When John Malone bought Bell Farms, he had just over 80,000 acres of land, for which he waited more than a year and spent more than $60 million.

Since then, through the continuous acquisition of surrounding farms, today's Bell Farm is 280,000 acres. If Habano had been acquired, it might have now reached more than 400,000 acres, because the drought of the previous two years made it difficult for farms east of Habano to operate.

It can be said that the existence of Habano Farm has prevented the expansion of Bell Farm to a certain extent. Even so, it has acquired more than 16,000 acres of land in the past two years.

Twenty-eighty-eight thousand acres of land is already very large. Although Bell Farms is a commercial farm, Bell Farms is not fully developed in this semi-arid region. There are large areas of pasture, but there are also large areas of wilderness.

There weren't many people on the big farm. In a place like this, if you want to do something you don't want people to know, the night is the best cover.

Late that night, the lights were lit up next to a rain-washed ravine on the side of Bell Farm near Habano Farm. It's seven or eight miles from the living management area of Bell Farms. The undulating terrain blocks the view of the living area, and even if the lights are bright, the people in the living area will not pay attention to it, but even if they do, they will not come to see what is going on.

Under the lights, a group of people are busy with something.

A middle-aged man dressed in a cowboy costume directs the man to roll large wooden barrels to the side of a large pit, and then unplugs the barrels, and a dark red liquid flows out of the barrels.

The middle-aged man commanded the order: "Empty barrels are pushed into the cart first and then loaded with things!" He is the manager of Bell Farm. Tonight's action was ordered by the owner of the farm, and he was in charge of carrying it out.

As to why this action took place, the choking sour smell of the liquid coming out of the barrel can be fully explained.

Some people couldn't help but complain, "Hey, it's so cold! ”

The middle-aged man shouted softly, "Jack, don't talk nonsense! Hurry up! We only have one night." ”

They feel like doing things in their own place without worrying about anyone finding out. But they never imagined that there was an unmanned aircraft hovering hundreds of meters in the sky. The drone is equipped with this high-resolution camera and receiver. And there are secrets hidden in the ground hundreds of meters away from them.

Even what they said was reached by hundreds of wireless bugs scattered around them in the form of small stones, and it reached the ears of Link, who was on Habano Farm.

Link is in the villa at Habano Farm, with Carrick. The signal traveled from an antenna they had set up on the roof of the villa to Carrick's computer. Suddenly, he heard a familiar voice.

"Will, I think we have to pick things up! or we won't be able to finish before dawn. ”

The man called Will said to the man, "Mr. Donald, please remember something. This is Bell Farm. I only listen to Mr. Malone's orders. If you feel like we're inefficient, maybe you can join us instead of dictating my work!"

When Link heard this, he said, "It's Hull Donald." ”

"And they mentioned Mr. Malone. ”

Link smiled and said, "It's not too early, and we don't have to guard one of them." "It's already half past one in the morning, and it looks like there's nothing wrong with the computer and receiver. There's nothing they can do to keep it.

Carrick nodded and said, "I can't sleep now, I'll watch first." "His schedule is not fixed, he sleeps when he is sleepy, and he sleeps until he wakes up naturally.

When Link wakes up the next day, he finds that only Carrick's computer is still running in the living room, and Carrick is no longer here.

I guess I got up and went to sleep.

After dawn, a man brought Link a package. The package contained several CDs.

He closed them and looked at the footage on the disc, and found that the image inside was quite clear. Although the distance is very long, the special long-lens camera shoots very well. You can see people's faces in the video, and you can even see their mouths moving.

With these things, he was probably relieved.

It wasn't until noon that Carrick got up. After lunch, they left Havano. They arrived in the early hours of yesterday morning. Now that you're done, you can leave.

A few days later, Morris called Link and said, "Mr. Hans, the wine being made at Bell Farms is not considered corrupt by the wine critics and winemakers who are accompanying him. It is not known what kind of sake will be brewed in the end. He paused and said. "But they only agreed to open a small wine cellar for us to evaluate. ”

Without waiting for the court to react, Luke Truss returned from Canada. He asked Maurice to evaluate the wine. Under his control, the final result was certainly in his favor.

Link said to Morris, "Let this matter go for now. "He still needs time to operate. At least it will take time for Carrick to edit those footage. Because the sound and video were recorded separately, Carrick had a lot of work. It is necessary to correspond everything that you did not overhear to the time of the video.

On top of that, Bell Farms has announced that it will file a lawsuit in court against Amanda and West Hollywood Media Group for damages to their reputations.

Because "the fake news they reported was reprinted by a large number of individuals and media, and it caused a lot of damage to the reputation of Bell Farms." ”

This made Link feel like they had a trick up their sleeve. Otherwise, they will definitely let go of this matter gently, and at most issue a clarification and a warning, instead of wanting to continue to make things bigger, as they are now.

In the early hours of this morning, a heavy snowstorm fell in western Huazhou, with more than three feet of snow overnight, and the heavy snowfall is still falling. The state government has declared a state of emergency in this area, requiring businesses and schools to take a holiday. And neither Link nor Jessica went out.

Jessica played with the children on the special carpet for a while, and walked over just in time to see the TV showing the picture of Will the head of Bell Farms being interviewed: "We have officially filed a lawsuit with the court. Amanda Heard and the West Hollywood Media Group were ordered to pay a total of $69 million in damages for Bell Farms' reputational damages. We will collect more evidence and submit it to the court. ”

"oo~" She sat next to Link. "Sixty-nine million? Their reputation seems to be worth a lot, but the situation seems to be a little bad for you. She already knew that Link was fighting the guys at Bell Farm.

Morris has signed off to certify that there is no problem with the wines at Bell Farms. Well, of course, the problem now is on Link's side.

"Not necessarily!" Link said with a smile. "Winners always laugh last. I'm more curious about what exactly they want to do. He didn't tell her what he had. It's not that I want to hide it from her, I just don't want her to think too much.

But now she seems to be thinking about it.

He smiled and continued: "Just let them run rampant for a while, and I will give them good looks." ”

When Jessica saw him like this, she knew that he must have had some kind of idea again. However, she didn't ask any more questions, only hugged him and said, "It's snowing so hard this year!"

Link nodded and said, "The news says this year's winter is going to be colder than a year. It may snow in all 50 states. ”

"Your vineyard will be fine, will it?"

Link isn't sure either. Especially Ozette's. The vineyards of Ozette may now be covered in heavy snow. The vineyards here are so large that there is no way to cover them all: "It should be fine. The frost of the last week was fine. ”

Last Wednesday, the entire Ozette was turned into ice almost overnight. After the strong winds, the trees and grass were frozen. Even Lake Ozete froze overnight. Since then, the temperature in Ozete has been below freezing.

It is said to be the coldest week in more than 140 years of weather in Huazhou.

Jessica is concerned about the vineyards in Ozet: "It's good that Habano and Hanse don't freeze. ”

If tens of thousands of acres of vineyards freeze to death due to snow, it will take at least two years for Link to replant. That's a loss of tens of billions of dollars.

Link didn't think there should be a problem. If there is a problem, there is no way, God is going to wreak havoc, what can people do? Over the years, the climate has become more and more abnormal. Perhaps it was to compensate for the drought of those years, which is why it snowed so heavily this time.

He didn't want her to worry about these things, and smiled and said, "It's okay if it snows." Now the price of crude oil is soaring. By the time of spring March, I think it would probably go up to about $80. ”

This winter has been unusually cold in the Northern Hemisphere, and energy consumption has intensified, and oil prices have risen for sure.

"It would be nice if the superweather bacteria could be studied this year. Jessica said with a smile. "After experiencing this kind of weather, maybe if we just make it, or even advertise it, the whole world will seek to cooperate with us. ”

Link smiled and said, "If that thing is really studied, how to deal with it is also a big problem." ”

Jessica also knew that it was impossible for Benehans to monopolize something like that: "Perhaps, we expect the Super Yeast to be better!"

Super yeast is not an original idea of Benihans, but is based on the technology of a Brazilian company that uses cane sugar to produce alcohol.

Ordinary yeast bacteria die at a certain concentration of alcohol. Therefore, the brewed wine usually does not have too high a degree of proof. But that company's yeast modified the yeast's cell wall to allow the cells to tolerate higher concentrations of alcohol. It can be fermented completely. The yeast of the individual biofuel production companies is a core trade secret.

Since Benihans wanted to promote high-yielding corn, he had to find a way to find a market for the corn that was produced more. There is no better option for this market than biofuels.

So they asked the Benehans Institute to research a super yeast of their own, hoping to ferment the starch in corn at one time and achieve a utilization rate of 100%.