Back to 80: My literary life.

Chapter 833 400-acre manor
The two of them left without delay and booked flights to Los Angeles. Early the next morning, they rushed to the airport with their daughter and arrived in Los Angeles a little after ten o'clock.

When Fang Minghua appeared in the waiting hall holding her daughter's hand, dragging a suitcase and wearing sunglasses, she soon heard someone calling her.

"Mr. Fang! Mr. Fang!"

Looking back, it was Phillips, and next to him was a very beautiful girl with blonde hair, blue eyes and fiery red lips.

"This is my recently hired assistant, Miranda, a top graduate from Harvard Business School."

Phillips took the initiative to introduce: "This is our boss, Fang Minghua, this is his wife, Li Li, a professor at San Francisco State University, and this is their daughter, Li Xin."

"Hello, Mr. Fang, Mrs. Fang." Miranda shook hands with a smile.

"Hello, Miss Miranda."

Fang Minghua knew that Phillips was hiring an assistant. A 10 billion dollar investment was definitely not something that one person could handle. He could set up his own private team, but that required Fang Minghua's consent.

As for the team's salary, Fang Minghua asked him to keep the total annual salary within 50. No matter how many people you hire, this is the maximum I will pay.

Looking at this beautiful female assistant with curvy figure, Fang Minghua felt deeply moved. Philip was only a graduate of a community college, which is equivalent to a junior college in China, and yet he actually hired such a top student!

Just don't hire him to bed.

After they left the terminal hall, Miranda soon drove over in a Lexus. She arranged for Fang Minghua and the others to stay at the InterContinental Hotel Los Angeles in the city center, then accompanied them to have lunch at the hotel and drove straight to the manor.

The name of the estate is Amber Hills Estate. It is located in the Rentwood Mandeville Canyon in the town of Tinsel west of Los Angeles. It is close to the Pacific Ocean and is in the same direction as the Los Angeles Airport. It can be reached in 40 minutes by car.

When the car arrived at the gate of the manor, a staff member had already opened the gate. The car drove in. There was a 500-meter-long driveway that passed through rows of trees and a lake. Fang Minghua indeed saw lavender planted by the lakeshore.

The sparkling lake water and lavender purple complement each other beautifully.

"Wow, it's so beautiful." Li Li couldn't help but exclaim softly again.

There is nothing women can resist about lavender.

The centerpiece of the estate is a two-story building with a stone and wood facade and a steep roof punctuated by dormer windows and double-hung windows. Overhanging eaves frame a covered porch above the charming Dutch front door.

Standing at the door was a middle-aged white man in his fifties. He was the owner of the manor, named James.

Fang Minghua shook hands with him and exchanged a few simple greetings, then James took them to the building.

"Mr. Fang, Mrs. Fang, this 12 square foot main house was designed by the famous architect Paul R. Williams and built in the 000s. It was originally built for opera singer John Charles Thomas as a weekend retreat."

James pointed to the building in front of him and introduced it: "Then Donald Kaufman's family owned it for decades and finally sold it to me ten years ago."

It was built in the 60s, which is 40 years ago.

It's a bit long.
However, in the United States, there is no 70-year time limit. Once you buy it, it will always belong to you privately.

Fang Minghua found that a large amount of wood was used in the interior decoration of the room, which looked very simple and natural.

“Standing on the rooftop, you can see the beautiful scenery of the surrounding mountains, the ocean and the canyon in the distance!”

Sure enough, Fang Minghua saw everything James said, but the ocean was too far away and blurry.

“Next to this estate is the estate of Allen Schwartz, a successful fashion designer known for his ABS brand.”

James said, pointing in a southeast direction.

"And here is the Robert Taylor Ranch, a famous Hollywood movie star. In short, all the people who live here are celebrities."

Yes, if he is not a celebrity, who would spend tens of millions to buy a manor here?

The building also has an executive office and a rustic kitchen with copper accents. Including the annex, the building has 10 en-suite bedrooms!

enough.

"Here you can grow your own vegetables, raise bees, you can have anything you can think of,"

After going downstairs, James continued: "There is a well in the yard; if you want, it is not impossible to get rid of the Internet completely."

In addition to the main building, there is a two-story building not far away. James told him that it was the residence of the workers on the estate, as well as a garage and rooms for various equipment and machines.

Sure enough, Fang Minghua saw a worker dragging a lawn mower out of the warehouse and looking over here curiously. Fang Minghua and the others followed James around the manor for a full half an hour.

"Lili, didn't your father say he wanted to vacation in Los Angeles? Is he satisfied with this place?" Fang Minghua said to Li Li jokingly, naturally in Chinese.

Li Li rolled her eyes at him and said, "Actually, I think we should bring my uncle and aunt over to live with us for a while. You said they haven't been abroad yet."

Fang Minghua naturally understood that the "uncle and aunt" Li Li was talking about were her parents, and immediately said, "Of course, my dad has never wanted to come out, but with this lake where he can fish, he will definitely be willing to come! And my mom, she can grow vegetables here!"

"Then buy it?"

"Ah."

The two men discussed it in a low voice, and finally told James that they were interested in buying it, but the price was still to be negotiated.

As for the specific discussions, Fang Minghua naturally doesn't need to come forward, Phillips will be responsible for everything.

"The maximum cannot exceed 1850 million." Fang Minghua gave him a psychological price, and then Miranda drove them back to the city, and took the children and Li Li to play in the city.

No need to go anywhere else, drive straight to Anaheim Disneyland, Mickey Mouse Cartoon Town, Animal World, and Fantasyland.
The children could not finish playing in one day, so Fang Minghua simply played for two days. Since she was here, she let her precious daughter have fun.

Fang Minghua and his family of three had a great time. Phillips also reached a purchase agreement with the owner of the manor to buy the manor for US$1835 million.

So the two parties signed a purchase and sales contract at the InterContinental Hotel, and also had to go to the property company to handle the transfer procedures, pay taxes, etc., totaling about 2100 million US dollars.

After both parties completed all the formalities, the 66-acre (400-mu) estate belonged to Fang Minghua.

"Boss, what should we do with these employees? Fire them or recruit them again?" Phillips asked.

"Let's all stay here for the time being and do what we need to do." Fang Minghua said after thinking for a while. Although he didn't come here to live often, such a large manor had to have someone to look after it.

Besides, $15 a year for 85 employees isn’t expensive.

"OK, they will be very happy to hear this news." Phillips smiled.

Now that he had bought the manor, Fang Minghua wanted to enjoy the life of a landlord, so he took Li Li and his daughter to move in that afternoon.

"Boss, the manor still needs a car." Phillips reminded.

Oh. That's it.

Smith had driven away his car a long time ago. In addition to a small pickup truck, there was also a Buick in the manor, but that was the butler's own private car.

"Okay, then go buy two. One is more expensive for me, and the other is cheaper as a work car for the manor."

"OK, I'll take you there and come back right away to process it. How about buying a Chrysler Phantom for your ride? A Ford for your work car, it's more durable."

Chrysler Phantom?!
It's not that I can't afford it, but is it necessary? !
"Just buy a Mercedes or an Audi and keep a low profile!" Fang Minghua advised.

"Okay, then buy the latest Audi A8."

"Row."

The next day, two cars drove into the manor.

In the afternoon, Fang Minghua and Li Li took their daughter to stand on the balcony to watch the stars. When they got up in the morning, Fang Minghua changed into sportswear and jogged along the road, while Li Li sat on a bench by the lake and read a book, surrounded by beautiful lavender.

At noon, Li Li took her daughter to the swimming pool, and Fang Minghua sat alone under the willow tree by the lake fishing.

These American fish are rather stupid, how come they are so easy to catch?

Life was good, except that the chef couldn't cook Chinese food, which annoyed Fang Minghua. He immediately fired the chef and hired a chef who could cook Chinese food - and he had to mainly cook spicy Sichuan cuisine!
After staying in the villa for a week, Fang Minghua decided to leave.

It's so quiet.

I am just an ordinary person and I still like the mundane world.

Of course, we also have to travel to Alaska, which cannot be forgotten.

However, what surprised Fang Minghua was that after the three of them were about to return to San Francisco, Song Tangtang, who was far away in Xijing, called them.

(End of this chapter)