Another major event happened recently. After a referendum, the town of Nadak was successfully merged into the town of St. Beni.
The population of St. Beni Town officially exceeds 2,000 people, and most of the population belongs to the original residents of Nadak Town, and then there are employees recruited by Valley Pastoral and Valley Ranch.
If you don't have a household registration in the United States, you can go to the local vehicle management office to register your driver's license when you go to a certain place, and you will automatically become a resident of that place.
The town of St. Beni also has an auction of land. It has nearly 10,000 acres of land. The town can withhold part of the land auction funds and let the city government take the majority.
Under the financial crisis, life for government units is also difficult. Relatively speaking, the economy of St. Beni Town is much better, like a paradise.
After seeing tomorrow's auction items, Chen Mo packed up his things and was about to go back. Moxi licked his face and asked with a smile: "Boss, at what price can I get the car you sent for auction without losing money?"
"The Ferrari 812 is a new car, and it was only transferred. The financial crisis hit before it could be delivered." Chen Mo shrugged and smiled.
When buying a car at a car dealership, some cars can be transferred as long as a deposit is paid. After the transfer, the car owner needs to pay the balance. The balance can be in cash or through a bank mortgage... It is usually a bank mortgage. At different times, the bank's payment to the customer
Credit ratings are different. When the financial crisis hit, those who could have borrowed US$300,000 could only get loans of US$100,000 or less...
As long as the transfer is completed, these cars are still used cars even if they are not delivered to the customer.
Such second-hand cars are much cheaper than new cars. Even if there is no financial crisis, you can find many such cars on second-hand car websites.
"Like Mavericks, if there hadn't been this financial crisis, the price would have been twice as high in a car dealership."
"Then you can buy a few and keep them." Moxi smiled and said, "By the way, I came back from San Jose yesterday. On the San Jose Stock Exchange, in the over-the-counter area, Huafeng Group's stock fell to 5.3 US dollars, and the group's operations were
It’s not like something is wrong, I see there are a lot of stocks with orders for sale... our ranch employees are a little panicked.”
At the beginning of the year, River Valley Catering Company was merged into Huafeng Group. At that time, it was still River Valley Ranch, and almost all employees held Huafeng Group stocks.
"No comment on business secrets." Chen Mo shrugged and said.
"I can't say either?"
"Huafeng Group has closed dozens of restaurants one after another, and now it can basically break even... That's all, don't tell the outside world."
Moxi nodded.
The shares of Huafeng Group can still be held. Closing dozens of restaurants will not cause any major harm to the entire group. The group has sufficient cash and will soon start investing and hunting for bargains.
Back at home, Ai Li and Chen Xiao squatted in the yard and cut off the tips of the stream snails, which was more than half of the bucket.
"I..." Chen Mo said with a big head: "Why did you pick up so many snails again?"
Snail is Ellie's name.
For example, field snails and river snails are called "water snails" by many people here.
"My sister-in-law asked me to pick it up."
"It's delicious." Ellie stuck out her tongue. Now she likes to eat these stream snails the most at home.
As a snack, it is particularly enjoyable with beer.
"Brother." Chen Xiao raised his head and shouted.
"What?"
"The court's decision has been made, and the divorce certificate is on its way to the United States."
Chen Mo's chest felt a little clogged: "It's pretty good."
This divorce was very unpleasant, and Zhou Ziyu's mother wanted divorce fees. At the beginning of the period, Zhou Ziyu didn't dare to say anything, but later it seemed that he and his mother were quarreling... Anyway, the divorce was decided by the court, which was quite annoying.
Chen Xiao smiled and nodded: "Second brother said that there are hairy crabs in the Big Hulu Valley. We will catch them when you are done."
"OK."
Ellie licked her lips: "Are the hairy crabs delicious?"
"You're a foodie...I don't know. I've never eaten hairy crabs, but I heard they are quite delicious." Chen Mo patted Chen Xiao on the head, looked at Ai Li, and said with a smile.
"Leave some for me, I have to go back to school tomorrow to hand in my paper. I won't be back until this afternoon..."
"It's not like we'll catch him tomorrow, we'll catch him after tomorrow."
"Oh. Then you have to wait for me to go together..."
Many people may not know that there are hairy crabs in California. There was once a congestion at the Central Valley estuary gate, and that incident even made the news...
I heard that there used to be a lot of hairy crabs in California, and they were overrun for a few years. It was during that time that the ban on eating freshwater crabs such as hairy crabs was lifted in California...
The United States previously banned the consumption of freshwater crabs such as hairy crabs. This was not unhygienic or unsafe, but was mainly to protect the marine crab fishing industry.
The hairy crabs in California were so overrun in the past that about 750,000 were caught at a single sluice gate... In the past, the California government spent a lot of money to eliminate hairy crabs, and at most they directly buried nearly a hundred tons of hairy crabs at one time.
California has long instituted a ban on hairy crabs, and restaurants can now sell hairy crabs. An embarrassing situation has ensued. The hairy crabs that were once so abundant are now almost extinct.
Spicy Xishui snails, Ellie can fry and eat them herself.
In the evening, Ai Li and Chen Xiao were cooking, while Zhang Xia was taking care of the children...
Father Chen, Mother Chen, and the others are picking walnuts outside. There are more than 30 acres of walnut orchards. Father Chen and the others can pick more than 2,000 kilograms every day.
Walnuts are cheap. They are so cheap that they can hardly be sold. One ton, if wholesale, only costs more than 400 US dollars. Now my family has bought a walnut peeling machine, a walnut shelling machine, a manual oil press... I use the walnuts I pick up every day.
Come to squeeze oil and sell it in the small town. The sales are pretty good.
Ai Li was frying snails at home, while Chen Mo and Chen Xiao went to the fields to help their parents carry back the walnuts they picked up...
"Dad, aren't you bored picking walnuts every day? These things are not valuable..." Chen Mo would help carry the walnuts when he came back every day. Later, he would also help peel the walnuts, remove the kernels, and press the oil.
"We have nothing to do here, and we are just idle when we are idle. One kilogram (kilogram) of walnut oil can be sold for 20 U.S. dollars, and we have made more than 2,000 U.S. dollars." Dad Chen said with a smile: "These hundreds of acres (three hundred acres)
If you pick all the walnuts from more than ten acres), you can make a lot of money."
The squeezed walnut oil is directly sent to the supermarket in St. Beni for sale. People in the town know that the walnut oil squeezed by Chen Mo's father is still pure walnut oil. Thousands of kilograms of walnut oil are ordered.
In Chen Mo's opinion, these are worthless.
Father Chen and the others were different. Looking at the walnut forest outside, it was like looking at U.S. dollars, their eyes glowing green.
If you ask them not to mess with this walnut forest now, they might fall out with you...
"Father-in-law, mother-in-law, we're eating snails." Ai Li had fried the snails and had already eaten them secretly. There was red oil on the corner of her mouth.
The smile on Father Chen's face was a little stiff...
I often eat stream snails, and my gastrointestinal problems are not good as I get older...
Zhang Xia burst out laughing while holding her child next to her. Zhang Xia's father secretly complained and asked Zhang Xia to tell Ellie to eat less clear water snails...
"Hey, you eat first. You eat first..." Father Chen had a headache.
Chen Mo couldn't stand it any longer: "Ellie, it's okay to eat water snails occasionally, but it's okay to eat them often, every day...it's not good for your health."
"I didn't eat anything yesterday."
The family set the table outside, drinking beer and eating snail meat with toothpicks.
Ellie really likes to eat these, and now she is even more into spicy food. She always puts chili noodles on when eating steak...Today's Xishui snails have been raised to a higher level of spiciness. Not to mention dad and the others, Chen Mo is also fast