While most of the western states are suffering from drought, the northeast of Washington is still wet.

After lunch that day, the sky, which had been overcast for half a day from dawn, finally began to rain. The rain is still quite heavy.

In the garden on one side of the castle, Link is playing with Hannah under a glass pergola.

Hannah is sitting in a circle with several large bunny dolls on a carpet on the floor, with a set of toys in the middle, and the little one is holding colorful toy cutlery to "feed" her bunny dolls.

Link, on the other hand, sat on the sidelines and surfed the Internet on his laptop.

Seeing that it was raining, Hannah got up from the ground and climbed on the edge of the pergola, climbed on the guardrail and looked out for a while. She turned back to Link and shouted, "Daddy, it's raining!"

Link smiled and said to her, "Yes, it's raining." So Hannah can only play here. Otherwise, you'll get wet. ”

Hannah tilted her little head and thought for a moment, then ran back to the castle from the pergola corridor with her legs on her legs.

Link couldn't stop screaming. But he didn't have to worry about her going to the castle. He didn't care.

Hannah ran for a long time on her short legs to find Ms. Hemmer, and she shouted from afar, "Lisa, Lisa." Where's my raincoat? and rain boots!"

So not long after, Link saw a Hannah in a transparent raincoat with dividends running in front of him. Hannah looked up at him and said, "Daddy, I'm wearing a raincoat." She said and lifted her raincoat. "And rain boots. Not afraid of rain. Can I hang out?"

When Link saw her like this, he could only smile and say, "Is this a gift from grandma?" Barbara knew it was raining, so she brought back a small set of rain gear from Hawaii as a gift for Hannah.

"Yes. It was a gift from my grandmother. Can I play in the rain?"

Link saw that although the rain outside was not small, it was not particularly heavy, and there was no wind. He nodded and said, "Yes." But you can't go to a place where you can't see Daddy, you can only play around here. If you promise Daddy, you can go out and play. ”

"I'm not going to run around!" Hannah cheered, and rushed out of the pergola.

Link shook his head helplessly, not knowing why this girl liked the rain so much.

He saw Hannah running back and forth in the rain with her hands outstretched, kicking the water in the grass, and giggling and running like crazy as he watched.

He didn't need to worry about her falling. There was not a single stone on the floor of this garden, and the whole floor was mud and thick grass. Even if you fall, the most you can do is get your clothes wet.

He didn't keep staring, only occasionally glancing. The little one played for a while, and then suddenly ran up to him, tilted his head, and said loudly, "Daddy, it's raining." Kaka didn't bring an umbrella. Shall we pick her up?"

Three days ago, Jessica moved to the castle to live with them. She has changed the name of California Agricultural Services to Benehans Biotechnology Ltd. and relocated the company's headquarters from Sacramento to Fox.

Jessica would go to work at Fox during the day and return at five o'clock in the afternoon.

"Don't worry about her. Jessica has a car. The car can be driven directly to the doorstep. She won't get caught in the rain. Link saw that the hair inside the raincoat was dripping, and the clothes inside seemed to be wet. He helped her take off her raincoat and said. "Hannah has to go back and change into dry clothes, otherwise she'll catch a cold, and then she'll have to take medicine. ”

"I don't want to take medicine!" Hannah's eyes widened and she shook her head. "I'll change my clothes!" she didn't even want a raincoat, and turned to Ms. Hemmer to change her clothes.

Link watched her run into the castle and smiled as he spread his raincoat out on a chair. He watched the rain outside, listened to the sound of the rain hitting the glass, and thought about the wells that were being drilled deep in Nevada.

The *** of Hans Farm is still drilling deep in his designated position. There is a good chance that those wells will eventually find groundwater. But at Baker's Farm, he wasn't sure.

In Nevada, even if there is no drought, they can only survive on river water or groundwater. Here, however, more than 2,500 millimetres of precipitation falls every year, and it rains at least half of the day. And the amount of evaporation here is perhaps only one-fifth that of Nevada.

Just give a fifth of the precipitation here to Nevada. Neva will also be a lush prairie basin. And not the desert now.

However, there are no ifs in the world. Moreover, if it was a grassland, he might not have had the opportunity to buy such a large area of land. His plan, I'm afraid, doesn't have the current basis.

In fact, he still feels that this foundation may not be enough. He also wanted to buy a piece of land with a relatively high utilization rate.

The only land he has with a high utilization rate is Ozette and Filvi Peak. Hanse Farm also has enough water, but the area is too small. Fairway Peak was lucky enough to get out of the water, otherwise it would be a desert pasture at most, and the nearly 300,000 acres could only raise a few thousand cattle at most.

Almost all of the vast farms in the United States are in the West, and the Midwest of the United States is actually arid or semi-arid, and the available land is already owned. He wants to buy a large farm and can only wait for someone else to put it up. If you come to the door to buy, the cost is too high!

Drought can force low-income farmers to sell their farms. However, this year's drought may not be enough to make big farmers think about selling their farms right away. But the longer the drought lasts, the lower the farm's output and the higher the cost of doing business, making it impossible for farmers to afford losses.

At that point, the more likely it will be that a super-large farm will be listed. But such a farm must be short of water. Otherwise, it would not have been listed at this time.

He couldn't find the listing information he was looking for, so he closed the page to search for real estate agent information. What he was looking for was a piece of land that he could cultivate. And the arable area cannot be small.

After the discovery of high-flow wells in Nevada in the past few months, a number of deep wells have been drilled in a number of nearby states. The result is even worse than Nevada, hundreds of calibers, and none of them are artesian wells. And pumping water from wells hundreds of meters or thousands of meters deep is really more expensive than oil.

So he didn't dare to expect to be able to buy a plot of land with deep confined water layers like Fairway's Peak. But the land he wants to buy, the water rights must be sufficient, otherwise he will not be scarce at all. But in the United States, he may not be able to find that kind of land.

Jessica was back at the castle around half-past five. When she returned, the rain was still falling. When she returned, "It's the first time I've seen rain like this. "She grew up in California, where it really doesn't rain for hours.

When Hannah saw her, she threw herself into her arms and said, "Kaka, are you in the rain?" I asked Daddy to pick you up in a carriage, but Daddy said no!"

Jessica smiled and narrowed her eyes when she heard her say this, and said, "Hannah is so nice, she will wonder if I will be rained." But I didn't get caught in the rain, I had a car. It won't rain inside. ”

Hannah reveals her true purpose in caring for her: "Oh. But I like to ride in a carriage, and I like Kaka, right?"

Jessica giggled and kissed her on the cheek and said, "Yes, I like carriage rides too." When I'm free, I'll ride in the carriage with Hannah. Okay, okay?"

"Good!" Hannah patted and said aloud with a smile at Link again. "Let Daddy catch the car. We took a horse-drawn carriage to Fox. ”

Jessica smiled at what Link had to say.

Link pinched Hannah's face and said, "When Jessica is free, we'll take the carriage to Fox to play." "This request, the little girl has already mentioned it several times.

Jessica put her down on the ground and let her play by herself, before asking Link, "What are you doing at the manor?"

"It's raining today. I didn't go out. Link reached out and hugged her to his side, saying. "I wanted to find more farms with a large area. ”

"Isn't your farm enough now?" Jessica was a little confused by his thoughts. Now owning more than a million acres of land, he is definitely one of the few large landowners in the United States.

"If Hank's farm had a water source, it would barely be enough," Link said. But there is not necessarily water there. He didn't have much hope that Hank's farm would get out of the water.

"How many seeds are you going to plant? If you plant all those seeds there, I'm afraid the whole of America will have enough corn and wheat seeds, the whole of America. ”

He wanted to plant seeds, provided that Benehans' high-yield research was successful. Under that premise, the yield of those farms will be quite high.

"And foreign markets!"

"In foreign markets, it is possible to operate seed farms in joint ventures in the host country. Jessica didn't think it was a problem at all.

"Some countries do not recognize or have limited recognition of agricultural patents, can our seeds still be sterilized?"

"This problem has been considered by the laboratory for a long time. The grain seeds we grow are the second generation. This problem can be solved by allowing the third or fourth generation of offspring to have obvious trait separation. ”

Link had heard that the lab was also thinking about it. He nodded and said, "If I can do that, my concerns can be solved." ”

He thought about it for a moment, and then thought of another question. He lowered his voice and said: "I'm also worried that if we have that kind of technology, if we want to cooperate with foreign countries, we will receive a lot of pressure from China." As you know, the food issue has also become an international diplomatic issue. ”

Jessica hadn't really thought about it before.

She knows.

The United States is indeed using grain as a weapon. The genetically modified seeds were one of those weapons. As long as the world's farmland is controlled by seeds, then the whole world needs to crawl at the feet of the United States for food.

Of course, to achieve that, the United States needs to be strong. And for most countries, the strength of the United States is, of course, so strong that they cannot develop a disobedient heart. But there are some countries that are different, such as Russia and China. These two countries are not at all like the United States.

If the United States wants to continue to control the genes of food crops to achieve the goal of controlling the world's food, the development of Benihans technology in the United States will first lead to political resistance, and even suppress Benihans for the sake of those genetically modified technology companies, so that genetically modified foods can continue to run rampant in the United States.

Jessica frowned and thought for a while before she said, "Do you think we can seek cooperation abroad in advance?"

Link thought for a moment and said, "That's a good idea. However, cooperation is not very likely. ”

Benehans has not yet been able to confirm its own stuff. The size of the company is not particularly large. It is not easy for such a company to cooperate with other countries.

Countries that can develop biotechnology have their own research systems and will not easily cooperate with them. And if you don't have this ability, you can't cooperate with them.