Chapter 33: Mike's Invitation

In the afternoon of the next day, Ju An took his family and Wu Ming and Wang Fan to the old Taylor's house for a banquet, this time Ju An drove with his mother and sister and two little guys, his father and brother-in-law, as well as Wu Ming and Wang Fan on horseback, and the group slowly drove to the old Taylor's ranch.

Old Taylor's ranch is about 20 miles away from Ju'an's ranch, not too far, about ten minutes by car, and it took the family more than half an hour to get to Old Taylor's ranch.

As soon as he entered the ranch gate, Ju'an found that it was much more distinctive than his own gate, Taylor's ranch gate, with a thick wooden pillar on each side, with a very vicissitudes of bark, two wooden pillars supported a beam, on which was written Juwushan Ranch, and a sheep's head hung in the middle. Around the gate, the thick wooden stakes drive four layers of fine logs, all of which are of the brown bark type, which is very distinctive.

Wang Fan came to the door of the car at this time and said to Ju An: "Anzi, people are much more particular about this gate than you, you have a frame."

Ju An pursed his lips and said, "When I have an idea, I will definitely make the gate look better than old Taylor."

Wang Fan also leaned over and whispered: "You have been mixing in China for so many years, what are you messing with, you haven't done a good job in face work."

Ignoring the two bastards who fell into the well, he added a throttle and went into the ranch.

When they drove near the house, the old Taylor family was already waiting at the door, got out of the car, and after greetings, Taylor's wife Vera beckoned everyone to tie the horse to the edge of the fence, and followed Zhang Luo to feed the horse, this time old Taylor's daughter Carol and son-in-law Kerry, and of course Anderson and Thornton.

Ju An introduced Wang Fan and Wu Ming, and the rest of the people helped to organize dinner, and several men gathered around to talk.

Ju An listened for a while, and then he lost any interest, basically the number of people received by each family, and how to arrange the activity route, whether to engage in wild riding and camping or something.

So he stood up and went to see if anyone could help. As soon as he walked over, Vera let him move freely, and Juan had to pick up a bottle of beer and walk to the fence to watch the sheep gathered together.

After watching it for a while, Kerry also came over and leaned against the fence to say hello to Juan.

"Why stay alone, Ann," Kerry said as he took a sip of his beer.

Juan replied with a smile: "Look at the sunset and the flock."

"You're enjoying a lot more than they do," Kerry said with a smile, gesturing to the few people there. Then he said:

"I heard that the ranch is not involved in engaging in tourism, why".

Ju An replied: "I have insufficient manpower there, and I am also afraid of trouble, so you can prepare a few ranches to work together."

"There are three ranches that can accommodate twenty-five visitors, and this ranch and Thornton's ranch and Anderson Ranch, plus two horsemen to come over and teach riding when guests come, and a singer to the town when camping," Kerry said.

"You're thinking a lot," Juan said with a smile.

Kerry replied with a smile: "I have done it for a while before, but the source of customers cannot be guaranteed, and gradually I have not done it, our ranches are not specialized in tourism, or animal husbandry, compared to those professional ranches, swimming pools have everything, the same as hotels."

Ju An smiled: "Why don't I see that there are many sheep here, Taylor said that he raised a lot, and the rest were put in the wild?" ”。

Kerry replied: "It's just a small part here, and a large part is in the mountains, employing two South Americans to graze".

"On the mountain?" Ju An asked strangely.

Kerry pointed to a half-high hill in the distance: "The rancher's grass is eroded by weeds, and he wants to use herbicides and is afraid of leaving any hidden dangers, so he rents it to my father-in-law cheaply, grazing sheep, the conditions on the mountain are too difficult, there is no locals to go, there is no electricity, no gas, food has to be delivered two or three times a week, and the cost has to be controlled, the wages of foreigners are low, and there is no need to pay all kinds of insurance."

Ju An nodded, and secretly slandered in his heart: These Americans, shouting all day long about unemployment, no security, complaining that immigrants have robbed jobs, where do you know, there are some jobs you don't want to do at all, you dislike less money, poor conditions, immigrants do it, you shout, you are lazy and blame others for being too diligent? I was reminded of what I saw in the newspaper some time ago when a Republican Party person said that we wanted to control illegal immigrants and send them all back, saying that these immigrants had robbed Americans of jobs that should belong to Americans, so that Americans could not find jobs, and shook my head.

After chatting with Kerry for a while, Vera shouted that it was time to eat, and Juan and Kerry walked to the oven, took a plate, made two lamb chops, and gnawed them directly with the bones in their hands, and they were well roasted.

Ju An thinks that in fact, the three foreigners, steak, lamb chops and Sarah are almost the same, and it is fresh for Ju An to eat twice, and it will be unappetizing to eat it for the old man.

Wang Fan and Wu Ming were addicted to eating. In Wang Fan's words, drinking wine and eating meat in a big bowl is a great pleasure in life.

After dinner, Ju An took everyone to say goodbye, Taylor's family.

When they arrived at their house, the three brothers worked together to make a total.

Wang Fan took out a few pages and handed them to Ju An, Ju An looked at it, by the way, it was full, it was written, the things that tourists are required to bring, soft bags, long-sleeved clothes and shoes, not to mention, and glasses must be chained, this Ju An knows, to prevent the glasses from falling off when riding a horse, you will be in trouble to find on horseback, what cosmetics must be degradable, what to eat on the first day, what activities, what to do on the second day, basically all the arrangements are in place, and there is a mess of shopping time.

Throwing the paper back to Wang Fan said, "What do you think?" ”。

Wang Fan replied: "I think it's good, the arrangement is good, I think we will go back the day after tomorrow, organize a group to come over as soon as possible, test the water, and I already have a goal."

Ju An said, "So fast? ”。

Wu Ming said: "The third child, I got a middle-level tour of a software company before I came, and I am waiting for him to go back and finalize it."

Ju An smiled and said, "Damn, you have great powers."

Wang Fan said with a smile: "Their boss used to be comrades-in-arms with my father, everyone is very familiar, I saw that he was called uncle, where they travel is not the same, let others earn it is better to let us earn."

"Okay! Okay, you can see that it's done," Ju An said, "It's going to leave the day after tomorrow, and it's only been a few days."

"In a few days, I or Wu Ming will come, the first time we always have someone to lead the group, if I am busy and smooth, I will come," Wang Fan said.

"After playing for a few days, the third child is going to build a horse farm on a piece of land, just in Jiangnan City," Wu Ming said.

Ju An said curiously: "Isn't there a horse farm in Jiangnan, what else are you doing?"

"There's nothing to talk about with you, a foodie who just wants to raise cattle, that horse farm has a fart grade, brother went back this time to find a few people to do it together, high-grade ones, bar rooms or something, do you want to be interested and invest in it?" Wang Fan said.

"It's not a big deal to invest some money, I'm not interested in going to China to deal with those relationships," Ju An said with a smile.

"Forget it, you still have to raise your cattle, I don't understand, you can make a lot of money by raising cattle" Wang Fan shook his head.

Ju An replied: "I didn't expect that I would have so much money half a year ago, with such a big ranch, as well as a car, a house, no one urged me to punch in every day, there is no need to worry about working overtime, every day is a holiday holiday, I am very satisfied now, nothing I toss around, the old saying is good, contentment is always happy, where is the realm of Taoist inaction and governance understood by you mortals."

"You...... Hey, you really can't make a fortune," Wang Fan nodded a little safe.

After chatting for a while, Ju An returned to the room, and just after taking a shower, he remembered his mobile phone, and saw that it was actually Mike's phone, which was the Mike from the auction house.

Ju An answered the phone and said, "Hello, Mike hasn't been on the phone for a long time."

"Hello, Ann, I should have called you in the afternoon, I received a few troublesome customers and forgot, my boss Philips, I am going to prepare a charity auction in two days, I want to invite you to come and participate, I don't know if you are free" Mike's familiar voice came from the phone: "If you have time, I personally recommend that you come to participate, many Philips friends will attend, and there are also a few Chinese, maybe you can talk, a charity auction held by a party."

Ju An heard that this was obviously to ask for money, and just wanted to find a reason to refuse, and heard Mike say: "An, you should come to participate, get to know a lot of political and economic figures, and make more friends, in addition, this year, our Mingzhu Party is ready to increase its propaganda efforts in Montana, to see and see, there will definitely be many such scenes in the future, it doesn't matter whether you participate in the auction or not, you should go and open your eyes."

Hearing Mike say this, Ju An thought, yes, buddy can be regarded as experiencing the upper class life of US imperialism, and seeing the sugar-coated shells of capitalism, so he nodded and agreed.

Just as he was about to hang up the phone, he heard Mike say again: "In addition, the paintings you have kept here, Professor Frank wants to lend them to participate in an exhibition, I hope you can agree, of course, there is some small payment."

Ju An said: "Of course, the exhibition can be, but what if it is damaged." You borrowed it and broke it, buddy, who are you looking for, I'll sign it in a big word, and I will lose thousands and bring tens of thousands.

"Before the exhibition, you will be insured by the insurance company, and the insurance company is more worried about the safety than you," Mike said with a smile.

"Then we'll be discussing this then, when will the auction be?" asked Ju An.

Mike replied, "The night after tomorrow, but I suggest you come over the day after tomorrow, can't you ask your old friend Mike to treat you to a drink?" ”。

Ju An had no choice but to agree. Tell him that he will go to New York the day after tomorrow and call him, hang up the phone, Ju An thought, this little money is something that people are thinking about everywhere.