Chapter 33 Arrangement
After suppressing his luck, Zhang Chi gently sipped a small sip of beer, and at the same time turned his head to scan around.
Seeing Zhang Chi's appearance, Kimberly opened her mouth and asked, "Looking for someone?" ”
Zhang Chi smiled: "Look if Cannon is there."
It feels like I haven't seen him for a few days, and Zhang Chi now misses this enthusiastic old cowboy of Lada descent a little.
Before Kimberly could say anything, a young cowboy next to her said, "Cannon is leaving."
Zhang Chi was very strange when he heard this, and opened his mouth to ask, "Want to leave?" Where are you going to go? ”
The young cowboy replied, "Go work on another ranch, about a few dozen miles from here."
Kimberly saw that Zhang Chi was a little confused, so she said with a smile: "A common thing, when the ranch is not busy, there are fewer cowboys needed on the ranch, and these working cowboys naturally have to go out to find other jobs."
In this way, Zhang Chi understands that many cowboys here are generally seasonal workers, that is, they go to the ranch to help when they are busy, and when the ranch does not need manpower, they will go out to find other jobs to earn money.
For example, some cowboys in the ranch work in the ranch for life, let alone all year round, if the ranch is large, the area is tens of thousands of acres, then some ranch cowboys and even children and grandchildren have worked in this ranch for generations, and these cowboys are also regarded as a member of the ranch family.
Naturally, there are no such conditions in small farms, and generally speaking, there is about one cowboy hired for a long time, and these seasonal cowboys will be hired when they are really busy.
Cannon looks like a seasonal cowboy.
It's not surprising that a rancher like Cannon is likely to be a black worker, that is, he doesn't have a work visa in the United States, and he is not white, where is there a rancher willing to hire him as a permanent cowboy on the ranch.
"Oh!"
Zhang Chi sighed, and stopped talking.
Where can he afford to hire Cannon, and the money in his pocket now is enough to support his small ranch until the fall when he sells his cattle.
If it is like an ordinary ranch, if the price of beef in autumn falls, then Zhang Chi has no other way but to sell the pasture.
Now that the gourd is in hand, Zhang Chi is not afraid, with the experience of scarring, there is no problem for Zhang Chi to raise the cow. In the fall, some of the calves raised are sold, and his ranch is officially operational.
While thinking about it in his mind, Zhang Chi suddenly heard someone behind him say hello to him.
Turning his head to look, he found that Cannon was standing behind Zhang Chi with a smile on his face, and when he saw Zhang Chi turn around, he came to the vacant seat next to Zhang Chi and sat down.
"What to drink, I'll please," Zhang Chi said to Cannon.
Cannon's face now looked tired, and he thanked Zhang Chi, and then said to Kimberly, "A glass of whiskey."
After speaking, he stretched out his finger and pointed at Zhang Chi: "On his account."
Kimberly smiled, took out her glass and began to pour the wine, poured the wine and took a small cushion to put on the bar, and finally put the glass on the mat and pushed it in front of Cannon.
Cannon took a sip of his wine.
The cowboy next to him who just spoke said, "George asked you why you didn't come just now."
"Looking for me?" Cannon lowered his glass.
Zhang Chi said with a smile: "It's nothing, I just feel like I haven't seen you for a few days."
"I'm going to work on the new ranch soon, and I don't think I'll be back next year, but I don't know," Cannon said.
For Cannon, he is used to the present life, working in the United States, so far I don't know how many ranches he has run, waiting for a few days if he doesn't work, he will have to go back to his hometown to see his wife and children.
"Then are you free tomorrow, last time I said that I would like you to try my Chinese food skills, just in time for you to have something, now it's okay, right?" Zhang Chi said.
Remembering what Cannon had helped him last time, Zhang Chi decided to invite him again.
"If it's tomorrow night, I'll be there, and I'll leave here the morning to go to the new ranch," Cannon said.
"In such a hurry?" Zhang Chi didn't expect him to leave the day after tomorrow.
Cannon said: "The work over there is more urgent, and I will leave when I get the money here."
Hearing Cannon say this, Zhang Chi nodded: "Then tomorrow night, it's still seven o'clock."
"No problem. By the way, how did you get to the bar today? Cannon was curious, because he had never seen Zhang Chi come to the bar, and even if he had heard it, he had only heard it once.
Zhang Chi said: "I want to ask where I can buy better and cheaper forage."
Cannon listened to it and took a sip of wine and said with a smile: "This is not cheap, it is usually the same price, and it is not a different price to buy calves, almost all the forage here comes from the east, and the price in the market is what the price is, but now in this season, the price of forage is slightly lower."
When Cannon said East, he was referring to several states on the East Coast, such as Kentucky, where the natural conditions are good, they are all large plains, the grass grows naturally, and there are many pastures that are specialized in growing forage.
Like the forage for the winter here, almost all of them come from these states in the east, and there are only a few companies that operate the forage, and the prices are about the same.
"Oh, that's okay" Zhang Chi nodded, indicating that he understood.
Cannon wanted to say something to Zhang Chi again, but at this moment his cell phone rang, walked outside to answer the phone, and came back two minutes later, grabbing the wine on the bar and taking a sip.
"Thank you for the wine, I have to go back to the ranch now."
After speaking, he grinned at Zhang Chi and turned to leave.
Waiting for Cannon to leave, Kimberly said to Zhang Chi: "He's a good cowboy."
Zhang Chi only knew that Cannon was enthusiastic, and he didn't know if he was a good cowboy, but when he heard Kimberly comment like this, he couldn't help but nodded.
Kimberly's meaning Zhang Chi understood, probably thinking that if he hired someone, Cannon would be a good candidate.
But now, where does Zhang Chi dare to hire people, if he really hires Cannon, he doesn't know if he can last until the autumn when he sells cattle.
There is no way, he has too many things to think about now, and he has to build two cowsheds before winter, otherwise it will be like Lao Xu said, when the time comes, it will snow heavily, and the next day he will push the door and see that the cow is frozen to death, and Zhang Chi can't cry if he wants to cry.
Although with the help of the gourd, Zhang Chi's plan is also very good, but he can't live according to the best plan, so he has to leave some margin for himself.
Kimberly actually genuinely thinks that Cannon is a good cowboy, and if he were to be white, or if he had a work permit, many ranches would be vying to hire him.
Generally speaking, Latinos are mostly enthusiastic, but the work is a little less interesting, there is no way, it may be a problem of ethnic habits, the crime rate of Latinos has always been quite high, many Latinos talk about singing and dancing, it is really full of energy, when they talk about work or something, it will collapse.
The Hispanics referred to here do not include Lao Mo, who is also quite diligent in his work, and the Latino group of people as a whole is two Indian levels behind Lao Mo.
Cannon, however, was a special case, and he was able to do all the work on the ranch and was quite diligent.
Because there is no work visa, the only way to do this is to fight guerrilla warfare between ranches.
Work visas are not difficult to obtain, the only requirement is to spend money, and ranchers who want Cannon to work have to spend a lot of money.
But with the effort to spend this money, directly hire three or four cowboys, the economic value is more than two cannons, and the rancher is not a philanthropist, where will he do this loss-making business.
Besides, for them the hard-working cowboy has something, why spend a fortune for a Latino.
Zhang Chi didn't think about helping Cannon get a work visa, he helped him lead the horse once, and he got a work visa for others? Isn't that a bad brain?
asked about the grass, in fact, the main reason was that Zhang Chi wanted to spread the news that he was going to buy grass, and how much and what price to buy was secondary.
Zhang Chi sipped beer while pricking up his ears to listen to the cowboys next to him.
These cowboys speak so thickly, many people have to bring a harmonious word to every sentence, in the words of Zhang Chi's hometown, if you don't bring a lower body, it seems that you don't say it.
What can cowboys talk about, men generally don't talk about politics or women, and cowboys are similar, but most of them are not positive, to put it bluntly, they are poured a little horse pee, and they are scolded by the gang of people on Wall Street and D.C.
In the cowboys' mouths, D.C.'s gang is a herd of pigs.
originally planned to pour this bottle of beer and leave, but who knew that Zhang Chi heard interesting news.
Kimberly was curious.
"Developing property over here?"
Kimberly asked at the cowboy who had just come in.
"Originally, the Lion Ranch was close to this side, and the developer was going to develop a community, each with a dozen acres of land, or simply a house...... cowboy said.
"Jill, that's, who's going to buy a house here?"
The cowboy, who was sitting not far away, said loudly.
"Isn't it bad to buy a house here?"
Soon cowboys followed.
The news is unlikely for most people, because Amber is a place where living conditions are not convenient and it is not close to big cities.
Folsom is not a big city, if you buy a house to live in, then Folsom is a few grades better than Amber, at least there are cinemas, supermarkets or something, what is Amber Town, a gas station? Or a small shop?
There are no supporting living facilities, so build a house here, and the ghost will buy it.
Are you counting on these cowboys to buy a house? So you're really thinking too much, a lot of cowboys in their thirties still live on ranches, as for getting married?
I'm about to lose my life, and you still want to support your wife and children? How dare you think so!
"Do you think someone built a house and sold it to you?"
The cowboy who brought the news yelled at the two cowboys next to the table: "I heard that the rich man is going to build a ski resort on Weimar's side."
Zhang Chi was a little confused when he heard this, feeling that he couldn't understand the brains of these Americans.
Build a ski resort over there, build a community here? What the hell do you think?
Thinking about it, it doesn't seem to have much to do with himself, the land he buys and the house he builds has a dime to do with him.