pasture leisure

Chapter 567 News
As the day of the competition was approaching, Zhang Chi's family of three drove to Maryland with Zheng Bohong and the other three who met at the ranch.

The Billy Stakes takes place today at Bentley High Racetrack in Baltimore, Maryland.

The distance of the race is 900 meters. It is held on the third Saturday of May every year. It is the second round of the American Triple Crown Horse Racing. Compared with the first round, the number of horses participating in the race is not so many. It may be that some horse owners know When it comes to the ability of one's own horse racing, it may also be hopeless for the Triple Crown, so there will not be too many horses participating in the Prestige Trophy.

In previous years, about a dozen horses participated in the competition, but this year's Prestige Trophy, there are fewer horses participating, only seven.

Two of them are naturally Silly Big Wood and Great Secret Realm. The so-called championship is exciting. Now besides these two horses, there are two remaining horses, Boston Eagle and Sir Wayne. As for Brave Star, he withdrew from the competition.

There were only three horses left in the last race with Silly Damu and Great Secret Realm, except for the Boston Eagle and Sir Wayne, there was still the Speeding Express.

As for the rest, they are all new horses, and they cannot be said to be new horses. They can only be said to be new faces in the Triple Crown. Of course, their strength should not be underestimated. It has two brushes.

Zhang Chi and his group went to Maryland not by plane, nor by their own car, but by a posh bus, which Zhang Chi had rented before when he picked up his parents and family members when they came to the United States.

But this time the bus was rented by Zhao Yue and others. It was more luxurious than the one Zhang Chi had rented, and it was directly a mobile home.

Stop the whole bus, stretch out the extended part, and a small villa can be built for you directly. There is no problem at all for sleeping with people like Zhang Chi.

It was not a hired person who drove, but Zheng Bohong was directly asked to drive.

Only then did Zhang Chi know that Zheng Bohong originally had a picture of him driving a big truck.

When they arrived in Baltimore, the car was parked in an industry owned by the Melica family. It was not a ranch or a farm, but a caravan camping ground.

There is water and electricity, and there are quite a few neighbors, but some neighbors seem to be, um, life is not so good.

In China, people who drive RVs are most likely to have two children in their pockets, but here, many poor and homeless people also live in RVs, and the closer they are to the city center, they live like this. The poorer the people in the camp.

As for the reason, it is naturally close to the city, so it is easy to beg for food. If it is far away from the city, if you go to the city to beg for food from dawn, until the sun goes down, you still have to beg for food.

Besides, if he had the perseverance to walk from the suburbs to the city center, would he still need to beg for food? Seriously, in the United States, as long as you have hands and feet, you are willing to work and say that you are rich, it must be nonsense, but if you continue to live It's no problem at all.

But these people just quit and would rather beg for food. I guess this is also an attitude towards life.

This piece of land belongs to the Melika family. When it was bought more than a hundred years ago, it was almost twice the size of this place, but later it was sold off in pieces, and now there is still a protected area. This thing It's not the government, but the Melika family. About 1 acres of land, including lakes and forests, provide a safe habitat for nearby birds and small animals.

The RV campground is near the reserve, with an area of ​​almost [-] acres, which may accommodate hundreds of RVs, and can also guarantee the privacy of each RV space.

For example, the poor here will not harass you. Although they are poor, these people are not beggars. Most of them come here to join forces temporarily because of various reasons, and they can't live anymore. Of course, It might also last forever.

But these things have nothing to do with Zhang Chi and the others.

After entering the campsite, the car was parked at the designated location, and everyone started to pack up and cook.

Naturally, Zhang Chi will do the cooking, Zhao Yue and Duan Shu will help, and Zheng Bohong will rent a car with Melika.

The big car comes with its own car, but the car that comes with it is too small. An old Volkswagen is the Beetle, but it is not the original classic car, but a replica.

How many people you want to sit on this thing is really too much to think about.

So thinking of the racetrack, you have to rent a car now, so that it is possible to accommodate everyone at once.

The stall was rolled out, and Zhang Chi started to roast meat, roast beef, in addition to roast beef, there were rolled pancakes, fried shredded potatoes, blanched lettuce, soybean sprouts and so on.

In the campsite, while eating barbecue and burritos, I listened to the radio, especially with coins. Of course, watching TV is not impossible, but watching TV at this time is not a waste of money to rent a car, so everyone They were all sitting outside, eating and looking at the sky.

The sports news on the radio, of course, is the upcoming Presley Trophy, and the announcer is introducing the horses that will be on the field.

Of course, the highlight is Sha Damu, the champion of the last Kentucky Derby. Naturally, there will be a lot of great secrets, because in the Presley Championship, Sha Damu does not seem to pose any challenge to the Great Secret.

Who doesn't know now that Silly Damu is a long-distance horse, and its characteristic is that it strikes from behind, and the faster it goes back, the faster it goes, while the Great Secret Realm is the king of short and medium distances, 900 meters. Silly Damu wants to challenge the big horse at this distance In the secret realm, whoever is faster is the school sprint champion challenging Su Bingtian.

As for the other horses, the narrator introduced them very vigorously, but everyone felt that these guys were here to grab the No.3 bonus, and the first and second had little to do with them.

At this time, Zhao Yue suddenly asked Melika: "By the way, have you got the bonus from your family?"

Melika was taken aback when she heard this, and the hand that was wiping the corner of her daughter's mouth stopped: "Why are you asking this? Do you want to borrow money?"

Zhao Yue said: "What kind of money do you want to borrow? I have enough money to spend now, and I don't have anything to spend it on. I just want to ask."

"I received it, and I paid back all the debts owed to the bank," Melika said.

After receiving the money, the couple returned all the money in the bank. Now the couple does not owe a penny in foreign accounts, but they still have three melons and two dates in their hands.

Zheng Bohong said: "The bonus this time will come again soon, and the pockets will bulge again."

"It's not too much, it's just that life is getting better." Zhang Chi smiled with a little complacency.

Zheng Bohong said: "Then what are you going to do next, continue to buy the ranch?"

Zhang Chi said: "That's the plan, but it's very difficult to choose a good pasture."

Duan Shuyi said at this time: "Didn't it mean that your neighbor is going to die, why is he still strong now?"

"I think it's just someone talking about it. How do we know about this?" Zhang Chi shook his head.

If Lao Liu dies, there will be no movement on this matter now, not to say that the flag is covered up, but it is brewing, and a storm seems to be about to blow.

As for how to scratch, there is something that a small person like Zhang Chi can know. Not to mention that he is an ordinary person in China, even if he is in the United States, his real influence is in the small town of Amber and its surrounding areas.

As for being older, Zhang Chi is not as influential as his own wife. Of course, Zhang Chi and Melika are now a little famous. Not bad, so I started to give Zhang Chi and his wife a little support.

Don't think that there are so many things like this. This is just a strategy that a big family like the Melika family should have. If it can be supported, it is a peripheral family, and if it cannot be supported, it is fine.

Of course, if you are very fierce, it is not impossible to stand in the inner circle.

This method is roughly what we Chinese call raising cups. All the children of the family will be released if they can, and you can get the support of the family with your ability, and you may enter the family's final circle with your ability.

It is precisely because of this that these old American families can exist for hundreds of years, and even started with the United States until now.

Melika and his wife said that they were re-admitted, but that's not enough. They just thought you were okay and had a little money, so they gave you a certain amount of help.

The most important thing is that it benefits both sides, and the help they give is not for nothing. The main help is that they can borrow a sum of money quickly and at a low interest rate. Other banks lend money much faster.

There is an old saying that you need to be hard to strike an iron!
It is always unreliable to rely on others. If they can give you something today, they can take it away tomorrow, so Melika and Zhang Chi have not broken their current bank connection.

Of course, Zhang Chi didn't understand these things, and they were all arranged and decided by Melika. After marrying into Lao Zhang's family, Melika considered issues from the standpoint of Zhang's family.

To Melika, this is not betrayal, but maturity.

Zheng Bohong suddenly said at this time: "I have some news here, I don't know if it is true or not."

"Oh?"

As soon as Zhang Chi heard what Zheng Bohong said, he suddenly regained his energy and straightened his body: "Speak and listen."

Zheng Bohong said: "I heard from my brother that your old Liu has recruited someone, and he is also a man with a strong back...".

Zhang Chi didn't want to know about this nonsense, it was nothing more than those few ways. To be honest, Zhang Chi was quite tired of this kind of thing, and he took tricks and plundered.

"His energy is not small," Duan Shuyi said: "He is a veteran traitor, and his relationship with some people in the United States is really good like wearing a pair of trousers. This time, maybe the two sides will join forces...".

Melika didn't say a word when she heard this.

Zhang Chi, on the other hand, was confused when he heard it. How could a person of his background have the understanding of the rest of the people? No, not at all. People would know that it was about to rain when they heard a little wind. Zhang Chi, he would not know until the rain fell. rain size.

This thing is called family edification, and it is not something that ordinary people's children want to pretend or can pretend.

(End of this chapter)