American Ranch

Chapter 642 Another Snowy Year

When I accompanied Angel to the school to participate in the donation day activities two days ago, the weather was still warm and sunny, but it changed as soon as it said.

Yesterday afternoon, the sky darkened in a short period of time, followed by a cold wind of level four or five. In the evening, snowflakes the size of fingernails also fell overwhelmingly.

The ground quickly became white, and the ankle-deep snow accumulated in half an hour!
Fortunately, in winter, the cows grazing on the pasture are not far from the cowshed, and when the weather changes, the experienced cowboys drive the cows back to the cowshed, avoiding the invasion of cold and snow.

I encountered a heavy snowfall in Michigan a few years ago, but when I woke up, the snow had stopped, so in real terms, the last time I saw such a big snowfall was the days of Thanksgiving, and more than a month after that Here, there have been a few snowfalls intermittently, but they are either too short, or too stingy to show off the pride of enjoying the snow and playing in the snow!

Therefore, the severe snowfall in mid-January of the new year really met the expectations of everyone in the ranch!

Or squeeze on the sofa to watch the annual comedy, or sit on the carpet in front of the fireplace and play cards, or even drink tea and soup, and the snow that fills the sky and the earth outside the floor-to-ceiling windows is an indispensable scenery in everyone's eyes.

However, it was enjoyable to watch in the evening and night, but the next morning, the deep snow on the calf also brought unavoidable troubles to Qin Yi and other men.

Well, hard work like clearing snow will always be a man's job!
After wielding a wooden shovel to clear the small area of ​​snow at the door, Qin Yi and Ryan, who came over, each drove their snow plow trucks, and buzzed to work. An hour later, they finally cleared the living area and the road leading to the outside. clean it up.

Qin Yi was sweating tiredly, Angel and the animals were about to have fun, running around in the snow, the little girl finally put on skis and a helmet, and set up Teddy, the kitten and a group of puppies. Put on the reins and let the animals slide her back and forth!

Well, this girl doesn't even bother to use her ski poles anymore, she treats her skis like a simple sled!
In the morning of clearing the snow, Qin Yi stopped doing it himself, and only asked Ryan and Hobbs to represent the Sun River Ranch, driving a snow plow to clear the roads around the ranch, and by the way, the streets of the town were also cleared.

In fact, the work of snow removal is not only a little boring, but also very easy, just driving a snow removal vehicle on the road once!

On a snowy day, Rachel was worried that Ryan and Susie would feel deserted, so Qin Yi simply invited everyone to the main house to eat hot pot together. The warmth of the fireplace, the spicy hot pot, and the lively atmosphere made everyone Everyone had a great time in this snowy day!

Of course, Susa and Rachel have nothing to do with spicy food, and the delicious clear soup is theirs. However, after so long of diet control, the two of them are also very greedy. They always want to taste spicy food secretly. God, they think I almost forgot the memory of Mala!
But everyone was paying attention to them. They stretched out their chopsticks several times but failed. Mother Qin's expression became even more serious: "You don't want a baby anymore?"

The two girls can only give up pretendingly, but they are all muttering in their hearts: after the baby is born, they must eat and drink a lot for a month, and make up for all the delicacies that they want to eat but cannot eat at once
It's a pity that no matter how ruthless you are, it will be a matter of several months. At this moment, just bear it obediently!
Just after lunch, when everyone was sitting and chatting together, Qin Yi received a call from Mayor Marcus, who invited his family to participate in the competition.

After careful questioning, I found out that in order to welcome the first heavy snowfall of the new year, the town plans to hold a competition called "Let's Charge Tauren" tomorrow morning.

The rules of the competition are that each family chooses two contestants to play, and the contestants must wear tauren helmets (provided uniformly during the competition), and there are no other requirements.

Contestant [-] lies on a circular skateboard with a diameter of [-] meters, and is pushed down and slides out by Competitor [-] at the top of a slope that is [-] meters high and [-] meters long.

But the second player must jump on the skateboard within two seconds of sliding, otherwise the second attempt will be made; during the sliding period, the two players must not touch the slide in any way or any medium other than the skateboard, otherwise, the second try will also be made .

Each family has two chances to change players in the middle, but if both attempts fail, they will be disqualified!

There is a finish line five meters away from the bottom of the front of the slope slide. The top ten families with the shortest distance between the final stop position and the finish line will win. At that time, the winner will receive a tauren warrior trophy, made of wood!
After Qin Yi figured this out, he thought it was very interesting, so he agreed to take part in the competition. Occasionally taking his family to go crazy is also a good entertainment.

However, considering the final reward, he felt that a trophy might not be attractive enough, so he changed the reward to: In addition to the trophy, the top ten winning families will also get a free one-day trip to Angel Farm!

By doing this, he is equivalent to sponsoring this competition, but a family playing on the farm for a day only costs tens of hundreds of dollars, and ten groups of families cost hundreds of dollars. To him, this is not worth mentioning !
After talking about the matter, everyone was very interested, and said that they would go to see it together tomorrow, and Ke Luo and Angel were even more excited. They divided up the competition places with a few words, and in this way, the Qin family army will send two female generals for tomorrow's competition fight!
Early the next morning, when Qin Yi and others came to the town square, they found that it had already been arranged.

In addition to the snow-covered slope, there is also a snow track extending from the bottom of the slope. The snow track is four meters wide, ten meters long, and about [-] centimeters above the ground. The two sides are sandwiched by wooden boards to prevent the snow track from being deformed during the competition. .

Whether it is a slope or a snow track, it is made with a lot of snow, like crushed ice chips, the surface is hard and smooth, which is very suitable for sliding, and it will not be as annoying as fluffy snow. stick it in!

The small square soon gathered hundreds of people, most of them were similar to Qin Yi's family, all the young and old were dispatched, and they regarded this impromptu play as a festival. It is said that it is snowing and it is boring to stay at home, so it is normal to come out to join in the fun .

After Marcus yelled a few words with the electric horn, the game started soon.

The first group of families who volunteered to come on stage were Teacher Lin Na and her younger sister Marlene!

Linna has been a teacher for most of the children in the town, so she is very popular. When their sisters appeared on the stage, they immediately drew cheers, especially some single boys, whistling and applauding, in an attempt to attract other sisters, obviously aiming at a lifelong event idea!
It's a pity that Sister Linna only focuses on the game.

The huge circular skateboard looks like a frying pan. Lina in the bull head hat has a nervous smile and a flushed face. Sitting on it looks like a delicacy in cooking, making people drool!
The two-meter slope is still a bit exciting. The girl closed her eyes and dared not look at it. She screamed and was pushed down by her younger sister Marlene. Marlene's little feet in short boots jumped on Linna's body. The sisters huddled together, but somehow they didn't fall off the skateboard!
"Ah wow!"

Sliding down quickly, Linna shrank her head in fright, but Marlene sat up excitedly. The two sisters laughed and screamed, and quickly rushed to the bottom of the snow track, finally stopping at a position about two meters away from the finish line. A group of participating families succeeded and got off to a good start.

The mayor Marcus also decided to take the lead, so he led his grandson to play happily.

The seven or eight-year-old boy was sitting on a frying pan. Marcus pushed it vigorously, and then strode over. As a result, his foot speed was too fast, and he couldn't keep up with it, so he lay on his back and fell flat on the slope with a bang. , can't stop and continue to slide down!
However, Pan and grandson were pushed and kicked by him and flew out. Amidst the little guy's exciting screams, they not only crossed the finish line at an extremely fast speed, but also slid ten meters straight Long trails!
After spending a few days of leisurely life, Qin Yi, who was about to grow lazy, had to fly to Minnesota after receiving the news from Miles. The acquisition of the Timberwolves made some progress, but its boss Tyronn, You have to meet with him to finalize the final agreement.

(End of this chapter)