Chapter 43: Protests
The six-meter-wide Lanaodo Avenue is full of all kinds of cars, from the street to the intersection, and when there is not enough space, they are parked on the sidewalk.
Several traffic policemen blushed with happiness, the pen in their hands kept writing the license plate on the small book, bending over and busily posting the ticket, just in the morning, they got all the oil and water that they usually used for the whole week.
The reporters came quickly, with long guns and short guns mounted behind thousands of people.
There was a hot blonde woman holding the microphone to the camera, saying something loudly and urgently.
Faster than the reporters were the small traders, who saw the license plates and knew that they were coming from the northwest, and they should have not eaten breakfast yet.
What does this mean?
In front of the crowd, the eldest old man Gonzalez turned sideways to let the young man next to him help buy coffee and sandwiches, turned his head and said, "Our plan has been disrupted like this." ”
Han Qianshan raised his wrist and looked at his watch, and said with a wry smile: "Who would have thought that it was half past ten, and those politicians hadn't come to work yet!"
"Oh my God, the taxes we paid have raised such a bunch of moths, no! ”
Bell rubbed his temples and said helplessly.
The little ranchers and cowboys in the back were already waiting impatiently and arguing loudly.
This kind of picture makes the reporters even more excited, and when they go back to edit anything, they are all rare hot news in Great Falls City.
Americans are all veterans of protest marches, such as last month's tax cuts on agricultural and animal husbandry subsidies, last month's drought in northeastern Montana, and last month's gubernatorial news
So the wooden signs are ready-made, change the paper and rewrite, and you can participate with the signs, and they only had more than 200 people at the 9 a.m. parade, and now there are more than thousands, and the entrance to the town hall is full.
Some don't even know what to do, and they still hold up the last subsidy tax sign, scolding the USDA for being incompetent, Montana is laid-back and comfortable, and there is no shortage of such boring guys.
A Buick drove up from a distance, and the hot female reporter immediately pointed to the car and shouted: "The mayor is here!
Seeing the crowd of people in the march boiling, the female reporter instantly changed the expression on her face and said seriously: "With the arrival of our mayor of Adams in Great Falls, the situation has become more serious, I am Barbara of GF TV, please follow me to see the scene ......"
The police officers who maintained order gathered around the door of the Buick, and an old man with gray hair got out of the car, with a thin face and a shrewdness in his eyes that was different from his age.
The assistant got down from the co-pilot and quickly brought the microphone, probably thinking that this kind of background was not good to look at, so he walked into the old mayor's ear and muttered something in a low voice.
The mayor looked back at a shoe repair shop across the street, right behind him, and nodded to his assistant, and then the policeman led them into the crowd, shouting as they went, "Guys, wait a minute, I, Adams, will give you a satisfactory answer!"
Coming to the front steps of the city hall gate, straightening his clothes and coughing lightly, Adams said, "Do you have anything to do today?"
"Mr. Hall, you'll come first. ”
Old Hall took the microphone from the assistant and shouted loudly with a thick neck: "Those damn Northerners! They want to build a 250,000-kilowatt thermal power station in Lethbridge!"
"Having an aluminum factory in the northwest is enough for us! This will directly affect the output of our pastures, and we have to protest!"
"Isn't that bullying us Montanans!"
"They must not be allowed to build!"
There was a guy in the crowd, who heard this and looked sideways, and found that it was an oolong, so he quietly shrank the wooden card down, clenched his fists and stood on tiptoe: "I also want to protest!"
Thousands of mouths opened their mouths together, and Adams was so noisy that his head was big, and he said into the microphone: "Isn't the town of Lethbridge under the control of Canada, I ...... this"
Before the old man finished speaking, he received the eyes from the assistant, and after a pause, he reacted that there was still a number of senators in the Congress, coughed lightly, and continued to speak: "That aluminum factory was built in 1955, Mr. Hall, I can't do anything about it." ”
"But how can Canada bully us! Please rest assured, as a state legislator in Montana, I will arrange a meeting with the mayor of Calgary, and I will definitely take care of this matter!"
Old Adams raised his fist and said, squinting to see that the camera was facing him, and his expression was even more impassioned: "We are a free and democratic country in the United States, and as the mayor, I very much welcome your comments like this, for our Great Falls"
Han Xuan sat on his father's shoulder, covered his mouth and dozed off, it was the first time he had seen such a protest.
I saw the camera turn, wave the small wooden card in his hand, and hold a fist in front of his chest.
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Last night, the parade was broadcast on various television stations, and the whole of northern Montana knew about it, and it seemed to be working well.
The next day, the Augusta Times was delivered on time, and Fat Ding planned to pick up the newspaper, but when he saw the photo above, he was stunned, and he bit it and quickly ran back.
When Han Qianshan saw it coming in, he stretched out his hand to pick it up, but he didn't expect Fat Ding to bypass him, twist his ass and run all the way to the second floor, poured a cup of coffee with a smile, and walked upstairs while drinking.
"Oh!" the boy was still lying in bed, a weight pressed against his head, and he opened his eyes with a muffled grunt, and took the mischievous fat cat in his arms and rubbed it.
The fat man screamed twice in dissatisfaction, raised his front paws and pointed to the side of the bed, and the boy looked over and crawled out of the bed to pick up the newspaper.
The title reads in bright red letters: Wrathful Rapids.
Below is a photo of a Chinese boy with his mouth wide open, looking very excited, holding a wooden sign that does not want a thermal power station.
Han Xuan scratched his head, moved the fat Ding as a pillow, and looked at it with interest, but his father didn't notice it when he walked to him.
"Oops, it's in the newspapers? Angry boy. ”
"Don't make fun of me, that's me dozing off, all politicians talk the same way. The boy looked up at his father, pointed to the picture and said, "Daddy, you are also in the newspaper." ”
Han Qianshan stretched out his head and asked, "Where is it?"
"Here. ”
After taking a closer look, a pair of eyes and half of the bridge of the nose were exposed under the newspaper, and the father couldn't help but punch his son.
"A thousand mountains, John is coming for you. ”
Hearing his mother call him downstairs, Han Xuan pushed his father: "You go down first, I'll go to breakfast after washing." By the way, take this guy down and remember to feed it less. ”
The fat man turned his head with resentment, and his big tail flicked down.
Old John rubbed his hands under the tulipwood tree, and when he saw Han Qianshan coming down, he hurriedly said, "Boss, a gray wolf came last night!"
"We have four Merino sheep dead, and a newborn Danma calf. ”
"Huh?"