The north wind blows incessantly, bringing cooling, snow and ice, and also blowing away the clouds and mist, making the sky clear and clear on the plateau.

Pushing the door and jumping off the Ford Raptor, Atletico lifted the sunglasses on the bridge of his nose, turned and walked to the back of the pickup truck, pulled out a sharp steel axe from it, and carried it towards the grove not far away.

The coating on the surface of the axe reflects the sunlight, and with his steady and precise gait, as well as the sunglasses, leather jacket, leather pants and leather boots on his body, he looks imposing and murderous, like an experienced killer.

His target, however, was a fir tree.

The green needles are not afraid of the cold wind, shaking off the ice and snow and standing proudly on the branches, slightly shining in the sun, looking like a green pagoda, and the snow under the trees is also in harmony.

The gloved left hand grasped the trunk of the tree, and the right hand held the axe and swung it down vigorously, cutting off the small tree with a thick wrist in three or two strokes.

Throwing the severed trunk on the snow, Atletico walked to the next one with an axe.

This fir was specially planted by the owner of the area, Nong Xinwu, in order to cut down the whole tree and sell it when it arrives in December. This tree has a beautiful shape, stiff branches, and does not lose leaves easily, and is a popular species commonly used in Christmas trees.

While you can buy cheap plastic Christmas trees in stores, most people prefer traditional real trees that smell like trees and are larger. In North America alone, more than 40 million Christmas trees are consumed each year, creating a huge market for tree farms and farms that grow fir, spruce or other conifers.

Nong Xinwu saw an opportunity to open up land in his pasture and plant a fir sapling, which was ready to be marketed this year.

And he is worthy of his surname, these saplings are well cared for, the branches are strong, the plant shape is beautiful, and it should be able to sell for a good price. But after all, this is the first time the old man has done this, and he still made a mistake due to his lack of experience.

In densely populated urban areas such as Los Angeles, New York, and Houston, tree planters don't need to cut down trees themselves, just hang a sign outside the forest farm with regular opening hours and prices, and then they can wait for buyers to come and buy their own products, and even don't need to provide tools.

But this kind of good thing is not the turn of the old farmers who live in Montana, which lives in the hinterland.

Montana has 380,000 square kilometers of land, but its population is only a little over a million, with an average of less than three people per square kilometer. The 3 million Christmas trees produced here every year need to be harvested and packaged by sellers, and then sold to other counties and states.

The old farmer only cares about building sales channels, buying high-end templates, and hiring people to design an online store, but he forgets that cutting trees is a manual job, and he needs to find temporary workers in advance. Montana is sparsely populated and labor is in short supply, and he is too late to find it, relying on the existing manpower of the ranch, even if all of them are launched, the speed of delivery can only be described as turtle speed.

Atletico Madrid came to visit his old friend, and when he saw this, he stood up and offered to help, not only in person, but also called people from other cities to help, and really helped the old man solve a lot of problems.

With a push of his hand, he threw the newly cut tree trunk aside, Atletico casually glanced at the number of tree trunks on the ground, and turned around with an axe to look: "Old farmer, come and see, so much should be enough, right?"

"Just come, come!" came Nong Xinwu's voice in response.

Stepping on the thick snow to move to Atletico Madrid's side, and bending down with difficulty, he stretched out his hand to count the number, and then he nodded with satisfaction: "It's almost enough." I can't imagine that ponies have a hand in planting trees, and you are also good at cutting trees. ”

Atletico smiled and didn't answer, pointing to both sides with an axe: "Move to the pickup now?"

"No, no, how big is the pickup truck bucket?" the latter shook his head and denied the suggestion, "Let's wait a while, the tractor is coming, its trailer is much larger, and these trees can be pulled away at once." ”

"And now? You can't just wait, can I? Why don't I cut down a few more for you?"

"No, no, no!" Nong Xinwu shook his head like a rattle, "My side is 100% order farming, and I only send one order after another." This thing is only sold for a month a year, and if you cut it too much, you can't sell it, so won't it be wasted if you smash it?"

"I'm a billionaire anyway, so do you care so much?"

Hearing Atletico Madrid's face-to-face complaints, the old farmer immediately launched a counterattack: "This is what others say, but Atletico Madrid can't say it." What is my net worth in front of you? You can cash out some shares and buy this ranch. ”

Some time ago, the stock price of Bee Tour Hong Kong Island fluctuated sharply, soaring several times in a short period of time, and even the personal net worth of Atletico Madrid rose a lot.

The circulating shares of Beeyou Hong Kong Island are not much, and most of them are still controlled in the hands of a few vest accounts of Atletico Madrid, and the result of "insufficient supply" is that the stock price is easy to fluctuate, and the stock price will rise and fall sharply when the funds enter and leave. Hong Kong and Macao investors and Atletico Madrid have dealt with each other, will be able to avoid this aspiring zombie stock, this time there are large fluctuations, but because the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect has just opened, bringing mainland investors, some funds can not find a place to go, they have taken a fancy to the familiar bee tour Hong Kong Island, and the buying orders have been continued, and the price has been pulled up.

"Hey, Beeyou's stock price is very empty," Atletico shook his head, "I haven't sold much yet, the stock price has just gone down, and I can't make much money at all." ”

Nong Xinwu glanced at him, "You deliberately made the plate smaller and smaller, but now you don't like the stock price and can't bear the pressure?"

"I'm not complaining!" Atletico winked, avoided the topic, and persuaded again: "Then you look at the online store now, maybe there are new orders!"

"That's true," the old man accepted his advice, reached out and unzipped his leather jacket, took out the mobile phone in his inner pocket, lit up the screen and logged in to Amazon to check the orders he had obtained.

"There aren't many new orders, so you don't have to cut them anymore," he said, casually turning off the screen and putting his phone back into his pocket.

The reason why it is so precious is because his mobile phone is the latest release of iPhone7, and Apple's mobile phone is notoriously "not frost-resistant", the old man has suffered in this before, in order to avoid the fruit 7 automatic shutdown delay, he had to strengthen his own warmth.

Noticing the other party's movements, Atletico couldn't help but laugh and quipped the other party: "I said old farmer, why are you so troubled? As a shareholder of Bee, shouldn't you take the lead in using Bee's mobile phone?"

Nong Xinwu made up his mind to retire in the United States, and his shares in bees have been diluted many times, and now only the symbolic 10,000 shares remain.

But he didn't use bees for another reason, I saw him shrug his shoulders and spread his hands, and said helplessly: "I want to use it, but my tractor doesn't agree!"

The labor cost is very high in the United States, and farmers often need to play the role of tractor driver and harvester driver. In order to reduce the difficulty of getting started, most of these large agricultural machinery have intelligent assistance functions, such as GPS positioning tracking and work programmability, which can be easily used as long as the manufacturer's application is installed on the mobile phone. However, manufacturers usually only offer Android and Apple versions of mobile apps, and at most Microsoft's WP version, Bee BP, the world's third-largest platform, has been miserably.

The other party's reason is strong enough, Atletico can only sigh depressedly, and then comfort the other party with a cliché: "We have noticed this phenomenon, and we have also contacted relevant manufacturers, and we have done everything possible to encourage them to launch a BP version of the app." If it goes well, you'll be able to connect the tractor with your bee phone next year. ”

"I hope so," after tidying up his clothes, Nong Xinwu looked at Atletico Madrid and advised: "Industry applications rarely contribute traffic and income, but they can't be ignored at will, they are the kind of typical examples of insufficient success and more failure, without this piece, the attractiveness of the platform will be much worse." ”

Seeing the teachable expression on Atletico's face, the old man nodded, stretched out his finger and pointed to the pickup truck outside the forest, "Let's go, go to the carriage to avoid the wind, my old bones are not frozen!"

Atletico nodded and followed, and the two of them returned to the Raptor pickup together.

"With so many trees consumed by pressure in Europe and the United States every year, it can't all be cut down by hand, right?"

"Of course not," Nong Xinwu nodded, "Professional forest farms have large tree choppers and even tree diggers, and they can cut down and dig trees by moving the rocker in the car." However, there are too few trees and no money on my side, so I can only covet it. ”

With the popularity of the concept of environmental protection, there are Christmas trees on the market with roots and soil balls, which can be planted in the yard after the festival, but because the survival rate is not high, planting requires a large space and other reasons, this method has not been popular, and the vast majority of Christmas trees have to cut off the roots before selling. Anyway, North America is vast and sparsely populated, and there is plenty of land for planting trees, so there is no need to worry about the consumption of these young trees.

"I can't buy it, I can always rent it, right?"

"There aren't many of these machines, and I'm still a little late to get started, and the machines have been taken away. ”

Nong Xinwu explained: "Actually, I came here to support the elderly, just have some work to do, I don't have the momentum to work hard and create a second spring in my career." ”

Atletico shook his head, "If you are really determined to retire, you should actually go to New Zealand, the climate is warm, the environment is good, the time difference is less, except for the earthquake is a little bit more and there are fewer people, there should be no major disadvantages." ”

The old farmer shook his head with a smile, "I have lived in the United States for several years, and I will be officially naturalized soon, and now I have to start all over again when I go to New Zealand, and I can't do it." ”

"I don't understand you," Atletico shook his head helplessly, and suddenly turned his head to look behind him, "It's coming!"

In the direction of the rear of the car, a tall and domineering red tractor is rumbling forward, pulling a large trailer behind it.

It didn't take much effort to move the tree, and soon the car was humming again.

Ma Jing and Nong Xinwu did not leave, the two dragged out a large bag from the pickup, took out hats, mountain boots, orange vests, binoculars and other outdoor equipment to change into, and took out shotguns and bullet belts to hang on their bodies, and the painting style instantly changed from a lumberjack to a gun hunter.

Because of the high degree of urbanization, rural America generally has no population. Without human interference, the balance of carnivorous and herbivore populations often fluctuates, and in order to control the excess animals, the authorities manage wildlife by guiding hunting.

According to the survey statistics, the hunting departments in various localities formulate hunting licenses for different animals every year, and encourage excessive killing, rare auctions at high prices, or prohibit hunting, so as to maintain ecological balance, obtain funds for wildlife protection, and provide a legal consumer market for arms manufacturers by the way.

Atletico Madrid came here on an errand, so naturally he didn't have time to apply for a permit, but fortunately, Nong Xinwu, as a half-landed household, did not lack hunting permits for common animals in his pockets, as long as his permission was pasted on the prey, he didn't have to worry about being stopped and checked by the police.

If you want to hunt comfortably and safely, you should go to a privately run profitable hunting ground, which is equipped with professional detection equipment and feeding facilities, and the hunter is tantamount to opening a full map in it, where there are animals, what they have, how many there are, the hunting ground is clear, all the hunter needs is to pull the trigger in the direction.

It's a pity that there are no such private hunting grounds around the old farms, only state-owned hunting grounds. The latter is in fact unowned public land, connected to a wider uninhabited wilderness. No one can say what is inside, it may be an ordinary beast, it may be a carnivorous beast, and there is a certain chance that it is another hunter.

Just in case, after arriving at the hunting ground, Atletico Madrid did not enter it as soon as possible, but Shi Shiran took out his mobile phone, opened the bee aircraft manager, and summoned the drone to explore the way.

He piled up twelve sets of drone drop systems in the pickup truck bucket, which could ensure at least an hour of God's vision, and safety was still guaranteed.

The batteries of these aircraft are specially selected frost-resistant models, and the performance will not be reduced due to sub-zero temperatures, which will cause the machine to lie on its stomach, and soon the first four drones will automatically take off into the air and scatter to fly around.

Today's north wind is a bit strong, but it has not yet reached the upper limit of the big dragonfly, except for the flight speed is affected by the windward wind, the flight attitude of the four aircraft is quite stable, and there is no blow up and strike because of the strong wind and cold.

It's just that soon, the smug look on Atletico's face disappeared without a trace, he reached out and patted Nong Xinwu next to him, and handed the mobile phone to the other party: "Brother, look, do you know this person?"

The latter tilted his head to look at the screen, nodded and said, "I've seen it a few times, that guy seems to be from Dosha Town, it seems to be called Johnson, or Jones." ”

Atletico didn't care what the man's name was, and when he saw that there were already outsiders in the hunting ground, he was a little discouraged.

As the so-called son of a daughter can't sit down, he won't stand in front of a stranger with a gun who is not a friend or foe, even if the person is harmless, the gun still has the risk of misfire. Although the Gu Wu master inside is equipped with a bare hand to catch bullets as standard, he does not plan to use his body to challenge the momentum theorem.

Just as he was about to start the car and leave here, Nong Xinwu suddenly screamed, and Atletico turned his head to look at it, only to see that the screen was shaking badly, and then kissed the earth, which seemed to fall.

(End of chapter)