"The area of 5,600 acres, with the help of four cowboys, currently has more than 1,000 Angus beef cattle. Watson, see that mountain in the distance, that mountain is our hunting ground tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, I said man, we are going into the mountain tomorrow, do you feel excited? Mark asked with an aiming gesture towards Li Chenghua.

"I've been practicing marksmanship at the shooting range behind the gun shop you took me every afternoon, and I have to shoot two or three hundred rounds of bullets every time.

Mark took the beer bottle in his hand and touched the bottle in Li Chenghua's hand, and shouted to the old cowboy who was preparing the oven not far away: "Old George, help me take a case of beer in the freezer and put it outside, and I will take my friend to see my horse." ”

Then he drank the rest of the wine in one gulp, threw the beer bottle into a trash can in front of the door, compared it to the stable not far away to Li Chenghua, and said, "Let's go, take you to see the horse I just bought." ”

Li Chenghua hurriedly drank all the wine in the bottle, threw the wine bottle and followed Mark to the stable.

When Lord Pei saw Daddy walking to the stable with Mark, he hurriedly pulled his younger brother to watch the horses.

There are more than 20 mangers in the stable, and there is only one horse in each of the six mangers, Mark took Li Chenghua to one of the tall black horses, first reached out and touched the bridge of the horse's nose, then took out a carrot from his pocket, broke it hard, broke out a piece and put it in the palm of his hand and stretched it out in front of the horse's mouth, "This is my horse, a British horse with a very pure blood, just turned three years old this year." I'll name it Naughty Bag, Watson, would you like to say hello to my Naughty Bag? ”

Naughty Bag snorted, leaned his head into Mark's palm, swallowed the carrot in Mark's palm in one gulp, and rubbed his head at Mark affectionately while chewing the horse's mouth.

Mark touched the head of the naughty bag, broke off another piece of the carrot, and handed it to Li Chenghua. "Don't pinch it with your hands, just like I did, put the carrot in the palm of your hand, yes, that's it, and then slowly stroke the naughty bag with one hand, let it feel your kindness, yes, just touch it gently. Watson, you're doing a great job, now slowly put the carrot in front of the naughty bag, look, the naughty bag eats it, it likes you a lot. ”

Lord Pei couldn't bear it anymore on the side, jumped up to Daddy, pulled Li Chenghua's trouser leg and shouted: "Daddy let me come, let me come!" I'm going to feed the naughty bag too. ”

Li Chenghua had no choice but to lift his daughter, lean in front of the naughty bag, and motioned for Mark to put a carrot in Peipei's little palm. Lord Pei used to be the best equestrian among the nobles of Chang'an, and without waiting for Mark's command, he had already put on a small hand and slowly stroked the bridge of the nose of the naughty bag a few times, and then opened the palm and stretched the carrot in his hand to the horse's mouth.

Pei Pei happily touched the head of the naughty bag again, turned her head to look at Daddy, and grinned a big smile on her face. Mark gave Pei Pei a thumbs up and smiled, "Good!" Looks like Naughty Bag likes you very much, brave little girl! ”

At this time, Ash seemed to find something in the innermost room of the stable, and shouted to his sister, "Sister, sister, come, there is a pony here!" ”

Li Chenghua put down his daughter and walked over to take a look, only to see a small gray pony lying in a manger in the innermost part of the stable. Pony sees Ash and slowly gets up to Ash and shakes his head. Compared to the tall horses on the side, this pony is small and stocky, and his whole height is not even the legs of a mischievous bag.

"This is an Australian pony, a pocket-sized horse for little ones, and it's a gift I promised to give to Lillian." Mark followed, pointing to the pony.

"Uncle Mark, can you give me a ride?" Ash the bear kid looks at the pony and is itching and cuteness at Mark.

"no-no-" Mark shook his index finger at the bear child, saw Ash's frustrated expression, squatted down, and then winked at Ash with a pretended helpless look: "Okay, but don't tell Sù Lilian, she'll be angry if she knows." ”

Ash jumped up with a bang, and after giving Mark a fragrant kiss, he hurriedly opened the gate and rushed in, Mark got up and followed, helping to put the children's saddle hanging on the side to the pony, and as soon as the saddle was put down, Ash couldn't wait to climb on the pony, and shouted "Ride-——, pony run!" Li Chenghua smiled and stepped forward to pull the reins and helped his son lead the pony out of the stable.

Mark walked out with Pei Pei, looked down at Pei Pei, and said, "Would you like to ride up and play with it later?" ”

I saw that the county lord of Pei glanced at the short-legged pony with disdain, "cut", shook his head and said: "It's like a pet dog, and Xiao Zhi likes it, so I don't want to ride it." If I want to ride, I'll ride the naughty bag! That's what makes a good horse. ”

Mark laughed, touched Pei Pei's little head, and said, "You have vision, but you can't do it today, wait until tomorrow morning Uncle Mark will take you around in a naughty bag." ”

At this time, the sun has completely set, the barbecue grill is already full of food, the old cowboy George is sitting in front of the rack grilling steaks for the guests, and the three young cowboys around him are also helping to grill meat.

A few of Mark's friends were sitting or standing around the barbecue grill, drinking beer and chatting, and Li Yigang also stood in the middle of the group and chatted. Mark walked up with Pei Pei and joined the chat.

Li Chenghua let go of the reins and followed into the crowd, drinking beer while watching his son ride a pony, and after playing for a while, Ash got off the horse and walked to his grandfather, indicating that he was hungry. Mark pointed to the pony old George, and a cowboy from George Sr.'s side immediately stepped forward and took the reins to take the pony back to the stable.

Li Yigang and his son drank beer and ate steak, chatted with new friends, and put a slice of barbecue on the plate of the two little ones from time to time, and the lively barbecue dinner lasted about two hours before everyone returned to their respective rooms exhausted.

Early the next morning, Mark took Peipei, who had already ridden a lap, to return the naughty bag to the stable, and led Peipei back to the house and into the restaurant.

After breakfast, the group brought their shotguns, and the elder George led the three cattle dogs and led them into two pickup trucks, which drove to the distant hills.

Pei Pei and Ash were left behind by the adults, and asked Old George's wife, Julie, to help take care of them.