Chapter 140: Riding
Jian Heng looked at the things on his horse's back, opened his mouth and said, "Medicine bag!" ”
"Chek!" Jim looked at the list in his hand, and then opened his mouth to say something.
"Spare leather rope!"
"Chek!" Jim replied dryly.
The two of them checked all the things on the list in Jian Heng's hand, which meant that the four of them had brought all the things they should bring with them for this trip.
"Okay, let's get on the horse, go over early, and you can help" Jian Heng saw that everything was not lacking, and then said to He Ye, Jim, and He Ye's wooden bodyguard.
After speaking, he didn't wait for them to answer, he directly turned over on the horse's back, sat firmly, picked up the reins of the horse, and then said to Zhao Changshan: "Brother Changshan, I have been out for a few days, and the affairs of the family have been handed over to you."
"Don't worry, nothing will happen!" Zhao Changshan's chubby face was full of smiles.
"Alright, let's go!" Jian Heng waved his hand at Zhao Changshan, and then walked towards the door of the ranch with the servants.
Farewell is quite single, at this time, no one has time to make a farewell for Jian Heng or something.
Because Zhang Jialiang and Huang Xiaodong were inspecting the ranch, Zhao Wei and Feng Sanzhu were preparing lunch, and Barley and Wheat were training with the students, the entire ranch was still operating according to its daily steps when Jian Heng, the rancher, left, and there was no consciousness of leading to leave.
Different from the tranquility of Jian Heng's ranch, the old Walsh family's chickens and dogs jumped and called a lively, and when they entered their ranch, they heard the sound from inside, and from time to time they could hear the old Walsh's loud voice.
When Jian Heng and the four of them rode to the front of the house, take a look, good guys! Things are laid out, and the elder Walsh is doing the final check-ups with his youngest son, Remington.
The old man seemed to remember something again, and immediately yelled at Remington, who scratched his head and replied, "I bought it!" ”
"Then why can't I see it!" Old Walsh glared at his son and shouted.
Remington didn't say a word, ran directly to his pickup truck with a trot, stretched out his head to look in the back compartment, found that there was not, and then opened the door again, and finally found a small box the size of a palm under the chair.
"Now go to the car and look for it again, look carefully!" The elder Walsh was a little dissatisfied with his son's disappointment in his work, and insisted on letting Remington turn the pickup truck over again.
"Jean!" Seeing Jian Heng, Old Walsh said hello, and then looked at the watch on his wrist: "You arrived an hour earlier than agreed."
"I'm here to see if there's anything I can do to help," Jian Heng turned over and dismounted.
Old Walsh also knew that now was not the time to be polite, and if things were done earlier, everyone would be able to set off earlier, so he opened his mouth and assigned work to Jian Heng: "Why don't you go and see and help Dominic and Colter collect the cattle, I don't need people to do things here."
"Okay!" When Jian Heng heard this, he was about to turn over and get on the horse.
When the old man saw that Jian Heng's horse was carrying a big bag on its back, he opened his mouth and asked, "Except for the toiletries, you can put down the others, and when the time comes, I will tie some mules on the back, and let your horse save some effort."
"Good!" When Jian Heng heard this, he immediately reached out and untied the leather strip behind the saddle, except for some light things, other things like tents, sleeping bags, etc., all of which were put on the ground, leaving only a small washing bag on the horse's back, and a roll of blankets for his own use, and all other things were thrown next to Old Walsh.
It is definitely not possible to put Jim and the servants here, it is estimated that it will make Old Walsh more angry, so Jian Heng took them to collect the cattle together.
There are quite a lot of cattle in the old Walsh family, about a thousand heads, even with the help of a few cattle dogs, Dominic and Colco are a little anxious now, and when they saw Jian Heng coming to help, their faces were happy.
"Duh! Duh! Duh! ”
As an old cowboy who drove cattle, Jian Heng naturally didn't need the two of them to assign tasks, and directly saw the gap left by the two at a glance, and then signaled the black beans to automatically fill it.
The cooperation between veterans and veterans is happy, Jian Heng feels that although they have driven so many cattle, they are always much more comfortable than last time, everyone knows what they should do and what others should do.
Although it was still a little difficult for the three of them to catch up, it was still much better than the two of them before, not to mention that Jim and He Ye and the others could still help a little from time to time to block the half-sized calf who was greedy for fun.
Jim seemed to be addicted to playing a few times, and from time to time he began to urge the horse to run forward and backward, ten joyful.
"I advise you to slow down, or if you don't wait for the afternoon road to finish, your two legs may not be able to be put away" Jian Heng saw that Jim was very cheerful, and stopped the playful calf who was going to urge the horse to help Dominic get rid of the group.
Transitions are never a comfortable job, a few days away, drive the herd over, although the herd walks slowly, but people and horses do not walk like this. Every day of the transition will leave you exhausted, and there will even be a dozen quick stops and starts every hour, which is equivalent to a barrel race every few bells.
This is not only a test of physical strength or will, every cowboy in the process of transition, the first thing to learn is not how to drive cattle, but how to maintain their physical strength. Like Jim, it doesn't take a day, and he can't take it for half a day. So Jian Heng specially reminded him.
"It's fine!" Jim thinks that's a lot of activity.
Now Jim's heart is flying with a western dream instilled in him by Hollywood, seeing these cows, and then seeing his standard cowboy dress, even more like a cowboy than Jian Heng (everyone else is a baseball cap, only he, He Ye, and the bodyguards are cowboy hats), and naturally feels that he has suddenly become the protagonist of the kind of gun duel in Westerns.
is still the kind of protagonist who gallops thousands of miles and hijacks money carriages, and he is very angry for a while.
"Listen to me, if you still have such enthusiasm when you arrive at the campsite tonight, I will do as you like tomorrow!" Jian Heng said.
He Ye also persuaded Jim at this time: "Let's listen to his arrangement."
Jim nodded and said, "OK!"
Jim shrugged his shoulders here, gently led the horse, and stood side by side with He Ye, slowly following the back of the herd, while watching Jian Heng urge Black Beans and Dominic and Colton to drive the herd.
The audience was filled with aggressive shouts, and from time to time there was the sound of urging the mounts.
He Ye watched the movements of the servants in the field intently, and couldn't help but say loudly: "This equestrian! Really, I threw off the average equestrian coach in China a few streets! ”
Jim said, "Throwing an equestrian instructor?" No way? ”
Seeing Jim's suspicion, He Ye said: "I mean that the equestrian coaches in China are completely different from the equestrian coaches you talked about."
One is talking about the level of equestrian coaches in China, and the other is talking about the level of American equestrian coaches, the two are really different, not that He Ye admires foreign countries, but that domestic equestrian sports are actually not as developed as old capitalist countries like others, and this thing is also played first.
"Their riding style is different from what we learned," He Ye said with a smile at Jim.
Jim said: "It's different, it's different, we all learn English riding, they're cowboy riding!" But now, they seem to be riding more beautifully, and the whole person and the horse's back have always been at a right angle, and they are not afraid of falling off the horse! ”
"Hmmm! I also think, "He Ye is a person who loves to ponder, and if he can't figure it out, he thinks about asking Jian Heng later."
The three cowboys were busy with their work, and these two stood on the sidelines and watched relaxedly, chatting about other people's equestrianism.
When the whole herd gathered to the assembly place, He Ye and the others urged the horses to come over and asked about the riding skills, especially why they did not bend over when the horses turned around.
Jian Heng didn't think about it, he didn't accept the British way of riding, where did he know the difference between the two, so he had to watch He Ye temporarily perform his own riding style.
As soon as He Ye demonstrated here, Colt and Dominic naturally came over, everyone looked the same, holding the head of the saddle with both hands, watching He Ye go around in a small circle to show horse control.
Jian Heng looked around and didn't understand, turned to Colt and Dominic and asked, "Do you understand?" ”
He Ye came back at this time and said: "Your body is straight on the back of a horse, even if the horse sways from side to side, it follows the horse, I am different, if you jump on the railing, I am a ...... on the back of the horse."
Hearing He Ye say this, Jian Heng suddenly realized: "Oh, I know, it may be that the horse and the person on our side are one, maintaining this sitting posture means that no matter when, the center of gravity of the person and the horse is at that point, when the horse turns, he will control the center of gravity, turn at the angle or something, if it is shaking, the horse itself does not know where the center of gravity is, how do you let the horse turn sharply?" ”
Dominic nodded and said: "You can try to ride the cattle in the afternoon, I dare to say that you don't need an afternoon, your waist will not be able to stand it in two hours, and now it will take a few days to turn around, in the past, there was no railway in the west, and the longest way to sell a cow could catch up with a month and a half of the road, your way of riding, you have to abolish a group of cowboys in one trip, and it is too inappropriate to put it in the daily life of the ranch."
Colt then took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, knocked around and took one from Dominic.
Popping on the fire, Colt picked up Dominic's words: "It's not that equestrianism is not suitable for pastures, but European pastures are generally small, and cattle and sheep herds are naturally small, so there is no problem with this kind of riding on European pastures." But four or five thousand acres here is not a big ranch, and a real big ranch is tens of thousands of acres, thousands of cattle, or even tens of thousands of cattle, and they can't do it in this way."
As he spoke, Colt demonstrated the essentials of cowboy riding to the two.
It's a pity that they have become accustomed to it, and it is so easy to change it all at once.
At this moment, old Walsh came over and said bluntly: "Eat, finish eating and go!" ”