American Ranch

Chapter 245 Valley and Mountain Stream 【Subscription】

There are relatively steep hills on both sides of the small valley, and the water vapor is floating on the hillside...

There is a small stream in the middle of the valley, and occasionally the sound of rushing water can be heard.

The road in the valley was paved with a layer of cobblestones and leveled by a road roller.There is a rattling sound when the car rolls over the stone...

Chen Mo was carrying Ellie. This girl wanted to hug her several times, but she hesitated for a long time before daring to make a move. Now she put her little hand on Chen Mo's shoulder, with a sweet smile on her face.

Catherine and Bella followed...

The speed of the car is not fast.

The foggy valley also has a special taste.

"Mo, what kind of tree is planted on the side of the road, why is the trunk full of fruit?" Ellie asked, leaning her cheek on Chen Mo's back and shoulders.

"Jiabao fruit tree, the ripe fruit is very sweet."

"You brought the bucket just to pick the gerbera tree?"

"Well, pick some and go back to eat." Picking Jiabao fruit is just on the way, Chen Mo is going to the innermost part of the valley to look at the DC well, and I heard from Brett that there are a lot of rainbow trout there.

In California, wild rainbow trout are plentiful, but commercial fishing is not allowed.They like to inhabit mountain streams and clear and pollution-free cold water. They mainly eat fish and shrimp. They are alpine fish and can only grow in water temperatures below 20°C.

River Valley Ranch has three reservoirs, but rainbow trout have not been found before.

These rainbow trout come from underground rivers.Brett also built terraced tank ponds for these trout and planted some aquatic plants...

Chen Mo is going to go and have a look.

The price of rainbow trout is very cheap in the United States.For the river valley ranch, it has no value of breeding, at most it can be tasted as game...

Entering the valley, Chen Mo first went to the No. 2 cowshed, which was converted into a 'House of Bees', with rows of beehives inside.

Standing outside, one could hear the sound of 'buzzing' bees flapping their wings, which reminded Chen Mo of space bees.I don't know how the honey tastes in the space, but if you think about it, forget it, the bees in the space are so cruel.

Chen Mo didn't go into the House of Bees, just looked outside, drove the car into the Jiabao Orchard, and stopped the car when he arrived at a grove with fruit hanging: "Oh, get out of the car."

Ellie's face was pressed against Chen Mo's back, she was a little lost in thought, and only then did she come to her senses when she heard Chen Mo's voice...

Chen Mo took the bucket from the back of the car and went into the orchard, picked a ripe purple-red Gerbera fruit and handed it to Ellie.

The fragrant and delicious pulp made Ellie's eyes brighten: "It's so sweet."

Catherine and the others also came into the orchard, picking fruits from the trees and eating them.

"Is there such a large grove of Jabo fruit all yours?" Bella asked.

"Of course, otherwise I wouldn't bring you in." Chen Mo said and ate one, and began to pick the fruit from the tree.

Several people were busy picking fruits, and when they were happy with the harvest, someone appeared in the woods...

By this time the fog had lifted a lot.

"Who, who's inside?" It was a few workers from the River Valley Ranch, wearing white robes, who looked like people from the Ranch Eco-Environmental Research Institute.

"Boss?" Kang Si shouted.

"it's me."

Kang Si trotted over: "Boss, why did you come back? I thought someone from outside the ranch had come in."

"Last night. Where are you?" Chen Mo saw that each of these people was carrying a transparent plastic square bucket, which contained many glass tubes, and there were collected soil and so on in the glass tubes.

"We came to collect soil samples and send them back to the laboratory for testing. It has just rained heavily, and it is for data collection and storage."

Chen Mo looked at Ellie and said, "This is Kangsi, the chief engineer of ranch ecology and quality control."

"Hi, hello." Kang Si greeted, looked at Ellie, and his eyes stayed on Catherine.

"Get busy with your affairs." Chen Mo waved his hand.

Kang Si secretly glanced at Catherine again, and smiled at Chen Mo: "They can collect samples, and I can stay and help."

Kang Si seems to be single, Chen Mo noticed the way Kang Si looked at Catherine: "I don't need your help."

"OK then."

Chen Mo smiled: "I'm going to go to the valley, you can stay and help Catherine and the others pick fruit."

"Good boss."

Catherine's eyes were strange, and she looked at Kang Si...

"Ellie, I'm going to visit the valley, do you want to go together?"

"of course."

Chen Mo and Ellie left Catherine and Bella on a four-wheel drive motorcycle and went deep into the valley...

Kang Si felt like an electric shock when he saw Catherine at the first sight, he kept showing his courteousness, and tried his best to show his boring sense of humor...

"The girl just now is the boss' girlfriend?" Kang Si asked suddenly.

Catherine frowned, and said with an idea: "No, they are just friends. Doesn't your boss have a girlfriend?"

"The boss has a girlfriend?"

"You do not know."

Kong Si honestly didn't notice that Catherine was trying to set him up: "I don't know. The boss has always been single, and there is no woman around... Does he have a girlfriend?"

Catherine and Bella looked at each other, "How long have you known Chen Mo?"

"I've been working on the ranch for over a year. The girl just now is your friend."

"Ah."

"Isn't it really the boss' girlfriend?"

"Why do you care about this?"

Kang Si shrugged: "We are a large ranch with two hundred employees, among them there are many single young female employees who admire the boss. If we let them know that the boss is in love, many people will be sad." Kang Si Bragging, there are only a few young single female employees in the ranch, and there are not too many young bachelors in the ranch...

A ranch with over 200 employees, brag.

Catherine and the others don't believe it.Under normal circumstances, a dozen people can manage a breeding ranch of several thousand acres...

There are many types of pastures, and there are two common types, grazing pastures, which are easier to understand, grazing.Feed-type pastures, that is, large-scale breeding in the pasture, are also called comprehensive pastures.

River Valley Ranch is very famous in California, but it needs more than 200 employees, how is this possible.

Regardless of Kang Si and Catherine, Chen Mo has already reached the end of the valley with Ellie.

At the end of the valley, where the peaks on both sides of the valley meet, there is a fountain pool made of cement, and the water in the pool keeps bubbling out.

It rained heavily the day before yesterday, and the groundwater gushed out, but the water quality was still clear.

"Natural fountain?" Ellie asked.

"This is a deep well. It should have opened up an underground river..." Chen Mo shrugged and walked over to feel the temperature of the water.

The current temperature is ten degrees.The water is neither cold nor warm.

This is groundwater, the water temperature is around ten degrees all year round...

The groundwater was constantly bubbling, and Chen Mo found a small rainbow trout by the pool.

The location of the fountain is relatively high, the long-term flowing water, and the artificial and deliberate excavation formed a small stream.

There are more than a dozen cement ponds with a depth of one meter on both sides of the creek. Chen Mo went over to have a look, and there were trout in the ponds...

This is done to artificially create the trout's habitat.

In the mountain stream paved with small pebbles, you can also see a lot of green shell snails in the clear water... There are so many, you can pick them up casually, and you can make them delicious when you take them home.All of a sudden, Chen Mo remembered the delicacy of fishing snails in river ditches when he was a child.

But now, the green shell snails here don't know if they can be eaten.

(End of this chapter)