Chapter 26: Arrived Home

  Arrived at Lewisburg Airport, just out of the station, saw Thomas, with a cowboy wearing a golden goatee beard coming to pick up.

  He walked past with ease and hugged Thomas briefly.

  "This is my eldest son Andrew," Old Thomas introduced, and then Ju An shook hands with Andrew and introduced: "These are my parents, sister, and two nephews and nieces. Sorry, they don't speak English very well." To say that this foreigner mixed up nephew and niece into one word, really hard to distinguish.

  Then, Ju An took the whole family out of the airport and split into two cars to head to the ranch. Tongtong loved big cars, so his sister and brother-in-law took Tongtong and Rangrang in Andrew's 450, while Ju An rode with his parents in Thomas' 150 leading the way.

  "How many cattle have been delivered and is the ranch all right?" Ju An asked.

  Thomas said, "The cows have already been delivered more than half, and it is estimated that the last batch will be delivered in two days. Everything on the ranch is fine. Most of this batch are half-grown heifers, and it will take at least two years to make a profit."

  "It's okay, taking a little more time is not a problem. In the future, we might even need to buy more cows. Also, after some time, eight cow dogs will be coming over. With these additional cows, can you all take care of them?"

  No wonder people say that one lie requires a hundred lies to maintain, now the eight little guys are still stuck in the wooden beads hanging on Ju An's neck and can't be taken out immediately, it takes time for quarantine. Forget it, wait a few more days, just let these little guys grow bigger, come out just right to work.

  "I've arranged for Wayne and Andrew to help me with the cattle, Nancy will mainly take care of the horses and sheep. There's no need to worry about irrigation, it saves a lot of manpower. Also, the horses have been sent over, this time there are thirteen, three 3-year-old stallions, seven mares, and three geldings. For now, we'll just keep the three batches of stallions in the pasture." Thomas nodded in response.

  "Also, I'd like to ask, do the ranches around here need a lot of tourists? A friend of mine wants to start a tourism company specializing in ranch tours. What's the rough price range?" asked Ju An.

  Thomas thought for a moment: "There are many tourist ranches nearby, I heard that Chinese tourists usually go to the West Coast, no way, as long as you fly over the Pacific Ocean it's fine. Generally, there are more people from the East Coast here. Actually, the best season for ranch tourism is July and August, Montana has the best weather, only around 20 degrees Celsius. In winter, it gets very cold, around minus 10 degrees Celsius. Of course, you can also come to see snow, ski, and horse-drawn sleighs in winter, but there's more work on the ranch in winter, mainly feeding cattle and horses. The price is usually around $90 per day, including food and accommodation costs, I'm not sure about the specifics, but the Taylor family does tourism, you can ask them."

  "Exactly," said Ju An, nodding his head. "Tonight, let's invite Tyler and the Anderson family from last time to come over for a barbecue and ask them then."

  Thomas said: "Actually, our ranch can already do tourist business with just a cowboy who teaches horse riding, but it's hard to find one who speaks Chinese."

  "Temporarily I still have no plans to be a tourist."

  Thomas shrugged his shoulders after hearing this sentence.

  Arrived at the ranch, got off the car. Parked the car at the entrance, and the whole family got out of the car one after another.

  Tongtong immediately ran to Ju'an's place, grabbed Ju'an's pants and said: "Uncle, uncle, where is the little sheep? Where is the little cow?"

  It's better to bend down and twist the rosy little face: "Let's go to Tongtong's room first, okay? We'll come back to see Little Sheep and Little Cow later."

  Thomas helped unload the luggage, then drove the car to the garage and invited Taylor and the Andersons over for a barbecue dinner that night. Andrew went back to help Wayne take care of the cattle.

  Carrying their luggage, they entered the small building with the whole family. My sister praised it: "Hmm, the scenery is good and the house isn't bad either."

  "Alright, everyone's staying upstairs. Go put your stuff away and take a shower, change into some fresh clothes. Remember, no skirts for you girls, we're all wearing jeans today. I've already got the boots ready for you, I'll go grab them in a bit."

  The luggage was moved upstairs, and three rooms were arranged. The parents had one room, the sister and brother-in-law had one room, and Tongtong and Rangrang, the two little ones, shared a room. As soon as they finished arranging, Tongtong suddenly exclaimed: "Quickly look, a little squirrel!"

  Xiao Pang pointed outside the window, and indeed, a small squirrel was standing on a branch, looking at the crowd of people here.

  "Tongtong has arrived and saw little squirrel already, it's really good." Ju An said while stroking his little head.

  "Tongtong said: "Brother saw it first and then let me see it."

  Yu An looked at him and said with a bit of shyness: "Yeah, Ran Ran is pretty good too".

  Tongtong finally requested a room where she could see squirrels, so they had to switch the two little guys to an east-facing room with windows. Now, the whole family lived in a row.

  After distributing these, I returned to my room, took a bath and changed my clothes. This flight was really exhausting.

  Just after I finished washing up and changed into new clothes, I heard a knock on the door. Outside, my mom's voice came: "Sanzi, where is the kitchen? I'm going to make lunch with your sister."

  Took mom and sister to the kitchen downstairs, told them where the rice was, then took two people to see their own vegetable garden. When going out, let them wear new high-top riding boots.

  Left his mother and sister in the vegetable garden picking vegetables. Ju An himself slipped back to the house, preparing to take a nap.

  Went upstairs to the room for a tour, Dad and brother-in-law had finished bathing and were dressing up. Opened the door of the little guy's room and saw Tongtong and Rangrang leaning on the window watching the squirrel, whispering while looking.

  Ignoring the two little ones, she went back into the house, covered her head and took a short nap. She only got up when she heard her mother calling her to eat.

  After lunch, they took their family out for a stroll.

  When going out, everyone put on their riding boots and also gave the two little guys a pair of small boots and leather pants that An had bought especially for them. Tongtong's were sky blue boots and sky blue and white striped leather pants, with three big white stars lined up on each leg, and in the middle of each star was a silver button, with a white leather tassel attached to the button. Rangrang's were green with half-length white side stripes. Foreigners also know that children's money is easy to make, these two pairs of leather pants are almost as expensive as three adults', the two little guys immediately looked brand new, and each got a small cowboy hat, silver belt buckle, and their image was instantly upgraded by several percentage points.

  "Ranran and Tongtong are really beautiful, thank you Uncle!" Her sister praised them beside her.

  Tongtong and Rantong immediately said thank you, Uncle. Rantong also smiled happily, revealing a small gap-toothed smile.

  Walk to the warehouse, let Dad and brother-in-law, sister each drive a four-wheeled motorcycle, Dad took Rangrang, brother-in-law took Tongtong, and sister was responsible for taking Grandma, after allocation.

  Ju An walked out of the warehouse and whistled at the horse herd not far away. Dou Cao and Xue Hua, two horses, immediately ran over with excitement. Then Ju An was pushed back a few steps by the two big heads, too enthusiastic, no wonder they were fed two carrots every day for nothing. Ju An hugged the two big heads and kissed them fiercely twice.

  "Big horse! Big horse!" Tongtong immediately wanted to run over, fortunately her brother-in-law held her back.

  Deng gave the bean grass a saddle, and Tongtong insisted on riding with Ju'an. Rongan didn't say anything, but looked at Ju'an with expectant eyes, clearly also wanting to ride.

  So Ju'an had to put the two little guys in front, Tongtong sat in the front, Rangrang sat in the middle, and Ju'an pitifully only had half of his butt on the saddle, with the other half hanging over the back of the horse, feeling very uncomfortable. The two little guys were exceptionally happy.

  "Grandpa and Dad are so short, they only reach Tongtong and Brother's ankles!" Tongtong said proudly as she followed behind her brother.

  Then patted the bean grass neck said: "Big horse, big horse, hurry up and run, or else gray wolf daddy will catch you".

  Xiao Ya Tou patted it, and Dou Cao estimated that it was Ju An giving an order, so it immediately started to run quickly.

  After running for a while, Ju An pulled the reins and slowed down the bean grass. Why? Because two little guys were sitting on it too uncomfortably.

  Luckily, the place where Wayne and them were herding cattle wasn't too far away, and they arrived in about ten minutes. There were over two thousand heads of cattle, which looked much more magnificent. At this time, Wayne and Andrew also came riding horses.

  Wayne looked at Ju An in front of him and saw two little ones laughing and said: "How come, little guys are all crowded on your horse".

  "Just me alone can ride a horse, no choice".

  At this time, Wayne smiled at the two little guys and said: "My name is Wayne, nice to meet you" speaking very slowly, also trying not to have a Montana accent.

  The two little guys actually understood, Tongtong nodded: "My name is Tongtong" and pointed to the brother behind him saying: "Ranran".

  "May I invite you to ride with me, beautiful maiden?"

  Tongtong was stunned and couldn't understand, looking at her anxious appearance of scratching her ears and cheeks. Ju'an said to her: "Uncle Huai'en wants to take you for a horse ride." After thinking for a moment, he said to Tongtong again: "Uncle Huai'en's horse runs very fast, much faster than Uncle's, do you want to go for a ride?"

  After thinking for a while with her head tilted, Tongtong nodded slightly.

  Then, Ju An picked up Tongtong from the horseback and handed her over to Huai En. Huai En took Tongtong and placed her in front of the saddle, letting Tongtong hold onto the pommel, and then urged the horse into a gentle trot. Before long, Tongtong's giggles could be heard.

  At this time, Rongrong also looked at Ju'an and said: "Second Master, let's go after Tongtong too."

  Ju An gently shook the reins, and Dou Cao immediately rushed out. Before long, they caught up with Huai En and Tong Tong. As they approached, Ju An slowed down the horse's speed, letting Dou Cao fall behind Huai En's horse by half a body length. Dou Cao was clearly dissatisfied and snorted several times.