Session 12: Return to the pasture
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I woke up after nine o'clock the next morning. After several days of running, it is only now that it has settled down.
Wake up, open the curtains, and you'll see mountains in the distance. Although Conrad County is the county seat, it is equivalent to a small town in China. It's just that the detached houses here are a little bigger, and the tallest ones are only three or four storey buildings.
The streets are wide and tree-lined, and the downstairs is a 'bustling' commercial street, which is relatively lively. From time to time, you can see some historic classic cars driving leisurely......
Ye Mu woke up Zhang Dongsheng, first went outside to fill his belly, and then went to the vehicle management office in Conrad County to change his California driver's license to Montana's California. The population of the county is small, so there is no need to queue up in the past, and you can handle it directly. It's only a few minutes......
Coming out of the vehicle management office, there is a car sales sign not far away. This is the only car dealership in Conrad County, with a wide variety of used vehicles and a small selection of used cars. In the United States, few people feel ashamed of driving a used car, especially in the remote countryside. It doesn't cost much to buy a second-hand car, and if you get tired of driving, you can get a car dealership and make up some money to change your taste.
Walking into the car dealership, a tattooed muscular man in a vest walks over. Looking at his appearance, he has a strong appearance in "Fast and Furious", but he is smiling and very enthusiastic.
After Ye Mu said his intention, the muscular man led Ye Mu into the store and said a few words to the manager.
The manager, a white man in his fifties, kept a neatly trimmed beard, shook hands with Ye Mu and Zhang Dongsheng with a smile, and then introduced the vehicle to the two.
"If you're on a farm, we recommend a vehicle with good off-road performance. We have Honda pickups, Ford pickups, Wrangler off-road vehicles...... If you need a higher-end vehicle, you can also book it with us. ”
"I want a Wrangler." Ye Mu looked at a metallic black Jeep Wrangler in front of him and said.
"We have a two-door version and a four-door version here, both in stock. Each car comes in two colours, Cool Red, Space Grey with matte paint, and Metallic Black...... Conrad County is a small place, so if you want a different color, you have to wait two days. ”
"I want a four-door version of Space Grey. Lao Zhang, what color or car do you like? Ye Mu asked.
"It's still a Wrangler! Cool red in the two-door version. ”
"Sassy." Ye Mu scolded with a smile.
"It's uncomfortable."
Two cars, one for $29,000 and one for $22,580. This is much cheaper than in China.
The manager asked the muscular man to find a second-hand four-door version of the Wrangler and handed it to Ye Mu and Zhang Dongsheng, let them test drive, and at the same time explain the car's handling performance, twisting force, and engine displacement. The muscular man in the back teaches the two men how to dismantle the two small hard tops in the front of the Wrangler and turn it into an open-top off-road.
The front row hard top can be detached for a single person, without tools, and it will take two or three minutes. The hard top is slightly troublesome to disassemble, and you need to use tools and wrenches, and it can be done in ten minutes. The Wrangler's hard top was quite heavy, and the muscular man couldn't handle it alone, so the two went up to help. The Wrangler, who completed the disassembly, immediately went to have a different taste, and in terms of styling, it seemed to be born for the mountains.
I learned to disassemble the Wrangler roof and picked up three more 4WD off-road ...... with good performance
In the end, they paid their own bills, adding up to less than $70,000, and they bought a Wrangler in China. The corruption of US imperialism!
After paying the money and holding the invoice, the muscular man drove the two of them to the vehicle management office and put a sign on the car. After finishing all this, it was already afternoon, so I drove to the store to buy some necessary daily necessities, toothpaste, toothbrushes, towels...... There are also clothes, and finally I go back to the car shop and return to the farm with the big truck driven by the muscular man.
Conrad County is nearly an hour and a half away from the small town of Park, with a third of the way by freeway, followed by the standard Montana Secondary Road. Straight and wide, with no end in sight. On both sides of the road are vast grasslands, where cattle and sheep graze ......
There are warnings on the side of the highway not to exceed 80 kilometers per hour, and there are warning signs for wild deer infestation, but no one dares to drive too fast, so keep 60 or 70 kilometers or slower. That's what differentiates Montana from other states.
For example, in California, the speed limit is 70 on highways, and the average person will drive to 80 or even 90. It's no joke that Montana has more animals than people, especially on this stretch of road, which is close to the Rocky Mountains and crosses the road. Montana is sparsely populated and has few cars on the road, so you won't be urged to drive fast, so if you don't have the time, why not slow down.
Go straight all the way, head east at the first big corner, walk into the cement road, and first see rows of warehouses. This is already the confines of the farm, and then you can go into the endless barley fields......
As far as the eye can see, it is the land of Ye Mu, Huaxi Farm.
Now, the barley has been harvested and removed, and the barley straw left in the field has been dried. Farm workers are driving a straw baler to pack barley straw into square piles.
The farm staff dormitory is not far away, just a kilometer behind the warehouse, at the end of the cement road.
A number of rural buildings, placed in the country comparable to luxury houses. Ye Mu's house is the main house where the farmer lived before, with a horizontal structure of nearly 500 square meters. The exterior is covered with stone tiles, the roof is wide black tiles, and there is a garden pool......
Open garage, quite a large area. The former farmer also left Ye Mu a Raptor for 150 ......
Zhang Dongsheng was here to help unload the goods, three all-terrain off-road vehicles, and Ye Mu returned to the house. The spacious living room is a double-storey structure with light yellow matt wood floors, a beach, a coffee table, a TV, a refrigerator and ...... The most conspicuous thing is the fireplace, which has oil paintings and several antlers with many forks.
On the first floor, in addition to the living room, there is a kitchen and a gym, the kitchen is fully equipped with kitchenware, the gym has 130 square meters, fully equipped, treadmills, barbells, climbing machines, rowing machines, etc. Then there is the second floor, an oversized master bedroom with windows on three sides, with views of the stream, wheat fields and mountains in the distance.
On the second floor there are four rooms, one master and three guest bedrooms, each very large with balcony bathroom and fully furnished.
The bed was newly replaced. Before, Ye Mu went out to declare taxes these days to contact the cleaning company, new Simmons and bed sheets and bedding. Ye Mu opened the curtains, lay on the bed, and looked at the scenery sideways.
"Not bad, pretty good."