The next day is so easy and comfortable, every day to do the work in their hands step by step, in fact, it is twenty or thirty minutes to do things, even their own room does not need to be tidied up, my mother is here, I am handed over to my mother, I ride the bean grass twice a day, and I don't know if it is fishing or sleeping in the afternoon, anyway, I came to such a time.

I had just slept a little today, and was about to go home to enjoy the dinner that my mother had prepared, when I heard the sound of horses' hooves coming from me, and when I turned my head, I saw old Thomas galloping towards him with Jefferson on his shoulder.

When he saw Ju An, he said: "An, a cow is missing, it is the one that was going to give birth last time, it is estimated that I am looking for a place to give birth to a calf, Nancy and everyone have already packed up and are ready to find a cow." Ju An hurriedly packed up the fishing rod in his hand and prepared a saddle for Doucao. After packing up some things, putting them on Xuehua's back, he beckoned Wu Song to cross his horse and follow old Thomas to his residence.

By the time Ju An arrived at the front of the house, everyone was ready, and even his brother-in-law and father stepped on horseback and threw the reins of the snowflake to her sister to help pack up her things.

Then I listened to old Thomas say: "Everyone is divided into four groups, Nancy, you take Ann's father and brother-in-law to help keep an eye on the cattle, Andrew and Wynne are in a group, I take Ann and everyone to the forest to scatter to look for it, pay attention to everyone bring a lasso, take your guns, okay now set off, and when any of you finds it, use the walkie-talkie, and we will rush over immediately."

Ju An immediately dismounted and ran back to the house, took out his revolver, and the holster of his gun, and straddled it around his waist. Then he locked the gun cabinet and ran out the door. Seeing that Ju'an was ready, old Thomas waved his hand to signal everyone to go, Nancy took his father and brother-in-law to take care of the cattle, and the four of old Thomas and Juan took three cattle dogs to set off, and the tiger head and garlic head and another dog who had been on vacation for a while followed the four of them to find the cows.

Juan rode the flying bean grass and asked old Thomas, "How did you find out that a cow was missing?" ”。

Thomas Sr. said: "Every day when we gather the herd, we will count it separately to see if the number is correct, and we deliberately want to observe the cows that are about to give birth, and when we gather the herd today, we find that there is one missing, first of all, it is excluded from the cows that are fast giving birth, and then there are bulls, and sometimes the smell of cows in other pastures will also attract bulls, and some bulls will run to other pastures." The cow that gives birth will leave the herd alone to give birth to a calf in the depths of the woods, if it goes well, there is no problem, if it is difficult to give birth, maybe the calf and the cow will not survive, so everyone should find it as soon as possible, if you can't find it tonight, then the calf and cow will be in danger, and wait until the next day, you just have to see where there are vultures circling in the woods, and the cow carcass will be there."

Ju An nodded and said, "I know, why do you wear a lasso."

Thomas said: "When you have a difficult birth, you use a lasso to drag a calf, and if you are lucky today, you can find a cow and you will be able to see the first calf born in the pasture."

Juan nodded, and then followed old Thomas to speed up the horse, and in a short time arrived at the place where Thomas was grazing today, and then Thomas pointed in three directions, and then Wynne and Andrew each ran in one direction, and old Thomas also ran in the other direction with Juan like the other.

When he was in the woods, old Thomas rode some distance and said to Juan, "The cow can go almost this far, and then she will have to look for it at a similar depth."

After looking for a while, the sky slowly became darker, the forest was full of tall trees, so the darkness was faster, after looking for a long time, the tiger head did not smell the cow's smell, Thomas was also a little anxious, kept urging the tiger head, go!go!go!, the pace under his feet was getting faster and faster, Ju'an even sometimes couldn't keep up with the pace of old Thomas. After a while, old Thomas and Juan turned on their flashlights and continued to look for them in the woods.

Just when everyone was getting more and more desperate, Wynne's excited voice appeared on the intercom: "Found it, found it, good fellow, this guy is walking back with the calf, what a beautiful little guy."

Old Thomas grabbed the walkie-talkie: "Are you sure it's our cow?"

Wynne smiled and said, "Dad, I'm sure, you still have our mark on you, you can come and know, go back to the ranch."

Thomas Sr. put down the walkie-talkie, clenched his fists, and muttered, "Thank God."

Then Juan smiled and said to Thomas, "Then let's go back and see the first calf born in the pasture."

Next, when they rushed back, old Thomas and Juan were in a much better mood, urging the horses to trot without the tense atmosphere when they came.

Ju An smiled and asked, "Why is it dangerous for a cow to give birth to calves in the forest?" ”。

Thomas Sr. said: "In the past, the danger was that the cow had a difficult birth, but now there is an additional one, the wolf, when the cow leaves the herd, it is most vulnerable to the attack of the wolf pack, and the cow is far away from the herd when she gives birth, and then finds a tree, wears out the afterbirth, and after the amniotic fluid runs out, the calf is squeezed out, and then the cow eats the afterbirth, and then licks the calf clean, and then it is dangerous to encounter a wolf."

Juan said, "It doesn't happen once every calf is born."

Old Thomas laughed: "This rarely happens, generally cows will not be so far away from the herd, and even sometimes you drive the cows back to count, the calves will come out, today's situation is estimated that one aspect is the first time the cow gives birth to calves, and the other aspect is that the cow lacks a sense of security."

"That's fine," Ju An nodded and said, "Besides, I haven't seen a pack of wolves in a long time."

Old Thomas replied: "In the past, the wolves were too threatening to the cattle and sheep in the pasture, and the political axe encouraged hunting, and they were basically killed, but now the cattle and sheep in the pasture are safe, who knows what the bureaucrats of the shit said about the biological chain or something, and reintroduced the wolves, of course, it is not common to have wolves now, because there is a lot of food in the mountains, and you can see them in the winter, and when there is no food, they will enter the pasture to steal cattle and sheep, but now the wolves are no longer as big as the twenty or thirty wolves I saw when I was a child, Last year, the biggest pack I saw was seven or eight, and I don't think they were any match for these guys." As he spoke, he pointed to the tiger's head running with the horse.

Ju An smiled and said: "You are very optimistic about this gang of guys, I look tall and mighty, can you still beat a wolf?" ”。

Thomas Sr. smiled and said, "Two dollar bet!" If a pack of wolves dares to come this winter, I bet they'll keep at least 2 wolves."

Ju An touched his head and thought about it much: "Okay, two dollars."

Thomas Sr. smiled and said, "Taylor and Anderson have asked me if they can buy a few dog cubs on the ranch."

Ju An asked strangely, "Why didn't they ask me?" ”。

Thomas replied: "At that time, they were not familiar with you, and I said, when our pasture next year will have at least more than 2,000 calves, and there are sheep, and chickens and ducks or something, I don't know how many these guys can give birth at one time, and I am afraid that it will not be enough by then, so I guess they didn't ask you."

Ju An thought in his heart, buddy's hometown, there are a lot of dogs, I want to bring a few more next time I go home, think about it, forget it, trouble, and then said: "When these guys give birth to puppies, I have promised Jerry and Emily that they will each send a puppy, as for Anderson and Thornton, let's see what they are saying." Thomas nodded along with him.

The two of them chatted and returned to the ranch.

When I walked next to the herd of cows, I saw a group of people watching the calves.

When everyone saw Juan and Thomas coming, Nancy smiled and said, "It's that little guy who is breastfeeding."

Following the direction of Nancy's finger, Juan found a black calf, who was putting his head under the cow's belly, one by one, enjoying a delicious dinner, eating milk for a while, and then turned his head to look at Ju'an's group, probably curious about how a group of two-legged guys looked around him, licked his cow's nose, big eyes, and the calf looked very big ears and very cute.

Ran Ran and Tongtong were holding Wu Song in their hands, and they were also watching happily, little Jerry and Emily had already been taken home by Taylor, and the two little guys couldn't get up. After looking at it for a while, Ran Ran took Tongtong's hand and slowly approached the calf, probably wanting to touch it, but the calf didn't move, watching Ran Ran and Tongtong get close to him and walked two steps, arched Ran Ran's little hand, and said happily: "He likes me" is very happy.

Old Thomas also smiled and said, "What a sturdy little fellow."

Ju An smiled and said, "Then let's have a drink tonight to celebrate the birth of the first calf in the lower ranch." Then a group of people went back to the house, the old mother and the old sister and Nancy helped set the tableware, Ju An went upstairs and took down the Moutai upstairs, and the old Thomas shook his head when he saw that it was this wine again, and said: "I can't stand the taste of this wine, I'll drink my whiskey."

My father and brother-in-law smiled and said, "You even have this, and you need a lot of money in China."

Ju An said casually: "Now there are some in China that you can buy if you go to the larger coastal cities on the west coast, but unfortunately you can't buy tofu and tofu rolls here, I love to eat them."

My sister smiled and said: "I remember that you love beef, in the past, every time you came back from college vacation, my mother prepared beef tripe or something, saying that the third child loves to eat, and now I love to eat tofu rolls."

Ju An smiled, raised the wine glass in his hand and said, "Cheers to the first calf in the pasture." Then a group of people should be in harmony: toast to the calf.