Six Hundred and Twenty-Nine. Golden Horseshoe

Qin Shiou and Tang Ji hugged each other, and Tang Ji said happily: "It feels great to come to your fishery. I heard Hamle say that your fishery has caught fish, right? How about it, buddy? It must be a good harvest." ?”

"God bless, the harvest is good, I am very satisfied, people have to learn to be satisfied, don't they?" Qin Shiou said with a smile, he waved his hand, and Wei Ni poured the brewed green tea up.

Winnie poured tea, smiled at the two of them, and left. Xiong Da hummed and ran to Qin Shiou's side and wanted to lie down. Winnie turned around and said, "Honey, we're going upstairs."

Xiong Da blinked his small eyes, looked at Qin Shiou and then at Weini, and followed obediently. Dabai jumped on Xiong Da's shoulder, holding a red snake fruit in his little paw, happily eating it.

When Wei Ni left, Tang Ji smiled and said: "Congratulations, Qin, you have a beautiful wife, we old men are really envious."

Qin Shiou drank his tea and said with a smile, "Thank you for the compliment. In fact, beauty is not the most important thing, what you like is the most important thing."

While chatting, the topic turned to fossils. Tang Ji was hired by Hamre for fossil identification. After the identification results came out, the Canadian National Fossil Museum will start digging.

The discovery of fossils is money, and if the country wants to mine Shenbao Lake, it has to compensate Bifare Town with money.

Qin Shiou thought that the development of fossils in Shenbao Lake would have to drain the lake. Tang Ji explained that there was no need to be so troublesome. Shenbao Lake was too big, and it was still a tourist spot in Bifare Town, so it was impossible to drain the water.

Technology is powerful now. The development of the lake does not need to drain the water. It only needs to smash high-strength plastic plates into the bottom of the lake to form a cylinder to separate a piece of lake water. The fossils below can be developed by draining these lakes.

This has nothing to do with Qin Shiou. His responsibility is to publish the fossils in the sun. What to do later depends on the country and the town. He is now busy with Mao Weilong's farm.

Mao Weilong stayed in Montana for a few days, and called Qin Shiou in early June, saying that he and Ouyang Hai would go to Hamilton, Ontario, where there was a small farm for sale. The price is very fair.

Qin Shiou rushed over by helicopter the next day, and St. Johns is not far from Ontario. If Mao Weilong bought a farm here, the two of them would still be able to meet every now and then.

Hamilton is a port city in southeastern Ontario, west of Toronto and north of Niagara Falls. Like other cities in Canada, Hamilton is sparsely populated. The local economy used to be driven by heavy industry and steel industry, so the city is also known as "Steel City".

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In recent years, Hamilton's medical industry has developed rapidly, and the Canadian government has invested a lot of financial power in it, trying to turn the city into a Canadian medical city.

At the airport, Qin Shiou met Mao Weilong, and Ouyang Hai, who had met once before, naturally accompanied him.

Seeing Qin Shiou, Ouyang Hai came to give him a hug, and said with a smile: "I've been paying attention to these farms, and I thought you were going to do it. But you haven't heard anything about it for a long time, but it's cheap for Da Mao."

Ouyang Hai was indeed more enthusiastic. He had previously sent him a lot of information about farms in Canada and the United States.

After the three of them met, they went to a local exquisite restaurant for a meal. Chinese people naturally want to eat Chinese food. Qin Shiou’s fish-flavored shredded pork and twice-cooked pork are very refreshing. It has been a long time since I have eaten such authentic Chinese food.

At the dinner table, Ouyang Hai introduced the situation to the two of them. This time the farm they wanted to see was not big, about 1,000 mu, and the location was quite good. It is in the core area of ​​the Golden Horseshoe.

The Golden Horseshoe area is commonly called by a local, but it is actually an urban belt. From southern Ontario in the south to the western end of Lake Ontario in the west, with the Greater Toronto Area as the center, the broad coverage extends from Lake Erie to the Georgian Bay in the north, and most of the area is also on the Quebec City-Windsor corridor.

Hamilton is located in the heart of the Golden Horseshoe region, and there is still great potential to set up a farm or ranch in this kind of place.

The helicopter happened to have two vacant seats in the back. After dinner, Ouyang Hai and Mao Weilong sat in the back, and Bird drove the plane to the outskirts of Hamilton.

The plane was flying in the air, and Qin Shiou looked down through the window. There were neat crops growing on the ground, mostly barley and buckwheat. Like a fishing ground.

In these farmlands, there will be villas or small buildings from time to time, all of which are beautifully painted, showing the rural style of Canada to the fullest.

The farmer that Ouyang Hai helped to contact was Chinese. When the helicopter landed on the open space of the farm, a Chinese couple greeted them and waved enthusiastically and asked, "Is this Mr. Ouyang from the capital?"

Ouyang Hai greeted the Chinese couple, and then gave an introduction to them.

The farmer’s name is Luo Zhiwei, and his wife’s name is Cai Mingjuan. The two have immigrated to Canada for many years. After graduating from university in 1995, they felt that Canada has more and better development opportunities, so they came to Hamilton to buy this farm.

After meeting, Luo Zhiwei first took them to a small winery to drink a glass of red wine made by himself. The farm has more than 100 mu of vineyards, which is a bit like Qin Shiou's fishing ground. He grows some table grapes and wine grapes, and sells them for profit while eating them.

While drinking, Luo Zhiwei introduced their farm to the three. This farm is called 'Mother Earth' and now has an area of ​​1,200 mu.

This area is not large, but Luo Zhiwei and his wife paid for it with hard work. When they first came to Hamilton, the farm they bought was only 100 mu. Later, through hard work, they made profits and gradually acquired the surrounding farms to get the area they have today.

Speaking of these years of work, what Luo Zhiwei is most proud of is that their farm made money in the first year. At that time, this surprised the local farmers and made Luo Zhiwei and his wife prestige in the town.

They are all Chinese, and the conversation started while drinking.

Luo Zhiwei did not immediately sell his farm. He pondered for a while and said: "Three brothers, all of them are Chinese. As the old saying goes, no matter how far apart our hometown is, we are all our own people now. So, I want to ask, Why did you immigrate to Canada?"

Luo Zhiwei's wife, Cai Mingjuan, also wondered: "Yes, little brother, if we say that time goes back a little bit, before the millennium or earlier, it is easy to explain for you to emigrate. At that time, life abroad was very attractive to us people. I am not afraid of you. It’s a joke, in the minds of us college students at that time, a developed country like Canada was too attractive, with a beautiful environment, advanced ideas, advanced technology, and progressive democracy, etc.”

Qin Shiou shrugged his shoulders and said with a wry smile: "It can be considered a coincidence. I came to Canada after inheriting the fishing ground of my elders in my family. Brother Mao Weilong wanted to change the environment. Isn't there a lot of opportunities for development in Canada now?" (To be completed continued)