Chapter 811: Western Feelings [Four More Votes]
"Uncle, can we ride a horse?"
Shi mustered up the courage to ask Wang Hao, his eyes were full of expectation, a boy of this size has a dream of going to the end of the world with a sword, riding a horse and galloping on the grassland, thinking about it makes me feel energetic.
Wang Hao was silent for a moment, and said with a smile: "Of course you can, but I have prepared a slightly smaller mini horse for you, are the horses over there too tall?" You can't even step on the stirrups underneath. How about we go to the room and put our things away, and then we can ride a horse? At that time, you can also ride horses and herd sheep. ”
When talking to children, you must make the reasons clear, not just the results, so that the children will definitely be unhappy in their hearts.
After hearing Wang Hao's words, Shi immediately ran over and took Guo Tao's hand, wrapped around his father and said, "Dad, let's go and put things in the room, I'm going to ride a horse!" ”
Seeing this, Sen Die also galloped to find Tian Liang, how could he ride a horse without himself.
Seeing this, director Xie Kui immediately said: "Don't worry, everyone, let's leave right now, I promise to let you ride a horse." ”
With the director's words, the on-site staff, cowboys, and interpreters each rode horses and drove cars, and after a while, they were almost gone.
Wang Hao naturally didn't need a cowboy to show him the way, he sat in the passenger seat and began to guide the driver, while Angela followed the assistant Miss Liu and muttered something.
The cameraman began to record the video with his camera, and he asked Wang Hao: "Mr. Wang, are the ranches so big?" ”
"Of course. Our ranch has 140,000 acres and is an irregular pattern, and in some places it can even take an hour to drive through. ”
"That's a big deal. I don't even know what 140,000 acres is. ”
Wang Hao thought for a while, and said simply: "To be honest, I don't know, I usually take a helicopter or use a drone to check our ranch, after all, it's too big and there are not enough people." ”
In fact, 140,000 acres of ranch is considered first-class in Australia, and those that are larger are basically superb.
One of Australia's largest farmlands covers more than 100,000 square kilometres. It is about the size of an English island, and more intuitively, the area is similar to that of Zhejiang-Jiang Province.
So the Golden Ranch is still a little inferior to these behemoths, and certainly quite large compared to the dozens of acres of small farms near Sydney. Big and small are compared.
The road is beautiful, with vast skies and a strong sense of western nostalgia enveloping the land.
Compared with the narrow blue sky overhead in the modern cement city, the sky here in the Golden Ranch is so wide that people are moved, and they drive ahead along the rutted tracks. The grass on both sides of the road is still flat and wide.
The grasslands on both sides of the road are undulating like sea waves. A meandering stream and distant mountains slowly rise from the horizon, making the world so long and magnificent that it makes people feel intoxicated.
As far as the eye can see, the modern buildings that are barely visible on the horizon and the sky make it easy for the occupants of the car to create the illusion that they have stepped back in time.
Wang Hao snapped his fingers, and he whispered to the camera: "Today I will take you to thoroughly appreciate the western cowboy style." ”
Then he turned on the radio and tuned to a familiar channel before stopping. The radio was full of old songs from the '70s and '80s, and even most of the people in the car couldn't understand what the songs meant. But you can still feel this laid-back charm.
Even the accent of the host on the radio station is full of "western flavor", with a very heavy tone and a particularly long tail tone.
All kinds of details make people sigh that the heritage of the western cowboy has not been broken, in addition to continuing in the western United States, it has also developed in Australia, which is like a land of cowboys, horses and wilderness.
In fact, in the eyes of many Chinese, the image of the cowboy has been solidified, perhaps the promotion of TV commercials, or the influence of some Westerns, in everyone's eyes, the cowboy is almost the same image: the cowboy must be a person with deep eyes, rough skin, rough and heroic, galloping, and home from all over the world.
In fact, that's what Hollywood has conveyed to the world, and the cowboy movie of the West occupies an important place in American cinema, almost a fifth of the films are about this, especially before the 90s of the last century.
On the screen, there is often a grim cowboy riding a dark horse, wearing a "Sterson" style wide-brimmed high-top felt hat, wearing jeans, a leather jacket and high leather boots, a red printed square scarf around his neck, a Colt revolver firing six pistols in his waist, and a noose in his hand.
Some people describe the western cowboys as "slow to speak, fast as the wind".
In the eyes of many, cowboys hired by ranchers are often legends.
In the hearts of countless little boys, this is the true portrayal of manhood, and even Asian pop king Jay Chou also wrote a tribute song "Cowboy is Busy".
In the golden pasture, you can feel the vast grasslands, rolling mountains, eagle falcons soaring in the sky, and it will be a different kind of enjoyment to fall asleep by the campfire with the howl of wild dogs on the endless prairie like the waves.
Yes, the dingo has been largely wildened, and its bark is very close to that of a wolf, not a dog barking, but a wolf howling.
With the development of modern transportation, the profession of cowboy seems to have become a yellow flower of yesterday, and there are fewer and fewer jobs, and many of their jobs will be replaced by machines.
In the past, cattle were driven to the big market to sell, but now they are transported directly by car, which is safe and efficient.
Nowadays, many people have a sense of the West, and although the denim industry is gradually declining, this kind of free and easy career has attracted many urban office workers, especially if you can be a cowboy in a place like Golden Ranch, which is even better.
Picturesque mountains and rivers, quiet and barren deserts, crazy cattle galloping, primitive and modern life scenes, vast and boundless visions, as well as the romantic feelings of heroes and beauties, many people regard the ranch as a warm pastoral in western films.
In fact, this time, among the people recruited by Golden Ranch, there are two employees who have obtained doctorates, one is a doctor of electricity, and he has become a plumber on the ranch.
In fact, they do not choose a career based on salary or their college major, they can try whatever position they are interested in, and there are also people who drive taxis with doctoral certificates in Sydney. (To be continued.) )