Chapter 695

After this Scottish dinner, Qin Shiou said goodbye to Hamley and his wife and set out on his way back.

He still has nearly 100 million idle funds. Qin Shiou had planned to buy a plane, but he used too few opportunities and wasted too much. Now with Hamley, his money is useful.

Unexpectedly, Canadian politics can still play like this. Hamley, a mayor, is going to participate in the mayor's election of St. John's, which is incredible for him who is familiar with China's political promotion system.

In fact, Canadian politics is played like this. If Qin Shiou joins a powerful party and wins the support of the party, he can also run. Besides, Hamley is not only a mayor, but also one of the 25 candidates for the St. Johns City Council.

In St. John's, the city council has both voting power and executive power, that is, the City Council is the city government, and the city councillors are the real power managers of the government.

This is also a different place between Canada and the United States. Local governments adopt the city council system, which is a heritage from the UK and is rare in the world.

The advantage of this system is that it is conducive to reduce the contradiction between the decision-making body and the administrative body and improve the management efficiency. However, he has a disadvantage, that is, he lacks a mayor who can uniformly command the work of all departments of the municipal government and has absolute real power.

Whether it's okever now or Hamley who may be elected in the future, they will become mayors, but they don't have so much power. Everything they do needs the supervision of the City Council. Of course, they are the nominal commander of the City Council.

Therefore, Hamley has no right to sell the farewell island to Qin Shiou. Of course, Qin Shiou doesn't have so much money to buy the farewell island.

Quebec province has just auctioned a small island called "conauk", which only includes 13 wooden houses, 70 private lakes and 5 small islands. It covers an area of about 26305 hectares and sold 96 million Canadian dollars!

The area of farewell island is five times that of konuk, and it has a permanent resident population. How to price it? 500 million? One billion or five billion?!

But Qin Shiou remembered Hamley's promise. He said that if he was elected mayor, he would feel that the farewell island was his private island. That's also good.

Back to the villa, Winnie was waiting for him in the living room with little carrot's head watching TV. As soon as he came back, Winnie went to the kitchen and poured him a bowl of boiled sobering soup.

This sobering soup was learned from Qin's mother during the Chinese New Year. It uses bighead carp head and ginger as the main ingredients, plus shredded tofu, shredded mustard, shredded bamboo shoots and shredded mushrooms, and then mixed with egg white. It tastes sour and spicy. It's delicious and sobering.

Qin Shiou took a sip and thumbed up. In fact, he didn't drink much wine, but he couldn't refuse Weini's kindness.

In the past, when Qin Shiou was busy with work, he thought it would be perfect to have a wife who added fragrance to tea in the middle of the night. Winnie is competent for this role, but now he doesn't have to work in the middle of the night. Instead, he socializes in the middle of the night. Every time he goes home, he is always satisfied to see Winnie waiting for him and preparing him for supper.

In the next few days, Hamley frequently visited Qin Shiou and sent a bill, which is the expenditure record of him and his team when they participated in the election, which should be shown to every voter who supported him financially.

However, ordinary voters naturally only get an email and a thank-you letter without Hamley's personal visit.

Qin Shiou paid attention to the election, but he couldn't focus on it, because the fiddler crab in the fishing ground was a little abnormal recently.

Fiddler crab is the general name of many kinds of crabs, with a total of more than 100 species. Daqin fishing ground mainly includes Atlantic sand fiddler crab, Atlantic mud fiddler crab, big rock Tung fiddler crab, dorsal spine fiddler crab, narrow finger fiddler crab and so on.

This kind of small crab looks very interesting. They have a pair of matchstick like eyes, which are very special.

In addition, the most special thing is that the male crab's big claw is not the same size. Generally, the right claw is super large and the left is super small. The right claw is often placed in the chest, like a warrior's shield, which looks very dignified. The large claws of female crabs are the same size, so they are strange.

Fiddler crabs are different from hermit crabs. They usually live in caves. The depth of digging holes is related to the groundwater level. The bottom of the cave needs to reach the wet soil.

Therefore, there are many raised small sand piles on the beach of the fishing ground. This is that fiddler crabs feed on sediment. They swallow sediment, ingest organic matter, and spit the inedible part out of the hole. After a long time, they will have a small protrusion.

Normally, the activities of fiddler crabs have a certain law with the rise and fall of the tide. They hide in the cave at high tide and go to the beach to feed and repair the cave after low tide.

However, in recent days, the fiddler crabs in the fishing ground no longer maintain such a law of life. No matter day or night, no matter the rise and fall of the tide, some fiddler crabs climb out, and they look very hesitant. It seems that they want to move to a high place on the beach.

At the beginning, there were few, but at the weekend, the fiddler crabs suddenly broke out. Countless small crabs drilled out of their caves and moved busily to the top of the beach.

Seeing this scene, shack and other old fishermen nervously found Qin Shiou and said, "boss, there may be a spring tide. We have to prepare."

Fiddler crab has a strong ability to predict the tide. How strong is it? No matter what they are doing, they will stop their activities and return to the cave ten minutes before the tide comes.

Not only that, the body color of this small crab can be changed. It will become deeper at low tide during the day and shallower at high tide at night. In some places, the time of tide fluctuation will be delayed by 50 minutes every day, and the time of body color change of fiddler crabs in that place will also be delayed by 50 minutes!

The old fishermen know this. They will judge the tide fluctuation according to the body color change of the fiddler crabs. Now the fiddler crabs have moved to higher beaches, obviously because they judge that the ocean has a large tide.

Qin Shiou also knows this, but he is very depressed because he has confirmed with the St. John's Marine Meteorological Bureau several times. The Meteorological Bureau said that there has been no monsoon and large ocean current recently, and the stellar orbit is normal, so there will be no large wave.

In this way, the instincts of science and technology and biology are in conflict again.

On weekends, children don't go to school. When they see so many fiddler crabs on the beach, they don't even bother to play in the cold drink cabin. They run to the beach to pick up fiddler crabs and play the game of fighting crabs.

Tiger, leopard, bear and wolf also ran around and played with them. Xiong Da is worthy of the name. He stuffed fiddler crabs into his mouth while running. It can eat with relish.

Qin Shiou followed him to the beach to observe these abnormal crabs.