In the United States, it is not popular to keep a diary without leaving a name for doing good deeds, and if you do so, people may still doubt your purpose for doing good deeds - to put it bluntly, everyone has different moral values.

Since Zhang Cheng is mixed in the United States, of course, he must adapt to American values. Since we have to work and spend money to improve the marine ecosystem, we must always find a way to reap some benefits in it, and it should not be a big deal to buy one or two fishing grounds first.

And the benefits of this place to the United States and the world are obvious, although Zhang Cheng must have done the first thing to improve the marine ecosystem in his own fishing grounds, but the algae fish move along the currents.

A change in the fishing grounds at this point can bring benefits to the entire marine ecosystem - the waters of the four oceans are connected by ocean currents.

Zhang Cheng didn't want to go too far, and it just so happened that Catherine's cruise ship and house were in the San Francisco area of Northern California, which was also a very good fishing ground before the historical overfishing, and Zhang Cheng meant that it was better to circle this area.

But the enclosure of private fishing grounds would require public relations with the local government of California, and it would be better to add one or two more protected areas such as national marine parks near the fishing grounds -- so that the California Coast Guard could legitimately piggyback on their fishing grounds from poaching.

Thinking like this, Zhang Cheng made a phone call to his lawyer, Johnny, and told him about it. "There aren't a lot of private fishing in the U.S., but distant-water vessels in Alaska, Bering Strait, Arctic and Atlantic can catch some catch," Johnny said by phone.

The fishing grounds and the national parks, while a bit of a hassle, are not out of the question, but I need some money to lobby some of the California powerhouses, and the money can't be bank transfers, and it can't be bills in consecutive dollars......"

Zhang Cheng: "Is a million dollars worth of bearer treasury bonds enough?" ”

When he first came into contact with the U.S. bearer treasury bonds, Zhang Cheng thought it was a good thing. I also bought a little bit for hedging, and now it seems that it has finally come in handy.

Johnny: "450,000 is enough for this little thing, and our credo is to do a lot with how much money you can do!" ”

Zhang Cheng: "That's good. I'll find someone to send it to you. ”

In the United States, it is very rare to get the local government to sell a piece of the property that was not planned to be sold again, such as the fishing grounds, which are already depleted of fishery resources. Americans also can't think of engaging in aquaculture, first, because the automation process of aquaculture is low (compared with the manufacture of automobiles and electrical appliances) and the labor cost is high, and second, the price of fish caught in aquaculture is incomparable with that of natural fishing.

The existing private commercial fishing farms in the United States are mainly engaged in the sale of fish fry, and their largest customers are local governments, and the local governments that own fishery resources buy back the rare fish fry and release them into the sea, hoping to restore the rare fish population.

However, this kind of policy business is also very restrictive, for example, now that the California government is in debt, it has to reduce the amount of fry in the next year's plan to save money - you say, since the financial difficulties are to stop the cost of fish stocking? Are you kidding. People's seedlings, enterprises, and government work have all been done. As for the teachers and civil servants who were fired during the economic crisis, it is clear that they did not do a good job of communicating with the government.

Of course, this kind of thing has to be done by finding an agent, and the best agent is a lawyer. The United States is a lawyer's society, and once you stammer, you can become a middle-class lawyer without worrying about food and clothing -- and for prosecutors, it is great that the government-hired stammering lawyers can defend the poor.

For example, if you don't have a lawyer to bribe a judge directly -- even if you want to bribe a judge, you have to do it with a lawyer, and in the United States, the jury has the final say on whether you are guilty or not, but how long you sentence a person to prison is the scope of the judge's work. That's why many felonies in the U.S. have so much to say, and they can get you home right away or you can be imprisoned for life — in Chinese terms, it's a lot of skill.

After finishing this, Zhang Cheng continued to push the shopping cart and followed. When she arrived at the meat area, Jingjing saw the vacuum meat packaging: "Wow, a pound of beef is only more than five yuan, it's so cheap!" ”

Zhang Cheng looked at it and said, "Sister." You see, it's dollars, and it's about the same price when converted into soft girl coins, and now the Yankees are complaining that they can't afford to eat beef -- the price of beef has risen in recent years, and it used to be only three or four dollars a pound. And you should note later that this is commercial-grade beef, which is only better than canned sausages. Commercial-grade beef is fattened by feed. If you look at the label above, A-grade is a calf under two and a half years old, and many of the De-grade beef are some old milk beef that does not produce milk, and beef cattle generally do not raise such a big ......"

Yingying asked, "Isn't it normal for cows to eat feed?" ”

Zhang Cheng: "American cattle feed has cow bone meal in it -- it seems that mad cow disease comes from that." I don't know if they've changed the feed recipe now. Just take the beef from my house, and the beef kept by my family ranch is at least the best grade and is free-range pure natural green beef. Absolutely. ”

Jingjing put down the beef when she heard this: "Forget it." ”

How about it, Zhang Cheng also took the opportunity to add some spices such as spicy soy sauce and sesame sauce to his kitchen. When Zhang Cheng, who was about to drive home from the city, passed by the Starbucks chain store around the corner of the street, Zhang Cheng stopped and handed the crystal sisters in the back seat a Franklin sheet: "Living here teaches you to be a good person." Go buy three cups of coffee. ”

The simple English conversation Jingying sisters have been learning for more than ten years, and when they heard the words, they got out of the car and took the money and went in, and came back with three cups of coffee and change from the coffee shop in three minutes.

Zhang Cheng took the coffee and pretended to take a small sip, and said to the Jingying sisters, "Drink it." ”

Sister Jingying took a puff and almost squirted out the coffee, Yingying asked, "It's so sweet, they beat the candy seller to death?" ”

Zhang Cheng: "It's almost the same if you didn't die." Cuba is sugar-grown. ”

Jingjing: "I can't stand the sweetness, how can I drink this?" ”

Zhang Cheng: "So to teach you a good one, according to the recent conclusion of human biology, Chinese have more taste buds than foreigners, that is to say, foreign devils drink this coffee is not so sweet, so put so much sugar to enhance the sweetness." When I used to eat American chocolate in China, I wondered why that American chocolate was so sweet and greasy, but when I arrived in the United States, I realized that all the sweet drinks and sweet snacks were so sweet......"

Sister Jingying looked at the coffee in her hand and asked, "What about this?" ”

The food that Americans don't like is to rather not eat it, but Chinese have experienced countless famine years caused by lack of food in history, and it is considered a moral felony to waste food. The McCann chain has a rule that bread must be thrown into the trash if it is not sold after dozens of minutes of being copied. But McKenzie's chain stores in China have never spoiled bread that hasn't been sold for dozens of minutes after it has been baked.

Zhang Cheng: "If you don't want to throw it away, take it home and mix it with hot milk and continue to drink it." ”

"Oh." Sister Jingying answered, ready to take it back and drink it.

Take the Jingying sisters back to Uncle Daqing's house. Zhang Cheng, along with his aunt and Jingying sisters, moved things from the car to the kitchen, and some of the things Uncle Daqing bought were also loaded in the car.

Empty the trunk. The aunt said to Zhang Cheng: "I walked around the yard during the day, and this yard is quite large, and there is a small pond and a stream, in addition to growing vegetables, I can also raise some chickens and ducks." Where do you sell chickens and ducklings here? ”

Zhang Cheng: "There should be chickens and ducks on a small farm nearby, so I'll drive around." In the past, the owners here raised turkeys and goats, and it should be no problem to raise chickens and ducks. The creek was formed by the melting of the snow water of the iceberg, the seasonal stream, which disappeared in winter. It can be used for seven or eight months a year. ”

The neighbors near Uncle Daqing's new home, except for the one across the road. It's a few hundred meters or even farther away, and it's a family (vacation) ranch community that cuts the ranch into a few acres, and it's normal to go out to visit neighbors by car, and it's also a favorite room type for Americans. The air here is good, crime is low (you don't have to worry about getting headshots from stray bullets while sleeping), and it is typical to work in the city and live in the countryside. There are also those who go to professional small ranches to make a living.

Zhang Cheng drove out and did not stop until he saw an old American man pruning fruit trees in the yard, and Zhang Cheng saw that the white American old man was wearing a straw hat, a beard, and a denim suit, dressed as a traditional American peasant.

Zhang Cheng got out of the car and shouted by the fence: "Hey, excuse me, is there a ranch nearby that sells chickens and ducklings?" ”

The old man came down from the low ladder: "I'm strange, you didn't come by appointment. I'm raising chickens here. Chicks and eggs are also sold. A few dozen meters further ahead of your car will see the sign of my ranch with a black chicken painted on it. Are you Chinese? ”

Zhang Cheng: "Yes. ”

Old man: "Just call me Jason, I raise very precious Chinese green-shell laying hens." Of course, the price is also a bit more expensive. If you are Chinese, you must understand its value. Come in and have a look. ”

Behind the yard of Jason's house, a dense and tall steel wire fence enclosed a large chicken farm with a chicken coop, in which hundreds of chickens of all sizes with black feathers, black feet, black mouths and black eyes were wandering around looking for food. The two bullies watching the farm outside the chicken farm saw their owner coming, and ran to Jason's feet.

It only took a few seconds for Zhang Cheng to know what breed it was, the main ingredient in the famous tonic black chicken Baifeng Pill was made from this chicken, Zhang Cheng said: "It's black chicken, it's normal to be more expensive." The bones of this green-shell hen are black, right, Jason? ”

Jason: "Sure enough, you're a knowledgeable person, so I don't have to explain too much." Not only the chicken bones and internal organs are black. This green-shell layer has a three-month-old chick rooster for $15 a rooster and a young hen for $50 a hen. Green-shelled eggs are not fertilized by one dollar or two. Because you didn't have an appointment, I could only sell you one hundred and fifty. Fertilized green-shelled eggs cost five yuan each. I can sell you a hundred and twenty. ”

If you just look at the price, it is really ridiculously expensive, and a dozen eggs (12) in American supermarkets sell for more than a dollar. Processed turkey is also a dollar or two a pound. The black chicken is very small, and it is simply a pocket chicken compared to the American turkey, but when it comes to nutritional value and taste, the black chicken and the black egg have to be finished with the eggs of the turkey and large chicken farms. In general, it makes sense that it is expensive.

Zhang Cheng took out his checkbook and wrote on the check and said, "Then I want ten little roosters, forty little hens, and one hundred unfertilized green shell eggs, a total of 2,200."

"I'll do the math." Jason took the check, took out his mobile phone and turned on the calculator function, and pressed it for a while before he sighed: "It's really 2200, just like the legend, Chinese Americans have magical mental arithmetic ability." ”

Zhang Chengxin said that Chinese primary school students who can't even memorize multiplication formulas have long been classified as mentally handicapped.

After collecting the money, Jason called his wife into the chicken farm to catch chickens and eggs, and saw that Jason's wife was also an American mature woman in her thirties. Zhang Cheng felt that maybe Jason was not as old as he thought, or that it was common for him to be an old husband and a young wife.

Fifty chicks were packed in two cages, and eggs Jason gave eight more, and a box of nine dozen eggs. It is also thanks to Zhang Cheng's SUV trunk that is larger. Two cages and one box were all packed in.

After loading Zhang Cheng's car, Jason advised: "Be careful of voles and foxes coming to steal chickens and eggs at night." During the day, beware of eagles coming to catch chickens. ”

After thanking Jason. Zhang Cheng returned to James's house with a cart of chickens and eggs, moved off the chicken coop and said to his aunt: "The chickens have been bought." I also bought some eggs. ”

The aunt looked at the black chicken: "What kind of chicken is this?" ”

Zhang Cheng: "Black chicken, the nutritional value is quite high. So are black eggs. ”

Sister Jingying also ran over and asked, "This chick is so dark." There are also black chickens in the United States? ”

Zhang Cheng remembered the Asian white tiger at home, and he didn't know which generation of Americans introduced the pet: "The United States may be the country with the most alien species." ”

Then Zhang Cheng wanted to leave, and his aunt had to leave Zhang Cheng for dinner, Zhang Cheng remembered that there was still a nest of birds at home, and the two birds in front of him were still in the forest, so he was more determined to leave. Finally walked away.

Zhang Cheng, who returned to Gentle Township, saw Emma and Emily and the sisters couldn't help but rush into the dantian, carrying the two chicks and entering the room to rectify the Fa.

Besides, James, after getting off work, bought a gift to meet an old friend, and asked the driver to send it home. The aunt made beef patties in the evening, and waited for Uncle Daqing to come back and have a reunion dinner. When James got home, he and his wife and daughters had eaten a few bites of meatloaf, and James suddenly remembered something, took out a can from a dress pocket in the cloakroom, and put it on the table.

Jingjing asked, "Dad, what is this?" ”

James: "Canned meat, welfare food that I got back from church the other day. That's all that's left for this last can. Speaking of which, I've eaten this for many years in the United States, check out this last can. Leave a memory. ”

"Oh." Jingjing understands now, this is a bittersweet memory.

The aunt touched a handful of tears and said, "Besides, you haven't heard anything about you all these years, and everyone says that you died in the United States." I said no, I said that there must be news if I died. No news is alive. ”

James looked at the can and said, "I thought I was dead all these years." It was only in the past few days that he came back to life. ”

Auntie: "By the way, Zhang Cheng's kid bought a lot of spices today, as well as two puppies and a group of chickens, you go back and settle the account for others." ”

Thinking of Zhang Cheng and his own life changes in the past few days. James smiled: "I can't settle the account with him, don't worry." This boy is a rich man. With a net profit of hundreds of millions of dollars a year, he is now one of the richest people in the United States. ”

Aunt Jingying sisters: "How many hundred million dollars? ”

James: "You can look for the newspapers for the past two days." Not only did the English newspapers report it, but the Chinese newspaper also reported it. It is said that his total assets exceed 10 billion US dollars, and he has completed the accumulation of wealth without listed companies and loans, which is a 100% benign asset. ”

The Jingying sisters clapped their hands with the meatloaf in their mouths: "Wow, we played with the top rich man today!" ”

James took a bite of the meatloaf: "There is also lace news that he has more than a dozen beautiful women at home, and he goes out in luxury cars and planes, and goes to sea on cruise ships every summer." A low-key mystery will enjoy the young rich Chinese of Chinese descent. ”

Yingying asked, "By the way, Dad, are we going back to the college entrance examination?" ”

James: "If you want to be a lawyer, an accountant, or a doctor, you might as well learn English and take the American college entrance examination." I don't want you to go back and compete with millions of college graduates for jobs. ”

Jingjing asked, "What if you don't want to be a lawyer, an accountant, or a doctor?" ”

James: "Then learn how to cook with your mom and be ready to tie a man's stomach and be a housewife." ”

The Jingying sisters are entangled together, why is the road of the eldest lady so difficult? Of course, if this matter is told to his parents, such a rotten and unrealistic dream will inevitably be beaten.

Chinese parents are not British and American parents, and they have not given their children so many fairytale dreams (including gifts from Santa Claus) since childhood.

Therefore, Chinese children are taught to study hard from an early age, and supplement extracurricular skills such as Olympiad mathematics, calligraphy and painting, music and dance, sports and other skills, and hope that one day they can use these skills or study well, go to a good university, find a good job, and if it is a girl, marrying a good family is also a way out - no matter how you look at it, it is too realistic.

Although this is not all bad, private schools in the United States are also very strict, and public schools are left to have fun, but when they really play all the way, they will often hit the streets. It's not that there are no geniuses to play, but the probability of a hundred children playing one or two geniuses is very high.

After receiving 450,000 bearer U.S. Treasury bonds and some information from a poker face, Zhang's lawyer, Johnny, asked his secretary to make an appointment call, and then drove all the way to Sacramento, the capital of California.

In Sacramento, Janny first visited the daughter of a state legislator who supported California's fishing industry, and soon several state legislators met to discuss the sale of a piece of public fishing ground.

Like Johnny said, it's not a big deal. California's fishery resources are actually depleted, and it is a good thing that someone is willing to buy to improve the environment of the fishery, because the fish move with the ocean currents, and it is obviously impossible to enclose such a large fishing ground. Even if the regular feeding system is adopted, only a part of the fish can be retained, and if there are more fish, they still have to go out.

Not to mention the sale of a public fishing ground that could give the now-debted California government a break down in bankruptcy. In the past, California didn't want to sell these public fisheries to pay off its debts, but everyone knew that California's fishery resources had been depleted, and no one wanted to buy them for the same reason that the California legislators thought, that is, if they put in fish fry to raise them, they would run away with the currents. (To be continued)