344. Back Garden (4/5)
One afternoon, Qin's father and his group sat leisurely in Dad Hickson's restaurant, eating desserts, drinking drinks, and chatting casually, and life was very comfortable.
When Qin Shiou saw that he could not learn about Grandpa's second from his fathers, he pulled Winnie to the small garden of the restaurant. As for the translation questions of the fathers, hehe, can't tell me? He thought of a way, and there was Auerbach next to him.
In fact, Qin's father and others were also puzzled. Why did this fishing ground be left to Qin Shiou? Qin Hongde had been dead for ten years, why didn't he pass the fishing ground to Qin's father ten years ago?
No one knew the answer. Auerbach tried to speak a few times but stopped, but before he was about to speak, he shook his head and said nothing in the end.
Qin Shiou really wanted to get some secret from Auerbach's mouth, but he knew this old man and had been a lawyer for his whole life. The old man's mouth was too strict, and it was appropriate to be a spy. As long as he didn't want to say it, no one would pry out anything from his mouth.
Dad Hickson's garden is not large, about 150 square meters, and it is organized in an orderly manner.
As soon as you go out, you will find a sea of love made of pink roses. These roses are all anti-freeze varieties and have no fragrance. However, they can bloom until late autumn, which is very suitable for places like Newfoundland.
On both sides of the sea of love are blooming chrysanthemums. The golden flowers are surrounded by red lines, which contrasts with the pink sea of love in the center. It is really beautiful.
Then two blue wavy lines extended from behind the chrysanthemum. This is rosemary, a kind of flower introduced from Europe. The sky blue flowers are very fascinating.
In addition, there are also beautiful and beautiful wood hibiscus planted around the yard, Dutch chrysanthemums with yellow flower hearts and purple petals, noble and snow-like hibiscus, etc. These flowers can bloom in autumn. Therefore, the scenery in the small garden is very beautiful now.
Winnie hugged Qin Shiou's arm and walked slowly in the garden. She closed her eyes from time to time and sniffed the fragrance of flowers in the air. Qin Shiou looked at her dotingly.
No one spoke until the evening, waiting for the wonderful feeling of the faint fragrance floating in the moon and dusk.
Finally, Qin's father asked Qin Shiou to leave, saying that he could not disturb his father Hickson's business at night, so that the peaceful and beautiful atmosphere in the garden was broken.
Before leaving, Qin Shiou asked Hickson's father where he bought the flower seeds in the garden. He planned to buy some planted in the fishing grounds. Anyway, there are so many open spaces in the fishing grounds.
Dad Hickson laughed generously and said, "If you want, my child, then Dad will get it for you. Why should you buy these flowers? Who doesn't have them at home?"
Qin Shiou was embarrassed to say that he needed a lot of seeds. However, the old man then took out a lot of them for him. A large carton contained some plastic bottles, with flower names on the bottles, and various flower species inside.
"I know what you think, boy, do you want to turn your fishing ground into the second Baocui Garden, right? Listen to me, don't be impatient, take your time. Plant these flowers first, and when you can raise them well, then expand your garden." Hickson said earnestly.
Baocui Garden is one of the top ten most beautiful gardens in the world. It is located in Victoria, Canada, with an area of 35 hectares.
The construction of this garden is full of legend. It was once the site of limestone dug by cement plants. In 1904, Mrs. Butchart personally used ivy to cover up the empty stone walls on all sides, and built the remaining stones into flower beds, and planted flowers and plants collected from all over the world.
The family worked tirelessly for more than a century for several generations and finally built an amazing world-famous garden.
When Qin Shiou first took over the Daqin Fishery, he thought about building the grassy fishery land into a beautiful garden. At that time, he asked Auerbach to find a designer. Later, the designer quoted that it would take tens of millions of Canadian dollars to build such a world-class garden. He was under too much economic pressure at that time and did not start construction.
Dad Hickson took out the Polygon Garden for an example, hoping that Qin Shiou could learn from the patience of the Butchart family and build the garden bit by bit, instead of using money to build a bunch of beautiful scenery.
In the evening of early autumn, the weather is neither cold nor hot, and the sea breeze is a bit cool, so the afterglow of the sunset will appear particularly warm when it is poured on people.
Qin Shiou hugged his father's shoulders, Winnie held her mother's hand, and the group walked on the streets of the town. There were domestic tourists and local residents coming and going. The lazy hawking sounds sounded from time to time, and people's pace was gentle, showing the slow-paced life of the town.
At the entrance of the Sioux specialty grocery store, Hughes was wearing a hip-hop suit and showing his street dance. Many tourists were watching. Qin Shiou whistled when passing by and said, "Man, are you the boss now? Don't be unemployed."
Xiao Hughes jumped up with a carp. Seeing Qin Shiou's parents and others, he came up to greet him first, and then laughed: "I'm not doing my job properly. I'm attracting customers through performances. This is a marketing method. Qin, you don't understand it now, right?"
Qin Shiou asked his parents to go to the grocery store to watch it casually. He chatted with Hughes and talked about his recent business situation.
Hughes told him that business has recently ushered in a rapid growth opportunity, with tourists surging, and many of them are family groups with the elderly and children. This kind of tourists like to buy American ginseng and leather products the most.
Qin's father, Qin's mother and others walked around. Xiao Hughes asked them generously what they wanted. The group shook their heads. They could understand the price tags inside and know how expensive these things were.
Xiao Hughes likes to play generously the most. He took out a brocade box and packed five top American ginseng, stuffed them to Qin's father together, and then took a set of snow crocodile skins to Sister Qin, patted his chest and said, "Chinese friend, I'll treat you!"
How could Qin's father and others accept it? So the group began to give in moderation. Hughes finally said: "Qin helped me a lot. If I can open this shop, I have to thank him. This is my thank you gift to him. If you don't accept it, it means Qin looks down on me."
"This, this..." Qin's father and mother looked at Qin Shiou with help.
Qin Shiou waved his hand and said, "Please accept it, this thing should actually not be expensive."
This thing is so peaceful that it will leave his account anyway, so the grocery store will not suffer any losses.
When they found Shirley and her group, the five children sat on the ground licking the ice cream and ate happily. Hu Zi and Leopard also had egg rolls in their mouths, and they were smiling.
Two small buckets and cards were placed on the ground. The cards were written with a skewed line of words: The best fish, delicious, buy more, get more gifts, jump to the big sale, Chinese people's own fish...
Needless to say, these words must have been written by Xiaohui, and those who can’t write them are replaced by pinyin.
Qin Shiou asked, "How much did you sell?"
Shirley frowned and began to count the fingers. Xiaohui said impatiently: "How simple, I counted it just now. The first bucket was sold for 51 yuan, the second bucket was sold for 65 yuan, and it cost 15 yuan to buy ice cream, and the egg roll was 5 yuan, and the remaining 96 yuan."
Chapter completed!