Lisko’s American Life

Lisko received a call from his agent Lu Bo.

"Li, the release of the new book is ready, and Random House's publicity has proposed some publicity methods, and I need your cooperation." Lu Bo's tone on the phone was a bit awkward.

"What kind of propaganda method?" Lisko was a little puzzled, and Lu Bo knew that he was a little disgusted by the publicity.

"Do you know the two most popular social tools on the Internet now? One is Twitter and the other is Facebook."

"You know? My investment company has also made angel investment, and the investment income is good now."

"Wow, Li, then you made a lot of money. I didn't expect you to be an investor with great vision. That's right. These two software are very popular in the circle of young people, and the current market share is also good. Because you The audience of this book is young readers, and the editors of Random House want you to sign up for these two softwares, and then increase the distance with fans on them.”

Lisko thought for a while, "Okay, no problem, Lu Bo, I'm also a young man, and it's easy to accept this new social network. I just don't like running around in publicity, which makes me a kind of showman. illusion."

Lu Bo breathed a sigh of relief, "Okay, then I will contact Random House and ask him to contact two companies to promote your homepage and verify your occupancy?"

"Okay, I'll send you the ID after I finish the registration." The two exchanged simple greetings after finishing their chat.

Lisko went back to the study and turned on the computer, and registered two social software. The ID was Lisko, who was a writer by profession, and sent a message to Lu Bo to contact him to complete the certification. Lisko was familiar with the software while waiting.

The Facebook page is full of hot pictures of hot girls in bikinis, and Twitter is the American version of Weibo. Of course, he is original.

Lisko refreshed the page and quickly completed the certification. Right now, Twitter and Facebook are still in their infancy, and not many celebrities have settled in. Lisko is also considered a big name in the literary circle. When they settled in, the two companies of course welcomed the two companies along the way. They processed the certification with expedited speed, and thoughtfully put up a banner on the golden position of the website, "Welcome the famous writer Lisko to settle in."

Of course, they didn't know that Lisko was still a shareholder of the two companies, which Lisko deliberately avoided. It would be great to make a fortune in silence, and it would be good to have the reputation of a writer in front of him.

Lisko thought for a long time. He was thinking about what he should say in the first article, to reflect himself and not to be similar to others.

"These faces emerge from the crowd, petals on wet black trunks."

This short poem is the famous poem of Ezra Pound, the leader of the Imagist poets. Lisko felt that it was appropriate to use it as his first message at this time.

"Li? Are you home?" The rooster outside the door called Lisko.

Lisko walked out the door, "Yes, what's the matter? Rooster."

"The lavender is harvested. We are going to extract the essential oil. Do you want to come and have a look? You must have never seen it."

Li Ke suddenly became interested, mainly because he wanted to extract the essential oil by himself and give it to Meghan. She must be very pleasantly surprised.

"Okay, let's go." Lisko took the lead and walked towards the ranch with great interest.

A metal house was built next to the staff dormitory, with one long floor, where the rooster planned to harvest the rye and use it to brew beer.

The extraction of lavender takes place here.

All the employees in the ranch are busy here, David, Humber, Weiss, Locke, and the cook Jasmine, they are putting lavender in a still like a Chinese water tank.

After Lisko said hello, he also helped out. The two were cutting off the top half of the lavender with scissors, and gathered the remaining ones and stuffed them into the cauldron.

The rooster told Lisko not to add too much, and to leave a distance of a palm, which is to let in steam.

After plugging, the cowboys lifted the huge lid and tightened it tightly. A metal pipe was connected to the top of the still, and the metal pipe led to another filter gauze. Below it was a plastic barrel for receiving essential oils. The barrel settles, and then secretes pure dew and essential oils.

The rooster controls the temperature and time in the control room at the back. Generally, essential oil distillation takes two to three hours.

Lavender is specifically steam-distilled to extract essential oils. The distillation time is shorter than water distillation, and the esters in the plant are less destroyed, and the price is higher. Things like rose neroli are only suitable for hydrodistillation because they are fragile.

After the lavender is extracted, the liquid will be layered. The upper layer of oil is called plant essential oil, and the lower layer of water is called hydrosol.

Hydrosol is also a basic material of cosmetics. It can reduce inflammation and bacteria, balance and adjust the special effects of skin oil secretion, and can be used as toner and toilet water. It is also a high price for cosmetic companies.

Lisko sat at the door with the cowboys, drinking beer and chatting. Slowly, water vapor began to flow out from the outlet of the distiller, filling the entire pasture with the unique fragrance of lavender.

This time, the lavender in the Lisko Ranch needs to be distilled more than a dozen times. The rooster has calculated that, excluding labor and costs, a lavender planting can earn two million dollars, essential oil can earn 1.2 million, and hydrosol can earn 650,000. You can earn about 150,000 yuan, which is absolutely a huge profit.

Two or three hours have passed, and all the essential oils have been distilled. One barrel of essential oil and one barrel of pure dew have been collected in one extraction. The rooster estimated that the lower grade can be set to A grade. There will be a specific share, ranging from 0.5% per person. The only one who was disappointed was Lisko, because the rooster told him that the freshly extracted essential oil had to settle for two months before it could be packaged and used.

The extracted straw has changed from purple to dark brown, and the essence inside has been squeezed out. The cowboys collect it and plan to lay it flat and dry it. Later, it will be powdered and sold to the daily chemical company as an additive for laundry detergent and shampoo.

Lisko changed from being excited to being downcast, and he didn't bother the busy cowboys here, because Molly, the cook, was too busy, and Rooster suggested him to make dinner.

Lisko returned to the villa, opened the refrigerator door, and took out a large piece of premium beef, which was bought from Bo's ranch.

The main business of Bo's ranch is to buy and sell beef cattle. Among the batch of beef cattle slaughtered this time, there was a rare A-grade Snowflake cattle. After Lisko knew about it, he kept one-fifth for his family's own use, and all the others were sold. He bought it.

The taste of this kind of beef is very recognizable. The most distinctive feature is that the meat is rich and fragrant, which makes your mouth full, and its beef is rich in flavor and has beautiful marble patterns. However, because the cattle are mainly fed with grain, so No grassy smell.

Lisko cut them open one by one with a table knife, then patted them loose with the back of the knife, marinated them with onions, black pepper, garlic, red wine, and light soy sauce for fifteen minutes.

He took out a piece of butter and heated it to fry. Lisko put the marinated steak into the pan and fried it on all sides, so that the nutrition of the steak would not be lost. Then, he fried it for two minutes on each side and took it out of the pan.

Lisko worked for half an hour and fried ten pieces of steak, which was an extra three yuan per person, just to prevent some big eaters from not having enough to eat.

Choose broccoli, purple cabbage, cherry tomatoes, carrots, wash and slice, boil the vegetables, pour a little salt and oil, blanch and drain. Pour over the vinaigrette and you have a green salad.

There is also a soup. Lisko chose the traditional Chinese seaweed and egg drop soup. He prefers to drink this, and it is convenient and quick to make. Take out a piece of seaweed, soak it in water for a while, boil water in the pot, add seaweed, stir the eggs in when the water is boiling, sprinkle some salt and sesame oil, and a greasy seaweed egg drop soup will be ready.

Lisko looked at the set table, full of achievements, called the rooster, went to the basement to get a good bottle of red wine, sat down and prepared to eat.