Since returning from the prison visit, Daddy Zhang's mood has not been good.

At about eleven o'clock in the evening, Zhang Xiaokai got up to go to the bathroom, and saw him sitting alone on the balcony in a daze, with a few bottles of beer in his hand.

The drowsiness dissipated suddenly.

The moon stars are scarce, and the warm breeze blows on the body.

Standing on the balcony, you can also see the little white bear playing in the garden below, catching insects and jumping around.

Mocha doesn't like to stay at home, and after being locked up, he will keep making noise, and now his range of activities is around here, and he is not afraid that he will get lost if he is kept outside, and the land of Cleveland Ranch is fenced off on three sides.

"The doctor said you can't drink alcohol, and you've been taking medicine lately. ”

The balcony was wide, and in addition to the two chaise longues, there was a small round table, where the elder Ronald liked to lie and listen to the radio in his spare time.

Zhang Xiaokai didn't mean to stop him, he sat down next to his father after speaking, picked up a bottle of beer, opened the pull ring and tilted his head to take a few sips.

Being young doesn't mean that there are no worries, his father's hand just raised, and then slowly put it down, feeling funny, and asked: "Look at you like this, isn't it the first time you've drunk beer?"

"I had an open-air barbecue with them some time ago, and I had some drinks, and that was the night you first regained consciousness. ”

"Oh, I was still confused at that time, I didn't find it, otherwise you would be miserable. ”

Zhang Xiaokai shrugged indifferently, and did not mean to put down the can, and replied:

"The old man likes to drink, and he is already addicted to alcohol, so I didn't plan to bring it to him today, but I am afraid that the old man will be too uncomfortable. When he went back to visit the prison, he scared me that he had a friend who had been sent by his family to be forced to quit drinking, and that he was almost 70 years old.

Don't look at him as a serious lesson to you today, in fact, it's not like that, what he said is not right, the plane had an accident...... It's not your fault, my mother had a lot of fun in that forest farm, and said that she would stay longer when she had the chance. ”

Since Daddy Zhang woke up, Zhang Xiaokai took the initiative to talk about that incident for the first time.

At the age of twelve, Zhang Xiaokai was stimulated to mature after experiencing an accident, and he already had the ability to distinguish between right and wrong.

During the day, the old man said that because he went to Canada and took a plane, he had the accident in January, but in fact it was a plane failure, which led to the accident, which no one could have predicted before.

Daddy Zhang's original intention was just to take the mother and son out for a walk during the holiday, Zhang Xiaokai and his mother are also very yearning, and the order of cause and effect cannot be wrong.

Knowing that his father was very sad, so when he visited the prison, he saw the old man put the fault on his father's head, Zhang Xiaokai was so excited, to be honest, he didn't think that old Ronald had helped his mother in his mother's life, and his grandmother had raised his mother alone since he was a child, and his life was not easy.

Therefore, he didn't think that the old man had reason to accuse his father of doing something wrong, he had learned from his mother since he was a child that his father had been working hard to make them live a good life.

I didn't really resent old Ronald, I had lived together for so long, I knew how weird the old man's temper was, and now I just hoped that my father wouldn't be trapped in the knot.

Still sober, not drunk enough to talk openly with his son.

Daddy Zhang reached out and touched Zhang Xiaokai's head, and said with a smile: "I'm fine, your mother is most concerned about you when the plane loses power, as long as you are healthy and happy, I don't think she will have any regrets." Go back to sleep, drink less, the more you drink this thing, the more sad it becomes, I'll go back to my room later, I can do it myself. ”

I really bowed my head and left.

If he doesn't leave, Zhang Xiaokai is worried that his father will see his red eyes......

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read books more diligently, and the games in the computer were also uninstalled, and grief made Zhang Xiaokai mature quickly.

If Ronald doesn't come back, Daddy Zhang can't leave the Cleveland Ranch to help take care of the business here, the income is okay, the expenses are also relatively large, and the money in the account is increasing.

The time crept into May, and the fruit tree saplings were planted.

The huge gray whale on the beach was also taken away by the car, and Mr. Morgan Strauss was kind enough to pay the ranch $60,000 as a windfall.

However, the matter of the resort was not mentioned, which made Zhang Xiaokai can't help but feel that the project is probably yellow.

had the idea of letting his son go back to school first, but Zhang Xiaokai didn't agree, saying that he studied better, and he had too many memories of the city of San Francisco, so that Daddy Zhang felt that he was not ready to return to his previous life, so he didn't mention it again.

They didn't regard this house as their own home, and they didn't think about the wealth of old Ronald, like outsiders who came to spend the night, and they made do with it first, and even Logan nurse's salary was paid by Daddy Zhang's own pocket.

After the prosthesis was delivered, it was not bad to use, and the recovery period was certainly not short, and the amputation site was often worn out of the skin, and it was not comfortable until the calluses were worn out.

However, since other people can use it, Zhang Xiaokai believes that his father will no longer need wheelchairs and crutches one day in the future, and the deep memory of January is fading with the passage of time, and the smile on his face is gradually increasing.

The knot is still there, but it doesn't hurt so much when I think about it.

On May 3rd.

The sky was overcast, accompanied by bursts of thunder.

Seeing that it was about to rain, Zhang Xiaokai rode a horse and drove the cattle into the forest.

It doesn't rain long this season, so there's no need to waste energy sending it to the cattle pen, the temperature is not cold, and it's okay to rain for a short time, and there are leaves on it.

The little white bear Mocha can't get along with the fat cat at home, and the friends who usually play with them are a few shepherd dogs, and after being taken on the crooked road over time, this much larger white spirit bear also learned to drive cattle and sheep, and at this moment he followed Zhang Xiaokai's side, and occasionally barked.

The forest is full of thick and strong trees, mainly sequoias, these trees grow in the Cleveland ranch, strictly speaking, the owner of the land does not have the right to dispose of it, they are all two or three hundred years old, if a large number of them can be cut down and sold, the value is not low.

This is the case in the United States, even if people plant trees in front of their homes, sometimes they do not have the right to cut them down and sell them, and in recent years, the regulation has become more and more stringent, otherwise it is absolutely no problem to use so many old trees in exchange for thousands of dollars.

Thinking of so many bank arrears, I feel distressed once I go into the forest, but fortunately, even if the worst happens, this pasture and fishing farm are sent to auction, and the old man can still have a lot of money left, and there is absolutely no problem in living.

But when he thought of such a beautiful place, it might be gone, Zhang Xiaokai inevitably felt pain for the old man.

Both he and Daddy Zhang thought that they would not need to repay the loan until the end of the year, but things did not go as expected, and the bank was already considering repaying the loan early......

The president of the small bank was Jewish, and he was a cousin of Burns, a fish merchant.

Just last week, Burns had just sold all of Amazon's stock because of the news of declining earnings that made him feel the company was starting to become dangerous.

With a lot of cash in hand and no other safe means of investment, Burns invited his cousin to dinner and talked alone about buying the Cleveland ranch, and no matter how bad it was, he would take over the prolific fishing grounds.

Banks generally do not easily recover in advance after lending, and they have to have an excuse if they want to recover early.

This is not difficult, after all, after all, few people take out a loan and use the funds for the projects filled in during the loan application, not to mention that the borrower Ronald Sr. is still in prison, and it is difficult to guarantee that the loan will be repaid on time, and there is a risk of default.

Burns, a seafood merchant, feared that if the old man got out of prison and divided the ranch to sell it for cash and use the money to pay off the loan, the Cleveland ranch would no longer be complete, and that was not what he wanted.

If all goes well, you can make more than a million dollars in profits in the flip deal, and you may make millions of dollars, which makes Burns and the little bank president both move their minds and hit it off......