During lunch, Wang Bo and Carter finalized the development of the town's network, while Charlie Bowen and others were not idle either. They found a car repair shop that could repair jeeps.

The car repair shop is located in the suburbs of the small town and uses an abandoned villa. The environment is very good. The surroundings are green, and the scenery is pleasant even though it is winter.

The boss is a white man named Jones. He always smiles when he speaks. After checking the jeep, he said that there are many problems. He made a list for Wang Bo to show him and asked him if he wanted to have a major repair.

Wang Bo looked at the bill. Although it was a major repair, except for the gearbox that needed to be replaced, the rest of the repairs were all small places. Most of them were sheet metal corrections and oil replacement problems. There were a total of 1,500 yuan, which was not expensive.

In this way, he signed the repair form and asked, "How long will it take to pick up the car? I'm more anxious to use this car."

Jones said with a smile: "It's three days, you'll pick up the car next Monday."

Wang Bo was quite surprised and asked, "Three days? You are fast enough, that's fine, thank you very much."

Leave the car and they return to the town.

On the weekend, the network construction team of New Zealand Telecom Corporation came, and the speed was very fast. This shows that their current business is very short.

Carter accompanied the construction team, and in private he said: "We are lucky, the smart city is not optimistic. The company wants to build your town into a star pilot for publicity."

Lao Wang laughed: "Welcome, absolutely welcome, there is no problem in cooperating with publicity in the future."

When Carter left, Wang Bo got a lot of beef, sheep, chicken and duck meat to bring him. If he hadn't had a suitable place for breeding, he would have planned to send two lambs.

Carter smiled and said, "I have heard that the beef and mutton on the ranch tastes great several times, and I finally have the chance to taste it."

On Sunday, Motak called and asked, "Wang, do you remember that you were planning to do some alpaca breeding? There will be an agricultural and animal husbandry auction next week. There will be some alpacas at that time. Do you want to go and have a look?"

Wang Bo readily agreed that he did plan to raise alpacas, not to raise a little, but to raise a lot of them.

In traditional animal husbandry, alpacas are of high value, and they are full of treasures. Let’s talk about wool first. Alpacas have longer wool than wool, bright and elastic, and their quality and color are unique among the same types.

Now in the high-end clothing market in Asia and Europe and the United States, alpaca with a toughness of twice the wool is the most valuable. Moreover, it does not have nucleoside, has few impurities, and the net velvet rate can reach 90%. The clothes made are light and soft, comfortable to wear, have good drape, do not wrinkle, and do not change, and are very popular among rich people.

According to Wang Bo's survey, each alpaca can only produce 0 fluffs 3 to 5 kilograms a year, and can only shear hair once a year. The price of fluffs is 100 to 500 NZD per kilogram. On average, an alpaca can contribute about 1,000 NZD a year, just a piece of fur.

Besides, although alpacas are cute, they are not used to be cute when they are domesticated in South America, but to transport goods.

Finally, I talk about eating it. Unfortunately, the biggest use of alpacas, which are regarded as cute babies by the Chinese people, in their origins such as South America and Oceania is to make food.

The meat of alpaca is very good. It is a herbivorous animal with both hair and meat. It tastes between lamb and beef. It has no mutton smell. It is more vigorous than lamb, tenderer than beef, and better overall.

In the past, New Zealand did not have the habit of eating alpaca. This is a way to eat it from South America in recent years. It brought the price of alpaca. One kilogram can be sold for 200 to 300 NZD, which is much more expensive than beef and mutton.

So in summary, what reason does Wang Bo have not raised large quantities of alpacas?

However, it is not easy to breed in large quantities. There are not many alpacas in New Zealand. Even in the world, there are only about 3 million now, of which more than 95% live in Peru and Chile's plateaus in South America, followed by Australia and then New Zealand.

According to statistics, the number of alpacas in New Zealand is less than 10,000, and the number has not increased over the years.

As the economic benefits of alpacas grow, in fact, pastures everywhere want to raise alpacas, but this thing is not easy to raise. The price of breeding livestock is very expensive, and the cheapest one is more than 10,000 yuan per head.

Alpacas can only give birth once a year, and can only give birth to one at a time, and this one may not survive. In this way, the number of people in this thing is much more difficult than that of people.

Wang Bo has always wanted to look like an alpaca after encountering a cattle thief before, but he has no chance. This time he learned that it appeared at the animal husbandry auction, so he is definitely unwilling to give up the opportunity.

On Monday, he went to the car repair shop first, planning to pick up the car and just happened to buy alpacas.

As a result, when he arrived at the repair shop, the boss Jones apologized to him with a smile, saying that he suddenly took a big order on the weekend and had not been repaired yet, so he had to wait for another two days.

Wang Bo can wait. It will take two days for him to attend the animal husbandry auction anyway, so I will come back and talk.

This auction was also held in a small town called Kulao, with a population of only more than 2,000. It is a small city that cannot be even smaller. People in China are embarrassed to say that they are a village.

But this is normal in New Zealand, after all, this country has a total population of more than four million.

Kulao is a standard agricultural and animal husbandry city. The residents here are either farmers or herdsmen, and the regional output value is also driven by agriculture and animal husbandry.

The one who sold the alpaca this time was a large ranch. It breeds 400 alpacas and plans to sell them all because of the rare drought in the South Island, and many farms suffered from thirst and suffered heavy losses.

Compared with cattle and sheep, alpacas are very delicate. They have high requirements for aquatic plants and have poor resistance to epidemics. Therefore, although these animals are valuable, their breeding scale has not expanded accordingly.

It’s not that ranchers don’t want to expand their breeding, but that it’s too difficult, too expensive, and too high a risk.

Wang Bo and Motak were together. After they arrived in Kulao, they tasted the famous local hand-brewed seasonal stout beer. The wine was very strong and Motak liked it more. Lao Wang drank a few sips and stopped drinking it.

Seeing that he couldn't drink this kind of beer, the waiter brought him a large glass of black beer. Wang Bo asked: "What kind of stout beer is this? Strong stout beer?"

Stout beer is also a very famous beer in the local area. Cowboys and farmers like to drink this kind of high-value thing. They have been tired for a day and need the comfort of alcohol.

The waiter smiled and said, "No, this is Ethiopian coffee beer. You can try it. It has a higher degree and has the aroma of coffee and beer, which should be more suitable for your taste."

Wang Bo took a sip and found that the beer was very light, and it really had the bitter aroma of coffee, especially the dense bubbles, which had a strong fragrance.
Chapter completed!