Chapter 21: Transitions

Early the next morning, busy with the matter at hand, Ju An rode the bean grass, turned around casually, and waited at home for the Taylor family to drive the cattle over.

Old Thomas said that he just watched it, Ju An could go about his own things, such as fishing or something, but Ju An just wanted to see what the transition was like, whether it was like in a Western movie, the cows galloped, raising the dust in the sky, and then the cowboys rode their horses, and the vigorous figures rose out of the dust, and the cheers kept coming out of the mouths of the heroic cowboys, and in the hands of the cowboys was the lasso raised high, the leather tassels on the leather trousers floated in the wind like the horsehair under the crotch, and the cowboys faced the morning sun, His body was covered with a layer of golden light.

After running a few laps on the bean grass, Ju An was a little impatient while waiting, and a herd of cattle appeared in Ju An's sight.

Thomas also saw it and said, "Ann, they're coming, let's go."

As soon as the horses were urged, Juan and old Thomas ran in the direction of the herd.

When he approached, Ju'an was disappointed, you see the family in front, driving two pickup trucks, one dragging a trailer, only four or five people riding horses to drive the cows, looking at the herd, a lazy pace of small steps, from time to time gnawing grass, leisurely chewing.

Where is this the transition in Ju'an's imagination, this is a family with a cow on vacation.

Seeing Juan and Thomas coming, Taylor also happily urged the horse to meet him, and there was a little guy sitting in front of Taylor: "Hi, Ann, Thomas, good morning."

"Good morning, Taylor" Juan and Thomas waved to Taylor on their horses.

Immediately afterward, Taylor introduced Juan: "This is my brother-in-law, Thornton, Thornton's son Jack, this is my old friend Anderson, and it is my son-in-law Kerry who drives cattle over there" and so on.

"And me, my name is Jerry," shouted the little guy sitting in front of Taylor.

Taylor lovingly touched Jerry's head: "Oh, by the way, I forgot to introduce my grandson, little Jerry". Everyone looked at Jerry in shorts and riding in the saddle, holding the stake head in both hands, and smiled happily.

Behind the car were Taylor's wife and daughter, with several children and housewives in the car, and the two cars were full. Good guys are really like tourists.

The group slowly drove the cattle, entered the pasture of Ju'an, hundreds of cattle were still easy to catch, and after nearly half an hour, Taylor beckoned everyone to rest, let the cattle eat early, and then feed the cattle some water.

As soon as the car stopped, a little girl of three or four years old ran over, and ran and shouted: "Grandfather, grandfather, carry me up" Taylor, who had just dismounted, picked up the little girl's armpits, and put the little one on the horse's back, and the little one put his arms around the waist of the brother in front of him, and then stared at Ju An with big blue eyes.

Ju An looked at the little guy and teased the little guy and said, "My name is Ann, what's your name."

The little guy was still a little nervous, and little Jerry straightened his chest and said, "She's my sister, Emily."

"Hello, Emily," Juan said with a smile.

"Hello, Ann" the little guy raised a fleshy little hand and stretched out to Ju An.

Ju An hurriedly held the little hand's outstretched hand and shook it gently: "It's a great honor to meet you, Miss Emily."

Emily looked into Juan's eyes, then shouted at Taylor, "Grandfather, grandfather, I found out that Ann's eyes are black."

Jerry said, "Ann is from China, and of course his eyes are different from ours."

Emily bit her finger and asked, "China, is it a far place?"

Little Jerry touched his head and thought: "Of course, it is so far from home to Billings, it will take more than a day to drive."

"Oh, that's a long way off," Emily said, nodding.

Hahaha, a group of adults were amused by the answers of the two little ones.

There were two little ones chatting on horseback.

Juan followed Taylor to Anderson and them. At this time, Anderson was seen pulling away the grass and talking to Thomas about this, and it seemed that they were having a good conversation.

Seeing Ju An coming over, Anderson said: "Ann, your grass grows awesomely, you see that the stem is half thicker than other grasses, and the leaves are wider and thicker, have you noticed, even the old leaves near the roots of the grass have no signs of yellowing, it is really good grass, much better than the grass in our two pastures." And I just looked around, and it was all this kind of grass, and I didn't even find a single weed."

Speaking of pasture, in addition to Ju'an, everyone came to be interested, carefully observed, then the old Thomas said proudly: "Not only what you said, these days I also found when I was herding cattle, this grass rose very quickly, basically the cow ate a piece, a few days later the grass grew again, a week of pasture can be the same as the original, and the cow prefers this grass, I tried, there is a piece of pasture on the edge of the pasture is a small pasture of ordinary grass, it is estimated that the grass has not spread over, I drove the two cows over, The cows will not eat anything, and will always run to the side to eat this grass."

Taylor looked at Juan strangely and asked, "Isn't your pasture all this grass?" ”。

Juan looked at Taylor's expectant gaze and said, "Where do I know grass, to be honest, I have some difficulty distinguishing grass, you should ask Thomas this question" kicked the ball to Thomas, as for the reason Juan will not say if he was killed, do you tell them that there is magic grass and water in the beads hanging around their necks. The husband is not guilty, and the truth of his guilt is still understood.

Thomas thought for a while and said: "Ann, I really don't know much about pasture, I haven't done pasture before, I guess it's the grass improved by the previous rancher, and there are still some ordinary pastures on the edge of the pasture, and I don't know what's going on, this kind of pasture hasn't been extended."

Ju'an knew that if he put more water in the earthen fence into the pond, it was estimated that the grass would spread, and he thought proudly, I know, but I just won't tell you.

Old Thomas followed and said: "Also, in the past, we used to manage the pasture, we would divert water, during this time I observed, there is no need to deliberately divert water, you look at this grass root" said and pulled up a piece of grass casually, and then pinched it on the grass root, "Look at this grass root, very thick, and very tender, there is no need to deliberately water at all, our pasture is now more than 1,000 cows, I roughly estimated, the most conservative estimate, summer and autumn, we have no problem raising 20,000 or 30,000 cattle in the river and river, as for whether these pastures will dry up in winter." , then I don't know, I won't know until this year's winter."

Taylor shook his head and said, "The last rancher improved the grass, that old Jew only engaged in women, I have seen that guy come here for the night with a few young girls, he didn't even raise a few sheep when he was there, and he also improved the grass, improve viagra I still believe" Taylor glanced at his mouth after speaking.

Everyone was amused by Taylor's words. Juan also sensed in Taylor's words that he had a deep grudge against the previous rancher.

After the rest, Taylor beckoned everyone to continue their journey, while the women continued to do their work, and the men mounted their horses, caged the scattered herds, and drove the cattle onward.

Ju An noticed that this group of people is basically very cheerful, Taylor's son-in-law Kerry, who talks very little, but is very diligent in his work, and the old cowboys here are used to having thick mustaches, Thomas is like this, and these two old cowboys who are a little older today are also like this, it is estimated that it is also a tradition, Ju An doesn't like to have a beard, and feels that it is comfortable to have a refreshing mouth.

When the herd approached the herd of cattle in his pasture, Thomas Sr. and Wynne, who was herding the cattle, got busy, and finally Juan joined in stabilizing his herd.

Because it is already June, the estrus period of the cow has arrived, according to Thomas, in fact, the cows raised in the pasture may be in heat all year round, but they generally mate in the warm spring and summer communication, so that the calf will be born in the spring and summer of the next year, so that the survival rate of the calf is high, and it is very troublesome to take care of the calf in winter.

There are a lot of cows in heat in the Taylor family's herd, which makes the bulls here in Ju'an very excited, can't stand the temptation of beautiful cows, always want to go over and make love with others, as soon as the bull moves, the other cows in the herd will also move, if you don't stop the two herds of cattle will mix together, and it will take a lot of effort to see it, and Wynne and Thomas try their best to prevent the bulls in the herd from getting close to Taylor's herd, and at the same time stabilize the whole herd, and the preserved eggs and garlic also roared loudly, staring at the herd fiercely with bared teeth, There is a posture that keeps calling up, and it is a mouthful.

When Taylor's herd walked away, the herd on Ju'an's side gradually settled down, and at this time, the three of Ju'an were already sweating profusely.

Looking at the herd that gradually quieted down, Ju An breathed a sigh of relief, these guys, there are only a dozen bulls in a thousand cows in their herd, so many black heifers are not enough for you rabbits to enjoy, and they are always worried about other people's cattle, who is not honest, planting their own land with peace of mind, and killing you in two months, if there are fewer calves born next year, I will take your guys to sacrifice knives, and my brother himself also beats the tooth sacrifice by the way, and looks at these bulls viciously, well, this one is good, the muscles are really strong, wait for my mother to come, After slaughtering and making braised beef for himself, Ju'an's thinking shifted to eating again, thinking of his mother's braised beef, he was suddenly full of relish, and he couldn't wait to take his mother over immediately, and eat fragrant roast beef tonight.

"Ann, alright, you can go back" Thomas's words pulled Juan out of his fantasy.

Riding bean grass, I returned to the horse training ground, and saw that Liu Chao and Zhao Nan had been riding horses side by side in the horse farm, running laps, looking at the movements, they had improved a lot, and now they were on horseback, and they were not like squatting like a big horse monkey at the beginning.