Golden Fishery

After eating this Scottish-style dinner, Qin Shiou bid farewell to the Hamleys and his wife and set foot on the way back.

He still has nearly 100 million idle funds on him. Qin Shiou originally planned to buy an airplane, but he had too few opportunities to use it and it was too wasteful. Now with the Hamley thing, his funds are useful.

I really didn't expect that Canadian politics can still be played like this. The mayor of Hamley is going to run for the mayor of St. Johns. It is unbelievable for him who is familiar with the Chinese political promotion system.

In fact, this is how Canadian politics is played. If Qin Shiou joins a significant political party and wins the support of the party, he can also run for election. What's more, Hamley is not only the mayor of the town, but also a member of the 25-member St. Johns City Council.

In St. Johns, the city council has both voting power and administrative power, that is to say, the city council is the city government, and the city councilors are the real power managers of the government.

This is also the difference between Canada and the United States. The local government adopts the city council system, which is inherited from the United Kingdom and is relatively rare in the world.

The advantage of this system is that it helps to reduce the conflict between the decision-making body and the administrative body, and can improve management efficiency. But he has a shortcoming, which is the lack of a mayor who can command the work of various departments of the city government and has absolute power.

Whether it is the current O'Keffer or Hamley who may be elected in the future, they will become mayors, but their power is not that great, and everything needs to be supervised by the city council. Of course, they are the commanders in name of the city council.

so. Hamley has no right to sell the farewell island to Qin Shiou, and of course Qin Shiou doesn't have that much money to buy the farewell island.

Quebec has just auctioned off a small island called "Conauk", which only includes 13 wooden houses, 70 private lakes and 5 small islands. Covering an area of ​​about 26,305 hectares, it sold for 96 million Canadian dollars!

The area of ​​Farewell Island is five times that of Conauk, and it has a permanent population. How to set the price? 500 million? 1 billion or 5 billion? !

But Qin Shiou remembered Hamley's promise. He said that if he was elected mayor, it would make him feel that Farewell Island was his private island, and that would be good.

Back to the villa. Winnie was waiting for him in the living room, watching TV with her little radish head in her arms, as soon as he came back. Weini went to the kitchen and poured him a bowl of hangover soup.

This hangover soup was learned by Wei Ni from Qin's mother during the Chinese New Year. It uses bighead carp head and ginger as the main ingredients, plus shredded tofu, shredded mustard greens, shredded bamboo shoots, shredded mushrooms, and then blended with egg white. The taste is sour, hot and spicy, delicious and has the function of sobering up.

Qin Shiou took a sip and gave a thumbs up,

In fact, he didn't drink much, but he couldn't refuse Winnie's kindness.

In the past, when Qin Shiou was busy with work, he felt that it would be perfect to have a wife with red sleeves and extra fragrance by his side. Winnie is good enough for this role, but now he doesn't have to work in the middle of the night, but entertains in the middle of the night. Every time he goes home and sees Winnie who is waiting for him and has prepared a supper for him, he always feels very satisfied.

the next few days. Hamre came to visit Qin Shiou frequently and sent a bill after bill, which was the record of expenses spent by him and his team during the campaign. This is for every voter who has supported him financially.

However, ordinary voters naturally only received an email and a thank-you letter, without Hamley's personal visit.

Qin Shiou paid attention to the election situation, but he couldn't pay attention to it, because the fiddler crabs in the fishing ground were a bit abnormal recently.

Fiddler crab is a general term for many kinds of crabs, there are more than 100 kinds in total. Daqin fishing grounds mainly include Atlantic sand fiddler crabs, Atlantic mud fiddler crabs, gloxinia fiddler crabs, dorsal spiny fiddler crabs, and narrow-finger fiddler crabs.

These small crabs are very interesting, they have a pair of protruding eyes like match sticks. very special.

In addition, the most special thing is that the big claws of male crabs are not the same size. Generally, the right claw is super big and the left is super small. The right claw is often placed on the chest, like a warrior's shield, which looks very majestic. The large claws of female crabs are the same size, so it is strange.

Fiddler crabs are different from hermit crabs. They usually live in caves. The depth of the burrows is related to the groundwater level, and the bottom of the cave needs to reach the moist soil.

Therefore, there are many small raised sand piles on the beach of the fishing ground. This is because fiddler crabs feed on sediment. They swallow the sediment, ingest the organic matter in it, and spit out the inedible part out of the hole. It will be fine after a long time. Small bumps.

Generally speaking, the activities of fiddler crabs follow the ebb and flow of the tide. They hide in caves when the tide ebbs, and move on the beach to feed and repair caves when the tide ebbs.

But in recent days, the fiddler crabs in the fishing ground no longer maintain such a life pattern. No matter day or night, regardless of the ebb and flow of the tide, some fiddler crabs crawl out, and they look very hesitant, as if they are going to the beach Move high.

There were few at first, but at the end of the week, the fiddler crabs suddenly erupted, and countless small crabs got out of their caves and hurriedly moved to higher places on the beach.

Seeing this scene, Shaq and other senior fishermen found Qin Shiou nervously, and said, "There may be a big tide, we have to prepare."

Fiddler crabs have a strong ability to predict the tide, how strong is it? No matter what activity they are doing, they will stop and return to the cave ten minutes before the tide comes.

Not only that, the body color of this small crab can change, it will become darker when the tide is low during the day, and it will become lighter when the tide is high at night. In some places, the tide rise and fall will be delayed by 50 minutes every day, and the color change of fiddler crabs in that place will also be delayed by 50 minutes!

The old fishermen all know this. They judge the tide fluctuations based on the body color changes of the fiddler crabs. Now the fiddler crabs are moving to higher beaches, obviously because they judge that the ocean will have a large tide.

Qin Shiou also understands this, but he is extremely depressed because he has confirmed several times with the St. Johns Marine Meteorological Bureau. The meteorological bureau said that there have been no monsoons and large ocean currents recently, and the orbits of stars are also normal, and there will be no large waves.

In this way, technology and biological instinct once again clashed.

The children don't go to school on weekends. Seeing so many fiddler crabs on the beach, they don't even bother to play in the cold drink cabin. They run to the beach to pick up fiddler crabs and play crab fighting games.

The tigers, leopards, bears, and wolves also ran around and played. Xiong Da was a veritable foodie. He stuffed fiddler crabs into his mouth while running, and he could eat them with relish.

Qin Shiou followed to the beach to observe the abnormal behavior of crabs. (to be continued)