After sending off all the killer whales, Shi Lei took Laura and walked back together. Laura kept asking excitedly along the way, asking Shi Lei how he did it, why he was so energetic, like a little girl chasing stars. Shi Lei had no choice but to prevaricate, I can't talk about this carefully.

The Spring Festival is approaching soon, and Shi Lei and Laura also have to prepare some gifts to take home and give to the elders at home. Shi Lei asked his parents for their opinions before, and they insisted on going home for the New Year, of course Shi Lei had to accompany him.

And although Laura now knows the meaning of celebrating the New Year with Shi Lei, Laura, who was already firm in such an idea, agreed without hesitation to go back with Shi Lei.

This time, the gifts for everyone have to be different. This kind of thing has always given Shi Lei a headache, so Shi Lei simply entrusted this matter to Laura, and Shi Lei, who already had difficulty in choosing, was relieved.

Laura's method is also simple, she prepared comprehensive nutritional products for each old man, and bought some relatively easy cosmetics made by Midi for several adult cousins and cousins of Shi Lei.

Several cousins have used them before and think it's pretty good, anyway, it's not a big thing for Shi Lei, and it's quite suitable to give them a gift for the New Year. And of course, the cousins are given so that they can go back to please their wives or future wives.

Of course, Shi Lei doesn't completely don't prepare gifts, it's just that when Shi Lei chooses things, he is easy to choose for his family according to his own preferences, so he often can't give them to others. I couldn't get anything left, so Shi Lei tried not to choose a gift by himself.

The gift prepared by Shi Lei this time is still more suitable in his opinion. Although he couldn't bring some knives with him, he did prepare a Leeseman multi-tool plier for his cousins and cousins, and of course chose the top-of-the-line model. With this thing, it is very convenient for the brothers to do their work.

This thing used to be Shi Lei's dream, but unfortunately Shi Lei's salary was too little. He was reluctant to take out 1,800 to buy a non-essential tool that was not used so frequently, so he could only watch it for a while before.

But of course, there is no such thing as zài now. When Shi Lei was in the ranch, he was used to often carrying such a multi-functional tool pliers. If you have a little bit of work, you can use it at any time.

Shi Lei felt that he was still a pure man, and the things he liked should be similar to those of his younger brothers. Cars and guns cannot be delivered. I can't bring back the knives, so I got a few tools and brought them back to my brothers, and they should all like it.

The Shi Lei, the producer of the ranch, still needs to be sent back appropriately, and they can't be sent back because their value has increased. If it weren't for the desserts, which were really hard to bring back, Shi Lei really wanted to bring back some desserts made by masters like macarons, so that grandparents and grandmothers and their elders could taste this rare delicacy. But this thing was too easy to break, so I had to settle for the next best thing and bring back some cheese from the ranch.

Laura also took out a lot of her own works to give to Shi Lei's family, and what she must have is all kinds of leather bags. It's all Laura's failed design. Of course, this is a failure for Laura, in Shi Lei's opinion, everyone is very beautiful.

Although apart from the difference in size, Shi Lei has no other specific perception of these bags. But if you think about Laura's level, even if it's not a successful work, to be precise, a work that needs to adjust individual details, it should be a good thing at the luxury level.

What's more, these bags are all made of leather from stone pastures, and the effect is good, and the quality is absolutely not to be said. And these bags can be regarded as prototype bags designed by Laura herself, maybe in a few years, when Laura becomes famous and has a family, these prototype bags will rise to sky-high prices.

Besides. There are also some wines that the family reacts to be more delicious, and the wine in the wooden box is just suitable for New Year's gifts, which is beautiful and easy to use.

This trip back home went by very quickly. Most of the time is spent in various gatherings. After Shi Lei went back, he was often dragged to fight for wine, and he had two or three drinks a day. Fortunately, Shi Lei's system is extremely strong, and he is not afraid of anyone's challenge at all.

This New Year's gift is considered to make everyone more satisfied, because this time the gifts are all prepared by Laura. The multi-functional tool pliers prepared by Shi Lei for his younger brothers have also been unanimous in everyone's unanimous love.

After greeting his relatives for the New Year, and getting together with his classmates and friends, Shi Lei's family of four's trip back to China is over. With the smell of wine, Shi Lei returned to the stone ranch.

During the time when Shi Lei was not on the ranch, Gonzalez and Bruce, who were in charge of a kind of livestock, were doing their jobs dutifully.

It's almost Easter. It's another bonus day for the ranch, and of course they want to manage the ranch well. to win a lucrative red envelope.

Shi Lei's arrangements for several stewards are finally complete, but only if the upcoming ranch inspection trip can achieve satisfactory results.

It's already March. The environment around the Great Lakes is much better, and you can go and check out the ranches. And now the time period is actually just right, the livestock and various facilities in the pasture have just passed the baptism of winter, which can show their ability to resist this extreme weather. This is important for the operation of the farm.

From the warm spring of Santa Barbara to the occasional snowflake in Ohio, the temperature difference is very uncomfortable. As soon as Shi Lei got out of the plane, he hurriedly wrapped himself in the cotton clothes brought from China, fortunately, Shi Lei had been prepared for this, otherwise he would have been blind after coming out.

Shi Lei followed Greens to several target ranches and walked around. Shi Lei found that the various facilities here have fully taken into account the need to fight against the harsh winter. None of the farms he saw were damaged, and the livestock were well cared for. The only thing Shi Lei needs to consider is the area and price.

Shi Lei also discovered that the cowboys here are the same as the local cowboys in Fox River Ranch, even in such a weather where the lowest temperature is occasionally below freezing, they are basically just a standard outfit of jeans and shirts.

It seems that cowboys are quite resistant to frost, and this idea of letting themselves cool down is a common phenomenon among cowboys, and it may be this kind of grinding that makes them happy with the hard life of cowboys.

Shi Lei quickly selected the two largest ranches and asked Greens to continue to negotiate the price with the other party, and he could buy whichever was cheaper. Anyway, the two ranches are similar in terms of facilities, and the area is about the same, but one of the main houses is a little more luxurious.

But this is not attractive to Shi Lei, and he will not go there to live permanently, at most, he will take some time out to go there every year as a vacation, in this case, no matter which one is enough.

After basically determining the expansion plan of the new ranch, Shi Lei's next step is to choose the manager of the ranch.

Considering that the production of dairy cows will be the main place there, the first person to go there must be Sanchez, who has been in charge of the management of dairy cows. In addition, Bruce, who had previously managed the stone ranch on behalf of Hanks, was also remarkable, but he had been in charge of the management of sheep before, and he was not a very suitable person.

In addition, if he succeeds in taking any ranch, Shi Lei also plans to arrange for Robin to come over there to help. Because Ohio is not only suitable for the growth of dairy cows, the milk produced is relatively high, but also suitable for raising pigs.

For Shi Lei, pork is his favorite, and no meal is missing. But the status of pigs in the Western diet is not too high, and it is impossible to raise pigs with high prices. Shi Lei had no choice but to target their target customer base at major Chinese restaurants.

In this regard, I met at the Huang family's annual meeting last time, and many Huang family's restaurateurs provided Shi Lei with more opportunities. After tasting the pork from Stone Ranch, they have already started to place orders for Stone Ranch. If used well, they wouldn't mind switching it all to pork from Stone Ranch.

After all, the pork that has been transformed by Shi Lei not only grows fast, the key is that the taste is very good, and there is a fragrance similar to that of a small fragrant pig, which will definitely add a lot of color to various restaurants when used for Chinese food.

Shi Lei is very confident that as long as these Chinese restaurants start to use pork from Stone Ranch, they will always place orders for Stone Ranch, after all, Chinese food is the big consumer of pork. Shi Lei has never lacked confidence in this regard, so he likes to prepare enough output in advance.

In this way, the large pasture with an area of more than 60,000 acres in this plan can accommodate nearly 10,000 cows and retain about 1,000 pigs slaughtered each year. It's just that in this way, it is very likely that a steward will not be able to take care of it, so Shi Lei will think about finding Sanchez and Robin to go over, and they will do their jobs.

After Shi Lei talked to them separately, Sanchez and Robin agreed after a little consideration. Although the environment is not as comfortable as that of the Stone Ranch, after they arrive, they are all princes of the way, and such a temptation is obviously irresistible to them.

As for Bruce's side, Shi Lei also has a clear arrangement, so let him stay in the Stone Ranch as the chief steward here. He'd done it before, and he was familiar with all the things in Stone Ranch, and if the other stewards were gone, Bruce would be the oldest and most prestigious of the cowboys left in Stone Ranch.

Shi Lei had never announced a general manager before, but also to prevent several of them from pulling back from each other, leaving this position of general manager in front to hang their appetite and let them work hard.

Just before Easter, the good news came one after another.

The new ranch allowed Grims to successfully take it, and the island also saw the killer whale family cruising again, it seems that the task assigned by Shi Lei to the killer whales has also been successfully completed, and now Shi Lei can welcome this Easter with joy like the cowboys. (To be continued) R466