Chapter 13: A New Home
The next day, Liu Ru and Liu Shihua arrived at Harvard, accompanied by Rachel. At the invitation of Su Zhen, Rachel has become Liu Ru's personal assistant, and the annual salary of 200,000 yuan makes Rachel unable to refuse at all.
After seeing the Lion Ranch, Liu Ru expressed her satisfaction with her new home, and Aikman, Su Zhen's personal legal counsel, also arrived at Harvard.
Another day later, after the lawyers of both sides studied and confirmed all the contract documents one by one, Liu Ruhe signed them in the presence of the lawyer and the agent. After Liu Ru wrote the check, the more than 20,000 acres of ranch that Su Zhen named as the Garden Ranch completely belonged to Liu Ru and became their new home.
After signing the contract, it was too early, and the group did not return to the ranch, but stayed in Harvard Town for one night.
The next day, after transporting all the luggage back to the ranch, several people started a big purchase, the first step was to buy a car, and the ranch car was naturally the best pickup, but because Liu Ru and Liu Shihua did not have a driver's license, they first bought a four-seat Ford pickup truck and 4 all-terrain vehicles for the car to send back to the ranch, and bought a Wrangler's off-road vehicle driven by Rachel, carrying several people to start purchasing.
There is furniture and everything, and you don't need to buy it, just buy some daily necessities and sheets, bedspreads, etc.
Later, under Su Zhen's suggestion and Rachel's approval, he decided to buy a gun.
After all, except for Rachel, several people are new to a foreign land, and it is natural to lack a sense of security, and the United States is different from China, where there are basically no large beasts in the place where people live, but it is normal for many farms and pastures in the United States to have wolves, bears and other large wild animals on the mountains.
Several people came to the gun shop, looking at the guns placed on the counter in the store, Su Zhen couldn't help but start to get excited, two lives add up to more than 30 years, Su Zhen's closest distance to seeing firearms was in 2010, when he was at the Haishi World Expo, he saw it on the entry and exit security personnel, and he was still more than ten meters away. Nowadays, such close contact is naturally exciting.
When the clerk heard that some ladies were looking for guns, they recommended a few small-caliber pistols, and after trying them at the shooting range behind the gun shop, they decided to buy three Glock 17 9mm pistols and a Remington shotgun.
Then ignoring Su Zhen's protest and leaving the gun shop, Su Zhen was helpless, only shouting in his heart, I will come back.
After shopping, Rachel sent Liu Ru and Liu Shihua home, and after leaving the second daughter to tidy up the housework at home, she drove Su Zhen back to the town, what to do? Naturally, more than 20,000 acres of pasture cannot be left empty, so it is natural to buy horses, cattle and hire people.
Learning the experience of many novels, Su Zhen walked into a cowboy-flavored tavern with a strange face Rachel, but as soon as he entered, Su Zhen was scolded by the boss, "Hey boy, minors can't enter the bar, hurry up and get out", and attracted the attention of everyone in the tavern to Su Zhen.
Su Zhen stood at the door with an embarrassed face, unable to advance or retreat, so he had to stand at the door and explain, "I'm not here to drink, I bought a ranch nearby and want to invite a few skilled cowboys." ”
That's when a cowboy in his thirties who was drinking at the bar asked, "Where's your farm, little one?" ”
"The original lion ranch is now called the garden ranch" Su Zhen replied, "I am going to raise beef cattle, and I want to invite a few cowboys who know how to run a ranch"
The barkeeper pointed to the questioning cowboy and replied, "Little John's father, Old John, is the best cowboy here, Little John, hurry up and take this young man to meet your father, I don't want to have my license revoked for hosting minors." ”
Little John smiled and drank the wine in the glass, walked to the door and said to Su Zhen, "I'll take you to meet my father, he is recognized as the best cowboy in the neighborhood."
Su Zhen looked at the other cowboys around him and seemed to have acquiesced to the words of the bar owner and Little John, and nodded.
Little John rode a horse, while Su Zhen and Rachel followed Little John to a house outside the town, and John Jr. dismounted and shouted to an old cowboy who was feeding the horses in the yard, "Father, someone has bought a lion ranch and is now going to hire a cowboy." As he spoke, he pushed open the courtyard door and walked in, and Su Zhen and Rachel followed.
Walking up, Su Zhen looked at the old cowboy, tall and thin, with a beard. "Hello, my name is Sue, this is Rachel is my personal assistant, I bought the original lion ranch, now called Garden Ranch, I want to raise some beef cattle, the owner of the tavern recommended you to me"
"That's not a small place, more than 20,000 acres can raise seven or eight thousand cows, and you have to hire a lot of cowboys," John Sr. thought for a moment.
"You don't need so much, just raise about 2,000 heads at the beginning, and raise a few horses and dozens of sheep, how many people do you think you need?" asked Su Zhen.
Old John silently calculated, "Five people are enough."
Then it is to talk about treatment, and finally set a weekly salary of 300 US dollars, and the insurance is calculated separately, the United States and Europe basically calculate the weekly salary and annual salary, and there is rarely a monthly salary.
At the same time, in addition to himself and his son, Old John also recommended three cowboys to Su Zhen, all of whom were originally men, but considering the female factors in the family, Su Zhen asked Old John if there were any female cowboys, and finally determined a male cowboy Jensen and two cowgirls Bella and Grace.
Old John notified a few people to meet Su Zhen at home, and after negotiating the treatment, they made an appointment, and they will go to work at the ranch tomorrow morning. Then Su Zhen called his personal lawyer Aikman to prepare an employment contract, and Aikman was hired by Su Zhen and decided to open an office directly in the town, and he didn't have to run back to Chicago, and he was still single, without family ties, and after the contract was signed, Jensen and the three of them said goodbye and went back to pack their things.
Under the guidance of Old John, Su Zhen bought two pickup trucks and two trailers, five all-terrain vehicles and a tractor, and more than a dozen barrels of oil. Except for two pickup trucks left for John's father and son to pick up the other three to go to the ranch tomorrow, the other vehicles were entrusted to the car dealer to deliver to the farm, and this trip cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
After everything was done, Su Zhen said goodbye to John and his son, hired two servants at the agency in the town, and bought a lot of ingredients before returning to the ranch with Rachel.
When they arrived at the ranch, they found that Liu Ru and Liu Shihua were preparing dinner, so he asked Rachel to help the two, and he said hello and walked around the house.
Su Zhen came to the warehouse and found that there was a greenhouse behind the warehouse, but it was empty, so Su Zhen took tools from the warehouse, prepared to plant some vegetables in it, entered the jade space, and took out a few bags of seeds from the space. There are cabbage, greens, tomatoes, and turnips, all of which are collected domestically.
Then Su Zhen began to plant vegetables, saying that planting vegetables was actually walking two cloths and stuffing seeds into the ground. It was done in about half an hour, and then I took the shower and filled the space with water and sprinkled it slightly, and soon the plants began to grow, and in a few minutes the tomatoes were hung with red fruits, and the cabbage and green vegetables and radishes also rose gratifyingly.
At this time, Liu Shihua came to find Su Zhen, Su Zhen lied to him that he accidentally found this greenhouse, which was already full of vegetables, although Liu Shihua felt strange that the vegetables in the shed looked crooked, but he didn't think much about it, just informed Su Zhen that dinner was ready.
This is something that Su Zhen also found out is wrong, because it seems that Americans don't eat vegetables...... But I don't care, it's impossible for others to smell the former ranch owner if he eats vegetables, right?
After dinner, the four of them watched TV in the living room together and then went back to their rooms. The rooms for the four are on the second floor, and Su Zhen is going to use a few rooms on the first floor as a maid's room, and he will live for the servant after the hired servant comes. Cowboys only need to live in workers' housing.
After returning to the room, Su Zhen couldn't help but burst into tears, after more than two years, we finally have our own room~