On this year's Thanksgiving Day, Shi Lei once again brought the parents of both parties to the ranch to have a good reunion festival, and by the way, let the parents experience the festive atmosphere here. This festival is different from the August 15th in China but has the same destination, which makes my parents very happy.

After coming here, they started a new business and had a different living environment, although it was a little uncomfortable at first, but there was really no problem with communication in Pasadena, so they quickly adapted to the new environment, and their small private restaurant made it enjoyable for them to operate.

Although the main person in charge of store management is An Yumeng, a beautiful woman with eight faces, many Chinese guests from Arcadia and San Marino are all parents of their age, and it is easy to chat with them.

Especially when you know that your parents are teachers, they can talk about more topics, because in a community like San Marino, many Chinese people choose this expensive place to settle down in a good school district.

Mom and Dad had something to do over there, and there were people to chat with, and soon there was no strangeness. Parents are happy, Shi Lei can rest assured.

And this happy love of parents is especially obvious on Thanksgiving Day, they are always very satisfied when they talk about the private restaurant they run together, Shi Lei is also infected by their love, put aside some of the fatigue caused by the busyness of this time, and happily accompany the four elders to have a good chat.

When it comes to the harvest of Stone Ranch, Colin and Emily are also very happy for Shi Lei, and Emily strongly encourages the current situation of Laura's studio, telling her not to be proud of the current situation, because it is obvious that Emily plays an important role in this.

And Shi Lei's parents praised Laura's ability without words, and they were able to find such a beautiful and talented lady who didn't have the temper of a big lady to be a daughter-in-law. It's really a kind of luck, I don't know if this is a reward from God for Shi Lei to clean himself up for so many years, God sometimes favors honest people.

After a warm reunion festival, Shi Lei said goodbye to several elders and dear Laura, and stepped on the plane to the new ranch alone.

The first thing Shi Lei did after getting off the plane was to go to the local area to register his gun license, and at the same time buy a lever shotgun and a USP45 pistol that are not very common in California.

I saw a medium-sized straight knife that was not common, but it was very suitable for rough busse, and Shi Lei bought it without hesitation. In addition, I also bought an extremely sharp antler hunting knife, since I was planning to hunt, it was not very convenient to do without this guy.

When Shi Lei came out after shopping, Hanks was already waiting outside in a brand-new Ford F150 pickup truck, Shi Lei waved his harvest at Hanks proudly, and then turned around and went back to buy the most expensive AK rifle in the store.

There's no such thing as California's ultra-disgusting restrictions. Shi Lei almost forgot about it just now in fact you don t need to buy only two guns at a time here, you can buy them at will, long and short guns are arbitrary, and what makes Shi Lei feel very happy. The guns here are all equipped with standard 30-round magazines, not the 10-round short magazines that California mandates for fucking purposes, and they are not the more unreliable fixed magazine-style magazines.

For this, Shi Lei simply went back and carried a few more boxes of bullets. A few spare magazines and tactical pistol sights were all bought for him.

I took a closer look at what I had gained. Shi Lei found that he had bought one less revolver, and he always felt that there was something wrong with not straddling a revolver on his waist in such a cowboy country, and it would also be a qualified spare pistol. So Shi Lei went back again.

Out of concern for Smith? Wei Sen's preference, Shi Lei bought a 329pd revolver produced by this company again, using a point 44 Magnum bullet, which is powerful enough to knock down a bear, and it is very suitable for use as a self-defense weapon used in the ranch, and of course, it must be equipped with a handsome cowboy-style quick-pull cowhide holster.

After confirming that he had bought all the things he needed, Shi Lei was satisfied to get into the pickup truck driven by Hanks and run towards the distant pasture. The ranch is more than three hours away from the nearest airport, which makes Shi Lei very helpless, this is what you gain must lose, since it is cheap and the environment is good, of course, you have to endure its remoteness.

In order to pass the long journey, Shi Lei chatted with the somewhat silent Hanks.

"Hey, Hanks, I've been busy lately, it's really troublesome for you to build such a big ranch from scratch, thank you sincerely.

In addition, it seems that I really didn't think of the wrong person, I knew that you must be able to do it, and you are the only one who has the ability to support a stall on your own. Shi Lei sincerely praised Hanks, such an organizational ability to find all over the stone ranch, and only one Hanks can achieve it.

"You're welcome, I want to thank you for your trust, I won't let you down if you leave all such a large ranch to me to take care of." Hanks said to Shi Lei with the same gratitude.

"Is there enough people on the ranch now? Are cattle dogs enough? As I told you last time, there are two cowboys on the other side of the Stone Ranch who have expressed to me the idea of coming over and doing something with you, and I have no problem, it depends on your opinion.

It's up to you to decide whether or not to let them come over and help, after all, you're in charge of this place, and you know the situation better. Shi Lei asked about the cowboys' application on Thanksgiving.

"The cattle dogs in the ranch are enough now, thanks to your early plan to send so many suitable cattle dogs, they have helped us a lot, and the new cowboys are even more amazed by their appearance, saying that they have never seen such capable and intelligent dogs, I don't need to surprise them, they haven't fully expressed their strengths."

In terms of cowboys, we are barely enough now, I have recruited a lot of cowboys in the local area, they are all familiar with it, many of them have worked here before, and they are also very familiar with the situation here, and they have provided me with a lot of useful advice and advice.

But more manpower is gone. In other words, all the cowboys who can be found here who are willing to work on the ranch have already arrived, because the cowboys will not be idle, they have all found jobs early, or simply gone to other places.

So if these two cowboys can come over, I'm still very welcome, even if there are only two more cowboys, but everyone's work will be much easier. Hanks thought about it and decided to take in the two cowboys, anyway, they were all alone guys, and they didn't need to drag their families around here like Garcia, so there were a lot fewer things to worry about.

"Okay. Then I'll go back and tell them that they have to come here to work, and they must be able to keep up with the rhythm here. Shi Lei agreed, quickly took out his mobile phone to make a memo, and when he turned around, he notified them to come over, they are urgently needed now, and it will be of little significance if they come late.

"Also, I heard some news from the old cowboy from the ranch that used to be, well, bad news. It may explain why the previous rancher preferred to sell the abundant pasture at a low price. Hanks said to Shi Lei with some hesitation.

"Oh? What's the bad news? I've always wondered why the original rancher would sell this place for a bargain, I've seen him, and it doesn't look like a generous owner. Shi Lei received it curiously.

"Hmm. Yes, the original rancher was simply a well-known Grande figure, and his stinginess was notoriously all around, all sorts of things from the ranch. Whether it is a house or a corral or a variety of ranch machinery, it has always been three years of new and three years of old sewing and patching.

Arbitrarily deducting cowboys' wages is even more commonplace, and bonuses have never been seen before. Hanks said the rancher with disdain. At this point, Shi Lei said that Xiàn absolutely threw off the other party, and he didn't stop for more than nine streets. All the cowboys with that red envelope will be smiling.

And Shi Lei remembered the things he saw last time, the ecstatic planes and mottled pickups, as well as those buildings that looked dilapidated, it was absolutely rare and generous to be able to let Shi Lei and Grimes stay overnight and provide breakfast and dinner last time.

"But all of this just made him have a bad reputation, and the ranch wasn't producing well enough. What really made him have to sell the ranch early was because the ranch had gone through several disasters, yes, disasters. Hanks shook his head helplessly and sighed.

Shi Lei waited for Hanks's next step a little nervously, wondering what kind of disaster it was.

"The ranch was attacked by wolves first, you know that the number of North American gray wolves has increased now, and unlike other predators, they are more like killing livestock, they obviously can't eat so much prey, but they still scourge dozens of livestock at a time, and the sheepdogs are even more unlucky, and they will sacrifice a lot every time.

But the original rancher who was very aggrieved failed to apply for a wolf hunting license, and the guard dogs were not enough to deal with the wolves, and the scope of the ranch was too large, so he could only sit and watch the tragedy happen, and it was already miserable after such a few occurrences, but this is only the beginning, and it is far from the end.

Then there was another horrific incident, the ranch was attacked by a mountain lion, and the attack on the hairballs experienced by the stone ranch was not at all the same situation, it was a cowboy who was attacked and he was eaten whole.

The original rancher lost a lot of money for this, and the reputation of the ranch was completely ruined, and it was impossible to even change hands.

In the end, there was another bloody incident in the ranch, and all the sheep left in the ranch, more than 100 sheep, were all brutally killed overnight, and only one sheep was partially eaten, so many people suspected that the attacker on the ranch was the bloodthirsty North American beast - Shanka Hualaikin, a legendary guy.

Although there have been records of this fierce beast being killed before, this one in the ranch has not been found, and various speculations are still rampant. Hanks said that his tone was already full of worry, after all, none of these situations seemed to have been resolved, which meant that they could face these situations as well. (To be continued......) R1292