Chapter Seventy-two: Want to Go Out and Play Often

  Wang Fan thought for a moment, then said: "That's okay, anyway I'm not in a hurry. When the next batch of puppies are born, pick a black one for me. Just looking at Pidan's appearance is great, it has a bit of Tibetan Mastiff's iron package gold taste, and the heads of these dogs here are all very high, with sturdy bodies, they look like good dogs."

  "This guy, of course, is a good dog. Old Taylor and his family wanted one as soon as they saw my dog for the first time. At that time, we were not familiar with each other yet, so I didn't mention it. The ranch has raised these cowherding dogs for many years, no one knows better than me."

  Lu Guangyuan put the dumpling filling into the dumpling skin and pinched it, smiling as he spoke: "Although you have some suspicion of Wang Po selling melons, there is no big mistake. Your geese and little chickens are all bigger than the local earth chickens. Let's take that goose for example. Generally speaking, domestic geese are smaller than European geese by one circle. Your goose is almost as big as a European goose! We haven't even approached yet and they're already stretching their necks, very fierce! This afternoon I'll just watch you bring a few newly hatched goslings, chicks, and ducklings, that's enough, don't bring back the big ones, or they'll peck at people."

  Chang Dongna cut the noodles, smiling and saying: "The ducks here can actually hatch eggs, other people's ducks don't hatch eggs, usually duck eggs are hatched by hens."

  "Ducks don't hatch eggs? I'm not really sure about that, anyway, I just raise ducks to make salted duck eggs, and I don't really like eating duck meat myself, I find it has a weird smell. Just three or four ducks hatching eggs, I thought the other ducks didn't like hatching eggs." Ju An Dong said with surprise: "Hatch as many as you can, take away as many as you want, I'll give you some duck and goose eggs to bring back and hatch, anyway these ducks and geese are just idle."

  "You're quite straightforward, just like a northerner." Lu Guangyuan gave Ju An a thumbs up with his flour-covered thumb, then continued, "Wild ducks are incubating eggs. If they didn't, how would the little wild ducks come? When domesticated ducks were being tamed, they were specifically made not to incubate, but some ducks will still incubate eggs, just very few. When I was young, a duck we raised at home also incubated eggs."

  Wang Fan blinked at Ju An, then said: "Lu Ge's words are right, this kid has no other advantages, but he is not stingy to people who look good" which made Lu Guangyuan and Chang Dongna burst out laughing.

  "Living in comfort, you're staring at me with your country bumpkin eyes: how can someone like you see through my strengths?"

  A group of people chatted and laughed as they wrapped the dumplings quickly. By the time Thomas and his friends returned, they had already wrapped over a hundred, almost two hundred. Chang Dongna saw that the water was boiling and first put in a batch of dumplings for Thomas and the others to eat while she continued wrapping. They busied themselves until after one o'clock before finishing wrapping all the fillings. The wrapped dumplings were enough for everyone, including Thomas and his friends, to take with them that evening.

  After eating dumplings, Lu Guangyuan and Chang Dongna took a rest before heading back. Ju An and Wang Fan took two people to catch geese and the like. In the end, Lu Guangyuan's group only caught six small goslings that had just hatched, but they caught over a dozen ducklings and more than twenty chicks. Fortunately, both of them were prepared today and brought cages with them, so Ju An didn't have to prepare cardboard boxes.

  After seeing them off, Ju An and Wang Fan each took a book and made a pot of the good tea that Wang Fan had brought last time, and went online under the corridor.

  As soon as Ju An opened QQ, he saw several avatars flashing, and replied one by one. Most of them were messages from his classmates, just a simple greeting, usually just one sentence, "Are you dead?" Ju An's replies were also simple, "Not dead."

  Just replied, a message came over: "Buddy, still remember me?"

  Living in peace for a moment, didn't recognize, then checked the chat record, it turned out to be the capital's Ma friend who chatted on QQ last time, and hurriedly replied: "Remember"

  "My buddies continued to say: 'We, a few horse friends from the capital, have been thinking of going to the US for a wild ride recently. Some of them have been to California before and they checked out your space after I introduced it to them. We discussed it among ourselves and thought about going to Montana this time. After asking around, everyone says that the air quality is better there. Can you please help us contact a ranch to arrange for our reception?'"

  Living in a safe place, he asked Wang Fan, who was chatting with his sister next to him: "When is your tour group leaving, and when is the next batch arriving?"

  Wang Fan thought for a moment and said, "This batch will leave in a few days. After they leave, the second batch will arrive on the third day. I've already arranged with Old Taylor and the team to come over a month later."

  "Awesome! Business is booming, no wonder lao si is recruiting people domestically!" Ju An didn't expect that they would be doing so well during this time: "Nowadays, outbound tourism is actually so popular."

  Wang Fan replied without lifting his head: "You're just a country bumpkin, suitable for wandering around the suburbs of Jiangnan City. Now, during holidays, domestic tourism is crowded with people, it's hard to even book a good restaurant. Although traveling abroad is more expensive than domestic travel, the service is much better. Just like we said last time when we returned from our trip, they won't force you to buy things, and taking you shopping is completely voluntary. They won't give you attitude if you don't buy anything."

  "Anyway, it's like this now. It's hard to say about the domestic groups. I often see in newspapers that tour guides force group members to buy things. But you guys, whether now or in the future, must take care of yourselves and not lose face for our country abroad, if you want to lose face, do it domestically."

  Wang Fan said: "I've told Wu Ming to tell them, everyone goes abroad to have fun, whoever loses face will be kicked out. The tourists in the group also have requirements, they must observe public morals when going out. Whether or not you lose your own face is none of my concern, but don't lose face for me and my brothers. Those low-class nouveau riche who are short-tempered and lack breeding, I won't bother with them, dare to show their teeth to me? I'll deal with him as soon as I get back."

  After hearing Wang Fan say that, Ju An also felt at ease. If things didn't go well, his own reputation would be damaged. He casually gave Tyler a call to ask about their arrangements and asked if they had any free time. Then he sent a message back to Ma You: "In about ten days or so, the ranches I know will have some free time. If you're interested, you can give this phone number a try. The owner of the ranch is named Tyler." After that, he told Ma You Tyler's phone number.

  Capital Ma said: "Thank you, buddy, we're basically all set, old friends going abroad to play, it's convenient. When the time comes, I'll invite you to dinner." Behind him was a big smile.

  "It doesn't matter if you don't eat dinner, as long as you have fun playing."

  After chatting for two more sentences, the capital horse friend went offline, and Ju An started browsing domestic news. Just after reading for a short while, Wang Fan said: "Anzi, lend me your bank card, I'll go buy Diablo 3, I don't have an American bank card, brother will give you cash later".

  "Even for just a few dozen dollars, you're worth it. Calculating your food expenses is actually more reasonable. But to think about it, you little kid has time to play around." After finishing speaking, he went upstairs, took out the bank card from the leather wallet on the bedside, and handed it over to Wang Fan.

  Wang Fan entered the card number while saying, "Damn it! The meal allowance is gone, I'm going to die. In the country, I had already ordered games online, but I didn't have time to buy some things online, so I delayed it. Then I thought about buying them directly from you, which would be more convenient." After finishing speaking, he turned the notebook over and asked Ju An to enter the password.

  After busy for a while, Wang Fan went in to play and Ju An also went over to take a look. He found that the picture was much better than the second generation, but he didn't find any other features yet.

  After playing for a while, Wang Fan said, "Now it's too time-consuming to play this game. It's not like in college when we played all night."

  Wang Fan said, "I just want to recall the days when we six people killed monsters together in the dormitory. Ah, what a wonderful college life!" After pausing for a moment, he continued, "By the way, do you have anything going on in the next few days? If not, accompany me to New York for a trip."

  "What's wrong with me going to New York? I don't have anything to take care of."

  Wang Fan said without raising his head, "I've been to New York once before, just a cursory visit with my mom's inspection team. This time I'm planning to have some real fun for a few days. If you're free, come along and keep me company."

  Living comfortably with a cup of tea, he thought for a moment and asked: "What's fun in New York? It's all high-rise buildings, our Shanghai is also high-rise, just go take a look, it's about the same".

  Wang Fan rolled his eyes and said, "How can they be compared? One is the domestic brokerage center, and the other is the world's brokerage center. Besides, I didn't even play Fifth Avenue last time, nor did I go up to the Statue of Liberty. This time, I plan to have a good time for a few days, and after having fun, I'll return to China."

  "Why don't we do this, I'll accompany you to play in New York. If a group of horse friends from back home come over and want to go on a wild ride and camp, then the two of us can also join them for some camping fun. Afterwards, it's just convenient for us to head back together to attend Old Five's wedding, what do you think?"

  Wang Fan thought for a moment, then patted Ju An's shoulder and said: "Deal! Then we'll go to New York tomorrow."

  "Hey, I said you're overreacting again. We're leaving tomorrow, so we need to pack tonight. The timing is too tight, we'll leave the day after tomorrow."

  "What's there for you to pick up? Tell me and I'll listen," Wang Fan said with a smirk, looking at Ju An.

  "Clothes, shoes..." Ju'an said with a wave of his hand: "And, and......" Ju'an couldn't think of anything else to pack.

  Wang Fan said: "And another thing, tomorrow bring your clothes and shoes, bring your credit card, and just set off. How can you drag things to this point? Always hiding in this pasture, although everything is fine, but life is about going out to see the world, what's the point of staying in this small place? Take some time to travel, broaden your horizons. Have you been to Paris? London? Berlin? Athens?"

  "I'm fine, I'll just go to these places by myself for now. When I have a wife, I'll take my wife with me; when I have a son, I'll take my son with me, that's the plan."

  Wang Fan said: "Alright, it's settled then. Tomorrow morning, you and I will take a trip to New York, have some fun for a few days, and bring our SLRs to take lots of photos."

  "Nothing has been issued separately."

  Wang Fan pinched Ju An's neck and said: "If you don't have one, go buy one. Did you hear?"

  "Alright, alright," said Ju An, struggling free. "Screw it." The two of them tumbled into a heap.