, and there was no score in the middle, looking at the two or three ranch players in front of him to throw it, Ju An expected that others made a mistake did not happen, so it was their turn to be in this group, Ju An still played first, this time there was no joke, the small axe obediently nailed to the playing card, due to Ju An's strength, the axe directly scratched the playing card almost half.

After letting Thornton next to him see it, he said to Ju An: "Is this your luck or accuracy, your strength is really big enough."

Watching Thomas walk towards the target to pull out the axe, Lawrence said with a smile: "Ann's strength is not small, and the axe is not bad, but this archery skill is not flattering."

After hearing this, Taylor said with a smile: "If others have a good reaction to exercise, they can learn any sport, and Ann is not considered archery blindness."

Ju An shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands out: "I can't help it, I feel that the bow is fluttering, and it is not strong."

Thornton thought for a moment and said, "That might be a problem with the bow, don't use any compound bows, it should be better to find a hard bow to practice."

Ju An nodded, and then followed everyone to watch Thomas throw the axe, the old Thomas and Lawrence did not make any big mistakes, the axe fell firmly on the playing cards, the axe throwing competition was about to end, Ju An thought that he was going to continue to sit firmly in the last place, who knew that the last team to appear, at the beginning of the rancher Charlie threw the axe off, not biased, but the tip of the axe tightly attached to the periphery of the playing card, when the playing card was taken down, the surrounding area was not scratched, So in the end, it was a miss in everyone's unanimous laughter.

Old Taylor smugly teased old Charlie: "Charlie, you can't take back this year's trophy, I think you should honestly take out the fifty dollars in your pocket."

"My hand is slipping, everyone let me throw another handful" After speaking, he wiped his hands and tried to pick up the axe again, and immediately shouted around: "No! no! This is the game". Listening to everyone's shouts, old Charlie laughed dryly twice, and handed the axe to the next member of his ranch.

The final marksmanship competition is nothing to say, the distance of ten meters, for this group of cowboys who grew up with guns, Ju An also hit the bull's-eye with five shots, Thomas and Lawrence did not have any mistakes in dropping the chain, the three of them firmly took the penultimate position into their arms, and the penultimate position was caught in the hands of last year's champion Old Charlie's group, and as soon as the final results came out, Old Taylor Ranch won the championship as he wished.

Now that the champions have been produced, the rest of the ranchers took out fifty dollars from their pockets and handed them to Thornton, and next year's event will be organized by Thornton, which is also the funding for next year's organizational activities, and then everyone held a small award ceremony, and the last rancher at the bottom awarded the championship trophy to the champion. The rest of the cowboys besieged the city and continued to drink beer.

When Ju An heard this, he smiled and said to Thomas next to him: "It's okay, today's luck is good, everyone is not at the bottom, if it wasn't for my first participation, I would have awarded a trophy."

Thomas said with a smile: "It's true that our luck is good, old Charlie's luck this time is too bad, he throws an ax very well, this time there is no luck, in fact, the award is not bad, and there is a testimonial to say."

Ju An became interested after hearing this, and looked at Taylor Thornton and Old Charlie next to the pickup while drinking beer.

When Thornton took out the trophy from the pickup truck, Ju An saw a very ordinary trophy, the golden trophy dark base, what was written on the base, the whole trophy is not very big, the trophy is estimated to be twenty centimeters high, plus the pedestal is about twenty-five or thirty centimeters, the three of them walked to the middle of the circle formed by the cowboys, Thornton directly handed the trophy to the hands of old Charlie, and as soon as the old Charlie took the trophy, he gathered the trophy above his head, Turned around and then handed it to the old Taylor next to him, put it in the old Taylor's hand and said: "Old Taylor hasn't won a trophy for several years, it is estimated that he has worked hard behind the scenes in the past few years, plus this time with God's help, he finally won the championship We congratulate you, remember to prepare fifty dollars next year and give an award speech, and then give me an award, so that you don't know what to say when you get the award, oh, I forgot, old Taylor may not know what the award speech says, but the award speech is better than everyone here." ”。 The cowboys below all laughed when they heard old Charlie's words.

Old Taylor took the trophy and immediately replied: "I will put the trophy in the most conspicuous place on my table, and you can see it as soon as you come to me, Old Charlie, and remind you that I am the champion this year, so that you will feel uncomfortable thinking about it in the following year, and when it comes to next year, our team will still be this champion team, and you will definitely beat Old Charlie and cry like a girl." Before he finished speaking, there was a round of applause and cheers all around.

A group of cowboys listened to the testimonial, and chatted for more than half an hour about the drought that swept the western United States, and then they were ready to end, everyone put their finished beer bottles and some of the garbage left on the back of the pickup truck, and then looked around to see if there was any omission, this is the end, Ju An whistle sounded, and the bean grass ran over with small steps, Ju An put the sweat pad on the ground first, and then got into the saddle, and waited for everything to be ready, then turned over and got on the horse, Thomas and Lawrence said hello to the other cowboys and trotted in the direction of their ranch.

(To be continued)