April in the northern cities has already begun to heat up, and the trees have been washed out of their delicate green shoots after two days of rain in a row.

It's inevitable that the weather will change this month, and it won't be fully warmed up until May at the latest, but you can already wear half sleeves under your coat.

On April 6th, Bai Lu took his second uncle's sister Bai Ying to fly to Los Angeles on a private jet, and promised the second uncle to take Bai Ying to see the school during the Chinese New Year.

It's daytime when you take off, and it's still daytime when the plane lands in Los Angeles, and the advantage of a private jet is that you don't have to worry about jet lag, you can sleep on the plane, and you'll be in good spirits when you get to the place.

Out of the airport, Bai Lu saw White at a glance, not because he was handsome, but mainly because the pick-up card he was holding in his hand was too conspicuous.

White and Bai Ying met during the Chinese New Year, and there was no need to introduce them, White enthusiastically helped with the luggage and took the two of them into a Mercedes-Benz business car.

"Aren't you going to get married, and you still have time to pick me up?"

"Married? What to marry? White subconsciously blurted out, and quickly shut up after speaking, and laughed dryly. Hey hey ......"

Bai Lu had already realized that something was wrong: "What do you mean?" Lie to me? ”

"Of course not......," Wright's eyes rolled. Originally, I was going to get married, but now something is wrong, well, that's it, something is wrong. ”

Bai Lu glared at White: "What's wrong?" ”

"What went wrong? Haha, this one......" White rubbed his hands. "The question is, I'm planning to get married, but what...... Yes, without a bride, this marriage cannot be concluded. ”

Bai Lu greeted White on the spot with English starting with F and B plus C language, this bastard, he was just idle and panicked, and used this excuse to trick himself into playing with him.

The more he thought about it for a while, the more angry he became, Bai Lu pointed at White's nose: "I'm going to fight you alone!" ”

"Don't be angry, my dear friend, the air in Los Angeles is so sweet, and the beaches in Miami are, ah......"

Before White finished speaking, he was punched in the nose, he covered his nose and looked at Bai Lu in a daze, and then was shocked and aggrieved like a wife who was beaten by her husband: "You...... You hit me? ”

Bai Lu shouted to the driver: "Stop, I can't kill you." ”

Of course, the driver wouldn't stop, but just looked at White worriedly, and then saw White pounce, two men scuffling in the back, and a woman shouting, "Don't fight." ”

The driver just glanced at it and wasn't ready to care, after all, two people who hugged each other and tore like a woman couldn't get multiple injuries.

The battle lasted a full three minutes and ended with White begging for mercy.

"Your uncle, you're a man!" Bai Lu rubbed his arm. "Why are you biting like a woman?"

White rubbed his head, tears falling from his eyes: "Fake! You're a man too, and you're pulling my hair! ”

Bai Ying was speechless on the side, the girls in the school were more interesting to fight than the two of them, the slapping and kicking, on the other hand, these two men with muscles were pulling their hair and biting......

"Apologies!" Bai Lu pointed to the tooth marks on his arm and hummed, and he didn't know if the rabies vaccine was expensive here.

"I don't!" White was also stubborn, still clutching a handful of hair in his hand. "You should apologize."

"Okay, I'm sorry, it's your turn now."

"Okay, then I'm sorry too."

"Apologize again!"

"Why?"

Bai Lu squinted at him: "You deceived me, shouldn't you apologize?" ”

White tilted his head and thought, "Well, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have lied to you." ”

"I forgive you."

"I forgive you too." White laughed. "Let's go play, the beaches in Miami are fun this season, let's go surfing."

"Surfing?" Bai Lu was a little excited, and watching it on TV, surfing seemed to be fun. "It's fine, but I'll have to take my sister to school first."

Bai Ying was stunned for a moment on the side, these two people were still hugging each other just now, you picked up my hair, I bit you, and now they are discussing where to play like no one else, is the friendship of men like this?

……

Delivering Bai Lu to the hilltop villa in Beverly Hills, White told the driver to leave, but he didn't leave.

There are housekeepers and maids in the villa all year round, and as soon as Bai Lu enters the house, someone will help him with his luggage and change shoes.

"I feel like it's very lively here." Bai Lu changed into slippers. "It's more lively than the last time I came."

"Of course." White explained. "Mid-February to mid-April is the busiest time in Hollywood, and the Oscars are held every year, did you see that billboard when we came up?"

Bai Lu thought for a moment: "A woman in a white dress? ”

"Yes, it's the biggest." White said. "It was an advertisement for a plastic surgery hospital, and there was the number one plastic surgery hospital in the world."

Bai Lu was stunned: "Impossible, right?" Isn't it South Korea? ”

"Of course not." White pouted. "Los Angeles, Hollywood, Beverly Hills plastic surgery hospitals are the best in the world. Every year at the Oscars, it is very lively, and countless female stars line up to have plastic surgery...... Let's put it this way, the plastic surgery hospital here can earn tens of millions of dollars a year, and if the technology is not good, no one will dare to open a plastic surgery hospital here. ”

Bai Lu pondered that the same is the case, the rent in this place is sky-high, and the price of plastic surgery is definitely not cheap. The people who have the ability to spend here are either celebrities or Hollywood stars, if the technology is not good, but if someone complains, the business will not be able to continue, which makes Bai Lu grow a lot of knowledge.

"Do you want to go to the Oscars?" White touched Bai Lu with his elbow and smiled profusely. "It's the final judging session soon, the best actor and actress supporting actor, the best picture and everything are born in this link, there are many beautiful female stars participating, I can help you get an invitation."

"Forget it, I'm not interested in female stars or anything." Bai Lu sternly refused, he was not the kind of prodigal person in the first place, it was okay to take a look, after all, every man has the right to appreciate beautiful women.

"As you please." White didn't force it, and talked to Bai Lu about the entertainment industry like chanting scriptures, and Bai Lu summed it up, that is, this place is more chaotic than the mainland entertainment industry.

"Which college is your sister going to?" White talked for a long time, and finally got down to business.

"Do you have a recommendation?" Bai Lu looked at White.

"Ivy will do." White shrugged and said. "It depends on what your sister wants to study, if it's finance, Columbia, Brown, or Sylvania, or Harvard. In terms of agricultural medicine, Cornell is good, and Princeton is more of a science major. ”

"I'll go back and ask her." Bai Lu nodded, if Bai Ying had a preference for that university, he didn't necessarily have to go to a fixed one.

"I can write letters of recommendation when I need to, which will save me a lot of trouble." White said.

"Do you still have what it takes?" Bai Lu was skeptical.

"I didn't." White laughed twice. "But my dad has, don't forget, my dad is ......"

"Okay, okay, I know, your dad is Zhang Erhe." Bai Lu interrupted. "What are you doing here?"

"Of course, I'm waiting for you to hang out with you." White stilts his legs on the couch. "If you don't want to go to Miami, we can go hunting."

"Hunting? Where to hunt? ”

"Texas." White said. "It's just right to go to Texas to fight wild sheep, and it's too hot in another month."

"Just beat the sheep?"

"Of course not." White said. "And wild boars, coyotes, bobcats and foxes and, if you're lucky, you can run into a cougar, and you can fight them as much as you want."

As soon as he said this, Bai Lu became even more interested, asked Bai Ying to come down, and asked her if she was going, and Bai Ying agreed without thinking about it.

"Then I'll arrange it right away." White was overjoyed and called to start arranging planes, as well as cars and hotels.

"It's ten o'clock in the morning, we're going to the airport now, and the plane can take off at twelve o'clock." White looked at his watch and counted the time. "It's a three-and-a-half-hour flight to Midland, and it's about half past one."

"Who did you learn math from?" Bai Lu looked at White. "Departure at twelve, three and a half hours, and one and a half o'clock?"

"yes, what's the problem?" White looked at Bai Lu and scratched his head, looked at his watch again and counted it again, and then suddenly said: "Texas is central time, and the time difference is two hours earlier than California." ”

Bai Lu shut up stupidly, this belongs to him who has no knowledge, and he must consider it when he goes out to talk in the future, otherwise it will be easy to be embarrassed. It's like watching White buy fancy sheets and use them as tablecloths during the Chinese New Year.

However, White didn't laugh at Bai Lu, and even he, a local native, couldn't understand why a country still had a time difference.

When I arrived at the airport, it was just after eleven o'clock, but I had to apply for a route, and it was almost twelve o'clock before I could take off.

The three of them didn't bring anything, according to White, they didn't need to bring anything, they just went and changed their hunting outfits.

After a three-hour flight, the plane landed in Midland, Texas, a city in the northwest of Texas, with an area of less than 200 square kilometers and a population of only 100,000.

The airport is less than twenty kilometers from the city center, but White said that the hunting area is still more than three hours away from the city, so he will not go this afternoon, just stay in the hotel, prepare the equipment and car, and leave early tomorrow morning.

The trio stayed at a suite hotel in downtown Midland, with large rooms with a fully equipped kitchen and an outdoor pool outside. It's not as luxurious as a star-rated hotel, but it's also a different flavor.

There's not much to see in the city, but there's an oil museum with some tools and machinery for digging oil.

However, Bai Lu found that it is worthy of Texas, there are several gun shops on a street, and even supermarkets have areas selling guns, all kinds of guns and bullets are placed there, you take a basket, it is like buying cabbage, you can take whatever you like.

White said that there was a barbecue party at the hotel pool in the evening, which could be fun.

When the three of them walked around outside and returned to the hotel, Bai Lu found that they had actually met a Chinese tour group and stayed in the same hotel as them, and the tour group was almost all young people, and the oldest was only in his forties.

In the evening, I went to a pool party, ate some barbecue, drank some beer, and the three of them went back to their rooms to sleep.

At seven o'clock the next morning, Bai Lu found that White had actually woken up, and was sitting in the living room with his mobile phone watching silly music.

"Did you not sleep or did you wake up?" Bai Lu felt that according to the living habits of this thing, he should not have slept.

"Of course I woke up." White put away his phone and said, "It's seven o'clock, people come over at half past seven, we can have breakfast." ”

"Who? Anyone else? "Bai Lu look at the menu, this hotel has room service.

"I called two hunters." White said. "They are all professional hunters, and if something goes wrong, they can solve it as soon as possible."

When Bai Ying cleaned up, the breakfast that Bai Lu called was also delivered, and the three of them had just finished breakfast, and the hunters that White was looking for also came, a man and a woman, both in their thirties, with very dark wheat-colored skin, and they looked like they had been hunting in the sun all year round.

Introducing themselves, the man's name is Jason Adams, and the woman's name is Lenya Adams, they are brother and sister, they have their own farm, and they usually hunt in addition to taking care of the farm, and then they are the "tour guides" of the guest tour group. The nature is similar to now, they are all accompanying the tour group, guiding tourists to hunt and lead the way, the fee is not expensive or cheap, and it costs 500 US dollars a day.

White knew the Adams siblings very well, and he often came here to play, looking for the siblings.

When going to the hunting ground, Jason Adams introduced that the place they went to hunt was basically by walking, but they had more things, so they chose to drive this time.

The car is a pickup truck, a Ford Raptor of Raptor, which is the same model as the fishing truck Bai Lu bought, but there are a lot of things in the back bucket.

At first, Bai Lu thought it was a shotgun or something, but when he opened it, he was surprised by the performance on the spot.

There were two large boxes in the back bucket, filled with all kinds of guns, from pistols, double-barreled shotguns to rifles, and even several sniper rifles, almost without a bazooka.

After driving for more than three hours, it was almost noon, and the group arrived at the place where they were hunting.

Endless plains, there are also low mountains and woods in the distance, Bai Lu was surprised to find that not far from them, is the tour group from China that they met at the hotel yesterday, they set up camp there, it seems that they are also preparing a picnic.

The Adams siblings are not surprised, there are often tours from all over the world here, and the main focus of the tour group is a freshly made, first-hand game, authentic.

"They were all small-caliber shotguns, probably to hunt wild sheep and bobcats and foxes." Jason Adams looked at the pergola in his hand and said. "If we can hit wild boars and cougars, there are not enough small-caliber shotguns, so we take sniper rifles."

Except for Bai Ying, the other four can shoot, and Renia gives Bai Ying a small-caliber shotgun, and then teaches her how to load, change bullets and shoot switch safety.

I was almost ready, changed my gear and got into the car, except for Jason, who was in charge of driving, everyone else sat in the back bucket.

"The sheep have very sensitive hearings, and Jason will blow a whistle to attract the sheep, but we can't get close, and the shooting distance is about 100 to 150 meters. ”

After driving for a while, Jason stopped: "At three o'clock, there is a wild boar fifty meters away, we are lucky." ”

Bai Lu and a few people heard the words and looked over, in a small piece of grass, a wild boar that was not very big was holding its nose there and didn't know what to arch, unlike the common wild boar, this wild boar has very long hair, and it is a little white on its body, and it looks very strange.

"Actually, it's not a wild boar." Lenia said. "It's just that it looks very similar, and its living habits and appearance are also very similar to wild boars, and it's probably the same kind as pigs, so I don't know how to distinguish them...... Okay, ladies first, you come first. ”

Bai Ying has no experience in shooting, and she is still a little nervous when she picks up the gun, and under the direction of Lenia, she aims, opens the insurance, and pulls the trigger.

"Bang!"

The gun went off, and the bullet hit the boar's buttocks, but the small-caliber shotgun suffered a little from the wild boar, the wild boar had rough skin and thick meat, and Bai Lu saw that there was only a little blood, and the wild boar was frightened and ran away.

White and Bai Lu were holding sniper rifles, and the two stood up at the same time to reinforce, Bai Lu successfully missed the target, and White shot the boar in the stomach.

Probably because of the adrenaline, the wild boar just stumbled and ran like crazy, but after running less than a hundred meters, he lost too much blood and fell to the ground, and when Bai Lu and they passed, they were already out of breath.

"Well done." Lenia put her arm around Bai Ying's shoulders. "Hitting the target the first time you shot is already good."

Seeing that Bai Ying was still a little trembling, Lenia comforted: "It's okay, this animal will destroy crops, and it will also break the fence of the farm, so that coyotes have a chance to run into the farm, and they reproduce quickly, don't worry." ”

Bai Ying wasn't afraid, but mainly excited, after all, it was the first time she shot and it was normal to shake it.

Jason got out of the car and threw the boar into the back bucket, and the group continued to look for prey.

In the afternoon, there were a lot of prey, a wild boar, a wild sheep, two coyotes and no seven or eight hares, the bobcat did not meet, and the cougar did not see it.

When I got back out of the hotel, most of the tour group came back, and the bonfire was lit, and it was lively and funny.

Bai Lu and several people moved the prey out of the car, and Jason asked Lenia to help prepare to decompose the wild boar, but Bai Ying volunteered and didn't need Jason's help, so he took his tools and went up.

First bleed, then skinned, all kinds of knives were played with in her hands, like a professional butcher, a quarter of an hour was useless, and a wild boar was dismantled.

Jason and Lenia, professional hunters who have followed their father since childhood, are stupid. The girl who was trembling when she shot just now was actually better than the butcher's craftsmanship.

Bai Lu was not very surprised, after all, the second uncle's family opened a farm, and Bai Ying had seen the most since she was a child was killing chickens and slaughtering sheep, but Bai Lu didn't expect that her sister would have such a hand.

What kind of study do you have to study abroad, go back to kill pigs and shoot short videos, sooner or later you will have to kill pigs.

Jason and Lenia saw that Bai Ying was more professional than them, so they simply went to light the fire, and then took out the barbecue sauce and prepared the barbecue on the spot.

At this time, Bai Ying suddenly snorted and said to Bai Lu: "Brother, it seems that someone over there brought cumin, you go and borrow some." ”

"What's your nose, you can smell it?"

Bai Ying smiled: "The wind is blowing this way, and I am most familiar with the taste of cumin." ”

Bai Lu said to White and walked to the camp of the tour group.

Seeing someone coming, the tour group stood up first, followed by a hunter accompanying him, holding a gun in his hand, looking at Bai Lu vigilantly.

When he saw Bai Lu's yellow skin and black eyes, he said a few words to the hunter, and the hunter walked back.

"Hello, I just smelled cumin on your side, so I'll come over and borrow some."

"No problem." The ground companion was a man in his thirties, looked at Bai Lu a few times, and said with a smile: "You are also here to travel?" Didn't sign up for the group? Look at a few of you. ”

"Well, with a friend."

"Wait a minute, I'll get it for you." The ground escort didn't ask much, turned around and went back to the camp, and after a while, came over with a few plastic bags in his hands. Bai Lu looked at it, not only cumin, but also chili powder and garlic hot sauce.

"It's really well prepared." Bai Lu heyed.

"That's fine." Ground accompaniment. "We Huaxia people eat but pick, Ru Mao drinks blood that can only be done by foreigners, as far as my group, as soon as I heard that I was going to hunt and barbecue in the wild, everyone's first reaction at that time was excitement, and then asked me where I could sell barbecue materials."

After chatting with the ground escort for a few words, Bai Lu went back with the borrowed spices.

"I'll show you a hand." Bai Ying rolled up his sleeves and took over Jason's oven, and then Bai Lu seemed to see the streets of the night market in summer.

After a while, the rich aroma wafted out, and the garlic hot sauce with cumin chili powder was a perfect match, and it tasted better than the barbecue sauce prepared by Jason.

After trying to take a bite, Jason and Lenia praised Bai Ying's craftsmanship endlessly, and bought it one by one, which made White very disdainful.

Uninformed Texans, Chinese food is not only barbecue, you can shout when you eat barbecue, so if you eat spicy tang, pork and sauerkraut stuffed dumplings?

Then Jason and Lenia didn't know what to say, and Lenia went to talk to Bai Ying, Bai Ying's English was average, and simple conversations were fine, but Lenia spoke too fast, and she couldn't understand them. When Bai Lu was asked to go over and listen to it, Bai Lu was happy.

It's not a big deal, it's just that the brother and sister want to buy the recipe for barbecue.

Do you still need to buy this recipe?

Bai Lu told them the classic of cumin chili powder garlic sauce, and kindly suggested that they could only buy it in a Chinese supermarket.

A few people were eating fragrantly, not far away from the tourist camp suddenly came to the sound of quarrels, several people at the same time got up and turned their heads and ears, the movements were quite synchronous, it seems that people all over the world have problems with the excitement.