Yunding Ranch

Chapter 27 Visiting the Territory
Looking left and right, Lu Li couldn't help but feel aroused from this condescending perspective. He raised his feet and lightly kicked Lizi's stomach.

Sure enough, Chestnut took a step forward, but there was something wrong with the direction he was heading - he was heading towards the cowshed, and Cole quickly caught up, "It's like driving a car, the reins are your steering wheel, don't be too nervous. Use force, and the chestnut will recognize the direction."

According to the instructions, Lu Li gently tugged on the rein, indicating to turn left, but he found that Li Zi didn't respond, and continued to go straight. "Put harder, and adjust the rein according to your own arm length." Cole's instructions followed closely. Finally, Lu Li hastily wrapped the rein around again, and then pulled back. This time, Li Zi stopped immediately.

This... Could it be shifting gears and turning off the flame?
Lu Li couldn't help but chuckled, and comforted Cole, "It's okay, it's okay, I'll find out by myself." Then, Lu Li tugged on the reins first, and sure enough, Li Zi took a few steps to the left , Lu Li clamped his legs again, and Lizi went on the road smoothly again, going straight forward.

"Fourteen, if it wasn't for your embarrassing posture when you got on the horse just now, I suspect that you must have learned to ride a horse before." Cole walked beside Lizi with big strides.

Lu Li couldn't help but raised his chin and looked into the distance. The scenery on horseback was naturally not as good as that on the second floor, but the flavor was completely different. He somewhat understood why some people were so keen on horseback riding.It is not only related to speed, but also related to perspective, just like human beings always dream of flying.

"Haha, if you record the video of my stupidity just now, I think you can make a lot of people laugh on Youtube." Lu Li had a big heart, and laughed at himself.

Lu Li rode a chestnut to the door of the main house, and then saw the Dutchman who was leisurely getting up and coming. He just remembered that Cole was behind him.Just now, because the scenery of riding a horse was so beautiful, he was a little carried away; of course, it was also partly due to his concentration. After all, this was his first time riding a horse, so his spirit was always highly tense, and it was only now that he relaxed a little.

After thinking about it, although it was troublesome, Lu Li still started to try to turn the horse's head. Just like driving a car, you must learn to reverse and stop, and you must learn to turn around sooner or later when learning to ride a horse.After circling the spot three times, Lu Li finally seized the opportunity to guide Li Zi to go back again, and then saw Cole who drove the flock out.

Large swaths of white clouds came out of the sheepfold, grapefruit and grapes were constantly calling, and Teddy lay lazily beside him to supervise.The flock of sheep seem to know the direction, moving towards the set goal scatteredly. Occasionally, when a few sheep fall behind, grapefruit or grapefruit will run up, bark at them, and drive them back to the team. The whole process is orderly. Orderly, completely different from what I imagined.

"You leave the work to Grapefruit and Grape." Cole stood at the door of the sheepfold and shouted, "We only need to follow behind."

Seeing the white clouds passing by under my feet, the feeling is very subtle. I have the illusion of walking in mid-air in an instant. After waiting for a long time, all the sheep come out, "How many sheep are there in total?" group?"

"Three in 640, two died in winter, and three were taken away by wolves." Cole said lightly, but Lu Li's eyes widened. Cole understood the meaning of this expression immediately, "here It’s a pasture, isn’t it normal to have wolves? However, we don’t have many wild wolves here, and we hunt around on a regular basis, and after many years of urbanization, there are not many wild wolves left in the forest.”

"Then there are black bears here too?"

"Yes, but you can hardly see it. In the deep mountains, sometimes you may not find it even if you look for it." Cole replied, "After all, this is the 21st century, not the [-]th century."

"Wow, I always thought that the only way to find animals like wolves and bears is to go to Alaska. I didn't expect to find them here." Lu Li felt a little excited and curious. Of course, he also knew that these were all things. Dangerous animals, if he really encountered them, he probably wouldn't be able to hold on to one move, and would be instantly killed.

"We're not far from Arizona. It's only a short drive to the Grand Canyon National Park." Cole's explanation made Lu Li understand.The so-called national park means that it is protected by the government. Even if tourists are allowed to enter, overall, the natural ecological chain is relatively complete.

While speaking, Cole and Lu Li returned to the front of the house. Cole landed on the Dutchman, and the two of them fell behind the sheep, and walked forward calmly, "You must want to run fast now Right?" Looking at Lu Li who was about to move, Cole said jokingly.

"Did you see it?" Lu Li was really eager to try at this time. After all, after trying the slow walk, it seemed that it was not as difficult as imagined.

"Believe me, it's better not to." Cole said with a smile, "Before you have enough balance and riding rhythm, if you let Chestnut gallop, it will be a disaster, and you may lie in bed/ I couldn’t get up for the last three days.” Cole made the Dutchman speed up a bit, “You see, when the horse’s speed increases, his ups and downs are rhythmic. If you are not familiar with it, he goes up, you But down there, the impact almost knocks you apart."

Lu Li believed in the expert's opinion, but he still had some regrets.Walking slowly on a chestnut seems like child's play.

"If you want to try, you can try to speed up the chestnut a little bit, the difference between fast walking and slow walking will not be very obvious, you can feel the feeling first." Cole naturally couldn't understand it better, just like when a novice just learned to drive , They can't wait to try to be in the driver's seat every day, even if they go to the corner convenience store, they will drive out. This sense of freshness and control is really intoxicating.

Lu Li got the encouragement and kicked his feet. As expected, the chestnut started to speed up, and the saddle also started to bump a little bit. "Oh, this is much more exciting than an off-road vehicle." After finishing, his butt landed hard on the saddle again, the sourness was really hard to describe in words.

After a little speeding up, the wind became fierce and flowed continuously along the hair, even trivial sounds could be heard in the ears, and the world in front of me suddenly became extremely open, as if the whole world could be captured at a glance Under his eyes, this feeling was so good that the corners of Lu Li's mouth could not help but slightly rise.

"Look, that's the oak forest of Chloe's family over there. That's where our two pastures meet, and it's also where the Marshall Valley flows into our place from their side." Before Cole's introduction, The scenery of the Beech Ranch was finally outlined in Lu Li's mind.

The main house and other sheds are located on the southwest side of the pasture. The south side is the Marshall Valley Ranch. The distance is not far, less than one kilometer. There are endless grasslands here, and the sheep are usually grazing here.Cattle grazing is also done here, but further east and closer to Marshall Creek.

The crystal-clear Marshall Valley, whose source is still on the mountain range to the south, flows all the way through the Marshall Valley pasture and into the beech pasture. There is a lake with a diameter of about 300 meters between the two pastures. The emerald green lake surface Quiet and peaceful, there is also a pier on this side of the beech pasture, with a wooden boat docked.According to what Cole said, fishing here should yield a lot.

The valley stretches all the way along the northeast direction, like a translucent crystal river, the sun shines on the riverside, shimmering with light, it is completely a ribbon tied on this green grassland, it is too beautiful to behold.

You can see along the valley, there is a piece of bare brown land on the other side of the river, that is the lavender field, but the lavender will not be harvested until July in midsummer, and now it has not turned purple at all, it looks like a pair of weeds , there is no beauty at all.

"The large piece of land next to it is one of the areas with the best soil quality here." Cole and Lu Li stopped by the valley, and Cole pointed to the large piece of gently rolling land in the distance, "When Jack was here, there were planted The most important thing is grapes. Unfortunately, one year before Jack's death, he encountered insect damage and almost destroyed 80.00% of the production, even the mother tree used as seeds. Later, Jack has been thinking about going to France Burgundy was replanted with good Pinot Noir, but unfortunately it didn’t happen in time.” Cole let out a long breath and briefly concluded, “Later, Liz planned to replant apples.”

Lu Li heard another important point, "Pinot Noir? So, the grapes here are used to make wine?"

As we all know, the top wine producing areas in the world are relatively concentrated, not only because the cultivation of grapes is very troublesome, but also the varieties of wine need to be carefully taken care of.But once top-quality wine was produced, the value would be extraordinary. The entire trajectory of the beech farm from prosperity to decline slowly emerged in Lu Li's mind.

The United States is the representative of New World wines, but 90.00% of the wines in the United States are all produced in California, especially Napa Valley, which is also a world-renowned important wine producing area.But other than that, the wines from other regions had never been famous. Lu Li had no idea that Texas also produced wine.

"Of course, wine is also one of our prides. It has appeared in the presidential banquet many times, which is one of our prides." Cole said confidently.

Lu Li knew the pride of Texans, so Cole's words must be discounted, but Texans will not lie.This also means that the wine produced in Texas really appeared on the presidential banquet.

This is positive good news!
(End of this chapter)