My Age of Investment

  Chapter 204 The Walsh Family

  Kristina’s ranch is located in central Texas, on a beautiful and spectacular prairie between Dallas and Austin.

  More than two thousand kilometers away, Xia Jingxing gave up the idea of ​​self-driving travel and chose to fly from San Francisco to Austin, the capital of Texas, and then change to other modes of transportation.

  After getting off the plane in Austin, the three hired a Wrangler and continued to drive towards the ranch.

  Under the blue sky and white clouds, a red car is driving on a wide and flat highway.

  There are patches of green on both sides of the highway, and there are no marginal grasslands, patches of woods, and herds of cattle and sheep grazing on the grass.

  The cattle herd is white, black, brown-red, and mixed colors, and the sheep herd is white, with goats and sheep.

  In the car, the little dog sitting in the back row opened the window, looked at the endless prairie, and muttered, "This is really a good place!"

  Kristina was sitting in the co-driver, the window of the car was also lowered by her, and her red hair was constantly being disturbed by the wind.

  She straightened her hair a few times, but her hair became more and more messy, and finally gave up the struggle and let the wind blow freely outside the window.

Xia Jingxing concentrates on driving, and she introduces her hometown to the dog: "Texas is the largest state in the southern United States and the second largest state in the United States, second only to Alaska, with an area of ​​more than 690,000 square kilometers and a population of more than 22 million... "

  The little dog nodded. The area was almost twice the size of Dongying, but only one-sixth of the population of Dongying, which is typically vast and sparsely populated.

  He asked: "Kristina, how old is your ranch?"

   "I count, the farm my great-grandfather bought when he was young should be more than 80 years old today!

  It's just that the area was not as large as it is now. Later, my grandfather and father bought some nearby pastures again and connected them together to expand the area to the current 5,000 acres. "

  The little dog asked curiously: "Are Texans very grumpy? Also, I heard that Texas is about to become independent at every turn?"

  The foreign girl chuckled, "Texas used to belong to Mexico, but later joined the United States. It used to be a separate country called the Lone Star Republic. Until now, Texas has its own independent militia..."

  The little dog nodded, "No wonder, I said why I always tease Texans in American TV series. When did your family come to Texas?"

  The foreign girl replied, "It should be more than a hundred years ago, when Ireland was famine, and the British government did not act and starved to death millions of Irish people.

  Between 1820 and 1930, more than 4 million Irish immigrants came to the United States. My ancestors immigrated to the United States at this time.

  In addition, the surname of our family is also the most common surname of Irish descent in the United States-Walsh.

  This surname means "foreigner" in English.

   and the "Kennedy" surname are tied for the nine most important surnames of Irish Americans, and others know that this is the descendant of Irish immigrants.

  Our family’s ranch is also named after the surname, called Walsh Ranch! "

   "Needless to say, your red hair also knows that you are of Irish origin."

  Xia Jingxing looked at her chest early: "Your hair color is a recessive gene. Are you the only one with red hair in your family?"

   Christina spread her hands, "Yes, my father has yellow hair and my mother has black hair. Only me have red hair, and my younger siblings are all yellow hair.

  Listen to my grandfather, his grandfather, that is, my grandfather’s grandfather is red hair! "

Xia Jingxing continued, "Then your ancestors thousands of years ago should be Celtic!"

  Kristina glanced at the red hair on her shoulders, and said with a smile: "It should be, anyway, it can't be Slavs and Germans."

  Xia Jingxing smiled. In the eyes of the Romans, these were the three European barbarians.

  In ancient China, the surrounding areas were also barbarians, but they were quickly conquered and assimilated, while Rome was not so lucky.

   "Oh, Darren, what will happen to the company if we leave these few days?"

  Xia Jingxing smiled and said, "How worried are you about the company? Or we go back now, and we should be able to return to Palo Alto today."

  Dog also said: "Kristina, don't worry about it. The company has Evans watching. They can handle the small things. If the big things happen, they will call us."

   Xia Jingxing echoed, "Yes, just take this opportunity to test it.

  Look at how many days we have left, if the company can still operate normally. "

   "Well then! I'm just too worried."

  Kristina saw the two partners say so, and she gradually felt relieved.

  She sees Facebook very importantly, for fear of even a slight mistake.

  In this respect, Little Dog, and even Xia Jingxing, can’t compare to her.

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  A few hours later, the car stopped outside the courtyard in front of a three-story white villa.

  Because there are two big iron doors in front of them, surrounded by walls, they block the way and cannot enter.

  The big iron door suddenly opened, and a middle-aged white man with light yellow hair walked out. He was a little blessed. The other party was looking at the car at the door.

  Kristina saw this figure, got out of the passenger car, rushed up, and hugged the middle-aged man.

  Xia Jingxing and Little Dog also got out of the car.

  Kristina held the middle-aged man’s arm and introduced them to them: "This is my father."

  "Mr. Walsh, hello! I am Christina’s partner, and my name is Dai Lun, from China!"

  Xia Jingxing smiled and handed out his right hand to the chubby middle-aged man in front of him.

  The foreign girl's father, that is, Walsh shook hands with Xia Jingxing expressionlessly, looked at the latter a few times, and suddenly said, "You bewitched Christina to drop out of school?"

  Xia Jingxing was stunned for a moment, and glanced at the foreign girl. Why did your dad ask me to ask the teacher?

   "Dad, I dropped out of school on my own initiative. It has nothing to do with Darren, and it's not a terrible choice."

  Kristina also didn’t expect her father to come so suddenly, didn’t she say it well on the phone? She hastened to persuade her father.

  Xia Jingxing didn’t know what the foreign girl’s father meant. He was not angry. He smiled and said, “Mr. Walsh, I think Christina will definitely become you and even the Walsh family proud.

  She is only 21 years old. She is already the COO of Silicon Valley's most promising Internet company. In the future, she will become the most influential and powerful woman in Silicon Valley. "

  Walsh shrugged, "Better so! Otherwise, Chinese boy, I will talk to you."

  After letting go of the cruel words, Walsh let go of his tightly gripped hand with Xia Jingxing.

  Xia Jingxing looked at the red mark on his hand, and said in his heart, the fat man almost crushed his hand just now.

  What kind of hatred? What's your complaint? As for this to me?

  The little dog stepped forward and bowed to Walsh in accordance with the traditional etiquette of the Dongying people, and then stepped forward to shake hands with Walsh.

  Walsh pushed open the iron gate, and Xia Jingxing drove the car into the yard.

  Xia Jingxing parked the car, turned off the engine, and got out of the car.

  He saw a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy and a five- or six-year-old chubby girl staring at him at the door of the villa.

  Xia Jingxing looked at the boy, smiled and said, "You are Brady!"

   looked at the girl again, "You are Jessica!"

  The chubby girl had a fleshy face and was a little afraid of life, especially Xia Jingxing's weird appearance, black hair and dark eyes. She glanced at Xia Jingxing, stepped on her short legs, and ran behind her brother to hide, revealing half of her face, and secretly peering.

"Are you Chinese?"

  Brady was not afraid of Xia Jingxing at all, and asked the latter with his head up.

"Correct!"

  "What's so interesting about China?"

  Xia Jingxing shrugged, "That's too much, maybe I can't finish talking for days or nights."

   "Oh, yes, wait a minute!"

  Xia Jingxing ran to open the trunk and took out two gift boxes, one to the young girl’s younger brother Brady, and the other to the young girl’s younger sister Jessica.

  "Thank you~"

  Jessica was holding a big box, and said gruffly.

  European and American people have the habit of opening gifts in person, Brady opened them directly, it is a pair of sneakers!

   "Wow, this is a limited edition AJ."

  Brady’s eyes lit up, and he hurriedly smiled and said thank you.

  The yard of Yang Niu's house is very large, Xia Jingxing drove one step ahead, and the yangniu, father and little dog who were behind finally approached the villa at this time.

   Seeing the eldest sister, the two children ran up one after another, one holding his arms and the other holding his legs.

  The little fat girl Jessica was jumping around. She wanted to hold her sister's hand, but she couldn't reach the position and could only hold her leg.

  The foreign girl smiled and bent over, picked up the youngest sister, and kissed her.

  Walsh saw the three children so harmonious, and his old father's kind smile appeared on the side, which was completely different from the indifferent attitude towards Xia Jingxing just now.

  Americans have more children at home, but there are only three in the babes family, which is actually not a lot.

  Xia Jingxing took a look at the villa in front of him, and on this condition, it was more than enough to raise three children.

  Walsh noticed that his two children were holding a gift box in each hand, and then he glanced at Xia Jingxing and said nothing.

  Xia Jingxing, the little dog followed the third sibling of the foreign girl and Walsh into the villa.

The decoration inside    is quite luxurious. Although it is a villa on the grassland, it has all the modern furnishings.

  　 There is no time for Shui Qun, so I will answer some questions from genuine readers.

  　　 The protagonist controls Facebook and Tesla, which is not permanent.

  　　 There are not many questions on Facebook, and some readers are almost guessing the future. For Tesla, before 2012, the cumulative sales of the first car were less than 2,500, and no one took the financing. Even after 2014, after production increased, most of the financing was debt financing. Threatening the status of traditional car companies is also a matter of ten years later. There are Weilai, Xiaopeng, and ideals in China. Can't Tesla transfer part of its technology and supply chain to China.

  　　 Okay, don’t talk about it, go ahead with the codeword.

  (End of this chapter)