Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Old Rancher
In fact, the gun is not too expensive, three pistols plus a sniper rifle and a shotgun, a total of less than 3,000 US dollars, in fact, the key is that the bullet is more expensive, after all, this thing is a consumable, Gao Xi bought 2,000 M9 bullets, 500 ** bullets, and 1,000 Barrett M107, and 1,000 Remington M870 bullets, and finally spent a total of more than 2,000 US dollars, which is almost enough for the price of those five guns.
The bullets and firearms add up, a total of about 5,000 US dollars, which seems to be nothing to Gao Xi today.
The bullets alone were packed in five boxes, mainly because the bullets were of different types and could not be put together. Looking at the things in this car, Dong Chen couldn't help but sigh, "You guy doesn't feel like you're going to open a ranch, but like you're planning to go on an adventure, and I don't know if these things can be used." ”
For a big customer like Gao Xi, the owner of the gun shop is naturally very enthusiastic, helping to carry the boxes and putting them away, and Gao Xi himself can't intervene in the whole process, and Dong Chen can only stand aside and watch.
Because the amount of money is relatively small, I don't use a check, but pay directly by card, and in the United States, not to mention credit cards, even debit cards are also very convenient.
Pulling a cart of things, Gao Xi rushed back to the Yellowstone Ranch directly, although the ranch now belongs to him, but he still has to hand over with the original rancher, this rancher is a good person, if you change someone else's words, who cares about your, just leave directly, anyway, the money is in hand, and he doesn't have to worry about the rest of the matter.
Probably this rancher still has some feelings for this ranch, so he wants to hand over the ranch to the new owner, and also settle the original staff of the ranch, as a conscientious boss, this is a must.
Except, of course, for the kind of boss who doesn't care if his employees live or die, but only cares about his own wealth.
When Gao Xi arrived at the ranch, the original ranch owner was packing up his things and preparing to leave, and there were some machinery in the ranch, which were included in the total transaction amount, so these would be owned by Gao Xi in the future, which was quite cost-effective, and it was much cheaper than buying outside.
The workers and the original rancher were eating barbecue there, obviously this was supposed to be a farewell banquet, and Gao Xi had no intention of driving them away, no human being would do that, not to mention that he still had some things to ask the former rancher to help with.
"Hey, don't mind if we join this barbecue party?" In fact, Gao Xi's personality is relatively introverted, but for the sake of future business, he tries to make himself more lively and cheerful.
"Of course, both of you should come here, but the rule of our banquet is that if you want to participate, you should have two beers first." The original rancher is an old man in his sixties, in fact, he has a very deep affection for this ranch, and originally wanted his descendants to take over the ranch, but unfortunately, his son and grandson are not interested, they would rather go to Wall Street and Hollywood to develop, than interested in staying in the country.
Gao Xi thought that only China would have a gap between urban and rural areas, but what he did not expect was that there was such a situation in the United States, where it is said that ranchers or descendants of farmers are often called hillbillies when they go to school, and they are very seriously discriminated against.
But it had nothing to do with him, what he knew now was that the old man was willing to sell the ranch to him mainly because his purpose was to continue to run the ranch here, not to build a factory or do something else after buying such land like many people.
"I can't drink enough, just a glass." Gao Xi saw the wine glass, basically a glass is a bottle of beer, where dare to drink two bottles, his amount of alcohol is really not good, a bottle of beer in the stomach, people are dizzy, if you drink two bottles, it will be incoherent.
"That's not good, people on the vast grasslands must have a good amount of alcohol, and this is just beer, not your Chinese liquor, you can't get drunk." The old man adhered to this rule very much.
At this time, Dong Chen had already begun to pick up the cup and drink it.
Gao Xi thought about it, let's have a drink first, I haven't drunk since I drank the magic spring water, and I don't know if it will have any effect, maybe the amount of alcohol is better now?
So a glass of beer was drunk.
I don't feel it!
Two beers to eat.
Still don't feel it.
Gao Xi was happy, he used to party with friends, and he always felt that he was useless, he couldn't drink liquor, he couldn't even drink much beer, but now it's different, his alcohol consumption is really much better than before, drinking these two large glasses, which are equivalent to two bottles of beer, he didn't feel it at all, just a little swollen stomach.
"Hahaha, good job, young man from China, let me tell you, in our place, you can't drink but you will be children, and your workers won't convince you." The old man laughed and patted Gao Xi on the shoulder.
"Haha, that's no problem now." Gao Xi, perhaps because of the drinking, was also interested, and excitedly put his arm around the old man's shoulders and smiled.
"No problem, no problem. But boy, aren't you going to change your name when you buy the ranch?" The old man asked.
"Well, it's called Yellowstone Ranch, not bad, right?" Gao Xi laughed.
"Not bad, it's better than my original Thomas Ranch, hahaha. For your good sake, young man, I have something to tell you. The ranch is 70,000 acres, which is not very large in the United States. However, the management of the ranch has not been easy these days, not to mention the increase in the price of pasture, the increase in taxes and fees, and more importantly, you have to be on the lookout for the federal government's ingenuity. My ranch was originally cattle raised, because I want to sell the ranch, so this time has been dealing with it cheaply, there were nearly 20,000 cattle, and now there are less than 2,000 heads left, if you plan to raise other livestock, I will sell these last directly cheap, if you want to raise cattle, you keep these cattle is right, I sell them to you cheaply, even if it is to support your ranch business, to be honest, I don't want to watch the ranch I have worked hard for many years fall, and I will come to see it in the future. ”
"Oh, it's a shame to sell so much, if you had met me earlier, I would have eaten 20,000 cows." The chagrin in Gao Xi's heart, this cow is not cheap, and he finally met this owner who was willing to sell it cheaply, but he didn't encounter a good time, can he not be annoyed.
"Actually, you don't have to care too much, you just came to the United States, don't make it too big, you raise more than 1,800 cows first, and after you are familiar with the situation here, you can raise something else, there are too many cattle in the United States now, it may not be a good thing." The old man laughed.
"Oh, is it? Alright then, let's leave it at that. Gao Xi thinks that this old ranch owner is good, besides, everyone has sold the ranch to him, it will not hurt him, listen to this person's words, it will definitely be beneficial to run a ranch in the future.
Dong Chen was chatting with a few cowboys over there, and he didn't know much about the ranch, so he couldn't help Gao Xi a little bit about how to run the ranch, so he could only rely on Gao Xi's own efforts.
"By the way, sir, what if I want to get those cowboys to work for me? I don't know much about cowboy wages. Gossey asked.
"Let me tell you this, the cowboy industry is almost extinct in the United States. Today's pastures are basically half-tourist, half-herd, and many people's pastures are not mainly for raising livestock, but for horse farms and hunting grounds to account for the main component. The gradual decline of cowboys is also directly related to this. ”