Under the parasol on the green grass slope, Pamela's parents sat on one side of the small white table, and Lu Ming and Pamela sat on the other side.
Lu Ming didn't expect that Pamela would come with her parents on the train last night, giving him a surprise.
Now Pamela's parents are looking through two documents in their hands, one is a potato farm and the other is a ranch, both with many photos and relevant detailed descriptions.
The owners of the farms and ranches were all Douglas's friends. In fact, they were not originally for sale, but they all had no successors and their children all wanted to live in the city. They also told Douglas that they wanted to sell their properties and develop in the city.
The asking price is not high. The potato farm has more than 2,000 acres of land and is sold for 52,000 yuan, which is more than 20 yuan per acre.
The ranch has more than 800 cows and 200 acres of grassland, and is sold for $83,000.
Although Pamela's parents were looking through the information of the two farms and ranches, Stuart was obviously perfunctory, while Pamela's mother Evana looked very carefully.
"Uncle, aunt, let's go and see it in person later. Looking at photos is never so intuitive, right?" Lu Ming said with a smile.
Stuart immediately smiled and said, "That's not necessary. If you want to see it, Ava and I can go and see it. Boss, your time is precious. Don't waste it on these trivial matters."
Lu Ming felt a slight pain in the palm of his hand, it was because Pamela pinched him.
Pamela was wearing a pink sportswear, a sun hat and glasses, with a fashionable and casual style. At this moment, she was sitting next to Lu Ming, in front of her parents. Her snow-white slender hands with long pink crystal nails were clasping Lu Ming's hands, which originally made Lu Ming feel elated and satisfied, but now the feeling of being pinched was very sour.
Lu Ming felt helpless. Your dad had to flatter me like this, and you felt embarrassed, so you took it out on me, as if I forced you to do it.
"It's okay. Here, if they want to buy a ranch, they have to go through the review of the Beef Association. To be honest with you, uncle, I have obtained evidence." Lu Ming said with a smile.
"Ah, it depends on your time. We are available anytime!" Stuart smiled again.
Lu Ming felt pain in his hand again. He could only look at Pamela with an innocent face, which made Pamela smile.
Seeing his daughter holding Lu Ming's hand affectionately, Stuart was filled with joy. He felt that his daughter was really doing well for herself. Of course, if she had not done something wrong and been kicked out of the house by him, how could she have such good fortune today
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Bucks City is an extremely quiet town with no tall buildings. It is filled with lawns and green trees. The residential areas are all Western-style villas with courtyards and lawns. The public security is very good. Although the population is not large, both the town residents and nearby farmers live extremely wealthy lives.
The city court is on Queen's Road, an extremely wide green avenue with many aristocratic residences on both sides of the road. Some of them have been turned into museums, while others have changed hands countless times. It is a true portrayal of the swallows that used to fly from the mansions of the rich and powerful to the homes of ordinary people.
Lu Ming is now in a cafe on Queen's Road, sitting opposite him is You Aoli. This chubby girl is now one of the core researchers in the pharmaceutical engineering laboratory of Datang Pharmaceutical.
She met her master at Professor Wen's place a year ago. Her master assigned her to help her set up a pharmaceutical factory and raise her first huge loan, which was a great help to her in her start-up stage.
Nowadays, Datang Pharmaceutical's safe contraceptive pills have become a household name, and she has made a lot of money from it. She has not yet seen the divine punishment that her master talked about.
Now, listening to her talking about the research on an infectious disease outbreak among a cannibal tribe in Southeast Asia, Lu Ming nodded from time to time.
The disease is called laughing sickness. In the early stages, patients experience uncontrollable tremors, clonic convulsions in their limbs, mental confusion, and occasional painful and terrible laughter, which eventually leads to paralysis and death.
And now, Datang Pharmaceutical's laboratory has discovered prions.
This is a protein virus, or strictly speaking, it is not a virus, but a type of infectious factor that does not contain nucleic acid but is composed only of protein.
This protein molecule exists in the brains of indigenous people. The protein molecule itself is not pathogenic, but when it is eaten and digested by humans, it undergoes a change in spatial structure, thus transforming into a pathogenic virus that damages human central neurons.
This disease has a higher incidence rate among women and children among cannibals. This is because when the natives share human flesh, the good parts are taken away by the strong members of the tribe first, and the heads are given more often to women and children.
At this time, You Aoli's face was full of admiration, "Boss, you are really a genius who knows everything. My lady often asks you!"
This discovery was exactly in line with Lu Ming's ideas, so a breakthrough was achieved in just over half a year. Therefore, the new virus was named prion, and the scientists in the laboratory specifically requested Lu Ming to give it this name, which was a recognition of Lu Ming's great contribution in the discovery of the virus.
Although it was just an idea that he came up with, it saved scientific researchers from taking too many detours. It can be said that Lu Ming's contribution to the discovery of the virus was greater than that of any other researcher.
Lu Ming named this virus prion because he didn't want to take credit for it. Just call it what it was called in the previous life.
Today, Lu Ming shook his head. From a scientific point of view, it seems that it is simply not feasible to sue for cow bone powder.
Although prions have been discovered in relevant scientific experiments, it is basically impossible to convince the judge and jury in court that cows eating cow bone meal may also develop similar diseases, namely mad cow disease. Current scientific evidence cannot prove it at all.
Lu Ming thought about changing his thinking.
You Aoli on the other side smiled and said, "Boss, my lady heard that you came to Bucks City, and she wants to give you a gift to thank you!"
Lu Ming was helpless: "Why are you giving me a gift?"
Although You Aoli was one of the core scientific researchers in his laboratory and was working for him, she obviously had the permission of her master and it was more like a part-time job rather than a real employee of his.
The discovery of prions was made possible by the efficient cooperation with the drug laboratory of its owner, or in other words, an institution called the Alchemy Room.
When I saw the cow bone meal lawsuit, I thought of the discovery of prions, but when I think about it carefully, it is difficult to use it as evidence in court.
"I'm giving you a gift to thank you for inspiring her and for your new discovery." You Aoli smiled and pointed to the white palace-like building across the street from the window. "This mansion belongs to my daughter, but it has been idle for a long time. I wanted to sell it. But since you are suing here, my daughter said that I will give it to you as a temporary place to stay. I will sell it after you leave."
Lu Ming was startled, as if this was called the Earl's Castle or something, and nodded and said, "Thank her, but I'm just using it temporarily. After I sell it, the money will be transferred to your account and you can transfer it to her."
You Aoli pursed his lips and smiled, "I can't make the decision. I will tell the lady and see what she decides."
Lu Ming nodded and thought for a moment, "Your Highness, have you been doing well lately?"
You Aoli was stunned for a moment, then sighed softly, "I'm fine, thank you for your concern, boss."
Both of them knew that Lu Ming knew who her master was, but they had never revealed the truth.
"I have something to ask you about the Duke of Haussburg." Lu Ming picked up the coffee and took a sip.
The conversations of the two gradually became quieter.