When Ling Shizhe woke up the next day, it was already eight o'clock, and seeing that there was still more than half an hour before the start time, Ling Shizhe planned to go around the neighborhood first.

I opened the door to the PR office area and found a few employees who arrived early.

"Morning chairman!"

"Morning chairman!"

Several employees who were cleaning saw someone coming out of the chairman's office, and looked at Ling Shizhe, so they hurriedly stepped forward to say hello.

Ling Shizhe responded with a smile, and at the same time observed them carefully, and found that these employees who came early were all newly recruited by the company not long ago, and they were all very young.

The main reason why they came to the company so early to report was that they wanted to make a good impression on their superiors, and of course it would be better if they could win the favor of the chairman.

Entering the elevator, Ling Shizhe shook his head slightly, looking at these young people, Ling Shizhe couldn't help but think of his past life, when he first joined the work, didn't he come early, and he didn't want to leave a good impression on the supervisor.

Seeing the appearance of several white young people who were respectful to him, Ling Shizhe sighed in his heart, who said that Westerners would not shoot horses, didn't look at these young people very smoothly? From this point of view, although the Eastern and Western cultures are very different, some things, like the boss's horse P, are actually the same whether they are in the East or the West.

Outside the company gate, you will be greeted by a huge garden factory, and in the center of the square there is a large fountain pool, which has a large marble stone carving, which is carved with ancient Greek mythological figures.

Opposite the square is a park, covering an area of about 5 acres, the park at the beginning of the year seems to be particularly quiet, Ling Shizhe's gaze caused only a few hawkers to move within the line of sight.

In the distance is a huge natural lake, in January the town of Raccoon is still in the cold winter season, far from spring, thousands of acres of lake water is still in a frozen state. White snow piles up among the branches of the maple trees.

There are many maple trees in Canada, so Canada is known as the "Land of Maple Leaves".

Maple trees are very ornamental, and when the maple trees form a maple forest in patches, the scenery in late autumn is extremely beautiful.

It's winter, and the maple leaves have long since fallen off. The bare trunks don't look lifeless, but in March and April it's different, when the maple trees begin to prepare for the summer and the trunks secrete a lot of maple syrup, which is a good time to pick maple syrup.

Ling Shizhe organizes employees to collect maple syrup every year. The maple syrup will be sent to the third sister's candy factory to make maple syrup. In addition to a small half of the boiled maple syrup, the remaining maple sugar will be made into a variety of maple syrup foods, which will be sold to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia and other places.

There were only a few lines of footprints on the park's snowy path, and it looked like it had just snowed last night.

In an idle mood, Ling Shizhe bypassed the entire west shore of the natural lake and followed the path back to the headquarters of the "Water Cube" from the east side of the lake.

The snow on the south shore of the lake is obviously different from that on the west bank, the west is snowy, but the south is as green as spring, and the green grass seems to be unaffected by the cold winter, and grows tenaciously on the meadow. Brings a touch of green to the whole silver winter.

The meadow covers a wide area, about ten acres, and if you walk up to the depth of the green meadow, you will see a hot spring stream of about one meter, Ling Shizhe squatted on the side of the stream to test the water temperature, it was warm and a little cool, so he walked up along the stream again.

Just after walking more than fifty meters, Ling Shizhe suddenly stopped, and about a hundred meters in front of him, he saw a huge brown bear. He also had two cubs with him.

"Young man, don't move," a voice came from behind Ling Shizhe's ears, the voice was old and low, and it was obvious that there was an old man standing behind him.

The voice continued to come from behind. "Keep your composure, adjust your breathing, don't be nervous, don't be afraid, take your time, step back gently. Be light, don't make a noise, and don't alarm the big guy in front. Be careful, be careful, idea, there's a rock behind you, don't be hoped...... Lift your feet, lift your feet, yes, that's it, okay, cross the stones, now put your feet down gently...... Okay, now it's safe, Andy has gone with his baby, and you're free to move. ”

Hearing that the alarm was lifted, Ling Shizhe didn't seem to have any strength in his body, and collapsed weakly on the grass, gasping for air, glad that he had escaped death just now.

"The young man seems that you are frightened," the old man teased in the back, "come and have a drink to suppress the alarm." ”

A cowhide hose appeared in front of him, and Ling Shizhe took the water bag.

Depend on! It's really heavy, this water bag is at least 5KG, unplugged it, and took a sip in its mouth.

Ling Shizhe felt as if a knife was flowing down his throat in his body, as if he had drunk not wine but a flame, and immediately a wave of heat burned in his chest.

"Fine!" Ling Shizhe roared: "It's a burning knife, it's really cool, it's strong enough!" ”

The old man laughed and helped Ling Shizhe up from the ground, "How is it, I feel more now, right?" ”

"Thanks, I'm better." Ling Shizhe thanked, the old man's wine was very effective, the fright just now, Ling Shizhe felt that his three souls and six spirits seemed to be gone, and he couldn't use half of his strength, but he didn't expect the old man's burning knife to return to normal.

After two more sips, he returned the leather bag to the other party.

It was only then that Ling Shizhe had a chance to look at the old man in front of him, with gray hair, wrinkles carved on his face, wearing long boots, a deerskin hat, a single-lens reflex camera from Zeiss on his chest, and something on his back, judging from the shape of the cloth bag, it was estimated that it was a shotgun.

"Jester. Insult. Ling Shizhe stretched out someone to introduce himself.

"Young man, I've heard of you, but I didn't expect me to save a big man today." The old man put away the wine bag containing the wine, stretched out his right hand and shook it with Ling Shizhe, "Daniel. Forrest. ”

Ling Shizhe once again sincerely thanked the old man for saving his life, and the old man waved his hand and said, "Don't thank me, I just saved you with a gesture." ”

"Anyway, I still have to thank you, by the way, this is your reward, thank you for saving your life just now." Ling Shizhe took out a thousand pounds from his wallet and handed it to the old man.

The old man was not polite, he took it directly, Westerners are different from Chinese, if Ling Shizhe does this in China, it is to slap the other party's face, but in the West it is different, I save your life, it is equivalent to me providing you with services, providing services, then you have to pay, not paying is disrespectful to the other party's labor.

"Canada is still in the middle of a harsh winter in January, why didn't this bear hibernate in its hole and run out?" After paying the payment, Ling Shizhe looked for words.

The old man explained: "Male bears hibernate until the beginning of spring, and female bears, especially those with cubs, generally wake up early, because they have to raise their cubs, so female bears with cubs often can't survive a winter." ”

"Understood, the female bear is not nutritious enough, so she doesn't have enough milk, so she has to come out to find food, right?" Ling Shizhe asked.

"That's right, because the cub is too small, it tends to wake up hungry when it hibernates, and when it wakes up, it will suck the mother's milk, and then continue to sleep when it is full, but if the mother's milk is not enough for the cub to survive the whole winter, it will wake up, go outside to find food, and then nurse the cub." Forrest pointed to the creek beside him, "This stream flows from the hot springs in the ground, and many of the animals in the mountains know this place, and in the cold winter, they will come here to drink water and graze, which naturally attracts large carnivores like bears."

The she-bear's name is Andy, she is twenty years old this year, she has been active in the deep mountains on the Kamba Mountain, and has never descended the mountain, if it were not for the sudden heavy snowfall last year, Andy would not have hibernated early, resulting in insufficient milk stored on her body, forcing her to wake up early and come down the mountain to find food. ”

Ling Shizhe's brows furrowed, this is not far from the headquarters of the "Water Cube", if a bear breaks in, then the matter will be a big deal, Canada is vast and sparsely populated, so there are many wild animals in the territory, usually driving on the road, often encounter wild animals, herbivores are nothing, but if it is a carnivore, it will be troublesome, it seems that this matter has to be notified to the police station of the town.

The old man seemed to see through Ling Shizhe's thoughts, and said, "Young man, I know what you are thinking, notify the police, right?" ”

Ling Shizhe nodded, acknowledging what the old man had just said.

You know, every winter there are a lot of wild animals, including a lot of large carnivores, so when it comes to winter, no one comes here, and you young man, you are the first. ”

After a long time, everyone knows this, only I don't know, no wonder I'm so unlucky, I met a brown bear as soon as I came, and it was a female bear with cubs, how terrible is a female bear with cubs, Ling Shizhe didn't say it clearly, I was really unlucky to get home today.

The two chatted for more than half an hour, and learned from the conversation that the old man was a university professor who had been retired for many years and specialized in wildlife research before his retirement.

Although he has been retired for many years, his profession has never been abandoned, there are hot springs, so he will come here every winter to observe wild animals, but he did not expect to accidentally save Ling Shizhe today.

After chatting for a while, Ling Shizhe took his leave, but he didn't expect Forrest to stop again, "Young man, wait a minute, do you know that there is a problem with your wetland, if you don't solve it as soon as possible, there will be a big problem." (To be continued.) )