Chapter 6 Ranch
There is no need to mention the gates of a ranch with many varieties. Even if it is simple, there will be two logs, and a arch or something is written on it.
Now the gate of Zhangchi Ranch is extremely simple, with a wooden railing half a person tall. The gate is a log frame with two arms as thick as a wooden beam. There is no wooden beam in the middle of the frame, but a few wires are wrapped randomly to prevent large wild animals from running in.
"arrive!"
Zhang Chi got out of the car and said to his uncle's family behind him.
After saying that, he walked over and stretched out his hand to pull the door open. Just pull it, and there was no two simple doors even a shaft. He had to rely on his arms to open the door.
After driving his car in and waiting for his uncle to drive into the ranch, Zhang Chi closed the door again.
After entering the pasture, there are still big trees, towering trees, with lush branches and leaves almost no sunshine.
About one hundred meters later, everyone's eyes suddenly became clear, and a green valley jumped into everyone's sight.
The valley is between two mountain lanes, the so-called mountain lanes are ridges, and the two mountain lanes encircle the pasture into a willow leaf shape.
The pasture is full of green grass, and there are clusters of small groves among the green grass. These groves are no longer towering pine and cypress, most of them are deciduous trees, and their colors are different. Even if they are green, they can be divided into different depths.
In the spring, the snow on the mountain began to melt. The snow water spread out two small rivers on the pasture, flowing down from the mountain, and then gathered into a river, like a y-shaped shape, shining with a little sparkling light under the sun.
As spring begins, the grass has grown, and at the same time some wild flowers are blooming. The purple wild flowers are like purple clouds embedded in green. Even if they are not next to each other, they can smell a fragrance of flowers in their noses.
"Oh, this place is really nice!"
When the aunt got out of the car, she talked to Zhang Chi when she saw the ranch: "I didn't expect you to have a lot of vision. The ranch I bought was worth it."
My uncle has seen the world and knows that such a pasture is full of wild flowers, which means that the layman looks good. The pasture is really irrigated, and even if the grass blooms, it is full. It is impossible to say one piece here or another. It is even more impossible to say it is colorful.
"The whole piece is yours?" Zhang Youliang asked.
Zhang Chi said: "No, it's someone else's to the west, and the one in the southeast corner belongs to another ranch. You see there is no fence there. From there to there, the one in the middle is mine like a willow leaf."
There are two ranches that are neighbors from Zhang Chi. One is separated from the original large ranch, and the other is originally there. The dividing line is two mountain lines, and the small path that comes in.
"Where is this place? It's so stern! It's even better than not laying eggs than not laying eggs."
When Zhang Wu saw that this place was called a ranch, it was just a wasteland.
As a native of this place, many of his classmates have ranch farms. Zhang Wu naturally knows what kind of ranch is good and what kind of ranch is bad. The ranch I bought by my cousin is actually the level of the government's own grassland. In fact, it is a wasteland that no one takes care of.
Zhang Chi didn't care and said, "If it's good, it won't be my turn. Besides, if there is anything in this piece of land, the bank will not dismantle it separately. Although the conditions are a little worse now, it's better to wait and raise cattle."
Zhang Wu curled his lips after hearing this, and opened his mouth to give him a critical blow to his cousin, but when he saw his mother glaring at him, he swallowed the words behind him.
"We need to have a good rest," said Zhang Youliang.
Although he works as a restaurant, among his friends, some of them opened a ranch. The pastures are not about construction, but even the grass in the pastures are unified. According to what he knows, if you want to organize such a ranch, it is not a small project.
Not all grass is suitable for feeding cows. In this era, feeding cows is not simply to let them be released every day and let the cows eat grass. Nowadays, good grasses such as alfalfa, rye grass, barley grass, etc. are specially cultivated, and the land bought by my nephew is completely weed.
"Slowly, while the weather is getting warmer, I want to solve the problem of the cow first in the past few days, and then I will prepare to build a small house, where my house is ready to be built."
As he said that, Zhang Chi pointed to the small mound opposite. The mound was backed by the mountain, and the terrain was high. No matter how much snow there was on the mountain, it would be impossible to flood it. Zhang Chi thought it was the most appropriate to build a house on it.
Zhang Youliang said to his nephew: "Then let's go, let's go and take a look."
If the uncle said that, everyone got in the car again and drove towards the mound where Zhang Chi was preparing to build the house.
When he arrived at the place, Zhang Chi unloaded the towed RV and put it in a stable manner. This is his residence at least before the house is built.
Zhang Youliang looked around and was full of concern for his nephew. He felt that based on his experience, it would be impossible for such a ranch to make money without investing 300,000 or 400,000 yuan.
Even if you save more, you can’t save money by replanting high-nutrition grass on the entire pasture.
Not to mention various irrigation facilities, you can spend all this thing if you want to invest a million dollars. Such a ranch is still far from this step.
"Do you have any plans for a cow? What kind of cow do I mean to raise?" Zhang Youliang asked.
There are many cattle breeds in the United States, and some ranches directly raise miscellaneous cattle, no matter what kind of breed.
Now Zhang Chi wants to choose a good breed of cows, but he probably won't agree to the money in his pocket, so his first goal is to raise cheap cows. Zhang Chi doesn't know what cows this is called. Anyway, it looks like the scalpers he calls in his hometown. The fur on his body is yellow and the cows have white spots, which are fine for milk and meat.
This kind of cattle is generally not too big. When it reaches 800 pounds, it can be sold to a fattening ranch in almost a year. This is also the operation method of a cattle ranch.
Here is a whole industrial chain, and ranch is just a link in this chain.
"It's not decided yet. I think I'll raise cheaper cows first. To be honest, I'm afraid that this little money is not enough for me to buy a few heads," said Zhang Chi.
"Well, this idea is reliable."
Zhang Wudao: "When will you make money if you raise ordinary cattle? Don't add feed manually for a year and add veterinary expenses to bankrupt you directly! Oh, mom, why are you hitting me again?"
Zhang Wu covered the back of his head.
The uncle said angrily: "Your brother's ranch has not opened yet. You have gone bankrupt and kept making money. Have you never been beaten?"
Zhang Chi smiled and said, "Oh my dear, it's okay, I don't care about these things."
The aunt said, "You can say something, but you can't say something. If you are in your early thirties, you still don't understand these things?"
Zhang Wu muttered, "If he weren't my brother, I wouldn't have told you."
"If you are short of money, tell us." Zhang Youliang is not optimistic about his nephew now, but he has not vented his nephew's anger. Young people don't have any obstacles. Sometimes setbacks are far better than success for young people.
"Um!"
Zhang Chi nodded.
Zhang Chi himself is confident that raising a cow in his hand is a big deal, but it cannot be shown.
But my aunt didn't care what cows she raised, she cared about how her nephew lived here.
"How do you live here in the future? There is no electricity and no water, how can you live?" asked the aunt.
Zhang Chi said: "Persist in it first. I brought a gas tank here. I just rely on it for food and take water from the mountain. Use a water purification device to filter it. Stick for a while, wait for the house to be built, install a solar power generator, and then set up a backup generator to almost solve the house's electricity problem. When the time comes, find someone to drill a well and the water problem will be solved."
"What kind of life do you call me?" The aunt was really worried.
"Entrepreneurship, suffering a little bit is nothing, let alone a little bit of pain. I have contacted a construction team, and they will come to see the land in two days and then build a house. It will be almost a month long," said Zhang Chi.
The two sons in Zhang Chi's pocket now can't build any good houses, and Zhang Chi didn't think about what kind of house they would build as soon as they came up.
Now his family knows his own affairs, and the house can only shelter from wind and rain. In winter, it is enough to not freeze himself to death. So what he and Li Qiao’s friends talked about on WeChat that night was the most ordinary house.
The wooden house on the first floor is about seventy square meters, with two bedrooms and one kitchen and bathroom solving the problem.
Now that money is still the same as the blade, Zhang Chi's blade is the cowshed, the forage silo, and a stable.
Originally, Zhang Chi didn't plan to ask for this, but Li Qiao's friend suggested building one, even if it was to build a shed directly.
People have repaired this thing, so they said that in winter, when it snows heavily in the pasture, pickup trucks are definitely not as practical as horses. Even if they are all-terrain cars, sometimes they cannot replace horses.
There is nothing good about the place. Just a little above the mound, you can see the entire pasture. The five hundred acres of pasture is not small, but not big. If you want to see a thousand miles, it is a thousand miles. This pasture is not qualified enough.
There is not even a place to drink water. What did you ask Zhang Youliang's family to see?
RV? A small RV like a capsule. Now I am afraid that only one bed is empty, and there are things stuffed in other places. The key is still someone else’s.
It seemed that nothing was good to look at, so Zhang Chi moved out the small stool, and the four of them sat on the small stool, burned hot water, and everyone chatted while drinking tea.
At noon, I fryed a few pieces of steak on the heat of a gas tank, and the four of them simply filled their stomachs, even if they had done the lunch.
In the afternoon, the uncle and his family of three said goodbye to Folson. Zhang Chi kept sending his uncle and his family to the town, and then he drove back to the ranch.
Although the ranch is very broken and desolate in the eyes of others, when Zhang Chi stayed alone in the ranch, he felt an indescribable peace in his heart. Maybe he finally had a piece of land that belonged entirely to him.
The land consciousness rooted in the heart makes Zhang Chi feel indescribable about his pasture.
Chapter completed!