Chapter 4 Family Meetings
Zhang Cheng was also allowed to drink two glasses of red wine for this meal - this bottle of wine was originally intended to be left for Zhang Cheng to drink when he got married, because according to Chinese tradition, 18 years old is not considered an adult, and marriage is considered an adult.
After dinner, the family had a meeting, and my father said, "I thought it was just now. I think it was not safe to deposit the money in the bank. What if the old man's family knew about it? If you sue, the court will at least freeze the deposit. If you lose the lawsuit, you will lose everything. Then it will be useless."
My mother thought about it and felt it made sense: "Why didn't I think this is my own? Husband, how do you think you should use this money?"
Dad thought for a while and said, "Let your child immigrate with money - a cross-border lawsuit is not that easy to fight. If you invest in immigration, you are welcome. Besides, if the investment project is completed, the income may not be worse than that of depositing in the bank."
Then, the question arises again, what projects to invest in?
In China, you don’t have to think about it and you want to buy a house for investment - it’s actually just speculation. But foreign countries obviously have different national conditions, so speculation is not good. Take New York for example, housing prices are high, but if you go to speculate, you will die as much as you want. First of all, there is 3% of the property tax every year, and then you have to pay a bunch of various insurances - the cost of speculating in the house has increased greatly. Is it true that the house cannot be sold and rented out, and you will have to pay for it to die. Now I understand how Beijingers are in New York, so how do real estate speculation go bankrupt?
The family surfs the Internet and the newspapers, just to find a good project.
In the end, Zhang Cheng found a good project online - he was slightly able to control: "My parents, please come to see this news."
When my parents came over to see it, it was news about former NBA retired star Yao Ming. Yao Ming bought vineyards and wineries in Napa Valley, California in 2009, and now it is on sale. A bottle of wine in 2009 costs hundreds of dollars. Even such sky-high wines are still in short supply because of production, many people can't buy them at all.
Zhang Cheng said: "I think it's good to buy vineyards and wineries. Although most wineries produce ordinary dining wines worth more than ten dollars or tens of dollars, this market has also been developed in China over the years as consumption levels improve. Moreover, the best thing in wine business is that wine is not afraid of being stored, and the longer the storage time, the higher the price of wine."
Dad thought for a while: "I think it's OK. In fact, the fastest growing part is high-tech, but we don't understand. If you want to do it, there is no place to go, and agriculture will be different. The vineyard land and winery can also maintain value. Tomorrow I ask for leave from the unit, you ask for leave from the school, and you and I will go through your immigration procedures together."
The mother asked quickly: "What should I do if that child takes the college entrance examination?"
Dad said firmly: "It's not that the United States has no college. Let's take a step back. What do millionaires do when they go to college? Isn't going to college just to find a job? How many college students can earn ten million US dollars in their lifetime? The annual salary of the American middle class is only 50,000 US dollars. Bill Gates is not taking a leave of absence to make money."
In this way, Zhang Cheng went to school early the next morning after the family meeting, and went back to work with his father to emigrate.
As an immigrant country, the United States is very popular for wealthy people to immigrate, and this is not the type of immigration company investment that invests hundreds of thousands of dollars and hires more than ten people - the above companies generally have a lifespan of only a few months.
Considering Zhang Cheng's education, my father finally chose to buy a vineyard for Zhang Cheng in Washa County, Nevada. According to the agent, the climate here is no different from that of the adjacent California, but the price of vineyards is several times different. The reason is that California's vineyards are too famous in recent years. Many people follow the trend and buy prices. Another advantage of buying vineyards in Nevada is that the tax rate is low. California's local tax is the most famous in the United States.
The price of a 230-acre vineyard + winery is 8 million US dollars, equivalent to nearly 50 million RMB. It is said that it can produce millions of bottles of Cabernet Sauvignon wine every year. Unfortunately, it is in a state of bank custody, and the winery's cellar is empty. When I learned that someone bought the winery and vineyard, the bank immediately transferred the wealth that did not belong here.
Zhang Cheng's family of three got off the plane in Reno and took a bus to his vineyard for more than an hour and saw this. There were more than 20 workers in the winery to raise (pig picking buckets to make wine). The person in charge of the winery was a white old man named Johnson.
The good news is that the villas here in the vineyard are quite beautiful, with wooden structures, with six bathrooms of several hundred square meters on the upper and lower floors, which is much larger than the two-bedroom and one-living room commercial houses in China. Although there is no indoor swimming pool, there is a swimming pool of several hundred square meters outdoors - this is of great help to spend the midsummer.
During the bank custody period, the house has always hired people to clean the rooms and clean the swimming pool regularly, so it doesn’t feel like it’s dusty for a long time.
My parents stayed here to buy furniture, appliances, food and ingredients to arrange the house. Zhang Cheng followed the officials of the Immigration Bureau to another place to swore the naturalization procedures against the Stars and Stripes. The scene was vaguely familiar. Zhang Cheng remembered that this was the same when he joined the team before.
In addition to investing in vineyards, Zhang Cheng's father also decided to sponsor a million US dollars in the name of Zhang Cheng to the best university on the West Coast of the United States, the University of Nevada, known as the public Ivy League.
I have to say that in the evil capitalist countries, many things are clearly marked. The day after receiving the sponsorship, Zhang Cheng received an admission notice from the University of Nevada Reno. For universities, issuing you an admission notice is just an opportunity to enter a full-time university, and it does not mean that you will definitely save enough credits to get a degree certificate.
The admission time is early September, and now what Zhang Cheng has to do is to learn English and English well within five months. To this end, his parents hired Zhang Cheng a full-time English tutor - Jenny, who is now 24 years old, who graduated from the Chinese Department of the University of Nevada.
24-year-old Jenny had a bulge in front and a squint back, and her orange-red hair simply tied a single ponytail, dressed in an intellectual outfit. After hiring Jenny as a tutor, her mother said privately: "It's just that her mouth is a little bigger."
Fortunately, the tutor is not a daughter-in-law, and it has no effect on the big mouth and small mouth.
Chapter completed!