Lisko’s American Life

After a few days of getting along with Lisko, Willow gradually became less unfamiliar with Lisko, but she was still very shy when meeting others. Lisko made some desserts for her every day. Very pleased.

Catherine was very happy to see this situation, so Willow was very relieved every time she came to see Meg at Lisko's house.

Things at the ranch are also progressing steadily.

"Hey. Li." Rooster came to discuss matters with Lisko at noon, and Lisko was watching cartoons with Willow.

"I like my daughter to give birth to one myself." Rooster looked at the warm scene in front of him, and joked with Lisko.

"I think so too." Lisko's expression was a little dark.

"I came to see you for something." Rooster saw Lisko's melancholy. He also heard recently that Lisko's feelings were a little frustrated.

"What's the matter?" Lisko cheered up, looked down at Willow who was looking at him worriedly, rubbed her hair, and talked to the cock in her dissatisfied expression.

"Less held a party and wanted to invite the nearby ranchers to discuss something. The specific content seems to be that they plan to transform. In the past two years, the income of the ranch has gradually declined. Many ranchers can't survive and go bankrupt. We in Garrison are barely able to do so. support, but it has reduced a lot of cowboys.” The rooster seemed a little worried, although the Lisko Ranch did not have these problems, and even this year’s herd has increased from a hundred or so at the beginning of last year to a thousand, but all his relatives and friends They are all in this industry, and the industry environment is not good, so he can't be happy.

"Transformation? Where is the transformation going?"

"I heard that Les contacted many multinational travel agencies, intending to carry out unique cowboy experience and ranch life tourism here. We are also famous for Denver's cultural capital and lavender. They said that they intend to create the second Provence. "The rooster shrugged his shoulders after he finished speaking, obviously thinking that this dream was unlikely to come true.

Provence is the world-famous hometown of lavender and produces high-quality wines. Provence is also the "City of Knights" in Europe and the birthplace of knightly lyric poetry, an important literary genre in the Middle Ages.

Lisko feels that the idea of ​​developing tourism is correct, especially for tourists from Eastern Asia. It is very attractive to experience cowboy culture and ranch life, but it is a bit unreliable to say that it is comparable to Provence. Provence is how much France has created. It has been a tourist attraction for many years, with rich products, bright sunshine and beautiful scenery. It has attracted countless tourists since the ancient Greek and Roman times.

However, the nearby ranchers are all attending the party, and he is not good at being out of the group, so he also made up his mind to attend.

The party time is in the evening. Lisko made preparations in advance and prepared a handy gift. This is the etiquette of attending a party. Generally, you don’t prepare expensive gifts. Usually it’s a bottle of red wine, or cook a dish yourself. Lisko I didn’t bother to bother, so I took a bottle of red wine from the wine cellar. He has been consuming red wine since he moved into the ranch. It was slowly reduced, and a bunch of red wine was filled in after Christmas. Less, there are many more wine cellars.

Willow was sent home by Lisko and took away Mag at the same time.

At the party, Lisko chose a set of casual clothes, took the red wine, drove the pickup, and drove to Les's ranch.

Les's ranch is the largest in the vicinity, with an area twice as large as Li's ranch. It is said that he also took over the family's ranch, managed it properly, and expanded it a lot.

The gate of Les Ranch is full of French architectural features. Les’s mother is a Frenchman. He also studied in France when he was in college, so he prefers this style, which is based on fresh, bright and modern. The light and lively architectural form breaks the solemnity and dullness brought by the concrete box, and also pursues the majestic overall shape of the building, which is full of neoclassical French style.

Vehicles kept entering at the gate of the ranch, and Lisko was also saying hello to familiar people.

After the car stopped at the designated location, Lisko saw Colt.

He was holding a black bottle of beer, talking among the crowd, and Lisko came closer.

"Troy Polamelu of the Pittsburgh Steelers? He's the strongest, we can't lose." Colt's voice was full of passion, and the crowd gathered here were all football fans.

Colt happened to see Lisko standing outside, "Okay, that's it, I'm sure I can take our Garrison school team to the state competition, don't worry."

Pushing aside the crowd, Colt hammered Lisko's shoulder. "Hey Lee, I thought it was the rooster coming."

Lisko then took a bottle of wine from the side, opened it and clinked glasses.

"The rooster is going to receive the newly bought cattle,"

Lisko took a sip of his wine, "Is Bo not in good health? Why do you ask a football coach to discuss things?"

"It's much better. I pestered the one who wanted to come, and it happened that he wasn't very interested in this proposal, so he let me join in the fun." Colt shrugged.

Lisko was not surprised at all. Bo is an old cowboy. In his eyes, only a ranch that raises cattle and sheep well and earns money by strength is a regular one. When he heard about developing the tourism industry, he felt deviant.

Lisko has no opinion on the transformation of the ranch. Anyway, his ranch is profitable. If he develops tourism, it will definitely affect his secluded life, so he does not express his opinion. Others’ ranch can be changed if they are willing.

The two were chatting, and Lisko felt someone pat him on the shoulder.

"Hey, Lee."

Les was very pleasantly surprised by Lisko's arrival. At first, he thought it was Rooster's proxy to attend. After all, Lisko's house is famous, and he doesn't like this kind of communication, and everyone's circle is different. Today's arrival will let him Feeling very face-saving, although Lisko doesn't deal with it very much, but this is a celebrity in the neighborhood, much more famous than the mayor and councilor.

"Lies, I heard that you have a party here, so I came here to join in the fun, and I'm also the owner of Li's Ranch, you will definitely not welcome me to participate, right?" Lisko teased with a smile, for Les this People, Lisko still has a good impression of him, and he has no close friends, but he has to be said to be a good neighbor. He has grown the family ranch by himself.

Like today's gathering, Les can't hold it at all. Lisko believes that the profit of Les's ranch may drop, but it will definitely not lose money, because a large ranch like this has its own regular customers, and they are all well-known Hotels and restaurants and supermarket chains, the crisis mostly affects people on small ranches, like Beau's Ranch.

The crowd kept coming in from outside the ranch, and Les didn't leave, standing beside Lisko and introducing him.