Chapter 146: Happiness and Sorrow
"Pavey, shouldn't you go hunting, it's been a long time since I've been camping in the wild, and I haven't added new prey to my wall for a long time." When old Gale heard about hunting, he suddenly had an idea.
"Is there nothing wrong with your legs?" Pavey pointed to Old Gail's right leg.
"I'm not disabled! It was just an operation and I was in very good shape. Old Gail suddenly squatted down, hugged Hong Tao's waist, instantly picked up Hong Tao, carried it on his shoulder, strode towards the car, and walked to the side of the car before putting Hong Tao down, and then asked Hong Tao:
"How am I?"
"Good, you're stronger than me." Hong Tao's stomach made Old Gale's shoulders feel like he was going to vomit, but this old man's body was really good, carrying a young man of more than 70 kilograms to walk dozens of meters, except for a little red on his face, basically not panting, if Hong Tao carried him, it was still a question of whether he could walk this distance.
"Well, let's talk to Harrison in a moment and ask him if he has time, he's a good hunter and guide, and most importantly, how many good dogs he has." Pavey finally agreed to Old Gale's proposal.
"Then can I go and see it too? You fight, I watch. When Hong Tao heard this, there was a door, so hurry up and sign up.
"Of course, I taught you marksmanship, and it's a bit of a problem to fight black bears and horned deer, but it's not a problem to fight foxes and rabbits, I have a good gun, I can lend it to you, but don't say it, understand?" Pavey winked at Hong Tao.
Harrison came quickly, he also drove a large pickup truck about the same size as Pavey, dressed as a cowboy, wearing a cowboy hat, and almost stuck a revolver in his belt.
The place he wants to take everyone to is a small bar, similar to the kind of bar in a western, the only difference is that the bar's sign, façade and decoration are mainly green.
"This is an Irish pub, Harrison is of Irish descent and likes to drink those single malt whiskeys, and you'd better not mess with him, especially when he's drinking or hunting, he's a madman." Pavi walked behind the least, and when he entered the bar, he specially told Hong Tao two words.
At the bar, Pavey told Harrison about the suggestion to go hunting together, and the two hit it off, and Harrison volunteered to be a guide, promising not only to take everyone to the bear hunt, but also to bring his own hounds, the location of his choice, and when everything was ready, he would call Pavey, estimated to be next week.
After drinking a few glasses of whiskey, the time was almost noon, foreigners did not have the habit of inviting guests to rub a meal, everyone broke up, each went his own way, when he went back, it was old Gail who drove, Pavey's fat face was already red from drinking, even if the traffic police were deaf nose, it could be seen that he was drunk driving.
When he was out of town, Old Gail parked his car next to a fast-food restaurant and bought everyone a fast food from a small window on the side of the fast-food restaurant, the main dish was a large hamburger with a lot of red ketchup squeezed on it, and the drink was a large cup of hot chocolate, very simple. However, Hong Tao looked at this hamburger and hot chocolate a little worried, mainly because the portion was too large, the hamburger was about to catch up with the size of volleyball, just to eliminate it Hong Tao was very unconfident, not to mention that there was a big cup of hot chocolate next to it, it was really a big cup, and the cup was about to catch up with the height of the wine bottle.
Back home, Hong Tao couldn't even bend his waist, the hamburger and hot chocolate were in his throat, and when his abdomen was squeezed slightly, they had the urge to run out, Hong Tao calculated, and it took him 40 minutes to destroy the hamburger and hot drink, when the car was passing through Hamilton City, almost half the way.
If compared with domestic hamburgers, Hong Tao is still more willing to eat domestic, North America's original authentic burger taste is too heavy, either sour or spicy, the meat slices are too thick, there is no P taste inside, not in line with the eating habits of Chinese at all.
This trip to Niagara Falls is uneventful, the waterfall is spectacular, although it is winter, it is not the best viewing season of the year, but on the snow-capped earth, there is a sudden water flow with a drop of tens of meters, with the surrounding ice, moving and quiet, and the scenery is also very unique. However, this is not Hong Tao's dish, his love for natural scenery only stays on looking, and the heat does not exceed 5 seconds, especially this kind of scenery that cannot be immersive and can not be touched at zero distance, and his desire to take pictures is not too high.
According to Pavey's plan, the excursion was supposed to last a full day, first by helicopter to see the Falls, then by plane to a suburban vineyard in Niagara City to see how the famous Canadian Icewine was made, and dinner in the vineyard before driving back.
But the plan can't catch up with the changes, old Gail inadvertently mentioned the matter of hunting, Harrison responded positively, Hong Tao sharpened his head to the hunting team, and the afternoon vineyard tour was no longer interested, for the question of how ice wine is made, Hong Tao has no curiosity at all, it loves to make how to make, a broken winery, China is so much, TV commercials have nothing to do with a thousand-year-old wine cellar or something, who is rare?
In fact, what touched Hong Tao the most was not that the two old men deliberately took him out to play, but that Pa Wei actually gave Hong Tao a completely Chinese standard hospitality, from fuel money to helicopter sightseeing money, he paid for it alone, except for the 3 points of fast food that Lao Gail bought, he didn't spend a penny on Hong Tao.
Although the cost is not expensive, the fuel money Hongtao does not know how much it is, the helicopter is 121 Canadian dollars per person, and if you count the tip of about 10%, it is 130 Canadian dollars. According to their habits, most of the expenses for collective activities outside the family members are AA system, Hong Tao originally wanted to pay, but Pa Wei didn't ask for it, and made an excuse that he planned to go to China to play, and when the time came, let Hong Tao also invite him once to even it, and in the end, it was Old Gail who broke Pa Wei's private evil intentions, he always remembered Hong Tao's fishing secrets, and planned to use sugar-coated cannonballs to achieve his goal.
Received the grace of dripping water, when the spring reciprocates. Now Hong Tao didn't bring spring water, so he had to find out the special bait that he hid in his luggage when he went abroad, kept the last pack of the most sturgeon, and gave the remaining 2 packs to the fat old man, and then told him how to use it, and let him go home and try it himself.
"I'll have to ask if it's legal to use this bait, but thank you, Tao, if it's not illegal, then I can get my revenge on this summer's fishing tournament, it's that damn Dave's father, he's been on my head for 3 years in a row." Pavey finally achieved his goal, and the fat on his face trembled with laughter.
After listening to Pavi's answer, Hong Tao became more and more aware of why the fish resources here are so abundant, and the water source is mostly on the one hand, and the government here has set the regulations extremely strict in order to protect the living space of the fish, so that when anyone mentions fishing, the first thing that comes to mind is not to use that kind of fishing tackle, to use that kind of fishing method, to use that kind of bait, but to ask themselves for the first time, whether this fishing is legal.
Once this habit is formed, the government's laws and regulations will be considered to have achieved their purpose, which is also the source of what kind of atmosphere will be formed in society, although the capitalist system is not perfect, and there are still defects in many places, but their self-healing and self-cleaning ability is still worth learning.
When Zhou Xiaoli came home from work, Hong Tao was still lying on the sofa digesting food, no need to ask for dinner, he definitely didn't eat it, Zhou Xiaoli had to pout and get some scrambled eggs and sandwiches by herself, and solved the dinner. Hong Tao pretended not to see the woman's dissatisfaction, no matter how high his mouth was pouting, he didn't want to move, in fact, he was not lazy, now he was sore all over, and his throat was a little painful, it was really uncomfortable.
Early the next morning, Zhou Xiaoli was woken up by the man's masculinity, and when she reached out and touched it, she had a fever. At this time, Hong Tao was still dreaming in a daze, he was fishing on the ice with Pa Wei, but there was a bang, the ice could not bear Pa Wei's weight, collapsed, and even Hong Tao was put into the ice water.