On the Boeing 777, Barrett and Kelvin popularized Yemo's knowledge of Santa Barbara County. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Santa Barbara County is located in California, a very nice seaside town.

According to Barrett, the four seasons are like spring here, and the climate is pleasant. Compared to other cities in California, there are not many immigrants, only 3.5 percent Asians and about 1 percent Chinese.

Kelvin is concerned about housing prices, and according to him, the average home price in Santa Barbara is as high as $1 million, ranking fourth among the top 10 best places to live for the richest in the United States. Santa Barbara is also among Forbes' Top 10 Restaurant Cities.

Arriving at Los Angeles International Airport, Kelvin picked up his car, a BMW X1, in the parking lot outside the airport and headed straight for Santa Barbara County.

Santa Barbara County is a little more than a two-hour drive from Los Angeles. When you come to the urban area of Santa Barbara County, the first thing you feel is that it is beautiful, clean and relaxed. The Spanish landmarks and the white-walled, red-tiled streets of the American pioneer era give the city a unique character.

Passing through the city and into the eastern suburbs, the rural towns of the United States are almost all carved out of the same shape, mostly in small buildings in the North American style. This is especially true in California, where the houses are mostly Spanish and look the same everywhere. But the first town in Santa Barbara County, Sofang, is a beautiful Danish town, with windmills turning in the wind, and Scandinavian-style buildings that look like Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale dreams, which is really eye-catching.

Ye Mo and the others took Kelvin's car, and they were not in a hurry, so they found a café in a quiet environment in the small town of Sofon and drank a cup of afternoon coffee.

"How long will it take to get to the Valley Ranch?" Ye Mo looked at a few children playing in the lawn, as well as a woman holding a parasol, and said, "I found that I already like this town a little. ”

"Hi man. It's the most beautiful town in Santa Barbara County, and it's no surprise that you love it. I just hope you'll enjoy the Valley Ranch too......" There was an inexplicable smile on Kelvin's face, as if he had bad intentions. Barrett also laughed twice.

Enough rest, continue on your way.

The car went around the mid-mountain road and entered the Sant'Ynes Valley, lined with vines and green rolling hills......

"The Santa Ynes Valley, one of the four legal grape appellations in Santa Barbara County. The valley ranch also belongs to the Sant'Ines Valley, but on the edge, almost there. Kelvin said with a smile.

"That was so good, I almost fell asleep." The sky is blue and the clouds are white, and there are few cars to be seen on the road. Ye Mo opened the car window, and the cool wind hit his face, with a trace of primitive fragrance, dispelling Ye Mo's drowsiness.

The car entered the mountains, where there were no forests, only hillside meadows, and occasionally a forest or a few lonely trees.

Between the valleys and on slightly flatter land, horse farms, pastures, private holiday homes......

The car walked for more than ten minutes, and the environment became desolate. Ye Mo hadn't seen a building like a house for two or three minutes.

At the end of the flat and comfortable road, there are steep mountains on both sides. In the middle of the two mountains, a wide cement road, at the junction of the oil road and the cement road, erected a three-person high stone tablet, engraved with the four big characters of 'valley pasture'.

The characters are traditional characters, and the seal writing is neat.

Kelvin stopped the car, pointed to the big characters on the stone tablet and said to Ye Mo: "It's here, after entering, it's the valley pasture." The words on the stele were carved by Mr. Ding himself......"

Ye Mo got out of the car and took a look, and some strange feelings flooded in his heart, sour?

Ye Mo's fingers swiped along the carved words, and the picture of Old Man Ding carving these big characters came to mind, chiseling and hammering, stroke by stroke......

"Let's go inside. I'm so sleepy. Ye Mo rubbed his eyes, Old man Ding, old guy, his temperament is too stubborn, he knows that he won't live long, why don't he contact himself earlier, and he can accompany you more.

"Shocked!" After entering, a valley plain with no end in sight, Barrett patted Ye Mo's shoulder and said, "The valley ranch is the largest ranch in Santa Barbara County. There are forty-eight square kilometers...... At the beginning, there were 21 pastures and farms here, which were purchased by Mr. Ding and merged together to become the current Valley Ranch. ”

Forty-eight square kilometers is a little smaller than Ye Mo's hometown of Chongshan Town, the original Ye Mo didn't know much about Santa Barbara County, thinking that the price of nearly 100 million US dollars was too expensive, but now it is clear, and he can't help but wonder: "The land in Santa Barbara County is expensive, and 48 square kilometers is only worth 96.2 million US dollars?" ”

Barrett blinked and smiled, "Then how much do you think it's worth?" This is the American ......"

"Why should it be hundreds of millions!"

"Definitely! Mr. Ding Chensheng spent $230 million when he bought the Valley Ranch, which was more than ten years ago...... But the old gentleman was very, very, willful...... He had all the previous twenty-one farms and pastures demolished, leaving only one of the most luxurious country houses. Moreover, after his old man bought the ranch, he did not operate it, and the land was all empty and abandoned. Citibank's assessment of Valley Farms is based on the price of California wasteland, so that you can pay less taxes when you inherit your ranch...... By the way, Mr. Ding Chensheng and Mr. Wilson, one of Citi's sensible people, are good friends. You'll have to visit him when you have time......" Barrett said with a smile.

The concrete road is in the middle of the plain, with grasslands on both sides, and only a few trees can be seen from a long distance......

The mountains inside the pasture are not very high, they are quite flat, and they are also overgrown with weeds. Now in the spring, everything is restored, and the ground is covered with pasture, which floods the ankle area. Kelvin took Ye Mo around for a while, Ye Mo smiled speechlessly and bitterly, it was really a primitive ecological environment. There was a huge pasture, and there was no one, but I saw a few wild deer grazing leisurely.

While talking, the car had driven to the doorway garden of a two-story wide-style villa.

The villa is open, there is no yard, the entrance is a fountain garden, a rockery, and a very large swimming pool next to it. The garden is manicured, but the garden path is still visible with weeds, moss......

Not far from the foot of the hill there are also several spacious bungalow buildings, like factories. In front of him is a large vineyard, at least twenty acres in size.

"By the way, Mr. Ding generally doesn't live here, he lives in the mountains, Huaxi Valley. The villa has not been inhabited, and it has not ......been cleaned up."

The bungalow building at the foot of the hill is a winery, a place for winemaking.

There are five workers in the valley pasture, who are responsible for the vineyard and winemaking, but now the vineyard does not need to be tended, and each has a holiday to rest.

Huaxi Valley is a swampy land with a meandering river, which should be a lake, because the river does not flow outside, and reeds and weeds can be seen everywhere, usually more than a person high. Old man Ding lives in the birthplace of Huaxi Valley, next to a natural rock spring......

Two thatched huts, a peach grove, and jagged old tea trees. The hut is at the foot of the mountain, and the environment is quiet but also desolate and terrible......

Here in the thatched hut, Ye Mo just walked over and saw a green grass snake lying on the rock lazily basking in the sun, which frightened him into a spirit, and the hairs on his body exploded. Ye Mo didn't have much to fear, but he was afraid of snakes.

The hut did not dare to live, and the house was not cleaned up for a long time, so the group returned to the staff dormitory of the brewery......

I ate bread and milk bought by the way on the road, and in the evening, I found a room and slept in the dark.