Chapter 31: The Maverick Arrives
After ten minutes, Zhang Chi poured the cow out and found that the injury on the cow's buttocks had really healed and had healed, so he threw the cow back into the gourd again.
I was about to continue sprinkling water when I heard my phone ringing.
took it out and found that it was Lao Xu calling.
"We're at the door".
Hearing this, Zhang Chi immediately stepped onto Chiyan Mountain, threw the drone aside and rushed to the door.
When I got to the door, I saw that the good guys had seven or eight big bucket-type pickup trucks lined up in front of their ranch.
Lao Xu was sitting in the first car, and when he saw Zhang Chi, he immediately got out of the car.
Zhang Chi opened the door and stretched out his hand to shake Lao Xu: "Why are there so many cars?" ”
Lao Xu said with a smile: "We transport it ourselves, it costs a lot of money to find a car, and every penny we save here is our own, and we just work hard."
"That's good," Zhang Chi said with a smile.
Of course, working outside is something you can do, so don't hire someone, the truck charges here are so expensive, if you don't live here for a while, you can't think about how expensive it is to hire a driver here.
The ranch gate was opened to let the car in.
Lao Xu beckoned, and several cars entered the ranch in turn, and followed Zhang Chi to the side of the RV.
The next thing is to unload, Lao Xu's gang did not let Lao Xu do it, and everyone began to unload the truck.
Zhang Chi looked at the gang of people unloading the car, and soon found a different person in this group of people, this is a middle-aged man, about sixty or so, wearing a pair of glasses, looking like a gentleman, and the group of people next to him are obviously different, and there is an obvious bookish air on the air.
Seeing this person, Zhang Chi was very curious, but he didn't ask.
These people unloaded the truck quickly, and when they were almost finished, Lao Xu came to Zhang Chi's side.
"Tomorrow you move the trailer out of the way, and we'll start working as soon as we come, and tomorrow we'll lay down a few piles to erect the foundation, and then start building the ...... in the afternoon."
"Can you do it in one morning?" Zhang Chi asked.
Lao Xu said: "You can only do this here, it's too much to really dig or something......."
The money given by Zhang Chi is too small, all the places that have some provinces have to be saved, including the foundation, if you follow the normal route, you have to dig the soil and then pour cement or something, but now Zhang Chi's money is not enough at all.
Now you can only build a few simple foundations, and then start to build a house on this basis, but this also has advantages, that is, the house can be moved, and when you want to change places, you can directly use the car to pull it, and you can move the place.
"You are professional, how do you think it is good," Zhang Chi said.
Lao Xu said: "For the time being, maybe in two years, if you make money, you will build a bigger house and hire people to help, then this house can be moved to another place and used as a dormitory for workers."
"Borrow your auspicious words," Zhang Chi said with a smile.
"What auspicious words, it must be certain, but when you want to build a big house, you must find me again, if you don't look for me, I will be sad" Lao Xu is very good at praising people.
Zhang Chi said: "Definitely, if I don't look for you, who will I go to, looking for Lao Mo?" I don't know them well, and we Chinese live when we go out."
"Yes, yes, but not all Chinese rely on it, the previous gang was not very good" Lao Xu said again.
Everyone understands that Lao Xu is talking about that part.
Zhang Chi glanced at this time, and saw the middle-aged man with a bookish air again.
Lao Xu glanced at Zhang Chi's gaze and said, "Do you know Lao Chen?" ”
"I don't know, I think this person is a little special, not like he does construction site work," Zhang Chi said.
Lao Xu gave Zhang Chi a thumbs up when he heard this: "Your eyes are really poisonous."
Zhang Chi is embarrassed to say that I have delivered takeaway for more than ten years, if this depends on people's efforts, then what am I going to live, just hang myself with a noodle.
Lao Xu said again: "If you want to say that this Lao Chen is also ...... Gee! In the past, when I was in China, I worked very well, and the vice president of a university, I didn't know which tendon was wrong, and I came to the United States with my family, thinking it was heaven, who knew that no one wanted to get a teaching position.
The vice president of the university, when I got to this place, there was no school to look at, and in the end there was really no way, and the family had to sit on the empty mountain, so they began to work with me.
When I returned to China, I found that my former subordinates and classmates were all better than him, and they were promoted, and they were in politics, and they could be a business and a boss again, what about him...... Ay!
Therefore, this person has no hardships that he cannot endure, only blessings that he cannot enjoy."
Zhang Chi understood now, it turned out that this person had really read a big book.
Now there is a saying that there are two kinds of people who come to the United States, and there are two kinds of people who can get mixed up.
One is a rich person, needless to say, if you are a rich man, you will be very comfortable living in the United States, this kind of comfort is something that people of Zhang Chi's level can't imagine.
One is to work hard in China, and if you can endure hardships, you can drive a truck here, work as an electrician or something, at least there is no problem in supporting your family and living a small life.
The last thing you can come to is the middle group of people, who have a good job in China and a good social status, and you come to the United States and then want to live a decent life in China, generally speaking, it is impossible, think about a good position here, and a comfortable job can be your turn?
Even if Xiaobai doesn't do it, then there is also a politically correct Xiaohei, where is Xiaohuang's turn.
Like Lao Chen in Lao Xu's mouth, he is like this, he has a comfortable life in China, he came to the United States to take a look, and found that the United States is heaven, it is obviously hell, and he prefers to go back with no face, even if he goes back, the original position cannot wait for him, so he can only stay up in the United States.
No more gossip.
Lao Xu chatted with Zhang Chi here, and the car over there had been unloaded.
Lao Xu also refuses to stay longer, there are so many things on his hands, if he doesn't hurry up and earn money now, he will suffer when it is cold in winter.
These people came and went quickly, if it weren't for the large pile of wood not far from the RV, Zhang Chi felt that they didn't seem to have come.
"It's broken!"
Zhang Chi sent Lao Xu's group of people out of the door, and then remembered that the cow was still in the gourd, poured the cow out and took a look, and found that the cow had grown a lot, and it was very outstanding in the herd.
The wound on the buttocks has healed, but a few marks are still a little shocking to see.
But this is the end of the matter, don't say anything else, you can't slaughter this cow.
After thinking about it for a while, Zhang Chi decided to go with it.
"You're going to be called Scarf."
Looking at the sturdy calf, Zhang Chi gave the calf a new name: Scar Fart, that is, the scarred butt, which is very appropriate, but it is still Zhang Chi's characteristics, and there is no literary style.
Lao Xu is gone, and the water has to continue to be sprinkled.
Even if the sun set, Zhang Chi had no intention of calling it a day, but began to work after eating something at random, and worked until almost twelve o'clock, then washed up and went back to sleep in the RV.
The next day, I moved the RV to the side for 50 meters and then went on.
In the morning, Lao Xu brought a few people to get down the cement pile, and in the afternoon, another group of people came and began to build a shelf.
The wooden houses here are not built directly on the ground, and the ground of the house and the real ground have been raised by about 30 centimeters, mainly to prevent moisture, such as the house that Zhang Chi wants to build Another function is to facilitate future movement.
The main load-bearing of the house is not the wall but the wooden frame, there are beams and columns, a bit like our ancient buildings, but there is no mortise and tenon technology, this kind of house is too much worse than our ancient buildings in terms of earthquake resistance.
Not to say that the house is built like building blocks, it is simply to build the foundation wood, the frame and various boards are produced in the factory, and they are transported here to be installed directly, even if there is a little bit of a small problem, Lao Xu's own few woodworking machines are easily solved.
The speed was fast, and in two days, the frame of the house was erected.
The framework on this side was erected, and Lao Xu on the other side divided the manpower to build a forage house and a cowshed for Zhang Chi, which were even simpler.
Of course, the main thing is that Zhang Chi can't afford to let people do complicated work.
Don't worry about everything, people even bring their own cooks, and they buy and cook their own food, Zhang Chi just needs to fill his stomach.
The cowshed frame came together, and the cheap cattle that Zhang Chi bought over there arrived.
The first batch.
Five heavy trucks, and a Volvo with a lot of water, carrying calves before they reached the ranch gate of Zhang Chi, had already caused a commotion in the town.
In a small town with a big fart, you can fart in the east and smell it in the west, and a long-headed truck appears in the town, then someone must be buying cattle, or someone is selling cattle.
A group of idle cowboys who were drinking in the small bar had already come out, holding cups and bottles in their hands, and watching the excitement with a smile while pouring.
Seeing the calves in the car, the cowboys were so happy.
The gambling market that fell directly to Zhang Chi fell like a dive, not that these cowboys are optimistic about Zhang Chi, but even less optimistic about him, thinking that he can survive this year, it is all about supporting Zhang Chi.
As a cowboy, who can't tell the difference between good and bad calves? It's better to pick out your eyeballs and sell them for money.
Everyone recognized at a glance that this was a calf eliminated from a large ranch, because most of these calves knew at a glance that most of them belonged to the kind of bad stomach, that is, it was difficult to absorb how much they ate.
If you raise them, you might as well save money on forage.
"This guy named George is in trouble," a cowboy in his early thirties said with a grin at his mate.
"The pocket is bottoming out," echoed next to him.
The guy next to him also said with a smile at this time: "It's a big step closer to selling the ranch, I don't know which ranch has been eliminated, it's really a lot, and it is estimated that there are more than 300 of these cars."
At this time, the cowboy who had just joined in said: "It was shipped from California, I heard that it was shipped from the Star Ranch in California, I don't know how this ranch is?" ”
"Pretty big ranch"
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Mason was also standing among the cowboys with a wine bottle at this time, and when he heard the cowboys talking, he said: "Star Ranch is not too big in California, its main ranch is in Kentucky and New York State, and the California ranch is mainly for training thoroughbred horses and cattle breeding."
"Old Mason, you know?"
The cowboy next to him asked curiously.
"I've worked at Star Ranch before"
"How's the treatment over there?"
The gossipy cowboys asked.
Mason didn't answer, just raised the bottle in his hand and swallowed it gently.
No one noticed Mason's expression, and the cowboys next to him were jubilant, as if they had seen the closure of a small ranch.