Chapter 9: Ronald Sr

Back in time, back in the wilderness.

Zhang Xiaokai fell into a coma as soon as he found the remaining plane, and his father was also unconscious due to sepsis, excessive blood loss and other reasons.

After the helicopter landed in the valley, the rescuers quickly rushed over, and other members of the search and rescue team also rushed from all directions, and after seeing the crushed Daddy Zhang, they decisively decided to saw off the broken leg, during which the man was not even conscious, and he did not wake up until he was sent to the plane.

Luckily, I was still seen by someone to see a large cloud of black smoke on the ground, this season the snow forest should not have spontaneously combusted, if the little girl Adlina was a little lax, and did not connect to the burning wheels, it was also a luxury to be rescued.

They were put on a helicopter while the rest of the search and rescue team continued to search for the other missing people in the woods.

The crash site of the plane is located in the Coville National Forest in the northeast of Washington state, close to the U.S.-Canada border, on the U.S. side, and there are usually very few people, and no one will go this winter.

At the time of the rescue, more than 60 hours had passed since the plane crash, and it was hard to imagine that there were still survivors, including a boy and a girl, in such cold weather.

Zhang Pei, Zhang's father was too seriously injured, and he was worried that the small hospital would not be able to treat him, so the helicopter flew all the way to the city called Spokane, which is located near Interstate 90, on the border with Montana.

Without a helicopter, it would have been impossible to get out of that snowy wasteland on your own.

Zhang Xiaokai had a high fever when he was found, and he caught a cold in that ghost weather, and it was difficult to guarantee that his life would not be in danger after delaying the treatment time......

Fortune is great.

In this way, in the past two days, Zhang Xiaokai has been staring at the ceiling in the ward in a daze for more time, how much he hopes that what has happened during this time is just a dream.

Every time I opened my eyes, I could see the same ceiling, and finally realized that my mother was no longer here.

I went to the intensive care unit to see my father a few times, and he was so emaciated that he couldn't bear to look at it anymore, worried that his father would also leave him, and more than 50 hours had passed since the operation, and he still hadn't woken up, and he already knew that this was a very, very bad result at his age.

The sadness came to the end, the whole person was in a trance, of course, there was also the cause of drugs, I had just been fed something by the nurse and ate something, and I wanted to be starved to death like this, but I wanted to survive, and finally opened my mouth obediently...... He hated himself for being like that.

I also hated the so-called insurance investigator and came to talk to him about compensation.

A little girl entered his room in the morning, Zhang Xiaokai didn't look at her, and didn't hear what she said, and then she was taken away by an adult, as if she was going back to attend the funeral, this word touched Zhang Xiaokai, and he was even more reluctant to listen to what she said.

The head was almost blank, and in the past few days, he didn't seem to notice that there was a white old man with pale hair in many places in his ward, and when it was time to be discharged from the hospital, Zhang Xiaokai was taken away.

His father would be transferred to a hospital in Oregon, where he would be temporarily kept alive by a machine.

Some doctors said that it might cost a lot of money, Zhang Xiaokai didn't care about the money, he just hoped that his father could wake up, I don't know what the old man said to the doctor, anyway, when he forcibly carried Zhang Xiaokai away, he only said that he would take his father, who might become a vegetative person, home to take care of him.

Sitting in an old pickup truck.

At first, he will be disgusted and want to vomit when he sees white snow, and then he will gradually lose sight of the snow and arrive at a new city after another.

The white old man who drove the car was short-tempered, he would scold when he saw the young man trying to overtake, and he would look disgusted when he ate a hamburger that was not in his taste, and every time Zhang Xiaokai didn't listen to him, he would be full of anger, but after all, he still didn't do anything to him, and after driving hundreds of miles, Zhang Xiaokai was still in his car and was not left behind.

is a very annoying old man, sometimes while the other party is sleeping, the teenager will think about why the police let the other party take him away.

My mind was blank before, and I missed a lot of information that I should have known......

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Ronald Cleveland has been an unlikable character since he was a child.

His father died in the war, his mother was paranoid and neurotic, milking cows for a living, and people didn't like his vicious mother, and they didn't like him.

When he was young, he became a cowboy, had a brief marriage, and worked on various ranches, and also worked as a shrimp fisherman for a while, cruising offshore with fishing boats.

Unknowingly, he is over sixty years old, and he is still working to make money in order to live, and he is trying to support himself, a lonely man.

Whenever there is a little money in hand, in addition to giving it to the tavern, it is some woman who has been trading in skin and flesh for a living. One is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer, a single person has lived for most of his life, and he has lived most of his life in a daze, and he has changed from little Ronald to old Ronald, which has always been a negative teaching material in people's mouths.

Not only do his peers disrespect him, but even young people will see him as a loser.

However, it is such a loser, and there was actually a day when the salted fish turned over, fate played a big joke on him, when he bought cigarettes, there happened to be no change in the convenience store drawer, and for the first time in his life, he bought a Powerball lottery ticket, and when he redeemed the prize, he got more than 20 million US dollars, and more before taxes.

That was four years ago.

is so inexplicably envied by others, there is no idea of moving to a big city, and there is no plan to spend money.

The rancher, who had given him more than a decade of job opportunities, persuaded him to buy his own marine ranch one day, and the old man who drank a lot of alcohol agreed to it, and drunkenly signed a paper towel for a full 20 million US dollars.

In fact, it is only worth about 16 million, because it is located in Oregon, there are not many buyers willing to buy, and it is difficult to say whether it can be sold for 15 million dollars, even if it depends on California, but after all, in Oregon, it is probably cheated.

The reason why it is called "marine ranch" is because the ranch is connected with the fishing ground by the sea, there are both fishing grounds and pastures, the former is not large, there are almost 4,300 acres of pasture on land, all kinds of facilities are quite old, the economic benefits are not high, and it is not even as good as the interest that can be obtained by buying money into national bonds, because occasionally there will be losses, especially for people with little experience like Ronald Sr. to take care of.

In this way, he has become the object of ridicule in the mouths of others, the difference is that there was only ridicule before, but now there is a slight envy in the ridicule.

At first, old Ronald thought it was good, and after he woke up, he didn't regret his annoyance, he wasn't a shrewd old man, on the contrary, he was a little stupid, and his head was never enough.

The marine ranch, which had not been sold for several years, suddenly changed hands at a high price, and as soon as the original owner got the money, he sold all the cattle and sheep, leaving only some crops that were not yet ripe, as well as various tools, and ran away with the money to Los Angeles, which he had been thinking about for a long time, and it was said that he lived near Beverly Hills and lived an upper-class life.

The old Ronald is left, there is not much money left after purchasing cattle and sheep, there is no sales channel, nor any management experience, the first two years have mortgaged the real estate and the leased fishing farm, borrowed a lot of money, and now there is not much money left.

I couldn't stand the fools, so I sold fishing boats, milking equipment, etc., and renovated cattle pens and sheep pens and irrigation equipment......