Barbara looked at the clothes on his body and felt like a famous brand, and couldn't help but feel a little worried: "Link, there is a newspaper that there is a Chinese surnamed Hans who has won a lot of money gambling in Las Vegas. That Hans, that's you, right?"

Link stopped and said with a smile, "Yes, Mom." I am that Hans. It's a secret, though!"

Barbara lost a smile on her face and said, "Link." You're an adult, maybe I shouldn't interfere in your life. But you have to understand that gambling is never the road to success. And you have to know that the casino is always the one that wins. ”

Link knew that although Barbara and Jeff had lived in Nevada for more than ten years, they had never even played slot machines and had a very bad impression of gambling. He stopped, turned his head and said to her, "Mom, I understand what you said. So I came back. I didn't make gambling my career, and I didn't get addicted. ”

Receiving his promise, Barbara smiled and said, "I know you're a smart kid! ”

She paused for a moment and asked, "What's your plan next?"

"I want to buy St. Thomas. ”

"Buy St. Thomas?" Barbara didn't understand for a moment what he meant. "You're going to buy the land to the south?"

St. Thomas was once also a town in the Moapa Canyon, but after the Hoover Dam was built, it was submerged. Of course, all the townspeople moved away. It was later opened up as a tourist attraction. It's just that there were people driving yachts to see that attraction under the water before, but now no one visits it.

Today, the site has resurfaced as the water level of Lake Mead has dropped. Because the land of Marina's Farm is bounded by the shores of the lake, and now that the shores of the lake are retreating, the land is owned by Marina's Farm.

"Yes, I'm going to buy Marina Farm, and two other farms, but that's going to have to wait for the consulting agency to evaluate whether or not to buy it. Of course, I'd like to hear your and Dad's opinions as well. ”

"Well, let's go home first. When Barbara suddenly heard the news, she couldn't give a very good opinion for a while.

When they entered the house, Barbara said, "I have cleaned my room, you can put your luggage back in your room first, and lunch will be ready soon." ”

Link dragged his suitcase to the staircase, just as he met Alice walking briskly downstairs.

Seeing Link, a big smile appeared on her round face and she said, "Link, I heard that you bought a great new car. ”

Link knew that this was probably what Cox had told her. He nodded and said, "Yes, that's a great car." If you're interested, I can take you for a ride. ”

"Really, can Lily go along?"

Alice was talking about Lily, who was her good friend, more than a year older than her, and now she was almost fifteen years old, and she was a blonde little beauty. Lily lives in the Carrasendre neighborhood to the north, and has often come to the house to play in recent years, and Link knows each other.

He nodded and said, "Of course." ”

"I'm going to tell Lily the good news. Alice ran downstairs to make a phone call.

Link carried his luggage upstairs into the room where he had been gone for more than a month. The room was very clean, and the camphor Buddha statue he had bought from China was still on the computer desk.

He didn't bring much luggage, just a change of clothes, which he took out of his luggage and hung them in the closet. It didn't take long for my luggage to be packed. He was about to change his clothes when there was a knock on the door.

He went to open the door and found Cox outside: "Cox, what's wrong?" He closed the door and began to change clothes.

Cox sat down on the bed and said, "Hey, Link. You know I'm going to be sixteen soon. ”

"Uh-huh. There is still a month and twenty-one days. Link didn't understand what he meant, but he didn't ask, just changed his clothes. "Are you trying to remind me to buy a birthday present in advance?"

"I would say that my dad agreed to help me buy my first car. You know I've saved some money, about 1,200 dollars, and Mom and Dad plan to sponsor 1,500 dollars, and Alice is willing to sponsor 100 dollars. That adds up to a budget of $2,800. ”

Many American children buy their first car as adults. And a sixteen-year-old can already get a driver's license to drive.

Kosk will soon be sixteen, so it is only natural that the Hans plan to buy him a car. However, the budget is only more than 3,000, unless it is a credit card, otherwise this budget can only buy a second-hand car. However, at this price, you should be able to buy a good second-hand car, but the age of the car may be relatively old.

"Need my advice?" said Link with a smile as he put on his coat.

"I mean, aren't you going to sponsor a little bit? You see Alice has sponsored a hundred dollars of pocket money. Cox looked exaggeratedly surprised.

Link laughed and said, "I'm kidding you." He thought for a moment and said. "Since it's your first car, of course I'm going to sponsor some. But how much do you want me to sponsor?"

Cox held out a finger and asked, "Is 1,000 okay? If I can, I have a budget of 3,800 yuan to buy a 70 percent new car." You drive a G65 of 200,000, and my brother can't drive a broken car to disgrace you. ”

Link sneered, it turned out that this kid had already checked the price of his car. However, he only offered for a thousand sponsorships, which was not greedy: "A thousand is no problem. Maybe later you need to think about the cost of refueling. ”

"YEAY!" said with a cheer of a thousand successfully dug up from Link. "I'll work hard in the summer to make money for gas. ”

As soon as Cowsk got excited, he became worried, "But Jeff may lose his job at Bali's fishery, and Barbara says we may have to move." ”

"You're sure Barbara said that?"

Of course, I'm sure I heard her say that. With agriculture underdeveloped and few fishing grounds in Nevada, Jeff struggled to find work in Nevada. Not to mention in Moapa Canyon. Know that there are only two fishing grounds in Moapa Canyon. ”

"That's really a problem. Link looked at him and said. "Would you like to leave Moapa then?"

"Even though Jeff might find a job in a big city, I still prefer to live here. Here are my friends. Maybe I'll leave here to work in a big city in the future, but I don't want to leave yet. ”

Link nodded and said, "Then you can rest assured that even if Jeff wants to move, he won't move because of work." ”

It seems that when Jeff returns, he will talk to him about buying Marina's farm as soon as possible. Now Jeff must be planning his new job, and maybe he'll decide to move out if it's too late.

Cox was about to speak when Link heard his adoptive mother calling them downstairs. He said, "All right, it's time for us to go down for lunch." ”

He said as he took out ten green bills from his wallet and said, "This is to sponsor you to buy a car." Don't mess around. "He was worried that he had forgotten.

"Thank you, Link! If there's anything I need to do, it's free. Taking the money, Cox's face was shining with pimples.

The two brothers go downstairs and Link finds Jeff back. He looked at Jeff's relaxed look on his face as if he was about to lose his job.

"Link, is the G65 outside a new car you bought?" Seeing Link nodding, he said with a smile. "Great car. Also, welcome back, kid!"

"Thank you, Daddy!" Although he is only an adoptive father, Link enjoys the love of his closest relatives in the Hans family. "Hear my mom say that Bali's fishing grounds are for sale?"

"Yes. The Barry family is planning to move to California. I was going to sell the fishing grounds. ”

Jeff paused and asked, "I heard Barbara say that you plan to buy Marina Farm?"

"Oh my God, Link, you're going to buy Marina Farm?" exclaimed Alice. "It's a big farm. Maybe later I can ride a horse there. ”

In Nevada, because of the climate, there are not many large farms, and even if there are, they are not abundant. In the vicinity of Moapa, there are only two or three large farms, all on the shores of Lake Mead, and Marlena is one of them.

Nevada's western cowboy culture is quite well-developed, such as the annual rodeo in Las Vegas or in Renault. Horseback riding is not new to Nevada residents. Alice has been raising a mare on her best friend Lily's family farm, and she has been raising a horse for a long time. It's just that for a family like Hans's, there is no place to raise horses. I want to be fostered on other farms, and I don't have a budget for this kind of expenses.

Now that Link is going to buy a farm, her first thought is that there will be a place to raise horses in the future. But she didn't expect that she didn't have the money to buy a horse now.

Link smiled and said, "Yes, if I can buy Marina Farm, I can give you a horse." However, it is now necessary to wait for the evaluation agency to evaluate before deciding whether to buy or not. One of his last sentences was to remind Alice not to go outside and shout, while also explaining to Jeff.

Jeff also heard his wife hint just now, and the Hans they heard about who won a lot of money in the casino was their Hans, and knew that his adopted son was rich now. He didn't ask Link about the money, he just thought for a moment and said, "I've been to serve them at Marina's Farm." The farm had no irrigation system, no farmland, and no grass on the pastures because of the cost of the terrain. A few years ago, even cattle were gone, leaving only a few chicken farms and a fish farm. Buying it is not necessarily a good investment plan. ”