Chapter 967 The school sweetheart’s first love who took a check and went abroad (5)
Xu Yin didn’t know at this time that she would have no chance to harvest wool next year.
She was very happy. She took a leave from work to participate in an amateur competition and earned more than 10,000 New Zealand dollars and a pair of pure gold wool shears. This was a great harvest!
The Hunters who came to pick her up in an open pickup truck were also smiling.
"Sean, I knew you would be the champion of the regional competition. No one has ever been able to shear more than ninety sheep within five hours of the regional competition. Not only did you break the old record, but you also set a record of one hundred." This new record is our pride in Cooktown!”
Mrs. Hunter was really happy for her.
“Sean, what does a solid gold shear look like? Can I see it?”
Mr. Hunter is more curious about the prizes in the regional competition.
"sure."
Xu Yin reached out and took out the pure gold wool shears from her canvas bag.
Because it was made of gold, it was much smaller than an ordinary traditional wool shear. She estimated it to be 200 grams at most.
At the current price of gold, this pure gold wool shear is worth about the same as the prize money of 8,000 New Zealand dollars in Christchurch. It may not be worth 8,000 New Zealand dollars, but it is better than it is of commemorative significance.
Mr. Hunter took it and carefully stroked a few handfuls before returning them to Xu Yin: "You have to keep it. This is the championship prize of the Canterbury Regional Competition. It is very meaningful!"
Xu Yin smiled and put it away.
"Sean, after you get this bonus, will you go back to your hometown right away?" Mrs. Hunter felt a little reluctant when she thought of her identity.
Xu Yin shook her head: "I won't go back. Although I regret that I was deceived by the agency, I also learned a lot here. I want to learn more. Don't you want to keep me?"
"Haha!" Mrs. Hunter laughed heartily, "How is that possible!" I'm also worried that you are going back to your hometown, and I can't bear to leave you. "
Back at the ranch, Xu Yin was surrounded by her colleagues like a group favorite:
“Oh my **** Sean! You are my idol from now on!”
"Sean, how did you do it? I use electric clippers, and it takes me more than half an hour to cut one sheep, and the cuts are very rough, but you can actually cut twenty sheep with manual clippers? It's unbelievable! "
“Sean has been practicing and hasn’t taken a break before the game. What about you? You just lie on the hay when you have free time, so you have the nerve to say it!”
“Hey! I am the sheepherder, not the shearer. But Sean, you are more of a man than a man!”
Xu Yin has a black line: What does it mean that she is more masculine than a man? She is who she is, why should she compare with men?
“Do you still want a gift?”
“I want it, I want it!”
During this competition, Xu Yin stayed in Christchurch for several days and came back with a lot of snacks that were highly praised by people in the city, including tartar pancakes, hummus, dried green-lipped mussels, dried whitebait, Goat milk trifle, raisins, apples and other assorted dried fruits.
Christchurch people also like to eat roast lamb leg.
There are stalls selling roasted lamb legs everywhere on the street. They are freshly roasted and cut. Xu Yin tasted them once and felt that they were not as delicious as the ones roasted by herself, so she simply didn’t buy them.
She asked the cook to buy a meat goat on her behalf and planned to roast the whole goat for everyone to eat.
When you get a bonus, you still have to celebrate.
"There's no need for you to buy a goat." Mrs. Hunter said angrily, "Old William heard that you won the regional championship, so he asked little William to send a two-year-old lamb over early in the morning. A vat of goat’s milk.”
Old William is the nearest neighbor to the Hunter family. He raises more than 300 dairy goats and more than 100 meat goats. He slaughters a meat goat every once in a while for the residents of this town to purchase.
However, it’s rare that Old William can give away a whole lamb and a large bucket of goat’s milk.
Mrs. Hunter held Xu Yin's hand with a smile and said: "Now you have become our star shearer in Cook Town. Everyone wants to celebrate you. The mayor proposed to hold a bonfire party tonight. , Rita and I are responsible for making nut cheese and goat's milk cakes. Since you can roast a whole lamb, the goat will be left to you. The mayor and others will also bring some vegetables, which will definitely be enough to eat."
Xu Yin: "…" She has an inexplicable sense of being in ancient times, and being a scholar in the imperial examinations became the pride of the whole village.
That night, Xu Yin roasted a whole lamb for everyone on the bonfire.
In fact, people here often eat roasted lamb. Roasted whole lamb is not an amazing dish for them, but Xu Yin marinated it well and sprinkled the spices just right. If it is more, it will be too strong, and if it is less, it will be light. Everyone had a great time eating.
“Sean, I didn’t expect that your cooking skills are so good!”
“Next time there’s a food festival in town, Sean can be the chef.”
“Food party?” Xu Yin asked Mrs. Hunter curiously, “Is it held every year like the sheep shearing competition?”
If there was a bonus, she would be happy to sign up.
Mrs. Hunter saw her thoughts at a glance and couldn't help but laugh: "No wonder Hunter said you are a money man."
Xu Yin囧.
If she hadn't traveled to this unaccompanied sheep country, how could she be obsessed with money?
People in the world are in a panic, but they only want to break a few taels of silver. However, these few taels of silver can solve the world's melancholy.
A meal of roasted whole lamb brought Xu Yin closer to other residents of Cook Town.
After getting in touch with each other, I found that everyone is quite friendly.
The mayor has no official airs. On the contrary, he speaks humorously and has been to more places than others. Everyone likes to listen to his talk.
Xu Yin gradually integrated into the big family of Cook Town.
In the blink of an eye, spring passes and summer solstice passes.
Of course, this is summer in New Zealand, and in the northern hemisphere, it’s probably winter now.
Xu Yin gradually adapted to the local weather.
There is less rain in summer here, the sky is high and the clouds are clear, and there are many sunny days, which is suitable for grazing.
But even on a sunny day in midsummer, the temperature hovers around 25 or 6 degrees Celsius, rarely reaching 30 degrees Celsius.
There is also a big temperature difference between day and night, so you have to sleep with a wool blanket at night, otherwise it is easy to catch a cold.
The three-piece set Xu Yin prepared for herself to prevent heatstroke—ice cubes, a fan, and a small medical bag containing Huoxiang Zhengqi and Fengyoujing were all useless.
We couldn't use them outside during the day, and they couldn't be used even if they were covered with blankets at night. Finally, they were returned to the system warehouse.
But you have to apply sunscreen every day. The sky is clear and the air is pure. Will the ultraviolet rays just keep coming?
Not only should you apply sunscreen when going out, but you should also apply a nourishing mask before going to bed.
She still prefers whitening her skin to tanning her skin.
After summer, the sheep's wool falls off due to excessive secretion of sweat glands on the sheep's body. The quality of the wool is too poor and it is difficult to sell it after shearing it. Therefore, sheep are generally not sheared. Xu Yin was also transferred from a shearer to a shepherd position.
Two strong young men who used to shepherd sheep took leave to go to the West Bay in the south.
It is said to be for fun, but actually it is to pan for gold.
I heard from Mrs. Hunter that a placer gold deposit was discovered there a few years ago. The gold mine owner was reluctant to part with the lost gold sand. In recent years, he has been hiring workers to pan for gold downstream.
(End of this chapter)