Wang Fan looked at the drawings, and then said to Ju An: "Let's go and release the snake first or what to say." Wang Fan looked at the drawings a little big, and the black and white drawings didn't look very interesting.

Leonard smiled and said: "Let's go and see the plants I planted first, I have planted thousands of thick-rooted ferns in a few days, it is not a good time to release snakes now, the weather is too hot, wait until the weather is cool."

"Thick root ferns?" Ju An looked at Leonard and asked strangely, I haven't seen a plant in the past few days, and it has a name? But the name is really straightforward, not technical at all, thick roots of ferns.

Leonard laughed: "Newly cultivated plants must have a name, I followed the name of the thick root fern, you have no opinion, Ann, it stands to reason that I should let you name this, but Thomas thinks you don't care about the kind of things, so ......"

Ju An immediately broke Leonard's words when he heard this: "I have no opinion, the name is good." As long as you don't waste your buddy's brain cells, I don't mind if you call a plant Obama, isn't it just a thing called Zhang San Li Si, and it's still a plant. The gang in the family is alive and kicking now, and now the right to name it has fallen to the daughter and son, not to mention the grass.

"Then let's go and see, it's not far away! It's on the edge of the small lake," said Leonard, and took Ju An and Wang Fan out of the house.

Ju An and Wang Fan followed Leonard out of the house, and they were greeted by a hot air, and the sun shone all around, the two hurriedly stuck their sunglasses, and then took out a hat from the car and put it on their heads, at this time, wearing a baseball cap is a B-shaped character, how much sun can a hat brim block, there is one standing next to Ju An, Comrade Wang Fan! Or a light blue baseball cap.

As soon as he walked to the lake, Wang Fan took off his hat, stuck the cowboy hat on Ju An's head on his head, and handed his baseball cap to Ju An: "You are thinner, heat-resistant, I am fatter than you and afraid of heat, give me a cowboy hat."

Ju An grabbed the baseball cap stuck on his head in his hand, shook it like a small fan, ignored Wang Fan, and followed Leonard to look at the thick root fern planted.

On the high slope next to a small depression with a lot of water is these dark green plants, and the thick small leaves are shrunk into a ball, tightly packed together, forming a large green blanket several hundred meters square: "How can you plant so densely, how good it is to plant separately." Juan saw the problem at a glance and said to Leonard.

Leonard explained with a smile: "My assistants and I planted one one one at a distance of one meter, and this is growing again, you pay attention to it, there is a big plant about every meter or so." After speaking, he pointed to the nearest big plant head to Ju An, Ju An took a closer look at it, it was really like this, whether he was professional or not, he thought about it, and he knew what he was a plant layman could think of, but the old man could not think of dealing with plants all his life?

After a moment's thought, he turned to Leonard and asked, "So how do you get these plants to expand now, or do you rely on manual work?" ”。

"Now it's still manual, it's me and my assistant plus a few cowboys to cut off the head of the plant, and wait for the sheep to come over in two days, and then a few cowboys take turns to drive the sheep to gnaw once a day, as long as there is a water source that grows or full, waiting for a little expansion, we get a sprinkler to water every morning and evening, and we don't have to do it after the scale, when the ground can store rainwater, and their rhizomes absorb water very well," Leonard explained with a smile.

Wang Fan next to him listened and stared at the plant at his feet and plucked the roots under the leaves: "No wonder it's called a thick root fern, looking at the roots like a big radish." As soon as he finished speaking, he said, "No, the radish is one." After saying that, he pulled it down vigorously, and the plant only loosened a little.

Leonard said with a smile: "This is just planted, if you can't pull it for another month, I estimate that the taproot of this plant can be more than a meter deep."

"That's a good thing, if this is planted in the desert, won't the desert become an oasis," Wang Fan said with a glaring eye at the thick root fern.

Ju An shook his head: "Where can you grow this in the desert, didn't you hear Leonard say that you still need to water it?" Fortunately, this is just a plant outside, a little mutated, if the desert is rubbed and grown, Ju An will be scared to pee his pants, Ju An is not a national leader, but he doesn't have the energy to play a big game of chess, to do a way to govern the desert or something.

Leonard listened to Ju'an's words and said: "Let's not mention the situation of water, that is, this plant is buried under the sand for a period of time and dies without seeing sunlight, although the soil here is larger, but after all, it is still soil, and it cannot be compared with the desert."

Ju An didn't want to talk too much about this topic, so he asked Leonard: "Then what sheep are going to be raised here, whether it is single or mixed".

"Lyman suggested that we start with a single breeding, meat sheep Boer goats, and when the area of the plants is up, we will mix them with alpacas, so that not only meat can be produced, but also wool, and you can see when the cowboy drives the sheep back at night, and now it is a thousand Boer goats in the early stage, mixed with a dozen alpacas," Leonard said to Juan.

"I haven't been threatened by rattlesnakes during this time" Ju An is most worried about this thing, but it is a highly poisonous snake, as for this ranch is so hot to raise alpacas and produce wool, forget it! They say that if you give birth, you will give birth.

Leonard shook his head and said: "This is not true, but there should be a lot of rattlesnakes in this valley, and they still have to be driven away, and if you are not careful, it will be troublesome, and there is also some trouble is the eagle on the mountain, and the threat to the little lamb is also very great, and now there are not many sheep and nothing, and it will be impossible to guard against it, I want to simply move Xiao Jin or Da Jin over." Leonard also knew that these two golden eagles were famous for protecting their territory, and they were big in size, even if they were against vultures, they would not fall behind, and they were raised by people, as long as they were fed something from time to time, it was enough to deal with the eagles on the mountain.

Ju An nodded and said, "I think so too, but I think that when Dajin and Xiaojin's children can come out of the nest, I will bring them all over, and then I can feed some meat to the pasture." The good thing is that the golden eagle prefers soft internal organs, and the old beauty does not eat these, just complementary, Ju'an Wang Fan's two families eat tripe, but dozens of cows a day, that is, dozens of tripe, and the two families can not eat it when they lie on it.

"That's okay, anyway, just send the golden eagle over to occupy the sky of the pasture, and the rest of the rattlesnakes still want the cowboys to see and kill some or you want to put some king snakes as a deterrent to many nasty things." Leonard said to Juan.

Ju An listened to Leonard for a while, then walked to the edge of the small pond, touched the water that had just been drawn out of the ground, and suddenly felt a cold, which passed down his arm to his body, so that the heat suddenly disappeared, and turned his head to Wang Fan and said, "Come and try it, this water is really cool."

Wang Fan also walked over after listening to Ju An's words, put his hand into the pond, and then bowed his hand and slapped his face: "This is really comfortable." After saying that, he slapped his arm.

Ju An also slapped some cold water on his face, and then stood up and looked at his ranch, now except for some simple houses, there are piles of wood, which are used to build cowboy dormitories, and now there is no one on the construction site, only a few excavators are working, this bird weather is not to mention work, standing outside I feel hot and turned my head to Leonard and said: "Take me and Wang Fan to our accommodation, I want to rest a little."

Leonard nodded: "Okay, follow me" After speaking, he took Ju An and Wang Fan to the simple room, walked to the one on the edge, and pushed open the door: "Then you can rest first, tell me if you need anything" After speaking, he took the door and walked away.

There was no air conditioning in the room, of course Wang Fan turned on the air conditioner for the first time, the air conditioning in the simple house was all window type, and the place was also small, the temperature in the room dropped after a while, and there were already two beds in the house, Wang Fan and Ju An each occupied a bed and began to take a nap.

This night, they slept until the sun was about to set, and the two of them got up from the bed, went to the car, took out their toiletries, put them in, and washed their faces a little.

When he arrived at Leonard's office, Cowboy Rand had already returned, followed Ju An to say hello, and then told him some of the current situation in the ranch, Ju An had no opinion, nodded, and saw a white and yellow pattern king snake wrapped around Rand's arm and said with a smile: "You like king snakes very much?" ”。

Rand explained with a smile: "I don't like it or not, I have been a cowboy for decades and am very familiar with these things, compared to rattlesnakes and venomous lizards, the king snake is not bad."

Ju An shook his head, this is not good in the southwestern United States, there are too many poisons, it is said that even rattlesnakes are divided into many kinds, what horned rattlesnakes are messy, it is really disturbing.

After Rand and Leonard talked about the ranch for a while, seeing that the sun was about to set on the horizon, Juan decided to release the snake and start work while the weather was cool.

Rand left the snake on his wrist and planned to put it around the house, just to catch the annoying mice at night, and Ju An put the rest of the snakes in the car, ready to walk for a while to put this one, of course, how can this kind of idle and boring thing be less Wang Fan, the two drove around the ranch.

Put a snake, Ju An took advantage of Wang Fan to get into the car first and threw one from the space, after putting a few, the two people stopped the car to prepare to release the snake, just caught the snake in their hands, they heard a rustling sound not far away, Wang Fan saw that it was a rattlesnake hiding under a stone, and there was nothing bare around to spit out letters in the direction of the two.

Ju An was not afraid of attack, and slowly took the king snake in his hand four or five steps away and put the king snake down, and said in his mouth: "Go!" Go! Kill it, and dinner is here." As soon as he put down the king snake and went around Ju'an's arm, he put it down again, and the king snake swam into the bushes next to him with a letter in his mouth.

"Your sister, bastard! Give me back? Ju An's stomach was immediately angry, and he escaped from the battle. Wang Fan looked at the back and said, "What you bought here is a waste."

"You look at this rattlesnake here, buddy go get another one" Ju An raised his feet and walked towards the car, and when he got to the side of the car, he looked at Wang Fan staring at the rattlesnake, turned his hand and took out an all-red king snake from the space, and walked over. (To be continued)

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