After the manor was cleaned up, Li Du moved in and then picked up Sophie and the others.
He had provoked the Dripping Blood, and they would not let it go, but Li Du was not afraid. He had more than a dozen bodyguards, and the Markelov brothers could gather four or five more for him. If such a team of bodyguards could not protect his family, it would be a joke.
After all, this was the United States, not Afghanistan or Somalia.
The main force of the Dripping Blood was now almost all in the hospital. When the motorcycle was speeding, the space-time bug destroyed the brake line. At that time, the motorcycle was very fast, and the gangsters were badly beaten.
Young Markelov went to the doctor, who said they could not leave the hospital for a month, and probably could not do anything big for three months.
Physical injuries were secondary. If they had an accident at such a high speed, their bones would have been damaged. Fortunately, there were a few who had minor injuries, so Li Du felt there was nothing to be afraid of.
The family of Sophie and the bodyguards arrived, and the manor became lively.
Unfortunately, it was already summer, and it was too late to develop the farm. Li Du decided to start a small ranch. Anyway, the area of the manor was so large, it would be a waste not to use it.
He set aside five acres of land to raise cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks, not for money, but for his own food, so the livestock were all breeds.
In late July, he had nothing to do, so he took the bodyguards to manage the small ranch. He went to the big ranch in Los Angeles to choose calves. For the time being, he raised ten Holstein cows and ten golden Aquitaine cows, the former for milk and the latter for meat.
The golden Aquitaine was a very good beef cow. Its meat was tender and grew rapidly. Generally, it could grow to a thousand pounds at a year old, which meant it could be eaten after a year.
At the beginning of August, the weather was getting hotter, and so was the Los Angeles housing market.
Lu Guan found Li Du information about an auction. This time, it was a real estate auction in the Bel-Air area of Los Angeles.
Bel-Air had two meanings in the United States. One was a large village in Antrim County, Michigan, and the other was a small city in the western part of Los Angeles.
This area was known as the Golden Triangle of Los Angeles. It was very close to Beverly Hills, forming a triangle with Beverly Hills and Holmby Hills. Housing prices were very high in Los Angeles.
Bel-Air rose in the 1920s. Its birth was to ensure smooth power supply and communication for the Los Angeles area, so many cable towers were built in the wild.
At that time, desertification appeared in the Los Angeles area, and the government began to plant trees on a large scale in Bel-Air. A century later, people began to enjoy the achievements of the previous government, and the greening rate in the Bel-Air area was extremely high, which was rare in other parts of Los Angeles.
Just as Santa Monica was known for its pleasant climate and beautiful coastline, Bellaire was known for its fresh air and large areas of greenery, so the local houses were very popular with homebuyers.
Lu Guan had collected information for Li Du. The types of real estate in the Bellaire area were mainly independent farms, luxury double-decker villas, and so on. The architectural style was mainly from the Tudor period, and the housing prices were quite high.
For a long time, the Bellaire regional government had promised the residents to provide a safe, convenient, and high-quality living environment, so they paid great attention to the construction of community infrastructure.
The improved infrastructure attracted some big families. Later, as the environment became better, some celebrities abandoned the increasingly crowded Beverly Hills and moved here, further increasing the local housing prices.
However, Bellaire was not interested in becoming a gathering place for the rich like Beverly Hills, so in recent years, efforts had been made to develop the basic housing industry and build some modern residential areas.
Originally, this policy was to protect the interests of ordinary people, and most of the people who bought these houses were ordinary workers. As a result, the American economy had not been very good in the past decade, especially the sub-prime mortgage crisis, which happened to hurt this group of homebuyers.
Therefore, the number of auctioned houses in the Bellaire area was high. Many people could not pay the mortgage after buying a house, and could only give up the house in despair.
Li Du looked at the auction information and found that the auction was much larger than the previous one. There were a total of 25 houses up for auction, double the previous auction!
With the sale of gold, he had a rapid increase in the amount of money he had, and investing in real estate became a good choice for him.
Li Du did not like to monopolize, so he called a group of treasure hunters in Flagstaff and asked them to leave the warehouse auction industry and come to Los Angeles to follow him in real estate.
The treasure hunters in Flagstaff were engaged in this work to make money. When they learned that Li Du was going to take them into the real estate industry, they immediately sold their property and came to Los Angeles.
Therefore, for this auction, Li Du was not alone. He had a group of people by his side.
As he had just entered this industry, he was still more cautious. He only called Big Beard Carl, Dickens, Olly, and other direct subordinates. They went straight to Bellaire and agreed to meet at the Playboy Mansion to participate in the auction together.
The Playboy Mansion was the Los Angeles residence of Hugh Hefner, the founder of the famous magazine Playboy. This mansion was very famous in Bellaire and was worth tens of millions of dollars!
They chose this place to meet because there were beautiful women to look at. This mansion was also one of the shooting locations for Playboy magazine, and beautiful women often appeared here.
There was no longer a need to drive a truck to participate in the real estate auction business, so Li Du packed light and drove a Ferrari. After all, it was a super luxury car, and this car was much more comfortable than a pickup.
When he drove over, there was already a Ferrari parked there. Needless to say, this was the car of the playboy Akkalou.
Li Du stopped the car and saw Big Beard Carl and a group of people gathered to look at the shade of a tree on the street. Akkalou was chatting with two blonde, blue-eyed, graceful women.
The group of people were drooling over the two beauties. They gathered together and whispered to each other while using their eyes to stare at the big breasts and beautiful legs. When Li Du saw them, he understood the meaning of a new popular phrase on the internet: bitch.
He got out of the car and walked over. The group of people did not notice his arrival and were still staring at Akkalou and the two ladies.
Li Du sighed helplessly and said, "Can you guys be a little more mature? Look at you hooligans! "
Hearing his voice, the group of people turned around and revealed joyful expressions. "Hey, Big Li, long time no see!" "Big Li, come and see the pretty girls!"
Akkalou smiled when he saw Li Du. He said a few words to the two ladies and then left. He came over to give Li Du a warm hug.
Li Du was quite surprised at Akkalou's arrival. This guy did not lack money. He was only doing storage auctions in Flagstaff out of interest. He did not expect that he would come to Los Angeles this time.
The two of them were about to catch up when the two fair-skinned, long-legged ladies walked over. They stared at Li Du and one of the ladies said, "I've seen you before. I've seen you in photos."
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