Chapter Thirty: The Abode of the Birds

  Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, a week has passed. These days have been relatively relaxed, and the task of teaching my brother and sister to ride horses was taken over by Dad after I taught them for two days.

  A week of intensive study has been quite effective overall, and Nancy's management of the stables has also become slightly easier, with three horses temporarily finding their owners, and having a fixed horse grooming customer every day.

  The only headache now is these four little guys. Originally introverted Rong Rong, now can't see any shadow of introversion at all. Now the sheep in the flock, when they see a few demons, they disperse and flee, but they can't escape the clutches of the little ones. The little ones have also learned to intercept from all sides, and Xiao Jie Ri has a small lasso in his hand. Every day, there are several unlucky eggs that fall into hell, and even the grass mud horse has managed to escape hell several times with its saliva strategy.

  Everyone goes fishing every other day, but the number of people fishing is getting smaller and smaller. The little ones can't sit still and quit after the second time. Of course, the mothers of the beloved grandsons and granddaughters also quit the activity list. After learning horse riding for two days, my sister and brother-in-law directly ignored An's fishing proposal and focused on practicing horse riding. My father fully demonstrated his characteristic of being a good teacher, making a beautiful turn to become a horse riding coach. Now there are only An and Doucui Xuehua left to go fishing.

  After finishing cleaning up the soybeans and snowflakes in the morning, Ju An suggested that everyone go shopping for some daily necessities together, but unexpectedly no one responded. My dad, sister's husband, and sister directly ignored him, each leading a horse to the training ground while chatting and laughing. I asked my mom, and she said today she had to take a bunch of kids to the greenhouse to plant some vegetables, no time.

  Having no other choice, he drove his pickup truck alone into town.

  After that dinner party, Ju An sent a message to Wu Ming, asking him to come over and discuss with Old Taylor himself. Wu Ming also shared some good news, with the help of Wang Fan's extensive connections, the company had been set up, renting a storefront on the street, hiring two female college students looking for internships, and setting up a framework. The company now has three people, one general manager, two managers, Wang Fan only has hidden shares due to special reasons, on the surface, the company is fully funded by Wu Ming. It's estimated that in just these two days, Wu Ming and Wang Fan will arrive in the United States.

  Drove to Lewis Town, went straight to the supermarket, took out a two-page shopping list, pushed the cart back and forth several times, finally loaded everything into the back seat, which was packed full, while the trunk emptied out, ready to take out all the stuff that's been stored in there today.

  In the woods halfway, directly flashed into space, first brought out a few dogs, looked at the car, and then put the geese and ducks into cages. The geese and ducks had nothing to say, fat and big, each one was happy, the native chicken eggs from home were placed in space, unexpectedly two old hens floated out more than 60, now all turned into robust big chickens, some small roosters can even fly to the fence for a walk. Oh my god! The efficiency is too high, it's not good, taking eggs out is more convenient, this whole yard of little chickens, isn't this a scam? Fortunately, there are nets in space, otherwise, how to catch these little chicks would be a problem.

  What's even more frustrating is that among the sixty or so eggs, more than half of those that hatched were roosters, with only about ten being hens. All I can do is comfort myself by thinking that it's good to have roosters, as they'll be ready to eat in just a few days. Half-grown roosters are perfect for the summer solstice festival.

  The coop was missing, so the goose and duck were tied up with their feet in the back compartment, the chicks were put in the coop, and then the eight big dogs were hugged one by one onto the compartment, instructing them to watch over these family belongings, before driving the car back onto the highway, heading towards the pasture.

  Arrived at the ranch, Andrew was startled while drinking water. Seeing a car full of barking dogs and quacking geese, he quickly came over to help. His voice also attracted the mother with four little ones who were nearby.

  Four little guys looked at the goose and ducklings making a racket in the back of the car, and immediately became excited like they had been injected with chicken blood. They all wanted to get on the car to make trouble, so I had to tell them to wait until we got home before letting them see, and only then did the little guys calm down.

  With Andrew's help, several coops were brought down, all containing young chickens. The ducks and geese were tied up, the ducks being docile but when Andrew tried to grab the geese by the neck, problems arose. As soon as he approached, a goose nipped at him, his hand immediately turning blue. He had to go back inside to put on gloves before managing to get the offending geese off the vehicle, then went to inform old Thomas to prepare the entire poultry house.

  Let Andrew take a few dogs over to see the cattle, and exchange Tiger Head and Garlic Head for Ju An. Andrew took away five dogs and went to inform Thomas. You said that this Chinese Courtyard Dog was raised in space for a while, and now it's grown so long, its mouth is wider, its legs are thicker, and it's like it's changed genes. It's tall and majestic, you'd think it's a well-fed Great Dane if someone told you. And it's especially clever, although its ears are half droopy, teach it something and it'll learn in one or two tries.

  Living with the three flower dogs for a longer time, I also like these three guys more. As for the eight dogs, I don't dislike them, but I see them less often. Every night at midnight, I go to space once, and my emotions are slightly weaker. Andrew took away five heads, and Nancy's place should be enough with two heads. Leaving one head, let it watch these ducks, chicks, and so on.

  Watching Andrew ride away with five big dogs, Ju An drove the car to the vicinity of Longtou and flushed the chicken duck goose manure in the trunk.

  The old lady took the little guy to carry the things bought from the supermarket into the house. Originally, the little guy still wanted to tease the big goose, but after seeing Andrew's purple and green hand, he wisely kept a distance from the big goose.

  The cart had just rushed for a while, and Thomas and Andrew drove the horse, galloping over, with snow-white garlic heads and golden tiger heads behind. As soon as they got off the horse, Old Thomas excitedly shouted: "Last time I heard you say you wanted to bring some domestic fowl over, I've been looking forward to it for a long time, look at these guys, they're really spirited!"

  Hǔ tóu and suàn tóu immediately ran to Jū ān's feet, rubbing against his legs with their bodies. Jū ān put down the water pipe, grabbed the two guys' heads one by one, and affectionately rubbed them.

  The other three big dogs also came over immediately, sniffing at Hu Tou and Suan Tou. It was probably because everyone had the aura of space on them, so they became familiar with each other in no time.

  "Can Wayne take care of himself?" asked Gu An, looking at Old Thomas and Andrew.

  Old Thomas said: "The cows are basically all scattered to eat grass, don't worry, An, Huaien, with five dogs, no problem, I brought Andrew back just to make a poultry house".

  "Find a few wooden boards and surround it, use a few nails to nail them down, is it necessary to be so troublesome?"

  Old Thomas shook his head and said, "The chicken coop should be built to be towable, so that the motorcycle on the ranch can pull it a little further away, change places to eat grasshoppers and whatnot. The goose and duck houses should be built near the pond, best with dogs watching too. There's still a road in the pond here, if you don't put a dog, I reckon it won't take a few days before they're all eaten by foxes and leopards."

  "Living in peace and quiet, I wonder: 'Fox, I know what a fox is, but what on earth is this mountain leopard? I've never seen one before'."

  Andrew explained: "Leopards are slightly larger than domestic cats, about knee-high, and more ferocious. They're not easy to spot, so you may not have seen one, but there are definitely a lot of them."

  As soon as he thought that some guys might have to steal things from their own mouths, Ju An immediately nodded in agreement: "Then it's better to give Nancy a dog, and the other two will watch the geese and ducks."

  "Nancy, with two sheepdogs there, it's almost done, and it's much easier to drive them. The goose house and duck house on the pond can also be made mobile, just pull them over in the morning," Thomas said.

  "Alright, it's settled then." Ju An nodded slightly. He had originally wanted to release all three of the tiger heads, but it seemed that wasn't possible now. He could only let Pi Dan continue to suffer a bit longer. This was an unavoidable matter; after all, who made Ju An so gluttonous?

  Thomas was getting ready to drive into town to buy some wheels and lumber from the poultry house, while Andrew helped Gwen uncoop the geese and ducks and take the chickens out of their coop.

  They then brought some wheat and corn to feed these guys. Andrew went back to continue taking care of the cattle.

  Ju An took two dogs and sent them to Nancy.

  The remaining three were taken away by the little ones to play with first.

  When he was about to exchange the pidan eggs, he saw a group of geese running around, and the little ones were surrounding a big goose, touching its feathers and chirping to discuss what this thing was. The poor goose's neck was pinched in the tiger's mouth.

  After asking around, the little ones chattered on and on, and Ju An only then found out what had happened.

  Just as Ju An had left, a few little guys, including Xiao Jie, wanted to touch the beautiful white goose. As mentioned earlier, European geese are domesticated from gray geese, with gray feathers on their wings, unlike our domestic snow-white ones. As soon as they stretched out their hands, the goose stretched its neck and prepared to peck at them. Suddenly, Hu Tou became unwilling, pounced forward, and pressed one of the geese under his paw, holding the goose's neck in his mouth.

  Now it's all right, the tiger head pounced, and the garlic head and another new dog also pounced on a goose. When they saw that the little ones were all surrounding the tiger head to pounce on the big goose, the garlic head and the other one let go of the goose in their mouths, wagging their tails as they approached the little ones. Tongtong and Emily each hugged a dog's head, still stroking the goose with one hand.

  Just then, Little Jerry said to his sister, "Emily, Uncle An's geese are much more beautiful than ours. When the goslings hatch, we'll ask Uncle for one."

  Little Emily replied, "No, when Garlic has kids, I'll ask Uncle An for one. It will be smarter than our family's Skog." After finishing speaking, she immediately rubbed her little face against Garlic's head, and Garlic licked Emily's little face.

  When living in peace, let go of the tiger's head and the goose's neck. The goose stretched its legs and ran far away.

  At this time, Little Jerry and Emily immediately proposed to take the goose or dog. Ju An nodded in agreement, telling the little ones not to make trouble, and took the tiger-headed garlic head, as well as the skin egg, and another heart-come dog to play.