Chapter 4 Used Cars
The location where the show was recorded is a no-man's land in Canada, and in addition to food, the biggest enemy is the cold weather, but for Zhang Chi, this is a yarn.
On the first day of the show, he knocked a moose to death with a gourd, pretended to have picked it up and dragged it back to the camp, and then dug a hole in the ground when he had food.
After the manhole was built, Zhang Chi began to weave fishing baskets, and then every day these fish baskets made of rattan could provide Zhang Chi with three or four fish of five or six catties.
After a month, other people's weight has lost at least ten pounds, and Zhang Chi has only lost half a pound here, and when a heavy snow falls, Zhang Chi will hardly be out of the ground, because the food he stores now saves at least three or four months.
People are surviving in the wilderness, and he goes to cat winter!
You said who played him, although two of the program team are quite strong, but there is no suspense at all about the final prize money.
When the temperature disappeared to more than minus 20 degrees, the last few remaining groups also began to quickly attrition, because these so-called wilderness survival experts were all building shelters on the ground, where the ground manholes were as warm as Zhang Chi.
When the program team took him out, this kid was still a little unhappy, and said to others: This is the end, there is no challenge, SO EASY!
The face of the director of the program group is almost green.
500,000 is in hand!
However, when Zhang Chi really got the 500,000 yuan, he scolded his mother in his heart, because there were only more than 200,000 yuan in his hands, and the rest?
The rest was all paid in taxes.
said that he earned 500,000 yuan, but in fact, after paying taxes, he could only leave more than 200,000 yuan, not even half of it.
However, these 200,000 are enough for Zhang Chi to toss for the time being.
Back at Folsen, Zhang Chi bought a ranch.
I have 300,000 in hand, but it is not easy to buy a good ranch, the price of ranch here is low, far below the national average, that is, more than 4,000 dollars per acre, and here it costs more than 2,000 or nearly 3,000 dollars per acre.
If it is the full amount, Zhang Chi's money can buy a hundred acres, in fact, one hundred acres is not small, one acre is six acres in China, almost six acres of land.
But Zhang Chi didn't want to do this, he was going to buy a larger ranch, and he couldn't buy all the 300,000 ranches in his hand, because after buying the ranch, the money was still behind, such as buying calves and agricultural machinery, which all cost money.
What if you don't have enough money? Find a bank, then what else is there to say.
After taking the bonus and returning to Folsen, Zhang Chi began to look at large and small ranches under the leadership of the intermediary, almost one a day, and continued to watch for almost a month.
Finally, a ranch finally entered Zhang Chi's field of vision.
The main reason for this is that it is cheap, and the ranch of more than 500 acres only costs 560,000.
There's a reason it's cheap, there's nothing on this ranch, not even a poop pit except for the fence around it, let alone a building like a house cowshed.
Of course, the terrain was also very remote, about seventy or eighty kilometers from what is now Folsen, between the mountains of Rocky Mountain.
Originally, this small ranch was part of the big ranch, but after the bank got the ranch, it split the entire ranch into several parts, and the best ones were sold at a higher price, and the most partial and non-existent ranch was disposed of at a reduced price.
This kind of slapstick operation bank often does, because the larger the ranch, generally speaking, the less money per acre, the reason is that the target customers of the large ranch are very few, and those who take thousands of dollars to buy the ranch will not go to the mountains of the Rocky Mountains to exchange it, and it is not fragrant to buy a large ranch directly in the Great Plains?
Therefore, Zhang Chi fell in love with this ranch at a glance, mainly because the land price was cheap, and secondly, there were no outsiders in the remote area, which was just right for him to hide.
After setting the ranch, Zhang Chi's next task is to run the bank, which is not an easy task, and many banks are not willing to lend to Zhang Chi like this, because people have doubts about his credit rating.
The grandsons of the bank are like this, they like to lend to people who have little pressure to repay. People like Zhang Chi have always been running a Chinese restaurant before, and people suspect that you can't pay back the money.
After the bank lends you a loan, if you can't repay the money, then they can only take away your countervail, no matter how much difference there is between the money you bought and the money you owe, the lender doesn't have to pay back the rest of the money, so the bank is very strict with customers.
Usually the down payment is about 20 percent, but when it comes to Zhang Chi, it is changed to 30 percent, so Zhang Chi still spent a month, plus with the help of his uncle, he got the money from a small bank.
After the handover was completed, it was already in April, that is, the beginning of spring, and Zhang Chi officially transformed into a small rancher.
This is just the beginning, and the next thing to buy a cow to build a house or something will cost money.
For Zhang Chi, the first step is to change the car, and the newly bought ranch is obviously not good for his current little modern, because the last two miles of road to the ranch is not a road at all, it is a newly opened up dirt road, which can only allow a car to pass, such a road is obviously inappropriate to take a car, and the most practical thing is naturally a pickup.
Early in the morning, Zhang Chi drove his little Hyundai out of the apartment and went straight to the second-hand car dealer.
There are not many second-hand car dealers on Folsen's side, only two, and the two are also next to each other, and I don't know what these foreigners think.
When he arrived at the door of the car dealer, he found a parking space to park the car, and Zhang Chi started to look at the car.
Almost all the second-hand cars here are parked in the open air, not without a showroom, generally speaking, the showroom is a new car, and it has to be the kind of more expensive, the general car is placed outside, and the car dealers who are exposed to the wind and sun don't care.
came to change cars, Zhang Chi had a budget in his heart, and wanted to spend about 20,000 dollars to buy a second-hand pickup truck in good condition.
Originally, I thought that my budget was already very powerful, but who knew that after looking around, I found that the price of second-hand cars had actually increased by six or seven thousand US dollars compared to the time when the uncle changed the pickup, and the synthetic yuan was almost 40,000 yuan, which made Zhang Chi tremble in his heart.
I originally wanted to buy one for two or three years, but now I look at the price and it is impossible, so I can only put my own requirements down.
"How can I help you?"
After watching Zhang Chi turn around for a while, a white sales guy came over and greeted Zhang Chi.
"I want to see a pickup truck, it has to be cheaper if it has more horsepower," Zhang Chi said.
"What's your budget?" The white guy asked.
Zhang Chi said: "Within 20,000 US dollars."
"Then you come with me to take a look" When the white brother heard this, he led Zhang Chi to see the pickup truck that was less than 20,000 yuan.
Zhang Chi was a little stunned at the first sight of the car, because the white guy took him to see Takuma, a small pickup truck of the Toyota brand, which is a value-preserving artifact in the American market.
But Zhang Chi doesn't like it, it's not that he rejects Toyota or anything, but he wants to buy an affordable one, and take us to see what the value preservation artifact does.
"Let's look at something else."
The good guy's car for six or seven years still costs more than 20,000 yuan, and the value preservation artifact is really not covered.
Next, the white brother took Zhang Chi to see a few more, but he was not satisfied with Zhang Chi, who had only turned around the car market a few months ago.
A few months ago, the same car was six or seven thousand dollars cheaper, Zhang Chi couldn't get over that hurdle in his heart, and he always felt that it was a little worthless, whether he would wait for a few more months, whether the price would fall back to the original price, you must know that six or seven thousand dollars is not a small number for Zhang Chi.
After being polite with the little brother, Zhang Chi was about to go home, he wanted to change to a good car, but his pockets were not strong.
Although he still has 100,000 US dollars left in his pocket now, which one does not cost money to buy cattle and build a house next? If you spend a lot of money on the car, you have to save it somewhere else, and you can't help but snort.
I returned to the parking lot and opened the door to get ready to get in the car.
"That, that ......".
Just when Zhang Chi was about to get into the car, he suddenly heard someone talking, and subconsciously turned his head to look, and found that the person who spoke seemed to be aiming at him, and the person who spoke was obviously Asian.
Turning his head to look around, he found that there was no one next to him, Zhang Chi asked, "Are you talking to me?" ”
At this time, the Asian who spoke came over and asked Zhang Chi, "Are you the one who participated in the wilderness survival show...... Chapter ......".
After a long time, this person didn't give the word Chi out of the chapter.
"Hello, my name is Zhang Chi, and I am the one who participated in the show," Zhang Chi said.
"I look like you, let's use Chinese, I'm also from China."
This one is quite enthusiastic.
Zhang Chi thinks that he has met a fan?
"Hello, hello," Zhang Chi said.
"Your performance in the show is fantastic, at the beginning we thought that you were the one who gave away the head in the past, who knew that you were the king......."
This one caught Zhang Chi and praised fiercely.
Now Zhang Chi can be regarded as reacting, not to this one, but to how the program team chose himself, speaking of which tastes a little wrong, the stereotype of Asians in the American media is that they are nerds, and the second is funny, and funny Asians are generally short, chubby, and obscene as soon as they appear.
Zhang Chi looks quite consistent from the appearance, his figure is a little fat, and he is not tall, as soon as he appears, many people think that Zhang Chi is playing soy sauce, including many Asians, but more than halfway through the show, Zhang Chi has established an advantage, which makes many Asians feel that it can be regarded as a breath of relief, which can be regarded as winning glory for Asians.
Especially when Zhang Chi finally came out to face the camera, he said: "So easy!" made many Asians feel imposing.
Zhang Chi didn't really care about this, he just cared about his bonuses. As for the Asian Light or something, he didn't care.
The people at the bottom live their lives, and what do they want so many vain things to do.
"It's so-so," Zhang Chi said politely.
"Why, that's great, you're making those sets look like stupid coins...... Oh, by the way, I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Li Qiao, you can call me by my English name Qiao".
This one is quite talkative.