Chapter 441: A Legendary Experience
Burdened with great pressure and hope, Xuanyuan disembarked from Buenos Aires and arrived at the ranch in the province of Rapappan according to the location mentioned by the middle level.
The conditions of the ranch are very good, and the wages offered are not low, and Xuanyuan did a good job here at the beginning, which makes Xuanyuan full of longing for the future.
It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States that broke out in 08, after more than two years of fermentation, finally began to affect the country located in the southernmost part of South America, of course, in which year the economic crisis broke out, Argentina's financial industry was violently impacted, but as Argentina's basic industry, animal husbandry was not affected much at that time.
However, with the subprime mortgage crisis triggering a global economic crisis, Argentina's livestock industry has also suffered a great impact, the most direct manifestation of which is that a large number of farms and ranches have closed down, and more than 40% of Argentine farmers and ranchers have declared bankruptcy.
And the rancher of this medium-sized ranch where Xuanyuan is located is also unfortunately joined the ranks of bankruptcy.
Xuanyuan, who had just done a little better, suddenly became a jobless vagrant, which made Xuanyuan almost collapse.
However, this sudden change also completely stimulated the ruthlessness in the bones of Xuanyuan, a man from the Northeast, who once germinated the idea of returning to China directly, swore to the bright moon in the sky one night - if he does not mix in Argentina in this life, he will never return to China!
With this stubborn oath, Xuanyuan plunged his head into Buenos Aires again, after all, there are still many Chinese in that city. But alas, in the city of Buenos Aires, life is even more stressful than in Yanjing. Coupled with the fact that the locals have some discrimination against the Chinese, Xuanyuan's life is not easy, after all, at this time, legally speaking, Xuanyuan, who has not even got a green card, is an out-and-out Argentine black household.
The ideal is plump, and the reality is skinny. This is the current situation of Xuanyuan in Buenos Aires for more than half a year.
However, perseverance and dedication must be rewarded. By chance, Regulus learns that a forest farm in northern Argentina is recruiting workers, so the guy gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, following a group of workers who couldn't even eat, and plunged headlong into the vast forest of Salta province.
Even in Argentina, lumberjack is not a good job, dangerous, physically laborious, low pay, almost no Argentine citizens like to do this kind of work, so most of the people who do this kind of work are those from Central American countries and African countries, naturally. Xuanyuan is also one of them.
After working in the forest farm for less than a year, with his strong physique and hard-working spirit, Xuanyuan has somewhat become famous, but fame alone cannot make him reborn.
But God sometimes likes to joke so much, when you want to get something, you just can't get it by all means, and when you are inadvertently, maybe that thing will quietly fall into your pocket.
In the summer of 2011. With his own hard work, Xuanyuan finally obtained an Argentine passport. This is a great thing. Then, an incident happened that summer, which completely changed Xuanyuan's fate.
"It was a sweltering summer, and even in the mountains, you could feel the all-pervasive stuffiness," Xuanyuan took a sip of coffee and continued to tell.
"That's how the rain came. I remember it vividly. At that time, the sky seemed to have a gap, and a steady stream of rain poured down from the sky, and the entire forest farm was covered with pouring rain. The three days of continuous heavy rain caused the river water in the entire forest farm to swell, and some of the mountains that had just been cut down even had landslides of varying degrees. The whole forest farm was shrouded in despair. ”
Xuanyuan's face became a little unpleasant, as if he remembered the rainy summer of that year.
"At that time, both the Rio Blanco and the San Carlos River had swelled a lot, and if we didn't go out again, we would definitely be trapped in this valley, and that year, even this St. Lawrence valley was full of water at the bottom of the valley. The owner of the forest farm sent a lot of people to pick us up, but when we got out of the valley, we found that the Oran outside had become a vast ocean. ”
"The rivers like Rio Blanco and San Carlos have skyrocketed, and the main Bermejo River, the river has skyrocketed so much that it can no longer see its original curved channel, and the earthy yellow water overflows the embankment, flooding countless farmland and pastures on both sides, even in the city of Oran, where the water is more than half a meter deep."
"The city obviously can't stay anymore, in fact, at that time, the Argentine army has already been dispatched to urgently evacuate the personnel in the Oran urban area. In this case, the owner of the forest farm had no choice but to take us to his farm on the outskirts of Oran. The farm was on a hill west of Oran, at a high elevation, so it was temporarily unaffected by the swelling of the river. We are there waiting for the government's rescue. ”
"We stayed on the farm for one night, and the next day the heavy rain didn't stop, and in the face of such natural disasters, manpower really seemed very weak. More than a dozen of our loggers and the owner of the forest farm were trapped in this farm, although I did not have to worry about the river rising here, but I still had a very bad premonition at that time, and sure enough, my premonition became a reality that afternoon, because of the successive rains, the land on the farm was saturated with moisture to the point of irrepressibility, and at about three o'clock that afternoon, there was a large-scale landslide on the farm. ”
"In fact, at noon that day, my feeling of uneasiness became stronger and stronger, and at that time I found the owner of the forest farm, the respected Hugo. Mr. Sigman, please leave the farm. However, because of the heavy rain outside, Mr. Sigman did not agree to my request for safety reasons. However, although my request was denied, I kept an eye on the situation outside, so when the mudslide broke out, I was the first to warn. ”
With a hint of horror on his face, Xuanyuan seemed to be back to that terrifying and desperate afternoon.
"Luckily, the farm house wasn't directly in front of the mudslide, but even then, the house didn't keep us safe, so we all ran out of the house that day to avoid the rain, but Mr. Sigman didn't have time to run out of the house because of his age" (To be continued......