How to Save a Failed Farm

The way of raising cattle in Texas is very rough, and many families directly raise cattle outdoors.They have less than a few cows and don't need to be professionally built.

Lance sawed a few trees in the yard and machined them into planks.The other four logs used for load-bearing were chopped off and hoisted by a tractor. The most difficult part was nailing the sharpened logs into the ground.

How deep the wooden frame can be buried determines how strong the cowshed can be. After all, the blizzard in Texas is not gentle, and the chicken shed was crushed last winter.In order to prevent this from happening, Lance added a small bracket to the four load-bearing columns to distribute the force.

During this time Lance worked from seven in the morning to eight in the evening.Ye Qun went to deliver meals to Lance at noon and evening, and after dinner, he worked with Lance for a while before going home.The renovation of the drainage system is indeed not easy, and it has nothing to do with the professional eighth pole of Ye Qun University.But he is a quick learner, and the field drainage system has actually been developed very maturely. The reason why he dares to guarantee this is because he has seen it before.

Ye Qun referred to the videos on Youtube and watched several papers, discussed his design with his college classmates, and made some changes based on Lance's experience.In fact, many new farms now use this drainage method, but they do not have the equipment for digging trenches and laying pipes.

In his design, the pipe is laid in the original ditch. The advantage of this structure is that the rainwater flows along the pipe, which can effectively control the groundwater level, quickly remove excess water after rain, and improve the air permeability of the soil. Increase ground temperature.

This requires the use of a V-shaped plow trenching pipelayer to lay porous drainage pipes in the dug trenches. The attached drum can automatically place rolls of drainage pipes, and a pipe can be laid in one pass.

Woodlands is a small town, most of the farms are small family-run farms, and most of the agricultural machinery is small, not as advanced and complete as the equipment of large farms.

Ye Qun discussed with Lance and planned to buy one, so that it can be used when the grape vines are buried for the winter.

In order to save high transportation costs, Lance temporarily put down his work, and they decided to drive to Houston to pick up the equipment by themselves.

It takes ten hours to drive back and forth from The Woodlands to Houston, and the time is very tight. They usually don't rush to go back in one day, but stay in Lance's apartment for one night, and then go to business the next day.

Taking a rare break from his busy schedule, Ye Qun took Lance to the mall, intending to buy some spring clothes for him.

"Do you have to choose clothes that are the same color as the dirt?" Ye Qun grabbed Lance and picked up a brown corduroy jacket and put it back on the hanger, rolled his eyes and said, "Please, can you leave it to me? Don't torture your poor aesthetic."

Lance laughed silly twice, as obedient as a large doll, letting him manipulate him.Ye Qun originally thought that it would be very neat for two men to go shopping, and if they bought something suitable, they would pay and leave.But the fact is that the shopping guide ladies are so enthusiastic that it makes people complain.

Ye Qun sat on the sofa in the rest area and stared at the door of the locker room feeling regretful, they shouldn't have come to the mall on weekdays.There are not many people in a shopping mall in Nuoda now. The shopping guide lady held up a thin windbreaker and urged him to try it too.

"Don't you like it?" Hearing his refusal, the shopping guide quickly changed back, "Then this one? I think it suits your skin tone very well."

The sales ability of American shopping guides is astonishing. Ye Qun thinks that they are probably taken as free models by shopping guides with few customers. After all, they are waiting with sweet smiles to hand you the next set outside the dressing room. It is really hard to think of a suitable one in a short time. Verbal refusal.

So Ye Qun immediately stood up when Lance came out after changing his fourth set of clothes: "Wrap up all the previous clothes, and the one he's wearing now."

Ye Qun had to admit that Lance was so cool in his biker style, he looked brand new now, but his hands were hanging stiffly, and his whole body was full of discomfort.

"Relax." Ye Qun looked at Lance's somewhat messy hair, thinking that it would be better to change his hairstyle.But think about Lance working in the fields all day, and his hair will be messed up again in a few days.

"This fabric looks easy to wrinkle." Lance was a little cautious, he still prefers the uncut clothes at home.

That's because you're used to it.Ye Qun thought silently and didn't say anything.

During this period of time, Lance often worked on the farm all day long, and Ye Qun took care of three meals.To be honest, he really doesn't have any cooking talent, he only knows two dishes, and most of what Fan Zhou brings is soup base ingredients, which is very inconvenient to pack in a lunch box.After a long time, even his own will get tired of it.Even if Lance hadn't expressed any opinion, he couldn't be naive enough to believe that his cooking skills were really passable.

But when they finally had a decent dinner in the city, Ye Qun realized that the comparison was too dire.He poked at the juicy, tender steak on the plate, puzzled, he absolutely followed the steps in the recipe, why the steak he fried was dry?

Is the food I cook really bad?Ye Qun was a little suspicious of life.Considering that Lance is a native American, and he knows very few Chinese dishes, Ye Qun still cooks two baked rice steaks from time to time to improve the taste.Well, he thought it improved taste.

I don't know how long the busy farming season will last, and we can't go on like this forever.Ye Qun took a lot of canned food and put them in the shopping cart when he was shopping in the supermarket. The more he thought about it, the more he doubted life. Now his confidence has collapsed, and he even feels that even canned food is better than the meals he cooks.

"Group," Lance wrinkled his nose, "this manufacturer's canned soybeans are not tasty, trust me."

Ye Qun put back the can of soybeans in his hand and replaced it with another can. Lance looked at the piles of cans in the shopping cart and asked in confusion: "Do you want to buy more—there are already a lot of them? Speaking of which, why should we buy them? So many cans? Do you have any camping plans honey?"

"Because canned food is more delicious." Ye Qun calmly chose a statement that didn't hurt his self-esteem.

Lance was stunned for two seconds, before reacting in time: "The food you cook is already delicious enough." He solemnly declared.

"You can tell the truth, Lance, I don't mind." Ye Qun said helplessly, after already falling into self-denial, a little more blow would be fine.

"I... well, at least it's not bad, really." Lance said sincerely, "I definitely didn't lie to you."

"Really?"

"Really." Lance assured, "Although Kung Pao chicken and tomato scrambled eggs are a bit greasy for me...the steak is a bit mushy...but it's definitely not so bad that people can't eat it."

What an inspiring comfort.Ye Qun looked at this honest man, speechless for a while, "Thank you." He nodded deeply.

"No...I mean, only a little bit, a little bit, completely within my acceptable range...and you are a novice!" Lance shook Ye Qun's hand, trying to comfort him, "A novice can do this level It’s already very good, you will improve!”

"Remind you, I was a good cook five years ago."

Lance's smile froze at the corner of his mouth in embarrassment, and Ye Qun patted him on the shoulder to signal that he didn't need to say anything more.He is very self-aware of his cooking skills and has no pursuits. He is actually quite satisfied if he can get an evaluation of "not too bad to eat".

Once the pipelayer was assembled, it took only one day for Ye Qun to lay the drainage pipes for the entire farm, and then he plunged into the project of building a shelter for Hunter Farm's upcoming new members.

Ye Qun was really shocked by the whole process. Before that, he had no experience of living in the countryside. Life in the city is always very easy, with modern facilities and a professional team to help you solve any problems.

It was something he couldn't experience when he was living in the city that he could do everything by himself, from taking raw materials to measuring the size.It took two days just to saw the timber into planks. (This also made Ye Qun a little puzzled. Europeans and Americans are obviously not very good at mathematics, but they can calculate the bearing azimuth and so on smoothly.) He has watched documentaries before and knows that life in the countryside must be very different, but It's more intuitive than seeing it with your own eyes.

Now he really understood what Lance had said about having to do everything yourself.

This kind of pure physical labor that does not require design is tiring, but basically there is no need to think about it.When it comes to building a winery, it's not so easy at all.

There are two ways to build a house in the United States. One is to outsource all the housing to the contractor, and the other is to assign the housing project to different companies.The former saves time and effort, but the effect is not necessarily satisfactory.The second is easy to realize your own various detailed ideas, but it has high requirements for architecture.Since what they want to build is a winery rather than an ordinary house, it needs to be designed from scratch, and it is obviously unfeasible to outsource it all to the contractor.

The architectural design of small wineries does not need to be too complicated, but taste is indispensable.

Most of the guests in the winery are those who claim to be elegant, have a little sentimentality, and talk about style as frequently as eating and drinking.Unconventional architectural styles may have miraculous effects, but generally speaking, it is not worth the risk.