The snow came as promised, and on the last day of the end of October, the sky was overcast, and although it was just after one o'clock at noon, it was like evening, and the dark clouds accumulated in the sky were like black curtains, spreading out in the sky, as far as the eye could see.

Today is not only the first snow, it has been a big drop since the early hours of the morning, and in less than ten hours, the temperature has dropped sharply to minus seven or eight degrees.

Yesterday, you could go out with a towel and a thick jacket, but if you wear it like this today, you will have to go home and pour cold medicine when you go out.

North America is geographically advantageous, at least culturally speaking, with no powerful enemies around, and two oceans to the east and west.

In addition to the two oceans, there are two major mountain ranges in the east and west, and almost all that remains of the entire country is the Great Plains, which looks quite good.

However, there is no shelter in the north-south direction, and the warm and humid air mass in the south and the cold air flow in the north are unhindered, and the collision of the two weather groups has brought hurricanes, heavy rains and blizzards to this land.

Zhang Chi and his wife looked out the window, both of them sat leisurely on the recliners, now the temperature at home is in the twenties, the oil-fired boiler has been turned on, and the fireplace in the living room on the first floor is also burning tic-tac-toe-shaped firewood, and from time to time there is a cracking sound, which is the movement of the oil knots that have burned to the wood.

On the legs of the two of them, lay Ink, Edamame, and Shiren and Bai Lao.

Several guys are a little wilted, looking weak, especially Shiren and Bai Lao, who don't seem to sleep at all, although they look listless, but as soon as the rice is served, they immediately become the general of dry rice.

The ink was also not energetic, and it was sticking to the edge of the fireplace, enjoying the hot smell of the bricks.

Edamame was sitting on the floor, his head on Shiren's neck, pulling Shiren's hair in his hand, and idly helping Shiren to straighten his hair.

The big fat was the most unchanged, and it was now huddled at the corner between the house wall and the fireplace, and the whole cat's body was rolled into a ball, and shrunk in the corner like a wool mat.

Speaking of enjoyment, Da Fei is really much stronger than his silly brothers, except for Da Fei, all the kittens who stay at home, like their parents, two dogs and three dogs, just find a sheltered place in the forage room to make a nest to stay.

Along with the kittens was the big tortoise at home, but by this time the big tortoise had gone into hibernation, its head, hands and feet were retracted into its shell, and the shell was buried deep in the haystack.

It's not cold, the whole hay warehouse is filled with grass, and the surrounding area is tightly blocked, how can it be cold without a little wind coming in.

It's not cold, and there's no nasty rat messing around, so the turtle hibernates very steadily.

The whole Zhangchi ranch has entered the winter mode, and the cattle have naturally entered the cowshed, and now the main food of the cattle is hay, and from time to time add some corn or other concentrate.

After the snow has fallen for about ten days, the grass yellow that grows from the grass grass should almost be edible, and then the cattle can be released, and the grass yellow can be eaten during the day, and the cowshed will be fed at night.

The renovated cowshed is okay to keep warm, but with so many cows together, it would be strange if the cowshed tasted good.

It's not that Zhang Chi doesn't pay attention to it, but at this time, everyone's cowshed is like this, and when he enters, his nose is full of the smell of cow feces and cow urine.

This is inevitable, Zhang Chi can't hire two or three times as many cowboys to chase cows all day long to push and collect urine, then the price of beef is ridiculously high, and the ranch is not far from death.

In short, the environment in which the cattle live is okay.

The cattle dogs in the ranch can finally rest for a while, they only need to watch the cowshed at the moment, and no one cares about them at other times.

This is a rare leisure time for the big bulls and tigers.

may be because of this, the two decided to have a second child to play, and the two tigers' stomachs bulged again.

"Why hasn't the snow come down?"

Zhang Chi grabbed the teapot, put it to his mouth and took a sip, and after spitting out a sentence, he set up the teapot and began to look at his mobile phone again.

Merika smiled and said, "What's the matter, you still have a bonus if you come down early?" ”

"There is no bonus, but it makes people anxious to work so hard," Zhang Chi smiled and said to his daughter-in-law.

Merika said, "Can you still care when it snows?" ”

"How can I manage this, I just said it casually, by the way, have we returned the forage money we earned to the bank?"

Zhang Chi suddenly remembered something.

Merika said: "You still remember this money all day long, if you owe hundreds of millions in the future, you still can't sleep all day and all night?" ”

"I'm not used to owing people money," Zhang Chi scratched his head and said with a little embarrassment.

He also knows that if you want to make the business bigger, it is not possible to owe money, sometimes you have to owe, not only do you owe but also owe a lot of debt, because this is also a way to control the bank, and now the expansion of the enterprise can still be separated from the protection of the bank.

Zhang Chi understands these truths, but he is really not that piece of material, or the old saying, without a gourd, this goods is also the material for a lifetime salary.

"Okay, you'll leave it alone," Merica looked down and continued to look at her book.

The two of them are now holding a mobile phone and a book, and it can be seen that their personalities are different, Merica likes the heaviness of books and the feeling of holding them in her hands, and Zhang Chi ...... Well, it's purely to pass the time, he doesn't want to read books, or it's more interesting to watch short videos.

At this time, the phone rang, and Zhang Chi answered the phone.

"It's arranged at the hospital, let's just go over when the time comes," Zhang Chi said.

Merica nodded.

According to the due date, Zhang Chi rented a room in the hospital for a week, although it was very expensive and killed a small house in a few days, but Zhang Chi didn't dare to wait at home for his daughter-in-law to give birth before going to the hospital.

Not to mention Zhang Chi, even the parents and grandparents in China came to ask about the hospital from time to time during this time, and the four of them were not very worried about Zhang Chi, feeling that their children and grandchildren were a little unreliable, and it was best to go to the hospital.

"Zhao Yue, when are they coming?" Zhang Chi asked again.

As a friend and classmate, Merika is going to have a baby, how could Zhao Yue, Duan Shuyi and Zheng Hongbo not come, in Zhao Yue's words, unless there are knives in the sky, otherwise several people will have to come.

"Four or five days before the due date, we can stay with us when the time comes," Merica said.

Zhang Chi nodded, this is also expected, Merica has almost been assimilated into Chinese, friends come here to live directly at home, almost will not go to the hotel or anything.

"Well, I'll clean up the room then," Zhang Chi said.

Merica asked again, "Grandparents, when are Mom and Dad coming?" ”

Merika's grandparents, parents naturally refer to Zhang Chi's parents and grandparents.

Zhang Chi said: "Even if you come, you have to wait until the Chinese New Year to come, and my sister has not had a holiday at this time."

This year's Chinese New Year, Zhang Chi and his family will definitely get together, and it is impossible not to get together, because the family is going to add Ding to import, as elders, how can Zhang Jiaren and Zhang Youpeng not come.

If there were no conditions, they would definitely find it unreasonable.

Although they all know that it is a female baby, but now in China, at least Zhang Chi's hometown, he doesn't mind too much about men and women.

"They can't come sooner?" Merica asked.

Zhang Chi said: "It's not that I can't, but I'm a little uneasy."

Merica nodded, now that her belly was getting bigger and bigger, she was missing the lively atmosphere at home a little bit more.

Only Zhang Chi and Merika were at home, and the two rarely said anything, and if they did, they were also about the ranch.

Although Merika doesn't say much, she just misses it now, Zhang Chi's mother and grandmother nagging all day long, and I don't know why the two of them have so many words, as if they can't finish talking all day long.

This was a special experience for Merica, as she was taught to say more and make more mistakes than she was raised, and to try not to talk more unnecessary nonsense.

"How do I feel like you're missing them?" Zhang Chi asked with a smile.

Merika was happy: "It's true, when they were here, they thought the whole house was very lively, and now it's just the two of us, even they don't have much energy."

Zhang Chi glanced at the Shiren they were referring to, and said with a smile: "It's not spiritual now, but when you eat, you can take a look, one is up to several, I always feel that these guys are now raising enough spirit to cook every day, and it's also a loss that our side is raising cattle, otherwise these guys can eat their pants."

After saying that, he waited for Merika's next words, but found that there was no movement, and turned his head to see that Merica was looking out the window.

"Cannon is here!"

Merika said.

Zhang Chi also saw it, so he got up from the chair.

Cannon came to the door at this moment, knocked on the door and saw Zhang Chi and Merica inside, so he pushed the door open and walked into the house.

Zhang Chi saw snowflakes falling on Cannon's shoulders, so he asked, "Down?" ”

"It's down, it's not big, but it's big soon, I didn't come out yet, and when I got to the door, there was a snowflake on my shoulder" Cannon patted the snowflake on his shoulder and the cowboy hat, took off his coat and hung up.

"If it's okay, go home early," Zhang Chi said to Cannon.

Cannon was a little embarrassed and said, "I'm here to talk to you about this."

Cannon's family had arrived, and it had been almost three or four days, but it was the time when the ranch was busy, so Cannon took them over and put them in the house, and spent most of the time on the ranch.

Now that the snow is falling and the work is almost over, Cannon wants to come over and tell Zhang Chi that he should go home early, take two days off, and stay with his wife and children for two days.

Regarding Cannon's request, Zhang Chi naturally agreed, not to say anything else, only to say that Cannon's attitude towards work after following Zhang Chi, Zhang Chi not only promised two days off, but also gave three more days.

Now the heaviest work on the ranch is feeding and shoveling, which looks quite big, but in fact, the cowboys can deal with it very easily.

With professional machine helpers, manpower has been saved a lot, and the work that originally required three people can now be basically solved by one person in half the time.

So Zhang Chi not only gave Cannon a holiday, but also asked Cannon to arrange everyone's work so that everyone could rest for a few days.