Little Life on An American Ranch

.. , Little Life on an American Ranch

Jian Heng drove the car and took his family back to the ranch. When they passed by the small town, no one dared to recognize him.

Sun Xiuying asked, "Is this your old town?"

Jian Heng nodded and replied: "Well, I never knew what traffic jams looked like before, but now I have to come here from time to time."

The car stopped at this time, and there was a horse trailer turning at the T-junction, and the other vehicles stopped to let the horse trailer go. At this time, it can be seen that the quality of the American countrymen is very good. Yes, when the big trailer was turning, all the cars stopped. Although there was a space in the middle for the small car to insert, there was no driver to squeeze the space.

Some things are much easier to handle once everyone follows the rules. For example, as soon as the big trailer in front of you enters the straight road, the traffic flow immediately starts to move. After two or three minutes of traffic jam, the car quickly starts to move smoothly again. There is no traffic left at the intersection.

"Wow, the development is really fast, it is countless times stronger than before!" Jian Anan also said with emotion.

"Mom, there is still a small shop there!" An An opened the window of the car, looking out at the fancy decorated shop.

This is a chain of supermarkets, not too well-known. In the United States where Jian Heng lives, he has not seen a few supermarkets like this. It is probably a local one.

"I really don't know when there was an extra supermarket here." Jian Heng tilted his head and quickly scanned, and found that there was a newly opened supermarket on the right side of the road.

"It seems that apart from the city where you got off the plane, your small town is the most prosperous on this road," Sun Xiuying said.

Jian Anan added: "Not only is it prosperous, but all the buildings look quite new, unlike other small towns, where you can see some tin houses from time to time, my God, when I came here last time, I was very worried. I can't believe it, this is the United States! In our imagination, the United States should be a country that is much more developed than China, and everything is better than us. Who knows, I am very disappointed when I come to see it. The image of the United States in the past is so tall. It collapsed all of a sudden!"

"Isn't it!" Sun Xiuying added with a smile: "I can see some houses made of iron sheets and asbestos tiles from time to time on the road. Good guy, there are no such houses in our county now. There are still houses in the United States. !"

Jian Heng listened and smiled: "The infrastructure here in the United States looks very old, and there is no way to compare it with China in many places, because the airports in the United States, highways, etc. are almost as big as they were built decades ago. , has been in use,

If you think about it, people’s airports have been built for decades, of course they look a little old-fashioned. Those large buildings in our country are generally built in the past ten or twenty years, or even in the past five years. Of course The feeling is different! "

"I still feel that many places in the United States are old and dilapidated, and there is no way to compare with Shanghai," Jian Anan said firmly.

Jian Heng also agrees with her sister's point of view. In terms of basic hardware, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou are really first-class. Most developed countries have no way to compare. A new word overshadows too many things.

"Yu is sure. I heard that a Canadian Chinese went to Shanghai for a trip, and he actually said that he came from the countryside. The clubs in Shanghai are far better than those in Toronto in terms of equipment and ostentation." Jian Heng smiled and raised a example.

Suddenly, Ning Ning, who was leaning on the window, stretched out her little finger and pointed out the window: "Brother, look quickly, the circus!"

"Where did the circus come from at this time... Oh, it really is a circus!"

Following the little girl's fingers, Jian Heng found a big colored roof with a clown image on it. Such a colored roof with a clown must be a circus, not a hip-hop club.

"Let's go, let's go to the circus!" Ning Ning waved his little hand like a general, commanding the little driver Jian Heng.

When Ning Ning heard that it was really a circus, the lively little girl couldn't sit still.

"Watching a circus, I took the car all the way back to beat the jet lag, and don't wait until tomorrow when it's time to play and yawn!" Sun Xiuying said.

Jian Anan smiled at the little girl and said: "I can't go to see it tomorrow, I have to meet your teacher tomorrow! From now on, calligraphy and musical instruments will be taught!"

Jian Anan is very happy here. She originally thought that when she arrived at her younger brother's place, she would put sheep for the winter vacation, but she didn't expect her younger brother to change his temper this year, and actually found a calligraphy teacher for Ning Ning. I heard that there are people there who can play music, the most important thing The good thing is that you don't have to pay for it yourself, and they pay it for free. I heard that it is still an expert. Talking to Jian An'an, there are not many times when he is so comfortable taking advantage of his younger brother and hitchhiking.

"I don't want to learn!" Ning Ning shook the two small handles on his head.

Sun Xiuying glanced at her daughter: "If you don't study, you want to go to heaven! Go to study honestly, three hours every night, and do whatever you want with the rest of the time, or write and endorse for me, and I will supervise you all day Herding sheep makes you look like no one."

Hearing her mother's words, the little girl fell silent, but she didn't dare to goug her mother out, but she stared straight at the chrysalis, that is, her brother Jian Heng. At this time, the little girl wished to sell her brother to others to do it. Brother, go, I don't want such a brother anymore.

How could Jian Heng know as much as a little girl, he smiled at her, stretched out his hand and tore his sister's cheek.

"Don't screw me! I want to break up with you!" The little girl said angrily.

As soon as these words came out, Jian Heng was overjoyed, stretched out his hand and twisted the girl's cheek again, ignoring the strength of her little hand slapping himself: "Little boy, you still break up with me, now you go to my house and break up with me Do you want to eat or not?"

"I'm not going to your house, I'm going to my sister-in-law Damai and sister-in-law Mai's house!" The little girl was aggressive even if she was unreasonable.

"Silly girl, where's your sister-in-law without your brother!" Jian Anan sat behind her mouth covering her mouth and said cheerfully.

This time the little girl got involved a little bit, sitting on the seat with a wrinkled little face, scratching her cheeks from time to time, maybe thinking about the key point.

Compared with Ning Ning, Xiao An was much quieter, the little guy huddled in the back seat, a little listless.

"Xiao An, what's the matter, are you unhappy at your uncle's house?" Jian Heng glanced at the little guy and said.

Xiao An raised her eyelids: "I'm so hungry!"

"Ah, didn't you eat anything on the plane?" Jian Heng asked.

After thinking about it, there is really nothing delicious on this plane. The air ticket for this flight was not booked by Jian Heng, but by his sister Jian Anan. I mentioned it, it doesn't suit the taste of children at all, and the quantity is not much.

"It's not delicious!" Xiao An said.

Jian Anan immediately said, "What's not delicious is because you are picky eaters!"

Xiao An immediately said: "The food on the plane I took when I came to my uncle's house last time was delicious, but the plane you bought with the ticket didn't taste good at all!"

"That's right, it's so unpalatable, it's like shit!" Ning Ning immediately supported her nephew, who was a little older than herself: "And the seat is not wide, it's crowded, the one sitting next to me The foreign aunt smelled so bad that it almost killed me, and my mother told me not to say... ".

Sun Xiuying said dissatisfiedly after hearing this: "You are the only one who is precious! No matter how everyone else sits here, you can't sit!"

When Jian Ningning heard this, she immediately pouted her lips so that she could hang oil bottles.

As soon as Jian Heng heard it, he understood that his elder sister must be distressed about the money, and she was not willing to buy the first-class cabin, so she came here directly in the ordinary cabin. Of course, they are not happy with the three or four ordinary chairs crowded in a row, because this subverts the "beauty" of flying in their hearts.

Because my sister paid for the tickets, Jian Heng couldn't say anything, so he could only say: "Let them experience the economy class, so as not to know the hard work of the adults!"

As soon as Jian Anan heard it, she immediately said: "Who said it wasn't! The two Xiaodongs immediately turned their faces when they saw the chair this time."

The airfare for the four of them in the United States alone was nearly 15,000 yuan, and it was more than 25,000 yuan to get here, which is really not a small amount for a teacher who only has 5,000 to 6,000 yuan a month. Although my younger brother doesn't care about the money, he can pay the money, but Jian An'an still insists on paying the money for this trip, because Jian An'an and his wife have passed this matter, and Jian Heng's belongs to Jian Heng. It's theirs, this is different, I have to say that Yang Bin and Jian An'an are both fastidious people. For the couple: we earn less, but we will do what we can.

The couple is actually afraid that they are used to relying on each other, and one day others will be annoyed by something, and then they will lose the ability to survive. If life becomes like this, the couple are afraid that they will look down on themselves. In a word, you must have your own dignity to be a human being, do what you can with less money, and don't be too greedy for things that shouldn't be yours.

Jian Heng didn't know that the sister, brother-in-law and husband had an in-depth discussion on this matter, and the two had a unified understanding. To Jian Heng, it doesn't matter if you have more money or less money. Now Jian Heng is already a financially free person in fashionable words. However, he is still willing to respect his sister's decision, and does not give advice on other people's lives just because he is rich. So when his sister wanted to pay for the air ticket, Jian Heng didn't say much.

"Arrived!"

Ning Ning saw the gate sign of the ranch, and immediately shouted happily: "Pooh, here I come for instant noodles!"

Not only the little girl, Xiaoan's spirits were also lifted.

"Wow, since when is there a sentry at this gate?" Sun Xiuying asked curiously when she saw a small house at the gate of the ranch with two strong American men inside.

"It's not the early stage personnel of the security company. If you come back after a while, my side will be a first-level security area!" Jian Heng said jokingly.

While joking, a man who came to open the door nodded friendly.

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