American Ranch

Chapter 34 Little Sheep Lunch

Eating barbecue and drinking wine, the afternoon passed unknowingly.

The next day Hill took a special leave of absence, and everyone went to the ranch to play together.

The current snow mountain pasture covers an area of ​​9250 hectares, with a circumference of nearly 42 kilometers along the pasture.

The total cost was $1650 million.

The most fertile land is the Lake Valley, about 7 kilometers, covering an area of ​​1700 hectares, passing Roger Falk Ranch, Lake Valley Ranch and Creek Ranch...

$1650 million doesn't seem too expensive, and it's really not cheap.Converted into RMB, there are more than 1.1 million.

For example, the Broken O farm in Augusta, which has more than 5 hectares of land and a large area of ​​fertile land in the valley area, was previously listed for around US$1.3 million.

The infrastructure of the Snow Mountain Ranch is poor, unimaginably poor.To complete the construction, we need to continue to invest money...

Chen Mo likes the land...probably the vast majority of Chinese people like the land.

Owning a large area of ​​land and standing on it down-to-earth, I feel unprecedented satisfaction and solidity.

Judith, a desolate pastoral town.The resident population of the town does not exceed 100, and the total population is about 200.

The news of Chen Mo's acquisition of three large ranches spread in the town, and other ranchers came to Camerby one after another, asking if the Snow Mountain Ranch was still planning to expand...

If the funds are sufficient, the Snow Mountain Ranch should be able to expand to an area of ​​3 hectares, including pastures and free grazing areas.

Money...is a problem.

In the space, Chen Mo looked at a ton of gold and the remaining dozen natural gold nuggets, which were worth tens of millions of dollars.The ancient river channels in the space plain contain gold... the total value may exceed 2 million US dollars.

Chen Mo is already a super rich man, it's easy to dispose of these gold, but it's just a hassle.

The endless grassland and the end of the sky are Chen Mo's land.It's just that these lands look particularly barren...

"Have you arrived at the Snow Mountain Ranch?" Hill asked after passing through the small town of Judith and entering the large pasture area when he saw the black dotted cattle.

"It's already here. All the land that can be seen to the south of the snow mountain is mine."

"It looks big." Hill looked around and said.

Followed by two cars, all the way to the house in Xiaoxigu...

"No wonder your phone is often disconnected, and it's too remote." At the door of the house, Hill looked at the towering snow-capped mountains. Her home was in the Little Rocky Mountains. She was used to the similar scenery and didn't think it was so beautiful.

Luo Chen and his wife were quite shocked: "It's so beautiful. The only pity is that there is no snow on the mountain."

The bare rocks on the middle of the snow mountain can be seen very clearly.

"There was still snow in April and May. Now there is no more..." Chen Mo invited everyone into the living room. The sofa in the living room was occupied by two cats. Chen Mo went to pick one up and put it back into their cat litter.

The living room is not spacious, but it is clean and tidy.

Chen Mo is a little obsessive-compulsive, a Capricorn man, and he can't see a messy environment.

"Sit." Chen Mo patted the sofa and invited.

"I've been looking forward to it for a long time if you don't take us out for a walk, horseback riding and hunting." Luo Chen looked at Chen Mo's living environment and said.

"It's almost noon, go out after eating." Chen Mo turned on the TV, pulled Bai Xiaoou to ask him to help in the kitchen: "How about eating lamb at noon?"

"I will..."

At noon, I made a big pot of stewed lamb with white radish, which is simple and easy to make.

I got some small peppers for dipping...

Hill tried a small chili dipped in water, and the tip of his spicy nose was sweating: "It's poisonous. How can it be so spicy?"

The little chili is brought back from the restaurant, the fresh millet is spicy...

Chen Mo smiled, and fried a plate of spicy bean paste for Hill and Jennifer. This sauce is not spicy, but mainly fragrant.

The small fat mutton is tender and tender, and the taste is very different from the old mutton.Stewed mutton with white radish, basically when the radish is cooked, the mutton will melt in the mouth.

The lamb ribs are even more delicious, separated from the flesh and bones, and have the unique bone flavor of lamb bones.

"Luxury, this should be a top-notch little fat lamb." Bai Xiaoou picked up a piece of fat lamb with clear oil stains, and looked at Chen Mo.

"First-class little fat sheep, the rating standard for high-end restaurants. In the United States, less than 1% of little fat sheep can get this rating." There are not many little fat sheep raised in the United States, and they are all wooly breeds, and not many.Little fat sheep produce less...

"We will open a branch restaurant in the future, and the top-quality meat will be available." Bai Xiaoou said with a chuckle: "It's the first time I have eaten stewed radish with top-quality little fat lamb."

High-end restaurants usually have mutton as a main course, and the most expensive must be lamb chops, especially grilled lamb chops...

Most high-end restaurants pursue the original taste of food and are more picky about the selection of ingredients.The older the sheep, the stronger the smell... The price of the lamb chops of the little fat sheep is more expensive, especially the lamb chops of the little fat sheep that reach the first-class standard are not sold in supermarkets at all, and they are specially supplied to restaurants, and they must be very high-end s restaurant.The price of a first-class lamb chop is usually around a hundred dollars or even more expensive, and you can eat it if you want it.

Hearing Bai Xiaoou's praise, Chen Mo rolled his eyes, this is a scam...

Before raising black-bone chickens and reed chickens, Chen Mo listened to Bai Xiaoou's words and raised them in large quantities in the pasture, saying that he could sell the ginseng in the pasture by the way.

The cost of black-bone chicken and reed chicken is there, so it is impossible to sell it too cheap...

In Tangxia Yipin, black-bone chicken and reed chicken are selling well. There are many dishes, such as salt-baked chicken, spicy chicken, braised, clear stew, chicken risotto...Ginseng chicken soup is also selling well, but Tangxia Yipin has sold a total of Ginseng is less than 2 kg.

"Don't just talk, you have to show actual results. My ranch has been expanded... According to the supply contract I signed with Ellison, he can eat no more than 100 little fat sheep every month."

"Don't worry, Ann, I have my own plan..." Bai Xiaoou waved his hand and continued to dig the food in the bowl.

The price of first-class Little Sheep is expensive because the supply in the market is small, and the main consumers are also the top restaurants in the United States.The contract was finalized with Ellison... The little sheep from Xueshan Ranch are first provided to Tang Xia Yipin and Ellison's company, and the excess can be sold to supermarkets... The price cannot be lower than the purchase price of the contract.

If you gain something in business, you will inevitably lose something.

Selling directly to supermarkets, Chen Mo does not have this channel now, and can only sell to slaughterhouses.The price they gave must not be higher than Ellison's purchase price... In this way, it also virtually limits the scale of the pasture (only meat sheep).

"How much do you sell this mutton for a catty?" Luo Chen was more interested in this and asked.

"It's sold to high-end meat suppliers for $16.5 per pound. One catty is 500 grams, and one pound is 453 grams." Chen Mo said.

"That's... more than 100 yuan per catty." Luo Chen stared in disbelief, "Don't you all say that American meat is cheap?"

It's hard to explain this...

Bai Xiaoou said: "That's not how the account is calculated... The dollars earned in the United States are also spent in dollars, so we have to use the exchange rate to talk about things... For example, if you earn 30 dollars a year in the United States, convert it to 220 million yuan, and make money from the United States When you live in China, you will feel that the prices in China are cheap. Don’t compare the goods in the two places, I’m talking about the overall cost of living... These questions are very troublesome to explain, and you can almost understand after living in the United States for a while.”

"Different classes have different consumption concepts and habits. The annual income of 30 in the United States is higher than the annual income of 220 million in China. The 220 million income is not intended to be higher, but it cannot be said that one is good and the other is not... at least a little , with an annual income of 30 in the United States, there are relatively few people who can save money. Just like me..." Bai Xiaoou pretended to be a coercion, which was the most deadly.

After all, the United States is a developed country, and the cost of living is relatively low. This is a fact.However, it is completely unnecessary to make a head-to-head comparison and talk about the exchange rate between the US dollar and the renminbi.

(End of this chapter)