Chapter 16 Buying a Horse

Because he was going to buy a horse today, Su Zhen got up very early and called Liu Ru and the others. After washing, the maid had already made breakfast according to Su Zhen's explanation yesterday.

After Su Zhen finished breakfast, Liu Ru and the three of them hadn't come down yet, so they secretly sighed that women were really troublesome, so they went outside alone.

A few cowboys are already up and are overhauling the warehouse and the machinery inside, and after the trimming, it is time to start preparing the forage for the winter. It's already cooler in October, and the pastures are foggy in the morning.

Old John had already prepared the car he was going to use, and he could set off just waiting for Su Zhen and the others to be ready.

"Are you ready to go, boss?" asked Old John when he saw Su Zhen coming.

"I'm ready, but a few ladies, you understand~" Su Zhen said helplessly.

"Of course I do," said old John, smiling knowingly.

"What kind of horse should we buy?" Su Zhen didn't know much about it, and asked Old John.

"If you want a horse, because it's a ranch horse, you don't have to pay attention to it, just flower horses and wild horses and the like, and you can use quartes for the better ones, as well as Farabela, which is very suitable for BOSS you." Old John laughed.

"Oh? Is there anything special about this Falabella? Su Zhen was very curious, but Old John smiled and didn't say anything, which made Su Zhen's heart itch.

Su Zhen chatted with Old John for about half an hour before he saw Liu Ru and the three of them coming over with a smile.

After a few pleasantries, everyone finally set off together at around 8 o'clock.

The place to buy horses is the horse farm where John Sr. contacted Haolang, and the animal husbandry industry in the United States is still very fine, basically every ranch is to raise cattle and raise horses. Generally, except for a small amount of meat animals used by themselves, they will not mix several animals, one is inconvenient in epidemic prevention, and the other is that a large number of mixed breeding is not good for the animals themselves, which is easy to cause territorial battles, cause chaos, and lead to poor meat quality of livestock.

Old John contacted the largest horse farm near Harvard, but before going to the horse farm, Old John drove to Harvard Town first, because he had to buy harness for Su Zhen and them before buying horses.

When you go to the harness shop, you will see a wide variety of saddles, boots, cowboy hats, and other kinds of horse harness. Su Zhen and the others were at a loss.

Old John said hello to the shopkeeper, the shopkeeper is a middle-aged white man, under the introduction of the shopkeeper and the explanation of Old John, Su Zhen and the others have a preliminary understanding of horses, at least they will not be embarrassed to know what harness is for.

In the end, with the help of Old John, each of them picked out a pair of handmade harnesses, and Su Zhen also bought several sets of machine-made harnesses. In case there are guests who come in the future. Seeing that Su Zhen bought so much, the owner of the harness shop was happy, and when he left, he gave a few girls a lot of beautiful harness trinkets.

After buying the harness, old John drove the group to the horse farm, which was a little far away, and it took more than an hour to drive from the town to arrive.

"Hey, Hans, this is my boss, Sue, this is Hans, the owner of this horse farm. Hans's horse was in the top three at the Kentucky Derby," and Hans laughed from ear to ear when he heard John Sr. talk about his feats.

Su Zhen has a little understanding of this, many people who don't know about the United States will think that rugby and basketball are the most popular sports in the United States, in fact, this is not the case, the real national sport of the United States is baseball, in fact, this can be seen from Hollywood movies or American dramas, baseball bats are the most frequent occurrence of sporting goods. Horse racing is the most popular sport after baseball, and then it was the turn of football, but rugby has a taste of being a latecomer, and its status has been elevated to the same level as baseball horse racing in later generations. As for the NBA? In fact, basketball is not as important as ice hockey in the hearts of the American people. The NBA was able to become famous in the world in later generations and became the mecca of basketball in the world, which can only be said to be Stern's success in the commercial operation of the NBA.

Hans Sr. was able to enter the top three of the Kentucky Derby, which is no small honor, after all, the Kentucky Derby is one of the three major horse races in the United States.

After chatting for a while, Su Zhen and others entered the horse farm under the leadership of Old Hans, and after entering the horse farm, more than a dozen cowboys drove thousands of horses of various colors to gallop on the grassland, which made Su Zhen really feel what it means to gallop ten thousand horses.

Of course, it was impossible for them to choose from this huge herd of horses, but to a large stable, in which dozens of newly grown horses were prepared for Old John to choose from.

At this time, Su Zhen was still thinking about what Old John said about Falabella, so he asked Hans about this.

Hans heard Su Zhen ask Farabella, and his face was strange. When Su Zhen looked in the direction pointed by Hans, his face suddenly darkened. Old John held back a smile and explained the conversation between him and Su Zhen to the curious Liu Shihua before he came, and the three girls couldn't help but laugh and tremble.

It turns out that Farabella is indeed a very famous horse in the world, but its fame is indeed in its reminder, this is the smallest horse in the world, generally only about 40 cm in height, and the weight is only about 10 kg, which is equivalent to the size of some medium-sized dogs, but Old John is right, to a certain extent, it is indeed very suitable for today's Su Zhen.

In this regard, Liu Ru very much agreed with Old John's suggestion, Su Zhen could start by riding this kind of pony, and it was not too late to change to a big horse after he was proficient in riding, and in this aspect of his son's safety, he completely ignored Su Zhen's stubborn resistance and bought two very beautiful Falabela.

After the joke, with the help of old John, Liu Shihua chose a jujube quart, the red and bright coat color is very beautiful, Rachel chose a golden horse, and Liu Ru chose a red and white flower horse, and at the suggestion of old John, several people chose docile mares. After helping the girls to choose, Old John picked 6 quartes and 6 wild horses for pasture horses.

During Su Zhen, he saw that there was a very beautiful horse in an area, and asked Old Hans, it turned out that these were Arabian horses, because they were just ordinary hybrid Arabian horses, so the price was not high. Su Zhen picked out the two most beautiful horses from them, one black and one white, thinking to himself, didn't you say Prince Charming and Prince Black, I have both colors~ You can ride whatever color you want.

Since the horse farm will send the horses to Su Zhen's pasture, Su Zhen and the others don't need to transport them themselves, and they are ready to say goodbye to Old Hans after the selection.

But before leaving, old Hans asked if Su Zhen's ranch needed a cattle dog, and he happened to have a litter of Caucasian dogs that had just turned a month.

Su Zhen became interested when he heard it, so he went to see it with Old Hans, and saw a litter of 6 puppies pushing each other to feed at this time, which was very cute.

The price of six purebred Caucasian dogs is not cheap, and the combined price is even higher than the price of those horses before, but Su Zhen himself also likes Caucasian dogs, so he doesn't care about these, after Liu Ru opened the check, Su Zhen left the horse farm.

Since the time was not early, the few people decided to go back after eating in the town, and the three girls walked around the town again, and when they returned to their ranch, it was already more than three o'clock in the afternoon.

When they returned to their own pasture, the horse farm had already sent the horses to the pasture, and the four of them had already selected their own horses, and were trying horses on the ranch, and from time to time they were playing a few tricks.

Anyway, when they were free, everyone started one-on-one horseback riding instruction. When old John returned, he went back to his room to make some plans for the ranch. The rest of the people, John Jr. taught Liu Ru, Jensen taught Liu Shihua, and Bella taught Rachel, watching the three of them ride a tall pony with the help of the cowboys, Su Zhen, who was only allowed to ride a pony during the study period, could only practice with the pony pitifully accompanied by Grace.

Su Zhen had no choice but to divert his attention and listen carefully to Grace's teachings.

Grace is a native of Harvard, his father is the tavern owner who recommended Old John to Su Zhen in the town, and he was also a famous local cowboy when he was young, but when Grace was young, he broke his leg in a rodeo competition, and then opened a cowboy hotel in the town, Grace inherited the family business and became a cowboy, Su Zhen Grace is old, only 19 years old this year, but he is already a cowboy who is very skilled in skills, Grace is not tall, Su Zhen is about 1.6 meters by sight, but he is very energetic, Heroic and not very pretty, but her body is exquisite, not inferior to Rachel, and her wheat-colored skin, which may be due to the color of the perennial sun, gives her a unique youthful vitality.

Although Su Zhen was slightly dissatisfied with being able to ride a pony, after riding for a while, he felt that the pony was very obedient and docile, and under the guidance of Grace, Su Zhen soon rode a pony and jogged on the grassland. At this time, the three girls were still holding the horse rope, and it was difficult to communicate with the horse, trying to make the horse move.

The only thing that made Su Zhen regret was that the speed of the pony made him gallop his horse and his idea of galloping.

The leisurely days passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it was already winter in Yizhou, and under Su Zhen's arrangement, Liu Shihua entered the local high school at Harvard and began to experience a completely different American education from China. During this time, Su Zhen and John Sr. were learning the management of the ranch and planning for the future. Rachel worked as Liuru's personal assistant, managing the family's finances and liaison with Citibank. Liu Ru frantically absorbs all kinds of common sense and knowledge of the country in her spare time.