Chapter 75: The Country Bar (Part I)
After Pepe returned to the villa, he got in the car and drove straight to Damu Town.
Twenty minutes later, the car stopped outside the café where Lucy worked, parked the car and pushed the door in, Lucy, who was bored playing with her mobile phone, greeted Pepe happily as soon as she saw it, Pepe greeted Lucy with a smile and ordered a set meal, and while waiting for the meal, she accompanied Lucy and began to chat again.
"Lucy, I'd like to ask you where I can hire day laborers in town."
"What, do you want to hire a cowboy to help you take care of the ranch?"
"Ranch? No! No! No! The land around the cottage is only 800 acres, and I don't plan to raise cattle, but I want to find a lumberjack to help me go up the hill to clear and cut down some trees. Pepe replied.
Lucy shrugged her shoulders and smiled: "Then you still have to find cowboys, you must know that the men in the town are cowboys, and the cowboys in our town know more than just raising cows, and a skilled cowboy will know a lot of things, such as raising horses, farming, slaughtering, brewing beer, repairing roofs, repairing tools, repairing various cars, repairing household appliances, connecting water pipes, etc., you are looking for a lumberjack?" Hehe, as long as it's a man in town, it will! ”
Then Lucy told Pepe that about ten minutes to the right after leaving this coffee shop, there was a country bar called "Horse Lovers", where the men of the town liked to have two drinks, and Pepe could go there directly after lunch, and shout directly in the bar, or find the owner of the bar, Old Flaray, and ask him to help recommend suitable cowboys.
"Bars? Isn't that all open at night? It's afternoon, where can you find workers? Pepe had never been to a bar, but her best friend, Lilian, was a nightlife lover, so in the concept of the county lady, the bar was always for nights.
Lucy laughed when she heard this, and explained to Pepe: "I know you are a rich lady from a fashionable metropolis, but this is not a metropolis, this is a small town in the countryside, and the men in Damu Town have no nightlife fetishes, you look at this town, there are not many pedestrians on the streets, most of the people in this town know each other, people who have jobs don't go to bars at all during this time, only cowboys who have nothing to do at the moment will go to the horse lovers during the day." Horse lovers are more than just bars, cowboys chat and pass the time, they also ask each other and introduce them to work, which is why I asked you to find old Flarley. ”
After listening to this, Pepe thanked Lucy, and after spending half an hour finishing lunch, she said goodbye to Lucy, left the café, and drove straight to the "Horse Lover" bar.
A one-person tall plastic beer keg is erected at the entrance of the "Horse Lovers" bar, which is very recognizable.
After Pepe parked the car at the door, he pushed the door straight in.
As soon as he entered the bar, there was soft country music mixed with the noisy shouting of men, and the air was filled with the smell of cheap tobacco and men's sweat, Pepe covered his nose and looked up, there were not many customers in the bar, these customers were basically dressed as cowboys, of different ages, or sitting at the small wine table and clinking glasses with each other, or gathering at the bar to chat loudly, or throwing darts at the dart board on the wall.
"Hey, brothers, look, there's a little angel!" A bearded man in a cowboy hat at the bar saw Pepe standing in the doorway, raised his glass and yelled around.
"Joey, you guy drank too much, there are angels there?" One of his companions looked up at the doorway, "Uh-what a cutie!" Hi cutie, who are you looking for? ”
The county lord frowned, it was the first time she had entered a place in this environment. I secretly complained about what kind of place Lucy recommended to her.
At this time, a bartender in his fifties behind the bar beckoned to Pepe and shouted, "Hey, beautiful lady, these people have no ill intentions, they just like to joke, are you here to find someone or something else?" ”
Pepe put down his hand covering his nose, walked around the wine table, came to the bar, and said to the old bartender: "Hello, I am the new owner of Xiaoquan Mountain, and I want to hire some cowboys here, and Lucy from the town coffee shop recommended me to come here to find old Flarley." ”
"I am old Flarley, hello, beautiful young lady!" The old bartender reached out to Pepe, "Nice to meet you, is there anything I can help you with?" ”
"Hello, I'm Per Lee." Pepe showed a reserved smile, shook back the hand stretched out in front of him, and continued to speak: "Lucy told me, you can help me introduce some skilled cowboys, I want to clean up the trees on Xiaoquan Mountain, and then take care of the land near the villa, do you have any good cowboy recommendations?" ”
Old Fraray pondered for a moment and asked, "You should have heard about the wolf trouble on Xiaoquan Mountain, right?" Several ranchers and farmers in the vicinity of Koizumumi Mountain have been trying to contact the new owner of Koizumumi Mountain and get the owner to agree that they can go up the mountain to get rid of the wolf problem. Can I inform those old friends that the new owner of Koizumumi is currently at my bar? ”
Wolves? Hehe, now these wolves are my personal pets, so stay in my space! They couldn't find the wolves when they went up the hill.
So Pepe replied with a smile: "Of course there is no problem, if the people in the town want to go up the mountain to clear the wolves, I will not object, after all, we will be neighbors for a long time in the future." ”
Old Flarey happily hammered the bar and said, "That's great! You wait a little while I'll be back in a few calls, and then I'll help you ask anyone in the bar who would like to work at your lodge. ”
After saying this, old Flarley shouted to a young man beside him: "Give this beautiful young lady a glass of ale, I please!" Then he walked over to the old-fashioned telephone in the corner of the bar and dialed the phone.
A glass of ale in a large glass was quickly placed in front of Pepe.
Pepe frowned again, looked at the golden bubbling wine glass in front of him, and said to the young man who handed the wine glass with a bitter face: "I still received that intention, but I am not yet 21 years old, so I can't drink!" ”
The young man laughed, "I said, law-abiding miss, I'm not under 21 years old, so I don't drink it anymore." This is the countryside, a small country town that doesn't even have a police station, and the nearest police station is in Bozeman, 60 miles away, and no one in the town wants to drive more than an hour just to get you to the police station for a drink! As he spoke, he held up a beer glass and touched it against the glass in front of Pepe, and then shouted around, "Brothers, do you say yes?" ”
The crowd raised their glasses in response, "That's right, little Tom!" You've been drinking since you were 12 years old. Haha"
"We only come here once a week, and when the police car comes, it's just staring at the ticket for illegal parking. Little Tom works here and drinks free alcohol by the way, even the policemen who come once a week know about it, but they have never seen them take Little Tom to the police station! Drink it, this wine is a new beer made from wheat that has just been harvested this year, and the alcohol is very low and will not be intoxicating. Well, even if it's a celebration that Oki Town has a new resident! Joey, the cowboy who had spotted Pepe in the first place, raised his glass and coaxed.