"The signal over there is not good, please speak louder..."
"Say!" It was almost eleven o'clock, and Chen Mo had just fallen asleep when he lay down, when Bai Xiaoou called.
"What's the matter with you? I can't get through the phone." Bai Xiaoou complained.
"You know the signal here has been bad. Is the restaurant business okay?"
"Exceeding expectations, not bad, just so-so. Are you free tomorrow?"
"Yes." Chen Mo rubbed his sleepy eyes and said, "The 15 chickens were finally sold out?"
"There are four left. I answered the call for tomorrow's meal reservation this afternoon and ordered seven pots of ginseng chicken... I will send 20 reed chickens and 6 black-bone chickens tomorrow morning. Do you have any ginseng with a slightly better quality?
I sent over a dozen of them to use as decorations in the restaurant."
There are two kinds of ginseng that are in good condition. American ginseng weighs more than 200 grams per fresh ginseng. It has been dried and weighs about 70 grams per ginseng.
"There are two dried ginseng and the others are fresh ginseng."
"No problem. I bought a ginseng dryer here. Come over early tomorrow. There is a classic car auction here."
"Yeah. Go 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 variety ginseng. Changbai Mountain ginseng looks good."
"Okay. By the way, how is your work lately?"
"The first two are big. The Billings Ranch Project Company decided to package up and sell them out."
That’s hundreds of thousands of hectares of land, and it’s close to the largest city in Montana: “How much does it cost to package it all?”
"Are you interested?"
"Ask."
"We have completed investment in infrastructure construction here, mainly in the planning of roads and small pastures. That area is listed on the land transaction website. If you are interested, take a look for yourself."
"Fuck, tell me."
"The online quotation is 235 million U.S. dollars. I can't talk about the specific business secrets. It's a matter of principle. Don't worry about it. It requires a powerful large company to take it. The transaction object must be approved by the local government of Billings. To get it
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 it is land used by the Billings government to expand local economic projects. The government will only agree to the transaction if there is a specific development plan...
After hanging up the phone, Chen Mo fell asleep. When he woke up, it was still dark. Chen Mo rubbed his face a few times and got up, picked up a hoe and entered the space...
At the earliest, a batch of ginseng was transplanted into the space in early April.
An eight-year-old ginseng has been in space for three months, which adds up to more than two years, or ten years of age.
Completely imitating the forest ginseng in the wild environment, no fertilizer is applied and little care is taken. The ginseng grown ten years ago is relatively small, similar to wild ginseng. The ginseng in the snow mountain pasture is obviously fertilized regularly, and some of them grow very large.
The larger the field ginseng is, the more valuable it is, but this is not the case for wild ginseng and forest ginseng.
The older the ginseng is, the better. This is an unchanging fact. Ginseng respects its age. The efficacy and value of a 10-year-old ginseng and a 15-year-old ginseng are absolutely different. What’s more important is the appearance.
Ginseng naturally grows and sheds its leaves and stems once a year and grows again the following year. Each time the ginseng's reed head falls off, there is a scar, which is called a reed bowl in jargon. You can roughly judge the age of the ginseng by examining the ginseng reed bowl. One bowl per year
, plus 3 is the age of ginseng. Add 3, it 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 is the age of ginseng... It is easier to judge if it is less than 15 years old.
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There is another type called round ginseng, which means that when ginseng grows for a certain age, the reed bowl where the ginseng reed head and ginseng body are connected slowly degenerates and the reed bowl disappears, forming a round ginseng. The real round ginseng is at least generally
It is more than 15 years.
Reed bowls are used to determine the age of ginseng. Wild mountain ginseng and understory ginseng that are not fertilized are easier to determine. Field ginseng is larger, has thin skin, and is lighter in color, so it is not so easy to determine.
Chen Mo carefully dug out a dozen Changbai Mountain ginseng and transplanted them three months ago. In fact, more than two years have passed in space.
The soil in the woods in the space 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. Chen Mo also specially dug out a few transplanted ginseng. The largest one has a fresh weight of about 650 grams. It has well-developed roots and looks like a small white radish. But it is bigger than Chen Mo's first time.
The one excavated weighs more than 1 kilogram, and pales in comparison.
It turns out that Chen Mo knew nothing about ginseng. He didn't even know what a single 1kg American ginseng was and thought it was just a normal phenomenon.
After taking the ginseng and washing it by the stream, Chen Mo came out and fell asleep again before daylight.
I woke up after eight o'clock, fed the cats and dogs, and asked Canlby to help him catch chickens: "I have to go to Billings, maybe for a few days. During this time, help me take care of the pets at home."
"No problem." The chickens from the pasture were finally sold, and Canlby was very happy, as if he had made money himself.
Chen Mo previously injected US$50,000 into the ranch's account. The ranch built chicken coops, purchased vaccines, and other daily expenses, and there was less than US$10,000 left in the account. He knew that Chen Mo didn't have much money left, and the ranch had to make a profit as soon as possible.
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After loading the chicken, Chen Mo got on the pickup truck and waved: "Bye."
"Pay attention to safety on the road. During this time, there are wild deer migrating in the Great Plains."
"ok."
Montana is dominated by livestock farming. But there are more wild animals than domestic animals...
There are places where you can drive for hours without seeing a single person or car, which is normal.
There are endless prairie and snow-capped mountains in the distance. The grassland here is completely different from the grassland in my impression. It is a natural grassland, with low and sparse grass, and large areas of exposed Gobi Desert land can often be seen...
From time to time you can see animals killed by vehicles while driving on the road.
In Montana, it is best not to drive too fast when the visibility is not particularly good, and pay special attention to the signs on the roadside saying "Animals Ahead".
Montana has a small population, and traffic accidents caused by wild animals cause several deaths and injuries every year.
Turn on Bluetooth and play music.
Today, there are more vehicles on the road than before, and many of them have license plates from other states, probably people traveling to Montana for a self-driving trip.
A convertible old Ferrari California passed Chen Mo with a whoosh, and four white girls in the car wearing only bras were dancing...
The beautiful scenery passed by Chen Mo. Chen Mo only had time to take a look, and he didn't even see what the girls looked like, but the bright white breasts were deeply imprinted in his mind.
"Damn, you're so unrestrained."
Chen Mo thought that such a scene could only appear in movies, but he didn't expect that the real world is crazier and more exciting.
It's great to be young... Chen Mo couldn't help but sigh.
I really want to join in and have fun together...
Their car was so fast that Chen Mo couldn't catch up even if he wanted to.
It was past one o'clock in the afternoon when we arrived in Billings. The restaurant was deserted and there was only one table of customers...
It's normal to be deserted, it's past meal time.
"Mr. Chen Mo." The chef of the restaurant was dozing off, and he suddenly woke up when he saw Chen Mo. The chef is Chinese, a Chinese with a green card, and his surname is Wang.
"Lao Bai and Lao Zhang aren't here?"
"Mr. Bai went to the auto show. There was a meeting in Mr. Bai's company. He didn't want to go, so Mr. Zhang Kun went there on his behalf."
"Where is Lao Bai's ranch?" Chen Mo asked.
"The ranch developed by their company is 3 kilometers across the Yellowstone River."
Chen Mo didn't call Bai Xiaoou. The guy was upset and angry recently.
Bai Xiaoou's pasture has 50 hectares, a two-story modern-style villa, and there are tennis courts, basketball courts, and a stable under construction next to the villa.
A full-time nanny was hired in the villa, and the chickens sent by Chen Mo were raised in the open space enclosed by the barbed wire...
"By the way, Mr. Bai bought a ginseng dryer online." Master Wang took Chen Mo to the warehouse and found a small white machine.
Chen Mo took out the ginseng and handed it to Master Wang to dry. Drying the ginseng didn't take more than three or two minutes, so Chen Mo said goodbye and left, going to Tangxia Yipin for dinner.
The restaurant specializes in ginseng chicken soup, but also provides other delicacies, such as twice-cooked pork, meatballs, etc. One meat and one vegetarian meal can be eaten for 20 US dollars...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
In 2030 USD.
Chen Mo ordered twice-cooked pork and beef dumpling soup, a total of 27 US dollars, and gave a tip of 3 US dollars, which was 30 US 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 has a very American taste. Not to mention it is not delicious, but in Chen Mo's opinion, the taste is a bit bland, with obvious sweetness, and I don't know what else is added.
Seasoning. Anyway, it doesn’t taste the same as authentic twice-cooked pork...