Chapter 537: The Transformation of the Town
It is not too important for Jian Heng, because Jian Heng has already decided, and he can't come back to wander around if he has nothing to do in the future, and now he may be targeted by some institutions, so it's better to be honest.
As the old saying goes, more is better than less!
With such a mood, he returned to his own ranch, Jian Heng looked at everywhere, and walked around his ranch for several days.
I got up early in the morning today, Jian Heng was woken up by black beans, and ran around the ranch with one person and one horse, and when I came back, I went home and went back to the stable, busy with my own things.
This morning, the breakfast that Jian Heng prepared for the whole family was tofu brain, Jian Heng soaked the beans last night, and today he just used a small stone to grind the beans and boil the bean liquid, and then ordered the brine After everything was ready, he put the bean liquid with the brine in the pot and waited for time to complete the condensation step.
"Hurry up with nunchucks, hum hahahe......".
While humming a little song, Jian Heng cut the ingredients with tofu brain for a while, like what kind of mustard, coriander is indispensable for Jian Heng to eat tofu brain, in Jian Heng's home, soy milk is sweet and salty, but tofu brain can only be salty.
When the three of them eat, there are not many ingredients to prepare, pickled vegetables and coriander are small plates, or plates about the size of a palm's palm, as for others such as hot sauce, sesame oil and so on, they are all ready-made. Ready for these, Jian Heng began to mix noodles again, making batter. Waiting for the flour to turn into a paste, Jian Heng added a little salt to the flour, and in order to cater to the taste of barley and wheat, he also added some chopped onions to it.
After getting these, Jian Heng hummed a song and lit the fire, and began to spread the cake in a frying pan, put a little less oil in the pan so that the batter did not stick to the pan, and when a cake was almost cooked, Jian Heng beat the egg on the cake again, and put the chopped ham sausage, and finally added some lettuce, and the hardness in the morning was ready.
Jian Heng's side of the meal was set on the table, and the two of them just pushed open the door and entered the house.
"Wow, it smells so good!" As soon as the wheat smelled this fragrance, the gluttonous worms in the stomach came up all of a sudden, walked to the table with a trot, leaned on the cake and sniffed it, and then gave Jian Heng a reward kiss!
"You're great!"
Jian Heng said smugly: "Haven't I always been like this? ”
"Well, it's always been like this, I hope you can maintain such a mental state in the future," Damai joked at Jian Heng.
Jian Heng stood up and gave a military salute to Damai: "Yes, Your Excellency General!" ”
"Why are you in such a good mood?" When I looked at the wheat, this was not right, and I was in a good mood a little bubbling today.
"What's the good news?" Wheat hooked her fingers at Jian Heng, and when she saw that Jian Heng couldn't come, she walked over and grabbed Jian Heng's neck, hanging on Jian Heng's body like a koala.
Seeing that Damai was also looking at him with a smile, Jian Hengle said: "It's not a big deal, it's the O'Brien family's ranch, and an estate agent has made an offer to me."
"That's good news!" Wheat immediately let go of his hand when he heard this: "The day after you left, there was news that the bank had been bought and wanted to sell non-performing assets, not to mention O'Brien's ranch, and even the beautiful border ranch in the east was also listed, and the seller's offer was only four million."
"Where is the ranch worth four million!" Jian Heng was a little overwhelmed.
"Don't care if it's worth it or not, I've heard that a lot of Chinese high rollers are interested in this ranch," Wheat said.
Jian Heng pouted when he heard this and said, "If you want me to see it, it's all a gimmick, and Chinese high-rollers won't like his ranch." The habits of life in the two countries are different, and I would rather believe that the Chinese high rollers who have no are more interested in O'Brien's ranch than on the beautiful border."
In the eyes of Americans, the beautiful border pasture is better, because it is 'antique' and has a sense of history, but in the eyes of the Chinese, it is dilapidated, compared to others and the Americans may have a gap, but than history, than eating these two, the Chinese will not admit in front of the Americans, counting on those outbreaks from the country to like American history? Then the Americans really think too much.
"Okay, let's eat, let's talk while eating" Big Mac saw that Jian Heng was chatting quite a lot today, so he beckoned everyone to sit down and chat while eating.
As soon as the family sat down, Zhang Jialiang's voice sounded outside the door: "Boss, boss!" ”
"Come in!"
As soon as Zhang Jialiang entered the door, Damai asked in a very Chinese style, "Have you eaten it?" Didn't sit down to eat a bit? ”
What kind of polite person is Zhang Jialiang? Hearing Big Mac's question, he immediately came up along the pole: "It's just right, I haven't eaten it yet!" ”
After speaking, he didn't need to be greeted by others, he took a bowl of tofu brain and side dishes, carried a burrito in his left hand and put it on the shelf and gnawed it.
Jian Heng saw that he ate very fragrantly, but he didn't open his mouth to speak, so he asked, "Come over early in the morning to have a meal, let's say, what's the reason?" “
"Boss, my ranch is set and almost renovated, and when I move, I'm going to have a small ceremony, and I want to invite you to go with my sister-in-law ...... barley and wheat," Zhang Jialiang said while biting the cake.
Jian Heng heard it and said, "Okay, when the time comes, we just need to go at home, by the way, how many people have been invited?" ”
"There aren't many of them, it's just lively, except for our ranch, there are only Sean and Simon, and there are two or three other people," Zhang Jialiang said.
Wheat listened to it and said jokingly: "It's very good, I have made a lot of friends here, unlike him, all the friends can be counted on one hand until now."
"What do you want so many fox friends to do!" Jian Heng said disdainfully.
After Zhang Jialiang's matter was finished, the four of them were eating and talking about the happy things that had happened in the ranch these days, of course, there were more guests who came to experience it, and there were also very powerful wolves.
The topic that interests Jian Heng the most is the lawsuit that dozens of ranchers jointly sued the state government against the poultry on their ranch to death.
"It's a big chance to win!" Jian Heng said with a little envy.
On the U.S. side, class action lawsuits, especially this kind of class-action lawsuit, are not small to win against the government, unless you can't produce evidence, or even basic sympathy. Often, in such cases, the media in the United States will take sides with the 'weaker' side.
"No matter how big the win is, it doesn't matter to us," Zhang Jialiang said.
Jian Heng smiled: Can't I even envy others now? “
"Okay, why don't we go to the poultry house today to scare the chickens, and then go to the government to compensate us?" Zhang Jialiang said jokingly.
"Oh, by the way, boss, I still remember something, sister, did you tell the boss?" Zhang Jialiang suddenly remembered something, turned his head and asked Damai first, and saw that Damai looked uncertain, so he added: "Some bounty hunters want to do some chores."
When Big Mac heard the reminder, he remembered, "Oh, I remembered! “
Then Damai said to Jian Heng: "Isn't there more work on the construction site of our ranch soon?" There are some bounty hunters who want to do odd jobs on the ranch ......."
Jian Heng heard Big Mac say the whole thing, and opened his mouth to ask, "What?" How many bounty hunters are there who can't get by? “
Wheat said, "No! The bounty hunter group that can be maintained now, except for the newcomers, the old ones who have not bankrupted themselves until now are afraid that there are two-thirds, and among these people who are not bankrupt, they have to get rid of half of them, and the remaining half are gone, and they don't dream of fighting the wolf king to receive the bounty."
"Sister Wheat is right, now the price of hiring people on the ranch has fallen by two percent faster than before, that is to say, it used to be eight dollars an hour, but now it is only less than seven dollars, and it is not easy to hire high-end cowboys, but these miscellaneous people are particularly easy to hire," Zhang Jialiang said.
"It's not the time to hire people now, the country will transport the components over, at least there is a month, what do I hire them now, and these people are too mobile, just like what the country used to say what it was called, by the way, hooligans! Expecting their idle people to hunt or something, and expecting them to work well, that's really too much! Jian Heng pouted and said his evaluation of the bounty hunter.
Zhang Jialiang heard it: "You and Mr. Walsh have the same evaluation, almost just word for word, have you two discussed this?" ”
"Is there any need to discuss? They're all loose, and a lot of them aren't good people in the first place, and since they've come, you see, there's a lot of petty theft in the neighborhood, right? Now in addition to the original people, there are about three groups of people pouring in the town, one is a bounty hunter, one is an animal protectionist, and one is a policeman who misremembers. Jian Heng said.
Zhang Jialiang listened to Jian Lazy's words, and nodded incessantly: "I don't know when they will be able to leave, how good it was to be a quiet town, and now there are more people who are about to catch up with Kalispell."
"It is estimated that it is impossible to leave them all, only the number will decrease, as long as the wolf does not die, there will always be people with dreams of making a fortune. And in my opinion, our town will become a small town in Montana in a few years, maybe a little more upscale than Kalispell," Jian Heng said quietly.
"If that's the case, should I get some land? When the time comes, sell a land or something? Zhang Jialiang said with a smile.
Jian Heng shrugged his shoulders: "You better forget it!" “
Agricultural land is very cheap, but when it comes to commercial development, it is not so simple, and Americans put away the property tax that is not ambiguous, don't look at everyone's annual deed tax is only 1,000 yuan, that's because this is agricultural and animal husbandry land, you are changing it for residential and commercial looks, and the money can be paid to your crotch,.
You can't afford to live in a big house in the United States, which is millions of dollars in taxes a year, how can ordinary people pay it?
"There are more and more people in the town, and I've heard that some people are planning to develop motels and houses nearby," says Big Mac.
"Yes, I've heard that the Coopers are going to convert their house and barn into rental housing, and there's another campground at the foot of the hill," Wheat said.
After everyone discussed this, they realized that the town was changing faster than they thought.