Little Life on An American Ranch

  Chapter 349 Worry

   After coming to the ranch for two or three days, Jian Zhenhua couldn’t do without the greenhouse every day, and Sun Xiuying took over the kitchen. Neither of them was as happy as Ning Ning. The little girl took over everything she could play in the ranch, including the snow outside the house.

  Jian Heng walked around the ranch and returned home. Looking left and right, he couldn't find anyone, so he asked his mother who was watching TV, "Where is Ningning?"

"Just now I went out with the lion and the little bear, why don't you go outside and look for it?" Sun Xiuying has no time to talk to her son now, because her attention is all on the screen, and what is on the screen is a domestic tracing program. ,Sun Xiuying is now watching with tears in her eyes, wiping her tears while staring at the screen.

  Jian Heng couldn't stand it anymore, and said to his mother: "Mom, don't watch this kind of show for nothing, don't cry your eyes out!"

   "This show is good," Sun Xiuying said casually.

Walking to his mother's side, and sitting sideways on the armrest of the sofa, Jian Heng pressed his mother's shoulders and rubbed them lightly a few times: "Wouldn't it be fun to watch something? Watch more variety shows, have fun." Happy."

   "It was all rehearsed and performed by humans, so it's not interesting!" Sun Xiuying still didn't leave the screen.

   "Then you can learn from Dad and watch the Avenue of Stars or something, can't you be happy?" Jian Heng said.

Sun Xiuying was a little unhappy when she heard her son nagging next to her, she stretched out her elbow and pushed the son next to her, with a little impatience in her tone: "Okay, what should you do, I see After a while, the TV will hear you nagging next to your ear!"

   "Okay, then I'll go out" Jian Heng looked at it, hey! I'd better withdraw earlier, or else my old lady would be really anxious to me when she came back.

After going out, Jian Heng began to find the little girl Ning Ning. Today Jian Heng was going to participate in the agricultural machinery exhibition. Although he went with Old Walsh, Jian Heng thought that he rarely took his younger sister out to play. Today he wanted to take his younger sister with him. Let's go for a stroll in the city together. In fact, the most important thing is that with this little girl by my side along the way, it's easier to drive when someone talks. Anyone who has driven long distances alone knows this.

After looking around for Jian Heng, he couldn't find where the little girl had gone, so Jian Heng had to get into the car alone, and drove all the way to the bar at the entrance of the town. Seeing that Old Walsh and Catherine hadn't arrived, he went in first to drink. a cup.

Now there are a lot fewer people in the bar. Of course, the bar’s business is still good, but because Jian Heng’s side and the fund are no longer cooperating, some research and the like have gradually withdrawn from the town. .

  Although the researchers left the town, some other people came to the town. They were reporters, and they were also entertainment reporters. Although there were not many of them, they were already very annoying.

   "Hello, Mr. Gene, may I buy you a drink?"

   As soon as Jian Heng entered the door, a short, bald man in his mid-thirties immediately showed kindness towards Jian Heng.

   "Thank you, I'm going to drive soon, so I can't drink." Jian Heng immediately made an excuse for himself.

Originally, Jian Heng wanted to come over to have a small drink, but when he saw this, Jian Heng immediately lost interest in drinking it. This is a paparazzi, that is, Yu Ji, who specializes in digging up celebrities' privacy and gossip. He came here The purpose is not for Peter the Great, or for the elf prince, anyway, it will not be for Jian Heng.

  But the paparazzi are also very professional. They have long known that the owner of the ranch is a young man like Jian Heng, so they naturally want to have a good relationship with Jian Heng.

Although the paparazzi want to have a good relationship with Jian Heng, Jian Heng doesn't want to talk to them, because if Jian Heng gets along with a paparazzi, it may affect his business. Celebrities usually pay attention to their privacy. If Heng and the paparazzi get too close together, what will the guests of the ranch think?

  When Sarah got a glass of water, Jian Heng sat directly beside the bar and drank it slowly.

  After Sara finished her work, she stood opposite Jian Heng and asked with a smile, "Why don't you continue to cooperate with the fund?"

   "It's not interesting, I'm going to change the direction of business here," Jian Heng replied.

   "By star?" Sara said.

   "It's not just a star!" Jian Heng said.

Just two days ago, Jian Heng received a call from New York. A judge from New York State was going to come to Jian Heng to control his weight while he was on his annual leave. A friend in the political arena of a prospective congressman, Mr. Prepared Congressman now controls his figure very well, especially in front of the camera, so he is very satisfied with the service provided by Jian Heng, so he recommended his fat friend to come and have a try.

   It was a judge who came, and he paid the money. Jian Heng naturally agreed. This is the first step for Jian Heng's ranch to reach out to the political arena.

   "By the way, Sara, please pay attention to me, who wants to sell a nearby farm, and it must have a greenhouse!" Jian Heng said.

  Sara said: "The price is not low. Those who have this kind of greenhouse are not like the small ones like yours, and they are at least more than 100 acres."

   "What I want is within 200 acres. I want such a farm mainly to solve the source of vegetables after the ranch," Jian Heng said.

   "Then let me take a look for you. Do you need one close to your ranch?" Sarah asked.

  Jian Heng nodded: "Of course."

Buying land here is very simple. If someone sells it, you can negotiate. If the price is right, you can find a lawyer to deal with the deal. of money.

  At this time, the door of the bar opened, and the old Walsh wearing a hat stood at the door, first smiled at Sarah, then waved to Jian Heng, signaling Jian Heng to leave.

  Seeing Old Walsh's movements, Jian Heng put down the water glass in his hand, thanked Sarah, and walked out of the bar.

   When he got outside, Jian Heng discovered that Old Walsh was with his girlfriend, while Catherine stretched out her hand to hold on to the door of her car with a smile on her face. It was clear from this posture that she was going to take Jian Heng's car.

As for why the four of them don't get together in one car, it's because as long as the old Walsh is driving, it must be his own broken pickup truck. I don't want to sit in it, and the old guy's car is still a two-seater, even if Jian Heng and Catherine want to squeeze into it, they can't do it.

  Old Walsh's car was in front, Jian Heng and Catherine were behind, Jian Heng had a talking partner along the way, and the car started to be a lot easier.

   "There will be heavy snow in a few days, how is the preparation of your ranch?" Catherine chatted with Jian Heng.

  Jian Heng smiled and said, "How about what I have over there? Just a few cattle and sheep, and it doesn't take much fodder. How about your pasture? I heard that someone has left?"

"Well, it's normal to come and go every year. Nowadays, young people don't like working in the countryside anymore. They all want to realize their life value in big cities. The wages are getting higher every day. Beef The price is the same as ten years ago, not much has changed, and I don’t know how long a ranch like ours can survive.” Catherine was a little worried.

Catherine’s worries are not her own. It is a true portrayal of many small and medium-sized ranches in the Midwest. The price of beef cannot go up. With the development of society, the depreciation of the US dollar will invisibly make the cost of small and medium-sized ranches higher and higher. , Compared with more modern and mechanized large ranches, the disadvantages are becoming more and more obvious, so the worries of these small and medium ranchers are chosen.

No one in the United States cares about this matter, nor does it suppress the survival of large ranches because of stability maintenance, so small and medium ranchers have to find a way to solve this crisis by themselves. Of course, they will become the prey of large ranches and lose several generations. man-run ranch.

   "Let's count on new technology" Jian Heng had no choice but to say so.

Because of Lao Pu's actions, a series of illegal immigrants were repatriated, causing a shortage of labor in the west, which invisibly magnified the worries of these small and medium-sized ranchers. There are not one or two ranches like Catherine, and Jian Heng has nothing now. Good way to fix it.

   This topic came up at once, and soon the two felt a little heavy, so they started chatting about Old Walsh's new girlfriend.

  Jian Heng didn't care about this matter, but it was the best way to pass the time, so chatting along the way, four people and two cars arrived at the exhibition site one after the other.

  (end of this chapter)