John Sr. was also one of the ranchers in Wharton, and had been neighbors with Jessica's father for decades, and the two had been old friends. Since two years ago, John Sr. has often told Jessica's father about investing in emeralds, and promised that it will be a good deal and that he will make a lot of money in the future. Under the encouragement of Old John, Jessica's father gradually fell into the devil, and he not only used all the income from the ranch to buy emeralds, but later even developed to mortgage the ranch to the bank and take out loans to eat a large amount of emeralds.

However, the final result is self-evident, and the emerald is not at all as old John said, with such a high investment value. Seeing that the repayment deadline was approaching, Jessica's father couldn't come up with the money to pay it back. To make matters worse, there are a lot of emeralds that Jessica's father bought at a higher price than the market price, and if you want to cash out now, there is no doubt that there will be a big loss. So Lilian's ranch is in trouble, and Jessica has to quit her job and go home to resolve the crisis.

Listening to Jessica explain the ins and outs of the matter clearly, Xiao Ping suddenly realized: "So the reason why the ranch is in crisis is inseparable from Old John, so why is he embarrassed to take the lead in making trouble today?"

"That's why I said he was shameless!" Jessica said indignantly, "My father was so anxious to be admitted to the hospital for this, but he suddenly turned against his father, and often brought the ranch supplier to ask for money, which almost drove us to a dead end." ”

Xiao Ping was puzzled: "Since he and your father are old friends, why do you want to do this?"

"I didn't understand it at first, but then old John came to me and said he wanted to buy my ranch. Only then did I realize what his real purpose was in doing this, it turned out that he had long wanted to take my family's ranch for himself!" Jessica said indignantly: "John keeps saying that he wants to help my father, but he is only willing to pay 1.5 million dollars to buy my family's ranch! He obviously sees that my father can't repay the loan, and wants to take this opportunity to blackmail us!"

Xiao Ping also shook his head and said, "This old man is really bad, even his own friends are pitted!"

Jessica said angrily: "I told Old John at the time that I would not sell him no matter how high the price he offered, and would rather find another way to raise money!"

Xiao Ping understood and said, "So this old guy brought a supplier to the door to make trouble." I want to put pressure on you to comply?"

"I think that's what he thinks!" Speaking of this, Jessica looked at Xiao Ping, and said with a little tenderness on her pretty face: "Fortunately, you just arrived, otherwise I really don't know what to do." ”

Xiao Ping had never seen Jessica so helpless before. I couldn't help but feel pity in my heart, and gently grabbed Jessica's shoulder, let her lean on her and said, "Don't worry." Now that I'm here, I'm not going to let those people embarrass you again!"

Jessica didn't say anything, just nodded slightly. With Xiao Ping by her side, Jessica's heart was finally relieved, and she knew that she could sleep well tonight.

Xiao Ping spent the night in the ranch house, and the night was calm and nothing happened. This made Xiao Ping, who was ready to fight back against Jessica's night attack, a little disappointed, and felt that he had lost a good opportunity to promote my country's prestige. However, considering Jessica's recent emaciation, Xiao Ping felt that it was understandable that she had not taken any action, and decided to stay at the ranch for a few more days. Give Jessica more sneak attacks.

The next day, Jessica took Xiao Ping to the city of Wharton to handle the trading procedures for the ranch. Wharton is a small place, and there are not many employees in the city, and they all know Jessica. Seeing Jessica bring a strange Oriental, the two staff members gathered curiously and asked, "Jessica." Who is this young man? What did you bring him to the city?"

Jessica said to one of the middle-aged men, "Mr. William, this is Xiao Ping from China, he wants to buy my family's ranch, and we are here to go through the formalities today." ”

William obviously knew something about what happened at Jessica's house, and immediately smiled when he heard this: "Okay, I finally found a buyer." So that your father's problem can be solved!"

Jessica smiled with relief: "Yes, if this matter is resolved, I can rest assured." ”

William was a very enthusiastic person, and took the initiative to take Jessica and Xiao Ping to find a zhèngfǔ clerk and help them handle the transfer procedures of the ranch. In the United States, it is very convenient to buy and sell land between private individuals, as long as both parties go to the conquest registration and then pay the land transfer tax required by law, the transaction is completed. From this moment on, Xiao Ping was the new owner of Lilian Ranch.

William waited patiently by the side, until Xiao Ping got the land authorization certificate, he stepped forward and shook hands with Xiao Ping and said with a smile: "Mr. Xiao, welcome you to Wharton to invest, I welcome you to this new neighbor on behalf of Wharton City." ”

William's words were a bit official, Xiao Ping couldn't help muttering in his heart, this guy "represents Wharton City" as soon as he opens his mouth, and he feels too good. However, of course, Xiao Ping would not show the doubts in his heart in front of the other party, so he still shook hands with William very politely, and only after a few modest words did he say goodbye and left the city zhèngfǔ building.

"This William is really domineering!" Leaving the city zhèngfǔ building, Xiao Ping said to Jessica in Chinese: "Actually welcomed me on behalf of Wharton City, he thought he was the mayor, right?"

Jessica Lan's eyes turned on Xiao Ping's face, and she said with a little surprise: "That's right, William is the mayor, how do you know the way?"

"......" Now it's Xiao Ping's turn to have nothing to say, since William is really the mayor, he is naturally qualified to say what he just said to Xiao Ping. What Xiao Ping couldn't understand was that although this Wharton was only a small town, William was a real mayor, how could he personally accompany him to go through the ranch transfer procedures?

Jessica told Xiao Ping that a town like Wharton had a population of only a few thousand, that there were few full-time staff, and that even William, who was mayor, had little to offer. After all, all officials, including the mayor, are elected by the citizens, and if they put on a high-ranking official appearance, the next election will immediately be brushed down by the voters.

Hearing Jessica's words, Xiao Ping was also stunned. The mayors of capitalist countries have to work diligently and be kind to the citizens, otherwise their position may be lost. This made Xiao Ping come to a conclusion: "The capitalist society is really in dire straits, and even those who are officials have no good time!"