After applying for his visa, Lin spent another week in London, and on Monday morning, after the Yeon sisters moved into their apartment on Riverside Street, Lin got on a bus to South Wales to Swansea, West Glamorganshire.

Lin Yilong has been studying here for three years, and he is already familiar with everything here.

His law school classmate, Neil Thiel, was already waiting for him at the bus stop.

Nils-Thiel is a slender man of Lin Yilong's age, with blue eyes and brown hair, indicating that Niels was not born and raised in Wales. He was always smiling. However, to the horror of strangers, Nils's angular face lines and kind smile are always reminiscent of the murderer in the movie. So, apart from his girlfriend, Niels's personal contact was limited to classmates like Lin Yilong, who were not close but kept in touch, and a few musicians from the same amateur orchestra. Among Lin Yilong's practicing classmates, his work is the most appropriate, so Lin Yilong handed over to him the work of confirming and registering the main body of the forest farm.

Therefore, accompanying Lin Yilong to his forest farm is also part of Nils's job, because the two have known each other for a long time, and the conversation can be slightly extended to the scope of personal topics.

"You still haven't changed cars. Lin Yilong saw Niels's 2004 Golf MK4, which was the birthday gift Niels received from Niels's parents when he and Lin Yilong's classmates.

"It's good, especially the streets of Wales. Nils buckled up his seatbelt and said to Lin Yilong, "Where are you going to go first?"

"Let's go to the industrial park next to the Liberty Stadium, what's the name?" In Wales, many place names are in Welsh, and although Lin Yilong has mastered a little vocabulary, he can't pronounce it at all. ”

"English means swampland. Nils explained to Lin Yilong, "You say that either of these two pronunciations is fine, anyway, except for the Welsh driver, other outsiders can't understand it." ”

Lin Yilong stroked his not very dense hair.

"So, you're going back to Wales?" Nils said, changing the subject, "life in London is not suitable. ”

"Life is pretty much the same, but the main thing is that London is just too noisy. Lin Yilong said his personal reason, "I don't like big cities very much, when you work, there are 7 people watching what you do all the time, which is really unacceptable." Moreover, I have to spend an hour and a half commuting to and from work every day, and sometimes I don't even have a car in the middle of the night, so I can only squint on the sofa in the law firm's meeting room for a while. So, when I found out that there was a company looking for a custodian, I submitted a job application. ”

"Then will you concentrate on running a forest farm in the future, or will you choose to continue to practice?" In a conversation with Nils, Lin Yilong said that he was actually investing in a reserve forest farm for an institution, until the forest farm was sold again, and putting it in his personal name would help with tax control.

"I haven't thought about it yet, it's too far away, even if you practice, you can only count it as a part-time job," Lin Yilong didn't think about it, so he directly made up an answer that was purely to deal with Nils, "You have been practicing in Carmarthenshire for many years, can't you still feel the economic malaise?"

"The economy is like that, but it's much better than in Ireland. Maybe the normal commute to work is a bit far for you. Nils summed up, "Do you want to go to the woods?"

"Of course I'll have to check it out, I've already rented the helicopter, I'm going to have to fly around it. Lin Yilong said.

"Then you have to be careful, you got a lot of common land in your hands through the pressure of the bank. "I guess there's a whole bunch of local townspeople who don't like you." ”

"They don't have access to the land for grazing, they don't have logging for warmth, they don't have a hunting license there, they can't quarry from the mines, and it doesn't affect their livelihoods. Lin Yilong said arrogantly, "And I don't cut down trees, and I won't cause landslides or other geological disasters, so it has nothing to do with them." ”

"Well, it's like a church, even though a lot of people are not religious, and the religious people don't go to church much on weekends, everybody knows that the church is there. Nils said.

"Then I have nothing but nothing to say. Lin Yilong replied, "I don't seem to have the need to maintain a good relationship with these people. ”

"That's not going to work, the fire brigade, the school, all these little villages, you don't want some kid to start a forest fire because he doesn't like you playing with fire near your forest farm. Nils expressed his opposition to Lin Yilong's attitude, "If you want to expand any buildings or apply for other construction projects in the future, you still need to deal with these people, even if you can complete the building application, but the application time will be much longer, even if it is for this, you better be able to envelop them." ”

"I see. Lin Yilong said perfunctorily disapprehended, "Is there any good way to please the townspeople in this regard?"

"The most acceptable way is to donate money to the local school or fire brigade or church to increase your reputation with the townspeople, but you are congenitally deficient in this area," Niels explained to Lin, "This is not a cultural melting pot on the other side of the pond or in the East End of London, where the townspeople have lived in semi-isolation for almost all generations, and they are worried that if you bring in East Asians like you, you will set a dangerous precedent, and other people like Gypsies, South Asians or Uncle Black will not." Invade the 'village?, not to mention the Allah's followers, who have been advertised as a security hazard. So, even if you donate, it will still make the townspeople feel that you are here to entrap them for your project, and they will not accept your 'ill-intentioned' donations.

"The second way is to expand the number of employees and let the villagers form a community of interests with you, but this place is a reserve forest according to what you said, and it only needs a maximum of five lumberjacks or forest rangers, even if you add a housekeeper and a repairman, there are only seven, so this is also blocked.

"So, I can only advise you to stay as you are and try to participate in some community competitions like gardening competitions to make them feel like you're one of them. “

"Holy. Lin Yilong felt that the last suggestion was acceptable, but he didn't think it was operational, he couldn't imagine playing with flowers and plants in the courtyard, "Is there no other way out?"

"Unfortunately, if you had enough money to buy their homes and farms according to your ideas. "But the transfer price of this land will not be as favorable as if you took this land, after all, it is land with a little perfect land development." I don't think even if the townsfolk were willing to sell, the county council wouldn't pass such a motion. ”

"Forget it, then let me go and see what that forest farm looks like. Lin Yilong said helplessly.