727. Smile
According to the plan, the fishing grounds owners stayed on the Ice and Fire Island for three days before they were ready to leave.
During these three days, the fishing owners suffered enough because there was almost nothing on the island. If they wanted to have a cold beer, they had to sail across the ocean.
This is also the biggest dilemma that the island is currently facing. They need to take a ferry to outside the island to buy daily necessities, and everything is too troublesome. The bigger problem is the government. In order to maintain the normal life of the residents of the town, the government has to arrange two ferries every day.
The steamship burns oil!
For the old gentlemen and ladies in the town, these three days are good. They like the excitement. The arrival of fishermen and media has restored a lot of vitality to the long-silent town.
What the townspeople are more welcome is the media. They have been talking to reporters these days to tell them about the difficulties they encountered, hoping that the media can help them.
When we finally bid farewell, Wright also pulled a reporter from the Ottawa Maple Leaf newspaper and said: "We actually don't want to leave here. In your opinion, this is very broken, but for us old guys, this is our hometown! It is the water and fish from this broken island that feed us!"
"We don't need to enjoy anything. Look, we can touch the steps of heaven by raising our heels. What else do the old guy in his seventies and eighties want to covet? As long as we have basic living supplies, bread, fresh water, and electricity, we are willing to live here."
Listening to the sad and helpless words of the elderly, the fishing ground owners silently lowered their heads, and they could not help the elderly.
What Qin Shiou could do was invite the mayor Pari to say goodbye to the island to see if he could find inspiration to improve the current situation of the town.
As they were about to get on the boat, Old Williams came. He waved with a mountaineering bag on his back and shouted, "Hey guys, don't hurry to go, look, we've got you some small gifts, I wonder if you like it."
Open the mountaineering bag. Inside are exquisite daggers.
The longest daggers are twenty-five and six centimeters, while the shortest one is only five or six centimeters. The handle of the knife is carefully wrapped with a cyan nylon rope and transparent fishing line, and the scabbard is flexible shark skin.
The dagger that Qin Shiou got was fifteen centimeters long. After he pulled it out, the blade was sharp and opened with a patterned blood groove, but the texture was strange, like a bone piece.
"Is this?" Qin Shiou guessed, "Is this the teeth of Greenland sharks polished?"
"Yes." Old Williams smiled excitedly, "Remember the head of the Greenland shark we caught from sea? We caught another one and then took their teeth to polish it into a dagger."
Lao Wright also smiled and said, "Maybe the texture is not very good, but this is a specialty of our town. It is a technique learned from the Inuits. It was roasted in cooked oil during the polishing process, so the toughness is actually very good."
Sergi received the longest dagger, and the Indians liked it. So the old fishermen gave him the best one.
As he stroked the dagger, Sergi showed a faint throbbing on his face, and then gritted his teeth and said, "Old guys, we all understand the predicament of your town. If you don't have high requirements, then I'll prepare when I go back. Invest in a casino in your town! I think you can make some money when you do the business of gamblers!"
Both Canada and the United States cannot help gambling. However, the government knows the harm of gambling, so it is convenient to set up casinos where the population density exceeds the level of the population. The location of large casinos is generally in remote places.
For example, Las Vegas, which is world-famous, is located in a desert. However, gamblers don’t care about this. They only want a place where they can gamble. Even if the journey is as difficult as the West to obtain the scriptures, gamblers can still arrive.
Qin Shiou looked at Sergi and felt a good impression of him. In fact, these fishing owners were not as hateful as he thought. They were also human beings, but there were too many conflicts with traditional fishing owners, which was why he was targeted.
Buck took off his sunglasses and said, "I run a diet business. Later, I will set up a small bakery on the island so that everyone will not have to go that far after eating fresh bread."
The owners of the resort fishing farm all have their own main business, and it is easy to help the town. For example, Buck built a bakery and sent a baker to bring the stove. Some houses are compensated at most tens of thousands of yuan a year, which has no impact on him.
But they did do good things, which is admirable.
On the contrary, traditional fishing grounds owners cannot help the town, and they are actually fishermen.
At the last moment, Sergi and others' assistance to the town eased the relationship between the two groups of fishing owners. The reason why Andrew and others hated these vacation fishing owners was not only because they did not build fishing grounds, but also because they also had a hatred for the rich.
Why hate the rich? Because traditional fishing owners believe that these rich men are unkind and are completely evil!
But what happened later proved that this was not the case. Both of them just had some misunderstandings.
After leaving Ice and Fire Island, the tour was over. They had to go to some fishing grounds on the Labrador Peninsula to see. However, the Marine Meteorological Bureau said that the tropical cyclone was heading north and was approaching the Newfoundland waters, so for safety reasons, they decided to return.
As unprecedented, the relationship between the fishing owners became harmonious, and Andrew even played with Buck and Charco.
This scene is gratifying, but Matthew did not organize a visit to ease their relationship.
When he was about to arrive in St. Johns, he summoned all the fishing owners in the restaurant on the top of the cruise ship and said, "You see, right, guys? Look at what the local economy will be like when the fishing ground collapses. After you figure this out, you should understand the determination of the Ministry of Fisheries? If anyone ruined his fishing ground, then trust me, he will regret it!"
The owners of the fishing grounds were silent. The last time Matthew said these words, they were still unwilling to accept them. Now they are honest, because for some places that rely on the ocean, the collapse of the fishing grounds is simply terrible.
Seeing that both the traditional fishing owners and the vacation fishing owners were honest, Matthew King smiled with satisfaction, and the visit should have ended perfectly.
When the cruise ship stopped at St. Johns Pier, countless ships were docked on the pier. Strong winds were already blowing on the sea. After the tropical cyclone arrived in the waters of Newfoundland, it began to show its influence. The hurricane was coming.
Qin Shiou took Matthew and Parry to the cruise ship Seagull. After halfway through the boat, the sea breeze became stronger, and huge raindrops hit the glass window with a crackling sound, as if there was hail, and the power was amazing. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!