After Anna finished talking to her stockbroker in the Underground Room, Mother Julia, who was sitting opposite her, patted her head and went out to swim.
And before going out, Ms.
Julia told Anna the latest decision made by the two mothers after discussing it.
“Little Anna…
you can use the barn at home from today on.”
Barn?
Upon hearing this word from her mother, the little brat Anna instantly perked up again.
You have to know that the thing called a barn in their home is not the kind of tool room for storing tools, mops, wrenches, chainsaws, and lawnmowers in ordinary American families.
Well, although these things are also stored in that barn, how many families have you seen whose tool room is a barn that covers half a football field and has an underground space of about the same size?
Moreover, the barn in Anna’s house, just the things on display, besides regular tools, has a full set of anvils, hammers, furnaces, steam hammers, etc., for a blacksmith shop, as well as a full set of machinery for machining such as lathes, milling machines, grinders, ion cutters, laser welders, etc.
With the equipment placed inside, it wouldn’t be difficult to build a functional tank by hand.
Well, actually, barns with so much machining equipment and full blacksmith sets are not uncommon in the redneck regions of the United States.
Like those rich internet celebrity YouTubers in later generations, when they build cars, planes, furniture, or repair tanks at home, these people basically have such a full set of machining equipment in their homes.
The reason why these people can become internet celebrities on YouTube, besides their hands-on ability and technical strength, is that the machining equipment that ordinary people working in the city and average middle-class and workers don’t have, and that big workshop, is also a big reason why they can quickly become popular on the internet.
After all, to become a star or celebrity, you always need to have some unique skills or capital that ordinary people don’t have.
It’s just that in Kansas, there are at least forty or fifty private barns as well-equipped as Anna’s family’s.
As long as you are a farmer with thousands of acres of land, over ten or twenty years, these things can actually be accumulated naturally and unconsciously.
And if these things break, they can’t always afford to hire someone to fix them.
So these farmers tend to buy tools to tinker with themselves.
In a place like the United States, don’t look at farmers as rich guys sitting on thousands or tens of thousands of acres of land, with fixed assets of millions or tens of millions of dollars, but in fact, these people’s lives are not wealthy.
Why?
Because when the planting season starts every year, they might need to prepare hundreds of thousands of dollars just for seeds, and then hundreds of thousands of dollars for fertilizers and pesticides.
Just the expenditure on these three items in American farms averages about 80% of the farmers’ total annual income.
Taking a 3000-acre farm as an example, the expenditure on seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides alone requires an investment of about 1.1 million dollars every year, and then their total annual income after receiving government subsidies is generally only about 1.4 million dollars.
Then during the crop growth period, this 3000-acre farm also needs to find agricultural service companies to spray pesticides with airplanes, hire researchers to solve problems when crop diseases appear, and hire agricultural companies for transportation during harvest, etc.
So as long as the price of agricultural products fluctuates slightly that year, or if it is managed a little poorly, farmers might find out when calculating the accounts at the end of the year…
Ugh!~ Worked for nothing this year!
Worked for those big companies for free.
And when buying agricultural machinery, they still owed the bank hundreds of thousands of dollars!
Damn!
To save expenses and not be slaughtered by agricultural machinery companies with thousands of dollars in repair fees at a time, the vast majority of farmers will teach themselves the craft of repairing agricultural machinery.
And they will have almost a full set of manual machining equipment and various tools at home.
If they know how to operate them, it’s not strange to have laser cutters and CNC lathes in the barn.
However, the ‘barn’ that can make Anna so excited after the two mothers specially opened the permission.
Naturally is not the kind of ordinary barn in the homes of American farmers. You are reading on g.com, the official source.
Although the full set of machining equipment in their barn, such as lathes, milling machines, grinders, etc., adds up to a value of one or two hundred thousand dollars, at most it is just one more set of equipment for a blacksmith shop from smelting to forging than ordinary redneck farmers.
But this is not enough to make her excited, because if there were no such machinery at home, she could actually rent it in shops with equipment in the town.
But Anna, this little brat, once found a set of Arc Reactor blueprints in their barn, can you believe it?
This kind of item, which is at least a blue rare item in the Marvel Universe, was actually found in her own barn…
And Anna clearly knew that this set of blueprints was definitely not something the two mothers put inside, because the box containing the blueprints also sealed a large pile of things from the farm’s previous owner, such as photos of the former owner when he was young, dog tags, CIA documents of unknown authenticity, cash from various countries, and various passports, equipment, firearms, etc., all of which were things from the 60s and 70s in this World.
The reason why Anna was more certain that these were things from the farm’s previous owner was that after Anna excitedly brought the box containing the blueprints and various items to her mother, Mother Lorraine just flipped through the things inside, and after just glancing at the Arc Reactor blueprints, her mother said to the little brat: “Oh, it’s these things.
Here you go, play with them…”
Then she gave her the whole box of things…
Gave it to her!
…
Mother Lorraine is so fierce, if you say she doesn’t have another set of reactor blueprints in her hand, Anna wouldn’t believe it.
So when she could run around, and discovered that set of blueprints, this barn had always been Anna’s favorite.
Because she could always inadvertently discover some treasures from the barn left by the farm’s former owner.
Especially after she discovered the second and third treasures in that barn, and also found an underground space that was locked and she couldn’t open yet, she loved the barn left by the former owner of this farm more and more.
Of course, the reason why Anna suspected that Mother Lorraine was a layered-cake-style big BOSS also had a lot to do with this suspicious former farm owner.
PS: The average output value of American farms is about 77 dollars per acre, and the total income of 3000 acres is about 1.4 million dollars.
And the cost of seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides accounts for about 80% of the total income.
These are the data I checked.
I will use the average here.