Early the next morning......

Chen Ze bought some daily necessities, then went to the second-hand car market to buy a seventy-percent new Jeep, and followed the navigation to the ranch.

After driving along the road for an hour and a half, Chen Ze finally saw a sign on the side of the road that read "Barnard Ranch".

This Barnard was the surname of the old British couple before, turned to the grass and drove about a kilometer further, Chen Ze saw several small houses in the pasture and a cowshed not far away.

Stopping next to the house, Chen Ze took a look, two houses covering an area of more than 100 square meters were built in a row, with an obvious British style, and there was a circle of white wooden fences around three or four hundred square meters, but when Chen Ze came in just now, the entrance and exit of the wooden fence were open.

"Hello ......"

When Chen Ze was looking around, a slightly old man's voice came.

Chen Ze, who had already sensed it, slowly turned his head to look, only to see a white old man in his fifties with a gray beard, a cowboy hat, and a pipe in his mouth.

"Hello, you're the new rancher, aren't you?"

The white old man walked up to him, took off his pipe, and stretched out a hand to Chen Ze with a smile.

"Yes. ”

Chen Ze nodded, reached out and shook him lightly, and asked, "You should be the Marcuri Bedder that the Barnards said, right?"

The old white man, Marcuri, responded, "Yes, my name is Marcuri and I'm the last cowboy to stay on this ranch." ”

When they signed the contract with Mr. and Mrs. Barnard yesterday, they specifically told Chen Ze about this old man named Marcuri Bed.

Fifty-eight-year-old Marcuri started working as a cowboy on the ranch shortly after the Barnards arrived, and has been there ever since.

And his life can be said to be very unfortunate, he married a wife when he was young, but his wife died of illness after giving birth to a son, he raised his son alone, and did not remarry, but his adult son chose to join the army, and finally died in a foreign operation.

To put it simply, Marcuri is a model of losing his wife in middle age and losing his son in old age.

Today's Marcuri is not as strong as he was when he was younger, and although he is still an experienced old cowboy, he can't do much other work.

Therefore, the Barnards made a special statement yesterday that if they could, they hoped that Chen Ze would keep Marcuri.

Thinking of this, Chen Ze couldn't help but look at him again, although he was fifty-eight years old, Marcuri's body still looked very strong, and his warm smile seemed very affinity.

It's just that at this time, he noticed that Chen Ze was looking at himself, and he was a little nervous and unnatural.

"Don't be nervous......"

Chen Ze patted him on the shoulder with a smile and said, "I already promised the Barnards yesterday that they would not drive you away, and would let you continue to stay in the ranch." ”

"When we first met, my name was Chen Ze, and I was a Chinese, and in the future, this ranch will all depend on your help. ”

"Good...... Good. Marcuri was a little stunned, he didn't expect the new rancher to be so talkative.

"Alright, let's go into the house and talk. ”

Chen Ze beckoned to him, took out the key that the Barnards had given him yesterday from his satchel, walked to the house on the right and opened the door.

As soon as he entered the room, Chen Ze quickly looked around, sofas, fireplaces, refrigerators, TVs, etc., all of which were no different from the layout in a normal Western home, but the furniture was a little old.

But when the Barnards returned to England a month ago, there was no dust in the house.

"BOSS, I'm staying in the ranch these days, the cattle are all sold, and I clean the house every few days when I'm idle. Seeing the confusion on Chen Ze's face, Marcuri came over and explained.

"Oh, no wonder. ”

Chen Ze smiled, sat down on the sofa, and said, "Sit down, let's talk about your salary." ”

Marcuri took off his cowboy hat and put it on the hanger at the door, and sat down opposite Chen Ze.

"Tell me, how much did Barnard pay you before?"

Seeing that Chen Ze was so straightforward, Marcuri didn't react a little, and only replied after a while: "The weekly salary they gave me before was six hundred. ”

"Six hundred dollars?"

Chen Ze smacked his lips and said, "That's it, Marcuri, I'll add two hundred more to you every week in the future." ”

"Now you are the only cowboy in the ranch, and I know almost nothing about the ranch, and most of the things here will depend on you in the future, and you may be busier than before. ”

"It's okay, boss, when the Barnards are here, I'm dealing with the ranch too. Marcuri smiled.

"That's good......"

Chen Ze didn't say anything more, and after letting Marcuri go to his business, he got up and went out to unload some of the things that the jeep was carrying.

............

After finishing the daily necessities, Chen Ze went to the cowshed not far from the house to take a look, although Marcuri said that the cattle had been sold, there were still six inferior beef cattle and two bantam horses left in it, which should have been left by the Barnards in the end.

Seeing that Marcuri was cleaning the cowshed, Chen Ze only said hello to him, and then rode out on a bantam horse.

When he was in China before, he had been to Inner Mongolia several times and rode horses under the guidance of the locals, so he still knew some basic matters of horse riding, and this bantam horse was just a kind of sightseeing horse, and it was not fast.

After spending a few hours, Chen Ze walked around the ranch a little, the east and north sides of the ranch were attached to a small mountain range, the west was a road, and the south side was nothing, but there was a small town of thousands of people more than twenty kilometers away.

There is also a small river several meters wide that runs through the heart of the pasture.

After learning about the structure of the ranch, when Chen Ze went back, Marcuri was already cooking lunch in the kitchen.

"BOSS, lunch is ready soon, you wait a minute. ”

"Okay. ”

Chen Ze smiled and said, "I'll go upstairs first, and call me later, it just so happens that I still have some things to ask you." ”

Marcuri nodded in response.

Half an hour later......

The two sat at the table in the hall, and Chen Ze tasted the fried steak and vegetable salad, probably because Makuri took into account his habits, and the steak was more cooked.

"Marcuri ......"

After the two finished lunch, Chen Ze wiped his mouth with paper and asked, "Do you know any slightly larger construction teams in Dallas?"

"Construction team?"

Marcuri asked, "Boss, are you going to build something?"

"Well, I'm going to build some more houses on the ranch. Chen Ze nodded.

"I know a few of the construction team, but I don't know the person in charge of them, but I am familiar with an agent, and now the two houses and the cowshed in the ranch were built by him. ”

"Then you go to the city with me tomorrow, and we'll go find that agent. ”

"Okay, no problem. Marcuri made an OK gesture.

............

Time flickered into the evening......

After a day of contact, Chen Ze got to know a little bit about Marcuri, this old cowboy is similar to his appearance, very cheerful and very attentive, and he is also relatively honest.

In fact, when he was first preparing to buy a ranch, Chen Ze just wanted to live alone, after all, it was related to his future cultivation.

But after listening to the Barnards' words yesterday, Chen Ze thought about it and left Marcuri behind, for a very simple reason, just like his previous explanation to Marcuri.

He needed someone to help with the ranch, and Marcuri, an experienced old cowboy, was just the right fit, but ......

Thinking of the secrets on his body, Chen Ze felt that he still needed to make a foolproof preparation.