3 Night Watch

Ask what the main job of the forest farm is on a daily basis, not planting trees, not cutting down trees, and not hunting in the woods - the correct answer is to prevent tourists from approaching and turning into forest fires.

South Wales has mild and humid winters, the Bracken region is covered with snow, spring and autumn are stormy, but the most difficult thing to do is summer, there is not much rainfall, and the dry land breeze often blows through the valleys, if a little rain can be a good thing, it can be a good thing for the whole tree farm workers to relax for a week. If it doesn't rain for two months in the summer, the whole forest farm will become very busy, and all the staff will patrol the places that tourists often enter every three hours to prevent people, especially the ignorant boys who love to explore and play with fire, from entering the forest farm.

It's not a nervous or other unspeakable reason, but in Bracken National Park, not far north of the Blaken Farm, the forest/prairie fires caused by the heat of April and May and the ignorance of a few boys have burned over an area of 2,500 acres and are growing.

The South Wales Fire Service is concerned about the state of the woodlands, especially the Brecken Forest, which is an ancient forest that is so inaccessible that the construction of firefighting facilities is completely inadequate, plus the occasional howling dry valley wind – if a forest burns, it will quickly spread to the surrounding woodland meadows.

Brecken Tree Farm is also the largest forest farm in South Wales, and the barrier formed by the abandoned road is completely unable to stop the burning forest fires, and the loss of not only Blaken Forest Farm is not the only one, but also the farmland and grasslands of the three counties of Glamorgan, the most densely populated counties in Wales, have brought a devastating blow to the farmland and grassland, and the population of nearly 100,000 people has been displaced. These two points alone are enough to arouse the full attention of the South Wales Fire Department, and the firefighters in South Wales, especially in Middle and West Glamorgan, will patrol the roads around the forest farm every four hours during the intervals of the forest farm workers, and once they see the fire point, they will directly extinguish it; forest firefighting helicopters will occasionally fly low over Lin Yilong's house, interrupting Lin Yilong's leisurely tea time.

At night, the Bracken Grove, which should have been cold, can feel the heat from the fires on the north side of Brecken Park.

The Yeon sisters still have to go back to write their papers, and after staying in the new house with Lin Yilong for two days to familiarize themselves with the environment, they go back to London, and every night Lin Yilong is the only resident of the huge forest farm.

If he couldn't sleep, he decided to take the night vision device he bought and go around with his night forest farm workers, and politely called him in advance to inform him that he was going to patrol with the forest farm workers.

The transportation of the employees in the forest farm is two two-seater all-terrain vehicles that cannot be driven on the road, which is very suitable for dealing with the steep mountain roads in the forest farm.

Lin Yilong followed the workers on his all-terrain motorcycle.

It's not the same thing when patrolling a road with light and when it comes to unlit roads, even the A-grade roads around Bracken Yard are unlit. The whole inspection process needs to rely on the lights of three all-terrain off-road vehicles and the night vision device on Lin Yilong's head to be able to identify the road. Originally, he was not very familiar with the route of the forest farm, and at night, Lin Yilong could only barely keep up with the patrol speed of his workers.

As if seeing the hard support of his boss, Peter, the worker's squad leader, invited Lin Yilong to ride in the same car with him, and as for his colleague sitting in the passenger seat, he went to feel the performance of Lin Yilong's four-wheeled off-road motorcycle.

"Doesn't seem like there's anything wrong here. In addition to an interview and a pick-up trip to the small town of Mastach, Peter said that this was the first time he had met his boss at work, and he seemed eager to say something to his boss.

"Keep watching, it's the first time I've been this far. Lin Yilong switched to Russian, "How is it, are you still used to living in Wales?"

"It's okay, it's just a little boring. Peter replied that his boss must have wanted to do something, and that it was impossible to hire them for nothing and pay a small fee to make his home in Mastach.

"Let's get used to it a little. Lin Yilong persuaded that he had rejected four resignation applications the year before, "Boredom time will always fly by." Your wife is too."

Unable to get any meaningful news from Lin Yilong, Peter didn't know how to continue their conversation.

The three terrain vehicles toured the forest farm for a week in great boredom, and along the way there were two deer, a few foxes, a few squirrels, a few rabbits, and a lot of forest pigeons, but found nothing else of note such as the footprints of the intruders. Although these animals are basically labelled as "Bracken Farm property", their lives are relatively safe - British law only limits hunting licences to hunters in the woods during July and August, and between July and August, limited by temperature, Lin Yilong is unmoved by "this noble sport" as the only person with a hunting license in the forest farm or even in Bracken National Park. There was no need for such hunting, and the forest farms were stocked with shotguns and hunting crossbows, and there were no large beasts of prey or aggressive birds of prey in South Wales, which were mainly used to "regulate" attacks by certain "domestic" animals on cattle grazing near the Lam Yee Loong Yard.

The night patrol lasts almost half an hour at a time, with an interval of one hour before the next one.

"Mr. Lin. After arriving at the stable, the forest farm workers greeted Lin Yilong.

"Good evening. Lin Yilong nodded, and then walked to the second floor of the stable.

If the workers go out on their rounds, the two central liaison workers left on the second floor of the stable will prepare night food such as pies, burgers or fried chicken for the workers between 1 and 2 a.m.

Because Lin Yilong also has to patrol with them, Lin Yilong's share of the food on the night shift naturally also has Lin Yilong's share.

After a short period of noise, the whole working and living area of the forest farm fell into dead silence again, and the sound of forest pigeons and foxes trampling dead leaves was clearly discernible, which was the night routine of the forest farm.

In the countryside, there are no very rich recreational activities, and people's daily life is very regular, maybe hunting, fishing or cycling in the woods is really good, but it is not an ordinary life. Lin Yilong's employees can surf the Internet, read books, or receive distance education during the night watch, which can be regarded as a life that has already made some sense. Life in the countryside is extremely quiet every day, the work of agriculture and forestry is monotonous, and the most common entertainment of those who work in this industry is, as Lin Yilong expressed to the Yeng sisters, the love between men and women, and the spouses of the forest workers also live with them in their apartments after they have settled down.