"Stephen, where have you been all these years?"

Sitting on the sofa at home, Mary's eyes couldn't help but glance at him.

Lin Yao couldn't answer for a while, so he could only pick a few things and said: "Stop and go, I've been to many places, and four months ago, I also worked as a wilderness hunter and worked for a boss named Henry. ”

"Revenant!"

Mary nodded, she knew the wilderness hunters, but she didn't know that Lin Yao's hunting place was an Indian reserve.

Just when Lin Yao was an ordinary hunter in the west, hunting some elk and other prey, he said happily: "It looks like you are a good mixer, this dress is so handsome, your father must be very happy to come back, he has been worrying about you." ”

"I actually wanted to come back for a long time, but because of the nature of my work, my boss didn't want to give me a long vacation."

"Our boss appreciates me, I'm now the captain of the hunting team, I have $140 a month, see if this gun is not, it's a gold-plated version of the Carnot rifle, it's worth more than $800, it's our boss's favorite, he gave me this gun."

Lin Yao told white lies, just like the Beipiao who called home to report their safety.

When you're outside, your family doesn't know how hard you're living.

You will never want to tell your parents about this kind of hard work, but will only pick and choose the good ones and say that this is human nature.

"It's beautiful, I've never seen such a beautiful weapon."

Mary was a farmer, and she had a shotgun at home, but who had ever seen a gold-plated shotgun.

In her mind, only those with deep pockets had the leisure to gild their weapons.

For ordinary people, with a monthly salary of 20 to 30 US dollars, it is good to make a family full of snacks, and gold is really not a common thing for ordinary people.

"I'll bring back some money, you can keep it first, it's not much, but it's a little bit of my heart."

Lin Yao took out his wallet, took out ten hundred-yuan bills, thought about it, and took out five more, totaling $1,500 and handed them over.

"So much?"

Mary was taken aback.

There are more than 30 cows in the family, each of which is worth about $200, and 30 cows is $6,000.

These thirty cows are enough for Lin Yao's family to live a middle-class life, and they are also a relatively decent family in a small town.

The price of a calf is one-third that of an adult cow.

The $1,500 that Lin Yao took out was enough for them to buy 20 calves.

As long as it is managed well, the size of the ranch can be halved in two years, which is not a small amount of money at the moment.

"You take the money, it's not much, but it's my heart."

Americans rarely have the habit of giving money to their families for their children, but Mary has a Tang husband, who is somewhat affected by Tang Guo's thoughts, and can understand Lin Yao's idea of wanting to pay for the family.

After taking the money, the smile on Mary's face became even stronger, and she said reluctantly: "My little Stephen has grown up and knows how to give money to his mother." Don't worry, your mother will keep this money for you, and you're not too young, tomorrow..."

Speaking of this, the expression on Mary's face was a little stiff, she looked at Lin Yao suspiciously, and asked, "Stephen, you don't still like Emma, do you?" ”

"Emma?"

Lin Yao was in a trance for a while, and instantly thought of the childhood sweetheart girl from the memory of his predecessor.

The reason why the predecessor went out to wander was also because of Emma's mother's opposition.

Emma is very beautiful and is a famous beauty in the neighborhood.

Her mother thinks she is a strange commodity to live in, and she can't look down on a middle-class family like Lin Yao, and she wants Emma to marry a rich man.

"What's wrong with Emma, is she married to a rich man?"

It was the predecessor who liked Emma, not Lin Yao, so he seemed very calm.

Mary shook her head and whispered: "It's good to marry a rich man, she is not as good as she is now, after you left, there was a ballet troupe in town, and their head thought that Emma was very beautiful, in good shape, and had a talent for performing ballet." ”

Soon, Emma left with the ballet troupe, danced outside for a few years, and then changed careers to become a violinist because she was too well developed to dance ballet.

"But sadly, she doesn't have much talent in this area and came back from outside before Christmas and is currently playing in the town's pub."

After listening to it for a long time, Lin Yao didn't hear anything, and asked, "Isn't this good?" ”

"Well, she doesn't play well at all, and others go to listen to her play because..."

Mary said that she would not say anything later, and pinched her forehead irritably: "Anyway, you will know when you go to see it." ”

"Well, I'll take a look."

Lin Yao noticed that Mary's expression was not quite right, and said: "I don't have any thoughts about Emma anymore, I was too young back then, I thought it was love, but in fact it was just friendship." The money I gave you, you can use it to buy calves, don't worry about my marriage, I'm on the rise of my career, and I don't have the energy to think about all that mess. ”

After chatting all afternoon, in the evening, Lin Zhizhou came back from herding cattle.

Seeing Lin Yao, his whole body was blindfolded, and he was stunned for a few seconds before turning into joy.

We chatted about the outside and asked about the situation at home.

Everything was fine, and Lin Yao was also relieved.

In the evening, they ate roast lamb chops and drank the town's home-brewed fruit wine.

With the help of wine, Lin Zhizhou also took Lin Yao to see the pasture and the herds of cattle, and pointed to the cow and said to Lin Yao: "See, that is a cow, as long as it is controlled, the entire herd can be controlled." ”

"How can you tell the difference, I see they all look the same." Lin Yao asked rhetorically.

"It feels, it feels like a king, but in fact it is indeed the leader of the herd, I can always recognize him at a glance, but your mother can't."

Lin Zhizhou lay on the fence and looked at Lin Yao drunkenly: "Child, are you going to leave when you come back this time?" ”

"Of course, Stone Town is too small, so it may be good to spend your old age in peace, but it is not enough to start your career, and there is no suitable industry for me to develop."

Lin Yao was telling the truth, a prosperous town like Stone Town, all walks of life were occupied.

Outsiders have to compete when they enter, and don't think about making money in a short time.

What Lin Yao needs is the kind of town that is in ruins, preferably one that has just been established and is in a hurry to recruit people and attract investment.

This kind of emerging town often gives a large amount of commercial tax exemption, three years is the basic norm, and some can even give five or eight years.

What's more, Lin Yao hadn't figured out what to do yet.

He had wanted to partner with Glass to open a factory, and this plan was ruined with Henry's death.

In addition, he left most of the money on him at home, and only had more than a hundred dollars on him, and the principal became a problem again.

He needs to get out of town, accumulate raw money again, and look for good investment projects.

None of these things were in Stone Town, and it was just a waste of time for him to stay.

"You have grown up, I support your idea, I only hope that you can remember that this is your home, and you can come back to rest when you are tired."

Lin Zhizhou is not a person with many abilities, and most of the family's prosperity is due to his mother Mary.

Otherwise, just because he is a Tang man, how can he become a middle-class family in the United States, which likes to look at skin color.

Don't think that Lin Yao doesn't know how bad the colored people are at this stage.

Even in Stone Town, there are people who discriminate against their skin color, and their predecessors were bullied because of this when they were young.

"I'm going back to sleep, I drank a little too much today, and the stamina of fruit wine is not small."

Lin Zhizhou shook his head: "What about you?" ”

"I'm going to go around town, and I've heard that Emma works part-time in the town's tavern, and I'm going to go over and see the town at night."

Lin Yao is a night owl, it's only half past seven in the evening, and it's too early to go to bed.

It's just that as soon as these words came out, he found that Lin Zhizhou's expression was a little wrong, as if he didn't really want Lin Yao to see Emma.

"What's wrong?"

"Emma has changed, you probably won't get along too well!"

Lin Zhizhou replied hesitantly, and then left under the pretext that he was very drunk.

Lin Yao looked at his back and found that both his mother Mary and his father Lin Zhizhou were a little tight-lipped about Emma.

Strange, what has happened to Emma over the years, no matter how they say it, they are friends from childhood to adulthood, how can they get along unhappily?