American Ranch

Chapter 25 Patronizing Your Own Restaurant

"Old Chen... hello?"

"I can hear it, say it."

"The signal over there is not good, speak up..."

"Say!" It was almost eleven o'clock, when Chen Mo lay down and fell asleep, Bai Xiaoou called.

"What's the matter with you, the phone has been disconnected." Bai Xiaoou complained.

"You know the signal here has been bad. Is the restaurant's business okay?"

"Beyond expectations, okay, so-so. Are you free tomorrow?"

"Yes." Chen Mo rubbed his sleepy eyes and said, "The 15 chickens are finally sold out?"

"There are still four left. I answered the call for tomorrow's meal reservation this afternoon and ordered seven pots of ginseng chicken... I will deliver 20 reed chickens and 6 black-bone chickens tomorrow morning. Do you have any better-looking ginseng? I sent over a dozen of them to be used as decorations in the restaurant."

There are two good-looking ginsengs, American ginseng, with a single fresh weight of more than 200 grams, which has been dried, and a single weight of about 70 grams.

"There are two dried ginseng, and the rest is fresh ginseng."

"No problem. I bought a ginseng dryer here. Come here early tomorrow. There is a classic car auction here."

"Yeah. I'm going to bed, I'm a little tired today..."

"Wait a minute. Don't use all American ginseng for decoration, get a few more Changbai Mountain ginseng. Changbai Mountain ginseng looks good."

"OK. By the way, how's your work doing?"

"One head and two big ones. The Billings Ranch project company decided to pack it up and sell it."

That's 10,000+ hectares and close to Montana's largest city: "How much is it all packed?"

"You are interested in?"

"Ask."

"Our side has completed infrastructure investment, mainly road and small pasture planning. That area is listed on the land transaction website, and you are interested to see for yourself."

"Fuck, tell me."

"The online quotation is 2.35 million U.S. dollars. I can't say if it involves commercial secrets. It's a matter of principle. Don't worry about it. Only a powerful big company can take it, and the transaction partner needs to be approved by the local government of Billings. Come up with a specific development plan..."

Although the land area is very desolate, the actual transaction price will definitely not be too high.But that is the land that the Billings government used to expand local economic projects, and the government will only agree to the transaction if there is a specific development plan...

After hanging up the phone, Chen Mo fell asleep in a daze. When he woke up, it was still dark. Chen Mo rubbed his face hard to get up, picked up the hoe and went into the space...

A batch of ginseng was transplanted into the space in early April at the earliest.

Eight years of participation, three months in space, more than two years, ten years of participation.

The forest ginseng is completely imitated in the wild environment, no fertilization is applied, and the ginseng is seldom guarded. The size of the ten-year ginseng is relatively small, similar to that of wild ginseng.The ginseng in the Xueshan Ranch obviously has been fertilized regularly, and some of them grow very large.

The larger the garden ginseng, the more valuable it is, but the wild ginseng and under-forest ginseng are not.

A ginseng that is older is better. This is an unchanging fact. Ginseng respects old age. The efficacy and value of a 10-year-old ginseng and a 15-year-old ginseng are absolutely different, and the main thing is to look at the appearance.

Ginseng naturally grows and sheds leaves and stems once a year, and grows again the next year. Every time the reed head of ginseng falls off, there will be a scar, which is called a reed bowl in jargon.The age of ginseng can be roughly judged by checking the ginseng reed bowl. One bowl is one year, plus 3 is the age of ginseng.Adding 3 means that after the ginseng seeds are planted in the ground, the first bowl will come out in the third year, because the addition of the reed bowl means the age of ginseng...it is better to judge if it is less than 3 years old.

There is also a kind of round reed ginseng, which means that when the ginseng grows to a certain age, the reed bowl at the place where the ginseng reed head and the ginseng body are connected slowly degenerates and the reed bowl disappears, forming a round reed ginseng. The real round reed ginseng is the least common It is more than 15 years.

It is better to judge the age of ginseng in the reed bowl, and it is better to judge the age of wild mountain and understory ginseng without fertilization.Garden ginseng is relatively large, with thin skin and light color, so it is not so easy to judge.

Chen Mo carefully dug out more than a dozen Changbai Mountain ginsengs, and it has been three months since they were transplanted in. In fact, more than two years have passed in space time.

In the woods in the space, the soil is relatively fertile, but it seems that these ginsengs have not grown much in more than two years, and the fresh weight of a single ginseng does not seem to exceed 110 grams.

American ginseng is relatively large, and Chen Mo also deliberately dug out a few large ginseng transplanted in. The largest one, with a fresh weight of about 650 grams, has well-developed roots and looks like a small white radish.But compared with the Citigroup that weighed more than 1 kg that Chen Mo dug for the first time, it is nothing compared to the big one.

Originally, Chen Mo didn't know anything about ginseng. He didn't even know what a single 1kg American ginseng was. He thought it was just a normal phenomenon.

Taking ginseng to the creek to wash it off, Chen Mo came out of the space before dawn, and fell asleep again.

Woke up after eight o'clock, fed the cat and the dog, and called Canlby to help him catch the chicken: "I have to go to Billings, maybe for a few days, and help me take care of the pets at home during this time."

"No problem." The chickens on the ranch were finally on the market, and Camby was as happy as if he had made his own money.

Before Chen Mo injected 5 US dollars into the ranch account.The ranch built chicken coops, purchased vaccines, and other daily expenses, leaving less than $1 in the account.He knew that Chen Mo didn't have much money anymore, and the ranch had to make a profit as soon as possible.

After loading the chicken, Chen Mo got on the pickup truck and waved: "Goodbye."

"Be careful on the road. There are wild deer migrations on the Great Plains during this time."

"OK."

Montana is dominated by animal husbandry.But there are more wild animals than domestic animals...

In some places, it is normal to drive for several hours without seeing a person or a car.

The endless prairie and the snow-capped mountains in the distance.The grassland here is completely different from the grassland in my impression. The natural grassland has low and sparse pastures, and a large piece of bare Gobi Desert land can often be seen...

Vehicles driving on the road from time to time can see animals that were killed.

In Montana, it is best not to drive too fast when the view is not particularly good, especially pay attention to the sign on the roadside 'animals ahead'.

Montana has a small population, and there are several fatalities and injuries in traffic accidents caused by wild animals every year.

Turn on Bluetooth and play music.

Today, there are more vehicles on the road than ever before, and many of them have license plates from other states. They should be people who are driving in Montana.

A convertible old California (Ferrari California) passed Chen Mo with a 'swish', and four white girls in the car danced and danced...

The beautiful scenery passed by Chen Mo's side. Chen Mo only had time to take a look, but he didn't see what the girls looked like, but the white and bright flesh was deeply imprinted in his mind.

"Damn, it's so unrestrained."

Chen Mo thought that this kind of scene could only appear in movies, but he didn't expect the real world to be crazier and more enjoyable.

It's nice to be young... Chen Mo couldn't help sighing.

I really want to join them and have fun together...

Their car was too fast, Chen Mo couldn't catch up even if he wanted to.

Arrived in Billings after one o'clock in the afternoon.The restaurant is deserted and there is only one table of guests...

It's normal to be deserted, it's past meal time.

"Mr. Chen Mo." The chef of the restaurant was dozing off, and he woke up when he saw Chen Mo.The chef is Chinese, a Chinese with a green card, surnamed Wang.

"Aren't Lao Bai and Lao Zhang here?"

"Boss Bai went to the auto show. Boss Bai's company has a meeting, and he doesn't want to go. Mr. Zhang Kun went there on his behalf."

"Where is Lao Bai's pasture?" Chen Mo asked.

"The ranch developed by their company is 3 kilometers across the Yellowstone River."

Chen Mo didn't call Bai Xiaoou, that guy was upset recently.

Bai Xiaoou's ranch has 50 hectares, a two-story modern-style villa, next to the villa there are tennis courts, basketball courts, and a stable under construction.

A full-time nanny was hired in the villa, and the chickens sent by Chen Mo were raised in the open space surrounded by barbed wire...

"By the way, Mr. Bai bought a ginseng dryer online." Master Wang took Chen Mo to the warehouse, a small white machine.

Chen Mo took out the ginseng and handed it to Master Wang to dry it.Drying ginseng is not a matter of three or two minutes, so Chen Mo left and went to Tangxia Yipin for dinner.

The restaurant specializes in ginseng chicken soup, and also offers other delicacies, such as twice-cooked pork, meatballs, etc.One meat and one vegetarian, you can eat for $20...the consumption is not high.Fast food in the United States is relatively cheap, and the per capita consumption of a la carte meals is usually 20-30 US dollars.

Chen Mo ordered a twice-cooked pork and a beef dumpling soup, the total was 27 dollars, and gave a tip of 3 dollars, 30 dollars, and then left the restaurant.

The taste of the food is a bit weird.The beef dumpling soup is okay, and the twice-cooked pork is very American.Not to mention unpalatable, as far as Chen Mo feels, the taste is a bit bland, with obvious sweetness, and I don't know what kind of seasoning is added.Anyway, it tastes completely different from authentic twice-cooked pork...

(End of this chapter)