After deciding on the grape varieties, Xiao Yifei divided the land into 6 small plots, each with 9 plots. One was used for wheat, one for blueberries, three for grapes, and the other for a moment.

Next, Xiao Yifei asked David for the address of the supplier who provided cement piles, wires, wire pullers and other equipment for the vineyard, and went directly to buy the materials he needed. It took time to use an electric excavator to knock the cement pile up, but thanks to the ratchet wire tightener, Xiao Yifei easily straightened the wire. Now only the grape seedlings remain.

There is an old Chinese saying that "three years old looks young, seven years old looks old". There is also a saying in the United States, "Wheat looks at the ear, and fruit trees look at the seedling."

Although David said that their grape seedlings came from the Knight Valley, Xiao Yifei did not plan to go there directly to order the grape seedlings. Because if he is a yellow-skinned person, it is very easy to be remembered, and the next time the winery goes to buy grape seedlings, people will ask you how the seedlings you bought last time were going, so you can't explain where you got the grape seedlings.

Xiao Yifei directly found the phone numbers of some nursery companies in Napa County and Sonoma County on the Yellow Pages, and called them one by one for consultation. Unfortunately, the season for the seedlings is before June, and all growers have to plant the seedlings before June, so that the grapes have enough time to grow in the first year. Moreover, the general nursery implements order-to-order production, and orders must be placed at least 15 weeks in advance to be available. If a small number of seedlings have not been sold in June, they will be destroyed.

Xiao Yifei made a round of phone calls and finally found a nursery with a small number of grape seedlings, just at the mouth of Napa Valley near San Francisco Bay. They also have a small number of seedlings in stock.

Xiao Yifei borrowed a pickup truck from the winery, and following the guidance of the map, Xiao Yifei finally found Garneau. MacleanNursery (Galomacleannursery).

Standing at the door to greet him was Karen, the third generation of the nursery. Mclean.

"Hello, Karen."

"Hello, Shaw."

The two of them walked and talked. Xiao Yifei reported the variety and quantity he needed.

"Mr. Xiao, why do you only need so few grape seedlings?"

asked him and muttered to himself:

"If you plant new plants, the quantity is too small, and it's already out of season. If you replant, you should not go to the original nursery. ”

Xiao Yifei said casually:

"The house I bought has a vacant land, and I plan to grow it myself."

"Let me start by saying that these grapes are not cheap."

Xiao Yifei knew that David said that when they bought thousands of grape seedlings at a time, the price was $2.5 a plant, and the nursery had to charge a delivery fee of $1.5 per mile.

"How much?"

"Cabernet Sauvignon is $7 a plant, and the other plants are $6.5 a plant."

"What?" Xiao Yifei was indeed frightened, and he hurriedly asked, "Why is it so expensive?" ”

"There are two reasons, first, all nurseries place orders in thousands, and your quantity is too small, and the price increase is inevitable. Second, we need to dig them out of the ground, and this is the price for the labor fee. ”

Xiao Yifei felt that his head was not enough, and he couldn't understand why the grape seedlings were dug from the ground, and the grapes in the nursery should not be in the nutrient bag or culture medium.

After Karen's explanation, Xiao Yifei figured out that this was from his grandfather Garneau. The rules that have been passed down from Maclean. In order to better help his customers, he set aside some seedlings from the bulk of the seedlings sent to them to plant them in his garden and observe the growth and development of the vines. This service is said to help customers rule out potential vineyard diseases.

In addition, after the grape seedlings are planted in the vineyard, the survival rate cannot be 100%, and there is generally a mortality rate of 2%. Therefore, the vineyard needs to replant the next year, and now the same batch of seedlings here as the customer has become the first choice for the customer.

This is also the reason why Xiao Yifei has found so many homes, and only they have grape seedlings left.

Xiao Yifei hesitated for a long time, and finally thought that he relied on the fertile space and land, and used a high-density planting of 0.5 meters spacing, and only 200 grape seedlings of each type.

However, Xiao Yifei noticed another meaning in his words, and asked:

"Then you have the next year's grape seedlings."

"Yes, of course we have here."

"How much?"

"Cabernet Sauvignon 20, other 16."

This price is not bad, Xiao Yifei is very satisfied, two-year-old seedlings can save a year of growth time is not:

"Okay, then I want this seedling."

"And what kind of tree do you want?"

"Single-handed, double-armed, of course."

"That's fine, if you want a double layer, we won't have it."

When they came to the field, several workers determined the location of the grape seedlings that Xiao Yifei wanted. Soon the vines, which had just been tied to the wire, were unraveled and dug up.

The grape seedlings were packed in boxes and moved to the side of the road, where a worker brought a water cannon to wash away the soil and nutrient bases attached to the grape roots, revealing the white fibrous roots. This is different from Xiao Yifei's imagination of burying it with clods of soil, and Cullen explains that this is done to reduce the spread of pests and diseases. Xiao Yifei was very happy about this, so that the pests and germs from the outside world would not be able to follow the soil into the space.

Xiao Yifei asked for less than 600 varieties of grapes, and the workers quickly completed the excavation and cleaning of the Cabernet Sauvignon, and more than 10 plastic baskets were loaded with grape seedlings.

Next, Karen told Xiao Yifei about some precautions for handling and planting grape seedlings, saying that their nursery does not recommend customers to plant grapes after June 1, which will affect the growth of grapes, but it doesn't matter if Xiao Yifei is not a large-scale production. Cullen also lowered the guaranteed survival rate on the contract, the two parties signed the contract, and Xiao Yifei paid, even if the deal was completed.

Not far from the nursery, while there was still a small road and no one around, Xiao Yifei put the grape seedlings into the Osiris space, and after walking around, he returned to the nursery to continue the transportation of other varieties.

After returning to the winery and returning the pickup, Xiao Yifei returned to the resort alone.

Flashing into the space, Xiao Yifei began to busy planting work. The job was supposed to start by digging a planting trench, applying a base fertilizer, backfilling some soil, and then planting the seedlings. But when it comes to Xiao Yifei, it's very simple, just dig a hole, put the grape seedlings in, and then bury the soil and it's done. Xiao Yifei planted a small number of plants, and quickly completed the planting work.

The vine's arms are then tied to the wire again with a tling line and drip irrigation is set up. Assemble the water pipes, joints, valves, and sprinklers that have been prepared in China, and finally connect the water pipes to the outlets on the large iron cans, and the whole system is completed.

Xiao Yifei threw the submersible pump into the river, closed the power switch, and as the pump buzzed, the water flowed out of the drip irrigation nozzle, soaking the ground, and this was finished.

Xiao Yifei walked out of the space and found that it was already night, and the negotiation team returned to the resort after a day of verbal exchange.

As soon as it was smooth, the grapes finally planted in the space were the first good news, and the second good news came the next day, when the SEC approved Xiao Yifei's acquisition of Sotheby's shares. So Xiao Yi paid off the money quickly, and the 4 small companies became shareholders of Sotheby. Sotheby also made an announcement that the 2.5% share of each company would not appear in the announcement at all because the shareholding was dispersed, and the announcement only stated that the two shareholders had sold their shares. This has brought Sotheby's stock price, which has just improved, into a sideways trend again.

The third person to have good news was the Vera family. They said that the vineyards could be traded, but they could not only buy the 40 acres east of the Napa River, but also the 13 acres near their home in the west of the river with their family, and the asking price reached 250,000 yuan per acre.

This price is very high, as mentioned earlier, the top vineyards will add 300,000 US dollars, and the ordinary ones like the Vera family are generally only a little more than 180,000 yuan. Xiao Yifei symbolically agreed to the deal at a price of 190,000 yuan, but he could not sign the contract until the winery's acquisition was completed.