Time flies quickly, and for Shi Lei, who is busy with the harvest, September is about to pass before he knows it.

It was only on the last weekend of September that Shi Lei slowed down his pace, planning to sort out his harvest, and also had a clearer plan for the future.

The two days of the weekend are actually a unique festival on the side of Midi, that is, the Grass and Mud Horse Festival.

You read that right, these two days are the festival of the sacred beasts announced by the National Federation of Grass and Mud Horses of Midi, mainly to increase the public's understanding and love for grass and mud horses.

The way of the activity is to let each farm and ranch with grass and mud horses open their own grass and mud horses for tourists to visit for free.

Interested visitors can check the grass mud horse farms around their homes from the association's official website, and then choose a suitable location to have fun.

And the owners of the grass mud horses, this day will also decorate their own farms and pastures, more importantly, to design a few fresh and bright shapes for their own grass mud horses, so this day can see a variety of styles and shapes of grass mud horses, what to kill Matt, washing, cutting and blowing, rural non-mainstream is not a problem.

Shi Lei, of course, they are not exempt from vulgarity. On Friday afternoon, after Shi Lei and Laura returned home, they gathered with great interest the cowboys of the ranch and the bear children who joined in the fun, and came to a corral specially prepared for the grass mud horses, intending to use their imagination to change the shape of the mythical beasts.

The current mythical beasts are still the same shape, with long hair covering their foreheads, and some will cover their eyes, with a little melancholy. There is also a little bit of Wen Qingfan, and of course, there is always a mocking face that is always disdainful, and he always looks like he is full of slots.

The cowboys take out the equipment used to shear their hair from the ranch. I'm going to make a big deal.

As the owner of the ranch, Shi Lei first expressed his attitude, let everyone cut out new ideas, cut out the level, have the spirit of innovation, and have the mentality of entertaining the public, in short, how to be funny. How to be happy is completely happy with everyone.

Of course, the bears can't do it themselves. Because there is still a certain danger in operating the equipment, it is not good to hurt themselves or hurt the beasts, they can tell the cowboys of their ideas and creativity to let them be responsible for the implementation. Present their work.

The final result is absolutely wonderful, some are cool and cool, some are arrogant and disdainful, some are melancholy and low, some are cute and cute, some are ugly and have a lot of character, and some are beautiful and fashionable.

The children also put a variety of toys, garlands, and all kinds of hairpins. Headbands, what rabbit ears, glowing devil's horns. They all put on the heads of the mythical beasts, and some put various capes, props, and superhero clothes on the grass mud horses.

There are also many people who make a fuss about the bodies of grass and mud horses, and cut out the five-ring logo on their bodies, make the shape of crop circles, or other various badges. Logos or something, of course, are relatively simple. It's too complicated to see the effect.

Only Garcia held a knife, and on the divine beast under his hand, he showed a superb knife technique, and cut a more complex picture scroll on the body of the divine beast little by little, which seemed to describe the cowboy riding a bull, and won the praise of the people present.

Shi Lei repaired the grass mud horse into a shape similar to a lady dog, but the face is not the same, how arrogant he is, how to drag it, and a * nineteen points hairstyle, people can understand at a glance that this divine beast is very complaining*, of course, it has a lot of slots on it. (The mythical beast on the cover)

After everyone finished their works, they looked at the grotesque beasts and burst into laughter.

Everyone started a big discussion with great joy, competing to show the points of their works, explain their creative ideas, and then evaluate each other.

Shi Lei and the cowboys decorated the area where the grass and mud horses were located a little, and they felt almost it, so they dispersed with joy, waiting for the arrival of tourists tomorrow.

Shi Lei went back to the main room and took out the SLR camera, took a few photos of the beasts one by one, and then selected a lot of representative beast shapes, uploaded them to his blog, and also spread them to various groups by the way.

Obviously, Shi Lei couldn't help but want to sigh again, and the result did not disappoint Shi Lei. It caused an enthusiastic response among friends.

Soon, these guys who enjoyed the weekend at home, or who were still working overtime in the company, left messages, or discussed the shapes of various mythical beasts in the group, and they were indispensable to evaluate the creative shapes.

And Shi Lei's specially marked works have unsurprisingly become the focus of everyone's complaints, constantly pointing out various slots, and then scolding Shi Lei.

For such criticism, Shi Lei has always regarded it as envy, jealousy and hatred, just let it go, and ignore it at all.

Out of the love of the Chinese people for the grass mud horse beast, some places in China have now begun to make the grass mud horse festival, many friends said that they must go to these places to get close to the grass mud horse and feel the charm of the beast.

This makes Shi Lei look forward to the treatment of his own divine beasts, and it will definitely be very popular.

After taking everyone's praise of the mythical beasts as his own, Shi Lei fell asleep with a happy mood and expectations for tomorrow.

The weekend time is always happy, although the strong biological clock still makes Shi Lei wake up at the usual point, but he can choose to lie down and sleep back when he is sleepy.

By the time Shi Lei and Laura finished washing together and walked out of the main room after breakfast, the corrals of the mythical beasts in captivity on the ranch were already surrounded by tourists of different colors and ages.

It seems that not only the people around him, but also a lot of people from places like Los Angeles, because many young people Shi Lei have never seen him, which is unlikely for a small city like Santa Barbara, and the young people here can basically be familiar with each other.

There are even some that should be foreign tourists. Because of the French language, Russian, Portuguese. There are Italian and the like, and there are a few Chinese who speak different dialects in different parts of the country, and it seems that they are also here to travel.

Seeing that there were a few compatriots here, Shi Lei happily walked over, greeted them warmly, and then chatted in Mandarin proficiently. Meeting people in a foreign country always feels extra intimate.

These people come to Midi mainly for wine tours. I went to famous wine country, such as Napa Valley. And the area of Santa Barbara, known as the Central Valley, is also not short of wineries, and they just happened to walk here, and they heard that there is a grass mud horse festival. I was very interested in coming and taking a look.

When they heard that Shi Lei was the rancher here, they were a little surprised, because it was really rare to see Chinese people in Santa Barbara. But he didn't show how surprised he was, or he became low-voiced, and there was no obvious change in his attitude towards Shi Lei, the rancher.

People who can travel to Midi, especially wine tours, which are relatively expensive and demanding, must be worth a lot of money.

They certainly don't have any awe of the young billionaires who appear in front of them. It's just that the chat still seems closer, after all, the perception of the same type of people is closer.

Laura also followed Shi Lei and said hello to them. She also uses her proficient Chinese to chat from time to time.

These local tyrants from China have a sense of amazement when they see Laura, of course, no one leaks out of Brother Pig's appearance, they are all well-informed people, and their mentality is still very good, but they can't help but make fun of Shi Lei. The young man is in the color or something, and the meaning of ridicule is very strong.

It felt like a good conversation. Shi Lei warmly invited this group of compatriots with extraordinary temperament to stay and have lunch together, and everyone looked at the one called Boss Zhao, who was in his 30s when he looked at him, but had a strong aura, and everyone responded when he nodded and agreed.

Seeing that they had also seen the beasts for a while, Shi Lei asked everyone to go riding horses together, and they readily agreed again.

Took them to the stable, after learning about their riding skills, Shi Lei assigned them either divine horses or docile horses, in order to prevent accidents, Shi Lei also asked Gonzalez to accompany him, and a large group of people rode on horses and galloped freely on the grassland.

While riding a horse leisurely, while relaxing and chatting, the boundless gods talked about the topics of interest to each other, and soon it was lunch time, Shi Lei confessed, and ran back to the main house to prepare lunch, leaving Laura and Gonzalez to continue to accompany them to browse the scenery of the ranch.

When passing by the corral, Shi Lei saw that the atmosphere over there was still very warm, and many children couldn't bear the love for grass and mud horses, so they ran to the other side of the sacred beast specially reserved for the children to ride, and waited in line to ride the divine beast out to have fun.

Especially on the side of the beast racing competition, eager children and many spectators crowded both sides of the track, but fortunately, there were cowboys there to maintain order.

On the other side, the Shetland ponies, who had long been pulled to the corral of the grass and mud horses, were also in high demand, and it was clear that this was also for the children who came to play today.

Of course, as with the Beast Riding project, these are all charged. Shi Lei was inspired by the domestic park project, and the visit and playing with the grass and mud horses are free, and the rest are charged.

The ranch charges very little to tourists, and it is completely voluntary, there is no consumption trap, Shi Lei can't afford to lose that person.

But even so, it can't stand the fact that there are many people and children, and this posture has passed in the past two days, and Shi Lei's original cost of buying a pony may be recouped.

Shi Lei took out the high-end steak meat he prepared, made some steaks, prepared a few specialty dishes, and by the way, took out the few very flavorful wines bought from the surroundings, as well as the good goods produced by McRae's winery.

The guests were full of praise for Shi Lei's ranch and envied Shi Lei's pets, especially Maoqiu, Xiaojin and Xiaoyin.

Whether it is a horse or a grass mud horse, or a variety of famous dogs, they can be seen and played in China, but they are only possible to have them unless they open a zoo by themselves.

After a short rest after dinner, they were ready to continue their journey. Shi Lei was very enthusiastic to recommend a few wineries that he thought were very good, especially McRae's tasting room, which was the focus of the recommendation.

As the so-called fertilizer water does not flow into the fields of outsiders, this can not only cheapen their own people, but also let the other party taste although it is not very famous, but the quality is definitely the top good wine, which is definitely a win-win situation. ? (To be continued) R655