Chapter 224: The Rain Passes and the Sky Clears

Before leaving, Laura told her that she could not bring anything else to Ohio, but she must bring an umbrella, and it turned out that Laura was right. +◆Top+◆Point+◆Small+◆Say, x.

I don't know if it's to express a warm welcome to Shi Lei, as soon as Shi Lei stepped out of the plane, a heavy rain poured down. Shi Lei looked at the sky a little helplessly, and decisively took out an umbrella.

This new ranch on this side of Ohio isn't as remote as the Fox River, less than an hour from the airport. It's just that because the rain is too heavy, Sanchez, who came to pick up Shi Lei, only dared to drive slowly and cautiously in a big pickup truck, so the original one-hour drive took nearly 2 hours to arrive.

This is indeed a place with abundant water and plants, at least there is a lot of water, and Shi Lei has seen it well. On the way back to the new pasture, you will often see a variety of wide and narrow rivers, so the most of the way is to stay on large and small bridges. The swelling river under the bridge deck had already submerged the grass at the water's edge, and even the trunks of the big trees had submerged a lot.

Shi Lei looked at these rivers with some concern, afraid that the water would overflow the bridge at any time and wash the two of them away. Sanchez calmly explained on the side, saying that this situation is very common here, so the bridges are built exceptionally strong, and there are more scientific drainage equipment, so there is no need to worry.

Under Shi Lei's fearful gaze, the pickup truck returned to the new ranch without danger. Sanchez sent Shi Lei to the main house of the ranch and went back to work by himself. It is also necessary to organize the cowboys to pay attention to the drainage and arrange for the livestock to take shelter from the rain. Although the occasional rain wash still has some benefits for the livestock, it is still easy to get sick after being exposed to too much rain.

Sanchez, like Hanks, insisted on not living in the main house, and wanted to leave the main house to the Shi Lei family. And he and Robin, another steward, are now living alone, and the children have already gone out, so they can live in the workers' house, and it can also be convenient for them to mingle with the cowboys.

After Shi Lei entered the main room. I quickly cleaned up and turned on the dehumidifying equipment in the room. For rainy days, especially continuous rainy days, Shi Lei is very annoying.

Every time in such weather, there will be that kind of damp and stuffy feeling, which makes Shi Lei feel that it is very difficult to breathe, and he always wants to sleep. So after feeling that the humidity in the house had dropped to a more comfortable Cheng dù, Shi Lei went to wash up and went to bed early.

This sleep made Shi Lei dizzy, especially the gloomy sky outside, which made him completely unable to figure out how long he had been asleep. Shi Lei, who was in a daze, simply lay down and fell asleep again. Until he felt that his spirit was so strong that even if he closed his eyes, he didn't feel any sleepiness at all.

When I took out my phone and looked at it, it turned out that it was noon the next day. It's just that this fucking weather has made Shi Lei completely lose his sense of time, and the biological clock has completely lost its accuracy.

Shi Lei struggled to get up from the bed, feeling lazy all over his body after sleeping for so long. Shi Lei looked out of the window and found that it was still raining outside, so he had to take out his umbrella a little reluctantly, planning to go out to a corral or something like that.

Since the new ranch always has to face the current rainy weather, Shi Lei has to see if the ranch's facilities and livestock can cope with this kind of weather. Seeing Shi Lei walk out, the dog guarding the porch of the main room barked happily at Shi Lei. While wagging his tail constantly, he ran around Shi Lei and ran back and forth.

This dog is also an adult dog from the Z series at Stone Ranch. Now the remaining dogs on the side of the stone ranch are mainly newborn dogs of the A series, and most of the dogs of the Z series are distributed in the Fox River Ranch and the new ranch.

The name of the new ranch has also been decided. After Sanchez and their brainstorming, they asked Shi Lei's consent again. It was named the La-Recher River Pasture. La Recher means milk in Spanish, so when translated, this ranch could be called Milk River Ranch.

As long as there is a river flowing in the pasture, they like to give their ranch a name like so-and-so river ranch. Neither the Fox River Ranch nor the Milk River Ranch are immune. The name Milk River is a good one, meaning that the pasture produces enough milk to form a river, and it is a flowing river.

Shi Lei slowly walked to the large cow pens that were very neatly arranged. Looking at the many equipment here that are different from beef cattle ranches, milking machines and other equipment are very complete. Now the breeding of dairy cows must be informatized and mechanized, and in order to ensure that all milk sources are well documented, the process of raising these cows is traceable.

These neat barns and a variety of fully automated equipment for milk production are the bulk of the farm's assets. If it weren't for these new facilities, Shi Lei wouldn't have to spend several percent more than the price of the Fox River Ranch to buy this land with a usable area similar to the Fox River Ranch.

In the past, in order to serve the cows on the side of the stone ranch, Shi Lei did not purchase this series of equipment, and Shi Lei was also very clear about their value.

Shi Lei was looking at the situation of these cows while transforming them. They will have the same palatability as goat's milk like the cows in the stone pastures, and combine the advantages of buffalo, goat's, sheep and camel milk to make it an unbeatable milk in terms of taste and nutrition.

Now all the livestock on this side of the Milk River Ranch, whether it is the nearly 10,000 cows or the thousands of pigs, are all purchased locally from Ohio after coming to the Milk River side.

All the cows and pigs on the Stone Ranch are left there, because the production on the Stone Ranch is still enough to supply the needs of the area around Los Angeles. The partners Alexander has found are in high demand for milk and dairy products of all kinds, and many Chinese restaurants in the Los Angeles area are also in need of a large number of top-quality pork.

In addition, the newly introduced cows and pigs at Milk River Farm also need a process of growth and quality change. After this period of time, their output can officially meet the quality requirements of stone pastures, and only then can they be labeled with the logo of stone pastures.

It took Shi Lei a long time to get out of the cowshed, and the next goal was to run to the pigsty. These pigs will be modified to have the growth rate of Landrace, with the same strong physique and protein content as wild boars, and finally produce perfect pork with the meat flavor of small pigs.

The livestock transformation activities on this side of the Milk River Ranch took Shi Lei three days. There are just too many of them. Shi Lei hurried to finally complete the transformation of them. Shi Lei, who was exhausted for this matter, threw himself into the soft bed again after returning to the ranch.

When Shi Lei woke up energetically, he was pleasantly surprised to find that the rainy sky had cleared up, and it became as refreshing as Shi Lei's mood. Finally, I don't have to go out with an umbrella anymore, and I don't have to get wet all day long.

Shi Lei's first thought after coming out was to go to the river of the ranch to see, Shi Lei was really worried that the many rivers within the ranch would be watered by heavy rain for several days, which one would overflow and cause any disaster.

The first stop was to a river tens of meters wide that flowed through the pasture, one of the tributaries of a large river that spanned several nearby states.

This section of the ranch was named the Milk River by Sanchez. In addition to being the largest river in the Milk River Ranch, the river is so turbulent that it always glows white when it hits rocks along the river. It looks like milk.

And Sanchez said that the Asian carp in the river have basically encroached on all the water space, and it has definitely reached the point of flooding. But none of the cowboys on the ranch would think of catching two Asian carp and coming back to eat.

Sanchez and Robin have tasted the deliciousness of these freshwater fish from Shi Lei's family more than once, but the key is that they don't know how to cook Asian carp themselves.

According to them, they tried to make it themselves, but the smell of the food was too strong to swallow, and there were so many small spines that they were always apprehensive about eating it.

In addition to these concerns, the other cowboys are also worried that these Asian carp are here to clean up the garbage at the bottom of the river, so they are afraid that they will not be clean. In fact, Asian carp is not rich in heavy metals. And with a higher protein content, it's actually a healthier food choice for people.

However, when it comes to eating, more people still prefer to obey their own mouths rather than their own reason. So the Asian carp can still grow freely wherever they go. Even the 1.2-meter-long, nearly 100-pound wild Asian carp that have reached their limit are not a few.

And every time a boat passes by the area where they live, the whole river rolls as if it were boiling, and it is the frightened Asian carp that keeps jumping out of the water. There are often unfortunate guys who are smashed in the face by these big fish that burst out of the water. It must have hurt a lot to think about.

In order to deal with the danger of Asian carp, the government has tried many tricks, but they have not worked. In the end, I also found relevant experts in China, but now it still has not been able to effectively curb the pace of expansion of these crazy water foodies.

In order to encourage the population to catch more of these scourges, it is stipulated that people can hunt these Asian carp at will.

It's a pity that not all of the people living on the edge of these Asian carp flooded waters are Chinese foodies, so I can't use my good appetite to help solve this problem, but because of this, a lot of Asian carp hunting games have arisen.

Shi Lei determined that the rivers in the ranch area were flowing honestly as always, and after not doing anything out of the ordinary except for enriching the land of the ranch, he decided to call a few cowboys who had participated in the hunting of Asian carp, and also began to try a variety of creative and strange hunting methods.

The cowboys are happy to see Shi Lei's ideas come true, and they are also giving Shi Lei advice on how to make this more interesting.

And one thing that everyone unanimously warned Shi Lei was that he must protect Dandan, otherwise Shi Lei should have a good understanding of Dandan's sadness. (To be continued......)

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