Descending from heaven to earth, Link and the others went to a wooden cottage on the north bank of the Quileyut River. This was originally a community called Mora. However, he had all the original buildings in this neighborhood bulldozed.

There are some open spaces in this community, which were originally the houses of the Mora community, separated by these woods. The woods consist only of tall trees, some of which have been cleared by the original inhabitants. He cut down some of the woods to turn it into an open space of about 20 acres, and built a villa made of logs on the vacant land.

The villa was built on the edge of a wooded field a hundred meters from the riverbank. There were still some trees in the middle, but he had them cut down. A wooden pier has been built along the river. He was going to make it his home on the farm.

This neighborhood already has an asphalt road. The road extends east to the state highway and west to the sea. In addition, the farm's small airport is just over a mile away. Transportation was the main reason he chose this place as his farm estate.

In Link's mind, he already has a certain amount of ambition for the development of this land.

He would wait for the pasture to be opened up and then prepare the vacant land for growing grapes. Nor did he require all the open spaces planned to be used for growing grapes to be connected. Because throughout the interior of the Ozette farm, there are a lot of open spaces of more than a hundred acres in size, and there are also secondary forests near these open spaces. Link will choose the ones that are larger than the church and have a wide range of secondary forests around them, and then cut down these secondary forests to expand the clearing.

As for the other secondary forests, he will let them grow in the future.

They had spent the night last night in the cabin at the Mora Manor. After getting off the plane, they came back here again. Link pulled out another map, a map of the farm he had made for someone. The map is large, spread out, and is three meters wide.

Bob had previously worked on ranches in Montana, and he also had some experience with some of the cooler farms.

But if this land is carved out for ranching, it is better than any farm in Montana.

He saw that the map was a very clear satellite map, and he could even see houses and cars on the ground. Of course, you can also see the clearing that has been cut down. In such a map, he would be able to see the entire Ozette farm more directly.

Bob leaned on the map for a moment and said, "Link, I think I have a general idea of the industrial layout of the farm. I have some suggestions for you. ”

"You say. ”

Bob pointed to two blue locations on the map and said, "These two lakes, you should have the forest near the water source of these two lakes." ”

Link saw that the lakes he was pointing to were the two largest natural lakes on the farm, the largest being Lake Ozet. The other, much smaller one is Diqi Lake.

I heard him say, "Of course, it's for water conservation." ”

Link looked at the map and said, "According to my plan, the forests around Lake Diqi will be emptied, and I think as long as there is abundant grassland, water conservation will not be a problem." And some of the forests at the headwaters of the rivers in the hilly terrain will be well protected. ”

He drew another circle around Lake Ozete and said, "The forest around Lake Ozete will also be preserved, and not a single tree in the northwest will be cut down." To the east, a forest with a width of no less than one kilometre will remain. As for the source of the water system, the forest will be preserved as much as possible. ”

Bob looked at the relatively dense rivers and said, "The presence of these creeks and creeks divides the pastures very messy. I'd suggest you build some wooden bridges over these creeks, and I'm afraid you'll need to build a lot. This is the only way to allow the grazing cattle to pass freely between this meadow and that meadow. ”

"That's good advice. He looked at the map for a moment and said. "I would seriously consider where the bridge would be more appropriate. ”

Bob's suggestion is reasonable, the farm has abundant rainfall, and the rainfall is evenly distributed throughout the year, and the river on the farm has a year-round flow. These forests and rivers have deposited large amounts of silt, which may not be easy for cattle to cross, and the herding workers do not always have access to helicopters. Whether you are riding a horse or driving, you need to have a bridge over the stream.

As Bob said, he's probably going to need to build a lot of wooden bridges. But he just needs to find someone to fix it. All that's needed is money.

Bob thought for a moment and said, "Link, Ozette Farm is huge. And in a beautiful setting, I would suggest that you consider developing the farm into a traditional and tourist-style farm that can accommodate a certain number of tourists. I think that would also be good for your plans to make wine here. ”

Link listened to his suggestion, looked at the map and pondered for a long time, nodded and said, "Maybe you're right." I'll take your suggestion seriously. "Actually, he's already had some ideas.

Bob says hosting visitors can bring benefits to the wines made on the farm in the future. Link agrees. If a wine wants to sell well, it must be famous. Receiving tourists can spread the fame of the farm with tourists. Of course, Ozette Farm wants to satisfy those visitors first. Otherwise, it will only have a bad reputation.

If the fame of the farm is great, there will be more tourists. Then he can also sell a part of the wine directly on the farm. If the reputation of wine is good, it can give more tourists one more reason to visit.

However, there is a national park not far away, which has both advantages and disadvantages for the farm to start a tour business, and the good thing is that the national park brings tourists. The downside is that visitors will compare the farm to the national park.

He wants to attract tourists, and he wants to give them a good reputation. The farm has to have its own character.

He had just stared at the two lakes and had an idea. There is no waterway between the two lakes. But there are many streams and waterways between them, and maybe he can dig some canals to connect the two lakes.

In addition, there is a tributary of the Quileyut River that flows from Lake Diqi, and there are two smaller lakes along the way. Perhaps he could dig the channel deeper and widen it and connect the two small lakes. The main drainage channel of Lake Ozette was also cleared, making it a waterway for visiting forests, grasslands and vineyards. Perhaps such an environment is more attractive to those middle-aged and elderly than to national parks.

In addition, he can build some wooden houses on Lake Ozette as rental houses for tourists. An environment like the vicinity of Lake Ozete can even become a tourist retreat.

Of course, there are risks associated with that, and if you invest in them before you are sure that there will be tourists, you may lose all your money. But Link's assets allow him to be willful in such investments.

However, his thoughts were not perfect, and he felt that there was no need to say them.

He went on to say some other ideas on the farm, and asked Bob to give advice and advice.

Bob saw that he had taken most of his suggestions and opinions on board, so he didn't hide them and said what he thought.

He did put forward a lot of useful comments and suggestions. Link also remembered them one by one. He knew that Bob's advice might not be right, but it would save him a lot of detours in running Ozette Farm.

……

After returning to Las Vegas from Ozette, he began to devote himself to flight training.

In fact, he felt that he was skilled enough. So he canceled his daytime training and opted for an evening session.

Of course, there are more reasons for this. Although facing a woman who always doesn't give anything to him will make him a little discouraged. But he was always looking forward to training in the evening. It's a pity that the female instructor doesn't seem to have much affection for him.

Arguing with the female instructor in training was one of his greatest pleasures.

In the blink of an eye, he was immediately busy, the time came to the low of February, the temperature in Ozete was slowly rising, and spring was coming.

And at this time, Link finally got his pilot's license. In fact, he only flew sixty hours before he was allowed to take the test. It's just that I didn't get my documents until now.

On the day he got his papers, the plane he ordered was also delivered. PA-42-720, an aircraft that best suited his requirements. It's a small plane, but it's not cheap, and it costs him more than $2 million — some of which is the cost of modifications, such as the seats, interiors, and liveries.

Link gets his pilot's license and rushes to the airstrip of the flying club's training airport. The plane was parked there.

Link signed for the plane and couldn't wait to fly it around the sky. Today is the weekend, there are seven or eight cadets training, and there are also three small planes in the surrounding sky practicing flying.

He was about to walk towards the plane when he suddenly heard a woman say, "The plane is very good!"

With a smile on his face, Link turned around and said, "Madam Instructor, would you be interested in doing its first flight with me?"

He was a little strange, how could he be here during the day? She was only working part-time, only working as a teacher at the club at night. According to her, because the club's nightly hours are overtime, hourly wages are twice as high as during the day.

He was talking to none other than Diane Golia, who had been his instructor the most times during the night training. Because he didn't know her name earlier, he always called her instructor, and he still called her instructor after he learned her name.

He later learned that Diane was half German, and that she was only twenty-five years old this year, not more than twenty-eight as he thought. It is said that her appearance has been older than her actual age since she was a child. Link thought it might be because her face wasn't as soft as the other women, so she looked older. But such a face may not really look old, maybe the further back you look, the more youthful it looks. The veteran driver community has a special term for this situation, "frozen age".

Diane had no intention of accepting Link's invitation. She glanced at the brand-new PA-42 and said, "I think you should enjoy its [maiden] flight alone." ”

Link thought to himself: its maiden voyage may have been flown a long time ago. How else did this plane get here?

His invitation to Diane was both polite and tentative. Needless to say, politeness, the temptation is to test whether she will be a little interesting to herself now. Now it seems that he is still thinking too much.