"It's okay, in fact, I envy them, they don't seem to deal with each other, but I can see that they have a good relationship, they just don't talk about it. Jin Yang said with a little envy.

This relationship is a bit like the friendship between his father and Uncle Li, which seems to be opposites, but in fact they are brothers.

Hank laughed, "You're right, these two guys just have hard mouths. ”

After hearing the two of them scolding, Jin Yang continued to say tentatively: "Eh, do you still need another cup of coffee?" I think I'd like to invite you to a drink and talk about the topic at the beginning. ”

As soon as the words fell, Jack couldn't wait to say, "Of course, thank you, everyone loves Hank's coffee, I don't think I can find a reason to refuse." But Hank, help me add less sugar, I've been getting a bit high blood sugar lately. ”

Andriy sneered again: "You miser, why didn't you pay for a drink just now?" After speaking, his voice changed, "Of course, a rich man like Jin, I am definitely reluctant to refuse such a reasonable request from him."

Hank, give me some more sugar, I'm not Jack's dead fat man. ”

Jin Yang almost didn't laugh out loud, the two of them looked really funny, one said less sugar, the other must have more sugar, no matter what they did, they didn't forget to taunt each other.

There is Hank, a café owner with obsessive-compulsive disorder and a love of cleanliness, a pair of funny rivals, a stingy, greedy fat man, and a malevolent looking guy with a little humor, which is interesting.

Hank's speed was very fast, and after the coffee came up, Andri and the two stopped arguing, and several people began to talk about the topic that Jin Yang asked.

In fact, there is nothing complicated, it is just that this year's drought seems to be more serious than in previous years, and there has not been a drop of rain for so many days, and the farmers are starting to get anxious.

The town is hit by drought, the farm is in danger of water shortage, large areas of pasture are facing the doom of withering, cattle and sheep are facing the end of having no grass to eat, and crops will die due to drought.

And the average small farm is family-run, don't look at any ranch can sell for tens of millions, or even tens of millions of dollars, they look like millionaires, multimillionaires.

But these are fixed assets, and you have to pay a large amount of real estate tax and land tax every year, although there will be subsidies, that is a subsidy for agricultural products, if the crops are dead due to lack of water, and the farm has become wasteland, who will give you a subsidy?

Again, do you need money for cattle and sheep feed? Usually forget it, you always have to have concentrate feed when fattening, right? And such as pesticides, machinery, etc., where do you not have to spend money?

So in fact, their lives are also tight, and once they encounter dry weather like this year, they will have to go bankrupt.

However, in fact, the situation has not reached the time of life and death, due to the Sun River, as well as many lakes and other reasons, the farms around Aideli are actually relatively well watered.

Even if the drought is more severe, everyone can still survive it, but life can be a little harder.

Everyone is most worried about the affairs of the rich in the east.

Because an oil field has been found in the land belonging to the government in the north of the town, although the reserves are only moderate, it is also a lot of wealth, and the town government cannot give it up, especially when the town of Edley is so desolate and poor.

At first glance, this seems to have nothing to do with these farmers, who extract other people's oil, you plant your farm, you herd your cattle, and the two have nothing to do with it.

However, this is not the case, and the development of oil fields will necessitate the laying of pipelines, and if the pipelines pass through rivers such as the Sun River, it is likely to reduce the flow of some of the rivers, which is not good news for the drought-stricken town of Edley.

It's even more devastating for some of the ranches downstream, and Jack's farm is in the lower reaches of the Sun River, so Jack said, "It's good to be able to afford a sandwich, damn it, if it doesn't rain anymore, I'm afraid I won't have any water to drink in the morning." ”

Jack was so flattering to Jin Yang just now, it was also because if his ranch really couldn't hold on, he wanted to sell the ranch, and the generous and wealthy Oriental tycoon Mr. Jin was of course the best choice.

It was under such circumstances that Mr. Ham, the mayor of the town and the president of the Edley Small Farms Association, would gather everyone to announce the decision of the town government.

The meeting started at nine o'clock, so early in the morning Andriy and Jack, the two old rivals, would get together and walk into Hank's Cafe at the same time, both of their ranches were downstream, and they had to care, but Andri's situation was slightly better, and he had more ranch lakes.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Jin Yang followed Andri and the two to the town government, where the party would be held.

"Andry, Jack, good morning, it's rare for you two to walk together!" said an old man in his fifties, with a slightly gray beard, but looking very energetic.

"Old Ham, if it weren't for the damn rich Easterners, I would have walked with this ugly Andry?" Jack didn't give a good face at all, and there wouldn't be any good news today anyway.

Andriy didn't speak, but looking at his expression, you could tell that he wasn't in a very good mood.

Old Ham is not surprised, if you do something harmful to others and self-interest, you have to allow others to complain, right? Still smiling, his gray beard swaying in the wind, and he looked in a good mood, "Sorry, I'm old, and my memory is always not very good." ”

Jack hurriedly said with an embarrassed face: "I'm really sorry, Old Ham, I forgot to introduce it, this is Mr. Jin, the owner of the famous Bauhinia Ranch." ”

"It turned out to be Mr. Jin, welcome, it's a pleasure to meet you. It's me who should say I'm sorry, you see my memory, I forgot to invite you. Old Ham became very enthusiastic when he heard this, and hurriedly invited Jinyang to go in, and wanted to lead the way himself.

Anything that forgets to invite is an excuse, and people don't plan to invite at all.

The Bauhinia Ranch is the largest irrigated ranch in all of Montana and has a large amount of water rights, including a large part of the Sun River, numerous lakes and a number of large and small tributaries in the pasture, which is not affected by drought at all.

Moreover, the owner of the ranch is a rich Chinese man, and he has never dealt with the people of Edley Town, so Ham didn't think about bothering others because of such a trivial matter that people didn't care about, so it would be bad if he offended the rich man.

However, people will take the initiative to come to the door, and Ham, as the initiator of the party, must give enough face.

Jin Yang hurriedly refused, joking, today's protagonist should be the mysterious eastern tycoon, not him, what does he mean by letting Old Ham personally take it in?

He didn't want to be the focus. You must know that 99% of the farmer this time came with hatred for the mysterious rich man, and he didn't want to block the gun.

It's actually a farmer's party, very simple, where everyone sits casually, drinks coffee in groups, and constantly discusses something.

Jinyang is very low-key, although many people are also very curious about the sudden arrival of an eastern face, but in today's atmosphere, they don't delve much into it, they are only interested in the eastern rich man today.