MTL - Lisko’s American Life-Chapter 1 small town
2006. Colorado.
Lisko was drunk for three days after his father's funeral, and now he has a splitting headache. After a few swigs of coffee, he rubs his temples and lies in contemplation in front of his fireplace.
"Fate, it's really unpredictable." The sunlight passed through the gap in the window sill and sprinkled on his fair side face. A flaxen hair was standing in a mess, and a few playful ones were curled up. . He got out of bed, he was 1.8 meters tall, his six-pack abdominal muscles were shining brightly, he opened the door, went to the bathroom, and his bladder was released all night.
"It's comfortable~" He squinted his eyes, shook his wit, and came to the mirror. His face was carved with distinct features, with edges and corners, and was unusually handsome. On the outside, it seems to be unrestrained, but the inadvertent light in his eyes makes people dare not look down. Under the pair of sword eyebrows are a pair of slender peach blossom eyes, full of passion, people will fall into it if they are not careful. The tall nose and the moderately thick red lips are now swaying with a dazzling smile.
"Who would have thought that a dead old fat man could be reborn as a star?"
He rubbed his face and recalled his experience.
It has been half a month since he came to this world. That's right, our Li Ke is a transmigration person. Before transmigration, he was a small screenwriter of a domestic film and television company. He doesn't know the reason for transmigration. It's a little joke, anyway, before he crossed, he only knew how to code words at home, without parents and friends, there is no worse situation, right?
He is quite satisfied with his current situation. His great-grandfather is Chinese and his grandfather is half-Chinese and Jewish. He is a twenty-two-year-old Yale graduate and a professional writer. After graduation, he has published two books. The first "Blood Road" is A book describing the events of Chinese workers going to the United States to build a railway in 1865 won the "American Book Review Award". The second book, Red Diamond, describes the history of the blood and tears of diamond workers, and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but narrowly defeated the German writer. Simply a winner in life.
His ancestors ran a ranch in Colorado. His great-grandfather Li Duo smuggled here and used his life savings to buy a 100-mu small ranch. After several generations of efforts, it was expanded to 3,000 mu. His great-grandfather and great-grandmother died early due to poor health, and Lisko's mother passed away shortly after his birth. During the financial crisis not long ago, his father went bankrupt and was forced to sell his ancestral "Li's Ranch". Not long after his father died in depression, Lisko was thinking about his own way out after dealing with his father's funeral.
Yesterday, the lawyer had read his father's will. Before he died, the most unforgettable thing was his own ranch. Lisko had already entrusted a lawyer to buy it at a premium, and it would be dealt with soon if he wanted to.
The two books published by Lisko have brought him a lot of fame and a huge income, and now he is worth over 100 million US dollars. After a few days of running-in, the memories of him and the original body have merged, but after all, in his previous life, he was a Chinese who had never been abroad in his life, and all his habits were out of tune with the previous ones. In order to avoid the flaws of friends and colleagues, he decided to In order to move back to his own ranch to live, firstly, to complete his father's request, and secondly, his work can be done anywhere, and no one is disturbed in the ranch, which is more suitable for writing.
Lisko discovered after crossing the road that his memory is like a fish jumping out of a fish tank and swimming towards the sea. He can even remember the incident when he was bitten by a little neighbor girl when he was seven months old in his previous life. , novels, film and television dramas remember clearly, and found that some famous works and classic literature in the modern history of this world have disappeared, so he does not have much doubts about this, after all, every traveler is loved by the world.
He got up, put on a slender trench coat, and walked out of the hotel. Garrison Town is a small town in the Grand Junction District. His ancestors have settled here for nearly two hundred years. He also spent his childhood here, until he went to New York for high school, and now he has not come back for eight or nine years.
"Hey, Mark Twain,"
"Hey, Uncle Dale"
Dale is the veterinarian in the town, he and Lisko's father are playmates growing up together, since Lisko came back to town, everyone called him Mark Twain, mainly because the cowboys were not interested in reading, they knew The greatest writer of all time was Mark Twain.
"You know, Scoo, I'm very sorry for Tem's death, we were good brothers, but Scoo, we should look forward, the dead will die."
Lisko was silent for a while,
"I understand, Dale, I've decided to buy back the farm and settle in Garrison. I've already started buying Lee's Ranch, and of course it's now called Damn Pony Jasmine's Ranch."
"Sco, you are the best person we have in Colorado since Nikola Tesla, Reagan, I mean you are from us Garrison, this is your hometown, we will support you. "
"Thank you, Dale, I'm going to Maggie's, do you want a drink?"
"No, I won't go. The stingy Bo's calf is sick again. Damn, he would never spend $200 to inject vitamins into that calf." Lisko patted his shoulder and waved goodbye.
Pushing the door open, there was a burst of laughter in the bar, Lisko walked to the bar, "Maggie." "Wow, Mark Twain, Lisko, it's been a long time since I saw you, you are great now."
After the two embraced, they sat down separately. Maggie is the wife of a farm blogger, and now she runs the only bar in the town. Lisko lost his mother when he was a child, and his only little maternal love is from Maggie.
"Lisko, you were busy on the day of the funeral and didn't have time to say hello. How are you now?"
Maggie poured a glass of whisky, wiped the glass,
"I'm fine, how are you doing? Is it the same with Bo?"
"You know, it's still the same, Bo and your father reconciled. On the night your father sold the ranch, they were very drunk, and the two quarreled because of their different views on the Vietnam War. They didn't communicate for decades. , didn't see it before, of course, I mean you've always been good, but I was taken aback when I saw you being interviewed on TV. Never thought you'd be this good, the bar was full of people that day You cheer, they call you son of Garrison."
Li Ke smiled. Although the memories had merged, he still felt a little strange, as if she was talking about another person, and his heart was not fluctuating.
"What about Colt, where have you been recently?"
"The last time I heard about him was that he was playing in the league in Canada, and then I heard that he was fired. Anyway, it's been like this for so many years, and Bo and I got used to it."
Bo is a rancher in a small town, an out-of-the-ordinary old cowboy with a strong personality and a stern personality. His ranch was just a little bigger than Lisko. His eldest son, Rooster, ran the ranch with him, and Maggie was his wife. The two have been separated for four or five years. His second son, a rugby player who played at a third-tier club, also hadn't returned for many years.
After Lisko had a glass of wine, he received a call from the lawyer and redeemed the Li's Ranch for seven million dollars. Lisko found a service company to manage the farm cleanup and renovation, and at the same time entrusted a lawyer to dispose of some fixed assets invested in New York. The time soon came to the next day.
Lisko got up early, had a casual breakfast, and then took out two bottles of Jack Daniel's whiskey from the luggage he brought back, which his manager gave him when he was nominated for Nobel.
Jack Daniels, one of the oldest wine producers in the United States, is a top whisky brand, brewed from rye, corn and malt. Since it is stored in carbonized white oak barrels, it will smell like a paint-like barrel after opening the bottle. As for the taste, Jack Daniel's is heavy, and many people like to drink it with cola to reconcile the original heavy taste.
Lisko took out the gift box, packed it, and fastened a beautiful cable tie.
He went downstairs and picked a pickup Chevrolet in the garage, Bo was an old-fashioned farmer, serious, never used to look at other cars, cowboy thinking made him think other cars were limp **** cars .
