After squatting in the villa for another five or six days, it hadn't even started to rain yet, and Ju An felt increasingly uneasy. It wasn't for anything else, but mainly because this year's space water had not yet been poured into the well in the garden. Well, plus the weather is so hot, this thing will make a big loss this year, so why not, even though I don¡¯t drink red wine very much, the bottle is filled with red dollars. (/baojian/±¦Ó¯) Early that morning, I took Wang Fan and drove to the vineyard to have a look.
The car drove out of the villa area. Wang Fan sat in the passenger seat and called Burnster, the winemaker of the winery. After saying a few words, he put down the phone and turned to Ju An and said: " Burnst is already waiting for us. You said that this time you are not as anxious as the emperor and the eunuch, but suddenly you have become a good boss and know how to care about your own industry."
"I just noticed that the weather is weird. It happens to be nearby. Let's go see the vineyards." Ju An said to Wang Fan while driving and looking at the road.
We went directly from the starting point to the end point and followed the navigation without fear of getting lost. When passing through the city of Los Angeles, Ju An saw the guy opposite the door of the city hall. He hadn't left yet, and the small tent was illegally set up at the door of the government.
Pointing to the white man sitting on the deck chair, he said to Wang Fan: "This petitioner is awesome. He is still here this year."
Wang Fan stretched out his head and looked at the white man on the side of the road. It couldn't be said to be an open tent, it could only be said to be a big white parasol, surrounded by white cloth, forming a simple tent with two There was a sign on it that said they were opposed to the California government charging taxes or reducing expenditures. Ju An saw this guy squatting here two years ago. I still haven¡¯t left yet. I don¡¯t know how to survive without working in the past few years.
There are a lot of cars on the road now, and there are slight traffic jams from time to time. At this stall, a man who looked like a tourist walked up to this guy and asked to take a photo with this white guy. A few meters away from the illegal construction, two policemen were standing on the roadside talking with their police dogs. They seemed to be waiting to cross the road, not even looking at the illegal construction just around the corner. Duan is very irresponsible. There is no specialized urban management profession in the United States. These patrol officers usually have to do this work themselves. The US government is relatively poor and cannot afford to hire these part-time workers, and American labor is also expensive. I had no choice but to let the police take the opportunity to play the role of domestic urban management when they had nothing to do.
¡°It¡¯s such a hot day, squatting here, no matter what you do at night, there is no air conditioning or anything.¡± Wang Fan actually became concerned about other people¡¯s heatstroke prevention and cooling conditions.
Ju An said with a smile: "Don't worry about it. Maybe they are still protesting in three shifts, with several people taking turns to be on duty at the government gate." Don¡¯t think that this situation can¡¯t happen. All kinds of bizarre protests in the United States have been seen over the years. There are no tricks. To paraphrase, you can¡¯t do it, only you can¡¯t think of it.
The two people started talking about this person who had been in front of the government for several years. After a while the traffic started to move.
Ju An joked to Wang Fan while driving the car: "The United States is busy enough in China. These netizens also directly regarded the White House as the petition office, and also asked Xiao Aohei to stipulate that the tofu must only be salty and not salty. Adding sugar, I don¡¯t know how troublesome Ohei is." I remember seeing this message on the White House website. Ju An just wanted to laugh.
Pfft! Wang Fan laughed when he heard this: "That's a bunch of people who are just idle and miserable."
The two people were driving, and some were talking and joking. They felt that time passed a lot faster, and they quickly drove out of the city. Walking up the hillside and entering the mountain forest, I suddenly felt that the temperature had dropped a lot. When I arrived at the entrance of the vineyard valley, it became hot again. The tall trees were basically gone, and I could only see patches of trees everywhere. of vineyards.
Ju An drove the car and followed Wang Fan to talk nonsense, and then looked at the grapes on both sides of the road from time to time. It was obvious that the hot weather had an impact on the grapes. Many leaves were drooping listlessly in the sun. However, these vineyards belong to others and have nothing to do with Ju'an. Although they are not their own, their own winery still has to select part of the wine from nearby vineyards.
The car drove through a gate. On the square gate, there were words written in cursive English like "Golden Eagle Feather". This was when I arrived at my own vineyard. I immediately felt a different scene. Although the leaves were not too energetic, But it's much better than what I saw just now. At least I didn't see a few people drooping down, as if they were dehydrated. At least now the aura of space water has not completely disappeared. The growth of grapes is quite gratifying, with bunches of green grapes hanging on the grape trellis like small agates.
The car reached the door of the winery. As soon as he got out of the car, Bernst stood at the door and waved to the two of them. Ju An and Wang Fan walked over with a smile.
"Old Bern! His complexion seems to be getting better and better," Wang Fan said to Bernst.
Bernst laughed loudly and said: "The winery's wine is so famous now, of course I am in a good mood." After saying that, he took Ju An and Wang Fan to the office.
Ju An asked Burnst: "We are on vacation nearby. It hasn't rained for many days, so it won't have much impact on our grapes."
Burnst asked: "There will definitely be an impact, but it won't be as big as other gardens. If it continues like this, this year's grapes will ripen much earlier, and the yield will be much lower. There are some vineyards nearby. Expenses have already been made to remove some of the grapes from the vines."
"Are we planning to reduce the number of grapes?" It's enough to know that others are reducing the number of grapes. The most important thing is to see if the number of grapes is decreasing in your own garden.
Bernst said: "I haven't thought of this step yet. I am going to observe and observe first. If the weather continues like this, we may also consider reducing the number of grapes to allow the remaining grapes to develop better."
Ju An nodded after hearing this, and then said to Burnst: "Find a hat for me and Fan, I'm going to go to the grape fields to take a look."
After hearing what Ju An said, Burnst turned around and walked to his office, and then brought out two large wide-brimmed hats. They were not cowboy hats, but rather like miniature Mexican hats. The entire brim could almost Covered shoulders.
Ju An and Wang Fan took the hats and stuck them on their heads, and followed Burnst towards the vineyard.
When he arrived at the field, Ju An squatted next to a long grape net and looked at the grapes on the net. When he walked in and took a closer look, he discovered that many grapes had red threads on them. Indeed, this year The grapes ripened earlier than when I saw them before. At this time before, they were probably still small.
"Now the grapes in our garden are the best." After saying this, Bernst shrugged his shoulders: "Actually, the grapes in our vineyard are the best every year. This year there is less rain, it is hotter, and the sunshine is relatively abundant. , It¡¯s a relatively good year, but it¡¯s a bit too early to say this now. If it continues like this, it will be perfect with a little light rain.¡± Burnst squatted next to Ju An and said with a smile.
After looking at the grapes, they were all roughly the same. Ju An, Wang Fan and Bernst swayed to the edge of the wellhead, which still had a steel mesh on it. He stretched his head and looked inside for a while.
Burnster said: "The water here is good. It is probably connected to some underground water veins. The water level has not dropped at this time. Now we rely on it for watering twice a day in the morning and evening."
Ju An smiled and turned around, sitting on the edge of the well. The edge was already hot from the sun. After sitting for a while, Ju An moved his buttocks down. While Wang Fan and Bernst were chatting about grapes, Then he put his hands behind his back and put the space water prepared yesterday into the well.
That's it for the grapes. After seeing this, Ju An and Wang Fan went with Burnst to see the vineyard workshop, followed some workers to say hello and so on. As for the first time barrel master, Of course Ju An was going to chat. The old man was now commanding seven or eight people. He was obviously different from when he was squatting and looking at the oak barrels standing next to the broken workshop. His voice was much louder.
When the three people entered the wine cellar, they suddenly felt that the heat outside had disappeared. The entire wine cellar was filled with barrels of red wine. Ju An reached out and patted the barrels, and then looked at the label on the barrels. It's wine from two years ago. The entire wine cellar is filled with the aroma of oak barrels mixed with wine.
Wang Fan looked at the full oak barrels around him, smiled and said to Ju An: "Think about it, when we first took over, the entire wine cellar was sold out, but now this looks like a winery. , the entire large wine cellar is filled with fine wine." Then he suddenly thought about what happened to the old winemaker he met for the first time, so he asked Burnst: "What happened to the old winery where the old winemaker filed the lawsuit?" .
Burnst shook his head and said: "Since losing the lawsuit, I have owed a lot of debt. I heard that I went to a small red wine company that just opened, and it seems to be in Chile or somewhere in South America. The specific situation is unknown. It¡¯s so clear.¡± Who cares about a loser in wine-filled California.
"What a pity, old man." Wang Fan reached out and patted the oak barrel and said, "If you sell the grapes to us, you might be able to make a fortune. Fortunately, you didn't buy them at that time, otherwise they would have fallen into our hands." . Now Wang Fan and Myers all think that the grapes are ripe due to the unique climate of the year. Who in the right mind would think that Ju'anThere is a huge killer weapon inside.
I don¡¯t know. The reason why Ju An doesn¡¯t want to buy it is not because he can¡¯t raise it well, but because he dislikes the old man¡¯s asking price. He thinks that the things cultivated by the water in his own space are too expensive for you to sell to your buddies. How can such a good thing happen? At that time, Ju An lost his temper. It has nothing to do with whether Ju An is forward-looking or not.