Chapter 223: Onboarding
Mornings at Silent Lake Ranch are a bit lazy!
Toby drove into the gate of the ranch, for the average city office worker may be a little too early to arrive at the company at seven o'clock, but for the cowboys on the ranch, seven o'clock to work, it is almost equivalent to the boss giving himself a holiday today.
Toby also wanted to come early, but last night was too hilarious, and the job that I hadn't been looking for for a long time is now implemented, not only because I drank too much, but I went home in the evening and had two more fun with my daughter-in-law, so I got up a little late. In addition, the first time he went to work, Toby had to tidy up his appearance again, so he dragged it out again and again, and it was already past seven and five when he entered the ranch.
At this time, there was almost no sound in the Silent Lake Ranch, and it seemed that even the birds had not yet risen here, and Toby drove all the way to the front of a smoking house, and then saw someone come out of the house.
"Who are you looking for?" An Asian man in his twenties asked Toby in English with a strong accent.
Toby carefully pricked up his ears to understand what he said, but everyone was colleagues in between, so Toby jumped out of the car and stretched out his hand to the young man first: "My name is Toby Blair, you can call me Toby, I'm here to work, it was Mr. Jean who asked me to come over today, oh forget, I'm a cowboy."
The young man who went out was Zhao Wei, and as soon as he heard it, he understood that the foreigner in front of him was a cowboy newly hired by his boss, to be precise, a little supervisor who was in charge of Huang Xiaodong and Zhang Jialiang.
Zhao Wei is also interested in cowboy work, and now there is a veteran cowboy standing in front of him, so maybe there is something to learn from others in the future, so Zhao Wei is very enthusiastic, grabbed Toby's hand and shook it gently, with a smile on his face.
"Welcome, the boss talked about you in the morning, saying that if you come over, go directly to Zhang Jialiang and Huang Xiaodong, the two of them are now shoveling manure in the livestock shed" Zhao Wei stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction of the livestock shed.
The barn is not too far from the restaurant and the sports room, but it is not too close, almost more than 400 meters, because of the undulation of the terrain, only most of the roof of the barn can be seen from here, with a small wall.
Seeing the livestock shed, Toby didn't need to be called by others, so he understood what he should do, and after saying thank you to Zhao Wei, he got back into the car and turned the head of the car and drove towards the livestock shed.
When Toby arrived at the barn, he got out of the car and saw an Asian man wearing a pantyhose and lean on his body just pushing a cart of dung out of the barn.
Just as Toby was about to say hello, the Asian opened his mouth first and asked, "Mr. Toby Blair?" ”
"It's me, it's me, you are?" Toby asked immediately.
The Asian put down the cart he was pushing and wanted to reach out and shake Toby, but halfway through his hand, he saw that his gloves were still stained with cow dung, so he shrank back and prepared to take off his gloves: "I'm Zhang Jialiang, you can call me Zhang!" ”
Toby stepped forward at this time and directly shook Zhang Jialiang's gloved hand: "Shan is happy to meet you, everyone will be colleagues in the future." What are you afraid of with a little cow dung, we are cowboys, not to mention our hands, even if we go out, we also have the smell of cow dung, which is inevitable! ”
Zhang Jialiang couldn't help laughing when he heard him say this, Zhang Jialiang was still a little worried about the new boss, afraid that he wouldn't get along with others, but now that he sees Toby's temperament, at least for now, he is not an eccentric person. Seems to be quite easy to get along with.
"Huang Xiaodong, Huang Xiaodong?"
Zhang Jialiang saw that Toby was not bad, and turned his head to call Huang Xiaodong out, everyone knew each other.
Huang Xiaodong was wearing his ears now, and he didn't hear Zhang Jialiang call him.
"Maybe he's wearing headphones, I'll call him," Zhang Jialiang explained.
Toby stopped Zhang Jialiang and said, "I'll go change my clothes first, I also brought a few pieces myself, but I don't know where to change."
Hearing Toby say this, Zhang Jialiang said: "The fifth room over there is your residence, there is a key on the door, you go first to see what is missing, if you need anything else, tell the boss, he will prepare it for you."
After saying thank you, Toby found his future rest room in the direction of Zhang Jialiang's finger, opened the door with the key on the door, went in and looked around and found that there should be almost everything here, as for the missing things, Yuan Fei is just some tools or something, and he happened to bring them today.
After less than three minutes of looking at it and throwing everything in his car in, Toby changed into a leather cushion and walked out of the dorm with a pair of leather gloves tucked under his arm, ready to dive into his first day at the Silent Lake Ranch.
Back to the livestock shed, Toby and Huang Xiaodong only chatted for a few words, and then they started to work, and they buried their heads in the dung and began to shovel the dung, and it took more than half an hour to shovel all the dung in the livestock shed, not only shoveling clean, but also cleaning it with water, and drying the ground with a few heaters.
While it was time to rest, the servants sat down and took off their leather supports, sat around the door of the utility room in the barn, drank tea, and began to understand the situation of the ranch by the way, such as how many animals there were, and the daily schedule.
"Nothing else?" Toby heard that the servants were now cleaning the barn, sweeping down the pigsty, and then repairing the fence or something, and he didn't believe his ears, and thought it was too easy.
For Toby, Zhang Jialiang and Huang Xiaodong felt that the animals pulled a lot of dung, which was not a problem at all.
Toby is a person who has worked in the big ranch, and he has seen the situation of nearly 5,000 cows pulling out cow dung piled up together in one night, that thing is like a hill, what is this little dung now?
"Not at the moment, but there may be more things in the future, what kind of riding lessons will be opened in the ranch in the future, at least twenty or thirty horses must be prepared, and our main task at that time is to ensure that these horses are ......" Zhang Jialiang and Jian Heng The relationship was over there, and he was easy to ask, so he knew Jian Heng's plans for the next development of the ranch.
Hearing Zhang Jialiang say this, Toby relieved his heart, if it was such a job every day, to be honest, if Toby was a rancher, he could do it by hiring only one person, and at most he would be paid for one and a half people, and some cowboys would rush to do it.
Now that they are doing such a little work, for an old cowboy like Toby, it must mean that someone will lose their job when the boss reacts, and now that he has twenty or thirty horses to protect, then now the two are obviously not enough, and at least one or two people will need to be busy.
Just when Toby was digging the bottom of the matter, Jian Heng rode the black beans over, and the cattle group received the grazing position, Jian Heng trotted around with barley and wheat again, and when he came back, he made the black beans whole, and then remembered that a new employee was coming today, so he rode the black beans over to ask, and happened to see the servants resting.
Seeing that Toby was chatting well with Zhang and Huang, Jian Heng slid off the horse with a smile.
"Boss!" Toby immediately stood up.
"It's okay, don't be so restrained" Jian Heng didn't wave his hand at the support, then hung the reins in his hand on the saddle on the back of the black bean, walked to the side of the servant and sat down.
"I didn't drink it, I just drank it!" Jian Heng saw that Zhang Jialiang was about to pour tea for himself, and immediately waved his hand to signal that he would not drink it.
Jian Heng asked Toby, "Do you know the general work?" There isn't much work to do at the moment, but there will be more soon, and from this day onwards we will train the horses of the herd, at least ten or so, and my plan is that they will come in ......handy next spring."
Tobillio thought for a moment and said, "Between now and next spring?" How is Zhang Wo Huang's horse training skills? ”
"Regardless of them, it's just me and you now, at most plus the McAvoy sisters, they still don't have much time, and my time is not too ......."
Hearing Jian Heng say this, Toby gave a conservative number: "If that's the case, I can train seven or eight horses, and it's hard to say how much I can train them, so it depends on the situation of the horses, if it's for tourists, my advice is to be cautious and use old horses."
The meaning of what Toby said Jian Heng also understands that whether it is a student or a tourist, the most important thing about horseback riding or equestrian-related sports is safety, and nothing is as important as these two words.
Although it is said that you have to sign a liability waiver agreement to ride a horse in the United States, it is always a bad thing to hurt someone.
Toby's meaning is too short, and the best thing to do is to buy those geldings with good character or horses after the age of eight, which is the advice of the old man, and the best advice.
"Let's see when the time comes, if it doesn't work, buy it. Okay, let's eat first" Jian Heng stood up with a smile.
Toby said, "I've eaten it at home."
"Feel it even if you don't eat it, just think it's getting used to it in advance," Jian Heng said with a smile.
Toby was also very curious about where he would eat in the future, and when he heard the boss say so, he nodded and agreed.
"Go and pick a horse in the stable, Jialiang, you take him there," Jian Heng said to Zhang Jialiang.
"Okay!" Zhang Jialiang happily agreed.
Jian Heng said: "From then on, I will hand over most of the affairs on this side of the ranch to you."
"Don't worry, boss, I will do a good job" Toby now cherishes this job opportunity very much, and naturally wants to show a kind of confidence in front of the new boss.
"Boss, how are we going to watch the herd of cattle during the day?"
Thinking of the trouble caused by the huge black wolf, Toby opened his mouth to ask one of his most important questions.
Jian Heng listened and said, "We didn't arrange it, we're not afraid!" ”
“……”。
Toby was stunned for a moment before he said, "My suggestion is that we send someone to take a look, and it's better to have a precaution."
"Not necessarily!" Jian Heng waved his hand, walked out of the door, whistled lightly, and the black beans rushed to the master's side like a black whirlwind.