Looking at Song Lingyi's cheerful expression, Joey was indifferent, just nodded Mu Ne, "Okay, then I'll call you to make an appointment later, ...... address?"

"27 Old Oak Road, Top of the Clouds Ranch. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info" Lu Li reported the address, "Time is it, today and tomorrow, there are always people on the ranch." ”

After a quick record, George asked, "You said just now that the ranch is also professional, does that mean there are no professional tools?"

"No, no, there are professional tools at home. Song Lingyi waved her hand, and Liz left a complete set of professional tools, which were very complete. "But I'm not familiar with it, it's just a hobby. At home, there is no garden, no potted plants, only some succulents, and Song Lingyi's understanding is naturally very limited.

Joey shook his head, looking like he hated iron and steel, "No, this won't work. Lu Li and Song Lingyi, who were watching, were confused, "I know, I'll deal with it." After saying that, Joey babbled and said, "How can it go on like this, it must be a mess, I really don't know how to pretend to understand, and now these middle-class ......"

The voice quickly disappeared into the shop, Lu Li and Song Lingyi exchanged glances, and then Lu Li couldn't help laughing, "He's worried that we will destroy our garden." "After all, I am still an idiot who loves flowers, and everything I say and do is related to flowers, and only related to flowers. "Looks like he's going to make a splash in our garden. ”

Song Lingyi also reacted at this time, and cast her gaze at the back of Joey leaving, and couldn't help laughing. Although it was only a brief conversation, and it was only a few minutes at the beginning and the end, Joey made a deep impression on her, "He's such an interesting person, isn't he?"

At the same time, he is a person who is rejected by society. Lu Li shrugged.

A person like Joey, who is single-mindedly above his profession, has basically negative emotional intelligence, does not know how to deal with people, does not know how to bend the knee and compromise, does not care about external affairs at all, and can easily offend others, just like when they first met. Often unconsciously, he is excluded by other people, and no one even wants to take the initiative to approach him. Of course, he didn't care, he just threw himself into his own world.

Lu Li suddenly felt that Joey was a person with stories, not those dramatic things, but just his flowers, his world, and his concentration, these stories were moving.

Whether in New York or in China, there are fewer and fewer traditional craftsmen who are so focused. This is a common phenomenon in society, the pace of life in the Internet age is getting faster and faster, the world has entered the era of fast food, everyone is pursuing fast, simple, and direct, even reading novels, not to mention those traditional industries. People always hope that their jobs can be promoted quickly, their careers can be quickly profitable, and their lives can be improved quickly, but people forget that there are no shortcuts in this world, and if you want to be fast, you have to sacrifice some.

Like Joey, who is willing to calm down and devote himself to the boring work, and still seems to have no future, the flower industry chooses varieties such as bluehat and cornflower, which have really limited economic value, and sticks to it slowly, slowly. At the moment of the 21st century, it is even rarer than pandas.

Lu Li couldn't help but start to wonder, how many people in Texas are as calm as Joey, what about New York, and what about the world?

He remembers that there were TV shows in China and the UK that had produced specials about them, but they were more concerned with the traditional craftsmen whose skills had been lost, and now he wanted to focus on ordinary people, ordinary people like Joey. Cultivating bluehats and cornflowers is not a rare technique, for Joey, it is just a part of daily life, and there are many similar gardeners, but how many can stick to it with pure and focus?

Thinking about it further, Lu Li thought of the cowboys at the cowboy conference not long ago. People have seen the heroic appearance of denim and the decline of the denim industry, but few people have really paid attention to the long life of those old denim polishing skills.

The third column of the New York Observer could write about Joey? Or even publish a series of stories from ordinary people. However, this requires a long-term view and careful conception.

"What's wrong?" Song Lingyi sensed that something was wrong with Lu Li, and suddenly fell silent.

Lu Li came back to his senses and smiled, "It's okay, I thought about work." Let's go, don't we have to look at something else?"

"Now it seems that you are still a journalist. Song Lingyi's exclamation made Lu Li laugh dumbly, "Yes, yes, the reporter came here for a field trip." How about you, citizen, are you going to cooperate with the interview? What do you think of this flower market?"

"Mr. Reporter, I like this flower market very much, it has a full range of varieties and professional shops. Song Lingyi also cooperated with the performance, and the two of them walked towards the sapling store next door with a smile.

Song Lingyi heard about Lu Li's plan to plant a big tree in the garden and then make a swing, she thought this plan was really good, so she walked around the store for nearly an hour, and finally chose an oak tree under the recommendation and advice of the owner.

On the one hand, oak trees are the best to grow and are perfect for the soil, and on the other hand, because the oak trees are so leafy that when fully grown, the huge canopy can cover the entire yard, which is not as spectacular as the banyan tree, but it is still a rare sight.

However, oak trees are not cheap, and an oak tree with a diameter of 15 centimeters is worth 300 dollars, which is still a sapling that has just grown. Oak trees also have a very long growth year, with a cycle of up to 400 years, and there is another oak tree in California that is 13,000 years old, which is probably the oldest known organism to date.

Now if you plant an oak sapling in your garden, you might not see the shade in the garden until a hundred years ago, or go straight to Marshall Valley Ranch and transplant an oak tree. So, since you have decided to buy it, you have to buy an old tree.

Lu Li finally chose an old oak tree with a diameter of 150 centimeters, which was more than 60 years old. Luckily, the oak was much cheaper than the banyan tree, and it ended up costing $6,000.

Transplanting an oak tree of this age is not an easy task. They made an appointment and were going to wait for Joey to plan the garden, and then arrange the time to dig up the oak trees and then transplant them.

After selecting the oak trees, Lu Li selected another 300 metasequoia trees and prepared to plant them along the lake, adding a touch of cold and beautiful temperament to the pasture. Metasequoia is not expensive, with a tree of 20 centimeters in diameter and about 15 meters in height costing only 90 dollars. Although it is cheap, it can't support the large number, and this cost is staggering.

In addition, Lu Li also booked 100 beech trees, and after the other two villas are built, these beech trees will extend all the way down the beech forest, distinguishing the cowboys' dormitories from the holiday villas, and will also become the most beautiful scenery of Cloud Top Ranch. Beech wood is a great wood for furniture, and it is expensive, with an average full-grown beech tree costing thousands of dollars, and much more expensive than metasequoia.

Lu Li couldn't help but shake his head and joked, "In the future, if the capital turnover is not good, you can cut down the beech forest in the pasture, and you don't have to worry about it." ”

I originally thought that buying the machinery of the ranch was the largest expense, but I didn't expect that the cost of renovating the garden and renovating the ranch landscape was the most expensive. In just two hours, nearly $200,000 was swiped on the card. Don't forget that the villas being built and the warehouses waiting to be renovated, these costs have not yet been calculated.

In Western countries, labor costs are always the highest compared to objects. Therefore, the remuneration of the construction team is the big one. The ranch was rebuilt, and Lu Li's wallet was still flowing out like flowing water.

After the auction of Degas, Lu Li still felt that he was a multimillionaire - or a dollar, and felt that no matter how much he squandered it, it seemed that he would not be able to spend it in his life, as long as he could lie down and enjoy it. But just a few months later, Lu Li deeply felt the fact that money was not spent.

The richer you are, the higher your expenses will be, and the higher your expenses will be for living.

Sure enough, I didn't reach that level, and I never understood that world. Lu Li couldn't imagine before, how to spend 200,000 US dollars when he went out once, as if Lu Li couldn't understand why Hollywood stars needed 250,000 US dollars a month to maintain their lives, racking their brains and not knowing how the money was spent and where it was spent. But now, Lu Li has finally touched a little bit of the threshold.

Today, relying only on wool and beef cattle is not enough to maintain the daily expenses of the ranch. The organic farm was on the right track, and Lu Li felt that the work of cultivating racing horses and making wine needed to be accelerated, otherwise he would soon find himself in a dilemma of making ends meet.

Going around and around, the various stores in the flower market have been walked around, and now Lu Li and Song Lingyi have time to stop and take a good look at the stalls in the flea market.

Walking out of the last flower shop, standing at the door, you can feel a gust of wind blowing, accompanied by the jingling wind chimes, attracting Song Lingyi's attention, "I heard this sound just now, is there a stall here that specializes in making wind chimes?"

Following the crisp sound of the wind chimes, Lu Li followed behind Song Lingyi, walking through the colorful colors of the market, as if walking through different worlds, far away, large strings of wooden wind chimes refracted the bright light of the sun, swaying slowly in the breeze, as if it was the neverland of Peter Pan's life.