The next day is July 4th, which is the Independence Day of the United States and is equivalent to the National Day.
Sun Dahai and the others got up early in the morning, had a free buffet breakfast in the hotel restaurant, and then checked out of the hotel.
The hotel's welcome car has been arranged in advance and is now waiting for them at the gate.
They came to Billings Logan Airport again, took a small propeller plane and flew to the town of Celias.
The town of Celias is more than 100 kilometers away from Billings. Because the road is hilly and the road needs to be detoured, it takes more than 200 kilometers to drive.
There is a small private airport next to the town of Celias. The owner of the airport, Ent, is a retired air force pilot. He owns a 1+6-seater twin-engine propeller aircraft and an agricultural aircraft to provide short-distance passenger transportation and agricultural use.
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When people in the town travel to and from Billings for urgent matters, they always take propeller planes. The one-way trip takes less than forty-five minutes, and the price is not high, making it very cost-effective.
Sun Dahai and the others did not rent this plane to save money. The main reason was that the Ent Airport in Selias Town was too simple and the runway was not long enough to handle jets. Even a small jet like the Lear-55 could
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However, Sun Dahai is very supportive of leasing Mr. Ent's plane to complete this journey.
If Garrison Ranch wants to develop in Celias in the future, establishing a good relationship with these very energetic local people is an essential step.
The plane was not rented by Chen Xi's group. Chen Xi, who is far away in New York, probably doesn't know that there is such a business in the small town of Celias.
The person who helped rent the plane was lawyer Joseph. He was born in the town of Celias. He was once a well-known barrister and had a place in the American legal community.
Now that he has retired, he has opened a pro-bono lawyer studio in the town to provide free legal aid to people nearby or handle some legal issues.
The legal process for the transfer of the Garrison Ranch was conducted by Joseph together with the legal counsel of Citibank.
Because the town of Celias was organizing celebrations on Independence Day and Joseph had to go back to the town to help, Sun Dahai and the others did not see lawyer Joseph yesterday.
Mr. Ent is in his forties this year. He is very talkative and can't stop talking from the moment they meet. Because he heard from Joseph that Sun Dahai and the others will become the new owners of Garrison Ranch.
Since they were all neighbors in the future, Ent enthusiastically introduced the situation in the town to Sun Dahai and the others. After a short voyage, Sun Dahai had learned a lot about the situation.
After a period of turbulence, the plane stopped at one end of the Ent Airport's airstrip.
Ent handed over the plane to other ground technicians. He and his son Gerald drove a car and took Sun Dahai and the others to a small town a few kilometers away.
The town of Celias has a population of only more than a thousand, and most of the young and middle-aged people are scattered to work in the surrounding pastures. Most of the people in the town are the elderly and children left behind.
However, today is Independence Day, and every year the town allocates some funds and sponsors to hold celebrations on this day.
Taking this opportunity, the surrounding ranches will also have a holiday, and in addition to those on duty, everyone else will come to the town and have fun together.
Sun Dahai and the others arrived at just the right time. Just when they arrived at the central square of the town, the grand float parade was about to begin.
Before starting, Ent found the busy lawyer Joseph and introduced him to Sun Dahai and the others.
Joseph has white hair and beard, and is tall, nearly two meters tall. But he himself is kind-hearted and amiable. When they saw Sun Dahai, they were also very friendly, just like the grandfather next door.
Sun Dahai always felt that he looked very distinctive, just like the old wizard Gandalf in the movie "Lord of the Rings".
Gandalf...Joseph was very popular. He only spoke to Sun Dahai and the others for a few minutes, and then said hello countless times to people coming and going around him.
Fortunately, the people here are of high quality. Everyone just says hello and no one will really interrupt their conversation.
Joseph had no choice but to spread his hands and said: "Today is the time when the town is full of people. You can watch the show first. I will take you to get to know the people in the town at noon. In the afternoon we will go to Garrison Ranch."
He called over a little girl who was talking to a few people not far away, and said to Sun Dahai: "This is my granddaughter Jessica. She is very familiar with the situation in the town. Ask her to accompany you to participate in the morning activities.
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Joseph turned around and told Jessica a few words, then said goodbye to Sun Dahai and went to organize activities.
Jessica is a very typical white American girl. She is tall, fair-skinned, and has some freckles on her face. She is not very beautiful, but she has a cheerful personality and is very youthful and energetic.
She is fifteen years old and is in tenth grade at a high school in Billings, which is equivalent to the first year of high school in China.
Due to the small population, schools in most areas of Montana implement an 8-4 system.
The same is true for schools in Seleas Town. They only offer courses for grades 1 to 8, which are the first and second grades of primary school and junior high school in China. Courses for grades 9 to 12 must go to high schools in the city or county.
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Jessica's parents both work in Los Angeles, and she has lived in the town since she was a child. It was the Josephs who brought her up.
This year the town organized a float parade. Jessica only returned to town last night, and Joseph was busy organizing activities, so her family did not participate in the float parade this year.
The so-called float parade takes families as a unit, decorating their own vehicles, passing through the main street in the middle of the town, until passing through the central square, and then entering the parking lot at the back.
Relying on her grandfather being one of the organizers of today's event, Jessica secretly revealed to Sun Dahai and the others that there would be more than sixty floats participating in the parade today. More than half of the floats were sent by the ranch in the town.
There were many spectators in the square. Jessica said that at this time of year, almost everyone in the town would show up in the town.
Independence Day is a holiday for Americans, so the people on duty at the surrounding ranches are basically people working on ranches from abroad. They take turns to participate in the event every year, and there are many illegal immigrants among them.
In the United States, illegal immigration is an unavoidable social topic.
Although illegal immigration will bring all kinds of uncertain troubles, in real life, whether it is various scattered low-wage jobs in big cities or the manufacturing bases in the Great Lakes region, there are a large number of illegal immigrants.
Compared with the high quality requirements of industrial production for workers, the vast agricultural and animal husbandry areas in the central and western United States have extremely low entry barriers, making it the best place for illegal immigrants with low overall quality to settle down and establish a career.