Chapter 47 Suburban Farm
I went home with Du Rulin. Although the farm of more than 800 acres is not very big, Du Rulin and Li Yan were too busy. The farm hired several families, three of whom had been working on the farm, and some had recently hired them.
These families have been employed for a long time. Most of them cook fresh vegetables in the farm vegetable garden. They usually live in wooden houses on the farm and do daily work on the farm. If they wait for the busy farming season, they will go to Los Angeles to temporarily hire some short-term workers.
Along the way, in addition to the cattle herds in the distance, you can also see that the farm is also raising some common merino sheep in the United States. The hair of this sheep during the winter is also the farm's income. Every winter, the farm can harvest piles of tall wool.
The vineyards and vegetable gardens are closer to facilitate picking. At this time, the wine made by the previous farmers is still hidden in the wine cellar of the farm.
Du Rulin proudly introduced the situation of the farm to Duqi, saying that the farm had recently bought a batch of Angus cattle and calves, and it would be able to develop in two years. With the farm's forage condition, it could raise more than 200 Angus cattle at full load.
Du Qi suggested that Du Rulin sell milking machines, so that it can save a lot of time for manual milking every day and allow the farm people to work harder to do other tasks.
Du Rulin worked on a farm in his early years and had always dreamed of having his own farm. Now it has become a reality because of his son, which has made him feel very good in the past month and full of energy and smile every day.
When they arrived at home, Li Yan and Aunt Zhao had almost prepared the meal. When they saw the father and son, they called them to have dinner.
Li Qiang took over the management of Chinese restaurants. He just married a local Chinese girl in Los Angeles this year. The two rented a house in Los Angeles and planned to have a child this year. It is estimated that after his daughter-in-law becomes pregnant, Aunt Zhao will go to Li Qiang to help take care of her.
While eating, Du Rulin and Li Yan were talking about the situation of the farm. After just one month of taking over the farm, the farm was running and sorting out the situation of the farm. After a little relaxed, Du Rulin thought about raising some turkeys, saying that he could earn more money every year, and that the farming hobby rooted in the bone marrow was fermenting, but he couldn't spare.
Duqi took the initiative to do it casually and made a big deal through silver futures, earning wealth that ordinary people could not imagine. But Duqi took the money to invest in it in a blink of an eye. He established Shengshi Bank to carry out mergers and acquisitions, increased his holdings in Apple, Oracle, and Disney, and a series of expenses such as buying a farm. Now Duqi has only $10.36 million left in his hands.
According to the current housing prices, this money is enough for Duqi to buy a large luxury house. However, Duqi has lived in Stanford University for many years and has no demand. A luxury house is placed there and it is better to continue investing. No one continues to sell the stocks of Apple and Oracle to him. Disney's current market value is more than one billion US dollars. Duqi's ten million cannot cause any storm. He is planning to go to Hong Kong this year to see if there are any investment opportunities.
In the afternoon, he changed into wear-resistant clothes and accompanied Du Rulin and Li Yan to work on the farm. This was a rare experience in Du Qi in both lives. At night, Du Qi meditated as usual. Recently, he vaguely felt that his cultivation was about to reach a bottleneck, and the growth of true qi had become extremely slow. He could only polish the true qi step by step according to the exercises. Fortunately, Du Qi had adapted to the practice and did not feel boring.
The next morning, the sun had just exposed the horizon and dyed the pasture golden. Duqi got up in the morning and came downstairs and saw Li Yan preparing breakfast. The small flat pot was placed on the stove, and the butter was steaming. He broke an egg and poured it in. After a while, he turned brown. Turn it evenly, and roasted it with a slender knife. Use a slender knife to cut out two slices of bread, bake it on the fire for a while. After it was softened, he then put it in fresh vegetable leaves and eggs, put it neatly on the plate, and cut it into the middle, and the two breakfast sandwiches were ready.
After a while, Du Rulin went downstairs in a plaid shirt, Li Yan brought the tableware to the wooden table, and then said, "Okay, have a meal quickly, Xiaoqi, when are you going back?"
"Tomorrow, I don't take much leave."
After hearing this, Li Yan said, "Why are you always in such a hurry? You don't stay at home for a few more days. During the Spring Festival, you only stay at home for four days."
Duqi smiled and said, "When I graduated from college, I will buy a big house in Los Angeles. When the time comes, I will be close to you. I am afraid that you will be upset when you look at me every day."
"Go and go, you kid will only argue with me since you were a child." Li Yan glared at Du Qi and said, "I said you are in college now, it's time to find a girlfriend. I heard Adam say before that you have many girls in school who like it. If you have good ones, bring them back to see them."
Du Qi didn't expect that he would encounter the common scenes of parents urging them to get married again in this life, but he was a veteran and said directly: "Of course I am looking for my girlfriend, but now I am busy studying. If my subject scores are not up to standard and my credits are not enough, I guess my scholarship will be ruined. Moreover, I have a high-level vision for your son, so I have to choose carefully to satisfy you. How can ordinary girls be qualified to be your old daughter-in-law?"
"There is nothing to be picky about. The key is to be a good person and be able to live a life. Otherwise, it will be a great opportunity to quarrel every day when you get married." Li Yan said: "Anyway, you have to hurry up. You are nineteen years old. Your father and I are both married at this age. I was only twenty when I was pregnant with you."
Unwilling to be nagged by my mother, Duqi changed the topic and said: "I looked at it yesterday and many of the houses on our farm were empty by termites. Only the main beam is relatively intact. When I bought it, I heard from the previous farmer that I had lived in the house for more than ten years, so I should find someone to build a new one."
"Since the main beam is still intact, I can live in it for a few more years. A wooden house is easy to attract termites, and there is no way." Du Rulin's thoughts were not turned around, and he wanted to save some money in everything.
But Du Qi said, "It seems okay now, but at most one or two years, there will be problems. This year, we will find someone to choose a good place to build a new house for several months. In order to prevent moths, we also need to paint. The paint now contains formaldehyde, which will reduce lifespan if you smell too much, and it will take several more months to dissipate the smell. Therefore, it is best to start construction now. Our family is not short of money now. If you can't bear to leave this little money, it will be bad if you have any accidents."
After hearing Du Qi say this, Li Yan first said, "Since that's the case, Lao Du and Xiao Qi will go to Los Angeles with Xiao Qi to invite an architect to come over and design a plan."
"Yes, it's just as we're used to build anything you want." Duqi said with a smile: "I want a bigger room."
Chapter completed!