It was just a visit, and it didn't make any waves.

Irvine is not far from Los Angeles, and it happened to be a holiday, so after leaving Lambold's house, I drove to downtown Los Angeles, and it was already early ten o'clock in the evening when I arrived.

Dad told Zhang Xiaokai that he had come to Los Angeles once when he was a child, but Zhang Xiaokai was still young at that time and had no impression at all.

Because of Hollywood, Los Angeles is more famous internationally than San Francisco, in fact, the two are equally powerful, Los Angeles has more advantages in the field of culture and tourism, and the San Francisco Bay Area is the cradle of IT and other high-tech industries, compared to Los Angeles is more suitable for living, whether it is the pace of life or the cost of living, it is much better than San Francisco, San Francisco's ultra-high prices and housing prices have long been famous in the United States.

The next day, I walked around the city, went to Hollywood, and left for the next hurried home, and when I got back to school, it was already six hours later.

Putting down his son, Daddy Zhang rested for a while and continued to set off, still some way from Cleveland Ranch......

Campus life seems full and boring.

Zhang Xiaokai is not a character who is bullied, and no one can bully him at will.

He didn't have many friends at school, and people wouldn't call him at parties, which gave Zhang Xiaokai a lot of time to do his own thing, and in order to prepare for the exam in December this year, he made one exercise after another, and often communicated with the teachers in charge of further education, asking how to get the favor of top universities.

Teacher Chris Stewart seems to have disappeared and has not been seen again for more than half a month.

When he appeared in front of Zhang Xiaokai again, it was already December.

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The last ACT test of the year is tomorrow.

Temporarily cramming and continuing to sprint, Zhang Xiaokai has been preparing for this exam for more than three months, in addition to eating and sleeping, even class time is spent on brushing questions.

I studied a few years less than other students, and I didn't have much confidence in my heart, I just wanted to try first, and it was naturally good to get a high score, and it didn't matter if I couldn't get it, I could take the test many times anyway, so there was no need to be nervous.

At this time, Mr. Stewart appeared in front of him with a thick stack of paper.

Zhang Xiaokai, who was standing at the door of the dormitory, asked him, "Have you already written?"

"Well, I've just finished the first draft, maybe you can take the time to take a look at it first, I try to be as realistic as possible, and some parts are literary, if it's not suitable, I can revise it. ”

Mr. Stewart seemed to have fulfilled his wish, and continued with a smile on his face: "There is a publishing house that is very interested in this book, and strives to send the finished manuscript to them before the holiday. ”

In fact, things are not as simple as Mr. Stewart said, he sent emails to more than 30 publishing houses, and only nine replied, and only one of them clearly expressed interest, and it is difficult to say whether it can be successful.

There is so much news around the world every day, and the accident in January this year has long been ignored, and the publishers are not charitable, but still have to make decisions based on sales prospects.

People have more things to do, the original reading time has been divided into games, social networking, shopping and other mobile phone software, the golden age of publishers is long gone, old authors can still rely on the fan base to get thriving, like Stewart, new authors, it's hard to say whether there will be publishers willing to promote.

The accident was actually only important to the Zhang family, the Lanbao family, and the family where the plane pilot worked, and the others at most expressed sympathy when they heard the news, and forgot about it in a blink of an eye.

Zhang Xiaokai thought about this, so he was actually more rational about the distribution prospect than the fanatical Mr. Stewart, and carefully took the stack of papers and placed them on the table.

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Cleveland Ranch.

Ms. Xie Li communicated with Daddy Zhang several times, and then applied for a total of $3 million from her superiors.

This money is a deposit to maintain cooperation, provided that such good beef cattle can continue to be raised after the beginning of spring next year, if the quality of beef cattle declines, all the contracts signed so far will be nullified, and the remaining large amount of money should not be mentioned.

The purchase price has reached 70% of the selling price of Australian Wagyu, which can be almost 6,000 to 7,000 US dollars a head, and the purchase of calves is only a few hundred US dollars.

The Cleveland Ranch is only responsible for raising cattle, and the promotion and sales are all done by Wal-Mart, and there is a lot of beef in the world, but there is very little top-quality beef.

Since the beef cattle were raised last year, a group of high-end restaurants and well-known chefs have been frantically promoting this so-called "Cleveland beef", thinking that it is a new hybrid breed, and it has quickly become a signature dish in many restaurants.

Sheep too.

At that time, Tyson Foods did not know about it, and it was mixed with other similar mutton and sold to the outside world.

So that some people feel delicious after tasting it, and when they go to buy it, the taste is already different, and they sell the good mutton at the price of cabbage, and then whether it is cattle and sheep or sea fish, they are served by Wal-Mart, although I don't know why, but Ms. Xie Li just thinks that the ranch is very different, and naively thinks that there are no breeding skills that have not been revealed.

She came to the door with money, even if the breeding failed, she didn't have to compensate, such a good business, how could Daddy Zhang disagree.

Zhang Xiaokai, the "actual owner" of the Cleveland ranch, has signed the cooperation contract, which is currently only signed for one year, and the deposit will be used to purchase cattle and sheep after the beginning of spring, and the rest will be used to repay part of the bank loan.

Given today's debt ratio, $5 million is not a big deal, less than a quarter of the total value of Cleveland ranches.

It can only be said that because of ignorance, he is bold, in fact, Daddy Zhang doesn't even know what quality of beef Ms. Xie Li wants to purchase, so he wants to raise it casually like last year, and raise cattle and sheep in the Buddhist system.

Before leaving, Ms. Xie Li was very happy, and Daddy Zhang, who had suddenly solved the financial problem, was also happy, and immediately contacted several farms and placed an order, ready to raise more cattle and less sheep, and by the way, also purchased some turkey seedlings, ostrich seedlings and the like, and lived the life of a rancher with peace of mind.

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After reading the whole article, to be honest, Zhang Xiaokai was not satisfied, whether it was his own thoughts at that time, or the touching deeds of Mr. Lamber and his father, none of them were expressed.

It looks more like an outsider, expressing the accident in prosaic words, as casually as asking someone if they have eaten breakfast.

Probably knowing something about Mr. Stewart's writing, he sighed, locked a pile of drafts in the cabinet, and went to work on the review first, and he was going to the exam room tomorrow, which was undoubtedly more important than the book.

There are eight students who will go to the exam tomorrow, the eleventh grade, and most of the students will start to take the exam, but most of them will be scheduled at the beginning of next year, close to the Christmas holiday, and many students have no intention of studying.

Counting Zhang Xiaokai, a total of nine people, pulling a group with each other, counting the other 11th and 12th grade students, there are more than 30 people in the chat group, with content ranging from sandwiches to Marvel movies, all of which are there, but there are no exam-related topics.

Zhang Xiaokai had already forgotten about it, but suddenly received news that a female classmate asked him: "Boy, I have a car, let's go together tomorrow?"

I don't like to be treated like a child, although I do get much younger than the other 11th and 12th graders.

Put down the pen and type back, "Thank you, give me your number, where will you meet tomorrow morning?"

The exam was arranged at another school, and I was going to take a taxi by myself tomorrow morning, and it would be better if I could save money by hitchhiking.

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