Back at Li's house, after parking the car at the door, Mark helped Li Chenghua move his new "toy" into the house, and cheekily asked for a Chinese-style lunch at Li's house.

While waiting for lunch to be served, Li Chenghua took Mark and the two walked into the study and enjoyed cigars together.

"Mark, are we going to fly over then? Do you book your tickets separately or do you book your tickets all together and then I pay you the ticket money? Spit out a smoke ring, Li Chenghua looked at Mark.

"I said, man, we can't get on the plane with guns unless you want to waste your whole vacation at the police station. Remember when I sued you about California's gun laws? Well, I know you didn't pay attention at the time, and I'll repeat to you, firearms purchased in California are not allowed to be taken out of California under California's interstate law. So, instead of flying, we drove ourselves to my ranch in Beaumont, Texas, with our guns. ”

Mark winked at Li Chenghua, then put his index finger in front of his mouth and made a "shhhh After inquiring about what items needed to be prepared in advance, Li Chenghua and Mark left the study after smoking cigars in the study, and served a delicious Chinese lunch, and Mark wiped his mouth and left satisfied.

The time soon came to the day of departure.

At ten o'clock in the morning, not long after Li Chenghua and Li Yi finished breakfast, several horns sounded outside the house.

"Uncle Mark has arrived, Daddy, hurry up!" The bear child Xiaozhi cheered, pulling his small suitcase and couldn't wait to urge Li Chenghua.

The old lady Li Zhoufangmei picked up a little cowboy hat and brought it to her granddaughter, while nagging: "Take care of your brother, don't be crazy when you get there, remember to remind your grandfather to call back at night"

"Got it, grandma, you've said it a hundred times!" Lord Pei impatiently tugged at the small square scarf she was wearing around her neck.

Early in the morning, the two little ones broke into their parents' bedroom and pestered Qin Wanyu to help them dress up. After Mommy's skillful dressing, today the two little ones are dressed in western denim outfits, jeans with pony boots, and a large colorful button belt around their waists, and a model revolver hanging on each belt, which is very cute. The two little cowboys also each took a horsewhip in their hands and waved it to urge Li Yigang and Li Chenghua: "Grandpa, Daddy, hurry up, Uncle Mark must be in a hurry." The bear child Ash couldn't help it, opened the door and rushed out with a small suitcase.

Li Yigang and Li Chenghua, father and son, are also dressed in casual clothes today, both in jeans and T-shirts, saying goodbye to their respective wives with a smile on their faces, and pulling their suitcases into the garage. After putting everything in the back compartment, he shouted "We're leaving!" to the living room. ”。 Lord Pei was too busy to kiss goodbye to grandma and mommy, pulled his small suitcase and followed him into the garage, handed the small suitcase to his grandfather and put it in the back compartment, and climbed into the back seat.

The car drove out of the garage, and saw three cars parked on the side of the road outside the house, starting with Mark's bag convertible, Mark wearing sunglasses and holding the steering wheel in a casual outfit, and a blonde beauty with sunglasses sitting in the passenger seat on the side, Ash the bear child was standing in front of the car chattering.

Seeing the car of the Li family father and son driving out of the garage, Mark got out of the car and waved to the two cars behind, and several people came down from the car one after another, these people looked different ages, a few looked like they were in their early twenties, and the oldest looked like they were only about forty.

Li Yigang father and son also hurriedly parked the car on the side of the road, the old man got out of the car first and said hello to Mark, then picked up his grandson and stuffed him into the back seat, fastened the seat belts for the grandchildren, and stuffed his grandson's small suitcase into the back compartment.

After Mark helped everyone make introductions, he gave Li Chenghua and his son a walkie-talkie, and then made a gesture to go, took the lead in getting into his own open-top, and shook hands with the new friends he had just met.

Mark's ranch is in Beaumont, Texas, a city in southeastern Texas, located west of Los Angeles, about six or seven hours away from Los Angeles at high speed.

Driving all the way on the highway at high speed, the car drove into Mark's ranch before five o'clock in the afternoon. After driving past a sign that read "Private Ranch, No Entry", about four or five minutes later, the convoy stopped in front of a house.

The group got out of the car and took a closer look at the house.

This is a two-storey brick and wood building, the exterior wall of the whole house building is dark red, the wall is crawling with unknown vines, there is a small lake not far away, there are a few scattered cattle and sheep squatting by the lake are drinking water, there are more than a dozen tall American red maple trees planted between the house and the lake, it is the early autumn season, the maple leaves are gradually red, the dark red house is set off by the yellow and green maple leaves, coupled with the turquoise lake on the side, it looks like a fairy tale world at a glance, it is extremely beautiful.

Lord Pei couldn't help but take a deep breath when he looked at this beautiful scenery, the bear child Ash had already rushed to the cattle and sheep by the lake uncontrollably, Mark hurriedly ran over and grabbed Ash, "He, boy, don't get up, these cattle and sheep can kick people!" ”。

Ash pursed his lips and was led back to his father by Mark. Seeing the bear child's expression, Mark smiled and patted the back of the bear child's head, and then walked among his friends and introduced them to his holiday ranch one by one.

There are two long one-story buildings next to the main house, one of which is a worker's house, which is just for the cowboys on the ranch. The other was originally a worker's room, and Mark said that because there were not many workers, it was used as a utility room and a tool room. Not far from the workers' house is a stable, which can accommodate about two dozen horses, but there are not many horses in the stable at the moment. Mark said that he would buy a few more quart horses in the future, and that he would invite some friends to ride here every year. Next to the stables is a wooden barn with a large domed roof. Next to the barn is a large warehouse with several pickup trucks parked inside.

An old cowboy came from afar, said hello to Mark, and handed Mark a bunch of house keys, Mark took the keys and opened the door of the main house to beckon everyone into the house.

Walking into the house, Li Chenghua looked around, there was a TV set on the low cabinet against the wall in front of the living room, the TV set was facing the spacious fabric sofa and log coffee table, and a few log tables and chairs were scattered in the living room, and a fireplace was built on the wall behind the sofa, and a deer head specimen with twelve antlers was hung on the wall next to the fireplace.

Mark beckoned everyone upstairs and assigned their own rooms one by one, and Li Peipei and her younger brother were assigned to sleep in the same room with Grandpa and Daddy.

After putting away the luggage, Li Chenghua took his daughter to say hello to the old man next door, and picked up his son and went downstairs.

When I left the house, the sun was setting, and the afterglow of the sunset reflected the green grassland in the distance, and a few red maple trees in front of the house seemed to have a hazy halo under the reflection of the setting sun. A gentle breeze blows, the leaves rustle, and a few small squirrels are poking their heads between the branches, as if curious about the guests who have come from afar. The breeze blows through the lake, the surface of the lake is slightly rippled, and the shadows of the trees reflected on the lake surface also rise and fall slightly with the ripples of the lake, and the whole lake surface is set off by the sunset. You can still faintly hear a few birds chirping, and a qiē is so beautiful.

Not far from the front of the house, the old cowboy was surrounded by three young cowboys, and a group of people were busy setting up a grill at this time, preparing for the barbecue dinner in the evening, and the bear child Ash hurriedly got out of his father's arms and jumped around the cowboys.

"Hey bro, how's my ranch going?" Mark also came downstairs at this time, walked up to Li Chenghua, and handed him a bottle of beer.

Li Chenghua let go of his daughter's little hand, took the beer from Mark's hand, took a sip, watched his daughter's cheerful figure run to his son, and replied with a smile: "It's really good, how big is here?" ”