pasture leisure

Chapter 4 Used Cars

The location where the program was recorded was the no-man's-land in Canada. Apart from food, the biggest enemy was the cold weather, but for Zhang Chi, this was nothing.

On the first day of the official recording of the program, he beat a moose to death with a gourd, and dragged it back to the camp as if he had picked it up. After he had food, he dug a cellar. Northerners may know this. The house is almost It is built underground, and its main feature is insulation.

After the underground cellar was built, Zhang Chi began to weave fishing baskets, and these rattan fishing baskets could provide Zhang Chi with three or four fish weighing five to six catties every day.

The program has been recorded for a month. Others have lost at least ten pounds, but Zhang Chi only lost half a pound. When the heavy snow falls, Zhang Chi will hardly come out of the cellar because of the food he is storing now. Saving points will consume at least three or four months.

People are trying to survive in the wilderness, but he is going to be Maodong!
You said who has played him before? Although there are two very strong players in the program group, there is no suspense about who will get the prize money in the end.

When the temperature dropped to more than minus [-] degrees, the last few remaining groups also began to reduce their staff rapidly, because these so-called field survival experts all built shelters on the ground, where it was as warm as Zhang Chi's underground cellar. .

When the program team took him out, the kid was still a little unhappy, and said to him: This is the end, there is no challenge, SO EASY!
The face of the director of the program group was almost green.

Five hundred thousand is securely in hand!

However, when Zhang Chi really got the [-] yuan, he scolded his mother in his heart, because he only got a little over [-] yuan, what's left?

All the rest are taxed.

It is said that he earned [-] yuan, but in fact, after paying taxes, there is only a little over [-] yuan left, not even half of it.

But the [-] is enough for Zhang Chi to toss for the time being.

Back in Folsom, Zhang Chi tried to buy a ranch.

With [-] yuan in hand, it is not easy to buy a good ranch. The price of the ranch here is low, far below the average level in the United States, which is more than [-] dollars per acre. Here, it costs almost [-] dollars per acre. Nearly three thousand dollars.

If it is the full amount, Zhang Chi can buy a hundred acres with the money in his hand. In fact, a hundred acres is not small. One acre is equal to six acres in the country, which is almost six hundred acres of land.

But Zhang Chi didn't want to do this. He was going to buy a bigger ranch, and he couldn't buy all the [-] in his hand, because after buying the ranch, the money would still be spent later, such as buying calves, buying agricultural machinery, etc. But it all costs money.

What should I do if I don't have enough money?Find a bank, so what else can I say.

After taking the bonus and returning to Folsom, Zhang Chi began to look at large and small pastures under the guidance of the intermediary, almost one a day, for almost a month.

Finally, a ranch came into Zhang Chi's field of vision.

The main reason for looking at this piece is that it is cheap, and the ranch with more than [-] acres only costs [-].

There is also a reason for the cheapness. There is nothing on this pasture, except for the surrounding fences, there is not even a shit hole, let alone buildings such as houses and cowsheds.

Of course, the price is also very remote, about [-] to [-] kilometers away from the current Folsom, between the mountains of the Rocky Mountains.

Originally, this small ranch was part of a large ranch. After the bank got the ranch, it split the whole ranch into several parts. The best parts were sold at a higher price, and the most biased and empty ranch was reduced in price.

This kind of show operation is often done by banks, because the larger the ranch, generally speaking, the less money will be distributed per acre. Wouldn't it be nice to go to the mountains of the Rocky Mountains to buy a ranch directly on the Great Plains?

So Zhang Chi fell in love with this ranch at a glance. The main reason is that the land price is cheap, and the second is that there are no outsiders coming to the place, which is just right for him to hide.

After setting up the ranch, Zhang Chi's next task is to go to the bank. This is not an easy task. Many banks are not willing to lend to Zhang Chi, because people have doubts about his credit rating.

This is the case with the grandsons of the bank, who like to lend to those who have no repayment pressure.People like Zhang Chi have always been waiters in Chinese restaurants, and people suspect that you can't afford to pay back the money.

After the bank here gives you a loan, if you fail to repay the loan, then they can only take away your collateral, regardless of the difference between the money bought for the collateral and the amount you owe, and the lender will No matter how much it is, there is no need to pay it back, so the bank is very strict with customers.

Usually the down payment is about [-]%, but it was changed to [-]% when Zhang Chi came here. In this way, it took Zhang Chi a month, and with the help of his uncle, this is how the family started from a small family. The bank settled the money.

After the handover was completed, it was already April, which is the beginning of spring, and Zhang Chi officially transformed into a small rancher.

This is just the beginning. Next, buying cattle and building houses will cost money.

For Zhang Chi, the first step is to change the car. It is obviously not enough to use his current small Hyundai on the newly bought ranch, because the last two miles to the ranch is not considered a road at all, it is just a road. The dirt road that has been opened up can only accommodate one car. It is obviously not suitable for a car on this road, and the most practical one is naturally a pickup.

Early in the morning, Zhang Chi drove his small Hyundai out of the apartment and went straight to the second-hand car dealer.

There are not many second-hand car dealers here in Folsom, there are only two, and the two are close to each other. I don't know what these foreigners are thinking.

When he arrived at the door of the car dealer, he found a parking space and parked the car. Zhang Chi got off and began to look at the car.

The second-hand cars here are almost all parked in the open air. It’s not that there are no exhibition halls. Generally speaking, the exhibition halls are full of new cars, and they must be the more expensive ones. Ordinary cars are stored outside, which is exposed to the wind and sun. The gang car dealers don't care either.

Come over to change the car, Zhang Chi has a budget in mind, and wants to spend about [-] US dollars to buy a second-hand pickup in good condition.

Originally, I thought my budget was already very strong, but after looking around, I found out that the price of a second-hand car has actually increased, which is [-] to [-] U.S. dollars faster than when my uncle changed to a pickup. It made Zhang Chi tremble in his heart when he saw it.

Originally, I thought about buying a car for two or three years, but now I see that it is impossible at this price, so I can only lower my requirements.

"may I help you?"

After watching Zhang Chi go around for a while, a Caucasian salesman came over and said hello to Zhang Chi.

"I want to see a pickup truck. It needs to have more horsepower and be cheaper," Zhang Chi said.

"What's your budget?" the white guy asked.

Zhang Chi said: "Within [-] US dollars."

"Then you come with me to take a look." Hearing this, the white guy led Zhang Chi to see a pickup truck that cost less than [-] yuan.

Zhang Chi was a little dazed when he saw the car at first sight, because the white guy took him to see the Tacoma, a small pickup truck of the Toyota brand, which is an artifact of value preservation in the US market.

But Zhang Chi doesn't like it. It's not that he rejects Toyota or something, but that he wants to buy a cheap one. Show us what a value-preserving artifact does.

"Look at something else".

Good guy, a car from [-] costs more than [-] yuan. The artifact of value preservation is really not built.

Next, the Caucasian guy took Zhang Chi to look at a few more models, and was not satisfied with Zhang Chi, who had just turned to the auto market a few months ago.

A few months ago, the same car was cheaper by six to seven thousand dollars. Zhang Chi couldn’t get over that hurdle. Knowing that six or seven thousand dollars is not a small number for Zhang Chi.

After a polite exchange with my little brother, Zhang Chi was about to go back home. He wanted to change to a better car, but he didn't have enough pockets.

Although he still has one hundred thousand dollars left in his pocket for a little bit of money, but next time, buying a cow or building a house doesn't cost money?If you spent a lot of money on the car, you have to save it elsewhere, so Zhang Chi couldn't help but not pick it up.

Back in the parking lot, he opened the door and prepared to get in the car.

"That, that...".

Just when Zhang Chi was about to get in the car, he suddenly heard someone talking, and subconsciously turned his head to look, and found that the person who spoke seemed to be aimed at him, and the person who spoke was obviously of Asian appearance.

Turning his head and looking around, he found that there was no one beside him, Zhang Chi asked, "Are you talking to me?"

After a while, the talking Asian came over and asked Zhang Chi, "Are you the Zhang... Zhang..." who participated in the wilderness survival show.

After writing for a long time, this person didn't give the word Chi to the chapter.

"Hello, my name is Zhang Chi, the one who participated in the show," Zhang Chi said.

"I look like you, let's use Chinese, I also come from China."

This one is quite enthusiastic.

Zhang Chi thought he had met a fan?
"Hello, hello," Zhang Chi said.

"You performed so well on the show. At the beginning, we thought you were the one who gave away the head. Who knew you were the king..."

This one caught Zhang Chi and praised him fiercely.

Now Zhang Chi can be considered to have reacted, not to this person, but to how the program group chose him. This taste is a bit wrong. The stereotypes of Asians in the American media are firstly nerds, secondly funny, and It's funny that Asians of this type are generally short, fat, and wretched when they appear on the show.

Zhang Chi fits the bill from the outside. He is a bit fat and not tall. When he appeared on the stage, many people thought that Zhang Chi was playing soy sauce, including many Asians. , This makes many Asians feel that it can be regarded as a sigh of relief, and it can be regarded as honoring the Asians.

Especially when Zhang Chi came out to face the camera at the end, he said: so easy! It made many Asians feel powerful.

Zhang Chi doesn't really care about these, he only cares about his bonus.As for the Asian light or something, he doesn't care.

The common people at the bottom need so many vain things to live their lives.

"So-so," Zhang Chi said politely.

"How so-so, it's great, you made those groups look like stupid coins... Oh, by the way, I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Li Qiao, and you can call me my English name, Qiao."

This one is quite talkative.

(End of this chapter)