Chapter 489: Simply Face Jun

August is the hottest month in the Northern Hemisphere, and while humans in the Northern Hemisphere are being hit by waves of craze in cities and villages, more wild maps are thriving with grass growing warblers flying.

Especially near the Arctic Circle (66°34 north latitude), midsummer is a good time of year for most boreal animals, when the Arctic moss is thriving after the snow melts, the elk are back, the migratory birds are back, and the Arctic fox has eggs to eat, so there is no need to hit the snow to find underground prey. Summer is also a good day for wildlife in the south, and in September, countless salmon swim up the river from the outflow to the upper reaches of the river, bringing rich protein and minerals to the animals in the forest.

If such scenes appear in the BBC and Discovery documentaries, people will feel the vitality and beauty of life, and if they are in the "Survival in the Wilderness" program, fans may lament that they can easily find food, and how can they happily watch Bei Ye catch insects and crunchy?

However, for Principal Tang, who is a tourist enthusiast, the animals that occupy the road from time to time are too cute, just like the left-hand drive cars in this country.

Canada, like Australia and New Zealand, which is also a Commonwealth country, is very sparsely populated, with more than half of the population concentrated in a few large cities, and it is difficult to see many people in the countryside, and all or part of it has become a territory for wild animals and plants, which makes the three countries rich in biological resources and tourism resources.

Among the three countries, Tonki's favorite is Canada, which is a country in the northern hemisphere without the upside-down climate of the southern hemisphere, and second, Canadian cars are left-hand drive cars, and there are not many obstacles to drive. He'd been to those two southern hemisphere countries before, and the scenery was indeed beautiful, and koala kangaroos were fun, but the right-hand drive car really tossed him around, and it was said that this design was actually a good thing for the right-handers, who make up the majority of the population, but after all, he was a lot older, and he couldn't get used to changing gears with his left hand. Although there is a local hired driver, and his English has been picked up, he always feels uncomfortable when he is constantly bothering others.

So as soon as Tang Qi arrived here, he stopped for a few days, and after seeing the surrounding scenery, he couldn't wait to start his journey to North America by car, and according to the reports of the entourage, he was now thousands of miles away.

Worldwide, with the exception of single-seaters such as walk-behind tractors, go-karts, and formula cars, which opt for a mid-mounted steering wheel, the majority of cars have left-to-right steering wheels. In general, countries with emperors and kings, such as the United Kingdom, Sweden, Japan, and their colonies, all require pedestrians and vehicles to drive on the left, so in order to make it easier to see the direction, the steering wheel of the car in these places is on the right.

Later, there was a Napoleon Bonaparte in France, and wherever his army fought, he brought the rule of driving on the right to wherever he went.

And the United States, which later made left-hand drive cars popular all over the world, is also inseparable from France. If it had not been for the Seven Years' War (1754-1763), which had been entangled for a long time, the British would not have raised taxes on the North American colonies in order to get money, there would have been no Boston Tea Party (1773), and the United States of America would not have been established without the help of King Louis XVI's army and navy (1776). It is also for this reason that the United States and France were good friends in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the colossal statue of "Statue Liberty that shines on the world" in New York was given by France in 1876 to commemorate the centenary of the alliance between the United States and France.

However, France also spent all its savings to resist Britain and aid the United States, and those elite areas in Europe were generally in the hands of the old nobles, although the status of the feudal king was noble, but the family was big, and there was generally no money, so that they often lent money to fight, which was a very absurd thing in the eyes of the Chinese people. Financially bankrupt France soon underwent a revolution, and was finally seized by artillery commander Napoleon Bonaparte, who then ousted a bunch of European kings with his army.

In modern society, because of the dominance of the American automobile industry, most of the world is dominated by left-hand drive cars, and only the Commonwealth countries and Japan maintain the tradition of right-hand drive. Canada is an exception in the Commonwealth, after all, it is far from the United Kingdom and the United States, and the Canada-US border is the longest undefended border in the world.

This is not only convenient for Americans to travel to Canada, but also convenient for Chinese people like Tom Qi to travel to Canada.

Many people like Tang Qi who have driven abroad know that a domestic driver's license has a "gold content" beyond a passport, and many places in the domestic passport cannot be visited, but the driver's license can be used in most countries. You only need to go through a translation and notarization process at the embassy, which can be valid for a few months to a year, but after immigrating abroad, you have to start all over again to apply for a local driver's license.

This is true not only for cars, but also for pilot's licenses, and foreign licences are also valid for a short period of time, during which time Atletico Madrid uses helicopters to get in and out of his private farm.

It's located on the edge of the forest, with a forest road to the outside world, and only an hour's drive south of Vancouver, but a helicopter that can fly above the forest and land vertically in a glade is a much more convenient and faster way to get there.

It is said that due to the El Niño phenomenon, this summer was particularly hot, although it was not enough to kill hundreds of people in a wave of heat like in India, but it still affected everyone's lives in various ways. Some units began to adjust their working hours to avoid the hottest time at noon, and some people simply took long vacations to escape the heat and watch football, turning into nocturnal creatures.

When the weather changed from rainy June to cloudy July, and there was a high temperature of more than 35 degrees Celsius for several days in a row, he sent the whole family away and sent them to the other side of the world to escape the heat, but they did not go to the southern hemisphere in winter, but flew to Canada, the country of maple leaves.

Canada's land is north of 40 degrees north latitude, except for a few places in the Midwest affected by the continental climate, the summer is a little hot, most of the land is very cool and pleasant in summer, very suitable for summer vacation, so every year from May to October is the best season to travel here, and the remaining 7 months are long winters.

After finishing a bunch of things in China, Ma Dong also got on the plane and flew here to meet his wife and children who had arrived a long time ago, and then drove his helicopter around the edge of the farm every day when he had nothing to do, inspecting his territory.

Because of the relationship between the vast land and the sparse population, the price of land in Canada is naturally not expensive, coupled with the temptation of permanent ownership, many people in China have come here in recent years to "be farmers", some people have really become free farmers, and some people have been pit by agents and locals.

However, it has nothing to do with Atletico Madrid whether others lose or earn, and most of the land buyers are for investment and value preservation, or to make money to support their families, and they generally buy land in the central and eastern agricultural and animal husbandry provinces, and there are a bunch of restrictions on foreigners buying land, so those who go to become farmers are immigrants.

His private farm is located in British Columbia (British Columbia, British Columbia) in northwestern Canada, near the famous Rocky Mountains on the west coast, near Vancouver, Canada's third largest city.

This land is said to be a farm, but in fact, there is very little flat land that can be planted in it, most of the area is hilly hills, with large forests and two rivers on it, at first glance it is not a suitable place for farming, in fact, it is more reliable to call it a forest farm. Usually this kind of place is bought by the rich for leisure vacation, and most of the year it will be vacant, and only in the best tourist season is it possible to welcome the owner of the summer vacation.

Because of the subprime mortgage crisis a few years ago, the owner of the farm fell into a situation of poor cash flow, and had to sell this 2,000 acres (about 800 hectares, 12,000 acres) of real estate for cash. But because of the economic downturn, I haven't found a seller, and this is not the kind of production farm, and I can't enjoy the benefits of the "Chinese farm fever" after 08. And this rich gentleman spent a lot of money and energy to build a fully equipped Victorian-style stone villa on his farm, and the high construction cost of the latter further pushed up the total selling price of the farm, which is one of the reasons why it fell into unsalable, after all, people who bought trees and cut trees did not want villas, and people who wanted to buy villas did not necessarily like this remote farm.

It wasn't until the agency posted the relevant information on the Internet and was noticed by Atletico Madrid, who was far away in China, that the unlucky seller could be regarded as waiting for a reliable buyer, so he did not insist on the price after meeting Atletico's agent, and the two parties soon signed the transaction contract under the witness of their respective lawyers.

In fact, if Atletico Madrid had delayed for a few more days, and when the seller was really bankrupt, he would have found his creditor to buy it, maybe it would have been cheaper, but for the sake of the face of this 10,000-acre forest, Boss Ma still signed it happily. It's just that although these trees fell under the name of Atletico Madrid, Canada is not Brazil after all, and he can't cut them down at will, but fortunately he didn't come for this purpose.

Although Tang Jiayi ridiculed Atletico Madrid very much because of this incident, saying that he "lacks trees in the five elements", spent a lot of money in China to find someone to plant trees, and did not stop when he went abroad, and bought a large piece of forest in one go, but after living here for more than half a month, she has fallen in love with the cool and comfortable climate here.

In fact, there was another reason that made Atletico decide to buy it, and that was that the farm had a stable supply of electricity and a dedicated line for television and telephone and fibre optic cable networks. Usually because of unprofitable relationships, most of these remote farms do not have this kind of infrastructure, and his former owner seems to be a new rich man in the United States, whose work cannot be separated from the Internet, so he spent a huge amount of money to build a special communication cable for his farm, only to be cheaper for another webworm.

In the room, the four children of the Atletico family, Little Sesame Sweet Sweet Little Sugar Candy Biscuits, lined up in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, standing under the protection of the nanny behind them holding on to the soft-pack railing installed under the window, and the crisp face outside the glass stared wide-eyed, smiling and screaming while patting the glass.

Perhaps because they felt that these four little two-legged beasts in bright suits were not intimidating, or perhaps because of their own nature, the four little raccoons outside the door were not afraid of people at all, and also squatted in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows and stared at them.

Raccoons are named because of their proximity to water sources, their habit of fishing in the water and mistaken for food, and they are best known for their giant black circles on their faces that resemble giant pandas, which help to enlarge their eyes and enhance their deterrent effect, as many mammals have.

For post-80s generations like Atletico Tang Jiayi, raccoons are often associated with crispy noodles, while for most North Americans, they are cute and troublesome food thieves.

Raccoons are loved by people because of their cute faces and behaviors, so many people spontaneously boycott raccoon skin products, and occasionally encounter wild raccoons will also be happy to feed them, and their omnivorous habits also make it easy to accept human food. However, this also led to the fact that these cute animals began to enter the cities of North America on a large scale, and then quickly proliferated because of their efficient reproductive capacity.

Usually female raccoons are two months pregnant, give birth in April and May, 3 to 7 cubs per litter, the cubs can be weaned in late summer and live independently, and then the female will mature and fertile in the second year and the male in the third year. Although a raccoon can only live for a few years, it can still quickly give birth to a bunch of baby raccoons.

North America has abundant timber resources but high labor costs, and people here prefer to build their homes using prefabricated wood elements from factories. The raccoon has the habit of making holes in the trees to make nests, and in order to make nests and steal food, he often digs up a future by himself, but fortunately, the former owner of the house has helped Atletico solve this problem, so that they can observe these cute troublemakers behind thick bulletproof glass.

The four raccoons that appear at the door of Atletico Madrid's house are supposed to be the juvenile raccoons born last year, and they still retain their curiosity about the world.

Raccoons are nocturnal creatures that sleep in tree hollows during the day, but individuals living near humans sometimes come out during the day, especially if they are often fed, after all, it is not as comfortable as someone who feeds them regularly.

It's a pity that although this animal looks cute and cute, its essence is wild and untamable, and it can't be a pet at all, so that they can't enjoy the one-on-one service of the exclusive shovel officer like Mr. Cat and Mr. Dog. For mobile phone users, please visit http://m.piaotian.net