Chapter 69: I said I had money to make
The weather in mid-August was hot and dry.
When it was reported that the seeds had been in the cave for at least three hundred years, the treasure hunt in Brookings had gradually stopped.
For such a long time, if the existence of gold mines in the vicinity had been discovered, where would it have been until now, and some tribes of the Indians would have migrated and traded, and it is likely that they were brought from other places.
After feeling safe, Zhang Xiaokai once again put the golden bird into the river next to his home and put it in the deepest part of the water.
The Cleveland Ranch has biogas power generation that is now used to power pumps that pump water from the river to irrigate pastures, and by June the wheat fields have been harvested and planted with other crops that also need water for irrigation.
The most popular place for cattle and sheep to stay is on both sides of the river, no matter how good the grass grows, it will be easily eaten, and now the number of cattle and sheep has exceeded the load, and on average, each cow has to eat dozens of kilograms of fresh forage a day.
Daddy Zhang originally thought that he needed to buy a batch from other pastures, but now he doesn't need to look at it, after the forage on the hill is harvested, the warehouse is already full, enough to support it until after winter.
From the end of September and the beginning of October, grains such as wheat and soybeans are also used to fatten up, so less forage is needed.
After some struggle, Mr. Lamber finally agreed to sell the rights to make a movie, but he made it clear that he would not watch it even if it was made, but just wanted to wait for the little girl Adlina Lamborg to grow up and know what was going on through the movie, and remember that her parents loved her very much.
The only son is gone, and now Adlina is all that old Mr. Lambourg is, and originally said that he would come to Cleveland Ranch for another tour, but he gave up after learning that the temperature was also very high.
Zhang Xiaokai will contact the little girl from time to time, and the scope of communication is mainly limited to homework, and she already knows that she and her family went to Hawaii for vacation.
In addition to helping to take care of the ranch, but also finding time to write something, the original book about ranch life was put on hold for the time being, and only a happy ending can be completed, and now through the Indian treasure, trying to depict a legendary tribal story.
The Golden Bird's presence was replaced, replaced by a sword with magical powers, able to shelter the tribe and bring good weather against the invasion of outsiders.
In the fictional character stories in his own mind, combined with reality to create, for this reason, I also checked a lot of cultural traditions related to the Oregon Indians, and wrote them in the way of Chinese online novels.
is a character that is more suitable for writing novels, Zhang Xiaokai can sit still, has a lot of vocabulary, deletes, deletes, changes and changes, and by the end of August, he has almost completed more than half of it, and the more difficult it is to write at the end, he gave up for the time being.
Earlier.
He promised five groups of ranch employees that they could borrow fishing boats to go out to sea, and just yesterday, the last group returned from the sea.
They waited patiently until they felt that there were more fish near the fishing grounds before they started the challenge, and the largest group of fish caught in two days sold for $27,000 because they successfully caught three large swordfish.
The least only sold for more than 8,000 US dollars, and he didn't expect to live a good life with this money, and his salary was usually relatively stable, so he naturally didn't complain about anything, and pleaded that he hoped to continue to hold a competition next year, and Daddy Zhang had agreed.
Brought back a herd of alpacas at the beginning of the year.
Due to the high temperature during this time, these funny-looking guys suffered from heat stroke one after another, so they cut off all their hair, leaving only the hair on their heads.
Very few people will eat alpaca meat, some farms specialize in raising them to make money by selling wool, brown, white, black, this group of alpacas in the Cleveland ranch is more often raised as pets, the whole ranch is fenced, usually free-range, not afraid to run away.
Shopping on the Amazon online store with nothing to do, Zhang Xiaokai also took the initiative to buy some ostriches and peacocks to keep free-range, which made the Cleveland Ranch more lively, and built a large cage at the door of the house, the size of a basketball court, raising a group of blue peacocks.
Father Zhang thought that it was good for his son to be happy, and he would never say anything about this kind of thing, so he willingly paid for the construction of the cage and went to learn how to raise ostriches.
I have to say that the whole ranch is slowly getting better, and after being taken over by the father and son for more than half a year, everything has been on the right track, and there is a lot of thought to be put into it......
"My grandfather, has he called you recently, shouldn't he have been kidnapped by others and torn up tickets, or stayed alone in a small house and got sick?"
Ronald Sr. called me last month and asked me to help book two tickets from Munich to the Maldives, and the cost of the tickets was deducted from the agreed price, and it seemed that he was living a very good life, like a honeymoon. ”
Zhang Xiaokai was riding a horse, driving the sheep to the water's edge with his father, and asked with a strange face: "Two tickets, the other one should be for the woman who hooked the old man away in the first place, the one who likes to travel everywhere?"
"It's that she's right, she hasn't been separated for so long, maybe you can have another grandmother one day in the future, maybe the two have already gotten married somewhere, it's also possible. ”
The father and son gossiped about the private life of the elder Ronald, both wearing a wide-brimmed cowboy hat, and when the topic of the father changed, he asked: "In a few days, it is time to report to the school, when do you plan to go over, drive you, or train or plane?"
Zhang Xiaokai thought about it seriously and replied: "Let's drive, you can call two employees with better driving skills and follow us as a travel benefit, so that we can drive for eight hours in turn every day, and we will soon be able to reach Massachusetts." ”
Little Patrick, who happened to hear this, asked with a shocked face: "Four or five thousand kilometers away, are you sure this is not torture, but welfare?"
"Of course, you can rest for a day or two after that, and you can go wherever you want. From here to there, counting the unknown, three days is enough. ”
Zhang Xiaokai's words made little Patrick very speechless, "This kind of welfare will be given to others, sit in the car for two or three days, I am worried that I will die by then, and it will be two or three days away when I come back, and others will spend ten days, or even half a month to cross the mainland, your way of rushing is simply inhumane." ”
"It's such a long way, you can't take a car back and forth in the future, even if you only come back twice a year, I will have a lot of headaches. Daddy Zhang also felt that it was inappropriate, he drove to San Francisco on weekdays until he had back pain, and wanted to persuade his son to take a plane, but he was worried about recalling bad things.
It's hard to afford a long drive, especially the super long distance from the West Coast to the East Coast, Zhang Xiaokai can get there, they have to come back.
Thinking that he could fly with other people, it would be okay to leave the car in Massachusetts temporarily, and said helplessly: "Then do as you say, it looks like we have to leave early, little Patrick, give five hundred dollars for a trip, plus reimbursement for the air ticket back, will you go?"
“…… Go! I said I had made money!"
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