Irvine area, Orange County, California.

It is one of the affluent areas in California, with predominantly upper-middle-class families, with Latinos making up 10% of the population and Asian and Pacific Islanders accounting for 10%, mostly Chinese and Korean, with an annual household income of more than $80,000.

Not only is it famous for its sunshine, but it also has an entrepreneurial business environment, well-developed urban management and services, and excellent universities such as the University of California, Irvine are located here, attracting many wealthy middle-class people to flee the big city and settle in Irvine for the scenery and good security.

Heading south from Highway 1, enjoying the most charming coastal scenery in California, it was already past six o'clock in the evening when I arrived in Irvine, and I had spoken to Mr. Lambourt Sr. on the phone beforehand, and he had prepared dinner at home.

Zhang Xiaokai has never been here, a very new community city, there are not many high-rise buildings, the road is wide, there are trees on both sides, and the houses are blocked, and you can see any architectural style.

I just feel clean and comfortable, I don't like it or not, most of it is because I have lived in the ranch for a long time, and I will not feel envious when I see other people's homes with gardens, no matter how big the front and back gardens are, can I have the vast pastures of Cleveland Ranch?

The scenery is incomparable, Cleveland Ranch has more than three kilometers of winding coastline, as well as a large area of forests and lakes, since signing the transfer agreement, it feels different, from "Ronald Sr.'s ranch" to "himself and his father's ranch", more sense of belonging.

Growing up in San Francisco, he didn't think big cities were better than small rural towns, at least for now.

Old Mr. Lamber had visited the ranch, and today was a courtesy, bringing two bottles of red wine to the door, and sitting directly at the table, the little girl Adlina Lambourg was also there, she had lost some weight, and the baby fat on her face had disappeared, and she was obviously a little beauty embryo.

"I have only a modest relationship with Mr. Strauss, so he built the resort somewhere else, and I can't help it, I'm sorry. ”

This is to say that the owner of the transportation company who went to the ranch a few months ago to investigate, because the geographical location is not advantageous, after buying the gray whale body, he has not mentioned the construction of the resort, and has broken off contact.

"It's okay sir, thank you for your help, now that my father and I have bought the Cleveland ranch and paid it to my grandfather in installments, maybe when we have the money in the future, we can build a resort at our own expense. Zhang Xiaokai said, he was enjoying an appetizer, the caviar was charming in color and full of pieces.

The house was so large that it looked like a small castle, and even in the wealthy Irvine area, the Lambers' family was one of the more powerful ones, making money mainly from the paper processing business, running a paper mill in Southeast Asia and selling it back to North America.

Daddy Zhang then spoke: "Speaking of this, you have been sending checks to my son for the past few months, and I was in a coma at the time and didn't know, but now that I have gradually recovered, and the business has started to take off, there is really no need to continue to pay us this money." In that environment, everyone would choose to help each other, except because his grandfather had cashed some loans, and I brought the checks for the last two months. ”

"That's my son's decision, there's no way to make him change his mind, if you insist on refusing, I'll set up a trust fund in the name of Little Matt or you, please don't refuse. ”

Old Mr. Lambold, who didn't care about any money or not, quickly turned the topic to the purchase of the ranch and asked Daddy Zhang if he had decided to settle over there, so that the dinner would not seem deserted and not touch privacy.

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They drank wine and chatted, and old Mr. Lamber asked Adlina to take Zhang Xiaokai around.

The front and back entrances are marked with beautiful gardens, the lights are on at night, and the water in the pool is blown by the evening breeze, and the surface ripples, emitting a blue-white glow.

Located in the center of the community, with the occasional car passing by, and no horn noise, Adlina walked in front, Zhang Xiaokai followed behind, and a fat pit bull also followed, with saliva dripping from his mouth, looking rather stupid.

"How are you lately, what grade are you in now?"

It's purely useless, Zhang Xiaokai and Adlina don't have much contact, and there is nothing to talk about.

One is thirteen years old and the other is ten years old, because they have known each other early and have similar experiences, so it is not too awkward to be alone.

"Fourth grade, what about you?"

Adlina stopped, looked back at him, hesitated for a moment before continuing: "It's not bad, my grandparents were very nice to me, and they took me to Disneyland last month, but I only dared to sit on coffee cups and merry-go-rounds, why didn't you bring that fat cat here." ”

"In 11th grade, I was already getting ready for college, the cat was on the ranch, and I recently went to study near San Francisco. ”

Walking around the small garden, we went into the house again and sat together on the sofa in the living room.

I don't believe that Zhang Xiaokai has entered the eleventh grade, and in Adlina's impression, senior students should be taller and more like adults.

After learning that she had skipped a grade, she had a desperate expression on her face, because Adelina's grades were not very good, and she had a hard time coping with her fourth-grade homework, and she was most afraid of tests and homework.

didn't mention these embarrassing things, she already knew that she wanted to save face, and the original impression of Zhang Xiaokai was not clear in her mind, but she instantly rose to the point of being like a big mountain, and was classified into the category of "other people's children" The smart students, their delicate little faces were full of melancholy, and they asked a topic of self-abuse: "Then which university do you plan to go to?"

"It's not clear for the time being, the top ten schools in the United States, if it's convenient at that time, maybe I'll try Harvard, Yale, the best target is Caltech, but I haven't found the major I want to study. ”

The work is still too far away from Zhang Xiaokai, to be honest, now he wants to work with his father, just run the ranch, with the treasure in the river, it doesn't seem difficult to make money, just enough to spend.

It will be very hard to work for others, and he has experienced the days when his father traveled all day, so that Zhang Xiaokai does not want to sell his time to those bosses at a low price.

For the future, I am still very confused, and I have not found the path I really like.

Sitting on the sofa and watching TV together, Zhang Xiaokai didn't know that he had quietly become the kind of person that Adlina thought was very, very powerful......

Father Zhang told Mr. and Mrs. Langbao about writing a book, and the old couple did not object too much, but only said that they would show it to the two of them when they were done, and then they sat in the living room together and chatted.

Far away in Salem, the state capital of Oregon.

Ms. Shelly, who is in charge of procurement, has recently been caught in a difficult situation.

The cattle purchased from the Cleveland Ranch have been slaughtered, processed in a factory assembly line, divided into individual bags, and sent to Walmart supermarkets for sale.

The origin is only written in Oregon, and the beef breed is subdivided into "Cleveland Angus Cattle", as well as "Cleveland Charolais Cattle", the meat quality and taste are so good that they can definitely sell at sky-high prices, and create a new breed name to come out, which is more conducive to promotion.

None of this is a problem, the company will definitely make a lot of money from it, and Ms. Shelly will also get a big bonus.

But she felt that if she wanted to continue to cooperate, she would definitely not be able to give the previous price, once the Chinese father and son knew the real price of beef, or the source of beef by their peers, because of this year's low-price purchase, it would ruin the reputation of themselves and Wal-Mart.

On the other hand, after communicating with the head office, her boss took the initiative to keep hundreds of cattle as breeding cattle, and the company is fully capable of cooperating with others to raise them, and maybe they will never use Cleveland Ranch in the future.

Come and think about it.

In the end, she decided to continue the relationship and create a high-end beef brand by herself, as long as the beef and mutton quality is good enough, she is willing to increase the purchase price by two or three times!

Anyway, it's not out of pocket, and those beef cattle are really worth so much money, and now the batch of beef from the Cleveland ranch in the Walmart beef sales area is only sold for a little less than the top Wagyu beef.

It's a bit risky to set that high price, but everyone who has tasted this beef feels that it's worth the price......