Yunding Ranch

Chapter 166
Looking at Song Lingyi's cheerful expression, Joey remained indifferent, and just nodded dully, "Okay, then I'll call and make an appointment with you later, the address is...?"

"No. 27, Old Oak Road, Yunding Ranch." Lu Li reported the address, "It can be either today or tomorrow, the ranch is always occupied."

After quickly recording it, George asked again, "Just now you said that the ranch is also a professional. Does this mean that there are no professional tools?"

"No, no, there are professional tools at home." Song Lingyi waved her hand, and Liz left behind a complete set of professional tools. "But I'm not very familiar with it, it's just a hobby." At home, there is no garden or potted plants, only some succulents, Song Lingyi's understanding is naturally very limited.

Joey shook his head, with a look of resentment, "No, this can't be done." Lu Li and Song Lingyi looked confused, "I see, I will deal with it." After finishing speaking, Joey chattered He muttered, "How can this go on, it will definitely be a mess, I really don't know how to pretend to understand, these middle-class people now..."

The voice quickly disappeared in the shop. Lu Li and Song Lingyi exchanged glances, and then Lu Li couldn't help laughing, "He's worried that we will destroy our garden." After all, he is still a flower lover. Idiots, everything they say and do is related to flowers, and only flowers. "It seems that he plans to show his skills in our garden."

Song Lingyi also reacted at this time, and cast her gaze towards the back of Joey leaving, and couldn't help laughing.Although it was just a simple conversation just a few minutes ago, Joey left a deep impression on her, "He is really an interesting person, isn't he?"

"At the same time, he is also a person rejected by society." Lu Li shrugged.

A person like Joey who is devoted to his profession has a negative emotional intelligence. He doesn't know how to deal with people, and he doesn't know how to bend his knees to compromise. The same as the first face.Often without knowing it, he is excluded by others, and no one is even willing to approach him actively.Of course, he didn't care, he just devoted himself to his own world.

Lu Li suddenly felt that Joey is a person with a story, not to mention those dramatic things, but his flowers, his world, and his concentration. These stories are moving.

Whether in New York or in China, there are fewer and fewer such dedicated traditional craftsmen.This is a common phenomenon in society. The pace of life in the Internet age is getting faster and faster. The world has entered the era of fast food. Everyone is pursuing fast, simple and direct, even reading novels, let alone those traditional industry.People always hope that their jobs can be promoted quickly, their careers can be quickly profitable, and their lives can be improved quickly, but people forget that there are no shortcuts in this world. If you want to be fast, you have to sacrifice something.

Like Joey, who is willing to calm down and devote himself to boring work, and still seems to have no future in the flower industry, he chooses blue hat flowers and cornflowers with limited economic value, so slowly Take it slow, slowly.In the 21st century, it is even rarer than pandas.

Lu Li couldn't help but start to wonder, how many people in Texas can calm down like Joey?What about in New York?What in the world?

He remembered that both China and the United Kingdom once produced related specials on TV programs, but they paid more attention to traditional craftsmen with lost skills, and now he wants to focus on ordinary people, ordinary people like Joey.Cultivating blue caps and cornflowers is not a rare technique. For Joey, it is just a part of daily life. There are many similar gardeners, but how many of them can persevere purely and dedicatedly? Woolen cloth?
Associating further, Lu Li thought of the cowboys at the cowboy convention not long ago.People have seen the heroic development of cowboys and the decline of the denim industry, but few people have really paid attention to the long life of those old cowboys polishing their skills.

Could a third column in the New York Observer have Joy's story?Even, he can publish a series of stories about ordinary people.However, this requires long-term thinking and careful conception.

"What's wrong?" Song Lingyi sensed something was wrong with Lu Li, and suddenly fell silent.

Lu Li came back to his senses, and smiled, "It's okay, I thought about work. Let's go, don't we have to watch other things?"

"Now it seems that you are still a reporter." Song Lingyi's exclamation made Lu Li burst out laughing, "Yes, yes, the reporter came here for a field trip. How about it, citizen, do you plan to cooperate with the interview work? What do you think of this How about the flower market?"

"Mr. Reporter, I like this flower market very much. It has a full range of varieties, and the store is professional." Song Lingyi also performed together, and the two walked towards the sapling store next door, talking and laughing.

Song Lingyi heard about Lu Li's plan to plant a big tree in the garden and then make a swing. She thought this plan was really great, so she walked around the shop for nearly an hour. Under the suggestion, I finally chose an oak tree.

On the one hand, it is because the oak tree is the best planted, which is very suitable for the soil here; on the other hand, it is because the oak tree is luxuriant, and when it is fully grown, the huge canopy can cover the entire yard. Although it is not as spectacular as the banyan tree, it is still a A rare sight.

However, oak trees are not cheap. An oak tree with a diameter of 400 centimeters is worth three hundred dollars, and this is just a sapling that has just grown up.The growth of oak trees is also very long, with a cycle of up to 3000 years. There is also an oak tree in California that is as old as [-] years old, which may be the oldest known creature so far.

Planting an oak tree sapling in the garden now, it may take Lu Li a hundred years to see the shade of the tree all over the garden. It is better to go directly to the Marshall Valley Ranch to transplant an oak tree.So, now that you have decided to buy, you have to buy an old tree.

Lu Li finally chose an old oak tree with a diameter of 150 centimeters, which was more than 60 years old.Fortunately, the oak tree was much cheaper than the banyan tree, and it ended up selling for $[-].

It is not an easy task to transplant an oak tree of such age.They made an appointment and planned to wait for Joey to plan the garden, then arrange the specific time, dig out the oak tree first, and then transplant it.

After picking out the oak trees, Lu Li picked another 15 metasequoias, and planned to plant them along the lake, adding a bit of cold and beautiful temperament to the pasture.The price of metasequoia is not expensive. A tree with a diameter of [-] centimeters and a height of about [-] meters only costs [-] US dollars.Although it is cheap, it cannot stand up to the large quantity, and this expense is staggering.

In addition, Lu Li also reserved [-] beech trees. After the other two villas are built, these beech trees will be extended along the beech forest to distinguish the cowboys' dormitories from the holiday villas, and will also become the Yunding Ranch. The most beautiful scenery.Beech is a high-quality furniture wood, and it is expensive. An average adult beech costs thousands of dollars, which is much more expensive than Metasequoia.

Lu Li couldn't help but shook his head and joked, "In the future, if the cash flow is not working well, you can still cut down the beech forest in the pasture. After all, there is nothing to worry about."

I originally thought that buying ranch machinery would be the biggest expense, but I didn't expect that the most expensive cost would be to renovate the garden and renovate the ranch landscape.In just two hours, nearly 20 US dollars were swiped by card.Don't forget that the cost of villas under construction and warehouses waiting to be remodeled has not yet been calculated.

In Western countries, labor costs are always the highest compared to objects.Therefore, the construction team's remuneration is the bulk.During the rebuilding of the ranch, Lu Li's wallet still flowed out like running water.

After the auction of Degas, Lu Li still felt that he was a multi-millionaire—it was in US dollars. He felt that no matter how much he squandered, it seemed that he would never spend his whole life. He just needed to lie down and enjoy it.But after just a few months, Lu Li deeply felt the fact that money was not spent.

The richer you are, the higher your spending and the higher your living expenses.

Sure enough, if you haven't reached that level, you will never understand that world.Lu Li couldn't imagine how to spend 20 US dollars just once when he went out, as if Lu Li couldn't understand why Hollywood stars need 25 US dollars a month to maintain their lives. Know how and where the money is spent.But now, Lu Li finally touched a little threshold.

Now relying solely on wool and beef cattle is not enough to maintain the daily expenses of the ranch.The organic farm was already on the right track, and Lu Li deeply felt that the work of cultivating racehorses and brewing wine needed to be accelerated, otherwise he would soon fall into the predicament of not being able to make ends meet.

After walking around, they visited all the stores in the flower market. Now Lu Li and Song Lingyi had time to stop and take a good look at the stalls in the flea market.

Walking out of the last flower shop, standing at the door, you can feel a gust of breeze blowing, accompanied by the tinkling wind chimes, which attracted Song Lingyi's attention, "I heard this sound just now, is it still here?" Is there a stall that specializes in making wind chimes?"

Following the crisp sound of the wind chimes, Lu Li followed Song Lingyi, walking through the colorful market, as if walking through a different world. In the distance, large strings of wooden wind chimes reflected the bright light of the sun. It swayed slowly in the wind, as if it was the Neverland where Peter Pan lived.

(End of this chapter)