Chapter 12 Grow vegetables before you barbecue
Qin Yi was not surprised, he was Chinese, and Ryan was the ranch director, so it was easy to think, "Hello, Isaac, I'm Yi, a glass of beer, thank you." ”
Qin Yi and Isaac chatted casually, and after a while, Ryan came over and touched Qin Yi with a wine glass and took a sip, "Recruited 8 cowboys, all of them are good boys." They went back to clean up and went to the ranch themselves to report before dark. "The cowboys don't have much luggage, just a few clothes to put in their backpacks, and then a saddle and a gun.
After the matter was done, Qin Yi paid the bill and took Ryan to the grocery store, bought some vegetable seeds, and then went back to the ranch. When I went back, it was Qin Yi who drove, and since I could drive, of course I had to cool off here. On the way back, Qin Yi asked Ryan to arrange the new cowboy, and then told him to hold a barbecue party tomorrow night. That's right, Qin Yi plans to officially get to know the cowboys, and then he will start to work on the ranch.
It's time for the spiritual spring to play its role, and Qin Yi is looking forward to it.
When he was about to arrive at the ranch, Qin Yi looked at the big main house, it usually takes a long time to clean up by himself, it seems that he is looking for someone to help him clean up, he thought for a while and said to Ryan: "Ryan, it is very troublesome for me to clean up the main house alone, can you ask Susie to help me, clean it in two days, and also, I plan to make a big vegetable garden near the main house, Susie will not be a cowboy, she usually takes care of the vegetable garden, and her salary is the same." ”
Ryan's family of four, wife Susie, son Burke, daughter Ricky, and the family all work as cowboys on Qin Yi's ranch. Ryan was very happy to hear this, being a cowboy is very tiring, and it is much easier than a vegetable garden, not to mention cleaning the house: "Thank you, Yi, Susie will be happy to know." ”
"Isn't the cowboy who takes care of the stables gone, let Ricky go."
"Thank you, Yi, you are a good person, God praise you!" Ryan was overjoyed.
There are also 20 quart horses in the racecourse, and since the ranch decided to sell them last year, a large number of cattle and sheep have been slaughtered, and most of the cowboys have been cut, and the ranch horses have also been sold with the reduction of cowboys. Generally, cowboys take care of their own horses, and there are only 5 or 6 horses that need to be taken care of by Rachel, which is much easier than herding cattle.
When they arrived at the ranch, Qin Yi returned to the main house, and Ryan went to the stable to ride a horse to help the cowboys drive the cows, and at night he had to drive the cattle back to the cattle pen, or to the grove, and get together to save accidents. Now that the cowboy is half gone, it is more tiring to do the work, and as for the arrangement of the new cowboy, there is no hurry to be late.
Qin Yi returned to the house, Lai Pi was sleeping on the sofa, now that he has space fruits, he doesn't have to be afraid of starving him all the time, taking out a basket every few days is enough for Lai Pi to squander. Now the space fruit trees ripen once a week, and there are too many to eat, and a layer of various fruits is spread on the ground, but fortunately, the things in the space are not afraid of being damaged, so let's put them first, and then deal with them when they are idle. I made some beef and roasted potatoes at night, and I was full of food and lay down to watch TV, and it was not interesting to watch it for a while, so I took a bath and went to sleep.
Early the next morning, Qin Yi, who got up at 6 o'clock, came to the door, looking at the endless pasture, breathing in the fresh air with the fragrance of pasture, the mood was really great. At this time, the cowboys had already set off to graze, Qin Yi saw Rui Qi'er not far away wearing rubber shoes and a wide-brimmed cowboy hat, cleaning the stable, and sighed that this girl was really good, she was a real person, and she didn't care about dirty work, although she was not very beautiful, but she had a simple beauty.
Qin Yi walked over and said hello: "Morning, Rui Qi'er, I'll help you." "I changed the rubber shoes in the small warehouse of the stables, took out the shovel and started work.
"Thanks, Yi." Ricky smiled and thanked her.
I have met Qin Yi a few times in the past few days, and his general personality is somewhat understood, very easy-going, just like a friend, not as old-fashioned as the Moore family, the previous rancher, giving people a sense of distance. After cleaning the stable, Qin Yi and Rui Qi'er learned to brush the horse again, first with a hard brush, then a soft brush and then blow drying, so it's good, to put it simply, Qin Yi was sweating all morning after a busy day. After doing this, Rui Qi'er is going to walk the horse, and Qin Yi can't ride a horse yet, so he plans to go back to open the vegetable garden.
When I came to the warehouse, I drove a small rotary tiller, and chose a piece of land not far from the main house to turn over the ground to grow vegetables.
"Tutu Tu Tu"
The rotary tiller is full of horsepower, and after turning over the soil and breaking the soil, you can sow seeds directly. Qin Yi was still a little excited to drive, he had seen a rotary tiller in his rural hometown before, and it was the first time he drove it, not only fresh, but also a very strange sense of power to change nature, although the ridges of soil that were set off were all thanks to the machine. Qin Yi was like a child who had found a new toy, and he kept driving suddenly, ploughing a large piece of land back and forth to see that it was enough to grow vegetables, and then he reluctantly went back and changed to the seeder.
When he arrived at the warehouse, Qin Yi was a little worried, not only to avoid the trouble of often going to the town to buy vegetables, but also to eat the delicious vegetables improved by Lingquan.
But if you plant it in the ground and water the spring water, the vegetable seedlings will grow, and it will not frighten the cowboys for a while, forget it, plant it in the space first, and then take the seeds to the outside to plant, and the seeds in the space will become delicious when they grow outside, although they are not as good as the space vegetables, but there is no crazy growth from the spiritual spring water, so you don't have to worry about being found abnormal.
I thought of it, I entered the space, went to the fruit tree under the fruit tree to clean up the fruits all over the ground and pile them together, sorted out a piece of land, and sprinkled the vegetable seeds, and the seeds sprouted when they landed, whirring and long, and after a while, the crisp and tender lettuce, red tomatoes, tender cucumbers, all kinds of vegetables have grown, Qin Yi quickly picked off a part, anyway, there are many fruits, and it happens to make salads at night barbecue.
Picking off some of the vegetables that were left to eat, Qin Yi hurriedly picked up the ripe vegetable seeds, don't fall to the ground and grow them again after a while, it will be troublesome. Qin Yi, who was busy and sweating profusely, pulled out the vegetable seedlings and piled them up together to find a time to occupy a space saving place. After packing up the ripe seeds, Qin Yi got out of the space and went to plant vegetables with the seeder on.
Set the speed and planting spacing, Qin Yi starts the car and walks you!
Puff puff
Compared with the rotary tiller, it is slower, there is no way, ploughing is hard work, sowing is meticulous work. Puff puff ran for half an hour, and finally finished planting, well, wait for the germination to come back to water. Qin Yi drove the seeder back to the warehouse, and saw that the time was already more than 7 o'clock, and his stomach was rumbling in the morning, well, go cooking.
Fry an egg, fry a small piece of beef, put a few slices of freshly planted vegetables, take the bread and put it on it, well, breakfast is ready.
After breakfast, he took out two apples, one with Laipi, sat on the sofa and watched TV, and in the afternoon, Qin Yi called Ryan and asked him to help prepare the barbecue.
In the process of grazing, the cattle must be driven every once in a while, so as not to eat a piece of grass and hurt the grass roots, as for the rest, it is nothing, not as busy as in the morning and evening, and the cowboy recruited yesterday has been put into work, so that the work assigned to each cowboy is the same as usual, and it can be completely busy, and Ryan does not have to follow the grazing, and returns to the job of managing the cowboy to arrange grazing.
Ryan received the call and soon rode over with Susie, who changed her job as a vegetable gardener, but now that the garden was planted, Susie continued to help with the herding.
Qin Yi sat on the recliner under the porch, holding a coffee, looking into the distance, shrouded in golden light, Ryan and Susie raised their whips lightly, facing the sunset, galloping on the boundless grassland, the style of that moment reminded Qin Yi of the scene in the early American Westerns to start learning to ride a horse tomorrow, I also want to ride a horse to the sunset, not only the sunset, but also to run against the morning sun when I get up!
Taking a sip of coffee, Qin Yi secretly thought in his heart, well, it's best to find someone to help him take a photo and upload it to QQ space to let everyone see how heroic he is.
Ryan and Susie saw the newly opened vegetable garden from afar, and they only said yesterday that they would open it up today, and they wanted to help, but they didn't expect Qin Yi to move very fast. Let the horse eat grass by itself, and the two walked over to Qin Yi's side, "Yi, I didn't expect you to get the vegetable garden so quickly, I still want to come over tomorrow to help you." ”
"It's nothing in the morning, and it's not troublesome, and the machinery will be ready quickly." Qin Yi stood up and invited Ryan Susie into the living room.
"Ryan Susie, come in for a coffee break and it's still early!"
Ryan Susie sat down on the sofa, took off her hat and put it on her lap, and Qin Yi took the coffee pot and poured a cup of it over by himself.
"Thank you, Yi." The two smiled and took it.
Qin Yi held a barbecue party for the first time, and he was still in the United States, so he had no experience, "Ryan, what kind of wine do cowboys drink at night?" ”
"Beer is a cowboy favorite, and a small amount of wine and juice."
Qin Yi was relieved when he heard this, there were all of them, there was red wine in the basement, and beer was stored in the cellar.
After a break, the three of them prepared the barbecue materials, Susie prepared the beef and mutton and cleaned the vegetables, and Qin Yi took Ryan to the warehouse to bring out the barbecue grill and charcoal, which were left by the former rancher, and the barbecue grill was cleaned and dried, and it could be used at night. A few barrels of beer were also brought out and placed on the grass in front of the house, and then the tables, chairs, and cutlery were ready, and it was dark, and the cowboys came one after another.
Qin Yi smiled and greeted the cowboys, let them do it themselves, don't be polite about the beer and juice, the cowboys don't have any concerns, seeing that the boss is so easy-going, they are all let go, drinking and chatting in twos and threes, the atmosphere is lively and joyful. Ryan was busy with the barbecue, Burke was on the sidelines, and Ricky helped Susie prepare the vegetable salad. Qin Yi looked at Ryan who was barbecuing, and also leaned over, ready to learn both hands, and there would be more barbecue picnics in the future.
"Oh God, this salad is so delicious! Susie, the salad you used to make, but it wasn't that good! "The vegetable salad was ready, and Ricky was shocked when she tasted it, she had never eaten such a delicious salad.
An exclamation attracted a lot of attention, and Susie was also a little puzzled, and tasted it, "Oh my God, this is what I did?" When did I have such a good craft? Susie was also surprised, the salad was indeed delicious, but after decades of cooking, I never found that I had such good cooking skills
When everyone heard the first exclamation, they just looked at it curiously, but when they heard the second one, they couldn't help it, and they gathered around to see what kind of salad was so delicious. Burke was close and was the first to eat: "Uh-huh, Good, Good, what a delicious salad, you guys eat it too." "Let the cowboys around try it.
Sure enough, everyone who tasted it couldn't help but give a thumbs up and say yes, but the salad that was supposed to be used as an after-dinner spice was besieged by the cowboys, and before the real barbecue began, a large bowl of salad bottomed out. Qin Yi watched it funny on the side, produced by the space, of course it was delicious!
In the morning, several baskets of vegetables were picked, and Qin Yi moved out of the space to put the kitchen refrigerator, which was full, because he expected that the deliciousness of the vegetables in the space would be sought after by everyone. Although I guessed that the salad I made today was delicious and maybe because of the vegetables, everyone liked it and made Susie very happy, and under everyone's praise and request, she happily continued to prepare the salad!