Chapter 502: Onlookers
The bus carrying everyone gradually approached a small town surrounded by mountains and rivers and green trees, and then braked and stopped behind a Foton pickup truck.
Although the destination "Old Farm and Ranch" has not yet arrived, it is already very close, and it is here to make a final replenishment, and then drive dozens of miles to arrive.
Judging from the area and administrative level, this Dosha town has a sheriff commensurate with its own rank and a simple management structure, and it is indeed a real town-level administrative unit.
But in the eyes of these visitors from the other side of the Pacific in the car, this town is not even comparable to the domestic village, for no other reason, there are too few people!
Not only are there not many people moving on the streets, but there are not many houses in the whole town, there are only about 20 wooden houses of all sizes, and how many people can live in the largest two-story houses?
Although these houses cover a huge area, they are not inferior to the so-called large villas and thousand-square-foot mansions in China, and although their roofs and walls have their own characteristics, they really don't have much to see as common rural buildings, and there is not much historical background or style and genre art characteristics. Plus the number is too small
It didn't take much time for the girls who took advantage of the parking to get out of the car to take pictures, and the novelty quickly faded, and then there was nothing to do.
Of course, it wasn't entirely out of the ordinary, and they soon found themselves watched.
As a social animal, everyone has a more or less hobby of watching and watching, but when they become the object of onlookers' comments, they will inevitably feel a little weird.
However, the people who were surrounded by a group of American aunts and yellow-haired old men were "dare to be angry and dare not speak", these foreigners' thick arms and broad shoulders looked quite combative, and the girls subconsciously leaned forward to the bodyguards who came down with them, and at this time, naturally only their own people can bring everyone a sense of security.
In fact, if you look closely, you will find that these foreigners look a little older, wrinkles, white hair, white beards and other characteristics that reveal age are not uncommon, but as long as you look at the waist of those people, no one dares to blow up their hair.
Wen Xiaoqing looked fixedly at the waist of the big-shouldered and round-waisted aunt not far away, not that she had any thoughts about other people's hips that were equivalent to two or even three times her own, it was purely that the shiny and shiny metal object hanging on the waist of the person was too eye-catching!
A brown leather leather case with a problem inserted inside looks familiar, and it is the standard revolver for denim in Westerns.
This is the first time in Wen Xiaoqing's life that she has been so close to this kind of murderous thing.
Even if she met the banknote keeper at the door of the bank in the past, she always felt that she was far away from 3 meters, after all, no one can guarantee that if she said to the banknote keeper as the widely circulated joke goes, "Freeze your hands, why don't you open your mouth?"
Anyway, she is not a strong brother, so naturally she will not run around and try this kind of death-seeking thing with all her body uncomfortable, she hasn't lived enough.
"Where's you? These people are your tourists?" the white aunt spoke, and the object of inquiry was naturally Nong Xinwu, who had brought everyone here.
Obviously, Auntie's strong and stout figure gave her a very strong lung capacity, so this sentence sounded like deafening thunder to Wen Xiaoqing.
When the old farmer heard the voice, he hurriedly ran out of the small supermarket, and at the same time did not forget to wave and shout, "Hey! Dinah, I'm here!"
"Dinah, this is my friend Atletico Madrid, he used to be my partner, he's a rich man! ”
"Atletico Madrid, this is Dina Pei, the volunteer assistant police officer here, that's why I brought the guy. Actually, not everyone here in Dosha carries a gun, like I didn't bring one. This is Bob Hamilton, the monopolist who rules the town's retail industry......"
Without waiting for the old farmer to continue his introduction, the old white man with silver hair who came out after him interrupted: "Oh! No kidding, I'm just running a small community supermarket." I have a plan to remove all the wheels of your cars so that none of you can drive to the Walmart in the city so that I can monopolize the retail here, but unfortunately ......"
Saying that, Old Bob glanced at the "assistant policeman" Dina Pei next to him, and everything was silent.
As an ordinary American-style country town, Dosha Town has a population of less than 200, and most of them live in the surrounding farms and ranches, and the people who stay here are mainly the departments of the commercial system and administrative system of Dosha Town, such as Old Bob's small supermarket, such as Old Tommy's leather goods store, such as the town council that is closed all year round and the sheriff's office that has been quiet for a long time, etc., the people in the town are few and idle, so they like to watch the "foreigners".
Suddenly, a large number of black-haired Chinese appeared, and everyone naturally subconsciously gathered around to see the strangeness. Well, when it comes to the bowing of the old beauty, Atletico Madrid will become "foreigners".
After all, Aunt Dinah has a quick wit, and she used her ability to associate and associate the skin and hair color of these people with Nong Xinwu, which led to the scene where she called out to the old farmer. In fact, even if she doesn't shout, everyone present can speak English, and there won't be any communication problems, so, thank you to the Ministry of Education for selling cuteness!
After replenishing some seasonal vegetables, the bus restarted and headed to the old farm.
"We usually live on our own farms, but in fact, we only have to go to the town every few days to replenish some supplies, but there are too few people in the town, and as a result, we get to know everyone after a long time. ”
In the car, Nong Xinwu continued to explain the local situation to everyone.
"It's so scattered, it's no wonder everyone has to carry a gun, otherwise it's too late to be touched to the house and call the police," Atletico said.
Actually, this thing is a psychological comfort, most people don't necessarily get to fire once a year, it's all under the pillow. ”
Hearing the small talk of the bosses, Wen Xiaoqing and their mood gradually relaxed, although there was no situation of being pointed at the muzzle of the black hole, but just seeing the real thing up close had already shocked their little hearts.
After all, it's something that can kill people, what if it goes mad? What if someone has a bad intention?
Although the girls have seen this kind of thing many times in TV and movies, and many people still have the experience of playing with them in games, such as Wen Xiaoqing, who likes to play bees' "Don't Roll Up" (forced ggunol) on her mobile phone, but after all, it is all fiction and illusory, because few people will take these virtual weapons seriously if they know this.
In the final analysis, this kind of thing is all about scaring yourself, if there is no relevant concept in your mind, there is no association, there is no feeling.
Atletico Madrid, who has rich experience in foreign target shooting, naturally understands the relevant situation, and the reason why he deliberately brought up this topic is purely to solve the panicked little girls from the side, and now it seems that the effect is not bad.
However, the old peasant comrade's thinking went deeper along this topic, mentioning Xiao Aohei's gun control plan that encountered many obstacles.
Although European and American countries, especially the sparsely populated New World countries such as the United States, Canada, and Australia, do not prohibit or even legally encourage private possession of weapons, in practice, the relevant controls of various countries are becoming more and more stringent. For example, in order to prevent bandits and extremists from easily obtaining powerful bursting automatic weapons, countries have basically banned the possession of them by the private sector.
It is said that Lao Mei has 1 million AK series (original and imitations from various countries, such as cheap and sufficient five or six punches), the number is too much, and there is no way to collect all of them like Australia, so it has to legislate that it must be modified into a single shot when trading, but this change can also be modified back.
None of this is enforceable, and it is virtually impossible to enforce a situation where everyone is licensed, as is the case in neighbouring Canada, and where a specific type of weapon can only be used in designated settings, such as a shooting range. In many places, such as the western states of Montana, it is still easy to buy long and short weapons, and carry them in public, but they cannot be brought to the political axe department.
The old farmer actually had one pinned to him, but out of cautious habit, he endured not taking it out, and the eleven colored letters of the old farm on the gate of the old farm were left behind by the bus, so he took out his M1911, checked it and took off the magazine and handed it to Atletico next to him.
Atletico looked down at the iron pimple on his hand, not so much a weapon as an antique, with obvious signs of wear and tear in the grip pattern, Wangshan crosshairs, etc., so he raised his head and asked: "Brother, your treasure has been around for a long time, can it still be used?"
"Haha! Of course it can be used, don't look at its age than you, it's still easy to use!" Nong Xinwu smiled proudly: "I also have a lot of retired antique ordnance, do you want to take a look?"
Then Atletico was really hooked away by this sentence, leaving only Tang Jiayi and Li Ling, their women's army and children, fortunately, there is Atletico Madrid's eldest nephew Guo Luojun and they are there, but they don't worry about no coolies.
The old farm or old farmer's farm covers an extremely large area, more than 800 acres and 5,000 acres, although the area is only more than one-third of the Atletico cedar farm, but in the perception of everyone, it is obviously larger.
After all, Cedar Farm is essentially just a private resort, and the only land that is actually developed and utilized is around Cedar Lake, and there are endless coniferous forests in the distance, so the perception of the size of the area is not obvious.
The old farm and ranch is a well-developed farm, its size can be seen clearly at a glance, standing near the door and looking at the other three directions, the land within two or three kilometers is the farmer's boss!
Speaking of which, the old farmer was able to get this land thanks to the high inheritance tax of the US imperialists, and the land was taxed as an inheritance, but the heir of the land could not use the land to deduct taxes, so he had to divide a small part of it and sell it to the farmer who planned to come to North America to become a farmer, and then use the money to pay taxes.
And there is no doubt that when the old farmer and his family die in the future, this land will inevitably have to be divided again, because its value obviously exceeds the $5 million exemption from inheritance tax, which can be regarded as the US imperialist version of "cutting the strong and suppressing the annexation".
The peasants of the US imperialism are actually not the same thing as the peasant uncles in China, they are farmers who own farms (farms, livestock farms), and the peasants in China are actually closer to another word, peasant, which means yeoman farmer, hired farmer.
There are a total of 2.2 million farms in the United States, and the population of pure agriculture is only 3 million, most of whom are so-called farmers, and only a few are agricultural workers.
For example, the first tour item that the Mars tour group saw was to visit the fully automatic milk factory built by the farmer at a huge cost.
It's really fully automatic, the cows line up into the milking workshop under the habitual domination, there is a large turntable with many grids, which has the concentrate feed that cows love to eat to guide the cows to stand firm with food, and behind it is a full set of automatic milking equipment, which automatically completes the work of cleaning and docking milking. After squeezing a cow, the turntable is also transferred to the exit position, the equipment is automatically unlocked and the cow leaves by itself, the milk is collected and sent to the milk powder workshop next to it to be immediately made into industrial milk powder, the cow manure is automatically cleaned, and the manure is sent to the biogas tank.
The high-tech of fully automatic and unmanned operation really calmed everyone who visited the crowd, and all kinds of exclamations were incredible, and the American emperor was a cow and a strong exclamation kept popping up.
At this time, Atletico couldn't stand it, as a member of the angry youth, how could he look at everyone so sweet, so he said: "This kind of automatic equipment has a set of hundreds of thousands of knives, which the average farmer can't afford to use, that is, the old farmer has more money to burn, and he was fooled and lame to engage in this automatic operation." ”
Although the farmers here all have a wealth of millions of dollars, fixed assets such as land and machinery account for the majority of it, so that many farmers need to deal with banks and borrow money to operate. That is, a big tyrant like the farmer boss, after selling the domestic land, easily exchanged for tens of millions of dollars, and after buying the farm, he still had enough spare money for him to build, and as a result, there was such a modern farm.
Of course, the business atmosphere here in the United States is better, spending money is more comfortable and enjoyable, and it is easy not to be deceived and cheated is also an important reason.
The farmer boss spent the money well, and after buying and buying like crazy, he was also depressed to find that although these investments were worth their money, it would take several decades to rely on the land to recover all the investments.
In order not to be a rich man, the farmer remembered that "if you want to be rich and engage in tourism", and Atletico Madrid was the first batch of tourists, just to help him test it. For mobile phone users, please visit http://m.piaotian.net