Leatherback turtles are back, so is summer still far away?

Qin Shiou thought optimistically, turned around and hugged Winnie and stroked her smooth skin, and the beautiful night began.

May Day, but it has nothing to do with Canada.

Labor Day in Canada is not on May 1, but on the first Monday of September every year, and Labor Day in the United States is also on this day.

In the morning, after Qin Shiou came back from running, he turned on the TV to watch the news, he wanted to learn from Winnie, get in touch with the outside world through the news, and not always live in his own small fishing ground.

As a fisherman who didn't even know the country's Minister of Fisheries, Qin Shiou felt that he had to reflect on it, he had lived in the fishery for the past year, nominally saying that he was enjoying life, but in fact he had closed his social relations a little.

But the morning news was not interesting, and it turned out that some employees in Toronto held a demonstration to demand that Canada also implement the rules of May 1 for Labor Day.

Qin Shiou originally felt inexplicable, what is the difference between Labor Day and Christmas Day.

Looking down, he understands that most people in Canada are immigrants, and the country where they used to live was Labor Day, so Labor Day is a rest day, and they can take the opportunity to go back to their hometown to visit relatives or pick up relatives and friends from their hometown to come over for reunion.

But now Canada's Labor Day rest day is different from most countries, and many people can't get together with friends and relatives' holidays, so they naturally can't get together.

Canada is a young country, and many festivals are slowly formed later, but Labor Day appeared relatively early. Born in 1894, the festival was indeed won by the workers themselves.

Back in 1872. Printing workers in Toronto went on strike to expect a 54-hour week. Then. By order of the Governor General of Canada, any trade union organization is considered illegal and union organizers are jailed.

This sparked outrage among the workers, with more than 10,000 workers marching and demonstrating, forcing the then prime minister to repeal the anti-union law and release the union organizers.

The workers' struggle was not over, and they staged a second general strike to demand a nine-hour workday, which the government firmly disagreed with, and the workers resolutely struggled. This struggle went on for a long time. Eventually, it became an annual campaign.

In 1894, Canada's prime minister at the time, John Thompson, simply designated the first Monday in September as Labor Day, because workers marched on this day every year for many years.

After learning about some hidden stories of Canada's Labor Day and International Labor Day, Qin Shiou decisively turned off the TV, he knew Canada better, but it didn't seem to be of any use, he still didn't know who the vice minister of fisheries was.

According to the agreed time, the catch was produced in May, and Butler gave him a result. If Butler is willing to be a conduit, then Qin Shiou will deal with the catch to him, and if he is unwilling, then start expanding from the seafood market in St. John's.

Morning. Qin Shiou was eating fruit and watching the replay of the NBA, when the tiger and leopard outside the door suddenly roared.

He thought it was Butler coming, but he went out to take a look. It was a few white people who didn't know each other standing outside the gate, all with good temperament. It's not like a salesman or anything like that.

After whistling, the tiger leopard closed its mouth and ran behind him with its tail wagging. Qin Shiou greeted him and asked, "Hey, gentlemen, who are you?" ”

The middle-aged white man in the lead enthusiastically stretched out his hand and asked, "Hello, we are from the Netherlands and are the staff of the Van Gogh Museum, are you Mr. Qin?" ”

"Yes." Qin Shiou shook hands with him, wondering why the people from the Van Gogh Museum came to look for him.

However, out of politeness, he still brought a group of four into the villa and served them coffee.

The leading white man introduced himself: "I take the liberty to disturb you, Mr. Qin, I am the director of the Van Gogh Museum, Delabody Jan Barker, these are my colleagues, we have come to visit you." ”

Qin Shiou was confused, so he also introduced himself, and then asked what the purpose of these people was here.

Buck didn't answer his question directly, but praised his fishing ground, Qin Shiou smiled bitterly, could it be that these people in the Van Gogh Museum want to make a painting based on their own fishing ground? This is okay, he can spend money to buy it after the painting is good, and it is okay to frame it and hang it on the wall.

The Dutch went around in circles, and Qin Shiou also followed, anyway, this is his house, and he has time.

From fishing to sports, food to customs, these Dutch people still don't get to the point.

Later, Qin Shiou was a little impatient, and Buck finally got to the point and asked, "Mr. Qin, do you have a painting of Mr. Van Gogh?" "Sunset in Montmajour"? ”

As soon as he heard this, a flash of lightning suddenly flashed in Qin Shiou's mind, and he suddenly remembered that little Blake seemed to have told him before, saying that the Van Gogh Museum in the Netherlands had sent people to contact him, hoping that they would donate Van Gogh's paintings to the museum and say that they would return them to their original owners.

At that time, Qin Shiou didn't pay attention to it, but now when he saw these people, he suddenly thought about it, and subconsciously asked: "I do have this painting, but you don't plan to persuade me to donate this painting to you, right?" ”

Buck laughed, "No, how could it be? That painting is now yours, how could we possibly let you donate it to the museum for free? Well, we wanted to buy the painting, and the price was negotiable. ”

Qin Shiou was a little embarrassed, people came to buy paintings, but he had already promised to sell the paintings to Afif, and the transactions were in the payment stage, so it seemed that it was not good to get the paintings back, right?

Seeing that Qin Shiou didn't speak, Buck thought he was waiting for his own offer, so he said, "Mr. Qin, can you quote the price?" If we could, we would like to take that painting back. ”

Qin Shiou had no choice but to ask, "May I ask how much money you plan to pay?" ”

Buck said euphemistically: "Our museum is mainly for public welfare, so the profitability is not very good, and the funds are not very abundant - how about five million dollars?" ”

Qin Shiou blinked stupidly and asked rhetorically, "How much do you say?" Million? Or the Canadian dollar? ”

Buck smiled: "Yes, this is the most money we can use, I know the price is not very reasonable, but I hope you can make some contribution to the public welfare, send "Sunset in Montmarjou" home, so that more people can see the great work of Mr. Van Gogh." ”

Qin Shiou was a little speechless, I'm a layman, you and I have public welfare when I am with you? If I really do public welfare, I will do it, and it is no problem to donate, but if you want me to sell oil paintings worth 50 million dollars to you, this is a bit disrespectful to me, right?

Qin Shiou felt that Little Blake's situation was better at that time, he would rather these people not open their mouths to make an offer, and directly said that it was better to donate this painting for the sake of their feelings, and this offer, feelings and profits were gone...... (To be continued......) R1292