Chapter 152: Holding the Horse
As soon as there were no cowboys behind them, the horses soon stopped and began to graze leisurely with their heads down. At this time, Jian Heng happened to be less than forty meters away from the nearest horse in the herd.
Originally, Jian Heng decided to finish gnawing the pig's trotters and drive these horses back to the company's pasture boundary, but now that he saw the horse in front of him, Jian Heng had a new plan in his heart.
These horses are quite good, at first glance they are standard Quarter horses, both in terms of body structure and running posture, they are all high-class Quarter horses, and they may not have any pedigree certificates, but they are certainly enough for ranch horses.
And everyone also knows that there are only a few horses in Jian Heng's pasture now, a total of only seventeen or eighteen, which is still counting barley and wheat horses, which can't meet Jian Heng's plan at all!
Jian Heng now hit the idea on this group of horses, not all of them, but the beautiful little mare who already had a big belly.
At this time of year, it can be said that almost all the mares who can conceive are already pregnant, just waiting for the next spring, and the foals will be born.
Jian Heng's idea is very simple, directly pick out some good mares and throw them into his own space, and wait for them to give birth to the foal, so that he can 'legally' take possession of the foal.
Why do you say legal, because legally, even though these horses are already wild horses, they should belong to the people who need them. That is, an ownerless foal can belong to anyone.
However, it is still more problematic because there is a paradox that the owner will still belong to the owner for a certain period of time.
This is very easy to explain, take the house as an example, I don't live in this house, and I won't live in it for a few years, then the house will not belong to me, and the law in the United States says that you don't live in the house, and after a few years he will not belong to you, because you don't need it. After you lose ownership, whoever moves in to live in the house belongs to whoever lives.
However, if you move in for two months and then move out within these legal years, the time of loss of ownership is recalculated from the time you move in.
The same applies to the foals, and it is precisely this that the owners of the horses grasp by going to the public pastures where the horses have abandoned their horses every year to 'exercise' their sovereignty, so that the automatic ownership of the horses continues for another year.
When a foal is born and branded, it naturally has an owner. Horse owners come every spring to brand their mares' newborn foals with a mark on them, and for this reason to keep the wild horses legally their own.
In general, it is to gather the wool of the public in the United States and raise their own horses.
Having made up his mind in his heart, Jian Heng threw away the pig's trotters in his hand, got out of the hiding place with the black beans, and approached the horses.
Sensing someone coming, the horses immediately stopped eating and looked up in the direction from which the sound came.
When they found that Jian Heng was the only one on the roof, they didn't seem to panic much, and many of the horses even continued to bow their heads and nibble on the grass.
Only the king of horses was very nervous, and turned around and kept snorting at Black Bean, looking hostile to such a strong little stallion as Black Bean.
Wow!
The maroon horse king is now staring at Black Bean head-on, jumping forward from time to time, hoping to scare his opponent away by showing his strength.
It's just that the black beans at this time are no longer the black beans they used to be, seeing so many horse girls, and the owner is still on his back, the black beans decided not to see this chestnut dwarf for the time being, or to appreciate the horse girls with their own masters!
"This is a good horse!" Jian Heng stood next to the group of horses and looked at it, and found that a green mare was good, so as soon as he raised his hand, the mare entered the space.
"Huh! This one is not bad either! ”
As soon as he put his hand down, Jian Heng found a chestnut mare again, so as soon as he raised his hand again, the mare disappeared into the herd.
In this way, in less than fifteen minutes, a full fifty mares were missing from the original herd of four or five hundred horses, and they were still the best mares.
There are only four or five hundred horses in total, and even a fool can see the difference if there are fifty less horses at once, but unfortunately this is not a problem for Jian Heng to consider, he only knows that he has fished fifty mares from other families today, and when these mares give birth to foals, then as soon as the foals are marked, they will change their surnames to Jane.
After fishing for the horses, Jian Heng directly turned his head and walked away with the black beans, the entire group of horses was a little dumbfounded now, as if they had been collectively ordered to fix their bodies, they didn't understand that their companions were still grazing by their side one moment ago, why did they disappear in the next second.
It took a long time for the horses to come to their senses, but when they came to their senses, they did not react much and continued to graze.
After fishing for other people's horses, Jian Heng left here and continued to find a hidden place, hiding with Black Bean to eat the pig's hands hidden in his space.
One plus most of the front, Jian Heng was satisfied with a full gap at this time, reached out and instigated the oil and water on his fingers, took out a tissue and wiped it, and then washed it with the water in the space, feeling that he had erased the traces of gnawing pig's trotters, and then slipped out again with the place where the black beans were hiding.
Not long after running away, Jian Heng found that the old Walsh and his gang were confronting the people of Edwin Harrison Marcus Ranch.
"What's wrong?" Jian Heng pretended not to understand anything, and gathered into the crowd and whispered in Chinese to He Ye, who was standing in the back row on horseback.
He Ye turned his head and said in a low voice: "Old Walsh wanted to drive the wild horses away, but the people over there didn't let Old Walsh drive the horses over, not only did they say that Old Walsh stole their mare ......."
As soon as He Ye explained this, Jian Heng understood.
Edwin Harrison Marcus Ranch is also in a hurry now, half of the whole herd is their horses, that is, more than two hundred horses, about half of them are mares, that is, about a hundred, and now in less than an hour, fifty of the best mares are gone, at least these mares are worth thirty or forty thousand dollars, how can these people not be annoyed?
But they don't believe it when old Walsh steals their mares, because it's useless for old Walsh to ask for these horses, and besides, to keep fifty mares in his place?
Don't be funny, don't let these mares spend this winter in their family, and it's good to sell their pants directly next year to pay off the bank's account.
It's nothing more than a quarrel, the public says that the public is reasonable, and the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is polite and so noisy.
After listening to it for a while, Jian Heng began to yawn, because it was too boring to be so noisy.
The vocabulary of American scolding is far less profound than that of China, and there are sayings such as dry,, day, top and so on just for one action. They were either Falk or Falck, at most plus Beechcraft, and the like, and after listening to it for five or six minutes, it tasted so bad that it gave people a toothache.
"Why does it smell like roasted pig's trotters" He Ye sniffed twice, and then turned his head to look at Jian Heng.
Jian Heng immediately closed his mouth, then his face turned straight, and he denied it: "You want to eat Chinese food, you want to be stupid, where does the taste of roast pig's trotters come from now?" ”
Hearing Jian Heng's denial, He Ye was also a little suspicious, so he sniffed the air again, feeling that the tempting smell seemed to be gone all of a sudden.
So he smiled bitterly and continued to whisper to Jian Heng in Chinese: "It seems to be true!" No matter, when I go back and have a signal, call Lao Zhao and ask him to give me three pig hands, and put a ...... in one bowl in one hand."
"As for it!" Jian Heng glanced at him, completely ignoring the fact that he had just eaten a half-pig's hand and said, "Isn't it just a barbecue that has been eaten for a few days, look at you!" ”
Old Walsh can everyone stand here and argue, but Edwin Harrison Marcus Ranch Company can't be here all the noisy, and he lost dozens of mares at once, and he can't send people to find them.
So the director over there quarreled with old Walsh, and arranged for men to start searching around.
Not to mention the director of the company, even all the cowboys present did not think that anyone could directly steal fifty mares like this, and transport fifty mares at once, if they did not find out about the movement, then there would be a problem.
Old Walsh didn't believe that there were a lot of stallions in a herd, and there were only fifty good mares missing, and in the old man's opinion, the little sluts of the ranch company were completely insulting their intelligence, so the old man put on a stupid look from beginning to end, and looked at everyone in front of him with a disdainful gaze.
The confrontation between the two groups of people soon attracted several groups of cowboys nearby.
The cowboys on the family ranch are on the side of the old Walsh, and they are all victims of the intensification, modernization of the special field company.
Because ranch companies are less productive and less expensive than family farms, the old Wo farmers believe that it is the ranch companies that have kept the price of U.S. beef from strengthening.
This is the most essential reason why the old ranchers hate the ranch company, so the family rancher will naturally take the side of the old Walsh, which is a matter of class position.
What's more, Edwin Harrison Marcus Ranch Company also gave such a strange reason, the mare in the fifty herd is missing, and the herd is still there.
As for other ranch companies, the side will not be biased towards either side, and it looks lively quietly.
For other ranch companies, Edwin Harrison Marcus Ranch is an opponent, and he definitely can't stand with his opponent at any time, but the relationship with the family ranch owner is not good, and they don't look down on the family ranch anymore, so watching the show quietly is the right way.
After grinding their teeth for another hour and a half, everyone went home, and in the end there was no result.