Little Life on An American Ranch

After changing into clean clothes, Jian Heng answered several calls from the time he left the room to the door of the house. All of them had the same meaning, that is, he couldn't come to the ranch for help today because his back was sore and his legs hurt.

"Well, okay, I see, pay attention to rest, I'm fine here." Jian Heng put down the phone.

The two sisters, Da Mai and Mai, also finished their work at this time, and were about to enter the house to wash up. When they passed by Jian Heng, they found him with a bitter face, and asked a question involuntarily.

"What's the matter? Don't be so stingy, aren't you happy after losing a game?" Mai said.

Now the barley and wheat are clearly separated, this is not to say that he will also be able to distinguish them in the future, but now the barley is almost soaked, while the wheat is only about half wet, so it is easy to distinguish the two sisters .

"Why am I so narrow-minded? It was a group of cowboys who used too much force yesterday and all hurt themselves. Some of them had a little difficulty getting up today. Obviously, they can't come to help today." Jian Heng shook the phone at the two sisters. shaken.

"You should give them a cup of the drink we drank last night, so they can work again today" Da Mai said at this time

"Do you think it's so simple to make this thing?" Jian Heng glanced at Damai.

"Is it difficult?" Barley couldn't remember how difficult it is to prepare a fruit and vegetable juice.

Simple is simple, but Jian Heng didn't want the two of them to know that he could make vegetable juice by stirring it a few times, so he opened his mouth and said, "This uses a secret recipe, it's very brain-intensive!"

Having said that, Jian Heng reached out and nodded his own head.

Both Da Mai and Mai were quite curious, but they didn't open their mouths to ask, because they both heard Jian Heng's so-called "teacher training" of passing on sons but not daughters.

Although the two of them seemed to have thousands of cat's claws scratching their hearts, they still held back and didn't ask.

Mai Mai changed the topic a bit: "Then what should we do today?"

Jian Heng took a look at the barn that had been demolished and only a small piece of wall remained. He sighed and said, "What else can we do? Let's wait for everyone to recover!"

He said so on the lips, but he thought in his heart: After working for two days in a day, we can't take three days off, right?

"Then let's go upstairs. If you want to ride a horse, you can ride it." After Xiaomai finished speaking, she stretched out her finger to the dirty horse that had been cleaned.

Jian Heng glanced at the horse,

Then he raised his legs and walked over to the bad horse. While walking, he yelled at barley and wheat: "You two wash the horse? I'm a little skeptical!"

Damai replied disdainfully: "When you haven't seen a horse, we both know how to wash horses! Let me tell you this, we both had our own pony when we were six years old. They were two little horses. Pony, we not only have to wash the horse every day, but also feed the horse, shovel the horse manure, almost all the work is done by the two of us, what were you doing when you were six years old?"

"I started setting up roadside stalls when I was six years old," Jian Heng boasted.

In fact, when Jian Heng was six years old, he still followed his elder sister around. My elder sister, Jian Anan, was older than my younger brother, Jian Heng, who was six or seven years old. Jian Anan was about to go to junior high school. At work, Jian Anan has to cook for his younger brother Jian Heng every day before going to school and take care of Jian Heng to finish eating, and then escorts his younger brother to the kindergarten, almost doing half of the mother's work. Six-year-old Jian Heng can't even peel an eggshell.

As the only boy in the family, Jian Heng is a treasure, otherwise he would not have developed a courageous temperament, ran away from home after a conflict, and was tricked into coming to the United States to work as a coolie.

"real?"

The McAvoy sisters didn't believe Ben.

"I've done more powerful jobs. At the age of six, I can add and subtract within 100, and I can do mental arithmetic!" Jian Heng said.

At this point, the two McAvoy sisters were dumbfounded. Let alone six years old, even if the two of them don't have to calculate ninety-eight plus sixty-five now, they will still be stuck. Lao Mei is almost blind to mathematics without a calculator.

Seeing the faces of the two of them, Jian Heng waved his hands proudly: "Hurry up and go upstairs, or Zhao Changshan and the others will come over later and see you like this!"

He reached out his hand and clicked on the two of them: "Zhao Changshan is a little older and still has a little concentration. Xiao Huang and Xiao Zhao must not be able to bear it, and they will lose HP!"

After giving Jian Heng a middle finger, the two sisters went upstairs.

Jian Heng took the horse and looked around, and found that the two sisters really cleaned the horse. It turned out that the bad horse looked a little bit better now, and it was much more glamorous than before.

It's a pity that a bad horse is always a bad horse!

No matter from the frame structure, or from the perspective of endurance and intelligence, this horse is not outstanding at all, and the only thing to say is honesty.

Let's put it this way, this horse's temper is really good, and he doesn't worry about it. But if you want it to keep running at a fast pace, the rider almost has to work hard.

Also, this horse is a bit silly, and he has to take a step slower to ignore the owner's intentions.

The horse is a bad horse. For a mature rider, this horse is very bad, but for a novice, this horse is very suitable. It has a good temper and has ridden until now. It meant that he was impatient and wanted to throw the rider off the horse. It is rare for a horse to have such a good temper.

While Jian Heng was looking at the horses, Zhao Changshan and the others came over in a brand new Tantu pickup.

"Hey, what's the matter today?" Zhao Changshan asked in puzzlement when he got out of the car and saw that Jian Heng was alone and there was no car around.

Jian Heng said: "What's the matter? Everyone worked too hard yesterday and hurt themselves, and they are all resting at home today."

"Then let's go ahead," Zhao Changshan said.

Jian Heng looked at the four of them, shook his head and said, "Forget it, everyone should rest today."

The four of them are okay as a starter, but it would be a bit too much to expect them to work.

As mentioned above, the cowboys on the American ranch are all versatile. Each of them has mastered several crafts during their long life on the ranch. This is not comparable to people like Zhao Changshan. Let them do it today. The cowboys have to go back to work when they come, it's better to wait for them to rest and then do it.

"All right? Boss, can I learn how to ride a horse from you?"

Xiao Zhao, that is Zhao Changshan's nephew Zhao Wei, immediately focused on the bad horse that had just been washed. For a man who came from China and didn't grow up in the grassland, it was a very important thing to know how to ride a horse. Cool things. Being able to gallop on the back of a steed may be the dream that every boy has rooted in his heart since he was a child.

"Yes, there is nothing wrong with it!" Jian Heng immediately agreed.

Jian Heng is not the kind of boss who likes to show off. As long as there is nothing to do, Jian Heng can even give his subordinates a vacation and will not ask for any working hours, unlike some bosses who have to stay honestly in front of him even if they have nothing to do.

Huang Xiaodong also raised his hand when he heard it: "I want to learn too."

Jian Heng looked at Zhang Jialiang: "What about you, you came almost a month earlier, can you ride a horse?"

"I had a meeting earlier, and within a few days of my arrival, I learned how to ride a horse from Dominique. Now I can trot on horseback, but I have been busy these days and have not continued to practice," Zhang Jialiang said proudly.

After hearing this, Jian Heng stretched out his finger on the bad horse: "From saddling to riding, you have a try."

Zhang Jialiang put on a showy look: "Brother, you can't trust me!"

Walking to the side of the bad horse, Zhang Jialiang looked left and right as if he was looking for something.

"What are you looking for?" Zhao Changshan asked.

"Where's the carrot?" Zhang Jialiang asked.

Jian Heng snorted: "You have to bring a follower to ride a horse! You can't ride a horse without carrots?"

"First of all, we need to exchange feelings. This horse is familiar with you, but not with me! Even if you are an individual, you can't say hello first? Feeding a carrot is also a means of our relationship with Mara."

Looking at Zhang Jialiang's endless attitude, Jian Heng said: "Hey, I don't think you are going to ride a horse. If you come a few more times, I suspect that you will buy a diamond ring for the horse and get engaged!"

Huang Xiaodong was diligent and clever. When Zhang Jialiang asked for carrots, he immediately led Xiao Pao into the kitchen and quickly took out a few. First he gave Zhang Jialiang one, and then passed it to Zhao Changshan, Zhao Wei , and finally left one for myself.

Seeing Huang Xiaodong's actions, Jian Heng couldn't help but secretly nodded.

"Who wants to buy a diamond ring?"

At this time, Da Mai and Mai had already changed their clothes and came out. When Jian Heng said about the diamond ring, they immediately asked with great interest. They thought who was asking for marriage.

Zhao Changshan smiled and explained a few sentences.

"You're so mean!" The two sisters came to understand, and cheered Jian Heng up.

At this time, Zhang Jialiang had already fed the poor horse, and started to put a cushion on the horse's back, pulled the cushion to the correct position, and then checked whether the left and right sides were the same length, and when he turned around behind the horse, his hands were not Get off the horse.

This is the correct posture. Putting your hand on the horse's buttocks can let the horse know where you are, and prevent the horse from accidentally kicking and hurting people.

There is almost no big mistake in the next set of throwing the saddle and tightening the belt. If you insist on picking any faults, it will take too long. It is estimated that the horse is a little uncomfortable.

But this is also the only way for novices to go through. This is the way of work. You can become proficient after doing a lot of work. The same set of work can be completed in two to three minutes by Jian Heng, while it takes Zhang Jialiang more than ten minutes. From ten minutes to two or three minutes, it corresponds to the horse that Jian Heng has been riding for four or five years, while Zhang Jialiang has only been riding for less than a month.

Watching Zhang Jialiang get on the horse, he took two steps on the bad horse and then urged the horse to trot. The whole movement was a little bit reined in, but everything was correct. It seems that Zhang Jialiang’s new friend Dominique is very good at this item. Clearly a lot of effort has been put into it.

"Yes, the movements are quite standard, but the disadvantage is that it pays too much attention to the essentials of the movements, and it would be better if you relax a little more."

Sisters Da Mai and Mai talked about the advantages and disadvantages of Zhang Jialiang's riding skills before Jian Heng made comments.

"Okay, it just so happens that you have nothing to do today, let's teach the three of them how to ride horses together!" Jian Heng saw that they had something to do today.

Da Mai and Mai looked at Jian Heng and asked, "What are you going to do?"

"Me? Go to the city to see!" Jian Heng said.

Hearing that Jian Heng was going to the city, Damai and Mai immediately said, "We are going to buy some clothes. These clothes are not suitable for wearing on the ranch."

"Okay!" Jian Heng beckoned to the two of them, motioning them to get into the car with him.