Chapter 32: Pressing Yourself
The truck driver is really good, at least Zhang Chi thinks they are very good and can drive such a big guy to their own ranch, if they are put to Zhang Chi to do it, maybe they will have to get stuck on the road in front of their house.
The truck driver also didn't talk nonsense with Zhang Chi.
When I arrived at the place, I didn't go deep into the ranch, and I stopped the truck almost as soon as I entered the ranch and turned around.
As soon as the baffle in the rear compartment was put down, it was a jumping bridge, and the calves who were originally crowded in the carriage walked off the carriage one by one.
"Are you the rancher who picks up the goods?"
The truck driver found Zhang Chi with a slip.
Zhang Chi smiled and nodded again and again: "I am, thank you."
"You're welcome, sign here, and click on the calf in my car, a total of ...... The list is here".
The driver didn't have time to talk to Zhang Chi much, and he had to go to another place to load the goods before dark after this trip, for truck drivers, every minute was the smell of money.
Zhang Chi signed his name and began to count the calves.
After the car was cleared, the driver closed the trunk door and walked away.
Next, continue to count.
The last driver's Asian face, so that Zhang Chi thought it was our own people, who would have thought that it was actually a stick, and Zhang Chi had no interest in the stick, so he didn't chat, and signed and left.
After all the trucks left, Zhang Chi began to feel distressed again, not because of the calf, but because of his own pasture.
The big truck is very heavy, and when it enters the pasture, it naturally brings out two car prints, five big trucks, that is, ten car prints, which are almost more than 20 centimeters deep into the soil.
Zhang Chi looked at it and felt that this was like a hole in his heart of more than 20 centimeters.
"It's a mess!"
Zhang Chi didn't know what to say for a while.
Lao Xu is also a lively person, and when he saw so many calves shipped at once, he came to Zhang Chi's side with a smile.
"Bought all the calves at once?"
Lao Xu is an architect, and he can't tell the difference between good and bad cows, because it is not his scope of work.
"No, it's only nearly a third of the way here, and two-thirds of them are on the way, so we will be there about tomorrow," Zhang Chi said.
Lao Xu was a little stupid when he heard it, and opened his mouth to ask, "How big is your ranch?" ”
"Don't you know, more than five hundred acres," Zhang Chi was a little surprised by his question.
Lao Xu thought he had misremembered, and opened his mouth to ask again: "Do you have any other pastures?" ”
"No, just this one, it's hard to buy this one, where else can I think of" Zhang Chi replied.
Lao Xu blinked his eyes a few times and muttered, "Could it be that I remembered wrong?" ”
"What did I remember wrong?"
"I seem to have heard that if you are free-range, you usually have a cow in three or four acres, but you have to raise thousands of cattle in your five hundred acres of pasture? Are you going to buy forage to feed? Lao Xu said.
Zhang Chi nodded and replied, "Otherwise?" ”
He bought a woolly forage, but Lao Xu asked, if he said that he didn't need to buy forage, wouldn't it be scary, how could he explain it to him, and he had no obligation to talk to Lao Xu about this.
"Forage isn't cheap now," Xu said.
"I didn't expect you to know a lot about these," Zhang Chi smiled.
Lao Xu said: "You forgot that I was going to buy land, and I also saw the pasture."
After a pause, Lao Xu gave Zhang Chi a thumbs up: "You still dare to think about it."
No way, even Lao Xu, who has never raised cattle, was also stopped by Zhang Chi's generosity, raising thousands of cattle on more than 500 acres of pasture, and raising two cattle on one acre of pasture, is your forage growing with food? It can hold two cows to gnaw.
Don't really say it, Zhang Chi's ranch is just to eat and grow, but there is no way to tell others.
Zhang Chi didn't prepare to explain anything to Lao Xu, as soon as he built a house, maybe the two of them could become friends after the house was built, but there were some things that couldn't be said to friends.
"The grass in the pasture is not enough, so buy it, the price increase is not always a number, and the grass price increase is impossible not to rise, so the rancher must not jump?" Zhang Chi said with a smile.
What do you want Lao Xu to say? Lao Xu looked at Zhang Chi with admiration, ready to go back to build a house honestly.
Just took two steps, Lao Xu opened his mouth and said: "More than 1,000 cows you built the cowshed can not live, in the winter here is more than 20 degrees below zero, sometimes even up to 30 degrees, you can't have a cowshed." And even if you have a cowshed, you can't be busy alone, a cow can pull ten catties of for you a night, and you can count tons of for more than a thousand cows."
Zhang Chi really didn't think about this, because he didn't think about how to survive the winter with these thousand cows, he now wants to get these calves back first, and then - the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge!
If any experienced old cowboy knew that Zhang Chi was thinking this, he would definitely be angry, this is a thing that doesn't understand anything, how can he get mixed into the class of our ranchers.
Belch!
"Let's see when the time comes, and when we have the money, we will build a cowshed," Zhang Chi said.
"It's not just one cowshed like this, and it takes at least two to fit so many cows," Xu said.
Seeing Zhang Chi a little surprised, Lao Xu said again: "Cattle can't be crowded in the cowshed like canned food, cattle must also have space, how can cattle eat if they squeeze cows?" ”
"Let's talk about it then," Zhang Chi said again.
Lao Xu is completely out of temper now.
Go back and continue to work, after all, it's not his ranch, and no one is in a hurry about these things, what is he anxious about.
Zhang Chi looked at these calves, beautiful!
But soon he found out the problem, that is, when the original twenty calves came, they were afraid for a long time, but when this group of calves arrived at their own pasture, after a while, they began to graze, and I don't know whether these calves are used to changing the environment or how to drip, at least in terms of guts, they are much bigger than the previous batch of small calves.
Of course, the calves are much stronger than this one.
Originally, Zhang Chi was a little afraid that the two groups of calves would mix together, but after observing for a while, he found that the two groups of calves showed no signs of coming together at all, and each ordered a piece of land to graze, and there was an obvious dividing line in the middle.
When the calf ate grass, Zhang Chi's heart was put down, and he returned to the ranch to continue watering the pasture with a drone in the pasture.
The group of people who built the house were surprised when they heard that Zhang Chi had bought more than 900 calves, and many people had no idea of raising more than 900 cows on 500 acres of land.
It's just that they didn't think about it, a group of cattle can't eat grass in one place, and there is no way to eat in one place, not to mention the problem of grass, a group of cattle get together to, and they can also cover the pasture, so generally speaking, the pasture must have a forage recovery time, as well as a cow dung digestion time.
Wait for the cow dung to decompose, so you have to wait for some of nature's porters, such as insects and so on.
What is the concept of Zhang Chi, as a novice rancher, in fact, his professional knowledge is the same as his academic qualifications, and having it is almost equal to nothing.
But the good thing is that he has a gourd, and he has quietly solved a lot of problems outside of his knowledge for him.
The first calves were transported into the pasture, and the cowboys outside just laughed at Zhang Chi.
The next day, when the second batch of calves arrived at the ranch, the cowboys in the town thought that George was not in his right mind, and when the third group of calves arrived at the ranch in the evening, the cowboys of the town were now speechless.
Nearly a thousand calves, five hundred acres of pasture, how dare you buy so much!
In the evening, Zhang Chi drove his pickup truck to the town's bar.
He wanted to ask someone how he could buy cheap and good quality pasture, and he didn't plan to use it, even if it was to get out the news, he had to put on a show, otherwise it would be too scary to raise a thousand calves on these five hundred acres of land.
This is one of the smoke bombs released by Zhang Chi, besides, buying calves saves some money, and taking out some of them to buy some forage is nothing, and it doesn't need much, one or two cars are enough.
Parking the car in the parking lot.
At this time, there were a lot of people in the bar, far more than when he came last afternoon, not to mention the cars and horses parked in the open space in front of the bar, it is estimated that there were no less than a dozen people in the small bar.
After getting out of the car, Zhang Chi stood at the door of the small bar and stretched out his hand to push open the two small doors.
The originally lively bar, when Zhang Chi walked in, all of them fell silent in an instant, and all the cowboys inside looked at Zhang Chi in a daze, as if they had seen some amazing Western scenery.
Zhang Chi was a little unaccustomed, but he stubbornly pretended to be fine, came to the empty seat on the bar counter, and sat on the high stool.
Zhang Chi looked at the female boss Kimberly and said, "Bring me a bottle of beer!" ”
As soon as Zhang Chi's words fell, the bar began to be noisy again, but it was much quieter than when Zhang Chi came in.
Kimberly handed Zhang Chi a bottle of beer and asked casually, "George, you bought a lot of calves."
"It's not much," Zhang Chi replied casually.
"Fattening?" An old cowboy sitting not far from Zhang Chi asked.
Zhang Chi said: "Sort of."
Hearing this, the old cowboy stopped talking, and continued to drink the whiskey in his hand with his head down, and from time to time he reached out to hold the small snacks in the small basket in front of him, suppressing the strong liquor in his stomach.
Zhang Chi was about to ask Kimberly where to sell cheap forage bales, when he looked up and saw the small blackboard behind Kimberly, and saw that the odds were written on it, how much to lose if it went out of business, and how much to lose for a year.
Kimberly saw Zhang Chi looking at the small blackboard behind him, and said with a smile: "Everyone bet on the future of your ranch."
Zhang Chi smiled when he heard it, and he didn't care, in addition to working, these cowboys usually have this hobby, of course, other hobbies are quite expensive, this is a good hobby.
"My odds are not high," Zhang Chi grabbed a sip of beer.
Kimberly smiled and didn't answer.
But at this moment, there are many cowboys sitting closer to the bar pricking up their ears.
Zhang Chi took out his wallet from his pocket, took out twenty dollars with a piece of paper and handed it to Kimberly.
"I'll buy myself, and I'll be fine this time next year."
After speaking, he shook the ticket in his hand at Kimberly.
Kimberly smiled and took the money, then took a pen and wrote on the small blackboard: George pressed George twenty dollars.