Chapter 113: Learning and Buying Equipment
After arriving at the winery, one of the first things Li Anran did was to go to the law firm he had worked with before and choose a private lawyer who would serve him 24 hours a day no matter what happened in the future.
Out of personal aesthetic concepts, I finally chose a beautiful female lawyer who has the ability and ability, looks good, and has a figure.
Then I asked the other party to contact a housekeeping company and hire a full-time nanny. No way, the villa of the winery is too big, if you clean up and tidy up by yourself, you probably don't have to do anything else.
Considering personal habits and language and dietary needs, Li Anran has high requirements for nannies. Not only should you be beautiful and in good shape, but you must also be able to speak Chinese, at least in spoken English. In addition to Western food, you also need to be able to cook Chinese food. Of course, although the requirements are relatively high, the salary given definitely meets such a demanding requirement.
It's just that Li Anran didn't expect it at all, he originally thought that with such a request, most of the housekeeping companies would recommend some Chinese living abroad or Chinese compatriots who immigrated from China, but he didn't expect that the sister paper sent to him was actually an authentic foreigner, commonly known as Yanma.
When meeting with this foreign girl with a Chinese name Anya, the first feeling that the other party dressed as a maid gave Li Anran was that she looked like a Barbie doll. The delicate face is covered with a thick black-framed glasses, which not only does not affect the beauty of the other party, but gives people a more different sense of temptation. As for the figure, it is enough to make most female compatriots envious, jealous and hateful.
If I had to use one word to describe this maid, it would be Tong Yanju.
Li Anran, who was very satisfied with the appearance of the other party, chatted with the other party in Chinese for a while, and found that although the maid's Chinese still had some exotic accents, it was completely fine to communicate. And that special tone sounds like a different kind of enjoyment.
As for the results of the cooking test, it is even more surprisingly good, several Chinese home-cooked dishes are indeed not bad, although they cannot be compared with those chefs, but they can already meet Li Anran's needs. In addition to Chinese food, this maid is also proficient in French, Italian, Thai and other foreign cuisines, as long as the materials allow, thirty days a month, you can make different dishes.
Such a superb maid, no, it should be a nanny, and the price will naturally not be cheap. But for Li Anran, who is basically in a state of not being bad for money, isn't this money just to be spent? So, he directly set a salary of 100,000 US dollars a year.
This salary may not seem high, but don't forget that according to the initial service contract, the working hours of this excellent nanny are only 9 am to 5 pm, which is only eight hours a day, and there are two days off on Saturdays and Sundays. That's 40 hours a week, or 160 hours a month, which is really not a low price.
In fact, with Li Anran's consumption level, it is not a problem at all to enjoy the kind of top-level service that is on call 24 hours a day, and even the physiological needs are within the scope of work, and the salary of up to 150,000 US dollars per year is not a problem at all. Unfortunately, as a traverser, and almost every day, it is very necessary to keep enough personal space.
After finalizing the matter of the maid, no, it was the nanny, Li Anran not only did not calm down, but became more and more busy.
The first is to be familiar with the operation process of the entire winery, from planting to brewing, from storage to sales, visiting some old customers by phone, video, door-to-door, etc., and even participating in some activities that are beneficial to wine sales. Thanks to the fact that the operation of this winery has already been on track, and the relevant personnel have not resigned in large numbers due to the change of owners, so everything is still going well.
In order to ensure that there are no problems in the operation of the winery, Li Anran, after getting to know the original employees, not only did not play any tricks of the new officials taking office, but increased each person's salary by 10%, and at the same time hired a group of people. Although the number is not large, it has played a role in relieving the work pressure of the original workers, and it has also played a role in avoiding the possibility of collusion of old employees.
In addition to the affairs of the winery, Li Anran also signed up for a class in three skills: car driving, helicopter driving, and amphibious light sport aircraft piloting after getting a green card. At the same time, I also signed up for a shooting club in Napa, and every day I had to be trained by professionals in the indoor or outdoor shooting range.
What made Li Anran happy and speechless was that after he went abroad, Huang Xin actually ran over with him. As a result, I have one more task every day, which is to continue to receive that kind of "inhumane" training. Fortunately, the travel between the two time and space can not only soothe the exercise on the body, but also take advantage of the time difference and the lack of sleep to recuperate.
In addition to the special training, the learning of car driving and flight driving is also going well. is also because of the benefits brought by time and space travel, Li Anran, whose memory is much stronger than before, is like a fish in water in theoretical learning, and his grades are so good that those authentic American children's shoes can only bow down. Coupled with the physical advantage, after entering the stage of flying on the plane, the instructor often asks whether someone has flown an airplane before and so on.
After two weeks of training courses in a row, Li Anran, who had already learned that he now had a green card and had the right to buy guns, drove the SUV left by the former owner of the winery, and took the coach he knew in the shooting club to the supermarket halfway.
That's right, Li Anran's purpose in going to the supermarket this time was not to purchase daily necessities, but to equip himself with a batch of hot weapons that could ensure personal safety. In this large supermarket, which specializes in outdoor and camping goods, rows of guns of all sizes hang in cabinets, on shelves, and even on the walls. The bullets are stacked on the shelves in boxes or even boxes for customers to choose at will, which is no different from buying groceries at all.
Even though he had played with a lot of firearms in the shooting club before, after entering this supermarket, Li Anran still had the feeling that Grandma Liu had entered the Grand View Garden. No way, there are too many guns and ammunition in this. The most exaggerated thing is that there is not only a large military camouflage Humvee parked in the hall, but even several armored vehicles of different shapes.
These cars are not what they look like, but they are equipped with war-grade equipment, not to mention that just a few M2 Browning machine guns are enough to explain the problem.
Unfortunately, although the United States does not ban guns on individuals, private purchases of weapons can only be limited to semi-automatic ones. Not to mention the M2 Browning machine gun, which is a big killer, even a fully automatic firearm is not allowed to be purchased. Of course, if you have a secure enough channel, it is okay to privately purchase a batch of high-power weapons, provided that you are not targeted by the FBI.
After waiting for a while, while lamenting that buying a gun abroad is no different from buying groceries as those immigrants on the iron-blooded Internet said, the only thing that makes Li Anran unhappy is that because of a certain law in California, even if he chooses a gun, he still needs to wait for a ten-day waiting period to get it, and gun buyers are not allowed to buy more than two guns in a row within 30 days.
As for the question of gun buyers having to pass the HSC exam before buying a gun for the first time, it is really not a matter for Li Anran. Anyway, this kind of exam is generally available in gun shops, and you only need to pay the money, even if you are the only one, you can take the test at any time.
There are a total of 30 questions in this type of test, all of which are true/false or ABCD multiple-choice questions, as long as you answer at least 23 questions correctly. According to the instructor of the shooting club who accompanied Li Anran to choose a gun and buy a gun, as long as he puts safety first, he can pass such an exam intuitively.
And what makes Li Anran speechless is that it is easier to buy a long gun, including a shotgun, than a pistol. Not only has the age of the gun buyer been reduced from 21 to 18, but there is no need to have a valid pistol safety certificate as with the handgun purchaser. However, the waiting period still can't run......