After sending away the good neighbor Liu Ge, Zhang Chi's life became quiet again.
However, in the next few days, almost every day, my good neighbor would call and chat with Zhang Chi, which made Zhang Chi extremely annoyed.
The days passed very quickly, and it was Friday in the blink of an eye. Tomorrow, Sha Da Mu would win the first game against Ma Sheng.
Zhang Chi was originally supposed to go to the racecourse on Friday, but Zhang Chi did not go. He decided to get up early tomorrow morning and drive there and come back after watching the race, thus saving money on accommodation.
Originally, this was what Zhang Chi had planned, but the plan fell through. In the afternoon, Zhang Chi received a call from Zheng Bohong.
Zhang Chi was currently riding the Red Flame Mountain to patrol the area.
"when are you coming over?"
After answering the phone, Zheng Bohong's first words were this.
Zhang Chi replied: "I plan to leave early tomorrow morning, and we can just meet at the stadium."
Zheng Bohong said: "Are you coming in the morning? Then what time do you have to get up? Don't worry about tomorrow morning. Come right away. We are waiting here."
"Where are you? A hotel near the racecourse?" Zhang Chi asked.
Zheng Bohong said: "We didn't stay in a hotel, we stayed at Melika's residence."
"What am I doing here? There are so many people and there is no place to live. You can't let me sleep on the sofa," Zhang Chi said.
Zheng Bohong was silent for a while, and then he said: "Come here, don't worry, I won't leave you without a place to live. You'll know when you get there."
Zhang Chi didn't react for a while.
Zheng Bohong added: "When you came over, you brought some beef from home. Merica said that the beef at home is very good, so she brought it for us to try."
Zhang Chi thought for a moment and said, "Well, I'll go there now and you can send me your location."
After chatting for a while and putting down the phone, Zhang Chi saw that Zheng Bohong had sent him the location, so he returned to the stable and settled down in Chiyan Mountain.
I went back to the house and took some beef from the refrigerator. After thinking for a while, I took a leg of lamb that I had just killed the day before yesterday and threw it into the car. After saying a word to Cannon, I drove towards where Merika lived.
Zhang Chi knew that Melika was renting a house now, and she was taking care of the outdoor goods store here. It was impossible to live in the store, and according to Melika's character, she definitely needed a place where she could sleep comfortably.
But Zhang Chi really didn't expect that the house Melika rented would be so big.
It is directly a small farm, no, it should be said to be a small manor. The small farm of more than 20 acres now has no crops visible from the outside. Wherever the eyes can see, there are either gardens or cold-resistant plants, and they are still It was trimmed by a professional and looks neat.
When Zhang Chi arrived at the door, he didn't dare to drive in directly.
There is no other way. Zhang Chi thinks that the money to rent this farm for a year is not more than 100,000 yuan. How much money can an outdoor goods store make? Zhang Chi is very doubtful.
This city is indeed larger than Folsom, but the city in the west is as big as the sky with 100,000 people, and this 100,000 population has to be the size of a state central city.
If the population is small, business will definitely not prosper. Only when there is a population can there be consumption, and only when there is a population can there be a market.
The small town where Melika stayed was obviously not a central city, with a maximum population of more than 30,000. How could these 30,000 people consume much outdoor products?
I don’t know if the money earned by the outdoor store in a year is enough to rent this farm.
He took out his phone at the door and called Zheng Bohong, and then he confirmed that they lived here.
So Zhang Chi drove his car through the gate, and there was actually a guard at the door!
You can't see the house inside from the outside, not even its shadow, because walking about a hundred meters in is full of towering trees. The smallest one can only be reached by hugging two people.
A curved stone road stretched out from the towering woods. The car kept moving forward along the road. After passing through the woods, the eyes suddenly opened up.
In front of me is a piece of green grass. Different from the grass and flower beds outside, there is nothing else here, just grass. There are not even any flowers, let alone any trees. It looks like a flat golf course.
Yes, the emptiness is so obvious.
In the middle is a three-story stone Victorian house. At first glance, you can tell that it is an old house, and it may be protected.
The United States has a short history, so many buildings like this are classified as cultural relics. The house can be yours, but for repairs or other things, you have to go through a special approval process.
There are people on the grass now. Zhao Yue and others are playing Frisbee with the dog.
You don’t have to look for a parking lot, just park your car on the side of the road. No one will post a note for you here.
"Zhang Chi, come here."
Zheng Bohong saw Zhang Chi taking action and waved to him happily.
Zhang Chi walked over, and Zheng Bohong threw the Frisbee in his hand. His dog rushed out instantly, picked up the Frisbee, and handed it back to Zheng Bohong's hand.
"Where's Melika?"
Zhang Chi asked casually.
Zheng Bohong said: "Go to work, she has something to deal with."
Zhang Chi looked back at the house and sighed: "She rents such a big house, but she doesn't know if the money she makes is enough to pay the rent."
Zhao Yue and the other three laughed immediately after hearing this.
Duan Shu smiled and said: "This house is the property of her family foundation. She did not rent the house, but rented it from an outdoor goods store to provide her with a living."
oh!
Zhang Chi understood now and thought to himself: Damn rich people really know how to play!
By moving his left hand to his right, he saved more than half of the tax.
Zhang Chi still knows a little bit about the family foundation. To put it bluntly, it is a tax avoidance society for the rich. This thing sounds like charity, but it is just a charity from the ancestors to their descendants. It has nothing to do with others. Westerners are better at this.
We Chinese know how to play a lot.
When a big family starts, of course it is indispensable for heroic figures. They make the first pot of gold for the family. In order to ensure the lives of future generations, they set up these foundations to provide superior living conditions for future generations and avoid disasters.
The unfilial descendants lost all their money.
Of course, avoiding extremely high inheritance taxes is also one aspect.
Children can enjoy the money given by the foundation, but they cannot touch the foundation. This is to lay an inexhaustible gold mine for the younger generations. If the younger generations have outstanding talents, the family will continue to grow. If not, it is equivalent to
Hibernate down.
These children are called "Kim Babies" in the United States. They receive the best education in the United States, and their classmates are also outstanding people. Regardless of whether these people are outstanding, their parents must be outstanding. And these people get together, let alone rule the United States.
But it can definitely influence the United States.
To put it more clearly, it is nothing like the clan politics we had from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the late Tang Dynasty.
Financial groups, large and small, and various political families fill every aspect of American life.
After hearing about the fund, Zhang Chi instantly understood that Melika didn't have to spend a penny to rent this house emotionally.
The money earned from the outdoor use store is used to pay the rent. This part of the money is consumed and does not need to be taxed. The foundation collects the money, but it is charity and only pays very little tax.
What the hell, they are doing this to reduce expenditures, directly robbing the revenue of the Internal Revenue Service.
Zhang Chi's heart bleeds when he thinks that he risked his life to participate in a wilderness survival show and ended up giving almost half of the money to the IRS.
High! It’s really high! Look at this operation, it’s a great coin!
At this time, Zhang Chi wondered if he would set up a foundation or something when the country grew bigger, specifically to benefit his children and grandchildren. By then, he would marry him five or six times and give birth to a dozen children.
Anyway, even if you get divorced, no one else can take away the foundation's money, and the children and grandchildren of Lao Zhang's family will have endless money.
Just thinking about it makes me happy.
"What are you thinking about?" Zheng Bohong asked Zhang Chi.
After coming back to his senses, Zhang Chi said: "It's nothing, I just feel that I still need to study!"
These words made Zheng Bohong confused: Why did he suddenly get involved in studying?
Zheng Bohong never imagined that Zhang Chi was feeling sorry for the hundreds of thousands in taxes he paid last year.
"Let's go inside, sweat it out and take a shower," Zheng Bohong said to Zhang Chi.
So Zhang Chi followed everyone into the room.
As soon as he entered the room, Zhang Chi was like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden. Everything he saw was really novel. The room was filled with things from all over the world. For example, Zhang Chi saw two or three Buddha heads in the room.
It looks like it's from China, so I don't know if it's real, but given the decoration of this house, it's probably unrealistic to say it's fake.
Luxurious, so luxurious that Zhang Chi can't describe it in his own words. The decoration of the entire room looks very historical, or a bit old-fashioned, but it all exudes that deep nobility.
It reminded Zhang Chi of a saying he had heard before: Rich families cannot be installed, only coins can be installed.
Zhang Chi does have a room to live in. This large house has twelve rooms, a gym, one indoor and one outdoor, two heated swimming pools, and a wine cellar.
Zhang Chi followed Zheng Bohong around after taking a shower. He felt that his soul had been sublimated. He deeply felt that the American people must have a great revolution, otherwise it would be a wealthy family that stinks of wine and meat and would freeze to death on the road.
Wow.
If we don't raise the flag of rebellion, the American people will be sorry for those homeless people on the streets of Los Angeles.
Whether it is the farm owned by my cousin Zhang Wen or Zheng Bohong and his friends, they are all rubbish compared to this place.
After this round, Zhang Chi really had a knife in his butt - his eyes were opened.
Next, Zhang Chi thought: This little girl, Melika, is so unkind. She actually had to cut half of the more than 100,000 yuan spent on cattle treatment. Is this something human beings do?
They are worse than their good neighbors.
"Okay, the tour is over, get ready to cook. I heard that your roast beef is good. Come on, show it off." Zhao Yue saw Zhang Chi coming back and said with a smile.
"no problem!"
It doesn't matter to Zhang Chi, there's no shame in cooking.
There's no one cooking here in Melika? There must be someone, otherwise, wouldn't all the dozen or so servants in this house be sweeping the floor and cleaning the windows?
He took action as he was told, but Zheng Bohong still started with the first blow.
The oven at Melika's house finally didn't surprise Zhang Chi any more, but it was very clean and looked like new when it was rolled out. There was no trace of dirt anywhere, which showed that the servants were cleaning it.
How clean it is.
I lit a fire to roast beef, and by the way, I also roasted the leg of lamb I brought.
Waiting for Melika to come back, just in time for dinner.